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The book presents firsthand material from the authors on design of hydraulic canals. The book includes explicit design equations and design procedures along with design examples for varied cases.

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.

Marker-assisted plant breeding involves the application of molecular marker techniques and statistical and bioinformatics tools to achieve plant breeding objectives in a cost-effective and time-efficient manner.

The book addresses the sustainability of cities in the context of sustainability science and its application to the city boundary.

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

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 present book is based on the research papers presented in the International Conference on Emerging Trends in Science, Engineering and Technology 2012, held at Tiruchirapalli, India.

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.

Using implementation studies from Asia Pacific countries on meeting the 2015 deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals, this book demonstrate the role of communities in making governance effective and government responsive to the needs of people.

The papers included in this volume cover several aspects of human capital. It starts with the role of human capital in influencing productivity, employment and growth of employment.

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.

Swallowing difficulty or dysphagia is a common disorder and affects all age groups from the newborn to the elderly. Improved understanding of the physiology of swallowing, advances in endoscopic and radiological techniques along with an increasing elderly population has resulted in development of a separate swallowing disorders discipline.

and iv) alternative approaches to green and socio-economic systems.The analyses, presented by some of the most eminent national and international scholars, address the major environmental challenges that nations around the world face today and consider which specific policy directions at the international and national level are needed.

Uveitis comprises a group of intraocular diseases that poses a diagnostic challenge to the ophthalmologists of all subspecialties, including uveitis specialists.

It examines how humanitarian logistics and supply chains play a key role, focusing on rapidly delivering the correct amount of goods, people and monetary resources to the locations needed to achieve the success of relief efforts in response to global emergencies such as flood, earthquakes, wars etc.

This book discusses recent developments in semigroup theory and its applications in areas such as operator algebras, operator approximations and category theory.

This book discusses recent developments in and the latest research on mathematics, statistics and their applications. All contributing authors are eminent academics, scientists, researchers and scholars in their respective fields, hailing from around the world. The book presents roughly 60 unpublished, high-quality and peer-reviewed research papers that cover a broad range of areas including approximation theory, harmonic analysis, operator theory, fixed-point theory, functional differential equations, dynamical and control systems, complex analysis, special functions, function spaces, summability theory, Fourier and wavelet analysis, and numerical analysis ¿ all of which are topics of great interest to the research community ¿ while further papers highlight important applications of mathematical analysis in science, engineering and related areas. This conference aims at bringing together experts and young researchers in mathematics from all over the world to discuss the latest advances in mathematical analysis and at promoting the exchange of ideas in various applications of mathematics in engineering, physics and biology. This conference encourages international collaboration and provides young researchers an opportunity to learn about the current state of the research in their respective fields.

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

Water Resource Economics

Eco-friendly Polymer Nanocomposites

Eco-friendly Polymer Nanocomposites

Proteostasis is central to the development of various human diseases caused due to excessive protein misfolding and the disregulation of the protein quality control system.

Being a complex disease that affects millions of people world over, cancer research has assumed great significance. The IVth International Symposium on Translational Cancer Research held in Udaipur, India in December 2011, discussed various aspects of the biological processes in cancer cells and approaches to cancer prevention.

Uterine cancers are the commonest malignancies of the female genital tract in the developed world, and are increasing in numbers world over because of obesity and other life-style changes.

The authors provide insight for answers of common patient and provider questions about HPV infection and related disease, and highlight remaining questions to be answered in the coming years.

This book examines the performance of organized retail chains supplying the agri-input and output services in terms of achieving their objective of utilising collective bargaining power in the marketing of their agricultural produce, integrating empirical experience from India and other selected developing countries.

This book covers resonating modes inside device and gives insights into antenna design, impedance and radiation patterns. The text covers new approaches in antenna design by investigation hybrid modes, H_Z and E_Z fields available simultaneously, and analysis and modelling on modes with practical applications in antenna design.

The present volume is a compilation of research work in computation, communication, vision sciences, device design, fabrication, upcoming materials and related process design, etc.

This book deals with reliability and evaluation of renewable energy based electricity generating schemes. It quantifies wind power prediction as well as measures capacity benefit and capacity credit of wind and solar power systems.

The book is a collection of peer-reviewed scientific papers submitted by active researchers in the 36th National System Conference (NSC 2012). The book presents various research articles in the area of system modelling in all disciplines of engineering sciences as well as socio-economic systems.