Journal of Earth System Science Vol. 126 (2017)

CONTENTS

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Editorial ...... 1 Shear heating by translational brittle reverse faulting along a single, sharp and straight fault plane Soumyajit Mukherjee ...... 2 Optimisation of Hidden Markov Model using Baum–Welch algorithm for prediction of maximum and minimum temperature over Indian Himalaya J C Joshi, Tankeshwar Kumar, Sunita Srivastava and Divya Sachdeva ...... 3 3-D GRACE gravity model for the 2011 Japan earthquake Rambhatla G Sastry and Mahendra K Sonker ...... 4 Landforms along transverse faults parallel to axial zone of folded mountain front, north-eastern Kumaun Sub-Himalaya, India Khayingshing Luirei, S S Bhakuni and Sanjay S Negi ...... 5 Geochemical characteristics and organic carbon sources within the upper reaches of the Xi River, southwest China during high fl ow Junyu Zou ...... 6 A great volcanic eruption around AD 1300 recorded in lacustrine sediment from Dongdao Island, South China Sea Zhongkang Yang, Nanye Long, Yuhong Wang, Xin Zhou, Yi Liu and Liguang Sun ..... 7 Predictive modelling of the spatial pattern of past and future forest cover changes in India C Sudhakar Reddy, Sonali Singh,V K Dadhwal, C S Jha, N Rama Rao and P G Diwakar ...... 8 Geology of the Elephanta Island fault zone, western Indian rifted margin, and its signifi cance for understanding the Panvel fl exure Hrishikesh Samant, Ashwin Pundalik, Joseph D’souza, Hetu Sheth, Keegan Carmo Lobo, Kyle D’souza and Vanit Patel ...... 9 Angle-domain common-image gathers from anisotropic Gaussian beam migration and its application to anisotropy-induced imaging errors analysis Jianguang Han, Yun Wang, Changqing Yu and Peng Chen ...... 10 Monitoring of fi re incidences in vegetation types and Protected Areas of India: Implications on carbon emissions C Sudhakar Reddy, V V L Padma Alekhya, K R L Saranya, K Athira, C S Jha, P G Diwakar and V K Dadhwal ...... 11 Region-specifi c deterministic and probabilistic seismic hazard analysis of Kanpur city Anbazhagan P, Ketan Bajaj, Nairwita Dutta, Sayed S R Moustafa and Nassir S N Al-Arifi ...... 12

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Distribution and sources of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and biogenic silica in the sediments of Chilika lagoon Sadaf Nazneen and N Janardhana Raju ...... 13 Geochemistry evidence for depositional settings and provenance of Jurassic argillaceous rocks of Jiyuan Basin, North China Yao Meng, Deshun Zheng and Minglong Li...... 14 Lithostratigraphic contact – a signifi cant site for hydrogeological investigation in crystalline fractured-rock terrains Tapas Acharya and Rajesh Prasad...... 15 Eff ects of climate change on spring wheat phenophase and water requirement in Heihe River basin, China Dongmei Han, Denghua Yan, Xinyi Xu and Yu Gao ...... 16

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Nature and composition of interbedded marine basaltic pumice in the ~52–50 Ma Vastan lignite sequence, western India: Implication for Early Eocene MORB volcanism off shore Arabian Sea Sarajit Sensarma, Hukam Singh, R S Rana, Debajyoti Paul and Ashok Sahni ...... 17 Monthly reservoir infl ow forecasting using a new hybrid SARIMA genetic programming approach Hamid Moeeni, Hossein Bonakdari and Isa Ebtehaj ...... 18 Variable infl uence on the equatorial troposphere associated with SSW using ERA-Interim Sourabh Bal, Semjon Schimanke, Thomas Spangehl and Ulrich Cubasch ...... 19 Mathematical expression of discharge capacity of compound open channels using MARS technique Abbas Parsaie and Amir Hamzeh Haghiabi ...... 20 Identifi cation of drought in Dhalai river watershed using MCDM and ANN models Sainath Aher, Sambhaji Shinde, Shantamoy Guha and Mrinmoy Majumder ...... 21 Diff erential behaviour of a Lesser Himalayan watershed in extreme rainfall regimes Pankaj Chauhan, Nilendu Singh, Devi Datt Chauniyal, Rajeev S Ahluwalia and Mohit Singhal .. 22 The Numba ductile deformation zone (northwest Cameroon): A geometric analysis of folds based on the Fold Profi ler method T Njanko, C Njiki Chatué, M Kwékam, B E Bella Nké, A F Yakeu Sandjo and E M Fozing ...... 23 All-sky radiance simulation of Megha-Tropiques SAPHIR microwave sensor using multiple scattering radiative transfer model for data assimilation applications A Madhulatha, John P George and E N Rajagopal ...... 24 Permian macro- and miofl oral diversity, palynodating and palaeoclimate implications deduced from the coal-bearing sequences of Singrauli coalfi eld, Son–Mahanadi Basin, central India Kamal Jeet Singh, Srikanta Murthy, Anju Saxena and Husain Shabbar ...... 25 Groundwater circulation and hydrogeochemical evolution in Nomhon of Qaidam Basin, northwest China Yong Xiao, Jingli Shao, Yali Cui, Ge Zhang and Qiulan Zhang ...... 26 Volume Contents xvii

Provenance, tectonic setting and source-area weathering of the lower Cambrian sediments of the Parahio valley in the Spiti basin, India Shivani Pandey and Suraj K Parcha ...... 27 Enhancement and identifi cation of dust events in the south-west region of Iran using satellite observations F Taghavi, E Owlad and S A Ackerman ...... 28 Numerical modelling of groundwater fl ow to understand the impacts of pumping on arsenic migration in the aquifer of North Bengal Plain P K Sikdar and Surajit Chakraborty ...... 29 Study of the global and regional climatic impacts of ENSO magnitude using SPEEDY AGCM Muhammad Mubashar Dogar, Fred Kucharski and Syed Azharuddin ...... 30 Measurement of radon exhalation rate in various building materials and soil samples Pankaj Bala, Vinod Kumar and Rohit Mehra ...... 31

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Novel transformation-based response prediction of shear building using interval neural network S Chakraverty and Deepti Moyi Sahoo ...... 32 Hidden Markov Model for quantitative prediction of snowfall and analysis of hazardous snowfall events over Indian Himalaya J C Joshi, K Tankeshwar and Sunita Srivastava...... 33 Seasonal prediction of summer monsoon rainfall over cluster regions of India S B Kakade and Ashwini Kulkarni ...... 34 Rhizopalmoxylon nypoides – a new palm root from the Deccan Intertrappean beds of Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India P K Kathal, Rashmi Srivastava, R C Mehrotra and P O Alexander ...... 35 Decomposition of wind speed fl uctuations at diff erent time scales Qinmin Zheng, S Rehman, Md Mahbub Alam, L M Alhems and A Lashin ...... 36 Fault zone architecture within Miocene–Pliocene syn-rift sediments, Northwestern Red Sea, Egypt Khairy S Zaky ...... 37 Spatio-temporal analysis of sub-hourly rainfall over Mumbai, India: Is statistical forecasting futile? Jitendra Singh, Sheeba Sekharan, Subhankar Karmakar, Subimal Ghosh, P E Zope and T I Eldho ...... 38 Forecasting fl ood-prone areas using Shannon’s entropy model Ali Haghizadeh, Safoura Siahkamari, Amir Hamzeh Haghiabi and Omid Rahmati ...... 39 A general polynomial solution to convection–dispersion equation using boundary layer theory Jiao Wang, Ming’an Shao, Laiming Huang and Xiaoxu Jia ...... 40 Tectonic stress pattern in the Chinese Mainland from the inversion of focal mechanism data Ju Wei, Sun Weifeng and Ma Xiaojing ...... 41 xviii Volume Contents

Bayesian inversion of synthetic AVO data to assess fluid and shale content in sand-shale media Hafi z Mubbasher Anwer, Aamir Ali and Tiago M Alves ...... 42 Simulating climate change impact on soil erosion using RUSLE model – A case study in a watershed of mid-Himalayan landscape Surya Gupta and Suresh Kumar ...... 43 Petrography and geochemistry of Jurassic sandstones from the Jhuran Formation of Jara dome, Kachchh basin, India: Implications for provenance and tectonic setting V Periasamy and M Venkateshwarlu ...... 44 Geochemical characteristics of sandstones from Cretaceous Garudamangalam area of Ariyalur, Tamilnadu, India: Implications of provenance and tectonic setting Babu K...... 45

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Size distribution and roundness of clasts within pseudotachylytes of the Gangavalli Shear Zone, Salem, Tamil Nadu: An insight into its origin and tectonic signifi cance Bhuban Mohan Behera, V Thirukumaran, Aishwaraya Soni, Prasanta Kumar Mishra and Tapas Kumar Biswal ...... 46 A comparison of outer electron radiation belt dropouts during solar wind stream interface and magnetic cloud driven storms O Ogunjobi, V Sivakumar and Z Mtumela ...... 47 Joint pattern of seasonal hydrological droughts and fl oods alternation in China’s Huai River Basin using the multivariate L-moments ShaoFei Wu, Xiang Zhang and DunXian She ...... 48 Metal contamination of agricultural soils in the copper mining areas of Singhbhum shear zone in India Soma Giri, Abhay Kumar Singh and Mukesh Kumar Mahato ...... 49 Provenance of coastal dune sands along Red Sea, Egypt Samir M Zaid ...... 50 Eff ect of solar fl are on the equatorial electrojet in eastern Brazil region R G Rastogi, P Janardhan, H Chandra, N B Trivedi and Vidal Erick ...... 51 Occurrence of wagnerite in Mg–Al granulites of Sonapahar, Meghalaya S B Dwivedi and K Theunuo ...... 52 Downward continuation and tilt derivative of magnetic data for delineation of concealed coal fi re in East Basuria Colliery, Jharia coal fi eld, India S K Pal, Jitendra Vaish, Sahadev Kumar, Piyush Priyam, Abhay Kumar Bharti and Rajwardhan Kumar ...... 53 Deep learning for predicting the monsoon over the homogeneous regions of India Moumita Saha, Pabitra Mitra and Ravi S Nanjundiah ...... 54 Reconstruction of specific mass balance for glaciers in Western Himalaya using seasonal sensitivity characteristic(s) Vinay Kumar Gaddam, Anil V Kulkarni and Anil Kumar Gupta ...... 55 Volume Contents xix

Implication of surface modifi ed NZVI particle retention in the porous media: Assessment with the help of 1-D transport model Trishikhi Raychoudhury and Vikranth Kumar Surasani ...... 56 The sensitivity to the microphysical schemes on the skill of forecasting the track and intensity of tropical cyclones using WRF-ARW model Devanil Choudhury and Someshwar Das ...... 57 Remote sensing monitoring the spatio-temporal changes of aridification in the Mongolian Plateau based on the general Ts-NDVI space, 1981–2012 Xiaoming Cao, Yiming Feng and Juanle Wang ...... 58 Flash-fl ood potential assessment and mapping by integrating the weights-of-evidence and frequency ratio statistical methods in GIS environment – case study: Bâsca Chiojdului River catchment (Romania) Romulus Costache and Liliana Zaharia ...... 59 Key pluvial parameters in assessing rainfall erosivity in the south-west development region, Romania Monica Dumitras¸cu, Carmen-Sofi a Dragota˘, Ines Grigorescu, Costin Dumitras¸cu and Alina Vla˘dut¸ ...... 60 Phenomena and characteristics of barrier river reaches in the middle and lower Yangtze River, China Xingying You and Jinwu Tang ...... 61

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Meteorological features associated with unprecedented precipitation over India during 1st week of March 2015 Naresh Kumar, M Mohapatra and A K Jaswal ...... 62 First discovery of fossil winged seeds of Pinus L. (family Pinaceae) from the Indian Cenozoic and its palaeobiogeographic signifi cance Mahasin Ali Khan and Subir Bera ...... 63 Geochemistry and geochronology of the mafi c dikes in the Taipusi area, northern margin of North China Craton: Implications for Silurian tectonic evolution of the Central Asian Orogen Jing-Hua Wu, Huan Li, Xiao-Shuang Xi, Hua Kong, Qian-Hong Wu, Neng-Li Peng, Xi-Ming Wu, Jing-Ya Cao and Jillian Aira S Gabo-Ratio ...... 64 Pre-processing data using wavelet transform and PCA based on support vector regression and gene expression programming for river fl ow simulation Abazar Solgi, Amir Pourhaghi, Ramin Bahmani and Heidar Zarei ...... 65 Percolation pond as a method of managed aquifer recharge in a coastal saline aquifer: A case study on the criteria for site selection and its impacts Raicy Mani Christy and Elango Lakshmanan ...... 66 Environmental isotope investigation for the identifi cation of source of springs observed in the hillock on the left fl ank of Gollaleru Earthen Dam, Andhra Pradesh, India J Noble and M D Arzoo Ansari ...... 67 Magnetotelluric impedance tensor analysis for identifi cation of transverse tectonic feature in the Wagad uplift, Kachchh, northwest India G Pavan Kumar, Virender Kumar, Mehul Nagar, Dilip Singh, E Mahendar, Pruthul Patel and P Mahesh ...... 68 xx Volume Contents

Assessment of large aperture scintillometry for large-area surface energy fl uxes over an irrigated cropland in north India Abhishek Danodia, V K Sehgal, N R Patel, R Dhakar, J Mukherjee, S K Saha and A Senthil Kumar ...... 69 Ocean sea-ice modelling in the Southern Ocean around Indian Antarctic stations Anurag Kumar, Suneet Dwivedi and D Ram Rajak ...... 70 E–W strike slip shearing of Kinwat granitoid at South East Deccan Volcanic Province, Kinwat, Maharashtra, India R D Kaplay, T Vijay Kumar, Soumyajit Mukherjee, P R Wesanekar, M Babar and Sumeet Chavan ...... 71 Stable carbon and oxygen isotope study on benthic foraminifera: Implication for microhabitat preferences and interspecies correlation Ajoy K Bhaumik, Shiv Kumar, Shilpi Ray, G K Vishwakarma, Anil K Gupta, Pushpendra Kumar and Kalachand Sain ...... 72 Occurrence of submarine canyons, sediment waves and mass movements along the northern continental slope of the South China Sea Hongjun Chen, Wenhuan Zhan, Liqing Li and Ming-ming Wen ...... 73 Estimation of earthquake source parameters in the Kachchh seismic zone, Gujarat, India, using three component S-wave spectra Durgada Nagamani and Prantik Mandal ...... 74 Comparison of two intelligent models to estimate the instantaneous global solar radiation in semi-arid climate conditions: Application in Iran Mostafa Zamani Mohiabadi and Mohsen Mirzaei ...... 75 Variability of the date of monsoon onset over Kerala (India) of the period 1870–2014 and its relation to sea surface temperature P N Preenu, P V Joseph and P K Dineshkumar ...... 76

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Editorial ...... 77 The role of boundary layer momentum advection in the mean location of the ITCZ Vishal Dixit and J Srinivasan ...... 78 Satellite-based technique for nowcasting of thunderstorms over Indian region Suman Goyal, Ashish Kumar, M Mohapatra, L S Rathore, S K Dube, Rahul Saxena and R K Giri ...... 79 Spatial hydrological drought characteristics in Karkheh River basin, southwest Iran using copulas Esmaeel Dodangeh, Kaka Shahedi, Jenq-Tzong Shiau and Maryam Mir Akbari ...... 80 Probable existence of a Gondwana transcontinental rift system in western India: Implications in hydrocarbon exploration in Kutch and Saurashtra off shore: A GIS-based approach S Mazumder, Blecy Tep, K K S Pangtey, K K Das and D S Mitra ...... 81 Hydrodynamic control of microphytoplankton bloom in a coastal sea K Narasimha Murty, Nittala S Sarma, Sudarsana Rao Pandi, Gundala Chiranjeevulu, Rayaprolu Kiran and R Muralikrishna ...... 82 Volume Contents xxi

Seismic profi le analysis of the Kangra and Dehradun re-entrant of NW Himalayan Foreland thrust belt, India: A new approach to delineate subsurface geometry Joyjit Dey, R Jayangonda Perumal, Subham Sarkar and Anamitra Bhowmik ...... 83 Structural mapping based on potential fi eld and remote sensing data, South Rewa Gondwana Basin, India Swarnapriya Chowdari, Bijendra Singh, B Nageswara Rao, Niraj Kumar, A P Singh and D V Chandrasekhar ...... 84 Geomorphic and lithologic characteristics of Wadi Feiran basin, southern Sinai, Egypt, using remote sensing and fi eld investigations Ayman A Ahmed, Mohamed Abdelkareem, Asran M Asran and Tawfi g M Mahran ...... 85 Run-off analyses using isotopes and hydrochemistry in Yushugou River basin, eastern Tianshan Mountains Xiaoyan Wang, Zhongqin Li and Chanwen Jiang ...... 86 Indian summer monsoon forcing on the deglacial polar cold reversals Virupaxa K Banakar, Sweta Baidya, Alexander M Piotrowski and D Shankar ...... 87 Near InfraRed Imaging Spectrograph (NIRIS) for ground-based mesospheric OH(6-2) and O2(0-1) intensity and temperature measurements Ravindra P Singh and Duggirala Pallamraju ...... 88 Determining shallow aquifer vulnerability by the DRASTIC model and hydrochemistry in granitic terrain, southern India N C Mondal, S Adike, V S Singh, S Ahmed and K V Jayakumar ...... 89 Continental rift-setting and evolution of Neoproterozoic Sindreth Basin in NW-India Stefan Schöbel, Kamal K Sharma, Thorsten Hörbrand, Theresa Böhm, Ines Donhauser and Helga de Wall ...... 90 Vertical electrical sounding to delineate the potential aquifer zones for drinking water in Niamey city, Niger, Africa Joy Choudhury, K Lohith Kumar, E Nagaiah, S Sonkamble, Shakeel Ahmed and V Kumar ...... 91

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Interaction of coeval felsic and mafi c magmas from the Kanker granite, Pithora region, Bastar Craton, Central India R Elangovan, Kumar Krishna, Neeraj Vishwakarma, K R Hari and M Ram Mohan ... 92 Overexploitation and cumulative drought trend eff ect on Ras El Ain karstic spring discharge (Khabour Sub-basin, Syria) Boulos Abou Zakhem and Bassam Kattaa ...... 93 The role of mid-level vortex in the intensifi cation and weakening of tropical cyclones Govindan Kutty and Kanishk Gohil...... 94 Short-temporal variation of soil organic carbon in diff erent land use systems in the Ramsar site 2027 ‘Presa Manuel Ávila Camacho’ Puebla L C López-Teloxa, A Cruz-Montalvo, J V Tamaríz-Flores, R Pérez-Avilés, E Torres and R Castelán-Vega ...... 95 xxii Volume Contents

Mechanism of post-seismic fl oods after the Wenchuan earthquake in the upper Minjiang River, China Ding Hairong, Li Yong, Shao Chongjian, Lauvence Svirchev, Xu Qiang, Yan Zhaokun, Yan Liang, Ni Shijun and Shi Zeming ...... 96 Static elastic deformation in an orthotropic half-space with rigid boundary model due to non-uniform long strike slip fault Yogita Godara, Ravinder Kumar Sahrawat and Mahabir Singh ...... 97 Analyses of fold profi les by changing weight parameters of NURB curves Manash Pratim Gogoi, Soumyajit Mukherjee and Tapos K Goswami ...... 98 Estimating gross primary productivity of a tropical forest ecosystem over north-east India using LAI and meteorological variables Pramit Kumar Deb Burman, Dipankar Sarma, Mathew Williams, Anandakumar Karipot and Supriyo Chakraborty ...... 99 Characteristics of global strong earthquakes and their implications for the present-day stress pattern Ju Wei, Sun Weifeng and Luo Jinhui ...... 100 Frequency characteristics of geomagnetic induction anomalies in Saurashtra region P V Vijaya Kumar, P B V Subba Rao, C K Rao, A K Singh and P Rama Rao ...... 101 Study on the groundwater sustainable problem by numerical simulation in a multi-layered coastal aquifer system of Zhanjiang, China Pengpeng Zhou, Ming Li and Yaodong Lu ...... 102 Petrography and geochemistry of the Middle Miocene Gebel El Rusas sandstones, Eastern Desert, Egypt: Implications for provenance and tectonic setting Samir M Zaid ...... 103 The role of E–W basement faults in the Mesozoic geodynamic evolution of the Gafsa and Chotts basins, south-central Tunisia Dorra Tanfous Amri, Ferid Dhahri, Mohamed Soussi, Hakim Gabtni and Mourad Bédir ...... 104 A Monte Carlo adapted fi nite element method for dislocation simulation of faults with uncertain geometry P Zakian, N Khaji and M Soltani ...... 105 Evidence of topographic disequilibrium in the Subarnarekha River Basin, India: A digital elevation model based analysis Shantamoy Guha and Priyank Pravin Patel ...... 106

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Formation of atoll garnets in the UHP eclogites of the Tso Morari Complex, Ladakh, Himalaya Mallika K Jonnalagadda, Nitin R Karmalkar, Raymond A Duraiswami, Shivani Harshe, Sarah Gain and William L Griffi n ...... 107 Isotope fi ngerprinting of precipitation associated with western disturbances and Indian summer monsoons across the Himalayas Ghulam Jeelani and R D Deshpande ...... 108 GIS-based bivariate statistical techniques for groundwater potential analysis (an example of Iran) Ali Haghizadeh, Davoud Davoudi Moghaddam and Hamid Reza Pourghasemi ...... 109 Volume Contents xxiii

Mineral shock signatures in rocks from Dhala (Mohar) impact structure, Shivpuri district, Madhya Pradesh, India Madhuparna Roy, Pradeep Pandey, Shailendra Kumar and P S Parihar ...... 110 Orographic control of the Bay of Bengal cold pool rainfall P V Arushi, Arindam Chakraborty and Ravi S Nanjundiah ...... 111 Qualitative stability assessment of cut slopes along the National Highway-05 around Jhakri area, Himachal Pradesh, India Jagadish Kundu, Kripamoy Sarkar, Ashutosh Tripathy and T N Singh ...... 112 Trend analysis of evapotranspiration over India: Observed from long-term satellite measurements Sheshakumar Goroshi, Rohit Pradhan, Raghavendra P Singh, K K Singh and Jai Singh Parihar ...... 113 Vertical structure of orographic precipitating clouds observed over south Asia during summer monsoon season Shailendra Kumar and G S Bhat ...... 114 Chronology of desert margin in western India using improved luminescence dating protocols Naveen Chauhan and P Morthekai ...... 115 Mapping debris fl ow susceptibility using analytical network process in Kodaikkanal Hills, Tamil Nadu (India) Evangelin Ramani Sujatha and Venkataramana Sridhar ...... 116 Timing and implications for the late Mesozoic geodynamic settings of eastern North China Craton: Evidences from K–Ar dating age and sedimentary–structural characteristics records of Lingshan Island, Shandong Province Jie Li, Aiwen Jin and Guiting Hou ...... 117 Application of environmental isotopes and hydrochemistry in the identifi cation of source of seepage and likely connection with lake water in Lesser Himalaya, Uttarakhand, India Shive Prakash Rai, Dharmaveer Singh, Ashwani Kumar Rai and Bhishm Kumar...... 118 Spatial and decadal variations in satellite-based terrestrial evapotranspiration and drought over Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China during 1982–2009 Zhaolu Zhang, Hui Kang, Yunjun Yao, Ayad M Fadhil, Yuhu Zhang and Kun Jia ...... 119 Trends and variability of meteorological drought over the districts of India using standardized precipitation index P Guhathakurta, Preetha Menon, P M Inkane, Usha Krishnan and S T Sable ...... 120 N–S crustal shear system in the Bundelkhand massif: A unique crustal evolution signature in the northern Indian peninsula S P Singh and A R Bhattacharya ...... 121 Appraisal of long term groundwater quality of peninsular India using water quality index and fractal dimension Kishan Singh Rawat, Sudhir Kumar Singh, T German Amali Jacintha, Jasna Nemcˇic´-Jurec and Vinod Kumar Tripathi ...... 122 Acknowledgements ...... i