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This book focuses on the cohering elements across various texts and
traditions of India. It engages with several significant works from
the Sanskrit tradition and emphasizes the need to move beyond
colonial and postcolonial engagements with the enduring cultural
pasts of India. The chapters are grouped in three main parts:
accented rhythms, dispersed mnemoscapes and inventive iterations.
It addresses questions such as: what enabled cultural communication
across very divergent geographical, temporal, locational contexts
and among different cultural formations of India over millennia?
What is this shareable impulse that pulsates across the domains of
dance, sculpture, painting, poetry, dharma, music, medicine, the
lore of rivers and the epics? It explains how modern Indian
languages and especially their creative and reflective nodes are
unthinkable without the intricately woven textures of these
interfaces and their responsive receptions. This book is of
interest to philosophers, humanities students, researchers and
professors as well as people interested in exploring alternatives
to European traditions of thought without an alibi.
This book explores discrimination against Northeast Indians, who
have been frequently stereotyped as backwards, anti-national,
anti-assimilationist, immoral, and relegated to low paying
positions across retail, hospitality, telecommunications and
wellness industries. The contributions draw on interviews with
individuals who have migrated to other Indian cities and towns to
find jobs and escape from native poverty, and provide a critical
examination of the intersections between power, privilege and
racial hierarchy in India today. The chapters cover a variety of
perspectives including social movements and activism, history,
policy, youth studies and gender studies. With a focus on
marginalised communities, and the effects and persistence of racial
inequality in a South Asian context, this collection will be an
important contribution to critical race studies, public policy,
human rights discourse, and social work.
This book focuses on how to improve the teaching and learning of
primary level mathematics education within resource-constrained
contexts. It builds on two large numeracy projects within South
Africa which speak to broader, global concerns and highlight how
research and development not only enables one to meet ethical
imperatives but also explore how further interventions can be
developed. Teacher and research communities must work together to
create mutually beneficial relationships and establish a cohesive
understanding of the requirements of primary mathematics education.
Plant genomics and biotechnology have recently made enormous
strides, and hold the potential to benefit agriculture, the
environment and various other dimensions of the human endeavor. It
is no exaggeration to claim that the twenty-first century belongs
to biotechnology. Knowledge generation in this field is growing at
a frenetic pace, and keeping abreast of the latest advances and
calls on us to double our efforts. Volume II of this two-part
series addresses cutting-edge aspects of plant genomics and
biotechnology. It includes 37 chapters contributed by over 70
researchers, each of which is an expert in his/her own field of
research. Biotechnology has helped to solve many conundrums of
plant life that had long remained a mystery to mankind. This volume
opens with an exhaustive chapter on the role played by thale cress,
Arabidopsis thaliana, which is believed to be the Drosophila of the
plant kingdom and an invaluable model plant for understanding basic
concepts in plant biology. This is followed by chapters on
bioremediation, biofuels and biofertilizers through microalgal
manipulation, making it a commercializable prospect; discerning
finer details of biotic stress with plant-fungal interactions; and
the dynamics of abiotic and biotic stresses, which also figure
elsewhere in the book. Breeding crop plants for desirable traits
has long been an endeavor of biotechnologists. The significance of
molecular markers, marker assisted selection and techniques are
covered in a dedicated chapter, as are comprehensive reviews on
plant molecular biology, DNA fingerprinting techniques, genomic
structure and functional genomics. A chapter dedicated to
organellar genomes provides extensive information on this important
aspect. Elsewhere in the book, the newly emerging area of
epigenetics is presented as seen through the lens of biotechnology,
showcasing the pivotal role of DNA methylation in effecting
permanent and transient changes to the genome. Exclusive chapters
deal with bioinformatics and systems biology. Handy tools for
practical applications such as somatic embryogenesis and
micropropagation are included to provide frontline information to
entrepreneurs, as is a chapter on somaclonal variation.Overcoming
barriers to sexual incompatibility has also long been a focus of
biotechnology, and is addressed in chapters on wide hybridization
and hybrid embryo rescue. Another area of accomplishing triploids
through endosperm culture is included as a non-conventional
breeding strategy. Secondary metabolite production through tissue
cultures, which is of importance to industrial scientists, is also
covered. Worldwide exchange of plant genetic material is currently
an essential topic, as is conserving natural resources in situ.
Chapters on in vitro conservation of extant, threatened and other
valuable germplasms, gene banking and related issues are included,
along with an extensive account of the biotechnology of spices -
the low-volume, high-value crops. Metabolic engineering is another
emerging field that provides commercial opportunities. As is well
known, there is widespread concern over genetically modified crops
among the public. GM crops are covered, as are genetic engineering
strategies for combating biotic and abiotic stresses where no other
solutions are in sight. RNAi- and micro RNA- based strategies for
crop improvement have proved to offer novel alternatives to the
existing non-conventional techniques, and detailed information on
these aspects is also included. The book's last five chapters are
devoted to presenting the various aspects of environmental, marine,
desert and rural biotechnology. The state-of-the-art coverage on a
wide range of plant genomics and biotechnology topics will be of
great interest to post-graduate students and researchers, including
the employees of seed and biotechnology companies, and to
instructors in the fields of plant genetics, breeding and
biotechnology.
The MRS Symposium Proceeding series is an internationally
recognised reference suitable for researchers and practitioners.
Electrocatalysts are the heart of power devices where electricity
is produced via conversion of chemical into electrical energy. -
pressive advances in surface science techniques and in first pr-
ciples computational design are providing new avenues for signi-
cant improvement of the overall efficiencies of such power dev- es,
especially because of an increase in the understanding of el-
trocatalytic materials and processes. For example, the devel- ment
of high resolution instrumentation including various electron and
ion-scattering and in-situ synchrotron spectroscopies, elect-
chemical scanning tunneling microscopy, and a plethora of new
developments in analytical chemistry and electrochemical te-
niques, permits the detailed characterization of atomic
distribution, before, during, and after a reaction takes place,
giving unpre- dented information about the status of the catalyst
during the re- tion, and most importantly the time evolution of the
exposed ca- lytic surfaces at the atomistic level. These techniques
are c- plemented by the use of ab initio methods which do not
require input from experimental information, and are based on
numerical solutions of the time-independent Schrodinger equation
including electron-electron and electron-atom interactions. These
fir- principles computational methods have reached a degree of -
turity such that their use to provide guidelines for interpretation
of experiments and for materials design has become a routine
practice in academic and industrial communities.
This volume provides in-depth coverage of the latest in remote
sensing of hydrological extremes: both floods and droughts. The
book is divided into two distinct sections - floods and droughts -
and offers a variety of techniques for monitoring each. With rapid
advances in computer modelling and observing systems, floods and
droughts are studied with greater precision today than ever before.
Land surface models, especially over the entire Continental United
States, can map the hydrological cycle at kilometre and
sub-kilometre scales. In the case of smaller areas there is even
higher spatial resolution and the only limiting factor is the
resolution of input data. In-situ sensors are automated and the
data is directly relayed to the world wide web for many
hydrological variables such as precipitation, soil moisture,
surface temperature and heat fluxes. In addition, satellite remote
sensing has advanced to providing twice a day repeat observations
at kilometre to ten-kilometre spatial scales. We are at a critical
juncture in the study of hydrological extremes, and the GPM and
SMAP missions as well as the MODIS and GRACE sensors give us more
tools and data than were ever available before. A global variety of
chapter authors provides wide-ranging perspectives and case studies
that will make this book an indispensable resource for researchers,
engineers, and even emergency management and insurance
professionals who study and/or manage hydrological extremes.
Sustainable development is the most important challenge facing
humanity in the 21st century. The global economic growth in the
recent past has indeed exhibited marked progress in many countries.
Nevertheless, the issues of income disparity, poverty, gender gaps,
and malnutrition are not uncommon in the global landscape, in spite
of the upward growth of the economy and technological advances.
This grim picture is further exacerbated by our growing human
population, unmindful resource use, ever-increasing consumption
trends, and changing climate. In order to protect humanity and
preserve the planet, the United Nations issued the "2030 agenda for
sustainable development," which includes but is not limited to
sustainable production and consumption practices, e.g. in a
sustainable bioeconomy. The hallmark of the sustainable bioeconomy
is a paradigm shift from a fossil-fuel-based economy to a
biological-based one, which is driven by the virtues of
sustainability, efficient utilization of resources, and "circular
economy." As the sustainable bioeconomy is based on the efficient
utilization of biological resources and societal transformations,
it holds the immense potential to achieve the UN's Sustainable
Development Goals. This book shares valuable insights into the
linkages between the sustainable bioeconomy and Sustainable
Development Goals, making it an essential read for policymakers,
researchers and students of environmental studies.
This book provides insight into one of the world's quietest human
rights abuses. The story of the Lhotsampa people of Bhutan
describes their journey of coping and resilience, incorporating
qualitative research undertaken in the refugee camps in Nepal and
resettlement areas in Australia and elsewhere in the world.
BRICS is conceivably the most formidable organisation to have
emerged in the post-Cold War period in the non-Western world. This
book highlights the significance of BRICS in a wider global context
and foregrounds the long-pending demand for the reform of global
governance institutions. The volume: * Traces how the organisation
came into being and looks at the distinct norms and principles
espoused by it * Discusses the glaring limitations of the existing
institutions of global governance * Explores the economic growth
and the rising political influence of BRICS states * Analyses the
internal threats to the survival of the organisation and assesses
its prospects in the foreseeable future. A significant intervention
in situating BRICS as one of the major players in global
governance, the book will be of great interest to students and
scholars of international political economy, international business
and finance, international relations, politics, and Global South
Studies.
This volume critically engages with the question of cultural
difference and the idea of living with diversity in the context of
India and Europe. It looks at certain essential European categories
of learning such as art, nature, the human, literature, relation,
philosophy, and the humanities and analyses texts from Sanskrit
language (through Telugu resources) to argue that categories like
prakriti, loka, jati, dharma, karma, sahitya, kala,etc. cannot be
conflated with conceptual formations such as nature, world, caste,
religion, (sanctioned) action, literature and art respectively. The
book questions and unravels the efficacy of European concepts,
theories and interpretive frames in understanding Indian reflective
traditions and cultural forms. It also lays the groundwork for
reorienting teaching and research in universities in the humanities
on the basis of key cultural differences. By focusing on major
themes in the humanities discourse and their limitations, the work
engages with the writings of Heidegger, Derrida and Agamben, among
others, from radically new vantage points of Sanskrit-Indian
reflective traditions, and challenges prevailing ideas about Indian
art, literature and culture. Part of the Critical Humanities Across
Cultures series, this book will be an essential read for scholars
and researchers of Indian languages and literature, comparative
literature, art and aesthetics, postcolonial studies, cultural and
heritage studies, philosophy, political philosophy, comparative
philosophy, Sanskrit studies, India studies, South Asian studies,
Global South studies, and for those working on education in the
humanities/human sciences.
This book develops a model to examine the language of humour, which
is multimodal and accounts for the possibility of transmutation of
humour as it is performed through editorial cartoons. By
transmutation is meant the transition in the language of humour
when it crosses its own boundaries to provoke unprecedented
reactions resulting in offensiveness, disappointment or hurt
sentiment. The transmutability about the language of humour points
to its inherently diabolical nature which manifests in the
performance of controversial cartoons. The model is built by
borrowing theoretical cues from Roman Jakobson, Roland Barthes,
George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. The integrated model, then, is
developed to examine the cartoons which were recommended for
deletion by the Thorat Committee, following a cartoon controversy
in India. Through the cartoon analysis, the model discerns the
significance of context and temporality in determining the impact
of humour. It also examines how the ethics of humour; the blurred
lines of political correctness and incorrectness are dictated by
the political atmosphere and the power dynamics.
BRICS is conceivably the most formidable organisation to have
emerged in the post-Cold War period in the non-Western world. This
book highlights the significance of BRICS in a wider global context
and foregrounds the long-pending demand for the reform of global
governance institutions. The volume: * Traces how the organisation
came into being and looks at the distinct norms and principles
espoused by it * Discusses the glaring limitations of the existing
institutions of global governance * Explores the economic growth
and the rising political influence of BRICS states * Analyses the
internal threats to the survival of the organisation and assesses
its prospects in the foreseeable future. A significant intervention
in situating BRICS as one of the major players in global
governance, the book will be of great interest to students and
scholars of international political economy, international business
and finance, international relations, politics, and Global South
Studies.
This book provides a step-by-step guide on how to use various
publicly available remotely sensed time series data sources for
environmental monitoring and assessment. Readers will learn how to
extract valuable information on global changes from a 20-year
collection of ready-to-use remotely sensed data through the free
open statistical software R and its geographic data analysis and
modeling tools. The case studies are from the Mediterranean
region-a designated hot spot regarding climate change effects. Each
chapter is dedicated to specific remote sensing products chosen for
their spatial resolution. The methods used are adapted from
large-scale to smaller-scale problems for different land cover
areas. Features Includes real-world applications of environmental
remotely sensed data Analyzes the advantages and restrictions of
each data source Focuses on a wide spectrum of applications, such
as hydrology, vegetation changes, land surface temperature, fire
detection, and impacts Includes R computer codes with explanatory
comments and all applications use only freely available remotely
sensed data Presents a step-by-step processing through open source
GIS and statistical analysis software Advanced Environmental
Monitoring with Remote Sensing Time Series Data and R describes and
provides details on recent advances concerning publicly available
remotely sensed time series data in environmental monitoring and
assessment. This book is a must-have practical guide for
environmental researchers, professionals, and students.
The existential environmental crisis prompted the United Nations to
formulate the Millennium Development Goals at the turn of the 21st
century in order to embark on an era of sustainable development.
The progress and deficiencies in achieving the Millennium
Development Goals provided impetus to the intelligentsia and
policymakers to map out the pertinent goals for a sustainable
growth trajectory for humanity and the planet. The United Nations'
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which was adopted in
September 2015, took the shape of 17 Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs) and 169 targets. In effect, the 17 Sustainable Development
Goals focus on protecting the earth's life support systems for
intra- and inter-generational equity and for development that is
rooted in sustainability science. Attaining these goals is an
uphill task; nevertheless, scientific knowledge, trans and
interdisciplinary inquiries, concerted global action and capacity
building would provide an enabling environment for achieving the
SDGs. This book explores the synergies and trade-offs between
climate change management and other SDGs. It highlights the policy
imperatives as well as the interrelations between combating climate
change and its impacts (SDG 13) and food and nutritional security
(SDG 2), water security (SDG 6), soil security (SDG 15), energy
security (SDG 7), poverty eradication (SDG 1), gender equality (SDG
5), resilient infrastructure (SDG 9), and sustainable and resilient
cities (SDG 11).
Our Earth is considered as a natural system which organizes and
controls itself. However, the present scale of anthropogenic
activity is unprecedented in the history of mankind compelling the
intelligentia to ponder over the scientific causes of the problems,
processes and sustainable and pragmatic solutions. The current rate
of resource use and consumption pattern are depleting the planet's
finite resources and damaging life-supporting ecosystems. A large
number of toxic substances are increasingly found in air, water,
soil, and flora and fauna. We are in the midst of a period of
increasing interconnected and complex global challenges that seek
action across temporal and spatial scales, diverse sectors, and
concerted efforts from global citizens. The environment on account
of human's action has been experiencing imbalances and ecological
catastrophe. Environmental issues like global climate change,
biodiversity loss, the rapid depletion of natural resources,
degradation of global commons, stratospheric ozone depletion have
been restricting the safe operating space and transgressing the
planetary boundaries endangering the existence of human societies.
The global environmental problems if not scientifically managed may
end up in the civilizational collapse. Nevertheless, the underlying
commonality among these environmental issues is interrelatedness,
complexity, and difficulty in identifying and implementing
solutions. The global environmental challenges can be managed by
adopting sustainable green technologies which dovetails the
principles of environmental sustainability with social and
ecological sustainability. Green growth is construed as a new
development paradigm that sustains economic growth while at the
same time ensuring environmental sustainability.
Imagine writing Java code that reads like the problem statement,
code that's highly expressive, concise, easy to read and modify,
and has reduced complexity. With the functional programming
capabilities in Java, that's not a fantasy. This book will guide
you from the familiar imperative style through the practical
aspects of functional programming, using plenty of examples. Apply
the techniques you learn to turn highly complex imperative code
into elegant and easy-to-understand functional-style code. Updated
to the latest version of Java, this edition has four new chapters
on error handling, refactoring to functional style, transforming
data, and idioms of functional programming. Don't struggle with the
limitations of the imperative style; instead learn to combine
object-oriented programming with the functional style to reduce the
accidental complexity. Harness the functional programming
capabilities of Java to create applications where the program
reveals its intentions and your team can quickly understand and
modify code to align with changing business requirements. Unlock
the power of lambda expressions and the Streams API to turn the
oft-written spaghetti code into highly concise, expressive,
elegant, and maintainable code. See how Streams make the arduous
task of parallelizing code as easy as flipping a switch when
superior speed is necessary. Apply design patterns built around
lambda expressions, safely manage resource allocations, use
memoization, and learn to transform data into different forms, all
while honoring immutability, and providing thread safety to
leverage lazy evaluation for efficiency and parallel execution for
performance. Move beyond the basics, explore the idioms for writing
functional programs. Learn to think functionally by refactoring
legacy code into the functional style. And, if your code runs
aground due to failures, learn to properly handle errors the
functional way. Don't drown in theory; instead learn the practical
functional programming techniques to create superior Java code.
What You Need: Java version 8 or newer.
This volume critically engages with the question of cultural
difference and the idea of living with diversity in the context of
India and Europe. It looks at certain essential European categories
of learning such as art, nature, the human, literature, relation,
philosophy, and the humanities and analyses texts from Sanskrit
language (through Telugu resources) to argue that categories like
prakriti, loka, jati, dharma, karma, sahitya, kala,etc. cannot be
conflated with conceptual formations such as nature, world, caste,
religion, (sanctioned) action, literature and art respectively. The
book questions and unravels the efficacy of European concepts,
theories and interpretive frames in understanding Indian reflective
traditions and cultural forms. It also lays the groundwork for
reorienting teaching and research in universities in the humanities
on the basis of key cultural differences. By focusing on major
themes in the humanities discourse and their limitations, the work
engages with the writings of Heidegger, Derrida and Agamben, among
others, from radically new vantage points of Sanskrit-Indian
reflective traditions, and challenges prevailing ideas about Indian
art, literature and culture. Part of the Critical Humanities Across
Cultures series, this book will be an essential read for scholars
and researchers of Indian languages and literature, comparative
literature, art and aesthetics, postcolonial studies, cultural and
heritage studies, philosophy, political philosophy, comparative
philosophy, Sanskrit studies, India studies, South Asian studies,
Global South studies, and for those working on education in the
humanities/human sciences.
The field of humanities generates a discourse that traditionally
addressed the questions of what is proper to man, rights of man,
crimes against humanity, human creativity and action, human
reflection and performance, human utterance and artefact. The
university as a philosophical-political institution transmits this
humanist account. This European humanistic legacy, which is little
more than Christian anthropology, barely received any questioning
from cultures that faced colonialism. In such a context, this
volume attempts to unravel the 'barely secularized heritage' of
Europe (Derrida's phrase) and its fatal consequences in other
cultures. The task of Critical Humanities is to explore the ways in
which the question of being human (along with non-human others)
today from heterogeneous cultural 'backgrounds' can be undertaken.
The future of the humanities teaching and research is contingent
upon the risky task of configuring cultural difference from
non-European locations. Such a task is inescapable and urgently
needed when tectonic cultural upheavals have begun to show
devastating effect on planetary coexistence today. It is precisely
in such a context that this collection of essays on critical
humanities affirms, 'without alibi', the urgency of collective
reflection and innovative research across the traditional
disciplinary and institutional borders and communication systems on
the one hand and Asian, African and European cultural formations on
the other. Critical Humanities are at one level little more than
communities on the verge (critical) but whose centuries long
survival and resilient creations of cultural (and /as natural)
habitats are of deeply enduring significance to affirm the
biocultural diversities of living that compose the planet. Topical
and timely, this book will be useful to scholars, researchers and
teachers of cultural theory, literary studies, philosophy, cultural
geography, legal studies, sociology, history, performance studies,
environmental studies, caste and communalism studies, postcolonial
theory, India studies, and education.
Public-private partnerships are increasingly advocated to alleviate
deficiencies in the public health system as well as to reduce
economic stress on those who seek services from an expensive,
burgeoning and unregulated private health sector. Focusing on
India, this book examines how the private sector in developing
countries is tapped to deliver health care services to poor and
under-served sections of society through collaborative arrangements
with the government. Having emerged as a key reform initiative,
aspects of public-private partnership are examined such as the
genesis of private sector partnerships, the ways in which the
private sector is encouraged to deliver public health services, and
the models and formats that make such partnerships possible. Based
on in-depth case studies from different states of India and drawing
on experiences in other countries, the authors analyse challenges,
opportunities and benefits of implementing public-private
partnerships and explore whether partnership with the private
sector can be designed to deliver health care services to the poor
as well as the consequences for beneficiaries. This book will be of
interest to scholars of public policy and development
administration, health policy and development economics as well as
South Asian Studies.
CAMD or Computer Aided Molecular Design refers to the design of
molecules with desirable properties. That is, through CAMD, one
determines molecules that match a specified set of (target)
properties. CAMD as a technique has a very large potential as in
principle, all kinds of chemical, bio-chemical and material
products can be designed through this technique.
This book mainly deals with macroscopic properties and therefore
does not cover molecular design of large, complex chemicals such as
drugs. While books have been written on computer aided molecular
design relating to drugs and large complex chemicals, a book on
systematic formulation of CAMD problems and solutions, with
emphasis on theory and practice, which helps one to learn,
understand and apply the technique is currently unavailable.
-This title brings together the theoretical aspects related to
Computer Aided Molecular Design, the different techniques that have
been developed and the different applications that have been
reported.
-Contributing authors are among the leading researchers and users
of CAMD
-First book available giving a systematic formulation of CAMD
problems and solutions
The NATO Advanced Research Workshop took place from 29 May to I
June 2000 in the picturesque Hungarian town of Pecs, 220 km south
of Budapest. The main goal of the workshop was to review and
promote experimental and theoretical research on the problem of
Kondo-type scatteringofthe electrons in systems ofreduced
dimensionalities. 53 regular participants and 7 observers from 17
different countries attended the workshop. The Kondo effect has
been a topic ofintense interest for many years, due in part to its
relevance to a variety of other branches of condensed matter
physics. In addition to the best known example of magnetic
impurities in noble metals, the physics of the Kondo effect is
important in many areas of current research, including
heavy-fermion physics, correlated electron systems, and
high-temperature superconductivity. Of central importance in this
problem is the interaction of conduction electrons in the metal
with individual magnetic impurities, an interaction which also
mediates the interaction ofthe impurities with each other.
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