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Vol 80  No 9
10th May 2001

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Contents

IN THIS ISSUE

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In this issue


EDITORIAL

1085 The astrology fallout
P. Balaram

CORRESPONDENCE

1087 UGC decides to set up departments of Vedic astrology in universities

Yash Pal

1088 Astrology and science

Alladi Sitaram et al.; M. R. N. Murthy; 
M. K. Chandrashekaran; J. R. Lakshmana Rao

1090 Has BSE-contaminated cattle feed entered India?

T. Jacob John

1090 National Disaster Mitigation and Reduction 
Institute – An immediate necessity
P. R. Reddy
1091 Seismic wave amplification – One more example 
as
evidenced at Ahmedabad (Cambay Basin) on 
26 January 2001
N. Y. Bhatt
1092 G. N. Ramachandran – Reminiscences
G. Suryan; S. Ramaseshan
1093 As in Sb clusters
D. N. Bose; Response: S. N. Sahu

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1094 From the archives

NEWS

1095 More plans afoot for earthquake management and 
research
Nirupa Sen

RESEARCH NEWS

1098 Phase transitions in liquids
K. R. Rao

COMMENTARY

1101 Dilemma of development and environment: 
A perspective
S. Himesh

SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE

1103

Tropical cyclones in a warmer world

M. Lal

1104 Microbial fouling of an anion exchange resin
B. Anupkumar, T. S. Rao and K. K. Satpathy
1107 Mapping of Hippophae rhamnoides Linn. in the adjoining areas of Kaza in Lahul and Spiti using remote sensing and GIS
P. S. Roy, M. C. Porwal and Lalit Sharma
1111 Inheritance of protein markers detecting polymorphism among rice genotypes with contrasting host response to green leafhopper
G. Padmavathi, E. A. Siddiq and C. Kole
1113 Phosphate rock with farmyard manure as P fertilizer 
in neutral and weakly alkaline soils
D. M. R. Sekhar and N. C. Aery

GENERAL ARTICLE

1116 Analysis of age distribution of Bhatnagar prize winners
N. R. Rajagopal

REVIEW ARTICLE

1121 Expression systems for production of heterologous proteins
Meena Rai and Harish Padh

RESEARCH ARTICLE

1129 Predictive habitat modelling for forest malaria vector 
species An. dirus in India – A GIS-based approach
Aruna Srivastava, B. N. Nagpal, Rekha Saxena and 
S. K. Subbarao

SPECIAL SECTION: STATISTICS

1135 Model selection – An overview
J. K. Ghosh and Tapas Samanta
1145 Mapping a human quantitative trait
Saurabh Ghosh and Partha P. Majumder
1161 Statistical analysis of large DNA sequences using 
distribution of DNA words
Probal Chaudhuri and Sandip Das
1167 Toxicology: Statistical perspectives
Pranab Kumar Sen
1176 Option pricing: An overview
Rajeeva L. Karandikar
1183 Statistical methods applied to analysis of electric 
power production costs
Mainak Mazumdar
1191 Survival, hazard and competing risks
Jayant V. Deshpande and Sudha G. Purohit

RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

1203

In situ micro-Raman investigation of dehydration 
mechanism in natural gypsum

P. S. R. Prasad, A. Pradhan and T. N. Gowd
1208

Application of IRS-P4 OCM data to study the impact of 
cyclone on coastal environment of Orissa

S. R. Nayak, R. K. Sarangi and A. S. Rajawat
1213

Genetic analysis of somaclonal variation among callus-derived plants of tomato

E. V. Soniya, N. S. Banerjee and M. R. Das
1216

Biosorptive removal of contaminating heavy metals 
from plant extracts of medicinal value

A. V. Pethkar, R. P. Gaikaiwari and K. M. Paknikar
1219

First record of the Ranid frog Paa annandalii 
(Boulenger 1920) from north-eastern region (Arunachal Pradesh) of India with a note on its larval stages

Sabitry Bordoloi, Mohini Mohan Borah, 
Paramita Chakravorty and Bikramjit Sinha
1222

A deep-sea bacterium with unique nitrifying property

A. S. Pradeep Ram, P. A. Loka Bharathi, Shanta Nair and 
D. Chandramohan

BOOK REVIEWS

1225

Earth’s Proximal Space: Plasma Electro­dynamics and 
the Solar System

reviewed by Gurbax Singh Lakhina
1226

Marine Resource Management: Con­flict and 
Regulation in the Fisheries of
the Coromandel Coast

reviewed by Jayashree Balaji
1226 Gleanings of the Past and the Science Movement
eviewed by Kankan Bhattacharyya

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PERSONAL NEWS

1228 M. A. Viswamitra: Crystallographer and structural 
biologist
 – An obituary
M. Vijayan

ADVERTISEMENTS

1230

Ranbaxy Science Foundation, Gurgaon, Haryana

1231 Refresher Course In Experimental Physics
1232

Hyderabad Eye Research Foundation

1233

Beamtime Allocation on Italian Synchrotron (DST)

1234

Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalaya, Palampur

1234

Indian Council Of Agricultural Research, Bangalore

1235

Indira Gandhi Prize for Popularization of Science

1235

Sandarbh

1236

CSIR, New Delhi

1236

National Centre for Biological Sciences

Physical Research Laboratory, Ahemadabad