Contents

IN THIS ISSUE

327	In this issue

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EDITORIAL

329	Popularizing Science: Memories of an Icon
	P. Balaram

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CORRESPONDENCE

331	Decline in academia
	P. K. Ambasht
331	ScopusTM has wider scope than Science Citation Index
	N. C. Jain
332	Better salary for University teachers having higher market value
	Yamini Bhusan Tripathi
332	Ecology in cricket
	V. M. Meher-Homji
333	Headship and orphaned departments in the Universities
	Y. K. Gupta
334	Bhimbetka – A newly declared World Heritage Site
	Tariq Husain and Bhaskar Datt
335	Current research on medicinal plants: Five lesser known but valuable aspects
	Pitamber Prasad Dhyani and Chandra Prakash Kala
336	Quality of herbal raw material: A challenge
	M. Schmidt, G. Betti and M. Thomsen
337	Material selection of high-level nuclear waste storage canisters: Lessons from archaeo­metallurgy
	R. Balasubramaniam
338	Do lichens still grow in Kolkata City?
	D. K. Upreti, Sanjeeva Nayaka and Aahuti Bajpai

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NEWS

340	International Science Olympiads: India’s contribution
	Mrinalini G. Walawalkar
341	ICTP Science Prizes
342	Receding glaciers in the Indian Himalayan region
	Kireet Kumar
344	70th Annual Meeting of Indian Academy of Sciences
	Minakshi De
346	Recent trends in applied biology
	S. Sainudeen Sahib

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RESEARCH NEWS

347	Negative thermal expansion in ZrW2O8 – Do we give up the concept of normal mode?
	S. L. Chaplot

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SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE

349	A rapid and specific detection method for blast infection caused by Magnaporthe grisea in Setaria italica
	V. Karthikeyan and Samuel S. Gnanamanickam
350	Seedling mortality in two vulnerable tree species in the sacred groves of Western Ghats, South India
	Bhausaheb Tambat, G. Rajanikanth, G. Ravikanth, R. Uma Shaanker, K. N. Ganeshaiah and C. G. Kushalappa
352	Seed-like structure in dinosaurian coprolite of Lameta Forma­tion (Upper Cretaceous) at Pisdura, Maharashtra, India
	K. Ambwani and Debi Dutta
354	Population size, feeding, forearm length and body weight of a less known Indian fruit bat, Latidens salimalii
	Govindasamy Agoramoorthy and Minna J. Hsu
357	Effects of M 9 Sumatra earthquake and tsunami of 26 December 2004
	Sudhir K. Jain, C. V. R. Murty, Durgesh C. Rai, Javed N. Malik, Alpa Sheth and Arvind Jaiswal

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SPECIAL SECTION: MATHEMATICS

360	Mathematics and the real world
	R. Rajaraman
366	The reciprocal interaction between mathematics and natural law
	Sunil Mukhi
371	Role of mathematics in chemistry
	Debashis Mukherjee
374	Chemistry – The middle kingdom
	Gautam R. Desiraju
381	The natural effectiveness of mathematics in the biological sciences
	R. Ramaswamy
388	Mathematics and biology
	Vidyanand Nanjundiah
394	Computation – The new mathematics for sciences
	N. D. Hari Dass
397	Mathematics and computer science: The interplay
	C. E. Veni Madhavan
405	Mathematics in engineering
	Anindya Chatterjee
415	Revisiting the ‘unreasonable effectiveness’ of mathematics
	Sundar Sarukkai

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REVIEW ARTICLE

424	Regulation of proline biosynthesis, degradation, uptake and transport in higher plants: Its implications in plant growth and abiotic stress tolerance
	P. B. Kavi Kishor, S. Sangam, R. N. Amrutha, P. Sri Laxmi, K. R. Naidu, K. R. S. S. Rao, Sreenath Rao, K. J. Reddy, P. Theriappan and N. Sreenivasulu

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RESEARCH ARTICLES

439	Simulations of the 26 December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami using a multi-purpose Ocean disaster simulation and prediction model
	Vijay K. Agarwal, Neeraj Agarwal and Raj Kumar
445	U, Th–21Ne, a new dating tool: A case study of apatites from Hogenakal carbonatites
	S. Basu, S. V. S. Murty and Anil Kumar
449	Peptone glucose fluconazole agar, a selective medium for rapid and enhanced isolation of Aspergillus fumigatus from aqueous suspensions and sputum seeded with Candida albicans
	H. S. Randhawa, T. Kowshik, K. Preeti Sinha, R. S. Sandhu and Anuradha Chowdhary
455	Developmental alterations in chick embryo by b-microseminoprotein are closely associated with modulation of goosecoid and noggin expression
	Aditi Karandikar and Surendra Ghaskadbi
462	Species selection for improving disturbed habitats in Western India
	Diwakar Sharma and S. F. Wesley Sunderraj
468	Imaging subsurface geology with seismic migration on a computing cluster
	Sudhakar Yerneni, Suhas Phadke, Dheeraj Bhardwaj, Subrata Chakraborty and Richa Rastogi

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RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

475	Persistence of malaria transmission in a tribal area in Maharashtra, India
	R. C. Dhiman, B. Shahi, S. N. Sharma, N. Nanda, V. N. Khargiwarkar and S. K. Subbarao
478	Nitrous oxide fluxes in a tropical shallow urban pond under influencing factors
	Vijai Pratap Singh, Preeti Dass, Kuldeep Kaur, S. K. Billore, P. K. Gupta and D. C. Parashar
484	Inhibition of lipid peroxidation induced by g-radiation and AAPH in rat liver and brain mitochondria by mushrooms
	B. Lakshmi, J. C. Tilak, S. Adhikari, T. P. A. Devasagayam and K. K. Janardhanan
489	Amplification success and feasibility of using microsatellite loci amplified from dung to popu­la­tion genetic studies of the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
	T. N. C. Vidya and R. Sukumar
492	Factors affecting the occurrence of Porphyra vietnamensis Tanaka & Pham-Hoang Ho along the Goa coast
	N. Pereira, J. Kakode and V. K. Dhargalkar
497	Variation in lithospheric structure in the vicinity of Palghat Cauvery Shear Zone, southern Indian shield: Inference from magnetotelluric data
	Ajay Manglik
502	Evolution of Proterozoic mafic dyke swarms of the Bundelkhand Granite Massif, Central India
	J. Mallikharjuna Rao, G. V. S. Poornachandra Rao, M. Widdowson and S. P. Kelley
507	Effect of feeding cuttlefish liver oil on immune function, inflammatory response and platelet aggregation in rats
	Sophia Margaret Joseph, M. C. George, J. Rajasekharan Nair, V. Priya Senan, Devika Pillai and P. M. Sherief

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BOOK REVIEWS

511	Geometric Phases in Classical and Quan­tum Mechanics by Dariusz Chruscinski and Andrzej Jamiolkowski
	reviewed by Apoorva G. Wagh
511	Annual Review of Biochemistry 2004 by Charles C. Richardson (ed.)
	reviewed by Abani K. Bhuyan

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PERSONAL NEWS

513	Autar Singh Paintal (1925–2004)
	Indira Nath

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ACADEMY NEWS

515	Indian Academy of Sciences elects new Fellows – 2005

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