This book offers the core conceptual base for the practice of T-Group facilitation. Drawing from the fields of psychology, social psychology, sociology, diversity studies and Indian philosophical thoughts, this book is a great resource for enhancing the practice of T-Group facilitation, for both budding and established facilitators. It covers a wide range of theories on human development, self-awareness, interpersonal interactions, groups and change. Individual and group identities, diversity, inclusion and social hierarchies are explored in detail here. The authors offer a model of T-Group facilitation based on 50 years of experience within the Indian Society for Applied Behavioural Science (ISABS). This model is useful not only for fellow practitioners of T-Groups but also for anyone engaged in facilitating groups, organizations and communities globally. This book helps one to reflect, develop and sharpen one's competencies, values and ethics in this field. The chapters are embedded with activities, quizzes, case studies and exercises to facilitate a deeper understanding of the various elements used in the book. This book will be of interest to students, teachers and practitioners of psychology, social psychology, management studies and organizational development. It will also be useful for T-Group facilitators, facilitators of experiential groups and related fields.

Conducting research and technology design for domestic life is by no means easy. Methods commonly used in the field of Human-Computer Interaction in settings like the workplace may not easily translate to the richness and complexity of domestic life. This book documents new ways in which researchers are studying domestic life, as well as designing and evaluating technology in the home. Each chapter is a candid discussion about methods that were successfully used for research studies with a focus on the challenges that the researchers faced and the best practices they learned.

This book offers the core conceptual base for the practice of T-Group facilitation. Drawing from the fields of psychology, social psychology, sociology, diversity studies and Indian philosophical thoughts, this book is a great resource for enhancing the practice of T-Group facilitation, for both budding and established facilitators. It covers a wide range of theories on human development, self-awareness, interpersonal interactions, groups and change. Individual and group identities, diversity, inclusion and social hierarchies are explored in detail here. The authors offer a model of T-Group facilitation based on 50 years of experience within the Indian Society for Applied Behavioural Science (ISABS). This model is useful not only for fellow practitioners of T-Groups but also for anyone engaged in facilitating groups, organizations and communities globally. This book helps one to reflect, develop and sharpen one's competencies, values and ethics in this field. The chapters are embedded with activities, quizzes, case studies and exercises to facilitate a deeper understanding of the various elements used in the book. This book will be of interest to students, teachers and practitioners of psychology, social psychology, management studies and organizational development. It will also be useful for T-Group facilitators, facilitators of experiential groups and related fields.

This title addresses various open issues related to performance monitoring, performance management and performance control. It covers the performance management aspects of broadband wired and wireless cellular networks in an integrated fashion, and highlights the role of performance management in assisting network control procedures.

The book describes hazardous waste industries, sources of waste generation, characterization and treatment processes/ methods and technique and technology to deal with the treated waste as per the prescribed standard. Advanced treatment based on the microbial remediation, plant-based decontamination, rhizoremediation and nano-based remediation is also explained. Advances in treatment technology using biotechnological tools/bionanotechnology for removal of contaminants are described. This volume will help readers to develop biotechnological and nanotechnological approaches for the remediation of hazardous waste and the developed technology that can be transferred from laboratory to land and piloting to commercial scenarios. Prof. M. H. Fulekar a Professor and Joint Director (R&D), Centre of Research for Development, Parul University. Dr. Bhawana Pathak is working as an Associate Professor and Dean in School of Environment and Sustainable Development, Central University of Gujarat.

This title addresses various open issues related to performance monitoring, performance management and performance control. It covers the performance management aspects of broadband wired and wireless cellular networks in an integrated fashion, and highlights the role of performance management in assisting network control procedures.

Using Android as a reference, this book teaches the development of mobile apps designed to be responsive, trustworthy and robust, and optimized for maintainability. As the share of mission-critical mobile apps continues to increase in the ever-expanding mobile app ecosystem, it has become imperative that processes and procedures to assure their reliance are developed and included in the software life cycle at opportune times. Memory, CPU, battery life and screen size limitations of smartphones coupled with volatility associated with mobile environments underlines that the quality assurance strategies that proved to be successful for desktop applications may no longer be effective in mobile apps. To that effect, this book lays a foundation upon which quality assurance processes and procedures for mobile apps could be devised. This foundation is composed of analytical models, experimental test-beds and software solutions. Analytical models proposed in the literature to predict software quality are studied and adapted for mobile apps. The efficacy of these analytical models in prejudging the operations of mobile apps under design and development is evaluated. A comprehensive test suite is presented that empirically assesses a mobile app's compliance to its quality expectations. Test procedures to measure quality attributes such as maintainability, usability, performance, scalability, reliability, availability and security, are detailed. Utilization of test tools provided in Android Studio as well as third-party vendors in constructing the corresponding test-beds is highlighted. An in-depth exploration of utilities, services and frameworks available on Android is conducted, and the results of their parametrization observed through experimentation to construct quality assurance solutions are presented. Experimental development of some example mobile apps is conducted to gauge adoption of process models and determine favorable opportunities for integrating the quality assurance processes and procedures in the mobile app life cycle. The role of automation in testing, integration, deployment and configuration management is demonstrated to offset cost overheads of integrating quality assurance process in the life cycle of mobile apps.

The book is designed to benefit students and engineers relating to emerging field of RF-MEMS at graduate and post graduate level. It presents a coherent, unified and comprehensive knowledge of the fundamentals of RF-MEMS technology. The aim of the book is to enable the student to get a simplified and satisfactory grasp of the subject. It is written to make students realize that this subject is relevant and useful and also encourage the engineers to develop some facilities in its use. This promising and growing field is of multidisciplinary nature and has diverse applications in various areas like communication, and defense. This book gives an overview of materials, micro fabrication, packaging, market and forecast of RF-MEMS devices and reliability problems of RF-MEMS. It indicates that RF-MEMS will revolutionize with advancement in this technology as it is clearly a technological aspect.The concept is made attractive by giving suitable representative case studies of RF-MEMS, diagrams, and tables. The book will be most useful to not only to students of Physics, Electronics Engineering but also to researchers working in this emerging field.

Punjabi language, spoken by tens of millions of peoples worldwide, is one among those unique languages of the world which are written in different scripts. It is written in Indian East Punjab in Gurmukhi script, in Pakistan West Punjab, in Shahmukhi script. Whilst in speech, Punjabi in the both Eastern and the Western Punjab is mutually comprehensible, in the written form it is not so. This has created a script barrier between the Punjabi literature written in India and in Pakistan. A computer program capable of automatic transliteration between Shahmukhi and Gurmukhi scripts is a great boon for overcoming the script barrier in Punjabi language.This book addresses the challenges posed by Shahmukhi script and proposes a complete Shahmukhi-to-Gurmukhi transliteration system which is capable of processing the real life or natural Shahmukhi text. The book also highlights the difficulties encountered during transliteration like filling the missing diacritics, missing short vowels, multiple mappings, word boundary issues and word sense disambiguation which were no trivial and presents their promising solutions during different stages of development of the transliteration system.

The Electronic Device Failure Analysis Society proudly announces the Seventh Edition of the Microelectronics Failure Analysis Desk Reference, published by ASM International. The new edition will help engineers improve their ability to verify, isolate, uncover, and identify the root cause of failures. Prepared by a team of experts, this updated reference offers the latest information on advanced failure analysis tools and techniques, illustrated with numerous real-life examples. Topics include: Failure Analysis Process and Management-wafer, package, and board level failure analysis flow. Incoming Inspection Tools-optical, x-ray, and scanning acoustic microscopy. Fault Isolation-front and backside sample prepara tion, CAD navigation, laser-assisted device alteration (LADA), soft defect location (SDL), lock-in thermog raphy, laser voltage probing (LVP), photon emission, EOTPR/TDR/TDT, and current imaging. Device and Circuit Characterization-scanning electron microscopy (SEM)-based and atomic force microscopy (AFM)-based nanoprobing. FIB Technique and Circuit Edit- FIB overview and advanced circuit edit for first silicon debug. Physical Analysis-deprocessing, cross section analysis, scanning electron microscopy, material analysis techniques, transmission electron micros copy (TEM), and scanning probe microscopy. Memory FA-DRAM, semiconductor memory failure signature analysis. Special Applications-automotive FA, 2.5 and 3D packaging failure analysis, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), optoelectronics, solar, and counterfeit electronics. Fundamental Topics-integrated circuit testing, analog design, reliability, quality, and training. Seven new topics have been added and all themes covered in earlier editions are included in the Seventh Edition. Many previous articles have been updated.