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Vol 79 No 1
10th July 2000

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Contents

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In this issue


EDITORIAL

5 Post-genome blues
  P. Balaram

CORRESPONDENCE

7 Important considerations for the success of rainwater harvesting
  N. Subba Rao
7 Management and conservation of water resources during drought in Chennai
  R. Srinivasan 
8 Importance of environmental science: Medical geology
  K. Selvaraj
10 Expertise crisis in insect taxonomy: Need for introspection
  T. N. Ananthakrishnan
10 National vs international research
  B. K. Mishra
11 Blind folly?
  V. Balakrishnan
11 NeemAzal-F
  R. Senrayan

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NEWS 

12 A new deployable thin-film, ultralight mirror for future space telescopes and surveillance satellites
12 Brain Awareness Week 2000
  Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath

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MEETINGS REPORTS 

14 Treands in photochemical processes on solid surfaces
  A. S. K. Sinha, S. N. Upadhyay and Shailendra Tripathi
15 Clonal propagation technology
  G. M. Reddy

RESEARCH NEWS 

15 Chemical bond formation at atomic and molecular scale by STM
  Ujjal Kumar Sur
17 Random selections
18 From the archives

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OPINION 

19 The question of post-doctoral fellowships: A feasible case for apprenticeship in university teaching
  V. Sitaramam

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SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE

23 An indirect method for forecasting the annual food production of India
  C. K. Gopinathan
24 Palynodebris accumulation characteristics of a sediment core from the eastern part of Lower Bengal Fan
  S. Ramesh and S. Ramasamy
27 Reliability of urohyal bone of silver carp, Hypophthalmichthys molitrix (Val. 1844) for age determination
  M. S. Johal, H. R. Esmaeili and K. K. Tandon

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GENERAL ARTICLES

29 Alzheimer's disease – A challenge in the new millennium
  M. K. Thakur
37 Recent progress in cotton biotechnology and genetic engineering in China
  Bao-Hong Zhang, Fang Liu, Chang-Bing Yao and Kun-Bo Wang
45 A note on the Kangra Ms = 7.8 earthquake of 4 April 1905
  Nicholas Ambraseys and Roger Bilham

REVIEW ARTICLE

51 Particle image velocimetry
  Ajay K. Prasad

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RESEARCH ARTICLES

61 Structural investigation of thin films and multilayers using X-ray scattering
  Satish Vitta
70 Simulation of tropical cyclones using regional weather prediction models
  Prabir K. Patra, M. S. Santhanam, K. V. J. Potty, M. Tewari and P. L. S. Rao

RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

79 Inter-annual variabily of total ozone deduced from GOME and its relation to observed El Nino of 1997–1998
  Sudipta Sarkar and Ramesh P. Singh
82 Interaction of sanguinarine with A-form and protonated form of ribonucleic acid structures: Spectroscopic, viscometric and thermodynamic studies
  S. Das, Anamika Banerjee, Anjana Sen and M. Maiti
   
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88 The effect of disturbance levels, forest types and associations on the regeneration of Taxus baccata: Lessons from the Central Himalaya
  H. C. Rikhari, S. Sharma, M. Nadeem and L. M. S. Palni
90 In vitro antibiotic susceptibilities of Yersinia enterocolitica and Yersinia intermedia isolated from sewage effluents
  Indrajit Sinha and J. S. Virdi
   
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93 Cell culture from fin explant of endangered golden mahseer, Tor putitora (Hamilton)
  Isswar Prasanna, W. S. Lakra, S. N. Ogale and R. R. Bhonde
95 Effect of synthetic zeolites on xylanase production from an alkalophilic Basillus sp.
  H. Balakrishnan, M. C. Srinivasan, M. V. Rele, K. Chaudhari and A. J. Chandwadkar
97 Vestigial photoperiodic response in subarctic Myrmica ants
  Vladilen E. Kipyatkov and Elena B. Lopatina

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TECHNICAL NOTE

99 A precision, low-cost vibrating sample magnetometer
  A. Niazi, P. Poddar and A. K. Rastogi

 


BOOK REVIEWS

110 Doubt and Certainty
  reviewed by J. Pasupathy
111 Aerosols: Generation and Role in Medicine, Industry and Environment
  reviewed by  S. Krishnaswami
113 The Great Indian Elephant Book: An Anthology of Writing on Elephants in the Raj
  reviewed by  Charles Santiapillai
114 The Khulgad Project – An Experiment in Sustainable Development
  reviewed by  Devashish Kar

PERSONAL NEWS

115 Chanchal Kumar Majumdar (1938–2000) – An obituary
  Sushanta Dattagupta

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