Current Issue
Vol 78 No 12
25th June 2000
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| 1407 |
Science and Technology
in India and brain drain- Some suggestions |
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S. Seshadri, K.
Karthiravan and S. Ignacimuthu |
| 1408 |
National Science Policy
without Earth Sciences |
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Brijesh Barthwal |
| 1408 |
Need to define deep
crustal structure of the Bay of Bengal, a
major constituent of the north-eastern Indian
Ocean |
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M. V. Ramana and T.
Ramprasad |
| 1410 |
Vaginal pheromone and
other unusual compounds in mung bean aroma |
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R. L. Brahmachary and
Mahua Ghosh (Basu) |
| 1410 |
Predicting climate
change |
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S. K. Vats and P. S.
Ahuja |
| 1411 |
Drying up of Saraswati |
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Sudhanshu Ranade |
| 1412 |
Who should be credited
for the discovery and first reporting of
arsenicosis in Koudikasa in Madhya Pradesh? |
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Piyush Kant Pandey and Editor's
note |
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| 1412 |
China's new basic
research strategy designed to eschew 'blind
following of developed countries' |
| 1413 |
Global partnerships
towards creation of knowledge societies
– A way forward |
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Sudha Nair |
| 1414 |
Biology today: Urgent
need for an integrative approach |
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S. C. Lakhotia |
| 1415 |
Annual meeting of the
Mycological Society of India |
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S. Raghukumar |
| 1416 |
From the archives |
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| 1417 |
Reformation of
science education in Indian
universities |
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S. Prakash |
| 1418 |
Indoor radon
levels and inhalation doses to population in
Punjab |
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H. S. Virk and Navjeet
Sharma |
| 1421 |
Fluorosis in
Assam, India |
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D. Chakraborti, C. R.
Chanda, G. Samanta, U. K. Chowdhury, S. C.
Mukherjee, A. B. Pal, B. Sharma, K. J.
Mahanta, H. A. Ahmed and B. Sing |
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| 1424 |
Copying life's devices |
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S. Vogel and J. G.
Vogel |
| 1430 |
International
interactions in science – The Indian
experience |
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M. Vijayan |
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| 1438 |
Synthetic seed:
Prospects and limitations |
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Hussain Ara, Uma
Jaiswal and V. S. Jaiswal |
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| 1445 |
Progress
in scanning probe microscopy: High resolution
force microscopy and spectroscopy |
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R.
Erlandsson and Peter Apell |
| 1458 |
Neutron
scattering for surface characterization |
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J.
Penfold |
| 1467 |
X-ray
reflectivity and diffuse scattering |
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A.
Gibaud and S. Hazra |
| 1478 |
Grazing
incidence diffraction |
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Pulak
Dutta |
| 1484 |
Investigations
of semiconductor surfaces and interfaces by
X-ray grazing incidence diffraction |
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Ullrich
Pietsch |
| 1496 |
X-ray
scattering at liquid surfaces and interfaces |
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Jean
Daillant |
| 1507 |
Surface
physics at Saha Institute |
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S. Banerjee, S. R.
Bhattacharyya, P. Chakraborty, A. Datta, D.
Ghose, S. Kundu and M. K. Sanyal |
| 1511 |
Aspects
of surface and interface characterizations by
X-rays: The research programme at IOP,
Bhubaneswar |
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B. N. Dev |
| 1515 |
Surface and interface
studies at IUC-DAEF, Indore |
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B. A Dasannacharya,
Ajay Gupta, S. M. Chaudhari, V. Ganesan and
T. Shripathi |
| 1519 |
Twenty
years of surface science in the Department of
Physics, University of Pune |
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S. K. Kulkarni |
| 1523 |
Surface analytical
facility at NPL, New Delhi |
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B. R. Chakraborty,
Pardeep Mohan, S. M. Shivaprasad, D. R.
Sharma, C. Anandan, A. C. Gupta and A. K.
Raychaudhuri |
| 1528 |
Surface
characterization of thin film devices and
optical elements |
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N. K. Sahoo, D.
Bhattacharyya, S. Thakur, Dinesh Udupa, R. P.
Shukla, N. C. Das and A. P. Roy |
| 1532 |
In vitro
clonal propagation of annatto (Bixa
orellana L.) |
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Madhuri Sharon and
Marie Claire D'Souza |
| 1535 |
The 'K'
selected oligophilic bacteria: A key to
uncultured diversity? |
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Milind Watve, Vaishali
Shejval, Charushila Sonawane, Monali
Rahalkar, Anagha Matapurkar, Yogesh Shouche,
Milind Patole, Nitin Phadnis, Ameya
Champhenkar, Kalyani Damle, Sulabha
Karandikar, Vasudev Kshirsagar and Maithili
Jog |
| 1542 |
UMSBP from Leishmania
donovani UR6 recognizes
single-stranded nucleotides at the site of
origin of replication of kinetoplast
minicircles |
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Sribir Sen, Neeta V. M.
Khalkho, Bidyottam Mittra, Arindam Dasgupta
and H. K. Majumder |
| 1548 |
Study of
dissociation of human chorionic gonadotropin
monoclonal antibody complexes using
nitrocellulose as an insoluble support |
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N. S. Srilatha and G.
S. Murthy |
| 1552 |
Mitogenic and
melanogenic activity of human placental
protein/peptides on melanoma cell |
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Samir Kumar Mandal,
Shampa Mallick, P. K. Dutta and Ranjan Bhadra |
| 1556 |
Identification
of probable faults in the vicinity of
Harnai–Ratnagiri region of the Konkan
coast, Maharashtra, India |
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Biswaketan Kundu and
Anand Matam |
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| 1561 |
New Species
Syndrome in Indian Pteridology and the Ferns
of Nepal |
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reviewed by D.
D. Pant and G. K. Srivastava |
| 1562 |
The Indian
Subcontinent and Gondwana: A Palaeomagnetic
and Rock Magnetic Perspective (Mem. 44) |
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reviewed by
I. V. Radhakrishna Murthy |
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| 1564 |
George K. Batchelor
– An obituary |
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R. Narasimha |
| 1565 |
David G. Crighton –
An obituary |
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R. Narasimha |
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