Volume 9, Issue 7, July 2018 Edition


Publication for Volume 9, Issue 7, July 2018.

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Optimization of Land Use for Appropriate Stormwater Harvesting in an Institutional Environment[ ]


In recent times and in most places stormwater has been left to runoff uncaught. Much can be achieved if this stormwater is caught and stored, instead of allowing it to wreak havoc to land use in the area. A notable experience of such havoc was the 2012 Nigeria floods that cut across 30 of the 36 states of the country, and caused damage to lives, property and the environment with total worth of 2.6 trillion Naira [1]. This study was aimed at assessing and accessing the potentials in stormwater while seeking a way to curb the menace that can evolve from it.

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Factors that influence banana supplied to the market in Muhanga Disitrict, Rwanda[ ]


Linking smallholder farmers to modern value chains is one of the rural development strategies promoted to address the challenge of smallholders’ integration in markets. However, smallholder prospect inclusion in modern value chains is still limited. This study examines factors that influence banana supplied to the market in Muhanga district, Rwanda. A multi-stage sampling design was used to select 178 households from seven banana producing Sectors in Muhanga district in South Province of Rwanda. A Heckman two stage selection model was used to estimate data collected through semi-structured questionnaires.

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IMPACT OF BRAND EXPERIENCE ON CUSTOMER VALUE; ROLE OF CUSTOMER SATISFACTION[ ]


This study investigated the effects of Brand Experience on Customer Value and Customer Satisfaction and brand relationship quality and loyalty in the market. Validated measurements were identified from a literature review. The measurement model and the conceptual model depicting hypothesized relationships were evaluated using confirmatory factor analysis and a structural equation modeling, accordingly. Brand Experience traits had direct effects on both customer value and customer satisfaction which in turn influenced brand quality and loyalty. Moreover, how customers perceive product value depends on experience that may be at variance with current needs.

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The Relationship between Personality and Job Performance[ ]


The purpose of this study is to find out how personality make impact on job performance in the relationship between personality and job performance. The research was done on the employees of One Ten Souvenirs and Gift sdn bhd, where 30 employees participated. The study also shows whether the factors of age, gender and races make an effect or not in the workplace. The research was done using quantitative approach where questionnaires were used as the instrument to collect data. Then the data were analyzed and showed statistically to find the results. The results then shows where the problem lies in between personality and job performance. After getting the results of this research the suggestions and conclusion of this research will be discussed.

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MODIFIED MODEL FOR AIR POLLUTANTS WITH FINITE ELEMENT METHOD[ ]


A short review paper is presented for the subject area of air quality modelling. The paper is geared towards equipping new researchers and workers with a basic appreciation for the technical aspects of their field, providing a staging point for further investigation, and highlighting useful source materials. The paper is introduced through a discussion of the practical implications regarding mathematical air quality modelling. A modified approach towards the evaluation of the fate of air pollutant along a travel route relevant to air quality monitoring is presented. Conclusion on the future/fate of pollutant transport in air quality modeling will be drawn after verification and validation.

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Project Management with Brief Information regarding CPM and PERT Methods[ ]


Project Management System keeps an eye on time and investment which will be involved during the development of new projects. It looks for various stages that are involved under entire development work such as analysis, designing, testing and maintenance work. Time and money both are important factor for any organization in the market and therefore they have to keep an exact record of every bit of their investment.

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Primary Determinant in Quality Deterioration of Fish Seed in Captivity[ ]


This study was primarily undertaken to review the current status of fish seed production at freshwater sector of West Bengal, Bihar and Assam – three leading seed producing states of India (Figure 1) and its distribution range within the state and throughout the country (Chatterjee,N.R.,2016). Main emphasis of the work was to assess how far the current practices are following the principle objectives of the technology i.e. production and supply of quality seed out of captive breeding. With the immediate standardization of the technology, West Bengal farmers adopted the technology of their own (in 98% cases) and started practicing the technology, initially through hapa breeding and afterwards through the establishment of Chinese hatchery.

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Taxation - an ongoing and challenging topic - VAT special case[ ]


This paper came to underline the principle and policy of taxation, taking as a special case the mechanism of VAT, and why this tax is a controversial one – it can bring benefits, or can adversely affect individuals, businesses and the economy in general. The working paper present in details the mechanism of taxation, VAT separately, and reason for which VAT comes with benefits, and in the same time, if the law is not clear, how VAT can generate fraud.

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Creating a custom flavor of Linux OS From Scratch with Web Interface[ ]


There are many Linux distros (operating systems) available on internet which are targeted for different users like standard users, developers, penetration testers, and sysadmins. But it’s very difficult to create own flavor of operating system for anyone because it is a very complicated to compile the source code from scratch.Its very useful when we can create our own operating system from scratch within seconds from online.

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A correlation Analysis among Malaria Infection and Climatic Factors in Kass, South Darfur-Sudan[ ]


Malaria has been endemic in Sudan within the South Darfur region over the past years, particularly in Kass district with a maximum prevalence within the current years. Climatic elements, inclusive of rainfall, temperature and relative humidity in Kass had been particular in comparison to other in South Darfur state in addition to other parts of Sudan. Therefore the objective of this work become to examine the correlation between malaria prevalence and climatic factors in Kass, to be able to seek the specific interventions for malaria manipulate.

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Soft Thresholding based Image Denoising algorithm[ ]


A THRESHOLD ESTIMATION METHOD FOR IMAGE DENOISING IN THE WAVELET TRANSFORM DOMAIN IS BEING DEVELOPED. ERADICATION OF NOISE plays a crucial role in the reconstruction process of an image. The proposed algorithm is based upon the discrete wavelet transform analysis, being adaptive in nature which is based on sub band data to calculate the value of threshold. Experimental results on several test images are compared with popular denoise technique from three aspects PSNR, RMSE..

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BarGain: Crowd Sourced Machine Learning Integrated E-Commerce[ ]


Bargain is a venture which aims to explore the domain area of E-Commerce in ways to make the buying experience for customers more organic and interactive by introducing bargaining features, which are otherwise only prevalent in physical brick and mortar stores. Bargain additionally also utilizes machine learning in order to predict future prices for customers to look at and make a more knowledgeable and proficient purchase decision.

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ENERGY USE BEHAVIOR: THE EFFECT ON ENERGY CONSUMPTION[ ]


Energy, is an indispensable source of human life not only in the industrial sector, but also in agriculture, transport and housing sectors. People need energy even to meet their daily needs: cooking, heating and cooling of houses, communication and communication activities require a certain amount of energy to be consumed. Technological developments, increasing population and production rate are important factors that increase energy consumption in countries. In this study, the effect of energy use behavior on energy consumption was investigated.

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A Modified Bioeconomic Model for Prey-Predator Interaction in Polluted Environment with Constant Harvesting: Reserve Zones and Taxation as Combine Control Strategy[ ]


A dynamical system of bioeconomic model for Prey-Predator interaction in a polluted surrounding with constant harvesting is proposed. The paper studied the dynamics of a fishery resource system in an aquatic environment that consists of two zones, a free fishing zone and a reserve zone where fishing is strictly prohibited. To protect fishery resource from extinction and over exploitation, taxation and creation of reserve zones are considered as combine control strategy in the proposed model. Interior equilibrium point is analysed alongside its local stability using linearization method and Routh-Hurwitz criteria for the proposed model. Optimal harvesting policy is formulated and solved with the help of Pontryagin’s maximum principle. The numerical experiments illustrated confirm the theoretical results of the proposed model.

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Evaluation of the Effect of Extremely Low-Frequency Electromagnetic Fields on the Growth of Escherichia coli[ ]


The effect of the extremely low frequency electromagnetic waves (LF-EMW) on the bacterial growth of Escherichia coli (ATCC 25922) was studied in Vitro and in Vivo.

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ANALYSIS OF OIL QUALITY PARAMETERS FROM Citrus Sinesis SEEDS[ ]


Citrus sinesis seeds obtained from discards of fruits was washed and prepared for use by decocting, sun drying and grinding. Oil from 50g of Citrus Sinesis seeds was extracted by soxhlet extraction method using Diethyl ether as a solvent. The extract was centrifuged to remove particulates. On dry matter basis, the oil yield was found to be 38.45%.

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Development of Fully Automatic Plant Watering System[ ]


The need for this project emerges from the fact that India is a country that strongly relies on the agriculture sector and farming is one of the major occupation of a large population of the country. The cultivation of almost every crop grown in the country requires timely and well calculated watering. Not only the farm-based crops require timely watering but also our household plants need to be fed water at the right time on a regular basis for their proper and expected growth. Many of us face a lot of trouble in taking care of our plants, like their timely watering is a time-consuming issue and sometimes it also happens that we forget to water them.

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IMPACT OF THE INTERACTION TRACES CONTEXTUALIZATION USING INTERACTION UNITS IN SYSTEMS BASED DIGITAL TRACES[ ]


The new dimension of collaboration, brought by collaborative platforms, induces a new management approach that must consider methods of observation and behaviour analysis as a means to optimize the productivity of organizations. From this point of view, although they have evolved a lot in recent years, especially with social networks, the contextualization of digital interaction traces within collaborative platforms remains a major topic for the performance of data operating systems.

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How the poem "Pan Tadeusz" was translated into Bulgarian language[ ]


The history of the translation of the poem "Pan Tadeusz" into Bulgarian language covers a long period and poses many questions. The article represents a journey in time with the most important and significant moments over the last century and enlightens upon details of the translation process. Many authors venture into the field of translation of Adam Mickiewicz's most remarkable and famous work. These are devoted writers, poets and professional translators - Ivan Vazov, Efrem Karanov, Hristo Kesyakov, Slava Shtiplieva, Dora Gabe, Blaga Dimitrova. Main result is the full translation of the poem as well as the personal contributions of the authors with higher criticism of the scientists.

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Determination of Clenbuterol by Colorimetric Sensing using Gold Nanoparticles[ ]


Foodstuff superiority and safety are directly significant to people’s life and health. Incidents about unsafe food occur frequently. Clenbuterol (CB) incidents, related rapidly rising global cancer deaths and sportsperson performance showing lots of causality due to failures in detection. Clenbuterol is a β-adrenergic drug used for asthma treatment typically employed as a bronchial, particularly in the case of chronic illness. Colorimetric method is an economic and a highly sensitive method for the detection of outline for clenbuterol based on gold nanoparticles.

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Online Reference Services by Libraries in Higher Education Institutions of Government of India situated in West Bengal: A Comparative Study[ ]


A library plays a crucial role in a University. In educational aspect, Universities library has indispensable source of learning and it becomes a knowledge hub for the parent institution. Reference and information services have always been the main component of library services. The research has been carried by selecting all the Central Government affiliated Higher education Institutions in West Bengal. . We believe that this study will help universities to build and maintain reference services that can facilitate a user's information need with accurate guidance to a collection of information from the library and from other sources.

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Bcl-2:Beclin1 Complex and Bh3 Mimetics[ ]


Autophagy is a complex, physiological process responsible for degradation and recycle of cellular components, thus ensuring cell survival during stress conditions. But during high and prolonged stress, it enhances autophagic cell death. Apoptosis is another, yet primary, programmed cell death in which the caspases execute cell death. Cancer is an uncontrolled growth of cells, involving metastasis and angiogenesis and is devoid of the mechanism of autophagy and apoptosis. Bcl-2 is an anti-apoptotic protein, known to regulate both apoptosis and autophagy. It binds to Bax/Bak (pro-apoptotic proteins), thereby downregulate their function and prevent apoptosis. Similarly, it interacts with Beclin1 (an autophagic protein), forming Bcl-2:Beclin1 complex and thereby inactivating autophagy. Since this interaction with Beclin1 is via BH3-only domain, the researchers have focused on the development of BH3 mimetics, inorder to design better chemotherapeutics for cancer treatment.

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MICRO AND SMALL MEDIUM ENTERPRISES IN INDIA: AN ANALYTICAL AND POLICY PERSPECTIVE[ ]


The paper seeks to throw light on the strategic importance that Micro and Small Medium Enterprises hold in the Indian Economy in terms of resource efficiency,employment generation, reducing regional imbalances and raising exports. The performance of the sector has been compared in the Pre liberalisation and Post liberalisation period with the help of the Cumulative Annual Growth Rate Analysis. In this regard various Performance indicators of the MSME sector has been identified and the overall performance of the sector is examined in the Pre and Post reformera. The results and findings are interpreted following which various challenges and shortcomings of the sector are discussed. Further, through a regression analysis the role of FDI in enhancing the growth potential of MSMEs is highlighted. The paper concludes with some policy recommendations in view of the above study.

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ALTERNATIVE USE OF TURMERIC IN INDUCE MOLTING ON PERFORMANCE OF LAYERS[ ]


The purpose of present research was to investigate the impact of various molting methods on performance and health of White leghorn layers. For this purpose, two experiments were conducted on floor system (FS) and cage system (CS). Five hundred and ten birds (68 weeks) were purchased and brought at experimental station. Birds were initially weighed and randomly divided into five treatments 50 in each treatment, each group was consisted on three replications.

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The Hidden Mystery behind the Role of Teacher in the Student Learning[ ]


Teacher’s role in a learner’s education is prominent. This study explores the dimensions of obedience of the learner, authority of the teacher and repercussions of a system where obedience is a primary factor in learning. Consider a scenario of the classroom where the students are obedient to their teacher and all rules are being followed. Does that mean the learning in that classroom is optimal? On the contrary, does a classroom which functions without the authority of teacher indicates there is no learning happening?

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Binary PSO for Distribution Network Reconfiguration[ ]


This paper proposes an effective approach based on Binary Particle Swarm (BPSO) optimization to identify the switching operation plan for feeder reconfiguration. Typical IEEE distribution systems consisting of 16 buses are used in order to validate the benefit of the proposed approach. The simulation result shows that the proposed method which applied to feeder reconfiguration problems is more effective and stable compared with other existing methods.

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Sustainable Urban Planning for Protecting Salt Lakes; case Study Bardawil Lake, North Sinai, Egypt[ ]


Egypt has a highest priority objective to develop Sinai Peninsula and to create new sustainable and magnetize communities that should ensure a stable, economic and sustainable environment in enormous desert zones. In the last years, a growing public consciousness has developed concerning the quality of urban lakes and special organization plans in several urban areas have been started wide-reaching in order to restore and maintain the recreational value of these water bodies, to improve their educational power, and to avoid sanitary facilities emerge from the decadence of their water quality.

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Integrated visual approach to design building form in 3D[ ]


The design of the building in 3D requires many features that are based on mental techniques to achieve its functions and other techniques based on the perception of sensory for aesthetics. Achieving aesthetics to the building is complex. It does not merely depend on the formal principles, but it requires a set of spatial features may concern the surrounding environment, expressing the culture of the place or the contemporary social or political issues. These features play a major role in the exterior design of the building.

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Risk Anomaly Exploration in Indian Stock Market[ ]


The traditional theories tell us that high returns are associated with high degree of risk. This paper shows that in certain conditions, a portfolio of low-risk stocks can outperform the portfolio of high-risk stocks, a phenomenon known as ‘risk-based anomaly.’ The phenomenon has comprehensively studied in the US and a few other countries in the last few years; but not in emerging market, particularly India. In light of the fact, the paper focuses on testing the risk anomaly in the Indian Equity market over an eleven-year period (July 2007 – December 2017) with continuous monthly iterations using the low volatility portfolio strategy. The research provides empirical evidence to the existence of risk anomaly in the Indian equity market where the low volatility portfolio returns absolutely outperformed the high volatility portfolios as well as the market returns as a whole. In addition to that, this paper also tries to explain the behavioural aspects of investors linked to the anomaly of risk in the market.

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Re-Refining of Used Lubricating Oil Using Indigenous Forsterite Ore as Adsorbent[ ]


The recent work focuses on evaluating adsorption capability of indigenous forsterite ore for re-refining of used lubricating oil and to produce oil having characteristics comparable to the original base oil. Thermal gravimetric analysis, x-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy and energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy techniques were used to know the actual behavior of the adsorbent including its composition and morphology.

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EFFECT OF MOISTURE AND CLAY ON MOULDING PROPERTIES OF COMPOSITE SAND OF RIVER GONGOLA ALONG ASHAKA FOR FOUNDRY USE[ ]


This study assessed the effect of moisture and clay and the suitability of river Gongola sand for foundry use. The objectives of the study are to determine the chemical properties of the Gongola river sand and the impact of clay and moisture contents on the properties of the sand. In addition, the study determines the suitability of the sand for foundry use through casting some engineering components.

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Detection and Controlling of Suspecious Behaviour in the Examination Hall[ ]


Within the examination hall, in general the eye gaze and the orientation of the head of the examinee provide us clue to the suspicious behaviors. Nowadays, most of the examinations are held within smart class rooms so that cheating activities can be monitored centrally and remotely. But most of the suspicious behaviors' monitoring procedures are manual. In this study, we proposed a smart system which can autonomously detect and track examinee’s eye gaze and head orientation to robustly detect their cheating activities. With the help of the webcam installed within each of the smart devices placed on each of the examination desk, initially, real time video is captured during examination period. Then the video is analyzed to study the examinee’s psychology regarding to the illegal approaches to build a knowledgebase of our system. Recently, we conducted experiments using our smart system within the examination hall under controlled environment to validate its effectiveness of our system.

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Biochemical response of three natural populations of Zizyphus lotus L. at the seedling stage under a saline constraint[ ]


This work was carried out in order to evaluate the influence of saline stress on the content of the leaves and the roots in total soluble sugars, total soluble proteins and free amino acids. Three natural populations of Zizyphus lotus coming from three areas located in different pedoclimatic zones were the subjects of this study. The zones targeted during these investigations are: Ain Chifae, Fès and Guercif. The populations of Zizyphus lotus of these three zones are designated hereafter respectively by A, B and C. Seedlings of Z. lotus are subjected to a saline stress during 4 weeks with concentrations of: 0 mM, 50 mM, 100 mM and 200 mM.

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Perspective of the Rights of Non-Muslims in Islam and their Status in Pakistan[ ]


Pakistan is an Islamic Republic according to its constitution of 1973. It has about 96% Muslim population and rest of 4% are non-Muslims, including Hindus, Christians, Sikhs, Ahmadis (Qadianies & Lahories), Parsis, Bihais and others. Islam as a religion provides full protection to non-Muslims living in an Islamic state. Allah Almighty says in the Holly Quran that there is no compulsion in the religion.

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Design and Implementation of authentication model for the Iraqi AMS Web-based Management System[ ]


This work aims to specify appropriate authentication controls based on power essential for Web-based applications that recognized by operators, to have a high possible for impression. It is also required to increase the body of knowledge of information security on proper authentication controls to decrease threats of impression in applications, though search for accurate and legalize level of authentication strength, to each of the various events lead in such applications.

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Effect of fermentation time on the quality, starch content and the proximate values of processed cassava (Garri)[ ]


The changes that occurred in processed cassava (Garri) due to fermentation process were studied for the period of 120hours,the following test such as starch content, moisture content, lipid content, ash content, protein content, carbohydrate test, and iodine reduction test were carried out at each interval, from the investigation the results shows that there was a positive correlation (R= 0.967) between the fermentation time and following parameter: moisture content, iodine reduction, also in parameter such as protein content, lipid content and ash content increased with increase in fermentation time upto 96hours after which their values begins to decrease drastically with correlation values of R =0.65, there was also a negative correlation (R=-0.935) between the fermentation time and the following parameters : starch content and carbohydrate content.

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