This book covers all the aspects of orthopedic skeletal radiographic imaging or musculoskeletal radiology. It fills the gap and simply presents essential concepts. It emphasizes radiology principles as well as important surgical aspects. It assists readers in understanding the fundamentals of a radiograph and its interpretation. It includes a description of radiographs helpful for students and surgeons. The book is suitable for practicing orthopedic surgeons, radiologists and postgraduate students of orthopedic surgery, FNB students during their specialization fellowship.
Industry Standard FDSOI Compact Model BSIM-IMG for IC Design helps readers develop an understanding of a FDSOI device and its simulation model. It covers the physics and operation of the FDSOI device, explaining not only how FDSOI enables further scaling, but also how it offers unique possibilities in circuits. Following chapters cover the industry standard compact model BSIM-IMG for FDSOI devices. The book addresses core surface-potential calculations and the plethora of real devices and potential effects. Written by the original developers of the industrial standard model, this book is an excellent reference for the new BSIM-IMG compact model for emerging FDSOI technology. The authors include chapters on step-by-step parameters extraction procedure for BSIM-IMG model and rigorous industry grade tests that the BSIM-IMG model has undergone. There is also a chapter on analog and RF circuit design in FDSOI technology using the BSIM-IMG model. Provides a detailed discussion of the BSIM-IMG model and the industry standard simulation model for FDSOI, all presented by the developers of the model Explains the complex operation of the FDSOI device and its use of two independent control inputs Addresses the parameter extraction challenges for those using this model
The main purpose of this book is to introduce black rice to a wider circle of people. Although there have been research on different aspects of black rice, the information is scattered and not easily accessible to laypersons. The book intends to cover all the aspects of black rice from research, history, to its development. As such, the book will be suitable for both rice researchers and non-professionals who want to know more about this unique rice crop. Black rice, also known as forbidden rice, is packed with high level of nutrients and antioxidants. The antioxidants found in black rice is higher than the blueberries (that contain highest amount of anthocyanins). Black rice is black due to anthocyanin content in the outer layer of its kernel. Legend tells that this rice was consumed only by royals in China and it was expected that this rice would increase life span of the king. Consumption of black rice without approval was hanged. Ordinary individuals were not allowed to consume black rice. Thus this rice is also known as forbidden rice and Emperor’s rice. Now this black heirloom rice is widely available in different parts of the world. Researchers have found that black rice reduce Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS), the free radicals produced in the body which is the cause of many diseases. This rice also reduce diabetes, inflammation, heart attack, allergy and obesity; reduce the growth of cancer, improves digestive system and is panacea of many health problems. Thus this rice is also known as long life rice. Food nutritionists consider black rice as modern super foods. The cultivation method of black rice is similar to general rice cultivation practices. There are many varieties available in black rice which is of different Asian origin but Chinese black rice is the most famous among them. Black rice has a wide range of applications because its bran is used as a natural food colouring dye, and it is also used to prepare noodles, pasta, porridge, wine etc. This rice takes slightly longer time to cook than widely available white rice. In modern era, black rice serve as one of the best food materials available to us to maintain our health with regular physical exercise.
Tanisha Kushwaha is a young poet. As a 13-year-old high school student Tanisha wrote her first volume of poetry, ‘The Silent Screams’ which depicts the different elements of emotion felt by a human heart. Developing a special liking towards the world of literature at the age of twelve, she has been writing with a touch of love, loss, healing and nature. Piano pieces, music and singing never failed to have an impact on her life.
Aiming to improve work efficiency in such areas as tillage in agriculture, earth-moving in civil engineering, and tunnel-making in sea-bed operations, this work offers an introduction to Finite Element Method (FEM) analysis of soil-machine systems. It explains the advantage of FEM's numerical approach over traditional analytical and empirical methods of dealing with complex factors from nonlinear mechanical behaviour to geometric configurations.
Most of us often feel empty at heart even after achieving success, or we are confused about where life is taking us. This book reveals the reason behind the feeling of emptiness and why we feel that we are pushing our life instead of living life. PSTAS will also provide you solutions to come out of the vicious cycle of events and inspire you to start your journey from an unfulfilled life to a happy and fulfilled life by helping you to: • Identify the basic mistakes of daily life which lead us nowhere. • Understand the basic foundation of a fulfilled life. • Discover the reasons why we feel trapped in our life and provide solutions to come out of it. • Take control of your life in your own hands. • Balance money, health and relationships without feeling empty at heart. • Direct your energies towards a higher purpose.
In this book the authors introduce and study the properties of natural class of intervals built using (-, ) and (, -). The operations on these matrices with entries from natural class of intervals behave like usual reals. So working with these interval matrices takes the same time as usual matrices. Hence, when applying them to fuzzy finite element methods or finite element methods the determination of solution is simple and time saving.
Come and join hands together to learn Python from scratch. This book will help you understand Python from scratch and help you build a career in the field of programming. KEY FEATURES ● Exciting examples and a solid grasp of the principles of Python. ● An easy guide for absolute beginners to enjoy coding while learning. ● Exception handling, OOPs fundamentals, inheritance, and reusability explained in detail. DESCRIPTION The book offers to teach a novice programmer the fundamentals of Python programming from the ground up. The book provides a brief history of Python, followed by exploring Python's fundamental concepts, features, and applications in detail. The book explains Python identifiers, keywords, variables, and assignments, as well as basic operators and decision-making statements. This book covers repetitive code, strings and integers (dictionaries), functions and modules (files), exception handling, and object-oriented programming in all of its variants. The book explains concepts with illustrations, thus making it simple for even the most unskilled reader to grasp the basics of the code execution flow. By the end of this book, you will have a firm grasp of all of Python's programming ideas. Additionally, it will help you to prepare for any upcoming job interviews with your comprehensive Python understanding. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ● Quickly grasp the concepts of lists, tuples, dictionaries, and functions. ● Examine Python's effective use of exception handling. ● Makes object-oriented programming more understandable. ● Discover when and how to use Python's decision-making statements. ● Use Python to perform and execute file operations. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR This book is for web application developers, entry level developers, and IT graduates who want to learn the entire web application development by developing a solid hold on Python principles. Basic programming knowledge is recommended but not required. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Basic Syntax 3. Variable Types 4. Basic Operators 5. Decision Making 6. Repeating Code Using Loops 7. Numbers 8. Strings 9. Lists 10. Tuples 11. Dictionaries 12. Functions 13. Modules 14. Files I/O 15. Exception Handling 16. Object-Oriented Programming
This book covers concepts and the latest developments on microscale flow and heat transfer phenomena involving a gas. The book is organised in two parts: the first part focuses on the fluid flow and heat transfer characteristics of gaseous slip flows. The second part presents modelling of such flows using higher-order continuum transport equations. The Navier-Stokes equations based solution is provided to various problems in the slip regime. Several interesting characteristics of slip flows along with useful empirical correlations are documented in the first part of the book. The examples bring out the failure of the conventional equations to adequately describe various phenomena at the microscale. Thereby the readers are introduced to higher order continuum transport (Burnett and Grad) equations, which can potentially overcome these limitations. A clear and easy to follow step by step derivation of the Burnett and Grad equations (superset of the Navier-Stokes equations) is provided in the second part of the book. Analytical solution of these equations, the latest developments in the field, along with scope for future work in this area are also brought out. Presents characteristics of flow in the slip and transition regimes for a clear understanding of microscale flow problems; Provides a derivation of Navier-Stokes equations from microscopic viewpoint; Features a clear and easy to follow step-by-step approach to derive Burnett and Grad equations; Describes a complete compilation of few known exact solutions of the Burnett and Grad equations, along with a discussion of the solution aided with plots; Introduces the variants of the Navier-Stokes, Burnett and Grad equations, including the recently proposed Onsager-Burnett and O13 moment equations.
Cancer is a dreadful human disease, increasing with changing lifestyle, nutrition, and global warming. Its treatments do not have potent medicine as the currently available drugs results in severe side effects. Past activities in this area focused on the natural products derived from medicinal plants. According to the WHO, 80% of the world’s population primarily those from developing countries rely on plant-derived medicines for the health care. Over the past few decades, significant efforts have been made, jointly by pharmaceutical and academic institutions, to isolate and identify new marine-derived natural products. With the advancement of technology and methodology in this area, numerous new compounds have been isolated and several novel anticancer compounds are under clinical investigations. The ocean biomass, covering two-third of the earth, with huge unexplored natural product offers enormous scope and presents an effective alternative in natural product drug discovery. The uniqueness in oceanic mega-diversity is due to spatial as well as temporal competition along with unique habitat with extreme pressure, temperature, and saline conditions. As a result of this, marine organisms have adapted and evolved themselves successfully since centuries in these conditions by producing molecules which are unique in structures, biosynthesis, and function. This “chemical adaptations” is an excellent source of novel chemical entities which is absent in land-based organisms. The past decade has seen more than 10,000 compounds isolated from marine sources which have dramatically increased the number of preclinical anticancers drug under evaluation, and over 300 patents on bioactive natural products from marine sources were granted during this tenure. Efforts, in this direction, became more serious and focused with National Cancer Institute, USA taking a lead role. By collaborative interactions between pharmaceutical companies and research organization, numerous drug-like molecules with several of them having clinical and preclinical potential were discovered. Ecteinascidin-743/ET-743 from Caribbean tunicate and Didemnin and Aplidine from Aplidium albicans are some of the successful examples. Sterols and dietary fibers from seaweeds also hold immense potential. However, investigation of the marine floras chemical entities as drug-like molecule is still in its embryonic stage. The present chapter showcases the past research and reviews the baseline data for promoting further research in this field.
Plants are an indispensable part of human and animal lives for nutrition and health. But pests, diseases and abiotic stress adversely affect crop yield, which ultimately places significant pressure on society to provide food to an increasing population. Moreover, it also encourages increased chemical/pesticide usage on crops, which we see in the biomagnification of toxic and hazardous compounds polluting water bodies, soil and the environment. This condition will continue to worsen in the future due to the resistance-acquiring ability of pathogens against plant defense and chemical treatments. In addition, environmental disturbances and consumer health issues are being reported more promptly than before due to intensive use of pesticides in food production. Plant diseases affect our daily lives, as the use of insecticides and pesticides has become part of our food chain. As a result, precise disease diagnosis and management is crucial in order to avoid huge losses in plant production and related commodities. Accurate detection, precise diagnosis and proper management can play a significant role in keeping plants free from pathogens. In this book, scientists, researchers and scholars share their research knowledge, offering a valuable resource for understanding plant diseases, pathogen interaction and responses to stress through an omics perspective, contributing to further advancements in the field Diseases in plants may be caused by various factors, such as viruses, bacteria, fungi and abiotic stress. Disease causes low crop yield, production of poor-quality fruits and grains, and deficiency of nutrients, which have a direct impact on human and animal health. A genomics-based approach can be applied to disease diagnosis; disease outbreak; evolution of plant and pathogen genome for disease outbreak in relation to climate change; and development of long-term strategies for plant health and defense. This book presents an overview of omics technologies and approaches used to understand: 1) the relation between plants and their environment in terms of diseases 2) responses to abiotic stress 3) the genomics of plant–pathogen interaction 4) herbicide-resistance mechanisms 5) the epigenetics of plant–pathogen interaction 6) gene regulation during abiotic stress response 7) the oxidative stress response
This well-organized book, now in its second edition, discusses the fundamentals of various data structures using C as the programming language. Beginning with the basics of C, the discussion moves on to describe Pointers, Arrays, Linked lists, Stacks, Queues, Trees, Heaps, Graphs, Files, Hashing, and so on that form the base of data structure. It builds up the concept of Pointers in a lucid manner with suitable examples, which forms the crux of Data Structures. Besides updated text and additional multiple choice questions, the new edition deals with various classical problems such as 8-queens problem, towers of Hanoi, minesweeper, lift problem, tic-tac-toe and Knapsack problem, which will help students understand how the real-life problems can be solved by using data structures. The book exhaustively covers all important topics prescribed in the syllabi of Indian universities/institutes, including all the Technical Universities and NITs. Primarily intended as a text for the undergraduate students of Engineering (Computer Science/Information Technology) and postgraduate students of Computer Application (MCA) and Computer Science (M.Sc.), the book will also be of immense use to professionals engaged in the field of computer science and information technology. Key Features • Provides more than 160 complete programs for better understanding. • Includes over 470 MCQs to cater to the syllabus needs of GATE and other competitive exams. • Contains over 500 figures to explain various algorithms and concepts. • Contains solved examples and programs for practice. • Provides companion CD containing additional programs for students’ use.
Poems are not a mere collection of words, it's the soul of the writer. "Wanderers of the Words' World", is a collection of poems by numerous authors across the nation, pulled together under a single cover by JEC Publication. Part of what makes this collection of poems special is that the reader is never tied to or bogged down by one particular element or theme but rather is allowed to explore different beauty in completely different poems. This anthology is a blend of two compilers' imagination, "Fruits of Temptation" and "Lafzon ke Musafir", both of which celebrated the motion and emotion of language, not only through the gathering and replication of the included poems, but the interviews that amplify the poems’ shouts, whispers, and echoes.
The book entitled "The Theory of Samples Surveys and Statistical Decisions" is useful to all the P.G. and Ph.D. students and faculty members of statistics, agricultural statistics and engineering, social; science and biological sciences.
Yes I'm Yatra...!! Yes, the same that takes you to a destination with your partner, the journey to take your parents to a pilgrimage, the journey that guides a stray, the journey that makes someone successful..!!, but saw If you go, the journey is just alone, without any partner, the journey has no value without any partner. Shiva..., the one who introduced me to himself, the one who gave me the hope of living, the one who attained it was like finding some god for me. I will start everything from the beginning, I met him, married him, but for two years of marriage we were only good friends, then one day he adopted a child, due to the arrival of the Netri, the physical distance of both of us also starts decreasing, then Yukta came into our life with her first smile. One day I came to know that you have caught her in never-curable disease, I came to her and came to know about Riya, both Shiva and Riya loved each other very much, but when I met Riya So she had a lot of hatred for Shiva in her mind, she did not even want to see Shiva's . After reading Shiva's diary, I came to know that his last wish is that Riya should come and tell him that "Yes, I still love you as much as I was before." When I was going to Riya, I was in my mind. There was only one question. "Why did these two parting...??
The book is aimed at providing an understanding of basic principles and practices of Biostatistics. Attempt has been made to give a comprehensive inside into the basic concepts of biostatistics i.e. sound easy to read, relevant and useful to students and practitioners of biostatistics. The book includes the design of clinical trials and epidemiological studies collection of data, research methods, clinical measurement and sample size, calculations for various study designs. This makes it a handbook of biostatistics for students and researchers for agriculture, veterinary, life sciences, medicine, public health, biological and social sciences.
The book entitled “Practical Multivariate Statistics” has been designed for P.G. and Ph.D. students of “Pure Statistics”, “Agricultural Statistics”, “Biological & Social Sciences” and those who have to appear in various competitive examinations like (ISS, IES, SSS, A.S.R.B., State’s PSC’s, NET and IAS.). This book is also useful for faculties of “Department of Statistics” of Indian Universities. The book is the outcome of 33 years of teaching experience of U.G., P.G. and Ph.D. students of different disciplines of Agriculture, Agril. Engg. and Agril Statistics. The book contains 12 chapters, out of which (1-5) deals with the “Multivariate Analysis”, (6-9) Multivariate Regression Analysis, (10) Multicollinearity, (11) Sampling Distributions of Partial & Multiple Correlation and (12) Elements of Stochastic Processes. In each chapter three type of questions. “True/False, Fill in the Blanks and Multiple Choice Questions alongwith their “Key Answers” have been provided.
The book entitles "Basic Concepts in Statistics" is useful to all the P.G. and Ph.D. students and faculty members of statistics, agricultural statistics and engineering, social sciences and biological sciences. It is also useful to all those students who have to appear in competitive examinations with statistics as a subject in state P.S.C's, U.P.S.C., A.S.R.B. and I.S.S. etc. This book is the outcome of 25 years of teaching experiences to U.G., P.G. and Ph.D. students. The book contains 15 s covering different topics of statistics e.g. Analysis of variance, Designs of experiments, Theories of points and interval estimations, Theories of tests of significance based on small samples (n<=30) and large samples (n>30) and non parametric methods and tests.
A breathtaking novel about the ties that bind mothers and daughters together and the secrets that tear them apart. Veena, Mala and Nandini are three very different women with something in common. Out of love, each bears a secret that will haunt her life—and that of her daughter—because the risk of telling the truth is too great. But secrets have consequences. Particularly for Asha, a young woman on the cusp of adulthood, who links them together. After her eighteenth birthday, Asha is devastated to learn that she was adopted as a baby. What’s more, her birth mother died of a mysterious illness, leaving Asha with only a letter. Nandini, Asha’s adoptive mother, has always feared the truth would come between them. Veena, a recent widow, worries about her daughter Mala’s future. The shock of her husband’s sudden death leaves her shaken and convinces her that the only way to keep her daughter safe is to secure her future. Mala struggles to balance her dreams and ambition with her mother’s expectations. She must bear a secret, the burden of which threatens her very life. Three mothers—each bound by love, deceit and a young woman who connects them all. Secret Lives of Mothers & Daughters is an intergenerational novel about family, duty and the choices we make in the name of love.
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