July 10, 1992
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In this
issue
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5-5
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NEWS
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Chemical
Abstracts in CD-ROM CAS lowers connect-hour charges—Subbiah
Arunachalam
|
7-7
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SCIENTIFIC
CORRESPONDENCE
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Anopheles
minimus in Assam—Wajihullah, Batita Jana and
V. P. Sharma
|
7-9
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COMMENTARY
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Nuclear
power and safety—R. Chidambaram
|
9-10
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GENERAL
ARTICLES
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Gravitation—Hermann
Bondi
|
11-20
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Food prospects
in India by the turn of the century—L. V. Venkataraman
|
20-25
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REVIEW
ARTICLE
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Synthesis
and characterization of fullerenes C60 and C70 and superconductivity
in K and Rb-doped C60—Y. Hariharan, A. Bharathi,
C. S. Sundar, V. S. Sastry, M. Yousuf, T. S. Radhakrishnan,
G. V. N. Rao, T. Geetha Kumary, N. Subramanian,
P. Ch. Sahu, V. S. Raghunathan and M. C. Valsakumar
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25-33
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RESEARCH
ARTICLE
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Climatology
of long-period oscillations in the equatorial middle atmosphere
over Thumba, India—S. C. Chakravarty, Jayati
Datta and C. P. Revankar
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33-42
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RESEARCH
COMMUNICATIONS
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Trace elements
in groundwaters of Hubli city, Karnataka, India—S.
N. Hegde and S. C. Puranik
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43-44
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Regeneration
and transformation of Nasturtium indicum: a wild crucifer—Sudip
K. Ghosh, Nrisingha Dey, Somnath Bhattacharya
and R. K. Mandal
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44-46
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BOOK
REVIEWS
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Indian
Journal of Chemistry—Special combined issue (Sections
A and B), reviewed by P. Balaram
|
47-47
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Annual
Review of Microbiology 1991, reviewed by T. Ramakrishnan
|
47-48
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July 25, 1992
|
|
In this issue
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53-54
|
RESEARCH NEWS
|
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Peste des petits ruminants in India—S.
Ramachandran and R. Nayak
|
55-55
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COMMENTARY
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Science in the European Community—the
extent of collaboration—Subbiah Arunachalam
|
56-58
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E. C. G. Sudarshan and the development
of weak interaction theory—N. Mukunda
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59-59
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GENERAL ARTICLE
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The pain and joy of a major scientific
discovery—R. E. Marshak
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60-64
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The nature of the four-Fermion interaction—E.
C. G. Sudarshan and R. E. Marshak
[Reproduced from Proceedings of the Padua Conference, 1957]
|
65-75
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Theory of the Fermi interaction—R.
P. Feynman and M. Gell-Mann[Reproduced from Physical Review, 1958]
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76-81
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REVIEW ARTICLE
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On the observations of radio sources
occulted by the ion-tail of comets—A. K. Sharma
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82-87
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RESEARCH ARTICLE
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Remnants of greenstone sequence
from the Archaean rocks of Rajasthan—Rajani Upadhyaya, B. L. Sharma
Jr, B. L. Sharma Sr and A. B. Roy
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87-92
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RESEARCH
COMMUNICATIONS
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Optical studies of two smectic liquid
crystals—A. M. Babu, S. B. Bellad, M. A. Sridhar, A. Indira,
M. S. Madhava and J. Shashidhara Prasad
|
92-94
|
Production and characterization
of monoclonal antibodies to foot-and-mouth disease virus subtype A22—P.
Shashidhara Reddy, P. R. Sakkubai, B. U. Rao, K. Prabhudas and G. Butchaiah
|
94-98
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Acanthocheilonema viteae in Mastomys
natalensis: Evaluation of efficacy of microfilarial vaccine—R.
K. Chatterjee, D. P. Singh and S. Misra
|
98-102
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BOOK REVIEW
|
|
India's Information Revolution—Srinivas
Bhogle
|
103-104
|
Erratum
|
|
Sulphur enrichment in a sediment
core from the central western continental margin of India—P.
S. Rao and Ch. M. Rao
|
104-104
|
August 10, 1992
|
|
In this issue
|
109-110
|
SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE
|
|
Yeast budding forages through redundancy—Rakesh
K. Mishra
|
111-112
|
NEWS
|
|
Brain storming sessions in the area
of plant sciences—Parveen Farooqui
|
112-114
|
RESEARCH NEWS
|
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Organic structures with remarkable
carbon-carbon distances—J. Chandrasekhar
|
114-116
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GENERAL ARTICLES
|
|
Chemical and biological investigations
on Azadirachta indica (the neem tree)—T. R. Govindachari
|
117-122
|
Biotechnology regulatory policy
for biomedical products: the United States perspective—Kiki Bambakidis-Hellman
|
123-126
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International Sustainable Biosphere
Initiative: a participatory research agenda for India—P. S. Ramakrishnan
|
127-131
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REVIEW ARTICLES
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Anyon superconductivity—Avinash
Khare
|
132-135
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Endocrine control of fish reproduction—Samir
Bhattacharya
|
135-139
|
RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
|
|
Discovery of Precambrian-Cambrian
transitional fossil sabelliditids from India—D. C. Das Sarma,
P. K. Raha, A. K. Moitra, P. Ashok Kumar, S. Anantharaman, M. Rama Rao
and V. Sundaram
|
140-142
|
A novel male sterility system in
sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench)—U. R. Murty
|
142-144
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Giant
spermatogonial cells generated by vincristine and their uses—Abraham
Stanley and M. A. Akbarsha
|
144-147
|
BOOK REVIEWS
|
|
The World
of Martin F. Glaessner—V. V. Sastri
|
148-148
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Chromosomes—S. C. Lakhotia
|
148-149
|
PERSONAL
NEWS
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|
Prof. R. Narasimha elected to the
Fellowship of the Royal Society of London
|
150-150
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Dedicated scientist and teacher
an obituary of M. R. A. Rao by S. S. Krishnamurthy
|
150-151
|
Explorer of Himalayan mycoflora
an obituary of K. S. Thind by C. V. Subramanian
|
151-152
|
August 25, 1992
|
|
In this issue
|
157-157
|
SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE
|
|
Marcroseismic studies—D.
K. Ghosh, P. L. Narula and S. K. Shome
|
159-160
|
RESEARCH NEWS
|
|
Materials with negative Poisson's
ratio—G. S. Ranganath
|
160-163
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Trends in experimental neural transplantation—B.
K. Misra
|
163-165
|
Complete nucleotide sequence—T.
Ramakrishnan
|
165-166
|
Erratum
|
|
Seismotectonics of Himalaya—Umesh Chandra
|
166-166
|
GENERAL ARTICLE
|
|
Tropical mycology and biotechnology—C.
V. Subramanian
|
167-172
|
REVIEW ARTICLES
|
|
Metallogeny—the
search for a rationale behind space-time selectivity of ore deposit
formation—Asoke Mookherjee
|
173-180
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Design of crystal sturdture-specific
surfactants based on molecular recognition at mineral surfaces—Pradip
|
180-186
|
Conjugal gene transfer in filamentous
cyanobacteria—Tasneem Fatma and L. V. Venkataraman
|
186-192
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RESEARCH ARTICLE
|
|
Climatic shifts over Mahanadi river
basin—P. Govinda Rao and K. Krishna Kumar
|
192-196
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RESEARCH
COMMUNICATIONS
|
|
A mathematical prey-predator model
for tree and man—S. Baranidharan and D. Ganesh kumar
|
196-200
|
On the
occurrence of lava flows from Krol Formation, Narendranagar area, Garhwal
Himalayas, Tehri-Garhwal district, Uttar Pradesh—Rachhpal Singh
and M. S. Bodas
|
200-201
|
Heavy metal concentrations in air,
water and rock samples at Antarctica during 1989-1990—R. N. Khandekar,
R. M. Tripathi, R. Raghunath, A. P. Sathe and K. S. V. Nambi
|
201-204
|
Enhanced expression of a mosquito
larvicidal gene(s) of Bacillus sphaericus 1593M in Escherichia coli—F.
Rajamohan, C. Suresh and Kunthala Jayaraman
|
205-208
|
September
10, 1992
|
|
In this issue
|
213-216
|
RESEARCH NEWS
|
|
Development of flower in plants—T.
Ramakrishnan
|
217-217
|
SPECIAL SECTION: ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
|
|
Affine geometry—N. Mohan
Kumar
|
218-222
|
Projective algebraic varieties—V.
Srinivas
|
222-228
|
Resolution of singularities in various
characteristics—Shreeram S. Abhyankar
|
229-232
|
Riemann surfaces, projective curves
and the iso-spectral problem—Kapil H. Paranjape
|
233-238
|
The Weil conjectures—V. Srinivas
|
239-246
|
Andre Weil: The Apprenticeship of
a Mathematician, reviewed by Raghavan Narasimhan
|
247-248
|
Extracts from Andre Weil: The Apprenticeship
of a Mathematician
|
248-252
|
GENERAL ARTICLES
|
|
Shannon's Sampling Theorem—Maurice
Dodson
|
253-260
|
Information theoretic models in
statistical linguistics—Part I: A model for word frequencies—S.
Naranan and V. K. Balasubrahmanyan
|
261-269
|
National Board for Higher Mathematics
|
270-274
|
PERSONAL NEWS
|
|
A front-rank mathematician, an obituary
of K. G. Ramanathan by S. Raghavan
|
275-276
|
September
25, 1992
|
|
In this issue
|
281-282
|
RESEARCH NEWS
|
|
Current cocepts of atherogenesis—C.
C. Kartha
|
283-284
|
Disease and social evolution—Raghavendra
Gadagkar
|
285-286
|
COMMENTARY
|
|
Fundamentalism and secularism—P.
N. Haksar
|
287-289
|
OPINION
|
|
Must we have high dams in the geodynamically
active Himalayan domain?—K. S. Valdiya
|
289-296
|
GENERAL ARTICLES
|
|
Information
theortic models in statistical linguistics—Part II: Word frequencies
and hierarchical structure in language—statistical tests—S. Naranan
and V. K. Balasubrahmanyan
|
297-306
|
Glucocorticoids: The anti-inflammatory
agents—K. K. Mishra and H. P. Pandey
|
306-310
|
REVIEW
ARTICLES
|
|
Nitrogenous pollutants in the atmosphere:
Their assimilation and phytotoxicity—H. S. Srivastava
|
310-316
|
RESEARCH
ARTICLES
|
|
Close packing and pressure-induced
amorphization—S. K. Sikka and Surinder M. Sharma
|
317-320
|
Fluid
processes in Earth's lower crust: evidence from microscale isotopic
zonation in graphite crystals—M. Santosh and H. Wada
|
320-324
|
RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
|
|
Thermally induced structural changes in wool: A high-resolution
solid-state carbon-13 CPMAS NMR study—N. R. Jagannathan, Ashok
A. Itagi and V. Subramaniam
|
325-328
|
Effect
of 5,5-diphenylhydantoin on carotenoid pigments in human serum using
laser Raman spectroscopic technique—Aranya B. Bhattacherjee, Koel
Chaudhury, M. M. Bajaj and D. C. Jain
|
328-329
|
A new hybrid between Sesanum alatum
and Sesamum indicum—R. S. Ramalingam, K. A. A. J. prabakaran,
S. Kirija and A. Narayanan
|
330-331
|
Application of competitive ELISA
in the diagnosis of equine infectious anaemia—P. K. Uppal and
M. P. Yadav
|
332-333
|
October 10, 1992
|
|
In this issue
|
341-342
|
RESEARCH NEWS
|
|
Ultrafast electron transfer rates
as influenced by vibrational modes—S. Umapathy
|
343-344
|
SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE
|
|
Nucleophilic carbenes—S.
S. Krishnamurthy
|
345-345
|
OPINION
|
|
Has the behaviour of the stock market
been affected by the scam?—A statistical analysis—K. N. Ganeshaiah
|
345-347
|
GENERAL ARTICLE
|
|
Evolution of river Cauvery: A point
of view—B. P. Radhakrishna
|
348-353
|
REVIEW ARTICLES
|
|
Fascination of non-Newtonian fluids—R.
A. Mashelkar
|
354-378
|
Structure formation in the universe:
comparison of some observations and models
—T. Padmanabhan
|
379-393
|
RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
|
|
Snow line depression over Tiber
during the last Ice Age—S. K. Gupta and P. Sharma
|
393-396
|
Fossil charophyta from the Deccan
intertrappean beds of Gurmatkal, Gulbarga District, Karnataka—S.
Srinivasan, Ashok Sahni and Sunil Bajpai
|
396-398
|
ACADEMY NEWS
|
|
58th Annual Meeting of the Indian
Academy of Sciences
|
399-399
|
INSA Medal for Yound Scientists—Award
1992
|
399-400
|
October 25, 1992
|
|
Editor's note
|
405-406
|
Unit one: Introduction and overview
|
|
Alois Alzheimer: A short biography
and a new translation of his key paper—Holger Hoehn
|
407-410
|
Pathogenetic mechanisms in demantias
of the Alzheimer's type—George M. Martin and Ken-ichiro Fukuchi
|
410-415
|
Recognition
of Alzheimer's disease as a major public health problem: An historical
account of the American experience—Robert Katzman
|
416-418
|
Unit Two: The Phenotype
|
|
Experience
with the differential diagnosis and prevalence of dementing illness
in India—Noshir H. Wadia
|
419-430
|
Pathobiology of Alzheimer's disease:
A morphologist's view—S. K. Shankar
|
430-439
|
Unit Three: Demography and Epidemiology
|
|
Changing demography of elderly in
India—P. N. Mari Bhat
|
440-448
|
A progress
report on the prevalence of Alzheimer's lesions in a Bombay hospital
population—S. A. Barodawala and P. S. Ghadi
|
449-455
|
Towards a program of cross-cultural
research on the epidemiology of Alzheimer's disease—Lon R. White
|
456-469
|
Do environmental neurotoxins or
novel infectious agents play a role in the genesis of Alzheimer's disease?—Darab
K. Dastur and Daya K. Manghani
|
470-484
|
Unit Four: Genetics
|
|
World-wide distribution of familial
Alzheimer's disease—Thomas D. Bird
|
485-487
|
Principles of linkage analysis applied
to genetic mapping of familial Alzheimer's disease—Ellen M. Wijsman
|
487-491
|
The molecular genetics of familial
Alzheimer's disease—Gerad D. Schellenberg
|
491-494
|
Unit Five: Review of recent Publications
on AD
|
|
Review of recent publications on
Alzheimer's disease—S. S. Agarwal
|
495-498
|
November 10 & 25, 1992
|
|
In this issue
|
503-504
|
Basic Science: Where do we stand
in India?
|
|
Saving Indian Science[Guest editorial]—C.
N. R. Rao
|
505-508
|
Indian biology research at cross
roads—G. Padmanaban
|
509-511
|
Funding chemical sciences research
in India—Goverdhan Mehta
|
512-514
|
Earth sciences in India: the concerns
ahead—Vinod K. Gaur
|
514-516
|
The physics in our future—T.
V. Ramakrishnan
|
517-522
|
Engineering science in India: some
issues and challenges—R. A. Mashelkar
|
522-528
|
GENERAL ARTICLE
|
|
The quality of scientific journals
published in India—some random thoughts—S. Ramaseshan
|
529-534
|
Enzymatic activity of ribosomal
RNA—Dipankar Chatterji
|
535-535
|
RESEARCH NEWS
|
|
Raman
scattering, spectropolarimetry and symbiotic stars—H. Schild
and H. M. Schmid
|
536-539
|
The strange case of the naked mole-rat—Anindya
Sinha
|
540-541
|
COMMENTARY
|
|
Support for science in India—M.
Vijayan
|
541-542
|
OPINION
|
|
Multi-lingual admission test for
IITs—Changes under socio-ppolitical compulsion?—Asoke Mookherjee
|
543-544
|
The real brain drain—S. P.
Sukhatme
|
544-546
|
REVIEW ARTICLES
|
|
Organometallic chemistry in water—Ashoka
G. Samuelson
|
547-550
|
RNA world and ribosomes—D.
P. Burma
|
550-560
|
RESEARCH COMMUNICATONS
|
|
Global search for optimal biomolecular
structures using mutually orthogonal Latin squares—A novel algorithm—N.
Gautham and Z. A. Rafi
|
560-564
|
Reciprocal relationship between
magnesium and cerium as a common basis for coconut root (wilt) and a human
cardiomyopathy—M. S. Valiathan, J. T. Eapen and C. K. Mathews
|
565-566
|
Stable isotopic variations in foraminiferal
test from Arabian Sea and its relation to the annual south-west monsoonal
rainfall over the Indian subcontinent—D. V. Borole
|
567-569
|
A new occurrence of alkaline lamprophyre
near Kellampalle, Prakasam District, Andhra pradesh, India—J.
Ratnakar, D. V. Ramakrishna, K. Vijaya Kumar, V. Nagsai Sarma and E. V.
S. S. K. Babu
|
569-570
|
Chemical analysis of a sediment
core from Paradip Lake, Orissa and its application to environmental reconstruction
for 450 years—B. Sekar, G. Rajagopalan, B. D. Nautiyal and R.
K. Dube
|
571-573
|
Comparison of codon usage in genes
of plant viruses and their hosts—S. N. Sudha, S. Krishnaswamy and
Vaithilingam Sekar
|
573-575
|
BOOK REVIEWS
|
|
The Physics of Monsoons—P.
R. Pisharoty
|
576-576
|
Applied Elasticity—K. R.
Y. Simha
|
576-576
|
PERSONAL NEWS
|
|
A creative library scientist, A
centenary tribute to Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan by M. A. Gopinath
|
577-578
|
REPORTS AND DOCUMENTS
|
|
UK Government. Annual Review of
Government Funded Research and Development —Third world science
and Environment Perspectives—V. Siddhartha
|
579-579
|
HALDANE
CENTENNIAL
|
|
J. B. S. Haldane: His life and science—Vidhyanand
Nanjundiah
|
582-588
|
The rate of spontaneous mutation
of a human gene—J. B. S. Haldane
|
589-598
|
Disease and evolution—J.
B. S. Haldane
|
599-604
|
Animal communication and the origin
of human language—J. B. S. Haldane
|
604-611
|
The cost of natural selection—J.
B. S. Haldane
|
612-625
|
A defence
of beanbag genetics—J. B. S. Haldane
|
626-645
|
December
10, 1992
|
|
In this
issue
|
647-648
|
NEWS
|
|
Professor Georges Charpak—winner
of the 1992 Nobel prize for physics—P. V. Ramana Murthy
|
649-651
|
Nobel Prize for chemistry
|
652-653
|
Regulatory
role of protein phosphorylation recognized—Ghanashyam Swarup
|
653-654
|
RESEARCH NEWS
|
|
Plant virus structures.
A touch of local colour—P. Balaram
|
655-655
|
The Saga of transcription—T.
Ramakrishnan
|
656-656
|
GENERAL ARTICLE
|
|
Fast breeder reactor
safety—a perspective—R. D. Kale
|
657-666
|
REVIEW ARTICLE
|
|
Coupled cluster approach
for static properties—Sourav Pal and Keya Basu Ghose
|
667-676
|
RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
|
|
An algorithm for
conducting hypotheses testing based on Neyman-Pearson Lemma. I. The
case of continuous univariates—S. Parthasarathy and K. Sekar
|
677-681
|
Self-diffusion coefficient
of 86-Rb in mica-rich soils—B. B. Mishra, S. K. Ghosh, P. Sachdev, M.
S. Sachdev, D. L. Deb and R. P. Arora
|
681-682
|
Trace fossil Limulicubichnus
from the Lower Miocene rocks of Kutch—S. J. Patel and D. M. Shringarpure
|
682-684
|
Phenology of seasonally
dry tropical forest—J. S. Singh and V. K. Singh
|
684-689
|
HISTORICAL NOTES
|
|
Science in British
India. I. Colonial tool—R. K. Kochhar
|
689-694
|
December 25, 1992
|
|
In this issue
|
699-699
|
SPECIAL SECTION:
OZONE
|
|
Seventy years of
ozone research—H. U. Dutsch
|
701-711
|
Laboratory studies
of the photochemistry of ozone—R. P. Wayne
|
711-722
|
Ozone observations
and research in New Zealand—A historical perspective E. Farkas
|
722-727
|
SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE
|
|
Dumping nuclear waste in the molten lava on the flanks
of an active volcano—Rama; comments by A. N. Prasad
|
728-728
|
Is the Mexican beetle
Zygogramma bicolarata (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) expanding its host range?
The beetle battle—A. R. V. Kumar
|
729-730
|
RESEARCH NEWS
|
|
Where too much is
not a good thing—T. Ramakrishnan
|
731-731
|
GENERAL ARTICLE
|
|
Biological control
programmes—time to retrospect—R. Uma Shanker and K. N. Ganeshaiah
|
732-733
|
RESEARCH ARTICLES
|
|
Direct numerical
simulation of the initial evolution of a turbulent axisymmetric
wake—A. J. Basu, R. Narsimha and U. N. Sinha
|
734-740
|
Commercial exploitation—A
threat to Indian orchids?—R. Lokesha and R. Vasudeva
|
740-743
|
RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
|
|
NMR chemical shielding
tensors as a tool for probing molecular environment: Carbon-13 NMR and
X-ray studies on malonic acid—N. R. Jagannathan, S. S. Rajan and E. Subramanian
|
743-744
|
Nonspecific defence
mechanisms of Cirrhinus mrigala against Escherichia coli and Salmonella
typhi—Debasish Pal and Chanchal Das Gupta
|
744-747
|
Late Quaternary turbidites
of the Arabian Sea abyssal plain, west of Lakshadweep—K. S. Adiga and
V. K. K. Kalluraya
|
747-749
|
BOOK REVIEWS
|
|
Annual Review of
Medicine 1992, reviewed by C. C. Kartha
|
750-751
|
Annual Review of
Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology 1991, reviewed by M. M. Johri
|
751-752
|
Annual Review of
Genetics 1991, reviewed by T. Ramakrishnan
|
752-753
|
Reliability Analysis
and Prediction: (A Methodology Oriented Treatment) reviewed by G. W. A.
Dummer
|
753-754
|
