Social Work Fundamentals provides comprehensive introduction covering wide spectrum of topics from school-based interventions to labor market social work. Through detailed sections, readers gain insight into core social work functions including assessment, intervention planning, implementation, and evaluation. Whether used as classroom text, reference for early-career professionals, or continuing education resource, the material offers systematic coverage of foundational knowledge. Each ch...

The book looks into the recent advances in the ex-situ production routes and properties of aluminum and magnesium based metal matrix nanocomposites (MMNCs), produced either by liquid or semi-solid state methods. It comprehensively summarizes work done in the last 10 years including the mechanical properties of different matrix/nanoreinforcement systems. The book also addresses future research direction, steps taken and missing developments to achieve the full industrial exploitation of suc...

Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence for Predictive Maintenance in Industry 4.0 unites data science, machine learning, IIOT, and AI to enable predictive and prescriptive maintenance across manufacturing, energy, transportation, agriculture, and healthcare. With contributions from leading academics and practitioners, the book bridges foundational principles with cutting-edge industrial case studies ranging from digital twins and anomaly detection to federated learning and secure healt...

Sikhism's short but relatively eventful history provides a fascinating insight into the working of misunderstood and seemingly contradictory themes such as politics and religion, violence and mysticism, culture and spirituality, orality and textuality, public sphere versus private sphere, tradition and modernity. This book presents students with a careful analysis of these complex themes as they have manifested themselves in the historical evolution of the Sikh traditions and the encounter...

Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence for Predictive Maintenance in Industry 4.0 unites data science, machine learning, IIOT, and AI to enable predictive and prescriptive maintenance across manufacturing, energy, transportation, agriculture, and healthcare. With contributions from leading academics and practitioners, the book bridges foundational principles with cutting-edge industrial case studies ranging from digital twins and anomaly detection to federated learning and secure healt...

Sikhism, one of the major spiritual-philosophical traditions of India, is often missing from discussions of cross-cultural philosophy. In this introduction, Arvind-Pal Singh Mandair, an internationally acknowledged expert in Sikh studies, provides the first rigorous engagement in the West with Sikh philosophy.Sensitive both to the historical formation of Sikh thought, and to the decolonial context in which he writes, Mandair examines some of the key concepts of Sikh philosophy and ...

Strong militaries alone are not enough to secure a nation. A wide range of non-traditional issues-such as financial instability; food, water and health insecurities; energy shortages; organized crime; climate change; terrorism by non-state actors backed by a state; and technological disruptions-play a critical role. Yet, these often receive insufficient attention, as policymakers tend to treat them as secondary. This mindset must change, as old frameworks cannot address new challenges. Ope...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of hazardous areas containing explosive gases, vapors, and combustible dust. It also discusses about the different types of protection techniques used in explosion-proof electrical equipment. This book further provides guidance on how to deal with electrical explosions caused by fires due to arcs and sparks caused by a failure in the design, manufacture, selection, installation, or maintenance of electrical equipment. Among the topics covered in ...

This book contains current knowledge and the most recent developments in the field of halophyte biology, ecology, and potential uses. Halophytes are characterised as plants that can survive and complete their life cycle in highly saline environments. This book explores the adaptive mechanisms and special features of halophytes that allow them to grow in environments that are unsuitable for conventional crops and considers their role as a source of food, fuel, fodder, fibre, essential oils,...

श्री गुरू गोविंद सिंह हे शिखांचे दहावे आणि अंतिम 'देहधारी गुरू' होत. त्यांनी शिखांचा पवित्र धार्मिक ग्रंथ गुरू ग्रंथ साहिबचे संकलन आणि लिखाण केले. गुरू गोविंद सिंह यांचा आदेश: 'सब सिखन को हुकूम है, गुरू मान्यो ग्रंथ' (सर्व शिखांना असा हुकूम आहे की गुरू ग्रंथ साहिब लाच आपला गुरू माना). नांदेड शहरात गुरू गोविंद सिंह यांच्या समाधी वर बांधलेला गुरुद्वारा तख्त सचखंड श्री हुजूर अबचलनगर साहिब आहे. यामुळे नांदेडला शिखांची काशी असे म्हटले जाते. आजही पंजाबसह अनेक ठिकाणाहून शीख लोक नांदेडला गुरूद्वाऱ...

This book brings together new approaches to the study of Sikh religion, culture and ethnicity being pursued in the diaspora by Sikh academics in western universities in Britain and North America. An important aspect of the volume is the diversity of topics that are engaged - including film and gender theory, theology, hermeneutics, deconstruction, semiotics and race theory - and brought to bear on the individual contributors' specialism within Sikh studies, thereby helping to explode previ...

In this volume, veteran economist Arvind Panagariya compares two Prime Ministers' approach towards economic reforms-Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh. He shows how the Vajpayee government was almost relentless in pursuit of reforms and enacted them in all areas, save a few. In his opinion, along with Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao, Vajpayee 'must be credited with laying the foundation of the new India'.Vajpayee lost the parliamentary elections of May 2004, which led to the...