Two people are holding flute and blowing into it, one is producing some irritating sound and another is playing a sweet music out of his flute. What may be the difference in their efforts? Both are putting in their efforts but one is found useless and creating a noise whereas another one is producing a sound which is desirable and soothing to ears! One knows how to play music out of his flute and another one does not know; the difference in their efforts is the Skill. We all remain in action throughout our life and perform actions with required skill for our livelihood and/or for pleasure like sports or music. Though all Chefs know how to cook but very few can make good and tasty food. Similarly this fact is also true about sports person that all athletes can play but all athletes cannot be champions. There is long and laborious process between a performer and a perfectionist. This process includes Knowledge of the job, Skill, Consistent and dedicated Practice which is as per efforts of the performer yet the devotion towards the Job is crucial to achieve the Perfection. The learning of skill regarding any job or profession has crucial factors which make the performance as perfect and worthy of glory.
Death of an Elephant is an allegory of existence. Pran Dubey, a professor failed by avowed social institutions, is a conflicted man torn apart by his strife and Diaspora neurosis in the ambiguities of past and present, tradition and modernity, and life and death. Human incompleteness and life's absurdities hope and despair trapped in the paradox of pain and pleasure are dramatized through an Eastern soul with a Western mind and a pen dipped in the ink of reflecti ve reality. Death of an Elephant is a harbinger of the neo existential genre. Brij Mohan entices the curiosity of his book with the piquant title, Death of an Elephant....[It] is really boundless in scope and meaning and of having significance for all who read it....Mohan plumbs the lives of his characters beyond the academic dimensions. They are human beings caught in the web of life and who struggle to extricate themselves with honor from their problems. - Joseph V. Ricapito I only exist, but I want to live...I was back where I began: A basterdized Shangri-La in search of a lost identi ty...You can run away from your past but the past will never run away from you.... The man in gray flannel suit has disappeared from our comity.... I wasn't born an American; I became one. I love history.... I love truth even more.... Academia, by and large, looks like a gigantic machine designed to commoditize education for unprincipled success.
The book provides an extensive coverage of conjugated polymer based nano-composite coatings with advanced anti-corrosive properties. The book gives detailed explanation of corrosion testing methods and techniques to evaluate the corrosion resistance of the coatings. It includes elaborate discussion on classification of corrosion, electrochemistry of corrosion process, theories explaining the mechanism of corrosion and various corrosion testing standards. Electrochemical studies like open circuit potential (OCP) variation with time, potentiodynamic polarization, Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) and accelerated corrosion testing are highlighted as important tools to extract information about the behavior of coatings under corrosive conditions. The book discusses epoxy-conjugated polymer based novel composite coating formulations, including aniline and o-toluidine, o-anisidine, phenetidine and pentafluoroaniline with appropriate fillers like SiO2, flyash, ZrO2 nanoparticles, and chitosan for the protection of metallic substrates. A general discussion on the self healing mechanism of epoxy-polypyrrole based biopolymer hybrid composite coatings is included in this book. This book provides a critical review on the conjugated polymer based composite coatings with superior corrosion resistance, good mechanical integrity, better adhesion properties and self healing ability under highly aggressive conditions which can be commercially used for the protection of metal substrates from corrosion.
In Ayurveda, the Indian system of medicine, most of the herbo-mineral drugs are prepared by repeated incineration of metal or its salt with herbal extract/juices, and taken orally in small amount with honey, ghee and butter milk so as to enhance their bioavailability as well as potency to treat the disease. ÏvÁsa-KÁsa-CintÁmani Rasa is mentioned in many texts and is used in bronchial asthma since many centuries by our Acharyas. Yogendra Rasa is another formulation that is used in the treatment of developmental disorders in children. This book contains the details of the clinical trial and experimental study that was performed as a part of doctoral level research work at Banaras Hindu University to evaluate the effect of these formulations among the pediatric population.
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