Contents

IN THIS ISSUE

4	In this issue

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EDITORIAL

5	Anniversaries at the Academies
	P. Balaram

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CORRESPONDENCE

7	Making science-related jobs (less) attractive
	Sunil K. Dhawan
8	Need for fixing priorities in higher education system
	P. K. Nagar
8	Sharing biomedical journals in India
	S. R. Narahari, M. Guruprasad Aggithaya and K. R. Suraj
9	Re-thinking on medical admission for science and healthcare
	Shaju Thomas
10	Beneficial effects of shifting cultivation (jhum)
	Mithu Paul and Partha Pratim Paul
10	Looking East: familial support as a crucial predictor of treatment management in psychiatric illnesses?
	Vibhuti Srivastava
11	Need for conservation of biodiversity in Araku Valley, Andhra Pradesh
	Chiranjibi Pattanaik, S. Narendra Prasad and C. Sudhakar Reddy
12	Radioecological sensitivity in coastal marine food resources of India – need for a reference model database
	C. Regunathan and M. R. Kitto

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NEWS

14	Unravelling climate change
	Neelam Pereira
14	RT–PCR technique for rapid detection of CHIK virus
	Abhay S. D. Rajput
15	2008 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar prizes
	Abhay S. D. Rajput
15	CSIR Young Scientist and CSIR Technology Awards 2008
	Abhay S. D. Rajput
16	Noni Search 2008
	Kirti Singh, P. I. Peter, P. Rethinam, Brahma Singh, T. Marimuthu and K. V. Peter
17	Sericulture and viable technologies for better silk production
	B. G. Unni and U. S. N. Murthy
19	Community-based sustainable natural resources management and development in Northeast India
	Ranjay K. Singh, R. C. Srivastava and T. K. Mukherjee

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RESEARCH NEWS

22	Treatment of brain fever – breakthrough in sight
	Rosalind Ezhil K.

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OPINION

23	Integrating geo-spatial information technologies and participatory methods in agricultural development
	M. Narayana Reddy and N. H. Rao

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COMMENTARY

26	Food security: The challenges of climate change and bioenergy
	R. T. Gahukar

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SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE

29	Tungsten–cobalt contamination from pulverizing cup
	G. C. Saikia, T. K. Sinha and F. Kharshiing
30	Elysia bangtawaensis Swennen (Nudibranch) from the mangrove habitat of Mandovi estuary, Goa (central west coast), India
	T. G. Jagtap, P. S. Shenai-Tirodkar, S. B. Savant, V. A. Kulkarni and Z. A. Ansari
33	Was Bundelkhand–Aravalli nucleus part of Ur supercontinent?
	M. E. A. Mondal

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GENERAL ARTICLES

36	Methane emission modelling from wetlands and waterlogged areas using MODIS data
	Reshu Agarwal and J. K. Garg
41	Problems with geoengineering schemes to combat climate change
	G. Bala

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RESEARCH ARTICLES

49	Temporal evolution of measured climate forcing agents at South Pole, Antarctica
	Sachin D. Ghude, S. L. Jain and B. C. Arya
58	Structural characteristics of a giant tropical liana and its mode of canopy spread in an alien environment
	Ramesh Maheshwari, K. Sankara Rao and T. V. Ramachandra
65	Skull of Minotaurasaurus ramachandrani, a new Cretaceous ankylosaur from the Gobi Desert
	Clifford A. Miles and Clark J. Miles

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SPECIAL SECTION: LARGE BRANCHIOPODS

71	Distribution of Indian clam shrimps (Branchiopoda: Crustacea)
	M. K. Durga Prasad and G. Simhachalam

74	Biodiversity of large branchiopods of Australian saline lakes
	Brian V. Timms
81	Biodiversity of the brine shrimp Artemia from tropical salterns in southern México and Cuba
	Rafael Tizol-Correa, Alejandro M. Maeda-Martínez, Peter H. H. Weekers, Laura Torrentera and Gopal Murugan
88	Experimental hybridization of two African Streptocephalus species (Crustacea, Branchiopoda: Anostraca)
	Henri J. Dumont and Els Adriaens
91	Reproduction of the tadpole shrimp Triops (Notostraca) in Mexican waters
	Humberto García-Velazco, Hortencia Obregón-Barboza, Carmen Rodríguez-Jaramillo and Alejandro M. Maeda-Martínez
98	Can males successfully invade hermaphroditic populations of clam shrimp (Eulimnadia texana)?
	Stephen C. Weeks
103	Embryonic development and occurrence of p26 and artemin-like protein in the cryptobiotic cysts of freshwater fairy shrimp, Streptocephalus dichotomus Baird
	N. Munuswamy, S. Sathyanarayanan and A. Priyadarshini
111	Species representation and gender proportion from mixed Artemia franciscana and A. parthenogenetica (Anostraca) commercial cysts hatched over a wide range of temperatures
	Rafael Campos-Ramos, Hortencia Obregón-Barboza and Alejandro M. Maeda-Martínez
114	Survival, growth and composition of Poecilia latipinna fry fed enriched Artemia nauplii
	C. Arulvasu and N. Munuswamy
120	Aerobic Gram-positive heterotrophic bacteria Exiguobacterium mexicanum and Microbacterium sp. in the gut lumen of Artemia franciscana larvae under gnotobiotic conditions
	César Orozco-Medina, Alejandro López-Cortés and Alejandro M. Maeda-Martínez
130	Multiple hatching events in clam shrimp: Implications for mate guarding behaviour and community ecology
	C. Benvenuto, A. Calabrese, S. K. Reed and B. Knott

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RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

137	Procreant PSO for fastening the convergence to optimal solution in the application of document clustering
	K. Premalatha and A. M. Natarajan
144	Gender variation in a threatened and endemic palm Trachycarpus takil Becc.
	B. S. Kholia
148	Water repellency of soils in the lower Himalayan regions of India: impact of land use
	Debashis Mandal and J. Jayaprakash
152	Salinity status of tsunami-affected soil and water resources of South Andaman, India
	R. Raja, S. Ghoshal Chaudhuri, N. Ravisankar, T. P. Swarnam, V. Jayakumar and R. C. Srivastava
156	Intensity of shape preferred orientation in a granite and its tectonic implications
	Sukhen Majumder and Manish A. Mamtani

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BOOK REVIEWS

161	Experimenting with the Quantum World by S. T. Lakshmikumar
	reviewed by Kaustubh R. S. Priolkar
162	Fundamentals of Genetics by G. S. Miglani
	reviewed by Pradeep Kumar Burma
164	Global Warming: There is Still Time to Act by Alok Bhattacharya
	reviewed by Yateendra Joshi

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PERSONAL NEWS

165	K. R. Rao – A remembrance (1936–2008)
	B. A. Dasannacharya

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COVER CAPTION

COVER. Skull of Minotaurasaurus ramachandrani, a new Cretaceous ankylosaur from the Gobi Desert. See page 65.

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