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Identity: Quest and Questions
This academic edited volume analyses and interprets the constantly altering meaning(s) and expression(s) of identity in the context of rising tensions and conflicts caused by society's dominant power structures on vulnerable and victimised groups. The question of identity that arises in a person gets into conflict with the social structures that complicate the notion at every instant of developing newer definitions of existence in the multifaceted world. These social constructs, either directly or indirectly, employing persuasion or coercion, and through manoeuvre or manipulation, develop to deviate from the expected normative identity possessed to knowingly or unknowingly embrace the ‘oth...
Diaspora Literature: Identity Beyond Borders
The book Diaspora Literature: Identity Beyond Borders is a compendium of erudite academic articles depicting the generations of diasporic contemplation and consequences figured out in the literature of this specific theme and motif. The book is an enterprise to portray the displacement, alienation, clashes, assimilation, acculturation, rootlessness, torn identities, quest for identity, crisis of identity, and fusion and conflict between two cultures that have been stringed out in three parts of diasporic concerns—Ecumenical Scenario, Acculturation and Question of Hyphenation in Indian Diaspora and Oscillating State of expatriates and immigrants.
Advanced Machine Intelligence and Signal Processing
This book covers the latest advancements in the areas of machine learning, computer vision, pattern recognition, computational learning theory, big data analytics, network intelligence, signal processing, and their applications in real world. The topics covered in machine learning involve feature extraction, variants of support vector machine (SVM), extreme learning machine (ELM), artificial neural network (ANN), and other areas in machine learning. The mathematical analysis of computer vision and pattern recognition involves the use of geometric techniques, scene understanding and modeling from video, 3D object recognition, localization and tracking, medical image analysis, and so on. Compu...
WHERE WISE OWLS DARE
“A fantasy, grounded in the future, with a forceful message that brings hope but does not allow us to gloss over vileness ever present in our midst. That’s how Baroowah’s The Life of Rhinoceros in Kaziranga, Where Wise Owls Dare can be summed up.” –Hiren Phukan, a newspaper journalist based in Malaysia, Singapore and India. This book is a futuristic socio-political fantasy based on rhinoceroses of Kaziranga. It is almost a thriller that encompasses Asia, Europe and America. Assam is blessed with a new Chief Minister who breezes in with progress, development and prosperity for the state. His British bio-scientist teacher helps him usher in economic growth and ward off the fear of th...
Literature, Media and Society
This edited volume provides an in-depth analysis of the role of literature and media in shaping ideologies, values, beliefs, culture and practices of society. The scholarly perspectives in the twenty-one chapters focus on the theoretical and conceptual explanations of power dominance, patriarchal panopticons, conflicts between science and religion, representations of the corrupt neocolonial world, human victimisations, cyborg women, caste oppressions, and ideological belief systems in society. Widening the new and number of different perspectives, the book also delineates inexorable patriarchal logic, conjugal power politics, social structures, pandemic quandary and market construction instituted by media and literature. The dominant climate of ideas expressed in the imaginative works, its interminable effects and vehement relationship with society are extended in multiple domains where the two disciplines, being the instructive and entertaining mirrors, encourage social cohesion and cultural transition.
Information Retrieval in Bioinformatics
The book presents the results of studies on selected problems (such as predictive model of transcription initiation and termination, protein recognition codes, protein structure prediction, feature selection for disease prediction, information retrieval from medical imaging) of Bioinformatics and Information Retrieval. Information Retrieval is one of the contemporary answers to new challenges in threat evaluation of composite systems. This book provides a practical course in computational data analysis suitable for students or researchers with no previous exposure to computer programming. It describes in detail the theoretical basis for statistical analysis techniques used throughout the textbook, from basic principles. It presents walk-throughs of data analysis tasks using different tools to help in taking decisions in healthcare management.
Population Dynamics in North East India
Contributed articles.
Melatonin in Plants: A Pleiotropic Molecule for Abiotic Stresses and Pathogen Infection
This edited book highlights the multifunctional role of the ubiquitous molecule, melatonin in crop plants. The major focus of this edition is to provide a comprehensive insight into the key focus is on Melatonin mediated alleviation of abiotic stresses and pathogens infection. The inception of melatonin as an animal hormone and the subsequent discovery of its multifaceted function in the animal system has revolutionized the research on this penial hormone. During the last decade, the discovery, quantification and functional studies of melatonin as phytohormone has emerged at a rapid pace. Recently, this phyto-protectant has become an integral component of lab and field-based research on the ...
A History of India’s North-East Cinema
A History of India's North-East Cinema: Deconstructing the Stereotypes, the first book on the history of cinema in this region, depicts the journey from the first Assamese film, Joymoti (1935), to the present time. This book addresses the peripheral status and identity crisis of North-Eastern people in mainland India, a region that comprises eight states, and examines the role of Bollywood in the construction and misrepresentation of this region in popular Hindi cinema. The book is divided into three parts. Part I looks at how the people of the North-East are constructed as 'foreigners' or 'outsiders' by mainland Indians, due to their physical facial features. Part II discusses the socio-pol...
AKASHVANI
"Akashvani" (English) is a programme journal of ALL INDIA RADIO, it was formerly known as The Indian Listener.It used to serve the listener as a bradshaw of broadcasting ,and give listener the useful information in an interesting manner about programmes, who writes them,take part in them and produce them along with photographs of performing artists. It also contains the information of major changes in the policy and service of the organisation. The Indian Listener (fortnightly programme journal of AIR in English) published by The Indian State Broadcasting Service, Bombay, started on 22 december, 1935 and was the successor to the Indian Radio Times in english, which was published beginning in...
