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In
this Issue
|
3-3
|
Correspondence
|
|
Insecticide-impregnated
mosquito nets: An alternate strategy for malaria
control -- Vas Dev
|
5-5
|
Tectonic
elements of western Ganga basin -- Iqbaluddin
and Saifuddin: Response: D.C. Mishra and G. Laxman
|
6-6
|
News
|
|
Tectonics
of continental interiors -- C. P. Rajendran
|
6-8
|
C.N.R.
Rao honoured
|
8-8
|
Research
News
|
|
How
do we 'miss the wood for the trees'? Do females have
natural flair for lullaby? Cognitive neuroscoence
tells it all (or does it?)
|
9-10
|
Magnetic
reconnection on the sun: Ultraviolet observations of
bi-directional plasma jets -- B.N. Dwivedi and anita
Mohan
|
10-12
|
Commentary
|
|
Assessing
genetic diversity in wild mega animals using non-invasive
methods -- T.N. Khoshoo
|
13-14
|
Scientific
Correspondence
|
|
Photochemical
formation of gold nanoparticles in aqueous Triton X-100
and its application in SERS spectroscopy -- Anjali
Pal
|
14-16
|
Biosafety
of transgenic crops:Precautions for case-by-case risk
assessment -- S.R. Bhat and V.L. Chopra
|
16-17
|
A
new destructive disease of neem (Azadirachta
indica) incited by Phomopsis azadirachitae
-- S. Shankara Bhat, M.K. Sateesh and N.S. Devaki
|
17-19
|
General
Articles
|
|
A
declining trend in the interest of fresh graduates for
doctoral and post-doctoral training in different areas
of science and technology -- Sushil Kumar , Sushila
Khilnami and Y.P.Sehgal
|
20-24
|
Prospects
of success of biotechnological approaches for improving
tolerance to drought stress in crop plants -- Renu
Khanna-Chopra and Suresh K. Sinha
|
25-34
|
Review
Article
|
|
Potential
applications of antisence RNA technology in plants --
Ratna Kumrla, Rashmi Verma and Manichikatla Venkat
rajam
|
35-41
|
Research
Articles
|
|
Need
for soil study to determine degradation and landscape
stability -- T. Bhattacharyya, S. Mukhopadhyay, U. Baruah
and G.S. Chamuah
|
42-47
|
Detection
and identification of seismic signals using articles
using artificial neural networks -- Falguni Roy
|
47-54
|
Research
Communications
|
|
X-ray
contact microscopic imaging in keV spectral regions
using laser-produced plasmas -- J.A. Chakera, P.D. gupta,
YU. Geondgian, V.V. Sorokin, V.Yu. Korol and V.P.
Avtonomov
|
54-58
|
Effect
of 45 MeV 7 Li and 68 MeV 16 O charges particles on
the microsomal membrane fluidity -- M. Srivastava, D.
Choudhary, A. Sarma and R.K. Kale
|
58-61
|
Regeneration
of late leaf spot-resistant groundnut plants from
Cercosporidium personatum culture filtrate-treated
callus -- P. Venkatachalam, K.Shankara Rao, P.B.
Kavi Kishor and N. Jayabalan
|
61-65
|
Biochemical
analysis and skin sensitivity test of the allergenic
pollen of Datura metel L.-- Sanjukta parul
and Sudhendu Mandal
|
66-68
|
Methyl
farnesoate stimulates ovarian maturation in the freshwater
crab Oziotelphusa senex senex Fabricius
-- P. Sreenivasula Reddy and R. Ramamurthi
|
68-70
|
Iron
microprobe 207 Pb/206Pb zircon ages for gneisspgranitoid
rocks from Bundelkhand massif: Evidence for archaean
components -- M.E.A. Mondal, K.K. Sharma, A.Rahman
and J.N. Goswami
|
70-75
|
Seismotectonics
of northern India -- T,N. Gowd, S.V. Srirama Rao and
K.B. Chary
|
75-80
|
Book
Reviews
|
|
The
Evolving Female: a Life-History Perspective, reviewed
by Anindya Sinha
|
81-82
|
Acceptability
of Risk from Radiatiion-Application to Human Space Flight,
reviewed by S. Chandrashekar
|
82-83
|
Technobrat,
reviewed by R. Narasimhan
|
84-85
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25
January 1998
|
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In
This Issue
|
95-95
|
Correspondence
|
|
Creativity
in science -- Om P. Sharma
|
97-98
|
Use
of lint as soil conditioner -- S.N. Balasubrahmanyam
|
98-98
|
Square-grid
patterns in a twist boundary phase -- Geetha G. Nair;
response by N.V. Madhusudana
|
98-99
|
News
|
|
Facilitation
centre for industrial plasma technologist set up at
IPR
|
99-100
|
Malaria-
Hundred years after the great discovery -- V.S. Chauhan
and V.P. Sharma
|
100-103
|
Academy's
annual Meeting -- Subbiah Arunachalam
|
103-106
|
Research
News
|
|
1997
Nobel Prize for Physics:Laser cooling and trapping of
atoms -- R. Srinivasan
|
106-110
|
Commentary
|
|
The
population and conservation status of Asian elephants
in the Periyar Toger Reserve, Southern India -- Uma
Ramakrishnan, J.A. santosh, Uma Ramakrishnan
and R. Sukumar
|
110-113
|
Scientific
Correspondence
|
|
Typical
liptinitic bodies from Neyveli Lignite deposits, India--
Alpana Singh and Basant K. Misra
|
113-114
|
General
Articles
|
|
Challenges
in neuroscience -- Masao Ito
|
115-120
|
Pollinator
management: An eco-friendly green-revolution eludes
India--R.R. Savoor
|
121-125
|
Review
Article
|
|
Fluorescence
in situ hybridization in genome, chromosome and gene
identification in plants -- U.C. Lanania
|
126-133
|
Research
Article
|
|
Detailed
study of Samta, one of the arsenic-affected villages
of jessore District, Bangladesh -- Bhajan K. Biswas,
Ratan K. Dhar,Gautam Samanta, Badal K. Mandal,
dipankar Chakraborti, Imtiaz Paruk, Kazl Saiful
Islam, Md. Moniruzzaman Chowdhury Ashraful Islam
and Shibtosh Roy
|
134-145
|
Research
Communications
|
|
Optoelectronic
device, a useful tool ito record surfacing behaviour
in air-breathing fishes -- atanu Kumar Pati, seema
gupta and Renu Maheshwari
|
146-149
|
shape
change and hypotunic shock response measurement to assess
functional efficacy of platelets -- Lissy K. Krishnan
|
150-153
|
Potential
removal of particulate matter and the nitrogen through
roots of water hyacinth in a tropical natural wetland
-- S.K. Billore, Ritu Bharadia and Anil Kumar
|
154-156
|
Medicinal
Plant cultivation and biosphere reserve management :
a case study from the Nanda Devi biosphere Reserve,
Himalaya -- R.K. Maikhuri, S. Nautiyal K.S. Rao
and K.G. Saxena
|
157-163
|
Change
in wheat productivity with time in long-term experiment
-- P.R. Vaishnav, H.M. Bhatt and S.K. Dixit
|
163-168
|
Characteristics
of the 1997 Jabalpur earthquake and their hearing
on its mechanism -- Kusala rajendran and C.P. Rajendran
|
168-174
|
Book
Reviews
|
|
The
theory of Superconductivity reviewed by Sriram Shastry
|
175-175
|
Annual
Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology 1997 reviewed
by Sandhya S. Visweswariah
|
176-177
|
Personal
News
|
|
Putcha
Venkateswarlu- an obituary -- N.A. Narasimhan
|
178-178
|
|
10
February 1998
|
|
In
This Issue
|
183-183 |
Correspondence
|
|
DTP
and poliomyelitis in developing countries -- T.Jacob
John
|
185-187 |
Bacteria
around hydrothermal vents -- D.K.Maheshwari
|
187-187 |
News
|
|
Monsoon:
Past, present and future -- J.Srinivasan
|
187-189
|
National Centre for Ultrafast Processes -- P.Natarajan |
189-189 |
| Research
News |
|
| Indo-Australian
plate: Fresh reconstruction -- A.V.Sankaran |
190-191 |
Opinion |
|
| Science
in India: 1947-1997 -- Avinash Khare |
191-195 |
Scientific
Correspondence
|
|
| In
vitro flowering and seed setting formation of coriander
(coriandrum sativum L.) -- R.Stephen and
N.Jayabalan |
195-197 |
| General
Article |
|
| Changing
scenario of food colours in India -- Ramesh V. Bhat
and Pulkit Mathur |
198-202
|
| Malthus
and Mendel: Population, science and sustainable food
security -- M.S.Swaminathan |
203-205 |
| Review
Article |
|
Bacterial
leaf blight of rice: New insights from molecular genetics
-- Ramesh V. Soni
|
206-212 |
| Research
Article |
|
| Geodetic
constraints on the translation and deformation of India:
Implications for future great Himalayan earthquakes
-- Roger Bilham, Frederick Blume, Rebecca Bendick
and Vinod K. Gaur |
213-229 |
| Reassessment
of earthquake hazard based on a fault-bend fold model
of the Himalayan plate-boundary fault -- Robert
S. Yeats and V.C.Thakur |
230-233 |
| Research
Communications |
|
| Current
dependence of ideality factor of silicon diodes -- K.K.Nanda |
234-237 |
| CD4
positive T-cells produce cytotoxic factor in cases of
dengue haemorrhagic fever -- Renu Agarwal, U.C.Chaturvedi,
A.Misra, S. Kapoor, R.Nagar and R.Tandon |
237-239
|
| Rooting
of microshoots of Mangifera indica L. cv. Amrapali
-- Hussain Ara, Uma Jaiswal and V.S. Jaiswal |
240-242 |
| Establishment
of callus cultures of Nyctanthes arbor-tristis
from juvenile explants
and detection of secondary metabolites in the callus
-- R.Indira Iyer, V.Mathuram and P.M.Gopinath |
243-246
|
| Photoperiodic
regulation of reproduction in migratory bunting, Emberiza
melanocephala: An evidence for external coincidence
model -- Manoj Kumar Mishra and P.D. Tewary |
246-248 |
| Incidence
of parental care in the cockroach Thorax porcellana
(Saravas) (Blaberidae: Blattaria) -- S.Bhoopathy |
248-251 |
| Field
geology, petrography, and orthopyroxene clusters of
the Dhule-Parola dike, Tapi valley, central Deccan basalt
province -- S.Keshav, H.C.Sheth and D.Chandrasekharam |
252-254 |
| Mud
eruption in Elagiri region, Tamil Nadu, South Indian
peninsular shield -- S.M. Ramasamy, C. J. Kumanan, R.
Sivakumar, R. Mani, E.B. Joyce and Ian Bishop |
254-257 |
| Book
Reviews |
|
Photosynthesis and the environment, reviewed
by Prasanna Mohanty |
258-258 |
| Why
Toast Land Jelly-Side Down, reviewed by N.Kumar |
258-259 |
Personal
News
|
|
An
Outstanding nutrition scientist, An obituary of B.V.Ramasastri,
Kalluri Subba Rao, M.K.Janardanasarma and V.Sitaramam
|
260-260 |
|
25
February 1998
|
|
In
This Issue
|
271-272 |
Correspondence
|
|
| Protection
of IPR -- K.K.Mishra |
273-273 |
| News
|
|
| Boundary
layer transition in turbomachines -- Roddam Narasimha |
274-279 |
Research
News
|
|
Force of life and death -- N.Bhandari |
279-280 |
| Oceanic
methane hydrates: Untapped fossil-fuel reservoirs --
A.V.Sankaran |
281-282 |
Scientific
Correspondence
|
|
A
32-base numeral system -- Kirit S. Yajnik
|
283-283 |
| Betel
leaf extract can be both antiperoxidative and peroxidative
in nature -- Sunanda Panda and Anand Kar |
284-285
|
| Source
dependent virulence of Vibrio harveyi against
cultivable shrimps -- K.Ravi, N.Jayabalan, K.Abokare
and T.M.Anil |
286-287 |
General
Article
|
|
Nernst
expression and Poisson's equation: Are they consistant?
-- V.S.Vaidhyanathan
|
288-296 |
| Wait
and see strategy for leaf miner control in rainfed groundnut
-- S.A.Paranjpe and A.P.Gore |
296-299 |
Special
Section: Raman Spectroscopy
|
|
Unforgettable
Raman -- Mitsuo Ito
|
300-303 |
| Heme
protiens and development of resonance Raman Spectroscopy
- A personal account -- Thomas G. Spiro |
304-307 |
| Role
of Raman spectroscopy in high pressure research -- A.Jayaraman
and S.K.Sharma |
308-316 |
| Vibrational
and electronic excitations in isotropically controlled
diamonds -- T.R.Anthony, A.D.Alvarenga, M.Grimsditch,
Hyunjung Kim, A.K.Ramdas, S.Rodriguez and R.Vogelgesang |
317-321 |
| Interference
enhanced Raman spectroscopy and ultrafast chemical dynamics
-- Nandita Biswas and Siva Umapathy |
322-327 |
Review
Article
|
|
Application
of phytoecdysteriods in sericulture -- M.V.Chandrakala,
V.G.Maribashetty and H.K.Jyothi
|
328-340 |
Research
Article
|
|
| Calcutta's
industrial pollution: Groundwater arsenic contamination
in a residential area and suffering of people due
to industrial effluent discharge - An eight -year
sudy report -- D.Chakraborti, G.Samanta, B.K.Mandal,
T. Roy Chowdhury, C.R.Chanda, B.K.Biswas, R.K.Dhar,
G.K.Basu and K.C.Saha |
341-346 |
| Research
Communication |
|
| Molecular
cloning and detection of cucumber mosaic cucumovirus
causing infectious chlorosis disease of banana using
DNA probes -- G.Kiranmai, T.Satyanarayana and P.Sreenivasulu |
346-355 |
| Isolation
of fungi from tropical peat of Southern India -- K.P.Girivasan,
K.Rajagopal, V.Muruganandam and T.S.Suryanarayanan |
356-359 |
| Tiny
digitate stromatolite (Yelma digitata Grey),
Chitrabhanukot Formation, Kaladgi Basin, India -- Mukund
Sharma, Sushma Nair, Shilpa Patil, Manoj Shukla
and Vivek S. Kale |
359-360 |
Downslope
soil movement in a periglacial region of Garhwal Himalaya:
Rates, processes and climatic significance -- Ajay
K. Naithani and C.Prasad
|
360-365 |
| Book
Reviews |
|
| Pollution
control in the South and North: A Comparitive Assessment
of Environmental Policy Approaches in India and
the Netherlands reviewed by P.Khanna |
365-372 |
| Annual
Review of Phytopathology reviewed by Jeevan P.
Verma |
373-374 |
| Historical
Notes |
|
| C.V.Raman
|
375-378
|
| Draft
of the letter from Max Born to C.V.Raman and the story
of the unsuccessful attempt of Raman to get Born and
other refugee-scientist from Germany to India --
S.Ramaseshan |
379-380 |
| A
new type of secondary radiation (nature,1928,
121, 501-502) -- C.V.Raman and K.S.Krishnan |
381-381 |
| A
change of wavelengthin light scattering (nature,1928,
121, 619) -- C.V.Raman |
381-382 |
A
new radiation (Indian J.Phys., 1928, 2, 387-398)
|
382-386 |
| Academy
News |
|
| Indian
Academy of Science elects new fellows - 1997 |
387-389 |
|
10
March 1998
|
|
In
This Issue
|
395-395
|
Correspondence
|
|
| Decline
in research in Indian Universities -- H.S.Virk |
397-397 |
| News
|
|
| Science
Congress 1997-98 -- Subbiah Arunachalam |
397-402
|
Research
News
|
|
Green
fluorescent protien: A novel reporter gene -- Sonia,
P.K.Jaiwal, A.Ahad and Lingaraj Sahoo
|
402-405 |
Scientific
Correspondence
|
|
A tektite fragment discovered in the Central
Indian Basin -- M.Shyam Prasad, P.G.Mislankar,S.Nirmal
Charan and Krishna Prasad |
405-408 |
| Breeding
and improvement hatchery technology for the giant freshwater
prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii in Karnataka
-- H. Shivananda Murthy and S.K.Satheesha |
408-410 |
| Biochemical
effects of a newly synthesized cyclohexyloxy compound
JHA on the lipids of fourth-instar larvae of Culex
pipiens quinquefasciatus Say -- P.K.Mittal
and Navpreet Kaur |
411-412 |
| Technical
Note |
|
Design
of a simple and compact scanning tunneling microscope
-- V.Lakshminarayanan
|
413-417
|
General
Article
|
|
Science
and technology in independeble India: Retrospect and
prospect--P.Rama Rao
|
418-432 |
Science
in India - A profile based on India's publications as
covered by Science Citation Index 1989-1992 -- Subbiiah
Arunachalam, R . Srinivasan and Vidyalakshmi Raman
|
433-441 |
Research
Account
|
|
Possible
nuclear functions of the major molecular chaperones
of the eukaryotic cytoplasm, Hsp90 -- Peter Csermrly,
Tamas Schnaider and Ildiko Szanto
|
442-445 |
Review
Article
|
|
Microwave
radiation as a catalyst for chemical reations -- V .
Sridar
|
446-450 |
Research Article |
|
| Pulsed-Field
gradient-based water suppression techniques in homonuclear
NMR spectroscopy -- Sarata C. Suhu and Ananya Majumdar |
451-456
|
Research
Communications
|
|
Disturbance
daily variation of equatorial electrojet current --
R.G.Rastogi
|
457-460 |
| Biotechnological
potential of naturally occuring and laboratory-grown
Microcystis in biosorption of Ni2+ and Cd2+
-- L.C.Rai, Sarita Singh and Subhashree Pradhan |
461-464 |
| Solubilization
of phosphorus by Trichoderma viride -- D.Anusuya
and R.Jayarajan |
464-466
|
| Potential
distribution of methane hydrates along the Indian continental
margins -- Y.Hanumantha rao, S.I.Reddy, Ramesh
Khanna, T.G.Rao, N.K.Thakur and C.Subrahmanyam |
466-468 |
| Anomalous
mass distribution in the epicentral area of Latur earthquake,
India -- D.C.Mishra, V.M.Tiwari, S.B.Gupta and
M.B.S.Vyaghreswara Rao |
469-472 |
Tectonic reorganization in the Indian Ocean:
Evidences from seafloor crenulations -- Pratima
Kessarkar |
472-476 |
| Book
Reviews |
|
| Ecology
and Evolution of Plants-Feeding Insects in Natural and
Man-made Environments, reviewed by Abraham
Verghese |
477-477 |
| Annual
Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics 1996, reviewed
by Arnab Rai Choudhuri |
478-478 |
| Personal
News |
|
| Kenneth
S. Pitzer - Physics chemist par excellence, An
obituary by C.N.R.Rao |
479-479 |
| Historical
Notes |
|
| Indian
Science Congress -- J.L.Simonsen |
480-485 |
|
25
March 1998
|
|
In
This Issue
|
491-492
|
Correspondence
|
|
Decline
in interest for S&T training -- Y.Suresh
|
493-493 |
| Geo-hazard
with oil and gas production in Krishna-Godavary Basin
-- G.Krishna Rao |
494-494 |
News
|
|
Genetic
resources and traditional knowledge: From Chennai to
Bratislava -- M.S.Swaminathan
|
495-497 |
| Earth
sciences go to fractal way -- Vipin Srivastava |
497-499 |
Research
News
|
|
| Polar
plumes and the solar wind: New clues from SUMER/SOHO
-- B.N.Dwivedi and Anitha Mohan |
499-501 |
Scientific
Correspondence
|
|
| Unique
ultra-structural features of photo receptor cells and
their functional significance in the retina of the
frog, Rana limnocharis (Wiegmann) -- Sudip
Dey, R.N.K.Hooroo,A.Begum and U.C.Goswami |
502-504 |
| Male
sterility in Plantago ovata Forsk -- Sujata Jamwal,
Manoj K. Dhar and Sanjana Kaul |
504-505 |
General
Article
|
|
| Research
opportunities to young Indian Scientists through grant
from International Foundation for science -- D.V.Singh |
506-507 |
| Usability
of Parallel processing computers in numerical weather
prediction -- B.K.Basu |
508-516 |
Review
Article
|
|
| Molecular
analysis of polyamine biosynthesis in higher plants
-- Manas k. Chattopadhyay and Bharati Ghosh |
517-522 |
| Research
Communications |
|
Antifeedant
effect of some plant extracts on the Asian armyworm,
Spodoptera litura (Fabricius) -- K.Sahayaraj
|
523-525 |
A note on the investigation of fiber-matrix adhesion
in sisal fiber-polyester composites -- M.Gupta,
Anchal Verma and B.Singh |
526-529 |
| Ecobiological
assessment of a freshwater lake at Schirmacher Oasis,
East Antartica, with reference to human activities
-- Baban Ingole and Vinod Dhargalkar |
529-534 |
| Influence
of group density and sex ratio on the immune response
in the tilapia Oreochromis mossambicus (Peters)
-- M.Ravikumar and R.Dinakaran MichaelLamellar
|
534-537 |
Lamellar
angiography, a novel method for gill respiratory area
measurement: SEM of gill corrosion vascolar replica
-- J.Ojha, M.C Varma and T.K.Ghosh
|
537-538 |
| Regeneration
of Indian cotton variety MCU-5 through somatic embryogenesis
-- Shashi Kumar and Deepak Pental |
538-540 |
| Discovery
of silicified microfossils from the Khatpul Formation,
Shali Group (Neoproterozoic), H.P., India -- Vibhuti
Rai and Ranjith Gautam |
541-545 |
| The
effect of physico-chemical parameters on the erosion
of monumental stones of Orissa -- J.S.Bhargav, R.C.Mishra
and C.R.Das |
545-548 |
| Errata
|
|
| Calcutta's
industrial pollution: Groundwater arsenic contamination
in residential area and sufferings of people due
to industrial effluent discharge - An eight-year
study report -- D.Chakraborti, G.Samanta, B.K.Mandal,
T. Roy Chowdhury, C.R.Chanda, B.K.Biswas, R.K.Dhar,
G.K.Basu and K.C.Saha [Curr. Sci., 1998,
74, 346-355] |
548-548 |
| Plasmid
profile of Erwinia herbicola ATCC 21998 -- S.Koul,
V.Verma, Ananda Kumar and G.N.Qazi [Curr. Sci.,
1997, 72, 876-879] |
548-548
|
Book
Reviews
|
|
Planet
Earth - The View from Space, reviewed by S.Rangarajan
|
549-549 |
| Annual
Review of Medicine: Selected Topics in Clinical Sciences,
reviewed by C.C.Kartha |
550-552 |
| Neotropical
Companion: An Introduction to the Animals, Plants and
Ecosystems of the New World Tropics, reviewed
by K.S.Krishnan |
552-553 |
| Historical
Notes |
|
| Jaroslav
Heyrovsky, the inventor of polarography -- Rajalakshmi
Heyrovska |
554-557 |
|
10
April 1998
|
|
In
this issue
|
563-564
|
Correspondence
|
|
How
cheap can a medicinal plant species be? -- Akshey k.Gupta,
S.K.Vats and Brij Lal
|
565-566 |
How
intangible is the outside world? -- S.K.Bhattacharjee
|
566-568 |
Research
News
|
|
K-T
fossil patterns dispute abrupt mass extinction -- A.V.Sankaran
|
569-572 |
News
|
|
Niels
Bohr-UNESCO Gold Medal
|
572-572 |
Scientific
Correspondence
|
|
An
improved method for the isolation of supercoiled plasmid
DNA -- G.Jagadeesh Babu and C.Rajamanickam
|
572-573 |
A
potential phosphorite deposit on the continental margin
off Chennai -- V.Purnachandra Rao,K.Mohan Rao ,K.H.Vora,
F.Almeida, M.M.Subramanian and C.Godfrey A. Souza
|
574-577 |
General
Articles
|
|
A
profile of senior research associates: Characteristics
and trend analysis -- S.Patil, S.R.Das, A.K.Pal, I.M.L.
Ahuja, Y.P.Sehgal and G.Ranglani
|
578-583
|
The
orgin of adaptive mutations: Explaning the mutational
spectra of Lac+ revertants of the Escherichia coli
strain FC40 -- S.K.Bhattacharjee and S.K.Mahajan
|
583-590 |
Review
Article
|
|
Biochemical
and molecular basis of differentiation in plant tissue
culture -- Madhusudan Dey, Sanjeev Kalia, Sagar
Ghosh and Sipra Guha-Mukherjee
|
591-596 |
Research
Articles
|
|
Visulization
studies of cloud-like flows -- L.Venkatakrishnan, G.S.Bhat,
A.Prabhu and R.Narasimha
|
597-606 |
Possible
impact of tidal frequencies on the predictability of
the earth's axial rotation -- R.K.Tiwari and K.N.N.Rao
|
606-610 |
Research
Communication
|
|
Wear
in composites: An in vitro study on dental compsite
fillers -- V.Kalliyana Krishnan and Lawrence H.Mair
|
611-613 |
Petrochemistry
and petrogenesis of Kalpatta granite,South India --
S.N.Kumar,V.Prasannakumar and P.K.R.Nair
|
613-619 |
Carbon
and oxygen isotopic variation in Tamil Nadu carbonatites,south
India -- M.K.Pandit,A.N.Sial,G.B.Sukumaran,S.Ramanathan
and V.P.Ferreira
|
620-624 |
Studies
on spin-labelled peptide nucleic acid -- Xiao Xu Li,
ChenGang Huang, Yanguang Wang,YaoZu Chen, LiangRen
Zhang, JinFeng Lu and LiHe Zhang
|
624-626 |
Strategy
based on plasmid incompatibility for Tn5 mutagenesis
in Erwinia herbicola ATCC 21998 -- J.Vakhlu,
S.Johri,V.Verma and G.N.Qazi
|
627-630 |
Agrobacterium-
mediated genetic transformation in Gerbera hybrida
-- V.Nagaraju,G.S.L.Srinivas and G.Lakshmi Sita
|
630-634 |
Influence
of pressmud on the enzymatic variations in the different
reproductive stages of Eudrilus eugeniae (Kinberg)
-- L.S.Ranganathan and S.P. Vinotha
|
634-635 |
Gene
transfer in Indian major carps by electroporation --
T.Venugopal, T.J.Pandian, S.Mathavan and N.Sarangi
|
636-638 |
Book
Reviews
|
|
Critical
Problems in Physics, reviewed by Rajaram Nityananda
|
639-640 |
Darwin
in 90 Minutes and Mendal in 90 Minutes, reviewed
by Anindya Sinha
|
640-641 |
|
25
April 1998
|
|
In
this issue
|
647-648
|
Correspondence
|
|
Science
in India -- Krishna Kumar Mishra
|
649-650 |
Declining
interest towards science research -- A.K.Rakshit
|
650-650 |
Assessment
of health risk -- H.S.Virk; reply by R.C.Ramola et al,
|
650-651 |
News
|
|
Intense
laser fields and their interaction with matter -- N.Sathyamurthy
|
652-653 |
Research
News
|
|
Another
brick in the Tower of Babel : The search for an universal
language -- Anindya Sinha
|
653-656 |
Opinion
|
|
Haldane's
God and the honoured beetles : The cost of a quip --
K.N.Ganeshaiah
|
656-660
|
Scientific
Correspondence
|
|
The
'proto-Indian' population identified in the recent mtDNA
studies posit an ancient southeast Asian migration
that passed through India -- S.Barnabas and C.G.
Suresh
|
661-662
|
General
Article
|
|
A
diaelectical perspective of agricultural research for
sustainable development -- P.Narain
|
663-665 |
Review
Article
|
|
Metallocarbohedrenes
: Recent advancements -- R.Selvan and T.Pradeep
|
666-680 |
Research
Article
|
|
Promoter
structure and gene function of Acinetobactor calcoaceticus
encoded trp FB operon -- Veerabrahma Kishan
|
681-687 |
Research
communications
|
|
Influence
of moonlight on the foraging behaviour of the Indian
short-nosed fruit bat Cynopterus sphinx : Radio-telemetry
studies -- N.Gopakumar Nair, V.Elangovan and R.Subbaraj
|
688-689 |
Sex
attractants in male preputial gland : Chemical identification
and their role in reproductive behaviour of rats
-- S.Kannan, K.Ramesh Kumar and G.Archunan
|
689-691
|
Effect
of chronic atenolol treatment on responses to noradrenaline
and terbutaline in isolated ventricle from hyperthyriod
rats -- Praveen Bhugra and O.D. Gulati
|
691-695 |
Octopamine
titre in the circulating fluid of tropical tasar silkworm,
Antheraea mylitta Drury (Lepidoptera : Saturniide)
and its response to injected estrogen during critical
phase of diapause termination -- Ananthbandhu
Chaudhari, N.Krishnan, Pradip Kumar Sarkar, Ashok
Sinha,S.S.Sinha and Arun Kumar Ray
|
695-699 |
Micropropagation
of Eremostachys superba - An endangered, endemic
species from India -- V.G. Sunnichan and K.R.Shivanna
|
699-702 |
Mid-continent
gravity 'high' and seismic activities in central India
-- D.C.Mishra and S.B.Gupta
|
702-705 |
Micropalaeontological
evidence for tectonic uplift of near-shore deposits
around Bankot-Velas,Ratnagiri District,Maharashtra
-- C.Rajashekhar and K.P.N.Kumaran
|
705-708 |
Book
Reviews
|
|
A
Carnival for Science : Essays on Science.Technology
and Development, reviewed by Dhruv Raina
|
709-710 |
Flying
Buttresses, Entropy and O-Rings - The world of an Engineer,
reviewed by P.N.Shankar
|
710-711 |
Science
Matters : The Principles of Science Simply Explained,
reviewed by Gangan Prathap
|
711-712 |
|
10 May 1998
|
|
In
this issue
|
719-719
|
Correspondence
|
|
Cost-effective
databases for research -- P.Pichappan
|
721-721 |
Pyrethroid-impregnated
curtains for Japanese encephalitis control -- D.Raghunatha
Rao and A.Gajanana
|
722-722 |
Robot
pollinators -- D.Jaisankar
|
722-723 |
News
|
|
DRDO
signs MOU with Bharathiyar University
|
723-723 |
Research
News
|
|
Optical
sensors in environmental monitoring -- P.K.Choudhury
|
723-725 |
Density
disparity - A core issue about earth's core -- A.V.Sankaran
|
726-727 |
Opinion
|
|
Patents
on life forms: the case for -- J.Gowrishankar
|
727-729 |
Scientific
Correspondence
|
|
Polyamine
biosynthetic pathway: A potential target for plant chemotherapy
- - Manchikatla V. Rajam
|
729-731 |
Pancharatnam
phase as a purely geometric phase -- P.Hariharan, K.A.
Suresh and Sushil Mujumdar
|
731-733 |
General
Articles
|
|
Technology
development; Innovate, patent or perish -- Pawan Sikka
|
733-734 |
Twenty
five years of observational astronomy at the Indian
Institute of Astrophysics -- D.C.V.Mallik
|
735-745 |
Research
Account
|
|
The Pancharatnam phase: New applications in stellar
interferometry -- P.Hariharan and W.J. Tango
|
746-749 |
Review
Article
|
|
Leviathan,
natural selection, and ethics -- Renee M.Borges
|
750-758 |
Research
Articles
|
|
Chaotic
dynamics of some quantum anharmonic oscillators -- P.K.Chattaraj,
S.Sengupta and A.Poddar
|
758-764
|
Thermal
diffusivity measurements in sea water using transient
thermal lens calorimetry -- C.V.Bandu,S.S.Harilal,
V.P.N.Nampoori and C.P.G.Vallabhan
|
764-769
|
Research
Communication
|
|
Immunization
against Leishmania donovani: Efficiency of Mycobacterium
habana in combination with killed promastigotes
in hamsters -- P.Sarma, Anuradha.J.K.Srivastava,
H.P.Gupta and J.C.Katiyar
|
770-773 |
Anomalous
fluroide in ground water from western part of Sirohi
district,Rajastan and its cripping effects on human
health -- P.B.Maithani, Ravindra Gurjar, Rahul
Banerjee, B.K.Balaji, S.Ramachandran and Rajendra
Singh
|
773-777 |
A
lithospheric mantle source for the proterozoic kimberlites
and lamproites from the eastern Dharwar craton,India:
Evidence from rare earth element inversion modelling
-- N.V.Chalapathi Rao
|
777-781 |
Estimation
of tectonic stress in NW Himalaya region using IRS-1B
data -- Pradeep K.Sahoo, Sandeep Kumar and Ramesh
P. Singh
|
781-786 |
Phreatomagmatic
eruptive centre from the Decan Trap Province,Jabalpur,central
India -- R.Srinivasan, S.H.Jaffri, G.V.Rao and
G.K.Reddy
|
787-790 |
Growth
kinetics of Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus
faecalis under the influence of liquid nitrogen
and subsequent storage of treated cooked prawn
meat -- T.Chanda and D.Bhattacharya
|
791-793 |
Nerves
innervate the ectopic limbs -- Pragnya Das and P.Mohanty-Hejmadi
|
793-795 |
Book
Reviews
|
|
Pharmaceutical
Education, reviewed by Anisha Pargal
|
796-797
|
The
Refrigerator and the Universe: Understanding the Laws
of Energy,reviewed by V.Sitaraman
|
797-798
|
Ancient
Yoga and modern Science,reviewed by P.L.Sachdev
|
798-799 |
|
25
May 1998
|
|
In
this issue
|
815-816
|
Correspondence
|
|
What
ails Indian science? Some suggested remedies -- H.S.Virk
|
817-818 |
| Shall
we close our ranks? -- J.Prakasa Rao |
818-818 |
| Whither
weather in parallel? -- R.Sunder |
819-820
|
| Technical
Comments |
|
| Major
tectonic elements of western Ganga basin -- M.N.Qureshy;
Reply by D.C.Mishra |
820-821 |
| News |
|
From
copycat to innovator: Science and technology in Japan
-- S.Arunachalam
|
822-823 |
| Research
News |
|
Incorporation
and diffusion of lead in zircons -- A.V.Sankaran
|
823-825 |
| General
Article |
|
Locomotion:
Dealing with friction -- V.Radhakrishnan
|
826-840 |
| Review
Article |
|
| Confocal
microscopy: A powerful technique for biological research
-- Amit Singh and K.P.Gopinathan |
841-851 |
| Research
Article |
|
| The
first report of CHIME monazite age from the South Indian
granulite terrain -- B.S.Bindu, K.Suzuki, M.Yoshida
and M.Santhosh |
852-858 |
Special Section: Molecular Biology OF Aging |
|
| Molecular
basis of extended longevity in selected Drosophila
strains -- Robort Arking |
859-864 |
| Regulation
of gene expression during agening -- M.S.Kanungo,Sanjay
Gupta and Rashmi Upadhyay |
865-871 |
| Senescence
marker protien-30 (SMP30) and its gerontological significance
-- Toshiko Fujita, Takuji Shirasawa and Naoki Maruyama |
872-877 |
Molecular
aspects of cellular senescence in human diploid fibroblasts
-- Edward Parr, Tatsuya Toyama,Christoper Hull,
Muthupalaniappan Meyyappan, Leslie Bestilny, Keith
Wheaton and Karl Riabowol
|
878-883 |
| Alteration
of gene expression during in vitro aging: The
mammalian fibroblast model -- Davina de C. M. Simoes
and Efstathios S. Gonos |
884-886 |
| Roles
of mitochondrial DNA mutation and oxidative damage in
human aging -- Yau-Huei Wei, Cheng-Yoong Pang, Hsin-
Chen Lee and Ching- You Lu |
887-893 |
| Non-apoptotic
DNA fragmentation: A molecular pointer of aging -- Kalluri
Subba Rao |
894-901 |
| Research
Communication |
|
NMR
observation of a novel A - tetrad in a telomeric DNA
segment in aqueous solution -- Prasanta k. Patel and
R. V. Hosur
|
902-906 |
Pollen
production in some terrestrial angiosperms -- Amal Kumar
Mondal and Sudhendu Mandal
|
906-910 |
Late
Quaternary sea level changes in western India: Evidence
from lover Mahi valley -- Rachna Raj, D. M. Maurya
and L. S. Chamyal
|
910-914 |
Natural
eutrophication and fish kill in a shallow freshwater
lake -- V. P. Venugopalan, K. Nandakumar, R. Rajamohan,
R. Sekar and K. V. K. Nair
|
915-917 |
Book
Reviews
|
|
A
Laboratory Guide to Glycoconjugate Analysis, reviewed
by Nirmolendu Roy
|
918-918
|
A
Brief Introduction to Numerical Analysis, reviewed by
G. Rangarajan
|
918-919 |
Textbook
of Nutrition and Dietetics, reviewed by Mahtab S. Bamji
|
919-920 |
Historical
Notes
|
|
Harish
- Chandra and his mathematical legacy: Some personal
recollections -- Sigurdur Helgason
|
921-924 |
|
10
June 1998
|
|
In
this issue
|
927-928
|
Correspondence
|
|
Greening earth scientists -- K.P.Jai Kiran |
929-929 |
| News |
|
Sen and mashelkar elected to the Royal Society
|
929-930
|
| Tree
seed science and nursery technology in the conservation
of forest genetic resources -- Amita Bhattacharya
|
930-931 |
| Participatory
approach in biodiversity conservation: A case in the
Himalaya |
931-931 |
| Research
News |
|
| Cognitive
neuroscience: The hemispheric war -- T.Ramakrishna |
932-933 |
| Opinion |
|
| Need
for integration between local and global environment
facilities -- T.N.Khoshoo |
934-935 |
| Scientific
Correspondence |
|
| Multiple
shoot induction and regeneration of pigeon pea (Cajanus
cajan (L.) Millisp) cv. Vamban 1 from apical
and axillary meristem -- G.Franklin, R. Jeyachandran,
G. Melchias and Ignacimuthu |
936-937 |
| General
Article |
|
| Technology
and engineering in India: The past and the way ahead
-- V.K.Aatre |
938-944 |
| Resarch
Account |
|
| Nematic-isotropic
phase transition: A review -- Prabir K. Mukherjee |
945-952 |
| Review
Articles |
|
| A
profile of adenosine triphosphate -- T. Ramasarma |
953-966 |
| Piezoelectric
polymer composite materials -- T.Bhimasankaram, S.V.Suryanarayana
and G.Prasad |
967-976 |
| Research
Article |
|
| Calcium
carbonate distribution in the Late Quaternary sediments
of Bay of Bengal -- N.Suresh and T.N.Bagati |
977-984 |
Research
Communication
|
|
| Remnants
of large magnitude earthquakes: Evidence from the Great
Rann sediments, Kachchh, Western India -- Parag
S. Sohoni and Javed N. Malik |
985-989 |
| In
situ detection of phytoplasmain spike-disease-affected
sandal using DAPI stain -- Sunil Thomas and M.Balasundaran |
989-993 |
| Why
has breeding for water use efficiency not been successful?
An analysis and alternate approach to exploit this
trait for crop improvement -- M. Udayakumar, M.
S. Sheshshayee, K. N. Nataraj, H. Bindu Madhava,
R. Devendra, I. S. Aftab Hussain and T. G. Prasad
|
994-1000 |
| Analysis
of habitat-use using ordination:n The Nilgiri tahr in
southern India -- M. D. Madhusudan and A. J. T. Jhonsingh |
1000-1003 |
| Rachilla:
An additional source for embryogenic callus induction
and transformation in Oryza sativa L. --
K. B. R. S. Visarada, M. Sailaja, P. Arti, S. M.
Balachandran and N. P. Sarma |
1004-1008
|
| A+-C
Mismatched base-pairing in DNA -- Sukesh R. Bhaumik
and Kandala V. R. Chary |
1008-1012 |
| Directional
proboscis extention: A new Paradigm for testing gustatory
responses of Drosophila melanogaster -- Sudipta
Saraswathi |
1013-1016 |
| Record
of hepatopancreatic parvo-like virus in cultured penaeid
shrimps of India -- C. V. Mohan, K. M. Shankar,
A. Hegde and P. M. Sudha |
1016-1018 |
| Book
Reviews |
|
| The
Collection Papers of Albert Einstein - Volume 6 - The
Berlin Years: Writings, 1914-1917, reviewed by
N. Mukunda |
1019-1020 |
| Gearing
for Patents: The Indian Scenario, reviewed by
Subbiah Arunachalam |
1020-1021 |
| The
Web of Life, reviewed by S. K. Mahajan |
1021-1022 |
| Microclimate
for Cultural Heritage, reviewed by M. R. Nayak |
1022-1022 |
Historical
Notes
|
|
Professor
Puran Singh (1881-1931): Founder of chemistry of forest
products in India -- H. S. Virk
|
1023-1024 |
|
25
June 1998
|
|
In
this issue
|
1031-1031
|
Correspondence
|
|
Physiology and overcrowding -- Dinkar Sahal;
reply by R.Dinakaran
Michael and M.Ravikumar |
1033-1034 |
| News |
|
| Synchrotron
radiation in science and technology -- K.V.Ramana Rao
|
1034-1036 |
| Compressed
sulpher founded to be a superconductor |
1036-1036
|
| Nature's
ecofriendly arsenal of pesticides -- S. Ignacimuthu |
1037-1037 |
Scientific
Correspondence
|
|
Couple
stress boundary layer flow past a stretching sheet revisited
-- S.N.Maitra
|
1038-1039 |
| Fungitoxicity
of some insecticides -- S. B. Bhonde, S. G. Deshpande
and R.N.Sharma |
1039-1040 |
| On
incorrect use of student's t test in biomedical
research -- A. S. Arekar |
1040-1043 |
| Newly
discovered copper mineralization in granodiorites in
Meghalaya -- R. Mamallan, R. C. Jain, A. B. Awati, S.
N. Kak and B. M. Swarnakar |
1044-1045 |
| Commentary
|
|
| Usability
of parllel processing computers in numerical weather
prediction -- U. N. Sinha and Ravi S. Nanjundiah |
1045-1048 |
| Review
Article |
|
| Radiation
damping: Suryan's line broadening revisited in high
resolution solution NMR -- V. V. Krishnan |
1049-1053 |
| Research
Article |
|
| High
rate biomethannation using spent biomass as bacterial
support -- H. N. Chanakya, Gyanendra P. Srivastav and
Amita A. Abraham |
1054-1059 |
| Special
Section On Coronary Artery Disease In Indians - An Emerging
Epidemic |
|
| Epidemiology
of coronary artery disease in South Asians -- J. Dhawan
and S. Petkar |
1060-1063 |
Observations on serial changes in coronary artery
disease in Indians -- S. Krishnaswami |
1064-1068 |
| Urban-rural
differences in prevalance of coronary heart disease
and its risk factors -- S. L. Chadha |
1069-1073 |
| Lessons
for prevention from a coronary heart disease epidemiological
study in western India -- Rajeev Gupta and V. P.
Gupta |
1074-1077 |
Factor V Leiden gene mutation in young Indian
patients with myocardial infarction -- Dipika Mohanthy,
Shrimati Shetty, C. R. Anil, Anil Pathare, Kanjaksha
Ghosh and M.E. Yeolekar |
1078-1080 |
| High
rates of CAD in Asian Indians in the United States despite
intense modification of lifestyle: What next? --
Enas A. Enas |
1081-1086 |
The
metabolic basic of increased coronary risk attributedto
people from the Indian subcontinent -- Deepak Bhatnager
|
1087-1094 |
Epilogue:
Coronary artery disease in Indians - Methodological
issues and challenges -- R. S Vasan and C. C Kartha
|
1095-1096 |
Research
Communications
|
|
Cloning
of mineral phospate solubilizing genes from Synechocystis
PCC 6803 -- P. Gyaneshwar, G. Naresh Kumar and
L. J. Parekh
|
1097-1099 |
Shoot
bud regeneration from leaf explant of a medicinal plant:
Enicostemma axillare -- C. Sudhersan
|
1099-1100 |
Electron-probe
micro analysis study of the Pipliya meteorite -- P.
S. Ranawat, O. Rouer and M. S. Shekhawat
|
1100-1103 |
A
piscean egg clutch from the Late Triassic of south Rewa
Gondwana basin, M.P., India -- D. P. Das and P.M. Datta
|
1103-1106 |
Errata:
Bioleashing of copper from ferromanganese sea nodule
of Indian Ocean [Seema Khan, Rani Gupta and Rajendra
Kumar Saxena, Curr. Sci., 1997, 73, 602 - 605]
|
1106-1106 |
An
improved method for the isolation of supercoiled plasmid
DNA [G. Jegadeesh Babu and C. Rajamanickam, Curr. Sci.,
1998, 74, 572 -573]
|
1106-1106 |
Book
Reviews
|
|
The
End of a Trail - The Cheetah in India, reviewed by
T. R. Shankar Raman
|
1107-1108 |
| Venom
Phospholipase A2 Enzymes: Structure, Function and Mechanism,
reviewed by M. N. Gupta |
1108-1110 |
| Galileo,
Newton, Halley, and Einstein in 90 minutes, reviewed
by G. S. Ranganath |
1110-1111 |
| Historical
Notes |
|
| Seventy
years ago - The discovery of the Raman effect as seen
from German physicists Rajinder Singh and Falk Riess |
1112-1115 |
| Personal
News |
|
| Derek
H. R. Barton - Fifty years in pursuit of inventions
-- A. Banerji |
1116-1117 |
|
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