Annually the world produces about 4 billion tons of waste just from chicken feathers which in most cases are incinerated in landfills resulting in pollution of atmosphere and land. For these reasons, it is crucial to find new ideas of applications of the byproduct of feathers and downs as a fiber. The production of nonwovens is a process where the web is formed by fibers mechanical entanglement with the help of hundreds of needles with barbs that transform the fibers from horizontal and...
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Topics: Nonwoven, Feather Fiber, Waste, Needle Punched Dry Laid & Commercial Use
Aim: This article aims to review the literature regarding tuberculosis of the zygomatic bone and also presents a rare case report of the tuberculous osteomyelitis of the zygomatic bone in a young adult male. Method and Material: This is a report of a case of tuberculous osteomyelitis of the left zygomatic bone and its diagnosis and management Result: The patient was asymptomatic after 2 years of follow up. Conclusion: This is an interesting and rare case report of a case of tuberculosis...
Topics: Tuberculous, Osteomyelitis & Zygomatic Bone
In this paper the plan of the snare is finished by systematic strategy and configuration is accomplished for the distinctive materials like manufactured steel and high malleable steel. After the expository strategy plan and demonstrating of the snare is done in displaying programming (strong edge). The displaying is finished utilizing the outline figuring from the demonstrating the investigation of the snare is done in FEA programming (ANSYS). This result leads us to the assurance of worry in...
Topics: Crane Hook, Ansys, FEA Programming, Modeling, Meshing & Stress Analysis.
Can Gio Mangrove Biosphere Reserve was recognized as a global biosphere reserve by UNESCO in 2000 with typical diverse flora and fauna of the mangroves of Vietnam and Southeast Asia. Communities in Can Gio depends mainly on natural resources for their livelihoods. Thus, any negative changes due to environmental pollution will create potential risks that directly affect the livelihoods of local residents. The research was conducted based on the interview results of 537 local residents using a...
Topics: Environment, Natural Resources Degradation, Livelihood Risks & Mangrove Forest
The need for alternative fuels to replace fossil-based fuels has been given more attention by various stakeholders. Commercial catalysts are a major component required for hydro processing of vegetable oil into hydrocarbon. However, the high cost of commercial catalysts hinders the commercialization of green diesel. This research work investigates the viability of biowaste fly ash collected from Eskom with supports like SiO2, Al2O3, and CaO. These three support catalysts and BBTPPFS were...
Topics: HDRD, BBTPPFS, Heterogeneous Catalyst, Used Cooking Oil & Hydrogenation
The following report shows the experimental results of detecting Ru (ruthenium) element, in metamorphic rocks, found on different geographic areas of Colombian, performing X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF). After field work, developed by the group and in order to classify the different rock samples, obtained at the outputs from different Colombian areas (white beach in Santa Marta, Cartagena, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Chicamocha´s Canyon Santander and near Villa de Leyva Boyaca), in a...
Topics: Amphibolite, Feldspar, Gneiss & Igneous Rocks
Any alteration in the standard machining process can lower the quality of finished product. This is especially true in high-speed machining operations, where despite the pace, the quality of the product and physical dimensions cannot be compromised. These alterations usually occur because of temperature influence, cutting force, and tool wear. Furthermore, temperature is a significant noise parameter. Temperature can directly impact the workings of the cutting tool and work piece. The purpose...
Topics: High-speed Machining, Cutting Force, Tool Wear & Work Piece
Edward Morgan Forster was born in London on January 1, 1879. He was raised by his mother, Alice Clara Whichelo Forster, two paternal aunts and grandmother. His father, an architect by the name of Edmund Morgan, died of consumption in the year 1880. Forster’s childhood was a happy one at Rooksnest, a “large, old, lonely but friendly house” (Edwards 180) in Hertfordshire that his mother rented. In 1890, Forster attended Kent House, a prep school in Eastbourne, but harassment led to his...
Topics: Society, Conventions, Class Hierarchy, Tradition, Religion & Gender
This article clearly explains about the importance of strategic human resource management through stages of strategic human resource management, including core functionalities for creating a healthy environment in modern organizations. By this strategic human resource management every organization improves organization performance in all activities through organizational culture. The human resource manager is concerned with enhanced productivity, fully utilizing the combined talent and skills...
Topics: Human Resource Management, Strategic Human Resource Management & Core Functions of Strategic...
This paper presents a literature review and classification scheme for Total Quality Management Research. The result shows that an increasing volume of TQM Research has been conducted for a diverse range of areas. The articles have been classified and result of these is presented into four main categories. That comprises of Understanding of TQM, Information Technology and TQM, Global/Country Perspectives and Benchmarking. Analysis of the selected research articles is carried out and gaps in the...
Topics: Total Quality Management, Benchmarking, Quality, Performance &Information Technology
In this paper, a class E power Amplifier (PA) suitable for wireless applications (Wi-Max, cellular phones, cordless phones etc,) is proposed by using the device of RF3931GaN HEMT (Gallium Nitrate High Electron Mobility Transistor).The proposed class E power Amplifier for achieving high output power and increasing gain up to 14.327dB and operates in the frequency range of 1GHz. The designed Power Added Efficiency (PAE) is 64% after optimization and the maximum source power achieved is 32dBw.
Topics: Class E Power Amplifier, Gain, Power Added Efficiency & Wireless Applications
The present investigation was conducted, to find out the effects of heat or irradiation, combined with heat on total Phenolic content (TPC). Sorghum, pearl millet, foxtail millet was used in the study. Whole (WC) and dehulled (DC) grains were treated either with heat (170°C) or irradiation at 1.0kGy / 2.5kGy, and stored for 90 days. There was a significant (p<0.05) effect of treatments, storage and grain, and their interactions on the nutritional quality parameters with a result in a...
Topics: Total Phenolic Content (TPC), Whole (WC) and Dehulled (DC) & Foxtail Millet and Pearl Millet
E-waste is the term considered for electronics waste. Another term WEEE is also used which means a waste of electrical and electronics equipment. E-waste is a new field of research as per Indian concept. The world generated approx. 45 million tonnes of e-waste in 2016 as per the United Nations report. This amount of e-waste is equal to the weight of 4500 Eiffel towers. India’s contribution to this e-waste is more than 4 %. Variety of products are available in the electronics market due to...
Topics: E-waste, WEEE, Policies, Northern Indian States & Other Countries
Education of rural women assumes great importance to enable them to get the fullest benefit of globalization and it is the women who nurture the child and takes care of the overall development particularly in formative years. A quasi-experimental pretest and post-test research design was used to assess the effectiveness of the developed e-learning education material on the nutrition, health and hygiene practices of rural women (100 experimental group; 30 control group) in 3 villages of...
Topics: E-Learning, Rural Women, 2d Animated Film & Nutritional Practice
This study attempts mainly to explore various reading pedagogies employed by English language instructors and to understand certain teaching methodologies, materials, and evaluation techniques. At the outset, the importance of students’ reading proficiency is overviewed. In the review section, some relevant studies about reading skill development and various approaches to improve reading proficiency have been discussed. The need for achieving proficiency in reading through some useful...
Topics: Reading Efficiency, ESL, Teaching Methodology, Material & Evaluation
Unions have enjoyed a close relationship with the state and political class which enjoyed complete freedom in Independent India. But this has developed a status where unions could not develop strong roots in their respective constituents and for namesake their existence continued. The huge number of workforce outside the organized sector is posing a big challenge in Indian industrial relations as unorganized sector. In APSRTC organization also as the researcher observed in some depots the...
Topics: Employee relations, Unions & Management
The emergence of a drastic technological revolution in the 21st century demands the shift of teachers' roles. Unwillingness to redefine the teachers’ role causes the poor performances of students at the examination and the disappointed teaching methods and new approaches. Meanwhile, in Indonesia context, teachers seem less responsive to the need and the demand of the school community. This research purposes to identify English teachers’ perspectives on the types of English teachers' roles...
Topic: Roles of English Teachers & 21st Century Students’ Skills
The research maximizes the level of use of green energy as a source. Recently, usage of electrical energy is replaced by solar energy at various equipments. Solar desalination method has been evolving in various countries. A thermal storage system is designed that converts the sea water in to pure water with different PCM materials. Performance is monitored with respect to the time in Hour/Min/Sec and level of water in mm, PV cell and humidification. Latent heat storage solar system is...
Topics: Solar Energy, Distillation, Experimental Study & Apply PCM Materials
The present study was carried out, to assess the knowledge of tribal females of Kargil, about menstruation. The sample for the study consisted of 320 adolescent’s girls, 100 mothers and 100 grandmothers, belonging to Balti and Purig tribes. The random sampling technique was used, to select the sample. A self devised interview schedule was used, to gather the required information. The results reveal that, there is a substantial lacuna in the knowledge about menstruation, among the females....
Topics: Tribal Adolescent Girls, Knowledge, Menstruation & Menarche
The current investigation was carried out used in the study comprising of high yielding advanced breeding lines collected from IVT-RSL, RRSS-Chakdah, Nadia, in a field experiment using a randomized block design with two replications to determine the relationship and genetic diversity among 49 rice germplasm accessions, using principal component analysis for rain fed shallow lowland condition. Observations were taken for Various morphological and yields and its attributing traits. In this study,...
Topics: Rice, Variability and Principle Component Analysis
Analysis of 576 geo-referenced surface soil samples collected using stratified random sampling techniques from 64 mandals of Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh. The pH of the soils was found to be in the range of 4.5 to 8.9 and majority of them (53%) were alkaline in nature. The EC of the district soils was normal and was in the range of 0.10 and 1.66 dSm-1. Fifty five percent of soils analyzed from Chittoor district were found to be medium in organic carbon content (0.5 to 0.75%) and 43%...
Topics: PH, EC & OC
Study has been made, to compare the economics of cost of production in maize, for drip fertigation and conventional fertigation was carried out at field irrigation laboratory, of department of Soil and Water Engineering, College of Agricultural Engineering, Bapatla during rabi 2015-16. Though, the initial capital investment was high in drip irrigation system, the cumulative benefit would be greater and considering the longer life of the system. The benefit cost ratio of maize was analyzed, by...
Topics: Conventional Fertigation, Highest Income & Prevailing Market Rate.
Cooling is generally obtained by vapour compression system using a specific refrigerant. But it has been recently found that the refrigerants are known to cause adverse environmental effects. In order to save our environment, it is a must that we develop new alternative refrigeration technologies like thermo acoustic refrigeration system, avoiding environmentally hazardous refrigerants. In this study, a thermo acoustic refrigerator (TAR) uses sound waves to provide cooling. Here the device is...
Topics: Thermo Acoustic Refrigeration, Stack, Acoustic Resonator Tube, Thermocouple & Temperature...
Attempts were made to prepare instant whole legume - Pigeon Pea by precooking and drying in oven assisted with vacuum. This paper reports a preliminary study carried out to determine physical and instant properties of instant Pigeon pea dhal. Physical properties like the moisture content, bulk density, drying time of the products are 4-5% (w.b.), 550 kg/m3 and 6−7hrs/100 gm respectively. Instant properties such as dispersibility and solubility ranged from 75 to 80% and 36±0.5 to 41±0.5 ml....
Topics: Drying Time, Instant Characteristics, Instant Dhal & Vacuum Oven Drying
A Flexible manufacturing system (FMS) is the group of machines that are most preferably CNC, which will coordinate by a common control center capable of dealing with a variety of the products. It is a manufacturing system, which possesses the flexibility of adopting their machines and factory layouts that are according to the product to be produced. In this paper, performance of AGV, CART for different Layouts like Line Layout, U Layout with different speeds are studied by using flexsim...
Topics: Flexible Manufacturing System, Automated Guided Vehicle & CART’s
Variety and variability of life on this earth is biodiversity. It is categorized as species diversity, genetic diversity and ecosystem diversity. Two concepts are deployed to assess biological diversity, namely species richness and evenness. While measuring biological diversity, it is also important to assess biodiversity on a spatial scale. For this convenience, different measures are evolved such as alpha, beta and gamma diversity. In the current scenario of biological diversity bleaching,...
Topics: Biodiversity, Conservation, In-Situ & Ex-Situ
The purpose of this paper is to throw light on Iqbal ’s relevance as a poet of current time. Iqbal who is also called “ poet of the East” has contributed to the creative literature as well as to philosophy of life In the contemporary society, values are governed by individual choices and traditional stereotypes. Values are culture dependant and tend to appear conservative for present age. Traditionalists are at loggerheads with modernists and may even call them fundamentalist in nature....
Topics: Degeneration, Values, Religion Contemporary, Spirituality & Emancipation
There is a need to establish water harvesting structures, to harvest the runoff water. The traditional method of the site selection process for different measures is a time consuming process however, but the identification of site with the use of GIS (Geographical Information System) makes the process become simple and reliable. The selection of sites for different measures must be based on certain criteria that take into consideration the physical characteristics of the study area. The study...
Topics: Runoff, Recharge, Structure, Conservation & Stream Order
Psychological approaches to literature would aid individuals in comprehending how "language and symbols operate by demonstrating their ability to reflect unconscious fears or wants" through the characters. The novels of Githa Hariharan perpetuate similar real-life behavioural habits. In Times of Siege is one of her works that demonstrates her ability to portray a variety of characters. The entire tale revolves around an issue caused by a Shiv-designed module, a history lesson on...
Topic: Psychology Approach To Githa Hariharan's Select Novels
In India, the higher education scene has swiftly evolved, especially in the past two decades. This rapid progress has been primarily attributed to the various initiatives, undertaken by the private sector. However, these advancements have also been a matter of concern, regarding their standard and exploitation. The government has been repeatedly contradictory and inconsistent, in defining the role of private sector in higher education. Such an approach has resulted in chaotic and unplanned...
Topic: Higher Education & India
This paper presents a first report of GlyptothoraxigniculusNg & Kullander (2013) from India. A checklist of the fish fauna of Chakpi River is presented, based on the present collection and those reported by the earlier workers. A total of 90species of fishes belonging to 53 genera and 21 families are recorded from the river. Based on the IUCN status, the fish fauna of the river includes five endangered, six vulnerable, nine near threatened, forty five least concern and four data deficient....
Topics: First Record, Freshwater Fish, Biodiversity, Northeast & India
All over the world, the wind energy has numerous benefits in helping to provide a source of clean and renewable electricity. For greater use of wind energy, the research efforts are aimed at addressing the challenge. The main objective of the project is to develop wind turbine blade model using CAD tool Autodesk inventor and Flash forge finder 3D printer for without twist and with various twist angles of 30, 60, 90, 120 and 150. 2D and 3D data can be easily integrated with Autodesk inventor...
Topics: Wind Turbine Blade, Rapid Prototyping Technology, Model, Materials & Manufacturing
For the modification in tractor drawn (TD) raised bed seed drill with two beds forever machine, a furrow dresser was designed and drawn with the help of computer aided design package for adoption of raised bed technology for farmers, in clay loam soil (vertisol). This machine was evaluated and compared with the performance of a raised bed drill with three bed furrows, zero till drill and conventional practices at Jawaharlal Nehru Agricultural University farms for the chickpea sowing. It was...
Topics: Raised Bed Seed Drill, Furrow Dresser Design & Performance Evaluation
This paper gives details of Internal Quality Audit and External Quality Audit of ISO9001 standard which help to achieve the Quality Management System (QMS). For ISO certification most of the organization /Institution should go for ISO implementation. Quality audits are the basic process of ISO done by the internal or external quality auditors or by the audit team. Quality Audits should be performed at regular time intervals and ensure that the institution has clearly done the external audit...
Topics: Non-Conformance Report QMS Quality Management System, ISO International Organization for...
Nanjanagudu Rasabale, also known as Rasthali in Tamil Nadu, is one of the favorite banana cultivar of the Mysore region of Karnataka state. The cultivar belongs to Musa spp., AAB, Silk subgroup, which is under threat of extinction, due its susceptibility to Fusarium wilt Race 1. In order to improve its resistance characters and create variation through mutagenesis, an investigation was carried out at Centre, for Horticulture Biotechnology, Bagalkot. The experiment was conducted with two...
Topics: Musa, Regeneration & Microshoots
Cytogenetic and environmental factors have been reported to cause variations in the genome size within the species. However, the broad scale genome size variation of a class of vertebrate especially Osteichthyes fishes across the different climatic zone and habitat conditions hasyet to be documented. In this study, we analyzed the genome size variation of 285 species of Osteichthyes fishes distributed across the marine and freshwater habitat. We found that habitat and climatic zone showed a...
Topics: C-Value, Genome Size Variation, Osteichthyes, Climatic Zone, Marine Fish & Freshwater Fish
Fiber reinforced plastics (FRP) products are light weighing and strong. These materials find extensive applications in various engineering fields and also as sensor metarial. Curing of this resin is a key to obtain FRP Products. Various factors including Gel time (T ) and peak exothermic temperature (T ) are the critical factors that gel peak directly affect the curing process. T is the indicator for the commencement of setting (polymer cross-linking) while T gel peak talks about the...
Topics: Curing, Gel time, Peak exothermic temperature, ISO Resin, FRP, Process Optimization
The brightness of discharge lamps is controlled by varying the frequency of the resonant converter for high efficiency operation. In this paper we introduce a resonant converter with a magnetic energy recovery switch along with power factor correction. The PFC converter generates DC voltage controlled by fuzzy controller as a feedback system connected to discharge lamp through high frequency resonant converter. The complete analysis with different frequencies and graphical representations of...
Topics: Resonant Converter, Fuzzy Logic, PFC, Discharge Lamp & Ballistic Inductance
Today, one of the main global challenges is how to ensure food security for a growing world population. Globally, India is the second most populated country after china, in order to feed the extraneous population the concern towards food safety, security and quality, increasing day by day from producer to consumer aiming to do hunger free country. Agriculture is mainly depending on climate and the farmers are facing hectic constraints from farm to till it reached to fork. Post-harvest losses of...
Topics: Carbon Dioxide, Pest, Storage & Fumigant
In polymer and metal matrix composites that form a strong bond between the fiber and the matrix, the matrix transmits loads from the matrix to the fibers through shear loading at the interface. In component designing, the rapid prototyping technique is utilized to make a 3-D model of an item or part. To extract samples of polymer mix composite recent trends of 3D rapid prototyping machine has been used. The phenomenon of samples preparation is layer depositing also discussed, keeping in mind...
Topics: Polymer CNT matrix, Rapid prototyping & Mechanical and thermal properties evaluation.
Working of the turbo code depends on their frame size but, the bit error rate (BER) action of turbo codes can be improved by increasing the frame size. Miserably, the frame size increases produce some defects such as the increase of transmission time and decoding delay. To overcome these drawbacks, we are using FTN scheme. In this scheme we are using inter symbol interference (ISI), by using this method we achieved not only improves the BER performance but also reduces the decoding delay and...
Topics: Turbo Codes, QAM Mapper, Pre Coded FTN, & Pre Equalizer
The aim of this study to compare forecasting abilities of two time series models: Univariate autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) and autoregressive integrated moving average with exogenous variable, (ARIMAX). A stochastic time series model for live births series in Nigeria was built, starting from an identified univariate ARIMA model. The first step in formulating the ARIMAX model for the series was to identify a suitable ARIMA model for such series. ARIMAX time series model is a...
Topics: Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) Model, Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average...
Identification of crack depth and crack location is an area of concern for researchers across the globe. In the present paper, artificial neural network used to identify crack depth and crack location. Finite element model of rotary shaft with two bearing support was generated. A single crack of varying depth (2mm, 4mm and 6mm) was provided to finite element model of a shaft. Crack distance from bearing support was altered (100 mm, 200 mm, 300 mm and 400 mm). Natural frequency of rotor shaftwas...
Topics: Crack Detection, Crack Identification, Modal Analysis & Artificial Neural Network
A heat sink device, for use with specific power input at 100V and 20W to the heater, attached at the base plate of copper, and then obtained the average temperature of Heat sink with the help of 12 thermocouples. Two specimens of heat sinks were designed and were tested for mass flow rate and heat transfer coefficient with base of 1mm&2mm&tip dimensions varying as 0.5mm, 1.00mm, respectively. By experimenting and CFD simulations, optimization of heat sink design was done. Then,...
Topics: Base Plate, Cooling Fan, CFD Simulation, Heat Sink, Heat Dissipation, IC’s, Fin Configuration...
Real world situation often exist with high degree of uncertainty in decision making. In such situation, decision makers can use fuzzy soft set which is a mathematical tool for dealing with uncertainties and has rich potential for application in several directions. The aim of this paper is to calculate the uncertain degree of various parameters and to assign a particular job to a particular machine to get the desired optimization with the use of triangular fuzzy numbers. In the present study,...
Topics: Triangular Fuzzy Number, Defuzzification & Fuzzy Soft Set
The paper reviews, road traffic accident data analysis and visualization in R programming environment. The aim is to show how to extract meaningful data fromthe raw database and visualize it. The results revealed that hour wise, day wise, month wise and year wise plots allowed observing how road traffic accidents change in timescale. Two types of road traffic accident mainly occurred,such as type 1 (collision) and type 5 (collision with pedestrian). Both types of road traffic accidents...
Topics: Road Traffic Accidents, Data Analysis, Visualization & R
The Present Investigation Entitled “Effect of Plant Growth Regulators on Vegetative Growth and Flowering Characters of African Marigold (Tagetes Erecta L.) Cv. Pusa Narangi Gainda.” Was Carried out at College of Horticulture, Chiplima, Ouat During Winter 2015. The Experiment Was Conducted In Randomized Block Design With Ten Treatments Comprising of 3 Level of Ga3 (100, 200, 300 Ppm) Level of Ethrel (200, 300, 400 Ppm) and Maleic Hydrazid (200, 300, 400 Ppm) Replicated In Three Times. The...
Topics: Ethrel, Ga3, Maleic Hydrazide, Pusa Narangi Gainda & Tagetes erecta
The present study was conducted to assess the knowledge of rural and urban government school teachers of Ludhiana regarding development readiness. The study was based on 100 teachers (i.e. 50 rural and 50 urban) teaching Class – I. The sample was randomly drawn from seven Government Primary Schools purposively selected from rural as well as urban locales of Ludhiana District. Self- Structured Teachers’ Knowledge Questionnaire was used to assess the developmental readiness of rural and...
Topic: Developmental Readiness & Knowledge of Teachers
Malaysian maritime trade sector is very much liberalized with 80 percent of Malaysian goods and cargoes being shipped to Malaysia using foreign ships. With regional liberalization of trade and services being top on ASEAN agenda, steps are being taken to further liberalize trade and services sectors. This article explores the maritime logistic industry in Malaysia and analyzes how the liberalization of maritime trade, and now, ASEAN economic integration, impacts on the conduct, structure and...
Topics: Maritime Trade, Liberalization & Policy
The earthquake was one of the disasters that can give the effect of damage of the material or the soul of a very big if. Almost every two years once an earthquake-ravaged Indonesia is quite large and takes a lot of sacrifices, for example only the end of the year 2016, the province of Nangroe Aceh Darussalam again hit by quakes of 6.5 SR., consuming 102 fatalities and hundreds of people were injured. This is because 90% of the area in Indonesia has the potential to be affected by the earthquake...
Topics: Data Visualization, Visual Data Mining (VDM), Dashboard, Earthquakes & BMKG
