Contents

IN THIS ISSUE

1645	In this issue

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CORRESPONDENCE

1647	Faculty positions in scientific/academic institutions and citizenship issues
	J. Gowrishankar
1647	Need to adopt traditional fishing gears in Senkhi
	Shivaji Chaudhry and Lakpa Tamang
1648	Need of innovative approach for climate change studies in alpine region of India
	Ashish K. Chaturvedi, R. K. Vashistha, P. Prasad and M. C. Nautiyal
1649	Menace of Japanese encephalitis in rural areas of eastern Uttar Pradesh
	Arvind Singh
1650	Geographical representation of journals in Medline 2007
	N. C. Jain
1650	A submarine trench along the eastern coast of Peninsular India
	R. Ramasamy

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NEWS

1652	Lies, damn lies and analytics?
	Srinivas Bhogle
1653	Behaviour, brain systems and pharmacology
	Monika Sadananda
1654	Seminar on male infertility
	M. B. Hiremath and R. B. Nerli

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RESEARCH NEWS

1655	Malaria control: New avenues
	Pankaj Ghate, Milind Patole and Yogesh S. Shouche

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OPINION

1658	Need to clinically investigate BHUx for atherosclerosis and osteoporosis
	Yamini B. Tripathi and Deepshikha Tripathi
1659	Improved system of anonymous peer review of manuscripts
	Shirish A. Ranade and Nikhil Kumar

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COMMENTARY

1661	Contract farming for organic crop production in India
	, R. T. Gahukar

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SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE

1664	Growing crystals from solution: By design or by default?
	Jency Thomas and A. Ramanan
1668	Molecular identification of fruit flies, Bactrocera spp. (Diptera: Tephritidae) using mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I
	R. Asokan, N. K. Krishna Kumar and Abraham Verghese
1670	Lichen communities in Larsemann Hills, East Antarctica
	Shiv Mohan Singh, Sanjeeva Nayaka and D. K. Upreti

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GENERAL ARTICLE

1673	Environmental resources and their economics for use
	Ranen Sen and Sharadindra Chakrabarti

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REVIEW ARTICLE

1684	Endoplasmic reticulum: Stress, signalling and apoptosis
	Syed G. Hussain and Kolluru V. A. Ramaiah

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SPECIAL SECTION: INDIAN SPACE PROGRAMME

1697	Evolution of Indian launch vehicle technologies
	S. C. Gupta, B. N. Suresh and K. Sivan
1715	Spacecraft technology
	V. R. Katti, K. Thyagarajan, K. N. Shankara and A. S. Kiran Kumar
1737	Applications of space communication
	A. Bhaskaranarayana, B. S. Bhatia, K. Bandyopadhyay and P. K. Jain
1747	Remote sensing applications: An overview
	Ranganath R. Navalgund, V. Jayaraman and P. S. Roy
1767	Space astronomy and interplanetary exploration
	P. C. Agrawal, B. V. Sreekantan and Narendra Bhandari
1779	Developments and achievements in atmospheric sciences and space meteorology in India
	A. Jayaraman, P. C. Joshi and R. Ramesh
1791	Space mission planning and operations
	V. Adimurthy, M. Y. S. Prasad and S. K. Shivakumar
1812	Organizational systems, commercialization and cost–benefit analysis of Indian space programme
	K. R. Sridhara Murthi, U. Sankar and H. N. Madhusudhan
1823	Legal environment for space activities
	K. R. Sridhara Murthi, V. Gopalakrishnan and Partha Sarathi Datta

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RESEARCH ARTICLE

1828	Local preferences of ethnobotanical species in the Indian Himalaya: Implications for environmental conservation
	Chandra Prakash Kala

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RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

1835	Trend of tropospheric ozone in Indian forests from 1980 to 2000
	Nandita D. Ganguly
1840	A PCR–RFLP method for the simultaneous detection of Babesia bigemina and Theileria annulata infections in cattle
	R. Ravindran, B. C. Saravanan, J. R. Rao, A. K. Mishra, G. C. Bansal and D. Ray
1843	Genetic transformation of an elite Indian genotype of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) for insect resistance
	I. S. Katageri, H. M. Vamadevaiah, S. S. Udikeri, B. M. Khadi and Polumetla A. Kumar
1848	Seismotectonic implications of Delhi region through fault plane solutions of some recent earthquakes
	A. K. Shukla, Rajesh Prakash, R. K. Singh, P. S. Mishra and A. K. Bhatnagar
1854	Changes in levels of carbon in soils over years of two important food production zones of India
	T. Bhattacharyya, P. Chandran, S. K. Ray, D. K. Pal, M. V. Venugopalan, C. Mandal and S. P. Wani

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BOOK REVIEWS

1864	Trends in Partial Differential Equations of Mathematical Physics. Jose F. Rodrigues et al. (eds)
	reviewed by Mythily Ramaswamy
1864	Groves of Beauty and Plenty: An Atlas of Major Flowering Trees in India – Second Edition. M. S. Swaminathan and S. L. Kochhar
	reviewed by R. R. Rao
1865	Applications of Plant Metabolic Engineering. R. Verpoorte, A. W. Alfermann and T. S. Johnson (eds)
	reviewed by C. Jayabaskaran and Satpal Singh
1866	Geology of Haryana and Delhi. J. L. Thussu
	reviewed by L. S. Chamyal

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PERSONAL NEWS

1868	Sipra Guha-Mukherjee (1938–2007)
	S. C. Maheshwari

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HISTORICAL NOTES

1870	Alleged mistake of Āryabhata – Light onto his place of observation
	K. Chandra Hari

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1882	Institutional Members

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1885	Acknowledgements

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1888	Author Index

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1897	Keyword Index

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1907	Volume Contents

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COVER CAPTION

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

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