The phrase "information society" is one so ubiquitous it has become passe, but its continued use, even in academic spheres, indicates a shared acknowledgement: that information, in its myriad mercurial forms, has become so integrated into every facet of modern life that it must be considered first and foremost when making any attempt to describe the character of the age. TheHandbook of Research on Cultural and Economic Impacts of the Information Society brings together an international and interdisciplinary forum of scholars and researchers to provide a comprehensive understanding of the role that information plays in all aspects of modern society. Through case-studies and empirical analyses, this volume provides an audience of academics, researchers, students, and professionals with a timely and straightforward reference source on the role that information technology plays in such spheres as law enforcement, democracy, governance, finance, rural development, and more. Featuring empirical research and real-world case studies, this handbook explores concepts including, but not limited to, consumer culture, the impact of information and communication technologies on business innovation, cloud computing services, open and unrestricted data, and the potential value of affective computing.

Vinegar is a sour-tasting kitchen staple, practically sour wine. Some of the latest vinegar types include white distilled vinegar, cider vinegar, wine vinegar, rice vinegar and malt vinegar.Rice is one of the oldest food crops of the world and staple diet for over half the population. It is cultivated in about 350-360 million acres with annual global production at 475 million metric tonnes and a fraction goes to vinegar fermentation. India is second largest producer of rice in the world having produced about 143.9 million tonnes of rice in 2010 Ethanol concentration selected for acetic acid production was 8%.the present study was planned with the objectives of Isolation and screening of yeast and acetic acid bacterial isolates for production of vinegar and optimization of saccharfication and fermentation conditions for production of vinegar from basmati and plain rice.The fermentation studies showed that 7.60% (w/v) total acid and 6.51% (w/v) volatile acids was produced from rice var. PUSA 1121 with fermentation efficiency of 78.2%, while rice var. PR 116 produced 5.99% (w/v) total acids and 5.08% (w/v) volatile acids with fermentation efficiency of 76.59%.

The contemporary field of psychiatric rehabilitation originated in programs of mental health treatment that began as early as the late 1940s. Many social workers employed in urban community centers, then termed "intermediate care facilities," had been trained in social group work. Any sickness, physical or psychological, leads to reduction in the patient's functional capacity. However, as the recovery takes place, the functional capacity returns to more or less presickness level. Activity may be physical, mental, social, recreational or job oriented. In the case of mentally ill person due to various reasons, these activities are disturbed to a varying extent. Rehabilitation aims at helping the patient to re-establish or regain his interest to do useful activity. Psychiatric rehabilitation grew out of a need to create opportunities for people diagnosed with severe mental illness to live, learn, and work in their own communities.

Coordination chemistry plays an important role in the designing of inorganic metal complexes, materials, organo-synthesis, biological systems and catalysis. In A Closer Look at Coordination Complexes, novel and evolving developments in the field have been described. The book includes chapters on the synthesis of coordination compounds using different ligand combinations (Schiff base ligands, phosphines, thiolates, ligands with N- and S-donors and so on), biological relevance and catalytic applications of the reported metal complexes. Different aspects of metal complexes, viz. structural and coordination properties of the ligands and complexes and applications viz., asymmetric organic transformations, potential anticancer agents, antibacterial-antioxidant-antifungal properties, alkenes epoxidation, olefins polymerization, nitrogen reduction, hydrogen evolution and oxidation and mercury poisoning treatment reviewed by the authors have been delineated in the eight chapters of the book.

The book focuses on the principles of electronic and magnetic properties of transition and inner transition metal ions/complexes. It is one of the essential and fundamental topics for graduate and undergraduate students, and it is also important for researchers. The book also covers basic concepts of symmetry in orbital, point group, spectroscopic terms and energy level diagrams. Crystal field, ligand field and molecular orbital theory (along with their importance in spectra) are elaborated. Further magnetic properties of transition metal ions/complexes as well as their spin and orbital contributions have been described in this book.