Exploring the purpose, nature of maturity, upshots and socio-economic impacts of Self-help Groups formed mainly under Swarnajayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana on the lives of the group members and using the interview and discussion method, the book focuses on the fundamental, yet overlooked aspects that the positive outcome of self-help groups hinges on...

This study is an attempt to examine the prevailing milk supply chain based on primary data collected from 55 respondents, which were randomly selected from the study area in Dhaka district. The sample included 25 producers, 15 Beparis, 10 wholesalers and 5 sweetmeat shops....

The performance of many firms are exposed to the changes in weather. The industry sectors exposed to ‘weather risk\"\" are basic materials, consumer durables and agricultural industries. Amongst these the basic materials has mainly triggered the demand for the weather derivatives market and the rapid growth in the weather risk assessment industry....

In this research work, new comprehensive models for prediction of physical properties (viscosity and density) of systems of different alkanolamines were developed....

The book consists of seven chapters out of which aspects of cryptosystems, synopsis of neural cryptosystem and security issues discussed in chapters are defined at the begining. Different factors in evaluating various techniques along with structure of keys are also prescribed....

This study was undertaken at long-term fertilizer experiment (LTFE) fields of IARI research farm, New Delhi, to assess the effect of long term fertilizer application over 35 years on the activity of selected soil enzymes, nutrient availability and acquisition during three physiological stages of wheat growth....

Organic farming is nowadays became necessity for sustainable agriculture. This book provides the details of a research conducted to identify the problems and prospects of organic farming in Samastipur district of Bihar....

The higher ratio of SCA/GCA variance in a line ? tester mating design of ten potato genotypes indicated the predominance of non-additive gene effects in the inheritance of all traits....

The book Parallel and Distributed Logic Programming provides a clear introduction to parallel and distributed approach to logic programming. It examines the existing models of distributed logic programming, analyses the pros and cons of these models, and proposes an alternative framework for distributed logic programming using extended Petri nets....