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The book analyses various challenges emanating from privatization, globalization and public financial crunch to understand the future directions of higher education in India.

This book gathers original research papers and survey articles presented at the ¿International Conference on Class Groups of Number Fields and Related Topics,¿ held at Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India, on September 4¿7, 2017. It discusses the fundamental research problems that arise in the study of class groups of number fields and introduces new techniques and tools to study these problems. Topics in this book include class groups and class numbers of number fields, units, the Kummer¿Vandiver conjecture, class number one problem, Diophantine equations, Thue equations, continued fractions, Euclidean number fields, heights, rational torsion points on elliptic curves, cyclotomic numbers, Jacobi sums, and Dedekind zeta values.This book is a valuable resource for undergraduate and graduate students of mathematics as well as researchers interested in class groups of number fields and their connections to other branches of mathematics. New researchers to the field will also benefit immensely from the diverse problems discussed. All the contributing authors are leading academicians, scientists, researchers, and scholars.

The book brings to the reader a set of political and social narratives woven around people's resistance against big dams, mining and industrial projects, in short, displacement and dispossession in Odisha, India.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Applications and Techniques in Information Security, ATIS 2020, held in Brisbane, QLD, Australia, in November 2020. The papers are focused on all aspects on techniques and applications in information security research.

This book constitutes revised papers from the Second International Conference on Urban Intelligence and Applications, ICUIA 2020, held in August 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online. The 26 papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 122 submissions.

This book constitutes extended papers from the 5th International Conference on Technology in Education, ICTE 2020, held in August 2020. The 30 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. learning analysis and assessment; open and collaborative learning;

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Workshops from the 15th International Conference on Green, Pervasive, and Cloud Computing, GPC 2020, held in Xi'an, China, in November 2020.

This book introduces the core concepts of bloodstain pattern analysis that help to understand and make independent contributions to crime scenes accurately.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Future Data and Security Engineering, FDSE 2020, held in Quy Nhon, Vietnam, in November 2020.*The 29 full papers and 8 short were carefully reviewed and selected from 161 submissions.

Machine Learning.- Safety Supervision for Coal Mines Using Machine Learning Methods.- Iterative Optimization for Edge Federated Learning.- Machinery Health Prognostics of Dust Removal Fan Data through Deep Neural Networks.- Numeric CNNs: CNNs for Reading Numeric Characters on Meters.- DeepTSW: An Urban Traffic Safety Warning Framework based on Bayesian Deep Learning.- A Multimodal Semantic Model of Packaging Sorting Field Based on Deep Learning.- Classification of Autism based on fMRI Data with Feature-fused Convolutional Neural Network.- Ubiquitous and Intelligent Computing.- Topic Logistics Based on Node Resource Status.- Summarization of Coal Mine Accident Reports: A Natural-Language-Processing-Based Approach.- The College Student Credit Evaluation based on Characteristic Data.- Research on Human Pose Estimation and Object Detection in the Field of Unmanned Retail.- Edge Computing-based Solution and Framework for Software-Defined Industrial Intelligent Control in Industrial Internet of Things.- Wi-Sector - A Novel Sector-based WiFi Scheduling.

The book covers basic theories, basic knowledge and basic skills on clinical diagnosis, basic requirements for doctors' ethical conduct, clinical reasoning and documentation of medical records during the process of making a diagnosis.

The chapters in this volume discuss the research that scholars have recently undertaken in both countries and the impact that such comparative research has on developing partnerships, learning methodologies, and socio-cultural narratives that empower interdisciplinary research.

Few works are as timely and critical to the advancement of high performance computing than is this new up-to-date treatise on leading-edge directions of operating systems.

This book provides the latest information on diagnosis and treatment strategies for colorectal T1(SM) carcinoma including endoscopic resection, and pathologic diagnosis and treatment following resection.

This book focuses on zero hours and on-call work as an extreme form of casual and precarious employment. It includes country studies of the USA, Canada, Australia, the UK, New Zealand and Ireland, where there has been increasing concern about the prevalence of such work, and working time uncertainty, as well as varying levels of public policy debate on regulation. The book incorporates a comparative review of zero hours work based on the findings of the country studies. This pays particular attention to state regulatory responses to zero hours work, and incorporates the sociological concepts of accumulation and legitimation functions of the state.Exploring the regulation of zero hours work beyond individual countries, the book includes an analysis of external regulation of zero hours work at the supranational level, namely the European Union and ILO.Further, it assesses the implications of zero hours for workers in new sectors ofeconomic activity, particularly the impact of the platform or ¿gig¿ economy on the fundamental nature of the employment relationship. It also considers the societal implications of zero hours work and the ethical responsibilities of employers and governments towards workers as citizens.

The provision and application of open data has enormous potential to transform exclusive, technocratic "smart cities" into inclusive and responsive "open-cities". This book argues that those who contribute urban data should benefit from its production.

Akin to evolutionary and swarm-based optimization algorithms, socio-cultural algorithms belong to the category of metaheuristics (problem-independent computational methods) and are inspired by natural and social tendencies observed in humans by which they learn from one another through social interactions.

This book offers new perspectives on the study of Chinese lexical semantics, as well as discourse analysis and cognitive pragmatics based on lexical semantics.

This book is a product of the joint efforts of interdisciplinary academic fields under the integrative framework of human geoscience.

This open access book focuses on the molecular mechanism of congenital heart disease and pulmonary hypertension, offering new insights into the development of pulmonary circulation and the ductus arteriosus.

This book presents recent results of collaborative studies in geophysics and ecology, focusing on the relationship between the physical environment and the distribution of the marine coastal ecosystems.

A circular economy is an alternative to a traditional linear economy (make, use, dispose) in which we keep resources in use for as long as possible, extract the maximum value from them whilst in use, then recover and regenerate products and materials at the end of each service life.

Introduction.- Influence of Changing Patterns of Precipitation and Temperature on Tropical Soil Ecosystem.- Nature and Extent of Forest Degradation in Central Himalayas.- Management of invasive alien plants in Nepal: current practices and future prospects.- Invasive species and their impact on tropical forests of Central India- a review.- Aboveground tree carbon stocks along a disturbance gradient in wet tropical forests of south Assam, India.- Responses of tropical and sub-tropical plants to air pollution.- Shorea robusta forest resources of Mainpat/Phendeling Tibetan Refugee Camp,   Chhattisgarh, India.- Ecology of Treeline Vegetation in Western Himalaya: Anthropogenic and Climatic Influences.- Ideas and Approaches for Studying Treelines in the Himalayas: Expanding the Concept from a Landmark to Community and Ecosystem Levels.- Community Response and Adaptation to Climate Change in Central Himalaya, Uttarakhand, India.- Environmental Changes and Challenges of Tarai and Siwalik of Nepal.- Ecological value and change sensitivity based approach for defining integrity of forests in west Himalaya, India.- Himalayan biodiversity in the face of climate change.- Phenological Pattern and Community Structure of Dipterocarpaceae in Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park, Lampung.- Integrated landscape modelling in India: Evaluating the scope for micro-level spatial analysis over temporal scale.- Conclusions and way forward.

This book examines the utility of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in the era of next-generation sequencing and big data, identifies limitations and potential means of overcoming them, and looks to the future of GWAS and what may lay beyond.

This book investigates key aspects of the development of engaged and entrepreneurial universities. The book highlights the entrepreneurial and the social orientation of HEIs by focusing on both primary economically focused (entrepreneurial) universities and primary socially focused (engaged) universities.

This open access book analyses intellectual property codification and innovation governance in the development of six key industries in India and China.