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This book presents focussed information related to dynamic cropland
transformation, agriculture development, climate change and
environment with the application of advance geospatial technology.
It describes research using geospatial tools and techniques to
develop the models, design, and planning for agricultural land use
optimization especially in south Asian countries. It covers
agriculture production, water scarcity, industrial development,
natural resources, environmental degradation, and sustainable
development. Features: • Provides the adaptation strategy from a
multidisciplinary resilience perspective • Addresses contemporary
agricultural resilience to various climate change issues •
Develops novel approaches for sustainability with environmentally
sound practices • Discusses methodological and innovative
approaches at local to global perspective • Reports research
using geospatial tools and techniques to develop the models, design
and planning for agricultural land use optimization The book is
aimed at researchers, professionals and graduate students in GIS,
Environmental Engineering, Geography, Agriculture, and Climate
studies.
This book covers computational statistics-based approaches for
Artificial Intelligence. The aim of this book is to provide
comprehensive coverage of the fundamentals through the applications
of the different kinds of mathematical modelling and statistical
techniques and describing their applications in different
Artificial Intelligence systems. The primary users of this book
will include researchers, academicians, postgraduate students, and
specialists in the areas of data science, mathematical modelling,
and Artificial Intelligence. It will also serve as a valuable
resource for many others in the fields of electrical, computer, and
optical engineering. The key features of this book are: Presents
development of several real-world problem applications and
experimental research in the field of computational statistics and
mathematical modelling for Artificial Intelligence Examines the
evolution of fundamental research into industrialized research and
the transformation of applied investigation into real-time
applications Examines the applications involving analytical and
statistical solutions, and provides foundational and advanced
concepts for beginners and industry professionals Provides a
dynamic perspective to the concept of computational statistics for
analysis of data and applications in intelligent systems with an
objective of ensuring sustainability issues for ease of different
stakeholders in various fields Integrates recent methodologies and
challenges by employing mathematical modeling and statistical
techniques for Artificial Intelligence
Small Area Estimation and Microsimulation Modeling is the first
practical handbook that comprehensively presents modern statistical
SAE methods in the framework of ultramodern spatial microsimulation
modeling while providing the novel approach of creating synthetic
spatial microdata. Along with describing the necessary theories and
their advantages and limitations, the authors illustrate the
practical application of the techniques to a large number of
substantive problems, including how to build up models, organize
and link data, create synthetic microdata, conduct analyses, yield
informative tables and graphs, and evaluate how the findings
effectively support the decision making processes in government and
non-government organizations. Features Covers both theoretical and
applied aspects for real-world comparative research and regional
statistics production Thoroughly explains how microsimulation
modeling technology can be constructed using available datasets for
reliable small area statistics Provides SAS codes that allow
readers to utilize these latest technologies in their own work.
This book is designed for advanced graduate students, academics,
professionals and applied practitioners who are generally
interested in small area estimation and/or microsimulation modeling
and dealing with vital issues in social and behavioural sciences,
applied economics and policy analysis, government and/or social
statistics, health sciences, business, psychology, environmental
and agriculture modeling, computational statistics and data
simulation, spatial statistics, transport and urban planning, and
geospatial modeling.
This book presents a comprehensive and detailed description of
remediation techniques for metal-contaminated soils derived from
both natural processes and anthropogenic activities. Using a
methodical, step-by-step presentation, the book starts by
overviewing the origin of toxicants and the correlated comparative
extent of contamination to the environment. The legal provisions as
proposed or applied in different countries are then discussed to
explain the global regulatory situation regarding soil
contamination and the extent of consequent concern. The core part
of this publication describes the major techniques for in situ or
ex situ treatment of the contaminated soil to meet the regulatory
limits. Finally, risk evaluation is incorporated, giving special
attention to possible impacts during or after implementation of the
remediation strategies. The intrusion of metals in soils mostly
occurs from various anthropogenic activities, e.g., agricultural
practices, industrial activities, and municipal waste disposal. The
volumes of metal-contaminated soil are becoming greater than before
and are ever-increasing due to rapid urbanization, intensified
industrialization, and/or population booms in certain parts of the
world. Hence, the options previously proposed, such as isolation of
the contaminated site or movement of the contaminated mass to a
secure disposal site after excavation, are becoming unsuitable from
the economic point of view, and instead, decontamination
alternatives are preferred. This book will help readers such as
scientists and regulators to understand the details of the
remediation techniques available to deal with the soils
contaminated by toxic metals.
In the quarter century since its emergence from military rule and
integration into the global economy, Bangladesh's economy has
achieved high growth, reduced aid dependence and made remarkable
improvement in social indicators while at the same time it
continues to suffer from increasing inequality. This book analyses
these successes and failures.
A volume of essays by a number of economists to honour Nurul Islam,
an Asian economist who made important contributions as an academic
economist and political planner. The essays fall under three
subject headings - international trade and aid, planning and rural
development.
The introductory chapter briefly presents the fundamental
topologies and operation of power inverters. The second chapter
contains a description of wavelet basis functions and sampling
theory with particular reference to the switching model of
inverters. Chapter three outlines the connection between the
non-uniform sampling theorem and wavelet functions to develop an
ideal sampling-reconstruction process to operate an inverter for
obtaining its optimal performances. The scale based linearly
combined basis functions are developed in chapter four in order to
successfully operate single phase wavelet modulated inverters.
Chapter four also contains the development of the non-dyadic type
multiresolution analysis, that are responsible for sampling and
recontruction of three continuous time reference modulating signals
for three phase inverters. The performances of single phase wavelet
modulated inverters for static, dynamic and non-linear loads are
presented in chapter five, while chapter six contains the
simulation and experimental performances of three phase wavelet
modulated voltage source inverters for different loads at various
operating conditions. This book presents the latest technology in
the advancing power electronics field.
This book presents innovative work by leading academics,
researchers, and experts from industry which is useful for young
researchers and students. This book includes selected papers from
International Conference on Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems
(ICPS 2021), held at Indian Institute of Information Technology
Kota (IIIT Kota), MNIT Jaipur Campus, Jaipur, India, during 16-18
April 2021. The book is a collection of the state-of-the art
research work in the cutting-edge technologies related to the
artificial intelligence and cyber physical systems.
This book presents innovative work by leading academics,
researchers, and experts from industry which is useful for young
researchers and students. This book includes selected papers from
International Conference on Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems
(ICPS 2021), held at Indian Institute of Information Technology
Kota (IIIT Kota), MNIT Jaipur Campus, Jaipur, India, during 16-18
April 2021. The book is a collection of the state-of-the art
research work in the cutting-edge technologies related to the
artificial intelligence and cyber physical systems.
The present investigation was undertaken to study the bioecology
and development of preventive and self sustaining methods of pest
control by various cultural manipulations against two major insect
pests of mango, mango leaf hopper Amritodus atkinsoni (Homoptera:
Cicadellidae) and shoot gall psylla Apsylla cistellata (Buckton)
(Homoptera: Psyllidae). Experiments were conducted at the
Horticultural Research Centre, Patharchatta with a view to find out
the effect of orientation and light intensity on floral biology,
pollinators and hoppers, population dynamics of hoppers in relation
to weather parameters, loss assessment by hoppers, effect of plant
density and impact of different agronomic practices on hoppers,
role of pest, diseases and flower hormones on fruit harvest, and
lastly, effect of insecticides and biopesticides on shoot gall
psylla.
Arsenic, a deadly toxic element, is widely distributed in
freshwater systems with an average concentration of approximately
1.7 g/L, predominantly as inorganic forms, from natural and
anthropogenic sources. Phytoremediation, a plant-based eco-friendly
technology, is receiving increasing attention, and aquatic plants
can be used for the remediation of arsenic-contaminated water.
Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes), duckweeds (Lemna spp.,
Spirodela polyrhiza), water fern (Azolla spp.), hydrilla (Hydrilla
verticillata) and watercress (Lepidium sativum) have been studied
to assess their potential for arsenic phytoremediation. Arsenic is
mainly taken up by aquatic plants through the phosphate uptake
pathway, however, physico-chemical adsorption of arsenate on
aquatic plant surfaces also contributes significantly in arsenic
accumulation in the plants. Phosphate and iron influence arsenate
uptake, while these chemicals do not influence arsenite, MMAA and
DMAA uptake in aquatic plants. From my studies, I proposed that
aquatic floating macrophytes such as duckweed (Spirodella
polyrhiza) and water fern (Azolla pinnata) can be used for the
remediation of arsenic from freshwater."
Micro - Finance (MF) has proved to be an effective tool towards
poverty alleviation and economic empowerment of women in a number
of Third World countries, Bangladesh Brazil are the best examples
of this claim. India with more or less the same realties as many
other countries, also recognized the potential of MF for poverty
alleviation and adopted Micro - finance to achieve the similar
results of reducing poverty and inequality in early 80's. Though MF
in India achieved substantial growth, however, this industry is
facing a number of challenges today and calls for some good and
context specific wise policies and rigorous implementation. This
can be effective in making MF work towards fulfilling its promises
of making contribution to alleviating poverty and empowering women
by ensuring outreach of MF services the poorest of the poor. The
monograph is an endeavour to analyze multiple challenges prevailing
in the industry and draw up on policy prescriptions to cope these
challenges.
In real life often we need to make inferences about the behaviour
of the unobserved responses for a model based on the observed
responses from the model. Regression models with normal errors are
commonly considered in prediction problems. However, when the
underlying distributions have heavier tails, the normal errors
assumption fails to allow sufficient probability in the tail areas
to make allowance for any extreme value or outliers. As well, it
cannot deal with the uncorrelated but not independent observations
which are common in time series and econometric studies. In such
situations, the Student-t errors assumption is appropriate.
Traditionally, a number of statistical methods such as the
classical, structural distribution and structural relations
approaches can lead to prediction distributions, the Bayesian
approach is more sound in statistical theory. This book, therefore,
deals with the derivation problems of prediction distributions for
some widely used linear models having Student-t errors under the
Bayesian approach. Results reveal that our models are robust and
the Bayesian approach is competitive with traditional methods. In
perturbation analysis, process control, optimization,
classification, discordancy testing, interim analysis, speech
recognition, online environmental learning and sampling curtailment
studies predictive inferences are successfully used.
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