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Water crisis in India
p. 1335 | Sreenivasan, K. R.

Should scientists be proactive?
p. 1335 | Raval, U.

River erosion and integrated water resources development
p. 1336 | Naik, P.; Naik, R. R.

Anti-infective agents: Natural products based drug discovery
p. 1336 | John, Jacob E.

Technologies for sustainable rural development in the Central Himalaya
p. 1337 | Ghosh, P.

Sacred groves in Meghalaya
p. 1338 | Samati, H.; Gogoi, R.

Threat to medicinal plants of Kumaon Himalaya
p. 1339 | Tripathi, Mayank

Thermophiles 2007
p. 1340 | Satyanarayana, T.

Science and technology in Karnataka
p. 1342 | Jayappa, K. S.

The unsettled plume hypothesis
p. 1344 | Sankaran, A. V.

Methane emission, rice production and food security
p. 1346 | Seshadri, S.

Biotechnological intervention in jatropha for biodiesel production
p. 1347 | Nambisan, Padma

Health care in India and USA
p. 1349 | Sinha, Dinesh P.

Bangalore from above: An archaeological overview
p. 1352 | Rajani, M. B.

Liquid scintillation counting and AMS ¹⁴C radiocarbon dating of associated charcoals and a carbonized seed of Annona squamosa L. to analyse its antiquity in India
p. 1354 | Sekar, B.; Pokharia, Anil K.; Prasad, G. V. Ravi; Chowdhury, R. K.; Rajagopalan, G.; Pal, J. N.

Pharmacognosy can help minimize accidental misuse of herbal medicine
p. 1356 | Kumar, C. Dinesh

Indicator species for the natural regeneration of Shorea robusta Gaertn. f. (sal)
p. 1359 | Gautam, Mukesh Kumar; Tripathi, A. K.; Manhas, R. K.

Phosphatases in aflatoxin-producing and non-producing strains of Aspergillus flavus Link
p. 1362 | Singh, Ishwar; Singh, Ved Pal

Nonlinearity and holism in geological systems - Some reflections
p. 1364 | Sen, Ranen; Chakrabarti, Saradindra

Bio-business in brief: The challenges of clinical trials
p. 1367 | Mehdiratta, Ritu; Parida, Deepak Kumar; Saberwal, Gayatri

Effect of heteropolyacid and its route of incorporation on the photocatalytic properties of zeolite-based materials
p. 1376 | Rayalu, Sadhana S.; Dubey, Nidhi; Chatti, Ravikrishna V.; Joshi, Meenal V.; Labhsetwar, Nitin K.; Devotta, Sukumar

DNA analysis reveals genomic homogeneity and single nucleotide polymorphism in 5. 8S ribosomal RNA gene spacer region among commercial cultivars of the button mushroom Agaricus bisporus in India
p. 1383 | Yadav, Mahesh C.; Challen, Michael P.; Singh, S. K.; Elliott, Tim J.

Development of barnase/barstar transgenics for hybrid seed production in Indian oilseed mustard (Brassica juncea L. Czern & Coss) using a mutant acetolactate synthase gene conferring resistance to imidazolinone-based herbicide 'Pursuit'
p. 1390 | Ray, Krishna; Bisht, Naveen C.; Pental, Deepak; Burma, Pradeep Kumar

Soil loss and crop productivity model in humid subtropical India
p. 1397 | Bhattacharyya, T.; Babu, Ram; Sarkar, D.; Mandal, C.; Dhyani, B. L.; Nagar, A. P.

The role of Alfven drag in the planetary cratering process
p. 1404 | Rawal, J. J.; Ramadurai, S.

Optimal ordering policies of inventory model for deteriorating items having generalized Pareto lifetime
p. 1407 | Rao, K. Srinivasa; Begum, Kousar Jaha; Murty, M. Vivekanada

Genotyping of virus involved in the 2006 Chikungunya outbreak in South India (Kerala and Puducherry)
p. 1412 | Kumar, N. Pradeep; Mitha, M. Madhu; Krishnamoorthy, N.; Kamaraj, T.; Joseph, Rajan; Jambulingam, P.

Comparative analysis of GPS baseline data using different stochastic modelling techniques
p. 1416 | Chakravarty, D.; Venugopal, S.; Ghosh, S. K.

Ground-penetrating radar investigation along Pinjore Garden Fault: Implication toward identification of shallow subsurface deformation along active fault, NW Himalaya
p. 1422 | Malik, J. N.; Sahoo, A. K.; Shah, A. A.

Widespread deficiencies of sulphur, boron and zinc in dryland soils of the Indian semi-arid tropics
p. 1428 | Sahrawat, K. L.; Wani, S. P.; Rego, T. J.; Pardhasaradhi, G.; Murthy, K. V. S.

Diversity of fluorescent pseudomonads isolated from the forest soils of the Western Ghats of Uttara Kannada
p. 1433 | Megha, Y. J.; Alagawadi, A. R.; Krishnaraj, P. U.

In vitro clonal propagation of biodiesel plant (Jatropha curcas L. )
p. 1438 | Datta, Mukul Manjari; Mukherjee, Priyanka; Ghosh, Biswajit; Jha, Timir Baran

A new species of the Indian caecilian genus Gegeneophis Peters (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) from the surroundings of Mahadayi Wildlife Sanctuary, Western Ghats
p. 1442 | Bhatta, Gopalakrishna; Dinesh, K. P.; Prashanth, P.; Kulkarni, Nirmal U.

Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics, 2006 by Aravinda Chakravarti and Eric Green (eds)
p. 1446 | Khosla, Sanjeev

Annual Review of Biophysics and Bio­molecular Structure, 2007 by Rees, Sheetz and Williamson (eds)
p. 1446 | Chatterji, Dipankar

Shyam Lal Yadava (1953-2007)
p. 1448 | Ghosh, Mrinal K.

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Elsevier
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Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi The National Academy of Sciences, India, Allahabad
p. 1451

Refresher Course on 'Vistas in Zoological Teaching'
p. 1452

Ministry of Science and Technology
p. 1453

University of Hyderabad-Department of Biotechnology (UoH-DBT)
p. 1454

Training course on Biological Oceanography in the framework of Earth System Science
p. 1455

MADURAI KAMARAJ UNIVERSITY
p. 1455

CENTRE FOR SPONSORED SCHEMES AND PROJECTS
p. 1456

International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad
p. 1456

DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL DIVISION
p. 1457

INSTITUTE INSTRUMENT CENTRE
p. 1457

Orissa Bigyan Academy
p. 1458

Centre for Environmental Management of Degraded Ecosystems
p. 1458

SOLAPUR UNIVERSITY
p. 1459

3rd Indo-Japan Conference on Ferroics and Multiferroics
p. 1459

Karunya University Second Cover
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