In this Issue
p. 0422

Homi Bhabha and Reflections on the Administration of Science
p. 0423 | Balaram, P.

Expectations from a Ph D degree
p. 0425 | Chakrabarti, Bhupati

Journal impact factors - essential primary quality indicators - surely not so!!
p. 0425 | Ranade, Shirish A; Kumar, Nikhil

Journal impact factors - essential primary quality indicators - surely not so!!(Response)
p. 0426 | Sharma, Om P

Peer review of manuscripts
p. 0426 | Kozak, Marcin

Mass to class in academic system
p. 0427 | Biyani, A. K.

Nutritional security through sustaining livestock in marginal environments
p. 0427 | Singh, Harbir

Conservation of endangered flora and fauna of Chilika Lake
p. 0428 | Naik, Prabir Kumar

Manual drawing of groundwater from borewell/tubewell
p. 0429 | Murugan, S. Sakthi; Thambi, D. S. C.

Kawwal Wildlife Sanctuary needs the status of Tiger Reserve
p. 0430 | Murthy, E. N.; Vatsavaya, S.; Ragan, A.; Ravinder, G.

National Water Award and Bhoomijal Samvardhana Puraskar-2007, an important step in encouraging rainwater harvesting in rural India
p. 0431 | Naik, Prabir Kumar

Facets of cecidology: Intricacies of insect-plant interactions
p. 0431 | Ananthakrishnan, T. N.; Jesudasan, R. W. Alexander

Food technology for better nutrition
p. 0433 | Bamji, Mahtab S.

Genetically reprogrammed skin cells bypassing the need for embryonic stem cells - A ray of hope for ethical science!!
p. 0435 | Bhojwani, Jyoti

The debate on the age of Lower Vindhyans and the beginnings of complex life forms
p. 0436 | Sankaran, A. V.

The end of the dream of unity
p. 0438 | Labarca, Martín; Lombardi, Olimpia

A low-carbon, technology-driven strategy for India's energy security
p. 0440 | Aswathanarayana, U.

Cyathodium (Bryophyta: Hepaticae) from Chakrata, Uttarakhand, Western Himalaya, India
p. 0442 | Asthana, Geeta; Verma, P. K.; Shukla, Amrita

Trachycarpus takil Becc. in Kumaon
p. 0444 | Gibbons, Martin; Spanner, Tobias; Kholia, B. S.

Occurrence of house sparrow, Passer domesticus indicus in and around Bangalore
p. 0446 | Rajashekar, S.; Venkatesha, M. G.

Natural disaster and ecological dilemma: Flood affected areas of Barmer, Thar Desert, Rajasthan
p. 0450 | Rawat, Mamta; Jakher, G. R.; Dookia, Sumit

Foreign R&D centres in India: Is there any positive impact?
p. 0452 | Mrinalini, N.; Wakdikar, Sandhya

Chromosome inversions and linkage disequilibrium in Drosophila
p. 0459 | Singh, Bashisth N.

Performance evaluation of aquifer storage recovery wells for conjunctive water management as influenced by buffer storage volume and storage time
p. 0465 | Goyal, V.; Jhorar, B. S.; Malik, R. S.; Streck, T.

A new nano CoFe2 alloy precursor for cobalt ferrite production via sonoreduction process
p. 0473 | Mohan, Maya; Chandran, Vimlesh; Manoharan, S. Sundar

The expanding Indian desert: Assessment through weighted epochal trend ensemble
p. 0476 | Goswami, P.; Ramesh, K. V.

Ventilation of northwestern Arabian Sea Oxygen Minimum Zone during last 175 kyrs: A pteropod record at ODP Site 728A
p. 0480 | Rai, Ajai K.; Singh, Virendra B.; Maurya, Abhayanand S.; Shukla, Sachindra

Nitrogen isotopes in chondrules: Signatures of precursors and formation processes
p. 0485 | Das, J. P.; Murty, S. V. S.

Effect of scale on infiltration in a macropore-dominated hillslope
p. 0490 | Sarkar, Rupak; Dutta, Subashisa; Panigrahy, Sushma

Structural attributes of lantana-invaded forest plots in Achanakmar-Amarkantak Biosphere Reserve, Central India
p. 0494 | Sahu, P. K.; Singh, J. S.

Spatial distribution of Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) and its habitat usage pattern in Kalakad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, Western Ghats, southern India
p. 0501 | Varma, Surendra

Marine geophysical investigations across the submarine canyon (Swatch-of-No-Ground), northern Bay of Bengal
p. 0507 | Krishna, K. S.; Ramana, M. V.; Subrahmanyam, N. C.; Subrahmanyam, V.; Murthy, K. S. R.

Occurrence of protandry in an aseasonal multivoltine moth: Implications for body-size evolution
p. 0513 | Muralimohan, K.; Srinivasa, Y. B.

Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 2007 by S. R. Leone Et Al(eds)
p. 0519 | Sebastian, K. L.; Puspendu, Kumar

Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology, 2007(eds)
p. 0520 | Visweswariah, Sandhya S.

Functional Plant Genomics, J. F. Morot-Gaudry et al. (eds)
p. 0522 | Sopory, S. K.

Plant Cell Biology by William V. Dashek and Marcia Harrison (eds)
p. 0524 | Khurana, P.; Khurana, J. P.

Training science and technology manpower: Fifty years of DAE training school
p. 0525 | Dasannacharya, B. A.

Publications received
p. 0528

Department of Science & Technology 2008 India-European Union Call for Proposal in Computational Materials Science
p. 0531

National Academy of Agricultural Sciences
p. 0532

The National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI)
p. 0533

The Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE)
p. 0534

NCBS Visiting Post-Doctoral Fellowships
p. 0535

NATIONAL CENTRE FOR ANTARCTIC & OCEAN RESEARCH
p. 0536

SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING RESEARCH COUNCIL
p. 0537

Saf labs
p. 0538

FOURTH COURSE ON APPLICATION OF GEOINFORMATICS
p. 0539

The National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI)
p. 0540

SCMS
p. 0541

CENTRE FOR CO-OPERATION IN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
p. 0542

MISSION BIOFUELS INDIA PVT LTD
p. 0542

Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment
p. 0543

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p. 0543

Advance Techniques of Molecular Biology Second Cover Announcements
p. 0544

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY
p. 0544

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
p. 0544