In this issue
p. 0127

Sprinting before we stand
p. 0129 | Balaram, P.

Indian scholars boost S&T research in Taiwan
p. 0131 | Hsu, Minna J.; Agoramoorthy, Govindasamy

Fate of agricultural postgraduates in India
p. 0131 | Raja, B.

Recognition of merit
p. 0132 | Mohanty-Hejmadi, P.

Managing water
p. 0132 | Narasimhan, T. N.

Managing water (Response)
p. 0133 | Gupta, S. K.; Deshpande, R. D.

Primes in arithmetic progression
p. 0134 | Dani, S. G.

Landslide disaster of 24 September 2003 in Uttarkashi
p. 0134 | Sarkar, S.; Kanungo, D. P.; Chauhan, P. K. S.

New African violets ( Saintpaulia ionantha, H. Wendl. ) induced by colchicine
p. 0138 | Seneviratne, K. A. C. N.; Wijesundara, D. S. A.

Limnocharis flava (L. ) Buchenau (Alismataceae) - a little known and troublesome weed in Andaman Islands
p. 0140 | Karthigeyan, K.; Sumathi, R.; Jayanthi, J.; Diwakar, P. G.; Lakra, G. S.

Piper sarmentosum Roxb. - An addition to the flora of Andaman Islands
p. 0141 | Mathew, Sam P.; Mohandas, A.; Nair, G. M.

Glossiphonia weberi, an effective predator of the freshwater limpets Ferrissia baconi
p. 0142 | Aditya, G.; Raut, S. K.

Natural gas at shallow depth in the placer sands of Amalapuram coast, East Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh
p. 0144 | Rao, M. Nageswara; Desapati, T.; Subrahmanyam, A. V.; Deshmukh, R. D.; Viswanathan, G.; Sinha, R. M.

From the archives
p. 0146

Hydrocarbon production from fractured basement formations
p. 0147 | Sircar, Anirbid

Exemplars of proteins
p. 0152 | Banavar, Jayanth R.; Maritan, Amos

Molecular markers in herbal drug technology
p. 0159 | Joshi, Kalpana; Chavan, Preeti; Warude, Dnyaneshwar; Patwardhan, Bhushan

Architecture of a membrane protein: The voltage-gated K⁺ channel
p. 0166 | Varshney, Anurag; Mathew, M. K.

Application of fluorescence spectroscopy to membrane protein structure and dynamics
p. 0175 | Chattopadhyay, Amitabha; Raghuraman, H.

Energetics of insertion of soluble proteins into membrane
p. 0181 | Mathur, Abhishek; Sethi, Anurag; Jogini, Vishwanath; Bhargava, Yogesh; Tembe, B. L.; Lala, Anil K.

The structure and mechanism of the TolC outer membrane transport protein
p. 0190 | Federici, Luca; Walas, Fabien; Luisi, Ben

Folding and structural stability of OmpC from Salmonella typhi: Role of LPS and environment
p. 0197 | Arockiasamy, A.; Kumar, P. D.; Baalaji, N. Sundara; Rukmini, M. R.; Krishnaswamy, S.

Interaction of bovine seminal plasma proteins with model membranes and sperm plasma membranes
p. 0203 | Swamy, Musti J.

Protein palmitoylation and dynamic modulation of protein function
p. 0212 | Basu, Joyoti

Optical characterization and imaging of biological tissues
p. 0218 | Srinivasan, R.; Kumar, D.; Singh, Megha

A compact holographic optics-based interferometer
p. 0228 | Aggarwal, A. K.; Kaura, Sushil K.; Chhachhia, D. P.; Sharma, A. K.

Theoretical design for a light-driven molecular motor based on rotaxanes
p. 0232 | Sebastian, K. L.

Effects of erosion on stable thrust wedges: A new perspective in sandbox analogue modelling
p. 0235 | Agarwal, K. K.; Agarwal, G. K.

Development of single-molecule tracking confocal microscope combined with force spectroscopy for gene-expression analysis
p. 0239 | Sinha, Deepak Kumar; Bhattacharya, Dipanjan; Banerjee, Bidisha; Hameed, Feroz Meeran; Shivashankar, G. V.

Cloning and expression of AmphiSRP19, a homologue of SRP19 from amphioxus Branchiostoma belcheri tsingtauense
p. 0244 | Liu, M.; Zhang, S.; Liu, Z.; Wang, Y.; Li, H.; Xu, A.

Effect of salinity on larval growth of horseshoe crab, Tachypleus gigas (Müller)
p. 0248 | Chatterji, A.; Kotnala, S.; Mathew, R.

Estimation of geothermal gradients and heat flow from Bottom Simulating Reflector along the Kerala-Konkan basin of Western Continental Margin of India
p. 0250 | Shankar, Uma; Thakur, N. K.; Reddi, S. I.

Free Boundary Problems: Theory and Applications by P. Colli Et Al
p. 0254 | Dhar, Deepak

Technology Transfer: Strategic Management in Developing Countries by Goel Cohen
p. 0254 | Rajan, Y. S.

Department of Science and Technology-INVITATION OF PROPOSALS UNDER THE GREEN CHEMISTRY PROGRAMME
p. 0256

Government of India Department of Biotechnology Ministry of Science & Technology
p. 0257

Centre for Advanced Studies in Botany
p. 0258

ASM Molecular Ecology of Biodegradation Short Course Institute of Microbial Technology (CSIR), Chandigarh, India
p. 0258

SERC School in Chronobiology
p. 0259

HIGH PRESSURE LOW TEMPERATURE LAB DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS, BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY
p. 0259

CENTRE FOR EARTH SCIENCE STUDIES
p. 0260

Institute of Informatics & Communication (IIC) UNIVERSITY OF DELHI SOUTH CAMPUS
p. 0260

Kerala Agricultural University
p. 0261

University of Allahabad
p. 0261

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDIES
p. 0262

Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences
p. 0262

Karnataka State Sericulture Research and Development Institute
p. 0263

PROPOSAL INVITED FOR NEW IDEA FUND
p. 0263

REFRESHER COURSE IN EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS
p. 0264