“No Tobacco Day” is being observed on the 31st May The suffering, disfigurement and death due to oral cancer is easily avoidable since the factors associated with the disease have been identified. Another important aspect is its easy accessibility for diagnosis....

In this book, some advanced simulation and optimization techniques were applied to solve groundwater management problems....

The study of Common Fixed Point of mappings satisfying contractive type conditions has been a very active field of research activity during the last two decades....

Some major challenges to greenhouse production and profitability are insects and diseases. The effectiveness of the pesticide spray on crops is greatly influenced by the application equipment and method....

Intercropping castor (paired row planting at 60/120 cm x 60 cm) with three row of green gram was found highly cost effective under irrigated ecosystem. This system yielded higher castor equivalent yield (55.34 q ha-1), net returns (Rs 57334 ha-1) and B: C (4.95) without affecting nutrient status of the soil....

Designed for a one or two semester senior undergraduate or graduate bioinformatics course, Statistical Bioinformatics takes a broad view of the subject - not just gene expression and sequence analysis, but a careful balance of statistical theory in the context of bioinformatics applications....