Forest landscape disturbances are a global phenomenon. Simulation models are an important tool in understanding these broad scale processes and exploring their effects on forest ecosystems. This book contains a collection of insights from a group of ecologists who address a variety of processes: physical disturbances such as drought, wind, and fire; biological disturbances such as defoliating insects and bark beetles; anthropogenic influences; interactions among disturbances; effects of cl...

December 11th 1930, British IndiaThe sleepy Himalayan hill resort of Mussoorie is shaken by the murder of a rich British colonel. Hundreds of kilometres away in New Delhi, Chief Inspector Malcolm Priestly receives an urgent message from his friend, John Harrison. Harrison informs Priestly that he has been arrested for the murder and pleads with him to leave for Mussoorie immediately.Malcolm Priestly arrives in Mussoorie with his long-time assistant, Dr. Prem Singh. The insp...

TWISTED TALESStories with unexpected endingsTHE CHAT ROOMA sex obsessed college student meets a beautiful girl on an online chat room. He finally locates her real address and agrees to meet her at a sex party.THE GUIDEA young nun from Britain arrives in a secluded village in the middle of the Himalayan jungle. She is met by a Christian pastor who offers to guide her to the mission hospital nearby. But he has a big secret.A NEW CHRISTMAS CAROL...

‘[Ajith’s book] is the first full account I have seen between hard covers which is exclusively about a journalist’s adventures and journeys in the field... An extraordinary first “rough draft of history”, a portraitof India from the 80s to the present time.’ – Vinod Mehta‘Ajith Pillai’s account of his journalistic odyssey covers the period of India’s Great Transformation from the 1980s to the present. He does so with incisive wit and insight into a br...

All of us dream of a better world; we dream of Hopes and Aspirations. Utopia is not merely some fictional concept but a state of being that we can all achieve through our dreams. This book is a collection of inspirational poems about hoping for the best amidst the chaos of life. These poems are inspired from the trials and tribulations of the author’s own journey. The artistic instincts of the author have helped her paint lovely hues to her creations with liveliness, positivity, and cheer....

Are you exhausted from dealing with arrogant, entitled, and narcissistic people who drain your energy, undermine your confidence, and make you question your own worth?You're not alone.In The Arrogant Asshole Survival Guide, you'll discover a complete, no-nonsense system to protect your peace, reclaim your power, and handle difficult people without losing yourself in the process.This practical and empowering guide goes far beyond generic advice. Drawing from...

Tired of daily activities? Worried about your past and fearing the future? Failing to live in the present? Struggling with your professional life? Feeling discomfort in both the mind and body with chronic ailments?In search of a solution for so many days, still can’t fix the problem, failing to connect all the dots in a single frame, here is the one-stop solution for all the above problems.This book eradicates ignorance. It is not written for knowledge purposes, but it is p...

Funky Charlie is a fun, direct, witty children’s book about hygiene. Charlies a young growing boy who just likes to get up and go. Bathing and self-care are the last thing running through his mind as he gets ready for school. Charlie mom tries to tell him the importance of: Brushing his teeth, showering, washing his face and the up keeping of his attire. But, like most children he does not listen the on-going speech goes in one ear and out the other a term the older adults use. When he get...

This comprehensive text follows an evidence-based approach to thoroughly discuss Atrial septal defects. Since this congenital heart disease mostly presents in adulthood, it becomes imperative to understand the embryology, pathophysiology and anatomy in detail, for effective management of these patients. This book has strong clinical focus on anatomy, natural history, indications, imaging methods and practical aspects of disease management, which inculcates best practice in the day to day m...

The text discusses recurrent neural networks for prediction and offers new insights into the learning algorithms, architectures, and stability of recurrent neural networks. It discusses important topics including recurrent and folding networks, long short-term memory (LSTM) networks, gated recurrent unit neural networks, language modeling, neural network model, activation function, feed-forward network, learning algorithm, neural turning machines, and approximation ability. The text discus...

Blockchain technology is an emerging distributed, decentralized architecture and computing paradigm, which has accelerated the development and application of cloud, fog and edge computing; artificial intelligence; cyber physical systems; social networking; crowdsourcing and crowdsensing; 5g; trust management and finance; and other many useful sectors.Nowadays, the primary blockchain technology uses are in information systems to keep information secure and private. However, many thr...

This book presents 53 selected papers focused on Deep Learning and Large Language Models from the 14th International Conference on Innovations in Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications (IBICA 2023) and 13th World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies (WICT 2023), which was held in five different cities namely Olten, Switzerland; Porto, Portugal; Kaunas, Lithuania; Greater Noida, India; Kochi, India and in online mode. The 23rd International Conference on Hybrid Intelligen...