Current Science
A Fortnightly Journal of Research
ISSN 0011-3891
Volume 117 - Issue 05: 10 Sep, 2018
In this Issue
Science and Social Media
p. 0726

Guest Editorial
Can anyone own the sky?
p. 0727 | Subrahmanyan, Ravi

Correspondence
F-score mapping of sectional committees of a typical learned society
p. 0729 | Prathap, Gangan

News
Science Last Fortnight
p. 0731

Meeting Report
Indian summer monsoon
p. 0735 | Chakraborty, Arindam; Srinivasan, J.

Commentary
Scientists, citizens and goods
p. 0737 | Capocasa, Marco; Rufo, Fabrizio

Success of refuge-in-bag for Bt-cotton hinges on good stewardship
p. 0739 | Komarlingam S., Mohan; Sadananda, A. R.

Scientific Correspondence
Development of India’s first integrated expert urban flood forecasting system for Chennai
p. 0741 | Ghosh, Subimal; Karmakar, Subhankar; Saha, Anamitra; Mohanty, Mohit Prakash; Ali, Shees; Raju, Satya Kiran; Krishnakumar, Vrinda; Sebastian, Maneesha; Behera, Manasa Ranjan; Ashrit, R.; Murty, P. L. N.; Srinivas, K.; Narasimhan, B.; Usha, Tune; Murthy, M. V. Ramana; Thiruvengadam, P.; Indu, J.; Thirumalaivasan, D.; George, John P.; Gedam, S.; Inamdar, A. B.; Murty, B. S.; Mujumdar, P. P.; Mohapatra, M.; Bhardwaj, Arun; Basu, Swati; Nayak, Shailesh

Development of eco- and textile industry-friendly, short-statured hirsute cotton variety, Indica
p. 0745 | Sundaramurthy, V. T.

General Articles
Transforming forestry education for better job prospects
p. 0748 | Arunachalam, Ayyanadar; Pandey, Latika
doi: 10.18520/cs/v117/i5/748-752

How much research output from India gets social media attention?
p. 0753 | Banshal, Sumit Kumar; Singh, Vivek Kumar; Muhuri, Pranab K.; Mayr, Philipp
doi: 10.18520/cs/v117/i5/753-760

Review Articles
Hundred years of research on inversion polymorphism in Drosophila
p. 0761 | Singh, B. N.
doi: 10.18520/cs/v117/i5/761-775

A critical evaluation of environmental impact assessments: a case study of Goa mines, India
p. 0776 | Datar, Mandar N.; Dongre, Sujeet; Gadgil, Madhav
doi: 10.18520/cs/v117/i5/776-782

Research Articles
Summer monsoon of 2019: understanding the performance so far and speculating about the rest of the season
p. 0783 | Gadgil, Sulochana; Francis, P. A.; Vinayachandran, P. N.
doi: 10.18520/cs/v117/i5/783-793

Assessment of rainfall variability and its impact on groundnut yield in Bundelkhand region of India
p. 0794 | Ahmed, Akram; Deb, Dibyendu; Mondal, Surajit
doi: 10.18520/cs/v117/i5/794-803

Landslides mapped using satellite data in the Western Ghats of India after excess rainfall during August 2018
p. 0804 | Martha, Tapas R.; Roy, Priyom; Khanna, Kirti; Mrinalni, K.; Kumar, K. Vinod
doi: 10.18520/cs/v117/i5/804-812

In vitro regeneration of coconut plantlets from immature inflorescence
p. 0813 | Shareefa, M.; Thomas, Regi J.; Sreelekshmi, J. S.; Rajesh, M. K.; Karun, Anitha
doi: 10.18520/cs/v117/i5/813-820

Analysis of the evolution game of stakeholders’ behaviour in the operation stage of green buildings
p. 0821 | Liu, Xiaojun; Liu, Xiaodan
doi: 10.18520/cs/v117/i5/821-829

Serpentinized peridotite-hosted uranium mineralization (U–Cr–Ni–Mo–REE–Fe–Mg) in Kudada–Turamdih area: A new environment of Metallogeny in Singhbhum shear zone, India
p. 0830 | Sinha, D. K.; Gupta, Shekhar; Nautiyal, K.; Akhila, V. R.; Shrivastava, V. K.; Padhi, A. K.; Verma, M. B.
doi: 10.18520/cs/v117/i5/830-838

Research Communications
Xuefeng Cordyceps: insights into species diversity, life cycle and host association
p. 0839 | Zha, L. S.; Wen, T. C.; Jeewon, R.; Xie, Z. M.; Boonmee, S.; Eungwanichayapant, P. D.; Hyde, K. D.
doi: 10.18520/cs/v117/i5/839-846

Enhancing biosurfactant production by hypersaline Bacillus amyloliquefaciens SK27 using response surface methodology and genetic algorithm
p. 0847 | Malik, Ruchira; Kerkar, Savita
doi: 10.18520/cs/v117/i5/847-852

South Asian subtropical low-level jet: influence on regional hydrology and aerosol optical depth
p. 0852 | Anoop, T. R.; Unnikrishnan, C. K.; Ashok, Karumuri; Ramachandran, K. K.; Prakash, T. N.
doi: 10.18520/cs/v117/i5/852-858

Boron measurement in tourmaline from pegmatite veins, Simdega area, Chhotanagpur Gneissic Complex, Eastern India using Electron Probe Microanalysis
p. 0858 | Kumar, Deepak; Pandit, Dinesh; Sharma, Abhinay; Rao, N. V. Chalapathi
doi: 10.18520/cs/v117/i5/858-865

137Cs – a potential environmental marker for assessing erosion-induced soil organic carbon loss in India
p. 0865 | Mandal, Debashis; Giri, Nishita; Srivastava, Pankaj; Shah, Chinmay; Bhushan, Ravi; Naregundi, Karunakara; Mohan, M. P.; Shrivastava, Manoj
doi: 10.18520/cs/v117/i5/865-871

Comparative implementation of the benchmark Dejong 5 function using flower pollination algorithm and the African buffalo optimization
p. 0871 | Odili, Julius Beneoluchi; Noraziah, A.
doi: 10.18520/cs/v117/i5/871-877

Book Reviews
Medical Education in Western India: Grant Medical College and Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy’s Hospital. Sunil Pandya
p. 0878 | Vaz, Mario

Annual Review of Plant Biology, 2018. Sabeeha S. Merchant, Wilhelm Gruissem and Donald Ort (eds)
p. 0879 | Sopory, Sudhir K.

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology, 2018. Ruth Lehmann, Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz and Alexander F. Schier (eds)
p. 0881 | Nagaraj, R.

Personal News
J. Robert Schrieffer (1931–2019)
p. 0883 | Baskaran, G.; Ramakrishnan, T. V.

Historical Notes
Fifty years of oral rehydration therapy: forgotten contributions from the Indian subcontinent
p. 0884 | Unnikrishnan, M. K.; Marathakam, Akash; Mathew, Vimal

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Utkal University
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Building Energy Efficiency Higher and Advanced Network (BHAVAN) Fellowships
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11th National Level Workshop on Taxonomy, Biodiversity, Ex situ Conservation and Applications of Fungi - National Fungal Culture Collection of India
p. 0890

Indo-German Science and Technology Centre
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Indo-US Genome Engineering/Editing Technology Initiative (GETin) Program
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Project Assistants, Junior Research Fellows and Post-Doctoral Fellows - L V Prasad Eye Institute
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DIRECTOR - Department of Atomic Energy
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Award of DBT-Research Associateship in Biotechnology and Life Sciences
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Award of DBT-Research Associateship in Biotechnology and Life Sciences for Candidates of North-East Region
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Junior Research Fellow - Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
p. 0894

Senior Principal Scientist - Kerala State Council Science, Technology and Environment
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Call for Papers - Fourth International Conference on Frontiers of Mass Spectrometry
p. 0895

Research Assistant - University of Delhi
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Junior Research Fellow - SRM Institute of Science and Technology
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Junior Research Fellow - MACS-Agharkar Research Institute
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Editorial Board 2019
p. 0896

Workshop on Science Writing - Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat
p. 0900

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