Becoming the hero of your own life is an endeavor filled with uncertainty and danger. As with the heroes of the epics, the journey forces you to face your deepest fears. This book explores the question at the heart of an authentic spiritual discipline. Drawing on the Bhagavad Gita and ancient cremation ground practices, Swami Chetanananda, a tantric master in the Sakta-Saiva tradition, shows how the fire of transformation really works. His approach promises the possibility of profound freedom and a life lived in the spirit of creativity, integration, and happiness.
Offers a fresh and challenging interpretation of India's relationship with the United States over six decades, revealing the complex and distinctive manner in which New Delhi has pursued its interests.
While paradigm-bound research has generated powerful insights in international relations, it has fostered a tunnel vision that hinders progress and widens the chasm between theory and policy. In this important new book, Sil and Katzenstein draw upon recent scholarship to illustrate the benefits of a more pragmatic and eclectic style of research.
Rudra and Aisha found themselves in a situation that defied easy description. During a particular visit, a profound realization stirred within him - "She's the one." The air seemed to anticipate the moment their story would unfold. Step into the bustling world of a dental clinic, where smiles undergo a magical transformation. For dental surgeons, it's more than a profession; it's a journey with a singular purpose - crafting beautiful, healthy smiles, much like visiting a cherished family friend on New Year's Day. A Cup of Tea and Warmth: The clinic staff goes the extra mile to ensure patient comfort, much like the embrace of a family friend's home. A simple cup of chai, served with a warm smile, dispels anxiety and provides solace. The Unexpected Revelation - "She's The One": In 2016, during a visit to a friend's house, a quiet yet profound intuition whispered to him - "She's the one." This intuition set the stage for a journey filled with unexpected twists, profound revelations, and remarkable discoveries. A Gentle Reminder: Fast forward to 2021-22, where gentle suggestions have the power to alter life's course. Life has a unique way of returning to moments when his heart first spoke to him, setting the stage for crucial decisions. The manuscript's release marks the culmination of an extraordinary journey, weaving threads of love, friendship, and new beginnings. In conclusion, this manuscript reminds us that dentistry transcends fixing teeth; it's about bestowing the gift of smiles. The clinic mirrors the joy patients carry with them, and it's a privilege for dental surgeons to be part of this transformative process. They invite readers into a world filled with hope, transformation, love, choice, destiny, and unwavering connection.
This book focuses on data and how modern business firms use social data, specifically Online Social Networks (OSNs) incorporated as part of the infrastructure for a number of emerging applications such as personalized recommendation systems, opinion analysis, expertise retrieval, and computational advertising. This book identifies how in such applications, social data offers a plethora of benefits to enhance the decision making process. This book highlights that business intelligence applications are more focused on structured data; however, in order to understand and analyse the social big data, there is a need to aggregate data from various sources and to present it in a plausible format. Big Social Data (BSD) exhibit all the typical properties of big data: wide physical distribution, diversity of formats, non-standard data models, independently-managed and heterogeneous semantics but even further valuable with marketing opportunities. The book provides a review of the current state-of-the-art approaches for big social data analytics as well as to present dissimilar methods to infer value from social data. The book further examines several areas of research that benefits from the propagation of the social data. In particular, the book presents various technical approaches that produce data analytics capable of handling big data features and effective in filtering out unsolicited data and inferring a value. These approaches comprise advanced technical solutions able to capture huge amounts of generated data, scrutinise the collected data to eliminate unwanted data, measure the quality of the inferred data, and transform the amended data for further data analysis. Furthermore, the book presents solutions to derive knowledge and sentiments from BSD and to provide social data classification and prediction. The approaches in this book also incorporate several technologies such as semantic discovery, sentiment analysis, affective computing and machine learning. This book has additional special feature enriched with numerous illustrations such as tables, graphs and charts incorporating advanced visualisation tools in accessible an attractive display.
Molecular Methods in Plant Pathology covers methods in phytopathology at the molecular level, including PCR techniques, electron microscopy, tissue culturing, and the cloning of disease-resistant genes. Phytopathologists, botanists, horticulturists, and anyone working in agriculture will find this a useful reference on biophysical, biochemical, biomolecular, and biotechnological methods.
“Designing for Network and Service Continuity in Wireless Mesh Networks” describes performance predictability of the new wireless mesh network paradigm, and describes considerations in designing networks from the perspective of survivability and service continuity metrics. The work provides design insights for network design researchers and industry professionals. It includes designs for new mesh networks and extensions of existing networks with predictable performance.
Master the management of IT Service using full potential of ServiceNow. About This Book Leverage ServiceNow's capabilities to achieve improved service management and excellent results in your IT operations by following step-by-step, practical instructions Build core administration, management, and maintenance skills with IT service management and IT operations management Improve your workflow efficiency by designing and creating responsive and automated workflows Who This Book Is For This course is for IT professionals, ServiceNow administrators, and developers who would like to gain greater control of ServiceNow and its architecture to design and create automated workflows. You should be familiar with JavaScript and basic computing technologies, but you can be new to ServiceNow. What You Will Learn Acquire and configure your own free personal developer instance of ServiceNow Read (and write!) clear, effective requirements for ServiceNow development Avoid common pitfalls and missteps that could seriously impact future progress and upgradeability Use the ServiceNow plugins to manage development Build and publish custom applications for service management Write efficient and effective client-side JavaScript Find out how to authenticate and secure Web Services Integrate and exchange data with people and systems Create and secure your systems with proper access control In Detail ServiceNow is a SaaS application that provides workflow form-based applications. It is an ideal platform for creating enterprise-level applications, giving requesters and fulfillers improved visibility and access to a process. ServiceNow-based applications often replace email by providing a better way to get work done. This course will show you how to put important ServiceNow features to work in the real world. We will introduce key concepts and examples on managing and automating IT services, and help you build a solid foundation towards this new approach. You will then learn more about the power of tasks, events, and notifications. We'll then focus on using web services and other mechanisms to integrate ServiceNow with other systems. Further on, you'll learn how to secure applications and data, and understand how ServiceNow performs logging and error reporting. At the end of this course, you will acquire immediately applicable skills to rectify everyday problems encountered on the ServiceNow platform. The course provides you with highly practical content explaining ServiceNow from the following Packt books: Learning ServiceNow ServiceNow Cookbook Mastering ServiceNow, Second Edition Style and approach This pragmatic guide follows problem-solution based approach to help you configure the ServiceNow and eliminate the challenges faced when implementing and using ServiceNow. It enables you to configure and manage ServiceNow, and learn the fundamentals of the ServiceNow platform.
This book has been prepared keeping in mind rapid changes taking place in the land-locked economy of Nepal seated in the lap of Great Himalaya where tourism is expected to contribute in a big way. Salient Features - Analyzes economic impact of tourism growth on various aspects of the Nepalese economy. - Explores the role of tourism on globalization of this backward economy. - Attempts to incorporate important studies undertaken in this context. - Incorporates opinions of leading experts on tourism promotion and economic development exclusively for this book. - Thoroughly reviews contours of changes in tourism policy. - Well documented in terms of source of tourism information, institutions and chronological highlights, etc. In view of the above, this piece of work would be of immense use to policy makers, planners, researchers, practioners and also to students for whom sufficient materials have been added.
Today, South Asians are a rapidly growing demographic in the United States, comprising nearly 2 percent of the population. But there was a time in the not-too-distant past when the United States was far less hospitable to South Asian immigrants. In fact, until 1952, only white immigrants could become naturalized American citizens. Yet in the first half of the twentieth century, many states still had thriving communities of South Asians. In Here to Stay, Geetika Rudra, a second-generation Indian immigrant and American history buff, takes readers on a journey across the country to unearth the little-known histories of earlier generations of South Asian Americans. She visits storied sites such as Oregon’s “Hindoo Alley,” home to many lumber workers at the turn of the century, and Angel Island, California’s immigration hub. She also introduces readers to such inspiring figures as Bhagat Singh Thind, an immigrant who had enlisted in the U.S. Army to serve his adopted country in World War I, but who was later denied citizenship and took his case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. In turns both serious and joyful, this book vividly reveals how South Asians have always been a vital part of the American tapestry.
Offers a fresh and challenging interpretation of India's relationship with the United States over six decades, revealing the complex and distinctive manner in which New Delhi has pursued its interests.
They say it’s better to fail in love than to never fall in love. The author is a true Cancerian, with an insatiable appetite for love, who has failed twice but is relentless in his quest for a lifetime partner in laziness and craziness. These poems delve into the journey that started with him going down on his knees on a hot June evening to a cold breakup on a warm March night. Musings over Malt is an attempt to come to terms with what could have been but thankfully wasn’t. It’s also a promise to fall in love and give happiness another shot! These poems are straight from the heart and, at times, needed a nudge from glasses of single malt to ensure only the purest and most heartfelt emotions were captured for the readers. The photos—all clicked by yours truly—are a window to what the heart was visualizing at that juncture. P.S. This book is best enjoyed with Chris Isaac’s Wicked Game and John Legend’s All Of Me playing on loop with single malt on the rocks for company.
The book titled as “COVID-19: The Facts and Conspiracy” aims to identify corelate to the various key parameters and analogy from two world wars and one cold war for the Cold War II (CW-II) or World War-III (WW-III) in future. The situations, indicators, causes, impacts of world wars or cold war prior and after; and the remedial or corrective measures which can still be taken for the humanity, tranquillity and avoiding of CW-II or in the worst-case scenario, the WW-III. This book alongwith it’s Part-II will be a complete guide with past, present, and future state of known and unknown (means hidden) facts, conspiracies, figures, aims, intentions, and ways of handling COVID-19 by the nations across the globe, and the ways Indian Leadership became Champion of managing and defeating COVID-19 Pandemic (the Disaster of the century – peace time). The book is structured around 3 main themes: the world and India before COVID-19, during COVID-19, and way ahead in post COVID-19 era. The changing India during COVID-19 in the world and world reliance on India. The background, inside story, and facts why and how China conspired COVID-19. The author’s proposal, thoughts and plan will be left to the readers to grasp the unending hidden and planned intent of nations across the globe. The book series will be in three parts. Part one to cover the facts and conspiracies in international perspective, part two to cover Indian response to manage the disaster of the century (peace time) well, and part three will be the novel on COVID-19. 17 November 2020 Dr. Rohitash Kumar
Today, South Asians are a rapidly growing demographic in the United States, comprising nearly 2 percent of the population. But there was a time in the not-too-distant past when the United States was far less hospitable to South Asian immigrants. In fact, until 1952, only white immigrants could become naturalized American citizens. Yet in the first half of the twentieth century, many states still had thriving communities of South Asians. In Here to Stay, Geetika Rudra, a second-generation Indian immigrant and American history buff, takes readers on a journey across the country to unearth the little-known histories of earlier generations of South Asian Americans. She visits storied sites such as Oregon’s “Hindoo Alley,” home to many lumber workers at the turn of the century, and Angel Island, California’s immigration hub. She also introduces readers to such inspiring figures as Bhagat Singh Thind, an immigrant who had enlisted in the U.S. Army to serve his adopted country in World War I, but who was later denied citizenship and took his case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. In turns both serious and joyful, this book vividly reveals how South Asians have always been a vital part of the American tapestry.
This brief goes back to basics and describes the Quantitative structure-activity/property relationships (QSARs/QSPRs) that represent predictive models derived from the application of statistical tools correlating biological activity (including therapeutic and toxic) and properties of chemicals (drugs/toxicants/environmental pollutants) with descriptors representative of molecular structure and/or properties. It explains how the sub-discipline of Cheminformatics is used for many applications such as risk assessment, toxicity prediction, property prediction and regulatory decisions apart from drug discovery and lead optimization. The authors also present, in basic terms, how QSARs and related chemometric tools are extensively involved in medicinal chemistry, environmental chemistry and agricultural chemistry for ranking of potential compounds and prioritizing experiments. At present, there is no standard or introductory publication available that introduces this important topic to students of chemistry and pharmacy. With this in mind, the authors have carefully compiled this brief in order to provide a thorough and painless introduction to the fundamental concepts of QSAR/QSPR modelling. The brief is aimed at novice readers.
This is the first comprehensive book on the rivers of the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta. This volume covers all aspects of this highly populated region including land conflicts and environmental impacts such as the Indo-Bangladesh conflict over sharing of trans-boundary water. This book addresses the topic from a highly interdisciplinary perspective covering areas of geography, geology, environment, history, archaeology, sociology and politics of the Bengal region. The book appeals to a wide range of audiences from India, Bangladesh and the international community. The style of presentation makes it easily suitable for students, researchers and interested laymen.
Molecular Methods in Plant Pathology covers methods in phytopathology at the molecular level, including PCR techniques, electron microscopy, tissue culturing, and the cloning of disease-resistant genes. Phytopathologists, botanists, horticulturists, and anyone working in agriculture will find this a useful reference on biophysical, biochemical, biomolecular, and biotechnological methods.
While paradigm-bound research has generated powerful insights in international relations, it has fostered a tunnel vision that hinders progress and widens the chasm between theory and policy. In this important new book, Sil and Katzenstein draw upon recent scholarship to illustrate the benefits of a more pragmatic and eclectic style of research.
First Edition of this book is predominantly envisioned for students who want to redefine the way they think about artificial intelligence (AI) and Data Science. Therefore the book, which is organized as a assortment of essentially self-contained articles, comprises both general strategic considerations and some detailed sector-specific material. It shares visions into what it means to work with AI and how to do it more proficiently; how to use AI in detailed industries such as investment or insurance; how AI interrelates with other technologies such as blockchain. Rudra Tiwari
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