This guide to tackling the gender imbalance in technology professions offers expertise, initiatives and true stories to support those wishing to bring greater gender diversity into the workplace. It aims to inform regarding background, theory and policy; advise on concrete actions that can be undertaken, and to be an exemplar for companies, organisations, establishments and campaigns in the form of real-world case studies.

A Few Joys Bunched Up is a delightful book of poems by Shilpa. It will undoubtedly strike a resonant chord with all ages, gender and professions. These poems will move you; owing more to their simplistic style than purely their rhythm. Be it a little toddler, a cute dog, an innocent boy in the park or musings about the magic of Nature; there is an unmistakably unified theme across them: Marvelous.

There is a need to implement early-life predictors of allergic sensitization, so that at-risk newborns can be accurately defined and preventive measures instituted. The work presented in this book gives an in-sight into the possibility of in utero allergen exposure of the fetus in allergic and non-allergic mothers and suggests that maternal environmental exposure influences innate immune functions of the newborn. Three main findings can be emphasized. First, in-utero exposure to HDM allergens Der p1 & Blo t5 is prevalent, second, in-utero T-cell helper function imbalance due to in-utero allergen exposure and third, the newborn may already be on the way to the development of allergic disease.