This book explains the contribution of engineering and technical skills in safeguarding public health during humanitarian crisis caused due to natural calamities or man- made disasters such as armed conflicts. Humanitarian crisis is more complex in urban settings that puts greater population at health risk due to epidemic disease breakout. Here we discussed the role of well-trained engineers who are specialist in water, sanitation, energy supply and environment. This book explains the link...

The demand of electrical energy is increasing day-by-day, but the world is going through shortage of conventional energy sources. Hence the entire world is now interested in alternative source of energy among which solar PV energy is best alternative to generate electricity. It has long life compared to wind energy due to absence of rotating parts. The solar energy cannot be used directly since we get only DC, but our appliances work on AC. Thus, it requires a special converter called inve...

From The Anklets of a Homemaker is a collection of one forty micro poems, written by Subhashini. Filled with art work, the collection of poems in this book speak about the emotions, desire, happiness, love, sorrow and death that are inherently woven into our life and nature.

This book is a start to end guide on all HR processes right from hiring to attrition of the resource. Each chapter is designed with easy to follow explanations and real life scenarios to help HR professionals get an in-depth understanding of HR analytics. You will start with various hiring strategies and identifying the right resource to onboard for your organization. You will then move on to exploring different learning and development plans to enrich the skillset of the resources and cha...

Perform cloud-based machine learning and deep learning using Amazon Web Services such as SageMaker, Lex, Comprehend, Translate, and PollyKey FeaturesExplore popular machine learning and deep learning services with their underlying algorithmsDiscover readily available artificial intelligence(AI) APIs on AWS like Vision and Language ServicesDesign robust architectures to enable experimentation, extensibility, and maintainability of AI apps

Shivani returns to the heart of Mumbai after a decade of ruling New York as a banker. But who can she count on when a sudden intruder enters her house?Seema’s childhood nanny from Jaipur visits her in Singapore: 50-year-old Mamta massi who has watched her grow. What can a new country do to a loyal simpleton?Twin sisters Ahana and Sahana are oceans apart for the first time in their lives, one in Delhi and the other in London. And both are expecting babies in the same month. ...

Blissful MomentsAn anthology that beautiful covers the blissful moments of short stories, poetries and unexpressed open letters written by 26 co authors who explicitly have given their mindblowing writeups under the theme of happiness, positivity, everlasting memories and unsaid moments. The spirt of positive vibration never let the 26 writers in stopping for their passionCompiled by Deepika Kathiresan & Subhashini Balan

Palani Murugan Temple, nestled in the township of Palani, is one of India's most revered Murugan temples and a significant Arupadaiveedu of Lord Muruga. According to legend, a divine contest for a mango of wisdom given by Sage Narada led to Lord Ganesha winning the prize by declaring his parents, Shiva and Shakti, as his universe. Feeling deceived, Lord Murugan retreated to Palani Hill, establishing his abode there. This tale underscores themes of wisdom, devotion, and the profound love wi...

The story Gold Chain is about a middle class family which prides itself for its ability to judge and justify every action of any individual with confidence and command. Sometimes people and times may not remain constant and we need to accept all that which happens in our lives with grit and hardiness.Revelation follows the life of a staunch moralist who rigidly believes that his convictions are correct and the world would accept his dictum as final. Fate has it when he realises a forgone t...

Get the most out of MongoDB using a problem-solution approach. This book starts with recipes on the MongoDB query language, including how to query various data structures stored within documents. These self-contained code examples allow you to solve your MongoDB problems without fuss.MongoDB Recipes describes how to use advanced querying in MongoDB, such as indexing and the aggregation framework. It demonstrates how to use the Compass function, a GUI client interacting wit...

Apply analytics to business problems using two very popular software tools, SAS and R. No matter your industry, this book will provide you with the knowledge and insights you and your business partners need to make better decisions faster.Learn Business Analytics in Six Steps Using SAS and R teaches you how to solve problems and execute projects through the "DCOVA and I" (Define, Collect, Organize, Visualize, Analyze, and Insights) process. You no longer need to choose bet...

Work with Apache Spark using Scala to deploy and set up single-node, multi-node, and high-availability clusters. This book discusses various components of Spark such as Spark Core, DataFrames, Datasets and SQL, Spark Streaming, Spark MLib, and R on Spark with the help of practical code snippets for each topic. Practical Apache Spark also covers the integration of Apache Spark with Kafka with examples. You’ll follow a learn-to-do-by-yourself approach to learning – learn the concept...