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The book presents recent research on marine ecology in different parts of the world. Four major ecosystem service categories have been identified within this context, namely provisioning services such as water, food, mangrove timber, honey, fish, wax, fuel wood, fodder and bioactive compounds from marine and estuarine flora and fauna;

The book contributes to the vast field of research in psychometrics as well as to the growing field of positive psychology. The chapters discuss the test construction process and develop scales for constructs that are validated on the Indian population.

This book covers interesting and yet often challenging cases among adult patients in a unique Question-Answer format. Simulating the bed-side case discussions during the ward rounds, one question logically leads to another question thereby generating curiosity and promoting evidence-based medicine.

Straight forward approaches to solve it in terms of position vectors of constituent particles and using standard mathematical techniques become too cumbersome and inconvenient when the system contains more than two particles.

It provides conceptual frameworksand simple tools for identifying and addressing the complexities of managinggeographically dispersed, virtually linked organizations, which may have grownorganically or inorganically into a potpourri of multiple cultures,capabilities and practices.

Radiopharmaceuticals for Therapy will benefit audiences in nuclear medicine and radionuclide therapy and will thus prove an invaluable source of up-to-date information for students, radiopharmaceutical scientists and professionals working in the radiopharmacy and nuclear medicine specialties.

This book takes a novel and holistic view of the global financial crisis and gives a comprehensive agenda for the reform of the global economy. It highlights why financial markets are more volatile than other markets and need better regulation.

This book illustrates operation and maintenance practices/guidelinesfor economic generation and managing health of a thermal power generator beyondits regulatory life.

This book describes the mechanisms of nutrient taken up by plants at the biochemical and molecular level. There are groups of genes for each nutrient that encode transporter proteins whose functions are to acquire the specific nutrient from the soil and transport it across the plasma membrane of the root hair cells for use in plant metabolism.

The empirical studies discussed in this book are based on two tasks: seminar speech task (SST) and written test performance task (WTPT). The study focuses on text input processing for written versus spoken tasks, at various levels of task performance, and for language versus information.

A true, mechanistic explanation of how humans process language would require a complete understanding of the interface language has with important cognitive systems like attention, memory, as well as with vision.

Upon the backdrop of impressive progress made by the Indian economy during the last two decades, this book evaluates the performance of the economy on some income and non-income dimensions of development at the national, state and sectoral levels.

This book discusses the integrated concepts of statistical quality engineering and management tools. Perhaps the most unique feature of the book is its approach, using statistical tools, to explain the science behind Six Sigma project management and integrated in engineering concepts.

The book deals with urban transportation planning in light of environmental sustainability and social equity.

This book examines global environmental issues and offers tools for environmentally aware decision-making. Coverage ranges from financial returns earned on a green stock-market-index-based fund to social factors influencing private investment decisions.

This book first offers a classification of zoonotic parasites, food borne, vector borne and occupation related zoonotic parasites. It then covers etiology, epidemiology, life cycle, transmission, clinical signs, diagnosis, prevention and control.

The study delineates export patterns by firm and state and explores factors influencing export decisions according to sector, size and location.

This book covers resonating modes inside device and gives insights into antenna design, impedance and radiation patterns. The text covers new approaches in antenna design by investigation hybrid modes, H_Z and E_Z fields available simultaneously, and analysis and modelling on modes with practical applications in antenna design.

This book describes the dietary habits (such as use of probiotics, synbiotics, prebiotics and dietary fiber) that could modify and reduce the risk of developing colorectal cancer (CRC).

This book introduces readers to classical population genetics and the ways in which it can be applied to practical problems, including testing for natural selection, genetic drift, genetic differentiation, population structuring, gene flow and linkage disequilibrium.

This book primarily addresses the optimality aspects of covariate designs. The main emphasis of this monograph is to start with an assumed covariate model in combination with some standard ANOVA set-ups such as CRD, RBD, BIBD, GDD, BTIBD, BPEBD, cross-over, multi-factor, split-plot and strip-plot designs, treatment control designs, etc.

It is divided in three major parts: the first part comprises the history of veterinary and medical mycology, general aspects of morphology, growth, nutrition, reproduction and classification of fungi.

The book targets undergraduate and postgraduate mathematics students and helps them develop a deep understanding of mathematical analysis.

The book provides a detailed analysis of issues related to sub-threshold interconnect performance from the perspective of analytical approach and design techniques.

This book contributes towards the integration of the R&D function with regard to societies, nations, industries and organizations, as well as to leaders within organizations.

Based on a data set covering the last two decades of India's development, this study analyzes the financial performance of public sector enterprises, assessing their success in adapting to a liberalized business environment of disinvestment and subsidy cuts.

This book explores the integral vision of human development contained in the original works of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother.

This book offers an introduction to the theory of smooth manifolds, helping students to familiarize themselves with the tools they will need for mathematical research on smooth manifolds and differential geometry.

Bearing in mind the collaborative nature of bioinformatics and genomic databases, the book evaluates the pros and cons of open biotechnology and assesses the implications of extending intellectual property rights to human genetic resources, before explaining the ownership puzzle concerning human genetic material used in genetic research.