The book provides an analytic framework for grand strategy and applies the framework to illuminate the grand strategies of the Great Powers of the twenty-first century: India, China, Russia, and the United States. The book also uses Coca-Cola as a case study to illustrate the potential influence of grand strategy on business strategy. The analysis is rigorous, logical, fact-based, historically rooted, and well-sourced with abundant endnotes to encourage further exploration by readers.
In order to further its own national interests, the United States should strive to engage Iran in a dialogue that would lead to détente and a normalization of relations. There are five major areas in which the national interests of the United States and Iran clearly converge: stabilizing Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon; countering terrorism; curbing drug trafficking, particularly with respect to opium and heroin; enhancing energy security by promoting the expansion of oil and gas production; and ensuring the free flow of Arabian Gulf oil. There are, of course, two critical areas where the perceived interests of the two countries diverge: the resolution of the long-running Israeli–Palestinian dispute and the possible development of an Iranian nuclear weapons capability. The five areas of converging interests involve pressing and urgent concerns that can and should be addressed in private, bilateral talks. For both the United States and Iran, engagement can be mutually beneficial and not simply a zero-sum game. Among the greatest challenges to the vital national interests of the United States are fundamentalist terrorism bent on reviving an Islamic Caliphate, and a rising China determined to displace America as Asia’s preeminent power. Confrontation with Iran would not only distract the United States from dealing with these challenges, but also weaken it. Engagement, on the other hand, holds the prospect of gaining Iranian cooperation in stabilizing Iraq and Afghanistan, thereby facilitating an orderly exit from those countries. It would also encourage Iranian cooperation in stabilizing Lebanon, thereby avoiding a possible US entanglement in that country. Engagement would help address the challenge of the growing global demand for energy, both by developing Iran’s oil and gas reserves and by encouraging the use of alternative energy sources such as nuclear power. Engagement would also ensure the free flow of oil through the Arabian Gulf. Finally, with engagement, even if the ultimate result is the emergence of a nuclear-armed Iran, the United States has the opportunity to influence the rise of Iran as a regional power, just as it has with China and, now increasingly, with India. In short, engagement with Iran, with the goal of normalization of relations and détente, will further the vital national interests of the United States.
This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the similarities and differences of contemporary human resource management systems, processes and practices in the two increasingly important economic great powers in Asia. It covers the full range of human resource management activities, including recruitment, retention, performance management, renumeration, and career development, discusses changing industrial relations systems, and sets the subject in its historical, social and cultural contexts. It examines newly emerging strategies, and asssesses the extent to which human resource management systems in the two countries are coverging or diverging.
This new edition provides a good exposure to the multidisciplinary nature of the subject and deals with various life supporting systems, their ecological aspects and effects on the sustenance of life, covering the bio-geochemical cycles in sufficient detail.Useful for courses taught in departments of science and environment, biotechnology and chemical engineering, the text presents an overview of important aspects of air and water pollution, especially the effects of industrial activities on pollution.Chapters seven and eight, which are new to this edition, discuss chemical toxicology, and waste management _ an area of great importance today. Key Features: ·Discusses catastrophic depletion of oxygen and molecular mechanisms on mutagenesis, and their overall impact on the environment · Analyzes the quantification of pollutants through microbiological and biochemical techniques; eutro-phication level and its impact on Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD) and Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD). · Explains the role and implication of some less common pollutants such as metals, mines, and polymers.
This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the similarities and differences of contemporary human resource management systems, processes and practices in the two increasingly important economic great powers in Asia. It covers the full range of human resource management activities, including recruitment, retention, performance management, renumeration, and career development, discusses changing industrial relations systems, and sets the subject in its historical, social and cultural contexts. It examines newly emerging strategies, and asssesses the extent to which human resource management systems in the two countries are coverging or diverging.
This is the FOURTH PARTpart of the six part saga titled "NOTHING BUT!" and subtitled 'LOVE HAS NO RELIGION.' it is the story of the Indian Subcontinent and what people had to go through after India and Pakistan became two independent separate nations and about the Princely state of Kashmir which has become the biggest bone of contention between the two new nations, and which led to three bitter wars and also heralded the birth of a new nation called Bangladesh. The political turmoil in India, Pakistan and the Bangladesh and the advent of commmunal political parties in India. .
Set in the picturesque city of Shimla, Simran and Anurag attend a symposium around the same time. Their excitement knows no bounds, but the only worrying factor is the winter in the hills. A chance meeting with Anurag’s Professor in college leads to a renewed connect, and memories of his late grandfather become fresh. Embarking on their journey by train, they meet a lot of elderly people. Throughout their stay, they happen to meet another geriatric couple trying to make ends meet, who introduce them to similar greying people. Stay for Little More Days oscillates between the present and the past, finding similies and weaving it into the fabric of time.
The book provides an analytic framework for grand strategy and applies the framework to illuminate the grand strategies of the Great Powers of the twenty-first century: India, China, Russia, and the United States. The book also uses Coca-Cola as a case study to illustrate the potential influence of grand strategy on business strategy. The analysis is rigorous, logical, fact-based, historically rooted, and well-sourced with abundant endnotes to encourage further exploration by readers.
Addressing the bilateral economic relations between India and the Gulf Cooperation Council in the face of massive energy consumption increases, this analysis argues that the evolving pattern of energy-related links will act as a stimulant and boost these relations. This volume cites India's trajectory and importance, explaining that Asia’s burgeoning demand for oil and gas is a crucial factor in the current world energy market and has occupied center stage in the contemporary discourse on global energy security.
This book presents power system analysis methods that cover all aspects of power systems operation, utilization, control, and system management. At the beginning of each chapter, an introduction is given describing the objectives of the chapter. The authors have attempted to present power system parameters in a lucid, logical, step-by-step approach in a lucid, logical, step-by-step approach. In recognition of requirements by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) on integration of engineering computer tools, the authors demonstrate the use of MATLAB® programming in obtaining solutions to engineering power problems. MATLAB is introduced in a student-friendly manner and follow up is given in Appendix A. The use of MATLAB and power system applications arepresented throughout the book. Practice problems immediately follow each illustrative example. Students can follow the example step-by-step to solve the practice problems. These practice problems test students’ comprehension and reinforce key concepts before moving on to the next chapter. In each chapter, the authors discuss some application aspects of the chapter's concepts using computer programming. The material covered in the chapter applied to at least one or two practical problems to help students see how the concepts are used in real-life situations. Thoroughly worked examples are provided at the end of every section. These examples give students a solid grasp of the solutions and the confidence to solve similar problems themselves. Designed for a three-hour semester course on Power System Operation, Utilization, and Control, this book is intended as a textbook for a senior-level undergraduate student in electrical and computer engineering. The prerequisites for a course based on this book are knowledge of standard mathematics, including calculus and complex numbers and basic undergraduate engineering courses.
This textbook provides an excellent focus on the advanced topics of the power system protection philosophy and gives exciting analysis methods and a cover of the important applications in the power systems relaying. Each chapter opens with a historical profile or career talk, followed by an introduction that states the chapter objectives and links the chapter to the previous ones, and then the introduction for each chapter. All principles are presented in a lucid, logical, step-by-step approach. As much as possible, the authors avoid wordiness and detail overload that could hide concepts and impede understanding. In each chapter, the authors present some of the solved examples and applications using a computer program. Toward the end of each chapter, the authors discuss some application aspects of the concepts covered in the chapter using a computer program. In recognition of requirements by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) on integrating computer tools, the use of SCADA technology is encouraged in a student-friendly manner. SCADA technology using the Lucas-Nulle GmbH system is introduced and applied gradually throughout the book. Practice problems immediately follow each illustrative example. Students can follow the example step by step to solve the practice problems without flipping pages or looking at the book's end for answers. These practice problems test students' comprehension and reinforce key concepts before moving on to the next section. Power System Protection and Relaying: Computer-Aided Design Using SCADA Technology is intended as a textbook for a senior-level undergraduate student in electrical and computer engineering departments and is appropriate for graduate students, industry professionals, researchers, and academics. The book has more than ten categories and millions of power readers. It can be used in more than 400 electrical engineering departments at top universities worldwide. Based on this information, targeted lists of the engineers from specific disciplines include the following: Electrical, computer, power control, technical power system, protection, design, and distribution engineers Designed for a three–hours semester course on "power system protection and relaying," the prerequisite for a course based on this book are knowledge of standard mathematics, including calculus and complex numbers.
This book provides an original account detailing the origins and components of a faith-based accounting system that was founded around 629 CE. By examining the historical development that the accounting systems underwent within the context of faith-based rules and values, the book explains what is meant by the term “faith-based accounting”, together with a discussion of its characteristics in relation to various product structures and the underlying Islamic finance principles. It provides important theoretical and practical contributions by explaining accounting as a value-based science rather than a value-free object or abstract. This book explores the way in which religious rules act as a directive for accounting and auditing practices in IFIs. Through which the concept of money and digital currency within the theory of money and how it is enacted in a faith-based context, amid differences of opinions among its actors, is examined. This is an important foundation to explain Islamic accounting and includes how this outcome would shape the faith-based view regarding the new phenomenon of digital currency (DC). Also featured is the concept of paper money within the theory of money and how it is enacted in a faith-based legal framework by identifying two core concepts of today’s Fiat money as being a single genus or multi-genera money. This book is not merely an academic work, nor is it a pure practitioner guide; rather, it is a robust work that combines both. It marries rigorous academic research and theories with practical industry experiences. The book provides a clear and concise guide to accounting in Islamic economics and finance and how Islamic financial institutions could meet the applicable faith-based rules in their accounting practices.
This book focuses on issues of governance and the nature and complexities of social transformation in India’s Northeast -- a ‘problem’ zone for policymakers -- particularly since the early 1990s. While governance is the thread that runs through the volume, the latter at one level addresses the challenges of governing in global times a region historically marked by acute violence, interethnic conflict and insurgency; and at another, traces macro changes in the very forms and technologies of governance. The essays in this volume point to how changing forms and technologies of governing insurgency, development and culture do not remain mere instruments of peace, but define the very nature and content of both peace and conflict and their interrelationship in the region. For the first time in the history of scholarship on the region, the three crucial issues of insurgency, development and culture have been analysed through the lens of governance. This volume, therefore, marks an important addition to the scholarship on the region.
The search for altenative, renewable sources of fuel and energy from plants, algae, and waste materials has catalyzed in recent years. With the growing interest in bioenergy development and production there has been increasing demand for a broad ranging introductory text in the field. Bioenergy: Principles and Practices provides an invaluable introduction to the fundamentals of bioenergy feedstocks, processing, and industry. Bioenergy provides readers with an understanding of foundational information on 1st, 2nd, and 3rd generation biofuels. Coverage spans from feedstock production of key energy sources such as grasses, canes, and woody plants through chemical conversion processes and industrial application. Each chapter provides a thorough description of fundamental concepts, definitions of key terms, case studies and practical examples and exercises. Bioenergy: Principles and Practices will be an essential resource for students, bioengineers, chemists, and industry personnel tying key concepts of bioenergy science to valuable real world application.
This book explores contesting identities, international politics, migration and democratic practices in the context of globalizing India. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research, it looks at one of the oldest migratory routes across a volatile region in eastern India which is fraught with violent claims of separate statehood. The book offers an account of how the ‘North Bengal’ region has acted as a gateway to migrant populations over time and points to why it must be understood as a shifting and liminal space through a study of Bodoland, Gorkhaland, Kamatapuri, Siliguri and the Greater Cooch Behar movements. It shows the region’s politics of identity or quest for homeland not as a means of compensating for the lack or absence of identity, but as an everyday practice of living that very absence, across borders and boundaries, without arriving at any definitive and stable identity, along with impacts and manifestations in democratic political processes. A major intervention in modern political theory – shedding new light on concepts such as home and homeland, space and self, sovereignty, nation-state, freedom and democracy – this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of political science, modern South Asian history, sociology and social anthropology, and migration and diaspora studies.
DesOps aka. DesignOps is the next-wave in design and is about defining a culture improved work practices and communication among different roles associated in any enterprise product / service lifecycle. DesOps, as a service design model, compliments DevOps in the concepts of cultural shift, collaboration and process automation to make a full-circle in product lifecycle to deliver delights to the end-users and customers. The DesOps Enterprise is more than a belief system (like the Open Organization or the Agile Organization), that takes strength from the foundation of DesOps. The DesOps Enterprise is about how to empower the enterprise or the organization with the right culture, processes and eco-systems to support design-driven process and data-driven decision making with agility and speed to conceptualize and deliver great products.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Distributed Computing, IWDC 2003, held in Kolkata, India in December 2003. The 32 revised full papers presented together with five invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 105 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on distributed algorithms, internetworking and web, parallel and distributed systems, wireless and mobile networking, ad-hoc and sensor networks, learning and optimization, and optical networking
This new edition provides a good exposure to the multidisciplinary nature of the subject and deals with various life supporting systems, their ecological aspects and effects on the sustenance of life, covering the bio-geochemical cycles in sufficient detail.Useful for courses taught in departments of science and environment, biotechnology and chemical engineering, the text presents an overview of important aspects of air and water pollution, especially the effects of industrial activities on pollution.Chapters seven and eight, which are new to this edition, discuss chemical toxicology, and waste management _ an area of great importance today. Key Features: ·Discusses catastrophic depletion of oxygen and molecular mechanisms on mutagenesis, and their overall impact on the environment · Analyzes the quantification of pollutants through microbiological and biochemical techniques; eutro-phication level and its impact on Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD) and Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD). · Explains the role and implication of some less common pollutants such as metals, mines, and polymers.
The innovation ecosystem around the world is getting clogged up. Looking around us, there are numerous problems like polluted cities, obesity, health care, access to education, water supply and the list goes on. Sadly, much of the technology being built even in leading startup ecosystems around the world is short-sighted and focused on quick profitability rather than solving problems that millions face on a daily basis. This book is a call to return to basics and focus on innovation around actual problems that the normal person faces in his life around the world. We present a systematic approach to building early stage technology companies. We provide a collection of experiential decision frameworks that draw their academic credentials from design thinking, operational research, business strategy and microeconomics. We do not believe in generic advice. We enable entrepreneurs to figure out the strategies and tactics that would work for them in their local context for the specific problem that they are trying to solve. Subsequently, we outline more strategic information on understanding the suitability of the business model to the local innovation ecosystem and ways to scale with finance. We conclude the book with philosophical thoughts on our observations of the role of the entrepreneur in our economic system and the motivations of building a technology startup.
In order to further its own national interests, the United States should strive to engage Iran in a dialogue that would lead to détente and a normalization of relations. There are five major areas in which the national interests of the United States and Iran clearly converge: stabilizing Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon; countering terrorism; curbing drug trafficking, particularly with respect to opium and heroin; enhancing energy security by promoting the expansion of oil and gas production; and ensuring the free flow of Arabian Gulf oil. There are, of course, two critical areas where the perceived interests of the two countries diverge: the resolution of the long-running Israeli–Palestinian dispute and the possible development of an Iranian nuclear weapons capability. The five areas of converging interests involve pressing and urgent concerns that can and should be addressed in private, bilateral talks. For both the United States and Iran, engagement can be mutually beneficial and not simply a zero-sum game. Among the greatest challenges to the vital national interests of the United States are fundamentalist terrorism bent on reviving an Islamic Caliphate, and a rising China determined to displace America as Asia’s preeminent power. Confrontation with Iran would not only distract the United States from dealing with these challenges, but also weaken it. Engagement, on the other hand, holds the prospect of gaining Iranian cooperation in stabilizing Iraq and Afghanistan, thereby facilitating an orderly exit from those countries. It would also encourage Iranian cooperation in stabilizing Lebanon, thereby avoiding a possible US entanglement in that country. Engagement would help address the challenge of the growing global demand for energy, both by developing Iran’s oil and gas reserves and by encouraging the use of alternative energy sources such as nuclear power. Engagement would also ensure the free flow of oil through the Arabian Gulf. Finally, with engagement, even if the ultimate result is the emergence of a nuclear-armed Iran, the United States has the opportunity to influence the rise of Iran as a regional power, just as it has with China and, now increasingly, with India. In short, engagement with Iran, with the goal of normalization of relations and détente, will further the vital national interests of the United States.
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