Ved, a 36-year-old Indian in Silicon Valley, works for Omnicon, the world's largest computer networking company whose culture he finds both sad and comical. Its quietly brewing troubles will soon engulf him, even as he must deal with the turmoil in his relationships with Sasha, a Russian escort, and Liz, a spiritual-liberal American. ...

This book guides the researchers in the field of benchmarking. A detailed theory about three benchmarking tools namely, Capacity Utilization (CU), Technical Efficiency (TE) and Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth has been discussed along with the applications of these techniques to assess the performance of Indian Sugar industry....

The Digital image processing is the use of computer algorithms to perform image processing on digital images.It allows a much wider range of algorithms to be applied to the input data and can avoid problems such as the build-up of noise and signal distortion during processing....

Chemical modification and protein engineering, by searching for homolog\"s in hyperthermophiles especially are useful tools for thermo stabilizing proteins, and also for elucidating the mechanism of protein stability that a single or a few amino acid replacement(s) in a protein is/are sufficient to enhance protein thermostability....