This book is a first-hand account of how India's COVID-19 Vaccine Program successfully delivered over a billion jabs in less than two years. The authors, in an engaging manner, reveal to the readers those critical levers that led to this phenomenal accomplishment and drew the world’s attention to India. Based on interactions with the key people involved in this mega-crisis time management, it lays bare the strategies and actions that led to the purposeful indigenization of supply chains de...

This book addresses the acoustic signal analysis and spectral dynamics of the tanpura, an Indian plucked string instrument. In addition, it strives to provide a logical and objective explanation of Indian classical musicians’ cognitive experience. Issues of relevance in this regard include the rich, mellifluous sound; the undulation of the loudness; the somewhat cyclical variation of the timbre, which is strongly related to these undulations; and the occasional perception of virtual notes ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computing, Communication and Learning, CoCoLe 2024, held in Warangal, India, in September 2024.The 24 full papers and 10 short papers presented here were carefully reviewed and selected from 149 submissions. These papers have been categorized under the following topical sections: Advancements in AI for Predictive Modeling, Quality Enhancement, and Real-Time Detection Across Various Domains; Mach...

This book includes a collection of peer-reviewed best selected research papers presented at the Third International Conference on Advances in Distributed Computing and Machine Learning (ICADCML 2022), organized by Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Warangal, Telangana, India, during 15–16 January 2022. This book presents recent innovations in the field of scalable distributed systems in addition to cutting edge research in the field of Interne...