In this issue
p. 0809

A Recipe for Success in Science: The Hamming Prescription
p. 0811 | Balaram, P.

Imperfect impact factor
p. 0813 | Radder, Rajkumar S.; Yankanchi, Shivanand R.; Gramapurohit, Narahari P.

Journal cost vs quality
p. 0814 | Joshi, G.

Meeting goals of a Ph D degree
p. 0814 | Sharma, Shweta

Multiple cropping to increase agrobiodiversity and sequester carbon dioxide
p. 0815 | Sarma, V. Venkateswara

Variables unaccounted for in global warming and climate change models
p. 0815 | Herndon, J. Marvin

Mangalajodi wetland: Priority site for conservation
p. 0816 | Pattanaik, Chiranjibi; Prasad, S. Narendra; Reddy, C. Sudhakar

Rhododendrons in Meghalaya need attention
p. 0817 | Yumnam, J. Y.

Plant tissue culture - answer to biodiversity conservation?
p. 0818 | Tripathi, Mayank

Floristic diversity of Ahobilam forest
p. 0819 | Mohammed, Silar; Basha, Khaleel; Parveen, Niaz

It is wise not to debate on tiger farming
p. 0820 | Ramakantha, V.

It is wise not to debate on tiger farming(Response)
p. 0820 | Xavier, Nicky

India's tryst with the N-deal
p. 0821 | Pereira, Neelam

Oceans at risk of reef loss
p. 0822 | Pereira, Neelam

Open geo-spatial consortium standards for sensor networks
p. 0823 | Punia, Milap; Mohan, K. R. Murli

National nutrition policy
p. 0823 | Bamji, Mahtab S.; Ramachandran, Prema

International Biology Olympiad
p. 0826 | Sheth, Parul R.

Recent advances in the study of B-meson systems
p. 0827 | Abbas, Gauhar; Ananthanarayan, B.; Ashok, Kriti; Sankar, S. Uma

Writing the history of modern science and technology in India
p. 0829 | Singh, Rajinder

What ails the Indian scientific research today? Is there any cure?
p. 0830 | Ramanamurthy, M. V.

India needs phenological stations network
p. 0832 | Kushwaha, C. P.; Singh, K. P.

Addition of a wild aromatic plant Pogostemon hirsutus Benth. (Lamiaceae) to the flora of India
p. 0835 | Murugan, R.; Ravikumar, K.; Livingstone, C.

Multiple disease resistance in menthol mint genotypes
p. 0836 | Shukla, R. S.; Alam, M.; Kumar, Birendra; Singh, V. P.

Phylogenetic impli­cations of hemipenial morphology in Sri Lankan agamid lizards
p. 0838 | Maduwage, Kalana; Meegaskumbura, Madhava; Silva, Anjana; Pethiyagoda, Rohan

Langmuir approach to rural development
p. 0841 | Rajvanshi, Anil K.

Geothermal energy resource utilization: Perspectives of the Uttarakhand Himalaya
p. 0846 | Bhardwaj, Kailash N.; Tiwari, S. C.

Global hotspots and knowledge gaps for tree and flying squirrels
p. 0851 | Koprowski, John L.; Nandini, R.

Differing rates of macroevolutionary diversification in arboreal squirrels
p. 0857 | Roth, V. Louise; Mercer, John M.

The life histories of orders of mammals: Fast and slow breeding
p. 0862 | Dobson, F. Stephen; 0Ii, Madan K.

Why are there so many giants, including giant squirrels, in the Old World tropics?
p. 0866 | Borges, Renee M.

Evolutionary interactions between tree squirrels and trees: A review and synthesis
p. 0871 | Steele, Michael A.

The group-nesting and food-hoarding behaviour of the southern flying squirrel, Glaucomys volans
p. 0877 | Winterrowd, Michael F.

Nesting sites of Indian giant squirrels in Sitanadi Wildlife Sanctuary, India
p. 0882 | Kanoje, Ravi Shanker

Measuring Indian giant squirrel (Ratufa indica) abundance in southern India using distance sampling
p. 0885 | Jathanna, Devcharan; Kumar, N. Samba; Karanth, K. Ullas

Site occupancy of the Indian giant squirrel Ratufa indica (Erxleben) in Kalakad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, Tamil Nadu, India
p. 0889 | Srinivas, V.; VenugopaI, P. Dilip; Ram, Sunita

Responses of diurnal tree squirrels to selective logging in western Arunachal Pradesh
p. 0895 | Datta, Aparajita; Goyal, S. P.

Introduction of the American grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) in Europe: a case study in biological invasion
p. 0903 | Sandro, Bertolino

Crop raiding and management of Funambulus palmarum in cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum) plantations of Western Ghats of Karnataka, south India
p. 0907 | Chakravarthy, A. K.; Thyagaraj, N. E.; Kumar, L. Vijay; Girish, A. C.

The importance of radio-telemetry in arboreal squirrel research
p. 0912 | Haughland, D. L.; Larsen, K. W.; Wheatley, M.

The use of GIS and modelling approaches in squirrel population management and conservation: a review
p. 0918 | Lurz, P. W.W.; Koprowski, J. L.; Wood, D. J. A.

A comparative study on performance of MM5 and WRF models in simulation of tropical cyclones over Indian seas
p. 0923 | Pattanayak, Sujata; Mohanty, U. C.

Spatial variability of soil properties and its application in predicting surface map of hydraulic parameters in an agricultural farm
p. 0937 | Santra, Priyabrata; Chopra, U. K.; Chakraborty, Debashis

Molecular genetic characterization of Kutchi breed of goat
p. 0946 | Dixit, S. P.; Verma, N. K.; Ahlawat, S. P. S.; Aggarwal, R. A. K.; Singh, K. P.; Kumar, S.; Chander, R.

Monoclonal antibodies to the recombinant nucleocapsid protein of a groundnut bud necrosis virus infecting tomato in Karnataka and their use in profiling the epitopes of Indian tospovirus isolates
p. 0952 | Venkat, Hemalatha; Gangatirkar, Pradnya; Karande, Anjali A.; Krishnareddy, M.; Savithri, H. S.

Preparation and characterization of cellulose triacetate from Musa paradisiaca and cellulose triacetate-polyvinyl chloride blends
p. 0958 | Noorjahan, S. E.; Sekar, S.; Sastry, T. P.

Zaherite - the key mineral in Alleppey mudbank formation and on the possibility of creating mudbanks artificially
p. 0962 | Dinesh, A. C.; Jayaprakash, C.

Social History of Science in Colonial India (Themes in Indian History; Oxford in India Readings) by S. Irfan Habib and Dhruv Raina (eds)
p. 0967 | Raman, Anantanarayanan

Image Modeling of the Human Eye by U. Rajendra Acharya, Y. K. Eddie Ng and Jasjit S. Suri (eds)
p. 0967 | Ghaswala, Percy

Agriculture in Developing Countries: Technology Issues by Keijiro Otsuka and Kaliappa Kalirajan (eds)
p. 0969 | Kesavan, P. C.

Governance of Water: Institutional Alternatives and Political Economy by Vishwa Ballabh (ed. )
p. 0970 | Kumar, Vijay

SECOND SCHOOL IN NEUROSCIENCES
p. 0972

Government of India INVITES NOMINATIONS FOR NATIONAL WOMEN BIOSCIENTISTS AWARDS: 2008
p. 0973

Ministry of Science and Technology Instrumentation Development Programme (IDP)
p. 0975

MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Newly Proposed Scientific Initiative Under NRDMS Division, DST
p. 0977

Department of Science and Technology DST Postdoctoral Fellowships in Nano Science & Technology
p. 0978

SCOPUS
p. 0979

EMBO
p. 0980

Defense Research and Development Organisation
p. 0981

Department of Science and Technology Indo-Korean Programme of Cooperation
p. 0982

National Chemical Laboratory
p. 0983

Multinational Graduate Course on Basic Chronobiology with Reference to Chronomedicine
p. 0983

TATA MEMORIAL CENTRE
p. 0984

Required A Research Associate (RA)
p. 0984

Ministry of Science & Technology TECHNOLOGY INTERVENTIONS FOR ELDERLY (TIE)
p. 0985

Maharashtra Association for the Cultivation of Science
p. 0985

CENTRE FOR LIQUID CRYSTAL RESEARCH
p. 0986

Appointment of JRF under Partner Group Project jointly funded by Max Planck Institute, Germany and DST, India
p. 0986

Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute
p. 0987

Gujarat Institute of Desert Ecology
p. 0987

Quantum Entanglement in Condensed Matter Systems
p. 0988

Quantum Information and Quantum Matter
p. 0988

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali
p. 0989

Department of Physics
p. 0989

Centre for Mathematical Sciences
p. 0989