This book highlights the state-of-the-art research on data usage, security, and privacy in the scenarios of the Internet of Things (IoT), along with related applications using Machine Learning and Big Data technologies to design and make efficient Internet-compatible IoT systems. ICT and Data Sciences brings together IoT and Machine Learning and provides the careful integration of both, along with many examples and case studies. It illustrates the merging of two technologies while presenting basic to high-level concepts covering different fields and domains such as the Hospitality and Tourism industry, Smart Clothing, Cyber Crime, Programming, Communications, Business Intelligence, all in the context of the Internet of Things. The book is written for researchers and practitioners, working in Information Communication Technology and Computer Science.

"Water and Health" strengthens the dynamic relationship between human health and water. The book has the potential to ignite our minds about several water-related diseases due to biological and chemical contamination, and to their high-end solutions. The contents are original, comprehensive and highly informative, and gradually take the reader around the component most important to his or her quality life, and not just existence. The book is set in social, scientific and economic dimensions, and is a must read for all those who cherish and celebrate human life and dignity.

"Water and Health" strengthens the dynamic relationship between human health and water. The book has the potential to ignite our minds about several water-related diseases due to biological and chemical contamination, and to their high-end solutions. The contents are original, comprehensive and highly informative, and gradually take the reader around the component most important to his or her quality life, and not just existence. The book is set in social, scientific and economic dimensions, and is a must read for all those who cherish and celebrate human life and dignity.

Pesticides: Human Health, Environmental Impacts and Management considers microbial degradation and environmental management of pesticides, covers microbial options as an alternative to chemical pesticides, explores plant-microbe interactions for reduced applications of pesticides in the agricultural fields, discusses the enhancement of microbial pesticides degradation, explains function of engineered microorganisms for effective pesticide degradation, describes potential indigenous/effective microbes for effective pesticide degradation processes, and presents research on microbes for sustainable agricultural and environmental practices.

This book provides an overview of the applications of ion beam techniques in oxide materials. Oxide materials exhibit defect-induced physical properties relevant to applications in sensing, optoelectronics and spintronics. Defects in these oxide materials also lead to magnetism in non-magnetic materials or to a change of magnetic ordering in magnetic materials. Thus, an understanding of defects is of immense importance. To date, ion beam tools are considered the most effective techniques for producing controlled defects in these oxides. This book will detail the ion beam tools utilized for creating defects in oxides.

Defect Induced Magnetism in Oxide Semiconductors provides an overview on the latest advances of defect engineering to create new magnetic materials and enable new technological applications. Sections introduce the mechanisms, behavior and theory of magnetism in oxide semiconductors and review methods of inducing magnetism in these materials. Then, strategies such as pulsed laser deposition and RF sputtering to grow oxide nanostructured materials with induced magnetism are discussed. This is followed by a review of the most relevant post-deposition methods to induce magnetism in oxide semiconductors, including annealing, ion irradiation, and ion implantation. Examples of defect induced magnetism in oxide semiconductors are then provided, along with selected applications. This title will be suitable reference for researchers in academia and practitioners in research and development in industry working in the disciplines of materials science and engineering.

The Experimental protocols of Immunology & Molecular Biology are presented so as to be readily used at the laboratory bench. Although a number of the procedures described represent the tried and trusted, we have striven to include variants on existing technologies that an experiment can be performed. These step-by-step protocols are intended to be concise and easy to follow. Suggestions to successfully apply the procedures are included, along with recommended materials. A special feature is that, in addition to the protocols, important background information and representative results of applying the methods are given. The aim of this book to provide a self-contained laboratory manual which will be useful to Graduate, Post Graduates & Research Scholars of Life sciences of various universities and colleges.

The present investigation entitled "Genetics of slow rusting resistance in field pea" was carried out with a view to analyze the inheritance pattern of components of rust resistance and yield and yield traits in pea (Pisum sativum L.). Using first order statistics (the generation means analysis and the protection experiment) and the second order statistics (the heritability, genetic advance, phenotypic correlation and path-coefficients). Based on above information one can elucidate the nature of gene action involved in governing the expression of components of resistance called slow rusting components. Slow rusting components are those components which slow down the epidemic buildup of the pathogen despite a compatible interaction between the host and the pathogen and are quantitative in nature. Further, the findings of the work presented in this manuscript may serve as a sound tool to formulate the appropriate breeding strategy for the improvement and management of pea crop against the rust disease.

Applications Transition metal complexes of acylhydrazones and related N, O donor Schiff bases and their metal complexes have attracted considerable attention during recent years because of their applications in several bio-chemical, industrial and analytical processes. Some of the applications of these compounds are mentioned below: As biological probes As optical devices As catalyst Mesogenic behavior As sensing material As DNA cleaving agents Super oxide dismutase-mimic activity In analytical processes Other uses The hydrazones have been used as plasticizers and stabilizers for polymers Kuhn et al. (2001), Gupta et al. (2007)], polymerization initiators and antioxidants etc. Hydrazone compounds have the ability to control the release of volatile aldehydes and ketones Levrand et al. (2006)]. The phenyl derivative Schiff bases have been used as corrosion inhibitors for aluminium in hydrochloric solution Unaleroglu et al. (2001)]. It is apparent from the above applications that the selected field of transition metal complexes of N, O donor ligands is very useful and multi-dimensional. Each new ligand/ new complex or new study gives a new direction to the area of research.

Humanity is facing a colossal problem due to a population explosion and the relentless exploitation of natural resources. Biotechnology is one of the most cutting edge fields of technology, which has the prospective to address some of the worlds paramount challenges, such as feeding a rising population and offering novel alternatives to our limited natural resources. The ultimate objective of biotechnology is to meet human requirements in order to improve our quality of life. Due to progressive and comprehensive research and development, the prominence of biotechnology has come into existence. It is widely used in agriculture, medicine, engineering, science, technology and other forms of applications, and can be harnessed as a panacea for the problems of mankind. Apart from the research in the field concerning transgenic animals and plants, use of various microorganism derived products in microbiology has changed the way biotic and abiotic components of the Earth interact. This book shows how the use of biotechnology is evolving and expanding, highlighting the methods that can prove to positively affect our future and planet.