Volume IV Issue IV

In this paper, empirical analyses of mergesort algorithm has been performed to observe its run-time behaviour in personal computer. It has been observed that the behavioural pattern of its worst case matches best with series of Fourier curves, and we found that Fourier series with five harmonics matches the best. Page(s): 01-06

the current era where meat products are gaining high value in the market has increased the risk of many diseases including cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes, obesity etc. A diet rich in antioxidants and fiber can help prevent the risk of these diseases up to a certain level. In the following studies apples were peeled, pulped and dried in freeze drier. The meat patties were incorporated with apple peel, apple pulp and strawberry at 3%, 5% and 7% concentration in the powdered form. Incorporation of fruit powders significantly increased the moisture content and decreased the emulsion stability. Cooking yield of the products containing fruit powders at different concentrations was significantly lower (p Page(s): 07-12

Lactic acid plays a vital role in several biochemical processes. In this present age of development of food and biotechnological products being the state of the art the application of lactic acid is ever increasing. The present investigation aims at the use of sugar-cane juice as an alternative carbon source for production of lactic acid. The mode of production of Lactic Acid by fermentation route was studied in a laboratory scale glass bio-reactor following the methodology of few published literatures. The optimization of process parameters like temperature and reaction time were done, the optimized range being 42-43C and 5-6 days for reasonable conversion. The deterministic process model was attempted using Monod equation, the kinetic parameters were evaluated as Ks = 0.36 gm/100 ml and μmax =3.16 (1/hr) at aerobic condition. The model was tested with experimental backup: the goodness of fit was found to be in the regime of 0.85 to 0.95. Page(s): 13-16

This paper investigated the study of biochemical and nutritional content of tray dried edible bamboo shoot ( Bambusa balcooa) powder (BSP). The biochemical and nutritional analysis of bamboo shoot powder of Bambusa balcooa results showed that it contained 90.78 % moisture, 0.88% ash, 0.28% fat, %2.96 protein, 5.28% carbohydrate. The colour analysis of bamboo shoot powder was performed using Hunter colori meter. The present study indicated that the bamboo shoot powder (BSP) could significantly use as a food additive on the basis of its nutritional composition in different food applications. Page(s): 17-20

The oxidative degradation of refined sunflower, soybean, groundnut oil and pure mustard oil during deep frying at 1800C were studied. The oxidative degradation of the oils was evaluated by monitoring their respective peroxide value (PV), p-anisidine value (p-AV), regression coefficient of oils and totox value (TV) for four consecutive days. Result indicate that as comparing the selected four edible oils, mustard oil shows better oxidative stability during deep frying process and soybean oil shows least oxidative stability. Page(s): 21-24

The DNA interactions of newly synthesized mixed ligand complexes of the type [Cu(L1L2L3)] (PF6)2 complex (1)and [Ni(L1L2L3)] (PF6)2complex (2)(where L1 = 1, 10-phenanthroline and L2 = 1H-benzimidazole-2-thiol and L3 = 4H-1,2,4-triazol-4-amine) have been evaluated by absorption spectral studies. The results of binding constant for complexes(1) and (2) are 3.1 x 105 M-1 and 5.4 x 105 M-1 respectively, indicate that both the complexes intercalate with CT-DNA. The relative nuclease activity of these complexes were studied by gel electrophoresis using pUC 19 DNA. Page(s): 25-29

The smart phones we carry with us are becoming ubiquitous with everyday life and the sensing capabilities of these devices allow us to provide context-aware services. In our paper, we explains’ the development of University navigation, a context-aware mobile application that delivers personalized campus maps for universities. The application utilizes university students’ details to provide information and services that are relevant and important to them. It helps students to give the direction within the campus and become familiar with their university environment quickly. This study was to evaluate the acceptability and usefulness of the campus map, as well as the impact on a users map reading efficiency by utilizing the personal and environmental information. The result indicates the integration of personal and environmental information on digital maps can improve its usefulness and navigation efficiency. Page(s): 30-31

Coccinia grandis (Ivy gourd) which is also called as baby watermelon is used for culinary purpose among Indian people. Its health benefits are traditionally used for curing diabetics, urinary tract infection, skin diseases etc. By incorporating ivy gourd fruit powder with pulses we can prepare traditional fried snack food which can be consumed by people of all age groups. Snack food incorporated with 7g ivy gourd powder fried at 190°C was taken for storage studies as it gave best results of 5.3% protein, 85% carbohydrate, and 23.2% of fat, 3% mineral, 0.104 % of antioxidant, 1% moisture content, 0.023% of vitamin A and the colour of the snack food were found to be reddish yellow. The shelf life study was performed with LDPE and metallised polyester. There were not many changes when nutritional parameters were analyzed for 0, 15, 30 and 45 days but there was increase in peroxide value from 37.75±0.012 to 40.63±0.002 meq/kg. Microbial analysis shows that more colonies were present in LDPE compared with metallised polyester but initially less number of microbes was present. Analyzing all the data’s we conclude that metallised polyester is suitable for packing this fried snack food incorporated with ivy gourd for a shelf life of 45 days. Page(s): 32-37

Kerala Finance Corporation (KFC) is one of the fast track term lending financial institutions in the State with assistance to over 40000 projects amounting to nearly Rs 3000 cores over the last 62 years in the State of Kerala since its inception up till date. KFC is one of the trend setters and path breaker managed under the supervision of Kerala Govt. In the present study researcher made an attempt to study the total investments and number of enterprises promoted by KFC in the state of Kerala for the period of five years. Researcher found that from last five years KFC promoted 3899 units or enterprises with an investment of Rs. 333,679.08 crores Along with the work of KFC is commendable in promotion of enterprises for the growth of economic development. Page(s): 38-43

WSN is one of the most commonly used communication tools. It is used in many areas of life for both civilians and militaries purposes. These network comprises of small size sensor nodes with sensing, computation and wireless communications capability. The sensor nodes communicate together by many wireless strategies. These communication strategies are administrated by routing protocols. There are different types of routing protocol. Classically most routing protocols can be classified as data-centric, hierarchical and location-based protocols depending on the network structure and application.This paper deals with the availability and reliability of each class of these routing protocols. Page(s): 44-47

This project aim to develop low cost solution for monitoring health condition of remotely located of tower shelter using GSM technology to present premature failure of telecommunication system and improving reliability of services to the customers. An Embedded based hardware design is developed to acquire data from electrical sensing system. It consists of a sensing system, signal conditioning electronic circuits, advanced embedded hardware for middle level computing, a powerful computer network for further transmission of data to various places. A powerful GSM networking is designed to send data from a network to other network for proper corrective action at the earliest. Any change in parameters of transmission is sensed to protect the entire transmission and distribution. The performance of prototype model developed is tested at laboratory for monitoring various parameters like BTS over load, voltage fluctuations, over temperature, oil quality and level etc. Page(s): 48-50

Barium bismuth niobate (BaBi2Nb2O9: BBN), the ferroelectric compound of Aurivillius family, has been prepared through high-temperature mixed-oxide method. Using complex impedance spectroscopy (CIS) technique, real and imaginary parts of impedance (Z) and electric modulus (M) of the material were investigated within wide range of temperatures and frequencies. Impedance analysis indicates the presence of mostly bulk resistive (grain) contributions in the material which exhibits a decreasing tendency with the increase in temperature. It indicates negative temperature coefficient of resistance (NTCR) type behaviour of the material. Complex modulus plots indicate the presence of grain (bulk) along with grain boundary contributions in the material. It also supports the NTCR type behaviour of the material. Both the complex impedance and complex modulus plots indicate the presence of non-Debye type of relaxation in the material. Page(s): 51-54

Production inventory model for deteriorating items with linear trend in demand, time varying holding cost, inflation and permissible delay in payments with two warehouses is developed. Shortages are allowed and completely backlogged. The excess units over the capacity of the own warehouse (OW) are stored in a rented warehouse (RW). Numerical examples are provided to illustrate the model. Page(s): 55-66