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July
10, 1998 (1)
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In this issue |
3 |
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CORRESPONDENCE |
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India
is emerging global leader in science popularization
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N. C. Jain |
5 |
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Cost-effective databases for research -
K. S. Virk |
5 |
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The Raman effect -
S.
Ramaseshan |
6 |
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Phosphorite occurrence off Chennai -
G. Gaitan Vaz; response by V. Purnachandra
Rao et al. |
7-8 |
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NEWS |
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Following Shakti '98 US details tighter controls
on the export to India of
dual-use goods |
8 |
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Golden Jubilee meeting on gravitational radiation
-
Sharon Morsink |
9 |
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Golden Jubilee meeting on quantum general relativity
-
Domenico Giulini |
9-10 |
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RESEARCH NEWS |
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3-D circuit boards by a novel electrochemical
process -
V. Lakshmi-narayanan |
10-11 |
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Sequence-specific DNA-binding molecules: A futuristic
approach in drug design -
Anil Kumar Ojha |
11-12 |
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COMMENTARY |
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Facilitation of technology transfer from research
institutes to industry -
P. I. John |
13-14 |
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SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE |
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Pusa neem golden urea for increasing nitrogen
use efficiency in rice -
Rajendra Prasad, V. S. Saxena and C. Devakumar |
15 |
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Turmeric (Curcuma longa), an ecofriendly
ingredient to control seed-borne rice
diseases - Srijib Gangopadhyay |
16-17 |
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GENERAL ARTICLE |
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The accelerator mass spectrometer facility at the
Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, (MUDRA,
MUlti Disciplinary Research Accelerator) -
D. P. Mahapatra, K. Gopalan and B. L. K. Somayajulu |
18-25 |
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RESEARCH ACCOUNT |
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The biology of rudraksha -
David W. Lee |
26-30 |
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RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS |
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Quasicrystals as part of an unusual species of
intermetallic phases -
T. R. Anantharaman |
31-35 |
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Modification of genotoxicity of radiation by
post-irradiation treatment with
caffeine -
K. B. Anjaria, B. S. Rao and N. Sankaranarayanan |
35-41 |
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Agrobacterium rhizogenes-mediated
gene transfer in mungbean (Vigna radiata
L. (Wilczek)) -
Pawan K. Jaiwal, Christof Sautter and Ingo Potrykus |
41-45 |
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Variants of Trichophyton rubrum -
S. Das and B. K. Choudhury |
45-47 |
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Osmotropotaxis in larvae of Drosophila melanogaster
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Avinash Deep Singh Bala, Punita Panchal and Obaid
Siddiqi |
48-51 |
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Periodically varying sensitivity to melatonin in a
mammalian circadian system -
M. Singaravel, V. K. Sharma and R. Subbaraj |
51-54 |
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Seismic hazard analysis: An artificial neural
network approach -
Manoj Arora and M. L. Sharma |
54-59 |
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BOOK
REVIEWS |
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Particle Modeling, reviewed by P. N. Shankar |
60 |
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Annual Review of Public Health 1997, reviewed
by V. Raman Kutty |
60-62 |
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Dynamics of Cell and Tissue Motion, reviewed
by Vidyanand Nanjundiah |
62-63 |
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Our Evolving Planet: Earth History in New Perspective,
reviewed by H. C. Sheth |
63-65 |
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PERSONAL NEWS |
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Professor Charles Frank, an obituary by K.
P. Sinha |
66-67 |
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July
25, 1998 (2)
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In this issue |
75 |
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EDITORIAL |
77 |
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CORRESPONDENCE |
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Let us do justice to science - Saad Tayyab |
78-79 |
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Malaria/mosquito management: A need to use more than one insecticide
alternately -
S. H. Gaikwad |
79 |
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DPT and poliomyelitis in developing countries -
P. N. Tandon |
79-80 |
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NEWS |
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Access to genetic resources and traditional knowledge:
Priorities for national and
regional actions - P. Balakrishna |
80-81 |
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Declining amphibians -
Brij Kishor Gupta |
81-84 |
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RESEARCH NEWS |
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Resolving single bubble sonoluminescence flash width -
Vijay H. Arakeri |
84-85 |
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Drifting mantle plumes, mobile hot spots and island
chains -
A. V. Sankaran |
85-89 |
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SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE |
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Cryopreservation of testicular tissue - A preliminary
report - R. Pandiyan, N. Pandiyan, S. Muthiah,
S. Kanakaraj and B. Varalakshmi |
90-91 |
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Some botanical curiosities -
P. S. N. Rao and V. Sampath Kumar |
91-92 |
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COMMENTARY |
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A view of science in India -
A. B. Vajpayee |
93-94 |
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Synthesis of meteorological observations and modelling
studies to assess climate
change mitigation strategies over India - H. N.
Srivastava and Malti Goel |
95-97 |
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GENERAL ARTICLE |
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The hearts of the plants -
Wolfgang Kundt |
98-102 |
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RESEARCH ACCOUNT |
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Methylglyoxal: From a putative intermediate of
glucose breakdown to its role in
understanding that excessive ATP formation in cells may
lead to malignancy -
Manju Ray and Subhankar Ray |
103-113 |
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REVIEW ARTICLE |
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Apoptosis: Its role in microbial control of insect pests
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K. Narayanan |
114-122 |
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RESEARCH ARTICLE |
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Air pollution in Calcutta during winter - A three-year
study -
Gautam Sarnanta, Gautam Chattopadhyay, Badal K.
Mandal, Tarit Roy Chowdhury,
Partha P. Chowdhury, Chitta R. Chanda, Prabal
Banerjee, Dilip Lodh, Dipankar Das
and Dipankar Chakraborti |
123-138 |
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RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS |
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A method for estimating the land surface temperature
from satellite data using
emissivity derived from vegetation index -
Yogesh Kant and K. V. S. Badarinath |
139-145 |
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Growing small metal particle as redox catalyst - Nikhil
R. Jana and Tarasankar Pal |
145-149 |
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Etiologic significance of sunflower (Helianthus
annuus, L.) pollen in respiratory allergy
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Sanjukta Parui, Amal Kumar Mondal and Sudhendu
Mandal |
150-152 |
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Role of medicinal plants in the traditional health
care system: A case study from
Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve -
R. K. Maikhuri, S. Nautiyal, K. S. Rao and K. G. Saxena |
152-157 |
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Induction of transplantable malignant tumours in mice by repeated short
exposures to continuous wave (25 kHz) ultrasound -
Pratima Sur and S. N. Chatterjee |
157-160 |
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Genetic diversity among field isolates of Plasmodium
falciparum in India -
Nidhi Bhutani, M. R. Ranjit, M. Yameen, Neeru
Singh, Vas Dev, C. R. Pillai,
M. A. Ansari and Y. D. Sharma |
160-163 |
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BOOK REVIEWS |
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Functional Analysis - Spectral Theory,
reviewed by
Cherian Varughese |
164 |
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The Story of Spin,
reviewed by
Avinash Khare |
164-165 |
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August
10, 1998 (3)
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EDITORIAL |
175 |
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In this issue |
176 |
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CORRESPONDENCE |
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Oh, Tehri Dam! Where are you leading us? - Ramesh
Chander |
177 |
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Cost of medicinal plants - S. G. Torne; response
by Akshey K. Gupta |
177 |
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RESEARCH NEWS |
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Genetic engineering for high-level tolerance to abiotic stresses through
over-expression of
transcription factor genes: The next frontier
-
Anil Grover, Neeti Sanan and Chandan Sahi |
178-179 |
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OPINION |
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Information technology: What it means for science
communication in developing countries -
Subbiah Arunachalam |
179-181 |
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COMMENTARY |
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Health care and medical research in India—A thumb
nail sketch in The Lancet -
T. Jacob John |
181-183 |
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SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE |
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Flavour of fundamental particles and prime numbers
-
Raja Ramanna |
183-186 |
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Carboxylesterase activity
associated with organophosphate resistance in
Helicoverpa armigera
(Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in Tamil Nadu -
P. Manikandan and S. Ravisankar |
186-187 |
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Detection of antibacterial activity in the floral
petals of some higher plants - M. P. Darokar, A.
Mathur, S. Dwivedi, R. Bhalla, S. P. S. Khanuja
and Sushil Kumar |
187-189 |
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GENERAL ARTICLE |
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An overview of extramural research and development
funding in India -
Namita Gupta, S. K. Choudhary and A. N. N. Murthy |
190-195 |
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RESEARCH ACCOUNT |
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Alzheimer's disease and the non-cholinergic activities
of cholinesterases - A possible relationship -
A. S. Balasubramanian |
196-200 |
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SPECIAL SECTION: USE OF GIS & RS IN ECOLOGY &
CONSERVATION BIOLOGY |
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MAPPING
BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES |
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Mapping diversity of ants and root grubs -
T. M. Musthak All and K. N. Ganeshaiah |
201-204 |
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Eco-distribution mapping of the priority medicinal
plants of southern India -
D. K. Ved, Vijay Barve, S. Noorunnisa Begum and
R. Latha |
205-208 |
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Estimation of bamboo resources in Kerala by remote
sensing techniques -
P. Vijayakumaran Nair and A. R. R. Menon |
209-210 |
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Conservation planning for the Western Ghats of
Kerala: I. A GIS approach for location of biodiversity
hot spots -
S. Narendra Prasad, L. Vijayan, S. Balachandran,
V. S. Ramachandran and C. P. A. Verghese |
211-219 |
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MONITORING
BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES |
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Does forest type classification reflect spatial
dynamics of vegetation? An analysis using GIS techniques
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K. S. Murali, R. Siddappa Setty, K. N. Ganeshaiah
and R. Uma Shaanker |
220-227 |
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Conservation planning for the Western Ghats
of Kerala: II. Assessment of habitat loss and
degradation -
S. Narendra Prasad |
228-235 |
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Application of remote sensing and CIS to coastal
wetland ecology of Tamil Nadu and Andaman
and Nicobar group of islands with special reference
to mangroves -
S. Ramachandran, S. Sundaramoorthy, R. Krishnamoorthy,
J. Devasenapathy and M. Thanikachalam |
236-244 |
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Micro-level planning and sustainable forestry
through GIS -
V. Udaya Lakshmi and C. B. S. Dim |
245-255 |
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Meso-scale analysis of forest condition and its
determinants: A case study from the Western Ghats
region, India -
Sharachchandra Lele, G. Rajashekhar, Venkataramana
R. Hegde, G. Prevish Kumar and P. Saravanakumar |
256-263 |
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MANAGEMENT
AND CONSERVATION OF BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES |
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Linking regional and landscape scales for assessing
biodiversity: A case study from Western Ghats -
Harini Nagendra and Madhav Gadgil |
264-271 |
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Efficient forest resources management through
GIS and remote sensing -
V. Udaya Lakshmi, M. S. R. Murthy and C. B. S.
Dutt |
272-282 |
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Analysis of lion-tailed macaque habitat fragmentation
using satellite imagery -
Ramesh S. Krishnamurthy and A. Ross Kiester |
283-291 |
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Contours of conservation - A national agenda for
mapping biodiversity -
K. N. Ganeshaiah and R. Uma Shaanker |
292-298 |
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RESEARCH ARTICLE |
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Crystals of a thymidylate synthase mutant offer
insights into crystal packing and plasticity of
protein-protein contacts -
B. Gopal, V. Prasanna, S. Parthasarathy, D. V.
Santi, P. Balaram and M. R. N. Murthy |
299-304 |
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RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS |
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Lectin purified human gastric intrinsic factor
aids vitamin B12 absorption more efficiently
than
hog intrinsic factor concentrate -
K. Srikumar
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305-308 |
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Characteristics of faults associated with Narmada-Son
lineament and rock types in Jabalpur sector -
D. C. Mishra and S. Ravi Kumar |
308-310 |
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Analysis of Harvard centroid moment tensor solutions
and computation of strain rates in the
Himalaya and Tibetan plateau regions -
M. Ravi Kumar, N. Purnachandra Rao and S. C. Bhatia |
311-316 |
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Geoarchaeological and palaeoenvironmental studies
around Bap-Malar Playa, district Jodhpur,
Rajasthan -
B. C. Deotare, M, D. Kajale, A. A. Kshirsagar
and S. N. Rajaguru |
316-320 |
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BOOK REVIEWS |
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The Challenge of Scientometrics: The Development,
Measurement, and Self-organization of Scientific
Communications,
reviewed by
Subbiah Arunachalam |
321 |
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Controlling Pollution: Incentives and
Regulations,
reviewed by
P. Khanna |
321-322 |
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Tropical Mycology,
reviewed by
M. C. Srinivasan |
322-323 |
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PERSONAL NEWS |
|
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Jean Rouxel,
An obituary by
C. N. R. Rao |
324 |
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J. Z. Young,
An obituary by C.
Santiapillai |
325 |
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HISTORICAL NOTES |
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Srinivasa Ramanujan: A different perception of
his life and times -
K. Murukesapillai and C. Santiapillai |
326-327 |
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August
25, 1998 (4)
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EDITORIAL |
335 |
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In this issue |
336 |
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CORRESPONDENCE |
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Western challenge to free passage of scientists
-
S. Faizi |
337 |
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Scientists against nuclear weapons -
G. Rajasekaran |
338 |
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Alum treatment process for fluoride reduction
in potable water -
Jabali Vora and J. D. Joshi |
338-339 |
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NEWS |
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TIFAC cell inculcates patent awareness in scientist-masses |
339 |
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Technology
Development Board fundees score reaches quarter-century |
340 |
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Vice-President
presents G. D. Birla awards |
340 |
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First eleven Swarnajayanti Fellowships awarded |
341 |
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OPINION |
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Regulating export of endangered medicinal plant
species - Need for scientific rigour -
D. K. Ved, Anjana Mudappa and Darshan Shankar |
341-344 |
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Animal experiments and biomedical advance -
V. Ramalingaswami |
344-348 |
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RESEARCH NEWS |
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Surprises on a surface -
S. K. Srivatsa |
349-350 |
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SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE |
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Protection of deep aquifers from arsenic contamination
in Bengal Basin - D. Muralidharan |
351-353 |
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Ecosystem flips in cultural landscapes: The case of
Kolli Hills - R. J. Ranjit Daniels and Jayshree
Vencatesan |
353-355 |
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Germination improvement in teak (Tectona grandis
Linn, f.) through forced
ageing - P. Masilamani and C. Dharmalingam |
356 |
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A note on uranium mineralization in the Neoproterozoic
calcitic phosphorite from
Ramtirth, Bhirna basin, Gulbarga district, Karnataka
-
U. P. Sharma, R. Gajapathi Rao, S. A. Pandit and Mary K.
Kumar |
357-358 |
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REVIEW ARTICLE |
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Oxidative damage and changes in activities of
antioxidant enzymes in wheat seedlings
exposed to ultraviolet-B radiation -
Prabhat Kumar Sharma, Preetha Anand and Sangeeta
Sankhalkar |
359-366 |
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RESEARCH ARTICLE |
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Late Quaternary morphotectonic evolution of Upper Indus valley profile: A
cosmogenic radionuclide study of river polished
surfaces - Kewal K. Sharma, Z. Y. Gu, D. Lal, M.
W. Caffee and J. Southon |
366-371 |
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RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS |
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Clouds and cloud radiative forcing over tropical
Indian Ocean and their relationship
with sea surface temperature -
D. S. Pai and M. Rajeevan |
372-381 |
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Toxicity of tuibur, a unique form of tobacco
smoke extract used in Mizoram, India -
J. Mahanta, M. Chetia, N. C. Hazarika, K. Narain and S.
K. Sharma |
381-384 |
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Expression of exogenously introduced (3-galactosidase
gene in a tropical, marine, oil-degrading
strain of Yarrowia lipolytica NCIM 3589
- Vimala R. Iyer and Deepti D. Deobagkar |
385-386 |
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Qualitative identification of type II antibody function in rabbit antihuman
IF-B12 complex antiserum and its cross
reactivity
- K. Srikumar |
387-391 |
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Antiquity of the Narmada Homo erectus, the
early man of India -
Arun Sonakia and S. Biswas |
391-393 |
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Occurrence of amino acids in Middle-Krol
stromatolites from Nainital, Kumaun
Lesser Himalaya -
C. K. Pant, Charu C. Pant, S. Kalra and H. D. Pathak |
393-395 |
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Carbon isotope systematics of graphites from Dharwar craton, southern India:
Implications to their source and post-depositional
alterations -
B. Kumar and S. Das Sharma |
396-399 |
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BOOK REVIEWS |
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Language Behaviour: Acquisition and
Evolutionary History,
reviewed by
Anindya
Sinha |
400-401 |
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Annual Review of Entomology 1998,
reviewed by
T. N. Ananthakrishnan |
401-403 |
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Geodynamic Domain in the Alpine Himalayan Tethys,
reviewed by S.
V. Srikantia |
403-404 |
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PERSONAL NEWS |
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Sir James Lighthill: In remembrance -
P. N. Shankar |
405-406 |
|
ERRATA |
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Synthesis of meteorological observations and
modelling studies to assess climate
change mitigation strategies over India -
H. N. Srivastava and Malti Goel [Curr. Sci.,
1998, 75, 95-97] |
406 |
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Air pollution in Calcutta during winter - A three-year
study -
Gautam Samanta et al. [Curr. Sci., 1998,
75, 123-138] |
406 |
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September
10, 1998 (5)
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In this issue |
411-412 |
|
EDITORIAL |
413 |
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CORRESPONDENCE |
|
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Coronary
artery diseases in Indians - G. R. Sridhar |
414 |
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Facts
about plague epidemic, 1994 - P. T. Patel and H.
P. Pandya |
415 |
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Are
lowered maternal insulin levels a cause of birth
defects in diabetic pregnancies? - Surendra Ghaskadbi |
415 |
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Fruit
laxative and selection pressure - R. L. Brahmachary |
416 |
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NEWS |
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Sanctions
hit the periodic table |
416 |
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RESEARCH NEWS |
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The
terminator saga - K. P. Gopinathan |
416-419 |
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More
about the 'feathered' theropod dinosaurs from
China - A. V. Sankaran |
419-422 |
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COMMENTARY |
|
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US
visa denials: Revival of cold war paranoia? -
R. Ramachandran |
422-426 |
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OPINION |
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Biswamoyopterus biswasi (Saha 1981) or
Ichthyophis tricolor (Annandale 1909)? - Ajith
Kumar |
426-427 |
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The
missing link-The mainstream-peripheral science
communication - Sinisa Maricic |
427-428 |
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SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE |
|
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'Mangrove
vegetation trap' technique for improving fishery
resources in coastal waters - N. Rajendran and
K. Kathiresan |
429 |
|
Alpha-Gaurd
radon survey in soil-gas and dwellings of some
uranium-rich areas of Himachal Pradesh, India -
H. S. Virk, Naresh Kumar, Navjeet Sharma and B.
S. Bajwa |
430-431 |
|
Occurence
of Veryhachium and its implications on the
age of the Vaishnodevi Limestone, Jammu - B. S.
Venkatachala and Ashok Kumar |
431-432 |
|
GENERAL ARTICLE |
|
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Patenting
innovations: New demands in emerging contexts -
Prabuddha Ganguli |
433-439 |
|
SPECIAL SECTION: SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTIONS OF THE NERVOUS
SYSTEM |
|
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Some
manifestations of the J-reflex - A. S. Paintal |
440-442 |
|
Role
of arterial baroreceptor reflex in controlling
circulation - Mohammed Fahim |
443-450 |
|
Perceptual
learning - K. Sathian |
451-457 |
|
Pathways and mechanisms subserving cortical control
of the hand in primates -
R. N. Lemon |
458-463 |
|
Functions of human muscle spindles in hand
muscles as analysed with
microneurography -
A. B. Vallbo and J. Wessberg |
464-469 |
|
Quantal depolarizations at the cellular and molecular
level in smooth muscle -
Rohit Manchanda, K. Venkateswarlu and Sumedha
Y. Dange |
470-477 |
|
Mechanisms of some visceral effects of cigarette smoking
- Ashima Anand |
478-480 |
|
Mapping of afferent and efferent pathways in the
central nervous system using
transneuronal transport of free horseradish peroxidase
in bonnet monkeys -
K. Indirani, K. S. Babu and M. S. Devanandan |
481-485 |
|
RESEARCH ARTICLE |
|
|
Indian explosions of 11 May 1998: An analysis
of global seismic body wave
magnitude estimates -
S. K. Sikka, Falguni Roy and G. J. Nair |
486-491 |
|
RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS |
|
|
Candida DNA typing in burn care unit -
K. M. Ponnuvel, Thangam Menon and Arumugam |
492-496 |
|
Antitumour agent coralyne: A guanine-cytosine
specific DNA-binding alkaloid -
S. Pal, S. Das, G. Suresh Kumar and M. Maiti |
496-500 |
|
Influence of fermented whey drink microflora on
digestion of lactose -
T. Kar and A. K. Misra |
500-503 |
|
Regeneration in kinetin-treated gametophytes of
Nephrolepis multiflora
(Roxb.)
Jarret in Morton -
S. Catharin Sara, V. S. Manickam and R. Antonisamy |
503-508 |
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Herbicide glyphosphate at sublethal concentrations
enhances somatic embryo
development in sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas
L.) -
P. H. Ramanjini Gowda and C. S. Prakash |
508-510 |
|
Soil enzymes in the mangroves: Activities and their
relation to relevant soil
properties -
R. Dinesh, B. R. Shome, Rajeshwari Shome and A.
K. Bandyopadhyay |
510-512 |
|
BOOK REVIEWS |
|
|
The Impact of Electronic Publishing on the Academic
Community,
reviewed by
Subbiah Arunachalam |
513 |
|
Semiclassical Physics,
reviewed by
Diptiman
Sen |
514 |
|
Annual Review of Physical Chemistry 1997,
reviewed by
N.
Sathyamurthy |
514-515 |
|
Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology 1997,
reviewed by
S. C. Lakhotia |
515-517 |
|
PERSONAL NEWS |
|
|
M. S. Devanandan,
an obituary -
K. Srinivasa Babu and K. Sathian |
518-519 |
|
September
25, 1998 (6)
|
|
|
In this issue |
531-532 |
|
EDITORIAL |
533 |
|
CORRESPONDENCE |
|
|
Proper time for scientific diplomacy -
Abdul Ahad |
534 |
|
NEWS |
|
|
Active faulting and paleoseismology -
C. P. Rajendran and Kusala Rajendran |
534-535 |
|
RESEARCH NEWS |
|
|
Nanotechnology: Molecular wheel within a supramolecular
bearing observed! -
K. L. Sebastian |
536-537 |
|
Molecular mapping of gene-rich chromosome-specific
sequences: A
complementary approach to plant genome initiative
in India -
U. C. Lavania, Seshu Lavania and Y. Vimala |
538-539 |
|
COMMENTARY |
|
|
Looking back: A vision of molecular science and
medicine -
V. Ramalingaswami |
539-541 |
|
OPINION |
|
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Groundwater: Wake-up before it is too late -
B. P. Radhakrishna |
542 |
|
SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE |
|
|
Severe fish mortality associated with 'red tide'
observed in the sea off Cochin -
S. W. A. Naqvi, M. D. George, P. V. Narvekar,
D. A. Jayakumar, M. S. Shailaja,
S. Sardesai, V. V. S. S. Sarma, D. M. Shenoy,
Hema Naik, P. A, Maheshwaran,
K. Krishnakumari, G. Rajesh, A. K. Sudhir and
M. S. Binu |
543-544 |
|
A threatened, endangered, endemic plant: Patwa
- Lalit M. Tewari |
544 |
|
Micropropagation of Ixora singaporensis (Lmn.)
- An ornamental shrub -
S. Malathy and J. S. Pai |
545-547 |
|
A rare embryogenesis in hen's egg -
Anil Bhatnagar and Maheep Bhatnagar |
547 |
|
Soil phosphorus status and natural growth of Azolla
in irrigated lowland rice -
K. L. Sahrawat |
548 |
|
GENERAL ARTICLES |
|
|
India's nuclear breeders: Technology, viability
and options -
Rahul Tongia and V. S. Arunachalam |
549-558 |
|
What's old and what's new about neutrinos -
R. Cowsik |
558-563 |
|
RESEARCH ACCOUNT |
|
|
Viscous creep in metals -
P. Rama Rao |
564-579 |
|
REVIEW ARTICLE |
|
|
Review of acid rain potential in India: Future
threats and remedial measures - Manju Mohan and
Sanjay Kumar |
579-593 |
|
RESEARCH ARTICLE |
|
|
On the patterns of tree diversity in the Western Ghats
of India -
Ghate Utkarsh, N. V. Joshi and Madhav Gadgil |
594-603 |
|
RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS |
|
|
Influence of buthionine sulfoximine-mediated glutathione depletion on
clastogenic activity of bleomycin and γ-rays
-
Anupam Chatterjee and Anshuman Chattopadhyay |
604-608 |
|
Further characterization of the saccharide specificity of snake gourd
(Trichosanthes anguina)
seed lectin -
Sneha Sudha Komath and Musti J. Swamy |
608-611 |
|
Effect of zinc deficiency on boundary layers of
seminiferous tubules of testes
of Wistar albino rat -
Archana Bahuguna and R. S. Bedwal |
611-617 |
|
Biological reworking of sediments by crabs: A
cause for erosion of the Digha
beach, West Bengal -
C. De |
617-620 |
|
Pteropods and bathometers: A case study from the
continental shelf off
Kerala coast, India -
A. D. Singh, K. N. Rajarama, K. K.
Ramachandran, G. K. Suchindan and
M. Samsuddin
|
620-623 |
|
Surface deformation related to the 1819 Kachchh
earthquake: Evidence for
recurrent activity - C. P. Rajendran, Kusala Rajendran
and Biju John |
623-626 |
|
BOOK REVIEWS |
|
|
Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers,
reviewed by
P. L. Sachdev |
627 |
|
Molecular Embryology of Flowering Plants,
reviewed by
S. C. Maheshwari |
627-628 |
|
Evolutionary Ecology of Freshwater Animals. Concepts
and Case Studies,
reviewed by
Renee M. Borges |
628-630 |
|
October
10, 1998 (7)
|
|
|
In this issue |
635-636 |
|
EDITORIAL |
|
|
Scientific collaboration |
637 |
|
CORRESPONDENCE |
|
|
Scientists and foreign travel - M. Vidyasagar |
638-639 |
|
Animals in research - Mahtab S.
Bamji; Y. Suresh |
639-640 |
|
Lopsided view on basic science - S. C. Tiwari |
640 |
|
Medical
research in India - C. P. Thakur |
641 |
|
Fluoride-free water for all - T. Ramakrishnan;
K. M. Shankar |
641-642 |
|
Scientists against nuclear weapons - Mohan Delampady
et al. |
642 |
|
Conservation of Chiroptera and termites in Asokan
pillar edict - Bandana
Mukhopadhyay and R. L. Brahmachary |
642 |
|
NEWS |
|
|
International mathematical olympiads and India
-
C. S. Yogananda |
643-644 |
|
RESEARCH NEWS |
|
|
A new model for promoting protein crystallization in solution
- Biman Bagchi |
644-646 |
|
Progress in interstellar chemistry - Ravi Subrahmanyan |
646-647 |
|
OPINION |
|
|
On recommending students: The curious case of
all students being in the top ten per cent
-
V. Sitaramam |
647-652 |
|
COMMENTARY |
|
|
Sustaining development in the developing countries
- T. N. Khoshoo |
652-660 |
|
SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE |
|
|
Antifungal and insect-repellent activities of
essential oil of turmeric (Curcuma longa
L.) -
K. A. Saju, M. N. Venugopal and M. J. Mathew |
660-662 |
|
Chemical ecology of certain tropical fruit pulp
II: non-zoochoric - Suparna Mandal and R. L. Brahmachary |
662-663 |
|
Synergistic effect of cry1Ac and Cry1F δ-endotoxons
of Bacillus thuringiensis on cotton
bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera -
S. K. Chakrabarti, A. D. Mandaokar, P. Ananda
Kumar and R. P. Sharma |
663-664 |
|
Plant regeneration from mature leaves and
roots of Eryngium foetidum L., a food
flavouring agent -
S. Arockiasamy and S. Ignacimuthu |
664-666 |
|
GENERAL ARTICLES |
|
|
Use of animals in research -
Nitya Nand |
667-671 |
|
Insect gall systems: Patterns, processes and adaptive
diversity -
T. N. Ananthakrishnan |
672-676 |
|
Fertilizer urea, food security, health and the
environment - Rajendra Prasad |
677-683 |
|
REVIEW ARTICLES |
|
|
Shortage of nutrients in bacteria: The stringent
response -
Tapan K. Mukherjee, Arvind Raghavan and Dipankar
Chatterji |
684-689 |
|
Engineering crops for tolerance against abiotic
stress through gene manipulation -
Anil Grover, Ashwani Pareek, Sneh Lata Singla, Deepika
Minhas, Surekha Katiyar, Sanjay
Ghawana, Himanshu
Dubey, Manu Agarwal, Gadde U. Rao, Jitesh Rathee and
Anita Grover |
689-696 |
|
RESEARCH ARTICLES |
|
|
cDNA cloning and characterization of a proline
(or hydroxyproline) -rich protein from
Santalum album
L. -
Anirban Bhattacharya and G. Lakshmi Sita |
697-701 |
|
Stratigraphical, palaeogeographical and
palaeoenvironmental significance of fossil
calcareous algae from Nimar Sandstone Formation, Bagh
Group (Cenomanian-Turonian)
of Pipaldehla, Jhabua Dt, MP
-
P. Kundal and B. N. Sanganwar |
702-708 |
|
RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS |
|
|
Scalability of the parallel GCM-T80 code -
T. N. Venkatesh, Rajalakshmy Sivaramakrishnan,
V. R. Sarasamma and U. N. Sinha |
709-712 |
|
Thermodynamic analysis of deterioration of marble
and cement buildings functioning as habitat for
terrestrial algae -
Rohit Shrivastav |
713-716 |
|
Mechanism of ATP synthesis by protonmotive force
-
Hirdesh Rohatgi, Anjanabha Saha and Sunil Nath |
716-718 |
|
Blood flow analysis through complex microvessels
by digital image velocimetry - Swaroop S. Singh
and Megha Singh |
719-723 |
|
Occurrence of reovirus in oak tasar silkworm
Antheraea proylei -
R. Varatharajan, S. Sudhakar, L. Reeta, N. Ibohal
Singh and S. Mathavan |
724-726 |
|
Relative fall in sea level in parts of southern
Karnataka coast -
K. R. Subrahmanya |
727-730 |
|
Radiocarbon dated sedimentation record up to 2
ka BP on the inner continental shelf
off Mangalore, south-west coast of India - K.
Pandarinath, A. C. Narayana and M. G. Yadava |
730-732 |
|
BOOK REVIEWS |
|
|
Mapping the Landscape - National Biomedical Research
Outputs 1988-95,
reviewed by
Subbiah Arunachalam |
733 |
|
The Gymnosperms,
reviewed by
D. D. Pant |
733-734 |
|
Annual Review of
Phytopathology 1997,
reviewed by
H. Shekar Shetty |
734-735 |
|
PERSONAL NEWS |
|
|
Jyotirmoy Das,
An obituary -
A. N. Bhaduri and D. P. Burma
|
736 |
|
S. K. Manchanda,
An obituary -
V. Mohan Kumar |
737 |
|
HISTORICAL NOTES |
|
|
Professor Bawa Kartar Singh: A pioneer in
stereochemistry in India -
H. S. Virk |
738-739 |
|
October
25, 1998 (8)
|
|
|
In this issue |
743-744 |
|
EDITORIAL |
|
|
Classifying life |
745-746 |
|
CORRESPONDENCE |
|
|
Terminator seed technology: Apprehensions and
challenges - Rani Gupta |
747 |
|
Terminator technology: Science and politics -
Sujay Rakshit |
747-749 |
|
Evaluation of a
PhD thesis - Naveen Chaudhri |
749-750 |
|
How to improve the quality of scientific
research in India - Sharique A. Ali |
750 |
|
Dogs wagged by bureaucratic tails -
J. Gowrishankar |
750-751 |
|
Honey bee-resembling flowers of Arenga -
D. D. Pant |
751 |
|
RESEARCH NEWS |
|
|
True polar wander and marine transgressions -
A. V. Sankaran |
752-755 |
|
COMMENTARY |
|
|
Roll back malaria -
V. P. Sharma |
756-757 |
|
SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE |
|
|
Alpha/beta arteether, a new antimalarial -
V. Dev, N. C. Nayak, K. M. Mahapatra, B. Chowdhury, S.
Phookan, J. S. Srivastava,
O. P. Asthana and V.
P. Sharma |
758-759 |
|
Targeted transgene integration: The way ahead
to stable transformation -
U. C. Lavania, Seshu Lavania and Y. Vimala |
759-760 |
|
The influence of air temperature and humidity
on the anthesis and anther
dehiscence of P. roxburghii at three
different altitudes -
C. M. Sharma, V. P. Khanduri and Naresh Chamoli |
761-763 |
|
A note on the occurrence of fulgurite in Tamil
Nadu -
S. C. Jayakaran |
763-764 |
|
GENERAL ARTICLES |
|
|
Ion track filters: Properties, development and
applications -
H. S. Virk and S. Amrita Kaur |
765-770 |
|
Switching on Bacillus thuringiensis to reduce
selection for resistance -
Brijmohan Singh Bhau and Veenu Koul |
771-777 |
|
SPECIAL SECTION:
TRANSPORT |
|
|
Transport policy issues -
Vijay Raman and K. M. Anantharamaiah |
778-784 |
|
Road transport development in India -
S. Sriraman |
785-789 |
|
Transport needs regulation -
Sundarsanam Padam |
790-794 |
|
Road maintenance management -
H. T. Tillotson, R. Kerali and J. B. Odoki |
795-799 |
|
Rural transport in India -
N. S. Ramaswamy |
800-803 |
|
Energy and environmental issues in transport - M.
S. Nanjundaiah |
804-811 |
|
Prospects for Indian shipping -
M. Raman |
812-817 |
|
Perspectives in improving the management of railways
-
J. T. Verghese |
818-823 |
|
Pipeline transportation technology: An overview
-
K. Subramanya |
824-826 |
|
Indian civil aviation: Where it needs to go -
V. K. Mathur |
827-828 |
|
REVIEW ARTICLE |
|
|
Apoptosis and gene regulation -
Natarajan Paneerselvam |
829-839 |
|
RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS |
|
|
A new unusual galactose-specific lectin from the
seeds of Indian lablab beans
- Rajasekhar Baru Tulasi and Siva Kumar Nadimpalli |
840-842 |
|
In vitro
multiplication of Gymnema sylvestre R.Br.
- An important medicinal plant -
P. Sairam Reddy, G. Rama Gopal and G. Lakshmi
Sita |
843-845 |
|
IRS-1C Digital data interpretation of lithotectonic
setting in northwestern part
of the Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt, Orissa - T.
K. Biswal and D. Sahoo |
846-850 |
|
Climate instability during last glacial stage:
Evidence from varve deposits at
Goting, district Chamoli, Garhwal Himalaya, India
-
R. K. Pant, N. Juyal, Piyoosh Rautela, M. G. Yadav
and S. J. Sangode |
850-855 |
|
BOOK REVIEWS |
|
|
ATM Fundamentals,
reviewed by
Daniel Jebaraj |
856 |
|
Will Science come to an
End,
reviewed by
K. P. Sinha |
856-857 |
|
Water-borne Diseases: The Continuing
Challenge,
reviewed by
C. Durga Rao |
857 |
|
Biogeography of the Reptile of South
Asia,
reviewed by
Samraat Pawar |
857-858 |
|
Orientation and Communication in
Arthropods,
reviewed by
K. S. Krishnan |
858-860 |
|
Trends in Microbial Exploitation,
reviewed by
D. J. Bagyaraj |
860-861 |
|
ERRATA |
|
|
Biotechnological potential of naturally occurring
and laboratory-grown
Microcystis
in biosorption of Ni2+ and Cd2+
- L. C. Rai, Sarita Singh and Subhashree
Pradhan [Curr. Sci., 1998, 74, 461-464] |
861 |
|
Review of acid rain potential in India:
Future threats and remedial measures - Manju Mohan and
Sanjay Kumar [Curr. Sci.,
1998, 75,
579-593] |
861 |
|
November
10, 1998 (9)
|
|
|
In this issue |
867-868 |
|
EDITORIAL |
|
|
Reviewing a review |
869-870 |
|
CORRESPONDENCE |
|
|
Nuclear weapons - B. M. Udgaonkar |
871 |
|
Impact factors - N. R. Jagannathan |
871-872 |
|
C++ in schools - Y. P. Joshi |
872 |
|
Facts about plague epidemic, 1994 - T. Jacob
John |
872-873 |
|
Unfair to Hardy - S. C. Tiwari |
873-874 |
|
NEWS |
|
|
At IAEA PM, Chidambaram castigate original sinners
- call for re-focusing Agency's role |
874-875 |
|
RESEARCH NEWS |
|
|
p53 degradation by Mdm2 - A novel mechanism for
regulation of p53 stability -
V. K. Nampoothiri |
875-877 |
|
OPINION |
|
|
Why does object technology hasten slowly? -
Rajendra K. Bera |
877-880 |
|
COMMENTARY |
|
|
Preservation of India's culture and environment
-
B. P. Radhakrishna |
881-882 |
|
SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE |
|
|
A rapid and simplified procedure for isolating
DNA from scat samples - Pattabhiraman
Shankaranarayanan and Lalji Singh |
883-884 |
Rapid land building activity along Vedaranniyam
coast and its possible implications - SM. Ramasamy,
D. Ramesh, M. A. Paul,
Sheela Kusumgar, M. G. Yadava, A. R. Nair, U.
K. Sinha and T. B. Joseph |
884-886 |
|
A
preliminary report on fluoride content in groundwaters
of Guntur area, Andhra Pradesh,
India - N. Subba Rao, J. Prakasa Rao, B. Naga-malleswara
Rao, P. Niranjan Babu,
P. Madusudhana Reddy and D. John Devadas |
887-888 |
|
GENERAL ARTICLES |
|
|
Risk assessment and operations strategy f6r ISRO
satellites during Leonid storm encounter -
T. Parimala Rangan, P. Kesava Rao, K. Nageswara
Rao and P. Soma |
889-892 |
|
Radiolaria as tracers of ocean-climate history
-
V. Sharma and J. Daneshian |
893-897 |
|
Side effects of some medicinal plants -
L. M. Gupta and R. Raina |
897-900 |
|
REVIEW ARTICLES |
|
|
Chemistry of bimetallic surfaces -
G. Ranga Rao |
901-910 |
|
Heme polymerization by malarial parasite: A potential
target for antimalarial drug development -
Amit Vikram Pandey and Virander Singh Chauhan |
911-918 |
|
RESEARCH ARTICLES |
|
|
Mitochondrial DNA sequence divergence among big
cats and their hybrids -
Pattabhiraman Shankaranarayanan and Lalji Singh |
919-923 |
|
Assessment of inbreeding depression in big cats:
Testosterone levels and semen analysis -
S. Shivaji, D. Jayaprakash and Suresh B. Patil |
923-930 |
|
Cryopreservation of semen of tigers and lions:
Computerized analysis of the motility
parameters of the spermatozoa -
S. B. Patil, D. Jayaprakash and S. Shivaji |
930-935 |
|
RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS |
|
|
Differential diagnosis of acute flaccid paralysis:
Poliomyelitis in developing countries -
H. V. Wyatt |
936-938 |
|
Characteristics of semen parameters in a selected
population of Indian men over a period
of 10 years -
K. Gopalkrishnan |
939-942 |
|
The fate of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in
activated human macrophages -
V. Vishwanath, Sujatha Narayanan and P. R. Narayanan |
942-946 |
|
Identification of a new parameter, Δt (T),
controlling the thermally
induced effects on
Kevlar 49 fibres -
R. V. Iyer and Kalyani Vijayan |
946-951 |
|
Methane entrapment in different rice soils of
India -
Deepanjan Majumdar, Sushil Kumar and M. C. Jain |
951-955 |
|
Coastal morphological influence for tropical cyclone
track deviation along Andhra coast:
GIS and remote sensing-based approach -
K. Vinod Kumar, A. Bhattacharya and C. Subramanyam |
955-958 |
|
In vitro
effects of adrenergic agonists and antagonists
on tissue respiration in Rana
limnocharis
and Rana cyanophlyctis -
A.
Mahanta and B. B. P. Gupta |
958-960 |
|
BOOK REVIEWS |
|
|
Introduction to Subfactors,
reviewed by E. V.
Rajarama Bhat |
961 |
|
The World Wide Web for Scientists and Engineers
- A Complete Reference for Navigating, Researching
and Publishing Online,
reviewed by
Subbiah Arunachalam |
961-962 |
|
Hotspots of Endemic
Plants of India, Nepal and Bhutan,
reviewed by T. N.
Khoshoo |
962-963 |
|
Biomass Studies:
Field Methods for Monitoring Biomass,
reviewed by
S. S. Kalbag |
963 |
|
Human
Nutrition in the Developing World,
reviewed by
B. Sesikeran and Kamala Krishnaswamy |
963-964 |
|
HISTORICAL NOTES |
|
|
Sir C. V. Raman and the story of the Nobel prize
-
Rajinder Singh and Falk Riess |
965-971 |
|
November
25, 1998 (10)
|
|
|
In this issue |
975 |
|
EDITORIAL |
|
|
The Raman legacy |
977 |
|
CORRESPONDENCE |
|
|
Ailments of Indian science and suggested remedies
- Narendra Nath |
979 |
|
New restrictions
on animal experimentation - Where do we go from
here? - Anjali Shiras, Pradeep B. Parab and
Ramesh R. Bhonde |
979-980 |
|
Nuclear breeders - L. V. Krishnan |
980-981 |
|
Author's travails - N. Dadhich |
981 |
|
Plantscape and insect biodiversity: Neglected dimensions
- T. N. Ananthakrishnan |
982 |
|
Geology underestimated in landslides - Rajesh
K. Vishwakarma |
983 |
|
NEWS |
|
|
Golden jubilee celebration at RRI - A brief report |
983-984 |
|
RESEARCH
NEWS |
|
|
Integers and fractions - Diptiman Sen |
985-987 |
|
Nitric oxide as a cell signaling molecule: The
1998 Nobel Prize in Medicine - P. K. Gupta |
987-991 |
|
COMMENTARY |
|
|
Life beyond earth -
N. Bhandari |
991-994 |
|
OPINION |
|
|
New trends and fashions in science and apathy
of funding authorities towards areas in
classical science - D. D. Pant |
994-996 |
|
SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE |
|
|
Who is afraid of breeders? - Placid Rodriguez
and S. M. Lee |
996-1000 |
|
Molecular chaperones -
T. S. Kumarevel, M. N. Ponnuswamy and M. Michael
Gromiha |
1000-1002 |
|
Sponges from the
Ordovician of (Takche Formation) Spiti Valley,
Himachal Pradesh - P. K. Maithy,
Gopendra Kumar and Amit K. Ghosh |
1002-1005 |
|
GENERAL ARTICLES |
|
|
Our dynamic Sun: The principal source of new physics
-
Bhola N. Dwivedi |
1006-1011 |
|
Groundwater contamination and health hazards by
some of the most commonly used
pesticides -
Imran Ali and C. K. Jain |
1011-1014 |
|
REVIEW ARTICLE |
|
|
Baculoviruses as biopesticides -
Seema Mishra |
1015-1022 |
|
RESEARCH ARTICLES |
|
|
Protein alterations associated with salinity,
desiccation, high and low temperature
stresses and abscisic acid application in seedlings
of Pusa 169, a high-yielding rice (Oryza
sativa
L.) cultivar -
Ashwani Pareek, Sneh Lata Singla and Anil Grover |
1023-1035 |
|
High frequency induction of multiple shoots and
plant regeneration from seedling
explants of pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan L.)
-
N. Geetha, P. Venkatachalam, V. Prakash and G. Lakshmi
Sita |
1036-1041 |
|
RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS |
|
|
A thermotropic biaxial nematic liquid crystal - S.
Chandrasekhar, Geetha G. Nair, D. S. Shankar Rao,
S. Krishna
Prasad, K. Praefcke and D. Blunk |
1042-1046 |
|
An efficient technique to solve TSP and its extension
to spatially spread vertices - C. N. Ravikumar,
K. Chidananda Gowda and P. Nagabhushan |
1046-1052 |
|
Induction of somatic embryogenesis and plant regeneration from
leaf callus of
Terminalia arjuna
Bedd. -
Nishi Kumari, Uma Jaiswal and V. S. Jaiswal |
1052-1055 |
|
Induction of root nodules and genetic variability
for paranodulation in rainfed upland rice -
Girish M. Kalagudi and V. V. Shenoy |
1056-1058 |
|
Mycoplasma-like organisms as the causative agent
of witches' broom of Cedrela (Cedrela
toona
Roxb.) in Himachal Pradesh, India - S. Nath |
1058-1061 |
|
Discovery of vesicular exocytosis in procaryotes
and its role in Salmonella invasion -
Rakesh Chander YashRoy |
1062-1066 |
|
Induced spawning and establishment of a captive
population for an endangered fish,
Ompok bimaculatus
in India -
S. Sridhar, C. Vijayakumar and M. A. Haniffa |
1066-1068 |
|
Female heterogamety in Indian populations of Polypedilum nubifer
(Diptera:
Chironomidae) -
Abhijit De and S. P. Gupta
|
1068-1070 |
|
Geothermal and seismic evidence for the fluids
in the crust beneath Koyna, India -
S. P. Sharma and D. M. Mall |
1070-1074 |
|
Nonchaotic earthquake occurrence near Oroville
reservoir, California - H. N. Srivastava
and S. N. Bhattacharya |
1074-1078 |
|
CORRECTIONS |
|
|
Detection of antibacterial activity in the floral
petals of some higher plants -
M. P. Darokar, A. Mathur, S. Dwivedi, P. Bhalla,
S. P. S. Khanuja and Sushil Kumar [Curr.
Sci.,
1998, 75, 187-189] |
1078 |
Occurrence of Veryhachium and its implication
on the age
of the Vaishnodevi Limestone, Jammu - B. S. Venkatachala
and Ashok Kumar [Curr. Sci.,
1998, 75, 431-432] |
1078 |
|
Energy and environmental issues in transport [Curr.
Sci.,
1998, 75,
804] |
1078 |
|
BOOK REVIEWS |
|
|
Ramanujan: Letters and Commentary,
reviewed by
George E. Andrews |
1079-1080 |
|
Science
and Engineering Indicators 1998,
reviewed by
S. Arunachalam |
1080-1081 |
|
Basic Demographic
Techniques and Applications,
reviewed by C.
Chandrasekaran |
1081 |
|
Biomass Energy
Systems, Proceedings of the International Conference,
reviewed by
S. S. Kalbag |
1081-1082 |
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Cellular and Molecular Biology of Gonadal Development
and Maturation in Mammals:
Fundamentals and Biomedical Implications, reviewed
by
S. K. Saidapur and B. A.
Shanbhag |
1082-1083 |
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HISTORICAL NOTES |
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M. S. Krishnan: Geologist par excellence -
A. V. Sankaran |
1084-1085 |
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The spirit of a giant -
G. Venkataraman |
1085-1094 |
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December
10, 1998 (11)
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In this issue |
1099 |
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EDITORIAL |
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Prizes |
1101-1102 |
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CORRESPONDENCE |
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More on 'taxanamists' - R. Ganesan |
1103 |
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In defence of 'taxanamists' - M. K. Janarthanam |
1103-1104 |
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Taxonomists vs field biologists - G. N. Hariharan |
1105 |
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Research fellows: A bleak future - Hari
Om Upadhyay |
1105 |
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Molecular farming through nicotine-free tobacco
- Gururaj Hunsigi |
1106 |
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Abiotic stress tolerant transgenic crops - H. S.
Srivastava |
1106-1107 |
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Nitrogenous fertilizers, neem
and vectors of Japanese encephalitis virus - I.
P. Sunish, D. Raghunatha Rao and A. Gajanana |
1107 |
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RESEARCH NEWS |
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Remote triggering of earthquakes - Some fresh
views -
A. V. Sankaran |
1108-1109 |
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OPINION |
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Voices against the militarization of science -
M. V. N. Murthy, Madan Rao, R. Shankar, J. Samuel
and A. Sitaram |
1110-1111 |
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SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE |
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Algal flora in the cave soils - A. John Koilraj
and G. Marimuthu |
1111-1113 |
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In vitro studies on some non-coniferous
gymnosperms - Manjul Dhiman, Sushma Moitra, M.
N. Singh and S. P. Bhatnagar |
1113-1115 |
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Creation of a hybrid zone in Drosophila with
'allo-sympatric' races - M. T. Tanuja, N. B. Ramachandra
and H. A. Ranganath |
1116-1117 |
On the discovery of uranium mineralization in
Wahkyn Area, West
Khasi Hills district, Meghalaya, India - Eric
D'Cruz, S. K, Mathur, A. K. Padhi, A. S. Sachan
and
D. B. Sen |
1117-1119 |
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First occurrence of araucaroid wood from Pondicherry
Formation (Late
Cretaceous), Pondicherry, South India - R. K.
Kar, K. Ambwani and A. Agarwal |
1119-1121 |
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NEWS |
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ISRO satellites escape unscathed after the Leonid
meteor shower |
1121 |
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GENERAL ARTICLES |
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Healing plants -
M. S. Valiathan |
1122-1127 |
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Fighting malaria in India -
V. P. Sharma |
1127-1140 |
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Engineering apomixis in crops: A challenge for
plant molecular biologists in the next century
-
S. C. Maheshwari, N. Maheshwari, J. P. Khurana
and S. K. Sopory |
1141-1147 |
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REVIEW ARTICLE |
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Nucleocytoplasmic trafficking of geminiviral proteins
- Yedidya Gafni |
1148-1152 |
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RESEARCH ARTICLES |
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Betaine reverses toxic effects of aluminium:
Implications in Azheimer's disease (AD) and AD-like
pathology -
T. Ramakrishna, S. Vatsala, V. Shobi, E. Sreekumaran,
T. R. Madhav, J. Ramesh and K. R. K.
Easwaran |
1153-1156 |
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InRidge program: Preliminary results from the
first cruise -
Ranadhir Mukhopadhyay, K. S. R. Murthy, S. D.
Iyer, M. M. Malleswara Rao, Ranadip Banerjee,
A. S. Subramanyam, P. V. Shirodkar and Indraneel
Ghose |
1157-1161 |
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RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS |
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Co-operative electrostatics for understanding
crown ether hydration patterns -
Shridhar R. Gadre and Subhash S. Pingale |
1162-1166 |
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A novel electrochemical measurement of reversible
decomposition potential of sodium chloride at
sub-melting temperatures -
K. S. Mohandas, N. Sanil and P. Rodriguez |
1166-1169 |
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Protein alterations associated with salinity,
desiccation, high and low temperature stresses
and
abscisic acid application in Lal nakanda, a
drought-tolerant rice cultivar -
Ashwani Pareek, Sneh Lata Singla and Anil Grover
|
1170-1174 |
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Drought-induced enhancement of protease activity
during monocarpic senescence in wheat -
B. Srivalli and Renu Khanna-Chopra |
1174-1176 |
|
Identification of blocks in chlorophyll biosynthetic
pathway in chlorophyll-deficient mutants of
Pennisetum glaucum
(L.) R. Br. - K. Karunasri, M. V. Sailaja and
N. C. Subrahmanyam |
1176-1180 |
Foliar levels of rare earth elements and thorium
in coconut palm in relation to root (wilt)-disease
-
P. A. Wahid, N. V. Kamalam, S. Vijayalakshmi,
R. Krishna Prabhu, T. R. Mahalingam, John T.
Eapen, H. S. Dang, D. D. Jaiswal, P. V. Balachandran,
V. K. Venugopal, P. R. Suresh, V. K. G.
Unnithan and Jacob Thomas |
1180-1183 |
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Inversion of gravity anomaly due to a contact
(fault) and its application for graben tectonics
across Godavari basin -
D. Ch. Venkata Raju, S. Ravikumar and D. C. Mishra |
1184-1188 |
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Pattern of growth and utilization of
abdominal fat bodies during
larval development and metamorphosis in five
South Indian anurans - N. P. Gramapurohit, B. A.
Shanbhag and S. K. Saidapur |
1188-1192 |
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BOOK REVIEWS |
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Einstein's Miraculous Year - Five Papers that
Changed the Face of Physics, reviewed
by N.
Mukunda |
1193-1194 |
|
Therapeutic Strategies for Modulating Inflammatory
Diseases, reviewed by
Satyajit Rath |
1194-1195 |
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Drug Supply and Use: Towards a Rational Policy
in India, reviewed by T. C.
Raghuram |
1195-1196 |
|
Development and the Information Age, reviewed
by Subbiah Arunachalam |
1196 |
|
SPECIAL
SECTION: K. S. KRISHNAN BIRTH CENTENARY |
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Preface |
1197-1199 |
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High pressure and itinerant antiferromagnetism
in chromium and Cr-alloys -
A. Jayaraman |
1200-1207 |
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Modern magnetism and the pioneering experiments
of K. S. Krishnan -
A. K. Raychaudhuri |
1207-1211 |
|
Impact of K. S. Krishnan on contemporary carbon
science research -
M. S. Dresselhaus, G. Dresselhaus and A. K. Ramdas |
1212-1216 |
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Magneto-optics of II-VI diluted magnetic semiconductors
- A. K. Ramdas and H. Alawadhi |
1216-1221 |
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A review of our recent work on Raman scattering
and a tribute to K. S. Krishnan -
S. C. Jain |
1222-1232 |
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Ring currents and correlation transition in regular
annulenes -
Y. Anusooya and Z. G. Soos |
1233-1238 |
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Krishnan and the sampling theorem -
R. Simon |
1239-1245 |
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Forces, structure and electronic correlation functions
in liquid metals -
N. H. March |
1246-1254 |
|
K. S. Krishnan and early experimental evidences
for the Jahn-Teller theorem -
G. Baskaran |
1254-1258 |
|
K. S. Krishnan: Birth centenary - E. S. Raja Gopal |
1259-1261 |
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K. S. Krishnan: A pioneer in condensed
matter physics - T. V. Ramakrishnan |
1261-1263 |
|
K. S. Krishnan—the complete physicist -
R. Sundaram |
1263-1265 |
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A conversation with K. S. Krishnan on the story
of the discovery of the
Raman effect - S. Ramaseshan |
1265-1272 |
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The tragedy of K. S. Krishnan: A sociological
fable, Shiv
Visvanathan |
1272-1275 |
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December
25, 1998 (12)
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In this issue |
1283-1284 |
|
EDITORIAL |
|
|
History in science |
1285-1286 |
|
CORRESPONDENCE |
|
|
Funding basic research - V. D. R. Nathan |
1287 |
|
Regulation and control of groundwater
management and
development -
V. P. Upadhyay |
1287-1288 |
|
'Terminator' transgenics - C. R.
Bhatia |
1288-1289 |
|
The terminator: Saga continues - K. P. Gopinathan |
1289-1290 |
|
NEWS |
|
|
The work of the Fields medalists: 1998 - C. S.
Rajan, Rajendra Bhatia, T. R. Ramadas and Nimish
A. Shah |
1290-1295 |
|
India signs Ocean Charter |
1296 |
|
RESEARCH NEWS |
|
|
Protein folding intermediates - Are we seeing
too many of them - Anil K. Lala |
1296-1297 |
|
Cambrian life explosion in fray: Evidence from more than
1 b.y. old animal body fossils
and skeletonization
event -
Rajesh K. Vishwakarma |
1297-1300 |
|
COMMENTARY |
|
|
National science summit -
C. Subramaniam |
1300-1302 |
|
SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE |
|
|
Life history and culture studies of Monostroma
oxyspermum (Kutz.) Doty (Monostromataceae,
Chlorophyceae) growing in estuarine conditions
on the central west coast of India - Geetanjali
Deshmukhe, V. K. Dhargalkar and A. G. Untawale |
1302-1303 |
|
A survey of impact and
evaluation of water pollution on reservoir fisheries
in Kumaun Himalayas, India with special reference
to micro-organisms - Rajender K. Sidhu and R. D.
Khulke |
1303-1308 |
|
Severe
heat wave over Indian subcontinent in 1998, in
perspective of global climate - U. S. De
and R. K. Mukhopadhyay |
1308-1311 |
|
GENERAL ARTICLES |
|
|
Novel enzyme-based detergents: An Indian perspective
-
C. Ganesh Kumar, R. K. Malik and M. P. Tiwari |
1312-1318 |
|
The terminator technology for seed production
and protection: Why and how? -
P. K. Gupta |
1319-1323 |
|
The Olive Ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea)
in Orissa: An urgent call for an
intensive and integrated conservation programme
-
Bivash Pandav, B. C. Choudhury and Kartik Shanker |
1323-1328 |
|
REVIEW ARTICLES |
|
|
Non-equilibrium atomic dynamics in solids -
K. R. Rao |
1328-1337 |
|
Oxidative stress-induced apoptosis - An overview
-
Rajeev Goel and K. L. Khanduja |
1338-1345 |
|
RESEARCH ACCOUNT |
|
|
Chemical regulation of DNA triplex properties:
Nucleobase and backbone modified novel
DNA analogues as structural probes -
K. N. Ganesh |
1346-1354 |
|
RESEARCH ARTICLES |
|
|
Dependence of vortex breakdown on angular momentum
parameters in draft tube flow -
C. L. Sharma, S. Soundranayagam, Somkrishan and
T. S. Mukund |
1355-1363 |
|
Mineralogical and geochemical characters of surface
sediments from the central basin -
Ranadip Banerjee |
1364-1371 |
|
RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS |
|
|
Probing the solar plasma through ratio-ratio diagnostic
technique - Ne V emission lines -
A. Mohan and B. N. Dwivedi |
1372-1373 |
|
Thermodynamic model of global warming -
K. K. P. Srivastava |
1374-1380 |
|
A thin polystyrene air bubble -
Arun Chattopadhyay |
1381-1383 |
|
Synthesis and anticancer activity of new derivatives
of podophyllotoxin -
Cui Ying-jie and Tian Xuan |
1383-1386 |
|
Knowledge, attitude, beliefs and practices (KABP) study related to malaria
intervention strategies in ethnic tribals of Mandla
(Madhya Pradesh) -
Neeru Singh, M. P. Singh, Ajay Saxena, V. P. Sharma
and N. L. Kalra |
1386-1390 |
|
Study of prevalence of hypothyroidism in women
of reproductive age in
North-Eastern India -
I. J. Kharkongor and B. B. P. Gupta
|
1390-1393 |
|
Microbial antagonism to Neovossia indica, causing
Karnal bunt of wheat -
G. A. M. Amer, D. V. Singh, Rashmi Aggarwal and
Prem Dureja |
1393-1396 |
|
Chemical stimulation of germination and membrane
fluidity change in
dormant cucumber seeds -
Y. Sreenivasulu and Dilip Amritphale |
1396-1399 |
|
Canopy effect on the dry matter allocation in
different components of evergreen and
non-evergreen forb species of Kumaun Himalaya
-
Poonam Mehrotra, Pawan Mehrotra and Y. S. Rawat |
1399-1402 |
|
Evaluation of tissues of Indian major carps for
development of cell lines by explant method -
M. A. Joseph, R. K. Sushmitha, C. V. Mohan and
K. M. Shankar |
1403-1406 |
|
A test of simple models of population growth using data
from very small populations of
Drosophila melanogaster -
V. Sheeba and Amitabh Joshi |
1406-1410 |
|
Role of impurities in gypsum-bassanite phase transition:
A comparative Raman study -
P. S. R. Prasad, N. Ravikumar, A. S. R. Krishnamurthy
and L. P. Sarma |
1410-1414 |
|
BOOK REVIEWS |
|
|
India-2020: A Vision for the New Millenium, reviewed
by Yash Pal |
1415-1417 |
|
The
International Visibility of Danish and Scandinavian
Research 1988-96, reviewed by
Subbiah Arunachalam |
1417 |
|
The Book of Indian Trees, reviewed by H.
Y. Mohan |
1417-1419 |
|
Mountains of the World: A Global Priority, reviewed
by K. S. Valdiya |
1419 |
|
PERSONAL NEWS |
|
|
Jurgen Aschoff - An obituary -
M. K. Chandrashekaran |
1420-1421 |
