Contents

IN THIS ISSUE

1100	In this issue

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EDITORIAL

1101	Economics, Modelling and the Financial Crash
	P. Balaram

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CORRESPONDENCE

1103	Another h-type index for institutional evaluation
	Ronald Rousseau and Nadine Rons
1103	Thinning boundaries between disciplines, award of D Sc degrees and out-dated university rules
	V. M. Meher-Homji
1104	A critique on the tsunami–earthquake link
	A. B. Roy
1104	An income-generating scheme for vector management of chikungunya fever in Kerala and Karnataka
	N. Pradeep Kumar, Rajan Joseph, P. Jambulingam and M. Kalyanasundaram
1105	Rice cultivation is not cause for climate change
	V. Venkateswara Sarma
1106	Devaluing classic Indian literature on science
	N. D. Sharma
1107	Ramro Korang Lake needs studies on fish diversity and water quality analysis for aquaculture
	Keshav Kumar Jha
1108	The Great Indian Bustard (Ardeotis nigriceps) on the verge of extinction
	Abhay S. D. Rajput
1109	Justifying tiger farms – a step backward for tiger conservation?
	Benjamin P. Y.-H. Lee and Yoan Dinata; Response by Nicky Xavier

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NEWS

1111	Chandrayaan-1: India’s first mission to moon launched
1113	RRL Jammu renamed as Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine
	Abhay S. D. Rajput
1113	IUCN’s 2008 Sabin Award for Amphibian Conservation
	Abhay S. D. Rajput
1113	The Champalimaud Vision Award 2008
	Abhay S. D. Rajput

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RESEARCH NEWS

1114	Phenomenon of ‘green Sahara’
	Neelam Pereira
1115	Contraceptive vaccines for men
	Parul R. Sheth

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COMMENTARY

1116	One more reason for breastfeeding – prevention of diabetes!
	M. Balasubramanyam
1118	Cost effective utilization of existing resources for biomedical research in India
	Vijay Kumar Kalia

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OPINION

1121	Correlation coefficient and the fallacy of statistical hypothesis testing
	Marcin Kozak

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SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE

1123	HIV status estimation using optimization, rough sets and demographic data
	Tshilidzi Marwala and Bodie Crossingham
1124	Occurrence of zincian ilmenite from Srikurmam placer sand deposit, Andhra Pradesh, India
	M. Jagannadha Rao, Aaron A. Jaya Raj and K. John Paul
1127	A note on the recent earthquakes in the Bengal Basin
	A. Raj, S. K. Nath and K. K. S. Thingbaijam

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GENERAL ARTICLE

1130	Concerted rainwater harvesting technologies suitable for hilly agro-ecosystems of Northeast India
	Manoj P. Samuel and K. K. Satapathy

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SPECIAL SECTION: TWAS SCIENCE FRONTIERS

1133	Perspectives on paediatric HIV/AIDS: Prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV
	Hoosen Mohamed Coovadia
1150	Dialogue between membrane lipids and acetylcholine receptor
	F. J. Barrantes
1165	The primordial helium abundance
	Manuel Peimbert
1177	Recent developments in magnetic nanostructures
	J. L. Morán-López, R. A. Guirado-López, J. M. Montejano-Carrizalez, F. Aguilera-Granja, R. Rodríguez-Alba, José Mejía-López, Aldo H. Romero and Martin E. Garcia
1202	Supramolecular nanotechnology: from molecules to devices
	Henrique E. Toma
1226	Macromolecular recognition at the air–water interface: application of Langmuir–Blodgett technique
	Dipankar Chatterji and Priya Rajdev
1237	Neurotrophins – players in the regulation of neuronal survival and apoptosis
	Zelda H. Cheung and Nancy Y. Ip
1252	String theory: a framework for quantum gravity and various applications
	Spenta R. Wadia
1268	Science frontiers – semigroups of maps on operator algebra, their dilations and applications
	Kalyan B. Sinha
1277	Unknowns in the chemistry of boron
	Eluvathingal D. Jemmis and Dasari L. V. K. Prasad
1284	Strongly correlated electrons in solids
	T. V. Ramakrishnan
1310	More opportunities than challenges – perspectives on chemical engineering
	Wei Ge, Wei Wang, Ying Ren and Jinghai Li
1317	Multiple pressures of soaring food prices and food security in Africa
	Monty P. Jones and Sidi Sanyang

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RESEARCH ARTICLES

1320	Influence of sediment source and monsoonal variations on the late Quaternary clay mineral assemblages at ODP site 728A, northwestern Arabian Sea
	S. S. Das, A. S. Maurya, A. C. Pandey, Uday Bhan and A. K. Rai
1327	Tunable surface modification of silica nanoparticles through ‘click’ chemistry
	S. Prathap Chandran, Srinivas Hotha and B. L. V. Prasad

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RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

1334	Invisible gold in the high-sulphur Tertiary coals of Northeast India
	B. Nayak, S. Chakravarty and K. K. Bhattacharyya
1337	Scorpion sting: A study of the clinical manifestations and treatment regimes
	H. S. Bawaskar and P. H. Bawaskar
1341	Variation of physical properties of the granites of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
	G. Udaya Laxmi, D. Himabindu and G. Ramadass
1347	Pollen proxy records of Holocene vegetation and climate change from Mansar Lake, Jammu region, India
	Anjali Trivedi and M. S. Chauhan

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BOOK REVIEWS

1355	Annual Review of Microbiology, 2007. L. Nicholas Ornston, Susan Gottesman and Caroline S. Harwood (eds)
	reviewed by Abhijit A. Sardesai
1357	Annual Review of Physiology, 2008. David Julius (ed.)
	reviewed by M. K. Mathew
1358	Arthropod Borne Viral Infections: Current Status and Research, The Eighth Sir Dorabji Tata Symposium. D. Raghunath and C. Durga Rao (eds)
	reviewed by Kalyan Banerjee
1360	Indian Astronomy – A Primer. S. Balachandra Rao (ed.)

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PERSONAL NEWS

1361	K. Sundaram (1926–2008)
	K. B. Sainis

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COVER CAPTION

COVER.  The acetylcholine receptor and its lipid milieu. See page 1150.

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