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The Book introduces readers to the fundamental ethical precepts of Buddhism. Buddhist ethics are significant and relevant to contemporary society, as these are not restricted to any caste, creed, race, region and language. The ethical precepts of Buddhist are flexible and autonomous in character. They are of a very practical character, such that they can easily adopted and applied to modern times. The precepts are essentially taken from the sacred texts of ...
Demographic techniques are widely utilized in a variety of disciplines while being central to population studies. In particular, they are crucial to the design of effective health and family planning programs. In this textbook, Professor Srinivasan describes all the important statistical and analytical tools required by anyone utilizing demographic methods. The presentation is lucid and straightforward and requires little more than elementary algebra. Amongst the ...
Indian herbal industry is at blooming stage, however cultivation of medicinal plants is not so easy. It is a challenging task because less is known about their seed biology. Many efforts have not been made to search elite specimens and their propagation. Current cultivation practices of medicinal plants are unsatisfactory and involved destructive harvesting. There is a need for a scientific approach for propagation of medicinal plants and to collect relevant ...
Plantation forestry has been emerging as a strong attraction to the traditional forestry practice due to its acceptability and productivity improvement. After enunciation of national forest policy, 1988, plantation forestry has been encouraged to generate raw materials for domestic as well as industrial needs. This has accelerated the promotion of social, farm and agroforestry programmes in the wastelands and other marginal farmlands of the country. All these ...