Filling a gap on the market, this handbook and ready reference is unique in its discussion of the usefulness of various heterocyclic systems in the synthesis of natural products....

'Some time ago, a sudden rumour spread across our region that unless three children were sacrificed, the railway bridge over Roopnarayan just could not be constructed. Two small boys had already been buried alive under one of the pillions, and only one more needed to be caught......

Cell can undergo a signal response which is broadly classified as death and/or survival signal when insulted by toxicants. Each organ has its own critical limit, regulated by the preprogrammed signaling system. Metal exposure in our daily life occurs through natural sources like food or water....

Testing is now considered as one of the most important issues in the development process of integrated circuits. With the advent of deep sub-micron (DSM) technology, the tight constraints on power dissipation have created new challenges for testing low power VLSI circuits....

Present century is the era of nanotechnology with its exciting and versatile field of applications towards mankind. In unison, over the past decades, nanophosphors have been extensively investigated due to its enormous application potential for various high-performance novel displays devices, in non-linear optics and also in fast optical switching....

This text discussed various models of dark energy, their interactions and their consequences on the accelerated expansion of the universe. The dark energy models considered here include the tachyonic field, scalar field, phantom field, Chaplygin gas, DBI-essence, hessence, new agegraphic dark energy, and Ricci dark energy....

This book deals with a comprehensive analysis of the results obtained from structural, optical, electrical and magnetic studies of differently treated ZnO....

Though the size of the black economy or the underground economy has now become significant in many countries, it has not spawned commensurate development of the literature to study the black economy within a macro model....

Novel interpenetrating network (IPN) hydrogel microspheres, consisting of xanthan gum and poly(vinyl alcohol) were prepared by water-in-oil emulsion crosslinking method using glutaraldehyde for the controlled release of diclofenac sodium,as a model drug....

Education is increasingly being viewed as central to issues of development like productivity, income distribution, employment, and knowledge as an input to production. This book deconstructs the interface between economic theory and education in order to unravel how education contributes to socio-economic development in India....

Education is increasingly being viewed as central to issues of development like productivity, income distribution, employment, and knowledge as an input to production. This book deconstructs the interface between economic theory and education in order to unravel how education contributes to socio-economic development in India....