As her journey from India to America continues; her perception, experience and understanding of cultural differences continue to evolve. The first-generation immigrants have struggled to establish themselves in the midst of interracial conflicts and little family support. Their children started out with an incomplete family picture, were raised in dual cultures and ended up split between wrongs and rights. Their relationships with their children are need-based or lost. Many of them don't get to see their grandchildren, let alone get to bond with them. They dream to hear their doorbell ring to hear, "Yoo-hoo, where are you," "Peek a boo," or "I thought you were a ghost.
Odontogenic keratocyst (OKC), also called as Keratocystic odontogenic tumour (KCOT) remains to be an intriguing entity, hitherto. Its paradoxical behavior has always attracted the controversies. It is difficult to understand even for the clinicians and pathologists. The need was felt by the authors of this book to have a simple and clearly outlined book so that everyone who is involved in dealing with this entity; be at graduate, postgraduate or doctoral level gets a fair understanding of the topic. This book provides an overview of nomenclature, classification, recurrence, molecular aspects, and management of OKC/KCOT with emphasis on controversy i.e. whether “OKC/KCOT is Cyst or Tumor”. The attempt has been made to make this dreaded topic an easy going one. There may be few repetitions in the book, which have been done to facilitate understanding among students. Authors welcome the suggestions for improving the further edition of the book.
The solar Photovoltaic (PV) technology is gaining significant levels and is going to contribute a major share of total generated electricity in the coming years. PV technology is becoming a promising alternative source for fossil fuels. However, Power Quality (PQ) is the major concern that occurs between the grid and an end user. Any typical electrical distribution system exhibits a passive characteristic with respect to power flows when power flows from a substation to load. However, with inclusion of solar PV generators, this behaviour tends to be changed. The main characteristics related to PQ, such as voltage level, frequency, power factor and Total Harmonic Distortion (THD), may be affected. This book presents the analysis of PQ with the integration of grid-connected PV systems as distributed generation. The role of Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) technique is investigated through implementing few basic MPPT techniques. Using the Matlab-simulation platform, the analysis of PQ is demonstrated. This analysis is based on real measurements of THD, Voltage levels, Current levels, DC voltage levels, real power and reactive power flows.
The Crowned Head, a crime thriller mystery story is a fictitious and real incident based, on rapidly increasing gang-war in Uttar Pradesh city. The story framework is concerned with a city in the grip of destructive Revolver Gang with their wickedness for wealthy people.Thee story furnishes a mirror to all weapons-crimes which sadden almost everyone's life. The conspiracy of the story revolved around the two underprivileged men, Waseer and Abbas and with an ambition to commence their own business so that they can equalize the rich and powerful people. Greed for money leads them to wrong paths of Srikant rana (foremost character) who offered them a deal of transporting an illegal consignment of weapons out of sight of law, which is dispossess by the Revolver gang from the middle of the way and this cause a massive boost in their wickedness. Later in the wake of the death of Srikant rana the entire story takes a twirl and begins its journey headed towards its epic spot and gained the national attention. Why they are killing people? For wealth or for vengeance? Regards of the same; entire Uttar Pradesh police department brawl for the accurate investigation and later they uncover an unpredicted mysterious relevance with Muzaffarnagar riot 2013 which comes as a breakthrough. The clashes between the Hindu and Muslim communities in Muzzafarnagar district, resulted in at least 62 deaths including 42 Muslims and 20 Hindus and 93 injured. Throughout the mysterious investigation, the police move through many dead-dealing illegal arms trade and uncover many politicians’ involvement in it.
Clinical Data Quality Checks for CDISC Compliance using SAS is the first book focused on identifying and correcting data quality and CDISC compliance issues with real-world innovative SAS programming techniques such as Proc SQL, metadata and macro programming. Learn to master Proc SQL’s subqueries and summary functions for multi-tasking process. Drawing on his more than 25 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry, the author provides a unique approach that empowers SAS programmers to take control of data quality and CDISC compliance. This book helps you create a system of SDTM and ADaM checks that can be tracked for continuous improvement. How often have you encountered issues such as missing required variables, duplicate records, invalid derived variables and invalid sequence of two dates? With the SAS programming techniques introduced in this book, you can start to monitor these and more complex data and CDISC compliance issues. With increased standardization in SDTM and ADaM specifications and data values, codelist dictionaries can be created for better organization, planning and maintenance. This book includes a SAS program to create excel files containing unique values from all SDTM and ADaM variables as columns. In addition, another SAS program compares SDTM and ADaM codelist dictionaries with codelists from define.xml specifications. Having tools to automate this process greatly saves time from doing it manually. Features SDTMs and ADaMs Vitals SDTMs and ADaMs Data CDISC Specifications Compliance CDISC Data Compliance Protocol Compliance Codelist Dictionary Compliance
The present volume is a collection of scholarly written essays in honour of Dr. D.C. Ojha by the eminent librarians, Director, Professors, Information Scientists working in INFLIBNET, Universities including National University, DRDO, ICAR, including Agricultural Universities, CSSR, BITS and AICTE and MNIT Colleges of India. The application of Information Technology (IT) and Information Communication Technology (ICT) in libraries have brought the revolutionary changes in the entire concept of library operations, services and management. To peep into it, library and information science professionals, used to get ready to face the challenges emerging due to the adoption of newer technologies. An attempt has been made in the present volume to synthesize all aspects of IT and to put them in the systematic order at one place to understand the conceptual phenomena and to render the better and effective services to clientele. This book not only deals with the theoretical aspects about the application of IT in all types of libraries but there are also some case studies which show the path to march forward. The emergence of Internet, particularly the World Wide Web (WWW) as a new media of information delivery and digitization and virtual libraries, have been discussed, in one way or the other, in almost all chapters of the proposed book. A full chapter has been given on Cyber Crime and Indian Cyber Law. Few important topics covered in this volume are: • Information & Communication Technology (ICT) in Academic Libraries. • Marketing of e-resources. • Evaluation of Indian Library Software Packages. • Information Management in DRDO Libraries. • Digital Libraries. • Library 2.0 • RFID Ssytem for Libraries • Open Source Software for Libraries • IARI Library: A profile • Government Knowledge Centre: A Model for State Public Library. • Cyber Crime and Indian Cyber Law. The book is suppose to be useful for participating librarians, Information Scientists, Research Scholars, Teachers and students of library and information science and to those who feel concerned with modernization and digitization of library resources.
Fair Progress? Economic Mobility across Generations around the World focuses on an issue that has gotten much attention in the developed world, but will present new data and analysis covering most of the world including developing economies. The analysis considers whether those born in poverty or in prosperity are destined to remain in the same economic circumstances into which they were born, and looks back over a half a century at whether children's lives are better or worse than their parents' in different parts of the world. It suggests local, national, and global actions and policies that can help break the cycle of poverty, paving the way for the next generation to realize their potential and improve their lives.
Dipankar Gupta, one of India’s foremost thinkers on social and economic issues, takes a critical—and controversial—look at the limits of the Indian success story, knocking down ivory towers and challenging comfortable assumptions in the process. The Caged Phoenix: Can India Fly? argues through a fine blend of theory and new empirical evidence that despite the promises of Independence and liberalization India continues to remain caged in backwardness. Why does the phenomenal growth story not translate into development? Why is the much vaunted human-resource capital not taking India towards excellence? How can deprivation and prosperity live so easily side by side? Questioning traditional thought, Dipankar Gupta critically examines: • How the elite is reluctant to acknowledge that structural impediments, and not cultural factors, deny growth benefits to the majority of one billion plus Indians • How the wealth of a few is intimately tied to the poverty of many • The close link between growth in high-technological sectors of the Indian economy on the one side, and sweat shops and rural stagnation on the other • How affluence came to the developed West only when general standards arose across all social classes Combining scholarship with an easy, engaging style, Dipankar Gupta enters uncharted territories to question why, despite so much talent, human resource and an open society, India is still waiting to fly.
The flames of beginning / Strike the shadows is a collection of ten short stories that vividly display the atrocities of life. All stories act as a medium for you to enter a world full of suspense. These stories would not only be read by your eyes but would give you a strong feeling which would make you believe that you are witnessing the whole incident live. While reading these stories, a chill would run down your spine. These stories offer a surprise and twist at every turn. These have valiant and unique characters who save everyone with their heroic efforts along with sinners. This book has a set of imaginative stories that arouse your curiosity. Most of the stories are 2000-3000 words long. Fasten your seatbelts, because these crime-based stories are spiced with excitement and thrill.
This paper analyzes the behavior of output during currency crises using a sample of 195 crisis episodes in 91 developing countries during 1970-98. It finds that more than two-fifths of the crises in the sample were expansionary, and that output contraction was greater in large and more developed economies than in small and less developed economies. Currency crises have not been any more contractionary in the 1990s than in the previous two decades. Countries that traded less with the rest of the world, that had a relatively open capital account, and where crises were preceded by large capital inflows were more likely to be associated with contraction during crises. The contraction was more pronounced if trade competitors devalued, oil prices rose during the crisis, and postcrisis period was marked by tight monetary policy and expansionary fiscal policy.
Modeling and Control of Power Electronics Converter Systems for Power Quality Improvements provides grounded theory for the modeling, analysis and control of different converter topologies that improve the power quality of mains. Intended for researchers and practitioners working in the field, topics include modeling equations and the state of research to improve power quality converters. By presenting control methods for different converter topologies and aspects related to multi-level inverters and specific analysis related to the AC interface of drives, the book helps users by putting a particular emphasis on different control algorithms that enhance knowledge and research work. Present In-depth coverage of modeling and control methods for different converter topology Includes a particular emphasis on different control algorithms to give readers an easier understanding Provides a results and discussion chapter and MATLAB simulation to support worked examples and real-life application scenarios
In recent years, African policymakers have increasingly resorted to regional trade arrangements (RTAs) as a substitute for broad-based trade liberalization. This trend has long-term implications for the effectiveness of trade policy as a tool for poverty reduction and growth. This paper examines the record of RTAs in promoting trade and investment. It also explores policy measures that may help improve RTAs' performance.
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