1. This book analyzes drug addiction and abuse from multiple perspectives and multiple locations in India - Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, and Rajasthan - with a special focus on the north-western states. 2. It has important reference material for policy makers, government agencies, social scientists, departments of social and preventive medicine, social workers, civil society, drug-addicts and their families. 3. This interdisciplinary book will be useful for departments of economics, cultural/social anthropology, sociology, political science, and psychology across UK/US.

Covers flight mechanics, flight simulation, flight testing, flight control, and aeroservoelasticity. Features artificial neural network and fuzzy logic-based aspects in modeling and analysis of flight mechanics systems: aircraft parameter estimation, and reconfiguration of control. Focuses on a systems-based approach. Includes two new chapters, numerical simulation examples with a MATLAB® based approach, and end-of-chapter exercises. Includes a Solutions Manual and Figure Slides for adopting instructors.

This book is one of the first critical analyses of the automobile industry in India. It studies the sector in general and the passenger car industry in particular, and provides valuable insights into the operation of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) companies in a technology-intensive industry under changing economic regimes. The volume underlines the influence of the changing nature of foreign investment, the impact of economic reforms, technology regimes and industrial policy on growth, structural changes and development. It offers a detailed account of the trade performance of manufacturers in India's passenger car industry. It also looks at successful cases to draw policy lessons towards encouraging quality FDI and developing India as a base for world production. A useful addition to industry studies in India, this book with its wide coverage and contemporary analyses will interest scholars and researchers of economics, Indian economy and industrial policy, industrial economics, automobile industry and manufacturing sector, development economics and international economics. It will also appeal to policymakers, practitioners and industrial associations.

This book is one of the first critical analyses of the automobile industry in India. It studies the sector in general and the passenger car industry in particular, and provides valuable insights into the operation of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) companies in a technology-intensive industry under changing economic regimes. The volume underlines the influence of the changing nature of foreign investment, the impact of economic reforms, technology regimes and industrial policy on growth, structural changes and development. It offers a detailed account of the trade performance of manufacturers in India's passenger car industry. It also looks at successful cases to draw policy lessons towards encouraging quality FDI and developing India as a base for world production. A useful addition to industry studies in India, this book with its wide coverage and contemporary analyses will interest scholars and researchers of economics, Indian economy and industrial policy, industrial economics, automobile industry and manufacturing sector, development economics and international economics. It will also appeal to policymakers, practitioners and industrial associations.

The issue of market concentration has been widely debated in the literature on industrial organization. Evidence shows that market concentration has implications on the long run growth path of an economy through its effect on the allocation of economic resources among various economic activities including innovation. In the changing scenario at global level, most of the developing economies including India have resorted to liberalization since the late seventies inter-alia with the objective to develop competitive industrial base in the economy. In this context, the present study broadly tries to analyze the impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on market concentration with special reference to India's manufacturing industries during the post reform period. The empirical analysis tends to suggest that market concentration in general is showing an increasing trend. Detailed exploration of the trends in concentration across different industries with varying levels of technology further confirmed this finding.