Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2016 Edition


Publication for Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2016.

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WIND TURBINE PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS[ ]


This research includes formation a mathematical model after taking balances of energy, (wind kinetic energy with the resulting energy from wind turbine performance). According to that, the efficiency of wind turbine were calculated depending on the velocity of the wind, taking into account the impact of climates condition for example, temperature humidity and velocity on turbines work. . In addition the results were compared with the results obtained from the operation of the laboratory turbine in the department and it turned out higher congruence results, which confirms the success of the model.

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THE ROLE OF ELECTRONIC MEDIA IN POLITICAL AWARENESS AMONG YOUTH OF DISTRICT OKARA IN PAKISTAN[ ]


Popular sustenance is a significant catalytic representative in political awareness and it is conceivable to attach it by inspiring rural people and fetching about constructive change in rural society from end to end the role of electronic media. In the earlier, both TV and Radio have been used instantaneously for transmission development communications but this determination has agonized on numerous problems. The best thing about the electronic media is that it immediately provides us with the latest information about the things happening around us.This study carried out in one tehsil of District Okara. At the first stage one tehsil (Tehsil Depalpur) out of three tehsils was selected randomly, at the second stage two union councils (Shah Yakka and Rajowal) were selected randomly at the third stage four villages two from each UC were selected randomly and at the last stage 120 respondents were selected randomly from the selected villages. Data were collected with the help of a well-designed interview schedule. Descriptive and inferential statistical techniques were applied for data analysis. It was found that the respondents used electronic media for information (90.8%) and education (28.3%) purpose, while 60.8% of them used ‘to a great extent’ for entertainment purpose. A huge majority (92.5%) of the respondents reported that the electronic media presents the political awareness. 61.7% of the respondents were watching/listening political talk show and majority of them were agreed that political talk shows provide political knowledge to them. It was found that the PTV is a main TV channel in rural areas. So government should broadcast political awareness programs on this channel.

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Review of the Present State-of-the-Art of Dynamic Test Reconfiguration of Composite Web Services[ ]


In the wake of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and its applications that integrated services provided by different businesses, reliability of services play a vital role in the success of those businesses. Testing is the widely accepted approach used to find reliability of services. Testing web services that are composed to form SOA applications is non-trivial and hard to achieve. Web services with BPEL workflow drive most of the businesses that affect all stakeholders. Building comprehensive test strategies for cohesiveness of underlying components and loosely coupled nature of integrated heterogeneous pieces of software is very challenging. Moreover business processes tend to change that makes the job of testing much more complex. Many researchers contributed towards testing of web services. In this paper we review the present state-of-the-art of web service composition methods, testing web services, automatic test case generating and automatic test case reconfiguration. This paper provides insights found in the literature in terms of test methodologies, tools and techniques used for testing web services and web service compositions.

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Recycling Glass Powder and its use as Cement Mortar applications[ ]


This study was carried out to investigate the mechanical properties and thermal conductivity of mortar cement produced from glass waste at different values of glass to cement . It was found that Increasing ratio of glass waste weight affects the compressive strength and hardness of the mortar . As for the thermal conductivity and water absorption, these value were found to with increase of glass decreased and were affected positively. It was concluded that glass waste can be used environmentally and cost- effective cement substitute as in mortar cement mortar production.

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An Integrated MCGDM Approach based Lean Faclitator Selection under Neutrosophic Enviornment[ ]


In today’s practical work environment group decision making is essential to choose best alternative from set of alternatives which are characterized by multiple criteria. In manufacturing environment frequent group decision making is common practice which in-volves conflicting and multiple criteria problems. In present Competitive world manufacturing advantage can be achieved by lean practices. The effective implementation of lean tools in any manufacturing industry requires efficient facilitator. Selection of lean facilitator is a complex multi criteria scenario. The proposed work paves a new integrated approach for user at ease of functioning and generating accurate results. The integrated approach combines AHP most popular method for deriving criteria weights and Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) chosen as best recommended method to rank alternatives. The proposed work is carried out under Neutrosophic environment which can express incomplete, indeterminate and inconsistent information. Used predefine Interval Neutrosophic Values (INV) associates with linguistic attributes. The INV basic aggregating operators and score functions are applied in evaluating the AHP weights. Euclidean distances, and developed a MCGDM method based on similarity degree estimates rank of alternatives through TOPSIS. Concern topic reviews are also presented in this paper.

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Stabilization of Subgrade Pavement Layer Using Silica Fume and Nano Silica[ ]


Many investigations have been carried out on clay subgrade soil; using several types of stabilizers. Due to the increase in traffic loads and the importance of subgrade layer in strengthen the pavement section to prevent the earlier damage. In this study the first step (based on the designed experimental program) samples were prepared with and without any additives; the used additives were lime (L), silica fume (SF), and nanosilica (NS). The tried percentages of lime were 2, 4, 6 and 8% and 5, 10 and 15% for SF, while 1, 2 and 3% used for NS. The second step was to examine the physical and mechanical properties of the prepared mixes using modified proctor test, Atterberg limits test, free swelling (FS%) test, unconfined compressive strength (UCS) and California Bearing Ratio (CBR) tests. Finally, direct shear (DS) test was carried out on the optimum mixes from the second step. All mixes were tested after two curing periods 7 and 28 days using UCS and FS%. The results indicated that the optimum moisture content (OMC) increased, while the maximum dry density (MDD) dramatically decreased for all used additives and plasticity index (P.I) decreased. The FS% decreased, and the maximum reduction in FS% was occurred at the two combinations (8% L + 15% SF) and (8%L+3%NS). The UCS increased by adding both SF and NS activated by lime to the test soil , and the optimum percentages of the two combinations were occurred at 6%L+10%SF and 6%L+3%NS for traditional and nanomaterials additives respectively. So, control samples and the two optimum combinations have been prepared for CBR and DS tests. The DS test was carried out at dry and submerged conditions, while CBR test was carried out at soaked condition. The results indicated that the maximum value of CBR occurred at 8% L + 10% SF, while DS results indicated that adding 6L+10SF and 6L+3NS, the soil parameters (cohesion and internal friction angle) have been improved.

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An Efficient Approach for Visual Cryptography Using Hybrid Mosiac image based SS[ ]


Here in this paper a new and efficient approach for the Visual Cryptography is implemented and is compared with other existing Visual Cryptographic techniques such as AES, DES and RSA. The proposed methodology implemented here is based on the concept of mosiacking the images and then encrypt each of the mosaic image into some cover image so that the secrete image is made hidden. The proposed methodology implemented takes less error rate as well as takes no storage space since the concept is independent of Keys.

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Artifact Acquisition in Cloud: Will Garbage be Always Useful??[ ]


Cloud Computing is a promising technology and provides abundant economic opportunities. It is not a new technology but it was not accepted in the past decade. Now the scenario changed and in the present tech world, it is one of the best alternatives for many problems and hence widely deployed irrespective of the domain. Presently, the crime rate is increasing in a faster pace compared to some years ago. Cloud is also prone to much type of attacks and hence the deployment is seriously affected. This paper briefly gives an insight into forensic data acquisition in cloud.

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Intelligent Helmet[ ]


As the bikers in our country are increasing, the road mishaps are also increasing day by day, due to which many casualties, most of them are caused due to most common negligence of not wearing the helmets, and also many deaths occur due to lack of prompt medical attention needed by the injured person. This motivates us to think about making a system which ensures the safety of biker, by making it necessary to wear helmet, as per government guidelines, also to get proper and prompt medical attention, after meeting with an accident. The proposed system is an intelligent helmet. A module affixed in the helmet, such that, the module will sync with the module affixed on bike and will also ensure that biker has not consumed alcohol. Additional feature of accident detection module will be installed on the bike ,which will be able to detect accident and will be able to notify quickly the accident to police control room and in case if the accident is minor, rider can abort message sending by pressing the abort switch.

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Quality Improvement in Finished Cold Rolled Sheet by reducing the defect[ ]


As manufacturing speed increases in the steel industry, fast and exact product inspection becomes more important. This project deals with defect detection and classification algorithm for cold rolled coil along with minimization of those defects by adopting some suitable corrective action during the process of manufacturing. We can enhance an acquired image by use of a special subtractive method and find the position of defect using local entropy and morphology. Practically the all defects in cold rolling inspected before dispatching the material to the customer at skin pass mill. R&C Inspection wings generally focused over four “S” i.e. Shape, Size, Surface and Safety during their inspection. Cold rolling improves the surface finish and holds tighter tolerances. This will certainly affect the quality of product in terms of high production, since they are critical. This will also increases the product evolution in the opened market. Better coordination among quality and production will help in achieving greater efficiency to produce high quality cold rolled sheet.

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A Novel Technique for Digital Watermarking using DWT and Neural Network[ ]


Digital watermarking (DW) is a technology that hides information in image to provide authentication. Information hiding is done by the tam-pering content of the image. In this research, self image embedding using two level discrete wavelet transform (2DWT) with singular value decomposition (SVD),and probabilistic neural network (PNN) classifier method. Firstly, take cover image and create watermark image using bi-cubic interpolation method.Secondly, encrypt watermark image using stream cipher (SC) method. Thirdly, the watermarking embedding region is directed with 2DWT and the low frequency DWT coefficient is isolated into non-covering pieces; SVD is connected to each block. A bit of the watermark is inserted through slight alterations of the singular quality (SV) framework in every block. The resulting analysis shows that proposed algorithm offers better image quality and more robustness under geometrical attack (GA), compression attack (CA) and noise attack (NA). Lastly, classify the watermarked image using PNN classifier.The resulting analysis shows that proposed algorithm offers better image quality and more robustness under copy move forgery attack. Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) and L2 Normalization (L2Norm) are evaluated to find image quality and robustness. Finally, a comparative study is made against the previous technique.

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Harvesting Biomechanical Energy Using Pedal Power and Solar Power (Pedaller)[ ]


The current needs of the society can be answered by the engineer’s for the benefit of the society are alternative energy production, energy conservation, safety, security and helping aids. A “lack of exercise is worse for health than being obese”, The Daily Telegraph has reported. To address this problem, equipment called pedaller is designed. It uses the biomechanical energy produced by a human, and occupies just a foot space. It is specially designed for people who work for 8-10 hours on their desks. They can exercise for a couple of hours using the pedaller which could be used to power an appliance such as their mobile phone, table lamp or even a laptop. The alternative energy sources employed were pedal power and solar power. Pedal power is the transfer of energy from a human physical source (Bio energy) and Solar power is the conversion of sunlight (natural) into electricity.

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A Case Study On Teaching Agile Software Development Methods[ ]


This paper presents and discusses some interesting findings from teaching Agile methods and modelling in a typical university at an undergraduate level software engineering course. The students who took part in this study had been exposed to a few hour lectures on Agile methods and other traditional methods like the RUP (rational unified process). A simple modelling questionnaire was presented to the students. The results were recorded, analysed and interpreted. Findings are discussed and conclusions are given.

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Determination of the Health Hazards and Life time Cancer Risk Due to Natural Radioactivity in Soil of Akyaka, Arpaçay and Susuz Areas of Kars, Turkey[ ]


In this study, the activity concentrations in 17 soil samples collected from different sample stations in Akyaka, Arpaçay and Susuz regions were measured using NaI(Tl) gamma spectrometry. It was observed that the concentration of the natural radio nuclides 40K, 226Ra and 232Th in the soil samples varied from 294.9±17.4 to 712.5±23.1 Bqkg-1, 15.6±7.5 to 48.4±7.4 Bqkg-1 and 16.3±4.8 to 45.0±5.1 Bqkg-1, respectively. Also relatively low deposits of 137Cs were found in the investigated area, where the activity concentrations ranged from 1±0 to 29.6±3.6 Bqkg-1. The averaged outdoor gamma absorbed dose (terrestrial and cosmic), the average annual effective dose and also the average radium equivalent activity in air due to the presence of radionuclides in 17 soil samples were obtained as 52.3 nGyh-1, 64.17 µSvy-1 and 107,3 Bqkg-1, respectively. The life time cancer risk was determined as 0.66x10-3 for the residents of this studied area. The results presented in this study are compared with the results of similar studies carried out for different parts of Turkey and around the world.

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Synthesis of Magnetic Exfoliated graphene via one pot Electroless Chemical Deposition method[ ]


A chemical two-step approach, based on the hydrothermal technique, has been developed to synthesize Fe2O3 nanoparticles-decorated graphene. Exfoliated graphene (xG) were purified by acidic treatment, sensitized to attach functional groups. FeCl3, xGand NaoH were used as a precursor. The reaction temperature of the formation of Fe2O3-Graphene was 155 ?C. The structural and compositional analysis, morphologies and magnetic properties of the sample were carried out via using different analytical techniques. The formation of maghemite Fe2O3 nanocomposites was confirmed by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Raman spectroscopy and value stream mapping (VSM). The particle size of Fe2O3 nanoparticles loaded on graphene (as observed from TEM) was found to be smaller than 20 nm. The VSM plot of the sample is a straightforward evidence of the presence of super paramagnetic Iron Oxide nanoparticles. The maghemite Fe2O3 decorated graphene is considered to be a competent material for microwave absorption as well as energy storage devices.

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How Scandals Affect Our Society and the Role of Government: Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi Scheme[ ]


The amount that investors usually receive after discovering the crime is only a small fraction of their investments. Unfortunately, the investors put their trust on companies and believe they can generate high returns claiming that the investment is safe and guaranteed. Many of the investors lack the knowledge and experience about these activities and most of them are senior citizens who dream that they can wisely invest their pensions and receive the highest return. Although the high return is linked to high risk, those people only focus on the dream of being wealthy in a short period of time. As a result, crimes occur and unethical people work hard to steal others who may not have another source of money.

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Different Techniques to Evaluate Stock Performance: Risk and Return of Intel Corporation[ ]


Investors and analysts have access to a lot of information about companies which helps them in making better investment decisions. Therefore, it is better to use all available information efficiently and apply different techniques to ensure the consistency of the results to base their decisions on a solid base. For example, financial information for Intel Corporation can be used in order to help investors in reaching their decisions more easily. Different methods will be explained to evaluate the performance of Intel Corporation. Therefore, investors will have a clear image about return and risk prior to buy the stock.

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Information Technology and Business Trends[ ]


In this paper we are going to discuss the information technology and its effects on the business. We will also discuss about how the business trend has changes and which changes have been occurred in the business due to the use of information technology. In this paper we have also discuss the different challenges which the companies has encountered by the use of information technology and also the good things as well. With the extensive use of technology, the different challenges also come across the business world. In the last part of this paper will have also discussed about the requirements of the good business by using the information system and the information technology. The information technology has also reduced the human effort and the employees are feeling less workplace stress at all.

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Improvement of sintering and magnetic properties of nanocrystalline Mn-Zn ferrites[ ]


The effect of sintering temperature on the formation of Mn-Zn ferrites in a single phase cubic spinel structure has been investigated. Samples of general chemical formula Mn1-xZnxFe2O4, (0.0 = x = 0.5) were prepared using standard ceramic technique. The obtained results show that 1300oC for 15h with heating rate 2oC/min are suitable conditions for the preparation of Mn-Zn ferrites. The effect of the double final sintering and Zn2+ ions concentration on the physical properties of Mn-Zn ferrite was also investigated. XRD data confirm the formation of the samples in single phase cubic spinel structure. The crystallite size (t) of samples was estimated by Scherrer's formula and found in the range (90-115 nm). Energy dispersion X-ray analysis (EDX) was used for the elemental analysis of the prepared samples. Magnetization of the samples was measured using Faraday's method as a function of temperature at magnetic field 1300Oe. The Curie temperature of the prepared samples was found to be decreases with increasing Zn2+ion. The hysteresis parameters such saturation magnetization Ms and coercivity Hc of the prepared samples were measured at room using vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM). An improvement in the physical properties of Mn-Zn ferrite was observed due to the preparation conditions compared with the published data.

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The Effects of Free Trade on Domestic and Infant Industries[ ]


Arguments have been made whether the advantages of free trade outweigh the disadvantages and the vice versa. This study explores both the positive and negative effects of free trade using relevant and pertinent examples by various industries in different countries. Free trade is a practice where international markets eliminate barriers to trade such as taxes and tariffs. It has been widely urged that free trade adversely affects domestic and infant industries. It introduces unfair competition as the already established foreign industry has an advantage when it comes to resources, market power, and experience. Free trade also leads to lose of jobs when infant and local industries are stifled and finally close down due to losses or stagnant economic position. On the other hand, free trade creates competition that leads to improvement of the quality of products and services at better prices. North American Free Trade Agreement and the European Economic Area are the major free trade agreements widely known. The US decision to set up an auto-assembly plant in Mexico was a bold move as it created job opportunities for the local. The American auto makers competes with the Japanese automakers industry enabling Japanese improve the quality of their automobiles, and the impact of Chinese bicycle industry on the US bicycle manufacturing industry are some of the examples deeply discussed in the study. They show the real life impact of free trade on local and infant industries. The study also discusses measures taken by a country to combat a particular situation as a result of free trade to protect the local and young industries. Different arguments by various economists on the effects of free trade on domestic and infant industry are also explored to bring out the real situation clearly.

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Investigating the Orientation of Sugar Industries and Practice of Industrial Relocation for Sugar Industries in Kolhapur District[ ]


The location analysis helps us to describe the economic activities on space and the selection of a future location for an activity. The present investigation is very necessary to comprehend the benefits of existing industrial location of sugar industries in terms of Weber’s Material Index and to compute and suggest some measures for the relocation of industries, which can give optimum returns. There is a need to apply relocation strategies for the sugar co-operatives in Kolhapur district. Because in last five years more than two factories were closed down due to the illness (low and non-profitable production) and later on converted into the private factory. At current situation, few factories are facing the problem of low recovery in the assessment year. Particularly, the Harali factory has 11.81 % recovery rate, consequently, their final instalment in last year is below Rs. 2600/-. Thus, farmers in these areas were facing the problems. It is not only the great recovery rate influences the sugar-cane purchase rate. But, if these factories are concentrated more on the production of by-products of sugar-cane such as Molasses, Bagasse, Phospo and Organic Fertilizers Production and Sales, Distillery, etc. then they are able to achieve benefits and offer good sugar-cane purchase rate.

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Inclusive Assessment of SQL Database And MongoDB Database With Latest Evaluation[ ]


The relation of memory to the genuine assumed speed of a computer is constantly going to be a bit imprecise, as so many other aspects manage it. Since decades, one of the most deeply needed and trustworthy things upon functionality of computers has been the memory of a Computer System. However the technical descriptions and the implementation approaches may contrast, most computers these days have the essential hardware to practice information and safe keep it to be used in future as and when essential. Database Management Systems are higher-level software programs that work with lower level application programming interfaces that take care of these processes. To help solving distinctive types of complications, innovative kinds of DBMSs have been established i.e. Relational and NoSQL, etc, along with applications programs implementing them (e.g. MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL, etc). In this paper we aim at associating both the database options for various operations namely as CRUD (Create, Read, Update and Delete) for small and large or similar datasets and then use this evaluation to resolve which database to use for any particular dataset in the both databases.

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Identification of Phenanthrene and Pyrene degrading Bacteria from used Engine Oil contaminated Soil[ ]


The purpose of the study was to identify effective bacteria that degrade phenanthrene and pyrene from used engine oil contaminated soil. A total of 93 bacterial isolates were obtained and their degradations were determined. Based on culture-depended technique and tested for in vitro phenanthrene and pyrene degradations using spray plate technique and colorimetric assay with 2,6-dichloroindophenol (DCPIP). Fifty three isolates shows evidence of 5 g/l phenanthrene degradation within 72 hours in spray plate technique. Further 23 isolates were selected from 53 isolates after the colorimetric screening. Biodegradation study shows two isolates named MM045 and MM087 with 75.2% and 80.2% degradations for 500 mg/l phenanthrene and also 54.3% and 59.7% of 250 mg/l pyrene degradations within 24 hours respectively. These isolates were identified as Cronobacter sakazakii strain MM045 (Accession number: KT933253) and Enterobacter specie strain MM087 (Accession number: KT933254) using 16S rRNA gene sequencing and neighbour joining tree analyses. The identified isolates were proven to be fast effective in degrading high concentrations of phenanthrene and pyrene as their sole carbon and energy sources.

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