| Application
of RAPD fingerprinting in selection of micropropagated
plants of Piper longum for conservation -- M.Parani,
Ajith Anand and Ajay Parida |
81-83 |
| Cyanobacterial
mats from the Neoproterozoic Vaishnodevi Limestone,
Jammu and Kashmir -- B.S.Venkatachala and Ashok
Kumar |
83-87 |
| BOOK
REVIEWS |
|
| Annual
review of Immunology 1996, reviewed by R.Manjunath
. 90 Annual review of Plant Physiology and Plant
Molecular Biology, reviewed by S.C.Maheshwari.
92 Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, reviewed
by Vishwa Prakash Arya |
88-92 |
|
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| In
this issue |
99-100 |
| CORRESPONDENCE
|
|
| Impact
factors- Anote of caution, M.Vijayan . 102 Science
and society-New light from universities, B.N.Dwivedi |
101-102 |
| NEWS |
|
| Structure,
dynamics and functions of complex systems -- N.Kumar |
103-105 |
| RESEARCH
NEWS |
|
| Bose
condensation and the atom laser -- R.Srinivasan |
105-107 |
| SCIENTIFIC
CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| Glutathione-s-transferases
activity in Macrobrachium lamarrei during embryonic
and larval development, S.Arun and P.Subramanian
. 109 Vertical transmission of white spot baculovirus
in shrimps - A possibility?, C.V.Mohan, P.M.Sudha,
K.M.Shankar and A.Hegde |
107-110 |
| GENERAL
ARTICLE |
` |
| New
physics from HERA? -- D.P.Roy |
111-114 |
| RESEARCH
ARTICLE |
|
| Doughnut
precursory seismicity pattern and stress conditions
for the Killari (Indian shield) earthquake -- B.Ramalingeswara
Rao |
115-121 |
| SPECIAL
SECTION: BIODIVERSITY OF WESTERN GHATS |
|
| On
the hospitality of Western Ghats habitats for bird
communities -- P.Pramod, N.V.Joshi, Utkarsh Ghate
and Madhav Gadgil |
122-127 |
| Avalanche
index: A new measure of biodiversity based on biological
heterogeneity of the communities -- K.N.Ganeshaiah,
K.Chandrashekara and A.R.V.Kumar |
128-133 |
| Application
of geographic information systems, remote sensing
and landscape ecology approach to biodiversity
conservation in the Western Ghats -- Shaily Menon
and Kamaljit S. Bawa |
134-145 |
| On
the ecological history of the Western Ghats --
M.D.Subash Chandran |
146-155 |
| Evaluating
birds communities of Western Ghats to plan for
a biodiversity friendly development -- P.Pramod,
R.J.Ranjith Daniels, N.V.Joshi and Madhav Gadgil |
156-162 |
| Mapping
genetic diversity of Phyllanthus emblica: Forest
gene bank as a new approach for in situ conservation
of genetic resources -- R.Uma Shaanker and K.N.Ganeshaiah |
163-168 |
| Taxonomic
uncertainities and conservation assessment of the
Western Ghats -- R.J.Ranjit Daniels |
169-170 |
| Patterns
of life history traits among rare/endangered flora
of South India -- R.Lokesh and R.Vasudeva |
171-172 |
| Competition
hierarchy in the ground foraging ant community
in a wet evergreen forest (Western Ghats, India
) : Role of interference behaviour -- P.Basu |
173-179 |
| Freshwater
fish diversity in Kerala part of Nilgiri Biosphere
Reserve -- P.S.Easa and C.P.Shaji |
180-182 |
| Caecilian
diversity of the Western Ghats : IN search of the
rare animals -- Gopalakrishna Bhatta |
183-187 |
| Diversity
of species assemblages of islands: Predictions
and their test using tree species composition of
shola fragments -- K.N.Ganeshaiah, R.Uma Shaanker
and K.S.Bawa |
188-194 |
| RESEARCH
COMMUNICATIONS |
|
| Pressure
variation of the O-H bond length in O-H---O hydrogen
bonds -- S.K.Sikka |
195-197 |
| A
comparative study of antiplasmin activity of some
pyridine derivatives and related compounds -- R.P.Saxena,
O.P.Gulati ,K.C.Saxena, Chanan Singh,Y.S.Prabhakar
and Anil k. Saxena |
198-201 |
| Homing
of polyclonally activated syngeneic T cells at
tumour site and their efficacy in post operative
immunotherapy of malignancy6 in mouse -- Ashim
K. Chakravarthy and Shubra Jha |
201-203 |
| Rhizobium-induced
changes on niterate reductase activity in rhizosphere
and phyllosphere -- Praveen - Kumar and J.C.Tarafdar |
204-205 |
| BOOK
REVIEWS |
|
| Stochastic
Partial Differential Equations: A Modelling , White
Noise Functional Approach, reviewed by Mrinal k.Ghosh
. 207 Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science
1996, reviewed by R.Ramachandran . 208 Experimental
Techniques in Bioelectrochemistry, reviewed by
A.Q.Contractor |
206-208 |
| PERSONAL
NEWS |
|
| A.K.Saha
- An obituary, by Sunirmal Chanda |
209-209 |
|
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August 1997
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| In
this issue |
215-215 |
| NEWS
|
|
| From
opium den to micro-electronics: Return of Hong
Kong adds 'superb S&T asset' to China . 218
On biotechnology, K.R.Narayanan |
217-218 |
| CORRESPONDENCE
|
|
| Biodiversity
- Patents are against national interest, H.K.Goswami
. 219 Sandur schist belt as a potential gold field,
K.R.Raghu Nandan; Response: S.M.Naqvi |
218-220 |
| RESEARCH
NEWS |
|
| A
shot in the leg to treat blocked arteries, C.C.Kartha
. 222 Birth and growth of early continental crust,
A.V.Sankaran |
221-224 |
| COMMENTARY |
|
| Cow's
face in Krishna's belly, style in the corolla tube
and the panglossian paradigm -- K.N.Ganeshaiah |
225-227 |
| Correction:
VAccines for the 21st century : The big picture,
V.Ramalingaswami (curr.sci.,1997,73,18-20) |
227-227 |
| SCIENTIFIC
CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| Variations
in the fluorescence spectra of chlortetracycline
in different spectrofluorometers -- Jose Jocob
and H,Rajendra Kedlaya |
228-229 |
| Generalized
relationship among Indian ornithophilous plants
and their flower visitors: what can we look for?
-- S.Subramanya and T.R.Radhamani |
230-231 |
| Use
of species- specific repetitive DNA probes in understanding
the phylogenetic lineages of wild species belonging
to Brassica-coenospecies -- G.U.Rao, M.Lakhmikumaran
and K.R.Shivanna |
232-232 |
| Ixiolite
and niobian ixiolite : A new occurrence from Metapal
pegmatite, Bastar District,Madhya Pradesh, India
-- O.P.Somani,R.P.Sinha,K.D.P.Singh and D.C.Banerjee |
233-235 |
| Malachite-bearing
shear zone mineralization in the supracrustals
of Sadure hills, Sindhudurg District, Maharashtra
-- P.B.Jadhav and L.K.Kshirsagar |
235-235 |
| GENERAL
ARTICLES |
|
| Existence
and reality in mathematics and natural science
-- N.Mukunda |
236-241 |
| Black
hole event horizons and advection-dominated accretion
--Michael R. Garcia |
242-246 |
| REVIEW
ARTICLE |
|
| Some
geodynamic complexities related to the evolution
of Bengal Fan and the neotectonic activity of the
south Indian shield -- K.S.R.Murthy |
247-251 |
| RESEARCH
ACCOUNT |
|
| Study
of water using ultrafast laser -- Kankan Bhattacharyya |
252-258 |
| RESEARCH
ARTICLES |
|
| Isolation
and characterization of an insertion element-like
repetitive sequence specific for Mycobacterium
tuberculosis complex -- Sujatha Narayanan, R.Sahadevan
and P.R.Narayanan |
259-266 |
| Cloning
and crystallographic analysis of human carbonic
anhydrase I -- A.K.Mohanty, M.B.Satyamurti, V.R.Joshi,
S.K.Mahajan, M.V.Hosur and K.K.Kannan |
267-272 |
| RESEARCH
COMMUNICATIONS |
|
| 14C
air over the Arabian Sea -- R.Bhushan, S.Krishnaswami
and B.L.K.Soumayajulu |
273-276 |
| Luminescence
chronology of seismites at Sumdo ( Spiti valley
) near Kaurik Chango Fault, Northwestern Himalaya
-- D.Banerjee, A.K.Singhvi, T.N.Bagati and R.Mohindra |
276-281 |
| Tectonic
settings of Indo-Gangetic basin revealed from magnetotelluric
data -- Ramesh p. Singh and Umesh K. Singh` |
281-284 |
| Interaction
of Bacillus thuringiensis with Pythium ultimum
and Fusarium oxysporum f.sp.lycopersici: Possible
role in biological control -- G.A.Amer, Rashmi
Aggarwal, D.V.Singh and K.D.Srivastava |
284-286 |
| Significance
of style in cardamom corolla tubes for honey-bee
pollinators -- V.V.Belavadi, Vwenkateshalu and
H.R.Vivek |
287-290 |
| Nicotinamide
and alpha-tocopherol combination partially protects
t-butyl hydroperoxide-induced neutrotoxicity: Implication
for neurodegenerative disease -- M.S.Parihar, Y.Manjula,Saira
Bano, Taruna Hemnani, Tarangini Javeri and Prem
Prakash |
290-293 |
| In
vitro emryo culture and effect of salinity on the
embryonic development of the cultivable freshwater
prawn Macrobrachium malcolmsonii (H.Milne Edwards)
-- M.Jone Samuel, T.Kannupandi and P.Soundarapandian |
294-297 |
| BOOK
REVIEWS |
|
| Stability
Theory, reviewed by M.A.l.Thathachar . 299 Noam
chomsky: A Life of Dissent, reviewed by R.Narasimhan
. 300 Rural and Renewable Energy : Perspectives
from Developing Countries, reviewed by H.S.Mukunda |
298-301 |
| PERSONAL
NEWS |
|
| Prince
of the oceans, An obituary of Jacques-Yves Cousteau
by Radha Kanta Mandal. |
302-302 |
|
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August 1997
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| In
this issue |
311-311 |
| CORRESPONDENCE
|
|
| Medical
research in India -- J.Prakasa Rao |
313-313 |
| SCIENTIFIC
CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| Is
Eremostachys superba Royle ex. Benth really at
the Verge of extinction? -- A.K.Koul, R.Mangotra
and S.Verma |
313-314 |
| RESEARCH
NEWS |
|
| Prediction
of earthquakes - Frustration research -- A.V.Sankaran |
315-316 |
| INSTITUTIONS |
|
| Homi
Baba Centre for Science Education (TIFR) -- S.Ramaseshan |
317-318 |
| GENERAL
ARTICLES |
|
| Inevitability
of nuclear energy -- Raja RAmanna |
319-326 |
| Research
as a career - A study of factors influencing choice
-- N.R.Rajagopal, G.Kartikeyan and Ruchira Tewari |
326-329 |
| REVIEW
ARTICLE |
|
| Geomorphology
and surficial geology of the western continental
shelf and slope of India - A review -- V.Purnachandra
Rao and B.G.Wagle |
330-350 |
| RESEARCH
ACCOUNT |
|
| The
colchicine-tubuline interaction :A review -- Suranjana
Guha and B.Bhattacharyya |
351-358 |
| RESEARCH
ARTICLE |
|
| Multifractal
analysis of seismicity of the Himalayan region
-- S.S.Teotia, K.N.Khattri and P.K.Roy |
359-366 |
| RESEARCH
COMMUNICATIONS |
|
| In
vitro evaluation of red rot toxin influence on
sugacane (Saccharum officinarum L.) var. CoC 671
--G.R.Naik and A.B.Vedamurthy |
367-369 |
| Studies
on herbicidal activity of parthenin, a constituent
of Parthenium hysterophorus, towerds billgoat weed
(Ageratum conyzoides) -- Daizy R. Batish, R.K.Kohli,
H.P.Singh and D.B.Saxena |
369-371 |
| Failure
of brown oak (Quercus semecarpifolia) to renerate
in central Himalaya: A case of environmental semisurprise
-- S.P.Singh, Y.S.Rawat and S.C.Garkoti |
371-374 |
| Primary
cell culture from explants of heart tissue of Indian
major carps -- K.Sushmitha Rao, M.A.Joseph, K.M.Shankar
and C.V.Mohan |
374-376 |
| Microgravity
changes associated with continuing seismic activities
in Koyna area India -- V.M.Tiwari and D.C.Mishra
|
376-381 |
| Indialite
for cordierite gneisses of Eastern Ghats Mobile
Belt, India -- P.V.Ramesh Kumar and K.K.V.S.Raju |
382-385 |
| ERRATA |
|
| Effect
of supplementary ultraviolet-B radiation on young
wheat seedlings -- Prabhat Kumar Sharma, Rajendra
Shetya and Saroj Bhonsle [Curr. Sci., 1997, 72,
400-405] |
385-385 |
| Non-indexed
citedness --Endre Szava-Kovats [Curr. sci. 1997,72,
705-707] |
385-385 |
| BOOK
REVIEWS |
|
| Perfect
Form, reviewed by V.Balakrishnan |
386-386 |
| Aging
and Human Longevity, reviewed by M.S.Kanungo |
386-387 |
| Macsyma
and PDEase 2D (software), reviewed by N.V.Joshi |
387-388 |
|
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September 1997
|
|
|
In
this issue
|
395-395 |
| CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| Medical
research in india, Arjun rajagopalan; Mahtab S.
Bamji; . 398 Inverted metamorphism, Deb Sankar
Bhattacharyya; Responce: Rasoul Sorkhabi and Kazunori
Arita. |
397-398 |
| RESEARCH
NEWS |
|
| A
recombinant malaria vaccine based on a sporozoite
surface antigen -- V.S.Chauhan |
399-399 |
| Probing
single molecules by Raman spectroscopy -- V.Lakshminarayanan |
400-400 |
| NEWS
|
|
| Pathfinder
on Mars . 402 Higher fellowship for Ph D students
and post doctoral researchers |
401-402 |
| OPINION
|
|
| Adverse
drug reactions: DPT and poliomyelitis in developing
countries -- H.V.Wyatt |
402-403 |
| SCIENTIFIC
CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| First
occurrence of Isoetites serratifolius Bose &
Roy from the Deccan intertrappean beds of Kutch,
Gujarat -- B.N.Jana, J.Banerji and R.K.Kar |
403-405 |
| GENERAL
ARTICLE |
|
| Financing
the development and commercialization of indigenous
technology in India -- Pawan Sikka |
406-408 |
| RESEARCH
ACCOUNT |
|
| Variable
low energy positron beams for depth resolved defect
spectroscopy in thin film structures -- G.Amarendra,
B.Viswanathan, G.Venugopal Rao, J.Parimala and
B.Purniah |
409-417 |
| REVIEW
ARTICLES |
|
| Nuclear
protien tyrosine phosphatases and control of cell
proliferation -- Vegesna Radha and Ghanshyam Swarup |
418-429 |
| Soft
X-ray microscope : A new biological tool -- Sathish
Vitta |
429-435 |
| RESEARCH
ARTICLES |
|
| Some
major tectonic elements of western Ganga basin
based on analysis of Bouguer anomaly map -- D.C.Mishra
and G.Laxman |
436-440 |
| RESEARCH
COMMUNICATIONS |
|
| Spinel
(hercynite) adcumulate from the Chimakurti gabbro-anorthosite
pluton, Prakasam District, Andhra Pradesh, India:
Evidence for plagioclase buoyancy and magma mixing
-- E.V.S.S.K.Babu, K.VijayaKumar and David M.Pyle
|
441-444 |
| Proterozoic
intracratonic Godavari rift development at right
angle to the Eastern Ghat Mobile Belt: An example
for collision-induced rifting in SE India -- G.Lakshminarayanan |
444-450 |
| Age
and information of oyster beds of Muthukadu tidal
fiat zone, Chennai Tamil Nadu -- Hema Achyuthan |
450-453 |
| Isolation
of cadmium tolerant Curvularia sp. from
polluted effluents -- S.K.V.Rama Rao Vepachedu,
Naseem Akthar and P.Maruthi Mohan |
453-455 |
| A
rising trend in Kala-azar in Varanasi district,
Uttar Pradesh, India: A recent survey using direct
agglutination test -- Suman Gupta, Suman Tiwari,
Ashim Kumar Bagchi and J.C.Katiyar |
456-459 |
| Active
transposable elements in Indian maize germplasm
and assorted genetic testers -- B.M.Prasanna and
K.R.sarkar |
459-464 |
| Callusing
from rice root explants: Adventitious root formation
precedes callus initiation response -- Arnab Mukhopadhyay,
Deepika Minhas and Anil Grover |
465-469 |
| Protective
effect of beta-carotene on radiation-induced lipid
peroxidation -- S.Ramesh, Kailash Manda and A.L.Bhatia |
470-471 |
| BOOK
REVIEWS |
|
| Annual
Review of Neuroscience 1997, Reviewed by Gaiti
Hasan . 473 Annual Review of Entomology 1997,Reviewed
by K.S.Krishnan . 474 The Self-Avoiding Walk; Interaction
of Random Walks,reviewed by D.Dhar |
472-474 |
| PERSONAL
NEWS |
|
| Lyman
Spitzer and Martin Schwarzschild, Rajaram Nityananda |
475-475 |
| Spitzer
and plasma physics, R.N.Singh |
475-477 |
| HISTORICAL
NOTES |
|
| Subrahmanyam
Chandrasekhar -- Kameshwar C. Wali |
477-479 |
|
25
September 1997
|
|
|
In
this issue
|
487-487 |
| CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| Impact
factors -- P.Uma Devi |
489-489 |
| NEWS
|
|
| CSIR
wins the battle on US patent on turmeric powder
|
489-489 |
| Bioresources
and biotechnology policy for the Asian region:
Recommendation from an international seminar --
Suman Sahai |
490-491 |
|
Biosafety concerns in biotechnology -- Ajay Parida,
Nivedita Ram and M.Lakshmi |
491-492 |
| APS
honours Indian physicist |
493-493 |
| RESEARCH
NEWS |
|
| Events
on and on ... in cellular differentiation: Aspirations
and the rationale -- Sribir Sen and H.K.Majumder
|
493-494 |
| Entombed
bacteria deep inside the earth -- A.V.Sankaran |
495-497 |
| SCIENTIFIC
CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| Sex
allocation in a sequence of oviposition by Lysiphlebia
murzai (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) -- Sharmila
Pandey and Rajendra Singh |
498-499 |
| Didwana-Rajod
meteorite: An unusual chondrite -- B.S.Paliwal,
V.K.Vaya and D.S.Chauhan |
499-502 |
| GENERAL
ARTICLES |
|
| From
square sails to wing sails: The physics of sailing
craft-- V.Radhakrishnan |
503-516 |
| On
the cost of zoological reference collections in
the Indian context -- P.T.Cherian |
517-518 |
| RESEARCH
ACCOUNT |
|
| On
Paley-Wiener properties of the Heisenberg group
-- S.Thagavelu |
519-522 |
| RESEARCH
ARTICLES |
|
| Cytokinins
and in vitro induction of flowering in bamboo:
Bambusa arundinacea (Retz) Willd -- Mohini Joshi
and Rajani S. Nadagauda |
523-526 |
| RESEARCH
COMMUNICATIONS |
|
| The
electronic factor in Bergman cyclization -- Animesh
Pramanik, P.Kalyanaraman and Jayaraman Chandrasekhar |
527-528 |
| Interaction
of temperature and microsomal peroxidase in aflatoxin
degradation by Aspergillus flavus 102566 -- Ved
Pal Singh |
529-532 |
| Uranium
uptake by plants -- Kedar Prasad Singh |
532-535 |
| Uranium
and radon surveys in western Himalaya -- H.S.Virk
|
536-538 |
| Holocene
valley-fill terraces in the lower Mahi Valley,
Gujarat -- D.M.>aurya, J.N.Malik, Rachna Raj
and L.s.Chamyal |
539-542 |
| The
representability of attenuation characteristics
of strong ground motions observed in the 1986 Dharmsala
and 1991 Uttarkashi earthquakes by available empirical
relations -- Dinesh Kumar, S.S.Teotia and K.N.Khattri |
543-548 |
| BOOK
REVIEW |
|
| The
Rustless Wonder: A Study of the Iron Pillar at
Delhi, reviewed by S.Ranganathan |
549-549 |
|
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October 1997
|
|
|
In
this issue
|
555-555 |
| CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| Darwinian
style . . . , V.V.Belavadi and H.R.Vivek; . . .
or a Panglossian guile?,K.N.Ganeshaiah |
557-558 |
| NEWS
|
|
| Quasicrystals
-- N.K.Mukhopadhyay and Arvind Sinha |
558-560 |
| RESEARCH
NEWS |
|
| Is
cAMP necessary for Dictyostelium development? --
M.Azhar and Vidyanand Nanjuundiah |
560-562 |
| Micro-organisms
as fish feed in fish industries -- Prakash B. Bhosale |
562-563 |
| SCIENTIFIC
CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| Association
of Frerea indica Dalz., an endangered plant
species with Euphorbia neriifolia L. and its importance
in habitat conservation -- P.Tetali, Sujata Tetali,
D.K.Kulkarni and M.S.Kumbhojkar |
563-565 |
| Heparin
from seaweeds -- A.Subramanian, L.Kannan, T.Pugalendhi
and M.Muruganantham |
566-566 |
| A
note on the ostracode fauna from the jurassic beds
of Habo Hill, Kachahh -- S.C.Khosala and S.R.Jakhar |
566-569 |
| GENERAL
ARTICLES |
|
| Role
of symmetries in the science versus the arts -
A contrast -- R.Rajaraman |
570-575 |
| Gallic
and salicyclic acids: Sentinels of plant defence
against insects -- T.N.Ananthakrishnan |
576-579 |
| RESEARCH
ACCOUNT |
|
| Grain
boundary segregation in metals -- P.Rama Rao |
580-592 |
| RESEARCH
ARTICLE |
|
| Our
threatend archaeological heritage: A case study
from the Tamil Nadu coast -- Sundaresh, A.S.Gaur
and R.R.Nair |
593-598 |
| RESEARCH
COMMUNICATIONS |
|
| Interaction
of porphyrins with concanavalin A and pea lectin
-- Kancheenadham Bhanu, Sneha Sudha Komath, Bhaskar
G. Maiya and Musti J. Swamy |
598-602 |
| Bioleaching
of copper from ferromanganese sea nodules of Indian
Ocean -- Seema Khan, Rani Gupta and Rajendra Kumar
Saxena |
602-605 |
| Midge-trapping
behaviour and floral biology of Theriophonum
crenatum Blume. Rumph. (Araceae) -- Sumesh
R. Dakwale and S.Bhatnagar |
606-608 |
| Photoautotrophic
shoot culture: An economical alternative for the
production of total alkaloid from Catgaranthus
roseus (L.) G.Don. -- Adinpunya Mitra, Bhashir
M. Khan and Subhan K. Rawal |
608-609 |
| Leishmania
donovani infects lymphocyte cell lines in vitro
-- Partha Pratim Manna, Anirban Basu, Asim Saha,
Md Quamarul Hassan, Sandeep Mukherjee, Sabita Majumdar,
Samit Adhya and Santu Bandyopadhyay |
610-614 |
| Estimation
of sublethal toxicity of zinc chloride by histopathological
analysis of fish (Heteropneustes fossilis, Bloch)
epidermis -- S.Hemalatha and T.K.Banerjee |
614-621 |
| BOOK
REVIEWS |
|
| The
Simple Science of FLight: From Insects to Jumbo
Jets, reviewed by S.Dhawan |
622-623 |
| Clifford
(Geometric) Algebras, reviewed by K.B.Sinha |
623-623 |
| HISTORICAL
NOTES |
|
| Archaeoastronomy
and literature -- Subhash C. Kak |
624-627 |
|
25
October 1997
|
|
|
In
this issue
|
631-632 |
| CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| Have
we killed naturalists and natural history? -- A.Raman |
633-633 |
| NEWS |
|
| Palaeobotony
on stamps |
633-634 |
| PSLV-C1/IRS-1D
Mission |
634-636 |
| RESEARCH
NEWS |
|
| Polar
wander and the Cambrian biological leap -- A.V.Sankaran
|
636-639 |
| COMMENTARY |
|
| A
statistically valid definition of bias is needed
to determine whether the Science Citation index
discriminates against third world journals -- Eugene
Garfield |
639-641 |
| SCIENTIFIC
CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| Flowering
in Bambusa vulgaris var vittata -- C.k.Jhon and
Rajani S. Nadgauda |
641-643 |
| Risk
potential of a biocontrol agent unmasked -- B.Prithiviraj
and U.P.Singh` |
643-644 |
| Chemical
ecology of certain tropical fruit pulp -- Suparna
Mandal and R.L.Brahmachary |
644-646 |
| Why
do plants possess laxatives? -- R.Uma Shaanker,
K.V.Ravishankar and K.N.Ganeshaiah |
646-647 |
| GENERAL
ARTICLES |
|
| Electrically
conducting polymers: An emerging technology --
A.K.Bakshi and Pooja Rattan |
648-651 |
| Does
biotechnology need a new database treaty? -- Suresh
Chandran |
652-657 |
| RESEARCH
ACCOUNT |
|
| A
bifunctional baculovirus homologous region (hr1)
sequence: Enhancer and orginal of replication functions
reside within the same sequence element -- Saman
Habib and Seyed E. Hasnain |
658-666 |
| RESEARCH
ARTICLES |
|
| Annual
and seasonal mean buoyancy fluxes for the tropical
Indian Ocean -- T.G.Prasad |
667-674 |
| Particle
bombardment: A simple and efficient method of alfalfa
(Medicagosativa L) pollen transformation
-- Shashi M. Ramaiah and Daniel Z.Skinner |
674-682 |
| RESEARCH
COMMUNICATIONS |
|
| Strain
determination from three known streches - A trignometric
solution -- Amit Tripathi and V.K.Gairola |
682-683 |
| Biochemical
studies evaluating the antiulcerogenic potential
of UL-409,a herbal drug formulation on experimental
peptic ulcer in rats -- A.J.Vanisree and C.S.Shyamaladevi |
684-686 |
| outbreak
of falciparum malaria in submerged villages of
Narayanganj PHC, district Mandla due to Narmada
Irrigation Project, Central India (Madhya Pradesh)
-- Neeru Singh, M.M.Shukla, S.K.Chand and V.P.Sharma
|
686-691 |
| Evalution
of superoxide dismutase on chromosome aberrations
induced by bleomycin alone or in combination of
reduced glutathione -- A.Chatterjee and S.Choudhuri |
691-693 |
| Influence
of superoxide dismutase on chromosome aberrations
induced by bleomycin alone or in combination of
reduced glutathione -- A.Chatterjee and S.Choudhuri |
693-697 |
| Direct
development in the rhacophorid frog, Philatus
variabilis (Gunther) -- N.S.Patil and R.D.Kanamadi |
697-701 |
| Evidence
of ductile shearing from the extensional crenulation
cleavage: An example from Zawar area , the Aravalli
mountain -- T.K.Biswal, Subhasree Nayak, T.R.Harish
and Smita Unikrishnan |
701-703 |
| BOOK
REVIEWS |
|
| Boielectrochemistry:
Principles and Practice, reviewed by V.Sitaramam |
704-704 |
| Annual
Review of Physiology 1997, reviewed by J.Prakasa
Rao |
704-706 |
| HISTORICAL
NOTES |
|
| Rutherford
and Bohr -- Sir Rudolf Peierls |
707-712 |
|
10
November 1997
|
|
|
In
this issue
|
719-720 |
| CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| Need
for a 'Science Media Centre' -- Dilip M. Salwi
|
721-722 |
| Swarnajayanthi
fellowships -- Ashwini Nangia |
722-722 |
| Medical
research in India -- Vanaja Paul |
722-723 |
| NEWS
|
|
| IRS-1D
beam good quality pictures . 727 IRS-1D orbit raising
manoeuvre . 727 International Academy of Astronautics
Book Award |
724-727 |
| European
Patent Office delivers favourable interim judgement
on opposition to Neem Patent |
727-728 |
| Physics
of melts -- V.K.Gaur |
728-729 |
| RESEARCH
NEWS |
|
| Supernova
1987A: Ten years after -- Bhaskar Datta |
729-731 |
| OPINION |
|
| Traditional
Knowledge systems and western science -- D.P.Agarwal |
731-733 |
| SCIENTIFIC
CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| Multiple
shoot formation and in vitro fruiting from
cotyledonary nodes of Vigna mungo (L.) Hepper
-- S.Ignacimuthu, G.Franklin and G.Melchias |
733-735 |
| Cambrian
trilobite biostratigraphy from the Himalaya --
Nigel C. Hughes |
736-737 |
| GENERAL
ARTICLES |
|
| Design
of an atomic force microscope for topographic studies
-- A.D.Kaul, Narinder Singh, Anil Sonkusare, Pradeep
Kumar and S.S.Wadhwa |
738-743 |
| Groundwater
quality: Focus on fluoride and flurosis in Rajasthan
-- Vinod Agrawal, A.K.Vaish and Prerana Vaish |
743-746 |
| RESEARCH
ACCOUNT |
|
| Charge
transfer complexes revisited -- M.S.Hegde |
747-754 |
| REVIEW
ARTICLE |
|
| Cloning
stratergies for polymerase chain reaction products
-- Anjan Misra and Subrata Sinha |
755-761 |
| RESEARCH
ARTICLES |
|
| A
three-dimensionally modulated structure in chiral
smectic-C liquid crystal -- P.A.Pramod, R.Prathibha
and N.V.Madhusudana |
761-765 |
| An
Investigation into the recent malaria outbreak
in district Gurgaon, Haryana, India -- K.Raghavendra,
Sarala K. Subbarao and V.P.Sharma |
766-770 |
| RESEARCH
COMMUNICATION |
|
| Assessment
of health risk due to exposure of radon and its
daughter products in the lower atmosphere -- R.C.Ramola,
M.S.Kandari and R.B.S.Rawat |
771-774 |
| Single
strandconformation polymorphism profiles with biotinylated
PCR products to detect mutation in rpoB gene
of Mycobacterium tuberculosis -- N.Selvakumar,
Stuart M. Wilson, Ruth McNerney and P.R.Narayanan |
774-777 |
| Eroding
traditional crop diversity imperils the sustainability
of agricultural systems in central Himalaya --
R.K.Maikhuri, R.L.Semwal, K.S.Rao, S.Nautiyal and
K.G.Saxena |
777-782 |
| Discovery
of carbonaceous megafossils (Chuaria-Tawuia
assemblage) from the
Neoproterozoic Vindhyan succession (Rewa Group),
Allahabad-Rewa area, India -- Vibhuti Rai, Manoj Shukla
and Rajita Gautam |
783-788 |
| Fluid
of magnesitization: Diagenetic orgin of Bauri magnesite,
Kumaun Lesser Himalaya -- Rajesh Sharma and M.N.Joshi
|
789-792 |
| A
new sapphirine occurrence from Kambam valley, Tamil
Nadu and its possible relation to the Pan-African
tectothermal event -- K.Francis Anto, A.S.Janardhan
and P.Sivasubramanian |
792-796 |
| On
the seismic vulnerability of Jabalpur region: Evidence
from deep seismic imaging -- P.R.Reddy, Kalachand
Sain and A.S.N.Murty |
796-799 |
| BOOK
REVIEWS |
|
|
From Physics
to Metaphysics, reviewed by M.H.H.Ansari
|
801-801 |
| Gondwana
Research, reviewed by B.P.Radhakrishna |
801-802 |
|
25
November 1997
|
|
|
In
this issue
|
807-807 |
| CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| Protection
of intellectual property rights -- C.R.Bhatia |
809-810 |
| Agriculture
in Loktak Lake,Manipur - What fate Sangia? -- Shridhar
D. Bhat |
810-811 |
| NEWS |
|
| SIRO
number swell: 519 and counting |
811-811 |
| RESEARCH
NEWS |
|
| The
different locked states of an allosteric membrane
channel protien unlocked -- S.K.Sikdar |
811-814 |
| SCIENTIFIC
CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| Nitrogenase
activity in novel vesicles of Frankia --
G.Ganesh |
814-815 |
| Sacred
grove relics as bird refugia -- Debal Deb, Kaushik
Deuti and K.C.Malhotra |
815-817 |
| GENERAL
ARTICLES |
|
| Symmetry
in chemistry and beyond -- Magdolna Hargittai and
Istvan Hargittai |
818-829 |
| Conservation
of India's endangered mega animals: Tiger and lion
-- T.N.Khoshoo |
830-842 |
| REVIEW
ARTICLE |
|
| Evolutionary
extremophilic Archaeal domain of life -- Rishitosh
Prasad and Sabyasachi Sarkar |
842-854 |
| RESEARCH
ARTICLE |
|
| Source
parameters of Jabalpur earthquake of 22 may 1997
-- S.N.Bhattacharya, A.K.Ghose, G.Suresh, P.R.Baidya
and R.C.Saxena |
855-863 |
| RESEARCH
COMMUNICATION |
|
| Are
chaotic particle trajectories fractals? -- Binson
Joseph |
864-868 |
| Seed
abortion in an animal dispersed species, Syzygium
cuminii (L.) Skeels (Myrtaceae): The chemical
basis -- K.S.Krishnamurthy, R.Uma Shaanker and
K.N.Ganeshaiah |
869-873 |
| Application
of marker-assisted selection in rice for bacterial
blight resistance gene, Xa21 -- J.N.Reddy, M.R.Baraoidan,M.A.Bernardo,
M.L.C.George and R.Sridhar |
873-875 |
| Cheliped
laterality in freshwater prawn, Macrobrachium
nobillii (Henderson and Matthai, 1910) -- P.Mariappan
and Chellam Balasundaram |
875-877 |
| Neogene
deformation of Siwaliks affected by the Delhi-Hardwar
ridge as seen in satellite data, India -- Arun
K. Saraf and J.D.Das |
877-880 |
| Thrium-rich
monazites from the beach sands of Kalingapatnam-Baruva
Coast, Andhra Pradesh,East Coast of India -- D.Rajasekhar
Reddy and V.Siva Sankara Prasad |
880-882 |
| ERRATUM:
Observed and theoretical acceleration response
spectra in the Tehri region. Implications for the
seismic hazard in the region -- K.N.Khattri [Curr.
Sci., 1995, 69, 161-171] |
882-882 |
| BOOK
REVIEW |
|
| Conservation
and Management of Biological Resources in Himalaya,
reviewed by Shri Niwas Singh |
883-884 |
| HISTORICAL
NOTES |
|
| Planck's
radiation thermodynamics and its consequence: Laue's
thermodynamics of interference -- Amar Nath Nigam |
885-891 |
| PERSONAL
NEWS |
|
| Surjit
Singh - An obituary -- S.Subramanian, T.Pradeep
and P.T.Manoharan |
892-892 |
|
10
December 1997
|
|
|
In
this issue
|
895-896 |
| CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| Medical
research in India -- Siddhartha Shankar Ray ;
Response: S.Arunachalam |
897-899 |
| Ensuring
global exposure -- J.Prakasa Rao |
899-900 |
| NEWS
|
|
| Impacts
of disturbance on genetic resource of tropical
forests -- Tim J. Boyle |
900-900 |
| Honorary
members of the International Liquid Crystal Society |
900-900 |
| RESEARCH
NEWS |
|
| Subducting
sea floors bridge the mantle divide -- A.V.Sankaran |
901-903 |
| COMMENTARY |
|
| Synthetic
milk-Genesis,current status and options -- Parikshit
Bansal and Neena Bansal |
904-905 |
| SCIENTIFIC
CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| A
Surfactant stabilized sol as substrate for surface
enhanced Raman scattering spectroscopy -- Tarasankar
Pal, Nikhil R. Jana and Tapan K.Sau |
906-907 |
| Species
identification of snake-head fishes by nuclear
DNA RFLP: Its taxonomic implications -- B.K.Padhi
and R.K.Mandal |
907-908 |
| GENERAL
ARTICLE |
|
| Ethnotherapeutics
and modern drug development: Potential of Ayurveda
-- Sukh Dev |
909-928 |
| SPECIAL
SECTION: MODELLING IN BIOLOGY |
|
| Forays
into theoretical immunology -- Lee A. Segel |
929-932 |
| Modelling
biochemical oscillations and cellular rhythms --
Albert Goldbeter |
933-939 |
| Genetic
modelling of complex human disorders -- Swapan
K. Nath and Partha P. Majumder |
940-948 |
| Are
ecological systems chaotic? - An enquiry into population
growth models -- Somdatta Sinha |
949-956 |
| Mathematical
modelling of insulin kinetics -- Gita Subba Rao,
J.S.Bajaj and J.Subba Rao |
957-967 |
| Effect
of phenotypic plasticity on adaptation and evolution:
A genetic algorithm analysis -- Narayan Behera |
968-976 |
| Controlling
chaos in biology -- Sudeshna Sinha |
977-983 |
| Modelling
plant growth and architecture: Some recent advances
and applications to agronomy and forestry -- Ph.
de Reffye and F.Houllier |
984-992 |
| REVIEW
ARTICLE |
|
| Mechanism
of insuline action -- B.B.P.Gupta |
993-1003 |
| RESEARCH
ARTICLE |
|
| Channel
constituents of alkali-poor Orissan beryls: An
FT-IR spectroscopic study -- George Mathew, R.V.Karanth,
T.K.Gundu Rao and R.S.Deshpande |
1004-1011 |
| RESEARCH
COMMUNICATIONS |
|
| Sialic
acid levels in spermatozoa and luminal fluid of
normal and infertile men -- M.Rajalakshmi, R.S.Sharma,
P.C.Pal and M.M.kapur |
1012-1015 |
| Monte
Carlo simulation of laser light scattering in mammalian
organs -- Megha Singh and Susamma Chacko |
1015-1019 |
| Microwave
dissolution techniques for the analysis of geological
materials by ICP-MS -- V.Balaram |
1019-1023 |
| Erratum |
|
| Surjit
Singh - An obituary [ curr Sci., 1997, 73,
892] |
1023-1023 |
| BOOK
REVIEWS |
|
| Vibrational
Spectroscopy: Theory and Applications, reviewed
by S.Mohan |
1024-1024 |
| Annual
Review of Immunology 1997, reviewed by Satyajit
Rath |
1025-1026 |
|
25
December 1997
|
|
|
In
this issue
|
1035-1035 |
| CORRESPONDENCE |
|
| Corolla
tubes, style sizes and natural selection -- M.D.Deshpande;
response, V.V.Belavadi and H.R.Vivek |
1037-1037 |
| Science
Media Centre -- N.C.Jain; K.K.Mishra |
1038-1038 |
| NEWS
|
|
| High
pressure research -- K.R.Rao |
1038-1041 |
| RESEARCH
NEWS |
|
| 1997
Nobel Prize for Medical: Prions as proteinaceous
infectious particles -- P.K.Gupta |
1041-1045 |
| OPINION
|
|
| Decade
of the brain: Reflection on some Indian concers
in cognitnve neuroscience -- T.Ramakrishna |
1045-1047 |
| GENERAL
ARTICLE |
|
| Gas
hydrates: A global perspective -- N.K.Thakur and
T. Gangadhara Rao |
1048-1051 |
| Fuel
for power -- Yoginder k. Alagh |
1051-1056 |
| New
insights on the corrosion of the Delhi iron pillar
based on historical and dimensional analysis --
R.Balasubramaniam |
1057-1067 |
| REVIEW
ARTICLE |
|
| Stereochemistry
of peptides and polypeptides containing omega amino
acids -- Arindam Banerjee and P.Balram |
1067-1077 |
| RESEARCH
ACCOUNT |
|
| Mantle
plumes, convection, and U.R.Christensen |
1078-1083 |
| RESEARCH
ARTICLES |
|
| The
systematics of fundamentals particles and unstable
nuclear systems using the concept of continuity
and discreteness -- Raja Ramanna and Anju Sharma
|
1083-1097 |
| Determination
of kinetic parameters and Thermodynamic constant
of antigen-antibody reaction by solid phase binding
method -- G.S.Murthy |
1097-1103 |
| RESEARCH
COMMUNICATION |
|
| Female
cancer patients patterns change from 1990 to 1994
in Manipal and Western India: Cervical and breast
increases -- Sarala Krishnamurthy and Pratap Kumar
Narayan |
1104-1108 |
| Optimal
pH conditions for the growth, release and stability
of Japanese encephalitis virus in PS cell line
-- S.V.Gangodkar, S.P.Paranjape, V.D.Kadam and
R.P.Deolankar |
1108-1110 |
| A
new human fossil find from the Central Narmada
Basin and its chronology -- Anek Ram Sankhyan |
1110-1111 |
| The
mode of epibiont attachment on molluscs in Chandipur
Beach, Orissa and its palaeontological implications
-- Tuhin Ghosh |
1111-1114 |
| Evidence
of middle to Late Holocene neotectonic activity
in the Ganga Plain -- I.B.Singh, G.Rajagopalan,
K.K.Agarwal, P.Srivastava, M.Sharma and S.Sharma
|
1114-1117 |
| Landslide
hazard analysis of the area around Dehra Dun and
Mussoorie, Uttar Pradesh -- Sambhu V. Panikkar
and V.Subramanyam |
1117-1123 |
| BOOK
REVIEWS |
|
| Resonance
of Ramanujan's Mathematics, reviewed by
K.Srinivasa Rao |
1124-1125 |
|
Coral Reef Fishes:
Caribbean, Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean including
the Red Sea, reviewed by
T.J.Pandian
|
1126-1126 |
|
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