In this issue
p. 0763

Ageing
p. 0765 | Balaram, P.

The era of the mind
p. 0767 | Bera, Rajendra K.

Biology versus computers
p. 0768 | Gadagkar, Raghavendra

A clean certificate for transgenic plants
p. 0768 | Mathew, Deepu; Sathyanarayana, B. N.

Transgenic crops and biodiversity
p. 0769 | Seshadri, S.; Janarthanan, S.; Ignacimuthu, S.

Herbal medicine - Some comments
p. 0770 | Chattopadhyay, M. K.

Tropospheric ozone: An emerging problem in the urban environment
p. 0770 | Debaje, S. B.

Diversification of agriculture for human nutrition
p. 0771 | Bamji, Mahtab S.

An overview of heavy metals: Impact and remediation
p. 0773 | Joshi, U. N.; Luthra, Y. P.

New state of matter created at CERN
p. 0775 | Gavai, Rajiv V.

Climate changes: Projections and prospects
p. 0777 | Meher-homji, V. M.

From the archives
p. 0779

Toxic effect of various plant part extracts on the causal organism of typhoid fever
p. 0780 | Gehlot, Dushyent; Gehlot, A. Bohra Dushyent; Bohra, A.

Tissue culture of Bulbothrix setschwanensis (lichenized ascomy-cetes) in vitro
p. 0781 | Behera, B. C.; Makhija, Urmila; Adawadker, Bharati

Earliest complex life on earth: New look from fossil discoveries
p. 0783 | Vishwakarma, Rajesh K.

Should plants keep their (canopy) 'cool' or allow themselves to grow 'warm' under stress: It is a Hobson's choice and plants survive by doing a balancing act
p. 0786 | Sashidhar, V. R.; Anke-gowda, S. J.; Kulkarni, Mahesh J.; Srinivas, M. N.; Prasad, T. G.; Naga-lakshmi, U.; Devendra, R.

Derivatives of ultramafic rocks as decorative and dimensional stone in Rajasthan
p. 0789 | Shekhawat, M. S.

Agrichemicals as antagonist of lectin-mediated Rhizobium-legume symbiosis: Paradigms and prospects
p. 0793 | Musarrat, Javed; Haseeb, Akhtar

Novel biodegradable flocculants based on polysaccharides
p. 0798 | Singh, R. P.; Tripathy, T.; Karmakar, G. P.; Rath, S. K.; Karmakar, N. C.; Pandey, S. R.; Kannan, K.; Jain, S. K.; Lan, N. T.

An introduction to automatic differentiation
p. 0804 | Verma, Aruna

An introduction to the proper orthogonal decomposition
p. 0808 | Chatterjee, Anindya

An introduction to load balancing for parallel raytracing on HDC systems
p. 0818 | Qureshi, Kalim; Hatanaka, Masahiko

Portable parallel programming on emerging platforms
p. 0821 | Delamarter, Guy; Dwarkadas, Sandhya; Frank, Adam; Stets, Robert

Reconfigurable computing: Architectures, models and algorithms
p. 0828 | Bondalapati, Kiran; Prasanna, Viktor K.

Three-dimensional computer graphics architecture
p. 0838 | Mitra, Tulika; Chiueh, Tzi-cker

Supercomputing applications in materials engineering
p. 0847 | Phanikumar, G.; Chattopadhyay, K.; Dutta, P.

Computing goes embedded
p. 0850 | Dubey, Pradeep K.

Molecular dynamics simulations of modelled angiogenin-mononucleotide complexes
p. 0852 | Madhusudhan, M. S.; Vishveshwara, S.

Multiple molecular sequence alignment by island parallel genetic algorithm
p. 0858 | Anbarasu, L. A.; Narayanasamy, P.; Sundararajan, V.

Computer processing of heart rate variability signals for detection of patient status in cardiac care units
p. 0864 | Dutt, D. Narayana; Krishnan, S. M.

Seasonal simulation of the monsoon with the NCMRWF model
p. 0869 | Nanjundiah, Ravi S.

Numerical simulation of particulate materials using discrete element modelling
p. 0876 | Sitharam, Thallak G.

A generalized algorithm for modelling phase change problems in materials processing
p. 0887 | Chakraborty, S.; Dutta, P.

Combustion synthesis of cobalt pigments: Blue and pink
p. 0892 | Mimani, T.; Ghosh, Samrat

Uranium mineralization in the sandstones of Dharamsala, Tileli area, Mandi district, Himachal Pradesh, India
p. 0897 | Sharma, Mithilesh; Sharma, Y. C.; Basu, Bhaskar; Chhabra, Jyotsna; Gupta, R. K.; Singh, Jagmer

Structure and tectonics of the Indian peninsular shield - Evidences from seismic velocities
p. 0899 | Reddy, P. R.; Rao, V. Vijaya

Toward a Global Science
p. 0907 | Rao, P. R. K.

Apoptosis and Inflammation
p. 0908 | Singh, Neeta

Proton Pump Inhibitors: Milestones in Drug Therapy
p. 0909 | Rajagopalan, R.

Geology of Rajasthan: Status and Perspective
p. 0910 | Ramakrishnan, M.

Sex, Color, and Mate Choice in Guppies
p. 0911 | Sinha, Anindya

Faunal Diversity in India
p. 0912 | Sivaramakrishnan, K. G.

A. K. Chandra-An obituary
p. 0913 | Sebastian, K. L.

Department of Science and Technology-Boyscast Fellowship Scheme: 2000-2001
p. 0914

Department of Science and Technology-JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Foreign Researchers Programme-2000
p. 0918

Department of Science and Technology-STA Fellowship Programme-2000
p. 0919

National Brain Research Centre
p. 0920

National Environment Engineering Research Institute Ecotechnology Division
p. 0922

Central Institute of Fisheries Technology
p. 0923

University of Agricultural Sciences
p. 0923

School of Energy and Environment Studies
p. 0924

Marathwada Agricultural University
p. 0924

Central Institute for Research on Cotton Technology
p. 0925

Institute of Cytology and Preventive Oncology
p. 0925

Leadership in Visual and High Performance Computing
p. 0926

National Metallurgical Laboratory
p. 0927

Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD)
p. 0927