This book addresses fundamental concepts and practical implementations in cloud computing environments, focusing on load balancing and resource management. As cloud computing's popularity grows, expertise in infrastructure management is crucial for delivering flawless subscription-based services and hosted data solutions. The book presents novel models for cloud resource management to improve operational efficiency through better virtual machine (VM) placements. Beginning with task schedul...

Cloud computing offers subscription-based on-demand services, and it has emerged as the backbone of the computing industry. It has enabled us to share resources among multiple users through virtualization, which creates a virtual instance of a computer system running in an abstracted hardware layer. Unlike early distributed computing models, it offers virtually limitless computing resources through its large scale cloud data centers. It has gained wide popularity over the past few years, w...

This book covers several futuristic computing technologies like quantum computing, quantum-dot cellular automata, DNA computing, and optical computing. In turn, it explains them using examples and tutorials on a CAD tool that can help beginners get a head start in QCA layout design. It discusses research on the design of circuits in quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) with the objectives of obtaining low-complexity, robust designs for various arithmetic operations. The book also investigat...

Innovative Nanotechnology: Transforming Skin Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment, Volume 169 in the Advances in Cancer Research series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors. Chapters in this new release include an Introduction to Nanotechnology in Dermatology, Basics of Skin Cancer: Types, Diagnosis, and Current Challenges, Current Challenges in Skin Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment, Nanocarriers fo...

Conservation, Sustainability, and Environmental Justice in India highlights the environmental challenges that India faces, largely due to high population and limited natural resources, and discusses the gap between the intent of environmental policies and the actualization of those policies. Contributors posit that the protection of the environment poses a fundamental challenge to the nation’s desire to industrialize and develop more quickly, arguing that the conservation of biodiversity, ...

The effects of climate change on food production and security are many and varied and represent one of the biggest challenges facing humanity today. As the human population increases there is increasing pressure on land availability and water resources. In many staple crops, warming temperatures have caused decreases in overall yields but at the same time the demand for cheaper and more sustainable food has increased. This edited volume examines the effects of climate change on all aspects...

The word doyennes signifies the various expressions of female, feminine, and feminist aspects of contemporary literature in India, through multiple theoretical frameworks. Contemporary Women’s Writing in India is an edited collection dealing with a range of these issues set in the society of Indian culture. Indian women’s literature is still a fertile ground for critical enquiry. There are three sections in the collection: Section I deals with specific instances in history, historical cons...

The book offers cutting-edge insights into AI-driven optimization algorithms and their crucial role in enhancing real-time applications within fog and Edge IoT networks and addresses current challenges and future opportunities in this rapidly evolving field.This book focuses on artificial intelligence-induced adaptive optimization algorithms in fog and Edge IoT networks. Artificial intelligence, fog, and edge computing, together with IoT, are the next generation of...

Climate change and population growth have led to a global need for improved crop plants that are resistant/tolerant to climate-induced stresses and provide greater yields. This book comprehensively and coherently reviews the various aspects of "omics" research methods as they apply to crop plant improvement, including genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, epiomics, ionomics, and interomics. These multiple-omics approaches to crop science have already played an important role...

This volume examines Indian states as analytical units, culminating in a comprehensive sociopolitical study of the country as a whole. The state-specific essays underline the federal context in which politics in India unfolds at the ground level.Employing a federalist and centrist analytical prism, this book aims to add to the existing body of work on state politics, with a particular focus on India in the last decade, which has shown visible shifts in political terms. It delineate...

Grain legumes are characterised by their nutritional value, an ability to grow rapidly and improve soil health. This makes them a key rotation crop in promoting food security. However, yields are constrained by factors such as pests and diseases as well as vulnerability to poor soils, drought and other effects of climate change.This collection reviews the wealth of research addressing these challenges. Volume 2 assesses key research on particular types of grain legume with chapters...

Revolutionize your approach to environmental protection with this groundbreaking resource, which details how to replace labor-intensive manual analysis with deep learning and explainable AI (XAI) to achieve precise, real-time identification and scalable monitoring of microplastic pollution.AI-driven microplastic monitoring sits at the intersection of environmental science, artificial intelligence, and data analytics, representing a rapidly developing frontier in bo...