Contents

IN THIS ISSUE

809	In this issue

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EDITORIAL

811	A Recipe for Success in Science: The Hamming Prescription
	P. Balaram

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CORRESPONDENCE

813	Imperfect impact factor
	Rajkumar S. Radder, Shivanand R. Yankanchi and Narahari P. Gramapurohit
814	Journal cost vs quality
	G. Joshi
814	Meeting goals of a Ph D degree
	Shweta Sharma
815	Multiple cropping to increase agrobiodiversity and sequester carbon dioxide
	V. Venkateswara Sarma
815	Variables unaccounted for in global warming and climate change models
	J. Marvin Herndon
816	Mangalajodi wetland: Priority site for conservation
	Chiranjibi Pattanaik, S. Narendra Prasad and C. Sudhakar Reddy
817	Rhododendrons in Meghalaya need attention
	J. Y. Yumnam
818	Plant tissue culture – answer to biodiversity conservation?
	Mayank Tripathi
819	Floristic diversity of Ahobilam forest
	Silar Mohammed, Khaleel Basha and Niaz Parveen
820	It is wise not to debate on tiger farming
	V. Ramakantha; Response by Nicky Xavier

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NEWS

821	India’s tryst with the N-deal
	Neelam Pereira
822	Oceans at risk of reef loss
	Neelam Pereira
823	Open geo-spatial consortium standards for sensor networks
	Milap Punia and K. R. Murli Mohan
823	National nutrition policy
	Mahtab S. Bamji and Prema Ramachandran
826	International Biology Olympiad
	Parul R. Sheth

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RESEARCH NEWS

827	Recent advances in the study of B-meson systems
	Gauhar Abbas, B. Ananthanarayan, Kriti Ashok and S. Uma Sankar

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COMMENTARY

829	Writing the history of modern science and technology in India
	Rajinder Singh

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OPINION

830	What ails the Indian scientific research today? Is there any cure?
	M. V. Ramanamurthy
832	India needs phenological stations network
	C. P. Kushwaha and K. P. Singh

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SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE

835	Addition of a wild aromatic plant Pogostemon hirsutus Benth. (Lamiaceae) to the flora of India
	R. Murugan, K. Ravikumar and C. Livingstone
836	Multiple disease resistance in menthol mint genotypes
	R. S. Shukla, M. Alam, Birendra Kumar and V. P. Singh
838	Phylogenetic impli­cations of hemipenial morphology in Sri Lankan agamid lizards
	Kalana Maduwage, Madhava Meegaskumbura, Anjana Silva and Rohan Pethiyagoda

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GENERAL ARTICLES

841	Langmuir approach to rural development
	Anil K. Rajvanshi
846	Geothermal energy resource utilization: Perspectives of the Uttarakhand Himalaya
	Kailash N. Bhardwaj and S. C. Tiwari

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SPECIAL SECTION: ARBOREAL SQUIRRELS

851	Global hotspots and knowledge gaps for tree and flying squirrels
	John L. Koprowski and R. Nandini
857	Differing rates of macroevolutionary diversification in arboreal squirrels
	V. Louise Roth and John M. Mercer
862	The life histories of orders of mammals: Fast and slow breeding
	F. Stephen Dobson and Madan K. Oli
866	Why are there so many giants, including giant squirrels, in the Old World tropics?
	Renee M. Borges
871	Evolutionary interactions between tree squirrels and trees: A review and synthesis
	Michael A. Steele
877	The group-nesting and food-hoarding behaviour of the southern flying squirrel, Glaucomys volans
	Michael F. Winterrowd
882	Nesting sites of Indian giant squirrels in Sitanadi Wildlife Sanctuary, India
	Ravi Shanker Kanoje
885	Measuring Indian giant squirrel (Ratufa indica) abundance in southern India using distance sampling
	Devcharan Jathanna, N. Samba Kumar and K. Ullas Karanth
889	Site occupancy of the Indian giant squirrel Ratufa indica (Erxleben) in Kalakad–Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, Tamil Nadu, India
	V. Srinivas, P. Dilip Venugopal and Sunita Ram
895	Responses of diurnal tree squirrels to selective logging in western Arunachal Pradesh
	Aparajita Datta and S. P. Goyal
903	Introduction of the American grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) in Europe: a case study in biological invasion
	Bertolino Sandro
907	Crop raiding and management of Funambulus palmarum in cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum) plantations of Western Ghats of Karnataka, south India
	A. K. Chakravarthy, N. E. Thyagaraj, L. Vijay Kumar and A. C. Girish
912	The importance of radio-telemetry in arboreal squirrel research
	D. L. Haughland, K. W. Larsen and M. Wheatley
918	The use of GIS and modelling approaches in squirrel population management and conservation: a review
	P. W. W. Lurz, J. L. Koprowski and D. J. A. Wood

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RESEARCH ARTICLES

923	A comparative study on performance of MM5 and WRF models in simulation of tropical cyclones over Indian seas
	Sujata Pattanayak and U. C. Mohanty
937	Spatial variability of soil properties and its application in predicting surface map of hydraulic parameters in an agricultural farm
	Priyabrata Santra, U. K. Chopra and Debashis Chakraborty

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RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

946	Molecular genetic characterization of Kutchi breed of goat
	S. P. Dixit, N. K. Verma, S. P. S. Ahlawat, R. A. K. Aggarwal, S. Kumar, R. Chander and K. P. Singh
952	Monoclonal antibodies to the recombinant nucleocapsid protein of a groundnut bud necrosis virus infecting tomato in Karnataka and their use in profiling the epitopes of Indian tospovirus isolates
	Hemalatha Venkat, Pradnya Gangatirkar, Anjali A. Karande, M. Krishnareddy and H. S. Savithri
958	Preparation and characterization of cellulose triacetate from Musa paradisiaca and cellulose triacetate–polyvinyl chloride blends
	S. E. Noorjahan, S. Sekar and T. P. Sastry
962	Zaherite – the key mineral in Alleppey mudbank formation and on the possibility of creating mudbanks artificially
	A. C. Dinesh and C. Jayaprakash

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BOOK REVIEWS

967	Image Modeling of the Human Eye by U. Rajendra Acharya, Y. K. Eddie Ng and Jasjit S. Suri (eds)
	reviewed by Percy Ghaswala
967	Social History of Science in Colonial India (Themes in Indian History; Oxford in India Readings) by S. Irfan Habib and Dhruv Raina (eds)
	reviewed by Anantanarayanan Raman
969	Agriculture in Developing Countries: Technology Issues by Keijiro Otsuka and Kaliappa Kalirajan (eds)
	reviewed by P. C. Kesavan
970	Governance of Water: Institutional Alternatives and Political Economy by Vishwa Ballabh (ed.)
	reviewed by Vijay Kumar
972	The International Collective in support of Fishworkers; International Year of Planet Earth – 2008, Shantha Nair

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COVER CAPTION

COVER.  Grizzled giant squirrel. See special section. [Photo credit: S. Ramakrishnan].

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986	Appointment of JRF under Partner Group Project jointly funded by Max Planck Institute, Germany and DST, India
987	Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute
987	Gujarat Institute of Desert Ecology
988	Quantum Entanglement in Condensed Matter Systems
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