INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH -GRANTHAALAYAH

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Authors: R.Sasikala

Data mining is the process of analyzing data from different perspectives and summarizing it into useful information. Data mining is applied to find patterns to help in the important tasks of medical diagnosis and treatment. In this paper, we present a sensor to measure water level in rivers, lakes, lagoons and streams. For such purpose and to prove our concept, we designed a pilot project through a micro-model that is constructed with a water level measurement sensor based on a simple open circuit that closes when in contact with water and experimentally tested into a water container under a controlled environment. The indicator for acidity, alkalinity, or basic is known as the PH value. A PH value of 7 means a substance is neutral. The lower value indicates acidity, and a higher value is a sign of alkalinity. Side effects that may occur after drugs are added to Bacteriostatic. Water includes fever, abscess formation, venous thrombosis or phlebitis, tissue death, and infections. We are going to implement weka tool to compare the time execution, frequency and an execution process by using a genetic algorithm. Here we used the Ultrasonic Sensor technique to measure the water level. Ultrasonic sensors are based on the measurement of the properties of acoustic waves with frequencies above the human audible range, often at roughly 40 kHz. They typically operate by generating a high-frequency pulse of sound, and then receiving and evaluating the properties of the echo pulse. In this study, the principle of water pinch technology, the optimization of water, steam allocation network have been studied and minimization of freshwater utility and wastewater generation in one of the petroleum refineries of Iran is taken into consideration. In order to research in this field and simplify the relevant calculations, an algorithm was developed and applied for reforming the network. Finally, the micro-model is tested by experimental tests under a controlled environment and satisfactory results are obtained. The experimental evaluation results showed a 99.2% of accuracy and which proves this mechanism effective and reliable in water optimization.

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Authors: Dr.C.Barathi , Mr.A.Naveen

The present study is made on “Preference of English language teaching methods and techniques of prospective teachers in Kongumandalam Region”. A sample of 847 prospective teachers from 41 B.Ed colleges in Kongumandalam region who were studying English pedagogy as main subject has been selected based on simple random sampling technique. This will constitute 71.65 (847/1182) percentage of sample from the total population. A normative research method and survey technique has been adopted. The descriptive statistical analysis shows that the prospective teachers belonging to Coimbatore district had higher preference of English language teaching methods and techniques, and high personality traits and Nilgiris district had high styles of learning and thinking. The level of preference of English teaching methods and techniques, personality traits and style of learning and thinking of prospective teachers was average for the whole sample and sub-sample. The regression statistical analysis had shown that daily newspaper reading, personality traits and speaking in English were the strong predictors of preference of English language teaching methods and techniques of prospective teachers in the Kongumandalam region.

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Authors: S. Ravi , Dr. K. Chinnappan

The present study is aimed at assessing the preferences of ninth standard students in various situations of situational approach of English language teaching. All the ninth standard students studying in the high and higher secondary schools in Thanjavur district form the population of the study. 200 ninth standard students have chosen randomly to form the sample of the study. Percentage analysis was the only statistical technique adopted to compute the number of students preferring each situation. A rating scale for student’s preference towards different situations was prepared and validated by the researcher to collect data. The percentage analysis of the collected data reveals that real life situations are the most preferred situation from the situational approach by ninth standard students; whereas verbal situation is the least preferred by them. Male students, Students from rural area, Students from government and aided schools have more preference towards real life situations; whereas female students, Students from urban area, Students from private schools shown preference towards classroom situations. Without any difference, all the category of students prefers verbal situations as the least effective situations of situational approach of teaching learning process. These findings may be handy in making aware of teachers to use various situations to teach language in the classrooms.

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Authors: Dr.D.Maniazhagu , Mr. Kannadasan , Ms.S.Malar

The purpose of the study was to find out the effects of explosive strength and strength endurance based circuit training on speed performance. To achieve the purpose of the study, thirty boys’ student in the age group 13 to 14 were selected as subjects at random. The selected subjects were from RCM High School, Natarajapuram, Sivagangai(DT), Tamilnadu. The study was formulated as pre and post-test random group design, in which thirty students were divided into three equal groups. The experimental group-1 (n=10, ESbCT) underwent explosive strength based circuit training, the experimental group-2 (n=10, SEbCT) underwent strength endurance based circuit training and group 3 served as control group (n=10, CG) did not undergo any specific training. In this study, two training programme were adopted as independent variables, i.e., explosive strength based circuit training and strength endurance based circuit training. The speed was selected as dependent variables. The speed was tested by 50 meters run recoded in seconds. The selected two treatment group namely explosive strength based circuit training and strength endurance based circuit training were performed five days in week for the period of six weeks, as per the stipulated training programme. The speed performance was collected before and after the training period. The collected pre and post test data was critically analyzed with apt statistical tool of one way analysis of co variance, for observed the significant adjusted post-test mean difference of three groups. The Scheffe’s post hoc test was used to find out pair-wise comparisons between groups. To test the hypothesis 0.05 level of significant was fixed in this study. The nature of speed highly improved in explosive strength based circuit training than the strength endurance based circuit training.

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Authors: S. Valentine Usha Kalaichelvi , Dr. Auxilia Antony , Dr. A. Nelson Vimalanathan

Organizational Culture is defined as the values and behaviors that contribute to the unique social and psychological environment of the organization. Organizational culture includes an organizations expectations, experiences, philosophy and values that hold it together and is expressed in its self-image, inner workings, interactions with the outside world and future expectations. This article is going to study about the organizational culture.

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Authors: T.Indumathi , Dr. N. Ramakrishnan

In the present study, Cognitive performance scale has been developed and validated of the High School Students. This scale consists of 58 statements. The simple random sample technique was used for this study. The sample consists of 50 High School Students are randomly selected from the Kancheepuram Districts. The ‘t’ value was used to standardize the tool and finally 37 statements were retained for the final study.

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Authors: Isah B A , Musa Giro A , Yahaya M , Awosan KJ ,Ibrahim MTO , Raji M.O

Abstract Blood in the urine is a common condition seen in people living around the riverine area which may result from bleeding anywhere along the urinary tract. Schistosomiasis is considered to be the commonest cause of haematuria among the inhabitants of riverine areas. Urinary schistosomiasis affects more than 200 million people worldwide and poses a threat to 600 million in more than 76 countries (WHO, 1993). In Africa alone, about 192 million cases of schistosomiasis have been reported; with Nigeria ranking the highest (15% of cases) followed by the United Republic of Tanzania (about 10% of the cases) and the Democratic Republic of Congo and Ghana with 7-8% each. A descriptive cross sectional survey was conducted among the inhabitants of Kwalkwalawa village in Wamakko local government Sokoto state, Nigeria. Majority of the respondents (81.4%) had passed bloody urine at one time of their life-time, unfortunately only 3.1% of the affected respondents had ever being to Hospital for treatment. Only 5.7% relates hematuria to contact with river water and the Knowledge score of gross hematuria revealed that only 11.4% have good knowledge of the disease. Perceived Social determinants of the disease in the environment include; Farming, Fishing, washing and Bathing in the River as well as fetching for Domestic use. The lack of proper knowledge of the cause of the disease and insufficient safe water supplies coupled with inadequate health care facilities may have influenced the infection rate and distribution of the disease in the area. In conclusion the study was able to find out a high prevalence of hematuria among the inhabitants of this study area, however, there is poor knowledge of the cause of bloody urine. Most of the respondents believed that bloody urine can be cured and prevented, but few relate it to drug treatment.

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Authors: Dr.K.Lenin

In this paper, Enriched Genetic Algorithm (EGA) utilized to solve reactive power optimization problem. In the proposed algorithm Stochastic Universal Selection (SS) is utilized to improve the selection procedure. The selection method in Genetic algorithm (GA) plays a significant role in the runtime to get the optimized solution as well as in the superiority of the solution. In this work, an enriched selection technique is presented which uphold both fast runtime and elevated quality solution. Proposed EGA algorithm has been tested in standard IEEE 118 & practical 191 bus test systems and simulation results show clearly the advanced performance of the proposed algorithm in reducing the real power loss.

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Authors: M.I. Memon , N. Memon , A.B. Kachiwal , M.R. Memon , S.A. Soomro , Meh- ja- been Memon , Abdullah Sethar

Study was conducted to investigate the consequences of Theileriosis in naturally infected cattle and buffaloes of urban and peri urban areas of Hyderabad. Chemical analysis of milk of infected cows and buffaloes revealed that protein, ash and lactose were significantly declined (P<0.05) whereas, fat and total solids were significantly increased (P<0.05) in Theileria infected cows and buffaloes, but pH and acidity was unaffected. Financial losses occur in terms of reduced quality and severely decreased quantity of milk and meat. The total financial loss including the mortality and decreased quantity of milk and meat was recorded of Rs. 0.17 million / animal in the current study. Theileriosis is one of the main causes of financial losses for livestock holders.

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Authors: Abraham-O. J. , Nwobodo, H. A. , Ngwu, B.A.F. , Onwuatuegwu, J.T.C. , Nwaogwugwu, A. B. , Adelowo, A. E., Adegbite, A. , Chock, J.J. , Ogbonna, O.Q.

Tuberculosis and human Immuno-deficiency virus co-epidemics remain a major public health challenge particularly in resource limited settings. This study determined the prevalence of HIV co-infection among TB patients and the risk factors among patients attending Holly memorial Hospital Ochadamu, Ofu L.G.A., Kogi State, Nigeria. Two hundred (200) patients participated in the research, out of which one hundred and seventy three (173) were already confirmed to be HIV positive. Sputum samples were collected by experts into sample bottles aseptically for Acid fast Bacilli test for Mycobacterium tuberculosis; while blood samples were collected by trained nurses from the same candidates by venepuncture into anticoagulated bottles for HIV screening to re- confirm their status. Questionnaires were also administered to obtain some important demographic data. Sputum smear microscopy was carried out to test for Acid Fast Bacilli. Rapid haemagglutination assay was carried out to re-confirm the HIV status of the patients. Results showed that Twenty seven (27) patients signifying 13.5 % were TB/HIV co-infected. There was significant (p<0.05) relationship between TB and HIV status of the patients and clinical symptoms (dry cough, cough with sputum, weight loss and fever). There is need to study Immuno-haematological indices (CD4 count, Full Blood Count and ESR) routinely to monitor TB and HIV patients on regular basis in order to reduce morbidity and mortality associated with the diseases.

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Authors: Benjamin D, Tiongzon , Adora A. Villaganas , Victor D. Villaganas

This study assessed the practices of the records management system in the public schools in the Division of Mandaue City on the school year 2012-2013 towards the adoption of an Enhanced School Records Management System. The study further considered the profile of the respondent groups as vital variables which significantly affected the performance of the school records officers or custodians. Specifically, this study was conceived to look into the level of implementation of the different components of the Records Management System as perceived by the respondents namely; the functions of School Records Office, the Duties and Responsibilities of the Records Officers and the Records Management Operating Procedures which includes the handling of mails and communications, handling of legal documents and administrative issuances, classification guide for filing school management documents, procedure for filing, servicing with files, request for personal information, access to files, records disposal procedure, preservation of records and the retention period or life cycle of records and documents. The responses were identified and analyzed using the weighted mean formula of which the results were collated and tabulated. Finally, this study aimed to determine the mean difference among the respondent groups’ perceptions on the aforementioned prescribed aspects of the School Records Management which was statistically treated through the t-test model. The tally described the results of the respondents’ perceptions on the two aspects, the functions of the records office and the duties and responsibilities of records officers, as not significantly related to each other. Both respondents were almost attuned in their perceptions on the abovesaid two aspects. However, a different picture had been seen on the third aspect, operating procedures of Records Management, which established a significant mean difference among the perceptions of the respondent groups.

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Authors: Dr.K.Lenin

This paper presents a new Lava Heron Optimization (LHO) Algorithm for solving reactive power problem. This algorithm is inspired by the grab skill of the Lava Heron bird. Lava heron bird live in on the freshwater or saline water, swampy marshes or wetlands with tuft of trees mostly in low lying areas, where there are abundant convenience of fishes as their prey. By using the prey catching skill of the Lava Heron bird algorithm has been framed and utilized to minimize the real power loss. Proposed Lava Heron Optimization (LHO) Algorithm has been tested in standard IEEE 57,118 bus systems and simulation results demonstrate the commendable performance of the projected Lava Heron Optimization (LHO) Algorithm in reducing the real power loss.

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Authors: Mohammed Seid Legas

Parasites are organisms which metabolically depend upon their hosts. To understand the ecological host shift of a parasite, it is important to look the host-parasite associations with respect to ecological change and factors that generate, maintain, and constrain the associations with implications for a wide range of ecological issues, including the dynamics of emerging infectious diseases. Although, the ecological significance of parasites is almost overlooked for several years by ecologists, considerable efforts are being made to understand their functional importance in ecosystems. Parasites play vital role in the trophic cascades of the food web. Environmental change caused by anthropogenic activities result host shift of specialist parasites and this shift of specialized parasites can rapidly to new hosts via ecological fitting play an important role in the ecology and evolution of host-parasite associations. This condition is the primary cause for the Emerging Infectious Diseases when parasite species begin infecting and causing disease in host species with which they have no previous history of association. Therefore, understanding the host parasites interaction and distribution of known and potential pathogens is a vital precondition for optimizing their positive, while minimizing their negative effects on conservation, restoration and sustained development programs.

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Authors: Ritesh Kumar , Prof. Rajpal Singh

Diversity plays a vital role in the success of business if it is managed properly. Age diversity is the heterogeneity in the organization in term of age. In every organization, there is a conflict between the mindset of generations. Conservative and modern thinking in organization cause resistance of decisions. Although both experienced and young employees were fruitful for the organization if they were properly managed. This paper primarily investigates how the age diversity affects the performance of private bank employees. Under the present study, 100 employees of different private sector banks branches located in Rohtak city were sorted out on the basis of convenience sampling technique. A self-structured questionnaire was used to acquire data from respondents. Different statistical tools such as descriptive, correlation were used in this study to test the hypothesis. Results revealed that there is a moderately positive relationship between age diversity and employees performance.

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Authors: Mohana Krishna Irrinki , Kuberudu Burlakanti

All the stakeholders of the economy had identified the need and importance of financial inclusion in the overall development of any country. Banking sector plays a very vital role in the success of financial inclusion. Government and RBI had formulated various programs, schemes and financial services for the financial betterment of the low income groups. Various initiations were taken in implementing financial inclusion and banks were asked to set self-regulated targets through financial inclusion plans through which the unbanked villages across the country were assigned to various banks and these banks were asked to bring all the unbanked segments into the banking fold. The paper aims at the evaluation of financial inclusion through the various parameters considered for the growth of financial inclusion. The banks through the efforts of their branches and Business Correspondents have seen the continuous growth in opening the bank accounts, issue of Kisan Credit Cards & General Credit Cards and the volume and value of transactions in the bank accounts. Financial Inclusion Plans of the banks are helping a lot in moving towards inclusive growth.

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Authors: Shyama Prasad Chattopadhyay

Water and Sanitation is one of the primary drivers of public health. Poor hygiene, inadequate quantities and quality of drinking water and lack of sanitation facilities cause millions of the India’s poorest people to die from preventable diseases each year. The MPTAST has been extending technical assistance to the State Government of Madhya Pradesh to improve their water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) planning, delivery, and monitoring mechanisms, and to accelerate the sanitation coverage through a community-led approach. One of the key components of technical assistance under the WASH program was to provide training to Front Line Workers (FLWs) as they play an important role to assist the communities in raising awareness & motivation. This awareness & motivation of the community members would be created a demand for WASH services to access & leverage govt. support schemes and funds under the Govt. of India flagship program “Swachh Bharat Mission”. The IIHMR on behalf of MPWASH were organized district/block/ cluster/section wise training of FLWs in selected 7 Districts of Eastern Madhya Pradesh and covered around 98% of target. It was expected that WASH training to FLWs will bring lot of positive changes in orientation & motivating the community people at Village level.

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Authors: Dr.K.Lenin

In this paper, Antelope Algorithm (AA) is proposed for solving optimal reactive power dispatch problem. A population of candidate solution move toward as a herd of Antelope out a sequence of jumps through the exploration space in order to find the most outstanding solution. The main idea of this algorithm is fairly different from the population based algorithms, as the individual solutions are stirred collectively in a herd-like approach. Projected Antelope Algorithm (AA) algorithm has been tested in standard IEEE 30 bus test system and simulation results show clearly about the superior performance of the projected algorithm in reducing the real power loss.

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Authors: Dr.K.Lenin

This paper presents Enhanced Great Deluge Algorithm (EDA) for solving reactive power problem. Alike other local exploration methods, this Enhanced Great Deluge Algorithm (EDA) also swap general solution (fresh_Config) with most excellent results (most excellent_Config) that have been found by then. This deed prolong until stop conditions is offered. In this algorithm, new solutions are selected from neighbours. Selection strategy is different from other approaches. In order to evaluate validity of the proposed Enhanced Great Deluge Algorithm (EDA) algorithm, it has been tested on standard IEEE 118 & practical 191 bus test systems and compared to other standard reported algorithms. Results show that Enhanced Great Deluge Algorithm (EDA) reduces the real power loss and voltage profiles are within the limits.

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Authors: डॉ. आर.के. डी. र्नलंर्त कु मारी राजपक

प्रेमचन्द (1880-1936) और श्री लंका क े प्रमुख कहानीकार मार्टिन विक्रमसिंह (1890 स े सन् 1976) अलग-अलग देशों से ह ैं फिर भी उनकी कहानियों में बह ुत सी समानताएँ पाई जाती ह ैं। समकालीन होने क े नात े दोनों कहानीकारों की विषयवस्तु पर तत्कालीन समस्याओं का प्रभाव पड ़ा ह ै। प्रेमचन्द तथा मार्टिन विक्रमसिंह की कहानियों में चित्रात्मकता और अलंकारिकता का प्रयोग मिलता ह ै। प्रेमचंद द्वारा विरचित ‘फातिहा’, ‘तगादा’ तथा मार्टिन विक्रमसिंह की ‘विनोदास्वादय’, ‘वहल्लु’, ‘धात ु कोलाहलय’, ‘बडगिन्न‘, ‘मुदियान्से मामा’ तथा‘ अहि ंसावादिया’ कहानियों में क ुछ स्थलों का वर्ण न पाठका े ं क े मन म ें एक चित्र सा खिंच जाता ह ै। चित्रात्मक शैली द्वारा दोनों की कहानियों में वर्णि त घटनाआ ें म े ं सजीवता आ गयी ह ै। प्रेमचंद की कहानियों की अलंकारिकता क े प्रयोग क े लिए सुजान भगत, पूस की रात, अलगोझा, पत्नी स े पति आदि कहानियाँ उदाहरण ह ैं। मार्टिन विक्रमसिंह द्वारा विरचित ‘धात ुकोलाहलय’, ‘हदँ साक्कि कीम’, ‘गॅह ॅणियक’, ‘हिस्कबल’, ‘उपासकम्मा‘, ‘परकारयाट गल गॅसीम’ तथा ‘बेगल‘ आदि कहानियों में अलंकारिकता विद़यमान ह ै। इस प्रकार प्रेमचंद तथा मार्टिन विक्रमसिंह विशिष्ट प्रकार से भाषा में चित्रात्मकता तथा अलंकारिकता लाकर पाठकों को आकर्षित करने में सफल ह ुए।

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Authors: Charles Richard Oyier , Paul Amollo Odundo

Planning for instructional resources demands that money be set aside and budgeted for to make them available and adequate in secondary schools. To adequately avail science instructional resources a policy driven budgeting process is essential. The influence of budgeting process on instructional management and the extent of involvement of science teachers have not been highlighted through empirical data. This study adopted stakeholder theory and obtained information from science teachers in secondary schools within Nairobi County, Kenya. From 96 science teachers in 33 secondary schools of Nairobi County obtained using stratified random samplings. 89 filled questionnaires. Findings of this study established that science teachers are involved in the budgeting process for sourcing of instructional resources in Kenyan secondary schools was considered in terms of their participation in strategic planning (mean 3.20), departmental meetings (mean 3.46), and budgeting committee (mean of 3.33) and in pre-budget consultations (mean of 3.33) and post-budget consultations (mean of 3.31) (mean of 3.42).

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Authors: Subhankar Manna , Malathi G.

Healthcare industry collects huge amount of unclassified data every day. For an effective diagnosis and decision making, we need to discover hidden data patterns. An instance of such dataset is associated with a group of metabolic diseases that vary greatly in their range of attributes. The objective of this paper is to classify the diabetic dataset using classification techniques like Naive Bayes, ID3 and k means classification. The secondary objective is to study the performance of various classification algorithms used in this work. We propose to implement the classification algorithm using R package. This work used the dataset that is imported from the UCI Machine Learning Repository, Diabetes 130-US hospitals for years 1999-2008 Data Set. Motivation/Background: Naïve Bayes is a probabilistic classifier based on Bayes theorem. It provides useful perception for understanding many algorithms. In this paper when Bayesian algorithm applied on diabetes dataset, it shows high accuracy. Is assumes variables are independent of each other. In this paper, we construct a decision tree from diabetes dataset in which it selects attributes at each other node of the tree like graph and model, each branch represents an outcome of the test, and each node hold a class attribute. This technique separates observation into branches to construct tree. In this technique tree is split in a recursive way called recursive partitioning. Decision tree is widely used in various areas because it is good enough for dataset distribution. For example, by using ID3 (Decision tree) algorithm we get a result like they are belong to diabetes or not.

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Authors: Leizou, K. E , Nduka J. O , Verla A.W

The purpose of this study is to evaluate some major physical, chemical variables and heavy metals in water of the Brass River, Bayelsa State, South-South, Nigeria and assess the potential ecological risk. The variables investigated were: pH, EC, turbidity, TDS, TSS, Cl- , SO2- 4, HCO- 3, TH, TA, Ca2+, K and Mg2+ , while the heavy metals were: Mn, Pb, Zn, Cu, Fe, Cd, Ni and Cr respectively. The results showed that pH, EC, TDS, Cl-, SO4, TA, TH, Na and K were appreciably high and the heavy metals: Fe, Pb, Zn, Cu and Cd, Ni was found at low concentration, Cr and Mn was below detection limits (BDL). Water quality index (WQI) was computed in order to assess suitability to beneficial purposes and assess the potential ecological risk of the Brass River. The results obtained on WQI from the four sampling stations (Mouth, Upstream, Downstream and Middlestream) fluctuate from 84.13 to 86.36. Hence, the Brass River water quality is considered good based on the water quality index (WQI). A comparative analysis of this study with FEPA, CCME standards for brackish water revealed that the results obtained in this study were within the permissible limits and concomitant with documented studies from similar environments.

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Authors: Dr. S. Bulomine Regi , Dr. S. Anthony Rahul Golden

In the history of Indian taxation, GST is a new phenomenon. It can be said that it is the tax revolutions in India. It has crossed lots of stages in India tax system. It is not easy thing that implementing GST in India. Even though, in the world, it was first implemented in France in 1954, it took these many years to come to India. In this study, the author clearly explains about the GST and its history.

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Authors: Mrs. C. Sumitha , Dr.R.Padmaja

The study of job satisfaction among Bank employees is important because there are various aspects of the job that are highly attractive and lead to satisfaction and aspects of the job that lead to dissatisfaction. Positive aspects include the opportunity to work in Bank and employees to accomplish common goals, developing banking background and the ability to work with coworkers. It is important to identify which factors contribute to job satisfaction as well as those that may lead to job dissatisfaction to assure that the manager ship is attractive to potent. There are many variables that have been hypothesized to be a result of job satisfaction or dissatisfaction. It is an established fact that the success of any organization depends on the satisfaction of its work force. The aim of this study is to determine that bank employees are satisfied with their job and also to identify those factors that are of high concern to bank employees regarding their satisfaction.

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Authors: B. Gayathri , V. Sulochana

The concept of mean labeling was introduced by Somasundaram and Ponraj. K-odd mean, (k,d)- odd mean labeling were introduced and discussed by Gayathri and Amuthavalli. K-mean, k-even mean and (k,d)-even mean labeling were further studied by Gayathri and Gopi. We have obtained (k,1)-mean labeling for some new families of graphs. We have introduced (k,d)-mean labeling and obtained results for some family of trees and for some special graphs. In this paper, we investigate (k,d)-mean labeling for some disconnected graphs. Here k and d denote any positive integer greater than or equal to 1.

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Authors: Dr.J.Mohamed Ali , Mrs.N.Thahira

Human resource management is an art of managing people at a work in such manner that they give their best to their organization. In simple word HRM refers to the quantitative aspects of employees working in an organization. Stress is a part of day-to-day living of every individual. We generally believe that the stress is caused by the external events and the dynamics of the environment. But we need to emphasis the fact that the Stress is caused by our reaction to the external environment.

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Authors: Dr.V. Suseela , B.Srilakshmidevi

The aim of the study was to determine the Effect of yogic practices on flexibility among Annamalai University students 20 subjects were selected from ‘Annamalai University’, chidambaram students were selected. They were selected randomly and their age group was between 15 to 30 years. Single group formed. All are in Experimental group. The experimental group participated in yogic practice training and for 6 weeks. The data were collected in the beginning and at the end. The training schedule was prepared systemically. The significance was tested at 0.05 levels.

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Authors: J.Y Maipan-uku , I. Rabiu , Dr. Amit Mishra

Immediate/on-line and Batch mode heuristics are two methods used for scheduling in the computational grid environment. In the former, task is mapped onto a resource as soon as it arrives at the scheduler, while the later, tasks are not mapped onto resource as they arrive, instead they are collected into a set that is examined for mapping at prescheduled times called mapping events. This paper reviews the literature concerning Minimum Execution Time (MET) along with Minimum Completion Time (MCT) algorithms of online mode heuristics and more emphasis on Min-Min along with Max-Min algorithms of batch mode heuristics, while focusing on the details of their basic concepts, approaches, techniques, and open problems.

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Authors: Dr. Veto Datta

Traditional marketing has been changed with a new approach to marketing called Experiential Marketing. Experiential marketing is also known as "engagement marketing," "event marketing", "participation marketing," or "live marketing". Traditional marketing views consumers as rational decision-makers who care about functional features and benefits. In contrast, experiential marketers view consumers as rational and emotional human beings who are concerned with achieving pleasurable experiences. It is a kind of is a marketing strategy that involves customers directly and inspires them to participate in the development of a brand. This transformation is showing no transformation of slowing down; more and more marketers are moving towards creating experiences for their customers. Therefore experience is an essential element of a today’s customer. Experiential Marketing plays an important role in influencing customer behavior and creates a feeling of satisfaction and loyal base .Thus it’s a very important concept to study. The research article studies various benefits and strategic issues of experiential marketing, also suggestion are drawn therefrom.

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Authors: G. Sivaiah , K. Jayarami Reddy

In this paper an analysis has been performed to study the effects of Hall current and radiation of MHD free convective heat and mass transfer flow of a radiating fluid past an accelerated inclined porous plate with hall current in presence of thermal diffusion and heat source. The solutions for velocity, temperature and concentration distributions are obtained by using Laplace transform technique. The expressions for skin friction, Nusselt number and Sherwood number are also derived. The variations in fluid velocity, temperature and species concentration are shown graphically, whereas numerical values of skin friction, Nusselt number and Sherwood number are presented in tabular form for various values of physical parameters.

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Authors: डा. योगेश क ुमार गुप्ता

भारत में आज भी समाचार चैनलों की जनता मंे विश्वसनीयता बनी हुई है। इस शोध के माध्यम से समाचार चैनलों क े प्रस्तुतिकरण के अंदाज का पता चलता है। समाचार चैनलों क े बीच चल रही घमासान प्रतिस्पर्धा में सबसे आगे कौनसा समाचार चैनल है, का भी पता किया गया है। यह शोध ट ेलीविजन मीडिया से संबंधित पहलुओं की अज्ञानता क े निवारण में प्रभावी भूमिका निभा सकता है। आज टेलीविजन ही संचार का सबसे प्रभावी माध्यम है। ट ेलीविजन मीडिया लोगों को न्याय दिलान े में, विभिन्न अनछुए पहलुओं से पर्दा हटाने में सहायक सिद्ध हो सकता है। वहीं इस शोध की कुछ सीमाएं भी रही हैं ज ैसे- इस शोध में क ेवल जयपुर शहर को ही अध्ययन के लिए चुना गया है। जिससे कार्य की गुणवत्ता बनी रहे। इस शोध में क ेवल चार हिन्दी के समाचार चैनलों को अध्ययन के लिए चुना गया है। इसमें जयपुर शहर की निर्वाचक नामावली में से मतदाताओं को ही लिया गया है तथा अध्ययन के लिए केवल 1000 रेस्पोंडेंट ्स को ही लिया गया है। इस शोध में आंकडे एकत्र करने का मुख्य साधन प्रश्नावली ही है। वहीं अन ुसूची एक ऐसी तथ्य संकलन की प्रविधि है जिसमें अवलोकन, साक्षात्कार तथा प्रश्नावली तीनों विशेषताओं का समन्वय है। साक्षात्कार के माध्यम से दो तरह से आंकडों का संकलन किया हैं जिनमें एक टीवी क े समाचार चैनलों से ज ुड़े लोगों का एवं द ूसरा मीडिया के विद्यार्थियों से।

110-115

Authors: Dalip Kumar

बौद्ध भिक्ष ुओं क े निवास स्थान का े विहार कहा जाता ह ै विहार क े अन्दर एक बड ़ा मण्डप होता था, उसम ें तीन या चार छोटी कोठरियां खा ेदी जाती थी, सामने की दीवार म ें प्रवेश क े लिए एक द्वार होता था और उसक े सामने स्तम्भों पर आश्रित एक बरामदा रहता था । भीतरी मण्डप की कोठरिया चैकोर होती थी, जिनमें बौद्ध भिक्षु निवास करते थ े, एक भिक्षु क े लिए कोठरी बनी होती थी,1 दो भिक्षुओं क े लिए द्विगर्भ और तीन भिक्षुओं क े लिए त्रिगर्भ शालाएं बनाई जाती थी । जहां पर बह ुत से भिक्षु निवास करते थे उनका े संधाराम कहा जाता था । विहार की कोठरियां छोटे आकार की होती थी । इनका आकार 9ग्9 फूट होता था । इन कोठरियों में एक तरफ भिक्षुओं क े सोने क े लिए लम्बी चैकियां बनी होत थी।2 मैदानी क्षेत्रों यथा - मथुरा, नालंदा आदि मे ं विहारों को बनवाने ह ेतु ईंट एवं मिट्टी का प्रयोग किया गया । ह ्वेनसांग ने नालंदा विहार क े बार े में लिखा ह ै - कि नालंदा में भिक्षुओं को प ्रत्य ेक आवास चार मंजिल का था, माण्डप या देव मूर्तियों अंकित थी । उन सुन्दर विहारों को यवन आक्रमणकारियों ने नष्ट कर दिया । क ुषाण काल में अनेक बा ैद्ध विहारों का निर्माण ह ुआ । कार्ल े, बेडाना, नासिक, भाजा, पीतलखोरा, नागार्ज ुनोकोंडा, कनह ेरी इत्यादि स्थानों पर इसी य ुग में विशाल सुन्दर विहारों का निर्माण ह ुआ ।

128-135

Authors: Dr. Digvijaysinh Rathod

SOAP/WSDL and REST are two architectural styles to build web services. SOAP/WSDL follows operation centric and REST follows resource centric approach. SOAP/WSDL has standard registry where producer can register service specification and consumer can discover service endpoint using UDDI. Recently RESTful web service gained momentum in development of distributed application and research community already started discussion about RESTful based Service Oriented Architecture(SOA) but there is no standard central repository exist where producer can register and consumer can search RESTful service based on Quality of Services or based on their specification. In this research paper, we proposed framework: XML based RESTRegistry – central repository with Quality of Service through which producer can easily register services and consumer can search it easily. We also developed Travel Schedule benchmark application to test proposed framework in real world.

140-150

Authors: Sayyid Abdulla Shakir

Kerala, southern fringe of India has different story of development from the rest of Indian states. The implementation of different policies by the government has been resulted in the betterment of different marginalized communities, especially in the case of women empowerment. For women empowerment, state government has initiated may programs with the support of other local bodies including government and non-government organizations like Kudumbashree program, Gender park etc. It has created many opportunities for women to come forward to main stream of the society and engaging in many public activities. This paper is an attempt to look at state sponsored program for fisher women empowerment called ‘Society for Assistance to Fisherwomen’ (SAF), for uplift of fisherwomen, with the support of both secondary material and ground reality. This paper also discusses about development model of Kerala with special focus on women empowerment.

159-178

Authors: Shruti Mishra, Sunita Singh , Rajeev Mishra , Prashant Ankur Jain , Raghvendra Raman Mishra5 , Ved Kumar Mishra

Type 2 Diabetes mellitus is a multi-factorial disease caused due to gene defect as well as environmental factor. GWAS have played a primary role in demonstrating that genetic variation in a number of loci, SNPs, affects the risk of T2DM. there are our objective is to find out Disease pathway map by taking all genes of T2DM which are 35 in numbers and but in all there are 10 mostly involve in T2Dm from all over world population and it is find out by GWAS method then after we analyzed the KEGG pathway by analyzing T2DM pathway, Insulin signaling pathway, and WNT signalling pathway to find out common protein then after by bioinformatics analysis combined and expend these pathways toward common protein for understanding the Diseases mechanism. We do Protein-protein interaction and find out their complete target hub protein and target prediction for network hub. so for all these analysis I collect the total genes involve in T2DM and take those gene which are common for all population and their SNPs ,chromosome location in these all genes and by using string database I tried to find out the target protein hub which are found in this disease so there I have taken 5 most frequent genes and doing PPI in human so there are all have their own target protein hub-KCNJ11 have target protein hub PPKACA & TCF7L2 have complete target protein hub TLEI & PPARG have a target protein hub EP300 & CDKL1 have compete target protein hub UCB & HHEX complete target protein SOX2.

187-192

Authors: S. Y. Ibrahim , Umar Adamu

The paper reviewed the nature of financial relations among the three tiers of government in Nigeria. It was identified that revenue allocation in every federation is a problem; as such each federation adopts its own strategies to contain the imbalance. It was discovered that several attempts were made, yet the problem still persists. This is because most federating units depend largely on the federal Account. Among the recommendations were review of the relevant sectoring of the constitution and creation of units of government should be based on viability rather than political consideration.

199-213

Authors: Masoud Ali Khalid , Assist. Prof. Dr.Khalid Hayder A.Ali

In this paper, we have investigated the relationship between trade openness and long-run economic growth over the sample period 1960–2015, utilizing ARDL model. We found evidence that trade openness is directly correlated with economic growth in the long run. Furthermore, Granger Causality tests recommended that a change in trade openness impacts the long-run of economic growth through the interaction with gross capital formation in the case of China.

219-228

Authors: Dr. Manasvi Shrivastav

The purpose of the study was to assess the effect of self-confidence on superstitious behavior of people of UP. 300 participants were selected through quota sampling from various places of UP. Age and education related factors treated as controlled variables. ASCI (Agnihotry’s SelfConfidence Inventory) of Rekha Agnihotry(1987) has been used, consisting 40 items. Superstitious behavior scale (self-constructed) has been used, which also consisting 40 items. Each item have three alternatives: (a) I will definitely do it. (b) If not possible, I will not do it. (c) I don’t believe in it. Ex-post facto research design is used. Data was analysed by Chi-square technique. Result show that low self-confidence is responsible for high of superstitious behavior.

239-251

Authors: Afraa Ghanem , Ali Zaher

Marine spatial planning (MSP) is considered as one of the most appropriate ways to create and manage marine protected areas (MPAs) around the world. However, conservation constraints and the increase in competition for limited space and resources can generate land use conflicts. The purpose of this study is to develop an approach based on fuzzy inference systems FIS in order to solve the problem of land use conflicts in the Marine Reserve Cerbère-Banyuls in France. The advantage of the proposed method is that expert scientific knowledge in coastal aquaculture activities and the GIS data can be incorporated into a geospatial model to create optimal maps for spatial distribution of activities in the MPAs. This method is applied to the reserve Cerbère-Banyuls and it demonstrated a good efficiency.

262-269

Authors: Harichandra , Ramesh M.N.

Paṁca kośas are the sum and substance of a being. Annamaya kośa is the grossest of the paṁca kośas. This paper deals with the annamaya kośa, and the message of the purāṇik character Gaṇapati in managing health and the immune system with special reference to HIV/AIDS. The paper starts with explaining the need for knowledge and explaining why the purāṇik stories were required and what they aimed at. Keeping in mind that purāṇik characters are symbolism of some concept, the paper explores the connection between Gaṇapati and the food, which is the maker of annamaya kośa. In the later part the paper, with the help of several references the paper explains the significance of food (nutrition) in managing, health and the immune system with special reference to HIV/AIDS.

280-297

Authors: Dr. N. Sree Rajani , Dr. V. Bhargavi Reddy

Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL), formerly known as Hindustan Lever Limited (HLL), is the largest consumer products company in India. The name HUL came into vogue in late June 2007. The Head office of the company is located in Mumbai. There are in all 41,000 employees of different categories working in the company. The company is headed by a non-executive Chairman (presently Mr. Hareesh Manwani. HUL is number one Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) Company in India.

309-314

Authors: Dr. Dilbag Singh , Mr. Amandeep

Hotel Industry around the world is a marginal revenue generator which provides comfortable and luxurious services from lodging, food, entertainment, business and leisure needs to the individuals at any given moment. Out of all the departments which run the hotels, Housekeeping has been always stayed back of the house and performed to its never ending duties 24x7x365 in pursuit of providing clean, hygienic, fresh environment and comfort to every individual stepping into the hotel. A hotel may be a budget or a 5 star categorized one but nothing sends a stronger message than cleanliness in a hospitality operation and that’s always maintained by the housekeeping department. Like any other department housekeeping also offers and individual to make a successful career and achieve different heights in the management up to the level of General Manager. As the job opportunities increases in hotels, and housekeeping department being the largest employer alone department wise as stated in a report by National Skill Development Corporation 2012, it is definitely a great time for employees who wish to advance their career or choose housekeeping as their career choice. The purpose of this paper is to examine the motives and factors that influence the employee engagement in housekeeping department. Four independent variables have been identified as the factors that are going to be tested in this research which will provide us with essential data on different motives.

338-347

Authors: Dr. P.K. Rejimon

Education is universally recognized as an inviolable human right in the universal declaration of human rights. It is a chance for people to satisfy their innate desire to learn, and to prepare for future, and to enable them to make contributions to the future of the society. Therefore, bioethics education means education about, for and within democracy, based on full participation of the people within social, political and cultural affairs at all levels of government, concerning them as citizens. In the present era of high tech revolution, the great task of ethically based education is to reform the human mind. The way of life of human being may change during the 21st century. However bioethical issues impact upon all the people, the public should actively join the discussion. People have a right to reflect on their opinions in policy making; it could be argued that all have a duty to make responsible decision for the range of bioethical issues. Bioethics should be made a compulsory course with requisite attendance for the award of professional degrees. Studies have shown that making ethics an optional course in medical or professional colleges even school levels does not serve its purpose. Education and awareness are solutions to these bioethical issues. A structured curriculum is necessary for teaching of bioethics. Our decisions affect not only our individual life, but also our family, society, future generations and other living organisms. We all have a chance to study bioethics sometimes in our life.

354-362

Authors: Lochana T. Batuwitage, Aparni Jayawardena , Himashi Sandamini , Roshan N. Rajapakse , Damitha D. Karunaratna , Muditha Vidanapathirana , Aruna Pallewatte

Facial soft tissue thickness (FSTT) is essential to forensic anthropologists for facial reconstruction- recreating a recognizable face from an unidentified skull and to plastic surgeons for treatment planning. Together with the age and sex of a person, the facial profile is related to facial soft tissue thickness, which is required for accurate facial reconstruction and recognition. Having such a facial profile in the national level is very important for a country since FSTT changes according to the geographical factors. In this paper we are presenting a review on literature associated with this topic describing the methods used for data collection, measuring FSTT and analyzing those values along with the method we are proposing to be followed in the research we are to conduct in the Sri Lankan context.

374-389

Authors: Wolfgang Seger, Sabine Grotkamp , Wolfgang Cibis

Motivation / Background: A broad and common understanding of the nature of Personal Factors is deemed to be necessary to gain and assess a comprehensive perspective regarding an individual’s health condition and accurately allocate social and medical benefits and interventions. Personal Factors have an impact on the functioning of individuals as facilitators or barriers. They play an essential role in the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). To date, the World Health Organisation has not classified Personal Factors for global use. Method: A consensus group representing a broad spectrum of medical and social security professionals, research societies together with representatives of self-help organisations developed and published a proposal to classify relevant Personal Factors. Results: To face ongoing discussions misunderstandings are addressed, critics and suggestions balanced and positions created with pointed explanations and supplemented literature. Core messages summarise each position in a condensed form. Conclusions: Personal Factors may exert a powerful influence on the goal definition, goal achievement and type, complexity and length of necessary medical, social or rehabilitation benefits. Transparency, explicitness, fairness (standardisation) and the possibility for wellfounded claims comprise additional arguments for reporting Personal Factors. They may be crucial to reach the goal of the highest degree of participation considering individual resources.

399-407

Authors: Namra Shahzadi , Misbah Arshad

The present study investigated performance anxiety and sleep problems as predictors of academic achievement among a convenience sample of 100 university students (Male = 43, Female = 57). Method: The participants, aged 18 to 25 years, were selected from three different departments of University of Gujrat. Hamilton Anxiety Scale (Hamilton, 1959) and Pre Sleep Arousal Scale (Nicassio, Mendlowitz, Fussell, & Petras, 1989) were individually administered to the participants in their respective departments. Academic achievement was measured in terms of GPA of previous semester of each respondent. Results: The Cronbach Alphas for both the scales for the present sample fell in acceptable range (α = 0 .84 - 0.87). Linear regression analyses indicated that performance anxiety significantly predicted (p <.01, p<.001) of low academic achievement among university students. It was also identified that the higher level of performance anxiety was also a strong predictor (p < .0.001) of sleep problems among students. Conclusions: Discussion includes implications for future research and practices with reference to Pakistani culture.

417-421

Authors: Balwinder Singh

The disintegration of Soviet Union had positively impacted Indo-US relations in post Cold-War era. The post Cold-War strategic scenario provided a chance to both countries to redefine their bilateral priorities. The US was always keen to improve bilateral relationship with India and therefore India initiated Defence cooperation with the US in changing strategic environment. India’s nuclear explosion [1998] had posed some divergences in Indo-US relationship. India and the US signed strategic partnership in 2000 and therefore the US set-aside its sanctions against India. India signed ‘Next Steps in Strategic Partnership’ [NSSP] with the US in 2004 and both countries started strategic dialogue in 2009. Both the nations signed a ‘New Framework for Defence Relationship’ in 2005 and ‘123 Civil Nuclear Agreement’ in 2008. India has always supported US’s ‘pivot-aria’ policy and played a meaningful role in counter China strategy. India and the US renewed their ‘New Framework for Defence Relationship’ in 2015 and signed ‘Logistic Support Agreement’ in 2016. Indo-US strategic relations were touched new heights when the Obama administration had declared India as a major Defence partner in 2016. The new US President Trump also showed its softness towards India and called Indian Prime Minister Modi as a ‘True Friend of US’. The decline of US-Pakistan strategic relations has positively affected Indo-US relations. The Pakistan factor has always affected Indo-US relations. The US administration considers that India would play a meaningful role in counter China planning. The study explores the raison d’être of Indo-US strategic partnership. The present paper intends to look into the Indo-US strategic cooperation and points out the improvement in Indo-US strategic relations in 21st century.

429-435

Authors: Dnyaneshwar.K.Jadhav , Dr Shilpa Prakash Yerme , Dr Smita Zambare

In Ayurveda, all skin diseases have been described under the term of kushtha. All skin diseases come under kushtha but all kushtha not come under skin diseases. kushtha classified into Maha-kushtha and Kshudra Kushtha. Acharyas have described that all kushtha have Tridoshic involvement but the type of kushtha depends on the predominance of particular doshas. Contact allergic dermatitis (CAD) is an occupational disease.it is hypersensitivity reaction to plethora of antigen in the environments. The present case study is successful Ayurvedic management of a case of vata-kaphaj kushata. A 48 year old female patient came to us with chief compliant of ubhay hasat twakvaivrya, kandu since 1 month. She get relief within 7 days. Ayurvedic management involving sukshma trifala, gandharva haritaki, stanik snehan followed by Awagaha.

450-460

Authors: Dr. K V V Raaju

This article is a survey done to know how the people linked their aadhaar number to the voter id, gas cylinder, fee reimbursement, Bank account, House & Water tax, Birth Certificate, Admission in a School, RTO license, Raitu Runa Mafi, Employer data, Income/Caste/ Nativity. This article also collected the information on how is the usage of aadhaar as a proof of identity and the people voting on continue the aadhaar and linking of aadhaar.

474-479

Authors: 474-479

The present study is an attempt to investigate content analysis of diagrammatic representations in upper primary science textbooks based on diagrammatic typology. The study analyzed the distribution of diagrams in different upper primary science book categories. The sample selected consists of a total number of nine 7th grade physics, chemistry and biology textbooks adopted in three Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (I.C.S.E) schools in the Allahabad, India. Content analysis in this research entails a systematic coding and categorizing of the diagrams, drawings, photos, charts and graphs appeared in upper primary school science textbooks. A great amount of diagrams have been used in the upper primary level of science teaching. On average, there are about 1.20 diagrams in physics, 0.80 diagrams in chemistry & 1.06 diagrams in biology textbooks used per page for the purposes of explaining, presenting or evaluating the scientific domain. The results confirmed that upper primary level of science education demands large quantity of diagrams to facilitate students learning. So content analysis of diagrammatic representations of science textbooks is recommended and teachers should adopt such diagrammatic strategies which increase the level of knowledge of learners. Teachers should teach students through different diagrammatic representations skills and to enhance their academic performance.

485-492

Authors: Dr. S.N. Mahapatra , Parveen Kumar

The main purpose of this study is to examine how customer retention is affected by the factors of customer retention. A structured questionnaire was distributed to banking customers based on demographics (gender, age, marital status, education, occupation and, income level) in National Capital Territory. Data was successfully collected from 500 respondents who have either saving account or current account or both. Respondents’ opinion on 20 items related to customer retention was obtained. Factors of customer retention were categorised into four main groups i.e. tangible, reliability, responsiveness and assurance & empathy Factors. Further multipleregression analysis was used to measure the factors of customer retention and their impact on customers’ retention decision. After multiple-regression it was found that ‘Within Timeframe Service Delivery’, ‘Sincere Efforts in Solving Customer Problems’ and ‘Accepting & Resolving Faults’ are the most important factors which affect customers’ retention intention.

506-519

Authors: Dr.K.Lenin

This paper presents a new Hybridized Algorithm (HA) for solving the multi-objective reactive power dispatch problem. Inspired by Genetic Algorithm (GA), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) & the Bat Algorithm (BA), the HA was designed to retain some advantages of each method to improve the exploration and exploitation of the search. Scrutinizing PSO and BA reveals some differences, in that BA rejects the historical experience of each individual’s own position but admits an improved personal solution with some probability. We will adjust some of the updating mechanisms of BA and add a mutation method in order to try to solve reactive power problem more accurately. Proposed (HA) algorithm has been tested on standard IEEE 30 bus test system and simulation results shows clearly about the good performance of the proposed algorithm.

530-540

Authors: Professor Dr. Md. Abu Sina , Dr. Md. Abdus Sabur

Banking sector is a fundamental element of a financial system of a country. Bangladesh is a developing country and its financial system is good and upward trend oriented. Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL) and BRAC Bank Limited (BBL) are the two prospective banks in Bangladesh. The paper attempts to measure trends of some influential variables. Through KaiserMeyer-Olkin (KMO) and Bartlett’s test of Sphericity five influential variables are identified like net profit, investment/loans and advances, fixed assets, other assets and cash. All the variables show better position in IBBL than BBL. The researchers also have identified some problems in IBBL and BBL and recommended some suggestions for overcoming the problems.

546-553

Authors: ETTIEN Ablan Anne-Marie

For more than two decades, we have believed that coffee and cocoa plantations were considered as the best places for children labour in rural work. However, the schools which are supposed to educate them have become places where children labour is manifested through school cooperatives. In fact, the older children whose ages range from 10 to 15 are employed on the cashew and cotton plantations on behalf of these cooperatives which must teach them the spirit of cooperation and associative life. School cooperatives in Sinematialy (northern Côte d’Ivoire) are the examples. Thus, the present study aims to understand the social logics underlying the attitude of the various actors involved in this phenomenon of child labour through school cooperatives, in spite of the national context of fight against child labour. On the methodological level, the study is based on a qualitative approach including interviews with the different categories of actors involved.

587-597

Authors: राम शनवास , डाW. ए. के. नौशियाल

राष्ट्रीय विकास के लिए मानवीय संसाधन को उपयोगी बनान े में अध्यापकों की अहम् भूमिका है। कक्षागत ् क्रियाकलापों क े लिये अध्यापक अनेक शिक्षण युक्ति एवं विधियाँ प्रयोग करता है। वर्तमान में गुणात्मक शिक्षा उपलब्ध कराने पर अधिक बल दिया जा रहा है। शिक्षण में सृजनात्मक अभिवृत्ति छात्रों की रचनात्मकता को पोषित करती है। जिससे वे उपलब्ध भौतिक एवं मानवीय संसाधनों का समुचित प्रयोग करके स ंतोषजनक परिणामों को सुनिश्चित किया जा सकता है। यशपाल समिति (1992), ने शिक्षक प्रशिक्षण कार्यक्रम में छात्राध्यापकों क े स्वत ंत्र चिंतन व स्व-अधिगम क्षमता क े विकास पर मुख्य जोर दिया। उत्तम स्तर के शिक्षण संस्थानों को स्थापित करने में अध्यापकों की शिक्षण कौशल सक्षमता एक महत्वपूर्ण कारक है। जिससे आकृष्ट होकर छात्र ऐसे संस्थानों में प्रवेश को प्राथमिकता द ेते है। जिसक े पीछे उनमें पढ़ान े वाले शिक्षकों की अध्यापन शैली में रचनात्मक अभिवृत्ति से कार्य करना है। छात्राध्यापकों की पेशेवर सक्षमता को विकसित करने क े लिए शिक्षा में आर.टी.ई., अध्यापक पात्रता परीक्षा (टी.ई.टी.) एवं बी.एड. प्रशिक्षण के एक वर्षीय पाठ्यक्रम को दो वर्ष करना आदि अध्यापक शिक्षा की गुणवत्ता हेत ु शिक्षण प्रशिक्षण क े पर्याप्त अवसरों को स्थान दिया गया है।

603-607

Authors: P. Surya , Mr.S.Mahendran

Adjustment problem has impacted on student activities, behavior, health and education in general. The study aimed to examine the adjustment problem and its impact on achievement in mathematics among secondary school students. The investigator adopted survey method to study the impact of adjustment problem and its impact on achievement in mathematics among secondary school students. For this study a sample of 300 secondary school students from four Govt and Private schools which are situated in Dindigul district in Tamil Nadu were selected by the investigator using simple random sampling technique. The findings reveal that there is significant mean score difference in adjustment problems and its impact on academic achievement in mathematics among secondary school students.

623-630

Authors: Dr.K.Lenin

In this paper, Enhanced Gravitational Search (EGS) algorithm is proposed to solve the reactive power problem. Gravitational search algorithm (GSA) results are improved by using artificial bee colony algorithm (ABC). In GSA, solutions are fascinated towards each other by applying gravitational forces, which depending on the masses assigned to the solutions, to each other. The heaviest mass will move slower than other masses and pull others. Due to nature of gravitation, GSA may pass global minimum if some solutions stuck to local minimum. ABC updates the positions of the best solutions that have obtained from GSA, preventing the GSA from sticking to the local minimum by its strong penetrating capability. The proposed algorithm improves the performance of GSA in greater level. In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed EGS algorithm, it has been tested on IEEE 57,118 bus systems and compared to other standard algorithms.

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Authors: Dr. G.Ramu , V.Anbalagan

The banking scenario in India is of a highly developed nature, even though it is still far from achieving world standards in terms of size, products and services. Indian banks have realized that along with organic growth there is a need to grow inorganically as well, in order to be competitive with other players in the market. In this scenario, banking has been the focus of attention for the banking industry. Gronross, a service marketing expert, proposed that a service firm, in order to simultaneously attain success, must develop its service quality. Firstly, it must define how the consumers perceive service quality and secondly, determine in what way service quality is influenced. Consumers all over the world have become more quality conscious; hence there has been an increased customer demand for higher quality service. Service operations worldwide are affected by this new wave of quality awareness and emphasis. Therefore servicebased companies like the banks are compelled to provide excellent services to their customers in order to have sustainable competitive advantage, especially in the current trend. This study identifies quality dimensions significant to enable the banks to develop the strategies improving the quality of service delivery. It is found through the present study that the public sector banks in Karur district are losing market share to private and foreign banks. To survive in this competitive scenario all public sector banks are forced to introduce innovative services, schemes in order to retain existing customers and attract new customers.

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Authors: Ishmeet Singh , Navjot Kaur

India being a highly connected and digital ready economy remains a high potential market worldwide offering multiple opportunities. India presents a large and burgeoning end user market being world’s second largest population in world. India is all set to leapfrog into the digital world with 937 million mobile subscribers, 278 million internet users, an USD 14 billion e-Commerce market. Indian IT industry has grown many manifold since 1980s. The industry has contributed considerably to the economy in terms of GDP, employments and foreign exchange earnings. IT industry is also responsible for increasing the competence and productivity of almost all sectors of the economy like services at banks, post offices, railways, airports etc. e-governance has increased the efficiency of government offices. In this paper we have analyzed different ways in which IT industry has contributed to India’s growth.

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Authors: Jasminder Kaur

India is a nursery of art and numerous mesmerizing arts and crafts forms have taken shape in this land. Its hill state of Himanchal Pradesh has a legacy of many art techniques and the townships of Guler, Basohli, Kangra, Chamba, and Mandi are the main art schools here. Other than rich pictorial art of murals and miniatures, it has many other art forms to its credit, but the picturesque Chamba Rumal stands unparalleled. The vivacity, vividness and precision of this needle art make it so close to the Pahadi miniatures and murals that it appears to be their transcript on the fabric. Because of this resemblance, it is also known as “Needle Painting”. This household origin art was normally done on the domestic articles, i.e. Rumal (Coverlet), Cap (joji), Hand Fan, Choli (blouse) etc. Among these, Rumal got a special place in the world and became popular by the name of ‘Chamba Rumal’. The folk nature of this art got new dimension as a classical form with the royal patronage. Here the technique was drawn from the folk style, but the motifs were of the Pahadi paintings. Because of its pictorial beauty, Chamba Rumal is also known as ‘Painting by the Needle’.

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Authors: Abhishek Gowda S , Chirag S2 , Manjunath C R

Agricultural is the backbone of Indian economy. India is the second largest country in the production of agricultural product. Farmers cultivate their crops against problems like monsoon failure, lack of water availability, etc. But even after they harvest their crop they are not getting proper marketing facility for their crop. We are proposing a system which reduces the gap between farmers and the consumers, which increases economic status of farmers and also provide the necessary knowledge required by the farmers for further crop production. In the survey the following details are gathered from the farmers, farmer’s details, past crops grown by them, area of agriculture land owned by them, past crop selling price, location of agriculture land, water availability etc. On the above details artificial neural nets machine learning models and Bayes data mining concepts are applied thorough which we can predict the current market for farmers along with that we can also provide the information about the type of crop they can grow to increase the crop production in future.

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Authors: Dr.Y.Rajashekhar Reddy

Presentation of Numerical solution for eighth order linear boundary value problem using Octic B-spline collocation method with non-uniform length is the subject of this paper. In this approach recursive form of B-spline function is used as basis in collocation method. Numerical examples are considered to show the advantage of recursive of B-spline function particularly in non-fixing the length of subintervals.

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Authors: Abderrahmane Gamar , Zakaria Khiya , Touria Zair , Mohammed El Kabriti , Abdelaziz Bouhlal , Fatima El Hilal

The dump in the town of El Hajeb (Morocco) is devoid of a collection and treatment system of the generated brownish effluents known as leachates. In a permeable soil and of a water table circulating in shallow depth, these percolate, after their generation, accumulate at the bottom of the waste and can infiltrate through the ground to reach the underlying water table, thus causing its contamination. Leachate would require, therefore, a specific treatment before their rejection in the receiving environment. This study aims to make a physicochemical characterization of these leachates. To do this, we conducted a series of sampling, from May 2015 to January 2017. During this period, the physicochemical analysis revealed, on the one hand, that it is discharge juice in the acidogenesis phase, conveying a significant pollutant load rich in organic and inorganic matter (COD = 23597.5 ± 595.61 mgO2 L -1 ), in mineral salts (EC = 17.55 ± 0.72 mS cm-1 ) and in nutrient salts (TKN = 888.54 ± 13.53 mg-N L -1 and TP = 139.65 ± 48.89 mg-P L -1 ), concentrations exceed the values allowed by Moroccan and international standards, what makes these effluents toxic to the surrounding environment. By the present study, we incite decisionmakers to manage well effectively the discharges taking into account the risks of the leachates generated.

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Authors: Deepa Shree C , Nishchitha R Kasyap , Manjunath C R

Aim of the project is to reduce the traffic congestion at a particular location in peak hours with the help of Google maps. Google maps, one of the widely used user-friendly app which helps an individual to give an alert of traffic congestion in that particular location in which she is actually going. As a result of this, Google maps will suggest an individual to take an alternative route, as the major route is highly affected by traffic jam. This alternative route suggested by Google maps is a faster route without traffic and help to reach an individual to her destination on time without much delay. For an individual, from different places doesn’t have any clue about th

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Authors: Shabir Ahmed , Ahakesh Sharma

Today India is having one of the largest networks of schools in the world. School education is most important stage in the whole educational ladder and underwent transformation since independence. For say after independence government of our country stressed on quantitative expansion of school education so as to provide access of education to the students in their door steps but in 21st century focus is shifted from quantity to quality of school education. This shift of paradigm and ICT revolution made the job of teacher more demanding. Quality of school education is depending on quality and professional commitment of teachers and quality of teachers depend upon nature and type of pre-service teacher training to prospectus teachers. Keeping pace with the needs of present time, in 2012 Verma committee recommended number of changes in the pre-service teacher education programme and enhancing duration was one of them. Hence, National Council of Teacher Education (NCTE) came up with new regulation in 2014 under which duration of B.Ed. and M.Ed. was increased from initial one year to two years. The new NCTE regulations are implemented all over the nation from academic session 2015- 2016. However, the implementation of new NCTE norms has given a way to the debate on the credibility of increased duration of both the courses. The present paper will appraise the probable benefits and issues related with the increased duration of the pre-service teacher training programmes as per the NCTE Regulations 2014.

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Authors: Sweta Garg, Ashish Garg

A new series of 2, 3-disubstituted quinazolin4(3H)one derivatives was synthesized in good yield with the use of different aldehydes and evaluate their antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory activities. Disubstituted quinazolin4(3H)one derivatives were synthesized from Semicarbazide Hydrochloride and semicarbazone as starting materials through oxadiazole as intermediates. This intermediate on reaction with benoxazinone in acidic media, finally converted into corresponding 2, 3-disubstituted quinazolinone derivatives. The synthesized compounds were characterized by their physical properties, Infra-red (IR), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), Mass spectroscopic (MS) and elemental analysis and evaluated for biological activities. Ten different analogues of 2, 3-disubstituted quinazolin4(3H)one were successfully synthesized. All the compounds were active against microbial growth and inflammation. They all give good to moderate result on comparison with standard drug. The results reveal that pharmacological activity of quinazolin4(3H)one nucleus can be increased much times on chemical modification. This is advantageous to approaching the treatment of different kinds of severe diseases.

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Authors: Mohana Krishna Irrinki , Kuberudu Burlakanti

Financial inclusion aims at delivering the financial services at an affordable cost to sections of disadvantaged and low-income segments of society. Financial inclusion is an innovative concept which promotes the banking habits among the financially excluded people and enables to reduce poverty and the launch of Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) by Government of India is in that direction. This scheme is not confined to opening of bank account but has other advantages blended with it such as Zero Balance bank account with RuPay debit card, Accidental Insurance cover of Rs 1 lakh, Life Insurance cover of Rs 30,000, etc. This paper is an attempt to identify the perception of the people of Thallarevu Mandal about the newly launched scheme Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana.

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Authors: Kai.Kannan , R Vijaya Kumar

Since the construction industry is developing very fast the requirement of concrete and their constituent materials are also increasing day by day. Hence the need becomes in evitable to find various alternate means for the aggregate and accordingly the researchers are going on in this way. But the availability of fine aggregate becomes difficult day by day. Hence the need arises to find alternative for the fine aggregate. The material which is known as bottom ash is available ash waste by-product material from the thermal power plants. In India most of the thermal power plants use wet system for disposal of ash. Bottom ash will be generated as a residue after burning pulverised coal at boiler cyclone and collected from bottom ash hopper located under boiler structure. In this project work the material bottom ash is experimentally analysed and studied for its suitability as replacement as fine aggregate up to (0% to 50%). So far few researchers analysed its suitability as FA by finding the compressive strength of concrete. But in this project work the split tensile strength of concrete and flexural strength of concrete were analysed by replacing bottom ash as fine aggregate.

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Authors: Dr. Chiranjib Kumar

The global economy has been facing a lot of challenges and crisis due to Interlinkage for exchanging goods and services. A race is going on among different nations to become a super powerful country. As a result of which global warming and climate change has been seen throughout the world. A new econometrics has taken over the charge of international politics and that could be seen in the recent developments took place in Korean Peninsula and some part of the world where powerful politicians of the world have been threatening to each other for deep consequences. The Key Questions are, Q.1. What happened in the Middle East? Q.2. What is happening in Syria and others countries? Ans. The impact would be more transparent and visible in the coming days. Q.3. What is OBOR (One Belt One Road) of China? Ans. Imposing their excess burdens on other countries on the name of globalization and peace building and making realize the participating countries that you are under my kindness with liabilities(indirect loan). The present paper has tried to find out answers of some questions and also suggests solutions at last. Qualitative thinking is always better than quantitative thinking.

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Authors: Gabriel Dwomoh, Asiamah Yeboah , Evelyn Owusu Frempong

The study seeks to explore existing literature on how MNCs are dealing with dual career couples for international assignees to accept international assignment and what these MNCs have not been able to provide so that contribution can be made to the existing literature. The study was exploratory research where the contributions of various authors were assessed to determine if dual career couples pose a threat for international assignees to accept international assignment. The exploration reveals that MNCs need to deal with issues associated with dual career couples since it contribute significantly to the rejection of international assignments. There are various strategies MNCs adopt in order to entice the international assignee’s spouse to give his or her blessing to the international assignment and mainly among them captured in the literature are providing a lump sum payment for the trailing spouse, inter-firm networking, assisting the trailing spouse to find job in the host country, engaging in reciprocal arrangement with other MNCs to find job for the trailing spouse in the host country and providing career support in order to make the trailing spouse skills, knowledge and abilities relevant to the host country job market. The study identified two strategies that could be used to deal with dual career couples which were not captured in the literature and these are the active involvement of the expatriate spouses in the recruitment and selection process and the use of virtual assignments by relying on the availability of technology for international assignments.

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Authors: Mangal Sing Kro

The present education system in Assam as well as in the entire country is not satisfactory with respect to modern competitive world. A section of people in our society is on the way to postmodern society whereas; about 30 percent people are still illiterate and are lagging behind. Our country is politically, socially and economically affected due to this unequal distribution of education. The primitive theoretical education system is dominantly occupying in our present education system. This mere theoretical knowledge is not sufficient to cope up with the present real world. The prevailing education system, especially run by the state government could not impart adequate knowledge to its students to compete with the present complex socio-economic sphere. Lack of teaching aids, insufficient practically qualified teacher, and negligence of some important subjects and lack of adequate educational infrastructure fail to make human capital to a required extent in our economy which ultimately acts as one of the factors of poverty unemployment problem. Therefore, our education system should be changed to some extent to be at par with the modern competitive and technological world. The existing problems should be identified and accordingly, proper strategies should be taken to solve these problems.

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Authors: Akshatha Karanth , Mohan A. K

The present article intends to describe the mothers’ knowledge on the challenges faced by adolescents. Most of the parents do not recognize the issues of their children. Children express stress in their behaviours. Adolescents face various issues at family, school, and society, such as poverty, adjustment problem, broken family, frequent fights at home, death of the parents, single child, no place to play, homework issues, difficulty in understanding the lesson, and other developmental issues. If suitable help is not provided in time, it affects their future as an adult. The formal academic system may not permit a teacher to handle children with psycho- social issues. The teachers’ role is limited to classroom teaching. This article makes an effort to assess the knowledge of mothers about the challenges faced by adolescents. The researcher has collected data from the mothers of children, who are studying in the high schools of the selected schools of Bengaluru using the questionnaire method.

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Authors: Muhammad Shafeeque A.P. , Thomachan K.T

This paper examines the perceived risks associated with online shopping. Perceived risk defined as a consumer’s belief about the potential losses or other negative outcomes from transacting on the internet. Fifty-eight percent of internet users describe online shopping as a frustrating, confusing, and overwhelming activity. Even though majority of the online shoppers have perceive risk, religion, income and occupation are not found to be significant factors in risk perception.

247-254

Authors: Mary Ivy Deepa I.S. , Mithra2 , Dr.Savithri

An increase in the usage of electronic devices in today’s world leads to a negative impacts on humans. Due to the over-usage of the devices leads to an uncontrollable handling behavior towards them called obsession. This paper deals with the statistical study about the obsession among the group of students and applying image processing techniques for recognition or detection of different types diseases/ symptoms caused by the obsession and explaining the consequences meeting with the obsession of the electronic devices among students normal life.

261-271

Authors: Dr. S.N. Mahapatra , Parveen Kumar

The purpose of the study is to find out the reasons of customer relationship dissolution in banking industry. A structured questionnaire was distributed to banking customers based on demographics (gender, age, marital status, education, occupation and, income level) in National Capital Territory. Data was successfully collected from 500 respondents who have either saving account or current account or both. Respondents’ opinion on 21 statements was obtained regarding their intension to dissolve their banking relationship with a particular bank. Principal Component Analysis with VERIMAX rotation on these 21 items was applied to extract the reasons behind dissolving banking relationship by customers. The study found that though there are various reasons why a customer dissolves its relationship with a particular bank but broadly these can be grouped into three categories includes Service Quality and Commitment; Price and Communication; and Involuntary Dissolution. Out of these three reasons, Service Quality and Commitment seems to be most important reason of dissolving a banking relationship.

280-291

Authors: Shruti Gulati

Purchase of a commodity, good or service is guided by a host of factors. Each factor influences a purchase differently. While some stimulate buying, the other might discourage a consumer. Peer pressure is one of those unique pushes that a rational consumer considers before an actual or a potential purchase of any good or service. Peer pressure rightly puts pressure of the peer or the persons surrounding for any action, buying being the relevant one in this case.

310-319

Authors: Jeevitha.S, Mrs.Vanitha.J

Students’ reveal different learning styles and multiple intelligences, and only by accommodating these several abilities can teachers appropriately plan and conduct tasks and evaluate what students have learned. The present study describes the types of learning styles and multiple intelligences of students, as well as instructional methods that work best with students’ relevant learning traits. The main motive is to study on multiple intelligence in relating to learning style among higher secondary students in Coimbatore district. This research is under taken with a view to examining the relationship with multiple intelligence and learning style of different high school students with a sample size 300. The investigation is analyzed by the descriptive analysis and differential analysis. The result concluded from the study that there is no substantial change with respect to gender, locality, groups and board of institution in their mean score of multiple intelligence and learning style. The correlation is not significant with the multiple intelligence and learning style.

324-330

Authors: Devananda Beura

The world has historically experienced with the exclusion of women from science for a long time. Later on, the gender questions in science and technology was extensively raised and the entry of women in science and technology got started. But, the participation of women in Science is still not in parity of expectation. Although the gender gap in science and technology is continuously narrowing down over the years, men still continue to outperform women in scientific experiments and achievements. The negative attitude of women about science and technology remains active due to the influence of socio-psychological parameters. Gender inequality in science and technology can be reduced by proper monitoring, proper informing and creating necessary work conditions in these fields. Gender equality and normal work conditions for both men and women are prime factors for functioning of any normal society and settling the gender inequality in science and technology may strengthen the socio-scientific development.

339-346

Authors: Dr. Laxmi

Hygiene awareness plays an important role in preventing various communicable diseases like diarrhea. Intervention based researches should be conducted widely to address the issue of sanitation and hygiene. Self-help group members of rural area are focused as they are the best ambassadors in the villages to create awareness. Before the implementation of the module through workshop, pretest was conducted to assess their hygiene awareness. Later workshop was conducted and posttest was also done. A self-prepared interview schedule was used to collect data. It was found that there is significant difference in the pre and post test results. The knowledge and awareness of the respondents improved after the module implementation. All the respondents after the workshop mentioned that they would adopt better personal hygienic practices in order to promote a healthy life.

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Authors: Artur Wymysłowski , Waldemar Wiejak , Piotr Słupski

Travelling Wave Tube (TWT) is an electronic vacuum microwave device, which is used as a high power microwave amplifier, mainly in telecommunication purposes and radar systems. TWT's seem to be an alternative and a more reliable solution than semiconductor devices when building high power and high frequency applications. Thermal behaviour of TWT is one of the key aspects influencing its reliability and working parameters. In fact, the standard TWT is treated as a high power device and the supplied power is dissipated mainly through conduction and convection phenomena. In practical applications, depending on a type of TWT, they can be cooled either by a forced liquid or air circulation. The main goal of the presented research was to perform analytical, experimental and numerical analysis of temperature distribution of a low band TWT in case of a typical working condition. Because theoretical analysis seems to be very complex, thus it was decided to support it with experimental measurements and numerical simulations as well as with the simplified analytical formulas. As a first step of the presented research, the analytical analysis and numerical modelling of the helix TWT was carried out. The objective of the thermal analysis was to assess the temperature distribution in different parts of the helix TWT assembly during extreme standard and working conditions. Afterwards, the obtained numerical results were validated by experimental measurements, which were carried out using a custom designed TWT test sample and corresponding experimental measurement tools.

368-377

Authors: Kalpesh S. Tailor

Moderate distribution proposed by Naik V.D and Desai J.M., is a sound alternative of normal distribution, which has mean and mean deviation as pivotal parameters and which has properties similar to normal distribution. Mean deviation (δ) is a very good alternative of standard deviation (σ) as mean deviation is considered to be the most intuitively and rationally defined measure of dispersion. This fact can be very useful in the field of quality control to construct the control limits of the control charts. On the basis of this fact Naik V.D. and Tailor K.S. have proposed 3δ control limits. In 3δ control limits, the upper and lower control limits are set at 3δ distance from the central line where δ is the mean deviation of sampling distribution of the statistic being used for constructing the control chart. In this paper assuming that the underlying distribution of the variable of interest follows moderate distribution proposed by Naik V.D and Desai J.M, 3δ control limits of sample standard deviation(s) chart are derived. Also the performance analysis of the control chart is carried out with the help of OC curve analysis and ARL curve analysis.

389-405

Authors: Subramaniam V.A. , Velnampy T

Investment plays an important role not only in the life of an individual but also in the development of countries. People save money for the purpose of future consumption and invest the saved money with the objectives of protecting the real value of money and making more money. Bodie, Kane & Marcus (1998) defined the term investment as the current commitment of money and other resources with the expectation of obtaining future benefits. Investment decision making is an important aspect in the process of investment, which relates with the selection of one or more investment options for investing the money.

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Authors: Muhamed Katica1 , Nedzad Gradascevic2 , Nejra Hadzimusic1 , Zarema Obradovic , Ramo Mujkanovic , Esad Mestric , Senad Coloman , Muhamed Dupovac

Stray dogs are the ones not microchipped, which live across the streets and other public surfaces unattended, and so represent a serious public-health problem. Lack of human support for the stray dogs causes a range of problems - from territorial status to ensuring food. Such conditions force them to activate a self-preservation mechanism and return to natural behavioral patterns. Regarding the fact that several thousands of stray dogs were recorded in observed regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the period from 2008 – 2009, it was obvious that such conditions could endanger the health of both humans and domestic animals. The problem in Bosnia and Herzegovina attempted to be solved using various approaches during the period from 1996 – 2009. Some solutions were: using hygiene services of public utility companies in some places, or establishing dog shelters. The third solution for the problem was the employment of hunting associations and their active participation for reducing the number of stray dogs. Minimization of large number of stray dogs required number of measures and activities such as aplicable legal framework, education for dog owners, neutering of dogs, building shelters, euthanasia of ill and agressive dogs and permanent hosting of dogs.

437-446

Authors: GH MOHD SHEIKH

Since 2002 political structure of the state of Jammu and Kashmir underwent a paradigm shift. A coalition era has deepened its roots in the state politics. PDP and Congress joined the governance of the state as a coalition regime in the year 2002. This coalition regime has brought up the various development policies; one among them was the industry policy which was formulated in the year 2004. Under the policy, food processing including agro-based industry was one among the main thrust areas. Similarly, in the paper an attempt has been made to analyze the factors which were responsible for the formulation of industry policy. In particular, the paper explores the agro-based industry of the Baramulla district in terms of removal of regional disparities/imbalances which exists between three regions of the State. The research paper argues that Kashmir region has widely neglected in terms of industry development while the Jammu region has been

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Authors: Roshani Rai

Rameshwari Nehru came from a very orthodox family where purdah system was observed very strictly. Having been denied formal education, however Rameshwari Nehru was able to make a deep mark in the pages of history by her relentless efforts to bring about the emancipation of women in the society. In this respect her journal Stree Darpan played a notable role. This paper is a humble attempt to narrate the activities of Rameshwari Nehru for the cause of Indian women.

464-470

Authors: D. Thiagaraj , Dr. A. Thangaswamy

Job satisfaction is one of the important factors that have drawn attention of the organization as well as academicians. In view of the rising competition as a result of globalisation, managers have placed great importance on the construct of job satisfaction. This may be due to the findings of many studies that job satisfaction is a significant determinant of organizational commitment. Highly satisfied employees will exert extra effort and contribute positively to the effectiveness and efficiency of their organizations. Job satisfaction will lead to better performance and the employees will be more committed towards their organization. Hence, this study is focused to consolidate the theoretical concept about job satisfaction.

476-488

Authors: Sreeja.P, Mrs. Nalinilatha.M

The study aimed to identify the relationship between social intelligence and academic achievement of higher secondary students. The investigator adopted survey method to study the social intelligence between students from selected government, private and aided school. For this study a sample of 300 school students from eight various schools which are situated in Palakkad district selected by the investigator using simple random sampling technique. The findings revealed that there is no significant relationship between social intelligence and academic achievement. This study shows that students do not find healthy environment in schools for developing their social intelligence. The schools fail to provide a proper environment to develop better relationship, positive behavior, social skills positive attitudes and good mental health in students.

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Authors: Dr.M.S.Ramaratnam , Dr.R.Jayaraman

Market Value of Share of a company is determined by various factors. So many studies were conducted in finding the determinants of share price. Some of the studies found that Capital Structure is a determinant of the market price of the share and some of the studies found that Earning per Share is a determinant of the market price of the share. Even some studies proved that Capital Structure is also determining the Earning per Share. With this ideology an attempt was made in this study by using Structural equation modeling to see how for the Capital Structure of the firm has got a direct and indirect effect over the Market value of share. Debt to Total Assets, Equity to Total Assets, Coverage Ratio, Earning per share and Market price of share of eleven Indian public sector banks were taken for the study for five years from March 2013 to March 2017.

508-513

Authors: Sijila Das.M.K, Mrs. Nalinilatha.M

The role of teacher is proficient, be composed of academic, didactic and social roles. Academic roles cover teaching, instructing and supervisory characters and pedagogical characters include instructional, valuation and simplifying roles. The study aimed to identify the teaching competency of secondary school teachers. The investigator adopted survey method to study the teaching competency between teachers from selected government, private and aided school. For this study a sample of 300 school teachers from eight various schools which are situated in Palakkad district selected by the investigator using simple random sampling technique. The findings revealed that there is no significant difference towards teaching competency among selected secondary school teachers with respect to personal variables like Gender, Marital Status, Educational Qualification, Type of Management and Teaching experience. The findings of the study help to discover the teaching competency of secondary school teachers in the society.

519-526

Authors: Sutha.N, Mrs.Vanitha.J

The competence of problem solving has an energetic role in students’ academic outcomes and their construction of the ideas. Keeping this in vision, the current research has been planned out to inspect the effect of problem solving ability and the achievement in physics of higher secondary students in Coimbatore district. This study is under taken with an understanding to examining the association with problem solving ability and achievement in physics of different higher secondary students with the volume of 326 as sample size. The result concluded from the study that there is no significant relationship between problem solving ability and achievement in physics of higher secondary school students.

544-549

Authors: Raghunath

Globalization means different things to different people. It can be defined simply as an expansion of economic activities across political boundaries of nation states. More importantly it refers to a process of deepening economic integration, increasing economic openness and growing economic interdependence between countries in the world economy. It is associated not only with a phenomenal spread and volume of cross-border economic transactions but also with an organization of economic activities which straddle national boundaries of the world. Globalization in India is generally taken as integrating the economy of the country with the rest of the world. This in turn implies that opening up the economy to foreign direct investment by providing facilities to foreign companies to invest in different fields of economic activities in India; removing constraints and obstacles to the entry of MNCs; allowing Indian companies to enter into foreign collaborations in India and also encouraging them to set up joint ventures abroad; carrying out massive import liberalization programmes by switching over from quantitative restrictions to tariffs in the first place, and then bringing down the level of import duties considerably; and instead of plethora of export incentives opting for exchange rate adjustment for promoting exports. Whether seeds of globalization sown in pre-reform period as many concessions were granted to foreign capital, MNCs were allowed to enter a number of crucial sectors to which their entry was previously restricted and banned. The study is purely based on secondary data. It will have a discussion on negative and positive impacts of globalization on Indian economy.

561-577

Authors: Semayat Oyda , Bekele Megersa

Rabies, a viral disease caused by lyssa virus of family Rhabdoviridae, is a fatal zoonotic disease with worldwide occurrence and endemic in developing countries of Africa and Asia. Rabies generally affects all warm-blooded animals, but it is primarily a disease of dogs in Ethiopia because access to suspected domestic canids and pets are not controlled indoor or by immunization. The major means of transmission of the disease is through any types of bite, scratch, or other situation in which saliva, cerebral, spinal fluid, tear, or nervous tissues from suspected or known rabid animal or person enters an open wound, is transplanted into, or comes in contact with mucus membrane of another animals or person. One of retrospective study of rabies in Addis Ababa from 1990 – 2000 indicated that an average of 2,200 people per year received post – exposure antirabies treatment while 95% of the reported fatal human rabies case was due to dog bites. The widespread use of traditional medicine among urban and rural population of Ethiopia could be attributed to cultural acceptability, physical accessibility and economic affordability. Individuals who are exposed to the rabies virus often see traditional healers for the diagnosis and treatments of the disease. Once the virus entered into body of exposed individuals through wound (abrasion) or direct contact with mucosal surface, then there, it replicates in the site of deposit (bitten site), where local viral proliferation occurs, and get access (viral attachment) to motor endplates. The clinical sign of the disease is nonspecific and difficult to differentiate without laboratory test, but some of signs such as pupil dilation in some case, paralysis (last stage) and hydrophobia are some characteristic signs. The control of access to domestic canid to other suspected animals is not only prevention method but also is treatment measures. Mass vaccination of dogs and removal of stray canids are the best measure of control. In general, this study provides an overview of the current status of Rabies in livestock and human in Ethiopia.

608-618

Authors: Shweta Tuteja , Veena Nigam

Clothing has always been a kind of status symbol and expression of the individual personality. People wear clothing for functional as well as for social reasons. People of all ages and in all circumstances of life are aware of the importance of appearance in perception of self and in their relations with other people. However, for those whose surrounding environment is limited by age, condition of health, or physical and mental handicaps, dressing properly is a very difficult and impossible task. Therefore there is an urgent need to design clothing according to their special requirements. The aim of this study was to design and develop functional clothing for mentally retarded respondents. A questionnaire was developed for personal interview to assess clothing practices & problems of the disabled. The identified clothing requirements were incorporated in garment designs and finally constructed. After wear trial the designed and constructed garments were found to be highly acceptable.

627-636

Authors: Dr.K.Lenin

In this paper, combination of the Q-bit evolutionary search - quantum particle swarm optimization (QPSO) algorithm and binary bit evolutionary search - genetic particle swarm optimization (GPSO) has been done to solve the reactive power problem & termed as Improved Quantum Algorithm (IQA). Proposed IQA can be viewed as a kind of hybridization of microspace based search and macro-space based search, which augments the penetrating behavior to augment and balance the exploration and exploitation aptitudes in the whole searching space. In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed IQA algorithm, it has been tested on IEEE 57,118 bus systems and compared to other standard algorithms.

644-658

Authors: Tamirat Belayneh , Jember Tekle

Cultivation of rice in Ethiopia is generally a recent phenomenon it was started first at Fogera and Gambella Plains in the early 1970’s, which is preceded by its utilization as a food crop. Hence the present review was to review on adoption, Trend, potential, and constraints of rice production to livelihood in Ethiopia. Although rice was introduced to the country very recently, it has proven to be a crop that can assure food security in Ethiopia. It is reported that the potential rice production area in Ethiopia is estimated to be about thirty million hectares. Since 2006, Ethiopian rice production trends show increases in both area and productivity. Considering the importance and potential of the crop, it has been recognized by the Government as “the new millennium crop of Ethiopia” to attain food security. Rice has become a commodity of strategic significance across many parts of Ethiopia for domestic consumption as well as export market for economic development. Due to the introduction of upland and irrigated rice varieties in the country, rice farming has increased from time to time. There has been twelve upland/lowland NERICAs and Sativa-type, and three irrigated rice varieties released in Ethiopia from 1999 up to 2007. However, Ethiopian rice sector still faces remaining challenges such as high competition with imported rice, poor infrastructure, insufficient mechanization and post-harvest processing technologies, lack of skilled manpower and research facilities, poor marketing infrastructure, and channels. Therefore, building the capacity of the research community, experts, smallholder farmers and the private sector is necessary not only to further increase production but also to improve the quality of rice products through better post-harvest handling and processing.