India is one of the four major players in the global oilseeds/vegetable oils scenario of the world, being one of the important oilseed grower, producer, importer, and exporter. India has the largest area in rapeseed-mustard in the world but the productivity in India is just 50-60% of the world average....

The issue of sexual harassment has received considerable attention in recent years. Research of actual victims in academic settings suggests women in academic settings frequently experience sexual harassment and the negative impact of sexual harassment on them have been well documented in the West....

This book, Nucleus Quark and Cosmology (NQC) is essentially a compilation of the major scientific papers, published by the present author throughout his career, starting from London, Bombay, Calcutta, CERN (Geneva) and RHIC (Brookhaven National Laboratory)....

All samples were prepared using conventional solid state reaction technique and were sintered at two different temperatures in air for 1 hour. Structural and surface morphology were studied by x-ray diffraction (XRD) method and high resolution optical microscopy respectively....

Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) is a multi-hop wireless network, without having pre-existing infrastructure and centralized administration. Each node participating in the network acts both as host as well as a router. Prominent characteristics of Ad Hoc Networks viz....

A mobile ad hoc network is a collection of wireless nodes that can dynamically be set up anywhere and anytime without using any pre-existing network infrastructure. Ad hoc networking can be applied anywhere where, there is little or no communication infrastructure or the existing infrastructure is expensive or inconvenient to use....

The physico-chemical properties play a pivotal role in interpreting the intermolecular interactions among mixed components and efforts in recent years have been directed at an understanding of such properties at microscopic and macroscopic levels....

The concept of linkages between foreign direct investment and innovation, particularly of the investee, is relatively a new and emerging one. There is no clear understanding and conclusive evidences to support the fact that FDI either enhances or suppresses the innovation capacity of the investment receiver....

With population growth and economic development in the Himalayan regions, issues related to land degradation, biodiversity loss, declining soil fertility and agricultural productivity, and socio-economic imbalance are becoming critical environmental problems with implications on a local as well as global scale....

* This book combines the authors\' experiences on the topic and brings out a wealth of new information relevant to the study of meta-analysis. * Most of the methods described in this book can be understood and applied with a solid master\'s level background in statistics....