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Vol 79 No 6
25th September 2000

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Contents

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EDITORIAL

685 Journals
  P. Balaram

CORRESPONDENCE

687 Lessons from the Mahabharat
  D. V. Petkar
687 Oral polio vaccine: How safe is safe?
  T. Jacob John
689 Bird flowers and pollination ecology
  T. Ganesh and M. Soubadra Devy
689 Gold in the  Meghalaya Plateau! 
  J. V. Subbaraman repy by A. V. Subrahmanyam, Sushil Kumar, Diwakar Singh and S. N. Kak

RESEARCH NEWS

690 Deformation-assisted percolative core formation in early earth
  A. V. Sankaran
693 From the archives

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SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE

694 Mass flowering in the HImalayan dwarf bamboo
  S. P. Singh
694 Zoogeographical relationships of the Upper Cretaceous  nonmarine Ostracoda of India
  R. C. Whatley and Sunil Bajpai
696 Agar depolymerizing (Agarolytic) bacteria isolated from mangrove soil samples of Andaman
  B. R. Shome, Rajeswari Shome, S. P. S.  Ahlawat and N. D. Verma

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GENERAL ARTICLE

698 Mesoscale weather prediction
  Ajit  Tyagi

REVIEW ARTICLE

711 How viruses evade host responses
  Neema Agrawal, Hasan Korkaya and Shahid Jameel
   

SPECIAL SECTION: INSTABILITIES, TRANSITIONS AND TURBULENCE

725 Three basic problems in the theory of hydrodynamic stability
  H. Zhou
730 Minimal composite equations and the stability of non-parallel flows
  R. Narasimha and Rama Govindarajan
741 The role of the critical layer in the stability of viscous shear flow
  Rama Govindarajan
747 Studies of Coriolis force induced transition in internal flows in a rotating system
  Venkatesa I.  Vasanta Ram and Maren Schmidts
758 Hydrodynamics and compliant walls: Does the dolphin have a secret?
  P. W. Carpenter, C. Davies and A. D. Lucey
766 Classification of instabilities in the flow past flexible surfaces
  V. Kumaran
774 Active control of boundary layer instabilities using  MEMs
  M. Gaster
781 Experimental study of a  L-structure development and its transformation into the turbulent spot
  G. R. Grek, V. V. Kozlov, M. M. Katasonov and V. G. Chernorai
790 Laminar-flow design for a Mach-6 quiet-flow wind tunnel nozzle
  Steven P. Schneider
800 Three-dimensional boundary layer transition study
  Y. P. Kohama
808 Free disturbances and spot formation: (i) on a surface roughness, (ii) in a near-wake, (iii) under an adverse pressure gradient
  F. T. Smith
816 Direct numerical simulations of spots
  Joseph Mathew and Arup Das
821 Transition zone in constant pressure converging flows
  K. P. Vasudevan and J. Dey
829 Transition related studies on two low-drag airfoils
  V. Krishnan, S. Sundaram and P. R. Viswanath
834 On the problem of turbulence
  Anatol Roshko
840 Hydrodynamic stability theory and wall turbulence
  P. K. Sen  and Srinivas V. Veeravalli
849 Generation of near-wall coherent structures in a turbulent boundary layer
  Wade Schoppa and Fazle Hussain
859 Convection in a long vertical tube due to unstable stratification – A new type of turbulent flow?
  Jaywant H. Arakeri, Fransisco E. Avila, Jorge M. Dada and   Ramon O. Tovar
867 The control of combustion instability: A perspective
  K. R. Sreenivasan and S. Raghu

RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

884 Photocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide by immobilized nickel(II) and ruthenium(II) complexes into a Nafion membrane
  Ramasamy Ramaraj and J. Rajan Premkumar
886 In vitro propagation of Vanilla planifolia, a tropical orchid
  S. Geetha and Sudheer A. Shetty
889 GA-induced stage-specific changes in flower  colour and size of Portulaca grandiflora cv NL-CR-PyP
  V. K. Ogale, P. Venu-Babu and S. D. Mishra
894 Silver nitrate influences in vitro root formation in Decalepis hamiltonii Wight & Arn.
  Harsh Pal Bais, G. Sudha, B. Suresh and G. A. Ravishankar
899 Is strontium isotope record a strict proxy for chemical weathering rates during the late Miocene (Ocean Drilling Program Site 758A)?
  Anil K. Gupta, S. M. Ahmad, A. M. Dayal and K. Gopalan

BOOK REVIEWS

903 Digital Remote Sensing
  reviewed by Harini Nagendra
903 Conversion Coatings – A Reference for Phosphating, Chromating and Anodizing Processes
  reviewed by  T. S. N. Sankara Narayanan
904 The Flora of the Palni Hills, Parts 1–3
  reviewed by  L. D'Souza

PERSONAL NEWS

905 K. Narahari Rao: An obituary
  N. A. Narasimham, T. K.  Balasubramanian, S. Paddi Reddy and Ramachandra R. Dasari

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