This study based on Refugee Socio-Cultural Integration is a provisionary study of a refugee group. Any Refugee group until today has been seen from different parlances mainly through legal discernments. This study is specifically centered on Tibetan refugee group of Darjeeling, West Bengal....

Built-up steel columns with battens at regular interval along their height are suffered from compound buckling and large shear deformations under axial loads....

Reinforced concrete (RC) framed buildings with open-ground-storey and masonry-infilled upper stories introduces severe stiffness- and strength-type of discontinuities, which together causes significant strength and inelastic deformation demand on ground-storey columns during ground shaking leading to partial or complete collapse of the buildings as...

Silicon (Si) is a beneficial element for higher plants, which are involved in the plant growth and it provides the resistance against pest and fungal diseases. Silicon (Si) promotes healthy development of rice plants. Silicon is essential for higher and sustainable production of rice (Oryza sativa)....

The book explores the concept of Strategic Marketing and its imperative for marketers. Business houses, which have been condemned in global market due to their poor brand image, have faced similar problems in domestic markets too. This is due to poor quality, lack of clear-cut strategy and lack of adequate soul searching and introspection....