The present text book entitled “Operations Research & its applications“ is very much useful for a beginner in this domain . More particularly for a quality control manager, person using network analysis and queue models for decision making. It is an Art, Science & Technology to understand the business environment to take the necessary alternative course of action to enhance the company’s reputation.It is frequently being used to analyze complex real life problems, typically with the goal of improving the performance of the organization. It is a multidisciplinary science which deals with the problem, formulation and solution in order to take an apt decision. This text book is suitable for all graduate students across the globe. In any industrial firm, managers always use methods of operations research to maintain a better quality control in their production. This is possible as it provides a fundamental basis in which one has to maintain and establish the standards of the company’s performance and ways to measure its productivity. It also, time and again monitors the standards and reports deviations, if any and enables the authorities to take the corrective measures. The mathematically developed formulas used in this book are readable format also student friendly. The main idea of this book is to increase the productivity in a deterministic or probabilistic way as they apply by usingtools like defining suitable algorithm, machine utilization and manpower planning in incorporating innovative technologies. In a nutshell, it is a subsidiary framework for a student with an adequate mathematical foundation to understand operations research problems like Linear Programming, Assignment Problems, Network Models, Dynamic Programming, etc. Thus, it gives an insight to understand the industry requirements and suggests valid optimal solutions by using the latest available techniques.

This is a revised edition of the eight years old popular book on operating System Concepts. In Addition to its previous contents, the book details about operating system foe handheld devices like mobile platforms. It also explains about upcoming operating systems with have interface in various Indian language. In addition to solved exercises of individual chapters, the revised version also presents a question bank of most frequently asked questions and their solutions. Value addition has been done in almost all the 14 chapters of the book.

Parallel Computing

A variety of air pollutants are emitted into the atmosphere from human-caused and natural emissions sources throughout the United States and elsewhere. These contaminants impact sensitive natural resources in wilderness, including the national parks. The system of national parks in the United States is among our greatest assets. This book provides a compilation and synthesis of current scientific understanding regarding the causes and effects of these pollutants within national park lands. It describes pollutant emissions, deposition, and exposures; it identifies the critical (tipping point) loads of pollutant deposition at which adverse impacts are manifested.

More than 100,000 organizations throughout the European Union have to comply with the NIS2 Directive. Is your organization one of them? If so, what do you need to do to become compliant? Two questions that are easy to ask, but the answers are never as straightforward. With 46 articles, 144 provisions, and over 140 references to other documents, the NIS2 is anything but easy to read, let alone interpret. This book provides an answer to your questions in a straightforward, easy-to-understand way. The NIS2 Navigator’s Handbook is written in plain English terms to help members of management bodies (including security and IT management) understand the Directive and its intentions. An extensive analysis of the scope specifications, with a clear Annex to support it, provides insight into the NIS2’s scope and an answer to the first question. For the second question, the book walks you through the different requirements that organizations must comply with. A GAP assessment included in the Annexes of the book, that can be used at a high level or in depth, provides you with an understanding of your level of compliance and the steps you need to take to become compliant. The book also comes with access to an assessment tool that allows you to perform the assessment in a number of languages. If you need to understand the impact of the NIS2 Directive on your organization, this book provides you the ultimate answer.

Contemporary Systems Thinking is a series of texts, each of which deals comparatively and/or critically with different aspects of holistic thinking at the frontiers of the discipline. Traditionally, writings by systems thinkers have been concerned with single theme propositions such as General Systems Theory, Cybernetics, Operations Research, System Dynamics, Soft Systems Methodology and many others. Recently there have been attempts to fulfil a different yet equally important role by comparative analyses of viewpoints and approaches, each addressing disparate areas of study such as: modeling and simulation, measurement, management, 'problem solving' methods, international relations, social theory and last, but not exhaustively or least, philosophy. In a recent book these were drawn together within a multiform framework as part of an eclectic discussion -a nearly impossible task as I discovered (see Dealing With Complexity -An Introduction to the Theory and Application of Systems Science, R. L. Flood and E. R. Carson, Plenum, New York, 1988). Nevertheless, bringing many sources together led to several achievements, among which was showing a great diversity of approaches, ideas and application areas that systems thinking contributes to (although often with difficulties remaining unresolved). More important, however, while working on that manuscript I became aware of the need for and potential value in a series of books, each focusing in detail on the study areas mentioned above.

A short book about the challenges to liberalism from the right and the left by the bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order. Classical liberalism is in a state of crisis. Developed in the wake of Europe’s wars over religion and nationalism, liberalism is a system for governing diverse societies, which is grounded in fundamental principles of equality and the rule of law. It emphasizes the rights of individuals to pursue their own forms of happiness free from encroachment by government. It's no secret that liberalism didn't always live up to its own ideals. In America, many people were denied equality before the law. Who counted as full human beings worthy of universal rights was contested for centuries, and only recently has this circle expanded to include women, African Americans, LGBTQ+ people, and others. Conservatives complain that liberalism empties the common life of meaning. As the renowned political philosopher Francis Fukuyama shows in Liberalism and Its Discontents, the principles of liberalism have also, in recent decades, been pushed to new extremes by both the right and the left: neoliberals made a cult of economic freedom, and progressives focused on identity over human universality as central to their political vision. The result, Fukuyama argues, has been a fracturing of our civil society and an increasing peril to our democracy. In this short, clear account of our current political discontents, Fukuyama offers an essential defense of a revitalized liberalism for the twenty-first century.

- what is the relationship between the social sciences and the natural sciences? - where do today′s dominant approaches to doing social science come from? - what are the main fissures and debates in contemporary social scientific thought? - how are we to make sense of seemingly contrasting approaches to how social scientists find out about the world and justify their claims to have knowledge of it? In this exciting handbook, Ian Jarvie and Jesús Zamora-Bonilla have put together a wide-ranging and authoritative overview of the main philosophical currents and traditions at work in the social sciences today. Starting with the history of social scientific thought, this handbook sets out to explore that core fundamentals of social science practice, from issues of ontology and epistemology to issues of practical method. Along the way it investigates such notions as paradigm, empiricism, postmodernism, naturalism, language, agency, power, culture, and causality. Bringing together in one volume leading authorities in the field from around the world, this book will be a must-have for any serious scholar or student of the social sciences.