CONTENTS
Editors’ Page
Lead Articles/Overviews of New Developments
Rural resources: Decentralized development
AnilP. Joshi…227
Science & Technology Development and Policy Issue
Science and Technology in India: Policy perspective
A.P. Mishra, B.P. Singh, V Rao Aiyagari and R.P. Rastogi…235
News/Views/Comments
Terrestrial vegetation and ecosystem coverage within Indian protected areas
G.S. Rawat…241
Short Research Communications
Study of the heavy metals mobility in different soils, affecting vegetation
Dinesh Mani and Chitranjan Kumar…251
Root formation in stem cuttings of Quercus g!auca Thunb. and Q. floribunda Lindl. : Oaks from the Indian Central Himalaya
V K. Purohit, L.M S. Pa!ni and S. K. Nandi…259
Resonance quantification in organic and inorganic azides from vibrational spectral data
H.S. Randhawa, B.S. Sekhon and Hardeep Kaur Randhawa…263
Sequential coronations of graphs
G. Santhosh…269
Certain properties of Mn/Gl1 queuing system relevant to inventory process
S.N. Singh and Rekha Tiwari…271
Electrophoretic analyses of pseudobranchial neurosecretory proteins from selected teleosts
L. Yadav, B. P. Mohanty and A. Gopesh …273
Laboratory selection to investigate the development of resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis H-14 in Culex quinquefasciatus Say (Diptera : Culicidae )
P.K. Mittal, T. Adak ant! S.K. Subbarao …281
The effects of frequent shutdowns of cement factory on circadian rhythms in subjective drowsiness, fatigue and attention of shift workers
Arti Parganiha and A.K. Pati… 285
Academy News
Summer School 2005
…293
Bio-memoir
Dr. Raja Ramanna : A brief bio-memoir
M.G.K. Menon …295