Contents

IN THIS ISSUE

120	In this issue

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CORRESPONDENCE

121	Probing misconduct
	Sandip K. Basu; P. M. Bhargava; R. Sunder; G. R. Desiraju
122	Discussing misconduct
	P. N. Shankar
123	Is ‘small’ really the next big thing?
	Ashok Patel
124	Patent office and patent applications – Bridging the disparity
	Manthan D. Janodia, D. Sreedhar, Virendra S. Ligade, Ajay G. Pise and N. Udupa
124	Planetary explosions
	J. N. Nanda
125	Pyramidal hierarchy in the scientific community
	M. K. Unnikrishnan
126	Repetitive and unpublished projects
	Abraham Mathew
126	Urbanization – A potential threat to the fragile Himalayan environment
	P. Ghosh
127	Is Corypha talliera (Arecaceae), the most handsome palm of India, extinct?
	R. C. Srivastava and R. K. Choudhary

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NEWS

127	Awards
128	Molecular tools for quality improvement in vegetatively propagated crops, including banana and cassava
	Ashalatha S. Nair and Mba Chikelu

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OPINION

130	Embarrassment of the riches
	Dipankar Chatterji

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SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE

132	Utilization of poly[2-methoxy-5-(2-ethyl-hexyloxy)-phenylene vinylene] as a hole-conductor in titania-based photovoltaic cell
	P. M. Sirimanne, E. V. A. Premalal and T. Soga
133	Environmentally benign oxidation of some alcohols with 34% hydrogen peroxide catalysed by H3PW12O40
	Reza Tayebee and Mohammad H. Alizadeh
136	CARTOSAT-1 views the Nalanda Buddhist ruins
	J. Kamini, Malatesh Kulkarni, V. Raghavaswamy, P. S. Roy and P. K. Mishra
138	Isolation of RNA from cell scrapings and blood samples from cervical cancer patients
	Radha Munagala and Bala Nagarajan

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GENERAL ARTICLES

140	Bio-resources and empire building: What favoured the growth of Vijayanagara Empire?
	K. N. Ganeshaiah, R. Uma Shaanker and R. Vasudeva
147	Strategy for enriching the environment of captive Ursids
	Brij Kishor Gupta, Sant Prakash and A. K. Sinha

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SPECIAL SECTION: INDIAN MONSOON

153	Indian summer monsoon experiments
	G. S. Bhat and R. Narasimha
165	What have we learned about the Indian monsoon from satellite data?
	J. Srinivasan and P. C. Joshi
173	Intraseasonal oscillation of tropical convergence zones: Theory and prediction
	Ravi S. Nanjundiah and T. N. Krishnamurti
182	Monsoon variability: Links to major oscillations over the equatorial Pacific and Indian oceans
	Sulochana Gadgil, M. Rajeevan and P. A. Francis
195	A promising alternative to prediction of seasonal mean all India rainfall
	Prince K. Xavier and B. N. Goswami
203	Arabian Sea mini warm pool and the monsoon onset vortex
	P. N. Vinayachandran, D. Shankar, J. Kurian, F. Durand and S. S. C. Shenoi

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RESEARCH ARTICLES

215	Context sequence for transcription factors surrounding start codon in model crops
	Mohenish Jaiswal and Latha Rangan
219	Distinct polymorphism of DBLa domain of the var gene in laboratory-cultured and clinical field isolates of Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasites
	Aarti D. Ozarkar, D. Prakash, Dileep N. Deobagkar and Deepti D. Deobagkar
224	Delhi–Hardwar Ridge and surrounding basement structure – Some inferences from deep resistivity sounding measurements
	V. Chakravarthi, S. B. Singh, G. Ashok Babu, B. Veeraiah and Jimmy Stephen

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RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

231	Mathematical analysis on certain physical properties applied on random coil model
	Jaydip Datta, Chiranjib Bhattacharjee, T. K. Bhattacharyya and B. R. De
234	Differential scanning calorimetric studies on the interaction of N-acylethanolamines with cholesterol
	M. Ramakrishnan, Pradip K. Tarafdar, Ravi Kanth Kamlekar and Musti J. Swamy
238	Studies on lower epidermal papillae, the site of storage of basmati rice aroma compounds in Pandanus amaryllifolius Roxb.
	Kantilal V. Wakte, Altafhusain B. Nadaf, Sellappan Krishnan and  Ratnakar J. Thengane
243	Wood and leaf litter decomposition of Dipterocarpus tuberculatus Roxb. in a tropical deciduous forest of Manipur, Northeast India
	A. Sarjubala Devi and P. S. Yadava
246	Nyctibatrachus karnatakaensis nom. nov., a replacement name for the giant wrinkled frog from the Western Ghats
	K. P. Dinesh, C. Radhakrishnan, A. H. Manjunatha Reddy and K. V. Gururaja
250	Why is the South Korean peninsula largely aseismic? Geodetic evidences
	Shuanggen Jin, Pil-Ho Park and Jong-Uk Park

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BOOK REVIEWS

254	Toxicology of Reptiles by Susan C. Gardner and Eva Oberdörster (eds)
	reviewed by Rajkumar S. Radder
255	The Legacy of Suśruta by M. S. Valiathan
	reviewed by Ram Harsh Singh

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PERSONAL NEWS

256	Ravinder Lal Kapur (1938–2006)
	N. N. Wig; G. K. Karanth

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COVER CAPTION

COVER.  Nyctibatrachus karnatakaensis, the giant wrinkled frog. See page 246.

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