Rice is a major food crop for people around the world; it is a major staple food and a source of nutrition for over 3.5 billion people worldwide. Rice is susceptible to a number of bacterial diseases that decrease its yield and quality. This book covers the various bacterial diseases of rice and their management. It focuses on various sustainable management methods-biological control, conventional breeding methods, and molecular methods, as opposed to chemical control, which can be hazardous to the environment. The book provides a comprehensive view of rice bacterial diseases starting from the identification of bacterial diseases and their ecology to the management of bacterial disease, which includes conventional as well as new and emerging methods. The book examines the impact of rice bacterial diseases on global food security that can lead to a food crisis worldwide. It discusses potential methods for bacterial disease identification and covers the biology of rice bacterial blight pathogen, virulence determinants, and various host defense factors of bacterial blight pathogen-rice interactions and traditional and recent tools for bacterial blight disease management. Different resistance rice cultivars, their resistance loci, and quantitative trait loci mapping in the important rice cultivars are also discussed. The book presents biological studies of the major rice bacterial diseases (rice bacterial brown stripe disease, bacterial leaf streak disease, rice bacterial panicle blight disease, rice bacterial foot rot, sheath brown rot disease) and presents comparative analyses of conventional, breeding, and molecular management approaches, along with a selection of examples. Also included is a review of bioinformatics tools for rice disease management. The up-to-date knowledge presented in Bacterial Diseases of Rice and Their Management will serve as a useful reference book for students, academicians, and scientists in plant pathology as well as for molecular breeders and biotechnologists working in the area of crop science.

A comprehensive reference to renewable energy technologies with a focus on power generation and integration into power systems This book addresses the generation of energy (primarily electrical) through various renewable sources. It discusses solar and wind power two major resources that are now in use in small as well as large-scale power production and their requirements for effectively using advanced control techniques.In addition, the book looks at theintegration of renewable energy in the power grid and its ability to work in a micro grid. Operation and Control of Renewable Energy Systems describes the numerous types of renewable energy sources available and the basic principles involving energy conversion, including the theory of fluid mechanics and the laws of thermodynamics. Chapter coverage includes the theory of power electronics and various electric power generators, grid scale energy storage systems, photovoltaic power generation, solar thermal energy conversion technology, horizontal and vertical wind turbines for power generation, and more. * Covers integration into power systems with an emphasis on microgrids * Introduces a wide range of subjects related to renewable energy systems, including energy storage, microgrids, and battery technologies * Includes tutorial materials such as up-to-date references for wind energy, grid connection, and power electronics plus worked examples and solutions Operation and Control of Renewable Energy Systems is the perfect introduction to renewable energy technologies for undergraduate and graduate students and can also be very useful to practicing engineers.

This research was conducted to examine the relationship between job satisfaction and communicative teamwork within the Malaysian organizations. The study was based on Herzberg's Motivation-Hygiene theory that explained the relationship between the factors such as achievement, recognition, responsibility, personal growth and the nature of work to that of communicative teamwork. The study showed the relationship between job satisfaction and increase in the knowledge and application of communicative teamwork. This will thus contribute to the process of organizing and other organizational and communication behaviors such as communicative teamwork. From the study, it was also found that the indicators of job satisfaction namely; achievement, recognition, responsibility, nature of work and personal growth were positively related to communicative teamwork.Thus, suggesting that for a successful practice of communicative teamwork, it is essential for any organization to ensure that its members were able to have an understanding of job satisfaction in relation with this particular issue.