This edited book is the result of collaboration between five countries in the Asia Pacific Region. It is auspiced by Childwatch International, a global research network. It explores the socio-cultural context of children's participation in the five countries, in response to the obligations on these countries, as signatories to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. While the legal mandating of participation has significant implications for children's lives and adult-child relations, research in this area has been limited, particularly cross culturally.

Nepal is landlocked country situated in the southern slope of Himalayas in South Asia between China and India.Administratively, Nepal is divided into 5 development regions and ecologically into 3 regions(Terai, Hills and Mountains). Vegetable cultivation is important short seasonal and major crop enterprise of Nepalese agricultural system.There are 42 market centers for fruits and vegetables out of which 12 are wholesale markets.In the wake of commercialization of Nepalese agriculture there is a need to study the trade competitiveness and variation of price of vegetables for proper...

The ever increasing demand of useful energy and depletion of conventional energy resources give rise to highly energy efficient and compact thermal systems. Solar energy is the foremost source of unconventional energy which has adequate potential to fulfill all energy needs of the modern world.decades, more attention is being focused towards performance up gradation of energy exchange devices utilized in solar energy collection and storage systems. Flat plate solar collector is undeniably one of the simplest and inexpensive types of heat exchanger widely used for air heating applications....

Optimization is a field of interest to researchers working in various disciplines of mathematical sciences. In the present book, we have developed many mathematical models dealing with uncertain situations both for probabilistic and fuzzy distributions. These models give birth to new measures of probabilistic and fuzzy information. Moreover, we have obtained the optimum values for these models along with the existing ones and presented the results graphically. The present book will be a source of inspiration and help to information theoreticians who have been using fuzzy information in their...

This book is a research study of effect of corporate governance code on performance of companies. The study documents empirical research from India where corporate governance code has been laid down on a standard-rule basis by the market regulator- SEBI. The study employs panel data regression models to investigate the performance effect of the Corporate Governance Code. This modelling provides more reliable results by controlling firm heterogeneity. A dynamic distributed lag model is also developed for testing the lagged effect of the Code. The book presents overview of theories, models and...

India is one of the developing countries of the world and industries all across India are contributing to India's GDP to a large extent. There are millions of small scale industries which provide millions of jobs and revenues. But for every business, money is needed to pump up the growth of the business. Similarly Indian SMEs are in great need of money or investment. In our study we have studied about different kind of sources like private equity and debt market and their current scenario in Indian market. We have studied about different government investment sources and their role in...

Welcome to my book "Software Engineering - The Basics of Software Development" I have tried to cover all issues regarding software development in a simplified form or a nutshell. As such one can understand the concepts of Software Engineering within a short span of time. It focuses on the most important areas of Computer Science including basic software development rules, techniques, challenges and their possible solutions. The book contains ten chapters, beginning from a useful introduction to helpful illustrations in the form of case studies. These chapters are the key to helping you...

Coffee being a non alcoholic beverage, it is well known for its stimulating effect on the brain. This prompted the coffee growing countries to adopt the plant improvement programme through conventional and advanced breeding techniques. Accordingly, in India too similar breeding work was undertaken that resulted several hybrids of various cross combinations established at Coffee Research Sub Station, Chettalli, Kodagu District, Karnataka. Out of these, fifteen F1 hybrids and an interspecific hybrid population developed from tetraploid x diploid cross (Cauvery x (CxR)) were used for evaluation...