Indian Journal of Experimental Biology
VOLUME 46, NUMBER 12, DECEMBER 2008
VOLUME 46, NUMBER 12, DECEMBER 2008
CONTENTS
Papers
Relaxant effects of different fractions from Nigella sativa L. on guinea pig tracheal chains and its possible mechanism(s) 805
Mohammad Hossein Boskabady, Rana Keyhanmanesh & Ebrahimi Saadatloo
Central nervous system activity of acute administration of ethanol extract of
Punica granatum L. seeds in mice 811
Sokindra Kumar, Kamal Kishore Maheshwari & Vijender Singh
Anti-Salmonella activity of Terminalia belerica: In vitro and in vivo studies 817
A Madani & S K Jain
Comparison of toxicity of selected mustard agents by percutaneous and
subcutaneous routes 822
Manoj Sharma, R Vijayaraghavan & K Ganesan
Isolation and characterization of bioactive and antibacterial compound from
Helianthus annuus linn. 831
S Sankaranarayanan , P Bama, M Deccaraman, M Vijayalakshimi, K Murugesan,P T Kalaichelvan & P Arumugam
Incorporation and biodegradation of hydroxyapatite-tricalcium phosphate implanted in large metaphyseal defects — An animal study 836
P Sunil, S C Goel, A Rastogi & N C Arya
Improved and convenient method of RNA isolation from polyphenols and polysaccharide rich plant tissues 842
Rekha Kansal, Kalika Kuhar, Isha Verma, Ram Niwas Gupta, Vijay Kumar Gupta & Kirpa Ram Koundal
Regulation of urease in Bradyrhizobium colonizing green gram
(Vigna radiate (L.) Wilczek) 846
Devyani Sen, C Appunu & R K Singh
Notes
Na+K+-ATPase activity in response to exogenous dehydroepiandrosterone administration in aging rat brain 852
Asia Taha, Monika Mishra, N Z Baquer & Deepak Sharma
Effect of dietary iron overload in rat brain: Oxidative stress, neurotransmitter level and serum metal ion in relation to neurodegenerative disorders 855
Mohamed M Elseweidy & Atef E Abd El-Baky
Papers
Relaxant effects of different fractions from Nigella sativa L. on guinea pig tracheal chains and its possible mechanism(s) 805
Mohammad Hossein Boskabady, Rana Keyhanmanesh & Ebrahimi Saadatloo
Central nervous system activity of acute administration of ethanol extract of
Punica granatum L. seeds in mice 811
Sokindra Kumar, Kamal Kishore Maheshwari & Vijender Singh
Anti-Salmonella activity of Terminalia belerica: In vitro and in vivo studies 817
A Madani & S K Jain
Comparison of toxicity of selected mustard agents by percutaneous and
subcutaneous routes 822
Manoj Sharma, R Vijayaraghavan & K Ganesan
Isolation and characterization of bioactive and antibacterial compound from
Helianthus annuus linn. 831
S Sankaranarayanan , P Bama, M Deccaraman, M Vijayalakshimi, K Murugesan,P T Kalaichelvan & P Arumugam
Incorporation and biodegradation of hydroxyapatite-tricalcium phosphate implanted in large metaphyseal defects — An animal study 836
P Sunil, S C Goel, A Rastogi & N C Arya
Improved and convenient method of RNA isolation from polyphenols and polysaccharide rich plant tissues 842
Rekha Kansal, Kalika Kuhar, Isha Verma, Ram Niwas Gupta, Vijay Kumar Gupta & Kirpa Ram Koundal
Regulation of urease in Bradyrhizobium colonizing green gram
(Vigna radiate (L.) Wilczek) 846
Devyani Sen, C Appunu & R K Singh
Notes
Na+K+-ATPase activity in response to exogenous dehydroepiandrosterone administration in aging rat brain 852
Asia Taha, Monika Mishra, N Z Baquer & Deepak Sharma
Effect of dietary iron overload in rat brain: Oxidative stress, neurotransmitter level and serum metal ion in relation to neurodegenerative disorders 855
Mohamed M Elseweidy & Atef E Abd El-Baky
NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY
December 2008, Volume 26 No 12
Editorial
Yes we can as well - p1313
If biotech is to remain a wellspring of innovation, industry and academia need to do more to cultivate the next generation of entrepreneurial minds.
Top of page
News
FDA launches priority vouchers for neglected-disease drugs - pp1315 - 1316
Emily Waltz
Ustekinumab poised to enter the psoriasis market - pp1317 – 1318
Charlie Schmidt
German BioPharma awards - p1317
Susan Aldridge
Europe lags, US leads 2nd-generation biofuels - pp1319 - 1321
Cormac Sheridan
Oslo's cancer leap - p1320
Hayley Birch
Cell/gene potency guides - p1320
Asher Mullard
California bill abets biotech - p1322
Brady Huggett
Biomarkers' double edge - p1322
Jeffrey L Fox
Shire dumps Dynepo - pp1322 - 1323
Mark Ratner
Country-of-origin labels - p1323
Susan Kim
Giants wrestle over ImClone - p1323
George S Mack
Profile
Alan Alda - p1325
George S Mack
Data Page
Biotech patents—business as usual? - p1326
Stacy Lawrence
News Feature
Hypertension's shot in the arm - pp1327 - 1329
Jill U. Adams
Bioentrepreneur
Building a business
Moving on - pp1331 - 1333
Jennie Mather
Opinion and Comment
Correspondence
Protest and 'democracy' - p1335
Jan Laufer
Reply to Protest and 'democracy' - p1335
Foot and Mouth's Achilles' heel? - pp1335 - 1336
John F Atkins & Martin D Ryan
Automated de novo protein sequencing of monoclonal antibodies - pp1336 - 1338
Nuno Bandeira, Victoria Pham, Pavel Pevzner, David Arnott & Jennie R Lill
PhosphoPep—a database of protein phosphorylation sites in model organisms - pp1339 - 1340
Bernd Bodenmiller, David Campbell, Bertran Gerrits, Henry Lam, Marko Jovanovic, Paola Picotti, Ralph Schlapbach & Ruedi Aebersold
Features
Patents
Antibody patenting without antibodies: a global trend - pp1341 - 1343
Kazunori Hashimoto & Tomomi Aida
Recent patent applications in protein purification - p1344
News and Views
Microfluidics closes in on point-of-care assays - pp1345 - 1346
Peter K Sorger
MicroRNAs fine-tune oncolytic viruses - pp1346 - 1348
John C Bell & David Kirn
Cancer and complement - pp1348 - 1349
Suzanne Ostrand-Rosenberg
Research Highlights - p1350
Research
Analysis
Design and analysis of ChIP-seq experiments for DNA-binding proteins - pp1351 - 1359
Peter V Kharchenko, Michael Y Tolstorukov & Peter J Park
Brief Communications
Recurrent chromosomal abnormalities in human embryonic stem cells - pp1361 - 1363
Claudia Spits, Ileana Mateizel, Mieke Geens, Afroditi Mertzanidou, Catherine Staessen, Yves Vandeskelde, Josiane Van der Elst, Inge Liebaers & Karen Sermon
Human embryonic stem cells reveal recurrent genomic instability at 20q11.21 - pp1364 - 1366
Nathalie Lefort, Maxime Feyeux, Cécile Bas, Olivier Féraud, Annelise Bennaceur-Griscelli, Gerard Tachdjian, Marc Peschanski & Anselme L Perrier
Article
MaxQuant enables high peptide identification rates, individualized p.p.b.-range mass accuracies and proteome-wide protein quantification - pp1367 - 1372
Jürgen Cox & Matthias Mann
Letters
Integrated barcode chips for rapid, multiplexed analysis of proteins in microliter quantities of blood - pp1373 - 1378
Rong Fan, Ophir Vermesh, Alok Srivastava, Brian K H Yen, Lidong Qin, Habib Ahmad, Gabriel A Kwong, Chao-Chao Liu, Juliane Gould, Leroy Hood & James R Heath
Asymmetric RNA duplexes mediate RNA interference in mammalian cells - pp1379 - 1382
Xiangao Sun, Harry A Rogoff & Chiang J Li
Errata
Erratum: Where to float? - p1383
Nuala Moran
Erratum: Reply to Field-evolved resistance to Bt toxins - p1383
Bruce E Tabashnik, Aaron J Gassman, David W Crowder & Yves Carrière
Erratum: Actemra poised to launch IL-6 inhibitors - p1383
Lisa Melton & Amy Coombs
Careers and Recruitment
Development translates discoveries into products - pp1385 - 1386
Mark Johnson
Product development teams take research discoveries to the next level.
NATURE NANO TECHNOLOGY
December 2008, Volume 3 No 12 pp697-754
Editorial
The same old story - p697
Thesis
Why nanotechnology needs better polymer chemistry - pp699 - 700
Richard Jones
Research Highlights
AFMs spell it out, terahertz emission from PZT nanotubes, a close look at catalysts, making loudspeakers with nanotubes, and more - pp702 - 703
Top down bottom up: Finding each other - p703
News and Views
Optical Materials: Variety pays off for nanotubes - pp705 - 706
Werner J. Blau & Jun Wang
Nanostructures: Welcome to nanobama - p706
Peter Rodgers
DNA Nanotechnology: Bacteria as factories - pp707 - 708
Chuan Zhang & Chengde Mao
Nanotubes: Giving catalysis the edge - pp708 - 709
Daniel E. Resasco
Nanomaterials: The ins and outs of thermal expansion - pp710 - 711
Andrew L. Goodwin
Nanomechatronics: A new twist on a classic experiment - pp710 - 711
Alexey A. Kovalev
Letters
Time-domain control of ultrahigh-frequency nanomechanical systems - pp715 - 719
N. Liu, F. Giesen, M. Belov, J. Losby, J. Moroz, A. E. Fraser, G. McKinnon, T. J. Clement, V. Sauer, W. K. Hiebert & M. R. Freeman
Nanomechanical detection of itinerant electron spin flip - pp720 - 723
Guiti Zolfagharkhani, Alexei Gaidarzhy, Pascal Degiovanni, Stefan Kettemann, Peter Fulde & Pritiraj Mohanty
Giant negative thermal expansion in magnetic nanocrystals - pp724 - 726
X. G. Zheng, H. Kubozono, H. Yamada, K. Kato, Y. Ishiwata & C. N. Xu
Detection of heating in current-carrying molecular junctions by Raman scattering - pp727 - 732
Zvi Ioffe, Tamar Shamai, Ayelet Ophir, Gilad Noy, Ilan Yutsis, Kobi Kfir, Ori Cheshnovsky & Yoram Selzer
Flying plasmonic lens in the near field for high-speed nanolithography - pp733 - 737
Werayut Srituravanich, Liang Pan, Yuan Wang, Cheng Sun, David B. Bogy & Xiang Zhang
Wideband-tuneable, nanotube mode-locked, fibre laser - pp738 - 742
F. Wang, A. G. Rozhin, V. Scardaci, Z. Sun, F. Hennrich, I. H. White, W. I. Milne & A. C. Ferrari
Carbon nanotubes as templates for polymerized lipid assemblies - pp743 - 748
Cédric Thauvin, Stéphane Rickling, Patrick Schultz, Hervé Célia, Stéphane Meunier & Charles Mioskowski
Article
Upscaling, integration and electrical characterization of molecular junctions - pp749 - 754
Paul A. Van Hal, Edsger C. P. Smits, Tom C. T. Geuns, Hylke B. Akkerman, Bianca C. De Brito, Stefano Perissinotto, Guglielmo Lanzani, Auke J. Kronemeijer, Victor Geskin, Jérôme Cornil, Paul W. M. Blom, Bert De Boer & Dago M. De Leeuw
AUTOMATIVE DESIGN AND PRODUCTION
DEC: 2008, VOL120, NO.12
The Changing Definition of 'Niche Vehicles'
By Christopher Sawyer, Executive Editor
Venza Revealed
By Gary S. Vasilash, Editor-In-Chief
Continental's Connected Safety Focus
By Kevin Kelly, Sr. Editor
Robotic Assembly: Simpler, Faster
Here is a brief look at some of the tech that can facilitate your mechanical assembly operations.
Diesel's Challenge: Acceptance in America
By Kevin Kelly, Sr. Editor
VW's Minivan Strategy
By Gary S. Vasilash, Editor-In-Chief
Field Guide: Siemens
By Lawrence S. Gould, Contributing Editor
Current IssueVol. 95 No. 1110 December 2008
Contents
IN THIS ISSUE
1506 In this issue
EDITORIAL
1507 This Journal’s Loss
P. Balaram
CORRESPONDENCE
1509 Medical controversies: how India differs from the West
Naibedya Chattopadhyay
1509 Standard of refereeing in science journals
A. A. Mao
1510 Losing out on Fellowship of Academies
K. R. Rao
1510 Myths and realities about biotechnology courses
Biju Dharmapalan
1511 Ecotourism in wetlands causes loss of biodiversity
S. Sandilyan, K. Thiyagesan and R. Nagarajan
1512 Administrative wrangles as an impediment to research progress in India
V. Venkateswara Sarma
1512 Who coined the terms ‘biotechnology’ and ‘genetic engineering’, and when?
C. Kameswara Rao
1513 Science communication: careers and courses in India
Abhay S. D. Rajput
1514 2008 Year of the Planet Earth: thrust needed for Quaternary–Recent geoscience studies
V. C. Thakur
1514 Prospects of apomixis for fixation of cotton hybrids
S. M. Palve and V. Santhy
NEWS
1516 Open source drug discovery launched to combat infectious diseases
Abhay S. D. Rajput
1516 India bags two International Academy of Astronautics Awards 2008
Abhay S. D. Rajput
1516 CSIR Award for S&T Innovations for Rural Development 2008
Abhay S. D. Rajput
1517 Genomics and wheat breeding
P. K. Gupta
1518 Cardiac health and dietary fat
Parul R. Sheth
1519 Restoration of coastal habitats
R. S. Bhalla
COMMENTARY
1520 USPTO, silly patents and patent trolls
Rajendra K. Bera
1522 ‘Varieties of common knowledge’ in the context of plant variety protection
B. M. Prasanna, S. K. Rao, Gautam Kalloo and R. B. Singh
OPINION
1525 Water, land and India’s economic expectations
T. N. Narasimhan
1527 Can we save the sparrow?
R. J. Ranjit Daniels
SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE
1529 Quantitative determination of curcuminoids in turmeric powder by HPTLC technique
M. Paramasivam, Rajlakshmi Poi and Hemanta Banerjee
1532 Chicory – a case of weed into forage crop transition
D. Sarveshwara Rao
1533 Soil aggregation by vermicompost of press mud
P. M. Munnoli and Saroj Bhosle
1535 Hunting of Indian giant squirrel (Ratufa indica) by the lion-tailed macaque (Macaca silenus) in the Western Ghats, India
H. S. Sushma and Mewa Singh
GENERAL ARTICLE
1537 Science education in India – time to leapfrog with caution
G. Padmanaban
REVIEW ARTICLE
1544 Visual function declines during normal aging
Changzheng Zhang, Tianmiao Hua, Guzhou Li, Chuanhong Tang, Qingyan Sun and Peiling Zhou
RESEARCH ARTICLES
1551 Design and development of stimulated Raman spectroscopy apparatus using a femtosecond laser system
Babita Mallick, Adithya Lakshmanna, V. Radhalakshmi and Siva Umapathy
1560 Indian summer monsoon in future climate projection by a super high-resolution global model
K. Rajendran and A. Kitoh
1570 Predicting cotton production using Infocrop-cotton simulation model, remote sensing and spatial agro-climatic data
K. B. Hebbar, M. V. Venugopalan, M. V. R. Seshasai, K. V. Rao, B. C. Patil, A. H. Prakash, V. Kumar, K. R. Hebbar, P. Jeyakumar, K. K. Bandhopadhyay, M. R. K. Rao, B. M. Khadi and P. K. Aggarwal
1580 Predicting the spatio-temporal variation of run-off generation in India using remotely sensed input and Soil Conservation Service curve number model
P. K. Gupta and S. Panigrahy
RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
1588 Biochemical and molecular evidence of azadirachtin binding to insect actins
A. Anuradha and R. S. Annadurai
1593 Orthodontic arch wires for seismic risk reduction
R. Sreekala, K. Muthumani, N. Lakshmanan, N. Gopalakrishnan and K. Sathishkumar
1599 Wild cane as a renewable source for fuel and fibre in the paper industry
V. A. Amalraj, P. Rakkiyappan, D. Neelamathi, S. Chinnaraj and S. Subramanian
1603 A satellite-based study of coal fires and open-cast mining activity in Raniganj coalfield, West Bengal
Arindam Guha, K. Vinod Kumar and M. V. V. Kamaraju
1608 Gallitellia – a proxy for palaeo-monsoonal upwelling on the western coast of India?
Anupam Ghosh, Sourav Saha, Pratul Kumar Saraswati, Santanu Banerjee, Stuart Burley and T. K. Gundu Rao
1611 First observations of free oscillations of the earth from Indian superconducting gravimeter in Himalaya
B. R. Arora, Kamal, Amit Kumar, Gautam Rawat, Naresh Kumar and V. M. Choubey
1618 Gravity inversion of 2.5D faulted beds using depth-dependent density
V. Chakravarthi
BOOK REVIEWS
1623 The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance by Eric R. Scerri
reviewed by Animesh Chakravorty
1624 Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 2008. S. R. Leone et al. (eds)
reviewed by Ranjan Das
1625 Einstein’s Nobel Prize – A Glimpse Behind Closed Doors – The Archival Evidence by Aant Elzinga
reviewed by Rajinder Singh
1626 Just Genes: The Ethics of Genetic Technologies by Carol Isaacson Barash
reviewed by Shrisha Rao
1627 Geology of India. Vols 1 and 2 by M. Ramakrishnan and R. Vaidyanadhan
S. K. Tandon
1628 Prakriti Ki Prayogshala (in Hindi). Nikhil Mohan Patnayak and Pushpshri Patnayak
reviewed by Shrisha Rao Abhay S. D. Rajput
PERSONAL NEWS
1629 C. V. Sundaram (1929–2008)
Baldev Raj
1630 K. Joseph Thomas (1935–2008)
Shree Kumar Apte
HISTORICAL NOTES
1632 Astronomical significance of the Gavi Gangadhareshwara temple in Bangalore
P. Jayanth Vyasanakere, K. Sudeesh and B. S. Shylaja
COVER CAPTION
COVER. Schematic of the stimulated Raman process: Interaction of a femtosecond white light continuum pulse and a narrow bandwidth picosecond pulse at the sample results in stimulated Raman scattering which can be observed as a spectrum on the white light background. See page 1551.
ADVERTISEMENTS
1637 Government of IndiaInstrumentation Development Programme (IDP)
1639 Infosys Prize for Mathematics 2009
1640 UNIVERSITY OF PUNE
1641 Department of Biotechnology
1642 Indian Academy of Sciences
1643 Dr D.C. Pavate Memorial Fellowships for Higher studies in Cambridge, 2009
1643 Bombay Natural History Society requires
1644 National training programme on “Novel and Innovative Biochemical and Molecular Tools for Characterization of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms”
1644 Raja Balwant Singh College, Agra
1645 DBT Sponsored training course
1645 VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT
1645 S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences
1646 Shri Shiv Chhatrapati College of Arts, Commerce and Science
1646 SCMS NEEDS SCIENTISTS
Current IssueVol. 95 No. 1225 December 2008
Contents
IN THIS ISSUE
1650 In this issue
EDITORIAL
1651 Burjorji Padshah: Realizing a Vision
P. Balaram
CORRESPONDENCE
1653 Universities are as good a choice for pursuing Ph D as R&D institutes
Sushila Khilnani, S. A. Hasan and Rajesh Luthra
1654 Indian mammals under threat: IUCN Redlist
Suman D. Gad
1654 Breeding professional writers
D. M. Metri
1655 A welcome but puzzling contribution
M. G. Narasimhan
1655 Is certification needed for ‘jhum’ cultivation?
G. Pangging and A. Arunachalam
1656 Scientometrics and modified h-indices
J. Gowrishankar and P. Divakar
1657 More transparency required from the funding agencies
V. Venkateswara Sarma
1657 Palaeochannels and settlements of the Harappan period in Kalibangan, Rajasthan based on geophysical investigations
D. C. Mishra and K. Mallick
NEWS
1659 Large Hadron Collider: role of Jammu University
Abhay S. D. Rajput
1660 IIIM celebrates the CSIR Foundation Day
Abhay S. D. Rajput
1660 Wheat genetics in the post-genomics era
P. K. Gupta, H. S. Balyan and R. R. Mir
1662 Mid-year meeting of Indian Academy of Sciences
Neelam Pereira
1664 Techniques in plant taxonomy
Neelam Pereira
OPINION
1665 Bioterrorism: time to wake up
Sudhir Syal
1666 An appropriate season for conducting night blood survey for detecting microfilaria in Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination Programmes
N. Sivagnaname, J. Yuvaraj and R. L. J. De Britto
COMMENTARY
1668 The 18 August 2008 Kosi river breach: an evaluation
D. V. Reddy, D. Kumar, Dipankar Saha and M. K. Mandal
1670 A scientometric analysis of recent aerospace research
Ranjan Ganguli
SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE
1673 Metal complexes in the management of parasitic diseases: In vitro antiprotozoal studies of metal complexes of some antimalarial drugs
Peter A. Ajibade
1674 Dental fluorosis in domestic animals
S. L. Choubisa
1675 Sinking of ancient Talakad temples on the Kaveri Bank, Mysore Plateau, Karnataka
K. S. Valdiya
1677 GLIALPI – geophysical and limnological investigations of the Antarctic lakes for palaeoclimatic inferences
N. Khare, R. Saraswat and R. Ravindra
1679 Coda Qc attenuation in Indo-Myanmar region, Manipur, Northeast India
S. Manichandra and Arun Kumar
TECHNICAL NOTE
1684 Purification of helium from natural gas by pressure swing adsorption
Nisith K. Das, Hirok Chaudhuri, Rakesh K. Bhandari, Debasis Ghose, Prasanta Sen and Bikash Sinha
GENERAL ARTICLES
1688 Ingenious techniques for irrigation sustainability in Himalayan and Shiwalik foothill regions
A. K. Vashisht
1694 Measures of impact of science and technology in India: agriculture and rural development
R. Rukmani
RESEARCH ARTICLES
1699 Evaluation of microfabric of clay using atomic force microscopy
Ajanta Sachan and Vandana Mehrotra
1707 Nestedness pattern in freshwater fishes of the Western Ghats: an indication of stream islands along riverscapes
Sreekantha, K. V. Gururaja and T. V. Ramachandra
1715 Assemblage of benthic diatoms and culturable heterotrophs in shallow–water hydrothermal vent of the D. João de Castro Seamount, Azores in the Atlantic Ocean
C. Raghukumar, C. Mohandass, F. Cardígos, P. M. D’Costa, R. S. Santos and A. Colaço
ERRATUM
1723 ERRATUM: Natural parasitization and biological control: case of the coconut caterpillar
K. Muralimohan, Ramkumar and Y. B. Srinivasa [Curr. Sci., 2008, 95, 1478–1482]
RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
1724 Surface ozone variability in the urban and nearby rural locations of tropical India
A. L. Londhe, D. B. Jadhav, P. S. Buchunde and M. J. Kartha
1729 Molecular characterization of Bt cauliflower with multiplex PCR and validation of endogenous reference gene in Brassicaceae family
Gurinder Jit Randhawa, Rashmi Chhabra and Monika Singh
1731 Surface soil moisture changes during 2007 summer monsoon season derived from AMSR-E Land3 product
K. Chandrasekar, M. V. R. Sesha Sai, R. S. Dwivedi and P. S. Roy
1739 Hazard implications of the late arrival of the 1945 Makran tsunami
C. P. Rajendran, M. V. Ramanamurthy, N. T. Reddy and Kusala Rajendran
1743 Sensory basis of food perception in tadpoles of the frog, Sphaerotheca breviceps
H. S. Sugur, G. S. Mulla, I. R. Purohit, B. A. Shanbhag and S. K. Saidapur
BOOK REVIEWS
1747 Nuclear Power In India: A Critical History by B. Banerjee and N. Sarma
reviewed by L. V. Krishnan
1748 Low-Enthalpy Geothermal Resources For Power Generation by D. Chandrasekharam and Jochen Bundschuh
reviewed by K. S. Valdiya
1749 The Moon That Wasn’t – The Saga of Venus’ Spurious Satellite by Helge Kragh
reviewed by Rajinder Singh
1750 Groundwater Management – Sustainable Approaches by Meenu Bhatnagar (ed.)
reviewed by P. S. Datta Singh
1752 Taxonomy of Bryozoa from the Indian EEZ. A Monograph by N. R. Menon and Nandini Menon
reviewed by K. Satyanarayana Rao
PERSONAL NEWS
1754 Gerhard Neuweiler (1935–2008)
M. K. Chandrashekaran
1770 Institutional Members
1774 Acknowledgements
1777 Author Index
1785 Keyword Index
1794 Volume Contents
COVER CAPTION
COVER. A view of the uplifted Makran Coast. See page 1739.
ADVERTISEMENTS
1756 Government of IndiaINDO-BULGARIAN BILATERAL SCIENTIFIC COOPERATION CALL FOR PROPOSALS (2008)
1757 LADY TATA MEMORIAL TRUST
1758 Research Training
1759 Plant Variety Journal of India
1760 INDIAN NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING
1761 Springer
1762 INDIA SCIENCE AWARD – 2009
1763 CENTRAL COIR RESEARCH INSTITUTE
1764 S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences
1764 ASHOKA TRUST for RESEARCH in ECOLOGY and the ENVIRONMENT (ATREE)
1765 ATTENTION PLANT TAXONOMISTS!
1765 Institute of Science
1766 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
1766 Applications for the post of Research Fellow
1767 Advertisement for the post of Junior Research Fellowship (JRF)
1767 SHRI AMM MURUGAPPA CHETTIAR RESEARCH CENTRE (MCRC)
1768 Sri Krishnadevaraya University
1768 DEPARTMENT OF CROP PHYSIOLOGY
1769 Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology
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CONTENTS
Review
1051 New opportunities for research in coal derived chemicalsP Samuel, S Maity, Samit Khan & S C Roy
Management & Information Technology
1059 Design and implementation of mobile telecardiac systemV Thulasi Bai & S K Srivatsa.
S & T and Industrial Research
1064 Wavelet based vector quantization with treecode vectors for EMG Signal compressionNeelu Jain & Renu Vig
1072 Analysis of electro discharge machined surfaces of EN-31 tool steelH S Payal, Rajesh Choudhary & Sarabjeet Singh
1078 Use of range control charts in determination of variability in surface parallelisms of platesHuseyin Ankara & Suheyla Yerel
S & T and Industrial Research
1083 Effect of substituents on thermal behavior of some symmetric double schiff’s bases containing a cardo groupV K Aghera & P H Parsania
1088 Spectrophotometric determination of carbosulfan in environmental samplesAruna Sao, Ajai K Pillai & V K Gupta
1092 Synthesis of coumarins via Pechmann condensation using inorganic ion exchangers as solid acid catalystsRikesh Joshi & Uma Chudasama
1098 Application of Box-Benhken experimental design for optimization of laccase production by Coriolus versicolor MTCC138 in solid-state fermentationAbha Mishra, Sunil Kumar & Sudhir Kumar
S & T and Industrial Research
1108 Quality of osmo- vac dehydrated ripe mango slices influenced by packaging material and storage temperatureP Suresh Kumar, V R Sagar & Lata
1115 Effect of liquid seaweed fertilizer on yield and quality of okra (Abelmoschus esculentus L.)S T Zodape,V J Kawarkhe, J S Patolia & A D Warade
Energy and Environment
1118 Influences of temperature on flash pyrolysis products of asphaltiteAbdurrahman Saydut & Candan Hamamci
Author-Reader Platform
1123 Annual Author Index
1127 Annual Keyword Index
1133 Instructions to contributors
Contents
IN THIS ISSUE
1650 In this issue
EDITORIAL
1651 Burjorji Padshah: Realizing a Vision
P. Balaram
CORRESPONDENCE
1653 Universities are as good a choice for pursuing Ph D as R&D institutes
Sushila Khilnani, S. A. Hasan and Rajesh Luthra
1654 Indian mammals under threat: IUCN Redlist
Suman D. Gad
1654 Breeding professional writers
D. M. Metri
1655 A welcome but puzzling contribution
M. G. Narasimhan
1655 Is certification needed for ‘jhum’ cultivation?
G. Pangging and A. Arunachalam
1656 Scientometrics and modified h-indices
J. Gowrishankar and P. Divakar
1657 More transparency required from the funding agencies
V. Venkateswara Sarma
1657 Palaeochannels and settlements of the Harappan period in Kalibangan, Rajasthan based on geophysical investigations
D. C. Mishra and K. Mallick
NEWS
1659 Large Hadron Collider: role of Jammu University
Abhay S. D. Rajput
1660 IIIM celebrates the CSIR Foundation Day
Abhay S. D. Rajput
1660 Wheat genetics in the post-genomics era
P. K. Gupta, H. S. Balyan and R. R. Mir
1662 Mid-year meeting of Indian Academy of Sciences
Neelam Pereira
1664 Techniques in plant taxonomy
Neelam Pereira
OPINION
1665 Bioterrorism: time to wake up
Sudhir Syal
1666 An appropriate season for conducting night blood survey for detecting microfilaria in Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination Programmes
N. Sivagnaname, J. Yuvaraj and R. L. J. De Britto
COMMENTARY
1668 The 18 August 2008 Kosi river breach: an evaluation
D. V. Reddy, D. Kumar, Dipankar Saha and M. K. Mandal
1670 A scientometric analysis of recent aerospace research
Ranjan Ganguli
SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE
1673 Metal complexes in the management of parasitic diseases: In vitro antiprotozoal studies of metal complexes of some antimalarial drugs
Peter A. Ajibade
1674 Dental fluorosis in domestic animals
S. L. Choubisa
1675 Sinking of ancient Talakad temples on the Kaveri Bank, Mysore Plateau, Karnataka
K. S. Valdiya
1677 GLIALPI – geophysical and limnological investigations of the Antarctic lakes for palaeoclimatic inferences
N. Khare, R. Saraswat and R. Ravindra
1679 Coda Qc attenuation in Indo-Myanmar region, Manipur, Northeast India
S. Manichandra and Arun Kumar
TECHNICAL NOTE
1684 Purification of helium from natural gas by pressure swing adsorption
Nisith K. Das, Hirok Chaudhuri, Rakesh K. Bhandari, Debasis Ghose, Prasanta Sen and Bikash Sinha
GENERAL ARTICLES
1688 Ingenious techniques for irrigation sustainability in Himalayan and Shiwalik foothill regions
A. K. Vashisht
1694 Measures of impact of science and technology in India: agriculture and rural development
R. Rukmani
RESEARCH ARTICLES
1699 Evaluation of microfabric of clay using atomic force microscopy
Ajanta Sachan and Vandana Mehrotra
1707 Nestedness pattern in freshwater fishes of the Western Ghats: an indication of stream islands along riverscapes
Sreekantha, K. V. Gururaja and T. V. Ramachandra
1715 Assemblage of benthic diatoms and culturable heterotrophs in shallow–water hydrothermal vent of the D. João de Castro Seamount, Azores in the Atlantic Ocean
C. Raghukumar, C. Mohandass, F. Cardígos, P. M. D’Costa, R. S. Santos and A. Colaço
ERRATUM
1723 ERRATUM: Natural parasitization and biological control: case of the coconut caterpillar
K. Muralimohan, Ramkumar and Y. B. Srinivasa [Curr. Sci., 2008, 95, 1478–1482]
RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
1724 Surface ozone variability in the urban and nearby rural locations of tropical India
A. L. Londhe, D. B. Jadhav, P. S. Buchunde and M. J. Kartha
1729 Molecular characterization of Bt cauliflower with multiplex PCR and validation of endogenous reference gene in Brassicaceae family
Gurinder Jit Randhawa, Rashmi Chhabra and Monika Singh
1731 Surface soil moisture changes during 2007 summer monsoon season derived from AMSR-E Land3 product
K. Chandrasekar, M. V. R. Sesha Sai, R. S. Dwivedi and P. S. Roy
1739 Hazard implications of the late arrival of the 1945 Makran tsunami
C. P. Rajendran, M. V. Ramanamurthy, N. T. Reddy and Kusala Rajendran
1743 Sensory basis of food perception in tadpoles of the frog, Sphaerotheca breviceps
H. S. Sugur, G. S. Mulla, I. R. Purohit, B. A. Shanbhag and S. K. Saidapur
BOOK REVIEWS
1747 Nuclear Power In India: A Critical History by B. Banerjee and N. Sarma
reviewed by L. V. Krishnan
1748 Low-Enthalpy Geothermal Resources For Power Generation by D. Chandrasekharam and Jochen Bundschuh
reviewed by K. S. Valdiya
1749 The Moon That Wasn’t – The Saga of Venus’ Spurious Satellite by Helge Kragh
reviewed by Rajinder Singh
1750 Groundwater Management – Sustainable Approaches by Meenu Bhatnagar (ed.)
reviewed by P. S. Datta Singh
1752 Taxonomy of Bryozoa from the Indian EEZ. A Monograph by N. R. Menon and Nandini Menon
reviewed by K. Satyanarayana Rao
PERSONAL NEWS
1754 Gerhard Neuweiler (1935–2008)
M. K. Chandrashekaran
1770 Institutional Members
1774 Acknowledgements
1777 Author Index
1785 Keyword Index
1794 Volume Contents
COVER CAPTION
COVER. A view of the uplifted Makran Coast. See page 1739.
ADVERTISEMENTS
1756 Government of IndiaINDO-BULGARIAN BILATERAL SCIENTIFIC COOPERATION CALL FOR PROPOSALS (2008)
1757 LADY TATA MEMORIAL TRUST
1758 Research Training
1759 Plant Variety Journal of India
1760 INDIAN NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING
1761 Springer
1762 INDIA SCIENCE AWARD – 2009
1763 CENTRAL COIR RESEARCH INSTITUTE
1764 S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences
1764 ASHOKA TRUST for RESEARCH in ECOLOGY and the ENVIRONMENT (ATREE)
1765 ATTENTION PLANT TAXONOMISTS!
1765 Institute of Science
1766 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
1766 Applications for the post of Research Fellow
1767 Advertisement for the post of Junior Research Fellowship (JRF)
1767 SHRI AMM MURUGAPPA CHETTIAR RESEARCH CENTRE (MCRC)
1768 Sri Krishnadevaraya University
1768 DEPARTMENT OF CROP PHYSIOLOGY
1769 Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology
2nd Cover Millipore
Journal of Scientific & Industrial Research
VOLUME 67 NUMBER 12 DECEMBER 2008
CONTENTS
Review
1051 New opportunities for research in coal derived chemicalsP Samuel, S Maity, Samit Khan & S C Roy
Management & Information Technology
1059 Design and implementation of mobile telecardiac systemV Thulasi Bai & S K Srivatsa.
S & T and Industrial Research
1064 Wavelet based vector quantization with treecode vectors for EMG Signal compressionNeelu Jain & Renu Vig
1072 Analysis of electro discharge machined surfaces of EN-31 tool steelH S Payal, Rajesh Choudhary & Sarabjeet Singh
1078 Use of range control charts in determination of variability in surface parallelisms of platesHuseyin Ankara & Suheyla Yerel
S & T and Industrial Research
1083 Effect of substituents on thermal behavior of some symmetric double schiff’s bases containing a cardo groupV K Aghera & P H Parsania
1088 Spectrophotometric determination of carbosulfan in environmental samplesAruna Sao, Ajai K Pillai & V K Gupta
1092 Synthesis of coumarins via Pechmann condensation using inorganic ion exchangers as solid acid catalystsRikesh Joshi & Uma Chudasama
1098 Application of Box-Benhken experimental design for optimization of laccase production by Coriolus versicolor MTCC138 in solid-state fermentationAbha Mishra, Sunil Kumar & Sudhir Kumar
S & T and Industrial Research
1108 Quality of osmo- vac dehydrated ripe mango slices influenced by packaging material and storage temperatureP Suresh Kumar, V R Sagar & Lata
1115 Effect of liquid seaweed fertilizer on yield and quality of okra (Abelmoschus esculentus L.)S T Zodape,V J Kawarkhe, J S Patolia & A D Warade
Energy and Environment
1118 Influences of temperature on flash pyrolysis products of asphaltiteAbdurrahman Saydut & Candan Hamamci
Author-Reader Platform
1123 Annual Author Index
1127 Annual Keyword Index
1133 Instructions to contributors
