The machines that orbit our planet live in a void environment – however, space travel itself does not exist in a vacuum. Travelling to space is an immense effort of humans and machines, taking not just ‘a small step for a man’ but leaving a huge carbon footprint in the process....

Library and information services are vital for quality education. An institute operating these services in an effective manner is most likely to be providing quality education. This book provides comprehensive information about the schools in an industrial city of the Uttarakhand State of India....

Abijata-Shala Lakes National Park (ASLNP), located 200 KM south of Addis Ababa, a conservation zone established in 1970, area of 887 km2 combining two saline lakes and surrounding woodland, aims to conserve the aquatic birds and biodiversity in its surrounding. It has great potential to attract tourists, generates revenue for the economy....

Mathematical modeling is a field of interest to various researchers working in various disciplines of Mathematical, Social, Psychological, Environmental, and Life Sciences....

Present study focuses on socio-economic and demographic differentials and its linkages between smoking and use of smokeless tobacco with the prevalence of Tuberculosis and Asthma among smokers and users of smokeless tobacco in India....

History bears out the fact that in India, over the last five decades quite a large number of rural development programmes have been launched. But afterwards, these programmes proved to be dysfunctional, as it could not promote genuine popular participation in the programme process....

Middle Eastern women, in general, and those belonging to the Gulf region in particular are most often viewed with certain preset perceptions and cliched views. These women are envisioned as the less than privileged strata in their individual countries....

This book is useful in many ways. It shows how the information seeking behavior is different from the other professional groups. Besides, this study also explore the information seeking patterns of various categories of journalists. The chapter of contribution of newspaper libraries in news making is also discussed....

We performed a randomized, prospective, controlled trial in 54 patients, to compare norepinephrine and phenylephrine in the management of dopamine resistant septic shock....

Prokineticin-1(PROK1) is a recently described protein with functions including tissue specific angiogenesis.PROK1 has been found in the steroidogenic organs, e.g: ovary,testis,adrenal, placenta and they have been found to have a role in development of olfactory system/GnRH system....

Present study was undertaken to evaluate analgesic and inflammatory activity of root bark and stem bark of Symphorema polyandrum (Wight). a folklore medicinal plant. Study was carried out at the dose of 360mg/kg....

Candidiasis is the commonest fungal disease in human being. The causative agent of the disease is Candida albicans and non- albicans Candida. Candida has 163 acknowledged anamorphic species, present on the different habitat out of which following species are C. albicans, C. tropicalis, C. krusei, C. glabrata, C. guilliermondii, C. parapsilosis, C....

Lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) are commonest infectious disease in humans worldwide and account for high mortality and morbidity. Prevalence of the LRTIs is generally much more in elderly and paediatric age groups. Resistance to common antibiotic drugs in lower respiratory tract pathogens is a global problem....

The belief widely held in many countries is that a person with epilepsy is seized by a supernatural force or power. This ancient belief is reflected in the name of the disorder -- the word \\\"epilepsy\\\" being derived from the Greek word \\\"epilambanein\\\" which means \\\"to seize or attack\\\"....

World is changing very fast in terms of enterprise systems and industries need very specialized solutions. Industrial problems are very complex and need lot of money and efforts. Availability of expertise and skills causes another problem in the industry .Enterprise resources management solutions are one of the example for this kind of problem....