| In
this issue |
3 |
| Editorial |
5 |
| CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| The
proposal for a National Science University-some comments
— S. K. Srinivasan, K. Jayaraj Rao, P. S. Thaigarajan,
T. K. S. Murthy, A. Jayakrishnan |
6-10 |
| NSU-Another
EI Dorado? — P. Narayanan |
10-11 |
| Role
of National Labs in post-graduate science education
— D. P. Roy |
12 |
| Ship-building
at Bombay — B. M. Udgaonkar |
13 |
| NEWS |
|
| George
A. Olah, A superchemist who bestowed long life to
fleeting carbocationic intermediates in superacids
— G. K. Surya Prakash |
14-19 |
| G
proteins—Critical control points in cellular signal
transduction — Sandhya S. Visweswariah |
20-22 |
| Indian
Academy at crossroads — Subbiah Arunachalam |
23-24 |
| Career
of women scientists — Shobhona Sharma |
24-26 |
| Mahabaleshwar
seminar on molecular biology of plant viruses
— H. S. Savithri and M. M. Johri |
26-29 |
| COMMENTARY |
|
| Central
Research University for Science and Technology
(CRUST) —A proposal — T. R. Anantharaman |
29-30 |
| Science
communication — A proposal for action —
D. Balasubramanian |
30-31 |
| SCIENTIFIC
CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| Stereochemistry
of Azadirachtins—H and I — T. R. Govindachari
and Geetha Gopalakrishnan |
31-32 |
| GENERAL
ARTICLES |
|
| Turbulence:
Waves or events? — R. Narasimha |
33-38 |
| Rydberg
atoms and molecules — Testing grounds for quantum
manifestations of chaos — M. Lakshmanan and
K. Ganesan |
38-44 |
| REVIEW
ARTICLE |
|
| Cancer
of the uterine cervix: Integration of molecular
evaluation into management strategy and the
cocept of biological staging — S. Lakshmi, M.
Radhakrishana Pillai, S. Asha Nair, P. G. Jayaprakash
and M. Krishnan Nair |
45-52 |
| RESEARCH
ARTICLES |
|
| The
continuity puzzle — R. Narasimhan |
53-61 |
| The
quantum measurement problem: Nature of the apparatus
— Anu Venugopalan, Deepak Kumar and R. Ghosh |
62-67 |
|
Even
nucleic acids with 2', 5'-linkages facilitate
duplexes and structural polymorphism: Prospects
of 2', 5'- oligonucleotides as antigene/antisense
tool in gene regulation — V. Lalitha and
N. Yathindra
|
68-75 |
| Graphical
analysis of DNA sequence structure: II. Relative
abundances of nucleotides in DNAs, gene evolution
and duplication — A. Nandy and P. Nandy |
75-85 |
| RESEARCH
COMMUNICATIONS |
|
| Two
interesting cases of continued mating in monogenic
and digenic systems — V. Arunachalam |
86-89 |
| Discovery
of the ectoparasitic mite Tropilaelaps loenigerum
Delfinado—Baker and Baker (Acari : Laelapidae)
on Apis dorsata F., A. Mellifera L. and A.
Cerana — D. P. Abrol and B. N. Putatunda |
90 |
| Vaccination
of hamsters with Mycobacterium habana against
Leishmania donovani infection — Anuradha, Kaneez
Zehra, J. C. Katiyar, H. P. Gupta and N. B. Singh |
90-93 |
| PERSONAL
NEWS |
|
| Bangalore
Puttaiya Radhakrishna, A tribute on his 75th
birthday by K. V. Subbarao |
94-97 |
| Professor
William Dixon West (1901-1994), an obituary by
B. P. Radhakrishna |
98-100 |
| Some
recent advances in Indian geology — W. D. West |
100-107 |
| BOOK
REVIEWS |
|
| World
Development Report 1994 — Infrastructure for development,
reviewed by Subbiah Arunachalam |
108-109 |
| Geology
of Karnataka, reviewed by M. Ramakrishnan |
109-110 |
| HISTORICAL
COMMENTARY AND NOTES |
|
| The
dilemma of a fame-hunter, reflections on Yellapragada
Subbarow centenary by S. P. K. Gupta |
110-113 |
| The
Great Bengal cyclone of 1737 — An enquiry into
the past — S. K. Sensarma |
114-117 |
|
January 25, 1995
|
|
| Special
issue: Neuroscience—A multidisciplinary approach |
|
| Preface |
123-124 |
| Understanding
the human brain: Need for a multidisciplinary
approach — P. N. Tandon |
125-129 |
| Neuromorphology
— Gomathy Gopinath |
129-133 |
| Problems
and prospects in neurochemistry — P. S. Sastry |
134-136 |
| X-ray
studies on the bilayer structure of trypsin-treated
rat brain myelin — S. Ramakumar, M. A. Viswamitra,
P. Maruthi Mohan and P. S. Sastry |
136-141 |
| Significance
of pharmacological study of neurotransmitter
receptors in brain research — B. N. Dhawan |
141-144 |
| Clinical
neurophysiology: Evolution and prospects — M.
Gourie Devi |
145-148 |
| Nuclear
magnetic resonance: Molecules, cells and animals
— Girjesh Govil |
148-152 |
| Neural
networks — Bikas K. Chakrabarti |
153-155 |
| Overview
of neurocomputers — L. M. Patnaik |
156-162 |
| Mathematical
modelling of neurons and neural networks — Chandan
Dasgupta |
162-167 |
| Some
aspects of information processing in biological vision
— Y. V. Venkatesh |
168-184 |
| Observational
study of animal behaviour: From instinct to
intelligence — Raghavendra Gadagkar |
185-196 |
| Cognitive
science: The mind-body problem — G. Krishna |
197-199 |
| The
goals of cognitive science — G. Krishana |
199-201 |
| STATUS
REPORTS |
|
| Research
priorities in natural products having CNS effects
— B. N. Dhawan |
202-204 |
| Peripheral
markers for CNS disease — Prahlad K. Seth and
Devika Nag |
204-212 |
| Aging-Molecular
aspects — Kalluri Subba Rao |
212-215 |
| Concept
formation — Marcus Devanandan |
215-218 |
| Neurobiology
and drug abuse — D. Mohan and R. Ray |
218-225 |
|
February 10, 1995
|
|
| In
this issue |
231 |
| Editorial |
233 |
| CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| The
proposal for a National Science University—More
comments — U. Raval, M. S. Sriram, B. B. Biswas,
C. Dasgupta, Ashok Kumar Thakur, Atanu Kumar
Pati |
234-238 |
| The
economics of sharing scientific and social information
— T. Krishna Kumar |
238-239 |
| On
the need to install seismographs in the Himalaya —
Ramesh Chander |
239 |
| Medical
ethics in India — H. V. Wyatt |
240 |
| Enhancing
indigenous S & T coverage in media — N. C.
Jain |
240 |
| Science
needs a front seat — S. K. Saxena |
241-242 |
| SCIENTIFIC
CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| On
coconut and coconut oil—where modern science meets
traditional wisdom — John T. Eapen |
242-243 |
| Value
addition: A threat to Calophyllum species — R.
J. Ranjit Daniels and Vishwanth Patil |
243-244 |
| Comments
on 'Fullerenes: C60 from camphor— A novel approach
— Ram Seshadri, K. Mukhopadhyay, K. M. Krishna
and M. Sharon |
244-245 |
| Comments
on 'Ubiquitous phase grating' |
245-246 |
| RESEARCH
NEWS |
|
| Synthetic
malaria vaccine, SPf66 — V. S. Chauhan |
246-247 |
| Cell-type
and stage-specific gene knockouts in mice: An
achievement of a long-sought goal — Vani Brahmachari |
249-251 |
| COMMENTARY |
|
| Non-proliferation
and advances in nuclear science — P. K. Iyengar |
252-253 |
| OPINION |
|
| Buy
a chair and restrain the increasing CO2 menace —
Alok K. Srivastava |
254 |
| GENERAL
ARTICLES |
|
| University
education in science: Academy report |
255-267 |
| The
ascent of molecular cardiology — C. C. Kartha
and O. M. Najeeb |
267-273 |
| Databases
in Indian biology: The state of the art and prospects
— Vishwas Chavan and D. Chandramohan |
273-278 |
| REVIEW
ARTICLES |
|
| The
chemistry of a non-natural product: Troger's base
— Braja Gopal Bag |
279-288 |
| Lathyrus
sativus: A future pulse crop free of neurotoxin
— V. K. Yadav and S. L. Mehta |
288-292 |
| RESEARCH
ARTICLES |
|
| Virulent
shigella codes for a soluble apyrase: Identification,
characterization and cloning of the gene — Tishina
Bhargava, Santanu Datta, Vasanthi Ramachandran,
Ramesh Ramakrishnan, Raman K. Roy, Krishnan
Sankaran and Yerramilli V. B. K. Subrahmanyam |
293-300 |
| Forecasting
rain for groundnut farmers—how good is good
enough? — Sulochana Gadgil, P. R. Sheshagiri
Rao, N. V. Joshi and S. Sridhar |
301-309 |
| Landscape
ecological analysis of a disturbance gradient
using geographic information system in the Madhav
National Park, Madhya Pradesh — Shirish A. Ravan
and P. S. Roy |
309-315 |
| Moisture
desorption and absorption isotherms for seeds
of some cultivars of Triticum aestivum and Triticum
durum wheat — A. V. Moharir and Nam Prakash |
316-326 |
| RESEARCH
COMMUNICATIONS |
|
| Observations
of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 from Japal-Rangapur
Observatory — R. Vasundhara, Pavan Chakraborty,
R. Rajamohan, J. C. Bhattacharya, G. Som Sunder,
P. Vivekananda Rao, R. Swaminathan and B. Lokanandham |
327-330 |
| Burst
vortex flow-field on a delta wing—A numerical
simulation using Euler equations — Anand kumar |
330-333 |
| A
possible relationship between the wind in the atmospheric
boundary layer over north Indian Ocean and the
summer monsoon rainfall over India — O. P. Singh |
333-334 |
| Thermodynamic
analysis of atmospheric deterioration of portland
cement — Rohit Shrivastav, Sanjay Kumar Mathur
and Shobhit Shrivastav |
335-337 |
| Spatial
gradients of calcium in the slug of Dictyostelium
discoideum — M. Azhar, Shweta Saran and Vidyanad
Nanjundiah |
337-342 |
| BOOK
REVIEWS |
|
| Annual
Review of Physiology 1994, reviewed by Ghanshyam
Swarup |
343 |
|
Bacterial
Pathogenesis: A Molecualr Approach, reviewed
by J. S. Virdi
|
343-344 |
| Solar
Electricity, reviewed by C. L. Gupta |
345 |
| PERSONAL
NEWS |
|
| Prof.
John Barnabas (1929-1994), an obituary by Prabhakar
Ranjekar and Shama Barnabas |
346-347 |
| Sir
John Maddox |
347 |
|
February 25, 1995
|
|
| Special
issue on Reproductive Biology |
|
| Foreword |
351 |
| Standardized
procedures in human semen analysis — Kamala
Gopalkrishnan |
353-362 |
| Implantation
of the primate embryo — Jayasree Sengupta, Pradip
De and Debabrata Ghosh |
363-373 |
| Secretion
of endocrine signals by the primate embryo during
the peri-implantation period — P. B. Seshagiri
and J. P. Hearn |
373-379 |
| Medically
assisted reproductive technologies—A clinical
perspective — N. Pandiyan |
379-382 |
| Social
and ethical issues in medically assisted reproductive
technologies — Biraj Kalyan and T. C. Anand
Kumar |
382-386 |
| Does
a period of amenorrhoea raise subsequent chances of
implantation in women? — R. G. Edwards and S.
F. Marcus |
386-391 |
| Stress
and reproduction: The role of peptides and other
chemical messengers in the brain — J. Herbert |
391-400 |
| Preimplantation
diagnosis of human genetic disorders — Rajiv
H. Mehta |
401-405 |
| Reproductive
health, population dynamics and contraception
— T. C. Anand Kumar |
405-407 |
| Antiprogestins:
Useful investigative tools and novel contraceptives
— Chander P. Puri |
407-423 |
| Contraceptive
vaccines — D. K. Giri and G. P. Talwar |
423-434 |
| New
leads in contraception and innovations in existing
contraceptive methods — Horacio B. Croxatto |
434-436 |
| Praneem
polyherbal cream and pessaries with dual properties
of contraception and alleviation of genital
infections — G. P. Talwar, S. Garg, V. Dhar,
R. Chabra, A. Ganju and S. N. Upadhyay |
437-440 |
| Zona
pellucida as a target for immunocontraception —
Abhijit Afzalpurkar, Siva Kumar Kolluri, Renuka
Kaul, Harini Bagavant, Manju Gupta and S. K.
Gupta |
440-445 |
| Osteoporosis:
Causes and consequences — Brinda Wita |
446-450 |
| Effect
of administration of luteinizing hormone (LH) and
deprival of LH on the proteins of smooth endoplasmic
reticulum of immature and adult rat Leydig cells
— R. Venkatesh and A. Jagannadha Rao |
451-456 |
| Use
of androgens for contraception in men — P. R.
K. Reddy |
456-458 |
| Pharmacology
of antiandrogens and their clinical application
— Walter Elger |
459-469 |
| Some
thoughts on development of chemically based male contraceptives
— N. R. Moudgal and R. Suresh |
470-474 |
|
March 10, 1995
|
|
| In
this issue |
479 |
| CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| The
proposal for a National Science University—More
comments — N. L. Mohan, P. N. Shankar, M. V.
R. Rao, Vikram Soni, M. S. Rangachari, G.
Rangan, A. K. Srivastava
|
481-485 |
| A
layman's views on 'Science in India' — Mrs. S.
John |
485-486 |
| Not
so current — M. S. Hegde |
486-487 |
| Keep
it up — P. N. Shankar |
487 |
| NEWS |
|
| Report
on the Third National Meet of CD-ROM/Online users
NICLAI, CLRI, Madras, August 9-10, 1994 — S.
Subba Rao |
487 |
| RESEARCH
NEWS |
|
| New
roles for RNA — K. K. Narayanan |
488-490 |
| OPINION |
|
| Genetic
resource mapping and fisheries management — B.
K. Padhi and R. K. Mandal |
490-493 |
| Endemic,
rare and threatened flowering plants of South
India — R. J. Ranjit daniels, N. Anil Kumar
and M. Jayanthi |
493-495 |
| COMMMENTARY |
|
| Marine
pollution in India: An emerging problem — G. P.
Glasby and G. S. Roonwal |
495-497 |
| SCIENTIFIC
CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| Localized
chaos on periodic orbits — R. Singh, V. M. Maru
and P. S. Moharir |
497-500 |
| GC-MS
evidence of dimethyl isocyanurate and 2,4-dione in
the blood of Bhopal victims — A. K. Saraf, G.
J. Rao and Heeresh Chandra |
500-501 |
| The
oil of Parkia roxburghii G. Don, a potential insecticide
— J. S. Salam, M. S. Khuman and M. P. Singh |
502 |
| GENERAL
ARTICLE |
|
| Is
there a future for high-energy physics — G. Rajasekaran |
503-506 |
| REVIEW
ARTICLES |
|
| Bioregulation
of starch accumulation in developing seeds —
Sukhdev S. Bhullar |
507-516 |
| Enhancer
trap technique — A novel tool for identification
and developmental characterization of Drosophila
genes — A. Singh |
517-525 |
| RESEARCH
COMMUNICATIONS |
|
| First-order
hyperpolarizabilities and pKa of weak organic
acids in protic solvents are lineraly related
— Paresh Chandra Ray and Puspendu Kumar Das |
526-528 |
Intranasally
delivered microdoses of bromocriptine ( BCR)
effectively reduced serum prolactin levels in
hyperprolactinaemic patients
|
528-531
|
Plasticity
of Z-DNA as observed in the crystal structures
of non-self-complementary hexanucleotides
— C. Sadasivan and N. Gautham
|
531-537
|
Damage
and repair of DNA of human epidermoid carcinoma
cells X-irradiated in the presence of chlorpromazine
— P. Karnakar, U. B. Dasgupta and R. K. Poddar
|
537-539
|
Gibberellic-acid-induced
changes in α-amylase activity of barley seeds
and their reversal by chlorflurenol — Thomas
Mathew
|
539-541
|
Plant
generation from protoplasts of scented indica rice
using heterologous feeder system — J. N. Gupta,
G. S. Cheema, Ravinder Kaur and H. S. Dhailwal
|
541-543
|
Influence
of light on somatic embryogenesis in hypocotyls
of Albizzia lebbeck — Kavitha Baweja, Jitendra
P. Khurana and Paramjit Gharyal-Khurana
|
544-546
|
Sachet technique — an efficient
method for the acclimatization of micropropagated
grapes (Vitis vinifera L.) — M. B. Ravindra
and Pious Thomas
|
546-548
|
Pathogenic
myxosporean infection in the early fry of Indian
major carp, Catla catla — C. V. Mohan and K.
M. Shankar
|
548-551
|
|
Anaerobes
in the digestive tract of wood-eating grup
Acanthophorus
sp. —K. Sara Parwin Banu and K. Ramasamy
|
551-552
|
Possible
indicators of neotectonic activity near Bhimunipatnam
coast, Andhra Pradesh — Srinivas Madabhushi
|
552-555
|
BOOK
REVIEWS
|
|
Pharmacopoeias
and Formularies, — P. Gundu Rao
|
556
|
Tertiary
Chronostratigraphic Units and Sea level Changes
(Kutch and East Coast Basins, India) — S. B.
Bhatia
|
557-558
|
ACADEMY
NEWS
|
|
Indian
Academy of Sciences elects new fellows — 1994
|
559- 563
|
|
March 25, 1995
|
|
In
this issue
|
567
|
CORRESPONDENCE
|
|
Science
in India: Vision and Reality — S. B. Kabiraj
|
569-570
|
NEWS
|
|
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for
Advanced Scientific Research — A tribute to
the architect of modern Indian Science — N.
Mukunda
|
570-572
|
COMMENTARY
|
|
India
2015: A strategic perspective — K. Sundarji
|
572-575
|
State
of Indian R&D in a competitive world — D. Mukesh
and S. Bhaduri
|
575-578
|
Decline
of blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra) in an insular
nature reserve: The Guindy National Park, Madras
— T. R. Shankar Raman, R. K. G. Menon and R.
Sukumar
|
578-580
|
Learning
lessons from Israel — Nani A. Palkhivala
|
580-581
|
OPINION
|
|
Should
Israel manage Gujarat's waters? — S. K. Gupta and
P. Sharma
|
582-584 |
Application
of biotechnology to medicine in India—A concern
— G. Padmanaban
|
584-585
|
SCIENTIFIC
CORRESPONDENCE
|
|
Deproteinized
leaf juice — A novel medium for rhizogenesis
in vitro — E. Sreenivasan, S. S. Pathak and
R. N. Joshi
|
586
|
Two
simple non-enzymatic procedures to isolate high molecular
weight DNA from fungi — Shaik Yazdani Basha
and P. Palanivelu
|
587-588
|
The
recent rise of the river bed near Mohand, Western
Uttar Pradesh — V. C. Thakur, Dinesh Sati, Piyoosh
Rautela, K. S. Bist, B. S. Rawat and B. K. Choudhuri
|
588-590
|
A
critical appraisal of the type locality of a rare palm
from Kumaon Himalaya, India — T. S. Rana, Tariq
Husain and R. R. Rao
|
590-592
|
White
tigers need more water — Sharat K. Palita, Saroj
K. Pattnaik and Ajay K. Patra
|
592
|
TECHNICAL
NOTES
|
|
Indigenous
commerical R&D in advanced ceramics — Retrospect
and prospect — V. C. S. Prasad
|
593-598
|
GENERAL
ARTICLES
|
|
Discovery
of top quark at Fermilab — Abhijit Kshirsagar
|
599-604
|
The
ultimate constituents of matter — K. V. L. Sarma
|
605-610
|
REVIEW
ARTICLE
|
|
| Monoclonal
antibodies in the study of architecture of plant
viruses — R. Kekuda, S.Sundareshan, A. Karande
and H. S. Savithri |
611-617 |
| RESEARCH
ARTICLE |
|
Influence
of chlestrol enrichment under in vivo and in
vitro conditions on aggreation and deformability
of erythrocytes-A comparative study — M. Kumaravel,
S. P. Kasthurirangen and Megha Singh
|
618-626
|
RESEARCH
COMMUNICATIONS
|
|
Selection
rules for quasilattices — Arvind Sinha, P. Ramachandrarao
and G. V. Sastry
|
627-631
|
|
Application
of drag-reducing polymers in agriculture
— R. P. Singh, J. Singh,
S.
R. Deshmukh, D. Kumar and A. Kumar
|
631-640
|
Neodymium
monazite from the Gajularega cordierite gneisses,
Eastern Ghats, India — P. V. Ramesh Kumar and
K. K. V. S. Raju
|
641-643
|
Global
methane emission from rice-paddies: Excellent methodology
but poor extrapolation — Suresh K. Sinha
|
643-646
|
|
A
low cost strategy for in vitro propogation
of banana — T. R. Ganapati,
J.
S. S. Mohan, P. Suprasanna, V. A. Bapat
and P. S. Rao
|
646-650
|
|
Plants
regenerated from protoplasts of sugarcane
(Saccharum officinarum) —
J.
N. Gupta, Ravinder Kaur and G. S. Cheema
|
650-653
|
'Punarnavine'
profile in the regenerated roots of Boerhaavia
diffusa L. from leaf segments — Neeta Shrivastava
and M. A. Padhya
|
653-656
|
BOOK
REVIEWS
|
|
| Annual
Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology
1994 — Devaki Bhaya and Prasanna Mohanty |
657-658
|
Patterning
of Material Layers in Submicron Lithography
— Ishwar Chandra
|
658-659
|
Recent
Developments in Biofouling Control — K. A. Natarajan
|
659
|
|
April 10, 1995
|
|
In
this issue
|
667-668
|
CORRESPONDENCE
|
|
Globalizing
Indian Science — Rustum Roy
|
669
|
Solar
eclipse — Narender K. Sehgal
|
669
|
NEWS
|
|
Annual
Day of the Inter-University Consortium for Department
of Atomic Energy Facilities — R. Srinivasan
|
670-671
|
Indian
initiative in liquid crystal research — N. Vittal
|
671-672
|
Dedication
of the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced
Scientific Research
|
672-673
|
Cross
examinations: DNA fingerprinting conference traces
an impressive record — Durgadas P. Kasbekar
|
674-676
|
RESEARCH
NEWS
|
|
Complex
domestic conflicts in a bird family — Raghavendra
Gadagkar and H. S. Arathi
|
676-677
|
OPINION
|
|
University
science education: Who funds? — Malti Goel
|
677-680
|
Are
patterns a rule in nature? — K. N. Ganeshaiah
|
680-683
|
SCIENTIFIC
CORRESPONDENCE
|
|
Comments
on 'Jasra-ultramafic-mafic-alkaline complex: A
new find in the Shillong Plateau, Northeastern
India' — N. C. Pant
|
683-684
|
A
note on the Megalithic cultural remains from the cist
burials at Arippa in Kollam District of Kerala,
South India — P. Rajendran and G. L. Badam
|
684-686
|
GENERAL
ARTICLE
|
|
Growth
of capabilities of India's launch vehicles — S.
C. Gupta
|
687-691
|
REVIEW
ARTICLES
|
|
Thiol/disulphide
exchange reaction: A key regulatory process
in biological systems — Amitabha Chaudhuri
|
692-698
|
Mechanism-based
enzyme inactivators in rational drug discovery:
Curing diseases with biochemical Trojan Horse
reagents — A. Nangia and P. S. Chandrakala
|
699-714
|
Manufacture
of liposomes: A review — Ramchandra M. Watwe
and Jayesh R. Bellare
|
715-724
|
RESEARCH
ARTICLE
|
|
Nucleotide
sequence and expression in E. coli of the sequence
specific RNA binding nonstructural protein NSP3
of a G2 serotype human rotavirus — C. Durga
Rao, Bhargavi S. Rao and Krishne Gowda
|
725-731
|
RESEARCH
COMMUNICATIONS
|
|
Reactions
of N-benzylethanolamine over zeolites — R. B.
C. Pillai
|
732-734
|
Production
of singlet oxygen by sanguinarine and berberine
—M. Maiti and Amala Chatterjee
|
734-736
|
|
Turbulent
drag reduction by polymer-based mixtures
and graft copolymers —
R.
P. Singh
|
736-739
|
Trenching
in the Koyna area — P. Talwani and L. K. Kshirsagar
|
739-742
|
Tree
water relations along the vegetational gradient in
the Himalayas — Donald B. Zobel and S. P. Singh
|
742-745
|
Impact
of fire on a dry deciduous forest in the Bandipur
National Park, southern India: Preliminary assessment
and implications for management — J. P. Puyravaud,
D. Shridhar, A. Gaulier, S. Aravajy and S.
Ramalingam
|
745-751
|
Movement
of 32P in sunflower plants inoculated with single
and dual inocula of VAM fungi — V. S. Mehrotra,
U. Baijal, S. D. Mishra, D. P. Pandey and T.
Mathews
|
751-754
|
Somatic
tissues leading to embryogenesis in cumin — Anju
Dave and Amla Batra
|
754-755
|
|
Fertile
plants regenerated from mesophyll protoplasts
of cold-tolerant rice —
J.
N. Gupta and S. N. Gupta
|
755-761
|
In
vitro micropropagation of scented geranium
(Pelargonium graveolens L. Her. ex Ait: syn
P. roseum willd) — G. Satyakala, M. Muralidhar
Rao and G. Lakshmi Sita
|
762-765
|
River
water contaminated with paper mill effluent induces
micronuclei in peripheral erythrocytes of fish
— A. P. Tripathy and R. K. Das
|
766-767
|
BOOK
REVIEW
|
|
Peptides:
Design, Synthesis and Biological Activity — P.
Balaram
|
768
|
|
April 25, 1995
|
|
In
this issue
|
771
|
CORRESPONDENCE
|
|
Yellapragada
SubbaRow centenary year (1895-1995): The issue
of multiple centenaries? — V. Sitaramam
|
773
|
An
approach to tackling fluoride problem in drinking
water — S. K. Gupta and
P. Sharma |
774 |
NEWS
|
|
Novel
ferroelectrics
|
775-776
|
RESEARCH
NEWS
|
|
Kauzman(n)ia
— Binny J. Cherayil
|
777
|
Replacement
of nickel in electroplating processes and surface
strengthening of aluminium by laser treatment
— V. Lakshminarayanan
|
778-779
|
OPINION
|
|
Dynamics
of the psychology of the Ph D students and the
question of what to do with them — V. Sitaramam
|
779-783
|
SCIENTIFIC
CORRESPONDENCE
|
|
Antioxidants:
Helpful or harmful? — Madhusudan G. Soni
|
783-784
|
On
the occurrence of ostracod species from the Kallankurchchi
Formation of Ariyalur Group, Tamil Nadu — U.
B. Mallikarjuna
|
784-786
|
Comments
on 'Value addition: A threat to Calophyllum
species' — V. M. Meher Homji
R. J. Ranjit Daniels and Vishwanath Patil |
786-787
|
Comments
on 'Melanophore indexing: A quick bioassay technique
for detection of heavy metal toxicity — M. Ovais,
T. K. Banerjee and D. Mukherjee
|
787-788
|
GENERAL
ARTICLES
|
|
The
reign of technology in contemporary medicine —
M. S. Valiathan
|
789-793
|
Mathematics
and statistics of aging — Jayant V. Deshpande
|
794-800
|
Antiquity
of the plant kingdom and molecular world — Arun
Kumar Sharma
|
801-806
|
REVIEW
ARTICLE
|
|
Androgen
receptor and the mechanism of androgen action
— M. K. Thakur
|
806-812
|
RESEARCH
ARTICLES
|
|
Wollastonite
from calc-silicates of the Kerala Khondalite
belt, southern India: Changing fluid regimes
during deep crustal metamorphism — M. Satish
Kumar,
M. Santosh and M. Yoshida |
813-818
|
Molecular
modelling of N-terminal region of human cardiac
myosin light chain 2 induced during cardiac
hypertrophy — K. Kannan, G. Jegadeesh Babu,
K. Veluraja and
C. Rajamanickam |
819-825
|
RESEARCH
COMMUNICATIONS
|
|
Uranium
and thorium abundances in some graphite-bearing
Precambrian rocks of India and implications —
U. K. Pandey and P. Krishnamurthy
|
826-828
|
Discovery
of microvertebrates from the Pleistocene deposits
of the Central Narmada Valley, India — Rajeev
Patnaik, G. L. Badam and Vijay Sathe
|
828-830
|
Daytime
measurements of optical auroral emissions from
Antarctica — R. Sridharan,
D. Pallam Raju, R. Narayanan, N. K. Modi,
B. H. Subbaraya and R. Raghavarao |
830-834
|
Complexation
and interaction modelling in a thorium (IV)-mycobacterial
siderophore system — H. J. MacCordick, O. Wendling
and M. S. Antony
|
834-836
|
| Partial
unfolding of lactate dehydrogenase in presence
of low concentrations of guanidium chloride
— Abhikit Chakrabarti, Subrata Chattopadhyay
and Chanchal |
836-839
|
Analysis
of fall in serum ferritin after chelation of iron
with Deferiprone in thalassaemi and haemoglobin
E thalassaemia — D. Adhikari, T. Basu Roy, S.
Chandra and S. K. Adhikari
|
839-840
|
Occurrence
of superficial and cutaneous mycotic infections
at Rourkela, Orissa —
S. Das, P. Swain and B. K. Choudhury |
840-843
|
Studies
on structure and organization of calcium carbonate
deposits in algae — Vijaya Kerkar and A. D.
Untawale
|
843-845
|
Acute
toxicity of ammonium sulphate to the air-breathing
organ of the live fish Heteropneustes (=Saccobranchus)
fossilis — V. I. Paul and T. K. Banerjee
|
845-849
|
BOOK
REVIEWS
|
|
Disaster
Management Societal Vulnerbility to Natural Calamities
and Manmade Disasters - Preparedness and Response
— G. Thyagarajan
|
850
|
Stereochemistry
of Organic Compounds — Principles and Applications
— R. Balaji Rao
|
850
|
Global
networks computers and conservationist an obituary
of Prof. A. Abraham by A. Pushpangadan
|
850-851
|
HISTORICAL
COMMENTARY AND NOTES
|
|
| From
Eduard Suess to Emile Argand: Reflections on Tethys
and India-Asia tectonics — Rasoul B. Sorkhabi |
853-858
|
|
May 10, 1995
|
|
In
this issue
|
863
|
CORRESPONDENCE
|
|
The
character of science in India: Then and now — D.
Lal
|
865-867
|
University
education in India — V. Siddhartha
|
868
|
Assessment
of research of major institutions in engineering
during 1987-1989 —
G. Prathap |
869
|
NEWS
|
|
A
brief note on non-proliferation of nuclear weapons:
Need to redefine agenda —
Vivek Monteiro and Spenta Wadia |
870-871
|
SCIENTIFIC
CORRESPONDENCE
|
|
Tea-A
strong antioxidant — Yamini B. Tripathi, Savita
Chaurasia, Mukta Sharma, Savita Shukla, Ved Prakash
Singh and Pratibha Tripathi
|
871-872
|
A
Cretaceous belemnoid from Palar basin, southern India
— P. Kumaraguru, P. S. Rao and K. Ayyasami
|
872-873
|
RESEARCH
NEWS
|
|
'i's
right ! — N. Gautham
|
873-875
|
GENERAL
ARTICLES
|
|
Does
a hole squeal: Quantum black holes and information
loss — N. Panchapakesan
|
876-883
|
New
routes for the synthesis of organometallic reagents
— Mariappan Periasamy
|
883-885
|
Bamboos
- Some newer perspectives — C. K. John, Rajani
S. Nadgauda and
A. F. Mascarenhas |
885-896
|
The
structure of Raga music—Part I: Swara and Tala
Part II: Forms, Instruments and aesthetics — Raja
Ramanna
|
897-916
|
REVIEW
ARTICLE
|
|
Neural
network models for spatio-temporal associative memory
— G. Athithan
|
917-929
|
RESEARCH
ARTICLES
|
|
Overexpression
of particulate phosphofructokinase in yeast
by PFK2 — Z. Lobo,
I. P. Sur and P. K. Maitra |
929-935
|
Morphology
and glacier dynamics studies in monsoon-arid
transition zone: An example from Chhota Shigri
galcier, Himachal-Himalaya, India — D. P.
Dobhal, Surendar kumar and A. K. Mundepi
|
936-944
|
RESEARCH
COMMUNICATIONS
|
|
A
calculable quantum capacitance — N. Kumar
|
945-946
|
Lyapunov
exponents and predictability of the tropical coupled
ocean-atmosphere system — A. Anantha Raman,
B. N. Goswami and A. Chandrasekar
|
946-950
|
Possibility
of usage of return maps to predict dynamical
behaviour of lakes: Hypothetical approach —
B. S. Daya Sagar and B. S. Prakasa Rao
|
950-954
|
Petrogenesis
and tectonic setting of Malani rhyolites: Evidence
by trace elements and oxygen isotope composition
— A. Maheshwari, M. Coltorti and A. N. Sial
|
954-956
|
An
alkaline lamprophyre (Camptonite) from Ravipadu,
Prakasam province, Andhra Pradesh, India — J.
Ratnakar, K. Vijaya Kumar, D. V. Rama Krishna
and V. Nagsai Sharma
|
956-960
|
Superoxide
dismutase determination by oxygen electrode
— R. Trivedi, S. Sarkar, Poonam Yadav, D. Bhatnagar
and R. Bhardwaj
|
960-962
|
Growth,
nodulation, stem anatomy and nitrogen content of
Sesbania rostrata grown in different salinity
levels — D. C. Joshua, Saradha Ramani and M.
S. Shaikh
|
963-967
|
Restriction
site polymorphism in mitochondrial DNA of Indian
major carps India —
S. B. Paul and A. Gupta |
967-969
|
BOOK
REVIEWS
|
|
Annual
Review of Nutrition 1994, reviewed by Mahtab S.
Bamji
|
970
|
Computational
Methods for Partial Differential Equations,
reviewed by K. Sangeeta
|
971
|
The
structure of Music in Raga and western systems, reviewed
by R. Srinivasan
|
971-972
|
|
May 25, 1995
|
|
In
this issue
|
979
|
Editorial
|
981-982
|
CORRESPONDENCE
|
|
Plagiarism
?— V. Siddhartha - Responses, S. K. Dhar, R.
Vijayaraghavan
|
982-983
|
Indian
science slows down — G. Prathap
|
983-984
|
On
Current Science — P. K. Gupta
|
984
|
NEWS
|
|
Report
on DAE Solid-State Physics Symposium, 1994 — K.
R. Rao
|
984-987
|
The
1994 Goldschmidt Conference, Edinburgh — C. Leelanandam
|
987-990
|
SCIENTIFIC
CORRESPONDENCE
|
|
Geochemical
basis of tropical endomuocardial fibrosis —
J. T. Eapen, P. V. Sukumaran
|
990-991
|
Oil
degrading marine bacteria Two isolates from Bay Island,
Andamans —
B. R. Shome, Rajeswari Shome and A. K. Bandyopadhyay |
992
|
Possible
ultrasonic receptor on bat-fly Mystacinobia
zealandica — Sudip Dey
|
992-994 |
Zinc
therapy? — Dipankar Chatterji and Meera Patturajan
|
994-996
|
Reduction
of liver foliates in gossypol-treated rats —
N. Giridharan and N. Lakshmaiah
|
996-997
|
COMMENTARY
|
|
HBV:
Have we found the ultimate answer? — S. P. Thyagarajan
|
997-1000
|
On
the decline and fall of academic empires — P. C.
Sarkar
|
1001-1002
|
GENERAL
ARTICLES
|
|
Microscopy
and interferometry with an atomic-size electron
source — M. P. Silverman
|
1003-1009
|
Nonlinear
optical properties of porphyrins — M. Ravikanth
and G. Ravindra Kumar
|
1010-1017
|
REVIEW
ARTICLE
|
|
Metallocarbohedrenes:
A new class of molecular clusters with cage
structure —
T. Pradeep and P. T. Manoharan |
1017-1026
|
RESEARCH
ARTICLE
|
|
Correlating
more than two particles in quantum mechanics
— F. Laloe
|
1026-1035
|
RESEARCH
COMMUNICATIONS
|
|
Chromiferous
chamosite from Pokphur magnetic body, Nagaland,
India —
B. K. Mohapatra, P. C. Rath and R. K. Sahoo |
1036-1039 |
Cryptic
genes: Are directed mutations always beneficial?
— Milind G. Watve, Anuradha A. Palkar, Sheetal
S. Mehendale and Neelima M. Deshpande
|
1039-1043
|
Identification
of cytoplasm-induced male sterility in sesame
through wide hybridization — A. J. Prabakaran,
S. R. Sree Rangasamy and R. S. Ramalingam
|
1044-1047
|
Is
there dimorphism for style lengths in monoecious figs
? — Prarthana Kathuria,
K. N. Ganeshaiah, R. Uma Shankar and R.
Vasudeva |
1047-1050
|
Uptake
and tissue distribution of cadmium in albino rat
after oral exposure to cadmium-contaminated edible
mushroom and its effect on blood — A. K. Mitra,
R. P. Purkayastha, N. B. Chatterjee and B.
Bhattacharyya
|
1050-1053
|
Effect
of vincristine of Leydig cell and accessory reproductive
organs — M. A. Akbarsha, Abraham Stanley and
H. I. Averal
|
1053-1057
|
BOOK
REVIEWS
|
|
The private science of Louis Pasteur, reviewed
by S. N. Balasubrahmanyam |
1058-1061
|
New
aspects in interpolation and completion problems,
reviewed by Rajendra Bhatia
|
1061-1062
|
Constructive
dissent: A case study in science and technology
policymaking. Lost at the frontier, reviewed
by R. Parthasarathy
|
1063-1064
|
Stereochemistry
of Organic Compounds — Principles and applications,
reviewed by
R. Balaji Rao |
1064-1065
|
PERSONAL
NEWS
|
|
Professor
G. W. Series - An obituary — B. P. Kibble
|
1066-1067
|
HISTORICAL
COMMENTARY AND NOTES
|
|
Sir
J. C. Ghosh-A pioneer in photochemical photobiological
researches — K. K. Rohatgi Mukherjee
|
1068-1072
|
GENERALIA
|
|
Profiles
in research — C. N. R. Rao
|
1073-1076
|
|
June 10, 1995
|
|
In
this issue
|
1079
|
CORRESPONDENCE
|
|
Saha
and Raman — D. N. Bose
|
1081
|
Altruism
of selfish DNA and evolution — R. L. Brahmachary
|
1081
|
NEWS
|
|
Flashes
and bursts—Mysterious happenings in the sky —
S. Ramaseshan
|
1082
|
New
appointments
|
1083
|
SCIENTIFIC
CORRESPONDENCE
|
|
Comments
on 'Endemic, rare and threatened flowering plants
of South India' —
V. M. Meher Homji |
1083-1084
|
Fluctuating
sexual characters in Drosophila pseudoobscura
from Colombia —
H. A. Campos and H. F. Hoenigsberg |
1084
|
OPINION
|
|
Immunodiagnostics—Unfulfilled
promises and needs — P. N. Tandon
|
1085-1086
|
GENERAL
ARTICLE
|
|
Condensed
matter at ultra high pressures — B. K. Godwal
|
1087-1095
|
REVIEW
ARTICLE
|
|
p53:
The molecular guardian of cell cycle — Anu Gupta
and Jarnail Singh
|
1096-1103
|
RESEARCH
ARTICLES
|
|
A
PC-based operational storm surge prediction system
for disaster management in coastal India — S.
K. Dube and Vinod K. Gaur
|
1103-1113
|
Differential
rates of seed abortion among trees of Dalbergia
sissoo: Role of post-dispersal sibling competition
— B. Mohan Raju, R. Uma Shankar and K. N. Ganeshaiah
|
1114-1118
|
RESEARCH
COMMUNICATIONS
|
|
A
new class of nonlinear optical materials based on push-pull
quinonoid molecules —
M. Ravi, D. Narayana Rao, Shumuel Cohen,
Isreel Agranat and T. P. Radhakrishnan |
1119-1123
|
Transcroptional
expression of LDL receptor gene in aortic atherosclerotic
lesions induced by cholesterol-rich diet — Anu
Gupta, Uma Mehta, R. S. Kukreja and D. Kaul
|
1124-1125
|
A
polyurethane-polyvinylpyrrolidone interpenetrating
polymer network for mammalian cell encapsulation
— Prabha D. Nair
|
1126-1129
|
Fractal
relation of perimeter to the water body area —
B. S. Daya Sagar and
B. S. Prakasa Rao |
1129-1130
|
Effect
of glutaraldehyde on sulphide production and sulphate
reduction by sulphate
-reducing bacteria — T. M. Vatsala and
R. A. Mah |
1131-1133 |
| Radiocarbon
dates of sediment cores from inner continental
shelf off Taingapatnam, southwest coast of India
— A. R. Nambiar and G. Rajagopalan |
1133-1137 |
| Effective
utilization geomorphology in uranium exploration:
A success story from Meghalaya, northeast India
— R. Mamallan, A. B. Awati, S. N. Kak and K.
R. Gupta |
1137-1140 |
Monitoring
functional property of the transgene through
rapid amplification of cDNA ends in indica rice
transformants — D. Basu, S. Das, P. Nayak and
S. K. Sen
|
1140-1144
|
Changes
in nitrate reductase and glutamine synthetase activities
in Ziziphus mauritiana by different VAM fungi
— Nishi Mathur and Anil Vyas
|
1144-1146
|
BOOK
REVIEWS
|
|
Perspectives
in Theoretical Nuclear Physics, reviewed by
J. Pasupathy
|
1147
|
Annual
Review of Immunology 1994, reviewed by R. Manjunath
|
1147-1148
|
Volcanism,
reviewed by M. Ramakrishnan
|
1148-1149
|
HISTORICAL
COMMENTARY AND NOTES
|
|
Professor
S. K. Mitra—His pioneering work on radio science
— S. N. Ghosh and Atanu Ghosh
|
1150-1159
|
ERRATA
|
|
Morphology
and glacier dynamics studies in monsoon-arid
transition zone: An example from Chhota Shigri
glacier, Himachal-Himalaya, India — D. P.
Dobhal, Surendar Kumar and A. K. Mundepi
|
1095
|
Stereochemistry
of Organic compounds—Principles and Applications,
reviewed by
R. Balaji Rao |
1095
|
|
June 25, 1995
|
|
In
this issue
|
1163
|
Editors'
note
|
1164
|
CORRESPONDENCE
|
|
Want
more, not less — M. G. Narasimhan
|
1165
|
Neglected
science — R. L. Brahmachary
|
1165
|
More
comments on the NSU and related matters — Gautam
R. Desiraju
|
1165
|
NEWS
|
|
Promoting
physics education: The Orissa example — Lambodar
P. Singh
|
1166-1167
|
COMMENTARY
|
|
Industrial
research and Indian industry — S. M. Datta
|
1167-1170
|
India's
emergence as a global R&D platform: The new
challenges and opportunities —
R. A. Mashelkar |
1170-1177 |
Global
'hotspots' of biodiversity — Sudipto Chatterjee
|
1178-1179
|
| RESEARCH
NEWS |
|
| Can
animals count? — Raghavendra Gadagkar |
1180-1182 |
| SPECIAL
SECTION |
|
| NSU:
An experimental unlikely to succeed — Y. P. Joshi |
1182-1186 |
| The
National Science University and the politics of science
in India — S. R. Valluri |
1186-1189 |
| National
Science University: A rejoiner — P. N. Srivastava |
1190-1191 |
| National
Science University: Final Report |
1191-1198 |
| GENERAL
ARTICLES |
|
| The
devastating earthquake in kobe — Tamao Sato |
1199-1205 |
| Kobe
earthquake: An urban disaster — Paul Somerville |
1205-1208 |
| Climate
change studies: Need for a refocusing — S. M. Kulshrestha |
1208-1213 |
| REVIEW
ARTICLES |
|
| Genetic
approaches to study of anaesthesia — Bashir A.
Mir and K. S. Krishnan |
1214-1221 |
| Magnesium
deficiency and the cardiovascular system — K.
Shivakumar |
1221-1226 |
| RESEARCH
ARTICLES |
|
| Model
calculations of competing climatic effects of so2
and co2 in fossil fuel combustion — M. Rajeevan,
K. C. Sinha Ray and H. N. Srivastava |
1226-1231 |
| Magnetic
polarity stratigraphy of the Pinjor Formation
(Upper Siwalik) near Pinjore, Haryana — A. Ranga
Rao, A. C. Nanda, U. N. Sharma and M. S. Bhalla |
1231-1236 |
| RESEARCH
COMMUNICATIONS |
|
|
Bispectra
of a tropical coupled ocean-atmosphere system
— M. Biswas,
A.
Chandrasekar and B. N. Goswami
|
1236-1243 |
| Hepatoprotection
by Phyllanthus amarus and Phyllanthus debilis
in CCl4 induced liver dysfunction — R. T. Sane,
V. V. Kuber, Mary S. Chalissery and S. Menon |
1243-1246 |
| Increase
in size of the gland is not always associated
with increased secretion: An evidence from the
larval salivary glands of Drosophila —
N. Shivanna and S. R. Ramesh |
1246-1249 |
| Determinants
of fertility in rural Karnataka — R. L. Patil |
1250-1253 |
| BOOK
REVIEWS |
|
| The
Quantum theory of Motion, reviewed by N. Mukunda |
1254-1255 |
| Dirac
and Feynman - Pioneers in Quantum Mechanics, reviewed
by U. Balakrishnan |
1255-1256 |
| Renewable
Energy: Sources for Fuels and Electricity, reviewed
by C. L. Gupta |
1256-1259 |
| GENERALIA |
|
| The
'Indian scientist': Some reflections — Swadesh
M. Mahajan and E. C. G. Sudarshan |
1260-1266 |
