Researchers in psychology and medicine frequently stumble upon positive and incredible influence on a client caused by near-death experience and cognizance of inter-life. Such observations made by professional practitioners are fast getting organised as a ‘new knowledge’ about how a person transforms from within; and as an ‘insight’ about utility of life. This book presents such conclusive findings in a way that can guide everyone; young and old alike, to easily acquire and execute this new knowledge about personal transformation and utility of life. This knowledge can be greatly helpful to judiciously review one’s default responses and to re-arrange key decisions so as to live a 'significant life' with pace, peace, poise and purpose. We almost know how to manage stress; it’s time now to learn how to manage fear!
This is the first comprehensive book to address in-situ mechanics approach, which relies on real-time imaging during mechanical measurements of materials. The book presents tools, techniques and methods to interrogate the deformation characteristics of a wide array of material classes, and how the mechanics and the material microstructures are correlated. In-situ approach provides unprecedented ability to decipher the mechanical behavior of materials from atomic length scales all the way up to bulk-scale, which is not possible using conventional means. The book also addresses how to capture the deformation behavior of materials under different stress-states and extreme environments. The book will be useful to the new generation of students, scientists and researchers working on the frontiers of material design and innovation as they aim to develop new materials with predictable mechanical properties and technological applications. This book can also serve as a textbook aimed at upper-level undergraduates and graduate-level students who are beginning to delve into the mechanics of materials. Catering to a generation of students that appreciates videos as a didactic tool, this book contains numerous videos to supplement problems, solutions, and case studies.
Ideal as a graduate textbook, this title is aimed at helping design effective biomaterials, taking into account the complex interactions that occur at the interface when a synthetic material is inserted into a living system. Surface reactivity, biochemistry, substrates, cleaning, preparation, and coatings are presented, with numerous case studies and applications throughout. Highlights include: Starts with concepts and works up to real-life applications such as implantable devices, medical devices, prosthetics, and drug delivery technology Addresses surface reactivity, requirements for surface coating, cleaning and preparation techniques, and characterization Discusses the biological response to coatings Addresses biomaterial-tissue interaction Incorporates nanomechanical properties and processing strategies
This discovery of carbon nanotubes (CNT) three decades ago ushered in the technological era of nanotechnology. Among the most widely studied areas of CNT research is their use as structural reinforcements in composites. This book describes the development of CNT reinforced metal matrix composites (CNT-MMCs) over the last two decades. The field of CNT-MMCs is abundant in fundamental science, rich in engineering challenges and innovations and ripe for technological maturation and commercialization. The authors have sought to present the current state of the-art in CNT-MMC technology from their synthesis to their myriad potential end-use applications. Specifically, topics explored include: • Advantages, limitations, and evolution of processing techniques used to synthesize and fabricate CNT-MMCs • Emphasizes dispersion techniques of CNTs in metallic systems, a key challenge to the successful and widespread implementation of CNT-MMCs. Methods for quantification and improved control of CNT distributions are presented • Methods for quantification and improved control of CNT distributions are presented • Characterization techniques uniquely suited for charactering these nanoscale materials and their many chemical and physical interactions with the metal matrix, including real-time in-situ characterization of deformation mechanisms • Electron microscope images from premier studies enrich discussions on micro-mechanical modeling, interfacial design, mechanical behavior, and functional properties • A chapter is dedicated to the emergence of dual reinforcement composites that seek to enhance the efficacy of CNTs and lead to material properties by design This book highlights seminal findings in CNT-MMC research and includes several tables listing processing methods, associated CNT states, and resulting properties in order to aid the next generation of researchers in advancing the science and engineering of CNT-MMCs. In addition, a survey of the patent literature is presented in order to shed light on what the first wave of CNT-MMC commercialization may look like and the challenges that will have to be overcome, both technologically and commercially.
Arvind Yadav has met up with some of the top doctors in India and has written a wonderful tome about these extraordinary people and how they handled hundreds of patients year after year. Arvind found how less health literacy was associated with worse quality of life, worse physical function and more emergency department utilization for heart patients. And how these legendary surgeons worked to make the impossible possible. Top doctors interviewed in the book have opened up, and patients are now understanding and remembering encounters in the operation theatres. This is a fascinating read between the white-coated physician and the paper-wrapped patient. Arvind says why it is important for patients – even those who are fully clothed – to ask questions, and doctors to answer. Shantanu Guha Ray Wharton-trained, award-winning journalist
Arvind Yadav has met up with some of the top doctors in India and has written a wonderful tome about these extraordinary people and how they handled hundreds of patients year after year. Arvind found how less health literacy was associated with worse quality of life, worse physical function and more emergency department utilization for heart patients. And how these legendary surgeons worked to make the impossible possible. Top doctors interviewed in the book have opened up, and patients are now understanding and remembering encounters in the operation theatres. This is a fascinating read between the white-coated physician and the paper-wrapped patient. Arvind says why it is important for patients – even those who are fully clothed – to ask questions, and doctors to answer. Shantanu Guha Ray Wharton-trained, award-winning journalist
Man s Concern in depleting environment during the recent past, and delirium developing out of incoherent atmosphere has generated enormously huge quanta of scientific information that too with stunning speed. The data so breaded carry profound and indelilble imprint on socio-economic scenario of the world where we live. The dynamics and size of information collected is so vast and varied that many a times, it becomes unmanageable to compare and comprehend. Information technology which emerges as a bright and befitting branch of science can provide a helping hand to modern environmental technologists. Packaging and analysis of data is a friendly and fanciful device that yields results with the aid of software and that too with unimaginable accuracy and unthinkable proficiency. In fact, one of the prime goals of juvenile science, Such as enviroinformatics is to devise recourse against ailing environment. This book entitled Envoinformatics is the unique compilation of some research articles of great environmental technologists which will be helpful in opening a new vista in the field envirotechnology. The present book will be useful to the students, research scholars, technologist in the field of Enviromental management and ecoplanners, politicians. Contents Chapter 1: Informatics on Aeromonas hydrophila and Motile Aeromonad septicemias of Fish by Arvind Kumar and Partha Bandyopadhyay; Chapter 2: Removal of Cadmium from Water and Wastwater by Economic Method by Y C Sharma, M Mahto and S N Kaul; Chapter 3: Influence of Chromium and Cadmium on Germination, Seedling Growth and Photosynthetic Pigments of Soybean [Glycin max (L.) Merr.] by K Sankar Ganesh, AI A Chidambaram, P Sundaramoorthy, L Baskaran and M Selvaraju; Chapter 4: Ultrasonic Investigation on Aqueous Ternary Electrolytes of Some Mineral Salts by T Sumathi and A N Kannappan; Chapter 5: Environmental Audit: Sign Post for Sustainable Industrial Economy by N S Raman; Chapter 6: Evaluation of Groundwater Resource of Faridabad District, Haryana, India by Madhuri S Rishi; Chapter 7: Studies on the Effect of Bavistin (Carbendazin) on Seed Germination and Growth of Some Vegetable Crops by P Sundaramoorthy, K Sankar Ganesh, L Baskaran, AI A Chidambaram and S Natarajan; Chapter 8: Seasonal Variations in Ambient Air Quality of Jalgaon Urban Centre by Nilesh D Wagh and S T Ingle; Chapter 9: Drought Tolerance of Coriander (Coriandrum sativam Linn.) Genotypes in Rainfed Vertisols by Lakshmi Narasmimha Rao kamineni, Giridhar kalidasu, C Sarada; Chapter 10: Comparison of Rate of Copper Ion Induced Oxidation of Lipoprotein in End Stage Renal Diseased and Renal Transplant Paticents: An in vitro Study by C S Parameswari, B Vijaya Geetha, R Vijaya Kumar; Chapter 11: Activation of Green Gram Amylase by Calcium Chloride by T Devasena, S K Chithreswai and J Christinal; Chapter 12: Mite Pest Scenario and their Status Associated with Common Vegetables by Rabindra Prasad, Uday Kumar Prasad, Sanjay Kumar Sathi and Devendra Prasad; Chapter 13: Screening of Antimutagenic Effects of Green and Black Tea (Camellia sinensis) in Reverse Mutation Assay by K S Santhy, S Namitha, Sherly P George and P Arulraj; Chapter 14: Effect of Larval Size and Weight on Pupation Site Preference in Different Species of Drosophila by N B Vandal and N Shivanna; Chapter 15: Protective Effect of Mucuna pruries Seed on Ethanol Treated Rat Brain ATPases by G Krishnamoorthy and A Sivamady; Chapter 16: Efficacy of Rapid H S Test for Detection of Fecal Contamination in Drinking Water by D H Tambekar, N B Hirukar, S R Gulhane, Y S Banginwar and N S Bhajipale; Chapter 17: In vitro Sensitivity Study of Phytopathogenic Fungi Against Indian Piper by J Das, S Goswami, R Gupta and M Begam; Chapter 18: Integrated Management of Brinjal Fruit Borer (Leucinodes orbonalis Guen.) through Varietal Resistance and Judicious Insecticidal Application by Rabindra Prasad, Rajesh Kumar, Uddaya Kumar Prasad, Muneshwar Prasad and Devendra Prasad; Chapter 19: Insect Pests Scenarion in Rice Agroecosystem in Ranchi, Jharkhand by Rabindra Prasad, Sanjay Kumar Sathi, Udaya Kumar Prasad, and Devendra Prasad; Chapter 20: In Vitro Antimicrobial Activity of Citric Acid Against Multiple Drug Resistant Uropathogens by A V Gomashe and P M Tumane; Chapter 21: Enhanced Salinity Tolerance of Tomato [Lycopersicon esculentum (L.) Mill.] Plants as Affected by Paclobutrazol Treatment by B Sankar, R Somasundaram, P Manivannan, A Kishorekumar, C Abdul Jaleel and R Panneerselvam; Chapter 22: Seed Invigoration in Indian Bean (Lablab purpureus L.) by R L Moharana, D P Khuntia, S J Pramanik and A K Basu; Chapter 23: Integrated Control of Rhizoctonia solani by Leaf Extract of Argemone mexicana and Trichoderma viride by H S Shukla and P V Ramaiah; Chapter 24: Disease Related Laser Use Survey at Indore by Varsha Jain, K N Chaturvedi and M M Prakash; Chapter 25: Spontaneous Positive Geotropic Shoot Development in Onion by M Babu Rao; Chapter 26: Ethnoveterinary Practies by Santhal Tribe in Jamtara District of Jharkhand by A K Mandal and B B Dutta; Chapter 27: Hydrophytic Plants Used as Vegetable in Dharawad District of Karnataka by N M Rolli, M G Nadagouda, R H Ratageri, H C Lakshman; Chapter 28: Preparation of Value Added Products by Utilizing Low Valu Deep Sea Fish Bull s Eye (Priacanthus hamurur) by L Suragihali Siddappa, C V Raju, Jayanaik, M H Bhandari and Basavakumar; Chapter 29: Study of Algal Flora in Ricee Fields of University Campus, Bhagalpur, and Bounsi, Banka (Bihar) by Braj Nandan Kumar; Chapter 30: Marine Actinomycetes: A Potential Source for L-asparaginase by P Dhevagi and E Poorani; Chapter 31: Biological Treatment of Azodyes by P Dhevagi and K Sujatha; Chapter 32: Groundwater Quality of Bhadravathi Town, Karanataka State by Vijaya Kumara, J Narayana, K Harish Babu, Devidas Kamath and E T Puttaiah; Chapter 33: Phycological Aspects and Water Qulity Assessment in the Rivers of Andhra Pradesh, India by P Manikya Reddy and V Venkateswarlu; Chapter 34: Determining the Genetic Variability in Dioscorea alata L in Tirunelveli Hills in Tamil Nadu by A John De Britto, N Nirmal Kumar and R Mahesh; Chapter 35: Effect of Colchicine on Various Morphological Characters in Cucumis pubscens Willd. by M Babu Rao; Chapter 36: Diversity of Phytoplankton in Mani Reservoir, Hosanagar, Karnataka by D N Veerenra S Manjappa and E T Puttaiah; Chapter 37: Water Pollution and its Effect: An Overview by Rajendra Prasad Singh, M T Dan and Umapati Sahay; Chapter 38: Control of Cabbage Butterfly, Piers brassicae Line with Some Recently Developed Neem Extracts; Chapter 39: Studies on the Pollen Foraging Behaviour of Rock Bee, Apis dorasata, at Mannampandal, Nagai District, Tamil Nadu by S Thiripurasundari, M Vardharajan and V Mathivanan; Chapter 40: Mosquitocidal Effect of the Plant Extract Against the yellow Fever Mosquito, Aedes aetypti L by Renugadevi Arasappan and T Thangaraj; Chapter 41: Effect of Ethanol and Mucuna pruriens Seed on Rat Liver by G Krishnamoorthy and A Sivamady; Chapter 42: Diurnal Variation in Ayyankere Lake, Western Ghat Region of Chikmagalore, Karnataka by S Thirumala, B R Kiran, E T Puttaiah, Vijayakumara, K Harish Babu & D Basavaraja; Chapter 43: A New Species of Retractocephalus Haldar and Chakraborty, 1976 (Apicomplexa : Conoidasida) from a Coleopteran Insect in West Bengal, India by Monali Chatterjee and T K Kundu; Chapter 44: Evaluation of Ginger Varieties for High Altitued and Tribal Area of Andhra Pradesh by M Mutyala Naidu, M Padma, K M Yuva Raj and P S S Murty; Chapter 45: Performace of Different Cluster Bean Varieties by M M Naidu, K P Pathy, V Ganesh Babu and R Sreenivsulu; Chapter 46: Performace of Different Turmeric Varieties in High Altitude Area of Andhra Pradesh, India by M Mutyala Naidu, M Padma, K M Yuva Raj and P S S Murty; Chapter 47: Rapid Composting of Irrigated Pearl Millet Straw by J Kannan and P Singaram; Chapter 48: Plankton Diversity at Gopnath, Gulf of Khambhat, Gujarat by Kauresh D Vachrajani and Pradeep C Mankodi; Chapter 49: Studies on the Status of Drinking Water Quality of Bharatpur Area in Rajashthan by Deepshikha Garg, R V Singh and Sunita Goyal; Chapter 50: Altertions in Kidney Transaminases After Combined Exposure to Sulphur Dioxide and Nitrogen Dioxide in Albino Rat by Asha Agarwal and Shaista Parveen; Chapter 51: Plant Diversity Status of Constructed and Sewage Polluted Pond, Dharwad, Karnataka by R H Ratageri and T C Taranath; Chapter 52: Alterations in the Carbohydrate Metabolism of Vigna mungo (L) Hepper as Affected by Cobalt Stress by k Jaikumar and P Vijayarengan; Chapter 53: Effect of Chronic Exposure of Cadmium on Histology of Sarotherodon mossambicus by D V Muley, R B Patil, R S Dabhole and D S Redekar; Chapter 54: Population Dynamics and Bioefficacy of Raphidopalpa (Aulacophora) foveicollis (Lucas) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) on Lagenaria vulgaris Ser in Barak Valley of Assam by Dilip Nath and D C Ray; Chapter 55: Crop Density, Growth and yield Attributes of Lowland Rice as Influenced by Different Level of Fertilizer Nitrogen Substitution through Poultry and Livestock Wastesby S Ramesh, S Ravi and B Chandrasekaran; Chapter 56: Growth, Yield, Nutrient Uptake and Soil Fertility Status of the Succeeding Rice Crop as Influenced by the Residual Effect of Nitrogen Substitution through Livestock Wastes in the Preceding Rice Crop by S Ramesh, S Ravi and B Chandrasekaran; Chapter 57: Agrometeorological Assessment and Amelioration of Rural Food Security by S Venkataraman; Chapter 58: Natural Enemies of Helicoverpa armigera (Hubn) on Pigeon Pea from Western Maharashtra by T V Sathe and T M Chougale; Chapter 59: Effect of BGA and Sea Weed Extract (Plant Growth Stimulant) and Fertilizer on Yield of Mungbean (Vigna radiata) Variety Vaibhav by D D Dudhade and B M Jamadgni; Chapter 61: Plankton Diversity in Riverine Ecosystem of South Assam and Tripura by Dilip Nath and D C Ray; Chapter 62: The Occurrences of the Heavy Metals from Three Reservoirs of Satara District (Maharashtra), India by Sandhya M Pawar and Sanjay S Sathe; Chapter 63: Growth and Yield Response of Rice to Solid Waste of a Paper Mill of Orissa by B Padhy, P K Gantaye, K C Lenka and Sabita K Padhy; Chapter 64: Fluctuation of A M Fungi Infection and its Importance on Certain Forest Tree Species by M G Nadagouda, R H Ratageri, N M Rolli and H C Lakshman
This is the first comprehensive book to address in-situ mechanics approach, which relies on real-time imaging during mechanical measurements of materials. The book presents tools, techniques and methods to interrogate the deformation characteristics of a wide array of material classes, and how the mechanics and the material microstructures are correlated. In-situ approach provides unprecedented ability to decipher the mechanical behavior of materials from atomic length scales all the way up to bulk-scale, which is not possible using conventional means. The book also addresses how to capture the deformation behavior of materials under different stress-states and extreme environments. The book will be useful to the new generation of students, scientists and researchers working on the frontiers of material design and innovation as they aim to develop new materials with predictable mechanical properties and technological applications. This book can also serve as a textbook aimed at upper-level undergraduates and graduate-level students who are beginning to delve into the mechanics of materials. Catering to a generation of students that appreciates videos as a didactic tool, this book contains numerous videos to supplement problems, solutions, and case studies.
This discovery of carbon nanotubes (CNT) three decades ago ushered in the technological era of nanotechnology. Among the most widely studied areas of CNT research is their use as structural reinforcements in composites. This book describes the development of CNT reinforced metal matrix composites (CNT-MMCs) over the last two decades. The field of CNT-MMCs is abundant in fundamental science, rich in engineering challenges and innovations and ripe for technological maturation and commercialization. The authors have sought to present the current state of the-art in CNT-MMC technology from their synthesis to their myriad potential end-use applications. Specifically, topics explored include: • Advantages, limitations, and evolution of processing techniques used to synthesize and fabricate CNT-MMCs • Emphasizes dispersion techniques of CNTs in metallic systems, a key challenge to the successful and widespread implementation of CNT-MMCs. Methods for quantification and improved control of CNT distributions are presented • Methods for quantification and improved control of CNT distributions are presented • Characterization techniques uniquely suited for charactering these nanoscale materials and their many chemical and physical interactions with the metal matrix, including real-time in-situ characterization of deformation mechanisms • Electron microscope images from premier studies enrich discussions on micro-mechanical modeling, interfacial design, mechanical behavior, and functional properties • A chapter is dedicated to the emergence of dual reinforcement composites that seek to enhance the efficacy of CNTs and lead to material properties by design This book highlights seminal findings in CNT-MMC research and includes several tables listing processing methods, associated CNT states, and resulting properties in order to aid the next generation of researchers in advancing the science and engineering of CNT-MMCs. In addition, a survey of the patent literature is presented in order to shed light on what the first wave of CNT-MMC commercialization may look like and the challenges that will have to be overcome, both technologically and commercially.
Beleaguered by mutual recrimination between rich and poor countries, squeezed by the zero-sum arithmetic of a shrinking global carbon budget, and overtaken by shifts in economic and hence bargaining power between these countries, international cooperation on climate change has floundered. In this book, the authors argue that any chance of progress on climate change must address each of these problems in a radically different way.
The subject of India's rapid growth in the past two decades has become a prominent focus in the public eye. A book that documents this unique and unprecedented surge, and addresses the issues raised by it, is sorely needed. Arvind Panagariya fills that gap with this sweeping, ambitious survey. India: The Emerging Giant comprehensively describes and analyzes India's economic development since its independence, as well as its prospects for the future. The author argues that India's growth experience since its independence is unique among developing countries and can be divided into four periods, each of which is marked by distinctive characteristics: the post-independence period, marked by liberal policies with regard to foreign trade and investment, the socialist period during which Indira Ghandi and her son blocked liberalization and industrial development, a period of stealthy liberalization, and the most recent, openly liberal period. Against this historical background, Panagariya addresses today's poverty and inequality, macroeconomic policies, microeconomic policies, and issues that bear upon India's previous growth experience and future growth prospects. These provide important insights and suggestions for reform that should change much of the current thinking on the current state of the Indian economy. India: The Emerging Giant will attract a wide variety of readers, including academic economists, policy makers, and research staff in national governments and international institutions. It should also serve as a core text in undergraduate and graduate courses that deal with Indias economic development and policies.
With growing numbers of chronically ill patients surviving longer and receiving novel medical and surgical treatments, emergency departments are increasingly the venue for associated acute presentations. How can emergency physicians respond to these challenging and emerging conditions? This book focuses on the unusual and complex disease presentations not covered in detail in the standard textbooks, helping you manage patients with conditions such as congenital heart disease, cystic fibrosis, morbid obesity, intellectual disability and intestinal failure. Not only does this book provide guidance on evaluation and diagnosis, but it also addresses the practical issues of acute management and continuing referral. The individual chapters are written by high profile emergency physicians, in conjunction with appropriate specialists, and include authoritative evidence to back up the clinical information.
This class-tested textbook is designed for a semester-long graduate or senior undergraduate course on Computational Health Informatics. The focus of the book is on computational techniques that are widely used in health data analysis and health informatics and it integrates computer science and clinical perspectives. This book prepares computer science students for careers in computational health informatics and medical data analysis. Features Integrates computer science and clinical perspectives Describes various statistical and artificial intelligence techniques, including machine learning techniques such as clustering of temporal data, regression analysis, neural networks, HMM, decision trees, SVM, and data mining, all of which are techniques used widely used in health-data analysis Describes computational techniques such as multidimensional and multimedia data representation and retrieval, ontology, patient-data deidentification, temporal data analysis, heterogeneous databases, medical image analysis and transmission, biosignal analysis, pervasive healthcare, automated text-analysis, health-vocabulary knowledgebases and medical information-exchange Includes bioinformatics and pharmacokinetics techniques and their applications to vaccine and drug development
Pleads For Science To Be Studied With An Integrated Approach. Presents 75 Research Papers In Different Fields Of Science-The Aims Is To Help The Scholars To Overtake Research, Training And Consultancy In Proverty Areas Of Science And Technology And Evolve Relevant Data Bases, Methodologies And Policy Frameworks In The Science And Technology Areas.
This book disrupts the way practitioners and academic scholars think about crowds, crowdsourcing, innovation, and new organizational forms in this emerging period of ubiquitous access to the internet. The authors argue that the current approach to crowdsourcing unnecessarily limits the crowd to offering ideas, locking out those of us with knowledge about a problem. They use data from 25 case studies of flash crowds — anonymous strangers answering online announcements to participate in a 7-10 day innovation challenge — half of whom were unleashed from the limitations of focusing on ideas. Yet, these crowds were able to develop new business models, new product lines, and offer useful solutions to global problems in fields as diverse as health care insurance, software development, and societal change. This book, which offers a theory of collective production of innovative solutions explaining the practices that the crowds organically followed, will revolutionize current assumptions about how innovation and crowdsourcing should be managed for commercial as well as societal purposes.
At a time when businesses stare at unprecedented uncertainty, the SAIL turnaround story brings to us lessons of how companies can make miracles happen. Making the Elephant Dance talks about how the greatest business challenges can become the harbinger of the biggest corporate transformations, and how leadership can be the key influencer when companies face existential threats. The economic reforms of 1991 transformed the Indian steel industry overnight from the most controlled to most open. This book is a narrative of the steel mammoth, SAIL, which fought back an existential threat to emerge as a winner when a combination of domestic and global factors plunged the industry into its worst ever crisis. The book delineates its in-house strategies, implementation challenges and the actions undertaken to bring about an unprecedented organizational transformation by those who participated, experienced and lived it.
This handbook aims at providing a comprehensive resource on solar energy. Primarily intended to serve as a reference for scientists, students and professionals, the book, in parts, can also serve as a text for undergraduate and graduate course work on solar energy. The book begins with availability, importance and applications of solar energy, definition of sun and earth angles and classification of solar energy as thermal and photon energy. It then goes onto cover day lighting parameters, laws of thermodynamics including energy and exergy analysis, photovoltaic modules and materials, PVT collectors, and applications such as solar drying and distillation. Energy conservation by solar energy and energy matrices based on overall thermal and electrical performance of hybrid system are also discussed. Techno-economic feasibility of any energy source is the backbone of its success and hence economic analysis is covered. Some important constants, such as exercises and problems increase the utility of the book as a text.
This book addresses the concepts of material selection and analysis, choice of structural form, construction methods, environmental loads, health monitoring, non-destructive testing, and repair methodologies and rehabilitation of ocean structures. It examines various types of ocean and offshore structures, including drilling platforms, processing platforms and vessels, towers, sea walls and surge barriers, and more. It also explores the use of MEMS in offshore structures, with regard to military and oil exploration applications. Full-color figures as well as numerous solved problems and examples are included to help readers understand the applied concepts.
This book explores cognitive behavior among Internet of Things. Using a series of current and futuristic examples – appliances, personal assistants, robots, driverless cars, customer care, engineering, monetization, and many more – the book covers use cases, technology and communication aspects of how machines will support individuals and organizations. This book examines the Cognitive Things covering a number of important questions: • What are Cognitive Things? • What applications can be driven from Cognitive Things – today and tomorrow? • How will these Cognitive Things collaborate with each and other, with individuals and with organizations? • What is the cognitive era? How is it different from the automation era? • How will the Cognitive Things support or accelerate human problem solving? • Which technical components make up cognitive behavior? • How does it redistribute the work-load between humans and machines? • What types of data can be collected from them and shared with external organizations? • How do they recognize and authenticate authorized users? How is the data safeguarded from potential theft? Who owns the data and how are the data ownership rights enforced? Overall, Sathi explores ways in which Cognitive Things bring value to individuals as well as organizations and how to integrate the use of the devices into changing organizational structures. Case studies are used throughout to illustrate how innovators are already benefiting from the initial explosion of devices and data. Business executives, operational managers, and IT professionals will understand the fundamental changes required to fully benefit from cognitive technologies and how to utilize them for their own success.
Prof. CNR Rao is a living legend. Einstein paid a compliment to Mahatma Gandhi on his 70th birthday. He said, “Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth”. On Prof. Rao’s birthday, I would repeat these words. Prof. Rao is not an individual, he is an institution, he is a phenomenon. I feel lucky that our generations could see him, touch him, feel him, experience him, learn from him and get inspired by him. I have watched Prof. Rao as a scientist, as a science leader, as a science institution builder and indeed as a leader of leaders of science. I have also watched him as a wonderful, warm-hearted human being with abundant empathy. I have seen his childlike enthusiasm. I have watched him as `courage personified’. What follows is more anecdotal but solely based on my personal viewpoint. Professor Rao has had a tremendous influence on my life. He has been my guru, guide, friend and philosopher. I met him for the first time when he was the Chairman of the Research Advisory Council of the National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) in the nineteen eighties. I was then in my late thirties. Professor Rao has an uncanny ability to spot talent among the young. He was the President of the Indian Science Congress in the year 1988, which was held in Pune University. Mr. Rajiv Gandhi was the Prime Minister and he inaugurated the Science Congress. Later on, during the lunch that followed, Prof. Rao made a special point to introduce me to Rajiv Gandhi. I still remember his words. He said, `Mr. Prime Minister, meet a rising young star of Indian science’. Little did I then know that within the next couple of months, he would make me a member of the Science Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, which he was chairing. At 42, I was the youngest member and I remember people calling me the `baby’ of the team. Getting that huge exposure at such a young age was something very special for me – I got a helicopter view of India at large. It helped me enormously as I moved on in life. 'Padma Vibhushan' Dr. Raghunath Anant Mashelkar
Arya is a handsome, shrewd, witty and an intelligent police officer. He fears no one and loves the Indian Penal Laws as much as he loves his life. He has a very daunting past ? in Delhi and Ghaziabad, where he was accused of mass murders. But later, all the cases were dropped due to lack of evidence. Still, he had to spend eight gruelling months in a mental asylum. Arya is brought to Chennai and commissioned to CB CID. He cleverly solves two complicated white collar murders ? as if they were children?s puzzles. His senior, Shivani Verma, a young divorcee with a four-year-old daughter, initially hates him for his off-handed remarks but later starts liking him as her daughter, Payal, gets attached to Arya. Arya?s past is vaguely revealed to Shivani by Neha and Shirly. When Shivani tries to get close to Arya, he is unfortunately thrown into a serious case where four consecutive murders shake the city. Arya eventually also finds out about a jinxed web of relationships gone dangerously wrong because of greed, money, lust, unbelievable treachery and infidelity. He tries to save the unexpected murderer, when he learns that she?s pregnant but finally his loyalty towards the Law takes over.
In programming courses, using the different syntax of multiple languages, such as C++, Java, PHP, and Python, for the same abstraction often confuses students new to computer science. Introduction to Programming Languages separates programming language concepts from the restraints of multiple language syntax by discussing the concepts at an abstract level. Designed for a one-semester undergraduate course, this classroom-tested book teaches the principles of programming language design and implementation. It presents: Common features of programming languages at an abstract level rather than a comparative level The implementation model and behavior of programming paradigms at abstract levels so that students understand the power and limitations of programming paradigms Language constructs at a paradigm level A holistic view of programming language design and behavior To make the book self-contained, the author introduces the necessary concepts of data structures and discrete structures from the perspective of programming language theory. The text covers classical topics, such as syntax and semantics, imperative programming, program structures, information exchange between subprograms, object-oriented programming, logic programming, and functional programming. It also explores newer topics, including dependency analysis, communicating sequential processes, concurrent programming constructs, web and multimedia programming, event-based programming, agent-based programming, synchronous languages, high-productivity programming on massive parallel computers, models for mobile computing, and much more. Along with problems and further reading in each chapter, the book includes in-depth examples and case studies using various languages that help students understand syntax in practical contexts.
Thank you for visiting our website. Would you like to provide feedback on how we could improve your experience?
This site does not use any third party cookies with one exception — it uses cookies from Google to deliver its services and to analyze traffic.Learn More.