Critical Reflection, Spirituality and Professional Practice

This book explores the concept and facilitation of critical reflection and its implications for professional practice. It draws on the author’s own extensive experience to demonstrate how reflective processes involving metaphor and imagery, as well as critique, can be used not only to understand and articulate key values underpinning professional practice and to generate new theoretical model…

Gender, Power and Higher Education in a Globalised World

This book examines persistent gender inequality in higher education, and asks what is preventing change from occurring. The editors and contributors argue that organizational resistance to gender equality is the key explanation; reflected in the endorsement of discourses such as excellence, choice, distorted intersectionality, revitalized biological essentialism and gender neutrality. These dis…

Gender Equality and Stereotyping in Secondary Schools

This book explores gender stereotyping and gender inequalities in secondary education in England, Hungary and Italy. The authors highlight the importance of addressing student and teacher attitudes if long-term changes in mindset are desired, as well as the underlying stereotypes that persist and linger in these educational contexts. Promoting a whole-school culture change approach, this book e…

CLINICAL GYNECOLOGIC ENDOCRINOLOGY AND INFERTILITY, Sixth Edition

Edition

6

ISBN/ISSN

0-683-30379-1

Collation

x, 1200p.; ill.; 29cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

618.1 Spa c

Micro and Smart Devices and Systems

The book presents cutting-edge research in the emerging fields of micro, nano and smart devices and systems from experts working in these fields over the last decade. Most of the contributors have built devices or systems or developed processes or algorithms in these areas. The book is a unique collection of chapters from different areas with a common theme and is immensely useful to academic r…

ENDOCRINOLOGY ADULT AND PEDIATRIC : DIABETES MELLITUS AND OBESITY, 6th edition

Edition

6

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-323-24061-1

Collation

xi, e532p.; ill.; 28cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

616.4 End e

Micro-scaled Products Development via Microforming: Deformation Behaviours, P…

‘Micro-scaled Products Development via Microforming’ presents state-of-the-art research on microforming processes, and focuses on the development of micro-scaled metallic parts via microforming processes. Microforming refers to the fabrication of microparts via micro-scaled plastic deformation and presents a promising micromanufacturing process. When compared to other micromanufacturing p…

Engineering Tolerance in Crop Plants Against Abiotic Stress

Despite significant progress in increasing agricultural production, meeting the changing dietary preferences and increasing food demands of future populations remains a significant challenge. Salinity, drought, water logging, high temperature and toxicity are abiotic stresses that affect the crop yield and production. Tolerance for stress is a important characteristic that plants need to have i…

Biopesticides in Horticultural Crops

This book is a compendium of information related to innovations, commercialization and registration of biopesticides, recent advances in mass production, formulation, extension of shelf life, delivery systems of antagonists and entomopathogens and synergistic and antagonistic response of biopesticides with agrochemicals. The information on all the important laboratory protocols and techniques …

Bacterial Diseases of Crop Plants

Food and agriculture is an important component in the development and survival of civilizations. Around half of the world’s population and their economies are influenced by agricultural farm production. Plant diseases take as much as a 30 percent toll of the crop harvest if not managed properly and efficiently. Bacterial diseases of crop plants are important in plant disease scenarios worldwi…

Mechanical Measurements

This book focuses both on the basics and more complex topics in mechanical measurements such as measurement errors & statistical analysis of data, regression analysis, heat flux, measurement of pressure, and radiation properties of surfaces. End of chapter problems, solved illustrations, and exercise problems are presented throughout the book to augment learning. It is a useful reference for st…

Fundamentals of IoT Communication Technologies

This textbook explores all of the protocols and technologies essential to IoT communication mechanisms. Geared towards an upper-undergraduate or graduate level class, the book is presented from a perspective of the standard layered architecture with special focus on protocol interaction and functionality. The IoT protocols are presented and classified based on physical, link, network, transport…

MICROBIOLOGY : CONCEPTS AND APPLICATIONS

Edition

1

ISBN/ISSN

0-07-049258-1

Collation

vii, 869 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

576 Pel m 1993

Fine–Kinney-Based Fuzzy Multi-criteria Occupational Risk Assessment

This book presents a number of approaches to Fine–Kinney–based multi-criteria occupational risk-assessment. For each proposed approach, it provides case studies demonstrating their applicability, as well as Python coding, which will enable readers to implement them into their own risk assessment process. The book begins by giving a review of Fine–Kinney occupational risk-assessment met…

International RILEM Conference on Early-Age and Long-Term Cracking in RC Stru…

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations and applications in the field of crack control in concrete, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the International RILEM Conference on Early-age and Long-term Cracking in RC Structures (CRC 2021), held in Paris, France on April 9, 2021. It covers early-age and long-term imposed deformations in concrete, analytica…

Proceeding of Fifth International Conference on Microelectronics, Computing a…

Edition

1

ISBN/ISSN

978-981-16-0275-7

Collation

xiv, 875p.:Ill.

Series Title

-

Call Number

621.381 Pro

Paper-Based Medical Diagnostic Devices

Edition

1

ISBN/ISSN

978-981-15-8723-8

Collation

vii, 181p.:Ill.

Series Title

-

Call Number

610.284 Pap

Physical Assurance

Edition

1

ISBN/ISSN

978-3-030-62609-9

Collation

xiv, 193p.:Ill.

Series Title

-

Call Number

621.381 5 Asa p

Dynamics in Microwave Chemistry

Edition

1

ISBN/ISSN

978-981-15-9655-1

Collation

x, 159p.:Ill

Series Title

-

Call Number

621.3 Hua d

Putting Crisis in Perspective

This collected book analyzes the phenomenon of crisis manifested across various historical periods. It offers unique, multifaceted, and interdisciplinary perspectives on the issues of crises and finds numerous applications in the fields of literature, linguistics, advertising, photography, and foreign language teaching. The collection is divided into two parts. The chapters in its first part an…

Microelectronics, Electromagnetics and Telecommunications

This book discusses the latest developments and outlines future trends in the fields of microelectronics, electromagnetics and telecommunication. It includes original research presented at the International Conference on Microelectronics, Electromagnetics and Telecommunication (ICMEET 2019), organized by the Department of ECE, Raghu Institute of Technology, Andhra Pradesh, India. Written by sci…

Polarimetric Microwave Imaging

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

978-981-15-8897-6

Collation

xxx, 591p.:Ill

Series Title

-

Call Number

620.112 72 Pol

Soft Error Reliability of VLSI Circuits

This book is intended for readers who are interested in the design of robust and reliable electronic digital systems. The authors cover emerging trends in design of today’s reliable electronic systems which are applicable to safety-critical applications, such as automotive or healthcare electronic systems. The emphasis is on modeling approaches and algorithms for analysis and mitigation of so…

Advanced Spatial Modulation Systems

This state-of-the-art book deals with advanced spatial modulation (ASM), which are a special class of recent Multiple-Input Multiple-Output MIMO techniques, for various applications like radio frequency (RF) based body area network (BAN) communication, free-space optical (FSO) communication, underwater optical wireless communication (UOWC) and hybrid FSO/RF communication. The performance analys…

Transient Characteristics, Modelling and Stability Analysis of Microgrid

The book focuses on the transient modelling, stability analysis and control of power electronic systems, since these systems face severe safe operation problems the during transient period. It discusses both theoretical analysis and practical applications, highlighting the transient characteristics of converters with different control strategies, and proposes transient modelling and model reduc…

Microactuators, Microsensors and Micromechanisms

This book brings together investigations which combine theoretical and experimental results related to such systems as flexure hinges and compliant mechanisms for precision applications, the non-linear analytical modeling of compliant mechanisms, mechanical systems using compliance as a bipedal robot and reconfigurable tensegrity systems and micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) as energy eff…

Historical Justice and History Education

This book explores how the expectations of historical justice movements and processes are understood within educational contexts, particularly history education. In recent years, movements for historical justice have gained global momentum and prominence as the focus on righting wrongs from the past has become a feature of contemporary politics. This imperative has manifested in globally divers…

Design, Control, and Operation of Microgrids in Smart Grids

This book offers a wide-ranging overview of advancements, techniques, and challenges related to the design, control, and operation of microgrids and their role in smart grid infrastructure. It brings together an authoritative group of specialists who approach the subject from a number of different viewpoints in the electric power industry, including electricity distribution companies, aggregato…

Omnidirectional Slots Antenna

Omnidirectional antenna with high gain, low profile, vertical polarization, even CP polarization is very difficult to design, although it is from the dipole. In this book, a novel idea that the running wave in the coaxial wire is disturbed by the orthogonal slot array on the cylindrical metal shell is introduced, which radiates the CP wave in omni-direction. When feeding on two ends of the co…

Network-on-Chip Security and Privacy

This book provides comprehensive coverage of Network-on-Chip (NoC) security vulnerabilities and state-of-the-art countermeasures, with contributions from System-on-Chip (SoC) designers, academic researchers and hardware security experts. Readers will gain a clear understanding of the existing security solutions for on-chip communication architectures and how they can be utilized effectively to …