The Book is divided into eight chapters. The chapter on introduction explains the concept of Local government and importance of local governments with special reference to urban bodies and it also contains theoretical framework of the study. The objectives and methods of data collection were also explained in this chapter....

The substances which cause pollution are known as pollutants. It may be defined as any substance that is released intentionally or inadvertently by man into the environment in such concentration that may have adverse effect on environmental health....

The book entitled “Modern Ayurvedic method: iron oxide nanoparticles” deals with synthesis and characterization of iron oxide nanoparticles by novel route and examining chlorophyll activity on Solanum lycopersicum seeds. The crystallite size decreases with increase in subsequent quenching by herbal juices in the purification steps....

King cobras are apex predators of their ecosystems. In India, they occur in a wide variety of habitats from the foothills of the himalayas to the rain forests of the Western Ghats and Northeast India. Despite such a wide distribution very few scientific studies have been conducted on the king cobra....

Globalization is a force with a strong, analyzable impact on management practices. Rao and his contributors explore its implications and show how globalization\'s impacts differ by sector and region of the world....

Hardbound. The chapters in this volume, written by specialists in computer science and statistics, illustrate the trend in modern statistics of basic methodology supported by the state-of-the-art computational and graphical facilities, and their applications to diverse fields of human endeavour....

This is a sequel to volume 19 of Handbook of Statistics on Stochastic Processes: Modelling and Simulation. It is concerned mainly with the theme of reviewing and in some cases, unifying with new ideas the different lines of research and developments in stochastic processes of applied flavour....

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