Introduction Chapter 1 Application of artificial neural network in prediction of surface roughness while machining of AISI 4340 steel using ZTA inserts 1 B. K. Singh, Richa Verma, Satya Bhushan Verma and Piyush Pal Chapter 2 Realignment of marketing strategies with IoT and automation – Implications, opportunities and issues 10 Farah Zahidi, Richa Verma and Rahil Feroz Chapter 3 Energy efficient LSA method to increase network lifetime for Wireless Sensor Network 15 K. Senthilvadivu, S. G. Santhi and G. Revathy Chapter 4 A comparative examination of ML algorithms for handwritten character recognition 21 G. Revathy, G. Indirani, S. K. Senthil Kumar, J. Swarnalakshmi and Shivalatha Kurelly Chapter 5 Thermal analysis, evaluation of economic feasibility and energy matrices (TE2 analysis) of domestic type single slope solar still 26 Dheeraj Kumar, Ramit Choudhury, Amit Kumar and Apurba Layek Chapter 6 Experimental investigation of effect of the process parameters for single slope solar still using Taguchi’s design approach 33 Dheeraj Kumar, Amit Kumar, Ramit Choudhury and Apurba Layek Chapter 7 A comparative study on conversion of hand gestures to text and speech for blind, deaf, and mute people 39 Ved Gupta, Richa Sharma, Sonam and Kapan Jaiswal Chapter 8 A review on phytochemistry and pharmacological activity of Allamanda blanchetii 46 Deepti Upadhyay, Arun Kumar Tiwari, Anshika Bharti and Amit Kaushik Chapter 9 Hourly solar irradiation forecasting utilising ANFIS and simulated annealing ANFIS 52 Swatika Srivastava, Mohd Shariq Ansari, Tanu Dhusia, Ravi Jaiswal and Poonam Yadav Chapter 10 Perceiving the emotions from the short-text using machine learning classifiers 59 Varsha, A. and Ranichitra vi Chapter 11 Automated essay grading using long short-term memory networks 66 Sanjay Patidar, Anmolpreet Singh Kataria and Piyush Gupta Chapter 12 Anvil design and experimental investigation for ultrasonic welding of thin dissimilar metals 79 Shyam Ji Trivedi and Shiv Kumar Chapter 13 A contemporary study on MAC protocols for wireless mesh network 88 Eram Fatima, Ankit Kumar and Manuj Darbari Chapter 14 Mass management system for Covid-19 monitoring and managing the crowd 95 Praveen Yadav, Aviral Chaudhary, Dolly Singh, Sachin Kumar and Swatika Srivastava Chapter 15 An IOT sensor and machine learning hardware system to monitor the mental and physical health of people 101 Ahila Ramesh Rajamani, Nirmalrani V. and Pooja Balakrishnan Chapter 16 Algorithms and concepts to convert an unsecured RF transceiver into a secured one: A survey 108 Aman Prakash and D. L. Gupta Chapter 17 Solar-wind hybrid inverter system 116 Suraj Kumar, Abdul Kadir, Dhiraj Vishwakarma, Swatika Srivastava and Rishi Kumar Chapter 18 A review on design and analysis of H-frame hydraulic press 121 Jitendra Kumar Patel, Anurag Singh and Umesh Chandra Verma Chapter 19 A review of various machine learning algorithms and its uses in credit card fraud detection 129 Kaneez Zainab, Namrata Dhanda and Qamar Abbas Chapter 20 Flood and landmine detection over mobile app 137 Shreiya Patel, Antima Singh, Riya Tiwari, Suman and Swatika Srivastava Chapter 21 Internet of things (IoT) applications and future trends: A review 143 Gagandeep Kaur and Satveer Kaur Chapter 22 Performance evaluation of microgrid with renewable energy sources using hybrid PSO algorithm 149 Thandava Krishna Sai Pandraju, T. Vijay Muni, Rajesh Patil and Varaprasad Janamala vii Chapter 23 A systematic review of smartphones-based human activity recognition methods using machine learning process 157 Jothika K., Lakshmi Priya M. and Y. Bevish Jinila Chapter 24 Minimization of switching energy of domino logic circuits with T-NOT gate 165 Balwant Singh, Saurabh Kumar and R. K. Chauhan Chapter 25 Blockchain: State-of-art and applications 172 Sudhani Verma, Girish Chandra and Divakar Yadav Chapter 26 Data security issues and solutions in cloud computing 179 Aditi Raj and Namrata Dhanda Chapter 27 Facial biometric-based authenticator system: Secure ID 187 Harshit Nigam, Nida Hasib, Mohammad Nabigh Abbas, Mohneesh Tiwari and Himanshu Mali Shalaj Chapter 28 Performance comparison of distinct control configurations applied to PMSG drives for wind turbine applications 193 Arika Singh and Kirti Pal Chapter 29 Skin cancer detection using deep learning and MatLab: A review 199 Neharika Bhatnagar, Ankita Singh, VardhaniJain and Rafik Ahmed Chapter 30 Review on automation in mango production using artificial intelligence 206 Vaibhav Srivastav, Meenakshi Srivastava and Shailendra Rajan Chapter 31 Hydro alcoholic extract of Holarrhena antidysenterica L. induced toxicity research in experimental animals 212 Pritt Verma, Shravan Kumar Paswan, Gulab Chandra, Amresh Gupta and Ch. V. Rao Chapter 32 SwissADME: An in-silico ADME examination tool 219 Salil Tiwari, Kandasamy Nagarajan and Amresh Gupta Chapter 33 Gene polymorphism associated in head and neck cancer 226 Garima Avasthi, TridivKatiyar, Amresh Gupta and Devendra Parmar Chapter 34 To detect fake identities in Twitter using machine learning models 232 Pedada Chetanroop, Ruthwik Preetham and S. Gowri Chapter 35 Evaluation of machine learning algorithms for the detection of fake bank currency 237 Gadipudi Sandeep and Jusak Sikharamviii Chapter 36 A study on handwritten character recognition with neural network 243 Girjesh Mishra, Akhil Mishra, Ankit Kumar Gupta, Arjun Mittal and Prakash Kumar Chapter 37 Plant leaf disease classification using MobileNetV2 249 Rashmi Verma and Samiksha Singh Chapter 38 Dog breed classification using deep learning 256 Ajeet Yadav and Ganesh Chandra Chapter 39 Parts of speech tagging tagsets for Penn Treebank: A survey 263 Neha Singh and Jyoti Srivastava Chapter 40 Spinal muscular atrophy: An orphaned deadly disease yet to get generalised approved therapeutic regimen 268 Ravi Shankar, Monika Joshi, Prabhat Upadhyay and Manish Kumar Chapter 41 Fault detection and maintenance prediction for an industrial gearbox using machine learning approaches 274 Ashish Kumar Srivastava, Alok Kumar Gupta and Shailendra Prasad Sharma Chapter 42 An automated identification of animal species using image processing techniques and convolutional neural network 282 B. Gopinath, B. Aadhith, B. Charan Raj and B. Dhanasekar Chapter 43 Blockchain and NoSQL jointly improve the quality of big data, security and performance 289 Ashis Kumar Samanta and Nabendu Chaki Chapter 44 Eight-fold supervised non-parametric skin-segmentation 295 Harsha B. K., Shruthi M. L. J. and G. Indumathi Chapter 45 A review on modern WSN architectures and its application 301 Divya Srivastava and Manish Kumar Chapter 46 Securing blackhole attacks in MANETs using improved sequence number in AODV routing protocol: A review 308 Sarita Verma and Rishi Asthana Chapter 47 Image based blockchains: A comparative study 315 Abhay Kumar Yadav and Virendra Prasad Vishwakarma Chapter 48 Software development estimation using soft computing techniques 321 Prateek Srivastava, Nidhi Srivastava, Rashi Agarwal and Pawan Singhix Chapter 49 Biological potential of lycorine: A summary update 326 Deepti Katiyar, Robin Singh, Surya Prakash, Abhay Bhardwaj and Kandasamy Nagarajan Chapter 50 Cookie visualiser - Browser independent visualisation of cookies stored on your personal computer 335 Gowri S, Senduru Srinivasulu, Johnpaul S, Surendran R and Jabez J Chapter 51 Stroke robotics for functional recovery 343 Kajal, Nikhat Akhtar, Sunil Kumar Singh, Versha Verma and Vikas Porwal Chapter 52 The simulation study of small-signal C-E amplifiers and Darlington amplifiers 350 Satyendra Nath Tiwari, Gaurav Mishra, Shiv Kumar and Vijay Singh Chapter 53 Geometry vibrational and NBO analysis of thiazole derivative (Z)-4-{[4-(3-methyl-3-phenylcyclobutyl)thiazol-2-yl]amino}-4-oxobut-2-enoic acid 357 Anoop Kumar Pandey, Ankit Kumar Sharma, V K Singh, Benard S. Mwankemwa and Vijay Singh Chapter 54 Quantum chemical study of thiazole derivative cyclobutyl molecule C18H18N2
