This unique and practical book describes 42 real-life events and/or situations in the careers of the three authors from which they gained insights into the applicable best practices in maintenance and reliability. The authors explain the underlying philosophies where relevant, drawing on the teachings of the leading thinkers in leadership and management. Designed to share knowledge and experience with the readers, in a readily accessible fashion, this resource does not tell the readers wha...

Provides a risk reduction model which links maintenance to these risks.Enables readers to make the link between maintenance on one hand and safety, profitability, and asset life on the other.Examines risks faced during the life cycle of a process plant.Discusses a high cost, high downtime maintenance activity, namely plant shutdowns.Provides an in-depth look at qualitative and quantitative risks.Includes a table of codes that can be u...

Over the years the interpretation of scriptures has been ritualistic, divisive and worse, in the recent past, bordering on commercialization. As a result the analytical and rationale seeking modern mind has remained disinterested with the subject and reluctant to pursue the teachings contained therein. The true intent of the scriptures, on the other hand, is to help the mind tide over the ever existent turmoil within, through sensible teachings brought out in dialogues between inquisitive,...

Return to India is a brilliant and powerful memoir about what it means to be an immigrant in a foreign country and what propels immigrants to return to their homeland. Following in the tradition of her first book, Monsoon Diary: a memoir with recipes, award-winning author, Shoba Narayan explores themes of family, culture and identity.In vivid and heartfelt prose, Shoba Narayan describes the trajectory of her immigrant life?from the salty plains of South India to the high rises of N...

Set in the vibrant city of Suva, Fiji, this novel is a compelling tale of love, crime, and redemption. At its center is Day Marshall, a brilliant but tormented safecracker whose talent has led him down a path of crime. Torn between the thrill of the underworld and the weight of his past, he longs for a different life-one that seems just out of reach.His anchor in this chaos is Adelyn, a devoted nurse whose love for him is both her strength and her burden. Their relationship is a wh...

Text production has many applications. It is used, for instance, to generate dialogue turns from dialogue moves, verbalise the content of knowledge bases, or generate English sentences from rich linguistic representations, such as dependency trees or abstract meaning representations. Text production is also at work in text-to-text transformations such as sentence compression, sentence fusion, paraphrasing, sentence (or text) simplification, and text summarisation. This book offers an overv...

Brand building is a competitive advantage that organizations can leverage to multiply their value. Artificial intelligence (AI), is a recent phenomenon that enables organizations reduce errors, build efficiencies and increase profitability, thereby freeing their human capital to perform more intellectual tasks. This book presents the case for building brands effectively and optimally using AI, thereby enhancing the overall value of the organization.This book is ideal for entreprene...

From Haryana to Gujarat to Maharashtra, numerous Indian states have been witness to protests by backward classes pressing for quotas and reservations. In stark contrast is the exemplary case of Tamil Nadu, which has managed to effectively integrate economic and development agenda for the backward classes into state policy. In the fifty years of rule between them, M. Karunanidhi, MGR, and J. Jayalalithaa—the iconic leaders of Tamil Nadu politics—managed to effectively transform institutions...

The authentic Indian flavours we crave, given new life for the everyday home cook.Indian flavours have finally entered weeknight rotation.We all love the flavours of Indian food, but why aren't they as common in our cooking as soy sauce and tomato paste?Welcome to Everything is Indian, a joyous and delicious journey where Justin Narayan invites you to take his family recipes and do what you want with them. There are no rule...

Welcome to Patna in the early 2000s - a world without smartphones, where friendship was real, jokes were louder than lectures, and hostel life was a never-ending comedy show. The Middle Benchers follows a gang of carefree college boys through their unforgettable graduation days - from chaotic classrooms and midnight Maggi feasts to surprise inspections, movie outings at Mona Theatre, and the legendary hostel pranks that became campus folklore. Caught between dreams, deadlines, and endless ...

The elevator door opens. A cow stands inside, angled diagonally to fit. It doesn't look uncomfortable, merely impatient. "It is for the housewarming ceremony on the third floor," explains the woman who stands behind the cow, holding it loosely with a rope. She has the sheepish look of a person caught in a strange situation who is trying to act as normal as possible. She introduces herself as Sarala and smiles reassuringly. The door closes. I shake my head and suppress a grin. I...

Develop real-time practical DApps using Ethereum and JavaScriptKey Features\[\*\] Create powerful, end-to-end applications for Blockchain using Ethereum\[\*\] Write your first program using the Solidity programming language\[\*\] Change the way you think and design your applications by using the all new database-BlockchainBook DescriptionBlockchain is a decentralized ledger that maintains a continuously growing list of data r...