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July 10, 1995
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| In
this issue |
3 |
|
CORRESPONDENCE
|
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| Fancy
and facts in science and art — B. M. Prasanna |
5-6 |
| Distortion
of Indian degrees — S. C. Dutta Roy |
6 |
| NEWS |
|
| Amending
the Patents Act-An appeal from the National working
group on Patent laws |
7-8 |
| RESEARCH
NEWS |
|
| Binding
and release of polypeptides during groEl-mediated
folding: Its cellular significance? — Amitabha
Chaudhuri |
9-12 |
| COMMENTARY |
|
| Importance
of basic research in the context of global change
— R. Chidambaram |
12-14 |
| Census
of India's biodiversity: Tasks ahead — T. N. Khoshoo |
14-17 |
| SCIENTIFIC
CORRESPONDENCE |
|
|
Record
of opal phytoliths and associated palynofossils
from Indian crude oils —
C.
M. Misra and R. K. Saxena
|
17-20 |
| Massif-type
anorthosite near Ayialur, Dindigul, Anna District,
Tamil Nadu, South India — M. Arumugam and R.
Senthil Kumar |
21 |
| A
technique for axenic culture of Puccinia romagnoliana—A
potential bioherbicide for purple nutsedge —
J. S. Bedi, Ravinder Kaur and S. S. Sokhi |
21-23 |
|
Polyphenolic
components of flowers of Helichrysum bracteatum
— R. Sivakumar,
A.
G. Ramachandran Nair and K. P. Madhusudhanan
|
23-24 |
| GENERAL
ARTICLES |
|
| Reviving
experimental physics in the universities - The
IUC initiative — S. Ramaseshan |
25-29 |
| Modern
science and technology: The public perception —
V. Govindarajulu |
29-39 |
| Impact
of extreme events on coastal zones and small islands
in the context of climate change — S. M. Kulshrestha |
39-43 |
| RESEARCH
ARTICLES |
|
| New
pressure-induced phase changes in CdWO from Raman
spectroscopic and optical microscopic studies
— A. Jayaraman, S. Y. Wang and S. K. Sharma |
44-48 |
| Analysis
of a conformation-specific epitope of the alpha
subunit of human chorionic gonadotropin: Study
using monoclonal antibody probes — N. Venkatesh,
G. Nagaraja and G. S. Murthy |
48-56 |
| RESEARCH
COMMUNICATIONS |
|
|
On
minimum metallic diffusivity in disordered
conductors — N. Kumar and
A. M. Jayannavar |
57-58 |
| An
ab initio topographical investigation on the
molecular electrostatic potential of some chemical
mutagens — Apurba K. Bhattacharjee, Savita S.
Pundlik and Shridhar R. Gadre |
58-62 |
|
Record
of 1.66-Ga-old marine oxido-reducing conditions
from an unusual Sargipali
Pb-Cu
deposit (India): A preliminary appraisal through
petrogenesis — Rajesh K. Vishwakarma
|
62-66 |
| Characterization
of humic acids isolated from soils under mulberry
vegetation — R. Kar R. N. Dutta and S. K. Majumder |
67-68 |
| BOOK
REVIEWS |
|
| Contributions
to Operator Theory and its Applications — Rajendra
Bhatia |
69 |
| Science
in Society: Some Perspectives — R. Parthasarathy |
69-71 |
| Annual
Review of Cell Biology 1994 — Veena K. Parnaik |
71-72 |
| Environment
and Adaptive Biology of Plants — R. J. Ranjit
Daniels |
72 |
| PERSONAL
NEWS |
|
| A
pioneer in modern plasma physics, an obituary of Hannes
Alfven by Abhijit Sen and P. K. Kaw |
73-74 |
| Remembering
Hannes Alfven and his work — Chanchal Uberoi |
74-75 |
| HISTORICAL
COMMENTARY AND NOTES |
|
| Professor
S. N. Bose's contribution to quantum statistics-A
critical review — S. K. Das and S. Sengupta |
76-79 |
|
July 25, 1995
|
|
| In
this issue |
83-84 |
| CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| Patenting
biotechnologies — Suresh Chandran |
85-86 |
| Why
not platinum? — R. Shankar |
86 |
| The
Academy document: A perceptive appraisal of science
education in India — Atanu Kumar Pati |
87 |
| The
Academy document: A teacher's view — D. P. Khandelwal |
88-89 |
| OPINION |
|
| The
Indian Academy of Science document on science education
in universities: A criticism — V. Sitaramam |
89-94 |
| SCIENTIFIC
CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| Development
of cultured tomato anther to a fruit-like structure
accompanied by in vitro ripening — Pious
Thomas and J. B. Mythili |
94-95 |
|
Genotoxicity
of 'gudakhu', a tobacco preparation used in
Orissa — R. K. Das and
B.
C. Dash
|
96-97 |
|
Azolla
sp. from the Early Cretaceous of Cauvery basin,
South India — R. S. Patil,
M.
Rama Rao and C. G. K. Ramanujam
|
97-99 |
| Angioarchitecture
of the glomerulus of swamp catfish, Chaca
chaca (Chacidae, Siluriformes) — J. Ojha |
99-100 |
| GENERAL
ARTICLE |
|
| Location
and magnitude of the 1853 Nepal earthquake and
its relation to the rupture zones of contiguous
great Himalayan earthquakes — Roger Bilham |
101-128 |
| REVIEW
ARTICLES |
|
| How
fast is ultrafast chemistry? — Biman Bagchi |
129-140 |
| Membrane
current and potential change during nerotransmission
in smooth muscle — Rohit Manchanda |
140-150 |
| RESEARCH
ARTICLES |
|
| Flexicrystallography:
Curved surfaces in chemical structures — Alan
L. Mackay |
151-161 |
| Observed
and theorectical acceleration response spectra
in the Tehri region: Implications for seismic
hazard in the region — K. N. Khattri |
161-171 |
| RESEARCH
COMMUNICATIONS |
|
| Sr
isotopes in rivers of India and Pakistan: A reconnaissance
study — J. R. Trivedi, Kanchan Pande, S. Krishnaswami
and M. M. Sarin |
171-178 |
|
The
onon-induction of HSP70 in heat shcked Malpighian
tubules of Drosophila larvae is not
due to constitutive presence of HSP70 or HSC70
— Bhupendra N. Singh and
S.
C. Lakhotia
|
178-182 |
| Condon
analysis of cyanobacterial genes — S. Krishnaswamy
and S. Shanmugasundaram |
182-185 |
| Effects
of feeding mulberry (Morus sp.) leaves supplemented
with different nutrients to silkworm ( Bombyx
mori L.) — A. A. Sarker, M. R. Haque, M. A.
Rab and N. Absar |
185-188 |
| BOOK
REVIEWS |
|
| The
guide to the galaxy — V. Radhakrishnan |
189 |
| Crustal
Evolution of Singhbhum-North Orissa, Eastern India
— Dhruba Mukhopadhyay |
189-190 |
| Annual
Review of Phytopathology 1994 — Y. L. Nene |
191 |
| PERSONAL
NEWS |
|
| Professor
Willy Fowler (1911-1995) an obituary — J. V.
Narlikar |
192-193 |
| GENERALIA |
|
| Who
should look at stars — Ashok S. Ganguly |
193-196 |
| HISTORICAL
COMMENTARY AND NOTES |
|
| Scientific
tradition and other traditions — B. M. Udgaonkar |
197-206 |
| Correction |
|
|
Is
there dimorphism for style lengths in monoecious
figs? — Prarthana Kathuria,
K.
N. Ganeshaiah, R. Uma Shankar and R. Vasudeva
|
128 |
| Erratum |
|
| The
Great Bengal Cyclone of 1737-An enquiry in to the
legent — A. K. Sen Sarma |
128 |
|
August 10, 1995
|
|
| In
this issue |
211 |
| CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| Revitalization
of Indian science — S. C. Tiwari |
213-215 |
| NEWS |
|
| 1994
Kalinga Prize — New appointments |
215 |
| RESEARCH
NEWS |
|
| Oxide
elctronics — C. N. R. Rao |
216-217 |
| Noncentrosymmetric
monolayers from centrosymmetric molecules-A fresh
approach to materials for frequency doubling
— T. P. Radhakrishnan |
217-218 |
| Targeting
RNA in the cell — S. C. Lakhotia |
219-221 |
| OPINION |
|
| Declining
phase of quality research in our universities
— Samir Bhattacharya |
221-222 |
| COMMENTARY |
|
| Implications
of recent levellin observations for Tehri and
other high dams in the Himalaya — R. Chander
and V. K. Gahalaut |
223-226 |
| SCIENTIFIC
CORRESPONDENCE |
|
|
Storing
river runoff in the gulf of Khambhat: A critique
of the 'Kalpasar' comcept —
S.
K. Gupta and P. Sarma
|
227-228 |
| In
situ preserved Vertebraria axes in Ib
river Coalfield, Orissa — Kamal Jeet Singh and
Shaila Chandra |
228-229 |
| Role
of phospholipase C in the cryptobiotic cysts of the
fairy shrimp Streptocephalus dichotomus — G.
K. Shanmugasundaram and N. Munuswamy |
229-230 |
| GENERAL
ARTICLES |
|
| Reflecting
diffusions — S. Ramasubramanian |
231-236 |
| Structural,
clinical and transmission aspects of dioxins-Potential
environmental pollutants — C. Ganesh Kumar and
K. Jayaraj Rao |
237-240 |
| The
birth of the semiconductor superlattice — L. Esaki |
240-242 |
| RESEARCH
ACCOUNT |
|
| NMR
studies on the Myb-DNA system — P. K. Radha, Anup
Madan, L. C. Padhy and R. V. Hosur |
243-251 |
| RESEARCH
ARTICLE |
|
| Lithium
and tungsten mineralization in Sewarlya pluton,
south Delhi fold belt, Rajasthan: Evidences for
preferential host rock affinity — Subrata Banerji
and M. K. Pandit |
252-256 |
| RESEARCH
COMMUNICATIONS |
|
| Chemotheraphy
reduces human anti-filarial IgE response — m.
K. Beuria and Manoj. K. Das |
257-258 |
| Biochemical
basis for the differentiation of the two nonpoisonous
snakes Eryx conicus Schneider and Eryx
johnii Russell (family : Boidae) — P. Senthil
Kumar, A. P. Kamalakara Rao and T. M. Vatsala |
258-262 |
| Effect
of addtition of SO2 on solid-state fermentation
of apple pomace — V. K. Joshi, D. K. Sandhu and
S. Jaiswal |
263-264 |
| Analysis
and significance of female reciprocal call in
frogs — Debjani Roy, Bijoylakshmi Borah and Amarendra
Sarma |
265-270 |
| Yttrium,
niobium and zirconium-rich rhyolite dykes of Dhorio
Nes area, district Jamnagar, Gujarat, India —
P. B. Maithani, Rahul Banerjee, Navin Goyal,
S. Ramachandran and Rajendra Singh |
270-272 |
| Evaluation
of efficacy of bricks as geochemical monitor
of atmospheric heavy-metal pollution — Rohit
Shrivastav, Sanjay Kumar Mathur, Shobhit Shrivastav,
Sahab das, M. M. Shrivastav and Satya Prakash |
272-275 |
| BOOK
REVIEWS |
|
| Mahatama
Gandhi: An Apostle of Applied Human Ecology —
M. S. Swaminathan |
276-277 |
| Recent
Trends in Aerobiology, Allergy and Immunology —
S. V. Gangal |
277 |
| In
vitro culture and its applications in horticlulture
— R. S. Nadgauda |
277-278 |
| HISTORICAL
COMMENTARY AND NOTES |
|
| Two
undocumented historic earthquakes and additional information
on the major earthquake of 1 September 1803 from
north India — R. N. Athavale |
279-280 |
| ERRATUM |
|
| Testosterone
metabolism by rhesus monkey spermatozoa: Effects
of antifertility agents — M. Rajalakshmi, R.
S. Sharma, S. Mokkapati and P. C. Pal |
278 |
|
August 25, 1995
|
|
| In
this issue |
283-284 |
| NEWS |
|
| Chemical
Abstracts on CD-ROM — Subbiah Arunachalam |
285 |
|
Intensive
course on 'applications of remotely sensed
data on ocean colour' —
P.
S. Swathi
|
285 |
| International
Lithosphere Project — Ramesh P. Singh |
286 |
| CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| Necessity
of broadening science base in India — Mariappan
Periasamy |
287 |
| More
on the NSU — N. S. Narasimhan |
287 |
| Response
— P. N. Srivastava |
288 |
| SCIENTIFIC
CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| Comments
on 'what kind of a system is a human being? A
cybernetic system?' |
288-289 |
| Comments
on the review of the monograph The Scientific
methodology in the Light of Cybernetics — P.
R. Masani |
289-292 |
| Reply
by R. Narasimhan |
292-293 |
| Methane
emission from rice paddies: Need for a downward
revision of global estimate — J. S. Singh and
Smita Singh |
293-295 |
| Nomenclature
of super heavy elements — S. K. Arya and S. S.
Vasan |
295 |
| SPECIAL
SECTION: ANIMAL WELFARE |
|
| Whose
life is it anyway? A review of some ideas on the
issue of animal rights — Anindya Sinha |
296-301 |
| On
the use of animals in research and education —
Jane Goodall |
301-303 |
| Human-animal
interactions — N. K. Waran |
303-305 |
| Conflicts
or coexistence ? — Madhusudan Katti |
305-307 |
| Environmental
design — N. K. Waran |
308-310 |
| Stereotypies
in the stabled horse: Causes, treatments and
prevention — L. Winskill, N. K. Waran, C. Channing
and R. Young |
310-316 |
| GENERAL
ARTICLE |
|
| Seamless
chemical engineering science: The emerging paradigm
— R. A. Mashelkar |
317-335 |
| REVIEW
ARTICLE |
|
| The
neurotransmitter receptor triad: Nicotinic acetylcholine
receptor, aminobutyric acid receptor and inhibitory
glycine receptor — P. R. Satish and A. S. Balasubramanian |
336-342 |
| RESEARCH
ARTICLES |
|
| On
the usefulness of quantum chemical bond order as a
local reaction path indicator: The case study
of a model carbonyl addition reaction — D. K.
Maity, D. Majumdar and S. P. Bhattacharyya |
343-351 |
| High-temperature
tolerance of Petunai and Nicotiana pollen — G.
U. Rao, K. R. Shivanna and V. K. Sawhney |
351-355 |
| RESEARCH
COMMUNICATIONS |
|
| Enhanced
giant magnetoresistance in magnetic/nonmagnetic
LaMno3 oxide multilayers — S. Sundar Manoharan,
K. M. Satyalakshmi, V. Prasad, S. V. Suibramanyam
and M. S. Hegde |
356-358 |
| Physiobiochemical
aspects of development of hardseededness in Albizia
lebbek — R. C. Uniyal and A. R. Nautiyal |
358-366 |
| Fractal
description of seismicity of India and inferences
regarding earthquake hazard — K. N. Khattri |
|
| BOOK
REVIEWS |
|
| Beyond
the Quantum Paradox — Haque Ansari |
367-368 |
| The
action principle in physics — Deepak Dhar |
368-369 |
| Laboratory
Manual of Organic chemistry — R. Balaji Rao |
369-370 |
| Perspectives
in nematode physiology and biochemistry — M.
Shamin jairajpuri |
370 |
| Ocean
Technology-Perspectives — D. Srinivasan |
370-371 |
| Botany
in India: history and progress — D. D. Awasthi |
371-372 |
| PERSONAL
NEWS |
|
| Prof.
T. R. Govindachari-An appreciation — K. Nagarajan |
373-374 |
| HISTORICAL
COMMENTARY AND NOTES |
|
| Eugene
paul wigner—A tribute — N. Mukunda |
375-385 |
|
September 10, 1995
|
|
| In
this issue |
391 |
| NEWS |
|
| Peer
review under scrutiny — C. C. Kartha |
393-395 |
| CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| What
NSU report leaves unanswered! — Y. P. Joshi |
395 |
| Proposal
for a National Science School — Oomen Abraham |
396 |
| SCIENTIFIC
CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| The
ultimate constituents of matter — K. Vasudeva Rao:
Reply by K. V. L. Sarma |
397 |
| Record
of Upper Gondwana flora from Bairam-Belkher area
of district Amravati, Maharashtra and district
Betul, Madhya Pradesh — A. K. Srivastava, P.
D. Banubakode V. M. Kale and G. V. Patil |
397-400 |
| First
report of the Late Permian sporangiate fructification
Nesowalesia Pant from India — Shaila Chandra
and Kamal Jeet Singh |
400-401 |
| COMMENTARY |
|
| Whither
microbiology? — Ramesh Maheshwari |
401-406 |
| Finding
patterns in nature's maze: An endless quest — K.
Chandrashekara |
406-409 |
| GENERAL
ARTICLES |
|
| INSAT
Master Control Facility: An insight — S. Rangarajan |
410-415 |
| Vegetarianism:
A nutritional appraisal — K. T. Achaya |
415-419 |
| Cursive
English script recognition-A Knowledge based system
— P. V. S. Rao and T. M. Ajitha |
420-425 |
| REVIEW
ARTICLE |
|
| Wave-particle
duality and Bhor's complementarity principle
in quantum mechanics — D. Sen, A. N. Basu and
S. Sengupta |
426-433 |
| RESEARCH
ARTICLE |
|
|
Turns
in protein structures — D. V. Nataraj, N.
Srinivasan, R. Sowdhamini and
C. Ramakrishnan |
434-447 |
| RESEARCH
COMMUNICATIONS |
|
| Task
activation of the human brain studied in real time
by functional magnetic resonance imaging — N.
R. Jagannathan and P. Raghunathan |
448-451 |
| Radon
precursory signals of Chamba earthquake — H. S.
Virik, Vivek Walia and Anand K. Sharma |
452-454 |
| Palaeogeographic
evolution fo the akkulam lake and its geotechnical
implications in the urban development of Thiruvananthapuram
— K. Reghunadh, K. Sajan and S. Mohan Kumar |
454-457 |
| Characterizing
intergenric regenerants of protoplast fusion
between Hyoscyamys muticus (Egyptian henbane)
and Atropa belladonna ( Indian sagangur)
— C. C. Giri and P. S. Ahuja |
458-461 |
|
Mechanism
of wound healing induced by chitosan in streptozotocin
diabetic rats —
A.
Naseema, Pius S. Padayatti and C. S. Paulose
|
461-464 |
|
Permeability
of cuticle Helicoverpa armigera (Hubner)
larvae to deltamethrin —
A.
P. Padma Kumar, A. Phokela and K. N. Mehrotra
|
464-466 |
| BOOK
REVIEWS |
|
| Quark
and Jaguar — A. N. Mitra |
467-470 |
| Functional
Dynamics of Phytophagous Insects — K. Chandrashekara
and Raghavendra Gadagkar |
470-471 |
| The
state of food and agriculture 1993 and 1994 — M.
S. Swaminathan |
471-472 |
| PERSONAL
NEWS |
|
| A
visionary and courageous scientist an obituary of Jonas
Salk by G. P. Talwar |
473-474 |
| A
doyen of Indian physicists an obituary of S. D. Chatterjee
by D. N. Bose |
474-475 |
| HISTORICAL
COMMENTARY AND NOTES |
|
| A
probe into the Calcutta earthquake of 1737 — Pitta
Govinda Rao |
476-477 |
|
September 25, 1995
|
|
| In
this issue |
483 |
| NEWS |
|
| ISI's
electronic library — Subbiah Arunachalam |
485 |
| Total
solar eclipse-October 1995 — J. C. Bhattacharyya |
486-488 |
| 10th
Himalaya-Karakoram-Tibet Workshop, Switzerland, 1995-Conference
report — Rasoul B. Sorkhabi |
489-490 |
| CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| A
good beginning — J. S. Virdi |
491 |
| RESEARCH
NEWS |
|
| Does
low serum cholesterol increase suicide and aggressive
behaviour? — Amar Bavle |
491-492 |
| Bose-Einstein
condensation in a dilute atomic vapour — N. Kumar |
492-493 |
| SCIENTIFIC
CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| 'Swiss'
strain of rats? — N. Giridharan |
493 |
| Regeneration
of Aggle marmelos Corr. plants in vitro
from callus cultures of embryonic tissues — R.
Islam, M. Hossain, M. R. Karim and O. I. Joarder |
494-495 |
|
In
vitro axillary bud break and multiple
shoot production in Acacia auriculiformis
by tissue culture technique — P. Chandrasekhara
Reddy, Veeranagouda Patil,
T.
G. Prasad, K. Padma and M. Udayakumar
|
495-496 |
| Effect
of feotal exposure to low-dose X-rays on the postnatla
growth of mouse — K. S. Bisht and P. Uma Devi |
496-498 |
| GENERAL
ARTICLES |
|
| The
quest for qunatum gravity — Gary K. Au |
499-518 |
| Faint
star counts and the Milky Way structure — Devendra
Ojha |
518-521 |
| REVIEW
ARTICLE |
|
| A
unique and remarkable binary pulsar — Simon Johnston |
521-526 |
| RESEARCH
COMMUNICATIONS |
|
| A
high-precision technique using X-ray reflectivity for
the measurement of surface and interface roughness
— P. V. Satyam, D. Bahr, S. K. Ghose, G. Kuri,
B. Sundaravel, B. Rout and B. N. Dev |
526-529 |
| Single-ion
activities by a solid ion transmitter bridge
and a reference electrode without liquid junction
— S. Parthasarathy and K. Ramya |
529-533 |
| Fall
of liquid drops through a viscious medium: A fresh
expression for drag force by the method of dimensions
— G. J. Srinivasan and P. Satyanarayana |
534-537 |
| Antibody
response to a potentially protective antigen in
human filariasis — Madhusmita bal and Manoj K.
Das |
538-540 |
| Visual
demonstration fo in vivo acid phosphatase activity
of mycorrhizal fungi — J. C. Tarafdar |
541-543 |
| In
vitro flowering and pod formation in cauliflower
— Vandana A. Kumar, Atul Kumar and Jitendra
Kumar |
543-545 |
| Testosterone
biosynthesis in triploid sterile male tilapia
— R. Koteeswaran, S. G. Sheela and T. J. Pandian |
545-547 |
| BOOK
REVIEWS |
|
| Ethanobotany
and the search for new drugs — Subbiah Arunachalam |
548-549 |
| Environmental
health perspective: Supplemetns: Molecular Mechanisms
of Metal Toxicity and Carcinogenicity — Prasanta
Kumar Ray |
549-550 |
| Annual
Review of Biochemistry 1994 — K. Muniyappa |
550-551 |
| PERSONAL
NEWS |
|
| Joseph
Needham (1900-1995) an obituary by A. Rahman |
552-553 |
| Subrahmanyan
Chandrasekhar, an obituary by R. Nityananda |
554-556 |
| HISTORICAL
COMMENTARY AND NOTES |
|
| On
Ramanujan's bust — S. Chandrasekhar |
557-558 |
|
October 10, 1995
|
|
| In
this issue |
563 |
| CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| Assessment
of research impact of engineering institutions
— K. L. Chopra |
565-566 |
| NEWS |
|
| Report
on the 'International conference on symmetry methods
in physics' (ICSMP-95) — K. Srinivasa Rao and
A. Khare |
566-568 |
| SCIENTIFIC
CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| Traditional
ecological knowledge and sustainable use of natural
resources — R. J. Ranjit Daniels and Jyashree
Vencatesan |
569-570 |
| Endophytes
- A crucial issue — K. R. Sridhar and N. S. Raviraja |
570-571 |
| GENERAL
ARTICLES |
|
| Accelerators
-Achivements and future projections — R. Chidambaram
and S. Kailas |
572-577 |
| Recent
fertility trends and prospects in India — K. Srinivasan |
577-586 |
| REVIEW
ARTICLE |
|
| Adaptive
features of the predatorty ladybird beetles in
uncertain and competitive habitats — B. K. Agarwala
and S. Bhattacharya |
587-591 |
| RESEARCH
ARTICLES |
|
| Radioactivity
aspects of Indian coals — M. P. Rajan, M. A.
R. Iyengar and T. V. Ramachandran |
592-596 |
| Composition
and enzyme activities in Aspergillus flavipes
grown on crude petroleum oil and glucose — J.
Savitha and C. V. Subramanian |
596-600 |
| RESEARCH
COMMUNICATIONS |
|
| Liv.52
pretreatment inhibits the radiation-induced lipid
peroxidation in mouse liver — N. G. Ganapathi
and Ganesh Chandara Jagetia |
601-604 |
| An
onshore gas well blow-out and its impact observations
using satellite data — K. V. S. Badarinath, A.
T. Jeyaseelan, C. S. Jha, Biswadip Gharai and
C. B. S. Dutt |
604-607 |
| Oxygen
linkages in neodymium heptamolybdate single crystals-An
XPS study — Sushma Bhat, P. N. Kotru and K. S.
Raju |
607-610 |
| Tectonic
evolution of the Central Gujarat plain, western
India — D. M. Maurya, L. S. Chamyal and S. S.
Merh |
610-613 |
| Occurrence
and petrogenesis of Loda Pahar trondhjemitic
gneiss from Bundelkhand craton, Central India:
Remnant of an early curst — Kewal K. Sharma and
Abdul Rahman |
613-617 |
| Hypothalamic
glutamyl transpeptidase activity in rats following
morphine and naloxone treatment — P. Sreenivasan
and E. Vijayan |
617-619 |
| Inhibition
of biogas production by isobutyric and isovaleric
acids and their precursors — M. K. Sharma and
M. M. Simlot |
619-621 |
| Production
of wheat haploids through embryorescue from wheat
X maize crosses — N. S. Bains, Jaswinder Singh,
Ravi and S. S. Gosal |
621-623 |
| BOOK
REVIEWS |
|
| Molecular
genetics of Bacterial pathogenesis — J. S. Virdi |
624-625 |
| Life
in Moving Fluids — K. S. Gandhi |
625-626 |
| Annual
Review of Neurosciences 1995 — Gaiti Hasan |
626-627 |
| Textbook
of Molecular Biology — S. C. Lakhotia |
627-628 |
| CORRECTIONS |
|
| Bose-Einstein
condensation in a dilute atomic vapour — N. Kumar |
628 |
| Evaluation
of efficacy of bricks as geochemical monitor
of atmospheric heavy metal pollution — Rohit
Shrivastav, Sanjay Kumar Mathur, Shobhit Shrivastav,
M. M. Shrivastav, Sahab Das and Satya Prakash |
628 |
|
October 25, 1995
|
|
| In
this issue |
631 |
| CORRESPONDENCE |
|
|
Ph
D students, research supervisors and university
research: Some observations —
S.
John
|
633-634 |
| SCIENTIFIC
CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| Recent
finds of ancient gold mining sites in south Uttar
Pradesh — R. V. Vyas, H. R. Patel, B. A. Patel,
and D. J. Patel |
634-635 |
| Parasitism
of muscardine fungi on Meloidogyne incognita
eggs — G. N. Dwivedi, R. C. Tyagi, A. K. Tripathi
and M. L. Yadav |
635-636 |
| COMMENTARY |
|
| Intellectual
property rights and biological resources: Specifying
geographical origins and prior knowledge of uses
— Madhav gadgil and Preston Devasia |
637-639 |
| GENERAL
ARTICLE |
|
| Developments
and trends in inductively coupled plasma mass
spectrometry and its influence on the recent
advances in trace element analysis — V. Balaram |
640-649 |
| Climate
change and agricultrue-An Indian perspective —
Sulochana Gadgil |
649-659 |
| REVIEW
ARTICLES |
|
| Opioid
peptides in invertebrates: Localization, distribution
and possible functional roles — R. Nagabhushanam,
R. Sarojini, P. S. Reddy, M. Devi and M. Fingerman |
659-671 |
| Carbon
dioxide and nitrous oxide in the north Indian Ocean
— Dileep Kumar, S. W. A. Naqvi, D. A. Jayakumar,
M. D. George, P. V. Narvekar and S. N. De Souza |
672-678 |
| RESEARCH
ARTICLES |
|
| Internal
waves- A novel measurement technique — Rao Tatvarti,
P. N. Ananth, K. Rajsree, V. Vidyalal, P. Radhakrishanan,
V. P. N. Nampoori and C. P. G. Vallabhan |
678-684 |
| Habitat
suitability analysis of Nemorhaedus goral-A remote
sensing and geographic infrmation system approach
— P. S. Roy, Shirish A. Ravan, N. Rajadnya, K.
K. Das, Abhineet Jain and Sarnam Singh |
685-691 |
| RESEARCH
COMMUNICATIONS |
|
| Carbon
and oxygen isotopic records of planktonic and benthic
foraminifera from a new deep-sea core of the
norheast Indian Ocean — S. Masood Ahmad |
691-695 |
| Resistance
to Bacillus sphaericus in culex quinquefasciatus
say 1823 — T. Adak, P. K. Mittal, K. Raghavendra,
Sarala K. Subbarao, M. A. Ansari and V. P. Sharma |
695-698 |
| Lead
impairs hepatic type 1-5'-monodeiodinase activity
and thyroid functions in cockerels — S. S. Chaurasia,
P. Gupta, A. Kar and P. K. Maiti |
698-700 |
| BOOK
REVIEWS |
|
| Speaking
Minds: Interviews with twenty eminent cognitive
scientists — R. Narasimhan |
701-702 |
| Development
of Ideas in Physics — Arvind Kumar |
702 |
| A
Modern Introduction to Ancient Indian Mathematics Indian
Mathematics and Astronomy — C. S. Yogananda |
702-703 |
| Leks
— R. J. Ranjit Daniels |
703-704 |
| HISTORICAL
COMMENTARY AND NOTES |
|
| Samanta
Chandra Sekhar: Life and work — P. C. Naik and
L. Satpathy |
705-710 |
|
November 10, 1995
|
|
| In
this issue |
715 |
| CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| Microbiology
in India — P. Tauro |
717 |
| Feast
of the Gods? — R. R. Upadhyay |
717 |
| NEWS |
|
| Nobel
Peace Prize for 1995 to Joseph Rotblat and the Pugwash
Conferences on Science and World Affairs |
717 |
| SCIENTIFIC
CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| A
note on the occurrence of Columbite-Tantalite bearing
pegmatite at Limboi, District Sabarkantha, Gujarat
— N. Muralikrishna, K. K. Pandey, P. K. Shrivastava,
S. Ramachandran and Rajendra Singh |
718-719 |
| RESEARCH
NEWS |
|
| Discovery
of the new radiation belt of the earth — Sukumar
Biswas |
719-720 |
| GENERAL
ARTICLES |
|
| Gateways
to the galaxy: New findings in cosmic rays from
Spacelab-3-experiment 'Anuradha'— Sukumar Biswas
and Jitendra Nath Goswami |
721-731 |
| REVIEW
ARTICLES |
|
| Cosmic
gamma ray burst-Recent developments and observations
from SROSS satellites — K. Kasturirangan, V.
N. Padmini, N. L. Prasad and U. R. Rao |
732-739 |
| Quantum
Monte Carlo techniques: Chemical applications —
Charusita Chakravarty |
739-746 |
| Vitamin
C: A potential saviour against free radical-induced
oxidative damge — Indu B. Chatterjee, Chinmay
K. Mukhopadhyay and Mrinal K. Ghosh |
747-751 |
| RESEARCH
ARTICLE |
|
| Effect
of transient increase of green house gases and sulphate
aerosols on monsoon climate — M. Lal, U. Cubasch,
R. Voss and J. Waszkewitz |
752-763 |
| RESEARCH
COMMUNICATIONS |
|
| Surinamite
(Be, B, Ga) from cordierite gneisses of eastern
ghat mobile belt, India — P. V. Ramesh Kumar,
K. K. V. S. Raju and B. S. Ganga Rao |
763-767 |
| Evidence
of garnet to spinel peridotite transition in the
harzburgites of Indus ophiolite belt: An indication
for their mantle origin — N. R. Kamalkar, A.
G. Dessai, R. A. Duraiswami and M. Leblanc |
767-770 |
| Bilateral
outgrowths on thorax of sepia eye colour mutants
in Drosophila bipectinata — B. N. Singh, Seema
Sisodia and Rakhee Banerjee |
771-772 |
| A
new empirical relation for strong seismic ground motion
for the Himalayan region — Ashutosh Aman, Umesh
K. Singh and Ramesh P. Singh |
772-777 |
| Involvement
of calcium in brassinolide and auxin-induced
cell elongation — Anitha Naren, T. G. Prasad,
V. R. Sashidhar and M. Udaya Kumar |
777-780 |
| BOOK
REVIEW |
|
| Uttarkashi
Earthquake — Ramesh Chander |
781-782 |
| GENERALIA |
|
| In
the pursuit of science; The 'subjective' element —
A. N. Mitra |
783-787 |
|
November 25, 1995
|
|
| In
this issue |
791 |
| NEWS |
|
| Pioneers
of ozone study bag chemistry Nobel — S. Parthiban |
793-797 |
| The
1995 Nobel Prize in Medicine: A tribute to the power
of formal genetics — S. C. Lakhotia |
797-801 |
| CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| If
education is important, so must be the teachers! |
801 |
| India's
scientific community: A cultural crisis? — A. N.
Mitra |
802-808 |
| SCIENTIFIC
CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| Ethephon
enhances karaya gum yield and wound healing response:
A preliminary report — M. N. B. Nair, K. R. Shivanna
and H. Y. Mohan Ram |
809-810 |
| Occurrence
of Botryococcus from the Lower Cretaceous rocks
of Cauvery Basin, Tamil Nadu — R. S. Patil, M.
Rama Rao, M. N. Gururaja, P. Kumaraguru and B.
Kanishkan |
810-811 |
| Enechelon
faults along West Coast of India and their geological
significance — Sm. Ramasamay |
811-814 |
| Interpretation
of nucleotide protein sequence data: Some pitfalls
— Chitra Dutta and Jyotirmoy Das |
814-815 |
| GENERAL
ARTICLE |
|
| Fifty
years of the exact solution of the two-dimentsional
Ising model by Onsager — Somendra M. Battacharjee
and Avinash Khare |
816-821 |
| SPECIAL
SECTION: AIDS IN ASIA |
|
| Introduction
— David E. Bloom |
822 |
| Biomedical
aspects of HIV and AIDS — John M. Dwyer |
823-827 |
| Estimation
and projection of HIV infection and AIDS cases
— James Chin |
828-832 |
| The
problem of HIV and AIDS in India — Shiv Lal and
B. B. Thakur |
833-834 |
| The
HIV and AIDS epidemic in the Western Pacific —
Rabin M. Sarda and George Petersen |
835-839 |
| Heterosexual
risk behaviour in Asia: The implications for
HIV/AIDS — Tim Brown and Werasit Sittitrai |
840-848 |
| The
economics of the AIDS epidemic: Lessons from the United
States — Sherrry Glied |
849-856 |
| Making
the blood supply safe from HIV: The Sri Lankan experience
— Nandrani S. De Zoysa |
857-860 |
| Ethical
issues posed by HIV testing and screening — Ronald
Bayer |
861-864 |
| The
AIDS epidemic and economic policy analysis — David
E. Bloom and Ajay Mahal |
865-869 |
| Contributors
to the Special Section |
870 |
| RESEARCH
COMMUNICATIONS |
|
|
Standard
potential of hydrogen electrode — S. Parthasarathy,
K. Ramya and
V.
K. Venkatesan
|
871-874 |
| Selective
denaturation of cytochrome oxidase by ionic surfactants:
Depletion of both the heme a residues from the
enzyme — Tapan Kanti Das and Shyamalava Mazumdar |
874-876 |
| Evaluation
of haemorheological, biochemical and microcirculatory
parameters in young smokers — Ranjeet S. Ajmani,
R. R. Puniyani and Varjeet S. Khanuja |
877-880 |
| BOOK
REVIEWS |
|
| Law,
Ethics and HIV — N. R. Madhava Menon |
881-882 |
| The
Collected Papers of Albert Einstein-Volume 5-The Swiss
Years: Correspondence, 1902-1914 — N. Mukunda |
882-883 |
|
December 10, 1995
|
|
| In
this issue |
891 |
| NEWS |
|
| Hemp
in the manufacture of paper — S. Ramaseshan |
893 |
| CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| Nurturing
young scientists — Umesh R. Desai |
893-894 |
| Early
research in India on primate tool using — Srabani
Sen and R. L. Brahmachary |
895 |
| More
on microbiology — M. K. Chandrashekaran |
895 |
| Karnatak
music — C. S. Unnikrishnan, J. R. Lakshmana Rao,
reply by Raja Ramanna |
896-897 |
| SCIENTIFIC
CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| Too
many hepatoprotective drugs and a little hepatoprotection
— A. Subramoniam; reply by R. T. Sane |
898-899 |
| Cryopreservation
of epididymal spermatozoa — N. Pandiyan, Radha
Pandiyan, Jyotsna Malthai, P. S. R. Moorthy and
B. Varalakshmi |
899-900 |
| Cytokine
antagonism by active vaccination — Ruma Mukherjee
and U. C. Chaturvedi |
900-902 |
| RESEARCH
NEWS |
|
| Driven
up the tree: Why do wild dogs harass leopards ?
— Anindya Sinha |
903 |
| GENERAL
ARTICLES |
|
| Some
remarks on random numbers — K. R. Parthasarathy |
904-906 |
| Biodiversity
conservation information network: A concept plan
— C. P. Geevan |
906-914 |
| Earth's
core — S. K. Saxena |
914-917 |
| RESEARCH
ARTICLE |
|
| Effect
of micellar and microemulsion media on the oxidation
of iodide by peroxodisulphate reactions — J.
Santhanalakshmi and R. Kalaivani |
918-924 |
| RESEARCH
COMMUNICATIONS |
|
| Some
FRW models with constant active gravitational mass
— Abdussattar and R. G. Vishwakarma |
924-925 |
| Evaluation
of intra-specific variability in Avicennia marina
Forsk. using RAPD markers — P. Balakrishna |
926-929 |
| Carbon
and oxygen isotope trends in late Precambrian-Cambrian
carbonates from the Lesser Himalaya, India —
B. Kumar and V. C. Tewari |
929-931 |
| Hypoglycaemic
and antihyperglycaemic effects of Aegle marmelos
leaves in rabbits — V. V. Rao, S. K. Dwivedi,
D. Swarup and S. R. Sharma |
932-933 |
| Do
dholes (Cuon alpinus) live in response
to competition with or predation by large cats
? — Arun B. Venkataraman |
934-936 |
| Estimates
of global methane production from rice paddies
based on substrate requirement — Sabyasachi Ghosh,
M. C. Jain and Suresh K. Sinha |
937-939 |
| Bacillus
thuringiensis, abicontrol agent for major tea
pests — N. Unnamalai and Vaithilingam Sekar |
939-940 |
| Morphology
of zircons in massive and incipient charnockites
of southern Kerala: Their bearing on the origin
— G. R. Ravindra Kumar and Narayanaswamy |
941-944 |
| BOOK
REVIEWS |
|
| Annual
Review of Immunology 1995 — Satyajit Rath |
945-946 |
| Annual
Review of Medicine 1995 — B. M. Hegde |
946 |
| Tropical
Diseases: Molecular Biology and Control strategies
— K. Das |
946-948 |
|
December 25, 1995
|
|
| In
this issue |
955 |
| CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| A
crisis in engineering education — S. C. Dutta Roy |
957 |
| Vitamin
C: A vital nutrient — C. S. Kavitha |
957 |
| NSU,
Academy document and science education: Reflections
and an operation model — A. Bhaskara Rao and
V. K. Garg |
958 |
| NEWS |
|
| Nobel
leptons — K. V. L. Sarma |
959-962 |
| Rice
Biotechnology-Report on the Third International rice
genetics symposium october 16-20, 1995, Manila,
Philippines — C. R. Bhatia |
963-964 |
| RESEARCH
NEWS |
|
| Designer
molecules: A chromogenic sensor of creatinine
— Uday Maitra |
964-965 |
| Pathogenesis:
Generating new paths in understanding bacterial
virulence — Kakoli Mukhopadhyay |
965-967 |
| COMMENTARY |
|
| Are
herbaria redundant ? — R. R. Rao |
968-969 |
| SCIENTIFIC
CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| The
academy fellowship problem — J. V. Narlikar |
969-970 |
| Supplemenary
comments on endemic rare and threatened flowering
plants of South India — M. P. Nayar, R. J. Ranjit
Daniels, N. Anil Kumar and M. Jayanthi |
971 |
| A
fast growing cell line of Taxus baccata L. as
a potential source of taxol precursor — Sumita
Jha and Timir B. Jha |
971-973 |
| GENERAL
ARTICLES |
|
| Solar
photovoltaic energy products from semiconductor physics
to advanced energy technology — Ashok Parthasarathi,
D. Madhavan and V. K. Kaul |
974-985 |
| Mushrooms:
Beauty, diversity, relevance — C. V. Subramanian |
986-998 |
| RESEARCH
ARTICLE |
|
| Role
of fluorescence microscopy in the assessment of Indian
Gondwana coals — Bhagwan D. Singh |
998-1004 |
| RESEARCH
COMMUNICATIONS |
|
| Reduced
uptake of thymidine by PHA-responsive human peripheral
blood lumphocytes as a function of storage —
Awadhesh N. Jha |
1005-1008 |
| 3.55
Ga old zircon from singhbhum-Orissa Iron Ore Craton,
eastern India — J. N. Goswami, S. Mishra, M.
Wiedenbeck, S. L. Ray and A. K. Saha |
1008-1012 |
| Significane
of the terminal Cretaceous calcareous nannofossil
marker Micula prinsii at the Cretaceous-Tertiary
boundary in the Um sohryngkew section, Meghalaya,
India — Rahul Garg and K. P. Jain |
1012-1017 |
| Origin
and significance of high grade phosphorite in a
sediment core from the continental slope off
Goa, India — V. Purnachandra Rao, Ch. M. Rao,
M. Thamban, R. Natarajan and B. R. Rao |
1017-1022 |
| Palynofloral
analysis of sections from Bharathi and Kundara
clay mines of Kerala Basin: Palaeoecological
and tectonic perspective — K. P. N. Kumaran,
K. Soman, C. V. Kamble and Ancy Joseph |
1023-1027 |
| Bioremediation
of toxic metal ions from polluted lake waters
and industrial effluents by fungal biosorbent
— Md. Naseem Akthar and P. Maruthi Mohan |
1028-1030 |
| BOOK
REVIEWS |
|
| Deep
continental structure of India — Ram S. Sharma |
1031 |
| Rice
Tungro — V. Muniyappa |
1031-1032 |
| Bacterial
pathogenesis of plants and animals: Molecular
and cellular mechanisms — J. S. Virdi |
1032-1033 |
| ERRATUM |
|
| Pioneers
of ozone study bag chemistry Nobel — S. Parthiban |
1033 |
