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This book offers a detailed account about lichens in ecosystem monitoring. Featuring many color photographs and line diagrams, it focuses on the specific role of lichens in air quality management and sustainable development.

This book focuses on the aspects of contracting contracts, basically related to road construction and management contracts. It discusses public private partnership, performance based road management and maintenance contract, and Funktionsbauvertrag.

This volume offers an understanding of institutional reforms, gender-related policy dynamics, the role of different actors in the policy process, and the impact of a particular policy on the state of women's political participation in Bangladesh.

This book details studies on thermal decomposition of Kaolinite. It also examines views on Kaolinite-Mullite reaction series, characterization of controversial spinel phase in Kaolinite-Mullite reaction series and explanation of DTA events of Kaolinite.

Written by eminent and well-known researchers and environmentalists, this book features topical and emerging issues related to water and waste water. Coverage includes a special chapter on rare and endangered species and its impact on biodiversity.

With elegantly defined examples and rigorously explained theorem proofs, this book presents concepts in the theory of graphs and algorithms, and their applications. It describes many key algorithms and uses simple, clear, and logical mathematical language.

This analysis of results from a unique empirical research study in Australia examines the issues associated with accepting electronic signatures on business-to-business contracts, and includes a special section on the technology's historical development.

This application-oriented approach to ecorestoration of coalmine-degraded land discusses theoretical aspects, minint types, land degradation, biodiversity conservation, topsoil management, seeding, mulching, biofertlizer, aftercare of reclaimed sites and more.

This book provides complete details on seed transmitted virus and viroid diseases at the global level including, the yield losses, diagnostic techniques, mechanism of seed transmission, epidemiology and virus disease management aspects.

This book fills the need for single-source of all the fingerprinting techniques for herbal drugs, with theory, case studies and technique for discovering patentable forms. It will serve an audience of scientists, medical doctors, technicians and many others.

Presenting essays of varying depths of scholarship and insightful reflection, this book explores India as an example of the role played by history, culture, sociology, socio-cultural-religious norms, values and institutions in a country's development process.

Heat stress occurs when there is an imbalance between heat production within the body and its dissipation. This book examines heat stress and animal productivity, and offers solutions for combating the effects of climate-induced temperature rise on animals.

Keeping this objective in mind the International Conference on Technology Management is organized by the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, a leader in research and education in Technology Management for the last several decades.

This publication assesses for the first time the taxonomic status of, and phylogenetic relationship between, varying species of Pandanus. It includes the most recent morphological and cpDNA sequences, as well as the IUCN Red List criteria for its conservation.

This book brings out the practical difficulties in carrying out enzyme catalyzed reactions in non-polar solvent. It outlines various strategies adopted to enhance especially yield and selectivity in such reactions.

This book covers bacterial genetics and realizes the contribution of these tiny organisms to the growth of biological sciences as a whole and genetics in particular. Offers exhaustive coverage of bacterial genetics, with figures and tables where appropriate.

Based on both theory and extensive empirical research, this book is compares culture and management styles in India, Japan, China and Western countries, and proposes a synthesis of West-dominated management technology with Eastern intuition and values.

Purportedly expressing the so-called 'new humanism' in organisational and institutional development, this volume uses a series of imaginary dialogues to explore the conflict between rampant capitalism and the pressing need for some ethical input into business.

An exhaustive research study on atmospheric corrosion of structural steel, this important publication, with numerous illustrations, details investigative methods for a better understanding of the degradation process, and mixes for high-performance paints.

This monograph initially offers a systematic treatment of the theory and methodology of alternative notions of income polarization and related issues. It then goes on to analyze social polarization, ordinal polarization, and the relations between inequality polarization, fractionalization and likelihood of conflicts.

This book aims to focus on these areas to provide readers a comprehensive outlook about the major redox sensitive pathways and networks involved in various disease conditions. Selenium, being the research focus and interest of the authors for years, the role of selenium as an antioxidant as part of selenoproteins has been included in the book.

This book presents an early software reliability prediction model that will help to grow the reliability of software systems by monitoring it in each development phase, from requirement to testing.

Climate Resilient Agriculture for Ensuring Food Security

This book offers lucid, focused narratives of the space programmes of various Asian states. It examines various major drivers in connection with growth of space programmes in the region and develops futuristic scenarios.

Focusing on a subset of Ramanujan's significant papers, this book gives an informal account of major developments that emanated from his work in the 20th and 21st centuries. The essays presented here show how Ramanujan shaped the course of modern mathematics.

This book introduces Ramanujan's mathematics and compares his work with other great mathematicians. It examines such contributions as his formulae for pi, his groundbreaking work in the theory of partitions, and his fundamental observations on quadratic forms.

This book explores how in contemporary India the emerging sense of individuality in youth is seeking its own balance of relationality with parental figures and cohesion with social order. It provides psychological perspectives on the dynamics of social change.

This book offers an in-depth and systematic analysis of foreign direct investment (FDI) policies and flows by country and for South Asia as a whole. It presents a comprehensive analysis on future reforms and challenges of attracting more FDI.