In this issue
p. 1270

Biology and Chemistry: Life and Death
p. 1271 | Balaram, P.

Five Indian journals cross impact factor 1. 000 in 2008
p. 1273 | Jain, N. C.

Science academies in India
p. 1273 | Tripathi, Yamini Bhusan

Science career: through the eyes of Indian research scholars
p. 1274 | Dhawan, Sunil K.; Venkatesh, S.

Career choice: a virtue out of necessity?
p. 1275 | Kumar, Deepak

Standards of higher education
p. 1276 | Rao, Kalluri Subba

Taxonomic placement for mycelia sterilia in endophytic fungal research: a molecular approach
p. 1276 | Naik, B. Shankar

Carpinus viminea: a pioneer tree species of old landslide regions of Indian Himalaya
p. 1277 | Verma, Deepti; Singh, Gajendra; Ram, Nirmal

Slum-dwellers are relatively resistant to swine flu
p. 1278 | Deo, Madhav G.

Environmental policy and conservation: from theory to practice
p. 1279 | Berger-tal, Oded; Berger-tal, Reut; Bounioux, Celine; Embar, Keren; Sandomirsky, Iara Gazzera; Huberman-meraiot, Nora; Inbar, Adi; Indoitu, Rodica; Mukherjee, Shomen; Nathan, Yonatan; Rangarajan, Mahesh

Komatiites through time reflect trends in mantle incorporation of meteoritic platinum group elements
p. 1280 | Sankaran, A. V.

A decade of KVPY - A challenging experience
p. 1282 | Kumar, P. S. Anil; Chatterji, Dipankar

Forest fire monitoring in Sirohi district, Rajasthan using remote sensing data
p. 1287 | Reddy, C. Sudhakar; Navatha, K.; Rachel, B.; Murthy, M. S. R.; Reddy, P. Manikya

The aberrant behaviour of the Indian monsoon in June 2009
p. 1291 | Francis, P. A.; Gadgil, Sulochana

People's attitudes towards paying for water
p. 1296 | Devi, J. Sarala; Joseph, Benny; Karunakaran, K.; Anurdha, B.; Devi, K. Rama

Subject-specific blood flow simulation in the human carotid artery bifurcation
p. 1303 | Deshpande, M. D.; Ballal, Vinay; Shankapal, S. R.; Prabhu, Vinay M. D.; Srinath, M. G.

Radon as an indicator of submarine groundwater discharge in coastal regions
p. 1313 | Jacob, Noble; Babu, D. S. Suresh; Shivanna, K.

Evaluation of effectiveness of artificial recharge measures in parts of Maharashtra using environmental isotopes
p. 1321 | Kumar, Bhishm; Rao, M. S.; Navada, S. V.; Verma, S. K.; Shrivastava, Swati

Radioactivity in food crops from high-background radiation area in southwest India
p. 1331 | Shanthi, G.; Maniyan, C. G.; Raj, G. Allan Gnana; Kumaran, J. Thampi Thanka

Trace gases and CO₂ isotope records from Cabo de Rama, India
p. 1336 | Bhattacharya, S. K.; Borole, D. V.; Francey, R. J.; Allison, C. E.; Steele, L. P.; Krummel, P.; Langenfelds, R.; Masarie, K. A.; Tiwari, Y. K.; Patra, P. K.

An algorithm to find similar internal sequence repeats
p. 1345 | Banerjee, Nirjhar; Chidambarathanu, N.; Sabarinathan, R.; Michael, Daliah; Ranjani, C. Vasuki; Balakrishnan, N.; Sekar, K.

Comparative studies on species richness, diversity and composition of Anogeissus latifolius mixed forests in Phakot and Pathri Rao watersheds of Garhwal Himalaya
p. 1349 | Pokhriyal, Prerna; Naithani, Varsha; Dasgupta, Sabyasachi; Todaria, N. P.

Petrology and geochemistry of Proterozoic olivine tholeiite intrusives from the Central Crystallines of the western Arunachal Himalaya, India: evidence for a depleted mantle
p. 1355 | Srivastava, Rajesh K.; Srivastava, Hari B.; Srivastava, Vaibhava

Analysis of timber and coating material on an iron anchor recovered off Aguada Bay, Goa
p. 1361 | Tripati, Sila; Rao, B. Ramalingeswara; Shashikala, S.; Rao, R. Vijendra; Khedekar, Vijay

Changes in the recoverable fractions during successive cycles of aquifer storage and recovery system in North-West India
p. 1369 | Saharawat, Y. S.; Malik, R. S.; Jhorar, B. S.; Streck, T.; Chaudhary, Neelam; Jat, M. L.

Spacetime, Geometry and Gravitation by Pankaj Sharan
p. 1375 | Dadhich, Naresh

Physics for Engineers by M. R. Srinivasan
p. 1375 | Deepak, Sangamesh

Annual Review of Genetics, 2008 by Allan Campbell, Elizabeth W. Jones and Gertrud Schupbach (eds)
p. 1376 | Nongthomba, Upendra

Cyanobacteria: Antibacterial Activity by Purshotam Kaushik and Abhishek Chauhan
p. 1378 | Pabbi, Sunil

Millipore
p. 1380

Millipore
p. 1381

REFRESHER COURSE ON FRONTIERS IN ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
p. 1382

Department of Biotechnology Small Business Innovation Research Initiative (SBIRI)
p. 1383

CENTRE FOR HUMAN GENETICS
p. 1384

GIST
p. 1385

DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CALL FOR RESEARCH PROPOSALS
p. 1386

Kottakkal Arya Vaidya Sala
p. 1387

Tea Research Association
p. 1388

UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD
p. 1388

Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology
p. 1389

IISc-ISRO-NASA Workshop on 'MODIS Data Products and Applications'
p. 1389

Physical Research Laboratory
p. 1390

BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSTIY
p. 1390