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Reduce your stress level and become happier and more productive in
work and personal life Written by a monk-turned-leadership-guru,
Mindfulness For the Wandering Mind offers unique insight on how you
can focus your mind, become more resilient, respond better to
conflict, and build stronger professional (and personal)
relationships. It’s all possible when you begin to understand how
your mind works and take control of this complicated mechanism.
This book will show you how to identify and close the “apps”
that are constantly running in your own mind, so you can eliminate
distractions and find greater peace and productivity in your daily
life. In this book, you’ll find specific meditation processes and
actions you can take to help you succeed as you begin or continue
your journey. Through presentations and talks across the country,
author Pandit Dasa has offered his wisdom on applying mindfulness
in the workplace. In this book, he shares his wisdom with you,
revealing that, no matter what your external circumstances or
environment, you can find the time and space to reflect and unlock
the benefits of mindfulness. Reduce stress and anxiety by
eliminating unnecessary distractions and closing unused “apps”
in your mind Harness the principles of forgiveness, patience,
compassion, and selflessness to improve work-life balance and
mental health for yourself and your employees Break through the
stigma surrounding mental health concerns and identify the
obstacles that are keeping you from happiness and fulfilment
Complete reflection questions and exercises to develop a deeper
awareness of how your mind works—and what you can do to improve
it Mindfulness For the Wandering Mind is for anyone who is looking
for a solution to the constant feelings overwhelm, distraction, and
anxiety that plague us in today’s fast-paced, media-saturated
world. Teach your brain how to block out the noise and find focus,
and observe the radical transformation that mindfulness can make in
your life.
This book studies the intersection of performance and nationalism
in South Asia.It traces the emergence of the culture of nationalism
from the late nineteenth century through to contemporary times.
Drawing on various theatrical performance texts, it looks at the
ways in which performative narratives have reflected the national
narrative and analyses the role performance has played in
engendering nationhood. The volume discusses themes such as
political martyrdom as performative nationalism, the revitalisation
of nationalism through new media, the sanitisation of physical
gestures in dance, the performance of nationhood through violence
in Tajiki films, as well as K-Pop and the new northeastern identity
in India. A unique contribution to the study of nationalism, this
book will be useful for scholars and researchers of history,
theatre and performance studies, cultural studies, postcolonial
studies, modern India, Asian studies, political studies, social
anthropology and sociology.
The book comprehensively covers a wide range of evolutionary
computer vision methods and applications, feature selection and
extraction for training and classification, and metaheuristic
algorithms in image processing. It further discusses optimized
image segmentation, its analysis, pattern recognition, and object
detection. Discusses machine learning-based analytics such as GAN
networks, autoencoders, computational imaging, and quantum
computing. Covers deep learning algorithms in computer vision.
Showcases novel solutions such as multi-resolution analysis in
imaging processing, and metaheuristic algorithms for tackling
challenges associated with image processing. Highlight optimization
problems such as image segmentation and minimized feature design
vector. Presents platform and simulation tools for image processing
and segmentation. The book aims to get the readers familiar with
the fundamentals of computational intelligence as well as the
recent advancements in related technologies like smart applications
of digital images, and other enabling technologies from the context
of image processing and computer vision. It further covers
important topics such as image watermarking, steganography,
morphological processing, and optimized image segmentation. It will
serve as an ideal reference text for senior undergraduate, graduate
students, and academic researchers in fields including electrical
engineering, electronics, communications engineering, and computer
engineering.
The book provides insight into the changing nature of Muslim
politics and the ideas of citizenship in independent India. It
studies the electoral mobilization of minority groups across North
India, particularly in Uttar Pradesh where Muslims have been
demographically dominant in various constituencies. The volume
discusses themes such as the making and unmaking of the â€Congress
heartland’ and the threat of revival of â€Muslim communalism’,
alongside issues of representation, property, language politics,
rehabilitation and citizenship, politics of Waqf, personal law and
Hindu counter-mobilization. The author utilizes previously unused
government and institutional files, private archives, interviews
and oral resources to address questions central to Indian politics
and society. An important intervention, this book will be useful
for scholars and researchers of politics, Indian history, minority
studies, law, political studies, nationalism, electoral politics,
partition studies, political sociology, sociology and South Asian
Studies.
This book studies the intersection of performance and nationalism
in South Asia.It traces the emergence of the culture of nationalism
from the late nineteenth century through to contemporary times.
Drawing on various theatrical performance texts, it looks at the
ways in which performative narratives have reflected the national
narrative and analyses the role performance has played in
engendering nationhood. The volume discusses themes such as
political martyrdom as performative nationalism, the revitalisation
of nationalism through new media, the sanitisation of physical
gestures in dance, the performance of nationhood through violence
in Tajiki films, as well as K-Pop and the new northeastern identity
in India. A unique contribution to the study of nationalism, this
book will be useful for scholars and researchers of history,
theatre and performance studies, cultural studies, postcolonial
studies, modern India, Asian studies, political studies, social
anthropology and sociology.
The fields of Economic Geography and International Business share
an interest in the same phenomena, whilst each provides both a
differing perspective and different research methods in attempting
to understand those phenomena. The Routledge Companion to the
Geography of International Business explores the nature and scope
of inter-disciplinary work between Economic Geography and
International Business in explaining the central issues in the
international economy. Contributions written by leading specialists
in each field (including some chapters written by
inter-disciplinary teams) focus on the nature of multinational
firms and their strategies, where they choose to locate their
activities, how they create and manage international networks and
the key relationships between multinationals and the places where
they place their operations. Topics covered include the
internationalisation of service industries, the influence of
location on the competitiveness of firms and the economic dynamism
of regions and where economic activity takes place and how
knowledge, goods and services flow between locations. The book
examines the areas for fruitful inter-disciplinary work between
International Business and Economic Geography and sets out a road
map for future joint research, and is an essential resource for
students and practitioners of International Business and Economic
Development.
The collision of the Indian and Eurasian plates around fifty
million years ago profoundly altered earth's geography and regional
climates. The rise of the Himalaya led to intensification of the
monsoon, the birth of massive glaciers and turbulent rivers, and an
efflorescence of ecosystems along the most extreme elevational
gradient on Earth. When the Ice Age ended, humans became part of
this mix, and today nearly one quarter of the world's population
inhabits its river basins, from Afghanistan to Myanmar. Life in the
Himalaya examines the region's geophysical and biological systems
and explores the past and future of human sustainability in the
mountain's shadow. Maharaj Pandit divides the Himalaya's history
into four phases. During the first, the mountain and its ecosystems
formed. In the second, humans altered the landscape, beginning with
nomadic pastoralism, continuing to commercial deforestation, and
culminating in pockets of resistance to forest exploitation. The
third phase saw a human population explosion, accompanied by road
and dam building and other large-scale infrastructure that degraded
ecosystems and caused species extinctions. Pandit outlines a future
networking phase which holds the promise of sustainable living
within the mountain's carrying capacity. Today, the Himalaya is
threatened by recurrent natural disasters and is at risk of
catastrophic loss of life. If humans are to have a sustainable
future there, Pandit argues, they will need to better understand
the region's geological vulnerability, ecological fragility, and
sociocultural sensitivity. Life in the Himalaya outlines the
mountain's past in order to map a way forward.
The only book to take a really broad look at literature and emotion
from a variety of perspectives including neuroscience Section on
theory introduces the more complex areas of affect theory and
cognitive science so people can understand throughout the book
Looks at a wide variety of literature but also features commonly
studied writers such as Shakespeare, Chaucer, Austen and Woolf
The book provides insight into the changing nature of Muslim
politics and the ideas of citizenship in independent India. It
studies the electoral mobilization of minority groups across North
India, particularly in Uttar Pradesh where Muslims have been
demographically dominant in various constituencies. The volume
discusses themes such as the making and unmaking of the 'Congress
heartland' and the threat of revival of 'Muslim communalism',
alongside issues of representation, property, language politics,
rehabilitation and citizenship, politics of Waqf, personal law and
Hindu counter-mobilization. The author utilizes previously unused
government and institutional files, private archives, interviews
and oral resources to address questions central to Indian politics
and society. An important intervention, this book will be useful
for scholars and researchers of politics, Indian history, minority
studies, law, political studies, nationalism, electoral politics,
partition studies, political sociology, sociology and South Asian
Studies.
Mathematical Modeling using Fuzzy Logic has been a dream project
for the author. Fuzzy logic provides a unique method of approximate
reasoning in an imperfect world. This text is a bridge to the
principles of fuzzy logic through an application-focused approach
to selected topics in engineering and management. The many examples
point to the richer solutions obtained through fuzzy logic and to
the possibilities of much wider applications. There are relatively
very few texts available at present in fuzzy logic applications.
The style and content of this text is complementary to those
already available. New areas of application, like application of
fuzzy logic in modeling of sustainability, are presented in a
graded approach in which the underlying concepts are first
described. The text is broadly divided into two parts: the first
treats processes, materials, and system applications related to
fuzzy logic, and the second delves into the modeling of
sustainability with the help of fuzzy logic. This book offers
comprehensive coverage of the most essential topics, including:
Treating processes, materials, system applications related to fuzzy
logic Highlighting new areas of application of fuzzy logic
Identifying possibilities of much wider applications of fuzzy logic
Modeling of sustainability with the help of fuzzy logic The level
enables a selection of the text to be made for the substance of
undergraduate-, graduate-, and postgraduate-level courses. There is
also sufficient volume and quality for the basis of a postgraduate
course. A more restricted and judicious selection can provide the
material for a professional short course and various
university-level courses.
Industrial Biotechnology offers a comprehensive overview of
biochemical processes, technologies, and practical applications of
industrial biotechnology. The work comprises of chapters that
discuss medium preparation, inoculum preparation using industrial
strain and upstream processing, various fermentation processes, and
physico-chemical separation processes for the purification of
products and packaging. Analyzes problems within biochemical
processes Discusses stoichiometry of bioprocesses Covers upstream
and downstream processing Offers a wealth of case studies of
different biochemical production processes, including those in
development of food products, vaccines and medicines, single cell
proteins, amino acids, cheese, biodiesel, biopesticides, and more
This book is aimed at advanced students, industrial practitioners,
and researchers in biotechnology, food engineering, chemical
engineering, and environmental engineering.
The status and position of Indian women have undergone many changes
since the high status they enjoyed in the Vedic era yielded to
forced suicide during the dark ages, female infanticide, purdah,
child marriages and the denial of property and political rights.
This book, first published in 1985, provides a comprehensive
annotated bibliography to hose years, and the years that followed
of the relentless liberation struggle by women on the
socio-political and legal fronts.
Water is our natural heritage, our miracle of life. However, our
increasingly technological society has become indifferent to water.
Far from being pure, modern drinking water around the world
contains many undesirable chemical and bacterial contaminants. The
existing techniques employed for the disinfection of water are
either energy-intensive or have by-products harmful to human
health. Drinking Water Disinfection Techniques reviews these
processes and explores novel technologies for water disinfection
synergistic with existing techniques. The book covers a wide
audience and gives a comprehensive review of various physical,
chemical, and hybrid techniques commonly used for the disinfection
of water as well as newer emerging technologies in terms of their
mode of action, scale of operation, efficacy, merits, and demerits.
It broadly addresses the issues related to water disinfection in
three sections: Disinfection techniques-chemical, physical, and
hybrid (combination)-and their likely scale of operation efficacy
Disinfection by-product as a function of water source and the type
of treatment Emerging and novel techniques, including new work on
cavitation, an economical, energy-efficient, and simple alternative
to the conventional methods of disinfection Drinking Water
Disinfection Techniques effectively combines the chemical,
physical, biological, and engineering principles of water
disinfection in one text. Discussing both conventional and novel
techniques used for disinfection and the economics involved, the
book gives a comprehensive review of various physical, chemical,
and hybrid techniques used for disinfection to create potable
water.
• This book presents the landscape of consciousness and
psychology and connects the possibilities of grounding the
discussions in experiential, social, cognitive, and ecological
contexts. • It decolonizes the understanding of consciousness
connects the possibilities of grounding the discussions in
experiential, social, cognitive, and ecological contexts. • Will
be of interest to students, teachers, and researchers of
psychology, consciousness studies, cognitive science, philosophy,
social psychology, yoga studies, and yoga psychology across UK and
US. It will also be useful for yoga professionals, therapists,
social workers, and anyone who is interested to learn about
consciousness.
The Islamic Orient studies the travel accounts of four British
travelers during the nineteenth century. Through a critical
analysis of these works, the author examines and questions Edward
Said's concept of "Orientalism" and "Orientalist" discourse: his
argument that the orientalist view had such a strong influence on
westerners that they invariably perceived the orient through the
lens of orientalism. On the contrary, the author argues, no single
factor had an overwhelming influence on them. She shows that
westerners often struggled with their own conceptions of the
orient, and being away for long periods from their homelands, were
in fact able to stand between cultures and view them both as
insiders and outsiders. The literary devices used to examine these
writings are structure, characterization, satire, landscape
description, and word choice, as also the social and political
milieu of the writers. The major influences in the author's
analysis are Said, Foucault, Abdel-Malek and Marie Louise Pratt.
Compilation of essays presenting advice on a wide range of topics
including holistic methods for healthy living, the role of media in
public perception, peace through diplomacy, and other issues for
personal and global enrichment--Provided by publisher.
This book is a selection of articles by David Zilberman, a prolific
author, whose tragic untimely death did not allow to finish many of
his undertakings. Zilberman’s work represents a fresh word in the
way of philosophizing or philosophy-building and the technique of
modal methodology. This book comprises of thirteen independent
articles that are not related by content. The point of thematic
convergence of these articles is the way they reflect the new way
of methodological thinking through the application and benefits of
modalization or modal methodology that unfolds unbound
possibilities of philosophic elaborations. By shifting constantly
from one position to another, Zilberman disclosed the antinomicity
of all types of thought. Such an approach led him to outline for
the first time his major attempt to start creating not "systems"
but "sums" of philosophies so that the philosophical activity would
be able to re-emerge on the slopes of such "sums."Â The book
can be used as a starting point of a discussion, especially in
study of philosophy. We imagine it can be used in undergraduate
classes on World Philosophies or Intercultural Philosophy courses.
With that, it can serve as a useful resource for adding
intercultural elements into Western-centered courses.
Handbook of Nanomaterials for Wastewater Treatment: Fundamentals
and Scale up Issues provides coverage of the nanomaterials used for
wastewater treatment, covering photocatalytic nanocomposite
materials, nanomaterials used as adsorbents, water remediation
processes, and their current status and challenges. The book
explores the major applications of nanomaterials for effective
catalysis and adsorption, also providing in-depth information on
the properties and application of new advanced nanomaterials for
wastewater treatment processes. This is an important reference
source for researchers who need to solve basic and advanced
problems relating to the use of nanomaterials for the development
of wastewater treatment processes and technologies. As
nanotechnology has the potential to substantially improve current
water and wastewater treatment processes, the synthesis methods and
physiochemical properties of nanomaterials and noble metal
nanoparticles make their performance and mechanisms efficient for
the treatment of various pollutants.
The Islamic Orient studies the travel accounts of four British
travelers during the nineteenth century. Through a critical
analysis of these works, the author examines and questions Edward
Said's concept of "Orientalism" and "Orientalist" discourse: his
argument that the orientalist view had such a strong influence on
westerners that they invariably perceived the orient through the
lens of orientalism. On the contrary, the author argues, no single
factor had an overwhelming influence on them. She shows that
westerners often struggled with their own conceptions of the
orient, and being away for long periods from their homelands, were
in fact able to stand between cultures and view them both as
insiders and outsiders. The literary devices used to examine these
writings are structure, characterization, satire, landscape
description, and word choice, as also the social and political
milieu of the writers. The major influences in the author's
analysis are Said, Foucault, Abdel-Malek and Marie Louise Pratt.
This edited book discusses the latest advancements in the area of
biofuel development. It covers extensive information regarding
different aspects and types of biofuels. The book provides a road
map of the various kinds of biofuels available for consideration.
It focuses on microbial based power generation, applications of
nanotechnology in biofuel development, advancements in molecular
techniques, economic and life cycle assessments. The book also
highlights the commercialization prospects and economics of the
various processes and an overview of the life cycle assessment of
the various different kinds of biofuels. The contributors are
experienced professors, academicians and scientists associated with
renowned laboratories and institutes in India and abroad. This book
is of interest to teachers, researchers, biofuel scientists,
capacity builders and policymakers. Also the book serves as
additional reading material for undergraduate and graduate
students. National and international scientists, policy makers will
also find this to be a useful read.
This book explores the practices and policies of human resource
management (HRM) in higher education institutions (HEI), while also
analyzing the governance and structural challenges. It explains the
assessment of university as an organization, outlining the
distinction between universities and firms from an HRM point of
view by analysing various objectives, parameters and
outcomes. The book broadly probes the relevance of HRM
systems in HEIs in India and their potential impact. It also
examines whether existing HRM practices and policies in HEIs in
India drive motivation and enable employees to perform their
functions to achieve the highest possible levels of
excellence. It explores whether the enhanced motivation of
employees consistently impacts students, their placements, progress
to higher education, and quality teaching and research output. To
strengthen the research output, to better understand the
functioning of HRM practices in foreign HEIs and for comparative
reasons, the book also studies HEIs in the United States against a
diverse set of HEIs in India. It concludes by highlighting the
impact of India’s National Education Policy 2020 and its scope to
transform and professionalise the higher education system in the
country. The book is indispensable for researchers in
education management and policy studies and those in governing
positions in higher education institutions. It is also a valuable
resource for regulatory and government bodies, and
policy-formulating think tanks in South Asia which have a similar
education system as India.
The status and position of Indian women have undergone many changes
since the high status they enjoyed in the Vedic era yielded to
forced suicide during the dark ages, female infanticide, purdah,
child marriages and the denial of property and political rights.
This book, first published in 1985, provides a comprehensive
annotated bibliography to hose years, and the years that followed
of the relentless liberation struggle by women on the
socio-political and legal fronts.
A manual on the development and reconstruction of coastal fishing
areas. Coverage ranges from design conditions, through use of tidal
currents for sea water flow, to improvement of water quality and
breeding facilities.
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