In "POCSO Compass: Nurturing Safe Childhoods and Shielding Innocence," readers embark on a crucial journey through the intricate landscape of child sexual abuse prevention in India. The preface sets the stage, revealing the omnipresent issue and the powerful shield that is the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012. The book unravels the Act's complexities, from jurisdiction to medical examinations, tackling challenges head-on.Legal professionals, activists, e...

Real World AI for Reliable and Profitable EPC Projects is not another technology manual—it is a bridge between engineering reality and the intelligence revolution.Through global case insights from solar, semiconductor, battery, data centre, petrochemical, and infrastructure projects, the book translates complex AI concepts into clear, actionable frameworks. Each chapter connects real data, real people, and real outcomes—empowering engineers, planners, leaders and educators to apply ...

Non-thermal Processing of Major Food Macromolecules provides comprehensive knowledge on state-of-the-art approaches utilized to process foods and/or modify their physicochemical structural – along with the technofunctional attributes of food macromolecules (i.e., protein, starch, lipids) – through novel non-thermal processing techniques. Sections explore the impact of non-thermal processing on proteins, starches, and on lipids and present the challenges for the food application of non-ther...

The book analyses mental health, well-being, and their interdependence through Indian perspectives. It offers critical insights on mastering wellness, stress, and coping, suffering and healing, and achieving work-life balance.Describing key concepts of the Indian philosophical thought with contemporary implications, the volume focuses on explaining the how mental health and mental well-being are correlated. It examines the dynamic interplay of biological, social, psychological, eco...

This book examines media psychology as a field of study and provides a fundamental understanding of its emergence and application. It covers various key themes such as consumer behavior, mass media and advertising, media and culture, media messages and their effects on individual and group behavior in the Indian context. It highlights the role of media psychology with reference to citizenship and pedagogy and studies the emerging concept of digital altruism. The author also discusses vario...

Current Trends and Future Developments on (Bio-) Membranes: Reverse and Forward Osmosis: Principles, Applications, Advances covers the important aspects of RO, FO and their combination in integrated systems, along with their specific and well-established applications. The book offers an overview of recent developments in the field of forward and reverse osmosis and their applications in water desalination, wastewater treatment, power generation and food processing. General principles, memb...

LOVE ON THE DOOR OF DEATH – A Heart-Wrenching Tale of Love & FateA renowned oncologist (cancer specialist) falls in love with a young woman battling leukemia, knowing she has only 40-45 days left to live.But destiny has more in store—how does he uncover the truth about her engagement? What ultimately happens to her? And how does this tragic love story shape him into the No.1 oncologist?Find the answers in LOVE ON THE DOOR OF DEATH—a story t...

A unique tool for teaching and learning the top 100 most teachable topics in internal medicineThere are many challenges for residents when training students who are making the big "jump" from preclinical to clinical. Most notably, they need to find time to pick and prepare topics to teach in meaningful ways without the availability of a blackboard in the learning hospital. Students also need to quickly be able to grasp these concepts quickly and with the a...

In this book, the relationship between financial decision-making and chronic regulatory focus is explored to provide a better understanding of consumer decisions. Financial decisions are modelled on the basis of assets and portfolios sensitive to particular regulatory foci. Studies in the book test whether participants select assets/portfolios that conform to their respective foci. In addition, given that gender, age and education can shape financial decisions, further hypotheses are put f...

Explore deep learning applications, such as computer vision, speech recognition, and chatbots, using frameworks such as TensorFlow and Keras. This book helps you to ramp up your practical know-how in a short period of time and focuses you on the domain, models, and algorithms required for deep learning applications. Deep Learning with Applications Using Python covers topics such as chatbots, natural language processing, and face and object recognition. The goal is to equip you wit...

Advances in Membrane Technologies for Water Treatment: Materials, Processes and Applications provides a detailed overview of advanced water treatment methods involving membranes, which are increasingly seen as effective replacements for a range of conventional water treatment methods. The text begins with reviews of novel membrane materials and advances in membrane operations, then examines the processes involved with improving membrane performance. Final chapters cover the application of ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Communications and Network Computing, UBICNET 2021, held in March 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually.The 17 full papers were selected from 59 submissions and are basically arranged in different sessions on 5G networks, millimeter wave communication systems and emerging applications; quantum communication, IoT and emerging applications; data analytics and clo...