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India has been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the context of a larger quasi-experimental impact assessment, we assess the pandemic’s effects on coping behavior in 80 villages spread across four districts and three states (n=772). Half of these villages were targeted by a largescale common land restoration program spearheaded by an NGO, the Foundation for Ecological Security (FES). The other half are yet to be targeted but are statistically similar vis-à-vis FES’s village targeting criteria. Analyzing the results of a phone survey conducting eight to ten months into the pandemic and its associated lockdowns, we find that the livelihood activities of households in both sets of vill...
This book is a comprehensive guide to the medical and surgical management of retinal diseases and disorders. The new edition has been fully revised and updated to provide clinicians with the latest advances in the field. Divided into 63 chapters, the text begins with an overview of clinical anatomy and physiology of the vitreous and retina, imaging and ultrasonography, and electrophysiology. The following sections cover management of numerous different retinal disorders, from macular dystrophies, retinal arterial occlusion and diabetic macular edema, to giant retinal tears, blunt ocular trauma, cancer associated retinopathies, shaken baby syndrome, and many more. This second edition features the latest developments in diagnostics, clinical management guidelines, instruments and vitreoretinal surgeries. New topics include the emerging role of 3D ‘heads up’ vitreoretinal surgery and microscope integrated optical coherence tomography in retinal surgery. The extensive text is further enhanced by clinical images and illustrations. The previous edition (9789352702947) published in 2018.
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This book discusses the research progress on pathology, entomology, nematology, and resource management of wheat and barley crops. The volume summarizes the research progress and discusses the future perspectives based on current understanding of the existing issues and advancing cutting-edge technologies in the field. The book aims to help in deciding future research and development agenda by devising better strategies and techniques to cultivate these crops under clean and sustainable environment. Through this book an international group of leading wheat and barley researchers unveil the emerging concepts and issues related to biotic stresses and resource management and offers latest glimp...
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Perioperative care is the care that is given before and after surgery. This textbook is a complete guide to the anaesthetic and critical care management of patients undergoing complex surgeries in all organ systems of the body. Topics cover all age groups – neonates, children, and adults. Divided into 11 sections, the book begins with a general overview of critical care in the perioperative period discussing airway management, pain, fluid and electrolyte therapy, shock, arterial blood gas analysis, respiratory failure and mechanical ventilation, and thromboembolism. The following sections cover surgeries in different organ systems and patient groups – cardiothoracic and vascular, neurosc...
The fortitude which won Kamlesh the cycle race had the designs of victories her future awaited. Though the battle was still her own, it was for her son Jeet to win for her. The tide takes a turn for the worse when the very people who should have been the springboard to Jeet’s success, pull the ladder from right under his feet. The inconsistencies of the unjust world left her tentative and worried, and her son, battered and bruised. Jeet had fallen. That’s when Jeet’s angel – the Doppelganger – emerges with the second wind, which if unleashed would take Jeet to unprecedented heights. Will he remain fallen? Will he not throw his dice in the game called life anymore? Will his courage rise with every attempt of intimidating him? Above all, will he be Born in the Second Wind?
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Love, Affection and Respect is a book that makes you pick up the phone and call your favourite teacher. A simple but beautifully written memoir, the narrative takes you down the memory lane with Neelakantan, a teacher at an Institute in New Delhi. The bonds he built with his students, while he was a teacher remained with him beyond the confines of the Institute. As the students graduated and left the portals of the campus, Neelakantan thought he would be forgotten, only to be proven wrong. His influence resulted in two students naming their son Neil in his honor. His students were always there for him no matter where they landed up: some as high flying professionals in the hotel industry, so...