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Plant stresses are serious threats to the sustainability of crop yields accounting for more crop productivity losses than any other factor in rainfed agriculture.

This wide-ranging treatment of insect and mite pests in viticulture includes a wealth of color illustrations, reviews the latest pest-management techniques, and anticipates future research devlopments. It covers all the key information generated up to 2012.

The brief is the first to focus exclusively on environmentally friendly delivery of pesticides (controlled-release nanoparticulate formulation of pesticides using biodegradable polymers as carriers).

This book examines speech and speaker pattern recognition, speech synthesis, compression and enhancement. Feature extraction techniques, probabilistic models, dimensionality reduction techniques and classifier techniques are demonstrated using Matlab (R).

Chapter 2 discusses diverse theoretical and statistical models - constrained optimization models, game theory, differential equations, and statistical models for causal inference - in a simple manner.

This book explores the shift in public health discourses from a population focus to methodological individualism. It argues for the incorporation of a rights-based perspective to bring social justice and fairness within public health policy.

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Consciousness and the Self

As such, the book is a collection of recent and innovative works in the field Network Security and Cryptography, Cloud Computing and Big Data Analytics, Data Mining and Data Warehouse, Communication and Nanotechnology and VLSI and Image Processing.

The first comprehensive analytical work on cultural memory in South Asia, this volume engages with cultures of memory that survive in speech and gesture, exploring the multilingual subcontinent's heterogeneous responses to European textual inheritances.

Agroforestry, the word coined in early seventies, has made its place in all the developed and the developing countries of the world and is now recognized as an important approach to ensuring food security and rebuilding resilient rural environments.

This book shares the latest developments and advances in materials and processes involved in the energy generation, transmission, distribution and storage. energy policy for new and renewable energy technologies and education for sustainable energy development.

Around the globe, nations face the problem of protecting their Critical Information Infrastructure, normally referred to as Cyber Space. In this monograph, we capture FIVE different aspects of the problem; High speed packet capture, Protection through authentication, Technology Transition, Test Bed Simulation, and Policy and Legal Environment.

Using a mixed-methods approach, this book examines the sustainability of one of the most celebrated forms of social enterprise of our times: Microfinance Institutions (MFIs), with a focus on the Indian microfinance industry.

The Biopolitics of Development

In addition to the group, ring and module theory usually found in a standard modern algebra text, this book discusses group theory, semigroups, groups, topological groups and Lie groups, factorization theory, Noetherian and Artinian rings and more.

The proposed book provides an assessment of an important yet controversial policy initiated by the Indian government and governments of several other developing countries.

Advances in technology now offer promising solutions to deal with the chronological aging of the cell, tissue or organ to synchronize its existence and its use.

This book surveys challenges facing the wireless communication market, and the increasing frequency of operation due to continuous innovation of high performance devices. Examines low quality factor, design complexity and processing cost, with examples.

This book details the non-linear synapse neural network (NoSyNN). It also discusses the applications in computationally intensive tasks like graph coloring, ranking, and linear as well as quadratic programming.

The book "Advances in Biotechnology" is about recent advances in some of the important fields that are ongoing in certain biotechnological applications. The book is intended for biotechnologist, biologist, researchers, teachers and students of Biosciences and Biotechnology.

This book provides the basics of odor, odor analysis techniques, sensors used in odor analysis and overview of odor measurement techniques. For beginners as well researchers this book is a brief guide for odor measurement and analysis.

The National Clean Energy Fund (NCEF), announced in the Government of India's Budget 2010-11, is seen as a major step in India's quest for energy security and reducing the carbon intensity of energy.

The data on various indices including sectoral indices help in measuring the relative efficiency of the market and understanding how liquidity and market capitalization affect the efficiency of the market.

This book discusses consciousness from the perspectives of neuroscience, neuropsychiatry and philosophy. It develops a novel approach in consciousness studies by charting the pathways in which the brain challenges the self and the self challenges the brain.

The main objective of CSAIT 2013 is to provide a forum for researchers, educators, engineers and government officials involved in the general areas of Computational Sciences and Information Technology to disseminate their latest research results and exchange views on the future research directions of these fields.

Kinetic studies have traditionally being extremely useful in characterizing several physical and chemical phenomena in organic, inorganic and metallic systems. Unfortunately, no single reference comprehensively presents nonisothermal kinetic analysis method for the study of complex processes, determining the actual mechanism and kinetic parameters.

The main objective of ICSCTEA 2013 is to provide a platform for researchers, engineers and academicians from all over the world to present their research results and development activities in soft computing techniques and engineering application.

Biotechnology: Prospects and Applications covers the review of recent developments in biotechnology and international authorship presents global issues that help in our understanding of the role of biotechnology in solving important scientific and societal problems for the benefit of mankind and environment.

This commemorative work in honour of Professor Biswajit Chatterjee-an acclaimed economist, learned scholar and researcher-focuses on contemporary issues in international trade, development economics, and macroeconomics and finance.

This volume is a compilation of essays that focus on livelihood issues faced by forest communities of the southern Western Ghats region of India.