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This issue of the International Journal of Advance Research and Innovation presents a range of unique and varied studies.

This issue is focussed heavily on studies based on physics-engineering rooted concepts such as ‘Optimization of Vapour Compression Refrigeration Systems using Mixing of Nanomaterials,’ ‘Experimental Analysis of Surface Roughness in CNC Turning of Aluminium Using Response Surface Methodology,’ ‘Optimal Scheduling with Transportation Time and Equivalent Item for Item-Block,’ ‘Multi-channel Queues with Setup Time,’ ‘Comparative Analysis of Different Control Schemes in Delta Domain Using Time Moments,’ ‘Analysis & Validation of a MOSFET mobility model using BSIM3v3.2.2,’ ‘Design & Simulation of Back to Back F Shape Slotted Rectangular Microstrip Patch Antenna for Satellite Communication,’ ‘Miniaturization of Bagely Polygon Power Divider using Dual Transmission Line Technique,’ ‘Design & Simulation of TRI Band Microstrip Patch Antenna with Back To Back E Shape Slot,’ ‘Optimization of Acoustic Echo and Noise Reduction in Non-Stationary Environment,’ ‘Optimal Bidirectional Battery Charger,’ ‘A Three Level AC-DC Converter Using Independent Controller,’ ‘Inductor Coupled Single-Input Multiple-Output (SIMO) DC-DC Converter,’ ‘Step Up Boost Converter for a Photo Voltaic System Using MPPT,’ ‘FPGA Based PWM of Cascaded Multilevel Voltage Source Inverter,’ ‘Soft Switching of Phase Shifted Full Bridge DC-DC Converter,’ ‘Soft Switching of Phase Shifted Full Bridge DC-DC Converter,’ ‘Comparison of Hybrid Modulation Techniques for a Single Phase Rectifier,’ ‘Thermal Analysis & Optimization of Two Stages Vapour Compression Refrigeration Systems using Sixteen Ecofriendly Refrigerants,’ ‘Thermo Analysis of Hydrogen Liquefaction System,’ ‘Thermodynamic (Exergy-Energy) Analysis of a Low Pressure Kaptiza Claude System for Liquefaction of Gases,’ ‘Review on Current Research Work in Wire Electrical Discharge Machining,’ ‘Methods for Improving Thermal Performance of Three Stage Vapour Compression Refrigeration Systems with Flash-Intercooler Using Energy– Exergy Analysis of Eight Ecofriendly Refrigerants,’ ‘A Review of Solar Flat Plate Liquid Collector‟s Components,’ ‘Effect of Single and Multiple-Pass Friction Stir Processing on Microstructure, Hardness and Tensile Properties of a 99.99% Cu with Carbon Nano Tubes,’ ‘Reactive Power Control in the Deregulated Electrical Power Environment using FACT Devices,’ ‘Thermal Evaporation- Modeling and Microstructure Studies of Indium and Tin Deposition’ and ‘Modeling and Analysis for Hardness and Structure of Nonferrous Alloy castings produced using Zcast Metal casting Process through Response Surface Methodology.’

Manufacturing-heavy or industry-related studies also find a place in this issue in studies such as ‘Lean and Agile Manufacturing System Barriers,’ ‘Material Characteristics, Manufacturing Processes and Product Performance: A Review of Some Experimental Studies,’ ‘Implementation of 5S Methodology in the Small Scale Industry: a Case Study,’ ‘Improvement of Process cycle Efficiency by Implementing a Lean Practice: A Case Study’ and ‘Mathematical Approach for Determining the Number of Kanbans: A Step towards Non-Stock Production in Manufacturing Scenario.’

Any discussion surrounding contemporary subjects would not be complete without techno-centric studies. This has been addressed through studies such as ‘Speech Analysis Tools As Back-Ends for Bangla Phoneme Recognition Using MFCC, Neural Network, Hamming and Euclidean Distance,’ ‘A Novel Approach of High-Secured Watermarking System Using Zernike Moments,’ ‘User Privileged CAPTCHA as Graphical Password for Multistage Authentication,’ ‘Flexible Image Similarity Region Calculation with SRHM Using PMD (Pixel Mismatch Detection),’ ‘Alternate Path Selection in IP Networks using Bandwidth Optimization,’ ‘Location Privacy and Lifetime Maximization using Low Energy Adaptive Technique in WSN,’ ‘Enhanced K-Means++ Clustering For Big Data with Mapreduce,’ ‘Face Annotation with Weakly Labeled Web Facial Images,’ ‘Star Shape Slotted Microstrip Patch Antenna for Wireless Application,’ ‘YCbCr Technique based Human Face Recognition,’ ‘FPGA Implementation of Optimized Spiking Neural Network for Efficient Speak recognition System,’ ‘Ternary Gan Based HEMT for High Frequency Application,’ ‘Bit Error Rate Performance Measurement of Wireless MIMO System Based on FPGA,’ ‘Design of Low Efficiency DSP Architecture for Wireless Sensor Networks’ and ‘―Home Automation‖ New Approch for Security.’

Other niches are explored through studies such as ‘The Role of Biopesticides as a Challenge and Opportunities in the Field of Agriculture: A Review and Study of Green Chemistry,’ ‘Thermal Analysis & Optimization of Two Stages Vapour Compression Refrigeration Systems Using Sixteen Ecofriendly Refrigerants,’ ‘Consumers Attitude towards Various Internet Service Providers’ and ‘Prevalence of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in patients admitted in a Tertiary Care Hospital of North India.’

We hope that the diverse range of subjects covered in this issue act as ‘food for thought’ for our readers and prove to be intellectually stimulating for them. The support of the readers and the contributions of all the authors to the global discourse on the subjects is greatly appreciated.

Editor-in-chief
Dr. Bhupendra Singh Chauhan