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The Family in Asia
Man Singh Das, Panos D. Bardis
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The institution of the family is by far the most important of all
the societal networks in which the lives of men, women and children
are involved. Nowhere is this more true than in the less developed
countries of Asia. Originally published in 1979, The Family in Asia
aimed to provide a series of comprehensive survey chapters which
described traditional family patterns in a selection of Asian
countries at different stages of economic development. These range
from a rapidly expanding and highly developed industrial nation,
Japan, through modernising and developing countries, India,
Pakistan, Iran, China, South Korea and the Philippines, to more
underdeveloped countries, such as Thailand and Afghanistan. Each
chapter is written by a senior country specialist and covers an
integrated series of topics within a uniform framework in order to
facilitate inter-country comparisons. Valuable description and
statistical material is provided on the literature and on the
effects of industrialisation, urbanisation and modernisation, but
perhaps more important is a theoretical framework and the
editors’ review of some basic characteristics of social
modernisation. These include the degree of equalitarian family
relations and sexual divisions in society; emphasis on
individualism and independence; the differentiation and specialised
functioning of social institutions; urban life; birth control and
family planning; social mobility; marital disruption and divorce;
neglect and care of the elderly; formal education for children; and
government intervention and influence on family activities. Read in
its historical context, this title will interest specialists in
development and Asian studies, in demography, sociology and in
anthropology. Students in particular, will value the tight
analytical framework in which the book has been written.
This book presents the survismeter, a new invention that widely
covers and determines PCPs of various molecules and experimentally
measures the thermodynamic and kinetic stabilities of
nanoemulsions. It unveils how a survismeter can measure surface
tension, interfacial tension, wettability, viscosity, friccohesity,
tentropy, rheology, density, activation energy, and particle size.
It discusses novel models of molecular science that can be applied
in the formulation and study of activities of functional molecules
through their PCPs. It also introduces the new concept of
friccohesity, which has emerged as an excellent substitute of
viscosity and surface tension in experimental measurements as it
does not require density measurements. It shows that the science
and technology of the survismeter and friccohesity have become an
inevitable part of scientific research, substantially integrating
the domain of perfect industrial and academic formulations.
Although serious interest in studying the role of central cho
linergic processes in psychopathology is just beginning to emerge,
experimental literature on the part played by cholinergic
mechanisms in brain behavior. reiations is quite extensive. During
the past thirty years, cholinergic research has contributed
significantly to the characterization and differentiation of
adaptive mechanisms in volved in input selection, perception,
cortical, autonomic and behav ioral activation, learning, memory,
and inhibitory control of behav ioral outputs. To say that
dysfunction of one or more of these mech anisms may be at the root
of neuropsychiatric illnesses such as schiz ophrenia would be
stating the obvious. This book examines the part cholinergic
processes might play in dysfunctions of the adaptive processes
involved in higher brain func tions and their significance for the
pathogenesis, classification, etiology, and treatment of
psychopathological conditions. In a series of wide ranging reviews
of the available information, the subject is discussed from a
variety of perspectives, using data derived from both experimental
and clinical research. The purpose is not so much to determine
whether cholinergic excess or deficiency is causal in this or that
neuropsychiatric syndrome, but rather to try to understand the
disease mechanisms in terms of adaptive processes in which
cholinergic systems seem to play an important part."
"Waiting our turn" is a part of our everyday life. The amount of
time that a nation's populace wastes by waiting in queues is a
major factor in both the quality of life there & the efficiency
of the nation's economy. Queuing theory is an entire discipline in
the field of Operations Research for the formal study of waiting
lines.This subject developed rapidly after world war II due to its
fruitful results in research on military operations. Q-theory has
been used in the past to assess things such as staff schedules,
working environment, productivity, customer waiting time etc.
Efforts to minimize congestion so that both, the customer that
waits and the one that serves get the most benefit, and vast
applications of the subject in the practical situations are the
main reasons behind its rapid development. Now, Q-theory has been
used extensively in banking industry to increase business by
careful placement of merchandising materials while at the same time
alleviating both the actual & perceived amount of time a
customer spends waiting in line. Q-management has been applied very
successfully in many service-oriented industries to significantly
reduce operating cost & improve service.
The book deals with development and/or standardization of protocols
for mass multiplication by improvement in seed germination,
enhanced rooting of cuttings/rhizome segments and development of
tissue culture methods. The study also focussed on phenology (in
Taxus only), population studies and regeneration, as well as active
principle determination in both the species, namely Taxus baccata
subsp. wallichiana (Zucc.) Pilger and Podophyllum hexandrum Royle
with the aim of augmenting efforts for the conservation of these
species.Further the book also covers the habitat and population
study for both the plant to estimate the status of T.baccata and P.
hexandrum in studied area. The book aims to address a larger
readership in the field of conservation of medicinal plant reseach
enriching their knowledgebase.
This book is designed to meet the requirements of the Bachelor and
Post Graduate students. The well organized book provides a
comprehensive treatment of environmental geological problems. The
key features of the book are:1)emphasis fundamentals and
application of basic principles,2)focuses on detailed treatment of
theory, 3)presents the analysis and 4)provides solved design
problems and exercise problems to develop clear understanding of
the theory.
This well-organized book provides a comprehensive treatment of
geology for civil engineers. It gives the latest techniques and
methodologies, and in particular, addresses the special
requirements of knowledge of geology in the field of engineering.
Structured primarily as a reference book to meet the requirement of
civil engineering students for courses in geology, this book can
also be of considerable value to students pursuing courses in
agriculture, soil science, forestry and environmental science.
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