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This book collects papers presented at the International Conference
on Mathematical Modelling and Computational Intelligence Techniques
(ICMMCIT) 2021, held at the Department of Mathematics, The
Gandhigram Rural Institute (Deemed to be University), Gandhigram,
Tamil Nadu, India, from 10-12 February 2021. Significant
contributions from renowned researchers from fields of applied
analysis, mathematical modelling and computing techniques have been
received for this conference. Chapters emphasize on the research of
computational nature focusing on new algorithms, their analysis and
numerical results, as well as applications in physical, biological,
social, and behavioural sciences. The accepted papers are organized
in topical sections as mathematical modelling, image processing,
control theory, graphs and networks, and inventory control.
High pressure processing technology has been adopted worldwide at
the industrial level to preserve a wide variety of food products
without using heat or chemical preservatives. High Pressure
Processing: Technology Principles and Applications will review the
basic technology principles and process parameters that govern
microbial safety and product quality, an essential requirement for
industrial application. This book will be of interest to scientists
in the food industry, in particular to those involved in the
processing of products such as meat, fish, fruits, and vegetables.
The book will be equally important to food microbiologists and
processing specialists in both the government and food industry.
Moreover, it will be a valuable reference for authorities involved
in the import and export of high pressure treated food products.
Finally, this update on the science and technology of high pressure
processing will be helpful to all academic, industrial, local, and
state educators in their educational efforts, as well as a great
resource for graduate students interested in learning about
state-of-the-art technology in food engineering.
The observation that neuropeptide Y (NPY) is the most abundant
peptide present in the mammalian nervous system and the finding
that it elicits the most powerful orexigenic signal have led to
active investigations of the properties of the NPY family of
hormones, including peptide YY (PYY) and pancreatic polypeptide
(PP). Nearly two decades of research have led to the identification
of several NPY receptor subtypes and the development of useful
receptor selective ligands. Moreover, these investigations have
imp- cated NPY in the pathophysiology of a number of diseases,
including feeding disorders, seizures, memory loss, anxiety,
depression, and heart failure. Vigorous efforts are therefore
continuing, not only to understand the bioche- cal aspects of NPY
actions, but also toward developing NPY-based treatments for a
variety of disorders. To facilitate these efforts, it was decided
to produce the first handbook on NPY research techniques as part of
the Methods in Molecular Biology Series. In compiling Neuropeptide
Y Protocols, I have gathered contributions on techniques considered
critical for the advancement of the NPY field from experts in
various disciplines. Each chapter starts with a brief introduction,
with Materials and Methods sections following. The latter sections
are presented in an easy to follow step-by-step format. The last
section of the chapter, Notes, highlights pitfalls and the
maneuvers employed to overcome them. This information, not usually
disseminated in standard research pub- cations, may prove extremely
useful for investigators employing these te- niques in NYP
research.
This book, divided in two volumes, originates from Techno-Societal
2020: the 3rd International Conference on Advanced Technologies for
Societal Applications, Maharashtra, India, that brings together
faculty members of various engineering colleges to solve Indian
regional relevant problems under the guidance of eminent
researchers from various reputed organizations. The focus of this
volume is on technologies that help develop and improve society, in
particular on issues such as sensor and ICT based technologies for
the betterment of people, Technologies for agriculture and
healthcare, micro and nano technological applications. This
conference aims to help innovators to share their best practices or
products developed to solve specific local problems which in turn
may help the other researchers to take inspiration to solve
problems in their region. On the other hand, technologies proposed
by expert researchers may find applications in different regions.
This offers a multidisciplinary platform for researchers from a
broad range of disciplines of Science, Engineering and Technology
for reporting innovations at different levels.
Prominent scholars across the political divide and academic
disciplines analyze how the dominant political parties in Malaysia
and Singapore, United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) and the
People's Action Party (PAP), have stayed in power. With a focus on
developments in the last decade and the tenures of Prime Ministers
Najib Tun Razak and Lee Hsien Loong, the authors offer a range of
explanations for how these regimes have remained politically
resilient.
Chapman & Nakielny's Guide to Radiological Procedures provides
a complete guide to all the imaging procedures and techniques that
radiology trainees and advanced practice radiographers might be
expected to undertake as part of their routine clinical practice.
The eighth edition has been fully updated to reflect the
continually changing skills, imaging practices and technology that
radiology trainees must navigate every day. It clearly describes
the optimal imaging methods and intervention techniques required
for different clinical scenarios, with information on methods,
indications, equipment, patient preparation, technique, aftercare,
complications and further reading for each. Along with its sister
book, Chapman & Nakielny's Guide to Radiological Diagnosis,
this Guide is the most comprehensive text available for trainees to
develop the essential skills they need in this fast moving and
highly sought after field. Comprehensive and well-referenced -
suitable for trainees in modern Radiology Departments Fully
reviewed and updated throughout to incorporate latest techniques,
clinical practice developments and key recent national and
international guidelines Standard headings and sections divided by
anatomical regions make the book easy to navigate Easy explanations
- a perfect study aid for FRCR and similar examinations Detailed
description of diagnostic and interventional radiology procedures
relevant to daily clinical practice MCQs to support understanding
New chapter on Paediatric Radiology
Maya longs to see her grandmother, but when Grandma arrives from
far away for a visit, she is not quite what Maya expected. When
Maya’s grandma makes a surprise visit from thousands of miles
away, Maya is delighted. But her excitement doesn’t last long.
When Grandma picks her up from school, she wears fancy clothes and
talks too loudly. Grandma’s morning prayer bells wake Maya up,
and she cooks with ingredients Maya doesn’t usually eat. Plus,
Maya thinks cupcakes taste better than Grandma’s homemade sweets.
Maya and Grandma try to compromise, and on a special trip to the
island Grandma even wears an “all-American” baseball cap. But
when Maya rushes off to find the carousel, she loses sight of her
mother, father and grandmother. She is alone in a sea of people …
until she spots something bobbing above the crowd, and right away
she knows how to find her way. Saumiya Balasubramaniam’s story is
an insightful and endearing portrayal of a grandparent-grandchild
relationship that is evolving and deeply loving, as Maya and
Grandma navigate cross-cultural contexts and generational
differences. Qin Leng’s sweet, evocative illustrations complement
the story and illuminate Grandma and Maya’s growing closeness.
Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language
Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.4 Identify words and phrases in
stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.6 Identify who is telling the story at
various points in a text. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.9 Compare and
contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.3 Describe how characters in a story respond
to major events and challenges. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.5 Describe
the overall structure of a story, including describing how the
beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.6 Acknowledge differences in the points of
view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for
each character when reading dialogue aloud.
The goal of this book is to familiarize professionals, researchers,
and students with the basics of the Diamond Turn Machining
Technology and the various issues involved. The book provides a
comprehensive knowledge about various aspects of the technology
including the background, components of the machine, mechanism of
material removal, application areas, relevant metrology, and
advances taking place in this domain. Solved and unsolved examples
are provided in each of the areas which will help the readers to
practice and get familiarized with that particular area of the
Diamond Turn Machining process.
The goal of this book is to familiarize professionals, researchers,
and students with the basics of the Diamond Turn Machining
Technology and the various issues involved. The book provides a
comprehensive knowledge about various aspects of the technology
including the background, components of the machine, mechanism of
material removal, application areas, relevant metrology, and
advances taking place in this domain. Solved and unsolved examples
are provided in each of the areas which will help the readers to
practice and get familiarized with that particular area of the
Diamond Turn Machining process.
This book reviews the developments that have taken place in the
field of geotechnical engineering since the first international
conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering was held in
Harvard University in 1936 until the January 1994 conference in New
Delhi, India.
Discover tools to perform Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) and develop
sustainable chemical technologies in this valuable guide for
chemists, engineers and practitioners. Tackling one of the key
challenges of modern industrial chemical engineering, this book
introduces tools to assess the environmental footprint and
economics of key chemical processes that make the ingredients of
everyday products such as plastics, synthetic fibers, detergents
and fuels. Describing diverse industrial processes in detail, it
provides process flow diagrams including raw material sourcing,
catalytic reactors, separation units, process equipment and recycle
streams. The book clearly explains elements of LCA and how various
software tools, available in the public domain and commercially,
can be used to perform LCA. Supported by real-world practical
examples and case studies provided by industrial and academic
chemists and chemical engineers, this is an essential tool for
readers involved in implementing LCA, and developing
next-generation sustainable chemical technologies.
This book, divided in two volumes, originates from Techno-Societal
2020: the 3rd International Conference on Advanced Technologies for
Societal Applications, Maharashtra, India, that brings together
faculty members of various engineering colleges to solve Indian
regional relevant problems under the guidance of eminent
researchers from various reputed organizations. The focus of this
volume is on technologies that help develop and improve society, in
particular on issues such as advanced and sustainable technologies
for manufacturing processes, environment, livelihood, rural
employment, agriculture, energy, transport, sanitation, water,
education. This conference aims to help innovators to share their
best practices or products developed to solve specific local
problems which in turn may help the other researchers to take
inspiration to solve problems in their region. On the other hand,
technologies proposed by expert researchers may find applications
in different regions. This offers a multidisciplinary platform for
researchers from a broad range of disciplines of Science,
Engineering and Technology for reporting innovations at different
levels.
This book, divided in two volumes, originates from Techno-Societal
2020: the 3rd International Conference on Advanced Technologies for
Societal Applications, Maharashtra, India, that brings together
faculty members of various engineering colleges to solve Indian
regional relevant problems under the guidance of eminent
researchers from various reputed organizations. The focus of this
volume is on technologies that help develop and improve society, in
particular on issues such as sensor and ICT based technologies for
the betterment of people, Technologies for agriculture and
healthcare, micro and nano technological applications. This
conference aims to help innovators to share their best practices or
products developed to solve specific local problems which in turn
may help the other researchers to take inspiration to solve
problems in their region. On the other hand, technologies proposed
by expert researchers may find applications in different regions.
This offers a multidisciplinary platform for researchers from a
broad range of disciplines of Science, Engineering and Technology
for reporting innovations at different levels.
Symposium on underground excavations in soils and rocks,
including earth pressure theories, buried structures and tunnels /
Bangkok / 1989 and Symposium on developments in laboratory and
field tests in geotechnical engineering practice / Bangkok /
1990.
Proceedings of a conference on [title] held Dec. 1986, Bangkok.
Covers stability of natural and man made slopes, design and
analysis of foundations, underground openings and excavations,
computer controlled testing and investigation of soils, computer
aided solutions for some special problems in eng
High pressure processing technology has been adopted worldwide at
the industrial level to preserve a wide variety of food products
without using heat or chemical preservatives. High Pressure
Processing: Technology Principles and Applications will review the
basic technology principles and process parameters that govern
microbial safety and product quality, an essential requirement for
industrial application. This book will be of interest to scientists
in the food industry, in particular to those involved in the
processing of products such as meat, fish, fruits, and vegetables.
The book will be equally important to food microbiologists and
processing specialists in both the government and food industry.
Moreover, it will be a valuable reference for authorities involved
in the import and export of high pressure treated food products.
Finally, this update on the science and technology of high pressure
processing will be helpful to all academic, industrial, local, and
state educators in their educational efforts, as well as a great
resource for graduate students interested in learning about
state-of-the-art technology in food engineering.
This book contains select papers on mathematical analysis and
modeling, discrete mathematics, fuzzy sets, and soft computing. All
the papers were presented at the international conference on
FIM28-SCMSPS20 virtually held at Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar (SSN)
College of Engineering, Chennai, India, and Stella Maris College
(Autonomous), Chennai, from November 23-27, 2020. The conference
was jointly held with the support of the Forum for
Interdisciplinary Mathematics. Both the invited articles and
submitted papers were broadly grouped under three heads: Part 1 on
analysis and modeling (six chapters), Part 2 on discrete
mathematics and applications (six chapters), and Part 3 on fuzzy
sets and soft computing (three chapters).
The observation that neuropeptide Y (NPY) is the most abundant
peptide present in the mammalian nervous system and the finding
that it elicits the most powerful orexigenic signal have led to
active investigations of the properties of the NPY family of
hormones, including peptide YY (PYY) and pancreatic polypeptide
(PP). Nearly two decades of research have led to the identification
of several NPY receptor subtypes and the development of useful
receptor selective ligands. Moreover, these investigations have
imp- cated NPY in the pathophysiology of a number of diseases,
including feeding disorders, seizures, memory loss, anxiety,
depression, and heart failure. Vigorous efforts are therefore
continuing, not only to understand the bioche- cal aspects of NPY
actions, but also toward developing NPY-based treatments for a
variety of disorders. To facilitate these efforts, it was decided
to produce the first handbook on NPY research techniques as part of
the Methods in Molecular Biology Series. In compiling Neuropeptide
Y Protocols, I have gathered contributions on techniques considered
critical for the advancement of the NPY field from experts in
various disciplines. Each chapter starts with a brief introduction,
with Materials and Methods sections following. The latter sections
are presented in an easy to follow step-by-step format. The last
section of the chapter, Notes, highlights pitfalls and the
maneuvers employed to overcome them. This information, not usually
disseminated in standard research pub- cations, may prove extremely
useful for investigators employing these te- niques in NYP
research.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International
Conference on Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Intelligence,
ICMMSC 2012, Gandhigram, Tamil Nadu, India, in March 2012. The 62
revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected
from 332 submissions. The papers are organized in two topical
sections on mathematical modelling and on scientific computation.
Nothing new had been done in Logic since Aristotle -KurtGodel ]
(1906-1978) Fuzzyimplicationsareoneof themain operationsinfuzzy
logic.Theygeneralize the classical implication, which takes values
in {0,1}, to fuzzy logic, where the truth values belong to the unit
interval 0,1]. In classical logic the implication
canbede?nedindi?erentways.Threeofthesehavecometo assumegreatert-
oreticalimportance, viz. the usual materialimplication from the
Kleene algebra, the implication obtained as the residuum of the
conjunction in Heyting algebra (also called pseudo-Boolean algebra)
in the intuitionistic logic framework and the implication (also
called as 'Sasaki arrow') in the setting of quantum logic.
Interestingly, despite their di?ering de?nitions, their truth
tables are identical in classical case. However, the natural
generalizations of the above de?nitions in the fuzzy logic
framework are not identical. This diversity is more a boon than a
bane and has led to some intensive research on fuzzy implications
for close to three decades. It will be our endeavor to cover the
various works churned out in this period to su?cient depth and
allowable breadth in this treatise. In the forewordto Klir
andYuan's book 147], ProfessorLot?A. Zadehstates the following:
"The problem is that the term 'fuzzy logic' has two di?erent
meanings."
Orbiting spacecraft provide a valuable laboratory for experiments on physical and biological systems in a reduced gravity environment. In these experiments, fluid masses containing bubbles and drops are encountered routinely. This original work provides a clear, thorough review of the motion of bubbles and drops in reduced gravity, particularly motion caused by variations in interfacial tension arising from temperature gradients on their surfaces. The emphasis is on theoretical analysis from first principles; experimental results are discussed and compared with predictions where appropriate. Students and researchers interested in fluid mechanics in reduced gravity will welcome this state-of-the-art reference.
This book provides a comprehensive view of rational suicide in the
elderly, a group that has nearly twice the rate of suicide when
chronically ill than any other demographic. Its frame of reference
does not endorse a single point-of-view about the legitimacy of
rational suicide, which is evolving across societies with little
guidance for geriatric mental health professionals. Instead, it
serves as a resource for both those clinicians who agree that older
people may rationally commit suicide and those who believe that
this wish may require further assessment and treatment. The first
chapters of the book provides an overview of rational suicide in
the elderly, examining it through history and across cultures also
addressing the special case of baby boomers. This book takes an
ethical and philosophical look at whether suicide can truly be
rational and whether the nearness of death in late-life adults
means that suicide should be considered differently than in younger
adults. Clinical criteria for rational suicide in the elderly are
proposed in this book for the first time, as well as a guidelines
for the psychosocial profile of an older adult who wants to commit
rational suicide. Unlike any other book, this text examines the
existential, psychological, and psychodynamic perspectives. A
chapter on terminal mental illness and a consideration of suicide
in that context and proposed interventions even without a
diagnosable mental illness also plays a vital role in this book as
these are key issues in within the question of suicide among the
elderly. This book is the first to consider all preventative
measures, including the spiritual as well as the psychotherapeutic,
and pharmacologic. A commentary on modern society, aging, and
rational suicide that ties all of these elements together, making
this the ultimate guide for addressing suicide among the elderly.
Rational Suicide in the Elderly is an excellent resource for all
medical professionals with potentially suicidal patients, including
geriatricians, geriatric and general psychiatrists, geriatric
nurses, social workers, and public health officials.
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