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Computational Intelligence and Blockchain in Biomedical and Health Informatics
by Pankaj Bhambri Sita Rani Muhammad FahimAdvancements in computational intelligence, which encompasses artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data analytics, have revolutionized the way we process and analyze biomedical and health data. These techniques offer novel approaches to understanding complex biological systems, improving disease diagnosis, optimizing treatment plans, and enhancing patient outcomes. Computational Intelligence and Blockchain in Biomedical and Health Informatics introduces the role of computational intelligence and blockchain in the biomedical and health informatics fields and provides a framework and summary of the various methods. The book emphasizes the role of advanced computational techniques and offers demonstrative examples throughout. Techniques to analyze the impacts on the biomedical and health Informatics domains are discussed along with major challenges in deployment. Rounding out the book are highlights of the transformative potential of computational intelligence and blockchain in addressing critical issues in healthcare from disease diagnosis and personalized medicine to health data management and interoperability along with two case studies. This book is highly beneficial to educators, researchers, and anyone involved with health data.Features:• Introduces the role of computational intelligence and blockchain in the biomedical and health informatics fields.• Provides a framework and a summary of various computational intelligence and blockchain methods.• Emphasizes the role of advanced computational techniques and offers demonstrative examples throughout.• Techniques to analyze the impact on biomedical and health informatics are discussed along with major challenges in deployment.• Highlights the transformative potential of computational intelligence and blockchain in addressing critical issues in healthcare from disease diagnosis and personalized medicine to health data management and interoperability.
Cloud and Fog Computing Platforms for Internet of Things (Chapman & Hall/CRC Cloud Computing for Society 5.0)
by Pankaj Bhambri Sita Rani Gaurav Gupta Alex KhangToday, relevant data are typically delivered to cloud-based servers for storing and analysis in order to extract key features and enable enhanced applications beyond the basic transmission of raw data and to realize the possibilities associated with the impending Internet of Things (IoT). To allow for quicker, more efficient, and expanded privacy-preserving services, a new trend called Fog Computing has emerged: moving these responsibilities to the network's edge. Traditional centralized cloud computing paradigms confront new problems posed by IoT application growth, including high latency, limited storage, and outages due to a lack of available resources. Fog Computing puts the cloud and IoT devices closer together to address these issues. Instead of sending IoT data to the cloud, the fog processes and stores it locally at IoT devices. Unlike the cloud, fog-based services have a faster reaction time and better quality overall. Fog Computing, Cloud Computing, and their connectivity with the IoT are discussed in this book, with an emphasis on the advantages and implementation issues. It also explores the various architectures and appropriate IoT applications. Fog Computing, Cloud Computing, and Internet of Things are being suggested as potential research directions. Features: A systematic overview of the state-of-the-art in Cloud Computing, Fog Computing, and Internet of Things Recent research results and some pointers to future advancements in architectures and methodologies Detailed examples from clinical studies using several different data sets
Bhartiya Rashtriya Chalval (1857-1920) First Semester FYBA New NEP Syllabus - SPPU: भारतीय राष्ट्रीय चळवळ (१८५७-१९२०) प्रथम सत्र एफ.वाय.बी.ए. नवीन एन.इ.पी. अभ्यासक्रम - सावित्रीबाई फुले पुणे यूनिवर्सिटी
by Dr Ganesh Pandharinath Bhameसावित्रीबाई फुले पुणे विद्यापीठाच्या (SPPU) नवीन राष्ट्रीय शैक्षणिक धोरण (NEP) 2020 अंतर्गत प्रथम वर्ष बी.ए. (FYBA) अभ्यासक्रमात भारतीय राष्ट्रीय चळवळ (1857-1920) अभ्यासक्रम समाविष्ट केला आहे. अभ्यासक्रमामध्ये विद्यार्थ्यांना 1857 च्या उठावापासून 1920 पर्यंतच्या भारतीय स्वातंत्र्य चळवळीच्या विविध टप्प्यांची सखोल ओळख करून देते. पुस्तकात 1857 च्या उठावाच्या पार्श्वभूमी, कारणे, स्वरूप, व परिणामांसह बंगाल, उत्तर भारत, पश्चिम भारत, आणि दक्षिण भारतातील महत्त्वाच्या उठावांचा तपशीलवार आढावा घेतला आहे. याशिवाय, ब्रह्मो समाज, सत्यशोधक समाज, प्रार्थना समाज यांसारख्या सामाजिक आणि धार्मिक सुधारणा चळवळींचे वर्णन केले आहे. भारतीय राष्ट्रवादाचा उदय, राष्ट्रीय काँग्रेसची स्थापना, मवाळ आणि जहाल युग, आणि क्रांतिकारी चळवळींचा इतिहासही पुस्तकात समाविष्ट आहे. हे पुस्तक फक्त सावित्रीबाई फुले पुणे विद्यापीठातील विद्यार्थ्यांसाठीच नाही, तर इतर विद्यापीठांच्या विद्यार्थ्यांसाठी आणि स्पर्धा परीक्षेच्या तयारीसाठीही उपयुक्त आहे.
Bhartiya Rashtriya Chalval (1920-1950) Second Semester FYBA New NEP Syllabus - SPPU: भारतीय राष्ट्रीय चळवळ (१९२०-१९५०) दुसरे सत्र एफ.वाय.बी.ए. नवीन एन.इ.पी. अभ्यासक्रम - सावित्रीबाई फुले पुणे यूनिवर्सिटी
by Dr Ganesh Pandharinath Bhameभारतीय राष्ट्रीय चळवळ (1920-1950) ही स्वातंत्र्यासाठी झालेल्या जनआंदोलनांची गाथा आहे. या कालखंडात असहकार चळवळ, सविनय कायदेभंग चळवळ, भारत छोडो आंदोलन, आणि क्रांतिकारी चळवळींनी स्वातंत्र्यलढ्याला नवे आयाम दिले. महात्मा गांधींच्या नेतृत्वाखाली शांततामय आणि अहिंसक मार्गाने ब्रिटिश सत्तेविरोधात मोठ्या प्रमाणावर जनतेने आंदोलन केले. शेतकरी, कामगार, दलित, स्त्रिया आणि तरुणवर्ग यांनी या लढ्यात मोलाचे योगदान दिले. तसेच, सामाजिक आणि आर्थिक विषमता मिटवण्यासाठी सुधारक चळवळींना चालना मिळाली. संविधान निर्मिती, सांप्रदायिकतेचा उदय, आणि देशाची फाळणी या घडामोडींनी भारताच्या स्वातंत्र्यप्राप्तीला दिशा दिली. ही चळवळ केवळ स्वातंत्र्यासाठी नव्हती, तर ती भारतीय जनतेच्या आत्मसन्मान, एकता आणि स्वाभिमानाची जागृती होती. हे पुस्तक विद्यार्थ्यांना स्वातंत्र्यलढ्याच्या विविध पैलूंशी परिचित करून देण्यासाठी आणि राष्ट्रभावना प्रेरित करण्यासाठी मार्गदर्शक ठरते.
Engineering and Enterprise
by Rao Bhamidimarri Ailin LiuThis book presents contributions from researchers, practitioners and professional institutions that published papers in the Proceedings of the Educating Enterprising Engineers and Scientists conference, held in London, UK on 17th June 2015. The topics considered range from educating engineers to giving a business edge and embedding entrepreneurship to achieve integrated education and curriculum innovation. Making an important contribution to the development and delivery of engineering education now and further into the future, this collection of papers shares knowledge and good practice in key ways to educate enterprising engineers and scientists looking to address complex global issues such as health & well-being, water, energy and food. Seeking ways to redefine and embrace sustainable development, this work puts forward the case for innovative science and engineering education to meet the demand for talent and leadership.
My Nanee
by Asha Kaur BhamraJoin Asha, as she embarks on a journey through her grandmother’s rich history. Through Nanee’s vivid tales, Asha uncovers the resilience, dreams, and enduring love that have shaped their family across generations. It’s a celebration of the traditions, education, and aspirations that connect us to our roots and to each other, told with warmth and a deep sense of belonging.
The Challenges of Justice in Diverse Societies: Constitutionalism and Pluralism (Cultural Diversity and Law)
by Meena K. BhamraIn the urgency to respond to the challenges posed by diversity in contemporary societies, the discussion of normative foundations is often overlooked. This book takes that important first step, and offers new ways of thinking about diversity. Its contribution to an ongoing dialogue in this field lies in the construction of a normative framework which endeavours to better understand the challenges of justice in diverse societies. By applying this normative framework to specific and broader examples of injustices in the spheres of religion, culture, race, ethnicity, gender and nationality, the book demonstrates how constitutional pluralist discourses can contribute both to new and legal responses to diversity. The book will be of interest to legal professionals, policy makers, law students and scholars concerned with exploring diversity in the 21st century.
Organisational Resilience: Concepts, Integration, and Practice
by Ran BhamraAn eternal dilemma for all organizations, and one that a considerable portion of management schools are set up to address, is how to become and stay competitive. Organisational Resilience: Concepts, Integration, and Practice brings together, for the first time, key works that describe the scope and nature of resilience and provides direction to tak
Design for Sustainability: A Practical Approach (Design for Social Responsibility)
by Tracy Bhamra Vicky LofthouseDesign for Sustainability is a practical approach to design which focuses on the challenges and issues faced by those designing consumer products in the 21st Century. It is written from a design perspective and aimed at both professional and student industrial and product designers, and those involved in managing design. The book begins by summarising the historical and current issues of the environmental debate in the context of sustainable product development, highlighting the benefits gained from considering the impact on the environment and issues of sustainability when designing. The authors answer the questions: What is sustainable product development and why is it important? What are the main drivers of sustainable product development? They explain how design can help to control human impact on the environment by not only minimising pollution, waste, energy use and use of scarce resources, but also by thinking outside the box to create systems and services that can reduce the number of products manufactured. The aim is to put sustainable development within a commercial context and introduce a new focus for design. Design for Sustainability outlines and assesses the methods, tools and techniques available to designers, both for design innovation and design improvement. A wide range of case studies are presented across a number of product sectors including electrical goods, IT and furniture. Initially they demonstrate product improvement and redesign, examples include those that reduce waste, pollution and energy consumption, designing for recycling and reuse of parts. Further examples are then provided exemplifying the more radical approach of system and service design. The final section takes the reader through a whole sustainable design project from start to finish, from brief to manufacture. References and sources of information are also included.
Cities Rethought: A New Urban Disposition
by Gautam Bhan Michael Keith Susan Parnell Edgar PieterseIn a world of disruptions and seemingly endless complexity, cities have become central to thinking about the future of humanity. Yet the study of cities is fragmented among different silos of expertise, diverse genres of scholarship, and widening chasms between theory and practice. How can we do better? Cities Rethought suggests that we need to remake the way we see and know cities in order to rethink how we act and intervene within them. To this end, it offers the contours of a new urban disposition. Its normative, analytical, and operational elements offer an opportunity for scholars, practitioners, and citizens alike to approach the complexity of cities anew. Written collectively for a wide audience, the text draws from cities across the global north and south, speaks across diverse genres of ideas, and reflects on the lived experience of the authors as both researchers and practitioners. It is an essential text for anyone committed to knowing their own cities as well as finding ways to meaningfully intervene in them.
The Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South (Routledge International Handbooks)
by Gautam Bhan Smita Srinivas Vanessa WatsonThe Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South offers an edited collection on planning in parts of the world which, more often than not, are unrecognised or unmarked in mainstream planning texts. In doing so, its intention is not to fill a ‘gap’ that leaves this ‘mainstream’ unquestioned but to re-theorise planning from a deep understanding of ‘place’ as well as a commitment to recognise the diverse modes of practice that come within it. The chapters thus take the form not of generalised, ‘universal’ analyses and prescriptions, but instead are critical and located reflections in thinking about how to plan, act and intervene in highly complex city, regional and national contexts. Chapter authors in this Companion are not all planners, or are planners of very different kinds, and this diversity ensures a rich variety of insights, primarily based on cases, to emphasise the complexity of the world in which planning is expected to happen. The book is divided into a framing Introduction followed by five sections: planning and the state; economy and economic actors; new drivers of urban change; landscapes of citizenship; and planning pedagogy. This volume will be of interest to all those wanting to explore the complexities of planning practice and the need for new theories of knowledge from which to draw insight to face the challenges of the 21st century.
Counterinsurgency, Democracy, and the Politics of Identity in India: From Warfare to Welfare? (Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series)
by Mona BhanThe rhetoric of armed social welfare has become prominent in military and counterinsurgency circuits with profound consequences for the meanings of democracy, citizenship, and humanitarianism in conflict zones. By focusing on the border district of Kargil, the site of India and Pakistan’s fourth war in 1999, this book analyses how humanitarian policies of healing and heart warfare infused the logic of democracy and militarism in the post-war period. Compassion became a strategy to contain political dissension, regulate citizenship, and normalize the extensive militarization of Kargil’s social and political order. The book uses the power of ethnography to foreground people’s complex subjectivities and the violence of compassion, healing, and sacrifice in India’s disputed frontier state. Based on extensive research in several sites across the region, from border villages in Kargil to military bases and state offices in Ladakh and Kashmir, this engaging book presents new material on military-civil relations, the securitization of democracy and development, and the extensive militarization of everyday life and politics. It is of interest to scholars working in diverse fields including political anthropology, development, and Asian Studies.
Childhood Sexuality and AIDS Education: The Price of Innocence (Routledge Critical Studies in Gender and Sexuality in Education #1)
by Deevia BhanaPrimary schoolchildren are frequently shielded from education on sexuality and sexually transmitted diseases in an effort to protect their innocence. In countries like South Africa, where AIDS is particularly widespread, it is especially important to address prevention with younger boys and girls as active social agents with the capacity to engage with AIDS as gendered and sexual beings. This volume addresses the question of children’s understanding of AIDS, not simply in terms of their dependence but as active participants in the interpretation of their social worlds. The volume draws on an interview and ethnographic based study of young children in two socially diverse South African primary schools, as well as interviews conducted with teachers and mothers of young children. It shows how adults sustain the production of childhood sexual innocence, and the importance of scaling up programs in AIDS intervention, gender and sexuality. It makes significant contributions to the global debate around childhood sexualities, gender and AIDS education.
Gender and Childhood Sexuality in Primary School
by Deevia BhanaThis book is an ethnography of teachers and children in grades 1 and 2, and presents arguments about why we should take gender and childhood sexuality seriously in the early years of South African primary schooling. Taking issue with dominant discourses which assumes children's lack of agency, the book questions the epistemological foundations of childhood discourses that produce innocence. It examines the paradox between teachers' dominant narratives of childhood innocence and children's own conceptualisation of gender and sexuality inside the classroom, with peers, in heterosexual games, in the playground and through boyfriend-girlfriend relationships. It examines the nuances and finely situated experiences which draw attention to hegemonic masculinity and femininity where boys and girls challenge and contest relations of power. The book focuses on the early makings of gender and sexual harassment and shows how violent gender relations are manifest even amongst very young boys and girls. Attention is given to the interconnections with race, class, structural inequalities, as well as the actions of boys and girls as navigate gender and sexuality at school. The book argues that the early years of primary schooling are a key site for the production and reproduction of gender and sexuality. Gender reform strategies are vital in this sector of schooling.
Girls Negotiating Porn in South Africa: Power, Play and Sexuality (Routledge Studies on Gender and Sexuality in Africa)
by Deevia BhanaThe book investigates how teenage girls in South Africa encounter and consume pornography, situating their experiences within wider sociocultural and affective relations of power. It focuses on girls’ online playful and pleasurable pursuits as they explore and expand upon their sexual curiosities. In this digital moment, the book directs us to the multi-layered meanings around porn, as an everyday normative experience. The book takes on an interdisciplinary approach drawing from and inspired by new feminist materialism and assemblage theorising. For teenage girls porn is freely available to see in billboards, magazines, books, on television, music videos, games, online streaming and social media sites. Girls do not have to view hardcore porn to see porn: it is everywhere. It argues that girls’ online playful adventures are a critical site for learning, developing, and negotiating gender and sexuality. These meanings are constitutive of pleasure and the pursuit of learning sexually, but they also provide a launchpad for girls to contest race, gender, and heterosexual domination while opening up online porn to broader interrogation and critique. The book will be of interest to researchers across African studies, sociology, psychology, anthropology, youth, gender and sexuality studies, porn studies, and childhood studies.
Love, Sex and Teenage Sexual Cultures in South Africa: 16 turning 17 (Routledge Studies on Gender and Sexuality in Africa)
by Deevia BhanaLove, Sex and Teenage Sexual Cultures in South Africa interrupts the relative silence around teenage constructions of love in South Africa. Against the backdrop of gender inequalities, HIV and violence, the book situates teenage constructions of love and romance within the wider social and cultural context underwritten by the histories of apartheid, chronic unemployment, poverty, and the endless struggle to survive. By drawing on focus group discussions with African teenage men and women, the book addresses teenage Africans as active agents, providing a more nuanced picture of their desires and their dilemmas through which sexuality and love are experienced. The chapters in the book conceptualise desiring love, material love, pure love, forced love and fearing love. It argues that love is intrinsically linked to cultural practices and material realities which mold particular formations of teenage masculinities and femininities. This book will be of interest to academics, undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in sociology, HIV, health and gender studies, development and postcolonial studies and African studies.
Sex, Sexuality and Sexual Health in Southern Africa (Sexuality, Culture and Health)
by Deevia BhanaThis book—Sex, Sexuality and Sexual Health in Southern Africa—is structured around four major themes: gender and sexuality diversity; love, pleasure and respect; gender, sexual violence and health; and sexuality, gender and sexual justice. Chapters in this book analyse sexuality in relation to recent developments in the Southern African region and what this might mean for contemporary theory, policy and practice. Sex, sexuality and sexual health are often viewed through a narrow biomedical lens, ignoring the fact that they are profoundly social and historical in character. The contributors in this book bring to light the entanglements of sexuality with respect, recognition, rights and mutual respectful pleasure. Authors draw attention to partnerships, allyships and feminist, queer and trans coalitions in the pursuit of sexual health and justice in the region. The book will be of interest to final-year undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers and activists as well as those working in Women and Gender Studies, Critical Sexuality Studies, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Development Studies, Public Health, Psychology, Education, Sociology and Anthropology.
Young Masculinities and Sexual Health in Southern Africa (Routledge Studies on Gender and Sexuality in Africa)
by Deevia Bhana Kaymarlin Govender Morten SkovdalThis book examines the complex relationships between young masculinities and sexual health within Southern Africa. It considers how socio-cultural and economic factors shape young men’s experiences of masculinity and the effects on relationship dynamics, gender norms and sexual health.Through thematic chapters covering love, pleasure, social norms, risk, and HIV, the book emphasises the global importance of engaging young men in fostering gender equity and promoting healthier sexual practices. Readers will benefit from a diverse range of methodologies and perspectives that highlight the plurality and fluidity of masculinities, challenging monolithic accounts of young men in the region whilst illustrating the global relevance of understanding local contexts in shaping masculinities. The book provides valuable insights for developing effective sexual health interventions that recognise and embrace 'other' masculinities. Sexual health approaches that resonate with the lived realities of young men can potentially enhance young men’s engagement and participation in promoting healthier relationships and practices.With important insights for theory, policy, and practice, this book will be of interest to researchers across the fields of critical masculinity studies, sexual and reproductive health, gender studies and African studies, as well as policymakers, development practitioners, and activists.
Gender, Sexuality and Violence in South African Educational Spaces (Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education)
by Deevia Bhana Shakila Singh Thabo MsibiThe book focuses on the ways in which gendered and sexualised systems of power are produced in educational settings that are framed by broader social and cultural processes, both of which shape and are shaped by children and young people as they interact with each other. All these nuanced features of gender and sexuality are vital if we are to understand inequalities and violence, and fundamental to our three-ply yarn approach in this book. Focusing on the South African context, but with international relevance, the authors adopt the metaphor of the three-ply yarn (Jordan-Young, 2010): these being the cross-cutting themes of gender, sexuality and violence. Subsequently, the book illustrates the intimate ties that bind gender and sexuality with the social and cultural dimensions of violence, as experienced in educational settings.
Gendered and Sexual Norms in Global South Early Childhood Education: Understanding Normative Discourses in Post-Colonial Contexts (Routledge Critical Studies in Gender and Sexuality in Education)
by Deevia Bhana Yuwei Xu Vina AdrianyThis volume examines gendered and heteronormative norms embedded within early childhood education (ECE) in the Global South, including Brazil, China, Pakistan, South Africa, and Vietnam. In this book, the contributors explore how gender, culture, religion, masculinity, sport, and conservative politics intersect to perpetuate and resist gendered and sexual norms. The book presents a range of possibilities for disrupting and challenging these norms within early childhood educational contexts. Grounded in colonial and postcolonial discourses, the book emphasises the entanglement of gender and sexuality in ECE with legacies of colonisation and surrounding social and cultural dynamics, highlighting our responsibility to address gender inequalities and injustices. The book will appeal to researchers, faculty, and teacher educators with interests in gender and sexuality in education, international and comparative education, and early childhood education.
Transformation and Utilization of Carbon Dioxide
by Bhalchandra M. Bhanage Masahiko AraiTransformation and Utilization of Carbon Dioxide shows the various organic, polymeric and inorganic compounds which result from the transformation of carbon dioxide through chemical, photocatalytic, electrochemical, inorganic and biological processes. The book consists of twelve chapters demonstrating interesting examples of these reactions, depending on the types of reaction and catalyst. It also includes two chapters dealing with the utilization of carbon dioxide as a reaction promoter and presents a wide range of examples of chemistry and chemical engineering with carbon dioxide. Transformation and Utilization of Carbon Dioxide is a collective work of reviews illustrative of recent advances in the transformation and utilization of carbon dioxide. This book is interesting and useful to a wide readership in the various fields of chemical science and engineering. Bhalchandra Bhanage is a professor of industrial and engineering chemistry at Institute of Chemical Technology, India. Masahiko Arai is a professor of chemical engineering at Hokkaido University, Japan.
Anubhavache Bol
by Baba BhandThere was a large group of flamingo staying on a huge tree and an old and experienced flamingo saw a creeper growing on the tree. He warned the birds about it but they did not listen to him. One day a hunter climbed the tree with the help of the creeper and put his net and all got trapped. Finally, they take advice from the old flamingo and escape.
Bakshisin Saskrutyach Mol Sampun Jail
by Baba BhandOne day an old man meets with an accident on the way to the bank. Dharma comes and helps him. Dharma is known to this old man. The man tries to reward him for his help, but he refuses to take it because he feels it is his duty to help a person in such condition. The man feels proud of Dharma.
Bolanari Guha
by Baba BhandA lion had become old and looking for some easy prey. He comes near a cave and waits for the prey for some time. He sees nobody coming and going so he goes inside the cave. The fox had gone out returns and sees the pug mark of the lion. He senses the danger and asks the cave to speak. The lion in an attempt to answer the call alarms the fox. The fox runs away saving his life. The lion thought that the cave speaks and that’s why he answered the fox.
Ek Ghar Ek Ota
by Baba BhandThis is a story of a village where people from backward class had no fields and houses to stay. They were wandering from village to village and rob other people’s crops and make their leaving. One of the boy from this tribe educated himself and passed tenth standard. He did not like the way they lived and so he told his parents about it but they were not happy. The government allotted this people land and houses so that they had everything of their own. The other villagers came and seeing the new settlement were very happy.