V Kumar: 32 books
Public-Private Partnerships in Infrastructure
Managing the Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
The book provides readers with a clear understanding of infrastructure challenges, how Public‐Private Partnerships (PPP) can help, and their use in practice. Infrastructure bottlenecks are generally considered the most important constraint to growth in many countries worldwide. Historically, infrastructure...
The Institution of Lokpal in India
Exploring the Viability to Arrest Corruption
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
The book starts with an address to the issue of corruption and how it is drastically affecting the country. The Problem of the citizen's grievances had become accentuated in the past years as a result of several political, economic and social developments and a general deterioration in standards of...
by Shailendra Kumar, Sudhirkumar V Barai
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Cementitious materials, rocks and fibre-reinforced composites commonly termed as quasibrittle, need a different fracture mechanics approach to model the crack propagation study because of the presence of significant size of fracture process zone ahead of the crack-tip. Recent studies show that concrete...
Gowri
A Biographical Tale About a Spirited, Resilient Malaysian Indian Woman
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
This is a story about a womans exceptional courage, a mothers unconditional love, and a matriarchs uncompromising will to see her family survive against insurmountable odds. She was widowed at a young age with seven children to rear, and her biography narrates her life from a hapless childhood in...
by V. Pérez, Dr J. I. Hormaza, Dr Noris Ledesma
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Mangoes are one of the most important and widely-cultivated fruits in tropical as well as sub-tropical regions. There have been a number of recent developments with the potential to improve crop yields and quality. There has been new research in understanding the physiology of tree and fruit development...
Functional Equations and Inequalities
Solutions and Stability Results
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
This volume covers the topic in functional equations in a broad sense and is written by authors who are in this field for the past 50 years. It contains the basic notions of functional equations, the methods of solving functional equations, the growth of functional equations in the last four decades...
by V.G. Kumar Das
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Sent to investigate an international security alert, Inspector Zain, the protagonist investigator, unearths plans and conspiracies that intertwine to spell ethnic and religious discord in multiracial Malaysia, and create the environment for radicalized groups to assert their presence.
In the...
Modern Big Data Processing with Hadoop
Expert techniques for architecting end-to-end big data solutions to get valuable insights
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
A comprehensive guide to design, build and execute effective Big Data strategies using Hadoop
Key Features
-Get an in-depth view of the Apache Hadoop ecosystem and an overview of the architectural patterns pertaining to the popular Big Data platform
-Conquer different data processing and analytics...
by Lev M. Blinov, Tsuyoshi Kawai, Mikhail V. Kozlovsky
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2002
Wolfgang Knoll is a former Directory of Polymer research at the Max Planck Institute. He is extremely well know for his research in this area. Zouheir Sekkat was a Postdoctoral researcher at Max Planck working under Professor Knoll. With Knoll's involvement, we can be confident that the best people in this field will be contributing to the reference.
Wearable Sensors
Applications, design and implementation
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
With the ability to monitor a vast range of physiological parameters, combined with wireless technology, wireless sensor networks and the Internet of Things, wearable sensors are revolutionising the field of digital health monitoring. In addition to applications in health monitoring, such technology...
by P. V. S Rao, Sunil Kumar Kopparapu
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2018
This book discusses human–machine interactions, specifically focusing on making them as natural as human–human interaction. It is based on the premise that to get the right connect between human and machines, it is essential to understand not only the behavior of the person interacting with the...
Crosstalk in Modern On-Chip Interconnects
A FDTD Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
The book provides accurate FDTD models for on-chip interconnects, covering most recent advancements in materials and design. Furthermore, depending on the geometry and physical configurations, different electrical equivalent models for CNT and GNR based interconnects are presented. Based on the electrical...
by V. Sanjay Kumar
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
I can see where you are going. Up shit creek...with a paddle.' He was right. That is where I was going. It was the kind of thing that my analyst had always warned me against: 'You are at an inflexion point in a mood to do the irrational and the irreverent.' He forgot irreversible. Harsh Sinha - 'Fat...
Iatrogenicity
Causes and Consequences of Iatrogenesis in Cardiovascular Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Iatrogenesis is the occurrence of untoward effects resulting from actions of health care providers, including medical errors, medical malpractice, practicing beyond one’s expertise, adverse effects of medication, unnecessary treatment, inappropriate screenings, and surgical errors. This is a huge...