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Current Awareness Service November 2010 National Documentation Centre National Institute of Health and Family welfare Baba Gangnath Marg, Munirka New Delhi-110067 American Journal of Epidemiology Volume 172, Issue. 6 (15 September 2010) Systematic reviews and meta- and pooled analyses Birth Order and Risk of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma—True Association or Bias? Andrew E. Grulich, Claire M. Vajdic, Michael O. Falster, Eleanor Kane, Karin Ekstrom Smedby, Paige M. Bracci, Silvia de Sanjose, Nikolaus Becker, Jenny Turner, Otoniel Martinez-Maza, Mads Melbye, Eric A. Engels, Paolo Vineis, Adele Seniori Costantini, Elizabeth A. Holly, John J. Spinelli, Carlo La Vecchia, Tongzhang Zheng, Brian C. H. Chiu, Silvia Franceschi, Pierluigi Cocco, Marc Maynadié, Lenka Foretova, Anthony Staines, Paul Brennan, Scott Davis, Richard K. Severson, James R. Cerhan, Elizabeth C. Breen, Brenda Birmann, and Wendy Cozen Page: 621 Human genome epidemiology review Association Between Heme Oxygenase-1 Gene Promoter Polymorphisms and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A HuGE Review and Meta-Analysis Wei Bao, Fangfang Song, Xiangyang Li, Shuang Rong, Wei Yang, Di Wang, Jiqu Xu, Juan Fu, Yanting Zhao, and Liegang Liu Page: 631 Practice of epidemiology Heightened Attention to Medical Privacy: Challenges for Unbiased Sample Recruitment and a Possible Solution Ann B. Nattinger, Liliana E. Pezzin, Rodney A. Sparapani, Joan M. Neuner, Toni K. King, and Purushottam W. Laud Page: 637 Invited Commentary: Evaluating Epidemiologic Research Methods—The Importance of Response Rate Calculation M. Anne Harris Page: 645 Invited Commentary: Population-based Human Subjects Research in the Era of Enhanced Privacy Regulation Roberta B. Ness Page: 648 Nattinger and Pezzin Respond to “The Importance of Response Rate Calculation” by Harris and “Privacy Regulation” by Ness Ann B. Nattinger andLiliana E. Pezzin Page: 651 Life-Course Analysis of a Fat Mass and Obesity-Associated (FTO) Gene Variant and Body Mass Index in the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 Using Structural Equation Modeling Marika Kaakinen, Esa Läärä, Anneli Pouta, Anna-Liisa Hartikainen, Jaana Laitinen, Tuija H. Tammelin, Karl-Heinz Herzig, Ulla Sovio, Amanda J. Bennett, Leena Peltonen, Mark I. McCarthy, Paul Elliott, Bianca De Stavola, and Marjo-Riitta Järvelin Page: 653 Original contributions Plasma Urate and Parkinson's Disease in Women Éilis J. O'Reilly, Xiang Gao, Marc G. Weisskopf, Honglei Chen, Michael A. Schwarzschild, Donna Spiegelman, and Alberto Ascherio Page: 666 Cadmium and Peripheral Arterial Disease: Gender Differences in the 1999–2004 US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Maria Tellez-Plaza, Ana Navas-Acien, Ciprian M. Crainiceanu, A. Richey Sharrett, and Eliseo Guallar Page: 671 Case-Control Study of Body Size and Breast Cancer Risk in Nigerian Women Temidayo O. Ogundiran, Dezheng Huo, Adeniyi Adenipekun, Oladapo Campbell, Rasaaq Oyesegun, Effiong Akang, Clement Adebamowo, and Olufunmilayo I. Olopade Page: 682 Cancer Incidence in Female Cosmetologists and Manicurists in California, 1988–2005 Thu Quach, Phuong An Doan-Billing, Michael Layefsky, David Nelson, Kim Dung Nguyen, Linda Okahara, Alisha Ngoc Tran, Julie Von Behren, and Peggy Reynolds Page: 691 Does Sickness Absence Due to Psychiatric Disorder Predict Cause-specific Mortality? A 16-Year Follow-up of the GAZEL Occupational Cohort Study Maria Melchior, Jane E. Ferrie, Kristina Alexanderson, Marcel Goldberg, Mika Kivimaki, Archana Singh-Manoux, Jussi Vahtera, Hugo Westerlund, Marie Zins, and Jenny Head Page: 700 Is There an Association Between Low-to-Moderate Alcohol Consumption and Risk of Cognitive Decline? Elena Lobo, Carole Dufouil, Guillermo Marcos, Bernardo Quetglas, Pedro Saz, Eliseo Guallar, Antonio Lobo, and for the ZARADEMP Workgroup Page: 708 Influence of Life-Course Socioeconomic Position on Incident Heart Failure in Blacks and Whites: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study Calpurnyia B. Roberts, David J. Couper, Patricia P. Chang, Sherman A. James, Wayne D. Rosamond, and Gerardo Heiss Page: 717 Trends in Asthma Prevalence and Incidence in Ontario, Canada, 1996–2005: A Population Study Andrea S. Gershon, Jun Guan, Chengning Wang, and Teresa To Page: 728 Commentary In Snow's Footsteps: Commentary on Shoe-Leather and Applied Epidemiology Denise Koo andStephen B. Thacker Page: 737 Book reviews Inside the Outbreaks: The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service: By Mark Pendergrast Thomas M. Becker Page: 740 Ready to Go: The History and Contributions of U.S. Public Health Advisors: By Beth E. Meyerson, Fred A. Martich, and Gerald P. Naehr Select this articleRichard A. Crosby Page: 741 Letters to the editor Re: “alcohol consumption in young adults and incident hypertension: 20-year follow-up from the coronary artery risk development in young adults study” David A. Leon, Juan Pablo-Casas, Caroline Dale, Olga Polikina, Susannah Tomkins, and Martin McKee Page: 743 Five authors reply Jewell H. Halanych, Monika M. Safford, Stefan G. Kertesz, Sharina D. Person, and Catarina I. Kiefe Page: 744 Current Science Volume 99, Issue. 7 (10 October 2010) Editorial Citations, Impact Indices and the Fabric of Science P. Balaram Page: 857 Correspondence Roadmap to irreverence, argument and critique in science education and research Om P. Sharma Page: 859 Irreverence and Indian science Sumit Bhaduri Page: 859 Haemoglobin-C gene in India? S. L. Choubisa Page: 860 Citedness of Indian science journals indexed by SCIE K. C. Garg and S. Kumar Page: 860 Kannimara teak: an extant forest genetic resource B. Nagarajan, Desha Meena, Sarvesh Singh, A. Daniel and D. Jesubalan Page: 862 The other side of Albert Einstein Rajinder Singh Page: 863 Exotic weeds in Tadoba–Andhari Tiger Reserve E. N. Murthy, V. S. Raju, C. S. Reddy and M. Ravinder Page: 863 Ophiocordyceps sinensis – valuable caterpillar fungus from the Himalayan hills Ranjit Singh, P. S. Negi and Z. Ahmed Page: 865 News Photosynthetic factories for manufacturing biofuel ethanol Ramesh Maheshwari Page: 866 India lacks open access awareness programmes Richa Malhotra Page: 867 Neutron scattering and mesoscopic systems Saibal Basu Page: 868 Seed ecology III Shyam S. Phartyal, Rup Kumar Kar and Jeffery Walck Page: 870 Air pollution and climate change effects on forest ecosystems R. Mohanraj Page: 871 Research news STAR experiment reports the discovery of anti-strange matter Bedangadas Mohanty Page: 873 In conversation The evolution of a surgeon and innovator: M. S. Valiathan V. T. Yadugiri Page: 875 Commentary Education reforms, accreditation and the role of academies P. J. Lavakare Page: 882 Seed-cane marketing – a multi-million industry in the offing P. K. Singh, A. K. Singh, Sanjeev Kumar and J. Singh Page: 883 Nutritional security: a missing link in climate change debates Manoj-Kumar and A. K. Patra Page: 887 Opinion Sociology of large scientific collaborations Y. P. Viyogi Page: 890 Soil responds to climate change: is soil science in India responding to? Manoj-Kumar Page: 892 A new conservation policy needed for reintroduction of Bengal tiger-white Nicky K. Xavier Page: 894 Scientific correspondence Biodegradation of 14C-chlorpyrifos by hairy root culture of Chenopodium amaranticolor Coste & Reynier Aprajita Garg, Sayaji Mehetre, Pramod Sherkhane, Susan Eapen and Sharad P. Kale Page: 896 Spatial redistribution of Soliva anthemifolia (Juss) R. Br. – possible manifestation of changing climate Sanjay Kr. Uniyal, Om Parkash and R. D. Singh Page: 898 General articles ‘Plenty of room’ – fifty years after the Feynman lecture V. T. Yadugiri and Richa Malhotra Page: 900 Green to evergreen revolution: ecological and evolutionary perspectives in pest manage•ment P. C. Kesavan and S. Malarvannan Page: 908 Research account Conservation agriculture towards achieving food security in North East India P. K. Ghosh, Anup Das, Ritesh Saha, Enboklang Kharkrang, A. K. Tripathi, G. C. Munda and S. V. Ngachan Page: 915 Research articles Piper betle Linn. a maligned Pan-Asiatic plant with an array of pharmacological activities and prospects for drug discovery Nikhil Kumar, Pragya Misra, Anuradha Dube, Shailja Bhattacharya, Madhu Dikshit and Shirish Ranade Page: 922 Low-Al tourmalines of ‘oxy-dravite’–povondraite series from Cu–Au deposit of Ghagri area, Salumber–Ghatol belt, Aravalli Supergroup, Rajasthan Fareeduddin, I. R. Kirmani and Susmita Gupta Page: 933 Delhi earthquake of 25 November 2007 (Mw 4.1): implications for seismic hazard S. K. Singh, A. Kumar, G. Suresh, M. Ordaz, J. F. Pacheco, M. L. Sharma, B. K. Bansal, R. S. Dattatrayam and E. Reinoso Page: 939 Research communications Presence of 60Fe in eucrite Piplia Kalan: a new perspective to the initial 60Fe/56Fe in the early solar system N. G. Rudraswami, S. Sahijpal and N. Bhandari Page: 948 Effect of season and year on azadirachtin A and oil content in neem (Azadirachta indica A. Juss) seeds and relationship of azadirachtin A and oil content with rainfall, temperature and humidity V. K. Gupta, S. P. Ahlawat, R. V. Kumar, Ajit and A. Datta Page: 953 Modelling of a magnetic anomaly in east Ganga basin and its implications on the tectonics of the region H. V. Ram Babu, R. K. Kishore and V. Pradeep Kumar Page: 956 Photothermal manipulation of reproduction in Indian major carp: a step forward for off-season breeding and seed production S. K. Sarkar, A. Saha, S. Dasgupta, S. Nandi, D. K. Verma, P. Routray, C. Devaraj, J. Mohanty, N. Sarangi, A. E. Eknath and S. Ayyappan Page: 960 Book reviews What I Require from Life: Writings on Science and Life from J. B. S. Haldane, Krishna Dronamraju (ed.) reviewed by R. Nagaraj Page: 965 Ferns and Fern-allies of Sikkim: A Pictorial Handbook – Part-I, B. S. Kholia reviewed by G. S. Rawat Page: 966 Troubled Islands: Writings on the Indigenous Peoples and Environment of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Pankaj Sekhsaria reviewed by Rauf Ali Page: 967 Historical note The Wealth of India – a CSIR’s encyclopaedia of information resource on economic plants, animals and minerals Onkar J. Chakre Page: 969 Human Reproduction Volume 25, Issue. 10 (October 2010) Original articles Andrology Xenografting of human fetal testis tissue: a new approach to study fetal testis development and germ cell differentiation Rod T.