Ramesh Kumar Sharma

Natural resources are very important for the livelihood and sustenance of the people and the economic development of the mountain region of the Garhwal Himalayas. During the past few decades, depletion of natural resources all over the world in general and poor countries including mountain areas in ...

Organochlorine pesticides (OCPs), one of the important classes of persistent organic pollutants (POPs), have been beneficial to man and environment but their inadvertent use has caused considerable harm to human health because of their long persistence in the environment and entry into human body. D...

This book provides an upto date information on metric, connection and curva ture symmetries used in geometry and physics. More specifically, we present the characterizations and classifications of Riemannian and Lorentzian manifolds (in particular, the spacetimes of general relativity) admitting met...

This work provides an insight regarding different factors that act as an impediment in adopting business process reengineering (BPR) in manufacturing organizations. It is an anticipatory management approach for assessing readiness of BPR to minimize the risk while implementing BPR within enterprises...

The story revolves around the life of a young man who came from a poor family but has strong will power to make a big success in life. Running away from home, due to circumstances he discovers path of crime. He makes his first money by blackmailing his boss about his extra marital affair. With this ...

Today, e-learning and various online education applications are used in more countries and educational institutions than ever before. However, as the industry grows, so do issues of ethical concern such as plagiarism, electronic voyeurism, and licensing. BEthical Practices and Implications in Distan...

Interactive Multimedia in Education and Training emerges out of the need to share information and knowledge on the research and practices of using multimedia in various educational settings. The book discusses issues related to planning, designing and development of interactive multimedia in a persu...

The continued prevalence of major incidents (most recently the 2010 BP Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill) and preponderance of workplace fatalities and injuries as well as Process Safety Management (PSM) Incidents, globally, begs the question: why do incidents continue to occur in today’s technologically adv...