In this Issue
p. 1100

Economics, Modelling and the Financial Crash
p. 1101 | Balaram, P.

Thinning boundaries between disciplines, award of D Sc degrees and out-dated university rules
p. 1103 | Meher-homji, V. M.

Another h-type index for institutional evaluation
p. 1103 | Rousseau, Ronald; Rons, Nadine

A critique on the tsunami-earthquake link
p. 1104 | Roy, A. B.

An income-generating scheme for vector management of chikungunya fever in Kerala and Karnataka
p. 1104 | Kumar, N. Pradeep; Joseph, Rajan; Jambulingam, P.; Kalyanasundaram, M.

Rice cultivation is not cause for climate change
p. 1105 | Sarma, V. Venkateswara

Devaluing classic Indian literature on science
p. 1106 | Sharma, N. D.

Ramro Korang Lake needs studies on fish diversity and water quality analysis for aquaculture
p. 1107 | Jha, Keshav Kumar

The Great Indian Bustard (Ardeotis nigriceps) on the verge of extinction
p. 1108 | Rajput, Abhay S. D.

Justifying tiger farms - a step backward for tiger conservation?
p. 1109 | Lee, Benjamin P. Y. -h.; Dinata, Yoan

Justifying tiger farms - a step backward for tiger conservation?(Response)
p. 1110 | Xavier, Nicky

Chandrayaan-1: India's first mission to moon launched
p. 1111

RRL Jammu renamed as Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine
p. 1113 | Rajput, Abhay S. D.

IUCN's 2008 Sabin Award for Amphibian Conservation
p. 1113 | Rajput, Abhay S. D.

The Champalimaud Vision Award 2008
p. 1113 | Rajput, Abhay S. D.

Phenomenon of 'green Sahara'
p. 1114 | Pereira, Neelam

Contraceptive vaccines for men
p. 1115 | Sheth, Parul R.

One more reason for breastfeeding - prevention of diabetes!
p. 1116 | Balasubramanyam, M.

Cost effective utilization of existing resources for biomedical research in India
p. 1118 | Kalia, Vijay Kumar

Correlation coefficient and the fallacy of statistical hypothesis testing
p. 1121 | Kozak, Marcin

HIV status estimation using optimization, rough sets and demographic data
p. 1123 | Marwala, Tshilidzi; Crossingham, Bodie

Occurrence of zincian ilmenite from Srikurmam placer sand deposit, Andhra Pradesh, India
p. 1124 | Rao, M. Jagannadha; Raj, Aaron A. Jaya; Paul, K. John

A note on the recent earthquakes in the Bengal Basin
p. 1127 | Raj, A.; Nath, S. K.; Thingbaijam, K. K. S.

Concerted rainwater harvesting technologies suitable for hilly agro-ecosystems of Northeast India
p. 1130 | Samuel, Manoj P.; Satapathy, K. K.

Perspectives on paediatric HIV/AIDS: Prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV
p. 1133 | Coovadia, Hoosen Mohamed

Dialogue between membrane lipids and acetylcholine receptor
p. 1150 | Barrantes, F. J.

The primordial helium abundance
p. 1165 | Peimbert, Manuel

Recent developments in magnetic nanostructures
p. 1177 | Moran-Lopez, J. L.; Guirado-Lopez, R. A.; Montejano-Carrizalez, J. M.; Aguilera-Granja, F.; Rodriguez-Alba, R.; Mejia-Lopez, Jose; Romero, Aldo H.; Garcia, Martin E.

Supramolecular nanotechnology: from molecules to devices
p. 1202 | Toma, Henrique E.

Macromolecular recognition at the air-water interface: application of Langmuir-Blodgett technique
p. 1226 | Chatterji, Dipankar; Rajdev, Priya

Neurotrophins - players in the regulation of neuronal survival and apoptosis
p. 1237 | Cheung, Zelda H.; Ip, Nancy Y.

String theory: a framework for quantum gravity and various applications
p. 1252 | Wadia, Spenta R.

Science frontiers - semigroups of maps on operator algebra, their dilations and applications
p. 1268 | Sinha, Kalyan B.

Unknowns in the chemistry of boron
p. 1277 | Jemmis, Eluvathingal D.; Prasad, Dasari L. V. K.

Strongly correlated electrons in solids
p. 1284 | Ramakrishnan, T. V.

More opportunities than challenges - perspectives on chemical engineering
p. 1310 | Ge, Wei; Wang, Wei; Ren, Ying; Li, Jinghai

Multiple pressures of soaring food prices and food security in Africa
p. 1317 | Jones, Monty P.; Sanyang, Sidi

Influence of sediment source and monsoonal variations on the late Quaternary clay mineral assemblages at ODP site 728A, northwestern Arabian Sea
p. 1320 | Das, S. S.; Maurya, A. S.; Pandey, A. C.; Bhan, Uday; Rai, A. K.

Tunable surface modification of silica nanoparticles through 'click' chemistry
p. 1327 | Chandran, S. Prathap; Hotha, Srinivas; Prasad, B. L. V.

Invisible gold in the high-sulphur Tertiary coals of Northeast India
p. 1334 | Nayak, B.; Chakravarty, S.; Bhattacharyya, K. K.

Scorpion sting: A study of the clinical manifestations and treatment regimes
p. 1337 | Bawaskar, H. S.; Bawaskar, P. H.

Variation of physical properties of the granites of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
p. 1341 | Laxmi, G. Udaya; Himabindu, D.; Ramadass, G.

Pollen proxy records of Holocene vegetation and climate change from Mansar Lake, Jammu region, India
p. 1347 | Trivedi, Anjali; Chauhan, M. S.

Annual Review of Microbiology, 2007 by L. Nicholas Ornston, Susan Gottesman and Caroline S. Harwood (eds)
p. 1355 | Sardesai, Abhijit A.

Annual Review of Physiology, 2008 by David Julius (ed. )
p. 1357 | Mathew, M. K.

Arthropod Borne Viral Infections: Current Status and Research, The Eighth Sir Dorabji Tata Symposium by D. Raghunath and C. Durga Rao (eds)
p. 1358 | Banerjee, Kalyan

Indian Astronomy - A Primer
p. 1360 | Rao, S. Balachandra

K. Sundaram (1926-2008)
p. 1361 | Sainis, K. B.

EIGHTH COURSE ON APPLICATION OF REMOTE SENSING AND GIS FOR MINERAL EXPLORATION
p. 1362

Tea Research Association (TRA)
p. 1363

CENTRE FOR MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
p. 1364

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA NATIONAL BRAIN RESEARCH CENTRE, MANESAR, INDIA
p. 1365

MKU-NRCBS Winter School
p. 1366

Department of Plant Molecular Biology
p. 1367

Anna University - Chennai
p. 1367

Junior Research Fellowship (JRF)
p. 1368

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING (IIRS)
p. 1368

ILADEVI CATARACT AND IOL RESEARCH CENTRE
p. 1369

LOYOLA COLLEGE
p. 1369

WORKSHOP ON TECHNIQUES IN GENOMICS
p. 1370

International Institute of Information Technology
p. 1370

AGHARKAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE
p. 1371

Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology
p. 1371

Corrigendum (LADY DOAK COLLEGE, MADURAI)
p. 1371

Announcement of DST Sponsored Training
p. 1371