Volume 7, Issue 7, July 2016 Edition


Publication for Volume 7, Issue 7, July 2016 .

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Impact of Emotional Intelligence on Organizational Climate: A study of Select Indian Insurance Organizations[ ]


The concept of emotional intelligence has gained much attention in the management literature as a factor useful in predicting individual performance at work and it has become necessary to understand and leverage it so as to gain sustainable competitive advantage by creating emotionally intelligent environment which will enable creation and maintenance of a positive supportive organizational climate by incorporating emotional intelligence competencies like self-awareness, commitment, optimism, interpersonal connectivity and personal integrity among employees. Today business organizations are realizing to focus at its human side and deal with the emotional dimension of human resource, to use it as a powerful tool to ensure organizational effectiveness and success in this ever changing and increasingly demanding business environment. Recently, some of the Indian business organizations have started concentrating on the emotional dimension of the human resource which deals with those non-cognitive human competencies and potentialities which have a significant impact on the various aspects of organizational climate and effectiveness. The current paper sets out to examine the relationship between the organizational climate in Indian Insurance organizations and emotional intelligence. The result suggests that core components of organizational climate, namely, leadership effectiveness, communication, stress management and trust levels among employees are significantly related with emotional intelligence competencies of employees and further, the dimensions of emotional intelligence, namely, self awareness, commitment, resilience, and interpersonal connectivity have a predictive relationship with leadership effectiveness, communication, stress management and trust levels among organizational members.

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INFLATION AND NIGERIAN ECONOMIC GROWTH NEXUS:A THRESHOLED ANALYSIS[ ]


This study investigated the relationship between inflation rate and economic growth in Nigeria with a view to determining the threshold level of inflation. The study covered the period of 1986 to 2015 and annual data were generated from Central Bank of Nigerian statistical bulletin for the number of years under study. The study adopted Toda-Yamamoto test of causality in determining the direction of causation between the inflation and economic growth as well as other variables included in the model as control variables (money supply, trade openness, and government expenditure).to determine the threshold level we adopted the threshold model developed by Senhadji & Khan, (2001). The result of the empirical analysis reveals that there is a unidirectional causality between inflation and economic growth with causation running from inflation to economic growth. The result of the threshold analysis shows that the optimal level of inflation that will sustain the growth of the Nigerian economy is 11 per cent. We strongly suggest that both the monetary and the fiscal authorities should adopt contractionary monetary and fiscal policy whenever inflation is above the 11% threshold level and engage the revers if the rate of inflation is below the optimal level.

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Is Billboard a Visual Pollution In Pakistan?[ ]


There is an alarming situation that roadside billboards creates a factual threat for driving safety, with some traditional measurements putting exterior distractors accountable for equal to 10% of all mishaps. In this paper we quantify the impact and effect of billboard on drivers, passersby and citizens through survey. The outcome express that billboards which place on the roadside has an obvious damaging cause on tangential power, raises intellectual work-load, visual pollution and observing obsessions, and on various transportation can illustrate concentration missing from second important highway signage. In-depth analysis of the data recommends that the outcomes of visual pollution may in reality be more substantial in this situation where population of drivers and passengers are increasing day by day.

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Review on Problems/challenges that patients face with current inhaler devices and opportunities/future approaches for open innovations[ ]


Inhalation is the most efficient route of delivery for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and anti-asthma drugs. Different types of inhaler devices are used for the treatment of COPD and these includes; Nebulisers, Pressurised Metered Dose Inhalers (pMDIs), and Dry Powder Inhalers (DPIs). Many patients encounter problems of wheezing, chest tightness, cough, breathlessness among others. These problems occur either as a results of; incorrect choice of inhaler device, poor technique, wrong diagnosis, concurrent smoking, inadequate understanding and proper education on how to use the device, nonadherence etc. These review article highlighted the future approaches for innovations in order to counter these problems. Some of these innovations highlighted includes; use of teaching aids, use of complete electronic compliance monitoring, physical demonstration to patient on how to use the device and also giving complete education in the correct use of the device.

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Chemical Composition and Larvicidal Activity of Hyptis spicigera Volatile oils against Mosquito Larvae: Anopheles gambiae and Culex quinquefasciatus Say[ ]


The study reflects the chemical composition and larvicidal potency of volatile oil obtained from Hyptis spicigera against the larvae of Anopheles gambiae and Culex quinquefasciatus. The analysis of the oil showed that the major constituents of the oil as β- Caryophyllene (25.7%), Caryophyllene oxide (11.56%), Sabinene (9.60%) 2- Carene (8.78%), α-Pinene (6.52%) and 1-Octen-3-ol (4.91%). Larvicidal activity of demonstrated that both the mosquito larvae were susceptible to the volatile oil with 45.18 and 53.87 µg/mL for Anopheles gambiae and Culex quinquefasciatus respectively. This high activity could be attributed to one or several volatile compounds present. The results suggest that Hyptis spicigera essential oil has potential to control the two mosquito species therefore can be considered as a candidate for the development of a new larvicide.

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Effect of fipronil on abundance of Phosphate Solubilizing Microorganisms (PSMs) in the cardamom plantation soils of Idukki district, Kerala, India[ ]


The aim of the present work was to investigate on the effect of fipronil insecticide on the density of phosphate solubilising microorganisms. Phosphate solubilising microorganisms (PSMs) have a significant role in the conversion of inorganic phosphate into available forms. Fipronil is the insecticide has been found to be effective for the control of various insect pests. We selected soil samples from major cardamom plantations of Idukki District as the study material. According to this study, we can observe that the insecticide fipronil inhibits the growth of PSMs in soil. It leads to the Phosphorous nutrient deficiency in the soil available to plants and affect the crop yield.

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An Automated System for Sorting Plastics by Color[ ]


Nowadays, color and color application science and technology have widely used throughout the world for a long time ever since such a need arose in the manufacturing industry. A color sorting system provides sorting out objects by different properties compromising shape, color and etc. Color sorting machines have been found working on the purpose to seperate materials in every type of industrial wastes. In this paper, it has been developed and built a multiple sorting electromechanical system on plastic materials on different colors as a prototype. The prototype in this study consists of hardware and software systems. Hardware system is designed by using conveyor belt, microcontroller and LCD display as the user interface unit, and also feeding the system.

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Shape Enhancement of Clustered Seeds using Edge Detection Algorithm[ ]


This paper present a method of shape enhancement of clustered seeds using edge detection algorithm. The method is based on classical morphological operations, and was designed to deal with the main difficulties imposed by images of soybean seeds, namely the clustering of the seeds, variations in the illumination, and low contrast between seeds and background. The method presented designed to improve edges of clustered soybean seeds from digital images captured under non-ideal conditions. This is not mandatory, but the results will be more reliable if that condition is observed. Also, the capture must be as vertical as possible to avoid problems of perspective. As input to the program, the user has to provide the name and the type of the image. The proposed algorithm shows a good performance under a wide variety of condition with better edge defines to improve the edges of clustered soybean seeds.

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Generation of Intensity Duration Frequency curve using short duration rainfall data for different Return Period for Guwahati city[ ]


Estimation of Peak Flood Discharge for the desired return period is a pre-requisite for planning, design, and management of hydraulic structures like stormwater drains, barrages, dams, spillways, bridges,etc. The purpose of the present study is to develop an Intensity Duration Curve (IDF) Curve for the Guwahati city by using Gumbel’s Extreme Value distribution and to develop an IDF empirical formula to estimate the rainfall intensity for any duration and any return period with minimum effort. Short duration rainfall data for the year 1990 to 2014 was collected. This model is developed to predict precipitation depth for various return period storms. The derived precipitation depth is utilized for generation of intensity duration frequency curve having different return periods.

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Determination of Greenhouse gas emission from incineration of municipal solid waste in Kano, Nigeria[ ]


The amount of carbon dioxide which is a greenhouse gas emission from incineration of municipal solid waste disposal in four waste disposal sites in Kano, Nigeria was determined. The total estimated carbon dioxide emission from the four disposal sites was found to be 69, 409.61 tonnes per year, while carbon dioxide emission per kilogram of the municipal solid waste range from 0.227 kg/kg to 0.422 kg/kg of municipal solid waste.

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Detection and Grading of diseases in Banana leaves using Machine Learning[ ]


The diseases on the banana are a crucial issue which makes the sharp decrease in the production of banana. These require careful diagnosis and timely handling to protect the crops from heavy losses. Now a day’s crop faces many diseases. The naked eye observation of experts is the main approach adopted in practice for detection and identification of banana leaf diseases. But, this needs continuous monitoring of experts which might be prohibitively expensive in large farms. So automatic detection of banana plant diseases are an important research topic as it may prove benefits in monitoring large field of crops, and thus automatically detect diseases from symptoms that appear on plant leaves. For detecting diseases on the banana leaf early and accurately we can use image processing technique. This paper provides a various methods to detect plant diseases using image processing technique. The proposed system is also a well organized module that identifies the Blacksigatoka disease and Panama wilt disease on banana leaf. The disease grading has been done using ANFIS classifier. Finally, classifiers comparison has been performed using confusion matrix.

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Use of Pre-Tensioned Solid Floor Planks in Commercial Buildings[ ]


The normal precast slabs have lesser load bearing capacity and have lesser span to depth ratio compared to precast pre-tensioned slabs. Commercial buildings require large column free area. Pre-stressing of precast slabs allow high span to depth ratio hence large column free area. The main limitation of the hollow cores planks is the thermal insulation. If the hollow cores planks replaced with floor panels have comparative weight and structural capacity with thermal insulation, which will be more efficient, combined with shallow structure depth. This will save much energy, which results in decreasing the live cycle cost. The objective of the study is to estimate and compare the material cost, construction cost, time duration required for construction of a commercial building by steel framed precast slab type construction, steel framed precast pre-tensioned slab type construction, precast framed precast pre-tensioned slab type construction and cast in situ type construction, and to identify the commercial viability among them. The study of comparison is restricted to precast slabs and structural frames only. Considering the same plan, total floor area, floor to floor height and loading condition, the commercial building is designed and planned to be constructed in all four ways. The costs for all four types of construction such as material cost, precast yard set up cost, equipments for production and erection, labours for production and erection is estimated and MS Project is used for estimation of duration of construction for all four types of construction. It is found that savings of Rs.45 (7.2%) per sq.ft can be achieved by using cast in situ construction but by adopting Precast framed precast pre-stressed slab type construction we can get the building 156 days earlier from which we can get profit from operation. The labour management is tough in case of cast in situ type construction as the amount of labour involved is high in cast in situ construction when compared with other types.

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Characterization of Mastic Asphalt with Cold Mix[ ]


In the present study, an attempt has been made to use Cold Mix Technology as an alternative approach for preparation of Mastic Asphalt. Present work primarily aims to conduct a comparative study of Mastic Asphalt using hot mix as well as cold mix approach. In the present study 10/20 penetration grade bitumen has been used as binder for preparation of Mastic Asphalt in Hot Mix and Medium Setting (MS) emulsified bitumen has been used as binder for Mastic Asphalt in cold mix. Primarily the laboratory study has been conducted with recommended grading of coarse, fine aggregate and lime as filler in line with the provision of IRC: 107-2013 and MORTH specification for preparation of Mastic Asphalt with Hot mix Asphalt (HMA). Mastic Asphalt with Cold mix Asphalt (CMA) has been prepared with equivalent amount of emulsified bitumen corresponding to the bitumen taken for HMA Mastic with the same gradation and quantity of coarse & fine aggregate and lime as filler. The experimental results show that design binder content of Mastic Asphalt simply by replacing 10/20 Bitumen with equal amount of emulsified bitumen does not fulfill with the required parameters of relevant code guideline. Effort has also been made in this work to find out equivalent content of bitumen emulsion which will be effective as binder with respect to hot mix. Experimental results show that use of equivalent quantity of bitumen emulsion in cold mix for preparation of mastic asphalt does not yield desired hardness with respect to hot mix mastic with similar aggregate and filler quantity. However, replacement of lime as filler by cement has been found to be effective and satisfactory for preparation of Mastic Asphalt using CMA. It has also been found that the hardness number of such Mastic Asphalt using CMA increases with increase in curing period. The variation of hardness number with different filler content has also been studied in this work.

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Parametric Response of an Axially Moving Viscoelastic Beam With Three-Mode Interaction[ ]


The response of axially moving 3D-beam, supported by nonlinear viscoelastic foundation under parametric excitation, is discussed and the governing nonlinear partial differential equation of motion is discretized into ordinary differential equations using 3-term Galerkin’s method. The approximate solutions is obtained applying the multiple scales perturbation technique and the case of external subharmonic resonance is considered. The effects of viscoelstic coefficient, nonlinear coefficients, stiffness, and axial moving speed as well as the magnitude of the parametric excitation on the frequency responses are investigated.

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A Novel Approach for Firefly Colony Optimization on Solving Multiobjective Optimization[ ]


The objective of this paper is to propose inspired by meta-heuristic ant colony optimization (ACO), the new firefly colony optimization (FCO) is presented here. As per the standard firefly algorithm, the newly proposed method is a distributive, meta-heuristic in nature to construct greedily good solutions. The performance of the newly adopted approach is assessed by bin packing problem (BPP). The bin packing problem(a combinatorial NP-hard problem) checks per the minimum number k of identical bins of capacity C needed to store a finite collection of weights w1, w2, w3,…..,wn so that no bin has weights stored in it whose sum exceed the bin capacity. When the number of bins is restricted to 1 and each item is characterized by both a volume and a value, the problem of maximizing the value of items that can fit in the bin known as knapsack problem.

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Improvement of Mechanical Properties of Waste Glass Coarse Aggregates Concrete Using Polymer and Silica Fume Admixtures[ ]


This study includes the effect of using styrene butadiene rubber (SBR) latex as an admixture material with specified mixes of of concrete with mix proportions of (1:1.5:3) and also using silica fume with constant percentage of 5% from weight of cement to improve the mechanical properties. The coarse aggregate used in this study is a glass aggregate which has been obtained from the glass waste. Then, the glass aggregate has been broken and sieved to be satisfied with Iraqi Specifications. The reasons behind using glass aggregate are: firstly, to get sustainability and secondly, to reduce the cost of producing concrete using local materials. Different percentages of SBR as percentage of cement weight and studying the effects of compressive strength, splitting tensile strength and flexural strength. The study includes testing concrete beams for flexural strength using beams of dimensions of 150x150x750mm. It has been found that high increment in compressive, flexural and tensile strengths at 15% SBR and reduction in these strengths after 15% SBR.

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Nonlinear Saturation Controller for Suppressing Inclined Beam Vibrations[ ]


In this paper, we present the numerical and perturbation solutions of an inclined beam to external force with two different controllers, positive position feedback (PPF) and nonlinear saturation (NS) controllers and found that the (NS) one is an effective controller. The frequency response function and the phase plane methods are used to investigate the system behavior and its stability. All possible resonance cases will be extracted and effect of different parameters on system behavior at resonance are studied.

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Impact of a simple DGS size on the radiation characteristics of an elementary MPA[ ]


Defected ground structures have known recently a great evolution in many systems, using the micro-strip technology, thanks to their good effects on such system performances, and their role to overcome some micro-strip structures limitations. In this regard, a parametric study of the impact of defected ground plane size on radiation characteristics is done.

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The Impact of Separation of States to the Map of Europe: The Cases of Scotland and Catalonia[ ]


Recently we have been witnesses of several attempts for secession on European soil. Some of them actually happened (the case of secession of Kosovo from Serbia); the case of Scotland has been characterized with a referendum in 2014 where the Scottish people declared against secession from the United Kingdom and the case of Catalonia where the Catalans still did not have a chance to declare about possible secession from Spain. However, the legal discussion of secession is informed primarily by the rise of self-determination as legal principle, so in fact they both are considered as important issues in international affairs. Secession as the manner of groups or regions sought to secede from their current governments in order to establish their own political entities. This article aims to describe the impact that secession can make to the map of Europe (regarding its territorial implications), the positive and negative effects and what a region that secedes may win or lose and all of that seen through the cases of Scotland and Catalonia.

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Potential of Cyperusrotundus for Remediating Soils Polluted with Spent Engine Oil: Changes in Soil Chemical and Microbial Properties[ ]


Recently, the use of plants to cleanup of crude oil contaminated soils has been a subject of increasing investigation. To identify native plants for the remediation of oil contaminated soil, the growth ofCyperusrotundus L. was observed under different concentrations (0, 50, 100, 150 and 200 g/kg) of the spent engine oil in pot experiment. Soil analysis showed that the oil had little effects on pH, exchangeable Na and K as well as texture but the organic C, N and total hydrocarbon (THC) increased relative to the control while concentrations of P, Ca and Mg decreased. The microbial population decreased with increasing concentration of the spent engine oil. Survival rates and dry matter yield of C. rotundus were considerably (P<0.05) reduced by soil pollution. Overall, C. rotundus had satisfactory potential for growth if soil contamination does not exceed 10%. Further research should screen more native plants with remediating ability.

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ALGORITHMS FOR THE ENHANCEMENT OF SPEECH SIGNAL RECORDED IN ADVERSE CONDITIONS[ ]


The performance of a system can have negative effect by the influence of ecological noise, speech distortions, noise induced by microphones, limited frequency bandwidth etc. In this paper various noise reduction algorithms are studied and implemented in MATLAB and performance of each algorithm is evaluated on the basis of SNR.

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THE EFFECT OF FERMENTED PALM CERNEL CAKE LEVEL IN THE RATION ON CARCASS AND CHOLESTEROL OF DUCK MEAT[ ]


The experiment was conducted in Yogyakarta and aims to study the effect of the level of use of Fermented Palm Kernel Cake (PKCF) with Candida utilis in the rations on the carcass and cholesterol levels of ducks meat aged 6-9 weeks. Completely randomized design (CRD) was used in this study using five PKCF treatment and five replications. Each replications using four ducks Magelang age of 6 weeks with a homogeneous body weight (785+ 26.75 g). Rations given to the ducks during the study period compiled isoprotein (CP: 17%) and isoenergi (3000 kcal ME / kg). Five treatments were tested, namely ducks by basal ration without the use of Palm Kernel Cake (PKC) as control (P1); ration with the use of Fermented Palm Kernel Cake (FPKC) 5% (P2); ration with the use FPKC 10% (P3), with the use of ration FPKC 15% (P4) and ration the use FPKC 20% (P5). Rations and water were given ad libitum. The variables measured, were the weight cut, carcass weight, carcass percentage, percentage of abdominal fat, cholesterol levels breast meat, thigh and liver. The results showed that the use of FPKC up to the level of 20% was not significant (P> 0.05) against the Final weight t, carcass weight, breast meat cholesterol levels and cholesterol levels of duck thigh meat when compared to controls (P1). However, the use of FPKC 20% in the diet significantly (P <0.05) reduced the percentage of carcasses and increase levels of cholesterol the liver. From these results it can be concluded that the use of 15% FPKC can be recommended as a mixture of feed ingredients in feed ducks.

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Potentiality of Compact Yarn in Knit Dyeing for Cleaner Production[ ]


Water, steam, electricity and chemical minimization studies were carried out in a textile mill employing cotton fabric knitting and subsequently dyeing-finishing by approaching to compact yarn. Detailed onsite investigations and analysis on production processes were performed according to UNFCC clean Development Mechanism (CDM) promotion. Specific consumptions in wet processes were calculated by mass balance analyses. Water samples were collected and various parameters were analyzed. The multi-criteria decision-making methods were employed to determine suitable best available techniques. Feasibility analysis was performed and potential benefits and savings were determined for both suggested technique. After the study it come to front that, use of compact yarn shows effective outcome against use of bio polish which can lead process optimization as well as can save enormous amount of water, energy and contribute to reduce the carbon footprint. It is possible for manufacturer’s to reduce their water, steam, electricity & carbon footprint through environmental friendly technology practices. The overall costs can be reduce as much as 20 Ì´ 30% or more by implementing no-cost and clean production technique. Furthermore, overall savings can be doubled or tripled when the associated saving in raw materials is taken into account.

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Mining XML data using K-means and Manhattan algorithms[ ]


Over the last two decades, XML has astonishing developed for describing semi-structured data and exchanging data over the web. Thus, applying data mining techniques to XML data has become necessary.

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A Finite Element Studyof the Behaviour of Cold-Formed Thin-Opened Walled Steel Column[ ]


Numerical modelling of the behaviour of cold-formed thin-walled steel column with opening is presented in present paper. ANSYS software was utilized to simulate the behaviour of cold-formed steel column under static load. Two groups of steel column were analyzed. The first group has box section while the other has channel section. Materials and geometric nonlinearity were adopted in this study. An experimental data were used for this reason. A reasonable agreement by means of load and axial displacement between experimental and ANSYS results was obtained.Furthermore, the effects of column length, location of opening, and stiffener location on behaviour of cold formed steel columns are investigated. It is found that, stiffeners have significant effect when they are used at ends of the column rather than they exit around the opening. Increasing length of the column clearly increases the axial displacement and slightly decreases the load capacity.

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A New Rapid Broadcast Antenna Selection Algorithm for MIMO System[ ]


Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and multiple-input multi-output (MIMO) are key techniques for high speed wireless communication. The problem of transmit antenna selection for massive multiple-input multiple-output systems by maximizing the determinant modulus of the selected channel matrix. Based on the maximum-volume sub matrix finding method, it proposes a new rapid broadcast antenna selection algorithm with low memory cost and low computational complexity. The convergence of the proposed algorithm is proved and the performance of it is evaluated via numerical simulations. It compared to the real-time antenna-by-antenna iterative swapping enhancement (RAISE) transmit antenna selection algorithm, A new rapid broadcast antenna can achieve near optimal capacity performance while the computational complexity and the memory cost are significantly reduced. By introducing pilot check system in the same antenna selection RAISE methodology an improved selection system can be achieved for minimum BER w.r.t minimum SNR.

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OPTIMIZATION THE DAY LIGHTING IN HIGH RISE BUILDING TOWARDS IN GREEN BUILDING CONCEPT[ ]


Civil engineering is a professional and arguably with the base of engineering protocols. Day lighting is an important issue in construction management and modern engineering architectures. Daylight affecting the functional arrangement of spaces, occupant comfort, structure and energy use in high rise buildings. Daylight is well thought-out as the most excellent source of light meant for good colour rendering along with its quality is the one lighting source to matches human visual response. A lot of advanced techniques are generated and implementing for utilize the sunlight source entirely, for reducing artificial light source in day time. This research started their journey through green computing for environmental friendly approach. Plastics are dangerous one and increasing their products in the world without major reusable way and with small time span use, after that same plastic once again coming to reproduce or non-reproduce. Plastic boards are using in constructions to increase reflecting sunlight source with reflecting coating. At the same time the concrete mix as well reduces for each plastic board size, with the intention of saving water, sand and cement.

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Encryption Techniques in the Cloud[ ]


Cryptography is critical and necessarily for the integrity as well as the security of data which is to be stored in the cloud. Here are numerous cryptographic methods applied for this purpose on some cloud which mainly protects the data as well as the applications on the cloud atmosphere. Specific security technique doesn’t primarily use single encryption scheme rather it makes use of different encryption schemes for the encryption of the data and convert the data to unreadable format and later on decrypted using some unique key. Numerous encryption techniques by now are available for the protection of the data in the various application. The cryptographic schemes are considered necessary for the data confidentiality that is saved over the cloud. Cloud computing shares resources such as software, services, platform, and infrastructure for the clients. So using the cryptographic techniques within the cloud will ensure the data security and integrity which is mostly required in cloud atmosphere. In this research, different encryption techniques used in the cloud environment are analyzed to find which is most suitable in what capacity.

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Effect of Different Fin Geometries on Heat Transfer Coefficient[ ]


High rate of heat flow is the demand of number of engineering applications, heat exchangers used in process industries, economizers used to heat water to boiler or activities like cooling of IC engines. Also the removal of heat from integral circuit or exchange of heat between two fluids as in nuclear power plants many researchers contributed in enhancement of heat transfer through various approaches.Increase in heat transfer rate and to derive is being done by using different techniques or by performing experiments as well previous literature mentioned the theory regarding heat transfer in such a way that it will increased by increasing area and heat transfer coefficient. In case of natural convection there is only scope for increasing heat transfer area, there extended surfaces i.e. fins are better option to it. Other advantage is increasing turbulence with pitch therefore it enhances heat transfer.The study of heat transfer is possible through numerical experimental analysis. In case of numerical analysis, the results gives heat flow pattern and but less accurate. Whereas experimental analysis gives accurate results but require setup, time and valid conditions.

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Cost Efficiency Process of Reactive Dyeing in the Utilization Cotton Material of the Dyeing Production[ ]


We are capable of the disavow the presence and significance of alkali of dyeing of cotton material with reactive dyes as it’s crucial to preserve the dyeing situation in the medium of alkali. In the presentpaintings deals with the fixation of reactive dyes via the assist of alkalis in generating black shade for cotton knit fabric. The comparative impact of single alkali (soda ash) and the mixed alkali such as (soda ash + sodium hydroxide) is evaluated according to coloration fastness (wash fastness, rubbing fastness), coloration energy, Lightness distinction (DL*) , fixation%, fabric electricity, PH of the dye bathtub . Spectrophotometer evaluation becomes conducted and the fixation at specific color % became determined through the usage of laptop color matching system. If combined alkali is used alternatively of unmarried alkali to upraise the PH of the dye bathtub then it reduces the alkali fee and its wash fastness, rubbing fastness , color electricity, fixation% are better than single alkali however it decreased the material bursting electricity little bit. Improving fixation and minimizing the dyeing cost is the ambition of this study.

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Influence of material selection on finite element analysis and weight of gear box casing[ ]


Gearbox casings used in vehicles are subjected to compressive as well as tensile loads. Finite element analysis warrants component’s sustenance under actual loading conditions virtually. Behaviour of the component varies with assignment of different material. In this paper results of finite element analysis of gearbox casing with assignment of Al 6061 T6 alloy and EN 1A steel are compared. Finite Element Method (FEM) has been used.

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Pattern Enhanced Topic Model for Document Modelling and Ranking in Information Filtering[ ]


Topic modelling is widely used in the field of machine learning and text mining. Topic modelling generates models to discover the hidden topics in a collection of documents and each of these topics are represented by the distribution of words. Many term-based, pattern-based and topic modelling based approaches are used in the field of information filtering. There is a Maximum Matched pattern based topic model for information filtering. In this model the user interest are generated in terms of multiple topics and the most discriminative and representative patterns are used to estimate the document relevance to the users information needs. But this method consider only the presence or absence of the pattern in the document to estimate the relevance of the documents. Another problem with existing method is that it does not consider the distribution of patterns in the incoming documents. To deals with the above problems this paper proposed a new ranking method which consider the number of matched patterns and the location of sentences which contain matched patterns in the incoming documents to estimate the relevance of that document based on the user information needs. This helps to find the most relevant documents effectively. Extensive experiments are conducted using the TREC data collection Reuters Corpus Volume 1 to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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Recognition of Highway Workzones Based on Kalman Filtering for Autonomous Driving[ ]


Road sign Recognition is a field of computer vision.Fast real-time and robust automatic traffic sign detection can significantly increase driving safety and comfort. Automatic detection and recognition of traffic sign is also important for an automated intelligent driving vehicle or for driver assistance systems. For facing such problems,computer vision algorithms are available,by recognizing workzone traffic signs in the input images,aim at identifying the bounds of a workzone. This paper focused on how to accurately detect the boundary of a workzone by means of two methods: Detection by Adaboost and Tracking with Kalman Filter. This filter is intended to be robust without being prog rammed with any environment-specific rule.Thus this approach was able to perfectly identify the boundaries of workzones.

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