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Composition of Advances in the District Central Cooperative Banks in Punjab
Authors: Goel Priya , Pathak Dr. Devender
Published: February 2019

The Banking scene in India has undergone a tremendous change due to the Narsimham Committee recommendations since 1992 i.e. with the advent of the new economic policy. It emphasized shift from centralized planning to indicative planning. Thus the committee shifted its onus from ownership to efficiency and competitiveness while ensuring the integrity and operational autonomy of the banks. Financial sector reforms, based on Narsimham committee recommendations, aim at fostering financially strong banking cooperative in a competitive world. As a result of these financial sector developments, policy makers and social thinkers were apprehensive that cooperative banking sector will be facing the challenges of increasing competition, emerging opportunities and withdrawal of government support and may have to abandon its social objectives. But cooperative banking system has some inherent strength in the form of its reach, infrastructure and intimate relations with its customers which have strengthened these banks to make a vital contribution to nations development. Cooperative banking system has progressively matured and is preparing itself to successfully meet new challenges. This paper is focused on one of the main business areas of the District Central Cooperative Banks of Punjab i.e. composition of advances. In this paper, a brief outline has been given about the various loan schemes of the District Central Cooperative Banks and the total loans outstanding in different categories of loans advanced during the period of study i.e. from 2000 to 2010.
Peoples Perspective of CSR in Pakistan
Authors: Haider Mubarak Hussain , Irfan Malik Muhammad , Hashmi Aijaz Mustafa
Published: February 2019

Corporate social responsibility is now the legitimate concern for the future survival of the organizations. The companies that are aligned with corporate social responsibility in stake holders perspective will be competitively ahead of their competitors. All past researches focus have been on the companies perspective, what they do and how they do? First time this research was from the perspective of the people of Pakistan, what they think and expect from the companies. The data was collected from all provinces of Pakistan, Punjab, Khyber Pakhtun  Khawa(KPK), Sind, Baluchistan, federal city (Islamabad), Azad Jamu Kashmir (AJK), including 24 cities of provinces. Total 5000 questionnaire were sent through mail and email to the people of all communities and departments such as Universities, colleges, schools, hospitals, parks, villages, factories, departmental stores, food streets etc. Telephone calls and self administered approach were also used to collect data and total 3275 (66%) questionnaires were received and 167 were rejected due to non conformity to research. The data was analyzed from qualified 3108 (62%) questionnaires. The data of questionnaire on 16 codes of CSR depicts that the people of Pakistan rated education number one, employment number 2, healthcare number 3 and environment protection on number four the main issues. The companies that follow the hierarchy selected by the people of Pakistan, education, employment, healthcare and environment protection will be more successful than the companies which do not follow the hierarchy. The new business entrepreneurs can take the advantage right from the start of the business by investing in education, creating more employment opportunities, investing in health care related issues and protecting the environment from pollution. The research has set a prerequisite for the new entrepreneur while considering CSR priorities in Pakistan.
Academic Law Libraries & Management of Resources for National Development In Nigeria
Authors: Anyaegbu Ifeyinwa Mercy , Obiozor-Ekeze Roseline Nkechi
Published: February 2019

The vision of the administration under Goodluck Jonathan is packaged in Transformation Agenda which is aimed at holistic overhaul of every segment of national life. Members of the legal profession have a critical role to play towards the success of the transformation agenda. However, a lawyer can only be as good as the system of legal education that produced him; hence the need to revive and reposition the legal education framework. The paper discussed the responsibility of academic law libraries in the shaping of legal practitioners and towards the academic community. It x-rayed the challenges facing these libraries and made recommendations for improved law library services in Nigeria.
Strategy as Practice: A study of the practices of strategic action in the SMEs store cluster
Authors: Luiz Marietto Marcio , Sanches Cida
Published: February 2019

This study through ethnographic procedures and Strategy-as-Practice assumptions, grounded specifically the ActivityBased View theory, show how the individuals (owners, entrepreneurs, managers, salespeople and other social actors) in  the small store cluster interact with the internal and external environmen t formulate, influence and execute strategies through and between organizations to ensure the dynamic durability of the small stores and the cluster. The analytic  results point to the dynamic adaptation of social actors ability of small stores to share mea nings in the daily achievement of strategizing embedded in the institutional dynamic context of the rituals, ceremonies and symbolism of the institution of marriage.
Impact of Narega on Rural Areas of Hoshiarpur
Authors: Sahni Kanika , Sahni Nancy , Gupta Dr.B.P
Published: February 2019

Since its enactment in 2005, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) has been implemented in 200 districts in India, it is an employment programmer coupled with a rural upliftment scheme to create social equity, an empowerment scheme and a crucial public investment method to create durable assets The State is made legally binding to satisfy the right to work and wage payment within 15 days as per this scheme. State Governments are liable to pay unemployment allowance to wage seekers if it fails to provide employment within the stipulated time. The main objective of our study to check the awareness level of people about NREGA scheme, its effectiveness and Women empowerment on the basis of participation level and income household in the Hoshiarpur district of Punjab. The study conducted is descriptive as well as exploratory and data is collected through structured questionnaire. This study has resulted into positive impact on empowering the women.
Study of Blood Flow with Effects of Slip in Arterial Stenosis Due to Presence of Transverse Magnetic Field
Authors: Ahmed Sarfraz
Published: February 2019

The flow of blood in human circulatory system can be controlled by applying appropriate magnetic field. It is also well known that non-Newtonian nature of blood significantly influences the flows, particularly in the cases where blood vessels are curved, branching or narrow etc. Stenosis refers to localized narrowing of an artery and is a frequent result of arterial disease and is caused mainly due to intravascular atherosclerotic plaque which develops at the arterial wall and protrudes into the lumen of the vessel. Such constrictions disturb normal blood flow through the artery. Here study is made on the flow of blood through a stenosed artery with the effect of slip at the boundary in presence of transverse magnetic field considering blood as Casson fluid (non- Newtonian fluid). The equations of motion has have been solved numerically. The effect of various parameters on the flow characteristics like Hartmann number, Reynolds number has been discussed. Numerical results were obtained for different values of the Hartmann number M and Reynolds number Re. It is observed that the fluid velocity decreases as the Hartmann number increases.
A study on understanding of employee engagement practices: comparison between banks and higher education institutions
Authors: Kumar Singh Anil , Yadav Priyender
Published: February 2019

Employee engagement has been high on agenda of a number of researchers and organizations in the recent years . A successful employee engagement strategy helps creating a community at the work place and not just a work force. An engaged employee is aware of business context, and works with colleagues to improve performance within the job for the benefit of the organization. The organization must work to develop and nurture engagement, which requires a two -way relationship between employer and employee. Thus Employee engagement is a barometer that determines the association of a person with the organization. As a researcher this concept requires careful investigation and the interest, therefore is to extract the determinants of employee engagement and to understand what all factors contribute to this concept. Literature has proved that it is the trust which measures the degree of employee engagement, s o in the present study the researchers have tried to find out the effect of trust and value on employee engagement.As banks and higher educational institutions offer a comparative platform to study the practices because both are in service sectors and the competencies required are relatively same. Further, these organizations are heavily focused on Human Resources as an asset and their image is directly associated with employees acts and behaviors.So in the present paper the researchers have tried to explore the rationale of employee engagement practices through data analysis by using SPSS and Excel . For the purpose the data has been collected through questionnaire and statistical tools like multivariate analysis and ANOVA etc has been used.
Karyotyping of Human Chromosomes Using M_FISH Images
Authors: T K Mumthas , A Lijiya , Govindan V K
Published: February 2019

Karyotyping is a technique used to align the chromosomes in the decreasing order of size so that the structural and numerical changes can be easily identified. Traditional chromosome analysis is simplified by the introduction of M_FISH (multiplex fluorescence in-situ hy-bridization), a combinatorial labeling technique in which each chromosomes appears in distinct color. In this paper, Bayes classification of M-FISH chromosome images using the features intensity in five channel as well as size of the chromosome is presented. Watershed transform is employed for segmentation . Also reclassification of small misclassified segments to the neighbor region is performed as post-processing to improve the performance. The classifier was trained and tested on a set of images from the dataset [2] and an overall accuracy of 91.09% was obtained.
Critical Factors of CSR in India: An Empirical Evaluation
Authors: Tyagi Rupal , Sharma A.K. , Agrawal Vijay
Published: February 2019

The past two decades have witnessed a remarkable change in the way businesses run and operate. Profit maximization is no longer remains the focus of businesses. The turn of events has pressurized firms to put serious efforts into a wide range of social responsibility activities and thus shift the corporate goals from socio - economic focus towards increasing shareholder value to the welfare of all stakeholders. The present study determines critical CSR factors that may influence the business and strategic decisions for the Indian corporations using survey instrument. Factor Analysis, one way ANOVA and Descriptive statistics were used for the analysis. The study reports that â€˜Financial Health, Competency and Stakeholders are the basic pillars of every organization.
D2UIGP: A Development Work for the User Interface Design in Grid Portals
Authors: Vargas lombardo Miguel , Gutierrez Doris
Published: February 2019

Nowadays when we talk about Grid computing, it is important to emphasize the importance that it is having on the development various human areas, but it is also important to mention Grid portals and the impact these are having on the development of Grid computing, at serving as support in researches using this technology. In this paper, we present an overview of the importance of Grid portals and outstanding points will be announced on the use of HCI to the design of these portals, taking in consideration the usability that these must have.
E-Business Readiness of the SMEs in Jordan
Authors: Awajan Arafat Atwi , EL-OMARI Nidhal Kamel , AL-SHALABI Hasan , W. AWAJAN Al-Bara
Published: February 2019

This paper presents the main findings of a survey conducted to evaluate the e-business readiness of small and medium enterprises in Jordan. A questionnaire was administered in the late 2011 to 200 SME operating in different economical sectors in the country. The survey aimed at analyzing the e-business readiness of these organizations by exploring three levels of analysis: the status of the ICT infrastructure, a general assessment of ICT competencies in businesses, an analysis of needs for training and an evaluation of the maturity of the market and the surrounded environment. The results show that the ICT, mainly used for administrative and commercial purposes, is considered as an investment. Its budget is allocated most of the time towards upgrading, creating new services and maintenance. They suggest a strong adoption of basic ICT, such as personnel computers, Internet access, and Web site. Exploitation of these technologies has been marked by the improvements in work organization, time saving and cost reduction. However, most of the SMEs faced problems in training employees, implementation costs and lack of maturity of the market. At the national level, the results show that more maturity is needed in the technical, business, and legal infrastructure.
A Review paper on emotional intelligence: Models and relationship with other constructs
Authors: Mehta Sandhya , Singh Namrata
Published: February 2019

The concept of emotional intelligence is of unparalleled interest in both the popular literature and within academia. Much work is being done to discover exactly what emotional intelligence encompasses and how it would be most effectively applied. The present paper will attempt to review the literature surrounding emotional intelligence (E.I.). It shall study the construct of E.I. by reviewing the different models, the measures used to assess them, and the relationship between these models and other similar constructs. Further, it will review the applicability of the E.I. construct to applied academic settings and shall propose how future research in this area could be applied to various levels to enhance teacher effectiveness.
HARQ Implementation for Efficient MAC to MAC Video Streaming over Mobile WiMAX
Authors: R Shankar Arathi , G Raghavendra , Rao V. Sambasiva
Published: February 2019

IEEE 802.16e is the standard for Mobile WiMAX which was introduced by the IEEE committee to provide broadband access in rural and urban areas over fixed wireless channels. Mobile WiMAX is an enhanced version of IEEE 802.16 standard with mobility support. There are lots of challenges involved in the service provided by the Mobile WiMAX. Efficient data transfer between different layers of mobile WiMAX is one of the major research issues. In this work HARQ (Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request) technique is implemented in Qualnet environment for an efficient transmission of video streaming across PHY(Physical) and MAC(Medium Access Control) layer of mobile WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access). HARQ utilizes both FEC (Forward Error Correction) an d ARQ (Automatic Repeat Request) techniques to reduce the delay, jitter and to increase throughput efficiently under prescribed quality of service constraint. Different Scheduling schemes and cross layer approaches that support mobile WiMAX are analysed. mmSIR scheduler is used in this work since it allocates resources priority wise. Diffferent network quality parameters like end to end delay,average jitter,and average throughput have been analysed by using existing ARQ and implemented HARQ techniques.Both ARQ and HARQ techniques are compared for a video application.
A Literature Review of Mergers and Acquisitions
Authors: NIRMALA Dr.S. , G ARUNA
Published: February 2019

An extensive review of literature has been carried out in order to get a good understanding in the topic of Mergers and Acquisitions. Literature review has been done from books, journal, published papers etc.The issues covered include Motives, Share value creation, Financial performance, operating performance. These studies have been reviewed and presented in the following manner. Literature review has been collected from both within India and outside India.
Technical Efficiency of Manufacturing Enterprises in Libya: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis
Authors: Essmui Hodud , Berma Madeline , Bt. Shahadan Faridah , Bt. Ramlee Shamshubarida
Published: February 2019

This paper examines the performance of manufacturing firms in Libya. Specifically, it evaluates firm level technical efficiency. The paper uses an econometric approach based on a stochastic frontier production function to analyze 207 firms from survey conducted from March to May 2013. The results from estimations reveal that technical efficiencies of Libyan manufacturing firms ranging from 37.77 percent to 95.27 percent, with an average of 71.27 percent. While, the percent of firms that considered technically efficient is only 17.87 percent of the total firms.
Comprehensive Survey of Routing Techniques in Wireless Sensor Network
Authors: Sharma Nidhi , Sharma Shikha
Published: February 2019

Wireless Sensor Netw orks ( WSNs) c onsist of small nodes with sensing, computation, and wireless communications capabilities. Many routing, power management, and data dissemination protocols have been specifically designed for WSNs where energy awareness is an essential design issue. The focus , however, has been given to the routing protocols which might differ depending on the application and netw ork architecture. In this paper, we present a survey of the state-of-the-art routing techniques in WSNs. We first outline the designchallenges for routing protocols in WSNs followed by a comprehensive survey of different routing techniques . Overall, the routing techniques are classified into three categories based on the underlying netw ork structure: flat, hierarchical, and location-based routing. Furthermore, these protocols can be classified into multipath-based,query-based, negotiation-based, QoS-based, and coherent-based depending on the protocol operation. We study the design tradeoffs b e twe e n ener gy and communication overhead savings in every routing paradigm. We also highlight the adv antages and performance issues of each routing technique.
Implications of Labour welfare measures on Job Satisfaction and productivity: A Study Of Cotton Textile Industry in Punjab
Authors: Garg Minakshi , Jain Dr. Pardeep
Published: February 2019

Labour welfare means the effort to make the life comfortable for the workers. Key objective behind providing welfare measures is that workers obtain satisfaction which would ultimately lead to better productivity. Welfare activities will go along way to better the mental and moral health of workers by reducing vices of industrialization. India which launched a boat of social security sometime in the second half of the nineteen century has still been in troubled waters and is far awayfrom the cherished goal of full social security for her citizens. So this study is conducted to know whether the workers are aware and satisfied with the welfare facilities provided by textile industry in punjab as the textile industry is the single largest manufacturing industry of India which had a st rong impact on the development of the labour and trade union movement in India. The study is conducted to make some suggestions for betterment of workers in future because the successful implementation of labour welfare activities are an extension of democratic values in an industrialized society.
An Agent-based Negotiation Model Selector for Managing Negotiation Processes in Corrective and Preventive Actions: A Conceptual Framework
Authors: Jaafar Nur Huda , Ahmad Mohd Sharifuddin
Published: February 2019

Negotiation is an important process of management in any organizations especially if it involves quality management such as in corrective and preventive actions (CPA). The ability of software agent to implement automated negotiation can help organizations resolve or avoid conflicts. While many negotiation models have been developed, studies in intelligent selection of integrated negotiation models are still lacking. This paper proposes a conceptual framework for an agent-based negotiation model selector engine to resolve conflicts in the CPA activities. Several software agents will be involved to operate the proposed engine, in order to assist organizations in resolving conflicts and maintaining high quality management.
Feasibility Study of Designing and Implementing Performance Budgeting in the Iranian Public Universities and Academic Institutions: The Case of the Sharif University of Thechnology
Authors: Mashayekhi Bita , Mostafa SeyedHosseini Seyed , Attaran Navid
Published: February 2019

The role of budgeting in governmental universities is vital since it affects youth generation. According to recent article  passed by education ministry of Iran fundamental changes in universities management is required. In this study Sharif University of Thechnology has been chosen as a case study, obstacles in are identified and relatively a solution is proposed. The result indicates the necessity of implementing performance budgeting in this university.
Optimization of Silicon solar cell in MATLAB/SIMULINK for improved efficiency
Authors: Panchal Rutvi Rohit , Jolly Lochan
Published: February 2019

Solar energy is an important part of life and has been in use since the beginning of time. Increasingly, man is learning how to yoke this important resource and use it to replace traditional energy sources. Solar cells are the development to store the solar energy and reproduce electricity. But the amount of energy converted is very less, that is the efficiency of conversion is poor. The main challenge is to improve the efficiency so that the losses can be minimized. The Maximum Power Points are found and the Fill Factor is calculated. Â The comparative study of silicon solar cell and panels with different sizes is done in this paper using MATLAB and SIMULINK model. The simulated results are compared with practically tested solar cell at Standard Test Conditions (STC).
Web Archiving: Techniques, Challenges, and Solutions
Authors: Anthony Adoghe , Onasoga Kayode , Ike Dike , Ajayi Olujimi
Published: February 2019

Web archiving is the process of collecting valuable content from the World Wide Web in a an archival format, to ensure the information can be managed independently and preserved for the general public, historians, researchers, and future generation. If the Web is not preserved, eventually valuable content will be lost forever. The Web is a very valuable source of information and several government and private institutions are involved in archiving parts of it for various purposes. This paper gives an overview of web archiving, describes the techniques used in web archiving, discusses some challenges encountered during web archiving and gives possible solutions to these challenges.
Exploring Critical Quality Factors in Engineering Education: A Students Perspective
Authors: Sengupta Santoshi , Sharma Arpita
Published: February 2019

Indian engineering education has been subjected to swift and radical change over the recent years, especially with the increase in private institutes across the length and breadth of the nation. This paper aims at determining the gap between expectations and perceptions of engineering education from the perspective of students. Servqual instrument was used to gather data from 189 students from new age private engineering institutes. Reliability tests, correlation and regression were done to ensure the validity of the data collected. Further, gap analysis was done to check out for the existing gaps. Correlation was also done to find out the relationship between the dimensions of education quality and overall satisfaction of the students, and finally regression was done to find out the actual determinants of students satisfaction. The is helpful for both engineering institutes and other academicians as it helps in disentangling the perceptions about education quality from the students point of view. This will largely help the upcoming private institutes to design their services in the best possible manner.
On Demand Multicasting Routing Protocol compared with AODV and FSR in Mobile Ad hoc Network
Authors: Bondre Kavita Kundlik , Jadhav Prof. Ajitsinh.N.
Published: February 2019

Mobile ad hoc network is a collection of wireless nodes that dynamically organize themselves to form a network without the need for any fixed infrastructure or centralized administration. The network topology dynamically changes frequently in an unpredictable manner since nodes are free to move. Support for multicasting is essential in such environment as it is considered to be an efficient way to deliver information from source nodes to many client nodes. On-Demand Multicast Routing Protocol is a protocol for routing multicast and unicast traffic throughout adhoc wireless mesh networks. ODMRP creates routes on demand so they suffer from a route acquisition delay,although it helps reduce network traffic in general. In future thisÂ  results will be compared with AODV and FSR protocol and ODMRP performs better as compared with AODV and FSR protocol.
Performance Optimization and Comparison of CNT Interconnect with Copper at VDSM Technology
Authors: Abdul Kadir Kureshi , Hasan Mohd
Published: February 2019

As the CMOS process technology continues to scale, standard copper (Cu) interconnect will become a major hurdle for the best performance at very deep submicron (VDSM) technology node. The carbon nanotube (CNT) bundles have potential to provide an attractive solution for the higher resistivity and electromigration problems faced by traditional copper interconnects in VDSM technology node. This paper presents important guidelines to minimize the resistance, capacitance and inductance of a mixed CNT bundle interconnect for achieving best performance. The performance of mixed CNT bundle and copper is then compared at local and global interconnects level at 22nm technology node. HSPICE simulations carried out using Berkeley predictive technology model (BPTM) at an operating frequency of 1GHz, shows that for interconnect length of 1000um, the mixed CNT and optimized CNT (CNT_Opt) bundles are 1.98X and 2.20X faster, 74% and 84% more energy efficient respectively than the Copper interconnects.
Trust Models in Cloud Computing - A Perspective
Authors: Kumawat Shyamlal , Tomar Prof. Deepak
Published: February 2019

Cloud computing is a new paradigm in which dynamically scalable virtualized computing resources, services and information are provided as a service among the people and organizations across the globe over the Internet. The recent developments in cloud computing technology placed numerous challenges in the field of Cloud Computing, including data replication, consistency, reliability, availability and scalability of cloud resources, portability, trust, security, and privacy. Still most of the organizations are not adapting cloud computing due to lack of trust on service provider. This paper gives an overview of cloud computing, and discusses trust and related security challenges. The important elements of cloud environment, which shapes the users trust and provides a way of evaluating each elements importance, are emphasized. Although there are many technological approaches that can develop trust in cloud provider and improve cloud security, there are currently no one-size-fits-all solutions, and future work has to tackle challenges such as trust model for security, as well as suitable mechanisms for ensuring accountability in the cloud. As trust based schemes have been widely discussed and applied in a lot of cloud computing scenarios, becoming subject of scientific researches, this paper also presents a survey of few trust models.
Impact Of Liquidity On Return On Assets Of Firms: Evidence From Nigeria
Authors: Takon Samuel Manyo , Ogakwu Vera N.
Published: February 2019

This study aims at examining the impact of liquidity on Return on Assets on 46 quoted firms listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange from 2000-2009 . Liquidity and its management determine to a great extent the growth and profitability of a firm because inadequate or excess liquidity may be injurious to the smooth operations of the firm. This has become a source of concern for business managers as bank loans are becoming too expensive to maintain as a result of tightening of both the local and international financial market and the reluctance of the public to invest in the shares of companies sequel to the partial crash of the capital market. From the hypothesis test carried out, the result of the study showed that liquidity has a significant positive impact on Return on Assets (ROA), implying that a unit change in liquidity will result into a corresponding increase in ROA. It is concluded therefore that managers can increase profitability by putting in place good credit policy, short cash conversion cycle and an effective cash flow management procedures.
Virtualization An Emerging Technology A Technology Overview
Authors: Babu Suresh , Ramar Dr. K.
Published: February 2019

Virtualization is one of the hottest trends in information technology today. This is no accident. While a variety of technologies fall under the virtualization umbrella, all of them are changing the IT world in significant ways. This paper introduces Microsofts virtualization technologies, focusing on three areas: hardware virtualization, presentation virtualization, and application virtualization. Since every technology, virtual or otherwise, must be effectively managed, this paper also looks at Microsofts management products for a virtual world. The goal is to make clear what these offerings do, describe a bit about how they do it, and show how they work together.
Multi Frequency Approach to Analog Fault Diagnosis using Pole Sensitivity Analysis
Authors: Rao S.P. Venu Madhava
Published: February 2019

In this paper an efficient algorithm using multi-frequency approach has been applied to fault diagnosis of analog electronic circuits using Pole Sensitivity analysis. In this paper, after application of the multi frequency approach to the pole sensitivity analysis the results show that the fault diagnosis of the circuit has increased. This has been proved by taking two circuits a second order Sallen Key Filter and RC Ladder network.
New Patterns And Techniques In Knowledge Discovery Through Data Mining
Authors: Krishna Tiruveedula Gopi , Abdelhadi Dr.Mohamed Abdeldaiem , Subramanian M.Madhusudhana
Published: February 2019

The main focus of this paper discussion was on mining and its set of techniques used in an automated approach to exhaustively explore and bring to the surface complex relationships in very large datasets. We discussed how a decision support process can be used to search for patterns of information in data. And also discussed different techniques for finding and describing structural patterns in data as well. Knowledge Discovery is a concept that describes the process of automatically searching large volumes of data for patterns that can be considered knowledge about the data. We discussed all automatic and semi-automatic process of discovering the patterns in data that how it leads to some advantage in businesses to make knowledge driven decisions, which help the company to succeed and compete.
Classes of Unique Face and Its Classification
Authors: Kulkarni Raghavendra , Rao Dr. P. Nageswar
Published: February 2019

Near resembling faces ,Look alike faces, disguised faces and many more are todays challenges for researchers in the field of face recognition and these challenges become more serious in case of large facial Variations. Humans are able to identify reliably a large number of faces but a automated face recognition system must be face specific, it should effectively use features that discriminate a face from others by preferably amplifying distinctive characteristics of face. Face recognition has drawn wide attention from researchers in areas of machine learning, computer vision, pattern recognition, neural networks, access control, information security, law enforcement and surveillance, smart cards etc. This paper shows that how the unique face which is having a unique singular value per face under different variations is effectively classified and recognized.
A Review Paper on Comparative Study of FPGA Implementation of Adhoc Security Algorithms
Authors: Verma Dr. Seema , Srivastava Pooja , Ramavat Divya , Srivastava Nupur
Published: February 2019

Nowadays data security is an important issue for decentralized networks like Adhoc Network. In this paper, we have proposed the study of five FPGA implementated data security algorithms specially designed for adhoc network. We have proposed the role of FPGAs within a security system and provided the solutions to security challenges. The result shows that FPGA implementation outperforms software and processors implementation by 20 and 140 times respectively.
An Advanced Neural Network based Method for Noise Removal and Edge Detection
Authors: Kaur Baljit , Dhir Vijay
Published: February 2019

Edge detection is an important pre-processing step for any image processing application, object recognition and emotion detection. Edge detection is very helpful in case of noise free images. But in case of noisy images it is a challenging task.Noisy images are corrupted images. Their parameters are difficult to analyze and detect. In this research work different filters are used for the filtration of the image and to analyze that what exact difference it makes when it comes to detect t he edge of the image. It includes the comparative study of various image denoising filters. These Filters are then applied withBFO Algorithm and they are compared with one another which help to calculate the parameters of noisy images. The comparison parameters which have been taken into contrast are Peak Signal to Noise Ratio, Mean Square Error and Noise Suppression Rate.
Cloud Computing As an Emerging Paradigm in E-Learning: SWOT Analysis
Authors: M. Tak Dr. Reena , Upadhyay Dr. Atul
Published: February 2019

E-learning, also known as CBT (Computer-Based Training), IBT (Internet-Based Training) or WBT (Web-Based Training),refers to electronic learning where electronic devices like computer and technology like internet and its services play an important role in teaching and learning process. The content is delivered digitally with learning support and other services to the learner. To successfully implement this process, hi -tech devices and technological advancements need to be accommodated in due course. Huge investments in establishing all these resources became a bottleneck for medium and small scale institutions in India. Cloud computing emerged as a solution as it provide almost any service as a shared and pay per use resource. It provides resources and capabilities of information technology via services offered by cloud service provider through internet. In this paper, the authors study the e-learning scenario and cloud computing as a solution provider. The authors also did a quick Strength, Weakness, opportunity, Threat (SWOT) analysis for the above mentioned context.
Balancing Energy Consumption in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Fuzzy Artificial Bee Colony Routing Protocol
Authors: S. Alshawi Imad
Published: February 2019

Energy is an extremely critical resource for battery-powered Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), thus making energy-efficient protocol design a key challenging problem. Most of the existing routing protocols always forward packets along the minimum energy paths to merely minimize energy consumption, which causes an Uneven Energy Consumption (UEC) problem and eventually results in a network partition. Due to the limited energy resources of sensor nodes, selecting an appropriate routing protocol can be significantly improve overall performance especially energy awareness in WSNs. Therefore, this paper proposes an energy-efficient routing protocol called Fuzzy Artificial Bee Colony Routing Protocol (FABCRP) which is capable of finding the optimal routing path form the source to the destination by favoring some of routing criteria and balancing among them to prolong the network lifetime. To demonstrate the effectiveness of FABCRP in terms of balancing energy consumption and maximization of network lifetime, we compare it with Fuzzy approach, ABC algorithm and Fuzzy_A-star approach using the same criteria in two different topographical areas. Simulation results show that the network lifetime achieved by FABCRP could be increased by nearly 35%, 30%, and 15% more than that obtained by Fuzzy, ABC and Fuzzy_A-star respectively.
Research system of semantic information in medical videoconference based on conceptual graphs and domain ontologies
Authors: Afef Zwidi , Yengui Ameni , Mahmoud Neji
Published: February 2019

The multiplication of the number of AudioVisual Documents (AVD) engendered a problem while searching for information within gigantic databases of which we are incapable to index their contents completely manually. Indeed, several complex difficulties are put by these documents because of the vertiginous increase of the quantity of the multimedia data to be treated and the specification met in the representation and the extraction of their contents in particular semantics of the fact that these documents contain three types of media (text, sound, image). AVDs can be classified in professional broadcasted videos (movies, emissions), sporting videos, video controlling, videoconference etc. In this paper, we propose a model of representation of the semantic contents of videoconferences documents in medicine based on the conceptual graphs taking into account the different modalities. This model is based on the concepts extraction and the semantic relations between them and appeals ontology domain.
Rôle de l’endettement extérieur dans le financement du développement économique : cas des pays de la région MENA
Authors: BEN ALI Tarek , Zidi Ahmed
Published: February 2019

En considérant les économies de la région MENA, l’objet de cette recherche est d’étudier le rôle de l’endettement extérieur dans le financement du développement. Il s’agit en particulier d’étudier la relation entre la dette extérieure et la croissance économique. En fait, les changements politico-économiques que connaît le Sud de la Méditerranée combinésaux urgences dictées par la crise de la dette souveraine en Europe fait qu'il est pertinent de s'interroger sur la réponse à apporter aux défis économiques que doit relever la région MENA dans son ensemble. Au premier rang de ces défis figure la problématique de l’endettement extérieur et son rôle dans le financement de développement économique. L’étude s’est inspirée du modèle de Patillo et al. (2002) et elle utilise la technique de panel. Ainsi et en combinant des ratios d’endettement et les principaux déterminants de la croissance économique, nous avons vérifié l’existe d’un seuil optimal au-delà duquel l’endettement extérieur ralentit la croissance économique (l’existence d’une courbe de Laffer de la dette). Pour la région MENA, la dette extérieure en soit n'est pas un frein au développement lorsqu’elle est contenue dans des limites raisonnables ; au contraire, elle peut aider ces pays à consolider leur croissance. Par ailleurs, uneaugmentation du service de la dette a un impact négatif sur la croissance économique et le canal de transmission de cet impact passe par la qualité de l’investissement et par le fardeau de la dette. Les résultats obtenus montrent égalementqu’il existe une relation non linéaire entre la dette et la croissance, c’est-à-dire qu’il y a un seuil critique qui rendrait la croissance négative. Ce seuil, qui correspond à l’impact marginal de la dette sur la croissance s’établit à un niveau de 60% du PIB.
Total Quality Management Organizations role and support of employees
Authors: Alghamdi Hossain Abdulrahman , A. Alfarhan Mohammed , Samkari Reda , Hasan Syed Hamid
Published: February 2019

Nowadays most of known organizations are obsessed with product and service quality since customer's orientation has been shifted from product & service price to its quality. Thus, most of the organizations are willing to adopt the TQM concept and processes in order to achieve their objectives, meet their customer's expectations and attain competitive advantage. TQM is a management philosophy that seeks to integrate all organizational functions to focus on meeting customer needs and organizational objectives. In this paper we will highlight the organization role and the support of the employees to reach the maximum degree of the TQM. We will also describe some Asian TQM case studies in order to summarize the most important factors for successful TQM implementation.
The importance of IT in the adaption of Activity-based costing (ABC) in Higher Education Institutions (HEI)
Authors: Hashim Jamalludin Helmi
Published: February 2019

This study intends to highlight the possible significant relationship that may exists between Information Technology (IT) in the perceived usefulness of Activity-Based Costing (ABC) information as compared to the traditional costing across three different campus clusters of higher education institutions (HEI) in Malaysia. The perceived usefulness of ABC was represented by two elements, namely i) quality, and ii) functionality of costing system. The respondents were selected using disproportionate stratified random sampling method among the users of costing information in the biggest public university in Malaysia with a multi-campus university system. Among the twelve branch campuses across the country, the data was collected using structured postal questionnaires that were distributed to 96 respondents. The result indicated that there is no significant difference of perceived usefulness of information produced by ABC system across all three type campus clusters under study. Furthermore, statistical analysis also shown that there is no statistically significant interaction across three types of campus clusters to affect Perception of Usefulness (POU). As the findings from this study found to be contradict from the previous studies , these might be due to the nature of a multi-campus university system which practising the centralised administration across all branch campuses. In addition to that, unlike previous studies, this study extended the applicability of IT in two dimensions of university administrations, i.e., as a support system for administration and as a management tool.
Measuring Bank Efficiency: Evidence from the Tanzanian Banking Sector
Authors: Ally Zawadi , Patel Dr. G.N.
Published: February 2019

The objective of this study is to measure the efficiency of commercial banks in Tanzania using a non-parametric approach, the input-oriented data envelopment analysis (DEA), both by constant return to scale (CRS) and variable return to scale (VRS). For this purpose, two outputs representing total loans and total interest income, and three inputs representing total deposits, the number of employees and total expenses are selected for seven-years (2006-2012) period in the analysis. The findings under CRS model identify four banks to be fully efficient in the year 2006, two banks in 2007 and one bank in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012, while VRS model results identify five banks to be fully efficient in the year 2006 and 2012, three banks in 2007 and two banks in 2008 and 2009, one bank 2010 and 2011. Four banks, Standard Charted bank, National Commercial Bank (NBC), Citibank and Barclays bank are found to be the most efficiency banks in Tanzania, which serve as the benchmark peers for inefficient banks in the sample, In addition Tobit regression has been used to determine the efficiency drivers.
Life cycle assessment in choosing alternatives for energy sector development
Authors: Ilie Filip
Published: February 2019

Development of industrial activities have negative effect on natural resources and environment therefore, production systems must respect the principles of sustainable development by minimize natural resource consumption and pollutant emissions. Life cycle assessment (LCA) of a industrial activities is a technical tool, a method that allows evaluation of the socio-economic activities in relation with the environment, from birth to death. The aim of this paper is analysis of resource and energy consumption in Romania, using LCA, that can identify environmental and socio-economic aspects of analyzed sector, for taking effective measures, to ensure quality requirements, social, economic, protect environment and improving energy.
An investigation into role of Server Virtualization as a tool for sustaining competitive advantage and facilitating organization effectiveness-A conceptual analysis with reference to IT industry
Authors: Gupta Naveen , Chaturvedi Dr.Vijit
Published: February 2019

This paper examines how VMware virtualization software reduces total cost of ownership (TCO) in server envi­ronments and provides almost immediate return on investment (ROI). It also demonstrates how Virtualization technology is a leading solution and why IT Industries are adopting it. Following Paper depicts a conceptual study towards the Server Virtualization technology and its advantages for any organization using the same. Various researches show that the Organization using Virtualization to optimize their server's performance and efficiency results reduced overall cost and downtime.Thus this paper will help organizations in identifying the basic benefits server virtualization technology has over other and how economy, cost benefit and effectiveness can be generated.
Critical Success Factors influencing Web-Based Decision Support Systems in Online Shopping Context
Authors: Ayoub Mohammed A. I.
Published: February 2019

Web-based decision support systems are increasingly used over the past years. However, few studies have been conducted on evaluation of web-based decision support systems especially in the field of online shopping. This paper attempts to explore the critical success factors that influence decision making satisfaction in online shopping context by providing a conceptual model for this purpose. Although there are various factors which contribute in making online shopping decisions but this study focuses on five factors i.e. web site quality, data quality, knowledge management, decision making satisfaction, and perceived net benefit. Also, this research will use existing models that explain and predict information systems success. However, these success models need to be updated to recurrent industry developments since the updating existing IS success models, a better understanding of web-based DSS practitioner success can be achieved.
Barriers that Prevent Micro-Business Owners from Outsourcing Non- Essential Services
Authors: Floyd Carla Kingston , Alasadi Rami
Published: February 2019

This paper explores the possible barriers that prevent micro-business owners (with a specific focus on the participants in the Self Employment Assistance Program in Cornwall Ontario Canada from outsourcing non-essential services. The paper will include both primary and secondary research to ascertain those barriers. The Findings show that although the respondents of the survey are aware of the benefits of outsourcing their non-essential business activities, they are still reluctant to outsource activities beyond the year-end tax preparation. It seems apparent that the respondents see outsourcing as an option for bigger businesses as 79.2% of them said they would outsource when their business grew.