While providing unique identity to the objects, analogous to wireless sensor network (WSN) technologies, radio frequency identification (RFID) technology can be used to automate data collection and thus can significantly limit human involvements as well as errors. Therefore, utilisation and...

Debris flows are among the most destructive disasters in mountain areas around the world, and they continue to receive substantial attention in the literature. However, factors influencing the collapse of soil mass and debris flow initiation in hollows have not been explored using experimental...

The information services are multidimensional and socially acts as the building block of communication among diverse groups in rural society. Rural development mostly relies on the effective use of information services in the day-to-day activities of rural people and rural administrations. In...

World Economic Issues at the United Nations: Half a Century of Debate attempts an objective analysis of the discussions in the policy forums of the United Nations on the major issues in the world economy over the past half a century. The book opens with a brief survey of the world economy since...