The identification of the role of tumor stroma-the tissue in the surroundings of cancer cells-in cancer development, progression, and metastasis has revolutionized the fields of cancer biology as well as cancer therapeutics. This book provides a comprehensive overview of this rapidly-evolving field including tumor stroma biology, therapeutic targets, molecular imaging, and advanced tumor stroma in vitro models. The book will serve as a handbook for graduate students, postgraduate researchers, pharmaceutical scientists, and biomedical engineers.

This book embodies the potentials of nanobiotechnology-based water treatment techniques to provide a solid understanding of the subjects. Starting with a refresher of the basic conventional technologies which are now been integrated with nanomaterials for an efficient, viable, and eco-friendly treatment of contaminated water. The book covers various physical, chemical, and hybrid methods of nanobiomaterial synthesis and their fabrication for characterizing existing techniques. The book gives special attention to those nanotechnology-based approaches that promise easier, faster, and cheaper processes in contaminants monitoring and their treatment. Several case studies explain in an easy to understand format how employing nanobiomaterials as an indicator and analytical tool will enable students to learn about cleaning up the environment.

The book is a collection of essays woven around the contours of the growth of the dalit movement, the crusade undertaken by the dalit icons for the cause of dalit emancipation and the burning issues that have cropped up before the dalits. These issues are at the crux of very lively debates that are taking place in contemporary India. Politics of exclusion and identity have restricted the amalgamation of dalits into the national mainstream to a certain extent and despite more than 60 years of independence, they are dependent on reservation as their major mobilisation plank. The new economic reforms have led to reduction in the scope and breadth of reservation and lessened the role of the state to the detriment of majority of the dalit population. The challenges posed to the dalit movement by the mandalites and the Hindutva forces have also been discussed in the book. Dalit symbolism and the repercussions of such acts on overall polity, position of the dalits in rural India & their acute deprivation from land assets and inter squabbles among them have also been highlighted in this book. The presentation style is lucid and simple so as to enable even ordinary readers to understand the topics. One hopes that the book will be found to be useful for the students of Indian polity.

The book is a collection of essays woven around the contours of the growth of the dalit movement, the crusade undertaken by the dalit icons for the cause of dalit emancipation and the burning issues that have cropped up before the dalits. These issues are at the crux of very lively debates that are taking place in contemporary India. Politics of exclusion and identity have restricted the amalgamation of dalits into the national mainstream to a certain extent and despite more than 60 years of independence, they are dependent on reservation as their major mobilisation plank. The new economic reforms have led to reduction in the scope and breadth of reservation and lessened the role of the state to the detriment of majority of the dalit population. The challenges posed to the dalit movement by the mandalites and the Hindutva forces have also been discussed in the book. Dalit symbolism and the repercussions of such acts on overall polity, position of the dalits in rural India & their acute deprivation from land assets and inter squabbles among them have also been highlighted in this book. The presentation style is lucid and simple so as to enable even ordinary readers to understand the topics. One hopes that the book will be found to be useful for the students of Indian polity.

Over the last many year, ion beam implantation/irradiation has played an important role in fundamental studies and in development of new technologies as well. The present book includes the work exploring the use of ion beams in nanotechnology. Ion beam irradiation has become an unique tool for fabricating and engineering the nanostructures not only at the surface but also embedded in the matrix. This work includes the use of ion beams ranging from low energy (keV) to high energy (MeV)to fabricate and engineering the properties of metal nanopartices embedded in polymer matrix. This book, thus, provides the basic understanding of ion beam interaction with materials, chemical and physical modifications of materials, synthesis of nanopartices and tailoring of their properties in thin films.

All type of tasting is done in Quality control department of Pharmaceutical industries are necessary as they play an important role in defining the quality of product manufacturing in pharmaceutical industries. The different type of tasting criteria are define in quality control labs. The various technique are used in quality control labs like H.P.L.C., G.C, spectrophotometer etc. HPLC are most widely used technique in Quality control labs.

About Book: This book is based on a scientific research study conducted to determine the Comparative Effects of Bhramari and Surya Bhedan Pranayama on Balance Abilities (static and dynamic). Thirty students from Banaras Hindu University were selected as subjects for this study. The age of the subjects ranged between 20-25 years. The subjects were divided into three groups i.e. Two experimental groups (Surya Bhedan & Bhramari Pranayama) and one control group. Static Balance and Dynamic Balance Abilities were selected as Dependent variables and Surya Bhedan Pranayama and Bhramari Pranayama were considered as Independent variables. In order to find out the Comparative Effects of Bhramari Pranayama and Surya Bhedan Pranayama on Balance Abilities (static and dynamic), Descriptive Statistics and Analysis of Co-Variance (ANCOVA) were used. Bhramari and Surya Bhedan Pranayama were found fructiferous in bringing change in Static Balance Ability. But no significant effect was found on Dynamic Balance Ability.

Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among females, both in incidence and death. As meaningful biological understanding of the disease is confounded by the existence of various molecular groups and sub-groups, the challenge for targeted drug development may lie in understanding the molecular mechanisms of various sub-groups in breast cancer. This book describes the gene expression profiling approach for deeper understanding of the dynamics of breast cancer progression and prognosis.

The book is based on a work on structual and functional dynamics of the services provided by the university system under the support of state. Introduction of such services were considered as one of the most innovative interventions planned ever by the University Grants Commission in last three decades of the preceeding millenium. But the movement could perhaps not make the desired impact on both service fronts as well as on the teaching learning process in universities. The most satisfying aspect of such servicescould be observed in the creation of an interface between the university and community but it simultaneously witnessed efforts by the staff of these organisations to attempt harmonise their structure and functions in line with other faculties of the unversity system at the time when it was rooting well in the system. The attempts made in this book are intended to provide an understanding of the education and services and help encourage others to explore further by generating debate and further reasearch."

New and Future Developments in Microbial Biotechnology and Bioengineering: Phytomicrobiome for Sustainable Agriculture provides a comprehensive overview of the phytomicrobiome and a holistic approach for its various mechanisms, including plant growth, nutrient content, crop yield improvement, soil fertility, and health management. This book explores the genus- and species-specific endophytic microbes for developing an efficient indigenous microbial consortium for enhancing the productivity of sustainable agriculture. An essential resource for students, researchers, and scientists in the fields of biotechnology, microbiology, agronomy, and the plant protection sciences, New and Future Developments in Microbial Biotechnology and Bioengineering: Phytomicrobiome for Sustainable Agriculture highlights the plant growth-promoting activities of the phytomicrobiome and focuses on both its basic and applied aspects and the significant role they play in plant protection.

Bacterial wilt caused by Ralstonia solanacearum is one of the most important diseases of solanaceous vegetables (tomatoes, eggplants, chillies, peppers and potatoes). The disease is soil-borne in nature and leads to widespread damage and significant loss. Research on understanding the nature of the pathogen means of mitigation are not available in one place. In this title information scattered in various literature is collected and systematically compiled by crop. The importance of solanaceous vegetables and their nutritive value, pathogen and bacterial wilt is discussed in the first chapter. The symptomatology of diseases, including photographs, their etiology, distribution of race biovars and their diagnosis, morphological, biochemical physiological characteristics of pathogen, pathogenecity, serodiagnosis, molecular diagnosis and protocol for detection of R. solancearumin soil and plant is discussed in the second chapter. The maintenance and preservation of culture is covered in the third chapter. Genomics and the mechanism of pathogenesis is discussed in the fourth chapter. Research work on losses and epidemiology is collected in the fifth chapter. In the sixth chapter the management of diseases is discussed. Conclusion and future research makes up the final chapter. This collection will be useful for anyone involved in research, teaching and extension, for post-graduate and Ph.D students, researchers, extension workers and farmers. It will help increase knowledge of bacterial wilt of solanaceous crops and their scientific management to reduce crop losses.