A heartfelt memoir of love, loss, and legacy.From the dusty lanes of Dalsinghsarai to the steel towers of Bokaro, Ashok’s journey is one of grit, dreams, and quiet sacrifices. Narrated by his son, this emotional tribute captures the life of a humble teacher who gave everything for his family — and asked for nothing in return.A moving reminder that the greatest heroes are often the simplest souls.

Work through practical recipes to learn how to solve complex machine learning and deep learning problems using PythonKey FeaturesGet up and running with artificial intelligence in no time using hands-on problem-solving recipesExplore popular Python libraries and tools to build AI solutions for images, text, sounds, and imagesImplement NLP, reinforcement learning, deep learning, GANs, Monte-Carlo tree search, and much moreBook Desc...

The book offers the readers the fundamental concepts of Machine Learning techniques in a user-friendly language. The book aims to give in-depth knowledge of the different Machine Learning (ML) algorithms and the practical implementation of the various ML approaches.This book covers different Supervised Machine Learning algorithms such as Linear Regression Model, Naïve Bayes classifier Decision Tree, K-nearest neighbor, Logistic Regression, Support Vector Machine, Random forest algorithms, ...

This book focuses on the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) technique covering fibre optic sensor research. It highlights recent advancements in geometric feature-based fibre optic SPR sensors for chemical/biochemical/biosensor applications. The contents also discuss the principle of the SPR sensing technique as well as various designs of fibre optic SPR probes for improving sensor sensitivity. It also includes numerous examples of SPR-based fibre optic sensors with various geometric (such as...

This book dives into a specialized collection of peer-reviewed research from the Indian Geotechnical Conference (IGC)-2023, jointly organized by IIT Roorkee, CSIR-CBRI, Roorkee, and IGS Roorkee Chapter. This particular book, part of the extensive IGC-2023 proceedings, focuses exclusively on landslides and slope stability, a critical area within geotechnical engineering.Originally presented at the conference held from December 14-16, 2023, at IIT Roorkee, the papers in this book hig...

The book presents the collated and high-quality proceedings of the Conference on Recent Technologies in Electronics and Photonics held during 9-10 February 2024 at MIT-WPU, Pune, India. The main objective of this book is the introduction of recent innovations and current trends of photonics and electronics along with advanced device applications. Photonics and electronics together are shaping up to be the two main pillars of innovation for sustainable development and technological advances...

Nanotechnology Applications for Food Safety and Quality Monitoring brings together nanotechnology science-based research for food safety and quality monitoring. With the advancement in knowledge about behavior of nano-engineered materials in food and its toxicity, the application of nanotechnology is expected to reach unprecedented levels in achieving food safety. Currently, there is no practical resource of nanotechnology as a tool specifically for monitoring safety and quality. This is a...

Although nanotechnology has revolutionized fields such as medicine, genetics, biology, bioengineering, mechanics, and chemistry, its increasing application in the food industry is relatively recent in comparison. Nanotechnology in the food industry is now being explored for creating new flavors, extending food shelf life, and improving food protection and nutritional value, as well as for intelligent nutrient delivery systems, “smart” foods, contaminant detection nanodevices and nanosensor...

This new volume explores the recent innovations in active, intelligent, and smart packaging systems that embrace packaging potential to not only provide protection to food but to also improve its nutritive value, reduce contamination by releasing antimicrobials, and provide real-time status of food quality. The book presents novel edible food packaging, nanotechnology-based improvements in food packaging, and biodegradation and bio-based approaches for management of food waste and plastic ...

This book presents selected articles from the workshop on "Challenges in Petrophysical Evaluation and Rock Physics Modeling of Carbonate Reservoirs" held at IIT Bombay in November 2017. The articles included explore the challenges associated with using well-log data, core data analysis, and their integration in the qualitative and quantitative assessment of petrophysical and elastic properties in carbonate reservoirs. The book also discusses the recent trends and advances in the area of re...