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Soft cover. Condition: As New. Contents: 1. The first variation of the integral. 2. The second variation of the integral. 3. Sufficient conditions for an extremum of the integral. 4. Weierstrass s theory of the problem in parameter representation. 5. Kneser s theory. 6. Weierstrass s theory of the isoperimetric problems. 7. Hilbert s existence theorem. Index. An understanding of variational methods, the source of such fundamental theorems as the principle of least action and its various generalizations, is essential to the study of mathematical physics and applied mathematics. In this highly regarded text, the author develops the calculus of variations both for its own intrinsic interest and because of its wide and powerful applications to modern mathematical physics. The purpose of this text is to lay a broad foundation for an understanding of the problems of the calculus of variations and its many methods and techniques, and to prepare readers for the study of modern optimal control theory. The treatment is limited to a thorough discussion of single-integral problems in one or more unknown functions, where the integral is problems in one or more unknown functions, where the integral is employed in the Riemannian sense. This book, which includes many strategically placed problems, is directed to advanced undergraduate and graduate students with a background in advanced calculus and intermediate differential equations, and is adaptable to either a one-or two semester course on the subject.

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Preface. Module 1: 1. Environment and ecosystem. 2. Impact of human activities on environment. Module 2: 3. Natural resources. 4. Energy resources. Module 3: 5. Environmental pollution. 6. Global environmental issues. Module 4: 7. Global environmental issues. 8. Waste management. Module 5: 9. GIS and remote sensing. 10. Environmental legislation and education. Advanced chapter. 11. Indian geology. Index. Salient Features: The language of the book is simple with suitable sketches throughout to illustrate the subject matter clearly. The questions, which are important along with answers from the student s point of view, have been given at the end of each chapter. Model question papers have been included at the end of the book to answer by the students themselves.

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Introduction. 1. The techniques of pest control. 2. The ammunition of pest control. 3. An ounce of prevention. 4. Animal pests in gardens. 5. Some general garden pests. 6. Pests of tree fruits. 7. Pests of small fruits. 8. Pests of vegetables. 9. Your plants friends. 10. Possible health Hazards in your garden. Index. Many people are concerned about the use of chemicals to control various pests, especially where children or pets are concerned, and are turning to natural solutions to solve this age old problem. The truth is apart from the possible long term health problems, modern factory farming and chemical pesticides are actually less effective in the long term to organic gardening. With pest control in the home and garden, nature provides all the solutions if you know where to look. This book will teach you everything you need to know to not only protect your home and garden from pests but to also protect home, garden and food from pesticides. The solution calls not for involved texts heavily fortified with scientific data, but for simple, direct treatment of the homely every day problems of the amateur. The language should be that of the layman, for it is the layman, who can give at most only one or two daylight hours to the garden, with whom we are concerned. He is encompassed by new and strange experiences and by problems which he cannot tell to come back next week. It is a condition and not a theory that confronts him. There is something very direct and tangible and threatening about a Mexican Bean Beetle or a case of Brown Rot. The gardener must know what to do and at once.

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: 1. Mathematical operations. 2. Percentage. 3. Equations. 4. Lengths, areas, and volumes. 4. Lengths, areas and volumes (cont.). 5. Ratio and proportion. 6. The right triangle and trigonometry. 7. Averages. 8. Graphs. 9. Special applications of practical measurements. 9. Special applications of practical measurements (cont.). 10. Exponents, logarithms the slide rule. Index. The primary intent of Mathematics in Agriculture is to provide a relevant review of basic arithmetic, statistical interpretation, and algebraic concepts to prepare students for mathematics involved in other agriculture and horticulture courses. However, the book would readily lend itself for use as a general math text in an agricultural curriculum. The application problems use current and realistic agricultural situations similar to those encountered by professionals engagedin agriculturally related occupations and industries. Because the math skills requited in solving problems in the text range from the very simple to the more challenging, the book can be adapted to various grade levels. Math plays an important part in everyone s it mandatory that workers in agricultural occupations have skills in the analysis and solution of mathematical problems. A prominent unit on using both the English and metric systems and making conversions from one system to the other is provided. (jacket).

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. This course is intended to introduce you to some of the most widely used experimental procedures in biochemistry. The biochemistry practical course, like all practical courses, is an exploration of procedures. In order to get full benefit from the course, you will need to read the manual, and participate as much as possible in the discussions. You also participate in the actual lab work. The more effort you put into the course work, the more you will learn. The class is an opportunity to learn valuable skills. It has been written in easy to understand language with lucid style. This book will serve as a good resource material for medical, dental and paramedical and medical lab technology students. (jacket).

Soft cover. Condition: New. Contents: 1. Nuclear transplantation and somatic cell genes. 2. Translational control and message-injection into living cells. 3. Gene transcription and the initiation of cell differentiation. 4. General conclusions. Appendix. Glossary. References and author Index. Subject index. During the past ten years, several theories have been proposed on the origin of the diversity of antibodies. This book presents a critical study of these theories in a detailed treatment of immunological problems from the point of view of molecular genetics. The text in the book uses a new and simplifying approach to this long-standing controversy. By a computerized analysis of antibody amino acid sequences (particularly the myeloma proteins), the authors trace their evolution and match their results against the expectations of the various theories of diversity. They discuss at length the other types of evidence as well. This book also deals with the clonal specialization of cells to produce a single antibody, and the relationship of this specialization to the somatic joining of antibody half-genes, which is one of the immune system s most important peculiarities. Introductory material is provided to make this work understandable to molecular geneticists not versed in immunology and to immunologists not versed in molecular genetics. This is a timely book offering a succinct and coherent summary of the various lines of evidence in a confused and controversial field.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Foreword. Introduction. 1. Liquid milk products. 2. Concentrated and dried milk products. 3. Cream. 4. Butter and dairy spreads. 5. Cheese. 6. Fermented milks. 7. Ice cream and related products. 8. HACCP. 9. EU food hygiene legislation. 10. Pathogen profiles. Index. The Microbiology Handbook Dairy products is one in a series of MedTech s Food Sciences handbooks, others include Fish and Seafood, and Meat Products. These books provide the reader with an easy-to-use reference to microorganisms in different foodstuffs. This handbook remains topical and features recent developments in dairy processing that can influence the nature and scope of growth and survival of microorganisms in dairy products, and hazards associated with these products. The dairy products include: Liquid milk products Cream Cheese Ice-cream products Concentrated and dried milk Butter and spreads Fermented milks This handbook also incorporates the new European Commission Regulations on hygiene for foodstuffs and specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin, microbiological criteria for food stuffs, and a key pathogen, Enterobacter sakazakii, associated with the use of powdered infant formulas and linked to outbreaks of meaning its septicemia and necrotising enterocolitis. This book will remain a valuable source of information for microbiologists and food scientists responsible for food safety.

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Preface. I. Climate science and fundamentals of climate change: 1. Weather, climate and climate change-an introduction. 2. Elements of global climate: dynamic interactions atmosphere, ocean and land environments. 3. Solar radiation and energy balance. 4. Inter-year climate change: el Nino and other ocean-air interaction. 5. Physical laws and general circulation modelling. 6. Palaeoclimatology. II. Anthropogenic global warming, climate change and IPCC: 7. Anthropogenic character of global warming: i. Global warming. ii. Environmental hazards of ozone depletion in atmosphere. iii. Environmental problem of acid rain. 8. Intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC): i. Fourth assessment report (AR4). ii. IPCC 5th assessment report (SPM). 9. UNFCCC 1992 and international conference on climate change. 10. Major UN climate change conferences till date. III: Social and economic impacts of climate change: 11. Element of economics of climate change. 12. Carbon trading. 13. Climate technologies some applications for directly controlling global warming: i. Solar radiation management (SRM). ii. Air capture technology. iii. Forest conservation and growth. iv. Methane sequestration. 14. Urban climate change. 15. Climate change and human migration: i. General. ii. IOM report on migration and climate change. iii. Some special migration histories. Index. In the industrial age, the atmosphere has been polluted by certain gases called Green House Gases (GHG). These gases allow the solar radiation of shorter wavelength to pass through downwards through the atmosphere heating the earth surface, but CHG do not allow the infrared radiation of longer wavelength emanated by the earth to pass through. Resultantly, the captured heat warms up the earth and the atmosphere. This phenomenon of warming is similar to unduced heating in the horticultural greenhouse where the heat is entrapped inside the glass wall of greenhouse. Thus the polluting gases in the atmosphere are called Green House Gases (GHG). The principal GHGs are carbon dioxide (CO), methane (CH), CFC Chlorofluorocarbon and nitrous oxide (N2O) etc. Generally speaking global temperature rise should affect the quality of rainfall, duration of rainfall and timing of rainfall, upsetting agricultural production schedule and even productivity, glacial melting and rise of sea level, occurrence of storm and possibly other geological and meteorological phenomena. But the effect of the global warming will not be uniform, some countries will have more rainfall and other countries will suffer from intense aridity and long-term fear of desertification. Most of the nations will be losers in one way or the other and therefore the potential loser nations will wish to prevent global warming, which can be achieved mainly by reduction of emission of GHG.

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Introduction. 1. Plants (chiefly seed plants, as to structures and functions. 2. Plants as to kinds, relationships, evolution, and heredity. Agricultural botany is a branch of biology concerned with the study of plants (Kingdom Plantae). Botany is concerned with all aspects of plants, from the smallest and simplest forms to the largest and most complex, from the study of all aspects of an individual plant to the complex interactions of all the different members of a complicated botanical community of plants with their environment and with animals. The study of this course will help you to know the plant world around us and while going through the course you will learn about the pure and applied botany classification of plant, as well as morphological physiological function of various economic plants. The aim of this course is to provide an understanding and appreciation of varieties of plant in the context of agricultural production as an important factor of technological progress in agriculture. This is also geared toward the development and improvement of method of agricultural production.

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: 1. Concepts Of Probability and Random Variable Theory. 2 . Concepts Of Information Discrete Sources-Entopy. 3 . Two Dimensional Schemes Discrete Channels. 4. Continuous Channels. 5. Information Theory And Source Encoding. 6. Concepts On Error Control Coding-Block Codes. 7. Cyclic Codes. 8. Convolutional Codes. 9 .Coding For Burst Error Correction. Information Theory and coding is one area where much research is currently envisaged. Particularly trellis coding and turbo coding coupled with steganography (Cryptography) has found to be quite interesting for security in transmission of information. This book is mainly intended to make the reader familiar with the fundamental concepts of probability theory. information theory and error control coding. The book Information theory and coding was first released in 2005. Before this a book with the same title was released in 2001 which was without probability theory. The first book by the author was titled "Probability. Information and Coding Theory" released in 1992 was more popular among students and teachers. This book was prescribed as Text book by Bangalore, Karnataka and Gulbarga Universities. The present book covers the entire syllabus of 5th semester ECE/TCE course 'Information Theory and Coding' (ITC) of VTU, Karnataka. It also covers more than 80% of the syllabus prescribed for M. Tech. (Digital Electronics) and other M. Tech. programs (Coding Theory and Error Control Coding) of VTU. (jacket).

Soft cover. Condition: New. 2nd Edition. Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Input-Output Relations. 3. Mathematical Modelling. 4. Time Domain Analysis. 5. Stability Concepts. 6. Concepts of Frequency Domain Techniques. 7. Modern Control Theory. References. Index. The book Control System Engineering has been prepared to meet the requirements EEE & ECE Branches of UG and PG students. This book is an outcome of decades of experience the author has in teaching courses on Control Systems for both UG and PG students. The first chapter deals with introduction to Control Systems. It covers Open and Closed Loop Systems, Classification based on number of inputs and outputs. It also introduces Linear and Non-Linear as well as Continuous and Discontinuous systems. Second chapter covers Input-Output relations including block diagrams and signal flowgraphs. Third chapter deals with mathematical modeling of systems including Electrical Networks, Linear Mechanical Systems, Mechanical Coupling Devices and Electro-mechanical Systems. The fourth chapter exhaustively covers Time Domain Analysis. Fifth chapter covers Stability Concepts. This includes stability and impulse response, necessary and sufficient conditions for stability of control systems. It also covers stability criteria for stability and their application to linear feedback systems. Root-Locus technique is comprehensively covered in this chapter. Sixth chapter deals with Frequency Domain Techniques. The coverage includes Nyquist Stability Criterion, Polar and Bode Plots, Frequency domain specifications and characteristic of a Second Order Control Systems. It also covers Frequency response of General Control Systems. Modern Control Theory is comprehensively covered in seventh chapter. While dealing with the topics, care has been taken to highlight important concepts with illustration and examples maintaining the language as simple as possible. Large number of examples have been worked out of a better understanding of the subject. Practice exercise problems are provided at the end of each chapter. Recent papers each for EEE and ECE branches have been included to help students. (jacket).

Soft cover. Condition: New. 2nd Edition. Contents: 1. Creating a Basic Web Page. 2. Working with Online Documents. 3.Working with Fonts, Colors, and Backgrounds. 4. Working with Images and Other Media. 5.Working with Tables. 6. Working with Forms. 7.Designing Multi-Column Web Sites. Students learn to create a wide array of web page designs using HTML, Cascading Style Sheets and Java Script. Standards-based introduction on HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0, HTML5, and CSS 2.1 stresses accessibility, usability and forward and backward compatibility. Use as a graduated learning approach to more from basic HTML to intermediate and more advanced topics such as online forms and multi-column page layouts. Promotes rapid blearing and skill development using real world case examples, hand-on tutorials, review exercises, and projects code reviews, quick references, charts, and glossary help expand and solidify learning. (jacket).

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: 1. The fruit industry. 2. The plant and its parts. 3. Factors affecting flower formation. 4. Site and soil for the fruit plantation. 5. Laying out and planting the orchard. 6. Cultural practices. 7. Fertilizers and manures for the orchard. 8. Water relations of fruit plants. 9. Pruning of fruit plants. 10. Fruit setting. 11. Fruit thinning and alternate bearing. 12. The handling and storage of fruit. 13. Winter injury. 14. Nutrient deficiencies and physiological disorders. 15. Propagation and stocks. 16. The origin and improvement of fruits. 17. Orchard, Vineyard, and small fruit costs. Index. Orcharding and small fruit culture represent a major phase of Indian agriculture both domestic and export. With the intensified development of the industry, the science of horticulture becomes more complex, and the professional horticulturist, the student, and the grower all feel the need of additional training and a ready source of recent research. Not only the Indian, but also the foreign, literature is increasing rapidly, and every branch of study demands consideration. The student of fruit culture, whether in or outside college, should have a grasp of general concepts. He should strive to interpret physiology, morphology, soils, chemistry, and other fundamental sciences in terms of fruit plants and their products. The authers hope that they have presented the fundamentals in such a way that they become of vital concern to the serious student. At the same time, they have endeavored to present the most acceptable practices of Indian fruitgrowing.

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: 1. Real Numbers. 2. Subsets Of Real Numbers. 3. Sequence Of Real Number. 4. Infinite Series. 5. Continuous Function. 6. Derivative. 7. Mean Value Theorem. 8. Indeterminate Forms. 9. Maxima And Minima. This book will serve the student community as a textbook for basic real analysis. Beginning with Dedekind s construction of real numbers, it includes those properties of the real numbers which makes it so special, different kind of subsets of the set of real number along with different kind of points on the real field. A detailed study of sequence and series is undertaken. This book ends with an introduction to single variable differential calculus discussing Mean Value theorems, expansion of functions, L Hospital Rule and extreme values of a function. An attractive feature of the book is the presentation of the subject matter in easy and simple way. Also, sufficient number of solved and practicing problems have been included. The book is intended mainly for use as a textbook/reference book at senior undergraduate level or junior post graduate level and as a use full reference book for researchers in industries. The book is written in simple Indian English so that there should be no difficulty for any body to understand the concept presented here wherever necessary. (jacket).

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: I. Fundamentals Of Organic Chemistry: 1. Atomic Bonding. 2. Stereochemistry. 3. Reaction Intermediates And Factors Governing Reactivity. II. Name Reactions Based Of Product Formed: 4. Reactions Giving Carbonyl Compounds. 5. Reactions Giving Alcohol-Hydroxy Carboxylic Acid And Phenols. 6. Reactions Giving Arenes. 7. Reactions Giving Saturated And Unsaturated Hydrocarbons. 8. Reactions Giving Carboxylic Acids And Its Derivatives. 9. Reactions Giving Heterocyclic Compounds And Its Derivatives. 10. Reactions Giving Halogen Derivatives. 11. Miscellaneous Organic Reactions. III. Rearangements: Classification And Mechanism: 12. Rearrangements Induced By Cationic Or Electron Deficient Sties (Carbon). 13. Rearrangements Related To Electron Deficient Heteroatoms. 14. Rearrangements Related To Acyl Carbenes. 15. Sigmatropic Rearrangements. 16. Rearrangements Influenced By Stong Bases [And/Or] Electron Rich Sites. 17. Rearrangements Due To Addition-Elimination Mechanism. 18. Rearrangements In Pericyclic Reactions. 19. The Aromatic Rearrangements. IV. Organic Reactions And Mechanisms: 20. Substitution Reactions. 21. Elimination Reactions. 22. Electrocyclic Reactions. 23. Thermodynamics Of Organic Reactions. 24. Addition Reactions. V. Some Novelreaction In Organosilicon Chemistry: 25. Accelerated Organic Synthesis With Organosilicon Compounds. Appendices. Index. Advanced Organic Chemistry entails the specific reactions with regard to their underlying definitions, classifications, typical examples, reaction steps-mechanisms -explanations in an extremely lucid, unambiguous, simple language so as to render the text matter easier to understand and grasp the intricate aspects perceptively. The brilliant students will certainly adapt, adore, and accept an enormous ability to Design Synthesis in a comprehensive manner based on their acquired knowledge, wisdom, skill, intellect, and perseverance. There arefive major sections in Advanced Organic Chemistry, namely. Section 1: Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry, Section 2: Name Reactions Based on Product Formed, Section 3: Rearrangements: Classifications and Mechanisms, Section 4: Organic Reactions and Mechanisms and Section 5: Some Novel Reactions in Organo-silicon Chemistry. Each chapter comprises latest reference of books, scientific journals, and profusely studded with appropriate logical schemes, figures, and flow/block diagrams. Advanced Organic Chemistry is solely intended to provide adequate subject matter for the students of: B. Sc., (Hons), M. Sc., and Ph. D., Research scholars in all State/Central/Deemed Universities in India and abroad as well. Key Features: Comprehensive assemblage of advanced topics in Organic Chemistry. Vital and important aspects being critically emphasized as 'Footnotes' in each topic. Explanations to the intricate organic synthesis included Typical and critical examples are duly dealt with appropriately . Aptitude development substantiated with latest scientificjournals/textbooks.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: I. Plant life: 1. Seeds and seedlings. 2. Roots. 3. Stems and buds. 4. Leaves. 5. The Flower. 6. Reproduction. 7. Fruits and seeds. 8. Anatomy of stems, roots and leaves. 9. Chemical composition of the plant. 10. Plant foods and plant growth. 11. The gymnosperms. 12. Ecological relations. 13. Forestry. 14. Plant diseases. 15. Plant breeding. 16. Weeds. 17. Pteridophytes. 18. Bryophytes. 19. Thallophytes. II. Most important families of economic plants and special exercises: 21. Important families of plants. The study of botany has developed very rapidly in the past quarter of a century and as a result was have a great variety of text-books representing an almost equally great variety of methods of presenting the subject. The book Essentials of Economic Botany, implies that it is intended first, as a guide to experimental work in the study of plants, such as should be carried on in any higher secondary schools, and second, that it is intended as a preliminary work to the agricultural studies which are now recognized many higher secondary schools and colleges. The author has endeavored to make the work so flexible that it may be used in schools regardless of the amount of time devoted to the subject, the available laboratory space and equipment. The author has also been mindful of the fact that the course in botany in the higher secondary students should meet the needs of very different classes of students those who study it as one of the requirements of the curriculum and to whom it must be primarily a cultural subject, those who study it as a preparation to agriculture and horticulture, and those who may use it to fulfil one of the college entrance requirements. Salient Features: A brief statement of the reacognized facts and principles concerning plants and plant growth usually given. A list of simple exercises for observations which the students can conduct without students difficulty and which will demonstrate many of the statements given in the book. A List of questions which are intended to be suggestive to the students and to encourage further studies.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Foreword. Introduction. 1. Chilled and frozen raw meat, poultry and their products. 2. Cooked meats, poultry, and their products. 3. Dried meats, poultry and related products. 4. Cured meats and poultry, including cooked cured meats. 5. Fermented meats. 6. Eggs. 7. HACCP in meat and meat product manufacture. 8. EC food hygiene legislation. 9. Pathogen profiles. Index. The Microbiology Handbook-meat products is one in a series of Medtech s Food Sciences handbooks, others include Dairy Products, and Fish and Seafood. This book is intended to provide the reader with easy-to-use references to microorganisms in various meat and poultry products. This handbook features current developments in meat and poultry processing that can have a bearing on the type and range of growth and survival of microorganisms in these products, and hazards linked to these products. The products covered include: Chilled and frozen raw meat, poultry, and their products. Cooked meats, poultry, and their products Dried meats, poultry, and related products Cured meats and poultry, including cooked cured meats Fermented meats Eggs This handbook also includes the new Commission Regulations on hygiene for foodstuffs, specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin, and microbiological criteria for foodstuffs, HACCP, and contact details for food authorities associated with the meat industry and general food safety. This book remains a valuable source of information for microbiologists and food scientists responsible for food safety in the meat and poultry industry.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: 1. Microbiology. 2. Phycology. 3. Mycology. 4. Lichenology. 5. Plant pathology. The book "Microbiology, Phycology, Mycology, Lichenology and Plant Pathology" is a comprehensive treatment according to the latest syllabi prescribed in the universities for undergraduate programs in Botany. The topics are arranged with a view that the students can acquire clear concept on the structure, reproduction and economic importance of lower organisms. The students will get an insight of nature around him. The topics are treated on a general basis with relevant specific points. The systematic positions of lower organisms based in accepted systems, diversity in structure and life cycle are clearly explained with relevant illustrations.