Springer India: 585 books
Cultures of Memory in South Asia
Orality, Literacy and the Problem of Inheritance
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Culture of Memory in South Asia reconfigures European representations of India as a paradigmatic extension of a classical reading, which posits the relation between text and context in a determined way. It explores the South Asian cultural response to European “textual” inheritances. The main...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015
The present volume is a compilation of research work in computation, communication, vision sciences, device design, fabrication, upcoming materials and related process design, etc. It is derived out of selected manuscripts submitted to the 2014 National Workshop on Advances in Communication and Computing...
Laser Physics and Technology
Proceedings of the School on Laser Physics & Technology, Indore, India, March 12-30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
The book, ‘Laser Physics and Technology’, addresses fundamentals of laser physics, representative laser systems and techniques, and some important applications of lasers. The present volume is a collection of articles based on some of the lectures delivered at the School on ‘Laser Physics and...
Corrosion of Constructional Steels in Marine and Industrial Environment
Frontier Work in Atmospheric Corrosion
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
The book entails investigative methods for better understanding of the degradation process and uses of high performance paints formulation and also compares them on mild steel (MS) and weathering steel (WS) through various AC/DC electrochemical test methods and surface characterization through electron...
Foreign Direct Investment in South Asia
Policy, Impact, Determinants and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
During the 1990s, the governments of South Asian countries acted as ‘facilitators’ to attract FDI. As a result, the inflow of FDI increased. However, to become an attractive FDI destination as China, Singapore, or Brazil, South Asia has to improve the local conditions of doing business. This...
Mathematics and Computing 2013
International Conference in Haldia, India
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
This book discusses recent developments and contemporary research in mathematics, statistics and their applications in computing. All contributing authors are eminent academicians, scientists, researchers and scholars in their respective fields, hailing from around the world. The conference has emerged...
by M. Radhakrishna Pillai, Oommen V. Oommen
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Being a complex disease that affects millions of people world over, cancer research has assumed great significance. Translational cancer research transforms scientific discoveries in the laboratory or population studies into clinical application to reduce incidence of cancer , morbidity and mortality....
by Meera Baindur
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Working within a framework of environmental philosophy and environmental ethics, this book describes and postulates alternative understandings of nature in Indian traditions of thought, particularly philosophy. The interest in alternative conceptualizations of nature has gained significance after...
by Pankaj Gupta, Sushma Sharma, Vijay Kumar Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
This book discusses the perception of disease, healing concepts and the evolution of traditional systems of healing in the Himalayas of Himachal Pradesh, India. The chapters cover a diverse range issues: people and knowledge systems, healing in ancient scriptures, concept of sacredness and faith healing,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
A common approach to understanding the functional repertoire of a genome is through functional genomics. With systems biology burgeoning, bioinformatics has grown to a larger extent for plant genomes where several applications in the form of protein-protein interactions (PPI) are used to predict the...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
The potassium solubilizing microorganisms (KSMs) are a rhizospheric microorganism which solubilizes the insoluble potassium (K) to soluble forms of K for plant growth and yield. K-solubilization is carried out by a large number of saprophytic bacteria (Bacillus mucilaginosus, B. edaphicus, B. circulans,...
Multiple Decrement Models in Insurance
An Introduction Using R
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
The book will serve as a guide to many actuarial concepts and statistical techniques in multiple decrement models and their application in calculation of premiums and reserves in life insurance products with riders and in pension and employee benefit plans as in these schemes, the benefit paid...
Legal Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility
Lessons from the United States and Korea
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
This book offers readers a comprehensive and in-depth legal analysis of corporate social responsibility (CSR) by examining the theoretical foundations of corporate governance and its legal mechanism in the United States and South Korea. Moreover, it proposes legislative blueprint for establishing...
Benchmarking for Performance Evaluation
A Production Frontier Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
This book provides a detailed introduction to the theoretical and methodological foundations of production efficiency analysis using benchmarking. Two of the more popular methods of efficiency evaluation are Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), both of which are...