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Soft cover. Zustand: New. The science of Medical Entomology has during past few decades undergone a sea change both in its extent and depth of knowledge, on one hand, and unique treatment, on the other. Currently, it embodies a plethora of biomedical and associated au fait that concern directly or indirectly the health of humans, but, to some extent, also the animals. In conclusion our familiarity with the medically important insects and allied arthropods has eventually extended enormously embracingbiomedicine, bioengineering, pharmacology andas food and feed research. This Handbook of Medical Entomology offers a detailed information on all kinds and levels of vector-borne and zoonotic infections, besides an uncanny description of all other pestilent, poisonous and allergic insects with a precise prescription of medication, too. It is hoped that with all the above relevant changes and additions, the book now is a complete reference for the assistance of UG, PG and Research Scholars at the university and/or medical college level in consistence with their curricula.…

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Hardbound. Zustand: As New. New. Contents Preface. 1. Basic concepts of electricity. 2. Electric circuits. 3. Electric field. 4. Electrostatic energy. 5. Dielectric properties of matter. 6. Magnetic field. 7. Static electricity. 8. Thermoelectricity. 9. Electromagnetism. 10. Fundamentals of magnetism. 11. Electromagnetic induction. 12. Electromagnetism Electric and magnetic fields in matter. 13. Magnetism from electricity. Bibliography. This is a textbook on the physics of electricity magnetism and electromagnetic fields and waves. It is written mainly for the physics student although it will also be useful for the students of electrical and electronic engineering. The approach is concise but clear. The theory however is set out in a completely self contained and coherent way and developed to the point where the reader can appreciate the beauty and coherence of the Maxwell equations. Throughout the book relationships between microscopic structure of matter and the observed macroscopic electric and magnetic fields are stressed. The applications cover a wide range of topics. 320 pp.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Contents: Foreword. I. Orientation: 1. The family history and early childhood. 2. The under school-age period and the World War-II time (1941-1945). 3. In the Entomology School of uncle Cyril Azman (1943-52). 4. Period of the early friendship with Mathias Gogala (1943-1953). 5. Breakthrough into the community of adult entomologists (1949-1952). 6. Decision on dragonflies (1952). 7. The first steps in odonatology (1953). 8. Bastiaan s first encounter with Professor Jovan Hadzi (1953). II. Research and Administration Management: 9. Beginning of the professional career in odonate cytogenetics and cytotaxonomy (1957). 10. New insights in odonate cytotaxonomy and cytophylogeny. 11. Research missions of The Netherlands Centre for Alpine Biological Research (N.C.A.B.R.) to the Nepal Himalaya (1972-1980). III. Global leadership and statesmanship: 12. Origin of Societas Internationalis Odonatologica (S.I.O.) The Family of Friends . 13. The S.I.O. National/Regional Offices worldwide. 14. International Symposia of Odonatology. 15. Odonatologica the backbone of the S.I.O. and dawn of a new era. 16. Worldwide odonatological periodicals of the S.I.O. and Dr Kiauta s network. 17. Some non-odonatological organizations and their periodicals Influenced by (S.I.O.) or Dr B. Kiauta. 18. International Odonata Research Institute (I.O.R.I.). 19. A teacher, scientist and philosopher. 20. Societas Internationalis Odonatologica (S.I.O.) and International Union for Conservation of Nature & Natural Resources (I.U.C.N.). 21. Global mentorship. 22. Extraordinary correspondence between Dr B. Kiauta and odonatologists worldwide. IV. Real source of strength: 23. Where is my wife? . V. Evolution of science of odonatology: 24. Professor Bastiaan Kiauta the phenomenon. 25. S.I.O. dichotomy or speciation of a new confrerie, the WDA ? 26. The Kiauta-Corbet Era. 27. To India, with love. VI. In the service of God's own creations: 28. Engagement post-retirement. References. VII. Scientometry of Professor Dr. B. Kiauta's Publications, odonatologial awards, distinctions honours and other merits etc: Epilogue. Annexers. Science provides an inexorable support to both the human and the nations' development. The great scientists have always provided inspiration by their findings, philosophy, and understanding of the world around us. They have inspired generations of young explorers, eager to learn more about the world and motivated toward betterment with constant efforts in the quest for knowledge. The life of Professor Dr B. Kiauta, Emeritus Professor of Invertebrate Cytogenetics and Cytotaxonomy, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, President of Societas Internationalis Odonatologica (SIO) and the Executive Editor of Odonatologica, is an open book of assiduous perseverance, focused application and great mentorship. There are indeed many examples of great scientists, or for that matter - odonatologists, in the history of science, but there are certainly absolutely inevitably very few who by their energetic character not only practically educate the budding researchers in habits of industry, but by the example of diligence and perseverance which they set before them, largely influence the scientific activity in all directions and contribute in a great degree to form the national character, or more precisely, the world order! This book, Dr Bastiaan Kiauta: Odonatologist and Polymath His Life, Works and Universe , conveys a great lesson that nothing creditable can be accomplished without application and diligence. …

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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Dust Jacket Included. Contents Preface. 1. Prof. P.K. Sen Sarma Ph.D. FNASc. FASc. FESI FIAWSc FNAAS a termitologist and forest entomologist biography and contributions (1929 2002)/Vijay Veer and B.K. Tyagi. 2. Termites in dikes of Northern Vietnam/Vu Van Tuyen. 3. Biological observations on some wood infesting termites (Isoptera insecta) of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands India/P.K. Maiti and N. Saha. 4. Biosystematics and functional diversity of Trichogramma/Mukhtar Ahmad Md. Jamal Ahmad and R.K. Mishra. 5. Two new species of genus Neococcidencyrtus Compere (Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea Encyrtidae) parasitising diaspidid scales (Hemiptera Diaspididae) from Assam India/Sudhir Singh. 6. Potential of pheromones and Kairomones (Semiochemicals) based eco friendly insect control technologies for the suppression of forest insect pests in India/Vijay Veer M.J. Mendki Neena Chauhan and Shri Prakash. 7. Impact of man environment and pest on forest resources/B.M. Sharma. 8. Management of sylvan rodents in arid forestry ecosystem/Mohd. Idris Partap Singh and Deepak Sharma. 9. Integrated management of insect pests and mites associated with important arid and semi arid tree species in India/S.I. Ahmed Shivesh Kumar Meeta Sharma Sahadev Chouhan S.D. Paunikar and A.U. Khan. 10. Notes on diagnosis and bioecology of thrips pests of floral fruit vegetable agronomic crops and forestry plants in the Dehra Dun Valley (Uttaranchal) India/Neena Chauhan and Vijay Veer. 11. Biological based integrated management of parthenium weed/Sushilkumar. 12. Nematodes associated with forest trees in arid and semi arid zones of Rajasthan India/Padma Bohra. 13. Diversity of plant and soil nematodes in Uttarakhand India/Vinita Sharma. 14. Insect diversity and taxonomy in India role of National Forest Insect Collection (NFIC) at Forest Research Institute Dehra Dun India/Sudhir Singh. 15. Dung Beetles (Coleoptera Scarabaeidae Coprinae) diversity in Arunachal Pradesh Rajasthan Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh with notes on their economic importance/Ram Sewak. Pests of Forest Importance and Their Management is a unique book comprising all the major components of a sylvatic ecosystem from the standpoint of pests of economic importance and their control using both conventional and modern applications. The book is a compilation of 15 specialist articles woven around the central theme of the objective envisaging a variety of forest arthropod pests including both insects and arachnids as well as vertebrates. In addition the book comprises a special dedication chapter on the biography and (entomological) bibliography of Professor Dr. P.K. Sen Sarma possibly the most updated and authoritative account ever penned which is amongst the most stimulating contributions likely to profusely ignite the minds of young and enthusiastic researchers in the country engaged in forest entomology. The book written in a lucid and clearly comprehensible style consists f closely knitted articles on taxonomy biology economic forestry ecology biogeography prevention and control of the forest products from the pest attack which all make an interesting reading and will hopefully serve a good purpose of a reference work for both a serious researcher and the amateur naive enthusiast. The book is dedicated to the fond memory of Prof. Dr. P.K. Sen Sarma the doyen of forest entomology and patron of Indian isopterology and is expected to enthuse a large number of scientists research scholars and academicians across the world to take up researchers in forest entomology. 300 pp. …

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Soft cover. Zustand: As New. Contents Foreword. Preface. 1. Dr. Ishwar Prakash Polymath and Rodentologist a bio bibliography/B.K. Tyagi Mohd. Idris and Q.H. Baqri. 2. Some natural and anthropogenic specificities of the Thar/R.P. Dhir. 3. Impact of introduction of IGNP canal irrigation on micro and secular changes in climate of Thar desert region/A.S. Rao. 4. Soil bioresources a technical management in arid environment/B.M. Sharma. 5. Impact of changing ecology on termite fauna in arid and semi arid region of Rajasthan/N.S. Rathore and Madhumita Mandal. 6. Insect diversity conservation status with special reference to butterflies (Lepidoptera Rhopalocera)/H.S. Rose. 7. Some new records of mosquitoes (culicidae) and haematophagous flies of Tabanidae and muscidae from the Thar desert Rajasthan India/Shri Prakash Vijay Veer M.J. Mendki G.P. Gupta and K.C. Verma. 8. Dung beetles (Coleptera Scarabaeidae Coprinae) of the Thar desert of Rajasthan/Ram Sewak. 9. Changing ecology and faunal diversity of amphibians and reptiles in Thar Desert of Rajasthan India/R.C. Sharma and Shalini Gaur. 10. Evolution of fish hatcheries in India/Devendra Mohan. 11. Diversity abundance and dominance of avian species in the Thar desert of Rajasthan/C. Sivaperuman Sumit Dookia P.L. Kankane and Qaiser H. Baqri. 12. Mammalian diversity in the Thar desert of Rajasthan/S. Chakraborthy V.C. Agrawal and S.I. Kazmi. 13. Significance of scent marking gland in desert rodents/Mohd. Idris. 14. Reproduction in desert rodents/R.S. Tripathi. 15. Scenario of clinical studies of cutaneous leishmaniasis of human and canines/Anil Ahuja. 16. Thar desert's changing climate and the emergence/exacerbation of vector borne diseases past present and future/B.K. Tyagi. Changing Faunal Ecology in the Thar Desert dedicated to the fond memory of Professor Dr. Ishwar Prakash the legendary Rodentologist is a unique melange of scientific investigations on diversified ecological subjects pertaining to different organism groups from as tiny as protozoa to as giant as mammals. Altogether sixteen contributions including an original up to date and authentic bio bibliography of Dr. I. Prakash make this volume an exceptional treatise penned by 24 expert scientist authors many of whom have spent a life in arid ecosystems including the Thar Desert. The book provides a crystal clear proof of the constantly changing behavioural ecology of animals in the Thar Desert which has been under an ever increasing impact of among several imminent factors the Indira Gandhi Nahar Pariyojana (IGNP) one of the world's largest irrigation systems of its type in a xeric environment. The change is discernible not only in structure and distribution of animals but in their resting feeding breeding and as evident in case of parasites the extent of parasitism as well as pathogenecity. Finally this book offers the first well documented evidence of immense behavioural transformation in various different animal groups in the Thar Desert a phenomenon of enormous significance for both conservation management and diversity inventorization activities of its faunal wealth. 367 pp.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Dust Jacket Included. Contents Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Professor Bastiaan Kiauta an extraordinary and outstanding odonatologist/B.K. Tyagi and M.A.J.E. Kiauta. 2. Studies on neotropical protoneuridae. 20. Neoneura Kiautai spec. nov. from Southeastern Brazil (Zygoptera protoneuridae)/Angelo B.M. Machado. 3. Three new damselfly species from Papua New Guinea (Zygoptera megapodagrionidae coenagrionidae)/G. Theischinger and S.J. Richards. 4. Dragonflies from the Okavango swamps (Botswana Southern Africa) in winter/Henri J. Dumont. 5. Cordulegaster insignis (Schneider 1845) in Bulgaria with notes on its biology and ecology/Milen Marinov Burkhard Grebe and Yordan Kutsarov. 6. The dragonfly fauna of the Shivapuri Hills Nepal (Odonata zygoptera Anisozygoptera anisoptera)/T. Brockhaus S.G. Butler R.G. Kemp and G.S. Vick. 7. The composition and history of Siberian odonate fauna/A.Yu. Haritonov. 8. The dragonflies of forest steppe in West Siberia fauna ecology and biology/O.N. Popova. 9. Odonata of Mexico revisited/E. Gonzalez Soriano and R. Novelo Gutierrez. 10. Odonata inventories in British Columbia Canada determining the conservation status of odonata species/Robert A. Cannings Leah R. Ramsay and Sydney G. Cannings. 11. Cytogenetics of American Odonata/Liliana M. Mola. 12. Are the observed dispersal capacities in damselfly species sufficient to cope with the ongoing rapid shift of climate zones/J. Beukema. 13. Local assemblage patterns of odonates in Central Choco Colombian Pacific/L. Perez. D. Monroy and E. Realpe. 14. The expansion of crocothemis erythraea (Brulle 1832) in Germany an indicator for climatic changes/J. Ott. 15. Adaptationist approach of reproductive behaviour in Libellulidae a case report on Diastatops obscura Fabricius/J.B. Irusta and A. Araujo. 16. Causes and costs of lamellae autotomy in damselfly larvae a review/R. Stoks and M. De Block. 17. Endemic odonates of the Western Ghats habitat distribution and conservation/K.A. Subramanian. 18. Dragonflies of the Madurai Kamaraj University Campus (Tamil Nadu India)/P.L. Miller. 19. Larval and adult behavioural patterns of some odonata species from Dehradun Valley/Amit Mitra. 20. Coeliccia hoanglienensis spec. nov. a new platynemid damselfly from Hoang Lien mountains in the North of Vietnam (Zygoptera plastinemididae)/Do Manh Cuong. 21. Observations on mating and oviposition behaviour of Tetrathemis platyptera Selys 1878/Kiran C.G. and F.K. Kakkassery. 22. About the odonata ethnic names in the Serbian linguistic area/Milos Jovic. 23. Discovering the dragonfly wealth of Kerala the God's own land in South India a travelogue/Dan Barta. Dragonflies (Odonata) represented by over 6000 known species are unique insects. In more than one feature they differ at the very first glance from all other insect superorders including their nearest allies the mayflies (Ephemeropteroidea). They probably evolved as early as in the Lower Devonian. Odonata are characterized by a number of extremely archaic features have evolved but very little in the course of the past geological epochs and are therefore justly considered as a kind of living fossils. The living dragonflies represent but one order (Odonata) organized in three suborders viz. Zygoptera Anisozygoptera and Anisoptera. Anisozygoptera are represented in the present day fauna only by two relic species one of which is endemic to Japan and the other in India and Nepal. The Zygoptera and Anisoptera on the other hand are the dominant groups. Being voracious predators in both immature (aquatic) and adult (aerial) stages they are important elements of all except the drier (or high alpine) environments in temperate and tropical regions occupying a position at the apex of the food chain of invertebrate life. Many dragonfly species are tested biological control agents for several disease transmitting vector mosquitoes especially Aedes species. They are also ideal organisms to be used as indicators of water pollution and contamination. Many species se.…