|
January 10, 1996
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| In this issue |
3-4 |
| EDITORIAL |
|
| Coping with liberalization |
5-6 |
| CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| Top-scorers need not be the best
brains — C. K. John |
7 |
| Science in India—Vision and reality
— B. R. Sant |
8 |
| University science education: Need
for a national agenda — Rana Pratap Singh |
8-9 |
| Intellectual property rights and
biological resources — Ashish kothari; reply
by Madhav Gadgil and Preston Devasia |
9-10 |
| NEWS |
|
| Report on 'Global analysis, interpretation
and modelling (GAIM) science conference' — C.
P. Geevan |
10-11 |
| COMMENTARY |
|
| India's manganese nodule mine site
in the Central Indian Ocean — V. K. Banakar |
11-13 |
| RESEARCH NEWS |
|
| Synthesis of cyclotrigermenes-Carbon
not alone in forming a three membered unsaturated
ring — S. S. Krishnamurthy |
13-14 |
| SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE
|
|
| 'Albino' mutation in rice bacterial
blight pathogen — J. C. Durgapal |
15 |
| Strain improvement of hydrocarbonoclastic
bacterial isolates from mangals of Andaman —
B. R. Shome, Rajeswari Shome and A. K. Bandyopadhyay |
15-18 |
| A low-cost culture vessel for in
vitro culture of plants — P. Sathiyamoorthy
and S. Shanmugasundaram |
18-19 |
| Comments on 'A critical appraisal
of the type locality of a rare palm from Kumaon
Himalaya, India' — A. R. Kulkarni and B. S.
Pawar; reply by T. S. Rana |
19-20 |
| GENERAL ARTICLES |
|
|
Plutonium
and thorium in the Indian nuclear programme
— R. Chidambaram and
C.
Ganguly
|
21-35 |
| Documenting diversity: An experiment
— Madhav Gadgil |
36-44 |
| REVIEW ARTICLE |
|
| Microsatellites in plants: A new
class of molecular markers — P. K. Gupta, H.
S. Balyan, P. C. Sharma and B. Ramesh |
45-54 |
| RESEARCH ARTICLES |
|
|
A
novel method for mapping assembled epitopes
in batches: Identification of three epitopes
at the receptor binding region of human chorionic
gonadotropin —G.
S. Murty and N. Venkatesh
|
55-62 |
| Genome homologies among geminiviruses
infecting Vigna, cassava, Acalypha,
Croton and Vernonia — R. Vanitha Rani,
A. S. Karthikeyan, S. Anuradha and K. Veluthambi |
63-69 |
| RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS |
|
| Partially oxidized ferrocenyl complexes
for nonlinear optics — K. Alagesan, Paresh Chandra
Ray, Puspendu Kumar Das and Ashoka G. Samuelson |
69-71 |
| Occurrence of fluoride in the groundwaters
and its impact in Peddavankahalla basin, Bellary
District, Karnataka—A preliminary study — B.
K. Wodeyar and G. Sreenivasan |
71-74 |
| Australasian microtektites from
the Central Indian Basin: Implications for ejecta
distribution patterns — M. Shyam Prasad and M.
Sudhakar |
74-77 |
| An efficient method of isolating
mitochondrial and chloroplast DNA from higher
plants — Weiqi Li, D. Z. Skinner and George H.
Liang |
78-80 |
| Antitumour activity of ammoranin
from Amoora rohituka stem bark — T. Rabi |
80-81
|
| Flowering process in generative
buds of woody perennials: An experimental approach
— Rajiv Angrish and K. K. Dhir |
81-84 |
| Induction of hairy roots in tea
(Camellia sinensis L.) using Agrobacterium
rhizognes — M. Zehra, S. Banerjee, A. K. Mathur
and A. K. Kukreja |
84-86 |
| A study on mechanism of phyllody
disease resistance in Sesamum alatum Thonn —
M. Parnai, K. N. Singh, S. R. Sree Rangasamy
and R. S. Ramalingam |
86-89 |
| BOOK REVIEWS |
|
| Infinity and Mind — A. N. Mitra |
90-91 |
| Conversations on Mind, Matter and
Mathematics — N. Mukunda |
91-92 |
| Annual Review of Physiology 1995
—S. K. Sikdar |
92-94 |
| India and Antarctica during the
Precambrian — M. Ramakrishnan |
94 |
| PERSONAL NEWS |
|
| A profile of Chandra — G. Srinivasan |
95-101 |
| S. Chandrasekar: A personal portrait
— Abhay Ashtekar |
102-103 |
| HISTORICAL COMMENTARY AND NOTES |
|
| S. Chandrasekhar and C. V. Raman—Some
letters — S. Ramaseshan |
104-107 |
|
January 25, 1996
|
|
| In this issue |
111 |
| CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| Total solar eclipse of 24 October
1995 — Mukund A. Kulkarni |
113 |
| Science in India — Oommen Abraham |
113-114 |
| An alternative view to global vision
of Indian R & D — S. C. Tiwari |
114-115 |
| RESEARCH NEWS |
|
| Evidence for Avian mafia! — Raghavendra
Gadagkar and Miling Kolatkar |
115-117 |
| COMMENTARY |
|
| On the threshold of 1996-Molecular
biology comes of age in India, will Biotechnology
follow? — V. Ramalingaswami |
118 |
| SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE
|
|
| Nitrogen fixation at night in nature
— N. Anand and V. S. R. Murugesan |
119-120 |
| Occurrence of Actinoporella cretacica
Raineri, an echinoderm from the Bagh beds, Dhar
area, Central India — B. N. Jha, S. Kumar and
P. K. Maithy |
120-122 |
| Comments on 'Single-ion activities
by a solid ion transmitter bridge and a reference
electrode without liquid junction' — K. Vijayamohanan;
Response by S. Parthasarathy and K. Ramya |
122-124 |
| GENERAL ARTICLES |
|
| On the work of P-L. Lions — M.
Vanninathan |
125-135 |
| Viewing solar mysteries from space
— Bhola N. Dwivedi |
135-142 |
| REVIEW ARTICLE |
|
| Understanding inverse correlation
between the levels of class I Major histocompatibility
antigens on tumour cells and their susceptibility
to lysis by natural killer cells: Evidence of
competition expreiments — Rajiv K. Saxena |
143-146 |
| RESEARCH ARTICLE |
|
| Characterization of local isolate
of Bombyx mori nuclear polyhedrosia virus
— Vikas B. Palhan and Karumathil P. Gopinathan |
147-153 |
| RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS |
|
| Methane emission in irrigated rice
soils of Punjab — A. K. Bhat and V. Beri |
154-155 |
| Layering of the Earth's crust and
upper mantle-An evidence from gravity anomalies
over India — H. V. Ram Babu |
155-157 |
| Quaternary palaeolakes in Kumaun
Lesser Himalaya: Fomds of neotectonic and plaeoclimatic
significance — K. S. Valdiya, B. S. Kotlia,
P. D. Pant, Manik Shah, Nidhi Mungali, Sunita
Tewari, Nalin Sah and Moulishree Upreti |
157-161 |
| Characterization of immunogenic
components of Hyalomma anatolicum - the
vector tick of bvine tropical theileriosis —
Anu Parmar and A. S. Grewal |
161-164 |
| Brugia malayi in Indian leaf
monkey (Preshytis entellus) - Response to repeated
exposures of infective larvae — K. Tyagi, P.
K. Murthy and R. K. Chatterjee |
164-167 |
| BOOK REVIEWS |
|
| Newton versus Einstein: How matter
interacts with matter — D. Sahoo |
168-169 |
| Science for a polite society —
Anju Sharma |
169-170 |
| Quantification and the Quest for
Medical Certainty — V. Sitaramam |
170-171 |
| HISTORICAL COMMENTARY AND NOTES-A
SPEICAL SECTION ON J. C. BOSE |
|
| The centennial of the discovery
of millimetre waves by Jagadis Chandra Bose —
S. Ramaseshan |
172-175 |
| On polarization of electric rays
by double-refracting crystals — J. C. Bose |
176-178 |
| The rotation of plane of polarization
of electric waves by a twisted structure — J.
C. Bose |
178-180 |
| GENERALIA |
|
| Relevance of values to science:
The sublime and the ridiculous — K. Srinivasa
Rao |
181-184 |
|
February 10, 1996
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| In this
issue |
195 |
| CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| Scientific
(con)fusion! — Rajendra Dobhal |
197 |
| Physical
chemistry teaching — A. K. Rakshit |
197 |
| The Himalayan
fossil fraud and its aftermath — S. V. Srikantia |
198 |
| Vedic
mathematics — M. S. Rangachari, C. S. Yogananda |
198-199 |
| RESEARCH
NEWS |
|
| Crucial
role of the landscape 'matrix' in determining biodiversity
wintin fragmented habitats — Mellkamal Rastogi |
199-200 |
| SCIENTIFIC
CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| Variability
in miniplasmids of Xanthomonas comapestris pv. malvacearum
— I. K. Das and J. P. Verma |
200-202 |
| Efficient
regeneration of Taxus baccata by a non-hormonal chemical
treatment — A,. K. Singh, R. C. Gupta, S. S. Gahalain
and G. C. Joshi |
202 |
| Carotid
labyrinth, a constant blood pressure regulator of the
crebro-retinal blood flow of catfishes-An SEM study
of the corrosion vascular replica — J. Ojha |
203-204 |
| GENERAL
ARTICLES |
|
| Making
forestry in India sustainable — T. N. Khoshoo |
205-214 |
| Molecular
messengers in insect biocommunication: Modality and
relevance in biological control — T. N. Ananthakrishnan |
215-218 |
| RESEARCH
ACCOUNT |
|
| Recent
advances in the chemistry of water-soluble phosphines-Catalytic
and biomedical aspects — Kattesh V. Katti |
219-225 |
| REVIEW
ARTICLE |
|
| Role
of brain renin-angiotensin system in the regulation
of cerebral circulation and ischaemia — D. S. Reddy
and K. Chopra |
226-231 |
| RESEARCH
COMMUNICATIONS |
|
| A spectacular
pressure-induced electronic transition in KTb(Moo4)
— A. Jayaraman, S. Y. Wang, S. K. Sharma and
S. W. Cheong |
232-234 |
| Observation
of negative remanence in an organic ferromagnet —
S. A. Chavan, J. V. Yakhmi, R. Ganguly and V. K. Jain |
234-237 |
| Candidate
live oral cholera vaccine strains produce a new cholera
toxin — D. V. Singh, Anjali Tikoo and S. C. Sanyal |
237-238 |
| Deforamtion
tectonics of the diffuse Indo-Australian plate boundary
using centroid moment tensor data — N. Purnachandra
Rao and M. Ravi Kumar |
238-242 |
| Influence
of disturbance on fine root biomass and productivity
in two deciduous forests of Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu
— S. M. Sundarapandian, S. Chandrasekarn and P.
S. Swamy |
242-246 |
| Contrasting
ultrastructures in the eggshells of live ridley turtles,
Lepidochelys olivacea, from Gahirmatha, Orissa —
G. Sahoo, B. K. Mohapatra, R. K. Sahoo and P. Mohanti-Hejmadi |
246-249 |
| BOOK
REVIEWS |
|
| Green
Business Opportunities — N. V. Joshi |
250 |
| Paleobotany:
Plants of the Past, their Evolution, Paleoenvironment
and Application in Exploration of fossil fuels —
Hari K. Maheshwari |
250-252 |
| Correction |
|
| S. Chandrasekhar
and C. V. Raman—Some letters — S. Ramaseshan |
225 |
| Erratum |
|
| Advt:
Indian Institute of Tropical meterorology, Pune |
225 |
|
February 25, 1996
|
|
| In this issue |
255 |
| CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| Young scientists scheme — Surendra
Ghaskadbi |
257 |
| Crisis in Indian science — K. D.
Abhyankar |
257 |
| Coping with liberalization — Hermann
Bondi |
258 |
| Census of India's biodiversity —
P. K. Gupta, T. N. Khoshoo |
258-259 |
| RESEARCH NEWS |
|
| Auto-catalysis as the possible origin
of biomolecular chirality — Sosale Chandrasekhar |
259-260 |
| SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| Sugarcane honey - its significance
— T. P. Kalpana and C. G. K. Ramanujam |
261-262 |
| Differentiation of sclerenchyma
fibres in the stem cultures of Cissampelos
pareira L. (Menispermacceae) — H. Gokul,
D. H. Thejavathi and Syamasundar Joshi |
263-264 |
| Comments on 'Fertile plants regenerated
from mesophyll protoplasts of cold tolerant
rice' — H. S. Gupta; response by J. N. Gupta |
264-265 |
| GENERAL ARTICLES |
|
| The scientific temper — Hermann
Bondi |
266-269 |
| Theory of hopping conduction in
proteins — A. K. Bakhshi |
270-274 |
| REVIEW ARTICLE |
|
| Sympathetic neurotransmission: A
new biological role for ATP? — R. Manchanda |
275-285 |
| RESEARCH ARTICLES |
|
| Covariant differentials lead to
the design of a novel self-tuning power system
stabilizer — D. P. Zen Gupta and Indraneel Sen
|
285-291 |
| Probable influence of Tehri reservoir
load on earthquakes of the Garhwal Himalaya
— R. Chander and Kalpna |
291-299 |
| RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS |
|
| Magnetic properties and remanent
magnetization of four stony meteorites — Y.
V. Ramana and G. V. S. Poornachandra Rao |
300-304 |
| Low-moderate seismicity in the vicinity
of Palghat Gap, south India and its implications
— C. P. Rajendran and Kusala Rajendran |
304-308 |
| Phosphorite concretions in a sediment
core from a bathymetric high off Goa, western
continental margin of India — Ch. M. Rao and
B. Ramalingeswara Rao |
308-312 |
| Effect of tetraethylammonium ions
and 4-aminopyridine on osmotic stability of
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
— Sukhdeep Gill, Sham Sunder, Arvinderjit
Singh and Balwant Singh |
312-313 |
| Comparative studies on the radula
teeth of two species of Conus from the Indian
coast — Y. D. Ramu, T. Nallathambi and M. K.
Mathew |
313-316 |
| Visitation patterns of birds and
butterflies at a Helicteres isora Linn
(Sterculiaceae) clump — V. Santharam |
316-319 |
| BOOK REVIEWS |
|
| Kinetics and Mechanisms of chemical
transformations — S. Aditya |
320 |
| Synchrotron radiation crystallography
— M. R. N. Murthy |
320-321 |
| HISTORICAL COMMENTARY AND NOTES
|
|
| 100 years of radio: 1895-1995-Some
reflections — B. S. Sonde |
322-325 |
| Publications received |
326 |
|
March 10, 1996
|
|
| In this issue |
331 |
| CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| Importance of herbaria and taxonomists
— S. G. Torne |
333 |
| Uses of herbaria — V. M. Meher-Homji |
333 |
| Animal usage in research — Walter
Miale |
334-335 |
| Biodiversity information networks
— V. Balaji; reply by C. P. Geevan |
334 |
| OPINION |
|
| What can be done with science education
in Indian universities? An attempt at a synthesis
— V. Sitaraman and Zuben E. Sauna |
335-340 |
| RESEARCH NEWS |
|
| Core-satellite hypothesis and the
distribution of species: Why are species not
found everywhere? — K. N. Ganeshaiah |
340-342 |
| IRS-IC |
343-346 |
| SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE
|
|
|
Scanning
electron microscopic detection of a specialized
cuticular structure on the abdominal surface
of the maggot of Blepharia zebina (Walk)
(Diptera: Tachinidae), parasitizing the larvae
of the muga silk moth, Antheraea assamensis
— S. Dey and N.
Biswas
|
347-348 |
| Green algae (Oedogonium sp.) and
Lemna sp.: The new alternate hosts for Spodoptera
litura Fabricius — Deepesh Sharma and V. P.
Gargav |
348-349 |
| Parasite fauna of fingerlings of
Channa spp. used for treatment of asthma patients
— R. Madhavi, K. Jhansilakshmibai and Meenakshi
Murugesh |
350-351 |
| GENERAL ARTICLE |
|
| On transfusion medicine — Jaisy
Mathai and V. Raman Kutty |
352-357 |
| RESEARCH ACCOUNTS |
|
| Fracture initiation in ductile metals
— P. Rama Rao |
358-372 |
| RESEARCH ARTICLES |
|
| Taxodioxylon gypsaceum and its botanical
affinities — J. Van der Burgh and J. J. F. Meijer |
373-378 |
| Evidence for hydrothermal activity
in the Andaman Backare Basin — P. S. Rao, K.
A. Kamesh Raju, T. Ramprasad, B. Nagender Nath,
B. Ramalingeswara Rao, Ch. M. Rao and R. R.
Nair |
379-385 |
| Palaeoseismic indicators in the
rupture zone of the 1993 Killari (Latur) earthquake
— C. P. Rajendran, Kusala Rajendran, K. R. Unnikrishnan
and Biju John |
385-390 |
| RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS |
|
| Contribution of mesospheric ozone
variability to the diurnal asymmetry in D-region
electron density — T. Arunamani, T. S. N. Somayaji
and D. N. Madhusudhana Rao |
391-393 |
| Watermolds: Potential biological
control agents of malaria vector Anopheles
culicifacies —
G. S. Bisht, Chandra Joshi and R. D. Khulbe |
393-395 |
| Effect of heat on crystal size distributions
of quartz — Manish A. Mamtani and R. V. Karanth |
396-399 |
| Trace and REE signatures in the
Maastrichtian Lameta Beds for the initiation
of Deccan volcanism before KTB — M. S. Salil
and J. P. Shrivastava |
399-401 |
| Observations on polychaete genus
Sabellaria along
the south and west coast of India — R. M. Badve |
402-405 |
| Crowding effect on growth and metamorphosis
of the frog Microhyta ornata (Dumeril and Bibron)
— Madhab C. Dash and Charulatha Dei |
406-408 |
| BOOK REVIEWS |
|
| Annual review of nuclear and particle
science 1994 — J. Pasupathy |
409 |
| Annual review of nutrition 1995
— Mahtab S. Bamji |
409-410 |
| Organic agriculture — Santhosh
Nampy |
411 |
| Plant physiology — S. K. Sopory |
411-412 |
| Errata |
|
| On the use of animals in research
and education — Jane Goodall |
412 |
| Mushrooms: Beauty, diversity, relevance
— C. V. Subramanian |
412 |
|
March 25, 1996
|
|
| In this issue |
415 |
| CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| Nurturing young scientists — A.
K. Srivastava |
417 |
| Top-scorers need not be the best
brains-the other side — P. V. Kulkarni |
417 |
| Research strategy and Ayurveda —
Yamini B. Tripathi |
418 |
| NEWS |
|
| Chemical science on Internet —
D. Mukesh |
418-419 |
| RESEARCH NEWS |
|
| How does a fungus know the time
of day? — L. Geetha and Raghavendra Gadagkar |
419-421 |
| Membrane ion channels: Visualizing
the invisible — S. K. Sikdar |
422-423 |
| SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE
|
|
| The Academy fellowship problem-no
quick fixes — V. Balakrishnan |
424 |
| Hyphal interaction between Trichoderma
koningii and Ustilago segetum tritici
through scanning electron microscopy — Goutam
Mondal, Rashmi Aggarwal and K. D. Srivastav |
425-426 |
| Ecology of forest fires in chir
pine (Pinus roxburghii sarg.) forests
of Garhwal Himalaya — R. L. Semwal and J. P.
Mehta |
426-427 |
| GENERAL ARTICLES |
|
| Nomenclature, classification and
the basis of the Schedules in the Indian Wildlife
(Protection) Act, 1972 — Prashanth Mohanraj
and K. Veenakumari |
428-432 |
| Can expert system simulation techniques
support the decision-making tasks of pest management
in sericulture — B. V. Naidu, K. Chidananda
Gowda and P. Nagabhushan |
433-436 |
| Poliomyelitis in Indian children
who have received oral poliovaccine: Vaccine
failure or low potency ? — H. V. Wyatt |
437-440 |
| REVIEW ARTICLE |
|
| What makes a cell tick? The A, B
and C of the matter — K. Manjula and M. R. S.
Rao |
441-446 |
| RESEARCH ARTICLE |
|
| A novel neural network design for
long range prediction of rainfall pattern —
Prashant Goswami and Srividya |
447-457 |
| RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS |
|
| Occurrence of andromonoecious form
in bottlegourd, Lagenaria siceraria exhibiting
monogenic recessive inheritance — Sheo Pujan
Singh, I. B. Maurya and N. K. Singh |
458-459 |
| Radioecological aspects of the Kaveri
River environment — K. Shaheed, P. Shahul Hameed,
S. S. N. Somasundaram, M. A. R. Iyengar |
459-462 |
| Significance of the first record
of nautiloid from the Upper Cretaceous bagh
group of rocks — T. K. Gangopadhyay and K. Halder
|
462-465 |
| Structural provinces of India based
on gravity trends — H. V. Ram Babu |
465-467 |
| Effect of abrupt salinity changes
on survival of Artemia parthenogenetica — V.
Rama Subramanian and N. Munuswamy |
467-468 |
| BOOK REVIEW |
|
| Wealth from West — S. S. Kalbag |
469 |
| ACADEMY NEWS |
|
| The Indian Academy of Sciences elects
new fellows-1995 |
470-472 |
|
April 10, 1996
|
|
| In this issue |
479 |
| EDITORIAL |
|
| Popularizing science — P. Balaram |
481 |
| CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| Nurturing young scientist: Role
of department of science and technology — Parveen
Farooqui, B. P. Singh and T. K. Mandal |
482-483 |
| Coping with liberalization — P.
J. Lavakare, S. John |
483-484 |
| Digital library services from public
to private sector undertakings — C. N. Raghu |
484 |
| COMMENTARY |
|
| A tale of two eras: Notes on Himalayan
geology — Rasoul B. Sorkhabi |
485-488 |
| The role and responsibility of a
scientist in the Indian context — Rajaram Nityananda |
488-489 |
| NEWS |
|
| DAE Solid State Physics symposium—1995
— K. R. Rao |
490-492 |
| SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE
|
|
| Enechelon faults — V. K. K. Kalluraya
— Sm. Ramaswamy |
492-493 |
| Tapioca-a potential substitue for
agar in tissue culture media — Y. L. Nene, V.
K. Sheila and J. P. Moss |
493-494 |
| SPECIAL SECTION: IRS-IC |
|
|
Indian
remote sensing satellite (IRS)-IC — The beginning
of a new era —
K. Kasturirangan, R. Aravamudan, B. L. Deekshatulu,
George Joseph and M. G. Chandrasekhar
|
495-500 |
| Advanced features and specifications
of IRS-IC spacecraft — S. Kalyanaraman and R.
K. Rajangam |
501-509 |
| Cameras for Indian remote sensing
satellite IRS-IC — George Joseph, V. S. Iyengar,
Ram Rattan, K. Nagachenchaiah, A. S. kiran Kumar,
B. V. Aradhye, K. K. Gupta and D. R. M. Samudraiah |
510-515 |
| IRS-IC mission planning, analysis
and operations — S. K. Shivakumar, K. S. Sarma,
N. Natarajan, M. G. Raykar, H. R. Rao, K. V.
S. R. Prabhy and N. Ranjan Paramananthan |
516-523 |
| TTC network and spacecraft control
centre for IRS-IC — K. V. Venkatachary, P. Soma,
V. Jalaramaiah, A. Karuppaiayan, N. Sengupta,
O. Chiranjeevi and Y. K. Singhal |
524-533 |
| Data reception system for IRS-IC
— Anil Kumar and T. C. Sarma |
534-542 |
| Data processing system of IRS-IC
and data quality evaluation — K. Jairam Hebbar,
K. L. Majumdar, S. S. Palsule, K. M. M. Rao,
J. D. Murthy, V. H. Patel, P. K. Srivastava,
B. Lakshmi, V. Vittal Reddy, Francis Xavier,
R. Joseph Arokiadas, R. Ramakrishnan, N. S.
Parandhaman and D. Kaveri Devi |
543-550 |
| IRS-IC data products generation
and dissemination — Jairam K. Hebbar, J. Dakshina
Murthy, K. M. M. Rao, B. Laxmi, V. Vittal Reddy,
R. Joseph Arokiadas, D. Kaveri Devi, D. Chandrashekaran,
G. Padma Rani and V. Raghu |
551-561 |
| Cartography and terrain mapping
using IRS-IC data — P. K. Srivastava, B. Gopala
Krishna and K. L. Majumder |
562-567 |
| Early results from crop studies
using IRS-IC data — R. R. Navalgund, J. S. Parihar,
L. Venkataratnam, M. V. Krishna Rao, S. Panigrahy,
M. C. Chakraborty, K. R. Hebbar, M. P. Oza,
S. A. Sharma, N. Bhagia and V. K. Dadhwal |
568-574 |
| IRS-IC applications in land use
mapping and planning — D. P. Rao, N. C. Gautam,
R. Nagaraja and P. Ram Mohan |
575-581 |
| IRS-IC applications for urban planning
development — V. Raghavswamy, S. K. Pathan,
P. Ram Mohan, R. J. Bhanderi and Padma Priya |
582-588 |
| Improved water management: The IRS-IC
contribution — S. Thiruvengadachari, S. Jonna,
K. A. Hakeem, P. V. Raju, V. Bhanumurthy, G.
Srinivasa Rao, P. R. Paul, E. Siva Sankar and
A. T. Jeyaseelan |
589-599 |
| Use of IRS-IC data in groundwater
studies — P. R. Reddy, K. Vinod Kumar and K.
Seshadri |
600-605 |
| IRS-IC data utilization for forestry
applications — P. S. Roy, C. B. S. Dutt, R.
N. Jadav B. K. Rangantah, M. S. R. Murthy, B.
Gharai, V. Udaya Lakshmi, A. K. Kandya and P.
S. Thakker |
606-613 |
| IRS-IC applications for coastal
zone management — Shailesh Nayak, Prakash Chauhan,
H. B. Chauhan, Anjali Bahuguna and A. Narendra
Nath |
614-623 |
| Use of IRS-IC data for geological
and geomorphological studies — D. P. Rao, R.
R. Navalgund and Y. V. N. Krishna Murthy |
624-628 |
| Enhanced geographic information
system application using IRS-IC data potential
for urban utility mapping and modelling — K.
Radhakrishnan, S. Adiga, Geeta Varadan and P.
G. Diwakar |
629-637 |
| International marketing of IRS-IC
data — David T. Edwards and Tina Cary |
638-641 |
| Commercialization of remote sensing
- Issues and perspectives — Mukund Rao, V. Jayaraman,
K. R. Sridhar Murthy, N. Sampath and M. G. Chandrasekhar |
642-647 |
| Future perspectives of remote sensing
— M. G. Chandrasekhar, V. Jayaraman and Mukund
Rao |
648-653 |
| GENERAL ARTICLE |
|
| Transgenic plants: some current
issues — P. K. Gupta |
654-660 |
| RESEARCH ARTICLE |
|
| Graphical analysis of DNA sequence
structure: III. Indications of evolutionary
distinctions and characteristics of introns
and exons — A. Nandy |
661-668 |
| RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS |
|
| Poly(caorikactibe) microspheres
as a vaccine carrier — S. R. Jameela, N. Suma,
A. Misra, R. Raghuvanshi, S. Ganga and A. Jayakrishnan |
669-671 |
| Ratio of intercellular carbon dioxide
concentration to stomatal conductance is a reflection
of mesophyll efficiency — M. S. Sheshshayee,
B. T. Krishna Prasad, K. N. Nataraj, A. G. Shankar,
T. G. Prasad and M. Udayakumar |
672-675 |
| Regulation of carboxylation by RuBisCO
content and its efficiency in sunflower and
soybean — B. T. Krishna Prasad, M. S. Sheshshayee,
K. N. Nataraj, A. G. Shankar, M. Udayakumar and
T. G. Prasad |
675-680 |
| BOOK REVIEWS |
|
| Crystal structure analysis for chemists
and biologists — M. R. N. Murthy |
681 |
| Energy environment monitor — S.
S. Kalbag |
681-682 |
|
April 25, 1996
|
|
| In this issue |
687-688 |
| CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| Total solar eclipse-Views of medical
professionals — Ravi C. Venkatacelam |
689-690 |
| NEWS |
|
| A triple helix of academic-industry-government
relations: Development models beyond 'capitalism
versus socialism' — Henry Etzkowitz and Loet
Leydesdorff |
690-693 |
| RESEARCH NEWS |
|
| 'FIP-effect' in the solar and stellar
coronae — B. N. Dwivedi and Anita Mohan |
693-694 |
| SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE
|
|
| Rejuvenating our rivers — The Akshaydhara
concept — S. K. Gupta and P. Sharma |
694-696 |
| The gynandromorph of Armigerus
subalbatus (Diptera : Culicidae) — K. Reena
and T. Ramakrishna |
696-697 |
| GENERAL ARTICLE |
|
| Magnetic resonance imaging: Basic
concepts and applications — P. Raghynathan and
N. R. Jagannathan |
698-708 |
| REVIEW ARTICLE |
|
| Plasma diagnostics applicable to
CDS/SUMER observations from SOHO — B. N. Dwivedi
and Anita Mohan |
709-718 |
| RESEARCH ARTICLES |
|
| Fractal analysis of sea level variations
in coastal regions of India — N. K. Indira,
R. N. Singh and K. S. Yajnik |
719-723 |
| A gabbroic xenolith in recent mid-oceanic
ridge basalt from the East Pacific Rise at 14S
— G. S. Roonwal, V. Marchig, H. Rosch, D. Milovanovic
and G. Bellieni |
724-729 |
| RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS |
|
| Effect of polyacid on the properties
of polyalkenoate cements — V. Kalliyana Krishnan
and J. Sreekumar |
730-733 |
| Accumulated and fractionated anorthosites
from the Ravipadu gabbro pluton, Prakasam province,
Andhra Pradesh, India — K. Vijay Kumar and J.
Ratnakar |
733-737 |
| Ultra-potassic and ultra-aluminous
hybrid volcanic rock in the Proterozoic of Bastar
craton, Madhya Pradesh, India — S. N. Chaturvedi,
K. Shivkumar, G. Nagendra Babu, Sohail Fahmi
and S. K. Hansoti |
737-739 |
| Dendrochronological reconnaissance
of Pinus wallichiana to study glacial behaviour
in the western Himalaya — A. Bhattacharyya and
R. R. Yadav |
739-744 |
| Etiological characterization of
acute infectious abdominal dropsy outbreak affecting
Indian major carp, Cirrhinus mrigala
in South Andaman — Rajeswari Shome, B. R. Shome,
N. Sarangi and A. K. Bandyopadhyay |
744-747 |
| Impact of shifting cultivation on
diurnal squirrels and primates in Mizoram, northeast
India: A preliminary study — T. R. Shankar Raman |
747-750 |
| BOOK REVIEWS |
|
| Invention: The care and feeding
of ideas — P. R. Masani |
751-753 |
| The crest of the peacock, Non-european
roots of mathematics — R. Sridharan |
753-754 |
| PERSONAL NEWS |
|
| Colin Stephenson Pittendrigh. An
obituary — M. K. Chandrashekaran |
755-756 |
| HISTORICAL COMMENTARY AND NOTES |
|
| Lakshmeshwar Rama Rao: A centenary
tribute — B. P. Radhakrishna |
757-758 |
| Erratum |
|
| Sympathetic neurotransmission: A
new biological role for ATP? — R. Manchanda
|
750 |
|
May 10, 1996
|
|
| In this issue |
763-764 |
| CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| Coping with liberaliztion — R.
Parthasarathy |
765 |
| 'Inadequate' intellectual property
protection in India — V. Siddhartha |
766-767 |
| NEWS |
|
| Plant Reproduction 96 (14th International
Congress of sexual plant reproduction) Lorne,
Australia — Congress report — K. R. Shivanna |
767-768 |
| RESEARCH NEWS |
|
| Lanthanide organometallic chemistry
springs a surprise: A serendiptous route to
a 'nonclassical' carbocation — S. S. Krishnamurthy |
769-770 |
| COMMENTARY |
|
| The Exponential Law of Academic
Decay — G. Prathap and U. N. Sinha |
770-771 |
| The end phase of sedimentation of
Krol Belt succession in Nainital syncline —
Stratigraphic analysis and fossil levels — D.
K. Bhatt |
772-774 |
| OPINION |
|
| Molecular marker-based conservation-An
appraisal — P. Balakrishna |
774 |
| SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE
|
|
| The vanishing aborigines of the
Andaman and Nicobar Islands — R. J. Ranjit Daniels |
775-776 |
| In vitro micropropagation of Asystasia
dalzelliana Santapau, an endemic species of
the Western Ghats — K. R. Sumana and K. M. Kaveriappa |
777-779 |
| SPECIAL SECTION: SUBRAHMANYAN
CHANDRASEKHAR-IN MEMORIAM |
|
| Tributes to Chandra — Jayant V.
Narlikar |
780 |
| Chandrasekhar and white dwarfs —
Peter P. Eggleton |
781-783 |
| Stellar dynamics and Chandra —
T. Padmanabhan |
784-788 |
| Consequence of one spring researching
with Chandrasekahar — D. Lynden Bell |
789-799 |
| Chandrasekhar's contributions to
general relativity — Abhay Astekar |
800-804 |
| Chandra remembered — Kameshwar
C. Wali |
804-807 |
| Chandra, Newton and the Principia
— Jayant V. Narlikar |
807-809 |
| Shakespeare, Newton and Beethoven
or patterns of creativity — S. Chandrasekhar |
810-822 |
| GENERAL ARTICLE |
|
| Environmental genetic engineering:
Hope or hazard? — Vassili V. Velkov |
823-832 |
| RESEARCH ARTICLES |
|
| In-vitro diagnosis of human
uterine malignancy using N laser-induced
autofluorescence
spectroscopy — S. K. Majumder, A. Uppal
and P. K. Gupta |
833-836 |
| Mudbank dynamics: Field evidence
of edge waves and far infra-gravity waves —
R. Tatavarti, A. C. Narayana, M. Ravishankar
and P. Manoj Kumar |
837-843 |
| Predominance of plate motion-related
strain in the south Indian shield — D. S. Ramesh,
R. N. Bharthur, K. S. Prakasam, D. Srinagesh,
S. S. Rai and V. K. Gaur |
843-847 |
| RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS |
|
| Solar eclipse and neutrions — Mohan
Narayan, G. Rajasekaran and Rahul Sinha |
848-849 |
| A large conductance Ca2+ activated
K+ channel in T3-1 pituitary gonadotrophs —
J. K. Tiwari, A. Adhikari and S. K. Sikdar |
849-853 |
| Rare metal and rare earth rich peralkaline,
agpaitic granitoid dykes of Siwana Ring Complex,
District Barmer, Rajasthan — Rajan B. Jain,
T. S. Miglani, Satyendra Kumar, B. M. Swarnkar
and Rajendra Singh |
854-858 |
| Alkaline nature and taphrogenetic
affinity of felsic volcanic rocks of St. Mary
Islands, off Mangalore coast — Sudheer Joseph
and C. G. Nambiar |
858-860 |
| BOOK REVIEW |
|
| Representations of Finite Groups
— S. Thangavelu |
861 |
|
May 25, 1996
|
|
| In this issue |
867 |
| NEWS |
|
| CSIR (EMR) support to research in
earth sciences— A report — N. R. Rajagopal and
Sukumar Mallick |
869-870 |
| SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE
|
|
| How rational is the practice of
correlating ancient mudcracks with past emergence?
— Pradip K. Bose and Rajat Mazumder |
871-872 |
| On the transience of the influence
of Tehri reservoir load on Garhwal seismicity
— R. Chander, Kalpna and V. K. Gahalaut |
873 |
| Karyotype of rice gall midge, Orseolia
oryzae Wood-Mason — S. C. Sahu, L. K. Bose,
J. Pani, S. Rajamani and K. C. Mathur |
874 |
| RESEARCH NEWS |
|
| Heterobimetallic complexes: A unique
H2-activating catalyst and a model for hydrogenase
— Balaji R. Jagirdar |
875-876 |
| Metallization of hydrogen—Everest
conquered? — S. Ramaseshan |
876-877 |
| SPECIAL SECTION: X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
AND NMR |
|
| Foreword — P. T. Manoharan |
878 |
| 100 years of X-rays and 50 years
of NMR — R. Chidambaram, M. V. Hosur and R.
V. Hosur |
878-888 |
| Form and function: X-rays in structural
biology — M. Vijayan |
889-898 |
| MR imaging and volume localized
spectroscopy: Medical and materials applications
— N. Chandrakumar |
899-909 |
| Three-dimensional structure of some
synthetic calmodulin fragments using high resolution
NMR, CD, IR and molecular modelling — L. Gomathi,
Thomas Fairwell, Gopal A. Krishna, James A.
Ferretti and S. Subramanian |
910-927 |
| RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS |
|
| Forest fire risk modelling using
remote sensing and geographic information system
— Abhineet Jain, Shirish A. Ravan, R. K. Singh,
K. K. Das and P. S. Roy |
928-933 |
| Biochemical degradation of the cuticular
membrane in an early Cretaceous frond: A TEM
study — H. K. Maheshwari and Usha Bajpai |
933-935 |
| First report of fossil dinoflagellates
from the west coast of India an dsome observations
— Sri Ram, T. R. Sreedhara Murthy, Rajesh Reghunath
and B. R. Raghavan |
935-939 |
| A simple in Vitro method of propagation
and rhizome formation in Dendrocalamus strictus
nees — Mrudul V. Shrigurkar, Shubada R. Thengane,
Insiya S. Poonawala, M. M. Jana, Rajani S. Nadgauda
and A. F. Mascarenhas |
940-943 |
| BOOK REVIEW |
|
| Liquid Crystals: Applications and
Uses — T. N. Ruckmongathan, K. A. Suresh and
G. S. Ranganath |
944 |
| Erratum |
|
| Recent finds of ancient gold mining
sites in South Uttar Pradesh |
944 |
|
June 10, 1996
|
|
| In this issue |
947 |
| CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| ISRO spy scandal - rumour mongering —
R. Sunder |
949
|
Wood substitutes — P. C.
Bhattacharya
|
950
|
NEWS
|
|
The computer as a laboratory notebook
— S. Ramaseshan
|
950
|
The Giant metrewave radio telescope
looms large— A thing of beauty — S. Ramaseshan
|
951-953
|
A report on the national seminar
on 'Changing Scenario in Plant Sciences' — S.
K. Sopory
|
953-955
|
OPINION
|
|
Biotechnology: What's in a name
— A. S. Rao
|
955-956
|
SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE
|
|
Groundwater development in the arsenic-affected
alluvial belt of West Bengal-Some questions
— Sukumar Mallick and N. R. Rajagopal
|
956-958
|
Photochromism in Stobbe condensation
and cyclised products — Saba Jabbar and
Shubhra Banerjee
|
959
|
In vitro multiplication of
Stevia rebaudiana — Veeranagouda Patil, K. S.
Ashwini, P. Chandrasekhara Reddy, M. G. Purushotham,
T. G. Prasad and M. Udayakumar
|
960
|
GENERAL ARTICLE
|
|
Evolution of the earth's mantle
and core: Convective cycle within the mantle
and different plate tectonic environments related
to magma generation — Alok K. Gupta
|
961-969
|
REVIEW ARTICLE
|
|
Mycobactericidal nature of human
monocytes in vitro — V. Vishwanath and
P. R. Narayanan
|
970-975
|
RESEARCH ARTICLES
|
|
Arsenic in groundwater in seven
districts of West Bengal, India—The biggest aresenic
calamity in the world — Badal K. Mandal, Tarit
Roy Chowdhury, Gautam Samanta, Gautam K. Basu,
Partha P. Chowdhury, Chitta R. Chanda, Dilip
Lodh, Nirmal K. Karan, Ratan K. Dhar, Dipak K.
Tamili, Dipankar Das, K. C. Saha and D. Chakraborti
|
976-986
|
Solid-phase cellular lectin assay
to study surface lectin binding sites on rhesus
monkey spermatozoa — D. Navaneetham, P. Sivashanmugam
and M. Rajalakshmi
|
986-990
|
Ages of Anjar Traps, Western Deccan
Province (India) and its relation to the Cretaceous-Tertiary
Boundary events — T. R. Venkatesan, Kanchan
Pande and Z. G. Ghevariya
|
990-996
|
RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
|
|
Controlled J-aggregation of porphyrins
by cationic surfactants — Nakul C. Maiti, Shyamalava
Mazumdar and N. Periasamy
|
997-999
|
Be and Al concentrations in an Arctic
core: Implications to climate and sedimentation
— B. L. K. Somayajulu, P. Sharma and A. S. Naidu
|
1000-1003
|
CO2-rich fluid inclusions in granulites
from Bandanwara area, Rajasthan — R. L. Somani
and Pankaj K. Srivastava
|
1003-1008
|
Probable vertical and horizontal
ground displacements due to Tehri reservoir
load — R. Chander and Kalpna
|
1008-1009
|
Nitrous oxide emission from grassland
and forest soils through nitrification —S. K.
Billore, M. Numata and K. Minami
|
1010-1012
|
Moisture desorption and absorption
isotherms for seeds of some cultivars of Triticum
dicoccum wheat — A. V. Moharir
|
1012-1017
|
Hydrolysing enzymes and respiration
during ripening of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum)
fruits — Zeng Yanru, M. Pandey, N. K. Prasad
and G. C. Srivastava
|
1017-1019
|
Mapping of assembled epitopes with microgram
quantities of antigen: Identification of an epitope
at the receptor binding region of human folicle
stimulating hormone — G. S. Murthy and N. S.
Srilatha |
1019-1022
|
Combined effect of cisplatin and
tocopherol on mice bearing Dalton's lymphoma
— Suniti Sarna, Anil Kumar and Rakesh K. Bhola
|
1022-1025
|
Ammonium sulphate induced stress
related alterations in the opercular epidermis
of the live fish Heteropneustes (Saccobranchus)
fossilis (Bloch) — V. I. Paul and T. K. Banerjee
|
1025-1029
|
BOOK REVIEWS
|
|
Harmonic Analysis — K. R. Parthasarathy
|
1030-1031
|
Fish Bioenergetics : Fish and Fisheries
Series 13 — T. J. Pandian
|
1031-1032
|
|
June 25, 1996
|
|
In this issue
|
1035
|
NEWS
|
|
Nuclear waste disposal: Fuelling
new science — S. Ramaseshan
|
1037
|
Bacteria precipitate aresenic
|
1038
|
SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE
|
|
An experimental annual forecast
of all-India mean summer monsonn rainfall using
neural network — Parshant Goswami
|
1039
|
A call for palaeoseismic investigations
to constrain the repeat time of great earthquakes
in the Himalaya — K. N. Khattri
|
1039-1041
|
Cholera toxin, zonula occludens
toxin and accessary cholera enterotoxin gene-negative
Vibrio cholerae non-01 strains produce the new
cholera toxin — D. V. Singh, Anjali Tikoo, A.
Pal and S. C. Sanyal
|
1041-1043
|
Erratum. Effect of foetal exposure
to low-dose X-rays on the postnatal growth of
mouse — K. S. Bisht and P. Uma Devi
|
1043
|
OPINION
|
|
Environmentally responsible fluorocarbon
products — V. N. M. Rao
|
1044-1046
|
GENERAL ARTICLES
|
|
Comet Hyakutake — R. Vasundhara
|
1047-1050
|
Infectious diseases in a changing
world — V. Ramalingaswami
|
1050-1056
|
Intellectual property rights and
international collaboration: A US perspective
— Kira Glover
|
1057-1059
|
Haldane's
dilemma and its relevance today — Krishna R. Dronamraju
|
1059-1061
|
Isozyme
parameters in genetic evaluation in Brassica —
A tribute to Haldane's vision on the synergy between
biochemistry and genetics — V. Arunachalam, K.
V. Prabhy and V. Sujata
|
1062-1065
|
RESEARCH
ARTICLE
|
|
Rare
earth element mobility in halogenated aqueous fluids
in the humite-marbles of Ambasamudram, Kerala Khondalite
Belt, India — A. P. Pradeepkumar and R. Krishnanath
|
1066-1074
|
RESEARCH
COMMUNICATIONS
|
|
Immunofluorescence
localization of SP 10 protein on monkey spermatozoa
during maturation — P. Sivashanmugam, John C.
Herr and M. Rajalakshmi
|
1075-1076
|
Radium-228
in the Kaveri river ecosystem — P. Shahul Hameed,
K. Shaheed and M. A. R. Iyengar
|
1076-1080
|
Modulating
effect of gelonin gp330 conjugate on Heymann's nephrities
induced in rats — A pathomorphological evaluation
— S. Misquith, A. Surolia and S. K. Shankar
|
1080-1084
|
Seasonal
variation in azadirachtins in seeds of Azadirachta indica
— O. P. Sindhu and H. M. Behl
|
1084-1086
|
Effect
of salinity on amino acid composition of the marine
fungus Cirrenalia pygmea — J. P. Ravishankar, V.
Muruganandam and T. S. Suryanarayanan
|
1086-1087
|
Greater
mating success of Drosophila ananassae flies possessing
high number of sternopleural bristles — B. N. Singh
and Salomy Mathew
|
1088-1089
|
Environmental
variations in late Quaternary sequence of Kolaghat,
West Bengal, India — Arghya K. Hait, H. K. Das,
S. Ghosh, A. K. Ray and S. Chanda
|
1089-1093
|
Breakup
of Gondwanaland and the Jurassic record of the Kachchh
Basin, Gujarat, Western India — A. S. Khadkikar
|
1093-1096
|
A significant
stage of metazoan evolution from the Proterozoic
rocks of the Vindhyan Supergroup — K. G. Kulkarni
and V. D. Borkar
|
1096-1099
|
BOOK
REVIEWS
|
|
Spectroscopy
of Organic Compounds — N. R. Krishnaswamy
|
1100
|
Advances
in Photosynthesis Series — Prasanna Mohanty
|
1101
|
In Quest
of the Sacred Baboon: A Scientist's Journey —
Anindya Sinha
|
1101-1102
|
HISTORICAL
COMMENTARY
|
|
How the
plague bacillus and its transmission through fleas
were discovered: Reminiscences from mu years at the
Pasteur Institute in Paris — Ludwik Gross
|
1103-1106
|
