bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Design and Implementation of Stoppers to Capacitive RF MEMS Switch For Low Frequency Applications
Authors:   Department of Electronics and Communication, Sri Mittapalli Institute of Technology for Women, Thummalapalem, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India., Sravani* Bandlamoodi
Published: December 2019

This work presents the fixed-fixed type capacitive RF MEMS switch. The device additionally includes nonuniform meanders which can reduce the actuation voltage of the device. The switch accomplishes 0.5-1.5μN of applied force for actuation voltages of 6.9-7.9 V. The simulated and calculated spring steady is 1.49N/m to evaluate the actuation voltage the concept of stoppers is introduced in this work. Incorporating stoppers and meanders to the proposed device is to improve the RF performance. The proposed switch produces perfect electromagnetic behavior low insertion and high isolation with the addition of stoppers at the thickness of 1.2μm for 3μm air gap and aluminum nitride as dielectric layer followed by silicon nitride, silicon dioxide and Kapton polyimide in the device. The switch performance undergoes two conditions here with the addition and without inclusion of the stoppers. The RF Performance of the device with the stoppers, are lower insertion, better return losses and higher isolation are -0.07dB, -82 dB, -69dB at the 8- 8.1GHz frequency having Al3N4 as dielectric film followed by Si3N4 as-0.06dB, -77dB and -71dB then SiO2 as-0.06dB,-87dB, -71dB finally, Kapton polyimide as -0.06dB, -77dB,-76dB at 8- 8.5Ghz frequency. The S-parameter analysis like isolation, return loss and insertion loss are carried using FDTD tool CST which gives good performance.
Measuring the Financial Performance of a Telecommunications Corporation
Authors:   Business School, American University of Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates, Ibrahim* Mukdad
Published: December 2019

The aim of this paper is to measure the financial performance of the Emirates Telecommunications Group Company, the largest provider of internet and telephony services in the United Arab Emirates, during the years 2016 to 2018. This paper empirically analyzes three groups of indicators, profitability, liquidity and capital structure. Due to its high degree of validity in its ability to dissect and measure various aspects of a firm’s financial health, financial ratio analysis was performed using data provided by the Emirates Telecommunications Group Company in its annual reports. Ratio analysis has consistently been recognized as the gold standard for investorsinterested in analyzing the financial performance of large institutions. Relevant ratios that reflect various aspects of the firm’s financial health have been analyzedand compiled in order to reach a conclusion regarding the overall financial standing of Emirates Telecommunications Group Company. The findings indicate a noticeable improvement in the level of profitability in 2018 when compared to the previous years, possibly indicating a strengthening in the firm’s ability to control costs in its pursuit of higher profit margins. Liquidity, or cash on hand levels have slightly declined for the three years under study. The Profitability, liquidity and capital structure analysis clearly shows a stable and largely positive trend for the years 2016 through to 2018, highlighting an improvement in the firm’s management of resources and pointing towards a positive outlook for the company and good news for investors should current trends continue. Due to the public availability of the data required as well as the validity of this type of analysis, current and prospective investors alike are encouraged to employ ratio analysis in order to measure the viability of their investments as well as discover new investment opportunities where they may arise.
Summarize the Work Related to Prediction of Stock Market’s Option Prices with Artificial Intelligence using Standard Dataset
Authors:   Computer Science & Engineering, Bhopal, India, Pathak* Mr. Ashish , Kumar Prof. Parmalik ,   Computer Science & Engineering, Bhopal, India.
Published: December 2019

Forecasting and prediction are based on pattern recognition. It may be a human energy potential increase day today when he grownup a young guy, but afterward, his energy potential going downwards. So, we observed the pattern with the help of neural network models; these are radical bias function (RBP) and back-propagation (BP). Utilizing the neural network model, it also has many classification parts like a deep neural network, feedforward neural network, recurrent neural network, convolutional neural network and many more. In the forecasting or prediction, we have a large amount of data to manage. We trained the data with algorithm and here we also use the neural network models. We used optimization techniques that are inspired by biological swarm. Nowadays, lots of data generate day by day like market, medical, education, automobile, etc. we need recognition of the pattern for prediction of future expectations. That expectation of prediction very helpful and needy to gain profit of human beings. In this work, we use SOM (self-Organized Map), RBF (Radical Bias Function), DNN (Deep Neural Network) and PGO (Plant Grow Optimization). The total data point for the processing used 27500. The evaluation of the performance used standard parameters such as ET, MAE, MSE, RMSE and MI. The proposed algorithm implemented in MATLAB software. The cascaded neural network classifier is the combination of the SOM and RBF neural network models. The SOM neural network model proceeds the task of clustering and RBF neural network model used for prediction.
Current Research on Congestion Control Schemes in VANET: A Practical Interpretation
Authors:   Research Scholar, Guru kashi University, Punjab, India, Singh Harjit , Laxmi Dr. Vijay ,   Professor, Guru kashi University, Punjab, India, Malik Dr. Arun ,   Associate Professor, Lovely Professional University,Punjab, India, Batra Dr. Isha ,   Associate Professor, Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India
Published: December 2019

The change in lifestyle of human beings has increased the trend of purchasing multiple vehicles in same family. This has ultimately led to the hike in total number of on road moving vehicles. The prime concern including offering the best features to a vehicle is to offer a network that is non-congested even with this huge rise in vehicles. Therefore, a congestion control scheme is required in Vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) that ensures timely distribution of messages in the case of unusual activities or surprising events in network. Moreover, the congestion control scheme should also ensure that all the vehicles get correct information and will be able to access correct path in event of congestion. This research work focus on the existing controlling schemes for congestion in VANET. A detailed discussion is made initially on the existing schemes. Later, a comparative analysis is made on existing schemes by evaluating their performance on basis of computational overhead, latency and the throughput of packets. For simulating the network OMNeT++ is used along with SUMO. The results and discussions made at end help the novice to identify the best existing scheme for controlling the congestion in VANET.
Impact of Landuse and Landcover on Valuation using Geospatial Technology in Madurai District, Tamilnadu, India
Authors:   Research Scholar,Department of Civil Engineering, Kalasalingam University, Krishnankovil, India,, L* Balaji , M Muthukannan ,   Professor, Department of Civil Engineering,Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education, Krishnankovil, India
Published: December 2019

Analysis of urban sprawl is an issue that has been continuously attracting attention in the planning and research community. This paper presents the results of an analysis of the growth of the city of Madurai. Madurai is a city in the south part of Tamilnadu, commonly referred to as Temple City with many historical cultural places being safeguarded. The population of Madurai has grown tremendously and hence the need for more build up area has increased during the past 12 years. In our study, we analyze the development of urbanization in terms of Landuse, Landcover between 2007 and 2019 using GLR and PMR values. The growth of population is directly proportional to the value of the land which is evident by the growth in GLR and PMR values. GLR is the guideline value from the government sector for a land while PMR is the privilege market rate for the same land.
Wavelet-Based Thermal Image Analysis Methods
Authors:   Asst.prof. School of Computing sciences and engineering, Sandip University., Tinnaluri* Venkata Surya Narayana , Pawar Umesh B ,   Asst.prof. School of Computing sciences and engineering, Sandip University., Chaudhari Nandini M ,   Dept of Computer sciences and engineering, J.T.TMahajan College of Engineering,Faizpur.
Published: December 2019

Image enhancement is primarily aimed at improving the image quality so that the resulting image is better for a particular application than the original image. Improving the image is the job of applying such improvements, such as a visually more attractive image, to the output image. Improvement of thermal images in quality control, color and gray photography, medical problems, research and development, risk management systems, academic, law enforcement and defense infrared digital thermal imaging. Specific changes to the gray image, histogram equalization (HE), rapid Fourier transformation, image fusion and denoise have been used. The process of making images more accessible is to develop pictures. These effects include highlighting the interesting details of the objects, removing noise from photographs, making images more attractive visually, increasing the edge and contrast between images.
Hybrid Binary Gray Wolf Optimization for finding Optimal Features in Classification Problems
Authors:   Assistant Professor(Sr.Grade), Department of CSE, Kongu Engineering College, Perundurai, Tamilnadu, India., Latha* R.S. , Sreekanth G.R. ,   Assistant Professor(Sr.Grade), Department of CSE, Kongu Engineering College, Perundurai, Tamilnadu, India., Suganthe R.C. ,   Professor, Department of CSE, Kongu Engineering College, Perundurai, Tamilnadu, India., Geetha M. ,   Assistant Professor(Sr.Grade), Department of CSE, Kongu Engineering College, Perundurai, Tamilnadu, India.
Published: December 2019

Finding the essential symptoms(features) is highly demanded in the area of medical applications. Binary Gray wolf optimizer (BGWO) is one of the latest bio-inspired optimization techniques, which simulate the hunting process of gray wolves in nature. In this work, the binary gray wolf optimization (BGWO) is applied to select important feature subset for classification purposes and to attain maximum accuracy with minimum number of features using various classification algorithms and data sets. The classification error rate and the number of features are considered in the objective function. The wolf with low error rate and minimal features is considered as the best wolf and this kind of problem is a minimization problem. In BGWO, at each iteration the positions of three wolves (alpha wolf , beta wolf, delta wolf ) are identified. All the wolves move toward these three wolves to find out the target position. If the position of best solution (alpha wolf) is stuck in local minimum, the genetic algorithm (GA) is employed to get rid of it. The Hybrid binary gray wolf optimization with genetic algorithm (HBGWO) is used for classification problems in finding out the optimal feature subset with maximizing the classification accuracy while minimizing the number of selected features. The proposed HBGWO is used with the classification algorithms such as Naive Bayes, K-Nearest Neighbour and Decision Tree for different medical datasets. Results proved that the capability proposed HBGWO improves classification accuracy over BGWO.
An Improved Lung Cancer Prediction System using Image Processing
Authors:   Dept. of CSE, Institute of Aeronautical Engineering, Dundigal, Hyderabad, India., Kalyani* D , Raghavendra* C ,   Asst. Professor, Dept. of CSE, Institute of Aeronautical Engineering, Dundigal, Hyderabad, India., Prasad* Dr. K Rajendra ,   Professor & Head, Dept. of CSE, Institute of Aeronautical Engineering, Dundigal, Hyderabad, India.
Published: December 2019

Lung cancer is a disease that causes the cells present in the lungs which divide uncontrollably. This uncontrollable division of cells causes tumours which in turn decrease a person’s respiration. Early identification and diagnosis will help people to seek treatment and recover soon. Tumours are an abnormal mass of tissue that results when cells divide more than they should or do not die when they should. Identifying lung cancer in its early stages is very difficult but knowing about its symptoms is quite easy. Symptoms may be similar to those of respiratory problems or infections and sometimes there may be no symptoms at all. In this work mainly deals with the lung cancer detection using image processing techniques were involving all the intermediate stages such as pre-processing stage, noise removal, processing stage, post-processing stage which finally gives output image after all those stages. Doctors can categorize tumour stage as initial or advanced based on patient CT scan report. The abnormal images are subjected to segmentation (threshold segmentation, watershed transformation) to focus on tumour portion. It mainly deals with image quality and clarity. Gabor filter algorithm plays a vital role for image enhancement in removing noise from an image. The ANN method gives us the best performance as it neglects the background and displays the required portion of an image that we need. This image processing technique is one of the most efficient way of detecting lung cancer.
The Benefit and Challenge of Blockchain Technology for Tracing Automotive Component: a simulation test
Authors:   Information Systems Department, School of Information Systems, Computer Science Department, BINUS Graduate Program – Doctor of Computer Science, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia., Surjandy*  , Meyliana  ,   Information Systems Department, School of Information Systems, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia, Spits Warnars Harco Leslie Hendric ,   Computer Science Department, BINUS Graduate Program – Doctor of Computer Science, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia, Abdurachman Edi ,   Computer Science Department, BINUS Graduate Program – Doctor of Computer Science, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia.
Published: December 2019

Supply Chain Management System (SCMS) poses as one of the essential aspects for distributing component, especially in contemporary Automotive Industries. In this line, the tracing process of the automotive part is one of the critical features required in this industry, such as for automotive product improvement and its forensic. Early research reported that the tracing component feature is prone to component counterfeit that could cause financial loss and even loss of life. The recent studies emphasized that new development technology, commonly renowned as Blockchain is believed to have the ability to perform tracing automotive component and minimize the counterfeit. However, the feature of Blockchain technology is to track automotive component found in the literature mostly. In this frame, the biggest challenge is to obtain the evidence of Blockchain Technology implementation for automotive part component tracking. Therefore, this report paper is a part of design science research stages striving to perform the simulation test by using business process simulation method of Blockchain implementation for tracing automotive components. The focus group discussion involved a manufacturer automotive component, several distributors of automotive components, and two of the big three car manufacturers in the country. The purpose is to understand a comprehensive supply chain management process in the area of automotive component distribution. During the test by using simulation test model, revealed several advantages and challenges. Ultimately, Blockchain technology is potentially implemented for tracing automotive component and the merging combination system between SCMS and Blockchain Technology that contributes to developing new robust SCMS.
Design, Simulation & Analysis of Rectangular & Circular Microstrip Patch Antenna for Wireless Applications
Authors:   Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, KCC Institute of Technology and Management, Greater Noida, India., Srivastava* Harshit , Tiwari Usha ,   Department of Electronics and Communication, Sharda University, Greater Noida, India.
Published: December 2019

While the revolution in antenna engineering leads to the fast-growing communication systems, Microstrip Patch Antennas (MPA) have proven to be the most unconventional discovery in the epoch of miniaturization. This paper incorporates the designing, simulation, and analysis of rectangular & circular microstrip patch antennas. The resonating frequency of the proposed patch antennas is 9 GHz, lying in the X band region and are designed on Rogers RT/duroid 5880 material having dielectric constant 2.2, using Ansys HFSS software. The proposed MPAs were compared on the basis of five performance parameters (Return loss, Bandwidth, VSWR, Gain and HPBW). It was observed that rectangular MPA has a higher value of return loss, VSWR and HPBW than circular MPA. Whereas, circular MPA has greater bandwidth and gain than rectangular MPA. The proposed antennas can be used in radar, wireless and satellite applications.
Relationship between FDI, Foreign Exchange Earnings through Inbound Tourism and Growth of Indian Economy
Authors:   VITBS, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India,, Chowdhury* Piyali Roy , A Anuradha. ,   VITBS, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India
Published: December 2019

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has been playing a crucial role in the development of Indian economy ever since liberalization.The role of FDI, hence, can be discussed from the point of one of much deliberated sectors, tourism, in this case. The current study, thus, is based on investigating an association between FDI, Foreign Exchange Earnings from tourism and per capita growth with respect to Indian economy for a period of 1996-2018. The analysis proves a cointegrating relationship between them throughAuto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Modelling Approach. It proves FDI to be an influential factor in enhancing foreign exchange earnings from tourism for inbound tourism industry and per capita economic growth. Through Error Correction Model, it is proved that the modelscancorrect seventy-seven- and eighty-three percent imbalances in short run. Applying Granger Causality approach, the study proves per capita economic growth granger causes FDI. Subsequently,is playing a major role in attracting foreign exchange earnings from inbound tourism in India.Finally, the study suggests certain policy measures for enhancing per capita growth that will ultimately promote FDI to augment conditions of tourism industry in Indian economy.
An Evaluation of Customer Satisfaction towards the Employee Self-Service Feature of Oracle’s PeopleSoft System
Authors:   School of Information Systems, Jakarta, Indonesia., Veronica*
Published: December 2019

This study focuses on evaluating the success of information systems based on user satisfaction towards the ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) application in PT. Bank XYZ, which in this case is the HR Application. This study adopted the Delone and McLean IS Success Model to test the relationship between variables (System Quality, Information Quality, Service Quality, Use, User Satisfaction and Net Benefits). The research data was obtained through literature reviews, interviews, and questionnaires with 175 respondents who were users of the HR Application at PT. Bank XYZ. The questionnaire data was analyzed using an SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Science) program version 25. The analysis shows positive and significant results from the nine hypotheses. The results of the study addressed Service Quality, Use, and Net Benefits with an average of under 4.00 required development to improve employee satisfaction, which in this study there are recommendations for further development.
Store Attribute Factors Inducing Customer Loyalty in the Context of Apparel Retailers
Authors:   Department of Marketing & Strategy, IBS Hyderabad (A Constituent of the ICFAI Foundation of Higher Education), Hyderabad, India, Alreddy Dr. Santosh Kumar
Published: December 2019

The aim of this paper is to explore elements and variables of store attributes impelling customer loyalty. This study uses loyalty program members from apparel stores. Initially the variables were explored through literature and interview with retailers. In the second step, exploratory factor analysis was used to identify factors of store attributes. Multiple regression test the significant effect of extracted factors on customer loyalty intentions. It was evident from the result that, interpersonal communication fail to induce loyalty among members of loyalty program. In future the study would be carried out in different stores.
The Scenario of Rainfall-Discharge for Supporting the Optimization of Irrigation Reservoir Operation to Anticipate Extreme Flood
Authors:   Doctoral Program in Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Brawijaya, Malang, Indonesia., Efendi Rusdi , Limantara* Lily Montarcih ,   Department of Water Resources, Faculty of Engineering, University of Brawijaya, Malang, Indonesia., Soetopo Widandi ,   Department of Water Resources, Faculty of Engineering, University of Brawijaya, Malang, Indonesia., Suhartanto Ery ,   Department of Water Resources, Faculty of Engineering, University of Brawijaya, Malang, Indonesia.
Published: December 2019

This research intends to build a scenario of mathematical modeling that can follow up the information of extreme climate does not give the same impact (mainly rainfall), so the water volume when the extreme rainfall will be happened, can be used for the irrigation and the water that cannot be used can be removed from the reservoir before flooding is happened, therefore, the function of reservoir to reduce flood can be increasing. The methodology consists of to obtain the rainfall due to the weather anomaly, the relation between rainfall and reservoir inflow, the decreasing of irrigation water requirement when the rainfall is high, the usage of crop intensity increasing, design flood, and the outlet capacity, the pattern of reservoir operation, the comparison of crop intensity, and the decreasing of flood risk. The result is hoped to be able to increase the available infrastructure (dam) by increasing the function of flood control and it remains to give priority for irrigation through the reservoir
Human Resource Management System Development Based on Solving The Problems of Multi-Criteria Alternatives
Authors:   Department of Information Systems, Kuban State Agrarian University, Krasnodar, Russia, Popova* Elena , Zamotajlova Daria ,   Department of Information Systems, Kuban State Agrarian University, Krasnodar, Russia., Kumratova Alfira ,   Department of Information Systems, Kuban State Agrarian University, Krasnodar, Russia., Kolyada Valentina ,   Department of Information Systems, Kuban State Agrarian University, Krasnodar, Russia., Bashiyeva Anzhela ,   Department of Computer science and information technology, North Caucasus State Academy, Cherkessk, Russia.
Published: December 2019

Human resources have recently begun to reasonably become increasingly important. Today, they, along with material, intellectual, informational and financial resources, affect the efficiency of enterprises and organizations. A competent assessment of human resources, a clear understanding of how to interact with personnel and develop human resources is the basis for the effective work of both human resources departments and organizations in general. The complexity of assessing human resources and human resources necessitates the development of tools, the use of which will simplify it and ensure that you receive the clearest recommendations and assistance in the framework of managerial decision-making. A promising direction for the implementation of the indicated tools can be the development of a decision support system, within which, among other things, there will be the possibility of a multi-criteria analysis of alternatives. Due to the fact that there are no multicriteria analysis methods for alternatives designed specifically for assessing human resources, it is necessary to conduct a thorough analysis of them, the main purpose of which is to identify the most suitable base for further adaptation and development. After conducting preliminary studies, the authors chose the TOPSIS, MAUT, AHP and ELECTRE methods as the most promising for solving the task.
Improving QoS and Reducing Energy Consumption in Cluster-Based VANET Routing Protocol
Authors:   Associate Professor, Sri Shakthi Institute of Engineering and technology,Coimbatore, N* Kumareshan. , N Prakash. ,   Associate Professor,Kalaignar Karunanidhi institute of technology,Coimbatore
Published: December 2019

Wireless networks are classified into different types of networks namely infrastructure and infrastructure less networks. In infrastructure less network Vehicular adhoc network is an energy oriented multibroadcating network, nowadays due to the rapid growth and development in the automobile sector many accidents are occurring during driving a vehicle. In simulation environment various protocols are designed to monitor the network performance and to increase the network performance, in our proposed method we designed a new protocol named cluster based VANET routing protocol (CBVRP) to increase the network performance and to reduce the energy consumption. The protocol aims to minimize the energy consumption to increase the lifetime of the network and increasing the quality of service parameters like packet delivery ratio, reducing delay, reducing normalized routing overhead and increasing efficiency. The results shows that the proposed protocol improves the quality of service parameters and it consumes less energy compared with an existing protocol.
LinProT: the Feasibility of a Multimedia Courseware for Optimization Methods Course
Authors:   Faculty of Science and Mathematics, Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris, Malaysia., Farah* R.N. , Hanani F. N. ,   Faculty of Science and Mathematics, Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris, Malaysia.
Published: December 2019

LinProT is an educational courseware for Optimization Methods. LinProT consists of a multimedia package; short video tutorials and scanned pictures QR Code Reader and HP Reveal as Augmented Reality (AR) application. There are three types of modules of Optimization Methods that contain in LinProT courseware, which are notes module, exercises module and tutorial video modules. Users can enjoy new experiences of learning via courseware involving AR application and reduce frustration in learning through boring reading. The objectives in developing LinProT are to produce courseware that allows self-directed learning that meets the needs of students studying Optimization Methods course and to assess its feasibility. This courseware is developed using the ADDIE model that involves five phases; Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Evaluation. The researchers tested the feasibility of the courseware to students via questionnaire. LinProT is a new way of learning, promotes interaction, provides experiences, and will improve learning efficiency in terms of time and place.
Track – Bridge Interaction on High Speed Railways – the ONCF Experience
Authors:   Civil Department, Mohammedia Engineering school, Mohammed 5 University, Rabat, Morocco., TOUATI* Mohammed , LAMDOUAR Nouzha ,   Civil Department, Mohammedia Engineering school, Mohammed 5 University, Rabat, Morocco., BOUHLAL Laila ,   Civil Department, Mohammedia Engineering school, Mohammed 5 University, Rabat, Morocco.
Published: December 2019

This paper aims to describe the Moroccan experience on Track – Bridge interaction in railway domain. In fact, that phenomenon may induce a general track instability compromising train security if it’s not taken into account in the study phase. To that end, a numerical method, used to compute the additional longitudinal stresses on a continuously welded rail (CWR) mainly associated to relative displacements between track and deck on account of temperature variations, is presented. Therefore, the conditions of laying an expansion device will be concluded, particularly when the additional rail stresses exceed the maximum limit values defined on the current standards. An application of that method will be performed on MHARHAR viaduct where a non-compliance of track dilatation device laying was noticed. This study will emphasize the beginning of a track grid general instability due to ballast layer deconsolidation, the all based on a track geometry measurement. This study may be widely used in order to conceive properly a bridge supposed to receive a CWR track.
Impact of Foreign Exchange Rate and Inflation Rate on the Economic Growth of India
Authors:   Assistant Professor In The Department Of Economics , Darrang College , Tezpur ,Assam , India., Sut* Ujjal
Published: December 2019

This paper tries to investigate the impact of foreign exchange rate and inflation rate on the economic progress of India. In this study the economic progress has been measured by annual GDP ( Gross Domestic Product ) growth in India. Correlation analysis and multiple regression model have been designed to explore the relationship among the mentioned three variables. The annual GDP growth of India has been considered as the dependent variable and the other two macroeconomic variables ( Foreign exchange rate and inflation rate ) have been considered as the independent variables. Secondary sources of data have been gathered to arrive at a logical conclusion. The results show a positive correlation between GDP growth rate and the foreign exchange rate and a negative correlation between the GDP growth rate and the inflation rate. Results from the linear regression analysis show that inflation rate has a strong influence or impact on the GDP growth rate than the foreign exchange rate. It is expected that the present study will help the policy makers and the researchers to understand the impact of foreign exchange rate and inflation rate on the GDP growth in India,
Glycerin Purification Process Plant System Design and Performance
Authors:   Fac. of Electrical Engineering, UniversitiTeknologi Mara, Shah Alam, Malaysia., ZuriatiJanin*  , Kaidi Hazilah Mad ,   Razak Fac. of Technology and Informatics, UniversitiTeknologi Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia., Ahmad Robiah ,   Razak Fac. of Technology and Informatics, UniversitiTeknologi Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Published: December 2019

Pure glycerin is normally adopted for the production of cosmetics, personal care and food industryin order to produce quality end-products. Most crude glycerin, however, contains a sticky substance and coloring materials that may affect the flavor and color of the end-product. This paper presents the design and development of the glycerin purification process plant system to purify the crude glycerin through heating process. The process system is designed and developed based on the information gathered from literature. The system architecture of the process plant is developed using industrial instrumentations and hardware system found in the laboratory. The choice of transducer and final control element used is based on the needs of the developed system. Glycerin purification is a process of removing the peroxides and the secondary products found in the crude in which the process is significantly depends on the operating temperature. In this work, the temperature control system for glycerin heating process is designed and the process controllability in terms of settling time and percent overshoot is experimented using PID controller. The results of the experiments show that the developed glycerin purification process plant system is workable and able to provide good temperature control system performance for glycerin heating process. PID controller with correct controller parameters adjustment can improve the glycerin heating process system performance. The main contribution of this paper is the development of the glycerin purification process plant system in which the system implemented is different from any of the related publications in the aspects of instrumentation and hardware system used.
IoT Based Smart Farm Monitoring System
Authors:   Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Technology, SRM IST, Ramapuram., Mythiliis* R. , Kumari Meenakshi ,   Pre –Final Year Student of B. Tech, Information Technologyand Engineering in SRM InstituteofScience and Technology,Ramapuram, India., Pal Neha ,   Pre –Final Year Student of B. Tech, Information Technology and Engineering in SRM InstituteofScience and Technology,Ramapuram, India., Tripathi Apoorv ,   Pre –Final Year Student of B. Tech, Information Technology and Engineering in SRM InstituteofScience and Technology, Ramapuram, India.
Published: December 2019

Internet of Things (IoT), a well-known branch of computer science has introduced smart farming to each and every farmer’s neighborhood while offering constructive green agriculture. IoT depicts a self-configuring chain of components. The efficient implementation helps agriculture, a self-discipline as nicely as reducing human work and increasing crop cultivations. This paper endorses sensible IoT based Agriculture Stick as farmers aid by obtaining Live knowledge (Temperature, SoilMoisture) of farm data.These live readings help the farmers to try clever farming and to increase their average crop yields, also the quality of plants.The Smart Agriculture with Arduino Technology supports the farmers to control the live farm data and get the desired crop cultivation results.
ELEKTRONINIŲ CIGAREČIŲ PAPLITIMAS IR RIZIKA VAIKŲ BEI JAUNIMO SVEIKATAI
Authors: Strukčinskienė Birutė , Urbietytė Viktorija , Strukčinskaitė Vaiva , Česnauskienė Ramunė
Published: December 2019

Elektroninės cigaretės į rinką išleistos vos prieš dešimtmetį, tad vis dar pasigendama svarių mokslinių įrodymų apie jų riziką sveikatai. Darbo tikslas – analizuoti elektroninių cigarečių paplitimą ir riziką vaikų bei jaunimo sveikatai. Taikyta sisteminė mokslinės literatūros bei dokumentų apžvalga ir analizė.

Rezultatai ir išvados. Atlikti tyrimai rodo, kad visuomenė yra nepakankamai informuota apie elektroninių cigarečių žalą vaikų ir jaunimo sveikatai. Stinga tinkamo dėmesio elektroninių cigarečių vartojimo prevencijai ir kontrolei. Įvairiose pasaulio šalyse skirtingas elektroninių cigarečių vartojimo reglamentavimas bei valdymas, tad rekomenduojama atsižvelgti į užsienio šalių gerosios patirties pavyzdžius ir taikytą praktiką.
THE ROLE OF POSTMODERNISM’S HYPERREALISM AND ITS INFLUENCE ON MODERN SOCIETY
Authors: Holdenblat Mariia
Published: December 2019

The article reveals the features of the postmodern era and its main feature - hyperreality, which is characterized by the replacement of the real with signs of reality - simulacra. First of all, postmodern literature and art reacted to the challenge of hyperreality, reflecting and overcoming the hyperreal world by creating simulacra of a higher order. The article focuses on the specifics of the language of postmodernism, knowledge of which allows it to be adequately evaluated. An analysis of the performance society, which is carried out by G. Debord, leads to the idea that in the postmodern era, mass media also become the main instrument of socialization, which neither the family nor the school can compete with. The artificial world of images that forms mass media separates the individual from reality, and “the more he contemplates, the less he lives, the more he agrees to acknowledge himself in the prevailing images of needs, the less he understands his own existence and desire. The external character of the performance in relation to the person acting is that his own actions no longer belong to him, but to the other - to the one who offers them to him. That's why the viewer doesn’t feel at home anywhere - there’s a continuous performance around him.” Debor comes to the disappointing conclusion that the historical consciousness is being eliminated in the society of the performance, because if any event does not become the property of the media, then it does not seem to exist. We can say that Guy Debord anticipated the views of J. Baudrillard on hyperreality, saying that “the performance is not any supplement to the real world, a superstructure to it or decoration. This is the cornerstone of the unreality of the real world.
ROLE OF SOCIAL BUSINESSMAN AS ACTIVE PARTICIPANT OF SOCIAL WORK
Authors: Yadlovska Olha
Published: December 2019

The article deals with the issue of the development and role of social businessman in society. One of the basic problems of introduction of this type of public activity is a low level of perception of necessity of "decrease" introduction of initiative risk development and aid mechanisms to the separate layers of society from the side of businessmen, and also underexploitation of functional descriptions of a social businessman as to a personality who is social work oriented. The aim of the article is to characterize basic principles and advantages of social enterprise introduction and realization of analysis of competent features of a social businessman as an innovator and a socially responsible personality. It is investigated that the world view of social businessmen after a sociocultural constituent is correlative with social workers’ motivation and activity. It is found out that social leader’s qualificatory description should contain the row of features: ability to operate actively, constancy in the acceptance of creative decisions in the conditions of hard competition, absence of social prejudice to any representatives of society, possibility to lean to the usual system looks to society, openness, socially oriented way of thinking and activity, understanding of necessity to combine forces and resources for the sake of forming segments for realization of social aid. An author concludes that in a complex the leader features of social businessmen become the mortgage of a quality social enterprise and a basis of forming of different forms of self-organization of society, and possibilities of preventive influence on the factors of social exception of certain layers of society.
APPROACH TO CATEGORIES AGGREGATION IN INDUSTRIES STRUCTURE FORMATION
Authors: Stolyarchuk Valentyna
Published: December 2019

This article focuses on contemporary problems of definition and delineations industries and industry aggregations. The research results point out that there are different industry structures which are covering tourism, accommodation and restaurant services sector. For these multifaceted industries the identifiable attributes that contribute to a formation of the industry structure are strong varied in their importance depending on an across national locations, product mix and target market segments. In the article the main conceptual principles of forming industry groups are analyzed and represented in the form of a data model (Methodological framework). Using of this model could better explain how conceptual principles can be used to forming industry groups or adapted for national purposes. The research results shows that the basis for grouping industries and inter-industry groups is the integration and agglomeration of production units by the nature of goods produced and services provided, taking into account the common features and relationships with sources of demand and markets for products. At the present stage of development the highest-level categories reflect the conceptual division of the economy into industries. The researches result shows that there is a change of the industries structure, through appearing new industries. It is suggested to provide the strictly and narrowly definition of new economic industries and industries agglomerations.
DIAGNOSTICS OF INNOVATIVE CULTURE OF UKRAINIAN SOCIETY
Authors: Illyashenko Sergii , Shypulina Yuliia , Sokol Kateryna
Published: December 2019

The relevance of the research is the need to increase the efficiency of managing the innovative culture of society as a mechanism of socio-cultural regulation of innovative human behavior, which is the basis of innovative and favorable environment-higher state, forms the prerequisites for the transition to an innovative path of development. The purpose of the research is to improve and practically test the system of management of the innovative culture of society based on the results of diagnostics of its condition. The theoretical and methodical approach to the diagnostics of the state as a subsystem of purposeful management of innovative culture of society is improved. Diagnostics of the state and dynamics of the development of the innovative culture of Ukraine, as a whole, and its individual components and their elements for the period 2013-2019 (the period of active political and socio-economic transformations) was performed. A set of practical-oriented recommendations for ensuring the proper level of individual elements and constituents of the innovative culture of the Ukrainian society is proposed. It is substantiated that the practical implementation of the obtained results will help to increase the level of innovative culture of society as one of the main elements of formation of an innovative and favorable environment of the state, which, in its turn, creates prerequisites for innovative development of the Ukrainian economy in line with the concept of innovative advancement. The theoretical, methodological and methodical foundations of innovative management at the state level have been deepened in terms of improving the system of diagnostics and management according to its results by developing the innovative culture of society.
FEATURES OF SUNFLOWER OF STRAWBERRY DEPENDING ON ADAPTIVE GROWING TECHNOLOGIES
Authors: Karpenko Victor , Oleksandr Burliai , Nepochatenko Oleksandr , Butsyk Roman , Smertenyuk Igor
Published: December 2019

When growing strawberries, we must pay special attention and make the transition to less harmful technologies in order to obtain environmentally friendly products. This position minimizes the possibility of using mineral fertilizers or inorganic protection in favor of organic methods or substances of biological nature that do not have a harmful aftereffect. This is of particular importance when mulching the soil with various materials, as the most advanced method of increasing the productivity of strawberry stands. Therefore, the selection of the most adapted and improved technologies for growing environmentally friendly strawberries determines the purpose of our research. The highest results were achieved in the growth productivity of strawberries when it was grown using environmental technology with mulching the soil together with black agrofibre and straw. Moreover, the average results of the assimilation surface of strawberries amounted to 28.4 thousand m2 / ha for the Dukat variety, and 29.1 thousand m2 / ha for the Malvina variety. Such results practically exceeded the data of the control variant twice. A significant increase in the number of tendrils on the strawberry bushes was about 30%. At the same time, the number of peduncles in the bushes increased by 15%. On the whole, according to the experiment, the results for strawberry varieties varied within 6.7–7.3 pcs / bush. A significant difference compared with the control option was 1.4–1.8 pcs / bush. We have achieved a 35% increase in strawberry berries when mulching the soil with black agrofibre together with straw as part of environmental cultivation technology. On average, over the years of research, the strawberry yield for the Dukat variety was 21.5 t / ha, and for the Malvina variety - 15.5 t / ha. At the same time, commodity quality of berries increased to 93.4%. The use of intensive (traditional) and biological technologies for growing strawberries, in terms of productivity, was significantly inferior to environmental technology, like other mulching materials inferior to black agrofibre.
STUDY OF THE STATE AND THE DEVELOPMENT TENDS OF THE WATER TRANSPORT ENTERPRISES
Authors: Tymchenko Nadiia , Kuzmenko Olena
Published: December 2019

The analysis of the state of water transport enterprises has been studied, tends of development thereof in the modern management environment are identified. The maritime and river freight and passenger market are evaluated to identify the prevailing trends in the industry. The information base of the study consisted of the statistical materials, as well as the achievements of domestic and foreign scientists on the functioning and prospects of water transport development. The volumes and structure of freight and passenger carriage by maritime and river transportation are given, the carriage is analyzed by type of freight, and the comparison study of logistics development in different countries of the world is conducted. It has been established that the identified trends of water transport enterprises development do not correspond to the available potential opportunities. It has been proved that the efficiency of functioning of maritime and river freight and passenger market depends to a large extent on the organization of the logistics sector. In this paper the comparison study of the Logistics Efficiency Index (LPI) in different countries was conducted, which index convincingly proves the need to develop the transport and logistics infrastructure of water transport enterprises. In this paper there have been identified the main destabilizing factors of impact on the effective functioning of the water transport enterprises, the assessment of which allows forming the main directions of development for the economic entities in the industry as an important factor of integration of our country into the world economic area. It is suggested to pay attention to the formation of active strategic interaction of the water transport enterprises in the further scientific researches with the purpose to provide powerful strategic potential of development and high level of competitiveness thereof in the transport service market.
Influence of the method of grafting on survival and growth of pedunculate oak (Quercus robur L.)
Authors: Kamalova I. I. , Kamalov R. M. , Vnukova N. I.
Published: December 2019

The aim of the study was to identify the most effective method of grafting the pedunculate oak in greenhouse conditions on two-year-old seedlings with a closed root system. A comparison was made of five methods of grafting on survival and growth of grafts. The following methods were used: «splice», «into a bag», «in split», «budding», «into acorn sprout». The best results in the survival of the grafts were given by the «splice» (42%). The largest increments were shown by the «in split» method (19,0 + 3,1 cm). The distribution of grafting by the magnitude of growth was significantly different from normal. The growth rates of grafting during the growing season had a high individual variability - the coefficients of variation at the age of 36, 60, and 83 days are equal, respectively, to 85, 75, and 73%. In the first growing season, clones did not show any effect on the size of growth. During this period the graft method has the greatest influence, which affects the specificity of the intergrowth of the stock with the graft.
The “Other Eden”: Thoughts on American Study Abroad in Britain
Authors: Edwards Jane
Published: December 2019

Here I will attempt to untangle some of the issues that characterize what might be termed “British studies ” on American campuses. These issues are of interest to American international educators because Britain plays a prominent role in exchange activities of all kinds. Common campus assumptions in respect to Britain have significant effects on the way in which we think about study abroad in Britain for our students, about the nature of British academic institutions, and about the quality of transatlantic academic interactions.