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WiMAX: Applications

CRC Press, 2007

As the demand for broadband services continues to grow worldwide, traditional solutions, such as digital cable and fiber optics, are often difficult and expensive to implement, especially in rural and remote areas. The emerging WiMAX system satisfies the growing need for high data-rate applications such as voiceover IP, video conferencing,...

Biomedicine, Healing and Modernity in Rural Bangladesh

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book provides an ethnographic account of the ways in which biomedicine, as a part of the modernization of healthcare, has been localized and established as the culturally dominant medical system in rural Bangladesh. Dr Faruk Shah offers an anthropological critique of biomedicine in rural Bangladesh that explains how the existing social...

China’s Urban Construction Land Development: The State, Market, and Peasantry in Action

Springer, 2019

This book examines the nature and internal dynamics of China’s urban construction land (UCL) development, drawing insights from the recently developed theory of regional political ecology. Based on the author’s original research, it identifies two different types of UCL development in China, namely top-down, formal...

A Living Countryside? (Perspectives on Rural Policy and Planning)

Ashgate, 2009

In recent years the ideal of achieving sustainable rural development has become a key dimension of EU, national, regional and local policy. Whether this ideal is achievable in the near future to any substantial degree is by no means certain. By examining a range of experiences from both the north and south of Ireland, this book asks what the...

Microfinance, Risk-taking Behaviour and Rural Livelihood

Springer, 2013

Nearly 60 % of India’s mammoth 1.2 billion population lives in rural areas. Unfortunately, India’s rural population contributes only 8 % of the gross domestic product. India’s formal financial services sector is yet to meet the growing need of the rural population. The testimony is India’s booming informal...

California and the Fictions of Capital (Commonwealth Center Studies in the History of American Culture)

Oxford University Press, 1998

Between the frequently recounted events of the Gold Rush and the Great Depression stretches a period of California history that is equally crucial but less often acknowledged. In his fresh, synthetic consideration of these in-between years, George L. Henderson points specifically to the take-off of California's rural juggernaut between...

Rural Technology Development and Delivery: RuTAG and Its Synergy with Other Initiatives (Design Science and Innovation)

Springer, 2019

This book comprises the proceedings of a rural technologies conference organised by the Rural Technology Action Group (RuTAG), which was conceptualized and initiated by Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) to the Government of India R. Chidambaram in 2003–04. The book highlights case studies and research into providing science...

Telecommunications Challenges In Developing Countries: Asymmetric Interconnection Charges For Rural Areas

World Bank Publications, 2004

Telecommunications Challenges in Developing Countries addresses an important aspect of interconnection—the settings of call termination charges. In rural telecommunications, network costs are known to be high. The traditional consensus has been that many rural areas cannot be connected without subsidies. This paper investigates the...

Encyclopedia of World Cultures: South Asia

Macmillan Technical, 1992

Contemplation of the huge numbers of people now living in South Asia prompts me to point out that this volume deals with about 20 percent of the world's population (which stood at almost 5 billion in 1986, the year in which the population of South Asia passed the 1 billion mark). The rough geographic limits encompassing this mass of people and...

The Unofficial Guide to Microsoft Office Excel 2007

John Wiley & Sons, 2007

The inside scoop...for when you want more than the official line!

Microsoft Office Excel 2007 may be just what you need to crunch numbers, but to use it with confidence, you'll need to know its quirks and shortcuts. Find out what the manual doesn't always tell you in this insider's guide to using Excel in the real world....

Mastering SQLServer 2000

Sybex, 2000

Complete. Authoritative. Practical. The only SQL Server book you need. Mastering SQL Server 2000 is the one indispensable resource for anyone working with the latest version of SQL Server. Whether you build or administer SQL Server databases or write applications that communicate with them, you'll find the background knowledge and the practical...

$Anatomy & Physiology Workbook For Dummies (Math & Science)$

Anatomy & Physiology Workbook For Dummies (Math & Science)

For Dummies, 2007

An excellent primer for learning the human body

An anatomy and physiology course is required for medical and nursing students as well as for others pursuing careers in healthcare. Anatomy & Physiology Workbook For Dummies is the fun and easy way to get up to speed on anatomy and physiology facts and...

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