Call for Applications: Project-funded Ph.D. Fellowships and Field Assistants - National Institute of Advanced Studies
p. 1380

In this issue
p. 1384 | Madhu, K.P.

Is Indian science ready to tackle conflict of interest in a rational way?
p. 1385 | Arunan, E.

India's share of world research according to Science and Engineering Indicators 2018
p. 1387 | Prathap, Gangan

EMR exposure
p. 1387 | ., Vijayalaxmi

Impatiens pendula B. Heyne ex Wight & Arn. (Balsaminaceae), critically endangered and endemic balsam of Western Ghats-a need for conservation
p. 1388 | Vishwanath, Sahana; Sringeswara, A. N.; Bhaskar, V.; Rajanna, M. D.

Science Last Fortnight
p. 1390

Man and his ancestors- the legacy and fate of Neanderthal Man
p. 1394 | Banerji, Aniruddha

Laboratory animal; an integral but probable hazardous component of biomedical research
p. 1397 | Sharma, Manav

A new host for the parasitic macrofungus Marasmius palmivorus Sharples (Marasmiaceace)
p. 1400 | Dutta, Arun Kumar; Acharya, Krishnendu

Additional Quanternary faunal remains from the Middle-Late Pleistocene deposits of Puna Alluvial Basin, Maharashtra, Central India
p. 1402 | Thakur, Nitesh G.; Badam, G. L.; Varade, Abhay M.

Observed warming of sea surface temperature in response to tropical cyclone Thane in the Bay of Bengal
p. 1407 | Mathew, Simi; Natesan, Usha; Latha, G.; Venkatesan, R.; Rao, Rokkam R.; Ravichandran, M.
doi: 10.18520/cs/v114/i07/1407-1413

Movement of water flux through unsaturated zones: a transient impact on in situ potential field
p. 1414 | Andrade, Rolland; Muralidharan, D.; Rangarajan, R.
doi: 10.18520/cs/v114/i07/1414-1422

Citation characteristics of non-citable documents and contributions to journal impact factor
p. 1423 | Xue-li, Liu; Ya-Hui, Wei; Shuang-Shuang, Gai
doi: 10.18520/cs/v114/i07/1423-1429

Links between energy usage and climate: implications on increasing CO2 emissions and carbon capture and storage
p. 1430 | Tandon, S. K.; Mallik, Jyotirmoy
doi: 10.18520/cs/v114/i07/1430-1437

Sperm sexing of dairy cattle: economics, animal welfare and technological challenges
p. 1438 | Rai, Jagdish
doi: 10.18520/cs/v114/i07/1438-1442

Influence of fabrication processes on transport properties of superconducting niobium nitride nanowires
p. 1443 | Singh, Manju; Chaujar, Rishu; Husale, Sudhir; Grover, S.; Shah, Amit P.; Deshmukh, Mandar M.; Gupta, Anurag; Singh, V. N.; Ojha, V. N.; Aswal, D. K.; Rakshit, R. K.
doi: 10.18520/cs/v114/i07/1443-1450

Evaluation and management system design for airfield clearance condition
p. 1451 | Cai, Wantong; Geng, Hao; Cai, Liangcai; Chong, Xiaolei
doi: 10.18520/cs/v114/i07/1451-1460

Modelling U-turning behaviour of vehicles at mid-block median openings in multilane urban roads
p. 1461 | Gupta, Ankit; Mondal, Satyajit; Sharma, Vinay Kumar
doi: 10.18520/cs/v114/i07/1461-1473

Isolation, characterization and practical significance o cellulose degrading bacteria from the gut wall of two ecologically distinct earthworms
p. 1474 | Dey, Kishore K.; Talukdar, Narayan C.; Nongkhlaw, Fenella M. W.; Thakuria, Dwipendra
doi: 10.18520/cs/v114/i07/1474-1484

On-the-go position sensing and controller predicted contact-type weed eradicator
p. 1485 | Chandel, Abhilash Kumar; Tewari, V. K.; Kumar, Satya Prakash; Nare, Brajesh; Agarwal, Aditya
doi: 10.18520/cs/v114/i07/1485-1494

Projections of extreme precipitation events under climate change scenarios in Mahaweli River Basin of Sri Lanka
p. 1495 | Imbulana, Naditha; Gunawardana, Shakthi; Shrestha, Sangam; Datta, Avishek
doi: 10.18520/cs/v114/i07/1495-1509

Petrography and mineralogy of calcium-aluminum rich inclusions in an unequilibrated carbonaceous chondrite Y 81020 (CO3.05)
p. 1510 | Mishra, Ritesh Kumar
doi: 10.18520/cs/v114/i07/1510-1519

Diversity in a widely distributed dioecious medicinal plant Tinospora cordifolia (Willd) Miers. ex. Hook. F. Thomas
p. 1520 | Lade, Suchita; Sikarwar, Pooja Singh; Ansari, Md. Akram; Khatoon, Sayyada; Kumar, Nikhil; Yadav, Hemant Kumar; Ranade, Shirish A.
doi: 10.18520/cs/v114/i07/1520-1526

Risk assessment and stability analysis of a recent landslide at Vishnuprayag on the Rishikesh-Badrinath highway, Uttarakhand, India
p. 1527 | Sarkar, S.; Pandit, Koushik; Sharma, Mahesh; Pippal, Ashish
doi: 10.18520/cs/v114/i07/1527-1533

The 12 May 2015 Kodari earthquake (M_w 7.3) in Central Nepal: delayed triggering by the 25 April 2015 Gorkha earthquake (M_w 7.8)
p. 1534 | Yadav, Rajeev Kumar; Kundu, Bhaskar; ., Kalpna; Gahalaut, V. K.
doi: 10.18520/cs/v114/i07/1534-1539

Record of charcoal from early Maastrichtian intertrappean lake sediments of Bagh valley of Madhya Pradesh: palaeofire proxy
p. 1540 | Mohabey, Dhananjay M.; Samant, Bandana; Kumar, Deepesh; Dhobale, Anup; Rudra, Arka; Dutta, Suryendu
doi: 10.18520/cs/v114/i07/1540-1544

The wood-boring trace fossil Asthenopodichnium from Paleocene sediments of the Barmer Hill Formation, western Rajasthan, India
p. 1544 | Mathur, S. C.; Shekhawat, N. S.; Nama, S. L.; Khichi, C. P.; Soni, A.; Mathur, Saurabh; Parihar, V. S.
doi: 10.18520/cs/v114/i07/1544-1548

Risk factors for sensitivity to feline retroviruses among among owned domestic cats in Valdivia, Southern Chile
p. 1548 | Azócar-Aedo, L.; Monti, G.
doi: 10.18520/cs/v114/i07/1548-1553

The Character of Physical Law, Richard Feynman
p. 1554 | Mukunda, N.

Modern Classical Physics: Optics, Fluids, Plasmas, Elasticity, Relativity, and Statistical Physics, Kips S. Thorne and Roger D. Blandford
p. 1556 | Mukhopadhyay, Banibrata

Annual Review of Phytopathology, 2016, Jan E. Leach and Steven Lindow (eds)
p. 1557 | Sridhar, R.

Stephen Hawking (1942–2018)
p. 1560 | Gopakumar, Rajesh; Wadia, Spenta R.

Gundlapalli Venkata Subba Rao (1940–2017)
p. 1566 | Manoharan, P. T.; Rao, M. S. Ramachandra

Applications for Nominations for VASVIK Awards 2017 and 2018
p. 1568

Call for Expression of Interest to be Members of the Scientific Panels of the Food Authority - FSSAI
p. 1569

World Food Congress Competitions Posters
p. 1570

Ramalingaswami Re-Entry Fellowship
p. 1571

Applications invited for Admission under the Subject Board of Physics and Subject Board of Chemistry - Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
p. 1572

Nominations are invited for G. N. Ramachandran Gold Medal for Excellence in Biological Sciences and Technology 2018
p. 1572

Associate Professor and Assistant Professor - Chettinad Academy of Research and Education
p. 1573

First Call for Proposal - Kerala State Biodiversity Board
p. 1573

Research Staff - Banaras Hindu University
p. 1574

Invites online applications - Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology
p. 1574

So Much Science So Little Bench Space - PerkinElmer
p. 1577