Indexes to Volume 53 SUBJECT INDEX Review
Interesting normal state and superconducting properties of the intermediate valence compound CeRu_ S B Roy and P Chaddah	659-684
Mathematical Physics
Group of contact transformations: Symmetry classification of Fokker-Planck type equations P Rudra	795-806
Quantum Mechanics
Trace formula for level density of a spherical billiard Sham Sunder Malik, Manisha Dudeja and Ashok Kumar Jain	243-252
Dirac current in expanding spacetime N G Sarkar, S Biswas and A Shaw	685-700
Adiabatic anholonomy and canonical transformations Jagmeet Singh	807-814
Cosmology
Starobinsky model in Schr¨ odinger description S Biswas, A Shaw and D Biswas	815-832
Cosmological parameters D Narasimha	921-932
Cepheid distance to the virgo cluster Anwesh Mazumdar	933-936
The cosmological constant revisited Varun Sahni	937-944
Topology of the Universe: Background and recent observational approaches Boudewijn F Roukema	945-950
Cosmic microwave background radiation anisotropies and data analysis Shiv K Sethi	951-962
Polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation T R Seshadri	963-970
Constraining cosmological parameters through Sunyaev-Zel'dovich surveys Subhabrata Majumdar and Ravi Subrahmanyan	971-976
Large scale structure Somnath Bharadwaj	977-988
Multi-fractal analysis of the galaxy distribution in the Las Campanas redshift survey T R Seshadri	989-994
Pancakes and filaments in cosmological gravitational clustering Varun Sahni	995-1000
Dark matter halo cores in hierarchical clustering theories Kandaswamy Subramanian	1001-1011
The nature of low redshift damped Ly-_systems Nissim Kanekar and Jayaram N Chengalur	1013-1019
Cosmology with the intergalactic medium Biman B Nath	1021-1025
Chemical enrichment at high redshifts Pushpa Khare	1027-1032
An analysis of 900 optical rotation curves: Dark matter in a corner? D F Roscoe	1033-1037
Gravitational lensing by spiral galaxies D Narasimha	1039-1042
X-ray emission from clusters of galaxies and cosmological parameters K P Singh	1043-1051
Particle dark matter: An overview Palash B Pal	1053-1059
Baryogenesis in the early Universe Raghavan Rangarajan	1061-1067
Topological defects in cosmology Ajit M Srivastava	1069-1076
Topological defects in the left-right symmetric model and their relevance to cosmology Hatem Widyan	1077-1080
A new mechanism of formation of topological defects Supratim Sengupta	1081-1085
Defect correlation in liquid crystal: Experimental verification of cosmological Kibble mechanism Rajarshi Ray	1087-1091
The quasi-steady state cosmology: Theory and observations Jayant V Narlikar	1093-1104
String cosmology Jnanadeva Maharana and Sudipta Mukherji	1105-1114
Parity violation in a gravitational theory with torsion: A geometrical interpretation Soumitra Sengupta	1115-1119
String dynamics near a black hole H K Jassal, A Mukherjee and R P Saxena	1121-1123
Detection of gravitational waves using a network of detectors Sukanta Bose, Sanjeev V Dhurandhar and Archana Pai	1125-1136
Relativity and Gravitation	253-270
Genericity and stability of naked singularities arising in an inhomogeneous dust collapse S H Ghate, R V Saraykar and K D Patil
Exact scalar field cosmologies in a higher derivative theory B C Paul	833-842
Statistical Physics
New phase modulated solutions for a higher-order nonlinear Schr¨ odinger equation C Nagaraja Kumar and P Durganandini	271-278
Particle Physics
The longitudinal structure function _______ __ __ and the gluon distribution ____ __ __ at low _ Abhijeet Das and A Saikia	701-706
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear magnetic moment: Relativistic mean field description Y K Gambhir and C S Warke	279-288
Beta decay of_ ___ Sb and level structures in _ ___ Te M Sainath, K Venkataramaniah and P C Sood	289-306
Nuclear structure studies on halo nuclei by direct reactions with radioactive beams Peter Egelhof	365-380
Alpha particle evaporation as a probe for dynamical deformations I M Govil	381-394
Experimental investigations of the nuclear level density by using heavy ion reactions G Viesti, M Lunardon, D Fabris, G Nebbia, M Cinausero, E Fioretto, G Prete, J B Natowitz, K Hagel and R Wada	395-404
Extremes of nuclear structure S B Patel	405-406
_ 1 and _2 band structures in the Sn-Xe-Ba region R Srinivasa Chakrawarthy	407-408
Fusion-fission dynamics in the superheavy nucleus production G Giardina, P D'Agostino, G Fazio, M Herman, A I Muninov, A Nasirov, G Oliva, R Palamara and R Ruggeri	409-418
Fluctuations of the second order observables for dissipative processes in ___F_ ___ Al system I Berceanu, A Andronic, M Duma, D Mois_ _ , M Petrovici, A Pop, V Simion, A Del Zoppo, G d'Erasmo, G Imm_ _ , G Lanzan_, A Pagano, A Pantaleo and G Raciti	419-424
Transition strengths and shapes of 2-qp bands in __! Se and __" Kr G Mukherjee, P Joshi, S N Roy, S Datta, R P Singh, S Muralithar and R K Bhowmik	425-430
Structure of neutron-rich nuclei around #%$'&_()( Maitreyee Saha Sarkar	431-436
Dissipative processes in light heavy ion collisions A Pop, A Andronic, I Berceanu, M Duma, D Mois _ _ , M Petrovici, V Simion, G Imm _ _ , G Lanzan _, A Pagano, G Raciti, R Coniglione, A Del Zoppo, P Piatelli, P Sapienza, N Colonna, G d'Erasmo and A Pantaleo	437-442
Distinction between pre-formed cluster emission and heavy ion decay by fission G Shanmugam and G M Carmel Vigila Bai	443-446
Nuclear structure studies of nuclei near *,+.-/( E Dragulescu, G Semenescu and I Iftimia	447-452
The simulations of Ca-Ca collisions: Binary break-up, onset of multifragmentation and vaporization Rajeev K Puri and Suneel Kumar	453-456
Rotational co-existence in selenium isotopes G Shanmugam, V Ramasubramanian and P Arumugam	457-462
Signature splitting in magnetic rotational bands Amita, Ashok K Jain, Alpana Goel and Balraj Singh	463-468
Relevance of thermally populated first excited state of !_! Ti to the abundance problem of Cassiopiea A: A model study Sukhendusekhar Sarkar	469-472
Multinucleon transfer reactions G Pollarolo	473-482
Fusion-fission of light nuclear systems A Szanto de Toledo, N Carlin, N Added, E M Szanto, M G Munhoz, J Takahashi, A Suaide and M M de Moura	483-484
Heavy-ion induced fission reactions at near-barrier energies - what have we learnt? S Kailas	485-494
Heavy-ion fusion at low energies Neil Rowley	495-504
Dynamics of low-energy heavy-ion fusion A M Stefanini	505-512
Exploiting barrier distributions to investigate breakup effects in the fusion of _ Be _ _____ Pb M Dasgupta, D J Hinde, R D Butt, A C Berriman, C R Morton, J O Newton and K Hagino	513-520
Some aspects of heavy ion fusion-fission dynamics D V Shetty, R K Choudhury, B K Nayak, D M Nadkarni and S S Kapoor	521-528
Transfer measurements for the Ti _ Ni systems at near barrier energies K M Varier, A M Vinodkumar, N V S V Prasad, P V Madhusudhana Rao, D L Sastry, Lagy T Baby, M C Radhakrishna, N G Puttaswamy, J J Das, P Sugathan, N Madhavan, A K Sinha and D O Kataria	529-534
Measurement of the ground state 2 2 pickup probability for ___ Si _ "_1 Zn and its role in sub-barrier fusion enhancement Vandana Tripathi, Lagy T Baby, P V Madhusudhana Rao, S K Hui, R Singh, J J Das, P Sugathan, N Madhavan and A K Sinha	535-540
Inclusive and exclusive measurements in the projectile breakup of _ Li T Madhusoodhanan, Samit Mandal, M P Sathyavathiamma, Ramani, N G Puttaswamy, T S Mudhole, A Mandal, D K Avasthi, R Shyam and S K Datta	541-544
Asymmetric barrier model for heavy ion fusion and its relation to channel coupling Basudeb Sahu and C S Shastry	545-548
Nuclear orbiting and anomalies in nuclear reactions A De, A Mitra, A Ray, S R Banerjee, M Sengupta, A Chatterjee, S Kailas, H S Patel, M G Betigiri and S K Dutta	549-552
Quasielastic reactions around the Coulomb barrier in _ " O ____ 1 Sn S Saha, Samit K Mandal, M B Chatterjee, B K Sinha and S K Datta	553-558
Coupled channels calculations for _ 1 O and _ " O break-up reaction Samit K Mandal and R K Bhowmik	559-562
Fission fragment angular distributions in _ " O __ 1 _ Ta Bivash R Behera, Subinit Roy, P Basu, M K Sharan, S Jena, M Satpathy, S K Datta, L Satpathy and M L Chatterjee	563-566
A three body approach to study the structural properties of 2- halo nuclei and the search for Effimov states V S Bhasin	567-576
Rare cold nuclear processes - A review and some new results Raj K Gupta	577-584
Astrophysical 3 -factors from asymptotic normalization coefficients R E Tribble, A Azhari, H L Clark, C A Gagliardi, Y-W Lui, A M Mukhamedzhanov, A Sattaroy, X Tang, L Trache, V Burjan, J Cejpek, V Kroha, 4 3 Pisko 4 5 , J incour and F C 6 _ rstoiu	585-594
Breakup of 1 B and the _ Be(98 ) 1 B reaction R Shyam and I J Thompson	595-606
Perspectives from above and beyond the proton drip-line P J Woods	607-608
Mass measurements of relativistic projectile fragments in the storage ring ESR T Radon, H Geissel, F Attallah, K Beckert, F Bosch, A Dolinskiy, E Eickhoff, M Falch, B Franczak, B Franzke, Y Fujita, M Hausmann, M Hellstr¨ om, F Herfurth, Th Kerscher, O Klepper, H-J Kluge, C Kozhuharov, Yu Litvinov, K E G L¨ obner, G M¨ unzenberg, F Nolden, Yu Novikov, Z Patyk, W Quint, H Reich, C Scheidenberger, B Schlitt, J Stadlmann, M Steck, K S¨ ummerer, L Vermeeren, M Winkler, Th Winkler and H Wollnik	609-618
The analysis of reactions leading to synthesis of super heavy elements within the dinuclear system concept E A Cherepanov	619-630
Proton radioactivity - spherical and deformed C N Davids, P J Woods, D Seweryniak, A A Sonzogni, J C Batchelder, C R Bingham, T Davinson, D J Henderson, R J Irvine, G L Poli, J Uusitalo and W B Walters	631-632
A rare nuclear decay process: The internal conversion between bound atomic states J F Chemin, T Carreyre, M Aiche, F Attallah, G Bogaert, J P Grandin, M Harston, W E Meyerhof and J N Scheurer	633-634
Cubic potential models for cluster radioactivity G Shanmugam	635-636
Fission experiments with secondary beams J Benlliure, S Steinh¨ auser, C B¨ ockstiegel, A Grewe, H-G Clerc, A Heinz, M de Jong, A R Junghans, J M¨ uller, K-H Schmidt and M Pf¨ utzner	637-646
Statistical fluctuations in hot rotating nuclei M Rajasekaran and D Caleb Chanthi Raj	647-652
Relative wavefunctions, vertex functions and coupling constants for the virtual decay of ! He V K Sharma and B K Chikara	707-726
_ _ C induced transfer reactions on __" Fe Hari S Patel, B Srinivasan, B J Roy and M G Betigeri	843-850
Atomic and Molecular Physics
Calculation of magnetic multipole moment integrals using translation formulas for Slater-type orbitals I I Guseinov, B A Mamedov, T ¨ Ozdo _ : an and M Orbay	727-732
Photoionization of Al IV (neon-type) from its ground 2 ; ___ 7 " _=3?> and excited 2 ; __ 7 _ 3 7A@CB _ED 0 @_3 > states using the F -matrix method Man Mohan, M Le Dourneuf, A Hibbert and P G Burke	733-742
Multipole ionization of argon in coincidence with projectile ions in 60-120 MeV Si G9H -Ar collisions M J Singh, D O Kataria, N Madhavan, P Sugathan, J J Das, D K Awasthi, A K Sinha and R Shanker	743-764
Effect of collimator size and absorber thickness on gamma ray attenuation measurements for bakelite and perspex Gurdeep S Sidhu, Karamjit Singh, Parjit S Singh and Gurmel S Mudahar	851-856
Centrifugal distortion analysis of the microwave spectrum of allyl isothio-cyanate (C-gauche conformer) A I Jaman	857-862
Energy spectrum of ejected electrons in ionization of hydrogen atoms by electrons J N Das and S Dhar	869-876
Lasers, Optics and Spectroscopy
An alternative approach to determine the spot-size of a multi-mode laser beam and its application to diode laser beams Rakesh Kapoor, P K Mukhopadhyay, Jogy George and S K Sharma	307-320
Tunable infrared generation in KTA and applications G C Bhar, P Kumbhakar, A K Chaudhary and U Chatterjee	321-330
Linear amplifier via the displaced Fock states superposition Gamal M Abd Al-Kader	877-890
Condensed Matter Physics
Quasi-one dimensional electrical conductivity and thermoelectric power studies on a discotic liquid crystal V S K Balagurusamy, S Krishna Prasad, S Chandrasekhar, Sandeep Kumar, M Manickam and C V Yelamaggad	3-12
The fragmented state of lipid bilayers in water: Discovery of a lower consolute point W Helfrich, B Kl¨ osgen and J Thimmel	13-24
Surface controlled nematic bistability I Dozov and G Durand	25-36
Surface adsorption and collapse transition of linear polymer chains Yashwant Singh, Sanjay Kumar and Debaprasad Giri	37-54
Liquid water: A very complex fluid H Eugene Stanley	53-84
Biology and the flow of molecular information A J Libchaber	85-92
Phase transitions in Langmuir monolayers K A Suresh and A Bhattacharyya	93-106
The lamellar and sponge phases of dilute surfactant systems: Structures and defects at equilibrium and under shear Maurice Kleman	107-120
Phase separated composite films of liquid crystals Valery Vorflusev, Jae-Hoon Kim and Satyendra Kumar	121-130
Natural optical activity and liquid crystals C Oldano and M Becchi	131-144
An LCD for the multimedia network age: Polymer stabilized FLCD Shunsuke Kobayashi, Hirokazu Furue and Taiju Takahashi	145-154
On the 'Listeria' propulsion mechanism F Gerbal, V Noireaux, C Sykes, F J¨ ulicher, P Chaikin, A Ott, J Prost, R M Golsteyn, E Friederich, D Louvard, V Laurent and M F Carlier	155-170
Structure and dynamics of charged macromolecules: Minimal representation of biological systems M Muthukumar	171-198
Driving matrix liquid crystal displays T N Ruckmongathan	199-212
Molecular structure and chiral liquid crystalline phases B K Sadashiva	213-222
Linear and nonlinear rheology of wormlike micelles A K Sood, Ranjini Bandyopadhyay and Geetha Basappa	223-236
Nonequilibrium noise and instabilities in membranes with active pumps Sriram Ramaswamy, John Toner and Jacques Prost	237-242
Extended irreversible thermodynamics and the quality of temperature and pressure Anil A Bhalekar	331-340
Local canted spin behaviour in Co __I !_JLKZnKGe0 I !Fe_EI _O!spinels: A macro-scopic, mesoscopic and microscopic study M V Subbarao, S M Yusuf, R G Kulkarni and L Madhav Rao	341-352
Dynamic Jahn-Teller effect in a Fe-N"cage molecule K Padmakumar and P T Manoharan	353-362
Pressure dependence of the superconducting state parameters of metallic glass Superconductor Mg __0Zn@ 0 Manish Gupta, K S Sharma and Lachhman Dass	765-774
A short range many-body potential for modelling bcc metals M M Ali	775-782
Pressure-volume calculation in bcc metals using Born stability criteria Piyush Kuchhal and Narsingh Dass	783-794
Characteristics of photoconductivity in As-Sb-Se glasses G Mathew and J Philip	891-902
The kinetic limitation of anti-Stokes luminescence of Er@_ Hand Yb@_H doped infrared upconversion materials Sachin K Mahajan,P K Khare and B P Chandra	903-910
Brief Report
The breaking of O(6) symmetry in ___ 1 Xe and _ ___ Xe Bir Singh Rawat and P K Chattopadhyay	911-918