Contents

IN THIS ISSUE

863	In this issue

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EDITORIAL

865	Science and the Third World
	P. Balaram

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CORRESPONDENCE

867	Low impact factors for Indian journals: Do factors other than influence?
	S. B. Vohora, Zahoor A. Shah and Divya Vohora
868	Role of higher education in the Third World
	H. S. Virk
868	Physics research as an avocation?
	P. Chaddah
869	Amte's silent revolution: A possible anchor for the bewildered R&D in agriculture
	S. K. Bhattacharjee
870	Surface changes after the 2001 Gujarat earthquake
	J. V. Subbaraman
871	Heading GSI
	Brijesh Barthwal

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NEWS

871	Brainstorming for arriving at a consensus for India's S&T Policy–2001.  Has the policy reached the finishing line?
	Nirupa Sen

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RESEARCH NEWS

872	Dyslexia and intercultural comparisons
	S. N. Balasubrahmanyam
875	Back to basics: Reflections on refraction
	K. R. Rao
879	Random selection
879	From the archives

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SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE

880	Quantum statistics of an ensemble of harmonic oscillators
	S. K. Das and S. Sengupta
882	Evaluation of the role of fluorescent siderophore in the biological control of bacterial wilt in tomato using Tn5 mutants of fluorescent Pseudomonas sp.
	K. S. Jagadeesh, J. H. Kulkarni and P. U. Krishnaraj
883	A rare earthquake in Antarctica
	Saurabh Baruah and Indra Mohan
885	Yield estimation of Indian nuclear tests of 1998
	S. K. Sikka et al.; reply by A. Douglas et al.

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GENERAL ARTICLES

889	New institutions in India
	Nirupa Sen
896	Mapping agricultural research in India: A profile based on CAB Abstracts 1998
	Subbiah Arunachalam and K. Umarani

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REVIEW ARTICLE

907	Complement receptor 1 in autoimmune disorders
	Monika Katyal, B. Sivasankar and Nibhriti Das

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SPECIAL SECTION: SCIENCE IN THE THIRD WORLD

915	Guest Editorial: Science in the rising nations
	C. N. R. Rao
917	Science for the 21st century
	José Israel Vargas
920	The Third World Academy of Sciences: Celebrating two decades of progress
	Mohamed H. A. Hassan and Daniel Schaffer
927	Some personal reflections on the origin of TWAS and the evolution of its mission
	M. Akhtar
930	Construction of Chinese national S&T innovation system and latest advancements in science and technology in China
	Yongxiang Lu
936	Disappearing forests of Uganda: The way forward
	F. I. B. Kayanja and D. Byarugaba
948	Food security and sustainable development
	M. S. Swaminathan
955	Intellectual property rights and the Third World
	R. A. Mashelkar
966	Information and communication technologies and the digital divide in the Third World countries
	N. Balakrishnan
977	India's physics experience
	T. V. Ramakrishnan
983	Structural studies of the acetylcholine receptor in the membrane environment
	Francisco J. Barrantes
992	Enzymology and molecular genetics of the ligninolytic system of the basidiomycete Ceriporiopsis subvermispora
	S. Lobos, M. Tello, R. Polanco, L. Larrondo, A. Manubens, L. Salas and R. Vicuña
998	The bountiful and baffling baculovirus: The story of polyhedrin transcription
	Aruna Ramachandran, Murali Dharan Bashyam, Priya Viswanathan, Subip Ghosh, M. Senthil Kumar and Seyed E. Hasnain
1011	Curved nanomaterials
	Humberto Terrones, Mauricio Terrones and José Luis Morán-López
1030	Universal aspects of self-assembly: The wide domain of weak interactions
	C. N. R. Rao
1038	Crystal engineering: Outlook and prospects
	Gautam R. Desiraju
1043	Versatile reagent ceric ammonium nitrate in modern chemical synthesis
	Jih Ru Hwu and Ke-Yung King
1054	Chemical reaction dynamics and relaxation phenomena in one component liquids, binary mixtures and electrolyte solutions
	Biman Bagchi
1068	Tectonic resurgence of the Mysore Plateau and surrounding regions in cratonic Southern India
	K. S. Valdiya

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RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

1090	A gradient measure to characterize the interface between non-coding and coding regions in genomic DNA sequences
	Prashant Goswami and Sowmya Raghavan
1100	Structure of human methaemoglobin: The variation of a theme
	B. K. Biswal and M. Vijayan
1105	Antibody and nuclei acid probe-based technique for detection of sugarcane streak mosaic virus causing mosaic disease of sugarcane in India
	M. Hema, H. S. Savithri and Sreenivasulu
1109	The floral androcarpel organ (ACO) mutation permits high alkaloid yields in opium poppy Papaver somniferum
	Seema Prajapati, Suphla Bajpai, M. M. Gupta and Sushil Kumar
1112	Phenotypic variation in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) regenerated plants
	Bao-Hong Zhang, Qing-Lian Wang and Fang Liu
1116	Billion-year-old rain-imprinted tidal sea coast in the eastern Madhya Pradesh, India
	Chirananda De

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BOOK REVIEWS

1125	Cells, Gels and the Engine of Life – A New Unifying Approach to Cell Function
	reviewed by K. S. Krishnan
1126	Statistical Methods and Application in Biology and Medicine
	reviewed by B. K. Kale

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PERSONALNEWS

1127	Remembrances of Prof. G. N. Ramachandran
	C. Ramakrishnan
1129	Anna Mani – A student remembers
	C. R. Sreedharan

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ADVERTISEMENTS

1132	Award of Biotechnology Overseas Associateship: 2001–2002
1134	Indo-Italian Program of Cooperation in Science & Technology 2002–2004
1135	Call for Proposals in Planetary Sciences
1136	National Research Seminar on Herbal Conservation, Cultivation, Marketing and Utilization with Special Emphasis on Chhattisgarh
1137	Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute
3rd cover	Inter University Consortium for DAE Facilities