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The Rio de Janeiro-Earth Summit, held in Brazil in 1992, focused on sustainable development to encourage respect and concern for the use of natural resources in a sustainable manner for the protection of the environment.

This volume discusses how diasporas have evolved and engaged in economic, social and cultural domains of their host and home countries across the globe.

This book is a compilation of various chapters contributed by a group of leading researchers from different countries and covering up to date information based on published reports and personal experience of authors in the field of cytogenetics.

This is a collection of literature authored by noted researchers having signatory status in endophytic research and summarizes the development achieved so far, and future prospects for further research in this fascinating area of research.

Plant signalling has emerged as an integrated field which has become indispensable in recent times to study any biological process. It is now possible to view the different information's in a systems biology approach which has unravelled the association/ new processes and thus helped us enormously in understanding of the biological processes.

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.

This book contains advanced-level research material in the area of lubrication theory and related aspects, presented by eminent researchers during the International Conference on Advances in Tribology and Engineering Systems (ICATES 2013) held at Gujarat Technological University, Ahmedabad, India during October 15-17, 2013.

This book examines the effect of deregulation in the Indian banking sector during the post-reforms years, particularly on cost efficiency and total factor productivity. It's findings offer useful policy directions and suggestions to other developing economies.

This book discusses rural interventions in India and Indonesia, as they influence urbanization and its problems and solutions; urban governance, infrastructure programs, service delivery reforms and their evaluation; and urbanization and the environment.

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 outlines detailed studies using preclinical murine models in inflammation. It provides valuable insights into human stem cell culture and differentiation as well as offers novel information on how combination cultures can help boost immunity.

"Omics for Personalized Medicine" will give to its prospective readers the insight of both the current developments and the future potential of personalized medicine.

This book is a concise, comprehensive and up-to-date account of fundamental concepts and potential applications of biological timekeeping mechanisms in animals and humans. The book also focuses on biological clock applications in a 24x7 human society, particularly in connection with life-style associated disorders like obesity and diabetes.

This book analyses the reasons for relying on behavioural contraception methods among urban 'elites' in India and examines their efficacy in controlling fertility.

This book is intended to describe how to leverage emerging technologies big data analytics and SDN, to address challenges specific to LTE and IP network performance and fault management data in order to more efficiently manage and operate an LTE wireless networks.

India is known to have the gift of its unique river systems have abundant water resources but ironically India faces severe water crises and other water management issues on a vast scale. The water related issues in India varies with both time and space.

One of the most striking and profound findings is the non-existence of non-classical quantum isometry groups for arbitrary classical connected compact manifolds and, by using this, the authors explicitly describe quantum isometry groups of most of the noncommutative manifolds studied in the literature.

Although QSIs do not affect growth and are less likely to impose selective pressure on bacteria, however, a few reports have raised doubts on the fate of QSIs.

ZnO has been the central theme of research in the past decade due to its various applications in band gap engineering, and textile and biomedical industries. These chapters will help researchers to understand and explore the varied physical properties to envisage device applications of ZnO in thin film, heterostructure and nanostructure forms.

This book highlights the state-of-the-art with regard to inline pipe investigation and structural health monitoring of pipes. The book begins with applications of pipe inspection robots, and goes on to discuss. The book also introduces smart materials and smart sensors for use in pipe inspection robots.

Lastly, part four discusses emerging issues in finance like behavioral finance, Islamic finance, and international financial reporting standards.The book fills the gap in the existing finance literature and helps fund managers and individual investors make more accurate investment decisions.

This volume emphasises the sociological view that cities are primarily about people, not places or buildings, and explores the social dynamics of urban space in globalising India.

Many of our daily-life problems can be written in the form of an optimization problem. It is immensely helpful for young graduates and researchers who are pursuing research in this field, as it provides abundant research resources for researchers and post-doctoral fellows.

This book discusses doing business and making profit on the right side of the law.

This book examines the concept of the self, addressing the place of self in the lives of humans and nonhuman primates; and interrelations of the self and consciousness, which contribute to understanding of cognitive functions, awareness, free will and more.

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 monogram discusses various aspects of nutritional quality of maize such as quality protein maize which has been considered as most significant discovery in enhancing nutritional quality of cereals in terms of increasing the concentration of essential amino acids.

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