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The present study deals with water quality criteria, analysis of different physico- chemical and microbiological characteristics of rural and urban water sources specially drinking water in different areas adjacent to Rohtak, Haryana, India. The obtained values were compared with W.H.O and I.S.I standards for drinking water in order to assess whether the water samples are fit for human consumption or not. Attempts have been made to study the c...

This book explores relative clauses (RCs) in Persian and provides an account for these constructions in Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG). Persian RCs are unbounded dependency constructions, all containing the invariant complementizer ''ke''. They also have gaps or resumptive pronouns (RPs), licensed by a higher structure. In some positions only gaps are allowed and in some position only RPs. There are also some positions where both ...

Now a days people are interested to consume meat of good quality and higher shelf life. So study was premeditated to evaluate the lipid stability and antioxidative potential of leg and breast microsomal fraction of broiler meat fed on alpha-lipoic acid (ALA) and alpha-tocopherol acetate (Vit.E). Broilers were fed on feed supplemented with Vit.E (200 mg/kg of feed) for first three weeks of growth and during last three weeks broilers were fed on...

Some of the greatest challenges that throw a Bantu linguist into a quagmire relate to perhaps three fundamental issues which are as follows, 1) the manner in which applicative and causative arguments are mapped onto syntactic structure, 2) the object status of the base verb''s arguments vis-a-vis the arguments that result from these affixations and lastly, 3) the interaction of applicative and causative arguments vis-a-vis other argument alter...

Over the last few decades trends such as globalization have sharpened up competition on the market. To meet customers demand, high level of technological and competitive uncertainties have increased the pressure of reducing R&D, budgets, innovation cycles and shorten the time to market, as a consequence of the rising competition and as a result forced companies to source external knowledge. One way of doing this is by tapping external informat...

The microstrip patch antennas are one of the most innovative areas of research work in the wireless technology. The book contains general back ground of the microstrip patch antenna. It is briefly outlined the problems of the microstrip patch antennas so far developed and the needs of present days wireless systems. It is also briefly pointed out the problems of wide band probe-fed microstrip patch antennas in terms of design as well as modelin...

Natural user interface, or NUI, is the common parlance used by designers and developers of computer interfaces to refer to a user interface that is effectively invisible, or becomes invisible with successive learned interactions, to its users. The word natural is used because most computer interfaces use artificial control devices whose operation has to be learned. A NUI relies on a user being able to carry out relatively natural motions, move...

A Cognitive Grammar approach is used to exhaustively describe the morphophonological and semantic interactions of various inflections with three verbal Aktionsort categories, in Lengua de Señas Mexicana (Mexican Sign Language). Imperfective usages (e.g. habitual) and imaginary synchronizations (e.g. historical present) result from the Present form of durative verbs. Inchoative meanings emerge from the Perfective Past, or Perfective Future infl...

Valuable potential contributions to the field of peace building can be found within cultural traditions of managing conflicts. The book explores the African conflict resolution tradition ubuntu, which claims that "a person is a person through persons". The potential of ubuntu is examined by asking if, how and why ubuntu affects Sudanese at an interactive conflict resolution seminar. The informants in this study were Sudanese students from Nort...

The demanding environment of the consulting industry seems to be incompatible with the principles of the Quality of Work-Life (QWL), these principles intend to promote the psychological and the physical well-being of the individual''s life in general. This study intends to contribute to the study of the effects of the Work-life balance (WLB) on the mental health (psychological distress and psychological well-being) and subsequently on the Qual...

The heterozygous nature of guava (Psidium guajava L.) together with the natural open cross-pollination necessitates vegetative propagation to maintain and perpetuate the unique parental quality attributes. However, guava is not easy to be propagated vegetatively in conventional techniques unless improved propagation structures and growth regulating chemicals are combined. In this book you can have valuable information as to how to propagate gu...

This book is very useful to create an adaptive e-Learning system by using student modeling and adaptive hypermedia. Adaptive e-Learning is an enhancement to make e-Learning system more effective by adapting the presentation of information and overall link structure to each individual user based on her/his knowledge and behavior. The adaptive e-Learning system provides better flexibility and capability than non-adaptive e-Learning system. It al...

The social needs of public transport passengers are neglected, with a seating layout that causes social discomfort by forcing strangers into an intimate distance that is typically reserved for people with closer relations. Passengers adapt to this close yet impersonal situation by interacting with others, withdrawing into activities, or defending their space. Interactive strategies, such as talking and positive body language, are more successf...

The book explores the increased burden of anemia among the pregnant women in developing countries who are also infected with HIV/AIDS. It presents and discusses research findings that show that HIV-infected pregnant women are more than two times likely to be anemic than HIV-uninfected counterparts, (Relative risk=2.33). It draws conclusion from the findings to indicate that HIV/AIDS infection is associated with low Hemoglobin levels and higher...

Conflict of civilizations will be the latest phase in the evolution of the conflict of the modern world, says Samuel Huntington in his The Clash of Civilizations, but Huntington is blatantly wrong. The clash of civilizations is the genesis of the history of mankind. All the prophetic missions were ascribed to teach people to differentiate between truth and false and Islam is the youngest among them revealed to the Prophet Muhammad (pbh) in the...

Seamus, alias Twist, is on the Eurostar train from Paris to London to see his twin brother for a birthday lunch. He tells us the story of his love affair with Elska, the captivating Finnish wife of his American friend, Flyte. The lyricism of his account is inspired by his late father, an Irish poet. Twist has sold one of his father's poems to an American record producer, so financing his boulevardier lifestyle and residence at the Alabama Hot...

Lehrbuch für Auszubildende in gewerblich-technischen Berufen. Ebenfalls geeignet zum Einsatz in der Fachschule Technik, für Schulungen, zum Selbststudium und zur Vorbereitung auf Zertifizierungsprüfungen. (GER B1, B2, C1)Basierend auf den Englischkenntnissen, die an allgemeinbildenden Schulen vermittelt werden, ermöglicht das Lehrbuch die Erarbeitung berufsfeldübergreifender sowie berufsspezifischer Inhalte. Dabei werden in den Bereichen Metal...