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Vol. 93  No. 11
10 December  2007


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CORRESPONDENCE

1467

Impact of the top three exclusive medical journals of India

  Ritesh G. Menezes, B. Suresh Kumar Shetty, Tanuj Kanchan, Stany W. Lobo, T. S. Mohan Kumar and Mahabalesh Shetty

1467

Tiger farms – How are they justifiable?

  Nicky Xavier
1468 Lack of motivation for quality research
  Arun Arya
1468 Lack of statistical confidence
  Arun Bapat
1469 Reviving quality in plant science education
  Biju Dharmapalan
1470 ‘No-charge’ journals: A choice for low-quality science?
  Marcin Kozak

NEWS

1470 Gene targeting in mice using embryonic stem cells: The 2007 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology
  P. K. Gupta
1473 Nutrition-secure India – How do we get there? Nutrition conclave discusses the way forward
  Mahtab S. Bamji
1476 Entomology Academy of India
  T. N. Ananthakrishnan and R. W. Alexander Jesudasan

RESEARCH NEWS

1477 The florigen mystery: A potential solution for an ancient riddle
  R. Jeyaraman and Susan Mary Varghese

COMMENTARY

1479 Lessons from Japan in intellectual property reforms
  Dileep K. Paturu, Abhilasha Aswal and H. Mohd. Imaduddin

OPINION

1481 Mathematics phobia: Are the mathematical sciences a pothole in the road of life?
  Pavlov Rameau and Clifford Louime
1483 Spreading fast yet unnoticed: Are we in for another invasion?
  Vikrant Jaryan, Sheetal Chopra, Sanjay Kr. Uniyal and R. D. Singh

SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE

1485 Nuclear georeactor generation of the earth’s geomagnetic field

 

J. Marvin Herndon

1488

Software for DNA fingerprinting analyses

 

Madhu Bala

1489 Population status of Gymnocladus assamicus, a critically endangered tree species in Arunachal Pradesh
  B. I. Choudhury, M. L. Khan, A. Arunachalam and A. K. Das
1492 Biotechnological process for the treatment of fleshing from tannery industries for methane generation
  N. Vasudevan and A. D. Ravindran

GENERAL ARTICLE

1495 The Thalakaadu phenomenon: A miracle or an ecological disaster?
  K. N. Ganeshaiah

REVIEW ARTICLE

1501 Vaccination strategies for tuberculosis
  Abhinav Mehta, Rajeev K. Tyagi, Amit Goyal, Kapil Khatri, Prem N. Gupta and S. P. Vyas

RESEARCH ARTICLES

1506 Gravitational lens systems to probe extragalactic magnetic fields
  D. Narasimha and S. M. Chitre
1514 Missing data: A comparison of neural network and expectation maximization techniques
  Fulufhelo V. Nelwamondo, Shakir Mohamed and Tshilidzi Marwala
1522 Precursory correlation dimensions for three great earthquakes
  P. N. S. Roy and Sankar K. Nath
1530 Assessment of rhizobacterial diversity of Triticum aestivum and Eleusine coracana from Northern region of India
  Shilpi Mittal and Bhavdish N. Johri

SPECIAL SECTION: ASIAN BIODIVERSITY CRISES

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Asia’s tropics are the most intensively used: Contrasting conservation strategies between South and East

Peter Ashton

1544

Forest destruction in tropical Asia

 

William F. Laurance

1551

What’s so special about Asian tropical forests?

 

Richard T. Corlett

1558

Beyond mast-fruiting events: Community asynchrony and individual dormancy dominate woody plant reproductive behavior across seven Bornean forest types

 

Charles H. Cannon, Lisa M. Curran, Andrew J. Marshall and Mark Leighton

1567

A brief overview of the Western Ghats–Sri Lanka biodiversity hotspot

 

Nihara R. Gunawardene, A. E. Dulip Daniels, I. A. U. N. Gunatilleke, C. V. S. Gunatilleke, P. V. Karunakaran, K. Geetha Nayak, S. Prasad, P. Puyravaud, B. R. Ramesh, K. A. Subramanian and G. Vasanthy

1573 Forest degradation in the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot: Resource collection, livelihood concerns and sustainability
Priya Davidar, M. Arjunan, Pratheesh C. Mammen, J. P. Garrigues, J. P. Puyravaud and Krista Roessingh
1579 Managing dominance of invasive plants in wildlands
  Julie S. Denslow
1587 Fragmentation impacts caused by roads through rainforests
  Miriam Goosem
1596 An overview of techniques for the rehabilitation of degraded tropical forests and biodiversity conservation
  Shigeo Kobayashi

RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

1604

Climate augmentation of erythemal UV-B radiation dose damage in the tropics and global change

M. Ilyas

1608

Chlorination by-products and their discharge from the cooling water system of a coastal electric plant

 

R. Rajamohan, E. Vinnitha, V. P. Venugopalan and S. V. Narasimhan

1613

Chemolithotrophic oxidation of thiosulphate and tetrathionate by novel strains of Azospirillum and Pseudoxanthomonas isolated from the rhizosphere of an Indian tropical leguminous plant

 

Wriddhiman Ghosh and Pradosh Roy

1616

Temporal changes in groundwater quality in an industrial area of Andhra Pradesh, India

 

K. V. Srinivasa Rao, N. Subba Rao, B. Murali Krishna, P. Srinivasa Rao, A. Subrahmanyam, D. John Devadas and B. Tirupathi Rao

1620

Geochronological constraints on the evolution of Meghalaya massif, northeastern India: An ion microprobe study

 

Maibam Bidyananda and M. P. Deomurari

1623 Ethnobotanical studies of Shompens – A critically endangered and degenerating ethnic community in Great Nicobar Island
M. U. Sharief and R. R. Rao

BOOK REVIEWS

1629 Biology, Ecology, and Evolution of Gall-inducing Arthropods. Ananthanarayanan Raman, Carl W. Schaefer and Toni M. Withers (eds)
  reviewed by T. C. Narendran
1630 Yash Pal: A Life in Science by Biman Basu
reviewed by D. Balasubramanian

COVER CAPTION

 

COVER.  Tropical Asian biodiversity in crises. (Photo credits: William Laurance, Shigeo Kobayashi, J. P. Puyravaud and B. R. Ramesh).
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