Volume IV Issue XI

Among the 20 rabi sorghum genotypes evaluated for the resistance against rice weevil, the genotypes like M 35-1, RSJ 1, KMJ 1, AKJ 1 and CSV 216R possessed higher resistance to S. oryzae with respect to different characters like per cent grain damage [M 35-1 (21.20%) KMJ 1 (27.20%), AKJ 1, RSJ 1 (28.00%) and CSV 216R (36.00%)], grain weight loss [ M 35-1 (4.43g), AKJ 1 (5.60g), SMJ 1 (5.60g), RSJ 1 (5.60g) and CSV 216R (7.20g)] and population buildup of rice weevils [AKJ 1 (15.00), KMJ 1 (25.00), M 35-1 (25.50), RSJ 1 (25.50) and CSV 216R (30.50)]. Whereas, BR 33, BJV 44, BRJ 204 and PhuleRevati were susceptible to the pest. Page(s): 01-06

The Pure and Cu doped L-Threonine single crystals were grown from aqueous solution by slow evaporation technique. The density of the grown crystals was determined by floatation method and refractive index was determined by using Abbe referctometer. The grown crystals were characterized by FTIR, EDAX, SXRD and PXRD. The crystals grown in the present study, which were found to be orthorhombic, are transparent, hard and stable. Page(s): 07-11

This paper addresses the twin domestic problems of grey water and kitchen solid waste management. Simple sand filter bed method of treatment and the sand filter with reeds are experimented and compared for Waste water management. It also suggests the method of using PVC pipes for making compost from the kitchen waste. Phragmites australis (locally known as nanal) and canna Indica (locally known as cannas) were used as reed plants for waste water treatment . This paper presents the method of construction of reed bed and the effectiveness of removal of various contaminants using root zone treatment process. The quality parameters of raw water and treated water samples were compared and discussed. The waste water generated from the kitchen, school hostel and college hostels of B.S.Abdur Rahman University campus, Chennai, Tamil Nadu are treated in the campus sewage treatment plant (STP) and used for watering the garden. The primary treated water from STP is taken for experimentation by the reed bed system. From the experiment it is found that the Reed bed system using cannas gives the best quality treated water compared to others. Along with reed bed if a pipe composting is adopted, the house hold waste can be holistically managed at source itself and if each household practices this concept, the waste management problem can be eliminated at the same time self cultivated healthy vegetables can be obtained as a byproduct. Page(s): 12-16

A fast Fourier transform (FFT) is an efficient algorithm to compute the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) and its inverse. Computing a DFT of N points in the naive way, using the definition, takes O(N2) arithmetical operations, while an FFT can compute the same result in only O(N log N) operations. FFTs are of great importance to a wide variety of applications, from Digital Signal Processing to solving Partial Differential Equations. A pipelined Fast Fourier Transform and its inverse (FFT/IFFT) processor, which utilizes hardware resources efficiently, is proposed for MIMO-OFDM WLAN 802.11n. Compared with a conventional MIMO-OFDM implementation, in which as many FFT/IFFT processors as the number of transmit/receive antennas is used, the proposed architecture uses a single FFT processor with mixed radix and hence reduces hardware complexity without sacrificing system throughput. Further, the proposed architecture can support 1–4 simultaneous input data sequences with sequence lengths of 64 or 128, as needed. A theoretical study and computer simulation (MODELSIM) works of the 128/64 point FFT/IFFT processor is presented. Page(s): 17-21

In this paper the sensitivity analysis of continuous- time fractional order filters has been done to investigate ‘how much the filter’s behavior changes as a component value changes’. In particular, a KHN type fractional biquad filter has been taken where two fractional order elements of order α and β (0 Page(s): 22-25

In this paper we are talking about the Monitor and Control phase of the project which comes before project closure. I. MAINTAINING GAINS If your project has successfully entered the Monitor and control phase you have to make sure that you maintain this stability, here are some suggested ways to protect you’re hard won gains. * Policy Changes – Which corporate policies should be changed as a result of the project – have some policies become obsolete are new policies needed. * New Standards- Did the project bring the organization into compliance with a standard. if so having the company adopt the standard might prevent backsliding, there are standards like ISO, ANSI, ASTM etc. from which you can take your pick. * Modify procedures-procedures describe the way things are supposed to be done , since the project produced better results we can find the best suited procedure which has resulted in better modification or change. * Change Manufacturing Planning-An organizations manufacturing plan describe in detail how a product is to be processed and produced. Often the Six Sigma team will discover better way of doing things. * Modify training-personnel need to become familiar with the new way of doing things. Be sure all employees are retrained. Evaluate the existing training materials and revise them as necessary. Page(s): 26

Milk is extracted from mammals during or soon after pregnancy and is used as food for humans. Milk is a white liquid produced by the mammary glands of mammals. It is the primary source of nutrition for young mammals before they are able to digest other types of food. Early-lactation milk contains colostrum, which carries the mother's antibodies to its young and can reduce the risk of many diseases. Milk is important part of human life. In this paper quality of milk and comparative study of added Glucose and ammonium sulphate present in the milk was done. Various milk samples was analyzed and found that added Glucose and ammonium sulphate were absent in all samples of milk. Page(s): 27-30

With the introduction of millennia 2000 many developing countries in the world came to understand the role of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in the countries growth and development. India also understood the need of the hour and created a draft of policy in 2011 launched finally launched the policy in 2012. Financial inclusion on the other hand ensures the access of appropriate financial products and services needed by lower groups of society at an affordable cost and in fair and transparent manner by mainstream institutional players. Financial inclusion has been accorded high importance by Reserve Bank of India. For this purpose the help of questionnaire was taken in order to understand the usage of ICT by people of different education groups, difficulties they face and remedial changes are offered. This paper treats “education” as a moderating variable and checks its effect over the relationship of ICT usage for Banking services. Page(s): 31-34

Productivity plays an important role in the construction industry. It is one of the key components of all company’s success and competitiveness in the market. It helps construction industries to achieve goals and to meet the stakeholder’s valuable propositions. The objectives of the project are; to investigate factors affecting the labour productivity across various nature of projects. To improve productivity and identify the factors affecting the project performance. The above objectives have been achieved through the analysis of questionnaires and the result of this analysis shows that, there are seven main groups which have significant impact on the construction productivity projects. They are man power group, project management, drawings /procedures, site management, safety/quality, labour motivation and environment. Factor analysis and reliability analysis was carried out before analyzing. The result of the study is recommended by conducting Multiple Linear Regression and correlation using statistical package social science (SPSS) which should explain the total variance regarding the factors affecting labour productivity in construction projects. Page(s): 35-39

Mixing and transport bubbles in bubble column is an important activity which affects the reaction conditions. In this paper, we have studied the effect of different bubble diameters at same velocity in a conical bubble column using CFD code ANSYS fluent 15.0. The dispersed gas-liquid flow in bubble column using the multiphase mixture model was adopted. A set of equations of continuity, momentum & volume fraction were solved by pressure implicit splitting operator (PISO) algorithm to observe the pattern of bubble rising. Page(s): 40-43

WSNs are commonly exploited with the motivation of its attribute of Energy Efficiency. However this attribute sometimes could pose as a limitation to the WSN technique, like when its Battery at each Node is utilized completely it can no longer be used or can be used with overhead of Time and cost. So the research focus has directed in identifying better technique with which power can be controlled or a technique with which components of WSN can be utilized limitedly based on the usage thus enhancing the lifetime of battery. In order to progress with the WSNs by overriding the limitations associated with power, EHWSNs are identified which aims at providing long lasting power enabled WSN and also rechargeable batteries thus eliminating the overheads and trade-off associated with usual WSNs. EHWSNs utilizes other forms of natural and available energies such as solar power, wind, mechanical vibrations, temperature variations magnetic fields. Page(s): 44-47

The foundation of a multi-storey building resting on a settable soil mass undergoes differential settlement which changes the forces in the beams and columns significantly. The multi-storey buildings, it is necessary to consider seismic forces for analysis. The building frame, foundation and soil mass are considered to act as single, compatible structural unit. The strain-stress characteristics of soil mass are responsible for differential settlement which redistributes the forces in the superstructure. In the present work, the linear interaction analysis of an unsymmetrical eight storey plane building frame- homogeneous soil system under seismic loading has been carried out for different types of soil. It is a comparative study of the redistribution of forces of the building frame for the soils having different elastic constants. ANSYS software is used as a tool for finite element analysis of the frame and soil model. Page(s): 48-54

Milk contains many nutrients that are needed by the body to be able to function and build new cells. Think of it as millions of tiny building blocks. Some of these wear out and they continuously need to be renewed to make you feel well and get the most out of life. Construction of cells is happening all day, every day and the need for the right nutrition is almost the same throughout your life. Milk’s nutrients can be found in many of dairy products. Fruit yogurt for example contains 85-90 per cent milk and provides a good source of vitamins and minerals. Cheese is rich in protein, calcium and vitamin B12, and many of them do not contain lactose. In this paper quality of milk and comparative study of various minerals present in the milk was done. Various milk samples was analyzed and found that value of Calcium (Ca) was higher and Iron (Fe) was lower and Sodium (Na) was in between Ca and Fe. Analysis explained that these values were .negligible as compared to its World Health Organization recommended value while Fe was found very low value. Page(s): 55-58

Academic is the knowledge centre of human beings, which provides platform for gaining knowledge in the specialized area of study, creating opportunities for recruitment, self sufficient, managing family, contributing in the development of the society as well as economic growth of the country. Due to above reasons every parent’s want their children should study in a good environment and groomed their children well as per expectation. The procedure of selecting good institutes is a difficult task with the web based technology and internet because the colorful presentation & pictorial clipping attract everyone even though the institute is not like that. It is also cumbersome to search institute by visit one by one which not only time consuming but also expensive one. In such situation people having the option to believe on the advertisement, websites and what their knowledge speaks about the institute. The ranking institute which are coming in the leading papers, magazines and electronic medias and other sources prepared by various agencies are sometimes not affordable to the parents due to distance, monetary factors and unable to get a position in the state and national level competitions. There is also not any specific formula for analysis of good institute. The research paper used to find a solution to above problems by using weighted fuzzy soft set and dual weighted analysis with the help of different parameters related to academic institutes in an efficient manner and short time. Page(s): 59-65

The present work is based on the software ANSYS FLUENT Workbench 15.0. This approach aims to provide an improved prediction of flue gases composition from combustion of pulverized coal when the coal was injected pneumatically. The mathematical models used for the combustion of pulverized coal includes realizable K-ɛ model for turbulent flow, species transport model and discrete phase model. For the purpose of simulating the combustion process, 2D mesh was adapted. The composition of O2 and CO2 is good agreement with literature. Page(s): 66-69

Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) is a mass surveillance system that captures the image of vehicles and recognizes their license number. ANPR can be assisted in the detection of stolen vehicles. One of the most useful techniques in track management, speed control and security improvement in big cities is Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR). This system is designed for the purpose of the security system and is based upon the logic of image processing system. Further the processed data is used for further processes like storing, allowing vehicle to pass or to reject vehicle. LPR is an image processing technology which uses number (license) plate to identify the vehicle. Since the identification is done by using the license plate information, hence there is no need for any additional hardware to be installed on vehicles. The system is implemented on the entrance for security control of a highly restricted area like military zones or area around top government offices e.g. Parliament, Supreme Court etc. It is observed from the experiment that the developed system successfully detects and recognize the vehicle number plate on real images. Page(s): 70-85

This paper presents a method for tracking a moving target by fusing visual information from a thermal camera and a visible spectrum color camera.The method used for tracking objects is color based particle filtering.The algorithm selects the modality which distinguishes the foreground objects from the background. The method is evaluated by testing on a variety of challenging video sequences in which targets are camouflaged in either of imaging modalities. Page(s): 86-89

In current network system there is no centralized management model to monitor the collaboration between users and web application.The primary goal of proposed centralized model is to serve user requests by allowing the creation of cutting-edge, powerful, and complex processing that retain simple and easy-to-use interfaces and creating processes with dynamic codification, allocation, and bilateral execution andproviding a athenaeum to create processes to use combinations of CPUs and a GPU for tasks within a single host program process, a process can be created by using available GPUs. Each process can use all of the multiprocessors of each GPU and have its own separate namespace, and have its own separate CUDA context For C and CUDA kernels to process data efficiently using the available resources. Page(s): 90-92

CPU scheduling algorithms are the main factor for performance of multitasking operating system. Where CPU is the main computer resource and round robin algorithm is mainly used as a CPU scheduling algorithm. This is the drawbacks like more perspective switches, higher average waiting time, and higher turnaround time of Simple Round Robin Scheduling algorithm which quantum repeatedly selecting according to the no of processes by arranging a processes in rising order. Based on the experiments and calculation that in this thesis the new modified algorithm solve the fix time quantum problem which considered a challenge for round robin algorithm. The use of this scheduling algorithm increased the performance and constancy of the operating system, which means that the system is who will adapt itself to the requirements Robin Algorithm , This reduces the drawbacks like more is used for the time sharing system In this thesis a new proposed variant of this algorithm presented, elaborate in detail, tested and verified. The new proposed algorithm called Modified Round Robin based on a new method called modified time quantum; the concept of this approach is to make the time context switches higher average waiting time, and higher turnaround time of Simple Round Robin Scheduling algorithm which is used for the time sharing system. This is used for high throughput of the system. When throughput is high then the system performance will increase. This research is useful in the future with the arrival time of the jobs. Page(s): 93-98

Vertex cover problem has been proved NP complete. Although a lot of research work has been carried out to invent approximation algorithms, exact algorithms to solve the problems remain unexplored to a large extent. We have found an algorithm that performs more efficiently than brute force search or simple backtracking algorithm. Our algorithm does not claim polynomial running time; however it solves the problem more efficiently than brute force search or simple backtracking algorithm. Page(s): 99-102

The recent emergence of online social networks has changed the technological and communications landscape of the hospitality and tourism industry .Social media becomes an important communication tool that people use to connect to other people or organization .individuals use social media to share their experiences, information, advice, information or reviews or any kind of issues that are fascinating to their friends . That information is a useful source, which may influence consumer’s decision – making. Consumer feel safer subscribing to opinions stated by masses as people try to imitate others behaviour. The social media environment is easily applicable and reachable to the customers. The benefits offered by the social media help people in achieving in a very convenient way what they are looking for. It is a human tendency to believe in and follow the same what their friends recommend. Facebook ,Twitter or Myspace being the most popular social media sites allows people to share their lifestyles, success stories and even their vacation mark and experiences of the same .The information posted on these sites can lead their connections or friends to follow the same and hence can influence their decision. Page(s): 103-104

Organisational performance depends upon the well being of employees like physical, mental, spiritual, social and family conditions. However, employees may experience problems or conflicts in any of the above areas. This condition is bound to affect their work performance which should become the concern of the management. Employee counselling systems may be introduced to bring about a positive work performance attitude. This article explores the need and characteristics of employee counselling as a remedial process to initiate action plans. Page(s): 105-107