Vol 118, No 8 (2020)

Table of Contents

Vol 118, No 8 (2020)

In this Issue

In this Issue
K. P. Madhu
DOI:10.18520/cs/v118/i8/1146-1146 ,  Vol 118, No 8 (2020), Pagination: 1146-1146
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Editorial

Pandemics and Climate Change
J. Srinivasan
DOI:10.18520/cs/v118/i8/1147-1148 ,  Vol 118, No 8 (2020), Pagination: 1147-1148
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Correspondence

Novel Coronavirus Epidemic:New Dimension for Disaster Management and Health Resilience
Atisha Sood, Anjali Barwal, Anil K. Gupta, Jugal Kishore
DOI:10.18520/cs/v118/i8/1149-1150 ,  Vol 118, No 8 (2020), Pagination: 1149-1150
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Coronavirus:A Novel Threat and ICT-Based Mitigation
Partha Pratim Ray, Poulami Majumder
DOI:10.18520/cs/v118/i8/1150-1151 ,  Vol 118, No 8 (2020), Pagination: 1150-1151
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Litchi is Safe and Harmless in Normal Individuals
T. Jacob John, Mukul Das, Abhirup Sarkar
DOI:10.18520/cs/v118/i8/1152-1152 ,  Vol 118, No 8 (2020), Pagination: 1152-1152
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News

Science Last Fortnight
DOI:10.18520/cs/v118/i8/1153-1156 ,  Vol 118, No 8 (2020), Pagination: 1153-1156
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Opinion

Membrane Cholesterol and SARS-CoV-2 Infection:A Possible Connection
Hirak Chakraborty
DOI:10.18520/cs/v118/i8/1157-1157 ,  Vol 118, No 8 (2020), Pagination: 1157-1157
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Commentary

Ayurveda Rasayana in Prophylaxis of Covid-19
Bhushan Patwardhan, Preeti Chavan-Gautam, Manish Gautam, Girish Tillu, Arvind Chopra, Sunil Gairola, Suresh Jadhav
DOI:10.18520/cs/v118/i8/1158-1160 ,  Vol 118, No 8 (2020), Pagination: 1158-1160
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Scientific Correspondance

Structure and Genetic Variability of New Populations of Amentotaxus assamica in the Eastern Himalaya, India
N. Lyngdoh, S. Chakraborty, G. Ravikanth, A. A. Mao, A. K. Pandey
DOI:10.18520/cs/v118/i8/1161-1162 ,  Vol 118, No 8 (2020), Pagination: 1161-1162
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General Article

Micro-Irrigation Development in India: Challenges and Strategies
A. Suresh, Manoj P. Samuel
DOI:10.18520/cs/v118/i8/1163-1168 ,  Vol 118, No 8 (2020), Pagination: 1163-1168
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Field Dependence of Citation Data Validation of Premier Peer-Review Decisions in India
Gangan Prathap
DOI:10.18520/cs/v118/i8/1169-1172 ,  Vol 118, No 8 (2020), Pagination: 1169-1172
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SPECIAL SECTION: VIKRAM SARABHAI BIRTH CENTENARY

Foreword
K. Kasturirangan
DOI:10.18520/cs/v118/i8/1173-1176 ,  Vol 118, No 8 (2020), Pagination: 1173-1176
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Scientist, Businessman, Visionary Institution Builder
E. V. Chitnis
DOI:10.18520/cs/v118/i8/1177-1179 ,  Vol 118, No 8 (2020), Pagination: 1177-1179
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There is Nobody to be Ruled
Praful D. Bhavsar
DOI:10.18520/cs/v118/i8/1180-1181 ,  Vol 118, No 8 (2020), Pagination: 1180-1181
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Tribute to Vikram Sarabhai
C. N. R. Rao
DOI:10.18520/cs/v118/i8/1182 ,  Vol 118, No 8 (2020), Pagination: 1182
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Vikram Sarabhai–A Scientist’s Scientist
M. S. Swaminathan
DOI:10.18520/cs/v118/i8/1183 ,  Vol 118, No 8 (2020), Pagination: 1183
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Vikram Sarabhai–Visionary Motivator
Pramod Kale
DOI:10.18520/cs/v118/i8/1184-1187 ,  Vol 118, No 8 (2020), Pagination: 1184-1187
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My Reminisces of Interaction with Vikram Sarabhai
Govind Swarup
DOI:10.18520/cs/v118/i8/1188-1189 ,  Vol 118, No 8 (2020), Pagination: 1188-1189
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The Man with Big Ears, and Big Dreams that Took India to the Moon
Amrita Shah
DOI:10.18520/cs/v118/i8/1190 ,  Vol 118, No 8 (2020), Pagination: 1190
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Vikram Sarabhai:His Vision for the Development of Atomic Energy in India
R. B. Grover, M. R. Srinivasan
DOI:10.18520/cs/v118/i8/1191-1195 ,  Vol 118, No 8 (2020), Pagination: 1191-1195
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Sowing the Seeds of an Indian Fusion Programme– An Untold Legacy of Vikram Sarabhai
Abhijit Sen
DOI:10.18520/cs/v118/i8/1196-1198 ,  Vol 118, No 8 (2020), Pagination: 1196-1198
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Vikram Sarabhai:His Vision of India as a Space Power and its Fulfilment
R. Aravamudan
DOI:10.18520/cs/v118/i8/1199-1202 ,  Vol 118, No 8 (2020), Pagination: 1199-1202
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Vikram Sarabhai: Science in Developing Countries
Kartikeya V. Sarabhai, Padmanabh Joshi
DOI:10.18520/cs/v118/i8/1203-1206 ,  Vol 118, No 8 (2020), Pagination: 1203-1206
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Propagating and Practising ‘horizontal Control’: Vikram Sarabhai, Management and American Social Science
Joseph Francombe
DOI:10.18520/cs/v118/i8/1207-1212 ,  Vol 118, No 8 (2020), Pagination: 1207-1212
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Vikram a Sarabhai Community Science Centre
Dilip Surkar
DOI:10.18520/cs/v118/i8/1213-1214 ,  Vol 118, No 8 (2020), Pagination: 1213-1214
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Photo Gallery
DOI:10.18520/cs/v118/i8/1215-1218 ,  Vol 118, No 8 (2020), Pagination: 1215-1218
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Research Articles

Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Turfgrass Lawns as a Result of Fertilizer Application:A Meta-Analysis of Available Literature
Neesha Dutt, Tushar Tanwar
DOI:10.18520/cs/v118/i8/1219-1226 ,  Vol 118, No 8 (2020), Pagination: 1219-1226
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Parameter Uncertainty in HEC-RAS 1D CSU Scour Model
Praveen Rathod, V. L. Manekar
DOI:10.18520/cs/v118/i8/1227-1234 ,  Vol 118, No 8 (2020), Pagination: 1227-1234
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Impact of Climate Variability and Change on Crop Production in Maharashtra, India
Saurabh M. Kelkar, Ashwini Kulkarni, K. Koteswara Rao
DOI:10.18520/cs/v118/i8/1235-1245 ,  Vol 118, No 8 (2020), Pagination: 1235-1245
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Site-suitability Analysis for Turmeric in Jaintia Hills of Meghalaya, India, using Analytical Hierarchical Process and Weighted Overlay Analysis:A Comparative Approach
Ashu Negi, Tapan Adhikari, Chandan Goswami, B. K. Handique, P. L. N. Raju
DOI:10.18520/cs/v118/i8/1246-1254 ,  Vol 118, No 8 (2020), Pagination: 1246-1254
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Control of an Irrigation Branch Canal using Model Predictive Controller
Jailakshmi Menon, B. V. Mudgal, M. Guruprasath, S. Sivalingam
DOI:10.18520/cs/v118/i8/1255-1264 ,  Vol 118, No 8 (2020), Pagination: 1255-1264
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Performance Evaluation of Anaerobic Baffled Biodigester for Treatment of Black Water
Ligy Philip, K. Kalaivani, Praveen Rosario, Vamsi Krishna, S. SriShalini
DOI:10.18520/cs/v118/i8/1265-1274 ,  Vol 118, No 8 (2020), Pagination: 1265-1274
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Research Communications

Detection and Mapping of Seagrass Meadows at Ritchie’s Archipelago using Sentinel 2A Satellite Imagery
Sharad Bayyana, Satish Pawar, Swapnali Gole, Sohini Dudhat, Anant Pande, Debashis Mitra, Jeyaraj Antony Johnson, Kuppusamy Sivakumar
DOI:10.18520/cs/v118/i8/1275-1282 ,  Vol 118, No 8 (2020), Pagination: 1275-1282
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Development of Windspeed Retrieval Model using RISAT-1 SAR Cross-Polarized Observations
Jagdish Prajapati, Abhisek Chakraborty, Bipasha Paul Shukla, Raj Kumar
DOI:10.18520/cs/v118/i8/1282-1286 ,  Vol 118, No 8 (2020), Pagination: 1282-1286
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Correlation Between Earth Tides and the 2008 Ms8.0 Wenchuan Earthquake Sequence
Ruyu Yan, Chaodi Xie, Xinglin Lei, Han Zhang, Rui Jia, Jianping Liao
DOI:10.18520/cs/v118/i8/1286-1292 ,  Vol 118, No 8 (2020), Pagination: 1286-1292
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Geochemical Pathways of Fluoride and Boron in the Alluvialaquifer of the Dwarka River Basin, India
Raju Thapa, Srimanta Gupta, Harjeet Kaur
DOI:10.18520/cs/v118/i8/1292-1296 ,  Vol 118, No 8 (2020), Pagination: 1292-1296
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Financialization and its Impact on the Nature of Knowledge Production in Bioeconomy
P. Omkar Nadh
DOI:10.18520/cs/v118/i8/1296-1303 ,  Vol 118, No 8 (2020), Pagination: 1296-1303
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Finding Clues in Cities: Nest Site Selection by House Sparrows Across a Varied Habitat Matrixin Delhi, India
Shikha Choudhary, N. P. S. Chauhan, Rajiv Kalsi
DOI:10.18520/cs/v118/i8/1304-1309 ,  Vol 118, No 8 (2020), Pagination: 1304-1309
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Book Reviews

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2019
C. P. Rajendran
DOI:10.18520/cs/v118/i8/1310-1311 ,  Vol 118, No 8 (2020), Pagination: 1310-1311
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An Autobiography of the Moon
Ranganath Navalgund
DOI:10.18520/cs/v118/i8/1311-1312 ,  Vol 118, No 8 (2020), Pagination: 1311-1312
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Historical Notes

On the 200th Anniversary of the Madras Eye Infirmary, the First Ophthalmic Hospital in Asia
Ramya Raman, Anantanarayanan Raman
DOI:10.18520/cs/v118/i8/1313-1321 ,  Vol 118, No 8 (2020), Pagination: 1313-1321
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