The mobile, device-led integration of online and offline worlds has introduced many uncertainties and opportunities. These have driven businesses, researchers, and policymakers to learn more about this rapidly changing domain....

In all human societies, beliefs and practices relating to illness are a central feature of a community. Often these are linked to beliefs about the origin of a much wider range of misfortune, of which illness is just one form....

This book contains an illustrative version about medicinal plant of Santragachhi area of Howrah district, West Bengal, India. The entire book has been divided into five comprehensive chapters providing a brief illustration about medicinal plant diversity along with its uses....

This book describes the development of a teleassistance system (GARDIEN, which stands for Gerontologie Assistee par la Recherche et le Diagnostic des Incidents et des Errances Nocturnes) as a method of monitoring elderly hospitalised patients in a passive manner....

Young medical students have to confront significant amount of stress throughout their career which affects their physical as well as mental health. Rate of depression & suicides have been found to be higher in medical students than in other graduate students. How a student handle a stressful situation depends on his or her personality....

Ayurveda the science of life presents invaluable source of ethnopharmacological resources. This traditional knowledge inspires novel drug discovery from natural products. Reverse pharmacology taking a Bedside to Bench approach can be a rational approach in that direction....

This document defines a measure of consumer ubiquity to help identify the anytime anywhere consumer. In the current technology diffused environment though devices have gone wireless, all consumers have not yet been unplugged from their comfort zones of consumption....

Some new 1,3,4 Thidiazoles were synthesized, derivatized, characterized by TLC, Melting point, their individual percentage yield were studied and selected compounds were characterized by IR, NMR spectroscopy and Mass spectrometry and their invitro anti cancer activity were tested on HT-29 cell line by employing MTT assay, the parent and few of the ...

Transition metal doped ZnO has been studied from the perspective of its suitability in electronic applications. Bulk samples of Mn doped ZnO has been synthesized by solid state reaction and sol-gel techniques. Thin films of Mn doped ZnO has been synthesized by only sol-gel spin coating technique....

The book provides the scientific community with a much-needed overview of how adsorbents based on inexpensive waste materials can be used to treat various major water pollutants....

A brand new way of looking into Martensitic Transformation in Intercritically Austempered Ductile Iron: in light of Neutron Diffraction. With Neutron diffraction, it is possible to examine the total test volume and examine the transformation in real-time....

Automated question answering (QA) has been a hot topic of research and development since the earliest AI applications (A.M. Turing,1950). A keyword based monolingual restricted domain procedural question answering (PQA) system for cooking recipe in English has been presented as case study. The architecture of the PQA system has been proposed....

Indian domestic ornamental fish market is dominated by exotic fish varieties. Potential of disease importation in native fish species through live ornamental fish trade has been recognized and concerns have been put not only on importation but also on farm-raising of exotic ornamental fish varieties....

West Bengal is rich with its enormous fish diversity; among these fish species recently some have been recognized as ornamental fishes due to their attractive coloration, shape, size etc. They are popularly known as indigenous ornamental fishes of West Bengal....

In this work the objective has been to investigate some aspects of the dynamics of quantum open systems, in particular the quantum theory of dissipation....