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Global Capital and Peripheral Labour

The History and Political Economy of Plantation Workers in India

By: Ravi Raman

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Global Capital and Peripheral Labour

The History and Political Economy of Plantation Workers in India

By: Ravi Raman

This book presents a historical account of plantations in India in the context of the modern world economy. It brings history up to the present, thereby showing how history can assist in explaining contemporary conditions and trends. The author focuses on labour and economic development problems and uses the World Systems theory so as to demonstrate the practical utility of the theory and its limitations as a guide to historical research. Based on extensive archival research, the book interprets the dynamics of plantation capitalism by focusing on the work, life and struggle of the dalits on plantations in colonial and post-colonial South India as they evolved from the mid-19th century. It argues that these elements of the plantation life-world were fashioned by the specific characteristics of the workers' location within the capitalist world-economy, the then prevailing local social structure and the scheme of disciplining to which the workers were subjected to. Treating the relations among various social forces – the planting communities, the oppressed communities (dalits in India), the regional and national state, and the Imperial regime, this book fills a gap in academic literature on capitalism, economic development, and globalization.

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Routledge

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1135196575

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Dead in Benares

An Ethnography of Funeral Travelling

By: Ravi Nandan Singh

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Dead in Benares

An Ethnography of Funeral Travelling

By: Ravi Nandan Singh

Ethnographies fatefully rely on chance encounters and mysteriously so such encounters come true. "Dead in Banaras" is an instance of just such a fateful chance encounter. In its inception it set out to follow the 'dead' across multiple social locations of crematoria, hospital, morgue and the aghorashram in order to assemble a contemporary moment in the funerary iconicity of the well known North Indian city of Banaras. The crematoria in plural because the open-air manual pyres and close-door electric furnaces sit side by side within the symbolic inside of the city. Hospital and morgue became chosen destinations because in the local moral world the city is a medical metropolis anchored by a famed university hospital and storied through real life dramatic narratives of medical emergency, saving and untimely death. Aghorashram on the other hand as an urban Shaivite clinic and hermitage for sexual and reproductive cures works with funerary substances as pharmacopeia. Then, early on in fieldwork, these funerary journeys of the' dead' had a chance encounter with my father's death in the city. The same set of places henceforth spoke through a sensory logic of my father's death. Dead in Banaras is then both an ethnography of being in the dead centre of a city and an autobiographical funeral travelling (Shav Yatra) that narrates the city through a mourner's logic of using the pyre to illuminate the dead as a multiplicity.

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Oxford University Press

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0192679341

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9780192679345

Ideals and Reality

Projective Modules and Number of Generators of Ideals

By: Friedrich Ischebeck,Ravi A. Rao

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Ideals and Reality

Projective Modules and Number of Generators of Ideals

By: Friedrich Ischebeck,Ravi A. Rao

Besides giving an introduction to Commutative Algebra - the theory of c- mutative rings - this book is devoted to the study of projective modules and the minimal number of generators of modules and ideals. The notion of a module over a ring R is a generalization of that of a vector space over a field k. The axioms are identical. But whereas every vector space possesses a basis, a module need not always have one. Modules possessing a basis are called free. So a finitely generated free R-module is of the form Rn for some n E IN, equipped with the usual operations. A module is called p- jective, iff it is a direct summand of a free one. Especially a finitely generated R-module P is projective iff there is an R-module Q with P @ Q S Rn for some n. Remarkably enough there do exist nonfree projective modules. Even there are nonfree P such that P @ Rm S Rn for some m and n. Modules P having the latter property are called stably free. On the other hand there are many rings, all of whose projective modules are free, e. g. local rings and principal ideal domains. (A commutative ring is called local iff it has exactly one maximal ideal. ) For two decades it was a challenging problem whether every projective module over the polynomial ring k[X1,. . .

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540263705

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9783540263708

Smart Cities

Foundations, Principles, and Applications

By: Houbing Song,Ravi Srinivasan,Tamim Sookoor,Sabina Jeschke

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Smart Cities

Foundations, Principles, and Applications

By: Houbing Song,Ravi Srinivasan,Tamim Sookoor,Sabina Jeschke

Provides the foundations and principles needed for addressing the various challenges of developing smart cities Smart cities are emerging as a priority for research and development across the world. They open up significant opportunities in several areas, such as economic growth, health, wellness, energy efficiency, and transportation, to promote the sustainable development of cities. This book provides the basics of smart cities, and it examines the possible future trends of this technology. Smart Cities: Foundations, Principles, and Applications provides a systems science perspective in presenting the foundations and principles that span multiple disciplines for the development of smart cities. Divided into three parts—foundations, principles, and applications—Smart Cities addresses the various challenges and opportunities of creating smart cities and all that they have to offer. It also covers smart city theory modeling and simulation, and examines case studies of existing smart cities from all around the world. In addition, the book: Addresses how to develop a smart city and how to present the state of the art and practice of them all over the world Focuses on the foundations and principles needed for advancing the science, engineering, and technology of smart cities—including system design, system verification, real-time control and adaptation, Internet of Things, and test beds Covers applications of smart cities as they relate to smart transportation/connected vehicle (CV) and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) for improved mobility, safety, and environmental protection Smart Cities: Foundations, Principles, and Applications is a welcome reference for the many researchers and professionals working on the development of smart cities and smart city-related industries.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119226414

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The Sacred Wanderer

By: Ravi Dass

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The Sacred Wanderer

By: Ravi Dass

This spiritual memoir is by one of the first American devotees of the guru Neem Karoli Baba made famous by Ram Dass in the classic Be Here Now. Ravi Dass starts his quest right after college in 1964 at the urging of Allen Ginsberg to go to India for spiritual awakening. It will take you on an extraordinary journey from living with the great saints of India to working for the largest companies in the world like IBM, HP, Grey Advertising and Young & Rubicam managing multimillion-dollar budgets. Ravi Dass encountered Baba Ram Dass when he was a monk at Ganeshpuri, the ashram of the controversial guru of Eat, Pray, Love fame in 1970. After meeting Ram Dass he asked to be taken to his guru Maharaji in the Himalayas. From that moment on, this book interweaves the odyssey of a long time seeker with the mysterious hand of Maharaji that guided him for the next forty years from householder to Maui. Neem Karoli Baba considered Ravi Dass the actual incarnation of the 15th century Indian Saint Raidas.

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Lulu.com

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0615344887

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9780615344881

Restrictive Trade Practices and Public Interest

By: Ravi Karan Singh

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Restrictive Trade Practices and Public Interest

By: Ravi Karan Singh

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Mittal Publications

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8170991722

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The Making of an Indian Ocean World-Economy, 1250–1650

Princes, Paddy fields, and Bazaars

By: Ravi Palat

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The Making of an Indian Ocean World-Economy, 1250–1650

Princes, Paddy fields, and Bazaars

By: Ravi Palat

To counter Eurocentric notions of long-term historical change, Wet Rice Cultivation and the Emergence of the Indian Ocean draws upon the histories of societies based on wet-rice cultivation to chart an alternate pattern of social evolution and state formation and traces inter-state linkages and the growth of commercialization without capitalism.

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1137562269

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9781137562265

Performance Modeling, Stochastic Networks, and Statistical Multiplexing, Second Edition

By: Ravi Mazumdar

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Performance Modeling, Stochastic Networks, and Statistical Multiplexing, Second Edition

By: Ravi Mazumdar

This monograph presents a concise mathematical approach for modeling and analyzing the performance of communication networks with the aim of introducing an appropriate mathematical framework for modeling and analysis as well as understanding the phenomenon of statistical multiplexing. The models, techniques, and results presented form the core of traffic engineering methods used to design, control and allocate resources in communication networks.The novelty of the monograph is the fresh approach and insights provided by a sample-path methodology for queueing models that highlights the important ideas of Palm distributions associated with traffic models and their role in computing performance measures. The monograph also covers stochastic network theory including Markovian networks. Recent results on network utility optimization and connections to stochastic insensitivity are discussed. Also presented are ideas of large buffer, and many sources asymptotics that play an important role in understanding statistical multiplexing. In particular, the important concept of effective bandwidths as mappings from queueing level phenomena to loss network models is clearly presented along with a detailed discussion of accurate approximations for large networks.

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Springer Nature

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3031792602

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9783031792601

Bhubaneswar

From a Temple Town to a Capital City

By: Ravi Kalia

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Bhubaneswar

From a Temple Town to a Capital City

By: Ravi Kalia

In this informative new book, Ravi Kalia continues his examination of the planning of Indian cities begun with his earlier study of Chandigarh. Here, Kalia makes systematic inquiries into the political circumstances that brought about modern Bhubaneswar, the capital of the state of Orissa, to reveal the historical and social circumstances that shaped the city. In this account, Kalia brilliantly shows the interplay of indigenous religious forces, regional loyalty, and Western secular ideas in the context of twentieth-century international architecture and planning movements. This book will prove invaluable to historians, architects, planners, sociologists, and scholars interested in India, as well as those interested in urban planning in developing countries.

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SIU Press

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0809318768

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9780809318766

Caitanya Vaisnava Philosophy

Tradition, Reason and Devotion

By: Dr Ravi M Gupta

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Caitanya Vaisnava Philosophy

Tradition, Reason and Devotion

By: Dr Ravi M Gupta

Although only a handful of poetry is attributed to Caitanya, his devotional theology was expounded and systematized by his followers in a vast array of poetical, philosophical, and ritual literature. This book provides a thematic study of Caitanya Vaishnava philosophy, introducing key thinkers and ideas in the early tradition, using Sanskrit and Bengali sources that have seldom been studied in English. The book addresses major areas of the tradition, including epistemology, ontology, aesthetics, ethics, and history, and every chapter includes relevant readings from primary sources.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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0754661776

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Civilization-States of China and India

Reshaping the World Order

By: Ravi Dutt Bajpai

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Civilization-States of China and India

Reshaping the World Order

By: Ravi Dutt Bajpai

Ravi Dutt Bajpai examines some of the pivotal episodes in the modern history of China and India to argue that their behaviours reflect the self-identity of a civilization-state. The book starts from the progression of China and India into putatively modern polities during the colonial period, as the two indigenous societies imagined their national identities and nationalist aspirations primarily by contrasting their civilizational attributes with the Western colonial occupiers. As newly independent nation-states, both believed that their international status flowed from their civilizational glories. Therefore, despite their material and institutional fragility, China and India decided to pursue complete autonomy to manage their domestic and foreign affairs. Indian Prime Minister Nehru's policy of non-alignment, envisioning an alternate world order beyond the great power competition, was inspired by Indian civilizational ethos. The book also examines the Sino-Indian war of 1962 from a civilization-state perspective and argues that Tibet represented a conflict of civilizational influence. Chapters also explore some of the more recent developments, such as the Indian nuclear test of 1998, China's ambitious Belt and Road (BRI) infrastructure project aimed at reviving the ancient Silk Road, and India's campaign to regain its civilizational status of Vishwa Guru, as the continued manifestations of the two civilization-states endeavouring to regain their past glories in the contemporary world.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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9356402000

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9789356402003

Boundary Value Problems From Higher Order Differential Equations

By: Ravi P Agarwal

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Boundary Value Problems From Higher Order Differential Equations

By: Ravi P Agarwal

Contents: Some ExamplesLinear ProblemsGreen's FunctionMethod of Complementary FunctionsMethod of AdjointsMethod of ChasingSecond Order EquationsError Estimates in Polynomial InterpolationExistence and UniquenessPicard's and Approximate Picard's MethodQuasilinearization and Approximate QuasilinearizationBest Possible Results: Weight Function TechniqueBest Possible Results: Shooting MethodsMonotone Convergence and Further ExistenceUniqueness Implies ExistenceCompactness Condition and Generalized SolutionsUniqueness Implies UniquenessBoundary Value FunctionsTopological MethodsBest Possible Results: Control Theory MethodsMatching MethodsMaximal SolutionsMaximum PrincipleInfinite Interval ProblemsEquations with Deviating Arguments Readership: Graduate students, numerical analysts as well as researchers who are studying open problems. Keywords:Boundary Value Problems;Ordinary Differential Equations;Green's Function;Quasilinearization;Shooting Methods;Maximal Solutions;Infinite Interval Problems

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World Scientific

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9814513636

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9789814513630

The Village of Widows

By: Ravi Shankar Etteth

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The Village of Widows

By: Ravi Shankar Etteth

The Murderer Began To Laugh. He Was Confident That The Police Would Come Up With Nothing& When A Diplomat At The Madagascan Embassy In Delhi Is Stabbed To Death In Mysterious And Quite Possibly Scandalous Circumstances, The Ambassador Calls Upon His Old Friend Jay Samorin To Help Find The Murderer As Quickly And Discreetly As Possible. In His Somewhat Unorthodox Approach To Solving Crimes, Samorin Crosses Swords With The Police Officer In Charge Of The Investigation, Deputy Commissioner Anna Khan, Recently Transferred From Kashmir Where Her Zealous Pursuit Of Suspected Terrorists Had Threatened To Cause An Uproar. But It Transpires That Each Has An Intensely Personal Reason For Their Obsession With Murder: Samorin'S Father, A Pilot And War Hero, Was Hanged For The Murder Of His Mother, While Anna Khan'S Husband Was Killed By The Kashmiri Mujahadeen. Forming An Uneasy Alliance, The Gifted Amateur And The Jaded Professional Start To Untangle A Shocking Web Of Corruption, Prostitution And Callous Medical Malpractice. It Is A Trail Fraught With Danger, Tainted By The Older, Deeper Mysteries That Lie Outside The More Tangible Boundaries Of A Criminal Investigation A Trail Leading Back Through The Darkest Recesses Of Their Own Lives To That Elusive, Haunted Place Known As The Village Of Widows&

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Penguin Books India

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0143031759

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9780143031758

Membership Based Organizations of the Poor

By: Martha Chen,Renana Jhabvala,Ravi Kanbur,Carol Richards

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Membership Based Organizations of the Poor

By: Martha Chen,Renana Jhabvala,Ravi Kanbur,Carol Richards

This highly topical volume, with contributions from leading experts in the field, explores a variety of questions about membership based organizations of the poor. Analyzing their success and failure and the internal and external factors that play a part, it uses studies from both developed and developing countries. Put together by a group of prestigious editors, the contributors address a range of questions, including: What structures and activities characterize MBOPs? What is meant by success and what factors account for success? What are the internal (governance structure and leadership) and external (policy environment) factors that account for success? Are these factors replicable across countries or even within countries? What are the constraints to successful MBOPs expanding, or to new ones being formed? What sort of policy environment enables the success of MBOPs and the formation of successful MBOPs? What types of institutional reforms are needed to ensure the representation of the poor through their own MBOs? This is an insightful work, that will be invaluable for students and researchers studying or working in the areas of international and development economics and development studies.

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Routledge

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1135985685

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Managing Arsenic in the Environment

From Soil to Human Health

By: Ravi Naidu,Euan Smith,Gary Owens,Prosun Bhattacharya

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Managing Arsenic in the Environment

From Soil to Human Health

By: Ravi Naidu,Euan Smith,Gary Owens,Prosun Bhattacharya

Arsenic is one of the most toxic and carcinogenic elements in the environment. This book brings together the current knowledge on arsenic contamination worldwide, reviewing the field, highlighting common themes and pointing to key areas needing future research. Contributions discuss methods for accurate identification and quantification of individual arsenic species in a range of environmental and biological matrices and give an overview of the environmental chemistry of arsenic. Next, chapters deal with the dynamics of arsenic in groundwater and aspects of arsenic in soils and plants, including plant uptake studies, effects on crop quality and yield, and the corresponding food chain and human health issues associated with these exposure pathways. These concerns are coupled with the challenge to develop efficient, cost effective risk management and remediation strategies: recent technological advances are described and assessed, including the use of adsorbants, photo-oxidation, bioremediation and electrokinetic remediation. The book concludes with eleven detailed regional perspectives of the extent and severity of arsenic contamination from around the world. It will be invaluable for arsenic researchers as well as environmental scientists and environmental chemists, toxicologists, medical scientists, and statutory authorities seeking an in-depth view of the issues surrounding this toxin.

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CSIRO PUBLISHING

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0643099239

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9780643099234

India Connected

How the Smartphone Is Transforming the World's Largest Democracy

By: Ravi Agrawal

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India Connected

How the Smartphone Is Transforming the World's Largest Democracy

By: Ravi Agrawal

India is connecting at a dizzying pace. In 2000, roughly 20 million Indians had access to the internet. In 2017, 465 million were online, with three new people logging on for the first time every second. By 2020, the country's online community is projected to exceed 700 million; more than a billion Indians are expected to be online by 2025. While users in Western countries progressed steadily over the years from dial-up connections on PCs, to broadband access, wireless, and now 4G data on phones, in India most have leapfrogged straight into the digital world with smartphones and affordable data plans. What effect is all this having on the ancient and traditionally rural culture dominated by family and local customs? Ravi Agrawal explores that very question, seeking out the nexuses of change and those swept up in them. Smartphones now influence arranged marriages, create an extension of one's social identity that moves beyond caste, bring within reach educational opportunities undreamed of a generation ago, bridge linguistic gaps, provide outlets and opportunities for start-ups, and are helping to move the entire Indian economy from cash- to credit-based. The effects are everywhere, and they are transformative. While they offer immediate access to so much for so many, smartphones are creating no utopia in a culture still struggling with poverty, illiteracy, corruption, gender inequality, and income disparity. Internet access has provided greater opportunities to women and altered how India's outcasts interact with the world; it has also made pornography readily available and provided an echo chamber for rumor and prejudice. Under a government determined to control content, it has created tensions. And in a climate of hypernationalism, it has fomented violence and even terrorism. The influence of smartphones on the world's largest democracy is pervasive and irreversible, disruptive and creative, unsettling and compelling. Agrawal's fascinating book gives us the people and places reflecting what the internet hath wrought. India Connected reveals both its staggering dimensions and implications, illuminating how it is affecting the progress of progress itself.

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Oxford University Press

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0190858672

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9780190858674

IBM Spectrum Scale Erasure Code Edition: Planning and Implementation Guide

By: Bill Owen,Luis Bolinches,Wei Gong,Scott Guthridge,Nikhil Khandelwhal,Lin Feng Shen,Ravi Sure,Yu Bing Tang,Jon Terner,Rong Zeng,Rajan Mishra,Wu Xu,IBM Redbooks

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IBM Spectrum Scale Erasure Code Edition: Planning and Implementation Guide

By: Bill Owen,Luis Bolinches,Wei Gong,Scott Guthridge,Nikhil Khandelwhal,Lin Feng Shen,Ravi Sure,Yu Bing Tang,Jon Terner,Rong Zeng,Rajan Mishra,Wu Xu,IBM Redbooks

This IBM® Redpaper introduces the IBM Spectrum® Scale Erasure Code Edition (ECE) as a scalable, high-performance data and file management solution. ECE is designed to run on any commodity server that meets the ECE minimum hardware requirements. ECE provides all the functionality, reliability, scalability, and performance of IBM Spectrum Scale with the added benefit of network-dispersed IBM Spectrum Scale RAID, which provides data protection, storage efficiency, and the ability to manage storage in hyperscale environments that are composed from commodity hardware. In this publication, we explain the benefits of ECE and the use cases where we believe it fits best. We also provide a technical introduction to IBM Spectrum Scale RAID. Next, we explain the key aspects of planning an installation, provide an example of an installation scenario, and describe the key aspects of day-to-day management and a process for problem determination. We conclude with an overview of possible enhancements that are being considered for future versions of IBM Spectrum Scale Erasure Code Edition. Overall knowledge of IBM Spectrum Scale Erasure Code Edition is critical to planning a successful storage system deployment. This paper is targeted toward technical professionals (consultants, technical support staff, IT Architects, and IT Specialists) who are responsible for delivering cost effective storage solutions. The goal of this paper is to describe the benefits of using IBM Spectrum Scale Erasure Code Edition for the creation of high performing storage systems.

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0738458074

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Against the Nation

Thinking Like South Asians

By: Sasanka Perera,Dev Nath Pathak,Ravi Kumar

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Against the Nation

Thinking Like South Asians

By: Sasanka Perera,Dev Nath Pathak,Ravi Kumar

Against the Nation invites readers to explore South Asia as a place and as an idea with a sense of reflection and nuance rather than submitting to conventional understanding of the region merely in geopolitical terms. The authors take the readers across a vast terrain of prospects like visual culture, music, film, knowledge systems and classrooms, myth and history as well as forms of politics that offer possibilities for reading South Asia as a collective enterprise that has historical precedents as well as untapped ideological potential for the future.

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938981233X

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NDA & NA NATIONAL DEFENCE ACADEMY & NAVAL ACADEMY EXAMINATION

GENERAL STUDIES GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY, POLITY, ECONOMICS & GK

By: Ravi Prakash Singh

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NDA & NA NATIONAL DEFENCE ACADEMY & NAVAL ACADEMY EXAMINATION

GENERAL STUDIES GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY, POLITY, ECONOMICS & GK

By: Ravi Prakash Singh

This book is designed for the preparation of NDA/NA (National Defence Academy & Naval Academy) exams conducted biannually by the UPSC. This book is also useful for the preparation of CDS, Civil Services and other competitive exams. The book covers Geography, History, Polity, Economics and GK as a part of General Studies. The book comprises of previous years question papers of NDA/NA-UPSC and objective type questions at the end of every chapter. The book also contains the gist of many old question papers of NDA/NA-UPSC

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Notion Press

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The Bhāgavata Purāna

Selected Readings

By: Ravi M. Gupta,Kenneth R. Valpey

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The Bhāgavata Purāna

Selected Readings

By: Ravi M. Gupta,Kenneth R. Valpey

Formalized by the tenth century, the expansive Bhagavata Purana resists easy categorization. While the narrative holds together as a coherent literary work, its language and expression compete with the best of Sanskrit poetry. The text's theological message focuses on devotion to Krishna or Vishnu, and its philosophical outlook is grounded in the classical traditions of Vedanta and Samkhya. No other Purana has inspired so much commentary, imitation, and derivation. The work has grown in vibrancy through centuries of performance, interpretation, worship, and debate and has guided the actions and meditations of elite intellectuals and everyday worshippers alike. This annotated translation and detailed analysis shows how one text can have such enduring appeal. Key selections from the Bhagavata Purana are faithfully translated, while all remaining sections of the Purana are concisely summarized, providing the reader with a continuous and comprehensive narrative. Detailed endnotes explain unfamiliar concepts and several essays elucidate the rich philosophical and religious debates found in the Sanskrit commentaries. Together with the multidisciplinary readings contained in the companion volume The Bhagavata Purana: Sacred Text and Living Tradition (Columbia, 2013), this book makes a central Hindu masterpiece more accessible to English-speaking audiences and more meaningful to scholars of Hindu literature, philosophy, and religion.

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Columbia University Press

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0231542348

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Indian Stories: Images and Thoughts

By: Ravi Valluri

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Indian Stories: Images and Thoughts

By: Ravi Valluri

Not all those who wander are lost." -J.R.R.Tolkien India is a never ending saga and story. This ancient civilisation has amazing stories to narrate. Each tale is steeped in rich culture, history and a tapestry which resonates with those delving to discover India. The country is a cradle of several cultures, religions, art, architecture, spirituality and sciences. Several dynasties and kingdoms have attempted to be suzerains of this fabled land. But the free-willed, enterprising people have braved several storms and woven extraordinary tales. This book is segemented into four parts, Wanderlust-Discovering India by Train, Wondrous India- Discovering the lesser-known trails, Well-known Personalities, lesser-known People and lastly Wavering Mind, Wandering Thoughts. Indian history has been fashioned and shaped by both known and lesser- known people, all blessed with a robust mind. Eminent philosophers like Adi Shankara and Buddha, in quest of harmony and the Indian ethos were on a voyage. May readers too discover the spirit of India through this book. Aano bhadra krtavo yantu vishwatah -Let noble thoughts come to me from all directions. - Rig Veda

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BecomeShakespeare.com

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9390040345

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Combined Measure and Shift Invariance Theory of Time Scales and Applications

By: Chao Wang,Ravi P. Agarwal

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Combined Measure and Shift Invariance Theory of Time Scales and Applications

By: Chao Wang,Ravi P. Agarwal

This monograph is devoted to developing a theory of combined measure and shift invariance of time scales with the related applications to shift functions and dynamic equations. The study of shift closeness of time scales is significant to investigate the shift functions such as the periodic functions, the almost periodic functions, the almost automorphic functions, and their generalizations with many relevant applications in dynamic equations on arbitrary time scales. First proposed by S. Hilger, the time scale theory—a unified view of continuous and discrete analysis—has been widely used to study various classes of dynamic equations and models in real-world applications. Measure theory based on time scales, in its turn, is of great power in analyzing functions on time scales or hybrid domains. As a new and exciting type of mathematics—and more comprehensive and versatile than the traditional theories of differential and difference equations—, the time scale theory can precisely depict the continuous-discrete hybrid processes and is an optimal way forward for accurate mathematical modeling in applied sciences such as physics, chemical technology, population dynamics, biotechnology, and economics and social sciences. Graduate students and researchers specializing in general dynamic equations on time scales can benefit from this work, fostering interest and further research in the field. It can also serve as reference material for undergraduates interested in dynamic equations on time scales. Prerequisites include familiarity with functional analysis, measure theory, and ordinary differential equations.

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3031116194

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Femtocells

Opportunities and Challenges for Business and Technology

By: Simon R. Saunders,Stuart Carlaw,Andrea Giustina,Ravi Rai Bhat,V. Srinivasa Rao,Rasa Siegberg

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Femtocells

Opportunities and Challenges for Business and Technology

By: Simon R. Saunders,Stuart Carlaw,Andrea Giustina,Ravi Rai Bhat,V. Srinivasa Rao,Rasa Siegberg

Femtocells are low-power wireless access points used in the home and office. They operate in licensed spectrum to connect standard mobile phones (WCDMA, LTE, WiMAX, CDMA and GSM) and other mobile devices to a mobile operator’s network via standard broadband internet connections. This technology is of high interest for mobile operators and for millions of users who will benefit from enhanced access to mobile broadband services. Femtocells outlines how wireless access points can be used by mobile operators to provide high-speed wireless access, enhancing coverage and capacity and delivering entirely new services, while maximising the benefits of licensed spectrum. The book examines the market, exploring commercial and technical factors which are critical in the initial deployment and long-term success of femtocells. Business, standards and regulatory aspects are also considered to provide a complete but concise overview. One of the first authoritative texts to concentrate on femtocells Written by expert authors from industry including leading analysts, femtocell and system vendors Covers both technology and business aspects in detail Provides overview of the relevant standards across WCDMA, LTE, CDMA, WiMAX and GSM air interfaces

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470748206

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South Asian Instability

The India-Pakistan Missile Accident

By: Chaitanya Ravi

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South Asian Instability

The India-Pakistan Missile Accident

By: Chaitanya Ravi

This book examines key concerns in South Asian security through a fine-grained history of the accidental firing of a missile and its aftermath between two nuclear-armed states—India and Pakistan—with tense relations in March 2022. It consolidates the official statements, media discourse and debates within the strategic communities in both countries into a coherent narrative. It looks at the role of key institutions in the crisis such as the Indian Air Force (IAF), The Directorate of Air Staff Inspection-IAF, Indian Ministry of Defence (MOD), Pakistan Air Force (PAF), Pakistani Foreign Office (FO), Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) and others. The book also examines the missile accident’s coverage in the international media and discussions in the global think-tank community. Drawing on a host of resources, including published interviews of government officials, analyses in media, and strategic communities in India, Pakistan and the United States, this volume will be key reading for scholars and researchers of military and strategic studies, politics and international relations, public policy and South Asian studies.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040222811

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Eco-Friendly Bromination and Oxybromination of Diverse Organic Molecules

By: Subbarayappa Adimurthy,Chitrakar Ravi,Rajendra D. Patil

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Eco-Friendly Bromination and Oxybromination of Diverse Organic Molecules

By: Subbarayappa Adimurthy,Chitrakar Ravi,Rajendra D. Patil

This book outlines the eco-friendly brominating reagents available for the bromination of diverse organic substrates. Emphasis is given to the use of eco-friendly brominating reagents comprised of bromide-bromate salts in varying ratios, as these salts generate only aqueous sodium chloride as waste during the bromination process. In this book, each chapter is focused on specific reactions – aromatic reactions; aliphatic substitutions; addition reactions; oxidation of alcohols to carbonyl compounds; oxybromination of alkenes and alkynes; and oxidative esterification have been described. The book’s description of the use of eco-friendly brominating reagents will be useful to academicians, who can follow the simple but novel methods for the preparation of chemical reagents required for their research works. The book will also be of interest to those involved in industry, as these reagents are economically viable when procured in bulk.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527564177

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9781527564176

Solar Energy Harvesting with Photosynthetic Pigment-Protein Complexes

By: Sai Kishore Ravi,Swee Ching Tan

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Solar Energy Harvesting with Photosynthetic Pigment-Protein Complexes

By: Sai Kishore Ravi,Swee Ching Tan

This book chronicles a few approaches to constructing biohybrid devices using photosynthetic protein complexes. Can the abundantly available solar energy be tapped to meet our rising energy demands using green and cheap active materials? Exploring nature’s own tiny solar factories, the photosynthetic proteins could hold the key. Photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes found in plants and certain types of bacteria transduce sunlight into biologically useful forms of energy through a photochemical charge separation that has a 100% quantum efficiency. Getting the photoproteins to perform this efficient energy conversion reaction in a semi-artificial setup is central to developing biohybrid solar technologies, a promising green alternative to today’s photovoltaics. This book looks into the existing challenges and opportunities in the field of biohybrid photovoltaics and provides a few prospective methods of enhancing the photocurrent and photovoltage in these devices. The book targets the readership of students, academics, and industrial practitioners who are interested in alternative solar technologies.

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Springer Nature

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9811563330

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9789811563331

Bioinformatics Techniques for Drug Discovery

Applications for Complex Diseases

By: Aman Chandra Kaushik,Ajay Kumar,Shiv Bharadwaj,Ravi Chaudhary,Shakti Sahi

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Bioinformatics Techniques for Drug Discovery

Applications for Complex Diseases

By: Aman Chandra Kaushik,Ajay Kumar,Shiv Bharadwaj,Ravi Chaudhary,Shakti Sahi

The application of bioinformatics approaches in drug design involves an interdisciplinary array of sophisticated techniques and software tools to elucidate hidden or complex biological data. This work reviews the latest bioinformatics approaches used for drug discovery. The text covers ligand-based and structure-based approaches for computer-aided drug design, 3D pharmacophore modeling, molecular dynamics simulation, the thermodynamics of ligand−receptor and ligand−enzyme association, thermodynamic characterization and optimization, and techniques for computational genomics and proteomics.

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3319757326

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Fixed Point Theory in Metric Type Spaces

By: Ravi P. Agarwal,Erdal KARAPINAR,Donal O’Regan,Antonio Francisco Roldán-López-de-Hierro

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Fixed Point Theory in Metric Type Spaces

By: Ravi P. Agarwal,Erdal KARAPINAR,Donal O’Regan,Antonio Francisco Roldán-López-de-Hierro

Written by a team of leading experts in the field, this volume presents a self-contained account of the theory, techniques and results in metric type spaces (in particular in G-metric spaces); that is, the text approaches this important area of fixed point analysis beginning from the basic ideas of metric space topology. The text is structured so that it leads the reader from preliminaries and historical notes on metric spaces (in particular G-metric spaces) and on mappings, to Banach type contraction theorems in metric type spaces, fixed point theory in partially ordered G-metric spaces, fixed point theory for expansive mappings in metric type spaces, generalizations, present results and techniques in a very general abstract setting and framework. Fixed point theory is one of the major research areas in nonlinear analysis. This is partly due to the fact that in many real world problems fixed point theory is the basic mathematical tool used to establish the existence of solutions to problems which arise naturally in applications. As a result, fixed point theory is an important area of study in pure and applied mathematics and it is a flourishing area of research.

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Springer

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331924082X

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9783319240824

Inequalities And Applications

By: Ravi P Agarwal

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Inequalities And Applications

By: Ravi P Agarwal

World Scientific Series in Applicable Analysis (WSSIAA) reports new developments of a high mathematical standard and of current interest. Each volume in the series is devoted to mathematical analysis that has been applied, or is potentially applicable to the solution of scientific, engineering, and social problems. The third volume of WSSIAA contains 47 research articles on inequalities by leading mathematicians from all over the world and a tribute by R.M. Redheffer to Wolfgang Walter — to whom this volume is dedicated — on his 66th birthday.Contributors: A Acker, J D Aczél, A Alvino, K A Ames, Y Avishai, C Bandle, B M Brown, R C Brown, D Brydak, P S Bullen, K Deimling, J Diaz, Á Elbert, P W Eloe, L H Erbe, H Esser, M Essén, W D Evans, W N Everitt, V Ferone, A M Fink, R Ger, R Girgensohn, P Goetgheluck, W Haussmann, S Heikkilä, J Henderson, G Herzog, D B Hinton, T Horiuchi, S Hu, B Kawohl, V G Kirby; N Kirchhoff, G H Knightly, H W Knobloch, Q Kong, H König, A Kufner, M K Kwong, A Laforgia, V Lakshmikantham, S Leela, R Lemmert, E R Love, G Lüttgens, S Malek, R Manásevich, J Mawhin, R Medina, M Migda, R J Nessel, Z Páles, N S Papageorgiou, L E Payne, J Pe…ariƒ, L E Persson, A Peterson, M Pinto, M Plum, J Popenda, G Porru, R M Redheffer, A A Sagle, S Saitoh, D Sather, K Schmitt, D F Shea, A Simon, S Sivasundaram, R Sperb, C S Stanton, G Talenti, G Trombetti, S Varošanec, A S Vatsala, P Volkmann, H Wang, V Weckesser, F Zanolin, K Zeller, A Zettl.

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9814501859

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9789814501859

Error Inequalities in Polynomial Interpolation and Their Applications

By: Ravi P. Agarwal,Patricia J. Y. Wong

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Error Inequalities in Polynomial Interpolation and Their Applications

By: Ravi P. Agarwal,Patricia J. Y. Wong

This volume, which presents the cumulation of the authors' research in the field, deals with Lidstone, Hermite, Abel-Gontscharoff, Birkhoff, piecewise Hermite and Lidstone, spline and Lidstone-spline interpolating problems. Explicit representations of the interpolating polynomials and associated error functions are given, as well as explicit error inequalities in various norms. Numerical illustrations are provided of the importance and sharpness of the various results obtained. Also demonstrated are the significance of these results in the theory of ordinary differential equations such as maximum principles, boundary value problems, oscillation theory, disconjugacy and disfocality. The book should be useful for mathematicians, numerical analysts, computer scientists and engineers.

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0792323378

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9780792323372

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