Conflicts, Religion and Culture in Tourism highlights the role of religious tourism and pilgrimage as a tool for improving cultural relations. Helping to form culture and society worldwide, faith plays a vital part in cross-cultural conflict resolution and opening dialogue across peoples. This book shows how faith and activism can respond to the common challenges of peace making and coexistence both within and among the world's many traditions. The book: - contains diverse empirical resear...

Modern food habits, vis-a-vis lifestyle, has started taking its toll in the form of obesity, depression, auto-immune diseases, spondylosis, arthritis, cardiac disorders, insomnia, cancer, diabetes, hypercholesterolemia, osteoporosis and many other ailments. Keeping pace with the demand for lifestyle food, food companies are producing more and more synthetic food or processed food. This is one dimensional food, i.e. food for food's sake. We are on the verge of forgetting that food has other ...

The book provides essential insights into cutting-edge networking technologies that not only enhance performance and efficiency but also address critical sustainability challenges in an increasingly connected world.The landscape of networking and computational technologies is rapidly evolving, driven by the increasing demand for efficient and sustainable resource management. The advent of next-generation technologies such as 5G and 6G has marked a significant leap ...

This comprehensive volume offers a cutting-edge examination of high-throughput and label-free analysis techniques, showcasing their transformative impact on biomedical, pharmaceutical, and materials research. By bridging historical context with the latest technological advances, the book provides a detailed overview of how high-throughput screening (HTS)—once limited to synthetic compound assays—has evolved into a powerful, label-free platform capable of probing biological phenomena at the...

This Taylor & Francis, CRC Press volume contains the papers presented at the International Conference on Emerging Trends in Intelligent Computing Techniques (ICETICT – 2024) held during 27th and 28th December 2024 organized by DRIEMS University, Tangi, Cuttack, Odisha, India. A lot of challenges at us and no words of appreciation is enough for the organizing committee who could still pull it off successfully. The conference draws the excellent technical keynote talk and many papers. The ke...

This book covers aspects of data science and predictive analytics used in the oil and gas industry by looking into the challenges of data processing and data modelling unique to this industry. It includes upstream management, intelligent/digital wells, value chain integration, crude basket forecasting, and so forth. It further discusses theoretical, methodological, well-established, and validated empirical work dealing with various related topics. Special focus has been given to experiment...

This book contains the papers presented at the First International Conference on Innovations in Intelligent Computing and Communication, ICIICC 2021, held in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, in December, 2022.The 31 full papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. They are divided in three tracks with the following topics: Intelligent Computing; Communications; and Machine Learning and Data Analytics.

This book discusses automated computing systems which are mostly powered by intelligent technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, image recognition, speech processing, cloud computing, etc., to perform complex automated tasks which are not possible by traditional computing systems. The chapters are extended version of research works presented at first Ph.D. Research Symposium in various advanced technologies used in the field of computer science. This book provides an op...