Contents

IN THIS ISSUE

1317	In this issue

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EDITORIAL

1319	The Stages of Scientists
	P. Balaram

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CORRESPONDENCE

1321	Cataloguing Indian biota
	Kailash Chandra
1321	Rediscovery of Caulerpa lentillifera: A potential food alga from Samiani Island, West coast of India
	Vaibhav A. Mantri
1322	Indian famines revisited
	M. Krishnapillai response by C. R. Bhatia
1324	Turmeric and curcumin
	E. Venkata Rao; R. Sudha Devi; Correction by authors

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NEWS

1325	A celebration of science
	Minakshi De
1327	Seismic microzonation of Jabalpur Urban Centre: An experiment
	Kusala Rajendran

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1328	From the archives

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OPINION

1329	Perceived bias against Āyurvéda
	A. S. Pārasnis

COMMENTARY

1334	Rice–wheat cropping system – Food security and sustainability
	Rajendra Prasad and S. Nagarajan

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SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE

1336	FISH reveals somatic association of nucleolus organizing regions in Plantago ovata
	M. K. Dhar and S. Kaul
1337	Vombisidris humboldticola (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): a new arboreal ant species from an Indian ant plant
	Merry Zacharias and Priyadarsanan Dharma Rajan
1339	Antibiotic exposure to minimize microbial load in live feed Isochrysis galbana used for larval rearing of Indian pearl oyster Pinctada fucata
	S. K. Subhash, A. P. Lipton and R. Paul Raj

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GENERAL ARTICLE

1341	Astrobiology – A new emerging field of biological sciences
	Meenakshi Banerjee and B. Debkumari Sharma

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REVIEW ARTICLE

1345	Molecular epidemiology of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli in India
	S. A. Wani, F. Pandit, I. Samanta, M. A. Bhat and A. S. Buchh

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SPECIAL SECTION: GEOTECHNICS AND EARTHQUAKE HAZARDS

1354	Site-specific ground response analysis
	L. GovindaRaju, G. V. Ramana, C. HanumanthaRao and T. G. Sitharam
1363	Nonlinear site response and strain-dependent soil properties
	Takaji Kokusho
1370	Dynamic properties and liquefaction potential of soils
	T. G. Sitharam, L. GovindaRaju and A. Sridharan
1379	Dynamic properties and liquefaction behaviour of granular materials using discrete element method
	S. V. Dinesh, T. G. Sitharam and J. S. Vinod
1388	Seismic site characterization for nuclear structures and power plants
	A. Boominathan
1398	Shaking table tests in earthquake geotechnical engineering
	S. K. Prasad, I. Towhata, G. P. Chandradhara and P. Nanjundaswamy
1405	Modelling of earthquake damage using geotechnical centrifuges
	S. P. Gopal Madabhushi
1417	Seismic design of earth-retaining structures and foundations
	Deepankar Choudhury, T. G. Sitharam and K. S. Subba Rao
1426	Seismic base isolation – An overview
	Sajal Kanti Deb

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RESEARCH ARTICLE

1431	Diversity of filamentous fungi on decomposing leaf and woody litter of mangrove forests in the southwest coast of India
	K. Ananda and K. R. Sridhar

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RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

1438	Human leucocyte antigen matching and donor selection for sibling bone marrow trans­plan­tation in India
	A. Vidhyalakshmi, S. Shanmugalakshmi, S. Chandra, S. Vani, R. Kamalakannan, G. Mathuram, K. Manoharan, A. Mukherjee, M. K. Das and RM. Pitchappan
1442	Green hairy root cultures of Solanum khasianum Clarke – a new route to in vitro solasodine production
	Asha Jacob and Nutan Malpathak
1447	Assessment of habitat loss in Kameng and Sonitpur Elephant Reserves
	S. P. S. Kushwaha and Rubul Hazarika
1453	Ca and Sr dynamics in the Indo-Gangetic plains: Different sources and mobilization processes in northwestern India
	Jayant K. Tripathi, Barbara Bock, V. Rajamani and A. Eisenhauer
1458	Occurrence of xenotime in the Narasapur beach placers, West Godavari District, AP
	A. V. Subrahmanyam, T. Desapati, V. Anil Kumar, R. D. Deshmukh and G. Viswanathan

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BOOK REVIEWS

1462	Concise Encyclopedia of Plant Pathology by P. Vidhyasekaran
	reviewed by K. R. Kranthi
1463	An Introduction to Linear and Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis – A Computational Approach by Prem K. Kythe and Dongming Wei
	reviewed by Gangan Prathap

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PERSONAL NEWS

1464	Panchanan Maheshwari
	M. Anantaswamy Rau
1465	N. K. Anant Rao (1915–2004)
	H. Y. Mohan Ram

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HISTORICAL NOTES

1467	Lt. Col. M. L. Ferrar – The ‘butterfly mad’ Chief Commissioner of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
	Prashanth Mohanraj and K. Veenakumari

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1473	INDIAN COUNCIL OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH ICAR AWARDS, 2004
1476	Joint Entrance Screening Test – 2005
1478	Swarnajayanti Fellowships 2004–05
1480	Indian Academy of Sciences
1481	Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
1482	High Performance Computing Facility (HPCF)
1482	Vector Control Research Centre
1483	NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDIES
1484	University of Hyderabad
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