Shri Harsha, the celebrated poet of 12th century, has mentioned the name of Nepal in Naishadiya Charitam, as we read on 12/43. But at the time of Kalidasa 1st century B. C. it seems to me that Nepal was not in the same political form as she is at present. Then the Western Nepal was in .Uttarakoshala and the Eastern was in Mithila, as is learnt from the Sarayumahatmya and Mithilamahatmya. It …
This Monograph, reprinted from Oceania, Vol. XI, No. i, pp. 40-74, contains the substance of three lectures given at my request by Dr. Capell in March of this year to a group of Administrative Officers and Missionaries. Most persons engaged in administrative and missionary work in Papua and New Guinea require, at least some knowledge of phonetics and some facility of writing down the sounds the…
This book introduces the field of Health Web Science and presents methods for information gathering from written social media data. It explores the availability and utility of the personal medical information shared on social media platforms and determines ways to apply this largely untapped information source to healthcare systems and public health monitoring. Introducing an innovative concept…
This open access book explores the energy transition / energy poverty nexus in the European Union, including the implications of the transition and related policies for the household sector. Written by experts on energy economics, energy studies and related fields, it examines the impacts and costs of the energy transition (including those caused by carbon pricing) for the economy and for famil…
This open access book offers an introduction to mixed generalized linear models with applications to the biological sciences, basically approached from an applications perspective, without neglecting the rigor of the theory. For this reason, the theory that supports each of the studied methods is addressed and later - through examples - its application is illustrated. In addition, some of the a…