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Volume 77 Number 11, 10 DECEMBER 1999

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IN THIS ISSUE

 

EDITORIAL

 

CORRESPONDENCE
  • 1383 Can we say bye to BCG?, Ramesh Bhonde and Pradeep Parab
  • 1384 Freeing science from the tyrannies of funding and peer review, Rustum Roy
  • 1385 The condition of science in India – Further thoughts, Hetu C. Sheth
  • 1386 The importance of debating issues in ‘personal squabbles’ for the Indian scientific community, S. K. Bhattacharjee
  • 1387 What is genius?, Sanjay A. Pai
  • 1387 Measurement of copper and mercury, Tariq W. Kureishy; Response: K. Selvaraj
  • 1389 Occurrence of Golden Mystery Snail Pomacea bridgesi (Gastropoda: Ampullaridae) in West Bengal, India, S. K. Raut and G. Aditya

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NEWS
  • 1390 1999 Nobel Prize in physics: The triumph of quantum field theory, J. Pasupathy

  • 1396 Molecular addresses in proteins, R. Nagaraj

  • 1398 Progress in genetic manipulation of Plasmodium, Shobhona Sharma

  • 1400 Swarnajayanti Fellowships for 1998–1999 announced

  • 1400 India and the US to cooperate in achieving Kyoto goals through environment-friendly energy technologie

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OPINION

 

SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE

  • 1405 Arun’s law of impact factor depreciation, Gangan Prathap

  • 1407 Genetics of hot-water epilepsy: A preliminary analysis, Anindya Sinha, Gautam R. Ullal, S. K. Shankar and P. Satishchandra

  • 1410 Maintenance of callus growth during subculturing is a genotype-dependent response in rice: Mature seed-derived callus from IR 54 rice cultivar lacks culturability, Deepika Minhas, M. V. Rajam and Anil Grover

  • 1413 Trace element distribution and cobalt content in sulphide ores of Kalyadi, Karnataka, Biju Mathew and D. Chandrasekharam

  • 1416 Component community structure of larval trematodes in the snail Cerithium scabridum from southern Kuwait Bay, J. Abdul-Salam and B. S. Sreelatha

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GENERAL ARTICLES

  • 1418 Intellectual property rights on biological resources: Benefiting from biodiversity and people’s knowledge, Ghate Utkarsh, Madhav Gadgil and P. R. Sheshagiri Rao

  • 1426 The informatization of development, Harlan Cleveland

  • 1431 How to get a research grant, N. R. Kalla

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REVIEW ARTICLE

  • 1435 An overview of bacterial blight disease of rice and strategies for its management, S. S. Gnanamanickam, V. Brindha Priyadarisini, N. N. Narayanan, Preeti Vasudevan and S. Kavitha

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SPECIAL SECTION: SOLAR PHYSICS
  • 1445 The physics laboratory in the sky, E. N. Parker

  • 1454 Seismic Sun, S. M. Chitre and H. M. Antia

  • 1460 Rotation of the solar interior, Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard and Michael J. Thompson

  • 1467 Solar tomography, A. G. Kosovichev and T. L. Duvall Jr.

  • 1475 The solar dynamo, Arnab Rai Choudhuri

  • 1487 Solar neutrinos: An overview, J. N. Bahcall

  • 1496 The dynamics and heating of the quiet solar chromosphere, Wolfgang Kalkofen and Peter Ulmschneider

  • 1503 Solar activity: An overview, Zdenek Švestka

  • 1511 Probing the Sun’s hot atmosphere, Kenneth J. H. Phillips and Bhola N. Dwivedi

  • 1521 A new Sun: Probing solar plasmas in the extreme-ultraviolet light from SUMER on SOHO, Bhola N. Dwivedi, Anita Mohan and Klaus Wilhelm

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RESEARCH ARTICLE

  • 1530 Fast surface oxidation induced growth of AlO(OH).a H2O molecular fibres at nascent Al-metal surface in ambient atmosphere,  S. Ram and S. Rana

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RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

  • 1537 An Eulerian photochemical model for tropospheric ozone over the tropics, S. B. Debaje and D. B. Jadhav

  • 1542 Engineering resistance against physalis mottle tymovirus by expression of the coat protein and 3¢ noncoding region, C. T. Ranjith-Kumar, M. Manoharan, S. Krishna Prasad, Shob   Cherian, M. Umashankar, G. Lakshmi Sita and H. S. Savithri

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BOOK REVIEWS

  • 1548 Atomic Energy in India – 50 Years, reviewed by Haridas Banerjee

  • 1549 Classical and Spatial Stochastic Processes, reviewed by Rahul Roy

  • 1550 I Predict: Exploring India’s Population Scenario, reviewed by P. H. Reddy

  • 1551 Ecology: A Pocket Guide, reviewed by R. J. Ranjit Daniels

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PERSONAL NEWS

  • 1552 R. S. Krishnan – An obituary, E. S. R. Gopal

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