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July 10, 1994
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| In this issue |
3 |
| CORRESPONDENCE |
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| Science must grow with quality and
benefit to mankind — M. B. S. Char |
5 |
| NEWS |
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| An experimental 'moss garden' in
Nainital — Parveen Farooqui and Giribala Pant |
5-6 |
| A report on the workshop on end-stage
transition — Roddam Narasimha |
6-9 |
| RESEARCH NEWS |
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| Repairing information lacunae: Coupling
of transcription with repair — Purnima Bhargava |
10-13 |
| Cold shock proteins from microorganisms
— M. K. Chattopadhyay |
13-14 |
| COMMENTARY |
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| Sex, flies and neuronal fates —
Anuranjan Anand and H. Sharat Chandra |
15-16 |
| Challenges of user-driven R&D:
BARC model — E. C. Subbarao |
16-18 |
| GENERAL ARTICLE |
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Incomparability of systems with
multiple equivalent quantitative descriptions
—
P. S. Moharir |
19-23 |
| REVIEW ARTICLES |
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| One protein—Many functions —T.
Ramasarma |
24-29 |
| Leaf gas exchange in lightflecks
of plants of different successional range in
the understorey of a central European beech
forest — Kailash Paliwal, Manfred Kuppers and
Hans Schneider |
29-34 |
| RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS |
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| Raman phase conjugator — B. Raghavendra
Prasad, S. Raghuveer, C. K. Subramanian and
P. S. Narayanan |
35-36 |
Chemical analysis and 14C dating
of a sediment core from Toskar lake, Ladakh
and its implications on climatic changes — B.
Sekar, G. Rajagopalan and
A. Bhattacharyya |
36-39 |
| Possible role of Delhi-Haridwar
subsurface ridge in generation of Uttarkashi
earthquake, Garhwal Himalaya, India — D. Sati
and S. P. Nautiyal |
39-44 |
| Camptonite dyke from the Pikkili
alkaline complex, Dharmapuri District, Tamilnadu
— C. Navaneethakrishnan and C. G. Chandrasekaran |
44-46 |
| Occurrence of scorodite in an auriferous
zone of Gualaldih area, Sonbhadra District,
Uttar Pradesh, India — M. A. Khan, V. P. Sinha
and R. C. Tyagi |
46-48 |
| Melanophore indexing: A quick biosassay
technique for detection of heavy metal toxicity
— T. K. Banerjee and Dalia Mukherjee |
48-50 |
Kodomali kimberlitic diatreme, Raipur
District, Madhya Pradesh — B. Chatterjee,
N. Jha, B. K. Mishra and M. Kumar |
50-52 |
| BOOK REVIEWS |
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| Limitation of Exposure to Ionizing
Radiation — Veena K. Parnaik |
53 |
| Annual Review of Physical Chemistry
1993 — P. K. Das |
53-55 |
| PERSONAL NEWS |
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Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao,
a tribute on his sixtieth birthday by
T. V. Ramakrishnan |
56-57 |
An intellectual aristocrat, an oituary
of Bagepally Ramachadrachar Seshachar by
H. Y. Mohan Ram |
58-59 |
| A titan amongst zoologists, an obituary
of B. R. Seshachar by Katre Shakuntala and M.
D. Parthasarthy |
60 |
| Erratum |
59 |
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July 25, 1994
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| In this issue |
67 |
| NEWS |
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| A report on the seminar on 'Biological
control of social forestry and plantation crop
insects' —T. N. Ananthakrishnan |
69-71 |
| Forestry for food: Challenges for
2000 AD and beyond — Rajendra Dobhal |
71-73
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| COMMENTARY |
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| Earth science scenario in Indai:
A perspective |
74-77 |
| SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE |
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A liliaceous inflorescence — N.
Awasthi and R. C. Mehrotra; S. D. Bonde and
K. P. N. Kumaran |
78-79 |
Characterization of structural proteins
of A/Equine-2/Ludhiana/87 — P. K. Uppal,
M. P. Yadav and Ashok K. Gupta |
79 |
| Can Eremostachys superba be saved
from extinction — R. R. Rao and Arti Garg |
80-81 |
| GENERAL ARTICLE |
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| Report on Fermat's Last Theorem
— V. Kumar Murty |
82-88 |
| RESEARCH ARTICLES |
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| Identification of paleosols in the
Precambrian metapelitic assemblages of peninsular
India—A major element geochemical approach —
B. Sreenivas and R. Srinivasan |
89-94 |
| Epitope analysis of IPN virus isolates
from feral and hatchery salmonid fishes by neutralizing
monoclonal antibodies — K. M. Shankar and T.
Yamamoto |
95-98 |
Geochemical basis of tropical endomyocardial
fibrosis — M. S. Valiathan,
C. C. Kartha, R. R. Nair, K. Shivakumar and
J. T. Eapen |
99-104 |
| RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS |
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| Geochemistry of ilmenite from Ratnagiri
coast, Maharashtra — P. V. Sukumaran and A.
R. Nambiar |
105-106 |
Temporal clustering of earthquakes—A
fractal approach — R. S. Dattatrayam and
V. P. Kamble |
107-109 |
Localization of chromosome scaffold
by transmitted and incident light —
Deepesh N. De and Rekha Ghosh |
109-112 |
| Evaluation of growth behaviour of
deodar and blue pine by using tree ring data
from Uttarkashi, UP Himalaya — R. R. Yadav and
A. Bhattacharya |
112-116 |
| Plant regeneration in barley through
microtillering and multiple shoot differentiation—Sumita
Kachhwaha and S. L. Kothari |
116-118 |
| Short-term storage of coconut zygotic
embryos in sterile water — Anitha Karun and
K. K. Sajini |
118-120 |
| Fatty acid profile of a marine Nostoc
calcilcola under saline and non-saline conditions
— Sujatha Venkatarman and B. D. Kaushik |
120-122 |
| BOOK REVIEWS |
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| Endomyocardial Fibrosis — V. Ramalingaswami |
123 |
Proceedings (Mathematical Sciences),
(K. G. Ramanathan Memorial Issue) —
M. S. Raghunathan |
123-125 |
| Annual Review of cell biology 1993
— Veena K. Parnaik |
125-126 |
| The Physics of Karma — P. R. Pisharoty |
126 |
| HISTORICAL COMMENTARY AND NOTES |
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| Causes of the failure of Rayleigh-Jeans
radiation formula as speculated by some physicists
and the ultimate answer from Einstein — Amar
Nath Nigam |
127-133 |
| Erratum |
|
| Leaf gas exchange in lightflecks
of plants of different successional range in
the understorey of a Central European beech
forest — Kailash Paliwal, Manfred Kuppers and
Hans Schneider |
133 |
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August 10, 1994
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| In this issue |
139-140 |
| NEWS |
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| IAU Telegrams from India on Shoemaker-Levy
9 impact with Jupiter |
141-147 |
| Discussion meeting on macromolecular
crystallography—A report — M. R. N. Murthy |
148-149 |
| CORRESPONDENCE |
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| Enhancing S & T coverage —
Dilip M. Salvi; Ranbir Singh; K. N. Pandey |
149-150 |
| RESEARCH NEWS |
|
| Scanning tunnelling microscopy studies
of the fullerence C60 |
150-152 |
| COMMENTARY |
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| Acute toxicity of vitamin A in infancy
— C. Gopalan |
152-153 |
Technology development trends in
India: Past, Present and future —
R. B. Subramanyam |
153-157 |
| Armenia: A travelogue — R. N. Iyengar |
157-161 |
| GENERAL ARTICLE |
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| Indian Science Directory: NCI Current
contents — C. N. Raghu |
162-165 |
| REVIEW ARTICLE |
|
| On the use of local and global minimizers
for optimization problems in quantum chemistry
— P. Dutta and S. P. Bhattacharya |
166-177 |
| RESEARCH ARTICLE |
|
Monsoom forecasting on parallel
computers — U. N. Sinha, V. R. Sarasamma,
S. Rajalakshmy, K. R. Subramanian, P. V. R.
Bharadwaj, C. S. Chandrashekar,
T. N. Venkatesh, R. Sunder, B. K. Basu, Sulochana
Gadgil and A. Raju |
178-184 |
| RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS |
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| Metamorphic conditions of the aureole
rocks from Dhunaghat area, Kumaun Lesser Himalaya
— Mallickarjun Joshi, B. N. Singh and O. P.
Geol |
185-188 |
| Hydrograph separation of bulk meltwaters
of Dokrinai Bamak glacier basin, based on electrical
conductivity — Syed I. Hasnain and Renoj J.
Thayyen |
189-193 |
| Ecotendency of phytoplankton: An
approach for categorizing algae as bioindicators
for monitoring water quality — A. K. Laal, S.
K. Sarkar, A. Sarkar and M. Karthikeyan |
193-195 |
| High level stable expression of
rat brain type IIA sodium channel α-subunit in
CHO cells — Saumendra N. Sarkar and S. K. Sikdar |
196-201
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Concentration of proteins in the
midgut epithelium of sixth instar larvae, pupae
and adult of Spodoptera mauritia Boisduval (Lepidoptera
: Noctuidae) — Shikha Nair and U. V. K. Mohamed
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201-202
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Evidence for superconductivty onset
at 40 K in a carbon-based system —
P. Ganguly, S. George and Anil Kumar
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202-204
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Life Cycles: Reflections of an Evolutionary
Biologist — Stuart A. Newman
|
205-207
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Russian/Soviet Nuclear Warhead Production
— Shibdas Burman
|
208-212
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Annual Review of Entomology 1994
— S. S. Krishna
|
213-214
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PERSONAL NEWS
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An outstanding scientist and great
humanist, An obituary of Dorothy Crowfoot hodgkin
by M. Vijayan
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215-216
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August 25, 1994
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Foreword
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219
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Pancharatnam, virtuoso of the Poincare
sphere: an appreciation — Michael Berry
|
220-223
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Geometric phase in interference
experiments — Rajendra Bhandari
|
224-230
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Optics of absorbing anisotropic
media — G. S. Ranganath
|
231-237
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Pancharatnam's route to the geometric
phase — Rajaram Nityananda
|
238-244
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Pancharatnam achromatic retarders
— some recent improvements and their applications
to astronomy — S. Tapia
|
245-250
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Photopolarimetric investigations
— Role of Pancharatnam retarder — U. C. Joshi
and M. R. Deshpande
|
251-254
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Application of the Poincare sphere
to radio astronomy — V. Radhakrishnan
|
255-258
|
Pancharatnam in Mysore — N. V.
Madhusudana
|
259-261
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| Pancharatnam—Some reminiscences
— K. S. Viswanathan |
262-264
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Pancharatnam in Oxford (1964-1969):
Coherences and the propagation of light through
atomic vapours — G. W. Series
|
265-269
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Stepwise fluorescence due to level
crossings — A collaboration with
S. Pancharatnam — B. P. Kibble
|
270-271
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| On Pancharatnam's quantum theory
of dispersion — D. T. Pegg |
272-275
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Atom matter wave interferometry
and the measurement of phase shifts —
P. Hannaford
|
276-281
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Optical pumping, light shifts and
laser cooling — Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
|
282-284
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Modulated birefringence — S. Pancharatnam
|
285-287
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Book Review
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Collected Works of S. Pancharatnam
— G. S. Agarwal
|
288-289
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S. Pancharatnam — Extracts from
foreword to the collected works
|
290-292
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The contributors
|
293-294
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September 10, 1994
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In this issue
|
299-300
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CORRESPONDENCE
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Poverty of Indian chemistry periodicals
— T. Murugesan
|
301
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Accountability in medical research
— Sunil K. Pandya
|
302
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Indian planetary theory — K. Ramasubramanian,
M. D. Srinivas and M. S. Sriram
|
302-303
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RESEARCH NEWS
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Licence to replicate DNA — Veena
K. Parnaik
|
303-304
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SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE
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Occurrence of Pityospermum Nathorst
in the sriperumbudur Formation, Tamilnadu —
D. E. P. Jeyasingh and D. Kumarasamy
|
305
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GENERAL ARTICLE
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Earthquakes and elevation changes
in the Himalaya — Ramesh Chander
|
306-310
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SPECIAL SECTION: STRONG GROUND
MOTION AND ENGINEERING SPECIFICATION
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Estimating strong ground motion
parameters for Earthquke-resistant design — Vinod
K. Gaur
|
311-312
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Strong-motion earthquakes in Himalaya:
Geological perspective — K. S. Valdiya
|
313-323
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Evaluation of seismic hazard in
India towards minimizing earthquake risk — Vinod
K. Gaur
|
324-329
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Analytical approaches to describe
the near source effects — Sarva Jit Singh
|
330-335
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Uncertainties with strong motion
earthquake parameters — N. C. Nigam
|
335-343
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Seismic hazard estimation using
modelling of earthquake strong ground motions:
A brief analysis of 1991 Uttarkashi eathquake,
Himalaya and prognostication for a great earthquake
in the region — K. N. Khattri, G. Yu, J. G. Anderson,
J. N. Brune and
Y. Zeng
|
343-353
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Evaluation of design earthquake
parameters for a site and utilization of strong
motion data — A. R. Chandrasekaran
|
353-358
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Specifying aseismic design inputs
for critical structures — R. D. Sharma
|
358-368
|
Field investigations of the 30 September
1993 earthquake in Maharashtra — R. N. iyengar,
C. S. Manohar and O. R. Jaiswal
|
368-379
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Damage to buildings in Latur earthquake
— R. Sinha and A. Goyal
|
380-385
|
Earthquake ground motion characterization
for large or multiply supported structures —
Pradipta Banerji
|
386-394
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Precariously balanced rocks in Nevada
and California: Implication for earthquake hazard
in Nevada, particularly at Yucca Mountain —
J. N. Brune
|
395
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RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
|
|
Equation of estimation of sedimentation
rates: Applications to sequence stratigraphy
— M. Aslam
|
396-397
|
A simple test to identify aluminum-tolerant
rice cultivars at the level of signal perception
— M. Sivaguru and Kailash Paliwal
|
398-399
|
BOOK REVIEWS
|
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The future of large projects in
the Himalaya-overcoming incomplete knowledge
and unsound beliefs. High dams in himalaya-Environment
and sociocultural Implications. State of India's
Environment-A Citizen report No. 3 floods, Flood
plains and environmental Myths — M. A. Qureshi
|
400-401
|
Himalayan Tectonics —Rasoul B.
Sorkhabi
|
402
|
Geology of the Lower Himalaya —
N. S. Virdi
|
402-403
|
Measurements Principles and Practices
— S. D. Dutta Roy
|
403-404
|
Linus Pauling (1901-1994) — A colossus
in chemistry and an unparalleled crusader, an
obituary by C. N. R. Rao
|
405-408
|
Biology and Linus Pauling — P.
Balaram
|
409-410
|
Linus Pauling and vitamin C — C.
C. Kartha
|
411-414
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|
September 25, 1994
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|
In this issue
|
419
|
NEWS
|
|
Comet shoemaker-Levy 9 collision
with Jupiter: Pre- and post-crash observations
by IIA — R. Cowsik
|
421-424
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Brainstorming session in plant senescence-A
report — L. M. S. Palni and Parveen Farooqui
|
425-426
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RESEARCH NEWS
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A resolution of the strong CP and
U(1) problems
|
426-427
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COMMENTARY
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QUEST: Quality University Education
for Scientific Talent — B. M. Deb
|
427-431
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SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE
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Discovery of a middle holocene sub-fossil
bone from Tiruvallur Taluk, Chingleput District,
Tamilnadu — Shanti Pappu, Anupama Kshirsagar
and Vijay Sathe
|
431-433
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GENERAL ARTICLE
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Creating and communicating science:
The experience of the Royal Institution — Peter
Day
|
434-440
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RESEARCH ARTICLES
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Altered ultrastructure of rinderpest
virus and its nucleocapsids induced by 5-fluorouracil
— Arundhati Ghosh, R. Nayak and M. S. Shaila
|
441-445
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A study on the comparision of CSAMT
and MT data — I. B. Ramaprasada Rao, Ram Raj
Mathur and S. Srinivas
|
446-453
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RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
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When is I=log (2n/n) close to an
integer? — K. Ramachandra
|
454-456
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A Maastrichtian ostracode assemblage
(Lameta Formation) from Jabalpur Cantonment,
Madhya Pradesh, India — Ashok Sahni and Ashu
Khosla
|
456-460
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Giant marine reptilian skulls from
the Jurassic of Kachchh, Gujarat —
V. G. Phansalkar, G. Sudha and A. S. Khadkikar
|
460-461
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Atypical ferromanganese micronodules
from middle fan-valley system, Bay of Bengal
— Onkar S. Chauhan, A. R. Gujar and Ch. M. Rao
|
462-465
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Vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhiza
in an alkaline usar land ecosystem —
K. K. Janardhanan, Abdul-Khaliq, Fauzia Naushin
and K. Ramaswamy
|
465-469
|
Oil content and fatty acid composition
of seeds from various ecotypes of Arabidopsis
thaliana: A search for useful genetic variants
— Manas K. Pathak, Dolly Ghosh, Mrinal K. Maiti
and Sudhomoy Ghosh
|
470-472
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Effect of substance P on the melanophores
of a fish and frog in vitro — Sunita Rani Chimania
and M. Ovais
|
472-475
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Numerical intergration IV — G.
D. Veerappa Gowda
|
476-478
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Science and Engineering Indicators
— Subbiah Arunachalam
|
479
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PERSONAL NEWS
|
|
| Nihal Kishinchand Notani, an obituary
by P. C. Kesavan |
480-481
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October 10, 1994
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|
In this issue
|
487-488
|
NEWS
|
|
In tune with the saga of chaos —
G. Ambika
|
489
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RESEARCH NEWS
|
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Sigma of E. coli: Many more wonders
— Purnima Bhargava
|
490-491
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OPINION
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Succour to Indian industry by sharing
scientific and social information — B. K. Kale,
Zuben E. Sauna and V. Sitaraman
|
492-494
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COMMENTARY
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On reading Newton's Principia at
age past eighty — S. Chandrasekhar
|
495-496
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Newton and Michelangelo — S. Chandrasekhar
|
497-499
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Profile: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
— John Horgan
|
500-501
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SPECIAL SECTION
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Indian science — P. Balaram
|
502-503
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| Proposal for a National Science
University — Swadesh M. Mahajan |
503-508
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The concept of a National Science
University — P. N. Srivastava
|
508-512
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On the proposed National Science
University — D. Balasubramanian
|
512-515
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Higher education in science and
a National Science University — T. V. Ramakrishnan
|
516-519
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REVIEW ARTICLE
|
|
Quantum correlations in nonlinear
optical signals — Rupamanjari Ghosh
|
520-527
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RESEARCH ARTICLES
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|
Post-Gondwana tectonics of the Indian
Peninsula — K. R. Subrahmanya
|
527-530
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Preparations for future great earthquakes
seen in levelling observations along two lines
across the Outer Himalaya — R. Chander and V.
K. Gahalaut
|
531-534
|
RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
|
|
Significance of heavy mineral ratios
in some beach placers of Andra Pradesh, East
Coast of India — B. Nagamalleswara Rao
|
535-537
|
Find of a Ramapithecus punjabicus
premolar from a palaeosol unit exposed near
Village Danger, Dist. Bilaspur, HP — Rajeev
Patnaik
|
538-539
|
Frequent loss of a native giant
linear plasmid from UV-induced tetracycline sensitive
isolates of producer Streptomyces rimosus strain
— M. J. Rathos, N. C. Verma and
N. K. Notani
|
540-542
|
Alginate encapsulation technique
for indica rice protoplast culture and plant
regeneration — C. C. Giri and G. M. Reddy
|
542-544
|
Modified procedure for bromide estimation
with ion-selective electrode for predicting
nitrate movement in soil — Ashok K. Patra and
T. J. Rego
|
545-546
|
Surface ultrastructure of Beauveria
bassiana infecting silkworm Bombyx mori Linn
— Vineet Kumar, S. K. Tewari and A. K. Awasthi
|
546-548
|
|
Analysis
of trace elements of some edible trematodes
parasitizing the bovine hosts — V. Tandon and
B. Roy
|
548-550
|
BOOK REVIEW
|
|
Proceedings of second seminar on
Petroliferous basins of India — D. N. Awasthi
|
551
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HISTORICAL REMINISCENCES
|
|
Down memory lane — T. S. Sadasivan
|
552-556
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|
October 25, 1994
|
|
In this issue
|
563
|
NEWS
|
|
India's first Polar satellite IRS-P2
launched by PSLV-D2
|
565-570
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CORRESPONDENCE
|
|
The recent plague epidemic-Was there
gross scientific incompetence? —
Sunil K. Pandya
|
571-572
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Optimal utilization of yound researchers'
potential — B. K. Padhi
|
572
|
QAIS-Quick access information system
database of CSIR — T. Murugesan
|
573
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RESEARCH NEWS
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Non-neutral plasmas — P. I. John
|
573-574
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COMMENTARY
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Surat-will we learn the lessons?
— C. R. Soman
|
575-576
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India's biodiversity: Tasks ahead
— T. N. Khoshoo
|
577-582
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SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE
|
|
Abnormal growth response in the
host-parasite association — A. Balasubramanian,
Mujeera Fathima and Mendoza Ordetta Hanna
|
583-584
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GENERAL ARTICLE
|
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Molecular dynamics simulations on
transputer networks — Abhijit T. Paithankar,
B. L. Tembe and Dilip M. Ranade
|
585-590
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RESEARCH ARTICLES
|
|
A hypothesis for the origin of peninsular
seismicity — K. N. Khattri
|
590-597
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Identification of a specific, high
affinity imipramine-binding protein from human
and rat platelet membranes — Renu Sah, Ashok
K. Agrawal, G. G. Sanwal and Prahlad K. Seth
|
598-601
|
RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
|
|
Fullerenes: C60 from camphor-A novel
approach — Kingsuk Mukhopadhyay, Kalaga Murali
Krishna and Maheshwar Sharon
|
602-604
|
'Invisible' gold in arsenopyrites
of the auriferous zones of Gadag gold field
in Karnataka — A. G. Ugarkar, T. C. Devaraju
and T. A. A. Halkoaho
|
605-606
|
Heteropigmentation of plant impressions,
Karai, Ariyalur, Tamilnadu —
Hema Achyuthan, R. Nagendra and C. Mohanadoss
|
606-608
|
A bioassay technique for the detection
of aflatoxin by using Chlorella pyrenoidosa
— G. Uma Muralimohan and C. N. Reddy
|
609 -610 |
Synergistic action of different
strains of Bacillus thuringiensis against cotton
leaf worm spodoptera littoralis (Boisduval) —
L. Nadarajan and D. Martouret
|
610-612
|
Prospects and problems in cage culture
of giant tiger shrimp in Vellar estuary —
A. Shanmugam, John Peter Selvamani and T. Kannupandi
|
612-614
|
Effect of bacterial ulcer on the
haematology of Channa punctatus (Bloch.) —
S. M. P. yadav and B. P. Akela
|
614-615
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BOOK REVIEWS
|
|
Our place in the Cosmos: The Unfinished
Revolution — R. N. Sharma
|
616
|
Ayurvedic Drugs and their Plant
Sources — P. Gundu Rao and M. A. Iyengar
|
616-617
|
PERSONAL NEWS
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|
Anil Ramanbhai sheth (1933-1994)
an obituary by T. C. Anand Kumar
|
618-619
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Subramanyan suryanarayanan (1927-1994)
an obituary by T. S. Sadasivan
|
619-619
|
HISTORICAL COMMENTARY AND NOTES
|
|
From the annals of plague — C.
C. Kartha and E. Jeetendra
|
620 -624 |
|
November 10 & 25, 1994
|
|
In this issue
|
631-632
|
SPECIAL SECTION
|
|
The United Academy of Sciences of
India—A piece of history — S. Ramaseshan
|
633-640
|
Historical papers relating to (a)
the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore
|
641-653
|
| (b) Indian
National Science Academy, New Delhi |
654-670 |
| (c) National
Academy of Sciences of India, Allahabad |
671-676 |
CORRESPONDENCE
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|
NSU: Is it a solution? — R. Narsimhan
|
677-678
|
The National Science University-A
holistic conceit? — G. Prathap
|
678-679
|
NSU: The Mahajan proposal — K.
Vasudeva Rao
|
679-681
|
The National Science University
— D. P. Burma
|
681-682
|
Pancharatnam — V. Siddhartha
|
682
|
Plagiarism — V. S. kale
|
682 |
NEWS
|
|
A report on the brainstorming session
in the area of Plant Reproductive Biology —
K. R. Shivanna and Parveen Farooqui
|
683
|
A report on the VIII International
Congress of Plant Tissue and Cell Culture —
Sant S. Bhojwani
|
684-685
|
SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE
|
|
Reproductive biology: An aid in
the classification of bamboos — C. K. John,
R. S. Nadgauda and A. F. Mascarenhas
|
685-687
|
First report of a fossil marsh crocodile
Crocodylus palustris from the Nanneru Valley,
Andhra Pradesh — K. Shankar and C. V. N. K. Rao
|
687-689
|
Occurrence of segmental distortion
in larvae and pupae after refrigeration of non-diapause
eggs of silkworm Bombyx mori L. — T. P. S. Chauhan
and Meera Verma
|
689-690
|
COMMENTARY
|
|
India and the new global balance,
Rustum Roy
|
690-695
|
The new mineral policy — B. P.
Radhakrishna and L. C. Curtis
|
695-697
|
GENERAL ARTICLES
|
|
Mapping interplanetary weather —
A. Hewish
|
698-705
|
Quinacrine nonsurgical female sterilization
— Do Trong Hieu and Do Ngoc Tan
|
706-709
|
Family planning in Vietnam — Marie
Therese Feuerstein
|
708
|
An update on plague — Sunil A.
David and V. I. Mathan
|
710-713
|
REVIEW ARTICLE
|
|
Shaping up with hedgehogs — how
a fruit fly gene and its vertebrate homologues
function in generating patterns during animal
development — Bhagwati P. Gupta and K. Vijayraghavan
|
714-720
|
RESEARCH ARTICLES
|
|
The existence of oceanic islands
in the Neotethys: Evidence from Ladakh Himalaya,
India — Anshu K. Sinha and Meenal Mishra
|
721-727
|
Excision of uracil from the ends
of double stranded DNA by uracil DNA glycosylase
and its use in high efficiency cloning of PCR
products — N. Vinay Kumar and
U. Varshney
|
728-734
|
RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
|
|
Faunal affinity and zoogeography
of Recent marine ostracoda from Karwar, West
Coast of India — A. S. Vaidya and M. S. Mannikeri
|
735-738
|
Growth ring features in Sahnioxylon
from Rajmahal Hills and their climatic implications
— R. R. Yadav and A. Bhattacharya
|
739-740
|
Growth-phase-dependent
binding of hematoporphyrin derivative to human
glioblastoma (U-87MG0 cells — Rajesh Sreenivasan, Preet
G. Joshi and Nanda B. Joshi
|
740-744
|
Production of intergeneric hybrid
between Oryza sativa L. and Porteresia coarctata
T. — K. K. Jena
|
744-746
|
BOOK REVIEWS
|
|
Science and Engineering Indicators
|
747
|
Risk Communication—A handbook for
communicating Environmental, safety and Health
Risks — Subbiah Arunachalam
|
748
|
PERSONAL NEWS
|
|
Karl Raimund Popper (1902-1994)—The
philospher of critical rationalism and rational
moderation — G. Prathap
|
749-751
|
Sir Kari Popper—Philosopher of
science — B. V. Thosar
|
751-752
|
A teacher, a scientist and a guide,
as I knew him, an obituary of Sachi Prasad Ray
Chaudhuri (1907-1994) by Lalji Singh
|
753-754
|
|
December 10, 1994
|
|
Special issue: Condensed
matter science-Current status and plan for action
|
|
CORRESPONDENCE
|
|
Creation of excellence in science
in India — P. R. Pisharoty
|
763-764
|
Raising science in India a la NSU:
the hunting of the Snark — S. Krishnaswamy
|
764-765
|
National Science University—Imported
drug for an impoverished patient? —
A. R. Prasanna
|
765-766
|
Support NSU but! — Hari Narain
|
766-767
|
The proposal for a National Science
University—some comments — Rajaram Nityananda,
M. Vidyasagar, Dipankar Chatterji, K. Srinivasa
Rao, R. Srinivasan,
N. S. Narasimhan, K. Subba Rao, K. R. Subrahmanya
|
767-774
|
NEWS
|
|
Nobel Prize in physics — k. R.
Rao
|
775-784
|
GENERAL ARTICLE
|
|
As a Martian might see us: Subversive
reflections on the practice of physics —
A. J. Leggett
|
785-795
|
Preface
|
796-797
|
Historical
|
|
The first sixty years—A personal
view — S. Ramaseshan
|
798-821
|
Soft condensed matter and
statistical mechanics
|
|
Solid state physics through the
years: Need for new initiatives — C. N. R. Rao
|
821 -822 |
Why should we pursue soft condensed
matter? — Ajay K. Sood
|
823-827
|
Soft condensed matter: A survey
and a proposal — Sriram Ramaswamy
|
827-831
|
Liquid crystals—Old and new —
N. V. Madhusudana
|
832-834
|
Chemistry and physics of dipersions
— C. Manohar
|
834-836
|
Role of multicritical points in
addressing some key problems concerning condensed
matter science — A. Kumar
|
836-838
|
Statistical mechanics: Models and
realities — Bikas K. Charkrabarti
|
839-841
|
Semiconductors, optoelectronics,
molecular electronics,etc
|
|
Optoeclectronics — S. Jha
|
841-843
|
Molecular electronics — S. V. Subramanyam
|
844-852
|
Semiconductor physics—Where do
we go? — Vikram Kumar and R. C. Gupta
|
852-854
|
Si, Si-Ge and the new heterostructure
world — V. Venkataraman
|
855-858
|
Quantum dots and other mesoscopic
systems — Tapash Chakraborty
|
858-860
|
Low temperature Physics
|
|
Low temperature facilities for condensed
matter research — R. Srinivasan
|
860-862
|
Metal-insulator transition: A low
temperarture perspective — A. K. Raychaudhuri
|
863-864
|
Studies in heavy-fermion systems
— S. Ramakrishnan and Girish Chandra
|
865-866
|
The continuing attractions of magnetism
— S. N. Kaul
|
867-870
|
Whither solid state physics? —
T. V. Ramakrishnan
|
871-873
|
Structure, instrumentation,
materials, applications
|
|
Condensed matter physics under pressure
— S. K. Sikka
|
874-875
|
Instrumentation for condensed matter
science—Small and large — K. R. Rao
|
876-879
|
Surface structure —M. K. Sanyal
|
880-883
|
Quasicrystals: Indian research accomplishments
and imperatives — S. Ranganathan
|
884-886
|
Scanning probe microscopy — A.
K. Raychaudhuri
|
886-887
|
Crystals for nonlinear optical applications
— H. L. Bhat
|
887-890
|
Applications of superconductivity—So
near and yet so far? — T. S. Radhakrishanan
|
891-893
|
Photovoltaics: Promise and performance
— A. K. Barua
|
894-896
|
Institutions
|
|
Condensed matter science and the
Department of Atomic Energy —
B. A. Dasannacharya
|
896-899
|
Condensed matter and materials science
and CSIR — A. V. Narlikar
|
900-905
|
Programme of the Discussion Meeting
|
906-907
|
PERSONAL NEWS
|
|
A gifted experimentlist and human
being, an obituary of P. S. Narayan by
R. Srinivasan
|
908
|
|
December 25, 1994
|
|
In this issue
|
915-916
|
SPECIAL SECTION
|
|
Prologue: Science and religion —
P. R. Masani
|
917-919
|
Norbert Wiener's place in the history
of science and philosophy — P. R. Masani
|
920-930
|
The mathematical work of N. Wiener
(1894-1964) — S. D. Chatterji
|
930-936
|
What kind of a system is a human
being? A cybernetic system? — R. Narasimhan
|
937-940
|
Physics and cosmology: Some interactions
— W. H. McCrea
|
941-949
|
Abbe' Georges Lemaitre: Father of
the primeval atom — J. V. Narlikar
|
950-953
|
Book review — The Scientific Methodology
in the light of Cybernetics —
R. Narasimhan
|
954-956
|
Notes on Diophantus — Kirti Joshi
|
957-966
|
Ramanujan's illness — D. A. B.
Young
|
967-972
|
Mr S. Ramanujam,s work in England
— P. V. Seshu Aiyer
|
972-974
|
CORRESPONDENCE
|
|
Darwin and Newton: Portraits of
similar strokes — K. N. Ganeshaiah
|
975
|
Geochemical basis of tropical endomyocardial
fibrosis — P. V. Sukumaran
|
976
|
Some reflections on earth science
education in India — R. Shankar
|
976-977
|
NEWS
|
|
ISI and IBM joins hands to develop
an elctronic library system — Subbiah Arunachalam
|
977-978
|
RESEARCH NEWS
|
|
The ubiquitous phase grating —
K. A. Suresh
|
978-979
|
Strategies for regulating nuclear
entry of transcription factors — Veena K. Parnaik
|
979-980
|
COMMENTARY
|
|
The snake heart affair — M. S.
Valiathan
|
981-982
|
Low cost housing and infrastructure
sustainable cities: A global perspective — Arcot
Ramachandran
|
983-986
|
SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE
|
|
Application of magnetic resonance
imaging in dentistry — S. t. Sachdeva and Ashima
Valiathan
|
987-988
|
GENERAL ARTICLE
|
|
Harnessing chaos: Synchronization
and secure signal transmission — M. Lakshmanan
and K. Murali
|
989-994
|
REVIEW ARTICLE
|
|
The biology of human grnulocyte
colony stimulating factor — S. K. Kashyap and
V. G. Korobko
|
995-1002
|
RESEARCH ARTICLE
|
|
Effect of hormones on wheat-barley
crosses, embryo rescue and mitotic and isozymic
studies in hybrids — Vijay K. Khanna, S. Dhaubhadel,
S. Kodali and
G. K. Garg
|
1003-1012
|
RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
|
|
QBO signal in winter northpole temperature
at 30 mb and in southwest monsonn Indian rainfall
— C. P. Kulkarni and B. K. Mukherjee
|
1013-1015
|
Geological framework of Sankara
dyke swarm forming a part of Malani Suite of
igneous rocks in western Rajasthan — M. K. Pandit
and Amar Deep
|
1015-1018
|
Immunodiagnostic potential of a
filarial protease — Madhusmita Bal and Manoj
K. Das
|
1018-1019
|
Glycosaminoglycan fractions in the
cornea of two fishes — Mrinal K. Deb and
A. Raghu Varman
|
1020
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