Vol 107, No 8 (2014)

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Vol 107, No 8 (2014)

In this Issue

In This Issue
K. P. Madhu
DOI:10.18520/cs/v107/i8/1218-1218 ,  Vol 107, No 8 (2014), Pagination: 1218-1218
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Guest Editorial

Is Particulate Air Pollution a Price We Must Pay for Progress?
J. Srinivasan
DOI:10.18520/cs/v107/i8/1219-1220 ,  Vol 107, No 8 (2014), Pagination: 1219-1220
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Correspondence

End-to-End performance Analysis of CSIR
Gangan Prathap
DOI:10.18520/cs/v107/i8/1221-1222 ,  Vol 107, No 8 (2014), Pagination: 1221-1222
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Human-Animal Conflicts
P. C. Kesavan
DOI:10.18520/cs/v107/i8/1222-1223 ,  Vol 107, No 8 (2014), Pagination: 1222-1223
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Food Production to Feed the Growing Population Needs both Water and Energy
C. R. Bhatia
DOI:10.18520/cs/v107/i8/1223-1224 ,  Vol 107, No 8 (2014), Pagination: 1223-1224
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Culture, Science and Music in the Theatre of Education
R. Ramnarayanan
DOI:10.18520/cs/v107/i8/1224-1224 ,  Vol 107, No 8 (2014), Pagination: 1224-1224
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News

Forests of the Western Himalaya
Rajesh Thadani, Vishal Singh, Ghazala Shahabuddin
DOI:10.18520/cs/v107/i8/1225-1226 ,  Vol 107, No 8 (2014), Pagination: 1225-1226
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Insects Related to Veterinary and Fisheries Sciences
Abraham Verghese, Kesavan Subaharan, Ankita Gupta
DOI:10.18520/cs/v107/i8/1226-1228 ,  Vol 107, No 8 (2014), Pagination: 1226-1228
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Opinion

Choice-Based Credit System: Boon or Bane?
Alka S. Kelkar, Lakshmy Ravishankar
DOI:10.18520/cs/v107/i8/1229-1230 ,  Vol 107, No 8 (2014), Pagination: 1229-1230
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A Need of Farmer-Centric Marking System for Plant Varieties in Seed Market of India
P. K. Singh, Sanjeev Kumar, J. Singh
DOI:10.18520/cs/v107/i8/1231-1232 ,  Vol 107, No 8 (2014), Pagination: 1231-1232
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Commentary

Impact of Impact Factor in Quantifying the Quality of Scientific Research
Mehanathan Muthamilarasan, Manoj Prasad
DOI:10.18520/cs/v107/i8/1233-1234 ,  Vol 107, No 8 (2014), Pagination: 1233-1234
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Is an Economic 'Input-Output' Model Applicable to Indian Science?
P. J. Lavakare
DOI:10.18520/cs/v107/i8/1235-1236 ,  Vol 107, No 8 (2014), Pagination: 1235-1236
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Scientific Correspondance

Earliest record of slime moulds (Myxomycetes) from the Deccan Intertrappean beds (Maastrichtian), Padwar, India
Ratan Kar, R. S. Singh
DOI:10.18520/cs/v107/i8/1237-1239 ,  Vol 107, No 8 (2014), Pagination: 1237-1239
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General Article

Preservation and Protection of Traditional Knowledge - Diverse Documentation Initiatives across the Globe
R. Lakshmi Poorna, M. Mymoon, A. Hariharan
DOI:10.18520/cs/v107/i8/1240-1246 ,  Vol 107, No 8 (2014), Pagination: 1240-1246
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Sun Power
Saji Salkalachen
DOI:10.18520/cs/v107/i8/1247-1252 ,  Vol 107, No 8 (2014), Pagination: 1247-1252
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Benchmarking Diaspora Performance as an Input for Policy Makers: A Comparative Statistical Analysis
Dusan Milosevic, Jovan Filipovic, Mladen Djuric, Marina Dobrota
DOI:10.18520/cs/v107/i8/1253-1259 ,  Vol 107, No 8 (2014), Pagination: 1253-1259
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Research Articles

On Non-Monotonic Variation of Hydrodynamically Focused Width in a Rectangular Microchannel
Siddhartha Tripathi, Pritish Chakravarty, Amit Agrawal
DOI:10.18520/cs/v107/i8/1260-1274 ,  Vol 107, No 8 (2014), Pagination: 1260-1274
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Rainfall Estimation from Kalpana-1 Satellite Data over Indian Land and Oceanic Regions
R. M. Gairola, Satya Prakash, M. T. Bushair, P. K. Pal
DOI:10.18520/cs/v107/i8/1275-1282 ,  Vol 107, No 8 (2014), Pagination: 1275-1282
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Classification of Cereal Proteins Related to Abiotic Stress Based on their Physicochemical Properties Using Support Vector Machine
Manju Mary Paul, Anil Rai, Sanjeev Kumar
DOI:10.18520/cs/v107/i8/1283-1289 ,  Vol 107, No 8 (2014), Pagination: 1283-1289
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Research Communications

Carbon Sequestration in Agroforestry and Pasture Systems in Arid Northwestern India
Shamsudheen Mangalassery, Devi Dayal, S. L. Meena, Bhagirath Ram
DOI:10.18520/cs/v107/i8/1290-1293 ,  Vol 107, No 8 (2014), Pagination: 1290-1293
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Graviperceptional Changes in the Roots of Cadmium-Treated Soybean Seedlings
Kamal Jit Singh, Anil Kumar Thakur
DOI:10.18520/cs/v107/i8/1294-1298 ,  Vol 107, No 8 (2014), Pagination: 1294-1298
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Geochemical Characterization of Neoproterozoic Heavy Oil from Rajasthan, India: Implications for Future Exploration of Hydrocarbons
S. V. Raju, N. Mathur, M. K. Sarmah
DOI:10.18520/cs/v107/i8/1298-1305 ,  Vol 107, No 8 (2014), Pagination: 1298-1305
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Impact of Rainfall Variability on Groundwater Resources and Opportunities of Artificial Recharge Structure to Reduce its Exploitation in Fresh Groundwater Zones of Haryana
Bhaskar Narjary, Satyendra Kumar, S. K. Kamra, D. S. Bundela, D. K. Sharma
DOI:10.18520/cs/v107/i8/1305-1312 ,  Vol 107, No 8 (2014), Pagination: 1305-1312
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Raindrop Size Distributions of Southwest and Northeast Monsoon Heavy Precipitation Observed over Kadapa (14°4'N, 78°82'E), a Semi-Arid Region of India
J. Jayalakshmi, K. Krishna Reddy
DOI:10.18520/cs/v107/i8/1312-1320 ,  Vol 107, No 8 (2014), Pagination: 1312-1320
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Magmatic Epidote in the Neoarchaean Granitoids of Srinivaspura Area of Eastern Dharwar Craton and its Significance on Emplacement Mechanism of Granitoids
R. P. Nagar, M. M. Korakoppa
DOI:10.18520/cs/v107/i8/1321-1324 ,  Vol 107, No 8 (2014), Pagination: 1321-1324
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Observation on Foreshore Morphodynamics of Microtidal Sandy Beaches
G. Udhaba Dora, V. Sanil kumar, C. Sajiv Philip, Glejin Johnson
DOI:10.18520/cs/v107/i8/1324-1330 ,  Vol 107, No 8 (2014), Pagination: 1324-1330
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Book Reviews

Chaos, CNN, Memristors and Beyond – A Festschrift for Leon Chua
T. D. Dongale
DOI:10.18520/cs/v107/i8/1331-1332 ,  Vol 107, No 8 (2014), Pagination: 1331-1332
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Environmental Chemistry
Umesh S. Mote
DOI:10.18520/cs/v107/i8/1331-1332 ,  Vol 107, No 8 (2014), Pagination: 1331-1332
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Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics, 2013
Moulinath Acharya, Sreedhar Chinnaswamy, Kartiki V. Desai
DOI:10.18520/cs/v107/i8/1332-1334 ,  Vol 107, No 8 (2014), Pagination: 1332-1334
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Annual Review of Immunology, 2012
D. Nandi
DOI:10.18520/cs/v107/i8/1334-1336 ,  Vol 107, No 8 (2014), Pagination: 1334-1336
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Personal News

Joseph Devassy Padayatty (1928–2014)
George Thomas
DOI:10.18520/cs/v107/i8/1337-1338 ,  Vol 107, No 8 (2014), Pagination: 1337-1338
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Historical Notes

The Mathematician in Asutosh Mukhopadhyay
Chinmoy Kumar Ghosh
DOI:10.18520/cs/v107/i8/1339-1340 ,  Vol 107, No 8 (2014), Pagination: 1339-1340
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