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This book is designed to serve as a comprehensive source of information of sedimentation processes and design of settling systems, especially as applied to design of such systems in civil and environmental engineering.

The book contributes to the vast field of research in psychometrics as well as to the growing field of positive psychology. The chapters discuss the test construction process and develop scales for constructs that are validated on the Indian population.

Keeping nanoelectronics in focus, this book looks at interrelated fields namely nanomagnetics, nanophotonics, nanomechanics and nanobiotechnology, that go hand-in-hand or are likely to be utilized in future in various ways for backing up or strengthening nanoelectronics.

After tracing the causes of the global financial crisis, the book focuses on two fundamental systemic issues connected with its manifestation: financial-sector regulation and the problem of the dollar-centric international monetary system, both of which have been widely cited among the important factors leading to the 2008 financial crisis.

This book covers interesting and yet often challenging cases among adult patients in a unique Question-Answer format. Simulating the bed-side case discussions during the ward rounds, one question logically leads to another question thereby generating curiosity and promoting evidence-based medicine.

Straight forward approaches to solve it in terms of position vectors of constituent particles and using standard mathematical techniques become too cumbersome and inconvenient when the system contains more than two particles.

It provides conceptual frameworksand simple tools for identifying and addressing the complexities of managinggeographically dispersed, virtually linked organizations, which may have grownorganically or inorganically into a potpourri of multiple cultures,capabilities and practices.

According to this framework, epistemological issues related to decision making and state of mind are seen to be similar to issues related to equanimity and neutral mind, as discussed in Buddhist perspective.

This book will appeal to anyone engaged in business process transformation, be it business process management professionals, change managers, sponsors, program managers or line managers.

Working within a framework of environmental philosophy and environmental ethics, this book describes and postulates alternative understandings of nature in Indian traditions of thought, particularly philosophy.

Radiopharmaceuticals for Therapy will benefit audiences in nuclear medicine and radionuclide therapy and will thus prove an invaluable source of up-to-date information for students, radiopharmaceutical scientists and professionals working in the radiopharmacy and nuclear medicine specialties.

This book takes a novel and holistic view of the global financial crisis and gives a comprehensive agenda for the reform of the global economy. It highlights why financial markets are more volatile than other markets and need better regulation.

This book illustrates operation and maintenance practices/guidelinesfor economic generation and managing health of a thermal power generator beyondits regulatory life.

This book advocates pursuing a regional approach to nuclear risk framework, which it argues is more promising in the current scenario than the non-achievable global regime.

This book describes the mechanisms of nutrient taken up by plants at the biochemical and molecular level. There are groups of genes for each nutrient that encode transporter proteins whose functions are to acquire the specific nutrient from the soil and transport it across the plasma membrane of the root hair cells for use in plant metabolism.

The central theme of the present book is zigzags and central-circuits of three- or four-regular plane graphs, which allow a double covering or covering of the edgeset to be obtained.

The major issues expounded by the author in relation to rights are infant and child survival, early child development, street and working children, children in conflict with law, children with disabilities, child trafficking and child sexual abuse.

Psychological Perspectives on Childcare in Indian Indigenous Health Systems

The empirical studies discussed in this book are based on two tasks: seminar speech task (SST) and written test performance task (WTPT). The study focuses on text input processing for written versus spoken tasks, at various levels of task performance, and for language versus information.

A true, mechanistic explanation of how humans process language would require a complete understanding of the interface language has with important cognitive systems like attention, memory, as well as with vision.

Upon the backdrop of impressive progress made by the Indian economy during the last two decades, this book evaluates the performance of the economy on some income and non-income dimensions of development at the national, state and sectoral levels.

This book highlights the development disparities in India and considers three complex areas of development - economic wellbeing, human progress and agricultural development - over a period of forty years since the 1970s.

This book discusses the integrated concepts of statistical quality engineering and management tools. Perhaps the most unique feature of the book is its approach, using statistical tools, to explain the science behind Six Sigma project management and integrated in engineering concepts.

The book also provides an insight into the design of base isolators highlighting their merits and demerits.Apart from the theoretical approach to design of multi-storey buildings, the book highlights the care required in practical design and construction of various building components.

This book focuses on soft computing techniques for enhancing voltage security in electrical power networks. The fundamental aim of this book is to present a comprehensive treatise on power system security and the simulation of power system security.

The book deals with urban transportation planning in light of environmental sustainability and social equity.

This book examines global environmental issues and offers tools for environmentally aware decision-making. Coverage ranges from financial returns earned on a green stock-market-index-based fund to social factors influencing private investment decisions.

This book first offers a classification of zoonotic parasites, food borne, vector borne and occupation related zoonotic parasites. It then covers etiology, epidemiology, life cycle, transmission, clinical signs, diagnosis, prevention and control.

The study delineates export patterns by firm and state and explores factors influencing export decisions according to sector, size and location.