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Byline: K. V. S.. Hari kumar, Pawan. Dhull, Manoj. Somasekharan, K. Seshadri Psychoneuroendocrinology deals with the overlap disorders pertaining to three different specialties. Awareness about the somatic manifestations of psychiatric [...]

The article focuses on observing and documenting a predation event where a frog, identified as Raorchestes nerostagona (Kalpatta Yellow Bush Frog), was caught and consumed by a snake of the genus Dendrelaphis in Kadanoor, Coorg, Karnataka, India.

Tourism is Australia's fourth-largest exporting sector, yet little research has been done on how satisfied guests are with the indoor environmental quality (IEQ) of Australian guest homes. This research project utilized web-mining, natural language processing and sentiment analysis to analyse customers' IEQ satisfaction in Australian tourist accommodations across ten tourism cities. By analysing 543,213 guest reviews from 1,397 hotels and serviced apartments with two-stars and above at the Booking.com, guests' text comments were classified by semi-supervised word-embedding based models into nine IEQ dimensions. Using a bespoke deep sequence model, sentiment polarities were found, and sentiment scores were computed to estimate the degree of IEQ satisfaction. Results showed that guests were most dissatisfied with facilities, cleanliness and maintenance, and acoustics. As the buildings' star ratings increased, dissatisfaction towards thermal environment, indoor air quality (IAQ), and acoustics decreased. Some IEQ dimensions displayed seasonal trends in customer dissatisfaction. The main sources of dissatisfaction with the thermal environment, IAQ, lighting, and acoustics were identified.

The pressurized heavy water reactors which are used for power production make use of heavy water in moderator and in primary heat transport system. The cationic fission products produced during the reactor operation such as cesium, strontium, cobalt, palladium, ruthenium and anions iodide, iodate, ruthenate, etc. contaminate the heavy water and hence the need for purification of the moderator and primary heat transport system to nuclear grade to achieve the desired efficiency arises. Columns containing ion exchange resins in online are used for purification. Also ion exchange resins are used in purification of fuel storage pond water. In this purification process, the resins pick up activity and ionic impurities. The activity-loaded resin so formed is called spent resin. It is imperative to treat the spent resin into innocuous form, highly inert towards exchange with any external radioactivity. Hence, an attempt has been made to convert the Cs-containing spent resin into ferric form and to study the role of temperature in the exchange reactions. Results show that the spent resin of Cs form could be completely converted into ferric form in batch study. Also the extent of exchange to ferric form was found to come down with temperature resulting in the release of -59.46 KJ/mole with cesium form of resin. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The semi-arid districts of Tirunelveli and Tuticorin in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu consist of numerous wetlands in the form of irrigation tanks, interconnected by an ancient network of canals, and fed by the rivers originating from the Western Ghats. While these irrigation tanks have socio-economic and cultural significance, very little is known of their ecological importance. These tanks have the potential to harbor good populations of resident and wintering waterbirds but no studies have been done to confirm this. A survey was carried out in 230 irrigation tanks of various sizes in the two districts from November 2008 to January 2011. A total of 83 waterbird species were recorded. Indian Pond Heron Ardeola grayii occurred in most of the surveyed tanks. Large concentrations of wintering waterfowl such as Eurasian Wigeon Anas penelope, Northern Pintail Anas acuta, Garganey Anas querquedula were recorded in tanks closer to the coast. Based on our survey, six sites with large waterbird concentrations have been identified, one of which is Vagaikulam, an active heronry currently under threat from tree felling. These sites along with associated wetlands are important for the long term conservation of waterbirds in the region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Anurans of Puducherry, a union territory measuring 293 km2, on the East coast of India are understudied. In this communication, we provide a comprehensive list of anurans encountered in and around wetlands across this union territory. Visual Encounter Surveys during the rainy season in 17 wetlands yielded a total of 14 species belonging to four families. This diversity is relatively low compared to other urban areas like Bangalore or Pune having 16 and 31 species respectively. Possible reasons for this low diversity and scope for future studies have been emphasized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]