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Bamboo Shoot

Superfood for Nutrition, Health and Medicine

By: Nirmala Chongtham,Madho Singh Bisht

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Bamboo Shoot

Superfood for Nutrition, Health and Medicine

By: Nirmala Chongtham,Madho Singh Bisht

Bamboo is an ordinary plant with extraordinary properties. With its high growth rate and self-renewing ability, bamboo’s sustainability is unparalleled. Bamboo is an important resource for a healthy planet, and its shoots hold manifold nutritional benefits. Based on 18 years of research, Bamboo Shoot: Superfood for Nutrition, Health and Medicine details health-promoting bioactive compounds found in bamboo and offers practical guidance on how this vegetable, bamboo shoot, is used for food fortification. Already a delicacy in many Asian countries, bamboo shoots aid in the prevention of cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, hypertension and obesity. Exploring the tradition and culture of bamboo in Asian countries, this book also provides information on the science behind the nutritional value of bamboo shoots. Written by individuals with expertise in bamboo shoot nutrition and fully illustrated in colour, this book reveals the antioxidant activity of bamboo shoots and discusses the potential for bamboo to be used as an ingredient in functional foods and nutraceuticals. This highly practical book discusses processing and packaging of shoots for long term storage and using bamboo in the development of novel food products. Features: Elucidates the nutrients and phytochemicals in over 30 bamboo species and includes a glossary of scientific names Highlights the nutraceutical and antioxidant properties of bamboo Describes novel healthy food products fortified with bamboo shoots and provides food recipes using bamboo Explains how bamboo can help countries achieve their sustainable development goals, from poverty reduction, food security, improved nutrition and prevention of diseases to climate change mitigation and inclusive green economic development Aimed at professionals in the nutrition and food processing industry, this book appeals to those with an interest in incorporating bamboo into a healthier lifestyle. Endorsements This is a unique book interestingly crafted to highlight the important nutritional, health and medicinal aspects of Bamboo, an area that is greatly underexplored. It will bring awareness that bamboo shoots are a low calorie, high fibre nutritious vegetable packed with vitamins and minerals. - Prof. Cherla Sastry, Founding Director General INBAR and Adjunct Professor, University of Toronto, Canada This book brings a series of answers to all questions related to bamboo as a superfood [and will] enlighten readers how to transform bamboo shoots using either traditional or modern techniques, how to package them and how to use them as a functional and nutraceutical food. It also provides a series of cooking recipes for healthy eating while we enjoy our food. - Ximena Londoño, Founder, A Bamboo and Guadua Paradise, Colombia

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1000202178

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9781000202175

Instant Notes for Microbial and Food Biotechnology

By: Dr. Mukesh Yadav,Dr. Nirmala Sehrawat

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Instant Notes for Microbial and Food Biotechnology

By: Dr. Mukesh Yadav,Dr. Nirmala Sehrawat

Preface Microbial biotechnology and food biotechnology are important disciplines of biotechnology. Microbes are known for their beneficial as well as harmful role in human life. In harmful aspect, microbes are known to spoil the food and causing diseases to humans. In beneficial, microbes play important role in various food developments. A large number of microbes based products and processes are part of continuously expanding food industry. Microbes are well known for their primary and secondary metabolites that have industrial importance particularly in food industry. This book has been designed and written for UG/PG students of Biotechnology, Microbiology, Food Science & Technology, Dairy Technology and related disciplines along with the students preparing for various competitive exams. The content has been designed according to the syllabus of UG/ PG programs. This book will help the readers for instant knowledge gain on the written topics. The book is useful for examination point of view. The topics have been written in concise and easy understandable form. The content of book has been distributed in five sections including (1) Microorganisms and Food, (2) Microbial Food Products, (3) Novel Foods and Ingredients, (4) Food Packaging: Roles and Materials, and (5) Microbial Enzymes in Food Processing Industry. Sample questions and suggested readings have also been given for each section. Broadly, the book covers the relations of microbes with food, food spoilage, food borne microbial diseases, fermented foods, dairy products and novel foods (SCP, water binding agents, microbial polysaccharides, etc.). The book also covered the role of food packaging, packaging materials and their applications. Microbial products are of biological origin and considered safe as compared to synthetic and chemical formulations. The book also focuses on microbial development of food along with novel foods and ingredients. This book covers microbial enzymes along with their perspectives in food industry. We hope, this book will be helpful for quick revisions at the time of examinations and also for conceptual knowledge to the beginners in the area. We will try our best to update and improve the book content as and when required by students. Dr. Mukesh Yadav Dr. Nirmala Sehrawat

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Rajsons Publications Pvt. Ltd.

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9391651097

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9789391651091

Unraveling Misconceptions

A New Understanding of Em Forster’S a Passage to India

By: Nirmala Sharma

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Unraveling Misconceptions

A New Understanding of Em Forster’S a Passage to India

By: Nirmala Sharma

Both India and E.M.Forster have recently been discovered, so to speak, by the Columbuses of Western popular culture, the makers of British films and television serials. Mrs. Sharmas interest in both these subjects is of much longer standing and is less interested in scenic details than in hard intellectual essences. She has written a thoughtful and a thought-provoking book about the author of A Passage to India, one which givers Forster full credit for his large-minded tolerance but is uncompromising in pointing out where that tolerance fails and what are the short-comings of the background which caused the failure. Mrs. Sharmas book might well be subtitled The Limits of Liberalism, and she is especially illuminating when she traces the sources of this movement of nineteenth-century thought and demonstrates how E.M. Forster, both through his education and his family background, was liberalisms disciple and inheritor. She shows, moreover, how the rational bias of the nineteenth-century political and intellectual mind set kept Forster free of the usual English middle-class prejudices regarding the so-called inferior races and different cultures and how it armed him to oppose the emotionalism of the barely-disguised race-hatred displayed by most of the English who were ruling in India. Mrs. Sharma agrees that Forster deserves much of his reputation as the man who exposed British hypocrisy regarding India and the Indians, especially Muslim Indians. At the same time she demonstrates how Forsters total allegiance to the liberal creed of rationalism blinds him to the whole world of emotionalism and thus renders almost the whole of Hindu India a muddle to him. Forster is himself not entirely unaware of this limitation. He is after all the man who was capable of mustering only Two Cheers for Democracy. But he leaves the impression that the failure to understand India and to make a unity of things Indian is due to the gross size and complexity of the object to be studied and the narrow capabilities of the general Western mind. No Westerner, Forster implies, could ever hope to comprehend all the facets, contradictions, paradoxes, and mysteries of the Sub-Continent. Mrs. Sharma will have none of this. She is well read in English and American literature and can show how what was closed to Forster was perfectly open to such Westerners as John Donne and Walt Whitman. The fault, one begins to understand, is not with the West, but with Western liberalism and its obsessive fear of the irrational. Such a fear may indeed be shown to characterize Forster not only as a social critic but also as an artist. For instance, one of the chapters of his own though provoking book, Aspects of the Novel, deals with what Forster calls a conflict between plot and character. Characters, he recognizes, when fully conceived, sometimes have a way of taking on a life of their own, so to speak, and insist on behaving otherwise than the author had intended in his rationally coherent, preconceived plot. Since the plot carries the intellectual substance of a Forster novel, he advises novice writers, the readers of Aspects of the Novel, to put down these irrational rebellions of his characters with a firm repressive hand, to make them do what they were intended to do. A different sort of writer, one who trusted the irrational which Forster so feared, might have decided that the rebellious character might be leading the author to a new truth, one which the emotionalism of art, a opposed to the rationalism of logic, was capable of discovering. But not Forster, and thus when, returning to A Passage to India, his Mrs. Moore begins to understand what Forster, with his liberal background has pre-decided it is beyond her capacity as a Westerner to understand, he packs her off to England and kills her. The Forster whom Mrs. Sharma has discovered for us is almost as great a paradox as he perceives India to be. He is a consummate artist who does not trust his art. His is a good mind severely limited, a courageous mind when backed by rational thought, but a timid soul when faced by the irrational in others or even by the emotional in himself.

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1514475219

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Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics - E-Book

By: RS Satoskar,Nirmala Rege,SD Bhandarkar

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Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics - E-Book

By: RS Satoskar,Nirmala Rege,SD Bhandarkar

A classic Pharmacology book trusted equally by students and practicing physicians for its up-to-date, accurate and reliable text, which has always placed before the readers an integrated approach intertwining current knowledge of pathophysiology of the disease, pharmacology of available drugs and strategies for medical management of diseases.• Trusted Pharmacology book with emphasis on pathophysiology, clinical pharmacology and therapeutics, presenting information in integrated manner. • Up-to-date information supplemented with tables and diagrams, having: - therapy of important diseases presented in boxes. - current guidelines to support therapeutic decisions - tips for practising physicians. • Uses integrated approach intertwining current knowledge of pathophysiology of the disease, pharmacology of available drugs and strategies for medical management of diseases. • Balances the complexity and simplicity of scientific content to provide students of medicine and/or pharmacy an insight into rational therapeutics.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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8131243710

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9788131243718

Advances in Supercapacitor and Supercapattery

Innovations in Energy Storage Devices

By: Mohammad Khalid,Numan Arshid,Nirmala Grace

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Advances in Supercapacitor and Supercapattery

Innovations in Energy Storage Devices

By: Mohammad Khalid,Numan Arshid,Nirmala Grace

Advances in Supercapacitor and Supercapattery: Innovations in Energy Storage Devices provides a deep insight into energy storage systems and their applications. The first two chapters cover the detailed background, fundamental charge storage mechanism and the various types of supercapacitor. The third chapter give details about the hybrid device (Supercapattery) which comprises of battery and capacitive electrode. The main advantages of Supercapattery over batteries and supercapacitor are discussed in this chapter. The preceding three chapters cover the electrode materials used for supercapattery. The electrolyte is a major part that significantly contributes to the performance of the device. Therefore, different kinds of electrolytes and their suitability are discussed in chapter 6 and 7. The book concludes with a look at the potential applications of supercapattery, challenges and future prospective. This book is beneficial for research scientists, engineers and students who are interested in the latest developments and fundamentals of energy storage mechanism and clarifies the misleading concepts in this field. Presents the three classes of energy storage devices and clarifies the difference between between pseudocapacitor and battery grade material Covers the synthesis strategies to enhance the overall performance of the supercapacitor device (including power density) Explains the energy storage mechanism based on the fundamental concept of physics and electrochemistry

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Elsevier

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0128204036

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9780128204030

Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice

In Search of the Female Renunciant

By: Nirmala S. Salgado

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Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice

In Search of the Female Renunciant

By: Nirmala S. Salgado

Nirmala S. Salgado offers a groundbreaking study of the politics of representation of Buddhist nuns. Challenging assumptions about writing on gender and Buddhism, Salgado raises important theoretical questions about the applicability of liberal feminist concepts and language to the practices of Buddhist nuns. Based on extensive research in Sri Lanka as well as on interviews with Theravada and Tibetan nuns from around the world, Salgado's study invites a reconsideration of female renunciation. How do scholarly narratives continue to be complicit in reinscribing colonialist and patriarchal stories about Buddhist women? In what ways have recent debates contributed to the construction of the subject of the Theravada bhikkhuni? How do key Buddhist concepts such as dukkha, samsara, and sila ground female renunciant practices? Salgado's provocative analysis of modern discourses about the supposed empowerment of nuns challenges interpretations of female renunciation articulated in terms of secular notions such as ''freedom'' in renunciation, and questions the idea that the higher ordination of nuns constitutes a movement in which female renunciants act as agents seeking to assert their autonomy in a struggle against patriarchal norms. Salgado argues that the concept of a global sisterhood of nuns-an idea grounded in a notion of equality as a universal ideal-promotes a discourse of dominance about the lives of non-Western women and calls for more nuanced readings of the everyday renunciant practices and lives of Buddhist nuns. Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice is essential reading for anyone interested in the connections between religion and power, subjectivity and gender, and feminism and postcolonialism.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199760012

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9780199760015

From Oppression to Assertion

Women and Panchayats in India

By: Nirmala Buch

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From Oppression to Assertion

Women and Panchayats in India

By: Nirmala Buch

The book explores the experiences, impact and responses of women in village panchayats in India after a Constitutional Amendment in 1992 made it mandatory to reserve one-third positions for women. Based on extensive field research with interviews of 1,200 panchayat representatives and community members in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh (states usually seen as low on social and gender indicators), the book documents awareness, motivation, perceptions, and participation levels of women elected in the first election following the Amendment, with a follow-up survey of the same panchayats in the next two elections. This work maps the empowering impact on women’s self, the attitudes and perceptions of the family and responses of other social institutions. It explodes the myth of women’s disinterest in politics, the entry of only affluent women and relatives of influential politicians, and particularly, of these women as proxy for their male kin. The recent policy announcements reserving more seats for women in panchayats (from one-third to one-half) makes this book topical, and especially interesting in light of the opposition to the reservation of seats for women in state legislatures and the parliament.

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Routledge

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1136197575

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9781136197574

Communication Techniques in Farm Extension

By: T. Rathakrishnan,M. Israel Thomas,L. Nirmala

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Communication Techniques in Farm Extension

By: T. Rathakrishnan,M. Israel Thomas,L. Nirmala

This book comprehensively covers three broad areas which one could not find from any single source. The major areas includes Farm Journalism which deals with basic concept and dimensions, principles, genesis and growth, journalism and mass media, ideals, functions and canons of journalism, ethics of journalism, art of speech, readability meaning, definition and formula for readability, newspaper makeup, E-journalism - online journalism, types of leads, writing feature stories, news, types of news, photo journalism, reporting - qualities of a good reporter, reporting skills, editing, balancing news paper. The cyber extension, information and communication technology (ICTs) covers genesis with development of instructional technologies, application of multimedia in agricultural extensions, Interactive video disc, cyber extension, information and communication technologies (ICTs), expert system, agri-portal, tele conferencing and its application, audio conferencing, video conferencing, trends of development in ICT. Finally, the new topic which is not covered in any of the text book of this nature is transfer of technology efforts - problems tree analysis. It will be of immense helpful to the field level extension functionaries and students communities to strengthen their communication skills. With rapid strides in agricultural sciences virtually, there is an information explosion. Mass media including newspaper, magazine, radio, TV are coming out with more and more agricultural information support programmes. This book act as an interface between media managers and professionals for the development of agricultural front.

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Scientific Publishers

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9386347482

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9789386347480

The Rise of Tamil Separatism in Sri Lanka

From Communalism to Secession

By: Gnanapala Welhengama,Nirmala Pillay

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The Rise of Tamil Separatism in Sri Lanka

From Communalism to Secession

By: Gnanapala Welhengama,Nirmala Pillay

Among the examples of civil wars, armed secessionist movements and minority uprisings in the world today, many involve conflict between a minority group’s aim for political self-determination, and the nation state’s resistance to any diminution of sovereignty. With the expansion of the international regime of human rights, minority groups have reconceptualised their struggle with the understanding that a minority which is linguistically, religiously or ethnically distinctive is entitled to self-determination if their aspirations cannot be met. This book explores the relationship between minority rights, self-determination and secession within international law, by contextualising these issues in a detailed case study of the rise of Tamil separatism in Sri Lanka. Welhengama and Pillay show how Tamil communalism hardened into secession and assess whether the Sri Lankan government has met its obligations with respect to the right to self-determination short of secession. Focusing on the legal and human rights arguments for secession by the Tamil community of the North and East of Sri Lanka, the book demonstrates how the language of international law and international human rights played a major role in the development of the arguments for secession. Through a close examination of the case of the Tamil’s secessionist movement the book presents valuable insights into why modern nation states find themselves threatened by separatist claims and bids for independence based on ethnicity.

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1135119716

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9781135119713

Auxiliary Information and a priori Values in Construction of Improved Estimators

By: Rajesh Singh,Pankaj Chauhan,Florentin Smarandache,Nirmala Sawan

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Auxiliary Information and a priori Values in Construction of Improved Estimators

By: Rajesh Singh,Pankaj Chauhan,Florentin Smarandache,Nirmala Sawan

This volume is a collection of six papers on the use of auxiliary information and a priori values in construction of improved estimators. The work included here will be of immense application for researchers and students who employ auxiliary information in any form.

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Infinite Study

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1599730464

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9781599730462

The Law of Two Child Norm in Panchayats

By: Nirmala Buch

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The Law of Two Child Norm in Panchayats

By: Nirmala Buch

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Concept Publishing Company

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8180692612

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9788180692611

Mathematical Perspectives on Theoretical Physics

A Journey from Black Holes to Superstrings

By: Nirmala Prakash

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Mathematical Perspectives on Theoretical Physics

A Journey from Black Holes to Superstrings

By: Nirmala Prakash

This book presents the basics of mathematics that are needed for learning the physics of today. It describes briefly the theories of groups and operators, finite- and infinite-dimensional algebras, concepts of symmetry and supersymmetry, and then delineates their relations to theories of relativity and black holes, classical and quantum physics, electroweak fields and Yang-Mills. It concludes with a chapter on (the complex theory of) strings and superstrings and their link to black holes — an idea that fascinates both the physicist and the mathematician. Contents:Complex Functions, Riemann Surfaces and Two-Dimensional Conformal Field Theory (an Introduction)Elements of Group Theory and Group RepresentationsA Primer on OperatorsBasics of Algebras and Related ConceptsInfinite-Dimensional AlgebrasThe Role of Symmetry in Physics and MathematicsAll That's Super — An IntroductionGravitation, Relativity and Black HolesBasics of Quantum TheoryTheory of Yang–Mills and the Yang–Mills–Higgs MechanismStrings and Superstrings (Elementary Aspects) Readership: Upper level undergraduates, graduate students, lecturers and researchers in theoretical physics, mathematical physics, quantum physics and astrophysics as well as Yang-Mills and superstring theory.

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World Scientific Publishing Company

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1911298240

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9781911298243

Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics

By: RS Satoskar,Nirmala Rege,SD Bhandarkar

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Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics

By: RS Satoskar,Nirmala Rege,SD Bhandarkar

The 25th revised edition of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics continues to maintain its status as an up-to-date, accurate and reliable text for medical students as well as practicing physicians. The advances in molecular biology have significantly influenced the understanding of pathogenesis of diseases and development of newer drugs. The real challenge, however, remains in application of the available information while treating a patient. This book has always placed before the readers an integrated approach intertwining current knowledge of pathophysiology of the disease, pharmacology of available drugs and strategies for medical management of diseases. The current edition balances the complexity and simplicity of scientific content to provide students of medicine and/or pharmacy an insight into rational therapeutics. It gives several practical tips which empowers the physician to treat patients effectively and confidently. Written in an integrated fashion, Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics builds up a strong foundation of scientific knowledge to guide decision making and to promote a holistic approach towards patient care in clinical practice. - Emphasis on Clinical Pharmacology in each chapter - Current guidelines for therapeutic decisions - Newer sedatives-hypnotics - Hypertension management: Updates - Advances in treatment of obesity and hyperlipidemia - Newer antiepileptics - Antiviral agents for hepatitis C - Rheumatoid arthritis: pharmacotherapy - Management of pulmonary hypertension - Newer antidiabetic drugs - Advances in immunotherapeutics - Vitamin D and calcium: Updates - Therapeutic advances for infectious diseases

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8131249417

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9788131249413

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Bamboo Shoot

Bamboo Shoot

Instant Notes for Microbial and Food Biotechnology

Instant Notes for Microbial and Food Biotechnology

Unraveling Misconceptions

Unraveling Misconceptions

Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics - E-Book

Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics - E-Book

Advances in Supercapacitor and Supercapattery

Advances in Supercapacitor and Supercapattery

Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice

Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice

From Oppression to Assertion

From Oppression to Assertion

Communication Techniques in Farm Extension

Communication Techniques in Farm Extension

The Rise of Tamil Separatism in Sri Lanka

The Rise of Tamil Separatism in Sri Lanka

Auxiliary Information and a priori Values in Construction of Improved Estimators

Auxiliary Information and a priori Values in Construction of Improved Estimators

The Law of Two Child Norm in Panchayats

The Law of Two Child Norm in Panchayats

Mathematical Perspectives on Theoretical Physics

Mathematical Perspectives on Theoretical Physics

Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics

Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics

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