CONTENTS

10 NOVEMBER 1998

IN THIS ISSUE

• 867 In this issue

• 869 Reviewing a review

• 871 Nuclear weapons, B. M. Udgaonkar

• 871 Impact factors, N. R. Jagannathan

• 872 C++ in schools, Y. P. Joshi

• 872 Facts about plague epidemic, 1994, T. Jacob John

• 873 Unfair to Hardy, S. C. Tiwari

• 874 At IAEA PM, Chidambaram castigate original sinnerscall for re-focusing Agency's role

• 875 p53 degradation by Mdm2A novel mechanism for regulation of p53 stability
  V. K. Nampoothiri

• 877 Why does object technology hasten slowly?, Rajendra K. Bera

• 881 Preservation of India's culture and environment, B. P. Radhakrishna

• 883 A rapid and simplified procedure for isolating DNA from scat samples, Pattabhiraman Shankaranarayanan and Lalji Singh

• 884 Rapid land building activity along Veda- ranniyam coast and its possible implications, SM. Ramasamy, D. Ramesh, M. A. Paul, Sheela Kusumgar, M. G. Yadava, A.R. Nair, U. K. Sinha and T. B. Joseph

• 887 A preliminary report on fluoride content in groundwaters of Guntur area, Andhra Pradesh, India, N. Subba Rao, J. Prakasa Rao, B. Nagamalleswara Rao, P. Niranjan Babu, P.Madusudhana Reddy and D. John Devadas

• 889 Risk assessment and operations strategy for ISRO satellites during Leonid storm encounter, T. Parimala Rangan, P. Kesava Rao, K. Nageswara Rao and P. Soma

• 893 Radiolaria as tracers of ocean climate history, V. Sharma and J. Daneshian

• 897 Side effects of some medicinal plants, L. M. Gupta and R. Raina

• 901 Chemistry of bimetallic surfaces, G. Ranga Rao

• 911 Heme polymerization by malarial parasite: A potential target for antimalarial drug development, Amit Vikram Pandey and Virander Singh Chauhan

• 919 Mitochondrial DNA sequence divergence among big cats and their hybrids, Pattabhiraman Shankaranarayanan and Lalji Singh

• 923 Assessment of inbreeding depression in big cats: Testosterone levels and semen analysis, S. Shivaji, D. Jayaprakash and Suresh B. Patil

• 930   Cryopreservation of semen of tigers and lions: Computerized analysis of the motility parameters of the spermatozoa, S. B. Patil, D. Jayaprakash and S. Shivaji

• 936 Differential diagnosis of acute flaccid paralysis: Poliomyelitis in developing countries, H. V. Wyatt

• 939 Characteristics of semen parameters in a selected population of Indian men over a period of 10 years, K. Gopalkrishnan

• 942 The fate of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in activated human macrophages, V. Vishwanath, Sujatha Narayanan and P. R. Narayanan

• 946 Identification of a new parameter, , controlling the thermally induced effects on Kevlar 49 fibres, R. V. Iyer and Kalyani Vijayan

• 951 Methane entrapment in different rice soils of India, Deepanjan Majumdar, Sushil Kumar and M. C. Jain

• 955 Coastal morphological influence for tropical cyclone track deviation along Andhra coast: GIS and remote sensing-based approach, K. Vinod Kumar, A. Bhattacharya and C. Subramanyam

• 958 In vitro effects of adrenergic agonists and antagonists on tissue respiration in Rana limnocharis and Rana cyanophlyctis, A. Mahanta and B. B. P. Gupta

• 961 Introduction to Subfactors, reviewed by B. V. Rajarama Bhat

• 961 The World Wide Web for Scientists and EngineersA Complete Reference for Navigating, Researching and Publishing Online, reviewed by Subbiah Arunachalam

• 962 Hotspots of Endemic Plants of India, Nepal and Bhutan, reviewed by T. N. Khoshoo

• 963 Biomass Studies: Field Methods for Monitoring Biomass, reviewed by S. S. Kalbag

• 963 Human Nutrition in the Developing World, reviewed by B. Sesikeran and Kamala Krishnaswamy

• 965 Sir C. V. Raman and the story of the Nobel prize, Rajinder Singh and Falk Riess

• Meetings and Symposia