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January
10, 1997 (1)
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In this
issue |
3-4 |
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EDITORIAL |
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An uncertain
future - P. Balaram |
5 |
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CORRESPONDENCE |
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Herbal
medicines - some more reports - M. K. Chattopadhyay |
6 |
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Biobatteries
- S. N. Balasubrahmanyam; A. Q. Contractor |
6-7 |
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NEWS |
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R&D
efforts in industry - National awards for 1996
presented |
7 |
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RESEARCH NEWS |
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Vaccine
production in transgenic plants - P. Suprasanna,
T. R. Ganapathi and P. S. Rao |
7-9 |
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SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE |
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Assessment of plant biodiversity in
Kalakad-Mundanthurai - V. M. Meher-Homji;
Response by T. Ganesh
et al. |
9-10 |
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Electrostriction
effect and solvent engineering - Rani Gupta and R. K. Saxena; Response
by Anil Kumar |
10 |
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Dengue
haemorrhagic fever epidemic in Delhi - V. P. Sharma |
10-11 |
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Sex and
the single X - S. Ganesh |
11-12 |
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REVIEW ARTICLE |
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Cellular
and molelcular biology of cardiac
hypertrophy - D. S. Reddy |
13-30 |
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SPECIAL SECTION |
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Ecology
of desert mammals - Ishwar Prakash |
31-34 |
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Desert
climate and its dynamics - D. R. Sikka |
35-46 |
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Role of
remote sensing in resource management for arid
regions with special reference to western Rajasthan
- George Joseph |
47-54 |
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Isotope
hydrology studies on water resources in western
Rajasthan - S. M. Rao and K. M. Kulkarni |
55-61 |
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Solar
energy in western Rajasthan - S. P. Sukhatme and
J. K. Nayak |
62-68 |
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RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS |
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Correction
in the reported amino acid sequence for human seminal
plasms prostatic inhibin - Vinit K. Rastogi, K.
V. R. Chary and Girjesh Govil |
69-71 |
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Liv.100
pretreatment inhibits the CCl4 -
induced lipid peroxidation
in rat liver - an in vitro study - V. Suja
and C. S. Shyamaladevi |
72-74 |
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Isotopic
composition of boron in sediments and their implications
- P. V. Shirodkar and Xiao Yingkai |
74-77 |
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PERSONAL NEWS |
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Professor
Paul Erods (1913-1996), an obituary by K.
Ramachandra |
78-80 |
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BOOK REVIEWS |
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Annual
Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology 1996, reviewed
by R. Rajagopalan |
81-82 |
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The Natural
Science of the Human Species: An Introduction to
Comparative Behaviour Research - 'The Russian Manuscript'
(1944-1948), reviewed by M. K. Chandrashekaran |
83 |
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Joseph
Needham: 20th Century Renaissance Man. Profile,
reviewed by Dhirendra Sharma |
84-85 |
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January
25, 1997 (2)
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In this
issue |
95-96 |
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EDITORIAL |
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Reaching
out to industry - Y. S. Rajan, P. Balaram and S.
Ramaseshan |
97 |
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CORRESPONDENCE |
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Undermanaging
health care: Lessons of the plague - P. N. Tandon |
98-99 |
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NEWS |
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New research
board for Navy-oriented ocean sciences
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99-100 |
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Immune
recognition - R. Manjunath |
101-102 |
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RESEARCH SNIPPETS |
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Neutrino
and muon bursts wiped out dinosaurs |
103 |
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Vagrant
North America and its drop out - A. V. Sankaran |
103-104 |
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OPINION |
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Priorities
in earth science research - B. P. Radhakrishna |
105-109 |
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SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE |
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CdS nanocrystallites:
An efficient light emitter - K. K. Nanda, S. N. Sarangi and S. N. Sahu |
110-111 |
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Xylanase
production and its impact on bleaching of hardwood
kraft pulp - S. Chinnaraj, K. S. Rajesh and N.
R. Mohan Rao |
111-112 |
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Greater
fertility of Drosophila ananassae flies possessing
high number of sternopleural bristles - B. N. Singh and Salomy Mathew |
112-114 |
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Chronic arsenic toxicity in West Bengal - D. N.
Guha Mazumder; reply by Mandal et al. |
114-117 |
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HEP research
in the Indian context - S. C. Tiwari; reply by
G. Rajasekaran and R. Ramachandran |
118 |
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GENERAL ARTICLE |
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Ecological
economics - Towards a synthesis of two disjunct
disciplines - M. K. Pandit |
119-123 |
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REVIEW ARTICLE |
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A glimpse
into the fascinating world of fullerenes - T. Pradeep |
124-136 |
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RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS |
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Platelet
monoamine changes in diabetic patients and streptozotocin-induced
diabetic rats - Jackson James, Pius S. Padayatti,
Thomas Paul and C. S. Paulose |
137-139 |
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A Mossbauer
spectroscopic study of the Pipliya-1 meteorite
- K. L. Shrivastava, R. P. Tripathi and V. K. Vaya |
139-142 |
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Altruistic
behaviour in Dictyostelium discoideum explained
on the basis of individual selection - Daniella Atzomony, Amotz Zahavi and
Vidyanand Nanjundiah |
142-145 |
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Possible
evidences of animal life in Neoproterozoic Deoban
microfissil assemblage, Garhwal Lesser Himalaya,
Uttar Pradesh - Purnima Srivastava and S. Kumar |
145-149 |
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BOOK REVIEWS |
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Ecology
and Equity. The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary
India, reviewed by Usha Shekar |
150 |
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Bioelectrochemistry
of Biomicromolecules, reviewed by P. Balaram |
150-151 |
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February
10, 1997 (3)
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In this
issue |
155 |
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CORRESPONDENCE |
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Science
education - T. S. Sadasivan; G. Subramanian |
157 |
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And now
about urban langurs - M. D. Deshpande |
158 |
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OPINION |
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Impact
of the new economic policy on science and technology
in India - P. N. Andhare |
158-159 |
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RESEARCH
NEWS
- A.
V. Sankaran |
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Southern
India develops a hunchback |
160-161 |
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New views
on Andes Mountains and South American plate movements |
162-163 |
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Split
comets and crater chains (catenae) |
163-164 |
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SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE |
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Further
comments on 'Fertile plants regenerated from mesophyll
protoplasts of cold-tolerant rice' (J. N. Gupta,
Curr. Sci., 1995, 68, 755-758) - H. S.
Gupta; S. N. Gupta; J. N. Gupta |
165 |
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Comments on 'Interstratified low-Ti and high-Ti
volcanics in arc-related Khairagarh Group of central
India' - H. K. Pandey; Reply by D. Asthana
et al. |
165-166 |
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Predicting
monsoon rainfall and pressure indices from sea
surface temperature - Y. Sadhuram |
166-168 |
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On the
age and fauna of beachrock of Kegaon Coast, Uran,
Maharashtra - R. M. Badve, C. Rajshekhar, K. P.
N. Kumaran and C. V. Kamble |
168-170 |
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Parasitic
infestation on commercially important sardines
- A. J. A. Ranjitsingh and C. Padmalatha |
171 |
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GENERAL ARTICLE |
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Transgenic
plants and biosafety concerns in India - P. K. Ghosh |
172-179 |
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REVIEW ARTICLE |
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How do
proteins fold? - Utpal Nath and Jayant B. Udgaonkar |
180-191 |
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RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS |
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Evaluation
of a light cured dental composite containing a
radiopaque glass filler - V. Kalliyana Krishnan
and V. Yumuna |
192-195 |
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Transpiration
in two common tree species of Auroville, Tamil
Nadu, India - Anil Gravesl, Pedro Berlinner and
Israel Gev |
196-201 |
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Bioleaching
of copper from chalcopyrite ores coated with polyaniline
film - S. A. Mallick and A. K. Dasgupta |
201-205 |
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On the
occurrence of manganese micronodules in the deep-sea
sediment west of Lakshadweep Ridge, Arabian Sea
- K. S. Adiga and V. K. K. Kalluraya |
206-210 |
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Seasonal
variation in infestation characteristics of bagworm
(Lepidoptera: Psychidae) in avenue plantation of
Acacia and Peltophorum in the Chattisgarh
region - Arvind Agrawal, Atanu Kumar Pati and Deepak
Karkun |
211-214 |
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Analysis
of gene expression during embryonic development
in mulberry silkworm Bombyx mori - Amit Singh and Karumathil P. Gopoinathan |
214-218 |
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BOOK REVIEWS |
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Annual
Review of Medicine: Selected Topics in Clinical
Sciences, reviewed by Swaminathan Subrahmaniam |
219-220 |
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Mineral
Resources of Karnataka, reviewed by Asoke
Mookherjee |
220 |
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Fundamentals
of Aquaculture Engineering, reviewed by M.
Devaraj |
221 |
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HISTORICAL NOTES |
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Pramatha
Nath Bose (1855-1934) - B. P. Radhakrishna |
222-224 |
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February
25, 1997 (4)
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In this issue |
227 |
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CORRESPONDENCE |
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Monitoring India's lifescape - Riki Krishnan;
reply by Madhav Gadgil |
229 |
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Extramural research funding in India - An analysis
for 1994-95 - N. C. Jain |
229-230 |
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Dengue epidemic - P. Maruthi Mohan |
230 |
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RESEARCH NEWS |
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Organometallic chemistry of C60
beyond η2-C=C co-ordination:
Buckminister-fullerenes as pentahapto (η5)
cyclopentadienyl ligands -Ramaswamy
Murugavel |
231-232 |
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RESEARCH SNIPPETS |
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K-T meteorite relics found - A. V. Sankaran |
232-233 |
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A planet rotating inside Earth's womb - A.
V. Sankaran |
233-235 |
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SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE |
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Does steam cause a more sever burn than boiling
water? - P. D. Kunte and B. G. Wagle |
235-239 |
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Remote sensing application for dilineating coastal
vegetation - A case study - P. D. Kunte and B. G.
Wagle |
239-241 |
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A rapid method of estimating essential oil content in
heartwood of Santalum album Linn - K.
H. Shankaranarayana, V. G. Angadi, A. N. Rajeevalochan,
K. S. Theagarajan, C. R. Sarma and C. R. Rangaswamy |
241-242 |
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GENERAL ARTICLES |
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A more refined method to identify core institutes:
A case study of biomass research - M.
C. Shukla, S. Saksena and M. R. Riswadkar |
243-247 |
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Fossil woods and their significance - J. S. Guleria
and A. Awasthi |
248-254 |
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RESEARCH ARTICLE |
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Adult crowding effects on longevity in Drosophila
melanogaster: Increase in age-dependent mortality - Amitabh
Joshi and Laurence D. Mueller |
255-260 |
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RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS |
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Neural network modelling of human
electroencephalogram patterns - D. Mukesh
and R. Y. Nadkar |
261-265 |
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Response of IgG sub-classes to diethuylcarbamazine
therapy in bancroftian filarial patients - P.
K. Murthy, Mridul Mehrotra, K. Tyagi, U. C. Chaturvedi
and R. K. Chatterjee |
265-268 |
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Synthetic and antitumour activity of new derivatives
of podophyllotoxin - Pan Jian-lin, Wang
Yan-guang and Chen Yao-zu |
268-271 |
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High frequency somatic embryogenesis and efficient
plant regeneration from hypocotyl explants of groundnut
Arachis hypogaea L.) - P.
Venkatachalam, P. B. Kavi Kishor and N. Jayabalan |
271-275 |
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Influence of metalaxyl on Glomus fasciculatum
associated with wheat Triticum aestivum
L.) - P. K. Shetty and S. P. Magu |
275-277 |
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BOOK REVIEWS |
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QED: The Jewel of Physics, reviewed by A.
K. Vijayakumar |
278-279 |
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Banking on Biodiversity: Report on the Regional
Consultation on Biodiversity Assessment in the Hindu
Kush-Himalayas, reviewed by Shri Niwas Singh |
279-280 |
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INSTITUTIONS |
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IUCAA
revisited - S. Ramaseshan |
281-283 |
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March
10, 1997 (5)
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In this issue |
291 |
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CORRESPONDENCE |
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Science and industry - Rustom Roy |
293-294 |
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Flawed policy of DST and DoE - V. Rao
Aiyagari; M. Vidyasagar |
294 |
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Essentials of Nuclear Chemistry: Critique of a
review - H. J. Arnikar |
295 |
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OPINION |
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Science policy in neo-liberal India: Corporate
culture, basic science and scientific credibility - Suresh
K. Mahajan |
295-299 |
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RESEARCH NEWS |
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Fertilization in flowering plants - What is new? - K.
R. Shivanna and N. S. Rangaswamy |
300-301 |
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SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE |
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New light on the antiquity of Siwalik Great apes - B.
C. Verma and S. S. Gupta |
302-303 |
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Ultrastructural evaluation, an useful method for fish
leucocyte identification - Jagdish Ojha
and Neera Pandey |
303-305 |
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GENERAL ARTICLES |
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Plant life under extreme environments - H.
Y. Mohan Ram and Promila Gupta |
306-315 |
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Bacterial ice nucleation: Prospects and perspectives - P.
Pattnaik, V. K. Batish, Sunita Grover and Niyaz
Ahmed |
316-320 |
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RESEARCH ARTICLES |
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Aerosol measurements at Trombay relating to the 1995
solar eclipse - B. K. Sapra, Y. S. Mayya,
V. D. Sawant and K. S. V. Nambi |
321-325 |
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Role of thyroidal and testicular hormones in
regulation of tissue respiration in hibernating and
non-hibernating species of frogs - B. B.
P. Gupta and A. Mahanta |
326-330 |
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RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS |
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Biological control of sheath blight of rice:
Induction of systemic resistance in rice by
plant-associated Pseudomonas spp. - K. Krishnamurthy
and S. S. Gnanamanickam |
331-334 |
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Litomosoides carinii and Acanthocheilonema
viteae in rodents: The influence of nonspecific
immunosuppression on establishment of filarial
infection - Nigar Fatma, Amita Shukla-Dave and R. K.
Chatterjee |
335-337 |
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Block rotation in a part of eastern Dharwar craton of
South India: A suggestion from aeromagnetic data
interpretation - Ch. Rama Rao, D. S. Bhaskara
Rao and D. Atchuta Rao |
337-341 |
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Statistical analysis of glaciers in Himachal Pradesh,
northwest Himalaya, India - D. B. Dobhal
and Surendar Kumar |
341-344 |
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BOOK REVIEWS |
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Knot Theory and its Applications, reviewed by
Anant R. Shastri |
345-346 |
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Lysozymes: Model Enzymes in Biochemistry and Biology,
reviewed by M. N. Gupta |
346-347 |
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PERSONAL NEWS |
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Haridas Banerjee - A self-taught physicist - S.
M. Roy |
348-349 |
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ACADEMY NEWS |
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The Indian Academy of Sciences elects new fellows -
1996 |
350-352 |
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March
25, 1997 (6)
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In this issue |
355-356 |
|
CORRESPONDENCE |
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Plutonium and thorium in the Indian nuclear
programme - B. R. Rastogi; reply by Kamala Balakrishnan and Anil
Kakodkar |
357-359 |
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ISRO spy scandal - An unending witchhunt
-
S. Dhawan, T. N. Seshan,
U. R. Rao, Yash Pal, R.
Narasimha and S. Chandrashekar |
359-360 |
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Indian scientists win top UN awards -
N. C. Jain |
361 |
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On the recent editorials - S. C. Tiwari |
361 |
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RESEARCH NEWS |
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Hello Dolly! - K. P.
Gopinathan |
362-364 |
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Biogenicity of stromatolites and early
life on Earth - A. V. Sankaran |
364-366 |
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SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE |
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Possible involvement of surface ultra-structural
features in utilizing the
semi-conductive properties of pigments
in chemically coloured insect cuticle -
Sudip Dey |
366-367 |
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Lepidontal alterations of the circuli
on the scales of freshwater snakehead,
Channa
punctatus
(Bloch) upon exposure to malathion - M. S. Johal
and A. K. Sawhney |
367-369 |
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GENERAL ARTICLE |
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Conflict in science policy declarations:
An analysis of the Indian model -
Pawan Sikka |
370-375 |
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REVIEW ARTICLE |
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Sister chromatid cohesion
during meiosis: Differential mechanisms for arms
and
centromere coherence - Amit Bardhan |
376-382 |
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RESEARCH ARTICLE |
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Potential application of RAPD and RAHM
markers in genome analysis of
scombroid fishes
- P. Jayasankar and K. Dharmalingam |
383-390 |
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RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS |
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The Rayleigh-Taylor instability of a
viscous fluid layer with viscosity stratification
- N. Rudraiah,
R. D. Mathod and Hameeda Betigeri |
391-395 |
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Mutational study and prevalence of Duchenne/Becker
muscular dystrophy - S. Mishra, V. Singh, L. S. Chaturvedi, R. D. Mittal and
B. Mittal |
395-397 |
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Studies on antianaphylactic activity
of fractions of
Albizzia lebbeck - C. C. Barua, P. P. Gupta, G. K. Patnaik, D. K. Kulshrestha
and B. N. Dhawan |
397-399 |
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Effect of supplementary ultraviolet-B
radiation on young wheat seedlings - Prabhat
Kumar Sharma, Rajendra Shetye and Saroj Bhonsle |
400-405 |
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Temporal patterns of visitation among
avian frugivores at fruiting strangler
figs
in a tropical evergreen forest in the Western Ghats,
Southern India - Vidya R. Athreya |
405-408 |
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Vegetational and climatic changes during
recent past around Tipra Bank Glacier,
Garhwal Himalaya - A. Bhattacharyya
and M. S. Chauhan |
408-412 |
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BOOK REVIEWS |
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The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein
- The Berlin Years: Writings 1914-1917,
reviewed by
N. Mukunda |
413-414 |
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Physics for
Engineers, reviewed by V. Balakrishnan |
414-415 |
|
Ecology and Sociobiology of Indian Primates,
reviewed by L. S. Rajapurohit |
415 |
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Atlas of Paleogene Ostracodes of Rajasthan
Basin,
reviewed by
D. K. Guha |
415 |
|
PERSONAL NEWS |
|
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Pancheti Koteswaram - An obituary
by P.
K. Das |
416-417 |
|
ERRATUM |
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Solar eclipse and neutrinos, Mohan Narayan, G. Rajasekaran
and Rahul Sinha [Curr. Sci., 1996, 70,
848-849] |
417 |
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April
10, 1997 (7)
|
|
|
In this issue |
423-426 |
|
CORRESPONDENCE |
|
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Of politicians and theologians: The
post-Dolly scenario - P. C. Sarkar |
427-428 |
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Bio-safety of transgenics - C. R. Bhatia |
428-429 |
|
Indian science as cultural heritage -
V. Siddhartha |
429-430 |
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Extinct species - G. K. Srivastava;
Reply by T. N. Khoshoo |
430 |
|
RESEARCH
NEWS
|
|
|
Mode of action of isonicotinic acid
hydrazide -
M. K. Chattopadhyay |
431 |
|
SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE |
|
|
On the orchid, Bulbophyllum crassipes
Hook. f. in the Andaman
Islands - P. V. Sreekumar, K. Veenakumari, A. Subramaniam and
Prashanth Mohanraj |
432 |
|
Does statistical significance always
imply biological significance? -
S. A. Chiplonkar
and V. R. Prayag |
432-433 |
|
OPINION |
|
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Biotechnology in India: The technology
imperative - Harish Padh |
434-436 |
|
GENERAL ARTICLES |
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SOHO hunts elusive solar prey - B. N. Dwivedi and Anita Mohan |
437-440 |
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Effect of greenhouse gases on climate
change and Indian ruminant livestock - G. P. Singh |
441-446 |
|
SPECIAL SECTION: DOROTHY
CROWFOOT HODGKIN - IN MEMORIAM |
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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin - An introduction
to her work and personality - J. D. Dunitz |
447-450 |
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Forty years' friendship with Dorothy - Max Perutz |
450-453 |
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Dorothy Hodgkin and molecular biophysics
in Oxford: A fragment of
personal history - David Phillips |
453-455 |
|
Meetings
with Dorothy - B. K. Vainshtein |
455-456 |
|
Dorothy
Hodgkin and the Indian connection - S. Ramaseshan |
457-463 |
|
Dorothy
and insulin crystallographic research in China - Dong-cai Liang
and Chih-chen Wang |
463-465 |
|
Dorothy
Hodgkin, protein crystallography and insulin -
G.
G. Dodson |
466-468 |
|
Chemical crystallography - Past, present
and future - Jack D. Dunitz |
468-469 |
|
Insulin structure
and diabetes treatment - Jens Brange, Jean Whittingham, David Edwards, Zhang You-Shang, Axel
Wollmer, Dietrich Brandenburg, Guy Dodson
and John Finch |
470-476 |
|
Steroids, steroid-binding proteins and
hydrophobic-binding sites - D. M. Blow, Alice Vrielink and Peter Brick |
477-482 |
|
Aspartic proteinases: From the
first X-ray photos of pepsin crystals to
hundreds of 3-D structures - Tom L. Blundell,
Kunchur Guruprasad, Armando Albert,
Mark Williams, Bancinyane L. Sibanda and Venugopal
Dhanaraj |
483-489 |
|
BOOK
REVIEW |
|
|
The Collected Works of Dorothy Crowfoot
Hodgkin (Volumes
I-III),
reviewed by
M. Vijayan |
490-493 |
|
RESEARCH ARTICLES |
|
|
Purification and pathogenicity of the
cytotoxic factor from the cases of
dengue haemorrhagic fever - Ruma Mukerjee,
U. C. Chaturvedi, D. W. Vaughn and S. Kalayanarooj |
494-501 |
|
Thermotolerance and the heat shock response
in Musca
domestica - P.
K. Tiwari, Archana Joshi and D. R. K. Mohan |
501-506 |
|
RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS |
|
|
Optical limiting action in poly(para-methoxy
phenylacetylene) - R. Vijaya,
Y. V. G. S. Murti, T. A. Vijayaraj and G. Sundararajan |
507-508 |
|
Helix-sheet interconversion in a synthetic
pore lining peptide derived from a
designed
ion channel - Subhendu Seth,
P. Balaram and M. K. Mathew |
509-512 |
|
Predatory efficiency of larvivorous
fish, Gambusia affinis on the mosquito
larvae of
Aedes aegipti and Anopheles stephensi - G.
Singaravelu, S. Mahalingam and K. Jaya Bharathi |
512-514 |
|
Identification of Sandur schist belt
as a potential gold field -
C.
Manikyamba,
S. M. Naqvi, R. H. Sawkar and G. R. Group |
515-518 |
|
Soft-sediment
deformation in the Quaternary
sediments of the Lower Mahi
river basin, Western India -
D. M. Maurya, J. N. Malik, Rachna Raj and
L. S. Chamyal |
519-522 |
|
BOOK REVIEWS |
|
|
Oxygenic Photosynthesis: The Light Reactions,
reviewed by Prasanna
Mohanty |
523 |
|
Sixty Years of Biology: Essays on Evolution
and Development,
reviewed by
Amitabh Joshi |
523-524 |
|
Cell and Molecular Biology,
reviewed
by S. C. Lakhotia |
524-525 |
|
HISTORICAL NOTES |
|
|
Architect of India's first test tube
baby: Dr Subhas Mukerji (16 January
1931 to
19 July 1981) - T.
C. Anand Kumar |
526-531 |
|
April
25, 1997 (8)
|
|
|
In this issue |
535 |
|
CORRESPONDENCE |
|
|
Erosion of funding -
J. K. Ghosh |
537 |
|
Upper temperature limit of fungi -
Ramesh Maheshwari; reply by H.
Y. Mohan Ram and Promila Gupta |
537 |
|
OPINION |
|
|
Technical education - Vision 2010
-
K. L. Chopra |
538-541 |
|
Are we losing our heritage? -
P. V. Sreekumar |
541-543 |
|
RESEARCH NEWS |
|
|
The Permian mass extinction - Are the
killers from outer space? -
A. V. Sankaran |
543-545 |
|
SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE |
|
|
Protective role of ashwagandha in
cadmium-induced hepato-toxicity and
nephrotoxicity in male mouse
- Sunanda Panda, Pratima Gupta and
Anand Kar |
546-547 |
|
Lambornella
(a ciliate parasite) for biological control of Anopheles
stephensi,
the urban malaria vector -
Anil Prakash, D. R. Bhattacharyya,
P. K. Mohapatra, K. Narain and J. Mahanta |
547-548 |
|
GENERAL ARTICLES |
|
|
Opportunities for women in science -
The CSIR (extra mural re-search)
experience -
Archana Gupta |
549-551 |
|
Planning for science and technology
and its relevance to national security -
K. Subrahmanyam |
551-555 |
|
REVIEW ARTICLE |
|
|
Laboratory studies of density-dependent
selection: Adaptations to crowding
in
Drosophila melanogaster -
Amitabh Joshi |
555-562 |
|
RESEARCH ARTICLE |
|
|
Anisotropy across biological membranes: Histidine charges oppose net
charge anisotropy -
V. Sitaramam |
562-571 |
|
RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS |
|
|
Amino acid doublets
and triplets in protein sequences - A database
analysis - K. Veluraja and S. A. Mugilan |
572-577 |
|
Antimutagenic activity of tryptophan
and alanine - A. K. Handique and H. Aprem |
578-580 |
|
Anti-staphylococcal activity of
Pseudomonas aeruginosa -
G. Arunkumar, S. Gowrish Rao and
P. G. Shivananda |
580-582 |
|
Community structure of larval
trematode fauna of the snail Thiara
tuberculata
from a freshwater stream at Visakhapatnam,
Andhra Pradesh - R. Madhavi, K. Umadevi and V.
G. M. Swarnakumari |
582-585 |
|
On the theory and utility of spectral
seismograms - M. Ravi Kumar, D. Sarkar and S. J.
Duda |
585-590 |
|
An Aquilapollenites-associated
palynoflora from Mohgaonkalan and its
implication for age and stratigraphic
correlation of Deccan Intertrappean
beds -
K. P. N. Kumaran, S. D. Bonde and Medha
D. Kanitkar |
590-592 |
|
BOOK REVIEWS |
|
|
Ballistic Missile Proliferation: The Politics and
Technics, reviewed by
V. Siddhartha and S. Chandrashekar |
593-594 |
|
Interface between Chemistry and
Biochemistry,
reviewed by
R. Nagaraj |
594 |
|
Fish Nutrition in Aquaculture,
reviewed by
T. J. Pandian |
594-595 |
|
May
10, 1997 (9)
|
|
|
In this
Issue |
603 |
|
CORRESPONDENCE |
|
|
Development
of cloning technology for humans - C. R. Bhatia |
605-606 |
|
Hello
Dolly - P. Tauro |
606 |
|
Age of principal
investigators in EMR schemes of CSIR: How do young
scientists fare - Archana Gupta, Vinita Panchanadikar,
V. S. Bhati and Sukumar Mallick |
607-608 |
|
RESEARCH NEWS |
|
|
A new
Sun from SUMER/SOHO - B. N. Dwivedi and K. Wilhelm
|
609-610 |
|
Potassium
tempers earth's core - A. V. Sankaran |
611 |
|
OPINION |
|
|
Solar,
earth and human capitals and sustainable development
- T. N. Khoshoo |
612-621 |
|
SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE |
|
|
Declining
semen quality in Banglaoreans: A preliminary report
- Rajiv H. Mehta and T. C. Anand Kumar |
621-622 |
|
Bambusa vulgaris blooms, a leap towards extinction?
- K. C. Koshy and P. Pushpangadan |
622-624 |
|
Restriction
fragment length polymorphisms of the rRNA genes
in some pulses - S. Ignacimuthu, K. Schumann, D.
Zink and W. Nagl |
624-626 |
|
Height
vs water depth for small sand ripples - An aid
to palaeohydraulics - Siddhartha Sankar Das and
Supriya Sengupta |
626 |
|
Disease-resistant
genes: New approaches towards the control of parasitic
diseases - Sribir Sen |
627 |
|
GENERAL ARTICLE |
|
|
Allelochemical
synergism and insect behavioural diversity - T.
N. Anantha-krishnan |
628-630 |
|
REVIEW ARTICLE |
|
|
Gamma-ray
diffraction - A powerful tool in crystal physics
- D. B. Sirdeshmukh |
631-640 |
|
RESEARCH ARTICLE |
|
|
Evaluation
of water quality index of the river Cauvery and
its tributaries - A. Chetana Suvarna and R. K.
Somashekar |
640-646 |
|
RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS |
|
|
A neuro-expert
model for conflict resolution - N. V. Subba Reddy
and P. Nagabhushan |
647-650 |
|
Preparation
of GaN and InN for blue light emitting sources
- D. Pal and D. N. Bose |
651-653 |
|
Detection
of the lcr gene in Yersinia pestis responsible
for the recent outbreak of plague in India - S.
S. Lahiri and B. S. Karothia |
653-656 |
|
Correlation
of alpha-logger radon data with microseismicity
in N-W Himalaya - H. S. Virk, Anand K. Sharma and
Vivek Walia |
656-663 |
|
A
feasibility study towards absolute dating of Indo-Gangetic
alluvium using thermoluminescence and
infrared-stimulated luminescence techniques - M.
Someshwar Rao, B. K. Bisaria and A. K. Singhvi |
663-669 |
|
Record
of Cretaceous magnetic quiet zone: A precursor
to the understanding of evalutioary history of
the Bay of Bengal - M. V. Ramana, V. Subrahmanyam,
K. V. L. N. S. Sarma, Maria Desa, M. M. Malleswara
Rao and C. Subrahmanyam |
669-673 |
|
Precious
metal association in the Jaduguda uranium ore deposit,
Singhbhum Shear zone, Bihar, and its significance
- R. N. Sankaran, N. Krishna Rao, K. Anand Rao,
V. Balaram and K. K. Dwivedy |
673-675 |
|
BOOK REVIEWS |
|
|
India's
exclusive economic zone - Resources, Exploitation
Management, reviewed by N. Balakrishnan
Nair |
676-677 |
|
Annual
review of nutrition 1996, reviewed by Mahtab
S. Bamji |
677-678 |
|
Annual
review of Biochemistry 1996, reviewed by R.
Nagaraj |
678-679 |
|
Deterministic
chaos: Complex chance out of simple necessity,
reviewed by Harjinder Singh |
679-680 |
|
ERRATA |
|
|
Plant
life under extreme environments - H. Y. Mohan Ram
[ Curr Sci., 1997, 72, 306-315]
|
680 |
|
Science
policy in neo-liberal India: Corporate culture,
basic science and scientific credibility - Suresh
K. Mahajan [ Curr Sci., 1997, 72, 295-299] |
680 |
|
Manganese
mobilization from the western continental margin
of India - D. N. Yadav [ Curr Sci., 1996,
71, 900-905] |
680 |
|
Conformation of ATPMg(II) bound at the
specific site on bovine serum albumin: 1H-nuclear magnetic resonance study -
Hari Pada Maity and Gotam K. Jarori
[ Curr
Sci., 1996, 71, 906-914] |
680 |
|
May
25, 1997 (10)
|
|
|
In this issue |
687 |
|
CORRESPONDENCE |
|
|
Funding research projects: We need
to be wiser -
Amit Bardhan |
689 |
|
NEWS |
|
|
Discussion meeting on instability and
transition in fluid flows - A report -
P. K. Sen |
690-695 |
|
OPINION |
|
|
IPR and microorganisms - Suman Sahai |
696-697 |
|
Sacred groves of India - Vanishing
greenery -
G. Harikrishnan Nair, K. Gopikumar,
Pramod G. Krishnan and K. K. Sunil
Kumar |
697-698 |
|
RESEARCH NEWS |
|
|
Gene silencing: A problem in transgenic
research - Tapan Kumar Mondal, Pradip Kumar Kundu
and P. S. Ahuja |
699-700 |
|
The India-Asia collision warps and thaws
Tibet's bowels -
A. V. Sankaran |
700-701 |
|
SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE |
|
|
Caprine arthritis encephalitis in Indian
goats -
D. K. Singh, O. P. Paliwal and S. C.
Dubey |
702 |
|
In vitro
flowering and backcrossing of Brassica
intergeneric hybrids -
B. K. Sarmah and N. Sarla |
702-704 |
|
GENERAL ARTICLES |
|
|
Non-indexed citedness -
Endre Szava-Kovats |
705-707 |
|
Human genome studies and intellectual
property rights: Whither national
interest? -
T. R. Sivaramjani and Samir K.
Brahmachari |
708-716 |
|
REVIEW ARTICLE |
|
|
The structure and function of PQQ-containing
quinoproteins - Christopher Anthony and Minakshi
Ghosh |
716-727 |
|
RESEARCH ARTICLE |
|
|
A study of source
spectrum, site amplification functions, response
spectra, Fourier
spectra and peak ground accelerations from the strong
ground motion data of the 1991 Uttarkashi
earthquake -
V. Sriram and K. N. Khattri |
728-740 |
|
RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS |
|
|
Development of insect-resistant transgenic plants using plant genes:
Expression of cowpea trypsin inhibitor
in transgenic tobacco plants - Vidhu A. Sane, P.
Nath, Aminuddin and P. V. Sane |
741-747 |
|
Reproductive success of large and
small flies in Drosophila bipectinata
complex -
M. S. Krishna and S. N. Hegde |
747-750 |
|
Deformational features in the river bluffs at Ter,
Osmanabad district,
Maharashtra: Evidence for an ancient
earthquake - C. P. Rajendran |
750-755 |
|
Deccan Trap dioritic gabbros from the
western Satpura-Tapi region -
H. C. Sheth, R. A. Duncan, D.
Chandrasekharam and J. J. Mahoney |
755-757 |
|
BOOK REVIEWS |
|
|
Princeton Guide to Advanced Physics,
reviewed by
V. Bala-krishnan |
758-759 |
|
Myocardial Ischemia: Mechanisms, Reperfusion, Protection, reviewed by
C. C. Kartha |
759-762 |
|
Indian Food: A Historical Companion, reviewed by
H. A. B. Parpia and
Carolyn W. Parpia |
762 |
|
June
10, 1997 (11)
|
|
|
In this issue |
771-772 |
|
CORRESPONDENCE |
|
|
ISRO
spy scandal - R. N.Singh; S. C. Tiwari |
773-774 |
|
Life in
extreme environments - S. K. Vats |
774 |
|
NEWS |
|
|
Exodus
of scientists from DRDO and ISRO |
775 |
|
India
accedes to chemical weapons convention - National
Authority established to oversee implementation
|
775 |
|
RESEARCH NEWS |
|
|
A
promising hybrid vaccine against malignant tertain
malaria - C. C. Kartha |
776-777 |
|
OPINION |
|
|
Experimental
statistics for biology students: An experiment
in motivation - V. Sitaramam |
777-781 |
|
SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE |
|
|
Experimental
annual forecast of all-India mean summer monsoon
rainfall for 1997 using a neural network model
- Prashant Goswami and Pradeep Kumar |
781-782 |
|
Temporal
variation in gravity field during solar eclipse
on 24 October 1995 - D. C. Mishra and M. B. S.
Vyaghreswara Rao |
782-783 |
|
Enzyme
dot blot assay: A diagnostic tool for detecting
rice tungro virus infection - P. Arti, V. V. Shenoy,
A. Ghosh, N. P. Sarma and E. A. Siddiq |
784-785 |
|
Possible
occurence of a Fabry-Perot type of interference
filter in a fish eye-lens - Sudip Dey |
785-787 |
|
SPECIAL SECTION: CHEMISTRY-BIOLOGY INTERFACE |
|
|
Transition
metal-saccharide chemistry and biology: An emerging
field of multidisciplinary interest - Rajiv P.
Bandwar and Chebrolu P. Rao |
788-796 |
|
Derivatization
of heteroditopic cryptands: A new generation of
amphiphiles - Pradyut Ghosh and Parimal K. Bharadwaj |
797-801 |
|
Binuclear
iron, manganese and copper centres in biology:
Synthetic analogue approach - R. N. Mukherjee |
802-807 |
|
New
photonucleases based on tetrapyrrole, polypyridine
and diazo-arene chromophores - Bhaskar G. Maiya |
808-814 |
|
Antibody
responses revisited - Kanury V. S. Rao |
815-818 |
|
Structure-function
relationships and engineering of host-defense peptides
- R. Nagaraj |
819-825 |
|
Structural studies of protein folding
-
Girish S. Ratnaparkhi and R. Varadarajan |
826-830 |
|
Molten globule state of human serum albumin
in urea - B. K. Muralidhara and V. Prakash |
831-834 |
|
Intracellular dynamics seen through
time-resolved fluorescence microscopy -
G. Krishnamoorthy and Arvind Srivastava |
835-845 |
|
GENERAL ARTICLE |
|
|
Global change scenario: Current and
future with reference to land cover
changes and sustainable agriculture -
South and South-East Asian context -
Suresh K. Sinha |
846-854 |
|
RESEARCH ARTICLES |
|
|
Crystal structure of the peanut lectin-T-antigen
complex. Carbohydrate
specificity generated by water bridges -
R. Ravi-shankar, M. Ravindran, K. Suguna,
A. Surolia and M. Vijayan |
855-861 |
|
Toward a solution for the Himalayan
puzzle: Mechanism of inverted metamorphism constrained by the Siwalik sedimentary
record -
Rasoul B. Sorkhabi and Kazunori Arita |
862-873 |
|
RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS |
|
|
Shock-induced secondary vortices on
a delta wing — An Euler simulation -
Anand Kumar |
874-876 |
|
Plasmid profile of Erwinia herbicola
ATCC 21998 - S. Koul, V. Verma, Anand Kumar
and G. N. Qazi |
876-879 |
|
Satellite data reveals pre-earthquake
thermal anomalies in Killari area,
Maharashtra -
S. K. Srivastav, Manoj Dangwal, A.
Bhattacharya and P. R. Reddy |
880-884 |
|
Fission track dating of obsidian
artefacts from Columbia - H. S. Virk, G. S. Randhawa
and A. S. Sandhu |
884-885 |
|
Asian elephants with larger tusks have
lower parasite loads -
Milind G. Watve and R. Sukumar |
885-889 |
|
BOOK REVIEWS |
|
|
Alzheimer's Disease: From Molecular Biology to Therapy, reviewed by
A.
S. Balasubramanian |
890 |
|
Ethical Values for Excellence in
Education and Science,
reviewed by
K. L. Chopra |
890-891 |
|
Neem,
reviewed by
T. N. Ananthakrishnan |
891 |
|
PERSONAL NEWS |
|
|
A genius called Abdus Salam,
an obituary by H. S.
Virk |
892-894 |
|
June
25, 1997 (12)
|
|
|
In this issue |
899-900 |
|
CORRESPONDENCE |
|
|
Massacre of mahseer fish - K. C. Jayaram |
901 |
|
X-ray crystallography in India -
H. Manohar |
902 |
|
Agriculture in floating fields on Loktak
Lake, Manipur -
O. K. Singh |
902-903 |
|
NEWS |
|
|
Modelling biological systems -
Somdatta Sinha |
903-907 |
|
SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE |
|
|
Detection of submarine delta along Madras
coast, India, using IRS imagery -
SM. Ramasamy |
908-909 |
|
A new overlay in virological work for
animal viruses -
S. S. Gogate |
909-910 |
|
COMMENTARY |
|
|
Medical research on the sick list -
M. S. Valiathan |
911 |
|
GENERAL ARTICLE |
|
|
How relevant is medical
research done in India? -
A study based on
Medline -
Subbiah Amnachalam |
912-922 |
|
SPECIAL SECTION:
EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY |
|
|
Communication signals and sexual
selection in amphibians -
Debjani Roy |
923-927 |
|
Stationary prey insures life and moving
prey ensures death during the hunting flight of gleaning bats - G. Marimuthu |
928-931 |
|
Conflict between parent and offspring
in plants: Predictions, processes and
evolutionary consequences -
R. Uma Shaanker and K. N. Ganeshaiah |
932-939 |
|
Alternations of sexes in a deciduous
tree: temporal dioecy in Bridelia retusa -
Renee M. Borges, Hema Somnathan and
Subhash Mali |
940-944 |
|
Adaptive evolution and the footprints
of history -
Amitabh Joshi |
944-949 |
|
Social evolution - has nature ever
rewound the tape? -
Raghavendra Gadagkar |
950-956 |
|
RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS |
|
|
A novel observation in the measurement
of ultrafast relaxation times using
incoherent light -
S. Venugopal Rao, L. Giribabu, B. G.
Maiya and D. Narayana Rao |
957-960 |
|
Micropropagation of two species of
Rauvolfia (Apocynaceae) -
Vishwanath M. Patil and M. Jayanthi |
961-965 |
|
Quaternary radiolarian faunal changes
in the tropical Indian Ocean: Inferences to paleomonsoonal oscillation of
the 10°S hydrographic front -
Shyam M. Gupta and A. A. Fernandez |
965-972 |
|
Occurrence of Fe, Mn-rich layer in the
distal Bengal fan -
S. V. S. Pavana Putra, M. Lucy Gray,
P. B. Murty and A. S. R. Swamy |
972-976 |
|
ERRATUM |
|
|
Satellite data reveals pre-earthquake
thermal anomalies in
Killari area,
Maharashtra -
S. K. Srivastav, Manoj Dangwal, A.
Bhattacharya and P. R. Reddy [Curr. Sci.,1977, 72, 880-884] |
976 |
|
BOOK REVIEWS |
|
|
The Infamous Boundary - Seven
Decades of Controversy in Quantum
Physics,
reviewed by
N. Mukunda |
977-978 |
|
Yakov Ilich Frenkel: His Work, Life
and Letters,
reviewed by
N. Kumar |
978-979 |
