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Current Issue Vol. 99 No. 4 25 August 2010
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Contents IN THIS ISSUE 408 In this issue EDITORIAL 409 Drug Resistant Bacteria and the Global Economy P. Balaram CORRESPONDENCE 411 ‘Impact factor’ and ‘we also ran’ syndrome S. C. Lakhotia 411 Carbon credits: today’s new currency mantra Sharad Bissa and A. Bohra 412 Revising India’s water policy: need for a process T. N. Narasimhan 413 Socio-legal aspects of earthquake prediction Arun Bapat 414 Scenario of science Ph Ds produced in India by 12th five-year plan S. A. Hasan, S. Khilnani and R. Luthra 415 The history of ‘two cultures’: can we bridge the gulf? C. Subba Rao and C. Kavitha 417 Water: an eco-friendly and energy-efficient resource for milling in rural Arunachal Pradesh Ashish Paul and Mohamed Latif Khan 418 BSI contribution to floral documentation and conservation M. Sanjappa, P. Venu and P. V. Prasanna 419 Urophysa rockii Ulbr., a rare and endangered plant needs urgent conservation Du Baoguo and Yang Fengli 420 Some additional aspects of gender asymmetry Bhupati Chakrabarti NEWS 421 Climate change, REDD and biocultural diversity: consultations and grassroots initiative with indigenous people of Arunachal Pradesh Ranjay K. Singh and Igul Padung RESEARCH NEWS 423 Climate change: the role of plant physiology V. T. Yadugiri 425 Carbones: divalent C(0) compounds Dhilon S. Patel and Prasad V. Bharatam IN CONVERSATION 427 The Ashtavaidya medical tradition of Kerala V. T. Yadugiri OPINION 432 What else can we do to enhance the scientific potential of India? A. K. Singhvi and Aakanksha Singhvi 433 Losing one million hectare net sown area in India K. D. Sharma SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE 436 Coalescence can be very recent in exploding populations K. B. Athreya 436 Genetic fidelity of long-term micropropagated plantlets of Valeriana wallichii – an endangered medicinal plant Priyanka Verma, Priyanka Srivastava, Subhash C. Singh and Archana Mathur GENERAL ARTICLES 439 Copenhagen and the ‘BASIC’ countries: some basic differences between the Indian and Chinese emissions James Jacob 444 Greening India Mission N. H. Ravindranath and I. K. Murthy 450 The subcellular basis of seed priming Anuradha Varier, Alice Kuriakose Vari and Malavika Dadlani CARTOON Smile with Science: Sumanta Barauh REVIEW ARTICLE 457 Free energy barriers in protein folding and unfolding reactions Santosh Kumar Jha and Jayant B. Udgaonkar RESEARCH ARTICLES 476 Decoding coherent information in femtosecond shaped laser pulses Indrajit Bhattacharyya, Aveek Dutta, Sumit Ashtekar, Sandeep Kumar Maurya and Debabrata Goswami 485 Fluctuations in productivity and denitrification in the southeastern Arabian Sea during the Late Quaternary Pratima M. Kessarkar, V. Purnachandra Rao, S. W. A. Naqvi, Allan R. Chivas and T. Saino 492 Placer chromite along south Maharashtra, central west coast of India A. R. Gujar, N. V. Ambre, S. D. Iyer, P. G. Mislankar and V. J. Loveson 500 Evaluation of habitat suitability models for four sympatric ungulate species in Pathri Rao Watershed adopting geo-statistical modelling Bilal Habib, Tanweer A. Dar, Jamal A. Khan and S. P. S. Kushwaha RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS 507 Binding capacity and root penetration of seven species selected for revegetation of uranium tailings at Jaduguda in Jharkhand, India Lal Singh and Prafulla Soni 513 Parallel response between gametophyte and sporophyte for Fusarium wilt resistance in the recombinant inbred lines of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) D. Ratna Babu and R. L. Ravikumar 518 Some observations on the determination of platinum group elements and gold in black shales N. Berdnikov, V. Balaram, A. Cherepanov, D. Avdeev, N. Konovalova and G. Sukharulidze 521 Seismic vulnerability and risk in the Himalayan township of Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India Piyoosh Rautela, Girish Chandra Joshi and Bhupendra Bhaisora BOOK REVIEWS 527 Acharya Jagadish Chandra Basu: A Tribute on his 150th Birth Anniversary, Nitai Chandra Mandal reviewed by D. P. Sen Gupta 528 Knowledge to Policy – Making the Most of Development Research, Fred Carden reviewed by R. S. Deshpande COVER CAPTION COVER. Sambar male – displaying his dominance. (Photo: Gobind Sagar Bhardwaaj). See page 500. ADVERTISEMENTS 530 Research Scholars, Post-docs, Young Faculty Members and Scientists—DST Sponsored Training Program on Capacity Building in Plant Taxonomy 531 Tata Innovation Fellowship 532 National Environmental Sciences Fellows Programme—Ministry of Environment and Forests 533 Faculty Positions—Vaccine and Infectious Disease Research Centre 534 Understanding Molecular Simulations: Theory and Applications—International Centre for Theoretical Sciences 535 Invites: Application for the Post of Director, IBSD, Imphal—Department of Biotechnology 536 On Millipore's Validated Antibodies—Millipore 537 Senior Research Fellow, Research Associate—Indian Statistical Institute 538 XXV Refresher Course in Experimental Physics 539 Asian Herbal Show: Exhibition and Conference 540 University Seeks Research Fellows—SRM University 540 Junior Research Fellow—The University of Burdwan 541 Junior Research Fellow—Birla Institute of Technology 541 Junior Research Fellow—Department of Geology 542 Junior Research Fellow—College of Engineering, Pune 542 Junior Research Fellow—Mangalore University 543 UGC-Networking Resource Centre Second 2010 Teacher/Researcher Training Workshop in Biological Sciences at Indian Institute of Science 543 Nanomedicine Ph.D. Scholarship (Rs 8.4 lakhs) Deakin University School of Medicine, Melbourne, Australia 544 Global Warming and Climate Change—Department of Science and Technology 544 Junior Research Fellow—University of Lucknow 545 Workshop on Microarray Technologies—Manipal University 545 Research Scientists—Iladevi Cataract and IOL Research Centre 546 Junior Research Fellow—Department of Zoology 546 Junior Research Fellow—School of Life Sciences 546 Junior Research Fellow—Father Muller College of Nursing, Mangalore 3rd cover Research opportunities for exceptionally talented and strongly motivated students—Tata Institute of Fundamental Research 4th cover DST – Agentschap NL Joint call for Indo-Dutch Collaborative Projects on Life Sciences and Health (2010)—Department of Science and Technology Announcements
IN THIS ISSUE
408
In this issue
EDITORIAL
409
Drug Resistant Bacteria and the Global Economy
CORRESPONDENCE
411
‘Impact factor’ and ‘we also ran’ syndrome
NEWS
RESEARCH NEWS
IN CONVERSATION
OPINION
SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE
GENERAL ARTICLES
CARTOON
REVIEW ARTICLE
RESEARCH ARTICLES
RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
507
Binding capacity and root penetration of seven species selected for revegetation of uranium tailings at Jaduguda in Jharkhand, India
D. Ratna Babu and R. L. Ravikumar
518
Some observations on the determination of platinum group elements and gold in black shales
N. Berdnikov, V. Balaram, A. Cherepanov, D. Avdeev, N. Konovalova and G. Sukharulidze
BOOK REVIEWS
COVER CAPTION
COVER. Sambar male – displaying his dominance. (Photo: Gobind Sagar Bhardwaaj). See page 500.
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