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1.1 CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK Society is made up of different communities, in turn, the community comprises of different individuals. Every individual is a unique person and this uniqueness is the creation of not only his individuality but also his surroundings. Such different individuals may have interactions with individuals from a variety of communities. Thus, creating a complex web of behavioral patterns, which demands an individual to develop such skills that need not only to adjust one's personality to suit the demands of the other's personality but also adapt to different environments.

The Nature Conservancy of Canada is the leading non-governmental land conservation organization, a private, not-for-profit organization that partners with corporate and individual landowners to protect natural lands. The NCC's work is supported by about 40,000 active donors and manages 2.2 million acres of ecologically important land nationwide. The NCC is by all accounts a rare good news environmental story.

The present book on NCC is published for the benefit of all the cadets of National Cadet Corps. The book covers all aspects of NCC training in appropriate detail and comprises the latest study material on both common and specialised subjects with exhaustive exercises. Solved Model test papers are also provided in the book to make the readers familiar with the test-pattern of NCC Certificate Exams. Detailed answers have also been provided for better understanding of readers. The book concisely covers all aspects of NCC training and exams such as: NCC-At a Glance, Drill & Commands, Weapon Training, Map Reading, Field Craft & Battle Craft, Obstacles Training & Adventure Activities, National Integration, Civil Defence & Disaster Management, Social Awareness, Health & Hygiene, Yoga & Aasnas, Home Nursing, Posture Training, Self Defence, Environment & Ecology, Famous Leaders of India, etc. There are separate units in the book on A Career in Defence Services, Defence Services, Leadership & Personality Development, Services Tests & Interviews, General Awareness, History of India, etc. The book, with a simplified and reader-friendly approach, has been prepared under the active guidance and supervision of a panel of experts in the field. The sole aim of the book is to turn the young school and college students into full-fledged cadets of NCC.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, Inscrypt 2016, held in Beijing, China, in November 2016. The 32 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 93 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on symmetric ciphers; public-key cryptosystems; signature and authentication; homomorphic encryption; leakage-resilient; post-quantum cryptography; commitment and protocol; elliptic curves; security and implementation.

IFYGL is a program jointly sponsored by Canadian and U.S. National Committee for International Hydrological Decade for coordinated research into the physical, chemical and biological aspects of Lake Ontario to improve our understanding of the Lake and its basin.