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Passivity-Based Control and Estimation in Networked Robotics

By: Takeshi Hatanaka,Nikhil Chopra,Masayuki Fujita,Mark W. Spong

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Passivity-Based Control and Estimation in Networked Robotics

By: Takeshi Hatanaka,Nikhil Chopra,Masayuki Fujita,Mark W. Spong

Highlighting the control of networked robotic systems, this book synthesizes a unified passivity-based approach to an emerging cross-disciplinary subject. Thanks to this unified approach, readers can access various state-of-the-art research fields by studying only the background foundations associated with passivity. In addition to the theoretical results and techniques, the authors provide experimental case studies on testbeds of robotic systems including networked haptic devices, visual robotic systems, robotic network systems and visual sensor network systems. The text begins with an introduction to passivity and passivity-based control together with the other foundations needed in this book. The main body of the book consists of three parts. The first examines how passivity can be utilized for bilateral teleoperation and demonstrates the inherent robustness of the passivity-based controller against communication delays. The second part emphasizes passivity’s usefulness for visual feedback control and estimation. Convergence is rigorously proved even when other passive components are interconnected. The passivity approach is also differentiated from other methodologies. The third part presents the unified passivity-based control-design methodology for multi-agent systems. This scheme is shown to be either immediately applicable or easily extendable to the solution of various motion coordination problems including 3-D attitude/pose synchronization, flocking control and cooperative motion estimation. Academic researchers and practitioners working in systems and control and/or robotics will appreciate the potential of the elegant and novel approach to the control of networked robots presented here. The limited background required and the case-study work described also make the text appropriate for and, it is hoped, inspiring to students.

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3319151711

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It Wasn't a Waste of Time

By: Nikhil D. Samant

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It Wasn't a Waste of Time

By: Nikhil D. Samant

It's the year 2000. In the month of April, the Delhi Police charge South African cricket team captain Hansie Cronje with match fixing, implicating the Indian team with him. The two devastating words shatter the love, respect and the trust Indian fans have in the beautiful game and its players. Cricket becomes the subject of ridicule and mockery. Four great men - Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, V.V.S. Laxman and Anil Kumble - led by the enigmatic Sourav Ganguly, accept the challenge to repair the tarnished image of Indian cricket. Will India's new captain bring back the charm and respect to India's first love? Who will take up Ganguly's mantle? It Wasn't a Waste of Time - The Story of the Most Important Decade in Indian Cricket is the story of an emotional journey Indian fans underwent in the first decade of the new millennium. It outlines the most important events, matches and series India participated in, and their impact on Indian cricket itself.

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Leadstart Publishing Pvt Ltd

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9390266858

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9789390266852

Planning Democracy

Modern India's Quest for Development

By: Nikhil Menon

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Planning Democracy

Modern India's Quest for Development

By: Nikhil Menon

The Indian planning project was one of the postcolonial world's most ambitious experiments. Planning Democracy explores how India fused Soviet-inspired economic management and Western-style liberal democracy at a time when they were widely considered fundamentally contradictory. After nearly two centuries of colonial rule, planning was meant to be independent India's route to prosperity. In this engaging and innovative account, Nikhil Menon traces how planning built India's knowledge infrastructure and data capacities, while also shaping the nature of its democracy. He analyses the challenges inherent in harmonizing technocratic methods with democratic mandates and shows how planning was the language through which the government's aspirations for democratic state-building were expressed. Situating India within international debates about economic policy and Cold War ideology, Menon reveals how India walked a tightrope between capitalism and communism which heightened the drama of its development on the global stage.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009050354

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9781009050357

House, but No Garden

Apartment Living in Bombay's Suburbs, 1898-1964

By: Nikhil Rao

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House, but No Garden

Apartment Living in Bombay's Suburbs, 1898-1964

By: Nikhil Rao

Between the well-documented development of colonial Bombay and sprawling contemporary Mumbai, a profound shift in the city’s fabric occurred: the emergence of the first suburbs and their distinctive pattern of apartment living. In House, but No Garden Nikhil Rao considers this phenomenon and its significance for South Asian urban life. It is the first book to explore an organization of the middle-class neighborhood that became ubiquitous in the mid-twentieth-century city and that has spread throughout the subcontinent. Rao examines how the challenge of converting lands from agrarian to urban use created new relations between the state, landholders, and other residents of the city. At the level of dwellings, apartment living in self-contained flats represented a novel form of urban life, one that expressed a compromise between the caste and class identities of suburban residents who are upper caste but belong to the lower-middle or middle class. Living in such a built environment, under the often conflicting imperatives of maintaining the exclusivity of caste and subcaste while assembling residential groupings large enough to be economically viable, led suburban residents to combine caste with class, type of work, and residence to forge new metacaste practices of community identity. As it links the colonial and postcolonial city—both visually and analytically—Rao’s work traces the appearance of new spatial and cultural configurations in the middle decades of the twentieth century in Bombay. In doing so, it expands our understanding of how built environments and urban identities are constitutive of one another.

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U of Minnesota Press

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145293391X

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Molecular Breeding and Nutritional Aspects of Buckwheat

By: Meiliang Zhou,Ivan Kreft,Sun-Hee Woo,Nikhil Chrungoo,Gunilla Wieslander

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Molecular Breeding and Nutritional Aspects of Buckwheat

By: Meiliang Zhou,Ivan Kreft,Sun-Hee Woo,Nikhil Chrungoo,Gunilla Wieslander

Molecular Breeding and Nutritional Aspects of Buckwheat describes the general characterization and genetic diversity of buckwheat (family Polygonaceae, genus Fagopyrum) around the globe (especially in Russia, China, India, and Eastern Europe), the arid and cool regions where it is most frequently consumed, and nutritional information on a variety of buckwheat uses, including tea, groats, flour, and noodles. With detailed information on buckwheat regeneration, genetic transformation, gene function analysis, and the metabolic engineering of bioactive compounds, the book guides readers through a variety of buckwheat varietal adaptations, providing foundation information on which additional research should be conducted. It is divided into four parts, including genetic resource and phylogenetic relationship, food nutrition, growth and cultivation, and molecular breeding, with each section providing insights into the most current developments. - Addresses all aspects of buckwheat research, including genetic resources, biological nutrition, genetic transformation, and molecular breeding - Presents global characterization on the genetic resource of Fagopyrum, giving researchers insights that will help them breed new cultivars - Explores the bioactivity of buckwheat - Includes detailed information on the environmental factors that affect the growth and production of buckwheat

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Academic Press

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0128037148

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9780128037140

Textbook of Pediatric Dentistry

By: Nikhil Marwah

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Textbook of Pediatric Dentistry

By: Nikhil Marwah

This new edition is a complete guide to paediatric dentistry for undergraduate and postgraduate dental students. Divided into nineteen sections, the book begins with an introduction to the specialty, oral examination, teeth identification and numbering, imaging, and growth and development of a child’s face, mouth and teeth. The next chapters discuss diet and nutrition, plaque control and fluorides, and dental caries. Dental subspecialties including endodontics, orthodontics, restorative dentistry, periodontics, and surgery, each have their own dedicated sections. The concluding chapters cover oral pathology, forensics, lasers, dental advances, and research. The fourth edition has been fully revised to provide the latest information in the field and features many new topics including zirconia crowns, revascularisation and pulp regeneration, silver diamine fluoride, general anaesthesia, and presurgical nasoalveolar moulding in the management of cleft lip and palate. Key points Complete guide to paediatric dentistry for dental students Fully revised fourth edition with many new topics Highly illustrated with more than 1000 clinical photographs, diagrams and tables Previous edition (9789351522324) published in 2014

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JP Medical Ltd

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9352705297

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9789352705290

Courage

The inside Story of an Innovators Breakthrough

By: Nikhil Malhotra

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Courage

The inside Story of an Innovators Breakthrough

By: Nikhil Malhotra

This book is intended to be my autobiography, as I wanted to present the story that I have lived for the last 7 years. It has a lot of drama and emotions. Hi, I am Nikhil and I intend to take the reader through a journey of my life, my formative years, college and my corporate life, to provide an account of how scores of individuals and incidents have shaped me into what I am today. While I do explain courage and take it miles away from (or nearer to) the dictionary definition, I hope the reader acknowledges the efforts and the people that shaped me and my path. It is a story of courage that every innovator needs to traverse the potholes of despair by providing a method to the madness.

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Notion Press

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163997668X

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9781639976683

Smart Supply Chains 3.0: Build, Manage and Upgrade

By: Nikhil S. Gurjar

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Smart Supply Chains 3.0: Build, Manage and Upgrade

By: Nikhil S. Gurjar

This book is slated to be a quick reference for people who want to understand the changes in the supply chain management discipline that are going to create a new wave of supply chain paradigms in future. It covers the basic tools and techniques used in understanding supply chains as well as selected case studies on upcoming enablers like BlockChains, 3D Printing, ML, etc. The book helps the reader gain deep insights into their business models as well as their supply chain perspectives. The books is not a theoretical treatment with too much of a jargon-centric focus, but it does a good deal of substantiating what is normally taught in theory, with a quick-to-adopt perspective. Thus, important modern day concepts are introduced using a method and style that is casual and simple, but to the point, making it easy to comprehend for the new age reader. It is practice oriented and consultative, allowing a flexible and a learning approach rather than a prescriptive one. Thus, one could read it easily, even without any prior knowledge of the subject. It thus, caters to both beginners as well as professionals alike. Most importantly, it helps the reader experience how expertise brings in rigor when it works in practical situations, thereby taking the reader to effortlessly go in depth, when needed. We cover and learn a lot of new age technologies throughout the book. And these are further made interesting through several real life applications in the form of case studies that help the reader comprehend the dynamics and learn intensly complex concepts from a practice perspective. The book helps one prepare oneself for the next move: be it entering the supply chain family of professions, or taking up senior roles within organizations. Therefore, it provides a sound understand about cutting edge methods including the state of the art modeling and simulation approaches that are used in supply chain management today. Lastly, it gives a sound perspective and a clear understanding about supply chain disruptions using new technologies like Industry 5.0, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Neural Networks, BlockChains and Analytics. Therefore, this is a must read in the current times.

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Consulting Connoisseurs

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8194607019

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9788194607014

IPv6 for Enterprise Networks

By: Shannon McFarland,Muninder Sambi,Nikhil Sharma,Sanjay Hooda

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IPv6 for Enterprise Networks

By: Shannon McFarland,Muninder Sambi,Nikhil Sharma,Sanjay Hooda

IPv6 for Enterprise Networks The practical guide to deploying IPv6 in campus, WAN/branch, data center, and virtualized environments Shannon McFarland, CCIE® No. 5245 Muninder Sambi, CCIE No. 13915 Nikhil Sharma, CCIE No. 21273 Sanjay Hooda, CCIE No. 11737 IPv6 for Enterprise Networks brings together all the information you need to successfully deploy IPv6 in any campus, WAN/branch, data center, or virtualized environment. Four leading Cisco IPv6 experts present a practical approach to organizing and executing your large-scale IPv6 implementation. They show how IPv6 affects existing network designs, describe common IPv4/IPv6 coexistence mechanisms, guide you in planning, and present validated configuration examples for building labs, pilots, and production networks. The authors first review some of the drivers behind the acceleration of IPv6 deployment in the enterprise. Next, they introduce powerful new IPv6 services for routing, QoS, multicast, and management, comparing them with familiar IPv4 features and behavior. Finally, they translate IPv6 concepts into usable configurations. Up-to-date and practical, IPv6 for Enterprise Networks is an indispensable resource for every network engineer, architect, manager, and consultant who must evaluate, plan, migrate to, or manage IPv6 networks. Shannon McFarland, CCIE No. 5245, is a Corporate Consulting Engineer for Cisco serving as a technical consultant for enterprise IPv6 deployment and data center design with a focus on application deployment and virtual desktop infrastructure. For more than 16 years, he has worked on large-scale enterprise campus, WAN/branch, and data center network design and optimization. For more than a decade, he has spoken at IPv6 events worldwide, including Cisco Live. Muninder Sambi, CCIE No. 13915, is a Product Line Manager for Cisco Catalyst 4500/4900 series platform, is a core member of the Cisco IPv6 development council, and a key participant in IETF’s IPv6 areas of focus. Nikhil Sharma, CCIE No. 21273, is a Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco Systems where he is responsible for defining new features for both hardware and software for the Catalyst 4500 product line. Sanjay Hooda, CCIE No. 11737, a Technical Leader at Cisco, works with embedded systems, and helps to define new product architectures. His current areas of focus include high availability and messaging in large-scale distributed switching systems. n Identify how IPv6 affects enterprises n Understand IPv6 services and the IPv6 features that make them possible n Review the most common tranisition mechanisms including dual-stack (IPv4/IPv6) networks, IPv6 over IPv4 tunnels, and IPv6 over MPLS n Create IPv6 network designs that reflect proven principles of modularity, hierarchy, and resiliency n Select the best implementation options for your organization n Build IPv6 lab environments n Configure IPv6 step-by-step in campus, WAN/branch, and data center networks n Integrate production-quality IPv6 services into IPv4 networks n Implement virtualized IPv6 networks n Deploy IPv6 for remote access n Manage IPv6 networks efficiently and cost-effectively This book is part of the Networking Technology Series from Cisco Press®, which offers networking professionals valuable information for constructing efficient networks, understanding new technologies, and building successful careers.

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Pearson Education

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1587142317

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9781587142314

Minimizing and Exploiting Leakage in VLSI Design

By: Nikhil Jayakumar,Suganth Paul,Rajesh Garg

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Minimizing and Exploiting Leakage in VLSI Design

By: Nikhil Jayakumar,Suganth Paul,Rajesh Garg

Power consumption of VLSI (Very Large Scale Integrated) circuits has been growing at an alarmingly rapid rate. This increase in power consumption, coupled with the increasing demand for portable/hand-held electronics, has made power consumption a dominant concern in the design of VLSI circuits today. Traditionally, dynamic (switching) power has dominated the total power consumption of an IC. However, due to current scaling trends, leakage power has now become a major component of the total power consumption in VLSI circuits. Leakage power reduction is especially important in portable/hand-held electronics such as cell-phones and PDAs. This book presents two techniques aimed at reducing leakage power in digital VLSI ICs. The first technique reduces leakage through the selective use of high threshold voltage sleep transistors. The second technique reduces leakage by applying the optimal Reverse Body Bias (RBB) voltage. This book also shows readers how to turn the leakage problem into an opportunity, through the use of sub-threshold logic.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1441909508

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9781441909503

Phytochemistry of Piper betle Landraces

By: Vikas Bajpai,Nikhil Kumar,Brijesh Kumar

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Phytochemistry of Piper betle Landraces

By: Vikas Bajpai,Nikhil Kumar,Brijesh Kumar

Piper betle (betel vine) a pan-Asiatic, tropical plant, which can also grow under mild subtropical areas, is essentially grown for leaves which are chewed with array of additives besides slaked lime. The plant is cultivated widely in India and its surrounding areas. Phytochemistry of Piper betel landraces presents a brief on the distribution, historical and cultural aspects, and properties ascribed to this plant in the ancient texts. Phytochemical and pharmacological information has also been included to underscore the importance of this plant in the present time. A detailed account on metabolic profiling employing modern methods is included, such as real-time, direct analysis of the flight mass spectrometric method and chemometric analysis for characterization of the available biodiversity and signatures specific to gender and geographical location. It was also possible to identify the gender of unknown landraces, with the help of principal component analysis. Features: Elaborates on the chemical diversity within Piper betle. Piper betle leaves have mouth freshening antimicrobial compounds. Use of chemical signatures for the identification of different Piper betle landraces, their gender and geographical locations.

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CRC Press

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100007157X

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9781000071573

Carbon Nanomaterials for Biological and Medical Applications

By: Sekhar Chandra Ray,Nikhil Ranjan Jana

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Carbon Nanomaterials for Biological and Medical Applications

By: Sekhar Chandra Ray,Nikhil Ranjan Jana

Nanomaterials for Biological and Medical Applications explores the different applications of carbon nanomaterials in drug and gene therapies and their use in tissue regeneration, biosensor diagnosis, enantiomer separation of chiral drugs, extraction and analysis of drugs and pollutants, and as antitoxents. The book describes the synthesis processing of carbon nanomaterials, carbon composite nanomaterials, and their different biological and biomedical applications, including the removal of biologically toxic materials, optical biosensor applications, bio-imaging probe, drug delivery, cancer treatments, and other biomedical applications. - Explains the major synthesis chemical process of carbon nanomaterials for biological applications - Discusses how carbon nanomaterials can be practically used to create more efficient nanodevices in biosensing, medical imaging, and drug delivery - Explores how the unique physical properties of carbon nanomaterials allows them to remove biologically toxic materials

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Elsevier

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0323479073

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9780323479073

The Eight Per Cent Solution

A Strategy for India's Growth

By: Nikhil Gupta

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The Eight Per Cent Solution

A Strategy for India's Growth

By: Nikhil Gupta

IT IS A WONDERFUL STORY, but time after time in the decades since Independence, it stops short midway. India is poised for growth. The GDP is rising. The lumbering elephant is turning into a tiger. But the leap doesn't quite happen. There has been enormous change, but alongside the problems have also been rising. And for a large mass of people, it remains a future of brutal poverty. If India is to meet the needs of its people, it has to consistently generate enough jobs for the millions of youth who enter the job market every year, and build up an infrastructure in which there is enough to go round for education, health and security of its population. Nikhil Gupta, chief economist with a leading brokerage, has been a close observer of the policies and factors that help India grow. As he puts it, an economy consists of four participants-households, corporate, government and external-and just three activities: consumption, savings/investment and external trade. However, the lack of attention to the finances of the household sector and the unlisted corporate sector is shocking. As too the gap between the real and the financial economy. It is these and other gaps in this complicated scenario that Gupta tries to bridge. The Eight per cent Solution presents Gupta's version of a grand unified theory that brings in the neglected but important elements to show how India can finally achieve that elusive target of a higher phase of growth.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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9356403554

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9789356403550

Roving Residency

Nikhil Chopra

By: Nikhil Chopra,University of Melbourne

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Roving Residency

Nikhil Chopra

By: Nikhil Chopra,University of Melbourne

In 2012 interdisciplinary artist Nikhil Chopra became the inaugural recipient of Asialink's 'Roving Residency' which unfolded across three Australian locations: Carriageworks, Sydney; Asialink, Melbourne; and the Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia. Chopra's Roving Residency launched Asialink's new 'Arts Residency Laboratory', a platform through which new, more sustainable and engaged models of arts residencies are trialled in the context of the Asian Century"--Introduction.

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Book's by Nikhil Chopra

Passivity-Based Control and Estimation in Networked Robotics

Passivity-Based Control and Estimation in Networked Robotics

It Wasn't a Waste of Time

It Wasn't a Waste of Time

Planning Democracy

Planning Democracy

House, but No Garden

House, but No Garden

Molecular Breeding and Nutritional Aspects of Buckwheat

Molecular Breeding and Nutritional Aspects of Buckwheat

Textbook of Pediatric Dentistry

Textbook of Pediatric Dentistry

Courage

Courage

Smart Supply Chains 3.0: Build, Manage and Upgrade

Smart Supply Chains 3.0: Build, Manage and Upgrade

IPv6 for Enterprise Networks

IPv6 for Enterprise Networks

Minimizing and Exploiting Leakage in VLSI Design

Minimizing and Exploiting Leakage in VLSI Design

Phytochemistry of Piper betle Landraces

Phytochemistry of Piper betle Landraces

Carbon Nanomaterials for Biological and Medical Applications

Carbon Nanomaterials for Biological and Medical Applications

The Eight Per Cent Solution

The Eight Per Cent Solution

Roving Residency

Roving Residency

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