Oxygen Responses, Reactivities, and Measurements in Biosystems meets the pressing needs of the twentieth-century biotechnological and bioengineering sciences in covering oxic reactions and oxygen transport phenomena in a single book. This book is intended for teaching senior or graduate level courses and as a self-study text for practicing biochemical and chemical engineers, biotechnologists, applied and industrial microbiologists, cell biologists, scientists involved in oxygen-free radical research, and others in related fields. The text includes thought-provoking numerical problems and short questions, conventional biochemical engineering approaches and related concepts with mathematical formulations and analysis, concepts of cell biology, basic microbiology and applied biochemistry in oxy radical research, practical approaches for the development of laboratory experiments and industrial design, and an introduction of oxygen-free radical chemistry to biotechnology and bioengineering.

Newer intellectual challenges for process biotechnology (PB) have emerged with impressive recent progress of gene-concerned and nano-systemic biosystems and the parallel developments in the related instruments/equipment/machines for analytical methodologies. These progresses have convinced universities/institutes and affiliatedcolleges that biotechnology (BT)/PB is one of the key areas for R&D and education in biochemical engineering/chemical engineering and their related interdisciplinary highereducation areas for human resource development (HRD). This book has the following unique features: Integration of academic and practical bioprocessing principles towards process biotechnology development. Research generated data never before published in a single collated text. Detailed aspects of oxygen mass transfer in biological systems. Ways to control undesirable microorganisms. Provides scope for progressive development in scale up of industrialbioprocessing system. Systematic design engineering calculations of bioprocessing systems. PCR instrumental analysis: theory, engineering and technology. Heat and mass transfer concerns in rDNA bioreactors. Innovative microbial microfermentation equipment and aspect. Nanosystemic PB concerns in bioelectricity generation in biofuel cell. Nanosight instrument and use in analytical biosystems. Enhancing scopes of BTBE in PB and education. Abundance of illustrative tables, figures and mathematical relations. Numerous mathematical problems and multiple choice questions.

This book examines the opportunity for 'inclusion and empowerment' of the citizen in the governance process as the transformational stage of democratic governance in India while investigating the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) and Right to Information Act (RTI) implementation objectives in India and the ground realities to understand the barriers, gaps and bridging strategies and the need for innovation in e-Governance services. The process of identification of transformational service quality attributes follows (i) literature review, (ii) focussed group discussions (FGD), interviews and workshops (iii) in-depth study on Right to Information (RTI). The research is carried out by studying the award winning innovative project Jankari-A RTI call centre in Bihar, India. Technology dissolves barriers but creates new challenges. Trust based civil society re-intermediation enhances adoption and satisfaction of Transformational e-Governance. Therefore, at Transformational stage the duality is 'dis-intermediation' Vs 'Re-Intermediation'. The model suggested would be useful for evaluating any other national e-Governance Plan.

With the ever-increasing population need of the hour is to feed the citizenry by suitably processing and preserving the excess food so that spoilage is minimum. Thus, to keep pace with the accelerating need of food preservation, food technology is making incredible growth around the globe. The spotlight of the book Food Engineering: Process and Technology is on – treatment, quantification and design which provide scholars and students with the skills to identify the threats and protect against them.