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This book presents a systems approach to bioenergy and provides a means to capture the complexity of bioenergy issues, including both direct and indirect impacts across the energy economy.

This book provides practical morphological information, together with detailed illustrations and brief explanatory texts. Each chapter starts with a brief introduction, and goes on to describe the respective organism's morphology in detail through numerous illustrations.

Evolution of ideas such as mass education, national education, adult literacy and education through public-private-partnerships showcase the momentous shifts in education policy over the course of last century.

This book covers all aspects of modern finance relating to portfolio theory and risk-return relationship, offering a comprehensive guide to the importance, measurement and application of the risk-return hypothesis in portfolio management.

This has sparked systematic efforts at the local, national and global levels to connect this neglected knowledge to the modern world.It discusses the origin of the topic, its importance, recent developments in India and abroad, and what is being done and still needs to be done in order to preserve India's traditional knowledge.

This book brings together disparate views which attempt to locate India in the contemporary international legal order. Drawing upon the current and historical practices from their respective fields, the authors attempt to highlight some critical aspects involving India and international law.

This book covers all major aspects of cutting-edge research in the field of neuromorphic hardware engineering involving emerging nanoscale devices.

This volume brings together eminent Tagore scholars and younger writers to revisit the concepts of nation, nationalism, identity and selfhood, civilization, culture and homeland in Tagore's writings. It encompasses critical examinations of Tagore's literary works and other art forms as well as adaptations of his works on film.

Moreover, this book gives in depth analysis of selection and evaluation of suppliers for traditional supply chain, closed loop supply chain, supply chain for customized product, green supply chain, sustainable supply chain and also depicts methods for supply base reduction and selection of large number of suppliers.

This book focuses on the challenges of capacity building for flexible work organizations in Asia, and demonstrates how business enterprises practice reactive flexible capacity (in the form of adaptiveness and responsiveness) to cope with changing and uncertain business environments.

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

This book offers an ideal introduction to singular perturbation problems, and a valuable guide for researchers in the field of differential equations.

This book provides practical morphological information, together with detailed illustrations and concise texts explaining each entry.

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.

This book examines the objectives of public debt management and the re-emerging issue of separating monetary policy formulation from fiscal and debt management.

This book offers a collection of recent contributions and emerging ideas in the areas of robust statistics presented at the International Conference on Robust Statistics 2015 (ICORS 2015) held in Kolkata during 12-16 January, 2015.

This book has a collection of articles written by Big Data experts to describe some of the cutting-edge methods and applications from their respective areas of interest, and provides the reader with a detailed overview of the field of Big Data Analytics as it is practiced today.

This volume is a critical exploration of multiple posthuman possibilities in the 21st century and beyond.

The book is a collection of high-quality peer-reviewed research papers presented in the first International Conference on Signal, Networks, Computing, and Systems (ICSNCS 2016) held at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India during February 25-27, 2016.

For the first time, the mathematical work of Kosambi is described, collected and presented in a manner that is accessible to non-mathematicians as well. Each of the twenty four papers is prefaced by a commentary on the significance of the work, and where possible, extracts from technical reviews by other mathematicians.

The book presents recent research on marine ecology in different parts of the world. Four major ecosystem service categories have been identified within this context, namely provisioning services such as water, food, mangrove timber, honey, fish, wax, fuel wood, fodder and bioactive compounds from marine and estuarine flora and fauna;

The book presents a succinct summary of methods for the synthesis and biological activities of various different-sized bioactive heterocycles using different green chemistry synthetic methodologies, like microwave, ultrasonic, water mediated, ionic liquids, etc.

The book focuses on an image processing technique known as binarization. In addition to this, the book presents techniques for preparing a reference image which is very much important for quantitative evaluation of the binarization techniques.

The book deals primarily with the aspects like energy resources and its proper utilization, disposal of various forms of wastes and its effects and effects of major catastrophic events like nuclear disasters, global warming, etc.

This book attempts to capture innovation outcomes. The intent is on a holistic assessment of value creation by innovation - the societal value that it delivers to humanity, the economic value that it has the potential to endow to nations, and the monetary value that it provides to innovating firms.

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.

This book offers a South Asian perspective on international law, maintaining a suitable distance from the 'Western' approach.

This volume contains 73 papers presented at ICMEET 2015:International Conference on Microelectronics, Electromagnetics andTelecommunications. The conference was held during 18 - 19 December, 2015 atDepartment of Electronics and Communication Engineering, GITAM Institute ofTechnology, GITAM University, Visakhapatnam, INDIA.

Magnetic perovskite with multi functional properties (magneto-resistive, magneto-dielectric, multiferroics, spintronics, etc.) have attracted increasing attention due to their possible applications towards storage materials and intriguing fundamental Physics.