Books published by Springer, India, Private Ltd

This book examines the problem of managing the flow of materials into, through, and out of a system in order to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of materials management.

The book reports two approaches of implementation of the essential components of a Digital Phase Locked Loop based system for dealing with wireless channels showing Nakagami-m fading.

This book takes a novel and holistic view of the global financial crisis and gives a comprehensive agenda for the reform of the global economy. It highlights why financial markets are more volatile than other markets and need better regulation.

This book examines global environmental issues and offers tools for environmentally aware decision-making. Coverage ranges from financial returns earned on a green stock-market-index-based fund to social factors influencing private investment decisions.

The book addresses the overall integrated design aspects of a space transportation system involving several disciplines like propulsion, vehicle structures, aerodynamics, flight mechanics, navigation, guidance and control systems, stage auxiliary systems, thermal systems etc.

This book helps readers understand the application of advanced statistical techniques by using SPSS and interpreting the findings. It gives them the knowledge and skills needed to carry out research in management, humanities, social and behavioural sciences.

This volume discusses adolescent mental health concerns in non-Western contexts and situations, ranging from common mental disorders to building life skills.

This book offers a South Asian perspective on international law, maintaining a suitable distance from the 'Western' approach.

This book introduces readers to co-creation --- a complex, value-based, context-driven and collaborative effort to develop new paradigms, products and services to satisfy human wants.

This book makes available a self-contained collection of modern research addressing the general constrained optimization problems using evolutionary algorithms.

Incidence of invasive fungal sinusitis has been increasing over the years. It was believed earlier that invasive fungal sinusitis is seen only in immune compromised patients but clinical reports suggest otherwise. Therefore, busy clinicians would not have to perform exhaustive literature studies to diagnose invasive fungal sinusitis.

However, most health care professionals see them as mandates and fail to incorporate them into their routine patient care activities. The expectation is that understanding of the principles will change the practices from mandates to "should do" in the minds of health care professionals.

"Water and Health" strengthens the dynamic relationship between human health and water. The book is set in social, scientific and economic dimensions, and is a must read for all those who cherish and celebrate human life and dignity.

This book discusses the Turkish Model of a 'secular, democratic, liberal society' for Central Asian states in the post-Soviet era, showing how the volatile nature of subnational and ultranational agendas complicates the formulation of any single model.

This commemorative work in honour of Professor Biswajit Chatterjee-an acclaimed economist, learned scholar and researcher-focuses on contemporary issues in international trade, development economics, and macroeconomics and finance.

At the outbreak of the global financial crisis, 2008, the G20 was widely acknowledged as helping prevent an even more serious decline in the global economy.

This book offers a detailed account about lichens in ecosystem monitoring. Featuring many color photographs and line diagrams, it focuses on the specific role of lichens in air quality management and sustainable development.

This book presents a detailed account of tea breeding procedures, limitations of conventional breeding, and flower and seed biology. It also explores gene cloning, functional genomics, proteomics, next generation sequencing, and bioinformatics.

This is a collection of literature authored by noted researchers having signatory status in endophytic research and summarizes the development achieved so far, and future prospects for further research in this fascinating area of research.

Plant signalling has emerged as an integrated field which has become indispensable in recent times to study any biological process. It is now possible to view the different information's in a systems biology approach which has unravelled the association/ new processes and thus helped us enormously in understanding of the biological processes.

This book discusses rural interventions in India and Indonesia, as they influence urbanization and its problems and solutions; urban governance, infrastructure programs, service delivery reforms and their evaluation; and urbanization and the environment.

This book outlines detailed studies using preclinical murine models in inflammation. It provides valuable insights into human stem cell culture and differentiation as well as offers novel information on how combination cultures can help boost immunity.

One of the most striking and profound findings is the non-existence of non-classical quantum isometry groups for arbitrary classical connected compact manifolds and, by using this, the authors explicitly describe quantum isometry groups of most of the noncommutative manifolds studied in the literature.

This book discusses doing business and making profit on the right side of the law.

This monogram discusses various aspects of nutritional quality of maize such as quality protein maize which has been considered as most significant discovery in enhancing nutritional quality of cereals in terms of increasing the concentration of essential amino acids.

Over 60 protocols described in the manual cover the whole spectrum of reproductive ecology - study sites and species, phenology, floral morphology and sexuality, pollen and pistil biology, pollination ecology, breeding system, seed biology, seed dispersal and seedling recruitment.

This volume comprises research papers presented at the International Conference on Informatics and Communication Technologies for Societal Development (ICICTS 2014) held at Karunya University, India.

Though considerable research literature is now available on China-India relations, most of it still follows a conventional narrative, viewing the relationship through the narrow conflictual prism limited to South Asia than in the new, larger perspective, especially in the context of emerging East Asian dynamics.

This book helps readers understand the concepts of marketed and marketable surplus, as well as the role of the government and marketing agencies, including those in the private sector, in improving market efficiency.

This book aims to focus on these areas to provide readers a comprehensive outlook about the major redox sensitive pathways and networks involved in various disease conditions. Selenium, being the research focus and interest of the authors for years, the role of selenium as an antioxidant as part of selenoproteins has been included in the book.