Current Science
A Fortnightly Journal of Research
ISSN 0011-3891
Volume 107 - Issue 11: 10 Dec, 2014
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In this Issue
p. 1774

Guest Editorial
Who owns India?
p. 1775 | Gandhi, Gopalkrishna

Correspondence
Truthfulness: the ultimate ethics in scientific writing
p. 1777 | Agoramoorthy, Govindasamy

Plagiarism – why blame it on the internet?
p. 1777 | Kanchan, Tanu; Tandon, Abhishek; Krishan, Kewal

Effect of El Niño on southwest monsoon rainfall and agriculture in India
p. 1778 | Gautam, H. R.; Sharma, H. L; Kumar, Rohitashw; Bhardwaj, M. L.

Not just subjective, but also sloppy – a response to Bhadra
p. 1779 | Vanak, Abi Tamim; Ali, Rauf

Seasonal variation and climate change influence coral bleaching in Pirotan Island, Gulf of Kachchh Marine National Park, Gujarat
p. 1780 | Adhavan, D.; Marimuthu, N.; Bhalodi, M. M; Kamboj, R. D.

News
GaN and the 2014 Nobel Prize in physics
p. 1782 | Raghavan, Srinivasan

Field training in glaciology: a way to touch, feel and understand
p. 1785 | Shukla, Tanuj; Yadav, Jairam; Sundriyal, Shipika

Opinion
Reflections on science in service of a symbiotic society
p. 1787 | Mishra, Satyendra Nath

The biotechnology pyramid: basic science to application of science
p. 1789 | Raghukumar, Seshagiri

Technical Note
Dipteran chromosomes: a simple method for obtaining high quality chromosomal preparations
p. 1792 | Chirino, Mónica G.; Rossi, Luis F.; Bressa, María J.; Luaces, Juan P.; Merani, María S.

General Articles
Computational and visual analysis of the development stage of theories in the social sciences: a case in the entrepreneurship field
p. 1795 | Qian, Ge

Trends in innovation management research in India – an analysis of publications for the period 1991–2013
p. 1800 | Chatterjee, Debabrata; Sahasranamam, Sreevas

Distribution functions to describe the variation of the present per capita electricity consumption in India and future needs with respect to the population
p. 1806 | Sukhatme, S. P.

Review Articles
Membrane lipid peroxidation and its conflict of interest: the two faces of oxidative stress
p. 1811 | Bhattacharjee, Soumen

Research Articles
Detection of tumour in biological tissues by laser backscattering and transillumination signal analysis
p. 1824 | Jeeva, J. B.; Singh, Megha

Structure and functions of the rodent identifier retroposon located in the c-Ha-ras oncogene far upstream regulatory region
p. 1832 | Chakraborty, Asit Kumar

Entropy application to evaluate the stability of landscape in Kunur River Basin, West Bengal, India
p. 1842 | Bandyopadhyay, Sujay; Sinha, Subhajit; Jana, N. C.; Ghosh, Debasis

Research Communications
Academic impact of Chinese medical journals in the Web of Science, 2009–2012
p. 1854 | Shao, Ju-fang; Shen, Hui-yun

Amla (Phyllanthus emblica L.) enhances iron dialysability and uptake in in vitro models
p. 1859 | Venkatasubramanian, Padma; Koul, Indu Bala; Varghese, Reeja Kochuthekil; Koyyala, Srividya; Shivakumar, Arun

Evaluation of weather-based crop insurance products for kharif groundnut
p. 1866 | Kokilavani, S.; Geethalakshmi, V.; Bhuvaneswari, K.; Lakshmanan, A.

Zinc as an important factor determining resistance against Helicoverpa armigera herbivory in pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan L.)
p. 1871 | Kaur, Rimaljeet; Gupta, Anil Kumar; Taggar, Gaurav Kumar

Design of barrage on heterogeneous and anisotropic soils
p. 1875 | Garg, N. K.; Chawre, Bharti; Singh, Amandeep

Biogeophysical signatures of microbial natural gas accumulation
p. 1880 | Singh, Kushal P.

Accurate location and focal mechanism of small earthquakes near Idukki Reservoir, Kerala: implication for earthquake genesis
p. 1885 | Saikia, Utpal; Rai, S. S.; Subrahmanyam, M.; Dutta, Satyajit; Bose, Somasish; Borah, Kajaljyoti; Meena, Rishikesh

Living Legends in Indian Science
S. Ranganathan: an organic chemist and an artist by nature
p. 1892 | Satyamurthy, N.

Book Reviews
Atomic State: Big Science in Twentieth-Century India. Jahnavi Phalkey.
p. 1897 | Mukunda, N.

Glittering Facets of Physics. G. S. Ranganath
p. 1899 | Nityananda, Rajaram

Geology of Maharashtra. G. G. Deshpande and U. L. Pitale
p. 1900 | Doraiswami, Raymond A.

Proceedings of the Workshop on Magmatic Ore Deposits. P. Krishnamurthy, K. T. Vidyadharan and R. H. Sawkar (eds)
p. 1901 | Devarajan, M. K.

Personal News
S. Raghavan (1934–2014)
p. 1904 | Ramanan, S.

Historical Notes
The Bangalore–Birkbeck Phosphazene Project 1971–1981 – a retrospect on this and other international and interdisciplinary scientific research collaborations
p. 1905 | Shaw, Robert A.

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