a.rybkina@gcras.ruInternational, independent and non-political approach should be provided for the better understanding of the Arctic future and its current needs. It is vital to focus on the complexity of entire region and interconnections of its geological, biological, atmospheric and geographic features. Imbalance within its systems will lead to the catastrophic effects that will reflect on the world systems. Due to its unique geo-systems the integrated systems approach is vitally needed. The presented study will focus on the complex assessment of the status of the Arctic territory and its Future Scenarios. The GIS-base project is developing to combine verified Arctic data to reflect the existing models and identify the gaps. It includes geological, geophysical and geographical data to provide systems approach for further analysis and data interpretation. GEOINFORMATICS RESEARCH PAPERS, VOL.5, BS1002, https://doi.org/10.2205/CODATA2017, 2017 2 of 172 TO THE RE-USING OF DATA ON ROCKBURSTS FOR UP TO DATE RESEARCH OF THE MINING SEISMICITY PROBLEM A. BatuginNational University of Science and Technology "MISiS" (NUST "MISiS", Russia)as-bat@mail.ruPresently, the man-caused seismicity problem is felt in many regions worldwide with an increasingly intensity. Regions with man-caused seismicity have formed in Russia, China, USA, Poland and other countries. The patterns of occurrence and display of the mining seismicity have been insufficiently ascertained and studied and the instructions and guidance documents are mainly focused on the handling of common rockbursts. It creates a situation where the mining seismicity suddenly occurs in increasingly more new regions causing material, social and environmental damage. At the same time, major geodynamic events and sudden seismic intensifications remain statistically seldom events, which renders their study and a search for patterns more difficult. It is also facilitated by the uniqueness of conditions for a manifestation of such geodynamic events and often the information unavailability. However, rockbursts have been known since the late 19th century and the major ones that would be considered induced earthquakes according to the modern classifications happened as early as in the first half of the 20th century. In the published written works and specialized catalogues, there is some information regarding conditions of their manifestation, but their analysis performed from the viewpoint of the geomechanical advances of that time. It seems that a re-analysis of the data concerning occurrence of strong rockbursts from the modern perspective could be conductive to a better and deeper understanding of the origins and mechanisms of induced earthquakes happening today. In this relation, there arises a task of reusing the rockburst data to search for the patterns of the mining seismicity manifestations that have not been determined as yet. The presentation analyzes the structure and content of specialized catalogues and global bibliographical guides to rockbursts that were publishe...

Historically, agricultural research and education in India have been in the public domain. The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) was established as an apex organization for effective research coordination among institutions and promotion of agricultural research in the country. Funds for agricultural research institutes were channeled through the ICAR from the central government. For the dissemination of research output, the research journals publishing in India have been, for long, primarily a public funded activity and done mostly by Government agencies. In case of agricultural research, the journals are being published by ICAR and by respective professional societies. Many of these societies are receiving financial assistance partly from ICAR. Each discipline of agriculture is represented by some sort of professional society and for some disciplines, and each society publishes a peer–reviewed research journal. Though many of these journals are distributed for international indexing, full–text database services are very poor. Many of them are not even in the ISI Master Journal list for impact factor or science citation index analysis. The main objective of each author is to have more impact, visibility and readership for their work. These journals publish quality articles after stringent peer review process, but the time lag from submission to publication of an article or production of issue is long. There are instances where the articles sent for review were not returned back due to various reasons. The infrastructure for publishing online is also not available for these journals. Recently, a portal (http://www.indianjournals.com) had started providing online access to some of the journals which are being published by professional societies. Under the National Agriculture Innovation Project (NAIP), ICAR is making available some subscription–based foreign international online journals along with other open access journals. Now the time has come to think about the wider availability of scientific journals without any restrictions. The availability of open source software for the transformation of traditional journals into open access journals and the establishment of open archive online repositories for archiving research will eventually make agricultural research reach to much larger audiences. This will increase the visibility of research output and eventually lead to an enhanced impact factor for many Indian agricultural research journals.

A pot experiment was conducted in the rabi (post rainy) seasons of 2001 and 2002 to study the genotypic differences in grain growth rate and endogenous hormonal content in the developing grains of hexaploid and tetraploid wheat. The endogenous hormonal contents of grains in both the ploidy levels had changed in sequence. At 5 days after anthesis (DAA), gibberellic acid (GA 3 ); at 15 DAA (rapid growth phase), indole-acetic acid (IAA); at 25 DAA (dough stage), abscisic acid (ABA) were maximum. At 35 DAA, all the endogenous hormonal level decreased and among the hormones, ABA was highest followed by IAA and GA 3 . Hexaploids recorded higher concentrations of endogenous hormones (13.38% IAA, 17.89% GA 3 , and 14.7% ABA) on fresh weight basis and resulted in higher seed weight (56.99 mg/grain) and grain growth rate (0.009 g/g/day) compared to tetraploids (49.08 mg/grain; 0.008 g/g/day) on dry weight basis by better mobilization of photosynthates during grain filling.

This article focuses on the trends in publication, authorship pattern, availability, and accessibility of articles during 2008–2010 from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), a constituent of the National Agricultural Research System in India. The data reveal that during the period of study, researchers from IARI produced 1,833 publications, most of which were jointly authored, and that the most preferred journal for publication by researchers is the Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, which is now an Open Access journal. While publications from IARI are available to subscribers of the Consortium for e-Resources in Agriculture (CeRA), public availability to IARI publications is very meager. Hence, in order to make their research output more accessible and available to a wider audience, IARI researchers should deposit their work in IARI’s Open Access repository Eprints@IARI. However, making such a deposit requires an Open Access policy, which IARI is yet to adopt.

Pot culture experiment was conducted in the Rabi seasons of 2001 and 2002 in order to study the genotypic differences in grain growth rates and endogenous hormonal contents in the developing grains. The hexaploid new plant types and extant variety and other tetraploids are taken up for the study. The data on yield and yield components show that the tetraploids had higher ear number per plant but lesser number of seeds per ear and lower seed weight per ear. The most important yield component 1000-grain yield was also possessed by hexaploids. The mean plant height was found to be higher in hexaploids over tetraploids in general, and among them DL- 1266-1 and DL-1266-2 (new plant types) recorded higher plant height. Similarly, the ear length was also higher in these new plant types. But, the tiller number/plant and ear number/plant were significantly higher in tetraploids. The new plant types (hexaploids) possessed maximum grain growth rate at 5–15 DAA. DL-1266-2 recorded highest grain growth rate 0.093 g/g/day. The photosynthetic rate values show that the hexaploids possessed higher rate than tetraploids. At 7 and 15 DAA, in general, photosynthetic rate was more when compared to 25 DAA and 35 DAA. The results showed that the endogenous hormonal contents in grains during grain development had changed in sequence. At 7 DAA, gibberellic acid (GA3) content was at maximum and at 15 DAA (rapid growth phase), indole-acetic acid (IAA) reached maximum and at 25 DAA (dough stage), ABA was at the maximum. At the 35 DAA, ABA reached all time high and GA3 the least, IAA being intermediate. Among the genotypes, hexaploids recorded higher concentrations of endogenous hormones. The total chlorophyll content in flag leaves of hexaploids was higher than tetraploids. The mean total chlorophyll had increased slightly at 20 DAA when compared to 10 DAA and it decreased at 30 DAA. It appears that the high yielding hexaploids (DL-1266-1 & Dl- 1266-2) by the virtue of possessing more 1000-grain weight and leaf area along with endogenous hormones might be responsible for higher yield as compared to tetraploids. It appears that better photosynthetic rate and better mobilization of photosynthates during grain filling stage contributes for higher yield in hexaploids.