Vol 119, No 2 (2020)

Table of Contents

Vol 119, No 2 (2020)

In this Issue

In this issue
K. P. Madhu
DOI:10.18520/cs/v119/i2/162-162 ,  Vol 119, No 2 (2020), Pagination: 162-162
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Editorial

Scholarships: Small Investments and Big Returns In Science
N. Sathyamurthy
DOI:10.18520/cs/v119/i2/163-164 ,  Vol 119, No 2 (2020), Pagination: 163-164
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Correspondence

Teaching and Research – Online
Dipankar Chatterji
DOI:10.18520/cs/v119/i2/165-166 ,  Vol 119, No 2 (2020), Pagination: 165-166
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Is the Genus Biswamoyopterus that Cryptic?
Murali Krishna, Hiranmoy Chetia, Firoz Ahmed
DOI:10.18520/cs/v119/i2/165-166 ,  Vol 119, No 2 (2020), Pagination: 165-166
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News

Current Science Reports
DOI:10.18520/cs/v119/i2/167-170 ,  Vol 119, No 2 (2020), Pagination: 167-170
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Opinion

Vaccine and Drug Trials in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons For India
Alok Bhattacharya, Sudha Bhattacharya, Viswa Mohan Katoch
DOI:10.18520/cs/v119/i2/171-172 ,  Vol 119, No 2 (2020), Pagination: 171-172
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Can Sulphated Polysaccharides from Seaweed Provide Prophylactic And/or Therapeutic Solution to COVID-19 Pandemic?
Ashish Kumar Jha, Suseela Mathew, C. N. Ravishankar
DOI:10.18520/cs/v119/i2/172-174 ,  Vol 119, No 2 (2020), Pagination: 172-174
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Scientific Correspondance

Estimation of Leaf Chlorophyll Content in Wheat Using Hyperspectral Vegetation Indices
Sanatan Pradhan, Kali Kinkar Bandyopadhyay, Vinay Kumar Sehgal, Rabi Narayan Sahoo, Pravukalyan Panigrahi, Gopal Krishna, Vinod Kumar Gupta, Devendra Kumar Joshi
DOI:10.18520/cs/v119/i2/174-175 ,  Vol 119, No 2 (2020), Pagination: 174-175
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REVIEW ARTICLE

Ultraviolet-b Radiation: A Potent Regulator Of Flavonoids Biosynthesis, Accumulation And Functions In Plants
Avantika Pandey, Shashi Bhushan Agrawal
DOI:10.18520/cs/v119/i2/176-185 ,  Vol 119, No 2 (2020), Pagination: 176-185
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Special Section: Paleoclimate Studies in India

Preface
Manish Tiwari, Arun Deo Singh
DOI:10.18520/cs/v119/i2/186-188 ,  Vol 119, No 2 (2020), Pagination: 186-188
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Tree-Ring-Width Chronologies from Moisture Stressed Sites Fail to Capture Volcanic Eruption Associated Extreme Low Temperature Events
Ram R. Yadav, Jayendra Singh
DOI:10.18520/cs/v119/i2/189-194 ,  Vol 119, No 2 (2020), Pagination: 189-194
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Late Pleistocene–Holocene Vegetation and Climate Change From the Western and Eastern Himalaya (India): Palynological Perspective
Ratan Kar, M. Firoze Quamar
DOI:10.18520/cs/v119/i2/195-218 ,  Vol 119, No 2 (2020), Pagination: 195-218
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Rapid Lake Level Fall in Pangong Tso (lake) in Ladakh, NW Himalaya: A Response of Late Holocene Aridity
Pradeep Srivastava, Anil Kumar, Randheer Singh, Oshin Deepak, Arjit M. Kumar, Yogesh Ray, R. Jayangondaperumal, Binita Phartiyal, Poonam Chahal, Pankaj Sharma, Rupa Ghosh, Naresh Kumar, Rajesh Agnihotri
DOI:10.18520/cs/v119/i2/219-231 ,  Vol 119, No 2 (2020), Pagination: 219-231
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Fluvial Archives of North and Northwestern India as Recorders of Climatic Signatures in the Late Quaternary: Review and Assessment
Rajiv Sinha, Ajit Singh, Sampat K. Tandon
DOI:10.18520/cs/v119/i2/232-243 ,  Vol 119, No 2 (2020), Pagination: 232-243
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Addressing Past Monsoon Variability from Speleothems
Shraddha Band, M. G. Yadava
DOI:10.18520/cs/v119/i2/244-254 ,  Vol 119, No 2 (2020), Pagination: 244-254
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Millennial to Quasi-Decadal Variability in Antarctic Climate System as Evidenced from High-resolution Ice Core Records
Meloth Thamban, Waliur Rahaman, C. M. Laluraj
DOI:10.18520/cs/v119/i2/255-264 ,  Vol 119, No 2 (2020), Pagination: 255-264
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Orbital Forcing Controlling Dry Time Carbonate Precipitation Temperature Over Landmass in the Northern Mid-Latitude during Last 50,000 Years Revealed from Carbonate Clumped Isotope Thermometry
Yogaraj Banerjee, S. Thamizharasan, Prosenjit Ghosh
DOI:10.18520/cs/v119/i2/265-272 ,  Vol 119, No 2 (2020), Pagination: 265-272
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Potential of Reef Building Corals to Study the Past Indian Monsoon Rainfall Variability
Supriyo Chakraborty
DOI:10.18520/cs/v119/i2/273-281 ,  Vol 119, No 2 (2020), Pagination: 273-281
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Evolution and Dynamics of the Denitrification in the Arabian Sea on Millennial to Million-Year Timescale
Shubham Tripathi, Padmasini Behera, Manish Tiwari
DOI:10.18520/cs/v119/i2/282-290 ,  Vol 119, No 2 (2020), Pagination: 282-290
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Tracking Indian Monsoon Variability from Changes in Sediment Provenance
Neeraj Awasthi, Jyotiranjan S. Ray
DOI:10.18520/cs/v119/i2/291-306 ,  Vol 119, No 2 (2020), Pagination: 291-306
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Use of Coccolith based Proxies for Palaeoceanographic Reconstructions
Pallavi P. Choudhari, Shramik M. Patil, Rahul Mohan
DOI:10.18520/cs/v119/i2/307-315 ,  Vol 119, No 2 (2020), Pagination: 307-315
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The Past Climate of the Indian Region as Seen from the Modelling World
Charan Teja Tejavath, Pankaj Upadhyay, Karumuri Ashok
DOI:10.18520/cs/v119/i2/316-327 ,  Vol 119, No 2 (2020), Pagination: 316-327
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Monsoon Reconstructions using Bulk and Individual Foraminiferal Analyses in Marine Sediments Offshore India
Kaustubh Thirumalai, Steven C. Clemens
DOI:10.18520/cs/v119/i2/328-334 ,  Vol 119, No 2 (2020), Pagination: 328-334
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Research Articles

Variability in Morphology and Composition of Silica Nanoparticles Derived from Different Paddy Cultivars
Manpreet Kaur, Anu Kalia
DOI:10.18520/cs/v119/i2/335-342 ,  Vol 119, No 2 (2020), Pagination: 335-342
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Studies of Extreme Gust Storm Events in Bengaluru, India
Jyotirmayee Satapathy, G. S. Bhat
DOI:10.18520/cs/v119/i2/343-351 ,  Vol 119, No 2 (2020), Pagination: 343-351
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Damage Assessment of Recent Indian Earthquakes: Review of Existing Rapid Visual Screening Schemes
Pranab Kumar Das, Sekhar Chandra Dutta, Piyali Sengupta
DOI:10.18520/cs/v119/i2/352-363 ,  Vol 119, No 2 (2020), Pagination: 352-363
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Classification of Urban Bus-Stop Catchments for Selecting Appropriate Sidewalk Facility on Access Roads
Subhojit Roy, Debasis Basu
DOI:10.18520/cs/v119/i2/364-373 ,  Vol 119, No 2 (2020), Pagination: 364-373
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Research Communications

Solvent Effects on Protonation Process of Clindamycin in Mixed Solvents
Fatemeh Farrokhmanesh, Farhoush Kiani, Ali Farajtabar, Fardad Koohyar, Seyed Hassan Noshirvankolaei
DOI:10.18520/cs/v119/i2/374-377 ,  Vol 119, No 2 (2020), Pagination: 374-377
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Soil Organic Carbon Prediction using Visible–Near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy Employing Artificial Neural Network Modelling
K. Justin George, Suresh Kumar, R. Arya Raj
DOI:10.18520/cs/v119/i2/377-381 ,  Vol 119, No 2 (2020), Pagination: 377-381
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Retrieval of Total Precipitable Water from Thermal Infrared Observations of Insat-3D Imager over the Ocean
Rishi Kumar Gangwar, P. K. Thapliyal
DOI:10.18520/cs/v119/i2/382-389 ,  Vol 119, No 2 (2020), Pagination: 382-389
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COVID-19 Lockdown a Window of Opportunity to Understand the Role of Human Activity on Forest Fire Incidences in the Western Himalaya, India
Amitesh Gupta, C. M. Bhatt, Arijit Roy, Prakash Chauhan
DOI:10.18520/cs/v119/i2/390-398 ,  Vol 119, No 2 (2020), Pagination: 390-398
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Foliar Micromorphometric Adaptations of Micropropagated Plants of Oldenlandia herbacea (l.) Roxb. – An Important Medicinal Herb
J. Revathi, M. Manokari, S. Priyadharshini, Mahipal S. Shekhawat
DOI:10.18520/cs/v119/i2/398-401 ,  Vol 119, No 2 (2020), Pagination: 398-401
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Book Reviews

Glimpses of Acharya P. C. Ray’s Work in Chemical Science
Kankan Bhattacharyya
DOI:10.18520/cs/v119/i2/402-403 ,  Vol 119, No 2 (2020), Pagination: 402-403
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Particle Physics and Cosmology
Probir Roy
DOI:10.18520/cs/v119/i2/403-404 ,  Vol 119, No 2 (2020), Pagination: 403-404
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Personal News

Sheela Kusumgar (1939–2020)
M. G. Yadava
DOI:10.18520/cs/v119/i2/405-405 ,  Vol 119, No 2 (2020), Pagination: 405-405
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