The book presents current research and developments in multilingual speech recognition. The author presents a Multilingual Phone Recognition System (Multi-PRS), developed using a common multilingual phone-set derived from the International Phonetic Alphabets (IPA) based transcription of six Indian languages - Kannada, Telugu, Bengali, Odia, Urdu, and Assamese. The author shows how the performance of Multi-PRS can be improved using tandem features. The book compares Monolingual Phone Recogn...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence over Infrared Images for Medical Applications, AIIIMA 2025, held as a virtual event, on November 15, 2025.The 13 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions. They focus on the application of artificial intelligence in medical infrared imaging for cancer screening, cancer diagnosis, cancer risk assessment, treatment mon...

Financial incentives and regulatory pressures shape business and organizational decisions to adopt cleaner technologies in manufacturing processes. By assigning a monetary cost to carbon emissions, carbon pricing mechanisms encourage manufacturers to reduce their environmental footprint and invest in energy-efficient processes, low-carbon materials, and innovative production methods. Further exploration into how these policies influence corporate behavior, drive technological transformatio...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cognitive Computing and Information Processing, CCIP 2023, held in Mysuru, India, in December 2023.The 14 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 127 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Communications, Video analytics, Cognitive computing and its applications, and Image analysis.

Villains are sent flying through the air to pulsating guitar riffs.Socio-economic problems are solved with sermonizing monologues.You can rest assured that good shall prevail-since the protagonist can change the world at will.We are in the presence of the Telugu hero: a character that spills over from myth onto the screen. The celluloid hero speaks like you and me and looks like us, but can perform superhuman feats.The Age of Heroes looks at the his...

Angular is not just a framework, but rather a platform that empowers developers to build applications for the web, mobile, and the desktop.This book presents a collection of complete project tutorials: building a bucket-list MEAN stack app; user authentication with MEAN; building a Twitter client with Node and Angular; and connecting Angular and the WordPress API. Along the way, you'll learn how to use Angular and some of its best features.This book is for all fron...

Echoes of Existence: A Journey Through Mind, Heart, Soul, and Purpose is an inspirational self-help and personal-growth book by Manjunath Athanikar that explores the deeper questions behind success, happiness, relationships, spirituality, purpose, and human existence.Through reflections on the mind, heart, soul, and human experience, the book explores how our thoughts shape our lives, how limiting beliefs can become invisible priso...

Moving to the Cloud provides an in-depth introduction to cloud computing models, cloud platforms, application development paradigms, concepts and technologies. The authors particularly examine cloud platforms that are in use today. They also describe programming APIs and compare the technologies that underlie them. The basic foundations needed for developing both client-side and cloud-side applications covering compute/storage scaling, data parallelism, virtualization, MapReduce, RIA, SaaS...

Daanva is a story which tells to stand for your self respect and for self respect you have to struggle for it.

This book presents the potential applications of hard materials as well as the latest trends and challenges in machining hard materials. Models for online monitoring to adjust parameters to obtain desired machining characteristics (i.e. reverse modelling) are discussed in this book. The conflicting requirements (i.e. maximize: material removal rate, roundness and minimize: surface roughness, dimensional ovality, co axiality, tool wear) in machining for industry personal is solved using adv...

This book explores the urgent quest for sustainable energy solutions by examining potential renewable energy sources that meet global demands. As fossil fuels deplete at an alarming rate, this book addresses the critical challenges in selecting sustainable feedstocks and optimizing processes for industrial-scale biodiesel production. With a focus on Garcinia-gummi-gutta seeds as a promising feedstock, the book provides a detailed analysis of oil extraction, biofuel conversion, and the prac...

The integration of AI and machine Learning into business education has developed a more efficient way of training future leaders. These technologies enhance the curriculum design and equip students with critical and analytical decision skills for today’s fast paced business environment. AI and machine learning tools foster experiential learning and bridge the gap between theory and practice. As industries increasingly rely on automation and predictive analytics, embedding these technologie...