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Animal (Hardcover)
Munish K Batra, Keith R. A. DeCandido
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Eriqa Queen; Cover design or artwork by Nancy Batra; Illustrated by Erik Istrup
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This book is step-by-step practical tool for a truly liberated
life. It would help any reader to understand life threadbare and
then manage it based on ancient Indian wisdom, universal love, and
human values.
This book provides an empirically formulated foundation for
conflict-sensitive conservation, a field in which the existing
literature relies primarily on anecdotal evidence. Seeking to
better understand the impact of conflict on the implementation and
outcomes of environmental projects, the Global Environment Facility
(GEF) Independent Evaluation Office and the Environmental Law
Institute undertook an evaluation of GEF support to fragile and
conflict-affected contexts. Following a qualitative and
quantitative analysis of documents from more than 4000 projects,
the research team discovered a statistically significant negative
correlation between a country’s Fragile States Index score and
the implementation quality of environmental projects in that
country. In this book, the evaluation and research team explain
these groundbreaking findings in detail, highlighting seven key
case studies: Afghanistan, Albertine Rift, Balkans, Cambodia,
Colombia, Lebanon and Mali. Drawing upon additional research and
interviews with GEF project implementation staff, the volume
illustrates the pathways through which conflict and fragility
frequently impact environmental projects. It also examines how
practitioners and sponsoring institutions can plan and implement
their projects to avoid or mitigate these issues and find
opportunities to promote peacebuilding through their environmental
interventions. Examining data from 164 countries and territories,
this innovative book will be of great interest to students and
scholars of environmental management, conservation, international
development and the fast-growing field of environmental
peacebuilding. It will also be a great resource for practitioners
working in these important fields.
Oral cancer can affect any part of the mouth, including the tongue
and lips. Symptoms include a sore or ulcer that does not heal after
three or more weeks. Accurate and rapid diagnosis can help in
extending survival and preventing the progression of
disease. This book is a practical guide to the diagnosis and
treatment of oral cancer. Divided into 36 sections, the text begins
with an overview of the surgical anatomy of oral cavities,
epidemiology, prevention, pathology, and staging of oral cancer,
then imaging techniques. The following chapters examine the
management of numerous different forms of oral cancer, concluding
with a case presentation and National Comprehensive Cancer Network
(NCCN) guidelines. The extensive text is highly illustrated with
clinical photographs, diagrams and tables.
Mobile commerce, or M-commerce, is booming as many utilize their
mobile devices to complete transactions ranging from personal
shopping to managing and organizing business operations. The
emergence of new technologies such as money sharing and
transactional applications have revolutionized the way we do
business. Wholeheartedly adopted by both the business world and
consumers, mobile commerce has taken its seat at the head of the
mobile app economy.Securing Transactions and Payment Systems for
M-Commerce seeks to present, analyze, and illustrate the challenges
and rewards of developing and producing mobile commerce
applications. It will also review the integral role M-commerce
plays in global business. As consumers' perceptions are taken into
account, the authors approach this burgeoning topic from all
perspectives. This reference publication is a valuable resource for
programmers, technology and content developers, students and
instructors in the field of ICT, business professionals, and mobile
app developers.
The present book includes a set of selected best papers from the
3rd International Conference on Recent Developments in Science,
Engineering and Technology (REDSET 2016), held in Gurgaon, India,
from 21 to 22 October 2016. The conference focused on the
experimental, theoretical and application aspects of innovations in
computational intelligence and provided a platform for the
academicians and scientists. This book provides an insight into
ongoing research and future directions in this novel, continuously
evolving field. Many decades have been devoted to creating and
refining methods and tools for computational intelligence such as
Artificial Neural Networks, Evolutionary Computation, Fuzzy Logic,
Computational Swarm Intelligence and Artificial Immune Systems.
However, their applications have not yet been broadly disseminated.
Computational intelligence can be used to provide solutions to many
real-life problems, which could be translated into binary
languages, allowing computers to process them. These problems,
which involve various fields such as robotics, bioinformatics,
computational biology, gene expression, cancer classification,
protein function prediction, etc., could potentially be solved
using computational intelligence techniques.
As the markets in transitional economies open and grow, major
challenges and opportunities arise for multinational firms entering
these markets, local firms facing these new competitors, and
policymakers seeking to increase the ability of all firms to
compete fairly and efficiently. Yet despite the important questions
transition economies pose for policymakers and companies seeking to
enter and compete in these new markets, there has been a relative
absence of systematic research on these concerns. This book seeks
to fill a gap in the existing literature by offering a pioneering
and comprehensive examination of issues that have developed as
markets in transitional economies become more deregulated and open.
The countries discussed include China, the Czech Republic, Hungary,
India, Poland, Romania, Russia, South Africa and South Korea. The
topics covered are divided into five main sections, and the
individual chapters are written by some of the world's leading
academic experts on these issues. Most of the authors draw from
freshly-collected data in new studies of consumers and/or firms in
transitional economies. After an opening section which discusses
the marketing issues and challenges multinational and local firms
face in transitional economies, the next three sections offer
detailed treatments of changing consumer behavior, measuring and
improving the marketing orientation of firms, and implementing and
managing distribution channels. The fifth and final section is
devoted to firm strategies and tactics, examined variously from the
perspective of multinational firms entering these new markets, from
the viewpoint of existing local firms facing new competitive
challenges from global entrants, and from the perspective of local
firms seeking to establish themselves in foreign markets where they
have not previously competed. Most of the individual chapters are
revised versions of papers originally presented at a conference
sponsored by the William Davidson Institute, which focuses on
research related to emerging and transitional economies, and have
not previously appeared in published form. Thus, the book is a
unique collection of cutting-edge scholarship on the various
aspects of marketing in transitional economies. It will prove
valuable reading to academics, policymakers, and international
business strategists.
This book analyses India's trade policy evolution in the last two
decades in the broad context of trends and patterns in global trade
and in particular, with reference to the emergence of global value
chains (GVCs). Through an in-depth analysis of its trade policy
evolution in the 2000s, the author explains India's limited share
of global merchandise trade, especially manufacturing trade and
relatively low GVC integration. The book discusses India's trade
policy, pattern and global trade participation not just in the
comparative context of China as is true of most analyses relating
to the Indian economy, economic reforms and trade liberalization in
India but also in the context of regional economies like Vietnam,
Thailand, Malaysia, Bangladesh and other emerging market economies
(EMEs) that have successfully integrated with GVCs/ RVCs in the
period under reference. Progress and nature of India's value chain
participation relative to other economies has been evaluated in
this context. The book further examines policy developments with
respect to traditional trade measures like tariffs and export
schemes, trade and GVC related policies in special economic zones
(SEZs) as well as GVC-facilitating policy instruments such as
regional/ free trading agreements (RTAs/FTAs) and investment
treaties. Three sectoral case studies - automobiles, textiles and
apparel and electronics - are presented to examine India's
participation in these dynamic GVC intensive sectors. An important
study of one of the fastest growing economies in the world for
almost two decades, this book will be of substantial interest to
academics and policymakers in the fields of Economics,
International Economics, Foreign Policy, Economic Relations,
Economic Diplomacy, Indian- Southeast/East Asian Economics.
This book provides an empirically formulated foundation for
conflict-sensitive conservation, a field in which the existing
literature relies primarily on anecdotal evidence. Seeking to
better understand the impact of conflict on the implementation and
outcomes of environmental projects, the Global Environment Facility
(GEF) Independent Evaluation Office and the Environmental Law
Institute undertook an evaluation of GEF support to fragile and
conflict-affected contexts. Following a qualitative and
quantitative analysis of documents from more than 4000 projects,
the research team discovered a statistically significant negative
correlation between a country’s Fragile States Index score and
the implementation quality of environmental projects in that
country. In this book, the evaluation and research team explain
these groundbreaking findings in detail, highlighting seven key
case studies: Afghanistan, Albertine Rift, Balkans, Cambodia,
Colombia, Lebanon and Mali. Drawing upon additional research and
interviews with GEF project implementation staff, the volume
illustrates the pathways through which conflict and fragility
frequently impact environmental projects. It also examines how
practitioners and sponsoring institutions can plan and implement
their projects to avoid or mitigate these issues and find
opportunities to promote peacebuilding through their environmental
interventions. Examining data from 164 countries and territories,
this innovative book will be of great interest to students and
scholars of environmental management, conservation, international
development and the fast-growing field of environmental
peacebuilding. It will also be a great resource for practitioners
working in these important fields.
Offers concrete ways to navigate the uncertainty of freelancing to
build a life that is financially and emotionally rewarding. In The
Freelance Mindset we discover our illusions about the way we work
are just that--stories we make up, or, worse, stories that were
made up for us. The current way of work is, in fact, not working
for us, but there is another path forward: one that leverages our
innate creativity and human need to make a living. Readers here
discover what pulls us toward freelancing, develop tools to meet
its challenges, and realize that we can succeed as either
freelancers or traditional employees. What we cannot do is go back
to seeing the world in the limited nine-to-five way we once did.
Author Joy Batra compares traditional employment with the freelance
lifestyle and keenly observes the gaps between the two. She shares
concrete ways to help current and future freelancers navigate the
uncertainty of freelancing in order to build a life that is both
financially and emotionally rewarding.
Differential gene regulation and targeted therapy are the critical
aspects of several cancers. This book covers specific gene
regulation and targeted therapies in different malignancies. It
offers a comprehensive assessment of the transcriptional
dysregulation in cancer, and considers some examples of
transcriptional regulators as definitive oncogenic drivers in solid
tumors, followed by a brief discussion of transcriptional effectors
of the programs they drive, and discusses its specific targets.
Most targeted therapeutics developed to date have been directed
against a limited set of oncogenic drivers, exemplified by those
encoding cell surface or cytoplasmic kinases that function in
intracellular signaling cascades.
Frida is a firefighter and it is her job to protect people from
fires, assisting in other types of emergencies and teaching
children about fire safety. This text is in Turquoise Book Band,
Oxford Reading Level 7. Project X Hero Academy Non-fiction is an
inspirational series of books which broadens children's subject
knowledge, while consolidating their phonics learning and improving
their reading fluency.
Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities demonstrates how late twentieth
century postcolonial print cultures initiated a public discourse on
sexual activism and contends that postcolonial feminist and queer
archives offer alternative histories of sexual precarity,
vulnerability, and resistance. The book's comparative focus on
India, Jamaica, and South Africa extends the valences of
postcolonial feminist and queer studies towards a historical
examination of South-South interactions in the theory and praxis of
sexual rights. Analyzing the circumstances of production and the
contents of English-language and intermittently bilingual magazines
and newsletters published between the late 1970s and the late
1990s, these sources offer a way to examine the convergences and
divergences between postcolonial feminist, gay, and lesbian
activism. It charts a set of concerns common to feminist, gay, and
lesbian activist literature: retrogressive colonial-era legislation
impacting the status of women and sexual minorities; a marked
increase in sexual violence; piecemeal reproductive freedoms and
sexual choice under neoliberalism; the emergence and management of
the HIV/AIDS crisis; precariousness of lesbian and transgender
concerns within feminist and LGBTQ+ movements; and Non-Governmental
Organizations as major actors articulating sexual rights as human
rights. This methodologically innovative work is based on archival
historical research, analyses of national and international policy
documents, close readings of activist publications, and
conversations with activists and founding editors. This is an
important intervention in the field of gender and sexuality studies
and is the winner of the 2020 Feminist Futures, Subversive
Histories prize in partnership with the NWSA. The book is key
reading for scholars and students in gender, sexuality, comparative
literature, and postcolonial studies.
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