This exploratory study tries to provide an understanding of the discourse of the 21st century peace protests. With a methodology that combines insights from content analysis, discourse analysis and semiotics, the study seeks to describe and interpret the discourse of the peace protests....

Neoliberalization has bestowed the world cities with a concentration of surplus population working in informal sectors. This surplus urban population engaged in informal economy is a specific characteristic of dependent urbanization occurring in third world countries....

This book is based on the study that was carried out to get information about the different methods of corrosion prevention to make the materials corrosion resistant, mainly focusing on steel. Steel structures corrode by reacting with moisture and oxygen to form rust....

Ten days old adult beetles and sixth instar larvae of two strains of Tribolium castaneum, namely, malathion-resistant (PAK) and organophosphate-susceptible (FSS-II) were exposed, for 48 hours, to some insecticides bearing novel modes of action, viz., abamectin (Sure 1....

The subject of this book was conceived when India\"s ‘tiger crisis\" was brewing in 2005. The country had just discovered that the tiger had become locally extinct from a premier Protected Area....

The Hidden Truth about Non-Performing Loans is an attempt to discover the realities and reasons of default in micro-finance sector of the world and especially Pakistan....

This book proposes a new concept in corrosion modeling approach which is based on the existing scientific corrosion laws and is also verified by experimentation....

In this book a software has been developed especially for educational or learning purpose. This software is about \"stress\" which is one of the leading important phenomena in the field of civil engineering. This book is based on a software which will show the stress components in graphics as well as its transformation....

One of the great concerns in view of the durability of reinforced concrete is the corrosion of steel reinforcement in concrete. RC structures exposed to chloride and high temperature environments like sea, deicing salts, deserts and industrial zones suffer from accelerated corrosion of rebars....

Analysis of structures is essential to check the response of the structures under applied loads. Without structural analysis, it is impossible to say something about the response and capacity of a structure under applied loads....