In this issue
p. 0144

Images and Icons: Chemistry, Physics and the Garden of Mendeleev
p. 0145 | Balaram, P.

Knowledge management in geological sciences
p. 0147 | Jaikiran, K. P.

Cost of journals vs quality
p. 0148 | Rajagopal, V.

Lack of health research in India: Need to produce physician-scientists
p. 0148 | Chattopadhyay, Naibedya

Students: The worst sufferers
p. 0149 | Kumar, Saurabh

History of the Indian Institute of Science
p. 0150 | Subbarayappa, B. V.

India in the Antarctic
p. 0151 | Gad, Suman D.

Innovation in design of parabolic dish antenna
p. 0152 | Rosalind, Ezhil K.

Crittercam - A new tool in animal-borne imaging
p. 0153 | Gad, Suman D.

Grid security and management
p. 0154 | Shetty, P. K.; Agrawal, V. K.

Hypospadias
p. 0156 | Hiremath, M. B.; Nerli, R. B.

Biodiversity, bioresources and biotechnology for sustainable livelihood of rural community
p. 0157 | Selvanayagam, M.

New avenues in solar physics science with Hinode
p. 0159 | Singh, K. A. P.; Doorsselaere, T. Van

Genome sequence of a fungus for the biofuel industry
p. 0161 | Maheshwari, Ramesh

Scientific publishing: Rising cost of monopolies
p. 0163 | Madras, Giridhar

Thorium utilization in India's nuclear energy programme
p. 0165 | Venkateswarlu, K. S.

Peer review contestations in the era of transgenic crops
p. 0167 | Shantharam, S.; Sullia, S. B.; Swamy, G. Shivakumara

Coral reefs - NIO's repopulating experiments
p. 0169 | Gad, Suman D.

Why serum chemokine levels are raised in insulin resistance syndrome: An immune reversal hypothesis
p. 0171 | Watve, Milind; Mandani, Sonam

Nutritional status and growth pattern of urban infants in relation to birth weight
p. 0175 | Bisai, Samiran

A GIS based tectonic map of northeastern India
p. 0176 | Baruah, Saurabh; Hazarika, Devajit

Evidence of biological degradation in sediments of Deepor Beel Ramsar Site, Assam as inferred by degraded palynomorphs and fungal remains
p. 0178 | Bera, S. K.; Dixit, Swati; Basumatary, S. K.; Gogoi, Rajib

The worldwide threat of antimicrobial resistance
p. 0181 | Wise, Richard

An algorithm to find all identical internal sequence repeats
p. 0188 | Banerjee, Nirjhar; Chidambarathanu, N.; MichaeI, Daliah; Balakrishnan, N.; Sekar, K.

Optical imaging and parametric characterization of frostbite changes in human hand tissues
p. 0196 | Pandian, P. S.; Kumaravel, M.; Singh, Megha

Simulation of a severe thunderstorm event during the field experiment of STORM programme 2006, using WRF-NMM model
p. 0204 | Litta, A. J.; Mohanty, U. C.

Forest conservation, afforestation and reforestation in India: Implications for forest carbon stocks
p. 0216 | Ravindranath, N. H.; Chaturvedi, Rajiv Kumar; Murthy, Indu K.

Sago starch: An economical substitute for in vitro primary screening of starch utilizing microorganisms
p. 0222 | Binky, R. B.; Saikiran, R.; Tushar, S.; Umesh, P.; Yogesh, J.; Syed, A. N.

Land-use and land-cover change and future implication analysis in Manas National Park, India using multi-temporal satellite data
p. 0223 | Sarma, Pranjit Kumar; Lahkar, Bibhuti P.; Ghosh, Sonali; Rabha, Abhijit; Das, Jyoti P.; Nath, Naba K.; Dey, Santanu; Brahma, Namita

The endophytic fungal complex of Catharanthus roseus (L. ) G. Don
p. 0228 | Kharwar, Ravindra N.; Verma, Vijay C.; StrobeI, Gary; Ezra, David

Source rock potential for hydrocarbon generation of Makum coals, Upper Assam, India
p. 0233 | Gogoi, Kakoli; Dutta, M. N.; Das, P. K.

Intraspecific variation and interrelationships between morphology, nutritional content and enzymatic activity of Jatropha curcas L.
p. 0239 | Kumar, R. V.; Tripathi, Yogendra K.; Izhaki, Ido; Yadav, V. P.; Ahlawat, S. P.

Sand extraction from agricultural fields around Bangalore: Ecological disaster or economic boon?
p. 0243 | Hegde, Rajendra; Kumar, S. C. Ramesh; Kumar, K. S. Anil; Srinivas, S.; Ramamurthy, V.

Post-impact carbonate deposition in the Chicxulub impact crater region, Yucatan Platform, Mexico
p. 0248 | Urrutia-Fucugauchi, Jaime; Perez-Cruz, Ligia

Seahorses and pipefishes of the Tamil Nadu coast
p. 0253 | Murugan, A.; Dhanya, S.; Rajagopal, S.; Balasubramanian, T.

The Saga of Indian Cannons by R. Balasubramaniam
p. 0261 | Deloche, Jean; Barfod, Lars Hoffmann

Human Development Report 2007/2008: Fighting Climate Change: Human Solidarity in a Divided World
p. 0262 | Raghavan, G. Narasimha

Dimensions of Himalayan Geology by A. K. Biyani
p. 0263 | Sinha, Anshu K.

Gemstones - Enchanting Gifts of Nature
p. 0264 | S. N.

Rajkumar S. Radder (1973-2008)
p. 0265 | Shanbhag, Bhagyashri A.; Saidapur, Srinivas K.

DEPARTMENT OF ATOMIC ENERGY (DAE) DR K. S. KRISHNAN RESEARCH ASSOCIATESHIP (KSKRA) - 18th Batch
p. 0266

Saflabs
p. 0269

DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (DST) JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY (JST)
p. 0270

MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INDIA-JAPAN COOPERATIVE SCIENCE PROGRAMME (IJCSP)
p. 0271

PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY
p. 0272

CENTRAL DRUG RESEARCH INSTITUTE
p. 0273

Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology
p. 0274

Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology FACULTY POSITIONS OPEN
p. 0275

Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology & Cellworks Group Inc
p. 0275

RAJIV GANDHI CENTRE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY
p. 0276

CHENNAI SNAKE PARK TRUST
p. 0276

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
p. 0277

DEPARTMENT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF PUNE
p. 0277

Symposium on 'Genomics Model Organisms and Disease'
p. 0278

DEENBANDHU CHHOTU RAM UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY MURTHAL
p. 0278

Department of Science & Technology TECHNOLOGY INTERVENTIONS FOR ELDERLY (TIE)
p. 0279

Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi
p. 0279

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE
p. 0280

Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany
p. 0280

School of Chemical Sciences
p. 0281

The Indian Science Congress Association
p. 0281

G. T. PATIL COLLEGE
p. 0282

Indian National Science Academy
p. 0282

Department of Microbiology & Biotechnology Centre, Faculty of Science
p. 0283

Positions at Indian Institute of Advanced Research (IIAR)
p. 0283

All India Institute of Medical Sciences
p. 0283

Department of Chemistry, IIT Roorkee
p. 0283