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Transforming Food Systems for a Rising India
This book examines India’s economic development, agricultural production, and nutrition through the lens of a “Food Systems Approach (FSA).” Despite economic progress, regional inequality, food insecurity and malnutrition persist. Simultaneously, recent trends in obesity and micro-nutrient deficiency indicate a future public health crisis. This book explores the challenges and opportunities to achieve a nutrition-secure future through diversified production systems, improved health and hygiene and greater individual capability to access a balanced diet. Within the context of developing countries, they highlight India’s status as an outlier regarding high levels of stunting and global trends in obesity. This book discusses the policy and institutional interventions needed to promote a nutrition-sensitive food system and the multi-sectoral strategies needed to address malnutrition in India.
Transforming Financial Institutions : Value Creation through Technology Innovation and Operational Change
In Transforming Financial Institutions through Technology Innovation and Operational Change, visionary turnaround leader Joerg Ruetschi delivers a practical and globally relevant methodology and framework for value creation at financial institutions. The author demonstrates how financial organisations can combine finance strategy with asset-liability and technology management to differentiate their services and gain competitive advantage in a ferocious industry.
Transforming Education Outcomes in Africa : Learning from Togo
Good education changes lives. It is therefore unsurprising that improved schooling plays a central part in most development strategies. At the same time, the expansion of school attainment alone is not sufficient to guarantee improved welfare. This book focuses on one country in West Africa, Togo, to explore what a country that has successfully increased enrollment rates can do to enhance learning outcomes. The authors explore different avenues for improvement, including enhancing the efficiency with which resources are used; increasing the qualifications of teachers; and through greater community involvement in school management. There is scope for improvement along all these dimensions, yet changes at the margin are insufficient to bring about the transformation needed to bring about acceptable levels of learning.
Transforming dentistry : The rise and near demise of dentistry at Western University
Focusing on the years from 1965 to 2015, Transforming Dentistry highlights Western University’s ambitious plans to create and situate a dental program within a health sciences complex; the practical challenges involved in implementing a curriculum and populating a new school; the influence of key dental faculty, community dentists, and students in shaping the program; and the school’s near closure during the 1990s. Detail how and why the training of dentists was transformed by science, technology, and individual educators. The book focuses on the unique aspects of Western’s dental program and compares it with the programs offered at nine other Canadian schools.
Transformations in Medieval and Early-Modern Rights Discourse
Rights language is a fundamental feature of the modern world. Virtually all significant social and political struggles are waged, and have been waged for over a century now, in terms of rights claims.The present volume brings together some of the most central scholars in the history of medieval and early-modern rights discourse. Through the different angles taken by its authors, the volume brings to light the multifaceted nature of rights languages in the medieval and early modern world.
Transformations and Projections in Computer Graphics
Transformations and projections are used extensively in Computer Graphics, a field which is now a part of everyone’s lives via feature films, advertisements in the media, the screens of PDAs, mobile phones, and other vehicles and outlets. Transformations and Projections in Computer Graphics provides a thorough background in these two important topics in graphics. The book introduces perspective in an original way and discusses the mathematics of perspective in detail, yet in an accessible way. It also treats nonlinear projections in depth, including the popular fisheye, panorama, and map projections used by many professionals to enhance digital images. Only a basic knowledge of linear algebra, vectors, and matrices is required of readers, as key ideas are introduced slowly, examined and illustrated by figures and examples, and enforced through solved exercises.
Transformational Change for People and the Planet : Evaluating Environment and Development
This Open Access book deals with the pressing question of how to achieve transformational change that reconciles development with environmental sustainability. It particularly focuses on the role of evaluation in finding sustainable solutions. Environment and development are closely interlinked, as are human health and ecosystem health. The pandemic that began in 2020 demonstrated in no uncertain terms how destruction of habitats has allowed hitherto unknown pathogens spill over to humans wreaking havoc on people’s lives and livelihoods. We are already seeing the impacts of global climate change in terms of heatwaves, forest fires and increased storms.
Transformation in Higher Education : Global Pressures and Local Realities
This book presents the most comprehensive and most thorough study of the developments in South African higher education and research after the first democratic elections of 1994 – that is of post-Apartheid South African higher education. This volume will provide its readers with a detailed insight into the new (i.e. post-1994) South African higher education system. The large number of experienced authors and editors involved in the book guarantees that the reader will be introduced in the new SA higher education system from a large number of perspectives that are presented in a consistent and coherent way.
Transformation and Development : Studies in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Member States
This book features various studies on democratization, transformation, political and economic development, and security issues in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) geographical region and beyond.
Transendoscopic Ultrasound for Neurosurgery
Endoscopic neurosurgery has not yet reached the safety and applicability of microsurgery. Endo-neuro-sonography is a new technique aimed at making endoscopy safer by real-time imaging and navigation capacity (brain-radar). The endo-neurosonographic image is a sonographic scan at the tip of the endoscope (mini-CT) providing additional information to the endoscopic view. Endo-Neuro-Sonography is the first book on this new topic, presenting techniques and equipment, anatomical features, and the first clinical series. Schematic drawings, tables and 237 figures (122 in color) offer a precise overview of this technique. The final chapter is dealing with future concepts on minimally invasive neurosurgery and specific reference to ergonomics in neurosurgery.
Transducers and Arrays for Underwater Sound
This book is concerned with the theory, development and design of electroacoustic transducers for underwater applications, and is more comprehensive than any existing book in this field. It includes the basics of the six major types of electroacoustic transducers, with emphasis on the piezoelectric ceramic transducers that are currently most widely used.
Transdisciplinary Digital Art. Sound, Vision and the New Screen ; Digital Art Weeks and Interactive Futures 2006/2007, Zurich, Switzerland and Victoria, BC, Canada. Selected Papers
This volume collects essays that broadly encompass the digital arts, Transdisciplinary Digital Art gives a clear overview of the on-going strength of scientific, philosophical, aesthetic and artistic research that makes digital art perhaps the defining medium of the 21st Century.
Transdermal Drug Delivery System Patch of Testosterone
Transdermal Drug Delivery System is a medicated way to administer the active ingredient by the skin; the adhesive patch is the major representation of this system. It is placed on the healthy skin to transfer the medication through the dermas then into the bloodstream.” TDDS” historically used since 19th century. In comparison with other formulations, it has many advantages. Meanly avoidance of first pass metabolism. Several types of TDDS are prepared, they differ by the number of layers and components. Some examples have been cited and modern technology, like nanocarrier, is used in TDDS. One of the APIs used in TDDS is Testosterone; this hormone is produced by human body, secreted in stable amount, when it decreases it causes important troubles. We mention that this kind of pharmaceutical form is missed in our country (Syria) so, we studied the possibility to prepare this form in our research lab. And we take the Testosterone as API of our works.
Transboundary Water Resources : Strategies for Regional Security and Ecological Stability
Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Transboundary Water Resources: Strategies for Regional Security and Ecological Stability. Novosibirsk, Russia, 25-27 August 2003
Transboundary Water Resources : A Foundation for Regional Stability in Central Asia
The Central Asian republics and neighboring countries are currently experiencing these problems - problems that will become exacerbated by global climate change, increasing population and growing demands for water. In response to these growing concerns, on 20-22 June 2006, Research Workshop (ARW) entitled, “Facilitating Regional Security in Central Asia through Improved Management of Transboundary Water Basin Resources”.
Transboundary Floods : Reducing Risks Through Flood Management
Flood damages are increasing as a result of frequent occurrence of large floods in many parts of the world, existing and continuing encroachment of development onto flood plains and aging flood protection structures. Under such circumstances, there is an ongoing search for better ways of protecting human life, land, property and the environment by improved flood management. Many flood management measures have been practiced in various jurisdictions, including living with floods, non-structural measures (e.g., regulations, flood defence by flood forecasting and warning, evacuations, and flood insurance), and structural measures (e.g., land drainage modifications, reservoirs, dykes and polders). Such flood management is difficult in river basins controlled by a single authority, and becomes even more challenging when dealing with transboundary floods, which may originate in one country or jurisdiction and then propagate downstream to another country, or jurisdiction.
Transactions on Rough Sets VIII
This volume of TRS presents papers that introduce a number of new - vances in the foundations and applications of arti?cial intelligence, engineering, logic, mathematics, and science. These advances have signi?cant implications in a number of researchareas.In addition, it is evident from the papers included in this volume that roughset theoryand its application forma veryactiveresearch area worldwide.
Transactions on Rough Sets VII : Commemorating the Life and Work of Zdzislaw Pawlak ; Part II
This volume of the TRS presents papers that reflect the profound influence of a number of research initiatives by Zdzislaw Pawlak. In particular, it introduces a number of new advances in the foundations and applications of artificial intelligence, engineering, logic, mathematics, and science. These advances have significant implications in a number of research areas. In addition, it is evident from the papers included in this volume that rough set theory and its application form a very active research area worldwide. A total of 42 researchers from 13 countries are represented in this volume, namely, Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Poland, P.R. China, Sweden, Thailand, Taiwan, UK (Wales)
Transactions on Rough Sets VI : Commemorating Life and Work of Zdislaw Pawlak ; Part I
This volume introduces a number of new advances in the foundations and applications of artificial intelligence, engineering, logic, mathematics, and science. These advances have significant implications in a number of research areas such as the foundations of rough sets, approximate reasoning, bioinformatics, computational intelligence, cognitive science, data mining, information systems, intelligent systems, machine intelligence, and security. In addition, it is evident from the papers included in this volume that rough set theory and its application form a very active research area worldwide.
Transactions on Rough Sets V
Volume V of the Transactions on Rough Sets (TRS) is dedicated to the monu-mental life and work of Zdzis law Pawlak1. During the past 35 years, This volume continues the traditionbegun with earlier volumes of the TRS series and introduces a number of newadvances in the foundations and application of rough sets. These advances haveprofound implications in a number of research areas such as adaptive learning,approximate reasoning and belief systems, approximation spaces, Boolean rea-soning, classification methods, classifiers, concept analysis, data mining, decisionlogic, decision rule importance measures, digital image processing, recognitionof emotionally-charged gestures in animations, flow graphs, Kansei engineering,movie sound track restoration, multicriteria decision analysis, relational informa-tion systems, rough-fuzzy sets, rough measures, signal processing, variable pre-cision rough set model, and video retrieval.
