In this issue
p. 0958

Feeling the ‘pulses’ for the second green revolution
p. 0959 | Ganeshaiah, K. N.

The need for developing scientific temper in India
p. 0961 | Virk, Hardev Singh

Synergetics for antibiotics?
p. 0961 | Balasubrahmanyam, S. N.

CSIR in SIR 2016
p. 0962 | Prathap, Gangan

Global grid of genetic gardens of biofortified crops
p. 0965 | Swaminathan, M. S.

Obsolete pesticide contamination: a new type of water and soil pollution
p. 0966 | Ali, Abubaker B.; Hong, Li; Elshaikh, Nazar A.; Haofang, Yan

Discovery and naming of four new elements in the periodic table
p. 0967 | Mathur, Deepak

Sustainable development of the Indian Himalayan Region
p. 0967 | Gosavi, Vaibhav; Mukherjee, Sandipan; Joshi, Ranjan; Verma, Ravindra K.; Kumar, Kireet; Dhyani, Pitamber P.

Metals and materials research
p. 0969 | Mukhopadhyay, N. K.

Science Last Fortnight
p. 0972

Ganoderma lucidum (Reishi): source of pharmacologically active compounds
p. 0976 | Amdekar, Sarika

The importance of a preprint repository
p. 0979 | Chaddah, Praveen

Dry matter partitioning and growth analysis of soybean grown under elevated CO2 and soil moisture levels
p. 0981 | Madhu, M.; Hatfield, Jerry L.

Aconite from Sikkim Himalaya, India
p. 0984 | Agnihotri, Priyanka; Husain, Danish; Husain, Tariq

Caragana versicolor Benth. (Fabaceae), a keystone species of high conservation concern in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region
p. 0985 | Kumar, Amit; Adhikari, Bhupendra S.; Rawat, G. S.

The young generation of employees and their attitude towards work – a comparison of three countries
p. 0988 | Abrudan, Maria-Madela; Matei, Mirabela; Roman, Teodora
doi: 10.18520/cs/v111/i6/988-993

Trees for life: creating sustainable livelihood in Bundelkhand region of central India
p. 0994 | Chavan, S. B.; Uthappa, A. R.; Sridhar, K. B.; Keerthika, A.; Handa, A. K.; Newaj, Ram; Kumar, Naresh; Kumar, Dhiraj; Chaturvedi, O. P.
doi: 10.18520/cs/v111/i6/994-1002

Surface modification of titanium and its alloys for the enhancement of osseointegration in orthopaedics
p. 1003 | John, Agnes Aruna; Jaganathan, Saravana Kumar; Supriyanto, Eko; Manikandan, A.
doi: 10.18520/cs/v111/i6/1003-1015

Pedestrian crossing warrants – a review of global practices
p. 1016 | Jain, Udit; Rastogi, Rajat
doi: 10.18520/cs/v111/i6/1016-1027

Numerical solution for one-dimensional Richards’ equation using differential quadrature method
p. 1028 | Nikzad, Jamshid; Eslamian, Seyed Saeid; Soleymannejad, Mostafa; Karimpour, Amir
doi: 10.18520/cs/v111/i6/1028-1036

Development of satellite high-definition television in Europe
p. 1037 | Jaksic, Branimir; Petrovic, Mile; Jaksic, Krsto; Milosevic, Ivana; Marinkovic, Ivana
doi: 10.18520/cs/v111/i6/1037-1044

Guidance, navigation and control of a powered parafoil aerial vehicle
p. 1045 | Devalla, Vindhya; Mondal, Amit Kumar; Prakash, A. J. Arun Jeya; Prateek, Manish; Prakash, Om
doi: 10.18520/cs/v111/i6/1045-1054

Development of higher-order model for nonlinear interactions in hyperspectral data of mangrove forests
p. 1055 | Chakravortty, Somdatta; Sinha, Devadatta
doi: 10.18520/cs/v111/i6/1055-1062

Intra-puparial development of flesh fly Sarcophaga dux (Thomson) (Diptera, Sarcophagidae)
p. 1063 | Sinha, Shuvra Kanti; Mahato, Santanu
doi: 10.18520/cs/v111/i6/1063-1070

The inhibitory mechanism of compound K on A549 lung cancer cells through EGF pathway: an in silico and in vitro approach
p. 1071 | Aceituno, Verónica Castro; Siddiqi, Muhammad Hanif; Ahn, Sungeun; Sathishkumar, Natarajan; Noh, Hae Yong; Simu, Shakina Yesmin; Pérez, Zuly E. Jiménez; Yang, Deok Chun
doi: 10.18520/cs/v111/i6/1071-1077

Microbial water desalination and bio-electricity generation – role of biomass carbon
p. 1077 | Sophia, A. Carmalin; Bhalambaal, V. M.
doi: 10.18520/cs/v111/i6/1077-1083

A time-series forecasting-based prediction model to estimate groundwater levels in India
p. 1083 | Sena, Debasish; Nagwani, Naresh Kumar
doi: 10.18520/cs/v111/i6/1083-1090

Cyclone Phyan-induced plankton community succession in the coastal waters off Goa, India
p. 1091 | Mangesh, Gauns; Siby, Kurian; Damodar, Shenoy M.; Hema, Naik; Naqvi, S. W. A.
doi: 10.18520/cs/v111/i6/1091-1097

Conservation of Cremnoconchus Blanford 1869, an iconic freshwater gastropod genus from the Western Ghats, India
p. 1097 | Aravind, N. A.; Sarma, Roshmi Rekha; Madhyastha, N. A.
doi: 10.18520/cs/v111/i6/1097-1103

Game Theory and Mechanism Design, Y. Narahari
p. 1104 | Sundaresan, Rajesh

The Proof and the Pudding: What Mathematicians, Cooks, and You Have in Common, Jim Henle
p. 1105 | Sharma, Sudhirendar

The Grecian Doric-column lighthouse of Madras (1840) and its builder John Thomas Smith, Madras Army Corps of Engineers
p. 1106 | Raman, Anantanarayanan

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
p. 1112

Science Academies’ Refresher Course on Immunology Laboratory Techniques using Fish Model
p. 1113

S.N. Bose Scholars Program
p. 1114

Job Vacancies at Biotechnology and Bioresources Division - The Energy and Resources Institute
p. 1115

Various Vacancies - Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics
p. 1116

Call for Nominations INSA Medal for Young Scientists – 2017 - Indian National Science Academy
p. 1117

Research Associate, Senior Research Fellow and Junior Research Fellow - Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
p. 1117

Training Programme on Insects and Mite Taxonomy - University of Agricultural Sciences
p. 1118

Scientist ‘C’ and Scientist ‘B’ - Centre for Research in Medical Entomology
p. 1118

Junior Research Fellow - Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
p. 1119

Junior Research Fellow - Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
p. 1119

Junior Research Fellow - Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
p. 1119

Senior Research Fellow - Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
p. 1119

2nd Certificate Course on Taxonomy, Biodiversity, Ex Situ Conservation and Applications of Fungi - Agharkar Research Institute
p. 1120

Junior Research Fellow - Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University
p. 1120

Junior Research Fellow - Manipal University
p. 1120

Junior Research Fellow - K K Birla Goa Campus
p. 1121

Research Fellow - Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University
p. 1121

G. N. Ramachandran Award - SASTRA University
p. 1122

Obaid Siddiqi Award - SASTRA University
p. 1123