I. Different Dimensions of Academic Dependency: 1.

Academic Dependency: Some Reflections/Muchkund Dubey. 2.

Intellectual and Structural Challenges to Academic Dependency/Syed Farid Alatas. 3.

Defining Archaeology in Ghana: A Historical Interpretation/Samuel Nilirmi Nkumbaan. 4.

The Institutions of Higher Education in Burundi and Rwanda: Facing the Challenges of Post-Conflict societies/Tharcisse Nsabimana. 5.

Malaise in Indian Academia/Hetukar Jha. 6.

Academic Dependency and sociological Theorizing in the Third World: A Case Study of Akiwowo’s Asuwada Theory of Sociation/Ayokunle Olumuyiwa Omobowale. II.

Mounting Challenges to Academic Dependency: 7. Local Scholars, Global Academy/Anjan Ghosh.

8. Social Science in Chile (1957-1973): A Laboratory for an Autonomous Process of Academia-building/Fernanda Beigel.

9. Anthropology at the University of the Philippines: Examining Institutional History and Academic Dependency in a south-East Asian University/Carlos P.

Tatel. 10.

Evidence, Temporality, Analytical Frameworks: Categories, Writing Procedures and Academic Dependency/Mario Ruffer. 11.

The Costs (less)

Cratonic Domain: 1. A review of terrane evolution in the precambrian Dharwar and Bastar Cratons/H.

M. Ramachandra.

ii. Singhbhum orogen: 1.

Singhbhum mobile Belt - How far it fits an ancient orogen/S. Sengupta and Basab Chattopadhyay.

2. Modelling ancient orogens - an example from North Singhbhum mobile belt/Sabyasachi Dasgupta.

3. Structural pattern in the Dhalbhumgarh-Kokpara region and its bearing on the tectonics of the Proterozoic fold belt of North Singhbhum, Eastern India/Dhruba Mukhopadhyay, Manua Ghosh and Ashim Chattopadhyay.

4. Mobility of aluminium during deep crustal metasomatism : some examples from Singhbhyum Shear Zone and the adjoining areas of Eastern India/Pulak Sengupta, Nandini Sengupta (nee Bandyopadhyay) and Dhruba Mukhopadhyay.

5. The eastern Ghats Belt, India - a new look at an old orogen/Saibal Gupta.

6. Structural Asymmetry and plate tectonic set-up for a proterozoic fold-and-thrust belt : Nallamalai fold belt and adjoining terrane, South India/Dilip Saha.

7. Eastern Ghats mobile belt - (less)

Introduction. 2.

Progressing discipline. 3.

Structural setup. 4.

Cultivation and growth. 5.

Problems for teachers. 6.

Learners' achievements. 7.

Main objectives. 8.

Preparing professionals. 9.

Preparing technicians. 10.

Measurement and examination. 11.

Government's role. 12.

Role of society. 13.

Plan outlay-2002-2007. Bibliography.

"A clear and comprehensive analysis and account of the several crucial aspects of adult education, adult literacy and continuing education is essential for the student as well as teacher in the concerned field. The present publication intends to provide this caliber of reading text for the benefit of student, researcher, academician, educator and planner.

The extended coverage of the material in the following pages cover all significant subjects: perspective concepts, structural organization, learning situations and methodologies, difference between adult education and adult literacy, the implications and interventions for continuing education, preparing professionals, preparing technicians, measurement and evaluation, and the role of society. Government initiatives, NGO interventions and individual action and (less)

2. Different Nano-structures and Nano-materials.

3. Classification of nanomaterials by utility and composition.

4. Measuring nanostructures--nanometrology.

5. Manufacturing industry of nanostructures and nanomaterials.

6. Nanomaterials and nanostructures : where will they impact most? 7.

Nanomaterials through synthesis and Assembly. 8.

Bulk behaviour of nanomaterials under select industrial applications. Appendix.

"Nanomaterials are not simply another step in the miniaturization of materials. Nanomaterials (nanocrystalline materials) are materials possessing grain sizes on the order of a billionth of a meter.

They manifest extremely fascinating and useful properties, which can be exploited for a variety of structural and non-structural applications. All materials are composed of grains, which in turn comprise many atoms.

Making of nanomaterials often requires very different production approaches. As introduced in the book, there are several processes to create nanomaterials, classified as 'top-down' and 'bottom-up'.

Although many nanomaterials are currently at the laboratory stage of manufacture, a (less)

Structural Organization of Chromatids 3. Special Chromosomes 4.

Structural and Numerical Aberrations involving Chromosomes 5. Nature of Genetic Material : Nucleic Acids 6.

Structure of DNA 7. DNA Replication in Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes Unit -II 8.

Molecular Basis of Life, Mendelian's Laws of Inheritance and Gene Interaction 9. Banding Pattern in Human Chromosomes 10.

Sex Determination in Animals, Sex Linkages 11. Non-disjunction as Proof of Chromosomal Theory 12.

Linkage and Mapping Gene in Pro and Eukaryotes 13. Interference and Coincidence in Pro and Eukaryotes 14.

Hereditary Defect-Klinefelter, Turner, Cri-du-Chat and Down Syndrome Unit -III 15. Structure of Prokaryotic Gene, Prokaryotic Transcription, Translation and Gene Expression (Lac, His Trp, Catabolic Repression) 16.

Structure of Eukaryotic Gene, Eukaryotic Transcription, Translation and Gene Expression Transcription Factors 17. One Gene-One Enzyme Hypothesis 18.

DNA Recombination: Molecular Mechanism in Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Organisms 19. Gene Expression in Yeast 20.

Gene Expression (less)

Language. 2.

Some inflectional categories. 3.

Some types of inflection. 4.

Immediate constituents. 5.

Reading comprehension. 6.

Phonetics and phonemics in second language teaching. 7.

Structuralism and linguistics. 8.

The linguistic basis of structuralism. 9.

Structuralism in social anthropology. 10.

Social life as a sign system. 11.

The structural analysis of literature: the tales of Henry James. 12.

The structuralist sciences and philosophy. Index.

"The presentation of a subject like linguistics has been a tough matter to analyse for any writer as it is a scientific study of a language, or comparatively of many languages. Language is one of the human aspects of all beings.

What to say of human beings, it also a characteristic of animal world of a thousand creatures. Each animal group of beings has its own typical style, or signs and symbols, to express one's self to give a call to be collected as a crowd, or to (less)

2. English structure.

3. Elementary transformational generative grammar and case grammar.

4. Language varieties.

5. Phonetics.

6. Stylistics and literary appreciation.

7. Theme writing.

Bibliography. "Elementary Linguistics and phonetics has been written according to the syllabus prescribed by Indian Universities for post-graduate examinations and combines chapters on linguistics (General, structural, socio and psycho), phonetics stylistics and theme writing.

Topics have been treated precisely, yet enough details have been included to make them complete and through and it is hoped that this slender volume will prove of assistance to those for whom it has been prepared. At the end of each chapter will be found solved exercise that have been set in the university question papers.

Questions on literary appreciation and theme writing have been fully solved to provide models and to encourage students to think on their own. Sincere thank are due to authors and publishers whose books have (less)

A note on the use of Indian terms. 1.

Introduction: Aesthetic space and the pictorial language. 2.

Rock art: pre-linguistic expressions. 3.

Tribal art: language of the primitives. 4.

Folk diagrams Jhoti and Cita: language with a rural sensibility. 5.

Temple murals: language of mytho-religico discourse. 6.

Pata paintings: language of new devotion. 7.

Palm leaf illustrations: language of the poet Elite: 8. Silpa Sastra and Citra Sastra illustrations: inner language of structural forms.

9. Easel paintings, installations and happenings: language alien.

10. Conclusion: towards the formation of art linguistics.

Bibliography. Plates.

"Aesthetics of Pictorial Language epitomizes a fine piece of scholarship, both in terms of its presentation and documentation. In trying to signify the qualities embodied in the aesthetic space, the author has effortlessly ransacked the cupboards of the rich Orissan art forms-from the tribal to the modern and postmodern.

The book unravels the ubiquitous, and almost indefinable, connection between the (less)

1. Introduction.

2. Poems 1981-1994: i.

Mappings. ii.

The Humble administrator's garden. iii.

All you who sleep tonight. iv.

Three Chinese poets. v.

Beastly tales from here and there. 3.

Poems 1981-1994: a study in style. 4.

The golden gate. 5.

A suitable boy. 6.

An equal music. 7.

Conclusion. Select bibliography.

Index. "The book, through critical analysis and assessment, tries to establish Seth as a powerful and serious writer, who deserves to be taken seriously, both by the general reader and the discerning scholar and researcher.

The analyses concentrate on his individual books and attempt to trace the continuity of Seth's thought-process, motivation and attitudes, as well as the dimensions of his structural control over the medium. It is a comprehensive account of Seth's poetry and fiction contained within a singular volume.

An attempt has also been made to briefly place Seth as an Indian writer of English, in the context (less)

I. Ontology : the nature of reality: 1.

A preliminary statement of an important Vedantic and Buddhistic objection against the Jaina view of reality, leading to the formulation of five types of approach to the problem of reality. 2.

A study in contrasts. 3.

The schools of philosophy in which identity subordinates difference. 4.

The schools of philosophy in which difference subordinates identity. 5.

The Jaina philosophy of identity in difference in which identity is co-ordinate with difference. 6.

The externalistic doctrine of identity in difference (Ubhyavada) versus the doctrine of a unique and integral synthesis of identity-in-difference (Jatyantaravada). 7.

Is relation an entity, or a mental construction, or a structural manifestation of identity-in-difference in reality? 8. A consideration of two controversies concerning Dravya and Guna (and/or Paryaya) with a view to clarifying the nature of both.

II. Epistemology : a Anekantavada, the theory of manifoldness, the most consistent theory of realism; (less)

Upto c. 800 CE: 1.

The early Buddhist phase. 2.

Rock-cut architecture and the beginning of the structural temple. 3.

Experiments in divergent forms of temple superstructure in the Deccan: Early Western Chalukyas. 4.

Beginnings of the Dravidian temple in South India : the Pallavas. II.

Post c. 800 CE : the Karnata-Dravida order: 5.

Tamilnad: the Cholas. 6.

Karnataka: the later Chalukyas. 7.

Karnataka the Hoysalas. 8.

Karnataka Vijayanagara. III.

The Gurjara-Maru and Bhumija order: 9. Western India: Gujarat.

10. Western India: Rajasthan.

IV. The North Indian style: 11.

Temples of Central India. 12.

Architecture of the Himalayan States: Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttaranchal. V.

Eastern India: 13. The Phamsana order in Orissa.

Glossary and Bibliography. "The present book deals with the evolution of divergent architectural styles in the long tradition of Buddhist, Hindu and Jain temples.

As such it is not a comprehensive history of architecture with pretensions to any (less)

Framework for regulation of biotechnology. 2.

Health and human services. 3.

Environmental protection agency. 4.

Applicability of biological agents to microbial products. 5.

Applicability of the toxic substances control act. 6.

Research and development exemption. 7.

Department of agriculture. 8.

Diabetes and biotechnology. 9.

Human replacement parts and somatic gene therapy. 10.

Biopesticides and biotechnology pesticide products. 11.

Insect resistance management in Bt crops. Bibliography.

Index. "The impact of biotechnology on human life and economic progress of various nations world over has given a major impetus to accelerate research, development and application of this field in relevant socio-economic sectors.

The cell fusion techniques, recombinant DNA technology, protein engineering and structural biology have made phenomenal progress as priority research areas. The country today has excellent expertise in more than 25 institutions, including the universities.

In addition to basic research, the scientists are actively engaged in fermentation based activities, production of valuable biologicals, plant (less)

Structure of algebra. 2.

Algebra and module. 3.

Commutative algebra. 4.

Noncommutative algebra. 5.

Continuity and functions. 6.

Ring theory. 7.

Galois theory. 8.

Group theory. 9.

Algebraic geometry. "This book "Abstract Algebra" offers a comprehensive a self-contained presentation of all major topics in Abstract Algebra and provides an in depth treatment of the application of algebraic technique and the relationship of algebra to other disciplines such as structure of algebra, algebra and module, commutative algebra, Ring theory, Galois theory, Group theory, algebraic geometry.

Emphasizing both the conceptual and computational aspects of algebra to aid structural thinking as well as operational skills, abstract algebra includes thorough discussions of group actions; matrix groups; the correlation between Ring theory, number theory and algebraic geometry, Galois theory. The aim of this book is to convey to students, instructors and lecturers the fact that concepts of abstract algebra encountered previously in the first algebra course can (less)

Introduction to Cyanobacteria. 2.

Ecology of Cyanobacteria. 3.

Cyanobacterial toxins. 4.

Antibacterial activity of freshwater Cyanobacteria. 5.

Antibacterial activity of marine Cyanobacteria. 6.

Effects of Cyanobacteria on Plankton. 7.

Structural and functional features of Cyanobacteria. 8.

Analysis of Cyanobacterial activity. 9.

Cyanobacteria and human health. 10.

Management of Cyanobacterial hazards. 11.

Ecological management of Cyanobacteria. Bibliography.

Index. "Cyanobacteria, also known as Blue-green algae, blue-green bacteria or Cyanophyta, is a phylum of bacteria that obtain their energy through photosynthesis.

The name "Cyano-bacteria" comes from the colour of the bacteria. They are a significant component of the marine nitrogen cycle and important primary producers in many areas of the ocean, but are also found in habitats other than the marine environment; in particular Cyanobacteria are known to occur in both freshwater, hypersaline inland lakes and in arid areas where they are a major component of biological soil crusts.

The book begins an introduction to (less)

2. Lithotectonic framework of Gujarat and adjoining regions.

3. Physiography, stratigraphy and seismicity of Kutch.

4. Mainshock analysis.

5. Macroseismic survey.

6. Isoseismal map and isoseist characteristics.

7. Damage to engineered structures.

8. Coseismic structural ground deformation.

9. Secondary effects of the earthquake.

10. Aftershock investigation of 26 January 2001 Kutch (Bhuj) earthquake.

11. Post earthquake geophysical studies.

12. Seismotectonics of the region and source mechanism of Kutch earthquake-2001.

13. Societal issues and course for future studies.

References. Annexures: 1.

Newspaper reports. 2.

Locality index. 3.

Medvedev-Sponheuer-Karnik (MSK-64) intensity scale. 4.

Aftershock parameters. From the preface: "The 52 Republic Day of India was marked by one of the most destructive earthquakes of all times that has been recorded in the Indian soil.

The natural catastrophe inflicted enormous damage to life and property in Kutch and some other districts of Gujarat, thereby plunging the entire Nation in a state of gloom. The Geological (less)

Introduction. 2.

Tantric literature. 3.

External influences and interactions. 4.

The primitive substratum. 5.

Tantrism and the earlier forms of Indian religious systems. 6.

Development of Tantric Buddhism. 7.

Tantric ideas and practices in medieval religious systems. 8.

Tantrism and the religion of the masses: the Lokayata tradition. 9.

The sophisticated Tantras with Sakta orientation. 10.

Tantric art: a review. 11.

A glossary of Tantric technical terms. Bibliography.

Index. "In this book, the author presents in historical outline, the genesis, development and structural analysis of the Tantric tradition in India and its place in the Indian religious and philosophical systems.

It studies the different aspects of Tantrism, its vastness and intricacies, its heterogeneous and contradictory elements and gives a historical perspective to the conglomeration of ideas and practices through space and time. After an introduction to the meaning of Tantra, the work outlines the various texts which comprise Tantric literature.

The development (less)

Introduction to the first edition. Introduction to the fifth edition.

I. From gold to capital: 1.

The long journey toward capitalism. 2.

The century of the three revolutions (eighteenth century). 3.

The irresistible rise of industrial capitalism (1800-70). II.

The era of imperialism: 4. From the great depression to the Great War (1873-1914).

5. The Great Upheaval (1914-45).

6. Capitalism's great leap forward (1945-80).

7. The end of the twentieth century: an accelerating transformation of the contemporary world? Notes.

Index. "The conquest of the Americas inaugurated the slow accumulation of resources and the imperceptible structural transformations that culminated in the Industrial Revolution.

From that moment on, capitalism grew and expanded with a dynamism and adaptability that are now all too familiar, profiting from wars and even managing to rebound after a series of devastating economic crises. In this highly-anticipated updated edition, Michel Beaud extends (less)

Beginnings. 2.

Victorians, Germans and a Frenchman. 3.

Four founding fathers. 4.

Expansion and institutionalisation. 5.

Forms of change. 6.

The power of symbols. 7.

Questioning authority. 8.

The end of modernism? 9. Reconstructions.

Bibliography. Index.

"This is the first work to cover the entire history of social and cultural anthropology in a single volume. The authors provide a summary of the discipline in the nineteenth century, from the cultural theories of Herder, Morgan and Tylor to the often neglected contributions of the German scholars of the period.

The work of early twentieth-century anthropologist such as Boas and Malinowski in the US and Britain, and the sociology of Durkheim and Mauss in France, is examined. The ambiguous relationship between anthropology and national cultures-- many of the discipline's founders were migrants of Jews--also receives considerations.

The principal focus of this book is on the themes characteristic of Post-First World War anthropology, from structural (less)

The rural-urban continuum re-examined in the Indian context. 2.

Charisma, social structure and social change. 3.

Community power structure in rural India. 4.

The theory of voluntary associations in a cross-cultural perspective. 5.

Student power in India: a sociological analysis. Part II: 6.

Agrarian classes and political mobilization. 7.

Political alienation and internal threats to the Indian polity. 8.

Movements and institutions: structural opposition or processual linkages? 9. Erving Goffman and the study of everyday protest.

10. Religion and development in Hindu society.

11. Western vision and eastern survival: towards a futuristic agenda.

12. State, nation and ethnie: the processual linkages.

References. Index.

"The endeavour to internationalise the social sciences has a long history. Some have advanced this cause as a genuine effort to foster a dispassionate understanding of human society without 'national' frontiers; others have perceived it as a way of establishing the ideological hegemony of either capitalism or (less)

Rethinking anthropology anew/Meenakshi Thapan. II.

Anthropological Questions: 1. Anthropological knowledge, alterity and the autobiographical voice/Veena Das.

2. The subject in fieldwork: Malinowski and Gandhi/Amrit Srinivasan.

3. Unlearning fieldwork: the flight of the Arctic tern/Savyasaachi.

4. Subjectivity in contexts of objectification: identity and structural imagery among the Warlis/Denzil Saldanha.

III. The Self and the Other in the Anthropological Context: 1.

Discovering Anthropology: a personal narrative/T.N.

Madan. 2.

How 'native is a native Anthropologist'?/Kirin Narayan. 3.

Among my own in another culture: meeting the Asian Indian Americans/Maitrayee Chaudhuri. IV.

Gendered Selves in Fieldwork: 1. Dialogue as method and as text/Saraswati Haider.

2. Gender in field research: experiences in India/Loes Schenk-Sandbergen.

3. Learning to take people seriously/Madhu Kishwar.

Index. "The collection of papers raises methodological issues and questions concerning the traditional nature of anthropology, and addresses current issues and debates in sociology and social anthropology.

As a discipline social anthropology grew out of the (less)

Introduction. 2.

Evolution of computers. 3.

Biological macromolecules. 4.

Basic techniques in bioinformatics. 5.

Biological database. 6.

Sequence alignment. 7.

Multiple sequence alignments. 8.

Computational gene prediction. 9.

Proteomics. 10.

Genomics. Glossary.

References. Index.

"Bioinformatics is a field of study that integrates biological sciences with computer science. This book is the first of its kind written for students and teachers.

It gives the readers an insight into genomics and proteomics including origin and history of bioinformatics, computer generations, their types and operating systems, role of PERL and JAVA as programming languages, central dogma of molecular biology, with structural details of DNA, RNA and proteins and fundamental techniques used to study their structures, the database retrieval with PubMed, Entrez, SRS, OMIM, ExPASy and EMBL, the BLAST and FASTA software packages to determine sequence matches, the computational methods for gene prediction, protein sequence databases. Swiss Prot, PDB, software for visualization of protein structure, and (less)

Bioinformatics : an overview. 2.

Molecular biology and bioinformatics. 3.

The information molecules and information flow. 4.

Proteins—their structural profiles and properties. 5.

Using the Linux operating system. 6.

Programming with Perl. 7.

Understanding and using biological databases. 8.

Alignment of pairs of sequence. 9.

Tools for sequence alignment. 10.

Alignment of multiple sequences. 11.

Phylogenetic analysis. 12.

Gene prediction methods. 13.

Visualization and predication of protein structure. 14.

Gene mapping, sequence assembly and gene expression. 15.

Proteomics. 16.

Problem solving in bioinformatics. Selected references.

Glossary. Index.

"Bioinformatics: Concepts, Skills & Applications is a comprehensive introduction to the field of bioinformatics that allows students, scientists, researchers, and even enthusiasts interested in the use of computers in biological research to better grasp this dynamic and fast emerging area. The book adopts an integrated approach because of the interdisciplinary nature of the subject, for developing skills in sequencing and analysing genomes of various organisms (less)

1. Introduction to bioinformatics.

2. Database.

3. Sequence alignment and database searching.

4. Phylogenetic analysis.

5. Predictive methods.

6. Plasmid mapping and primer design.

7. Proteomics and genomics.

8. Insilico drug design.

9. Bioinformatics software and its applications.

10. GCG Wisconsin package.

Glossary. Appendix.

Index. "Bioinformatics is an upcoming disciplines of life sciences.

It is an integration of computer science and mathematical and statistical methods to manage and analyze the biological data. The fundamental issues that directly impact an understanding of life at structural, functional and molecular level and regulation of gene expression can be studies by using bioinformatics tools.

The Fundamentals of Bioinformatics is a comprehensive book for research scholars, who urge to learn about theoretical as well as practical aspects of this upcoming field. This pioneering book provides up-to-date information of bioinformatics and emphasizes recent topics like drug design technology, pharmacogenomics, proteomics and genomics.

The present textbook will be an (less)

Bioinformatics – an overview/S. Seshadri, K.

Kathiravan, R. Elangomathavan, S.

Prakash and S. Ignacimuthu.

2. Bioinformatics : a boon to the mankind/Yogesh T.

Jasrai, Bhavisha B. Wala, Maulik N.

Thaker and Anuja N. Dubey.

3. Bioinformatics – approaches and applications/S.

Seshadri, S. Janarthanan, K.

Kathiravan, S. Prakash, R.

Elangomathavan and S. Ignacimuthu.

4. Structural bioinformatics/Talluri Sekhar, J.

S.R.

Murthy and Adam Liwo. 5.

Protein and nucleic acid databases, their accession and searching/R. Thimmaraju and N.

Bhagyalakshmi. 6.

Agro-informatics and its strategic role in agricultural research/D.K.

Verma and N.K.

Singh. 7.

Phytotherapeutical databases/S.S.

Mandal and P. Kumar.

8. Web based programming/D.

P. Bhavani Shekhar.

9. Artificial intelligence/D.

P. Bhavani Shekhar and Azeez Ahmed Khan.

"Computers are now an integral part of the biological world and without them, advancements in biology and medicine would undoubtedly be hindered. The partnership between these non-living structures (computers) and biology has created a need for mergers in certain aspects of the (less)