This story of two couples, Manikanta-Swathi and Aj-DD, is a mix of real and fictional stories happening across two different locations and ending with a common goal.Aj and DD are a very happy couple who have fallen in love during their college days; Manikanta and Swathi have an orthodox, arranged marriage. The story is about how they meet each other.The author of this book believes that any relationship comes up with pure love by understanding each other despite numerous misu...

This book discusses different approaches for successful pest-management through biotechnological interventions. Pest management is directly associated with the agricultural productivity. The book introduces the reader to various kinds of biopesticides that have been developed and are being developed for field application. Chemical pesticides have been widely used to control pests, and these induce pesticide resistance as well as other environmental problems. This book discusses the necessi...

Reviews developments in understanding and protecting genetic diversity in rice, and how this translates into marker-assisted and other developments in breeding;Discusses advances in breeding varieties with enhanced properties such as high yield and drought tolerance;Summarises current research on understanding and improving nutritional properties such as vitamin and mineral content

This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of current achievements and future possibilities for the application of epigenetic and epigenomic techniques to the improvement of crops. Creating crops more resilient to the stresses caused by climate change will be an important part of a climate-smart and sustainable agriculture strategy for the future. All critical environmental stressors are explored: temperature, salt, drought, pollutants, pests, fungi, bacteria, and viruses. The exciting...

Marine Paleobiodiversity presents a concise history, development and current status of paleobiodiversity research, thus forming a reference work for beginners, graduates and postgraduates, who are interested in this subject and intend venture into serious research. This book provides a link-reference between text book and highly-specialized journal articles, and so will be valuable for a wide audience of geologists and climatologists. - Presents studies on the human environmental impacts i...

Dialect Accent Features for Establishing Speaker Identity: A Case Study discusses the subject of forensic voice identification and speaker profiling. Specifically focusing on speaker profiling and using dialects of the Hindi language, widely used in India, the authors have contributed to the body of research on speaker identification by using accent feature as the discriminating factor.This case study contributes to the understanding of the speaker identification process i...

Cretaceous Sea Level Rise delves into the question of whether the observed short-term sea-level changes are regional (tectonic) or global (eustatic) and determines their possible relation to climate cycles; to assess the role of feedback mechanisms, i.e. thermal expansion/contraction of seawater, subsidence due to loading by water, changing vegetation of the Earth System and to investigate the relation of sea-level highs and lows to ocean anoxia and oxidation events, represented by black s...

Digital Collection Metadata Strategies examines comprehensive approaches to organizing, describing, and providing access to digital resources through effective metadata practices. This resource explores metadata frameworks, standards, and implementation methodologies essential for digital collections. Coverage addresses Dublin Core, METS, structural metadata, and preservation metadata essentials. Topics include metadata creation workflows, quality assurance, controlled vocabularies, and se...

How do you greet someone in Hindi? What’s the Hindi word for socks? With this book, curious kids can find out! Packed with culturally specific photos and boasting a vibrant design, this simple, inviting beginner's guide helps elementary readers learn basic words and phrases in Hindi.

Holi is about celebrating the triumph over good and evil. It is also a celebration of love. It is a Hindu holiday. People have a bonfire to represent the story of Prahlad and Holika. They also gather in the streets to throw colored paint on one another and have a big feast. Readers will discover how a shared holiday can have multiple traditions and be celebrated in all sorts of ways.

This book focuses on protocols and constructions that make good use of the building blocks for symmetric cryptography. The book brings under one roof, several esoteric strategies of utilizing symmetric cryptographic blocks. The specific topics addressed by the book include various key distribution strategies for unicast, broadcast and multicast security and strategies for constructing efficient digests of dynamic databases using binary hash trees.

You’ve worked hard. Achieved success. Earned respect.Yet a quiet question remains: Is this all there is?In a world driven by speed and status, Ten Rings of Life Leadership offers a path back to wholeness. Blendingtimeless spiritual wisdom with real-life leadership experience, it presents ten interconnected rings — frompurpose and spirituality to resilience, relationships, financial independence, and conscious creation.Each ring builds upon the next, guidi...