This book presents select papers presented during the 6th National Symposium on Rotor Dynamics, held at CSIR-NAL, Bangalore, and focuses on the latest trends in rotor dynamics and various challenges encountered in the design of rotating machinery. The book is of interest to researchers from mechanical, aerospace, tribology and power industries, engineering service providers and academics.

Develop applications and experiences for Microsoft's HoloLens 2 and other Windows mixed reality devices. This easy-to-follow guide removes the mystery behind creating amazing augmented reality and virtual reality experiences. Mixed reality development tools and resources are provided. Beginning Windows Mixed Reality Programming, 2nd edition clearly explains all the nuances of mixed reality software development. You will learn how to create 3D objects and holograms, interact with holograms using voice commands and hand gestures, use spatial mapping and 3D spatial sound, build with toolkits such as Microsoft's Mixed Reality Toolkit and Unity's AR Foundation and XR Platform, create intuitive user interfaces, and make truly awe-inspiring mixed reality experiences. This newly revised edition also includes updated content for HoloLens 2 development, including tutorials for new interactions such as hand tracking and eye tracking. What You Will Learn Prototype ideas quickly for the HoloLens 2 and Windows mixed reality devices Get started with Unity, the preferred tool for developing 3D experiences Locate and import 3D models for your project, or make your own Use spatial sound, voice commands, gestures, hand tracking, and eye tracking Build with Microsoft's Mixed Reality Toolkit and other toolkits to make apps the easy way Publish to the Windows Store and make money from your app Who This Book Is For Programmers looking to quickly learn how to create experiences for HoloLens 2. Also for programmers interested in building applications for the growing crop of virtual reality devices that support the Windows Mixed Reality platform.

This book presents select papers presented during the 6th National Symposium on Rotor Dynamics, held at CSIR-NAL, Bangalore, and focuses on the latest trends in rotor dynamics and various challenges encountered in the design of rotating machinery. The book is of interest to researchers from mechanical, aerospace, tribology and power industries, engineering service providers and academics.

The book contains comprehensive study on intelligent techniques used in design of an intelligent gas recognition system. Authors have mentioned statistical technique and neural network technique in designing of such intelligent gas recognizer. The neural network techniques include classical backpropagation algorithm and hybrid neuro genetic approach. The book provides detailed study on experimental procedures, data collection methods, data preprocessing techniques etc. in course of such intelligent system design. Interesting aspect of this book is its way of presenting various intelligent techniques. Book is offering performance analysis of intelligent techniques with discussion on their respective computational complexity. The book is useful for under graduate, post graduate, and research students in the applied field of science, engineering and technology.

In recent years, power demands around the world and particularly in North America increased rapidly due to increase in customer's demand, while the development in transmission system is rather slow. This stresses the present transmission system and voltage stability becomes an important issue in this regard. Pattern recognition in conjunction with voltage stability analysis could be an effective tool to solve this problem In this thesis, a methodology to detect the voltage stability ahead of time is presented. This gives the operators a chance to take remedial actions and possibility to prevent the voltage collapse. Dynamic simulation software is used to simulate voltage stable and unstable cases, these cases are used to train and test the pattern recognition algorithms. The proposed method is tested on IEEE 39 bus system. Finally, the pattern recognition models to predict the voltage stability of the system are developed.

Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2008 in the subject Health Science, grade: Distinction, University of Leeds (Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development), course: Masters in Health Management, Planning and Policy, language: English, comment: The topic is pertinent and relevant to health management in India. From the literature and with support of statistics from India, a very good rationale was established as to the importance of governance. The aim is to develop strategies to strengthen governance of the district health administration in Bihar, India. Clear and appropriate objectives were established to accomplish this aim. A brief plan is given in the final chapter of how to strategies to improve governance could to implement. The plan identifies organisations, individuals of government that would need to be part of the process., abstract: In recent years, the governance of the health system has become a key issue of discussion for international organisations such as the WHO, the WB, UNDP, USAID and the EC. Furthermore, they state that spending on health would not alone achieve the intended results in health without addressing governance. The District Health Administration (DHA), generally called the office of the Civil Surgeon in Bihar, India, is considered a bridging administrative unit from national and state government to the community at village level. Moreover, this is a full-bodied unit with management and the administrative power under the leadership of Chief Medical Officer/Civil Surgeon and Assistant Chief Medical Officer with various health programme officers and support staff. Although health service delivery is seen to have improved in Bihar in recent years, issues such as leadership, management, accountability and transparency would seen to be weak in the DHA. This study aims to recommend specific strategies to strengthen governance of the DHA in Bihar. In doing so, it first identifies and critically analyses the causes of poor governanc

In recent years, the governance of the health system has become a key issue of discussion for international organisations such as the WHO, the WB, UNDP, USAID and the EC. Furthermore, they state that spending on health would not alone achieve the intended results in health without addressing governance. The study aims to recommend specific strategies to strengthen governance of the DHA in Bihar. In doing so, it first identifies and critically analyses the causes of poor governance. Moreover, it reviews theories and documented effective examples of strengthening governance in the district level health systems in low and middle income countries. The study finally analyses various strategies for strengthening governance and outlines appropriate governance for the DHA. To undertake this study, a framework developed by Brinkerhoff et al. (2008) is used, which covers leadership and management capacity, accountability, community participation and transparency in decision making. The methodology primarily involves reviewing secondary data; however, a number of health and development professionals were contacted to obtain a number of practical experiences.