Vol 110, No 4 (2016)

Table of Contents

Vol 110, No 4 (2016)

In this Issue

In This Issue
K. P. Madhu
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/474-474 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 474-474
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Guest Editorial

Bridging the Gap between Intentions and Contributions Requires Determined Effort
Shoibal Chakravarty, Dilip R. Ahuja
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/475-476 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 475-476
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Correspondence

M.C. Mehta Vs Union of India: How is Compulsory Environmental Education Doing in India?
Anwesha Borthakur, Pardeep Singh
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/477-479 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 477-479
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Make in India
B. A. Dasannacharya
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/477-479 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 477-479
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Response
E. Arunan
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/479-480 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 479-480
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Is the Scyphozoan Jellyfish Lychnorhiza malayensis Symbiotically Associated with the Crucifix Crab Charybdis feriatus?
R. Jeyabaskaran, Gishnu Mohan, K. S. Abhilash, D. Prema, V. Kripa
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/479-480 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 479-480
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How Reliable are the Data on the Recent Coral Bleaching Event in Malvan Reef, India?
Manickam Nithyanandan
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/480-480 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 480-480
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Response
Baban Ingole
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/481-481 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 481-481
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News

Bridging Innovations in Academic Institutions to Society
T. Pradeep
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/482-486 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 482-486
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Traditional Ethnomedicinal Knowledge of Indian Tribes
Naveen K. Sharma, Prashant K. Singh, Vijay Pramanik, Biswjit Maji, Virendra K. Mishra
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/486-487 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 486-487
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Krishi Vigyan Kendras: Engines for Skill-Intensive Agriculture
Rajbir Singh, Ashish Santosh Murai
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/488-489 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 488-489
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In Conversation

Mahan Mj
B. Sandhya Rani
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/490-491 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 490-491
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Amit Sharma
Rajashree Ramaswamy
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/492-494 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 492-494
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Research News

Does the Recent IUPAC Definition on Hydrogen Bonding Lead to New Intermolecular Interactions?
Rajendra Parajuli
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/495-498 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 495-498
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Commentary

Redesigning Environmental Courses for Effective Environmental Protection
Chong Shimray
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/499-501 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 499-501
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Scientific Correspondance

Toxic Effects of Iron on Green and Brown Hydra
Goran Kovacevic, Gordana Gregorovic, Ana Matijevic, Mirjana Kalafatic
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/502-504 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 502-504
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Aquilaria malaccensis Fruit Borer in Peninsular Malaysia
S. P. Ong, K. H. Lau
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/504-505 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 504-505
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Sea Buckthorn Leaves - A better Substitute for Green Tea
Deepak Gupta, Veenu Kaul
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/506-507 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 506-507
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General Article

Quantification and Monitoring of Forest Cover Changes in Agasthyamalai Biosphere Reserve, Western Ghats, India (1920-2012)
Kalloli Dutta, C. Sudhakar Reddy, Subrat Sharma, C. S. Jha
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/508-520 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 508-520
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Biodiversity Hotspot of Bhutan and its Sustainability
Aparna Banerjee, Rajib Bandopadhyay
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/521-528 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 521-528
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Special Section:Advances in Biotechnology

Preface
K. VijayRaghavan
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/528-528 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 528-528
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Biology across Scales:Historical Perspective on Some Indian Contributions
Shekhar C. Mande
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/529-532 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 529-532
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Human Resource Development in Biotechnology
K. Dharmalingam
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/533-534 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 533-534
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The Legacy of G. N. Ramachandran and the Development of Structural Biology in India
M. Vijayan
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/535-542 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 535-542
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DBT Propelled National Effort in Creating Mutant Resource for Functional Genomics in Rice
S. V. Amitha Mithra, M. K. Kar, T. Mohapatra, S. Robin, N. Sarla, M. Seshashayee, K. Singh, A. K. Singh, N. K. Singh, R. P. Sharma
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/543-548 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 543-548
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New Pathogen Discovery
Balachandran Ravindran
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/549-551 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 549-551
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Biofuels for India:What, When and How
Arvind Lali
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/552-555 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 552-555
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The Largest Distributed Network of Bioinformatics Centres in the World:Biotechnology Information System Network (DBT-BTISNET)
S. Krishnaswamy, T. Madhan Mohan
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/556-561 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 556-561
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Role of DBT in Promoting Biotechnology-Based Development in North East India
Pawan Sharma, T. Madhan Mohan
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/562-572 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 562-572
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Biotechnology Communication Needs a Rethink
Archita Bhatta, Kinkini Dasgupta Misra
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/573-578 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 573-578
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Review Article

Chemopreventive Prospective of Dietary Spices against Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Tasleem Akhtar, Nadeem Sheikh
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/579-583 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 579-583
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Research Account

How Long Does it Take for Tropical Marine Fish Stocks to Recover after Declines?Case Studies from the Southwest Coast of India
K. S. Mohamed, S. Veena
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/584-594 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 584-594
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Research Articles

Clinical Effectiveness of Preoperative Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Patients with Borderline Resectable Pancreatic Cancer:An Updated Meta-Analysis`
Yao Liu, Shan-Miao Gou, Yong Tang, Chi-Dan Wan
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/595-602 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 595-602
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Soft Fuzzy Model for Mining Amino Acid Associations in Peptide Sequences of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex
Amita Jain, Kamal Raj Pardasani
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/603-618 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 603-618
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Influence of Urban Spatial Morphology on Air Temperature Variance
Guixin Zhang, Zhenchun Hao, Shanyou Zhu
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/619-626 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 619-626
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Comparing the Spatio-Temporal Variability of Remotely Sensed Oceanographic Parameters between the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal throughout a Decade
Sourav Das, Abhra Chanda, Suparna Dey, Sanjibani Banerjee, Anirban Mukhopadhyay, Anirban Akhand, Amit Ghosh, Subhajit Ghosh, Sugata Hazra, D. Mitra, Aneesh A. Lotliker, K. H. Rao, S. B. Choudhury, V. K. Dadhwal
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/627-639 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 627-639
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Normal Faults near the Top of Footwall of Ramgarh Thrust along Kosi River Valley, Kumaun Lesser Himalaya
S. S. Bhakuni, Khayingshing Luirei
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/640-648 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 640-648
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Petrogenesis of an Early Cretaceous Potassic Lamprophyre Dyke from Rongjeng, East Garo Hills, Shillong Plateau, North-Eastern India
Rajesh K. Srivastava, Leone Melluso, Anup K. Sinha
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/649-658 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 649-658
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Molecular Phylogeny of Rediscovered Travancore Flying Squirrel (Petinomys fuscocapillus) and its Conservation Implications
Ashutosh Singh, Archana Bahuguna
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/659-666 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 659-666
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Identification of the Major Language Families of India and Evaluation of their Mutual Influence
Debapriya Sengupta, Goutam Saha
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/667-681 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 667-681
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Research Communications

Diurnal Variations in Rainfall over Indian Region Using Self Recording Raingauge Data
Kamaljit Ray, A. H. Warsi, S. C. Bhan, A. K. Jaswal
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/682-686 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 682-686
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Classification of CT Liver Images Using Local Binary Pattern with Legendre Moments
B. Vijayalakshmi, V. Subbiah Bharathi
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/687-691 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 687-691
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Development of Agro-Technology to Increase Yields of a Shy-Bearer Desi Cotton Species, Gossypium arboreum Race Cernuum in a Non-Traditional Area of Cultivation
M. V. Venugopalan, K. R. Kranthi, Shubhangi Lakade, N. R. Tandulkar
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/692-695 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 692-695
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Modelling Fluid Flow through Fractured Reservoirs: is it Different from Conventional Classical Porous Medium?
G. Suresh Kumar
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/695-701 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 695-701
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Delineation of Groundwater Saturation Indicators and their Distributions in the Complex Argillaceous Geological Units of Ezza North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, Nigeria
Daniel N. Obiora, Johnson C. Ibuot, Nyakno J. George, Solomon U. Offiah
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/701-708 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 701-708
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Haematological and Immunological Response of Achyranthes aspera Leaf and Root Extracts in Arsenic-Intoxicated Female Mice (Mus musculus)
Veena Sharma, Rashmi Singh
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/708-713 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 708-713
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Collembolans and Mites Communities as a Tool for Assessing Soil Quality: Effect of Eucalyptus Plantations on Soil Mesofauna Biodiversity
Gleidson Gimenes Rieff, Tiago Natal-da-Luz, Jose Paulo Sousa, Marcelo Osorio Wallau, Leandro Hahn, Enilson Luiz Saccol de Sa
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/713-719 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 713-719
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Book Reviews

An Introduction to Astronomy and Astrophysics
B. S. Shylaja
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/720-721 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 720-721
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Annual Review of Nutrition, 2014
Indu Mani, Anura V. Kurpad
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/721-722 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 721-722
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Plant Biochemistry: Techniques and Procedures
R. Srinivasan
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/722-723 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 722-723
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Mammals of South Asia, Volume II
H. S. Sushma, Mewa Singh
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/723-724 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 723-724
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Publications Received

Publications Received - 2015
DOI:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/725-727 ,  Vol 110, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 725-727
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