Volume 2 Number 6 (June 2016)

Dynamic Query Forms for Non-Relational Database

With quick advancement of investigative databases and web data databases are turning out to be exceptionally colossal in size and complex in nature. These databases hold extensive and heterogeneous information, with huge number of relations and qualities. So it is exceptionally hard to outline an arrangement of static inquiry structures to answer different specially appointed database inquirieson these cutting edge databases. Along these lines there is need of such framework which create Query Forms powerfully as indicated by the clients need at run time. The proposed framework Dynamic Query Form i.e.DQF framework going to give an answer by the inquiry interface in extensive and complex databases. In proposed framework, the center idea is to catch client intrigues all through client associations and to adjust the inquiry sort iteratively. Each cycle comprises of 2 sorts of client collaborations: Query Form Enrichment and Query Execution. In Query Form Enrichment DQF would prescribe a positioned rundown of question structure part to client so he/she can choose sought structure segments into current inquiry structure. In Query Execution client fills current inquiry shape and submit question, DQF going to show result and take input from client on gave question results. A client would have office to fill the inquiry frame and submit questions to see the inquiry result at every cycle. So that a question structure could be progressively refined till the client fulfills with the inquiry results.

The social networks and the new social order between the individualized socialization and the socialized individualism: Empirical study on the case of Morocco

Hamid NAHLA

The new Social Networks (SN) evolved very quickly. They conquered of wide population as well in the cities as in the campaigns. They pushed aside values, attitudes, behaviorâ€¦; In countries with strong social culture, they modified these values and modified the social rules formerly considered as unchanging.In this paper, an empirical study concerned the case of the Moroccans and their behavior with regard to the social networks in numerous domains as those of society, economy, consumption, social and societal relationships, information and communication, politics, etc. The traditional conventional social order is today in deep transformation. This paper contributes to the understanding of behavior change currently facing Moroccan society at all levels.The designers of software or applications bound to the social networks have to integrate these new behavior in their strategies.

Which Supply Chain Strategies Can Guarantee Higher Manufacturerâ€™s Operational Performance Applying Suitable Resources?

Mahmoud Saremi, Amir Samarrokhi, Kouroush Jenab

Due to the fact that scientists and practitioners alike have interested on the leveraging manufacturing companiesâ€™ operational performance, this research examined which supply chain strategies promise manufacturers higher operational performance. Later on, we clarified whether suitable resources can play an important role in the mentioned causal relationshipsas a moderator and improve the impact of the strategies on operational performance. This study is a descriptive-exploratory research in which primary data was collected from 80 Malaysian manufacturing companies. Bivariate Correlation and Multiple Regression in SPSS was applied for analyzing data. Output showed that many suppliers, few suppliers, and keiretsu network strategies enable manufacturers to achieve satisfactory level of operational performance; but, vertical integration. More importantly, suitable resources can leverage the effect of just vertical integration strategy on operational performance.

Rainfall Pattern and Groundwater Fluctuation in Ramganga River Basin at Bareilly District, Uttar Pradesh, India

S .S. Tripathi, R.K.Isaac

Rainfall is an important factor in hydrological cycle that acts as the major source of all water resources on earth. The amount, intensity and areal distribution of rainfall are essential factors in many hydrologic studies and vary geographically, temporally & seasonally. Groundwater is the invisible and real indicator of the above complex processes happening in varying time and space. The process of variation of groundwater table of an unconfined aquifer due to rainfall is a complex one. It involves flow through unsaturated regions of the aquifer. The rate of infiltration depends upon soil moisture level present in the soil, type and density of cover and type of land use. Due urbanization and population growth, groundwater draft has increased and recharge due to rainfall has decreased resulting in a steady declination of groundwater table in the study area. For that, groundwater management has become need of the hour to tackle the emerging problem of groundwater depletion and water scarcity. Aim of the present study is to analyze the rainfall variation impacts on groundwater table in the study area. An attempt has been made to evaluate six rain gauge stations data of 10 years duration (2004-13) in determining the rainfall variation along with data of six observation well points situated on the same area to determine the groundwater table fluctuation during the same period (2004-13) so as to have a firsthand information about the groundwater table variation and its relation with the rainfall being received.

Optimization of the Managed Electrical Energy within a Hybrid Renewable Energy System

F.Z Kadda, Smail Zouggar, Mohamed El Hafyani

Hybrid energy applications based on renewable energy sources are becoming more and more desirable every day. They have increased the economic attractiveness of renewable electric energy generation. Because of the sudden fluctuations of the load requirements, the main attribute of such Hybrid Systems is to be able to generate energy at any time by optimally using each source. In this article, we have proposed a combination between a sizing study and a control one for the aim of solving the complex optimization problem of finding the optimal combination of size and storage to make the best use of the renewable power generations and to become more independent of rising electricity costs. Additionally, an improvement in the induced optimization algorithm is introduced in this paper so as to compute the optimal size and the operation control of the system with the aim of minimizing as much as possible the cost while responding to the load energy requirements taking into account the environmental factors.

A Modified Weight Balanced Algorithm for Influential Users Community Detection in Online social Network (OSNs)

Bhupinder Singh, Manju Bala , Manoj Kumar

In the modern era online users are increasing day by day. Different users are using various social networks in different forms. The behavior and attitude of the users of social networking sites varies U2U (User to User). In online social networking users join many groups and communities as per interests and according to the groupsâ€™/Communitiesâ€™ influential user. This paper consist of 7 sections , first section emphasis on introduction to the community evelotion and community. Second section signify movement between communities ,third section involve related work about the research.. Fourth section includes Problem Definition and fifth section involve Methodology (Proposed Algorithm Process ,Get Community Matrix, Community detetcion).Sixth section involve Implementation. Furthermore implementation include Datasets ,Quantitative performance, Graphical Results, Enhancement in the existing work..Last section include Conclusion and then references. In this paper,we are implementing and proposing the community detection in social media .In the proposed we have deployed a Longest Chain Subsequence metric for finding the number of connections to the kernel community.

Efficient Real Time Vehicles Detection Approach for Complex Urban Traffic Management

Mr. Rushikesh D. Dongre, Asst. Prof. Praful R. Pardhi

Vehicles now a day are becoming very necessary part of our life this is leading to increase in congested traffic conditions around the world. With our research in this domain of vehicle detection with image processing we are focusing on detection of vehicles. This is then combined with car size detection. Our approach is to first work on the feature of four wheeler i.e., windshield of the car. Then to work with saliency generation of the region of interest which will be containing only windshield part for the vehicles in the frame. With conversion of this frame into HSV color model. From HSV the saturation value within certain limit is kept for the segmentation then on from that leading to the detection of the vehicles in the given frame. Vehicle size detection we have considered eagle eye view for taking out area and on the basis of that deciding threshold for the vehicles into different categories. Categories of vehicles include small, medium, large vehicles for four wheelers.

Design of Passive down Draft Cool Tower for 100 m2 Auditorium

Dr Arvind Datye, Mr Anis Milton G, Mr Anteneh Belay

A passive down draft evaporative cooling (PDEC) tower is design to capture the wind at high temperature typically at 40Î¿ C and above the top of tower and cool the outdoor air using water which is allowed to flow through shower and due to evaporation of water out door air gets cooled. Many different types of PDEC exist. This paper explains design of PDEC tower. It is a parallel flow heat exchanger with hot and cold fluid are in direct contact with each other. The wet bulb temperature of air is the lowest possible temperature of the air leaving the tower and entering in air conditioned space. It is suitable in hot dry climate due to large difference between dry and wet bulb temperatures. The mathematical model predicted with the variation of wind speed from 1 m/s to 6 m/s with outside air temperature 35 Î¿ C and relative humidity 20 %, a tower height of 6 m is required.

The Influence of Safety Talk Communicators on Compliance with Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Use in Construction Project

Ridzal Syahrozi, Denny Ardyanto, Sri Widati

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is the last individual protection to avoid occupational accidents. Incompliance with PPE use is still discovered in high rise building construction project at Siwalankerto Avenue 121-131, Surabaya city. Safety talk program is conducted by communicators in this project site and applied persuasively to increase workersâ€™ compliance with PPE use. Hence, the communicators play important roles in influencing the workers on compliance with PPE use. The aim of this study was to understand the influence of safety talk communicators including their attract-tiveness, credibility and power on construction workersâ€™ compliance with PPE use. This study was analytical observational with a cross sectional design. The result of linear regression showed regression coefficient score of attractiveness (B=0,198), credibility (B=1,193), and power (B=-0,562). It can be concluded that safety talk communicatorsâ€™ variables which highly influenced on the construction workersâ€™ compliance with PPE use were credibility and power. The communicatorsâ€™ credibility influenced positively on compliance with PPE use while the communicatorsâ€™ power influenced negatively.

Land Use / Land Cover Change Detection in a part of Ramganga River Basin, at Bareilly District, Uttar Pradesh, India

S.S.Tripathi, R.K.Isaac

The paper deals with the status of the land use/land cover change taken place in a part of Ramganga River Basin, at Bareilly district, Uttar Pradesh, India, by using remote sensing satellite data. The present study area is confined to latitude 28Â°10â€² to 28054Ê¹ North and longitude 78Â°58â€² to 78o58Ê¹ East, covering an area of 4120 km2. The satellite images of 1979 and 2009 have been obtained from global land cover facility (GLCF) and examined by unsupervised classification method. The general classification level has been adopted. The identified classes include Settlements, Croplands, Vegetation/Plantations, Water Bodies, and Waste Land. The result shows increasing trend of crop land and built up area and decreasing trend of vegetation and Plantation land.

Prediction of Heart Disease Using Machine Learning Algorithms

Sonam Nikhar, A.M. Karandikar

The successful experiment of data mining in highly visible fields like marketing, e-business, and retail has led to its application in other sectors and industries. Healthcare is being discovered among these areas. There is an opulence of data available within the healthcare systems. However, there is a scarcity of useful analysis tool to find hidden relationships in data. This research intends to provide a detailed description of NaÃ¯ve Bayes and decision tree classifier that are applied in our research particularly in the prediction of Heart Disease. Some experiment has been conducted to compare the execution of predictive data mining technique on the same dataset, and the consequence reveals that Decision Tree outperforms over Bayesian classification.

Influence of Bi Concentration on Major Physical Parameters of Ge14BixSe76-xTe10 Based Chalcogenide Glasses

Manish Saxena, Shilpa Gupta

The investigation of some useful properties of chalcogenide glasses with respect to composition has been increased in recent years for characterization and improvement of the properties of chalcogenide glasses and the materials exhibiting particularly the switching phenomenon ever since reversible switching phenomenon in certain types of chalcogenide glasses was first reported. In the present article, the influence of varying the bismuth content on the physical parameters has been studied theoretically for Ge14 Bix Se76-x Te10 (x = 1.5, 4.5, 7.5, 10.5, 13.5, 16.5, 19.5, 22.5 at. %) based chalcogenide glasses. The variation in glass transition temperature has been studied using two approaches, namely the Tichy â€“ Ticha approach and Lankhorst approaches. The smooth variation of almost all parameters, studied here, indicates the suitability of this combination for phase change optical recording and finds valuable applications in rewritable optical recording.

A Technical Review of Efficient and High Speed Adders for Vedic Multipliers

Vishnu Prasad Patidar, Sourabh Sharma

In the VLSI system design, the main regions of research are the reduced size & increase speed path logic systems. A fundamental requirement of high speed, addition and multiplication is always needed for the high performance digital processors. In the digital system, the speed of addition depend on the propagation of carry, which is generated successively, after the previous bit has been summed & carry is propagated, into the next location. There are numerous types of adders available likes Ripple Carry Adder, Carry Look Ahead Adder, Carry Save Adder, Carry Avoid Adder, and Carry Select Adder, which have their own benefits and drawbacks. With the advances technology, proposal of Carry select adder (CSA) which deals either of the high speed, low power consumption, regularity of layout a smaller amount area and compact VLSI design implementation. Researchers justify that Ripple Carry Adder had a lesser area but having lesser in speed, in comparing with Carry Select Adders are fastest speed but possess a larger area. The Carry Look Ahead Adder is in between the spectrum having proper trade-offs between time and area complexities.

Distortion Analysis of CMOS Based Analog Circuits

Suman Kumar Choudhary, Sathe R. B., Dongare M.P., Sonawane R. B.

The amplifiers are the vital part of the analog circuit designs. The linearity of the CMOS is of most important concern in the design of many analog circuits. There are several aspects regarding nonlinear distortion analysis in analog circuits implemented in CMOS technology. Basically, the investigations visualize the nature of the total harmonic distortion (THD) dependence on the amplitude and frequency of the input signals. In this paper, the basic building blocks of analog integrated circuits such as Common source amplifier with diode connected load and Differential amplifier with current mirror load have been presented for distortion analysis. The MOSFET model used for simulation is BSIM3 SPICE model from 0.13-Î¼m and BSIM4 SPICE model from 22-Î¼m CMOS process technology. HSPICE circuit simulator tool is used for distortion analysis of CMOS circuits. It is evident that the above function gives remarkable insight of the nonlinear behavior of the considered circuits and it is worth considering for further investigations.

Comparison Cortisol Level Before and After Exposed Noise

Haris Risdiana, Tri Martiana, Diah Indriani

Noise is a hazard that can not be avoided in the textile company. Some research show that noise can cause health problems, one of them is stress. Several research have shown that cortisol can be used as one of the parameters to help diagnose stress. This research was conducted at PT. Iskandar Indah Textile, Surakarta. The study was designed as an observational study and conducted by cross sectional method. Samples were obtained by using the technique of sampling means that 15 weaving. The variable in this study is cortisol in the blood which was measured by ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay). This reaserch shows that the intensity of the noise from the work environment weaving section 94.6 dBA, 97.2 dBA, 97.7 dBA, 98.2 dBA higher than the threshold value (TLV). Based on paired-sample T test analysis showed that the there is difference cortisol level between before and after exposed noise. The conclusion is noise affect of cortisol levels in the blood.

Factor Associated with Urine Trans, Trans-Muconic Acid (tt-MA) levels of Gas Station Workers

Fakhrinnur, Tri Martiana, Linda Dewanti

Benzene is a dangerous chemichal compounds that can cause haematological effects. Gasoline contains approximately 5% carcinogens benzene. Gas station employees, particularly fueling operators are working population that have a high risk of benzene exposure. Within the continuous exposure. The purpose aim of this study is to analyze the relationship of urine trans, trans-Muconic Acid (tt-MA) levels with haematological profile of Gas Station Workers. The study was designed as an observational study and conducted by cross sectional method with 33 samples (12 samples administrative workers and 21 samples in fueling operator). The research showed that average concentration of benzene in the air is 0,58 ppm. The result of Spearman analysis showed a significant correlation the amount of fuel fill and the duration of filling the fuel with the level of tt-MA in urine (p=0,000). From this research can be concluded, that more fuel is fill and the longer the duration of filling the fuel by respondent, the higher levels of tt-MA in urine. Therefore, works should use PPE and that medical surveillance conducted continuously every year.

Inclined Slots on Broad wall of Ridged Waveguide

Vaibhav Gupta, Dr. D. Vakula

A new inclined slot array on the broad wall of a single ridged rectangular waveguide is proposed. This paper presents slot array with similar inclination for all slots, slot array with different inclination and non-uniform length slots with different inclination on broad wall of a single ridged rectangular waveguide for vertical polarization. The co and cross polarization curves of the three designs are compared at different angles of observation.

Experimental Investigation of Heat Transfer Intensification of Pin Fins under Forced Convection (A Review)

Ravi Gopal Yenkar, I. M. Quraishi, Mohammad Irfan

Recent development era in technology has huge requirement of high performance lightweight, and compact heat transfer equipment. To accomplish this demand fins are widely used as effective elements for heat transfer enhancement. One of the commonly used heat exchanger fins is the pin fin which offers an economical and trouble free solution in many situations. This is more important in cooling of air conditioning equipment, thermal power plants, gas turbine blade, aerospace industry, combustion chamber liners, and biomedical devices, electrical and electronic component. Therefore now a dayâ€™s industries are utilizing thermal system with pin fins and analyse the various influencing parameters on performance of pin fin of different geometry under force convection. The turbulence occurred due to these techniques are good enough to enhance heat transfer rate. This article is focused on comprehensive review of work carried out in this technology.

Non-inclined slotted waveguide array with various shapes of Irises

Chaudhary Mohammed Ahsan, Dr. D. Vakula

Non-inclined narrow wall slotted waveguide with iris reduces the cross polarization. In this paper non inclined slotted waveguide array with iris is compared with inclined narrow wall slotted waveguide array to demonstrate the huge reduction in cross polarization. Analysis of various shapes of iris is done to compare their effects on co polarization and cross polarization.

Exercise as Determinant Prevention of High Blood Pressure in Container Crane Operator

Lestari Sri Pusparini, Denny Ardyanto W., Hari Basuki Notobroto

Metabolic syndrome (Mets) is a multiple risk factor for coronary heart disease, diabetes, and several organ malfunctions that comes up from insulin resistance and metabolic dysfunctions caused of abnormal adipose deposition. One of the component criteria of metabolic syndrome is elevated blood pressure. Unhealthy lifestyle and sedentary physical activity are considered to have relationship with metabolic syndrome incidents in workers. This study aimed to analyze smoking habit, regular exercise and familyâ€™s medical history associated with blood pressure using International Diabetic Federation Criteria for Mets in a container crane operatorâ€™s population. The study was explored in a cross sectional study of 40 container crane operator. Using logistic regression for analyzing, the study found that regular exercise had significant association with blood pressure in worker adjusted with age.

Emission Factors for Continuous Fixed Chimney Bull Trench Brick Kiln (FCBTK) in India

R Suresh, Sachin Kumar, Richa Mahtta, Sumit Sharma

Uncertainty in emissions from brick manufacturing is a major concern and more primary monitoring based datasets are required. This study presents latest emission factors for continuous fixed chimney bull trench brick kilns (FCBTK), which is the main technology used for brick production in India. Stack monitoring of kilns in a typical brick manufacturing cluster in India is carried out to monitor emissions of pollutants like PM, SO2 and CO. Average concentrations of PM, SO2 and CO in the stacks are measured to be 172Â±76, 114Â±47 and 484Â±198 mg/Nm3, respectively. Monitored stack concentrations are used to compute emission factors based on brick production and fuel consumption activities in the cluster. The computed emission factors across different kilns ranged between 0.81-1.18, 0.57-0.71 and 2.07-2.80g/kg of fired bricks for PM, SO2 and CO, respectively. Corresponding emission factors per unit of coal used in brick kilns are found to be in the range of 13-29, 9-15, 40-56 g /kg for PM, SO2 and CO, respectively. The differences in emission factors are mainly due to variations in the quality of coal used by different kilns. Good correlations were observed between changing calorific values, ash and sulphur content of coal and emissions monitored in the kilns. These new factors can be used for improvement in emission inventories and thereafter modelling results for the region.

Palynotaxa and Parasitic Loads of Nigerian Currency: Potential Sources of Microbial Transmittance

Ezikanyi D. N., Ani O.C., Nnamani C.V., Nwankwo O. E.

Currency notes are handled by a large number of people under a variety of personal and environmental conditions. A total of ninety six samples of one hundred naira denomination of Nigerian notes were procured from seven Local Government Areas (LGA) of Ebonyi State, Nigeria. The aim of the study was to determine the palynotaxa and parasitic load prevalent on currency notes. The leachates of currency notes were obtained and subjected to acetolysis and examined microscopically. Twenty six fungal spores type were recorded and were highly dominated by spores of Libertelli spp., Botrytis spp. and Spadicoides spp. Pollen achieved 54 % of the total bio-particles, whereas fungal spores and parasitic worms achieved 35.2 % and 10.60 %, respectively. The presence and relative abundance of these palynotaxa and parasites in currency notes affirms their propensity to spread vectors of diseases.

SiC and ZrO2 Weigh Percentage Effects on Microstructure of Al Based Matrix Composite Fabricated by Spark Plasma Sintering Method

Meysam toosian, Farzan barati, Jamshid Neamati

SiC and ZrO2 particle are succesfully reaction synthesized from powder of Al, ZrO2 and SiC using spark plasma sintering method. The XRD of sintered composite and microstructure of the aas-sintered products. With the ZrO2 content increasing, the grains are remarkably refined and the and the ZrO2 and nano SiC particles are dispersing more uniformly in Al matrix, forming a homogeneous structure with the least porosity.

Steganography based image compression

Rajandeep Kaur, Pooja

The intention of image compression is to discard worthless data from image so as to shrink the quantity of data bits favored for image depiction, to lessen the storage space, broadcast bandwidth and time. Likewise, data hiding convenes scenarios by implanting the unfamiliar data into a picture in invisibility manner. The review offers, a method of image compression approaches by using DWT transform employing steganography scheme together in combination of SPIHT to compress an image.

Improving Mix-CLAHE with ACO for Clearer Oceanic Images

Dilraj Kaur, Pooja, Varsha Sahni

Oceanic pictures have poor visibility attributable to various factors; weather disturbance, particles in water, lightweight frames and water movement which results in degraded and low contrast pictures of underwater. Visibility restoration refers to varied ways in which aim to decline and remove the degradation that have occurred whereas the digital image has been obtained. The probabilistic Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) approach is presented to solve the problem of designing an optimal route for hard combinatorial problems. Itâ€™s found that almost all of the prevailing researchers have neglected several problems i.e. no technique is correct for various reasonably circumstances. the prevailing strategies have neglected the utilization of hymenopter colony optimization to cut back the noise and uneven illuminate downside. The main objective of this paper is to judge the performance of ANT colony optimization primarily based haze removal over the obtainable MIX-CLAHE (Contrast Limited adaptive histogram Equalization) technique. The experiment has clearly showed the effectiveness of the projected technique over the obtainable strategies.

High Efficiency LED Drivers: A Review

Mrs. Vishakha Phatangare

Recently various soft switching techniques have been developed for various DC-DC based LED drivers. Typical driver circuits in the market have efficiency between 80% - 95% with majority having efficiency between 80% - 90%. Various topologies and strategies are available to obtain the best performance. A comparison and discussion of different buck and floating buck topologies used as driver in LED lighting application are presented in this paper.

Design and Development of Mechanical Solar Tracking System

In recent years, the growing global interest in the conservation of environment has provided a fresh motivation for research in the area of solar energy utilization. Already, installation of solar energy extraction devices such as solar panels, solar water heaters, solar cookers etc. is becoming popular in urban buildings. Most of these devices consist of a solar receptor that is kept facing the sun during the day, but the sun moves from east to west and the efficiency of the panel decreases. If one could trap this extra energy source then the efficiency of the solar panel would be increased. A tracking mechanism following the sun would achieve this aim. An attempt has been made to develop a simple yet efficient sun tracking mechanism using a motor, a speed reduction mechanism and real timer. The mechanism has been designed such that the sunrays falling on the panel are always perpendicular to the panel resulting in increase in efficiency of the electricity generation. This report presents, in detail, the design and construction adopted to develop the functional model that was fabricated and tested for performance which yielded the efficiency increase of 28.41% as compared to the conventional stationary panel position.

Predicting Compressive Strength of Recycled Aggregate Concrete using Analysis of Variance

Prof. Veena Ganvir, Prof. Vishal S. Ghutke, Prof. Rakhi M. Shelke

A step-by-step statistical approach is proposed to obtain optimum proportioning of concrete mixtures using the data obtained through a statistically planned experimental program. The utility of the proposed approach for optimizing the design of concrete mixture is illustrated considering a typical case in which trial mixtures were considered according to a full factorial experiment design involving three factors and their three levels. A total of 27 concrete mixtures with three replicates were considered by varying the levels of key factors affecting compressive strength of concrete, namely, w/c ratio, recycled coarse /natural coarse aggregate ratio, and recycled fine/ natural fine aggregate ratio .The experimental data were utilized to carry out analysis of variance (ANOVA) and to develop a polynomial regression model for compressive strength in terms of the three design factors considered in this study. The developed statistical model was used to show how optimization of concrete mixtures can be carried out with different possible options.

Finite Element Analysis & Design Optimization of Material Handling Equipment

Dharamendra Kumar, Rahul

Material handling equipment is mechanical equipment used for the movement, storage, control products throughout the process of manufacturing, and disposal. The different types of material handling equipment can be classified into four major categories, transport equipment, positioning equipment, unit load formation equipment, and storage equipment. Excavator is used to excavate the material of the ground on which the machine rests and load it into trucks or tractor. In the severe working conditions, excavator parts are subjected to very high loads. The excavator mechanism must work reliably under random working conditions. Thus it is very much essential for the designers to evaluate not only a equipment of maximum reliability but also of minimum weight and cost, considering design safe under all loading conditions. It can be accomplished that, mechanical strength analysis is an important to step in the design of excavator parts. Finite Element Analysis (FEA) is the most appropriate technique in strength calculations of the structures working under known load and boundary conditions. In general, computer aided drawing model of the parts to be analyzed must to be set prior to the FEA. It is also promising to reduce the weight of the mechanism by performing optimization in FEA. This paper provides the platform for proceeding for the Modeling, FEA and optimization of backhoe excavator attachment, which was already carried out by other researchers for their related applications and it can be very helpful for development of any material handling equipment and new excavator attachment.

Modeling and Characterization of MEMS Electrostatic Energy Harvester

G.Karthik Reddy, S.Rajanarendra

In low-power wireless electronic devices, Energy harvesting generators have received increasing research interest in recent years. This paper describes the design and analysis of electrostatic transduction based MEMS energy harvester. Due to the benefit of a folded beam configuration that can be displace large dimensions and compliant in desired direction and stiffer in orthogonal direction. Since, large displacement of proof mass of energy harvester renders the enhance performance. Hence, the folded beam configuration of harvest has been modeled and designed and optimized the dimension of geometry. FEM simulations using COMSOL were conducted to evaluate the natural frequency and mode shape of the system and compared results with that of analytically calculated values. Spice circuit of harvester has been modeled and performed simulation to evaluate the output power of the harvester in LTSPICE. Parameter analysis was conducted to determine the optimal load and optimal output power.

Contaminated Land Area due to Industrial Hazardous Waste Generation and its Remediation in India

Abhishek Dixit, Manish Nigam, Rahul Mishra

The rapid growth of industrialization, urbanization and use of pesticides in agricultural fields in India has contributed to the generation of contaminated land. The uncontrolled and non-engineered waste disposal is one of the major causes of ground water contamination, air contamination and land contamination leading to health risks of human beings, animals and ecosystems. This paper is mainly focused on estimating contaminated land area to industrial hazardous waste generation and disposal practices. Presently in India, there is reported 7.2 million tonne hazardous waste generation from more than 40,000 registered industries according to Controller and Auditor Generalâ€™s report(CAG-2012). This study also summaries the advantages and disadvantages of different methods which are useful to manage a contaminated site by a geoâ€“environmental engineer. For a specific superfund site, there is not only one remediation technique is applicable but also more than one techniques are applicable on the basis of different criteria.

Improving Differently-Illuminant Images with Fuzzy Membership Based Saturation Weighting

Gurpreet Kaur, Pooja, Varsha Sahni

Illumination estimation is basic to white balancing digital color images and to color constancy. The key to automatic white balancing of digital images is to estimate precisely the color of the overall scene illumination. Many methods for estimating the illuminationâ€™s color has proposed. Though not the most exact, one of the simplest and quite extensively used methods are the gray world algorithm, white patch, max-RGB, Gray edge using first order derivative and gray edge using second order derivative, saturation weighting. The first-three methods have neglected the multiple light sources illuminate. In this work, we investigate how illuminate estimation techniques can be improved using fuzzy membership. The main aim of this paper is to evaluate performance of Fuzzy Enhancement based saturation weighting technique for different light sources (single, multiple, indoor scene and outdoor scene) under different conditions. The experiment has clearly shown the effectiveness of the proposed technique over the available methods.

An Approach to Identify Caries in Dental Image

A J Solanki

The raw data obtained directly from x-ray acquisition device may yield a comparatively poor image quality representation. In case of medical images human involvement and perception is of prime importance. It is a difficult task to interpret fine features in various contrast situations [5]. Dentists interpret the dental x-rays using their knowledge, perception and experience. So there is a chance of error in deciding the right medical treatment. Nowadays digital dental radiographs, in which enhancement is done automatically, are available but the system are very costly. Our algorithm will give alternate solution to this problem. It includes X-ray imaging & its processing for identifying the exact location & depth of damage in affected tooth. In this paper , we explore image segmentation using ISEF algorithm and active contour model to detect and diagnose the dental caries in case of decayed tooth.

A Hybrid Approach to Power Theft Detection

Saurabh Jain, A. M. Karandikar

Currently power theft is a common problem face by all electricity companies. Since power theft directly affect the profit made by electricity companies, theft detection and prevention of electricity is mandatory. In this paper we proposed a hybrid approach to detect the electricity theft i.e. to detect suspected consumers who is doing theft. We use SVM and ELM for our approach. We also compare our approach with KNN.

An Experimental Investigation and Comparative analysis on a Four Stroke CI Engine with two Straight Bio-Diesel Blends: Hazelnut and Palm

T. Krishnaiah, Dr. V. Pandurangadu, Dr. V. Nagaprasadanaidudu

An experimental analysis was made to investigate two non edible oils (hazelnut and palm), blending with neat diesel fuel with the proportions of 5%, 10%, 15%, 20% and 25% by volume and used as fuel in a single cylinder, four stroke, water cooled, Compression Ignition engine. Experimental tests were conducted by using the above bio-diesel blends as fuel operated with the above mentioned engine working at various loads. Performance parameters and exhaust emissions of hazelnut and crambe bio-diesel blends are compared with the same results of diesel fuel. Performance parameters selected to analyze are Brake Thermal Efficiency(BTHE), Brake Specific Fuel Consumption(BSFC) and Exhaust Gas Temperature(EGT) and exhaust emissions selected to investigate are Carbon Monoxide emissions(CO), Oxides Of Nitrogen(NOx) and smoke density(SD). From the results of all blends used as fuel in the engine, it is clarified that CI engine showing better performance by using a hazelnut bio-diesel blend with proportions of 20% hazelnut bio-diesel and 80% normal diesel fuel. Traditional Engine with bio-diesels as fuel are showing acceptable reduction in emissions like hydro carbons and oxides of carbon but with marginal increase in oxides of nitrogen compared with diesel fuel. But BTHE of Bio-diesel blend is less than the BTHE of diesel fuel operating in the same engine. From all the blends Hazelnut bio-diesel blends are giving better performance parameters and decreased emission characteristics hazelnut oil having better properties immediately after diesel fuel when compared with remaining bio-diesel blends.

The Analysis of Factors Related to Unsafe Acts on Welders in XYZ Ltd

Saiful Hidayat, Tjipto Suwandi, M.Bagus Qomarudin

Unsafe acts are diverge actions different from widely acknowledged as safe acts in performing some work. These actions could lead to increasing of likelihood accidents. XYZ Ltd. is a transportation manufacturing company. In 2014, an occupational accident occurred in this company. The aim of this study was to analyze correlation among individual characteristics, work factors, and work stressors, with unsafe acts in production unit at XYZ Ltd. This study used quantitative approach with a cross sectional study design which was conducted in February until March 2016. The results found from 43 respondents were 20 respondents conducted safe acts while 23 of them did unsafe act. From bivariate analysis, it was discovered that there were correlation between individual characteristic factors (age, work peiod, personality type) and unsafe acts, there was correlation between work stressors (interpersonal relationship) and unsafe acts. Finally, there was correlation between work factors (Leadership and Supervision aspects, Engineering, Purchasing, Work Standard, Excessive Wearand Tear, Abuse or Misuse) and workersâ€™ unsafe acts.Furthermore, logistic regression analysis was conducted together with sub variables discovered that there was strong significant correlation between exsecive wear and tear and unsafe acts (P-value 0.001 with Î± < 0.05). It is recommended that the management should create safety environment. In addition, socialization of SOP should be encouraged for welders, support of the management in providing OHS facility for welders and adequate supervision of PPE use. Also, empower of personnel supervisor of each unit in the field as OHS supervisory personnel.

Organizational Culture Beginnings of an hei through the Leadership of a Visionary Founder

H. B. Panganiban

This research aims to document how founders or leaders of organizations create organizational cultures. It takes one educational institution as its unit of analysis since, as this founder himself articulated, â€œSchools have a peculiar culture; and that all organizations develop their own culture and each one manifests unique characteristics which are either supportive of, or resistive of change.â€ An organizationâ€™s culture is usually the result of the leaderâ€™s initiatives geared towards realizing its vision. Scheinâ€™s seminal work on the primary embedding mechanisms of organizational culture shall serve as the theoretical model of this research. Utilizing the qualitative research design that relied on in-depth interviews, the researcher found out that the leader (in the person of Br. Rafael Donato) had adopted the six primary embedding mechanisms of Schein namely: what leaders pay attention to, measure, and control on a regular basis; how leaders react to critical incidents and organizational crises; how leaders allocate resources; deliberate role modeling, teaching, and coaching; how leaders allocate rewards and status; and how leaders recruit, select, promote, and excommunicate people. Interview results revealed the various approaches and strategies of this leader in forming, shaping, and developing an organizational culture that transformed this entity from a seemingly lethargic college to a dynamic and progressive institution that has achieved national accreditation. All throughout his administrative stint, he invested largely on people development that was sustained by his successors.

Opinion Feature Extraction Using Enhanced Opinion Mining Technique and Intrinsic-Extrinsic Domain Relevance

Ms. Chandani Bartakke, Ms. Sushila Ratre, Mr. Rajesh Bhise

Mining patterns are the main source of opinion feature extraction techniques, which was individually evaluated corpus mostly belong to evaluated corpus. A measure called Domain Relevance is used to identify candidate features from domain dependent and domain independent corpora both. Opinion Features originated are relevant to a domain. For every extracted candidate feature its individual Intrinsic Domain Relevance and Extrinsic Domain Relevance values are registered. Threshold has been compared with these values and recognizes as best candidate features. In this thesis, By applying feature filter creation the features from online reviews can be identified .

Comparative Test For the Upgrading of Lead in Sabon Layi Lead-Zinc Ore (Alkaleri Local Government Area, Bauchi State), Using Gravity and Froth Flotation Beneficiation Methods

This research work deals with the upgrading of lead in Sabon Layi lead-zinc ore using gravity and froth flotation beneficiation methods. Analysis of the chemical composition reveals that this crude ore contains 38.76%lead and other related minerals such as 29% silica, 22.80% Sulphur, 2.76%Zinc, 4.17%CaO and others in traces; these related minerals are impurities that hinder the lead grade found in this ore from appreciating. Fractional sieve and the grain size result revealed that the liberation size of the ore is at -710+500Âµm. At this sieve size, the lead â€“zinc ore was subjected to four different beneficiation methods using five kilograms (5kg) each as charge on Wilfley shaking Table, Humphrey spiral concentrator, Air floating Machine and one kilogram (1kg) for froth flotation. Resulting products â€“Concentrate and tailing from Processing were analyzed. The grade and weight of the resulting mineral were used in calculating percentage recovery of each applied process; which was used to ascertain the best method.

Effect of Electrode Material and Geometry on EDM Performance for OHNS dies Steel

Dr. Avinash Sarode, A.J.Parmar, Ujjawala Pandharkar, Snehal Junnarkar

Modern EDM machinery is capable of machining micro-hole, thin slots, geometrically complex or hard material components, that are precise and difficult to machine, such as heat treated tool steels, composites, super alloys, etc. The studies of an experimental investigation evaluate the effects of EDM machining parameters such as MRR, EWR and Surface Roughness with two different electrode materials. The process parameters such as Input current, Pulse on time and duty cycle keeping flushing pressure constant. The full factorial design of experiment (L25) is used to study the effects of machining parameters. Investigations indicate that the output parameters of EDM increases with the increase in input current and the best machining rates are achieved with copper with through hole electrodes, better surface roughness compare to brass electrode. A brass electrode with higher input current and maximum pulse on time resulted in more EWR compared to copper electrodes. Also the increase in MRR by copper electrode, it improves the SR during Electric Discharge Machining.

Effect of Ergonomical Factors on the Employees

M. Umer Sohail, Abdur Rauf Kashif

To improve and enlightening production ergonomics is a search widespread to numerous organizations in diverse engineering and management zones. At the foundation is an ambition to eradicate hazards for job concerned musculoskeletal disorders, but recent observations on ergonomics have developed the discipline from a merely physiological, anthropometrical, and Psychosocial influential apprehension to an organizational, systems performance discipline. This research recommends that in an organization ergonomics infrastructure is made up of the structural, technical, executive and stakeholder comparative circumstances that allow or obstruct development of ergonomics. These circumstances spotlight on the positioning of diverse employees towards ergonomics concerns in an organization, the relationships between user, workers or employees, scenario, scheme and strategy they use for arguments, and the manipulate that occur from industry-particular culture, insolences and technical incorporation (or elimination) of ergonomics into engineering and production progressions. The information deduced from the research in this paper has been produced together with pertinent theoretical perceptions originated in the literature, into a Tentative Agenda which conducts empirical data assembly intended at planning the ergonomics infrastructure in an organization. Its step-by-step methodical appraisal of circumstances at diverse hierarchical levels in the organization should serve ergonomics experts and managers alike in classifying pathways and obstructions to improve production ergonomics.

Multicast Conventions to Improve Obstacle Detection and Collusion Avoidance in MANET

Ms.Savitha Patil, Dr. A.M.Bhavikatti, Abhijith M.R

As of late, it got to be obvious that gathering focused administrations are one of the essential application classes focused by MANETs. In spite of the fact that these conventions perform well under particular versatility situations, movement loads, and system conditions, no single convention has been appeared to be ideal in all situations. The objective of this paper is to describe the execution of multicast conventions over an extensive variety of MANET situations. To this end, we assess the execution of lattice and tree-based multicast steering plans in respect to flooding and prescribe conventions most reasonable for particular MANET situations. In view of the investigation and reproduction results, we likewise propose two varieties of flooding, perused flooding and hyper flooding, as a way to diminish overhead and expansion unwavering quality, separately. Another commitment of the paper is a recreation based relative investigation of the proposed flooding varieties against plain flooding, work, and tree-based MANET directing. In this paper we researched about various sending technique for GPSR in remote system furthermore discover the issues and their answers. The principle point of our study was to distinguish which directing strategy has better execution in very versatile environment of VANET. In MANET, this depletion of vitality will be more because of its infrastructure less nature and versatility. Because of this, the topology get shifted. This may definitely influence the execution of steering convention furthermore influence the system lifetime. To address this issue another calculation has been created which uses the system parameters identifying with element nature of hubs viz. vitality channel rate, relative versatility estimation to foresee the hub lifetime and connection lifetime. At that point execute this calculation in the DYMO convention environment. This will expand the system lifetime and adaptability. Further enhance the execution, we have actualized another calculation by incorporating course lifetime expectation calculation alongside the molecule swarm enhancement (PSO) calculation.

Decision Making Uncertain Environment - A Queuing Theory Approach

Bhupender Kumar Som

Consumer behavior is one of the most uncertain phenomenons. Customer impatience is one of those uncertain phenomenonâ€™s which is a threat to any business. Customer impatience results in loss of customers and business. Stochastic modeling provides numerical measurement of necessary measures of performance in any business up-to a certain extent. In this paper a multi-server Markovian queuing system is developed with reverse balking and impatient customers. Reverse balking is a very new concept introduced in stochastic queuing models. While reneging is one of the most known phenomenon in queuing theory. Steady-state solution of the newly developed model is derived. Necessary measures of performance are obtained and numerical results are presented. Sensitivity analysis of the model is also performed. MATLAB and MS Excel are used as and when needed.

Energy-Lifetime Control Algorithm for Variable Target Load Demands of Ad Hoc Networks

Amir J. Majid

The energy and lifetime of Ad hoc wireless sensor-target networks are improved using load control algorithm with different parameters and coverage load in demand, as well as sensor-target configurations. The main goal is to increase the lifetime of sensors by selecting appropriate sensor subsets to satisfy the minimum required value of overall coverage failure probability. The algorithm investigates the different sensor subsets, according to their coverage failure probabilities, and varying intervals of target load demands.

Investigation and Comparative Analysis of Energy Potentials from Different Biomass Sources

Ushie P.O., Odok E.O., Ettah E.B, Ishaje M.E.

Comparative analysis of energy potentials from different biomass sources were investigated to determine the energy potential stored in them: biomass materials used were cattle manure, wood and dry grass. Instruments used for this investigation includes: coffee can, thermometer, stop watch, heat source etc. simple heat equation was used to evaluate the heat potential in each material. Results shows that heat energy of cattle manure was 0.33264788J, wood was 0.1661868J and that of dry grass was 0.1001J. Showing that cattle manure has higher energy potential than wood and grass, meaning it will have more application for energy generation.

Comparison of Executive Functions in Addicted Young People who Referred to Addiction Treatment Camps with Students Ardebill

Ahad Babazadeh, Sara Feizollahi

Background and aim of the study: The present study compares the executive functions between pre-university male students and young addicted people who referred to addiction treatment camps.Method: The study is a causal-comparative study. The sample of study consisted of two groups of 25 male students and young addicted people who referred to addiction treatment camps of Ardebill city in 2014-2015, with coordination of sex, education and public health factors. Data was collected through researcher general health questionnaire for primary screening, Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, Stroop Color Word Test and the Wechsler Digit Span subscale. Data were analyzed by multivariate variance analysis. Findings of the study: data analysis indicated that there is a significant difference between the executive functions of young addicted people who are in addiction treatment camps and healthy students.Conclusion: According to the gathered results, itâ€™s likely that in addicts young, existence of neuropsychological anomalies such as weakness in executive function of response inhibition, Set shifting and updating of working memory, resulting in their weak performance compared to normal peers in the executive functions.

Study of High Risk Behaviors and their Association with Personality Factors

Gholipour Soheyla, Pourasoul Rasoul

This paper focuses on studying the issue of risky behavior and its relation to personality factors in students. method: The sample included 100 students who were selected via cluster random sampling from among all students of the university. To collect data on Eysinck personality questionnaire and Iranian Adolescents Risk-taking Scale, Zuckerman sensation seeking inventory and Beck Depression Inventory was used .The data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis. Finding: Pearson correlation coefficient showed that high-risk behavior personality traits of extraversion, neuroticism and psychosis-oriented, but a significant positive correlation with introversion personality characteristic and significant negative relationship. Multiple regression analysis showed that personality factors can be used to predict their risk behaviors. Conclusion: Considering the role of personality factors in high-risk tendency of people to different behavior.

State of Art of Doubly Fed Induction Generator in a Wind Energy Conversion System

Shilpa George, Prof. Shajilal A. S.

The need for energy in the world is increasing day by day and renewable energy resources prove to be an excellent choice to meet the energy demand. Wind energy resource is one such renewable energy resources, but the speed variation of wind can cause undesirable fluctuations in output voltage frequency. But doubly fed induction generator can work with variable speed input while maintaining the grid frequency constant. This paper presents the state of art of doubly fed induction generator in a wind energy conversion system.

Power Flow analysis by Unified Power Flow Controller

Poonam Chand Sahu, Neelesh Kumar Patel

It is very important to control the power flow along the transmission line. Thus to control and improve the performance of ac power systems, we need the various different types compensators Now-a-days the Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS) is very popular and essential device in power systems. After introducing the FACTS technology, power flow along the transmission lines becomes more flexible and controllable. Several FACTS-devices have been introduced for various applications in power system. Among a variety of FACTS controllers, Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC) is the most powerful and versatile device.

A Multi Criteria Approach for Selecting Third Party Logistics Provider using Analytical Hierarchical Processing (AHP) - Insights from Edible Oil Industry

Vani Haridasan

Edible oils constitute an important component of food expenditure in every household and thus a big market for the industry. As distribution is mainly dependent on third party logistics, there is an increasing need to analyse the complexity and make decisions pertaining to selecting a new third party logistics provider (3PL). The use of 3PL providers yield some benefits such as reduced logistics costs and fixed logistics assets, improved order fill rates and shortened average order-cycle lengths and cash-cash cycles. Logistics service provider selection is a complex multi â€“ criteria decision making process; in which, decision makers have to deal with the optimization of conflicting objectives such as quality, cost, and delivery time. In this context, this study proposes an evaluation framework and methodology for selecting a suitable 3PL provider using a multi criteria decision making technique - Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP). The factors that were considered for the study are operational factors, service factors and financial factors in the outbound logistics of the edible oil industry. Four logistics providers were used in this study. The findings of this study provide insights to the logistics managers on the systematic evaluation in the selection of the logistics providers using both qualitative and quantitative factors as well as how to deal effectively when there are conflicting factors.

A Two-Warehouse Model for Deteriorating Items with Holding Cost under Particle Swarm Optimization

Mr. Raj Kumar Singh, Dr. Ajay Singh Yadav, Ms. Anupam Swami

A deterministic inventory model has been developed for deteriorating items and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) having a ramp type demands with the effects of inflation with two-warehouse facilities. The owned warehouse (OW) has a fixed capacity of W units; the rented warehouse (RW) has unlimited capacity. Here, we assumed that the inventory holding cost in RW is higher than those in OW. Shortages in inventory are allowed and partially backlogged and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) it is assumed that the inventory deteriorates over time at a variable deterioration rate. The effect of inflation has also been considered for various costs associated with the inventory system and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). Numerical example is also used to study the behaviour of the model. Cost minimization technique is used to get the expressions for total cost and other parameters.

Recent Trends in the Quality of Language in Academic Writing: A Review

S.A. Harish Rajaraman, Michael Raj. T.F

Nowadays writing a quality article is an essential requirement in the world of science and technology if reaching end-users is going to be one of the main objectives, from an expertâ€™s point of view. The research attitude of budding researchers, in most of the cases, either prompts or motivates them to share and express their ideas to the research community in general, resulting in a considerable increase in the number of articles that get published over a period of time. Unfortunately, there is a growing popular discontent among the researchers in terms of the quality of articles that get published and its influence on an authorâ€™s achievement index, an index which is predominantly a â€˜number-of-publications-basedâ€™ one. This paper is an overview of the current trends in the quality of research articles focusing on the language used, in particular, and suggestive of some recommendations. Moreover, it is an attempt to list chosen excerpts from some of the â€˜faulty academic research papersâ€™ to illustrate the crux of the issue. Anyhow, it should be noted that any reader audience should not be misled by the use of â€˜faultyâ€™ since it concerns a certain paperâ€™s language quality.

A Two-Warehouse Model for Deteriorating Items with Holding Cost under Inflation and Soft Computing Techniques

Mr. Raj Kumar Singh, Dr. Ajay Singh Yadav, Ms. Anupam Swami

A deterministic inventory model has been developed for deteriorating items and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Genetic Algorithms (GA) and Fuzzy having a ramp type demands with the effects of inflation with two-warehouse facilities. The owned warehouse (OW) has a fixed capacity of W units; the rented warehouse (RW) has unlimited capacity. Here, we assumed that the inventory holding cost in RW is higher than those in OW. Shortages in inventory are allowed and partially backlogged and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Genetic Algorithms (GA) and Fuzzy it is assumed that the inventory deteriorates over time at a variable deterioration rate. The effect of inflation has also been considered for various costs associated with the inventory system and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Genetic Algorithms (GA) and Fuzzy. Numerical example is also used to study the behaviour of the model. Cost minimization technique is used to get the expressions for total cost and other parameters.

Left Zero Divisor Graphs of Totally Ordered Rings

Satyanarayana Bhavanari, Srinivasulu Devanaboina, Mallikarjun Bhavanari

In this paper we consider prime graph of R (denoted by ) of an associative ring R (introduced by Satyanarayana, Syam Prasad and Nagaraju [6]). This short paper is divided into two Sections. Section-1 is devoted for preliminary definitions. In section-2, we constructed Left zero divisor graph of R (denoted by LZDG(R)) where R = the set of all matrices over the ring of integers modulo 2.

Color: The Mantra for Marketing

Kulbir Kaur Bhatti, Farhat Fatima

In the present scenario, color is emphasized as the most required component of the market and marketers. The customers are attracted using different colors for the products by the manufacturers. The competition prevailing in the market has made the organizations use several strategies using color. Now days the customers go to the various retail stores and buy the products by seeing the packaging as it creates an effective image of the product in their minds. The marketers have to understand the knowledge of the consumers to select the right color for product. The impact of the visual aspects helps the organizations to pass the information to the consumers. The color can affect the consumerâ€™s perception and their buying decision. The brands are also recognized because of the fixed colors of their products which provide them brand equity. Every color has been accepted in different way by the various cultures and the emotions attached to it is also different. Color is opted differently by the two genders. In this research paper how the color is used by different cultures, the sentiments associated are studied. A glance of the impact of the color on the consumer behavior is also studied. Without appropriate selection of color the marketers will not be able to attract the customers.

Employment Status of the Graduates of De La Salle Lipaâ€™s Certificate in Medical Transcription Program: A Tracer Survey and an Assessment

Bernardo Cuevas Lunar

De La Salle Lipa has been offering the Certificate in Medical Transcription since June 2006. It is a 1- year certificate program that blends online transcription, facility- based instruction, and on the job training. The Departmentâ€™s Vision- Mission is to be the leading provider of qualified medical transcriptionists both in local and global healthcare industry. It also aims to produce medical transcriptionists with Lasallian values who are efficient in converting dictated medical records into electronic data. This tracer study looked into the different aspects of the graduates past and present activities, more particularly in the aspects of education, training and employment. Utilizing a customized questionnaire in gathering vital information for the study, 22 graduates belonging to four batches from AY 2006- 2010 were surveyed. The study revealed that majority of the graduates are young adults falling on the age bracket 20-30 years old; are single and are female and have attended 1 or 2 years of college and are shiftees from different degree courses. Graduates consider listening skills, competence in Human Anatomy, and transcription practice as most useful in their job. MT graduates are highly employable, mostly are hired as medical transcriptionists, some are call center agents and MT trainer. Strengths that were cited include on-line training, effective and efficient course delivery, the mentors and the school facilities. The non- usage of foot pedals and the length and duration of the training are the perceived weaknesses. Recommendations on intensifying the marketing strategy for the program and for some modifications in the course flow and design are put forward.

Implementerâ€™s Evaluation of the Community Involvement Programs of De La Salle Lipa

Bernardo C. Lunar, Judith Alcaraz

De La Salle Lipa, like other higher educational institutions as mandated by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), has community extension services in the areas of education, livelihood generation, health and nutrition, good governance, technology transfer, environmental awareness and socio-civic and religious matters. The study was aimed at assessing the Community Involvement Programs of De La Salle Lipa- College Division. Looking at the participation of the faculty members from each college during the school year 2010- 2011, it was found out that majority of them are rendering more than the required number of hours of either internal or external community involvement. It was noted that all the full-time faculty members of the College of Business, Economics, Accountancy and Management (CBEAM) got the rating 5. As to the evaluation done by the implementers on the general aspect of the community involvement in terms of program description, accountability, understanding and refining, progress towards objectives and program long-term outcomes, the respondents regarded the community involvement programs as highly satisfactory with composite means ranging from 3.33 - 3.69. Assessment of the implementation of the community involvement program using goals-based, process-based and outcomes- based evaluations were also done yielding the following composite mean values, 3. 52, 3.19, and 3.16, respectively. Based on the values, the implementer respondents considered the implementation of existing community involvement programs as highly satisfactory despite the relatively lower ratings.

Outcomes - Based Evaluation of the Transformative Learning Design in Environmental Science Course of De La Salle Lipa

Environmental Science is one of the General Education subjects among college students that focuses on preservation and conservation of biological and physical aspects of the natural world by emphasizing problems and corresponding solutions. To understand these concepts and to demonstrate the Expected Lasallian Graduate Attributes (ELGAs) such as developing students to become critical thinkers, excellent communicators and socially responsible citizens, the transformative learning design was employed. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate the outcomes of employing the said design specifically in the attainment of ELGAs. This study used descriptive method of research with the aid of the questionnaire checklist and unstructured interview to assess studentsâ€™ perception regarding the level of attainment of the three expected learning outcomes among purposively sampled students who were enrolled in Environmental Science course during the SY 2010-2011 and 2011-2012. Based on the results of this study, an action plan for 2012 â€“ 2013 and guideline for transformative learning were proposed.

Automatic Lighting Mechanism on Highways during Midnight

Shivkumar Goel, Rajesh Bangera, Vikram Vijayaraghavan

This paper presents the key points in implementing automatic lighting mechanism on highway roads with the help of moving object detection in urban cities during midnight. The objective of the object detection system will be to detect objects confined in a particular area. The detection system will thus require important information like speed of moving objects, size of objects and number of vehicles on the road. The lighting system is responsible for switching off the lights in a particular area where the object detection monitoring system evaluates to a minimum threshold value. The lighting system will be active 350m to direction of the object moving in a particular direction.