Vol 106, No 9 (2014)

Table of Contents

Vol 106, No 9 (2014)

In this Issue

In this Issue
DOI:10.18520/cs/v106/i9/1170-1170 ,  Vol 106, No 9 (2014), Pagination: 1170-1170
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Guest Editorial

Scientific Authorship: Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due
Richard N. Zare
DOI:10.18520/cs/v106/i9/1171-1172 ,  Vol 106, No 9 (2014), Pagination: 1171-1172
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Correspondence

Assessing Researchers Based on Membership of Journal Editorial Boards
Subbiah Gunasekaran
DOI:10.18520/cs/v106/i9/1173-1174 ,  Vol 106, No 9 (2014), Pagination: 1173-1174
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Chemical Crystallography in India
H. Manohar
DOI:10.18520/cs/v106/i9/1174-1174 ,  Vol 106, No 9 (2014), Pagination: 1174-1174
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Uttaranchal or Uttarakhand in Current Science: Let Research Find a Solution
Chandra P. Kuniyal
DOI:10.18520/cs/v106/i9/1175-1175 ,  Vol 106, No 9 (2014), Pagination: 1175-1175
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News

A Step towards Prevention of Onion Shortage
Jai Gopal
DOI:10.18520/cs/v106/i9/1176-1177 ,  Vol 106, No 9 (2014), Pagination: 1176-1177
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Research News

In Conversation

Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Megha Prakash
DOI:10.18520/cs/v106/i9/1180-1181 ,  Vol 106, No 9 (2014), Pagination: 1180-1181
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Commentary

The Real and Metaphorical Chemistry of the Nobel Prizes
Sumit Bhaduri
DOI:10.18520/cs/v106/i9/1182-1183 ,  Vol 106, No 9 (2014), Pagination: 1182-1183
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Scientific Correspondance

Acute Encephalitis Syndrome in Children in Muzaffarpur: Hypothesis of Toxic Origin
T. Jacob John, Mukul Das
DOI:10.18520/cs/v106/i9/1184-1185 ,  Vol 106, No 9 (2014), Pagination: 1184-1185
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A Wild Boar Hunting: Predation on a Bonnet Macaque by a Wild Boar in the Bandipur National Park, Southern India
Shreejata Gupta, Anindya Sinha
DOI:10.18520/cs/v106/i9/1186-1187 ,  Vol 106, No 9 (2014), Pagination: 1186-1187
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Ant Runners: an Analysis of Running Speed of Leptogenys processionalis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae)
P. N. Ravindra
DOI:10.18520/cs/v106/i9/1187-1189 ,  Vol 106, No 9 (2014), Pagination: 1187-1189
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General Article

Patenting Trends among the SAARC Nations: Comparing the Local and International Patenting Intensity
Tarakanta Jana, Siddhartha Dulakakhoria, Nupur Wadia, Deepak Bindal, Ankit Tripathi
DOI:10.18520/cs/v106/i9/1190-1195 ,  Vol 106, No 9 (2014), Pagination: 1190-1195
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Crowdsourcing to Create National Repositories of Microbial Genetic Resources: Fungi as a Model
T. S. Suryanarayanan, Venkat Gopalan
DOI:10.18520/cs/v106/i9/1196-1200 ,  Vol 106, No 9 (2014), Pagination: 1196-1200
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Forest Area Estimation and Reporting: Implications for Conservation, Management and REDD+
N. H. Ravindranath, I. K. Murthy, Joshi Priya, Sujata Upgupta, Swapan Mehra, Srivastava Nalin
DOI:10.18520/cs/v106/i9/1201-1206 ,  Vol 106, No 9 (2014), Pagination: 1201-1206
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Special Section: Computational Chemistry and Molecular Simulation

An ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Study of Water-Carbon Tetrachloride Liquid-Liquid Interface: Nature of Interfacial Structure, Hydrogen Bonds and Dynamics
Debashree Chakraborty, Bhabani S. Mallik, Amalendu Chandra
DOI:10.18520/cs/v106/i9/1207-1218 ,  Vol 106, No 9 (2014), Pagination: 1207-1218
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Structural Properties of Solid Energetic Materials: a Van Der Waals Density Functional Study
G. Vaitheeswaran, K. Ramesh Babu, N. Yedukondalu, S. Appalakondaiah
DOI:10.18520/cs/v106/i9/1219-1223 ,  Vol 106, No 9 (2014), Pagination: 1219-1223
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Feasibility of Carbon Nanomaterials as Gas Sensors: a Computational Study
Deivasigamani Umadevi, G. Narahari Sastry
DOI:10.18520/cs/v106/i9/1224-1234 ,  Vol 106, No 9 (2014), Pagination: 1224-1234
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Intermolecular Structure in Tri-n-Butyl Phosphate/n-Octane Mixtures: a Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study
Anirban Mondal, Sundaram Balasubramanian
DOI:10.18520/cs/v106/i9/1235-1242 ,  Vol 106, No 9 (2014), Pagination: 1235-1242
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CO Adsorption on FeN (N = 1-4) Transition Metal Clusters: a Density Functional Theory Study
Vivek Sinha, Pradip Kr. Ghorai
DOI:10.18520/cs/v106/i9/1243-1248 ,  Vol 106, No 9 (2014), Pagination: 1243-1248
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Unexpected Mechanism for Formal [2 + 2] Cycloadditions of Metallacyclocumulenes
Subhendu Roy, Eluvathingal D. Jemmis
DOI:10.18520/cs/v106/i9/1249-1254 ,  Vol 106, No 9 (2014), Pagination: 1249-1254
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Stabilization of the C20 Cage by Encapsulation of H+ and He2+ Ions
R. P. S. Abhijith Kumar, Sagarika Dev, Brijesh Kumar Mishra, N. Sathyamurthy
DOI:10.18520/cs/v106/i9/1255-1259 ,  Vol 106, No 9 (2014), Pagination: 1255-1259
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Research Articles

Planetary Waves - Major Forcing Agent in Generating Stratospheric and Mesospheric Quasi Biennial Oscillation
Veena Suresh Babu, Geetha Ramkumar
DOI:10.18520/cs/v106/i9/1260-1269 ,  Vol 106, No 9 (2014), Pagination: 1260-1269
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Emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds from Biomass Burning Sources and their Ozone Formation Potential over India
Kumud Pandey, L. K. Sahu
DOI:10.18520/cs/v106/i9/1270-1279 ,  Vol 106, No 9 (2014), Pagination: 1270-1279
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On-Site Visualization Monitoring for Long Span Bridge on Delhi Metro Project
Chitoshi Izumi, Shinichi Akutagawa, Ch. Ravi Sekhar, Rajan Kataria, Reiko Abe, Hirofumi Haga
DOI:10.18520/cs/v106/i9/1280-1290 ,  Vol 106, No 9 (2014), Pagination: 1280-1290
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Research Communications

Outgoing Longwave Radiations as Pre-Earthquake Signals: Preliminary Results of 24 September 2013 (M 7.7) Earthquake
N. Venkatanathan, V. Natyaganov
DOI:10.18520/cs/v106/i9/1291-1297 ,  Vol 106, No 9 (2014), Pagination: 1291-1297
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Impact of Assimilation of Megha-Tropiques ROSA Radio Occultation Refractivity by Observing System Simulation Experiment
C. J. Johny, V. S. Prasad
DOI:10.18520/cs/v106/i9/1297-1305 ,  Vol 106, No 9 (2014), Pagination: 1297-1305
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Precise Pb–Pb Baddeleyite Ages of 1765 Ma for a Singhbhum 'Newer Dolerite' Dyke Swarm
Ravi Shankar, B. Vijayagopal, Anil Kumar
DOI:10.18520/cs/v106/i9/1306-1310 ,  Vol 106, No 9 (2014), Pagination: 1306-1310
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Book Reviews

The Physics of Disordered Systems - Texts and Readings in Physical Sciences-II
Deepak Dhar
DOI:10.18520/cs/v106/i9/1311-1311 ,  Vol 106, No 9 (2014), Pagination: 1311-1311
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Randomness in Evolution
Raghavendra Gadagkar
DOI:10.18520/cs/v106/i9/1312-1313 ,  Vol 106, No 9 (2014), Pagination: 1312-1313
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Wildlife Conservation in a Changing Climate
Jayashree Ratnam
DOI:10.18520/cs/v106/i9/1313-1314 ,  Vol 106, No 9 (2014), Pagination: 1313-1314
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Living Legends in Indian Science

Marthanda Varma Sankaran Valiathan
Indira Nath
DOI:10.18520/cs/v106/i9/1315-1319 ,  Vol 106, No 9 (2014), Pagination: 1315-1319
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