This textbook is a culmination of multiple efforts of the authors to fill in the gap for offering a required course on Indian Knowledge System (IKS), recently mandated by AICTE. Moreover, the New Education Policy (NEP) has also provided a clear trajectory for imparting IKS in the higher education curriculum, necessitating a book of this kind in several higher education institutions in the country in the days to come. The book seeks to introduce the epistemology and ontology of IKS to the Engineering and Science students in a way they can relate, appreciate and explore further should there be a keen interest in the matter. After a brief section on the key concepts of IKS, the remaining part of the book traces IKS and brings out the applications. After a formal and concise introduction to IKS, the book provides certain foundational concepts applicable across all domains of Science and Engineering. These form the second part. The Science applications are laid out in Part 3, Engineering applications in Part 4 and other important topics in the final part of the book. The authors have rich expertise and background in both 'mainstream issues' and 'traditional knowledge' to present IKS in a contextually relevant fashion. They have delicately balanced the 'why' or 'how' of IKS and the 'what' of IKS. Although the book has been primarily developed for use by the Engineering institutions, the structure and the contents also address the requirement in other University systems (Liberal Arts, Medicine, Science and Management). This textbook incorporates several pedagogical features including a companion website https://www.phindia.com/ introduction_to_indian_knowledge_system that will make learning effective and enjoyable for the students. TARGET AUDIENCE Students at: • Engineering Institutes • Higher Education Institutes
What Every Engineer Should Know About Data-Driven Analytics provides a comprehensive introduction to the theoretical concepts and approaches of machine learning that are used in predictive data analytics. By introducing the theory and by providing practical applications, this text can be understood by every engineering discipline. It offers a detailed and focused treatment of the important machine learning approaches and concepts that can be exploited to build models to enable decision making in different domains. Utilizes practical examples from different disciplines and sectors within engineering and other related technical areas to demonstrate how to go from data, to insight, and to decision making Introduces various approaches to build models that exploits different algorithms Discusses predictive models that can be built through machine learning and used to mine patterns from large datasets Explores the augmentation of technical and mathematical materials with explanatory worked examples Includes a glossary, self-assessments, and worked-out practice exercises Written to be accessible to non-experts in the subject, this comprehensive introductory text is suitable for students, professionals, and researchers in engineering and data science.
The book, now in its Second Edition, presents the concepts of electrical circuits with easy-to-understand approach based on classroom experience of the authors. It deals with the fundamentals of electric circuits, their components and the mathematical tools used to represent and analyze electrical circuits. This text guides students to analyze and build simple electric circuits. The presentation is very simple to facilitate self-study to the students. A better way to understand the various aspects of electrical circuits is to solve many problems. Keeping this in mind, a large number of solved and unsolved problems have been included. The chapters are arranged logically in a proper sequence so that successive topics build upon earlier topics. Each chapter is supported with necessary illustrations. It serves as a textbook for undergraduate engineering students of multiple disciplines for a course on ‘circuit theory’ or ‘electrical circuit analysis’ offered by major technical universities across the country. SALIENT FEATURES • Difficult topics such as transients, network theorems, two-port networks are presented in a simple manner with numerous examples. • Short questions with answers are provided at the end of every chapter to help the students to understand the basic laws and theorems. • Annotations are given at appropriate places to ensure that the students get the gist of the subject matter clearly. NEW TO THE SECOND EDITION • Incorporates several new solved examples for better understanding of the subject • Includes objective type questions with answers at the end of the chapters • Provides an appendix on ‘Laplace Transforms’
Representations are at the heart of artificial intelligence (AI). This book is devoted to the problem of representation discovery: how can an intelligent system construct representations from its experience? Representation discovery re-parameterizes the state space - prior to the application of information retrieval, machine learning, or optimization techniques - facilitating later inference processes by constructing new task-specific bases adapted to the state space geometry. This book presents a general approach to representation discovery using the framework of harmonic analysis, in particular Fourier and wavelet analysis. Biometric compression methods, the compact disc, the computerized axial tomography (CAT) scanner in medicine, JPEG compression, and spectral analysis of time-series data are among the many applications of classical Fourier and wavelet analysis. A central goal of this book is to show that these analytical tools can be generalized from their usual setting in (infinite-dimensional) Euclidean spaces to discrete (finite-dimensional) spaces typically studied in many subfields of AI. Generalizing harmonic analysis to discrete spaces poses many challenges: a discrete representation of the space must be adaptively acquired; basis functions are not pre-defined, but rather must be constructed. Algorithms for efficiently computing and representing bases require dealing with the curse of dimensionality. However, the benefits can outweigh the costs, since the extracted basis functions outperform parametric bases as they often reflect the irregular shape of a particular state space. Case studies from computer graphics, information retrieval, machine learning, and state space planning are used to illustrate the benefits of the proposed framework, and the challenges that remain to be addressed. Representation discovery is an actively developing field, and the author hopes this book will encourage other researchers to explore this exciting area of research. Table of Contents: Overview / Vector Spaces / Fourier Bases on Graphs / Multiscale Bases on Graphs / Scaling to Large Spaces / Case Study: State-Space Planning / Case Study: Computer Graphics / Case Study: Natural Language / Future Directions
The first complete guide to using the Stochastic Finite Element Method for reliability assessment Unlike other analytical reliability estimation techniques, the Stochastic Finite Element Method (SFEM) can be used for both implicit and explicit performance functions, making it a particularly powerful and robust tool for today's engineer. This book, written by two pioneers in SFEM-based methodologies, shows how to use SFEM for the reliability analysis of a wide range of structures. It begins by reviewing essential risk concepts, currently available risk evaluation procedures, and the use of analytical and sampling methods in estimating risk. Next, it introduces SFEM evaluation procedures, with detailed coverage of displacement-based and stress-based deterministic finite element approaches. Linear, nonlinear, static, and dynamic problems are considered separately to demonstrate the robustness of the methods. The risk or reliability estimation procedure for each case is presented in different chapters, with theory complemented by a useful series of examples. Integrating advanced concepts in risk-based design, finite elements, and mechanics, Reliability Assessment Using Stochastic Finite Element Analysis is vital reading for engineering professionals and students in all areas of the field.
Provides a comprehensive survey of techniques to automatically construct basis functions or features for value function approximation in Markov decision processes and reinforcement learning.
This fully-revised and enlarged fourth edition introduces the students to the basic and applied aspects of plant pathology and to the major diseases of crops and fruit trees in India. Latest developments in the molecular biology of diseased plants and control measures are incorporated in the book.
The T20 World Cup is the apex Tournament of individuals, Twenty 20 cricket; gives supreme matches with outstanding nationalities adjudged in top order against corresponding countries to crown an eventual winner for best Global Twin20. This e-book provides an exhaustive review of the T20 World Cup tournaments since its inception in 2007. Remember the most spectacular and exciting games from the previous 5 versions of the T20 World Cup. Learn about some critical strategic decisions and sport-altering performances by superstar players such as MS Dhoni, Virat Kohli, and Chris Gayle. Lee, etc., that influenced results in these contests. Find out roughly the tales of unlikely successes and surprising victories that have turned the T20 World Cup into an engaging competition. The e-book stresses the alarmingly quick pace of T20 cricket development and how teams have devised methods or even sports plans to play well in a fast and frenetic medium. This book gives detailed statistics and facts, participants, pics of observations on expertise, and appreciation of T20 cricket’s most prestigious event. Get equipped for the electrifying motion of T20 cricket's highest tournament - the World Cup. This book chronicles the adventure of the T20 World Cup from its starting place in 2007 to the current World Cup. Relieve the sensational performances of superstars like Gayle, Kohli, Afridi, and Watson, who've lit up the World Cup over the years. Learn the revolutionary batting strategies, outstanding bowling strategies, and sharp fielding approaches that make T20 cricket an extreme, competitive spectacle. Get insights into the matches that have defined World Cup records, from India's exciting ultimate-over victory in the 2007 very last in opposition to Pakistan to Carlos Brathwaite's four consecutive sixes within the 2016 final to clinch it for the West Indies. With targeted overviews, statistics of every event edition, participant profiles, and beautiful visuals, this book vividly captures the exhilaration and power that makes the T20 World Cup a fan-favored event. Whether you're a passionate supporter or an avid pupil of the game, that is a useful connection with T20 cricket's greatest occasion. Blink and you'll miss it. T20 cricket is the sport's hard-hitting, adrenaline-pumping format that packs all the drama of a nail-biting ODI finale into just 120 balls. With risky shots, high-octane action, and dizzying momentum swings, it's cricket's closest cousin to a rock concert. The T20 World Cup is where the best T20 talents collide for national glory. It's where aficionados from Colombo to Canberra unite in frenzied excitement as the world's top six hitters light up the stage. Where underdog tales and fallen giants abound as the globe's emerging forces attempt to conquer the establishment. Where tactical innovations - mystery spinners to surprise bowling changes - enter battle on the sport's most prominent platform.
The book describes the science and technology of formulation and manufacturing of non-nitroglycerine explosives with ammonium nitrate as the main ingredient. Based on the author's industry experience of more than thirty years, it provides an unparalleled treatment of one of the commercially most important classes of explosives and therefore stimulates further research and development efforts in the field of explosives for civil applications.
How good are you at your English language skills? This easy-to-follow workbook is pitched at an intermediary level, suitable for both high school students and those who wish to improve their language competency. Find reading, writing, grammar and vocabulary skills in one place. Clear introduction of each grammar and written expression text types, structured exercises and simple and concise examples give the novice and experienced learner a good understanding. Vocabulary is matched in context either to the reading or the writing exercise that help improve content knowledge. Answers for all units are provided at the back of the book for easy reference. If you are a beginner learner of the English language, a high school student who wants to improve your overall language proficiency, a college student who wants to master your written communications skills or an adult who wants to brush up your rusted language skills, this book is for all. Raise your English language standard to that of the international level. Give yourself a leading edge and stand out in your communication skills. Don’t miss out.
How to Start a Law Practice and Succeed focuses on how to start your own law practice from scratch, while emphasizing tools and tactics on how to succeed in today's economy. This book is a useful tool for lawyers just out of law school and for lawyers who want to start their own practice after finding themselves suddenly unemployed! I have included forms and tools to start from scratch and to manage your law practice. In the book are resources for managing workflow; finding clients and managing them, their files and ethically maintaining your own law practice. After all, practicing law is not like a normal business, and requires special attention to ethical dilemmas in every facet and practice of law.
THE THIRTEENTH EDITION OF THE CLASSIC TEXTBOOK, FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1960 Written by one of the great teachers of anatomy, the thirteenth edition of Clinical Anatomy continues to provide thousands of medical students, postgraduate trainees and junior doctors across the world with essential anatomical information within a clinical setting. It is particularly appropriate for those preparing for the Intercollegiate Membership Examination of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons (I-MRCS). Professor Harold Ellis is again joined by Professor Vishy Mahadevan to provide detailed, easy-to-follow structured text suitable for anatomy students and trainees of all levels. Fully revised and updated with many new illustrations, this new edition features for the first time, several anatomical drawings overlaid on a living anatomy model to provide detailed topographical orientation and accurate surface representation. The companion website at www.ellisclinicalanatomy.co.uk/13edition contains digital flashcards of all the illustrations and photographs contained in the book - ideal for revision and teaching purposes.
These experienced economists use CGE modelling to analyse the consequences of significant contemporary economic and environmental policies in several Asia-Pacific countries and in Africa. This has not been done previously for several of the economies concerned. This path-breaking, economy-wide study assesses policies relating to agricultural development, trade and industrial development, energy, greenhouse gases and climate change. This readable book should appeal to a wide audience, including students, policymakers and researchers.' Clem Tisdell, University of Queensland, Australia The authors expertly reveal a model-based analysis of economic development and environmental issues with policy prescriptions for enhancing sustainable development. Within the last four decades, there has been a rapid deterioration in the quality of our environmental and natural resources, raising grave concerns about the sustainability of unbridled economic growth. In light of these concerns, the authors analyse a range of economic and environmental issues, and propose policy recommendations that would enhance sustainable economic growth. The book covers a variety of issues related to economic development, trade, energy and climate change, and focuses on countries in the Asia-Pacific region including Australia, Thailand, Papua New Guinea and Fiji. Managing Macroeconomic Policies For Sustainable Growth uniquely discusses aspects of the CGE modelling approach that will prove informative for academic researchers and postgraduate students in the areas of economic development and environmental policy. This original book will also appeal to policy analysts and policymakers in public and private institutions.
This timely textbook is contemporary and comprehensive in its coverage of Cross-Cultural Management, and unique in its approach which fosters a multi-paradigmatic mindset among readers; embraces problem-based and experiential learning; and acknowledges the many diverse identities of cross-cultural managers. Part I provides an overview on how Cross-Cultural Management emerged and why it is unique, and Part II integrates the functionalist, interpretive and critical perspectives underpinning it. Part III transfers this learning to areas of application, including international business, organizations, technology and social media, and Part IV focuses on key skillsets such as developing your managerial competencies and designing your own research. Each chapter is brought to life via an opening case study, and readers are invited to complete a variety of activities throughout chapters. Afterwards, the opening case is revisited, and a closing activity introduces the next area of learning. This textbook is essential reading for higher education students, educators and researchers alike, and will also be of interest to business and management practitioners. It can be used as a central text for university and college courses on and related to Cross-Cultural Management, International Business and general intercultural competencies. Jasmin Mahadevan is a Professor of International and Cross-Cultural Management at Pforzheim University, Germany.
Dr.V.Balaji, Professor & Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Loyola Institute of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Mr.A.Mahadevan, Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Loyola Institute of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Mr.K.Thanigavelmurugan, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Loyola Institute of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Ms.B.Priyadharsini, Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Loyola Institute of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
The Trigger Recent news stories of personal tragedies of successful people deeply moved the author to explore the causes of these distressing events. In the process, he discovered the profound truth that the essence of success lies in balancing the six wheels of life ( or wellness) - Physical , Mental, Family, Career, Social and Spiritual. By nurturing and harmonising these components of wellness, individuals can achieve a state of bliss , peace and fulfilment that surpasses material achievements. With empathy and wisdom as their compass, the author compassionately leads readers on a transformative journey. Through thought-provoking insights and practical advice, they encourage a holistic approach to life. By nurturing personal growth, fostering strong relationships, and finding spiritual harmony, readers are empowered to navigate challenges and unlock their true potential. This book is a beacon of hope, reminding readers that true success lies in achieving a harmonious balance across all areas of life. It is a compelling invitation to embark on a path of self-discovery and find profound contentment and inner peace. The serious and somewhat complicated concepts are explained in a very simple and interesting narration. The feelings I had when I finished the book were complete humbleness and humility. -S.R.Ramakrishnan, Whole Time Director SPIC Ltd This master piece is a wonderful output from a great human being, who truly believes in making the world a better place. - Murali Ramakrishnan , MD& CEO -South Indian Bank
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