Call for the Applications for the 2019-2020 B4 Fellowship - IBAB
p. 0590

In this issue
p. 0594

Woes of geoscience education in India
p. 0595 | Saha, Dilip

Top ten universities from CWTS Leiden Ranking 2018
p. 0597 | Prathap, Gangan

Agrobio-cultural diversity of alder based shifting cultivation practiced by Angami tribes in Khonoma village, Kohima, Nagaland
p. 0598 | Giri, Krishna; Mishra, Gaurav; Jayaraj, R. S. C.; Kumar, Rajesh

Science Last Fortnight
p. 0600

Indian Academy of Sciences, Bengaluru – 29th Mid-Year Meeting
p. 0604 | Sugumaran, Geetha; Priya, S.

Techno-foresight in R&D
p. 0606 | Mandal, K.; Kshitij, A.; Goswami, P.

Biodiversity and climate change
p. 0608 | Behera, M. D.; Pasha, S. V.; Tripathi, P.; Pandey, P. C.

Science and technology awareness programme in Uttarakhand
p. 0610 | Tewari, Ira; Bargali, Kiran; Bargali, S. S.; Upadhyay, Rajeev

Food for thought: putting wild edibles back on the table for combating hidden hunger in developing countries
p. 0611 | Singh, Ajeet; Dubey, Pradeep Kumar; Abhilash, P. C.

Insect–bryophyte interactions: a little explored territory in the domain of insect–plant interactions
p. 0614 | Raman, Anantanarayanan

Veterinarians as scientific contributors in mainstream biomedical research
p. 0616 | Sehrawat, Sharvan; Kaul, Rajeev

5α/5β Stereochemistry of spirostanol and furostanol saponins
p. 0618 | Sidana, Jasmeen; Singh, Bikram; Sharma, Om P.

Occurrence of the new invasive pest, fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), in the maize fields of Karnataka, India
p. 0621 | Ganiger, P. C.; Yeshwanth, H. M.; Muralimohan, K.; Vinay, N.; Kumar, A. R. V.; Chandrashekara, K.

Ultra structure of the compound eyes of the ants – Odontomachus haematodus and Diacamma rugosum
p. 0624 | Babu, Martin J.; Nair, Reshma

Spectacular Basalt columns of Panhala-Masai range, Maharashtra: a potential geoheritage site in the Deccan Traps
p. 0626 | Shirke, K. D.; Patil, J. D.; Bandivedkar, K.; Pawar, N. J.; Kale, Vishwas S.

Foetal movement detection and characterization based on force sensing
p. 0629 | Al-Ashwal, Rania Hussien; Sazali, Amirul Ridhwan bin

Bringing a women’s perspective to family planning
p. 0633 | Sangar, Sunita
doi: 10.18520/cs/v115/i4/633-637

Geological and geotechnical approach for excavation of large unlined rock cavern
p. 0638 | Singh, D.; Mandal, A.; Usmani, A.; Nanda, A.
doi: 10.18520/cs/v115/i4/638-643

Site-specific land resource inventory for scientific planning of Sujala watersheds in Karnataka
p. 0644 | Hegde, Rajendra; Niranjana, K. V.; Srinivas, S.; Danorkar, B. A.; Singh, S. K.
doi: 10.18520/cs/v115/i4/644-652

Research productivity and international collaboration of top Indonesian universities
p. 0653 | Darmadji, Ahmad; Prasojo, Lantip Diat; Kusumaningrum, Fitri Ayu; Andriansyah, Yuli
doi: 10.18520/cs/v115/i4/653-658

Quantum dots for solar energy harvesting
p. 0659 | Das, Karen; Baruah, Sunandan
doi: 10.18520/cs/v115/i4/659-668

ESAT-6 Independent survival and virulence: need for paradigm shift?
p. 0669 | Gour, Raj Kumar; Nag, Shikha; Musti, Krishnasastry
doi: 10.18520/cs/v115/i4/669-676

Modelling finite and infinite behaviour of cancer stages using Büchi and finite automata
p. 0677 | Singh, Natasha; Kumar, Ajay
doi: 10.18520/cs/v115/i4/677-681

Low-high temperature flue gas direct injection in south African bituminous and anthracite coals: sorption capacity assessment
p. 0682 | Mabuza, Major; Premlall, Kasturie; Onyango, Maurice; Daramola, Michael O.
doi: 10.18520/cs/v115/i4/682-691

Fluorosis is linked to anaemia
p. 0692 | Susheela, Andezhath K.; Mondal, Nisith Kumar; Gupta, Rashmi; Sethi, Mohini; Pandey, Ravindra Mohan
doi: 10.18520/cs/v115/i4/692-700

Genomic variation mapping and detection of novel genes based on genome-wide survey of an elite upland cotton hybrid (Gossypium hirsutum L.)
p. 0701 | Wang, Zhenyu; Li, Wei; Xiao, Guanghui; Zhou, Xiaojian; Pei, Xiaoyu; Liu, Yangai; Zhou, Kehai; He, Kunlun; Liu, Junfang; Li, Ying; Zhang, Wensheng; Ren, Zhongying; Meng, Qingqin; Wang, Haifeng; Ma, Xiongfeng; Yang, Daigang
doi: 10.18520/cs/v115/i4/701-709

Estimation of elastic parameters, mineralogy and pore characteristics of Gondwana shale in Eastern India for evaluation of shale gas potential
p. 0710 | Sarkar, Piyush; Singh, Kumar Hemant; Ghosh, Ranjana; Singh, Trilok Nath
doi: 10.18520/cs/v115/i4/710-720

Assessing water footprints and virtual water flows in Gomti river basin of India
p. 0721 | Mali, Santosh S.; Singh, D. K.; Sarangi, A.; Parihar, S. S.
doi: 10.18520/cs/v115/i4/721-728

Large-scale shoreline undulations and role of self-organization processes
p. 0729 | Zhong, Xiaojing; Dong, Ping; Chen, Shenliang
doi: 10.18520/cs/v115/i4/729-738

Workforce challenges in Indian banking scenario – Journey from identification till mitigation
p. 0739 | Roy, Neha Chhabra; Vishwanathan, T.
doi: 10.18520/cs/v115/i4/739-747

Optic disc and cup segmentation in fundus retinal images using feature detection and morphological techniques
p. 0748 | Priyadharsini, R.; Beulah, A.; Sharmila, T. Sree
doi: 10.18520/cs/v115/i4/748-752

A comparative study on biodegradation of chlorpyrifos by wild E. coli and Pseudomonas fluorescens bacterial isolates inhabiting different ecosystems of Kashmir valley
p. 0753 | ., Bushra; Showkat, Sageera; Ubaid-Ullah, Shah; Laila, Omi; Majid, Sumyra; Dar, Neyiaz A.; Ahmad, Mukhtar; Sharma, Girish; Murtaza, Imtiyaz
doi: 10.18520/cs/v115/i4/753-758

An improved microscopic method for the rapid diagnosis of emerging microsporidian parasite, Enterocytozoon hepatopenaei in shrimp farms
p. 0758 | Praveena, P. Ezhil; Bhuvaneswari, T.; Krishnan, A. Navaneeth; Jagadeesan, V.; Rajan, J. Joseph Sahaya; Jithendran, K. P.
doi: 10.18520/cs/v115/i4/758-763

Haematobiochemical parametrs of fishes of preferential nutritional habits
p. 0763 | Acharya, Gayatri; Mohanty, Prafulla K.; Puspamitra, Sujata; Das, Aryadhara; Nayak, Sarbeswar
doi: 10.18520/cs/v115/i4/763-766

Crop productivity and suitability analysis for land-use planning in Himalayan ecosystem of Uttarakhand, India
p. 0767 | Sati, Vishwambhar Prasad; Wei, Deng
doi: 10.18520/cs/v115/i4/767-772

Mudbanks and fisheries along the Kerala coast – myth and reality
p. 0773 | Kumar, S. Prasanna; Kumar, P. K. Dinesh; Muraleedharan, K. R.; George, Grinson; Mathew, Dayana; Kripa, V.; Jeyabaskaran, R.; Ramaiah, N.; Gopalakrishnan, A.; Naqvi, S. W. A.
doi: 10.18520/cs/v115/i4/773-778

Antimicrobial coating of cotton twill tape with neem oil, eucalyptus oil and tulsi oil for medicinal application
p. 0779 | Balamurugan, G. K.; Babuskin, S.
doi: 10.18520/cs/v115/i4/779-782

The Seduction of Curves: The Lines of Beauty that Connect Mathematics, Art, and the Nude by Allan McRobie
p. 0783 | Sharma, Sudhirendar

Annual Review of Biophysics, 2017, Ken A. Dill and Xiaowei Zhuang (eds)
p. 0784 | Gopal, B.

Digvijai Singh (1934–2018)
p. 0786 | Bhandari, R. K.

‘Constitution of India’: Preservation of original
p. 0788 | Aswal, D. K.; Mehrotra, Ranjana

Research Positions are Available - Asian Institute of Gastroenterology and Asian Healthcare Foundation, Hyderabad
p. 0789

Winter School on Synchrotron Techniques in Material Science - S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences
p. 0790

BHAVAN Fellowships - Department of Science and Technology
p. 0791

Science Academies’ Refresher Course on Plant Taxonomy and Ethnobotany
p. 0792

Science Academies’ Refresher Course on Minerology, Petrology, Thermodynamics, Ore Geology, Structural Geology and Tectonics
p. 0793

Science Academies’ Refresher Course on ‘Plant Taxonomy, Biodiversity and Ethnobotany’
p. 0794

Nominations are Invited - Maharashtra Association for the Cultivation of Science
p. 0795

Admission to Ph.D. Program - Indrashil University
p. 0795

Senior Research Fellow - Centre for Environmental Nuclear Research
p. 0796

National Training Programs in Biological Electron Microscopy - All India Institute of Medical Sciences
p. 0796

Call for Indo-Japanese Joint Project - Indian National Science Academy
p. 0797

VICE CHANCELLOR - Sri Devaraj Urs Academy of Higher Education & Research
p. 0797

Junior Research Fellow - Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
p. 0797

Junior Research Fellow - Vasantdada Sugar Institute
p. 0798

Junior Research Fellow - P.E.S.’s Modern College of Arts, Science & Commerce
p. 0798

RA-1/SRF/JRF - GITAM
p. 0798

SASTRA Congrulates the 2008 and 2013 SASTRA-Ramanujan Award Winners for Winning the Field's Medal
p. 0799

Science Academies’ Refresher Course in Experimental Physics
p. 0800