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Vol 82  No 3
10th Feb 2002

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Contents

IN THIS ISSUE

240

In this issue


EDITORIAL

241

Higher education in science
P. Balaram

CORRESPONDENCE

243

The Indian science scene: Is geoscience not science?

Hetu C. Sheth

244

Biodiversity surveys are crucial for India

Govindasamy Agoramoorthy and Minna J. Hsu

245 Attesting wastage

Subir K. Sen

246 SciDev.net -- Inputs from reputed journals are but crumbs
K. R. Rao
247 Publishing in Indian journals
D. K. Basa
247 War and its effects on environment
Shahaji B. More

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NEWS

248 Hopes are raised. Better times ahead for the 
community of scientists and technologists?

Nirupa Sen

249

Keeping Indians healthy: Some issues

Nirupa Sen
250 Whither electric vehicles?
A. K. Shukla
251 Quasicrystals--2001

N. K. Mukhopadhyay

254 Solid state nuclear track detectors

H. S. Virk

254 Seminar on women in Aerospace in India -- A report

Kalyani Vijayan

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RESEARCH NEWS

256 Discotic liquid crystals for solar cells
Sandeep Kumar

COMMENTARY

258 The new paradigm for energy
Amulya K. N. Reddy

260 From the archives

SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE

261

Bamboo flowering and famine

C. K. John and R. S. Nadgauda

262 Antibacterial properties of cyanobacteria: A cost-effective and eco-friendly approach to control bacterial leaf spot disease of chilli
Usha Pandey and J. Pandey
264

Heparinase in purple fluid of the sea hare, Bursatella leachii

J. Rajaganapathi and K. Kathiresan

266

A simple and cost-effective mass rearing technique 
for the tephritid fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel)

P. D. Kamala Jayanthi and Abraham Verghese


GENERAL ARTICLE

269 Preliminary pointers towards improving the work environment in CSIR laboratories: Remarks from an empirical study
Santanu Roy and Sunil K. Dhawan

research account

273 Multiple facets of diabetes in young people
Andrew Hattersley

SPECIAL SECTION: INDUS-1 SYNCHROTROn

279 India’s first synchrotron radiation source Indus-1: 
A historical perspective

D. D. Bhawalkar

283 Synchrotron radiation source Indus-1

D. Angal-Kalinin, A. Banerji, P. R. Hannurkar, M. G. Karmarkar, S. Kotaiah, S. P. Mhaskar,  P. K. Nema, 
S. S. Prabhu, M. Pravin Kumar, S. S. Ramamurthi, 
S. K. Shukla, G. Singh,  H. C. Soni and B. J. Vaidya

291 Beamlines on Indian synchrotron radiation source 
Indus-1

R. V. Nandedkar

298 First results on the reflectometry beamline on Indus-1

R. V. Nandedkar, K. J. S. Sawhney, G. S. Lodha, 
A. Verma, V. K. Raghuvanshi, A. K. Sinha, M. H. Modi 
and M. Nayak

305 Photoelectron spectroscopy beamline on Indus-1 synchrotron radiation source

S. M. Chaudhari, D. M. Phase, A. D. Wadikar, 
G. S. Ramesh, M. S. Hegde and B. A. Dasannacharya


RESEARCH ARTICLES

310 Aerosol radiative forcing over tropical Indian Ocean: Modulation by sea-surface winds

S. K. Satheesh

316 Impact of Deccan volcanism on deep crustal structure along western part of Indian mainland and adjoining Arabian Sea
A. P. Singh

RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

326

The first megalosaurid tooth from South Korea

Jong-Deock Lim, L. D. Martin and K. S. Baek

329

Progressions of phototrophic bacteria and sulphur 
chemistry in decomposi­tion models

M. Eashwar, S. Maruthamuthu and S. Venkatakrishna Iyer

333

Extraction of terrain parameters from IRS-1C PAN 
stereo data using photogrammetric techniques

P. Jayaprasad, B. Narender, A. S. Arya and Ajai

338

Geotechnical properties of siliceous sediments from 
the Central Indian Basin

N. H. Khadge

343

Qualitative assessment of tissue culture parameters 
useful in transformation of indica rice

K. B. R. S. Visarada and N. P. Sarma

347

Vegetation vis-ŕ-vis climate and glacial fluctuations 
of the Gangotri Glacier since the last 2000 years

Ratan Kar, P. S. Ranhotra, A. Bhattacharyya and B. Sekar

351

Errata


BOOK REVIEWS

352

Electronic Absorption Spectroscopy and Related 
Techniques

reviewed by  Kankan Bhattacharyya

352

merging Eco-friendly Alternatives for the Fine 
Chemicals Industry

reviewed by B. C. Ranu

353

Model Systems in Behavioural Ecology

reviewed by Rohini Balakrishnan

355

Restoring the Abundance: Regene­ration of Indian 
Agriculture to Ensure Food for All in Plenty

reviewed by M. S. Swaminathan

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ACADEMY NEWS

356 Indian Academy of Sciences elects new fellows -- 2001

PERSONAL NEWS

357 Anil Agarwal
Madhav Gadgil

ADVERTISEMENTS

359

JSPS Fellowship Program, DST

361 International Awards for Research in Leukaemia
362

JNCASR, Jakkur, Bangalore

363

Universities Press, Hyderabad

364

Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow

365

Banaras Hindu University

365

Iladevi Cataract and IOL Research Centre, Ahmedabad

366 Burhani Foundation -- NEERI Award
366 Indian Science Congress Association Awards