This book offers an in-depth examination of chilli peppers, including their scientific aspects, technologies and uses in processing, product creation and quality control. It explores the distinctive qualities of chilli peppers, including their nutritional and bioactive components, along with their cultural importance and economic worth. The book begins with an overview of the extensive history, categorization and worldwide status of chilli production and consumption. It explores commercial...

'I can feel the difference in the air. Within five minutes of entering a startup's office, I know if it is funded by a venture capital (VC) firm or built brick by brick with its own funding...'WELCOME TO THE WORLD of Indian startups. Their founders are mostly middle class, bootstrapped and new to business. And yet on the strength of their ideas and effort, their companies now feature in our day-to-day lives and command multibillion-dollar valuations. With huge VC fu...

Everyone who saw them thought that Aarav and Anushka were a made for each other couple… He had wealth, position and power; and she had beauty, charm and sophistication. Both had youth and vitality…But few know the truth buried in the pasts of these two charming young people…They are drawn to each other like a pair of magnets. But how true it is that the path of true love rarely runs smooth!As this story filled with sorrow, hope, greed, passion, cruelty and betrayal unfolds, will the two be ab...

"Race" and Culture: Tools, Techniques and Trainings is a practical resource for trainers who wish to work with the issues raised by racial and cultural diversity in their own agency settings. It is intended as an easy guide and a "hands-on" tool for practitioners (family therapists, clinical psychologists, social workers, GPs, nurses, health visitors, counsellors, teachers, etc), academics, educators and students. It brings together contributions from professional trainers working...

Financing Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Markets offers an original perspective on the links between macro data on innovation, data on micro-entrepreneurial processes and venture capital supply. The authors synthesize two disparate fields of research and thinking—innovation and entrepreneurship and economics—to illuminate how domestic companies compete and the business environment in which entrepreneurial firms operate. Its broad scope and firm linkages between processes at di...

This interesting and enchanting collection of folk tales from all over India is basically meant for children to make them learn the language and at the same time acquaint them with rich Indian values and culture. These short stories contain all the necessary ingredients that are required to capture a child`s ever-inquisitive mind and help him understand the various mysteries of life.

A theoretical understanding of migration and its impact upon societyNew beginning of Partition History in the Brahmaputra Valley with the help of oral historyExploring the view of the Partition-Displaced Bengalis in the Brahmaputra ValleyElucidating the trauma of the Partition-DisplacedAnalysing the contemporary, societal situation with the coming of the Partition-DisplacedExamining the rehabilitation measures provided to the Partition-Disp...

3D cell culture is yet to be adopted and exploited to its full potential. It promises to upgrade and bring our understanding about human physiology to the highest level with the scope of applying the knowledge for better diagnosis as well as therapeutics. The focus of this book is on the direct impact of novel technologies and their evolution into viable products for the benefit of human race. It also describes the fundamentals of cell microenvironment to bring forth the relevance of 3D ce...

VOLUME IV OF ADVANCED GUIDE ON DISASTER MANAGEMENT deals with use, effects and how to handle disasters caused by NBC (CBRNe). The Guide also deals with CHEMICAL, BIOLOGICAL & NUCLEAR WEAPON CONVENTIONS. CBRNe are weapons of mass destruction which can cause mass destruction covering large populated and un-populated areas. They can be caused either be negligence or by defects in design, accidentally or can be used deliberately by nations/ by covert and overt actions of terrorists.

The master of ancient Greek comic drama, Aristophanes combined slapstick, humour and cheerful vulgarity with acute political observations. In The Frogs, written during the Peloponnesian War, Dionysus descends to the Underworld to bring back a poet who can help Athens in its darkest hour, and stages a great debate to help him decide between the traditional wisdom of Aeschylus and the brilliant modernity of Euripides. The clash of generations and values is also the object of Aristop...

Human Action Recognition is a challenging area presently. The vigor of research effort directed towards this domain is self indicative of this. With the ever-increasing involvement of Computational Intelligence in our day to day applications, the necessity of human activity recognition has been able to make its presence felt to the concerned research community. The primary drive of such an effort is to equip the computing system capable of recognizing and interpreting human activities from...

This book features research papers presented at the International Conference on Emerging Technologies in Data Mining and Information Security (IEMIS 2022) held at Institute of Engineering & Management, Kolkata, India, during February 23–25, 2022. The book is organized in three volumes and includes high-quality research work by academicians and industrial experts in the field of computing and communication, including full-length papers, research-in-progress papers and case studies related t...