India prides itself in being the world\"s largest democracy as also for its robust film industry, with Indian films having attained global popularity and at least some of them being internationally acclaimed....

The emergence of multidrug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) has intensified efforts to discover novel drugs for tuberculosis (TB) treatment. Targeting the persistent state of Mtb, a condition in which Mtb is resistant to conventional drug therapies, is of particular interest....

Yamuna river is a typical example of degraded ecosystem in Delhi. This book presenting the main reasons of the deteriorating water quality of yamuna river, which is the main source of water supply in Delhi. Sampling of water from different locations and testing of various parameters are included in the details with the standards....

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 80% of the world’s population presently uses herbal medicine for some aspect of primary health care. The use of, and search for, drugs and dietary supplements derived from plants have accelerated. In the recent years, the interest in medicinal plants has increased in a great deal....

Modification of the structure of a known drug is one way to develop new drugs. For this purpose, we have optimized the pyrimidobenzimidazole derivatives using molecular modeling studies. QSAR analysis has been carried out on a series of pyrimidobenzimidazole derivatives using the physicochemical parameter and molecular descriptors....

Handwriting recognition is a difficult problem, because of the great amount of variations in human handwriting. When observed in isolation also, characters are often ambiguous. We have implemented some soft computing techniques using structural and statistical feature sets for constrained handwritten isolated Devnagari characters and numerals....

All cut flowers are destined to die, and the challenge for post-harvest researchers is to slow the processes controlling flower death to enable cut flowers to reach distant markets with a display life....

Nature and harmful effects of excess water and salts in the root zone have been extensively studied over the last few decades, yet the widespread global reporting of water logging and soil salinity in irrigation commands has been a cause of concern to the mankind in general and to the stakeholders in particular....

E-Commerce has emerged as an imposing, challenging and ever changing business tool, aiming to usher in a new era. The successful implementation of E-commerce requires extensive exploration of the perceptions revoloving around it....

Inflammatory diseases and cancer are serious health problems for mankind. Many antiinflammatory and a few anticancer drugs are available in the market. Most of the drugs used clinically have serious side effects and hence there is a development of safer antiinflammatory and more active anticancer drugs....

From almost the time dentistry achieved a professional status, there has been a constant search to obtain a denture base material of life like appearance, one that would not deteriorate in service. The introduction and use of acrylic resin as a denture base material since 1937 has revolutionized the dentistry in a big way....

Total Quality is a practical, proven approach to management that is successfully being applied throughout American industry-and more recently in health care organizations.Total Quality in Radiology: A Guide to Implementation is designed to be used by theneophyte or experienced quality improvement practitioner....