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Vol 79 No 9
10th Nov 2000

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IN THIS ISSUE

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In this issue


EDITORIAL

1139 Creationism, Astrology and Science
  P. Balaram

CORRESPONDENCE

1141 Science, technology, and society – A broad perspective
  K. Murukesapillai
1142 ‘Dinosaur Syndrome’ of science education and its impact on budding scientists
  Neelkamal Rastogi
1143 Eclipsing of academics
  R. N. Singh
1143 Need for easy access to published information
  E. D. Jemmis
1144 Nutri cereal
  V. R. Sashidhar
1144 Seismicity of the West Bengal basin – Need for a study
  P. R. Reddy

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NEWS 

1145
Signal transduction in the nervous system: The 2000 
Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine
  P. K. Gupta
1152 Indo-US High Level Roundtable on Science and 
Technology: The second phase
  Nirupa Sen

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RESEARCH NEWS

1153
The future of flat panel displays
  Nirupa Sen

MEETING REPORT

1155
A focus on honey bees in the tropics
  Dwijendra Singh

1157
From the archives

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SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE

1158   Enhanced phosphatase activity in earthworm casts is more of microbial origin
  S. P. Vinotha, K. Parthasarathi and L. S. Ranganathan
1159  

Presence of a possible retinoblastoma protein binding motif in the AC2 protein of subgroups II and III geminiviruses

  S. Sujatha and R. Usha
1161  

Is there really a ‘quantum-no-deleting principle’?

  K. V. Bhagwat, D. C. Khandekar, S. V. G. Menon, R. R. Puri and D. C. Sahni

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GENERAL ARTICLE

1163
Nitrates, agriculture and environment
  E. V. S. Prakasa Rao and K. Puttanna

REVIEW ARTICLE

1169 The programme of cell death in plants and animals – A comparison
  K. V. Krishnamurthy, R. Krishnaraj, R. Chozhavendan and F. Samuel Christopher

RESEARCH ARTICLES

1182 Fundamental genomic unity of ethnic India is revealed by analysis of mitochondrial DNA
  Susanta Roychoudhury, Sangita Roy, Badal Dey, Madan Chakraborty, Monami Roy, Bidyut Roy, A. Ramesh, N. Prabhakaran, M. V. Usha Rani, H. Vishwanathan, Mitashree Mitra, Samir K. Sil and Partha P. Majumder
1192 Multiple criteria decision making: Assigning teachers – an example
  S. B. Siyambalapitiya

SPECIAL SECTION: SEISMOLOGY 2000

1198
Seismology 2000
  Kusala Rajendran and C. P. Rajendran
1201
Current and future trends in seismological investigations of the continental lithosphere
  Thomas J. Owens
1208 Impact of seismic tomography on earth sciences
  Dapeng Zhao and J. R. Kayal
1215 Earthquake stress triggers, stress shadows, and seismic hazard
  Ruth A. Harris
1226
The Parkfield, California earthquake experiment: 
An update in 2000
  Evelyn Roeloffs
1237 Reappraisal of north-Indian earthquakes at the turn of the 20th century
  N. Ambraseys
1251 Using geological data for earthquake studies: 
A perspective from peninsular India
  C. P. Rajendran
1259
Geodetic contributions to the study of seismotectonics in India
  Rogar Bilham and Vinod K. Gaur
1270 Recent developments toward earthquake risk reduction in India
  Anand S. Arya
1278 New ground motion data and concepts in seismic hazard analysis
  John G. Anderson, James N. Brune, Rasool Anooshehpoor and Shean-Der Ni
1291
Future trends in earthquake-resistant design of structures
  Durgesh C. Rai
1301 A method for path calibration using regional and teleseismic broadband seismograms: Application to the 21 May 1997 Jabalpur, India earthquake (MW 5.8)
  Chandan K. Saikia
1316 Site response estimation using strong motion network: 
A step towards micro­zonation of the Sikkim Himalayas
  Sankar Kumar Nath, Probal Sengupta, Saradindu Sengupta and Amitabha Chakrabarti
1327
Seismogenic properties of the crust inferred from recent studies of reservoir-induced seismicity –Application to Koyna
  Pradeep Talwani
1334 Recent Indian earthquakes
  Prantik Mandal, B. K. Rastogi and Harsh K. Gupta
1347 Recent advances in seismic instrumentation and data interpretation in India
  S. N. Bhattacharya and R. S. Dattatrayam
1359 The recent Indian nuclear tests – A seismic overview
  S. K. Sikka, G. J. Nair, Falguni Roy, Anil Kakodkar and 
R. Chidambaram

RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

1367
Seed-mediated growth method to prepare cubic copper nanoparticles
  Nikhil R. Jana, Zhong L. Wang, Tapan K. Sau and Tarasankar Pal
1370
Fluoride: Diffusive mobility in soil and some remedial measures to control its plant uptake
  Kavita Rai, Meetu Agarwal, Sahab Dass and Rohit Shrivastav
1373 Increasing the efficacy of difluoro­methyl­ornithine to inhibit the growth of three phytopathogenic fungi by membrane modifying agents
  Ratna Kumria, J. S. Virdi and M. V. Rajam
1377 Reproductive behaviour and genetic variability in geographically isolated populations of Rhodo­dendron arboreum (Ericaceae)
  Ajay Jain, M. K. Pandit, S. Elahi, Arvind Jain, A. Bhaskar and Virendra Kumar
1381
Biodegradation of cyclodiene insecticide endosulfan by Mucor thermo-hyalo­spora MTCC 1384
  P. K. Shetty, Jharna Mitra, N. B. K. Murthy, K. K. Namitha, 
K. N. Savitha and K. Raghu
1384
Plasmid-borne determinants of colony morphology, pigmentation, antibiotic resistance and antibiosis in Pseudomonas species antagonistic to bacterial blight of cotton
  Sujoy Saha, R. P. Singh, J. P. Verma and J. Jayaraman
1386 Distribution and abundance of the caecilian Gegeneophis ramaswamii (Amphibia: Gymnophiona) in southern Kerala
  Oommen V. Oommen, G. John Measey, David J. Gower and Mark Wilkinson

BOOK REVIEWS

1390 Thinking about Physics
  reviewed by T. P. Srinivasan
1391 Electron Microscopy in Medicine and Biology
  reviewed by Shashi Wadhwa
1391 Should We Risk It? Exploring Environmental, Health, and Technological Problem Solving
  reviewed by D. V. Petkar
1392 Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry
  reviewed by E. Arunan
1393 The Earth in Turmoil: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and their 
Impact on Human­kind
  reviewed by Kusala Rajendran
1394 Science of Field Crop Production
  reviewed by R. K. Chopra

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PERSONAL NEWS

1395 Zita Lobo – An obituary
  Veronica Rodrigues and K. VijayRaghavan

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COVER. Three-dimensional image of P-wave velocity structure down to the core–mantle boundary under the Pacific Ocean. See page 1208.