bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The Standard of the Quality of Teaching Performance of Faculty Members of Al-Ahliyya Amman University Reference to the Requirements of Comprehensive Quality Assurance
Authors: Badrakhan Sawsan
Published: September 2019

هدفت الدراسة الحالية التعرُّف إلى مستوى جودة الأداء التدريسي لدى أعضاء هيئة التدريس في جامعة عمان الأهلية بالأردن، والكشف عن أثر متغيرات الجنس، والعمر، والرتبة الأكاديمية، وعدد سنوات الخبرة من وجهة نظرهم، تم بناء استبانة مكونة من (33) فقرة، تقيس مستوى جودة الأداء التدريسي لدى أعضاء هيئة التدريس في جامعة عمان الأهلية، وتم التحقق من صدقها وثباتها. تم توزيعها على عينة تكونت من (203) عضو هيئة تدريس في الجامعة في الكليات الإنسانية والعلمية. أظهرت نتائج الدراسة أن الدرجة الكلية لمستوى جودة الأداء التدريسي في جامعة عمان الأهلية وفقاً لمتطلبات الجودة الشاملة في المجالات الأربعة للدراسة بشكل عام كانت بدرجة تقدير مرتفع، حيث احتل مجال متطلبات البحث العلمي المرتبة الأولى بدرجة تقدير مرتفعة، في حين احتل مجال متطلبات خدمة المجتمع المرتبة الأخيرة بدرجة تقدير متوسطة، كما أظهرت نتائج الدراسة عدم وجود فروق ذات دلالة إحصائية بين المتوسطات الحسابية للمستجيبين تعزى لمتغير الجنس، والعمر، والرتبة الأكاديمية، وعدد سنوات الخبرة.
Fuzzy Logic Controller for Voltage and Frequency Stabilization in DC decoupled Micro grid system
Authors:   School of Electrical Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India., Jamuna* K. , Angalaeswari S. ,   School of Electrical Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India.
Published: September 2019

An efficient Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC) is proposed for maintaining constant voltage and frequency in a Decoupled DC micro grid system. The micro grid is modeled with solar, wind turbine, Fuel cell, battery and loads. Individual fuzzy MPPT (Maximum Power Point Tracking) controllers have proposed for solar, wind and fuel cell to extract maximum power from the sources and also to maintain constant voltage at DC bus. For the bidirectional power flow among the buses in the micro grid with power management strategy, an efficient Fuzzy logic controller is proposed for the bidirectional converter connected between DC and AC buses. The performance indices such as ITAE, ITSE, and settling time, rise time of DC link voltage has determined and it is being compared with the conventional Proportional Integral (PI) controller to endorse the performance of the proposed FLC. The results prove that the FLC has better performance in all aspects and it is more suitable for the power management in micro grid.
Improving of Base Course Materials Characteristics using Industrial Wastes
Authors:   Public Works Department, Ain Shams University / Faculty of Engineering, Cairo, Egypt,, Almallouhi* Eyas Mohammed Eyad , Mahdy Hassan Abd El Zaher Hassan ,   Public Works Department, Ain Shams University / Faculty of Engineering, Cairo, Egypt,, Kandil Khaled Anwar Ahmed ,   Public Works Department, Ain Shams University / Faculty of Engineering, Cairo, Egypt,
Published: September 2019

Phosphogypsum is a solid by-product waste generated from phosphoric acid industry. This paper presents the effectiveness of mixing Phosphogypsum with crushed limestone to use this blend as road base course. Seven percentages (0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30%) of Phosphogypsum were replaced from crushed limestone mixture dry weight. The influence of blending Phosphogypsum with crushed limestone was evaluated by preparing and testing mixture with several percentages of phosphogypsum and crushed limestone to determine some of their properties as maximum dry density, optimum moisture content, un-soaked California bearing ratio, soaked California bearing ratio, swelling percent and California bearing ratio after a series of wetting-drying cycles. The results indicate that the mechanical characteristics were improved by adding phosphogypsum to the crushed limestone mixtures.
Improved Memetic Algorithm Enabled Intelligent Multi Agent (IMAEIMA) System for Web Mining
Authors:   Research Scholar, Research and Development Centre, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India., Weslin* D. , Devadas T. Joshva ,   Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education, Krishnankoil, Virudhunagar,Tamil Nadu, India
Published: September 2019

Wider web space, the searching of a relevant data is the most curious problem for the common people accessing the web. For retreving the relevant information the user request is given to search engine. The relevant pages combined with irrelevant pages are returned to the user. The proposed work emphasizes an Improved Memetic Algorithm Enabled Intelligent Multi Agent (IMAEIMA) for searching the most appropriate pages when submitting complex queries. Improved Memetic algorithm is the traditional genetic algorithm combined with local search and random selection. In this proposed system Improved Memetic algorithm additionally enhanced with logarithmic weight function for more accuracy. Intelligent Agents are introduced in this IMAEIMA to improve its performance and accuracy by reacting intelligently based on feedback and previous experience. This system helps to retrieve relevant pages from web databases with high precision and recall. The derived architecture reveals greater precision and recall overriding the conventional search algorithms.
Development of Impedance Tube to Measure Sound Absorption Coefficient
Authors:   Textile Engineering Department, The M. S. University, Baroda, India., Bhattacharya* Prof. (Dr.) S. S. , Bihola D.V. ,   PhD Student of Textile Engineering,, The M. S. University, Baroda, India.
Published: September 2019

An acoustic property of textile material can be measured using an impedance tube, is the most popular technique to measure normal sound absorption and transmission loss. This method consuming less time and a very small sample is required to assess the acoustic properties of the materials. Unfortunately, the cost of the impedance tube and software used for measurement is very high. This paper gives information about how to develop a cost-effective impedance tube suitable for researchers. The design, development, and fabrication of the impedance tube suitable for different frequencies with technical details are present here. Information related to some software which can be used to measure sound absorption coefficient also provided. To validate the testing results obtained from custom-build impedance tube, same samples were tested on commercially available impedance tube at PSG College, Coimbatore. It was observed that both the instruments provide almost same results, no statistically significant difference found in results. Base on the results design of customized impedance tube recommends to student and researcher interested in measuring acoustic properties of textile material.
Sustainable and Portable Low Cost IOT Based Terrace Model to Grow True Organic Greens
Authors:   Department of Computer Science and Engineering, VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, India.,, Rekha* N. Shashi , Nikhath A. Kousar ,   Department of Computer Science and Engineering, VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, India., Nagini Dr. S. ,   Department of Computer Science and Engineering, VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, India., Sagar Dr. Y. ,   Department of Computer Science and Engineering, VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, India., Sukheja Dr. Deepak ,   Department of Computer Science and Engineering, VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, India.
Published: September 2019

In today’s urban life where we have limited space for our gardens and limited time to monitor the needs for the growing organic greens, a perfect solution would be an Automated IOT (Internet of Things) based Terrace Model. This can certainly provide the best performance, since it may employ decentralized data processing to make important decisions in greens management in a smart manner. This automated system helps in ploughing the soil, sowing seeds, automatic watering to control the moisture level in the soil, observe the live streaming of greens growth in our smart phones until harvesting. It also ensures that Organic Greens receive ideal attention, best agricultural conditions, natural fertilizers and compost (derived from kitchen waste) without any human intervention. This will encourage in growing our own organic greens in an automated way within limited space. In low-expense, this sustainable system can perform plowing of the soil, injecting the seed’s, irrigation process along with the live streaming of plants. In addition to this, the end-user can monitor the parameters recorded by the sensors such as soil moisture level, humidity value, temperature level etc. The user will get messages about which plants need to be growing based on the soil conditions along with that they get a message about the intruder. The entire data about the sensors and the system will be stored in the database and time to time modified values will be updated. The modular system will reduce the human effort, labor cost, power consumption, water usage etc. The user can grow different species of leafy vegetables that can be easily maintained and monitored without any effort.
A Novel Deep Neural Network Model for Image Classification
Authors:   Department of Computer Applications, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, Trichy, Tamilnadu, India., Karthika* N. , Janet B. ,   Department of Computer Applications, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, Trichy, Tamilnadu, India., Shukla Himanshu ,   Department of Computer Applications, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, Trichy, Tamilnadu, India.
Published: September 2019

In this article, we have trained neural network based on deep learning architectures to classify images on standard Fashion-MNIST and CIFAR-10 dataset. The various CNN- based classification architecture and RNN-based classification architecture are trained as well as tested on those standard datasets. In CNN architecture, we include CNN with 1, 2 and 3 Convolutional Layer and in RNN architecture, we include Long- Short Term Memory (LSTM) with one and two LSTM layer. Our models show remarkable outcome on the standard benchmark dataset. The tested models like CNN1 show greater accuracy on the MNIST fashion dataset and CNN3, LSTM1 and LSTM2 performed better than other models on the CIFAR-10 dataset.
Lung Cancer Detection using Convolutional Neural Network
Authors:   currently pursuing M.tech in Electronics and communication stream as final year student from Punjabi University, Patiala, India., Sharma Sayana , Kaur Mandeep ,   Assistant Professor and is currently pursuing her Ph.D in Punjabi university, Patiala, India., Saini Dr. Deepak ,   Assistant Professor in Punjabi university, Patiala, India.
Published: September 2019

The mortality rate is increasing among the growing population and one of the leading causes is lung cancer. Early diagnosis is required to decrease the number of deaths and increase the survival rate of lung cancer patients. With the advancements in the medical field and its technologies CAD system has played a significant role to detect the early symptoms in the patients which cannot be carried out manually without any error in it. CAD is detection system which has combined the machine learning algorithms with image processing using computer vision. In this research a novel approach to CAD system is presented to detect lung cancer using image processing techniques and classifying the detected nodules by CNN approach. The proposed method has taken CT scan image as input image and different image processing techniques such as histogram equalization, segmentation, morphological operations and feature extraction have been performed on it. A CNN based classifier is trained to classify the nodules as cancerous or non-cancerous. The performance of the system is evaluated in the terms of sensitivity, specificity and accuracy.
Optimal Physical Coil Separation Condition for Wireless Charging System
Authors:   Electronic and Communication department, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India., Sahany Siddharth , Biswal Sushree S ,   Electronic and Communication department, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India., Kar Durga P ,   Electronic and Communication department, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India., Bhuyan Satyanarayan ,   Electronic and Communication department, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India., Mallick Manas Kumar ,   Electronic and Communication department, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
Published: September 2019

Now-a-days, wireless transfer of electric power has received much attention in the world arena. As a safe, reliable and convenient technology, Magnetic resonance coupling (MRC) based wireless power transfer (WPT) system shows a remarkable ability to power up in a wide range from mW to kW range. In this paper conventional magnetic field analysis with maximum power transfer theorem has been used to explain the frequency characteristics of the transferred load power. The intensity of magnetic field, induced receiver voltage, physical air gap of coils relating to the dimension of the coils has been examined. The experimental results are well agreed with the theoretical results. The acquired analysis depicts the optimal physical separation condition relating to the size of the charging coils of a WPT system.
Brain Tumor Segmentation using Normalized Graph Cuts
Authors:   Assistant Professor, Jeppiaar Institute of Technology, Chennai, India., W* Nancy , Celinekavida A ,   Associate Professor, Vel Tech Multi Tech Dr.Rangarajan Dr.Sakunthala Engineering College, Chennai, India.
Published: September 2019

Normalized graph cut algorithm is an efficient method where the technique of graph theory is adopted and in which the images are taken in the form of weighted graph in order to segment the images. This paper comprises of the fundamental concept of Normalized graph cut algorithm and its application towards the segmentation of Brain tumor. Identifying defects such as tumors is a very challenging because differentiating the components is difficult in a complex structure like a human brain. The diagnosis becomes even more complex because the tumor, blood clots and some part of the brain tissues appear as the same Brain tumor is generally detected and analyzed through a comprehensive analysis of the Magnetic Resonance Images of the brain. This technique gives a second opinion regarding the presence or absence of the brain tumor. This paper performs the study of Normalized graph cut algorithm and shows its efficiency in detecting tumors and compares it with other commonly used algorithms.
Marketing Communications as a Factor of Sustainable Development
Authors:   Stephan Gzhytskyi National University of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnologies, Lviv, Ukraine, Kopytko* Olha , Lagodiienko Volodymyr ,   Department of Marketing, Business and Trade, Odessa National Academy of Food Technologies, Odessa, Ukraine, Falovych Volodymyr ,   Industrial Marketing Department, Ternopil Ivan Puluj National Technical University, Ternopil, Ukraine, Tchon Li ,   International Business & Marketing Department, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, Grodno, Belarus, Dovhun Oksana ,   Department of marketing and logistics, Lviv polytechnic national university Lviv, Ukraine, Litvynenko Mariia ,   Department of Economics and Marketing, National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute”, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Published: September 2019

Transformation processes in the economy and the consequences of the economic crisis have led to the fact that the enterprise no longer lacks the capabilities of existing marketing technologies [1]. The urgent issue is the introduction of coordinated, integrated marketing communications at the enterprise, which provides the flexibility of marketing policy, the long-term orientation of the enterprise, repeated sales, the formation of consumer loyalty, strengthening of partnerships and more.
Detection and Classification of Ring, Rust and Yellow Sugarcane Leaf Diseases
Authors:   Computer Science and Engineering, Dayananda Sagar Academy of Technology & Management, Bangalore, India., G L Anoop , Nandini C. ,   Computer Science & Engineering, Dayananda Sagar Academy of Technology & Management, Bangalore, India.
Published: September 2019

Agriculture is an important sector in Economic and Social life. Crop disease detection is an emerging field in India. We can minimize the diseases infection on sugarcane leaf by detecting and grading the leaf disease in early stages. In this paper, we are detecting and recognize Sugar cane leaf diseases by using grey scale and color image processing and analyze the efficacy by comparing both. In grey scale processing, we presented Gradient Magnitude, Otsu method, Morphological Operations and Normalization to extract the Region of interest (ROI) i.e., disease part. In color processing initially converted RGB to L*a*b format, later K-means clustering and edge detection operations are applied on L*a*b image format. The features of Grey scale & color processed image are extracted and feed to Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier which classifies ring, rust & yellow spot sugarcane leaf diseases. The Sugarcane leaf diseases are classified successfully with an average accuracy of 84% & 92% for grey scale & color features respectively.
Rural Bus Connectivity and Quality of Services under Assam State Transport Corporation (ASTC)
Authors:   Research Scholar, Department of Political Science, Assam University Diphu Campus, Gogoi Lenin
Published: September 2019

Road Transport Sector (RTS) is crucial for the people living in rural areas because other modes of transportation are hardly available in these regions. People are basically dependent on road transport services to run their day to day works in rural areas. Assam is a state of India where majority of the population is living in rural areas. The state comprises different geographical locations such as remotest of the remote locations, flood affected areas etc. and on the other hand, other modes of transportation such as trains, flights etc. are not adequately available in all places of the state. Thus, road transport plays a crucial role in moving goods and services in the state. So far as the welfare states are concerned, Public Road Transport Corporations (PRTCs) play a major role in delivering bus services to the people so all sections of the people can travel comfort journey at reasonable prices. Assam State Transport Corporation (ASTC) is only the Public Sector Road Transport Corporation (PSRTC) in Assam which provides bus services to the people of the state and in its connected regions. Here, the present study has been made to understand the status of services provided to the people living in rural areas of Assam under ASTC. Total 100 respondents from the group of passengers travelled by ASTC’s buses (Lakhimpur Division) have been purposively contacted for collecting primary data and the data collected from passengers would help to understand the availability/unavailability and the quality of services provided by ASTC to the passengers. Apart from the passengers, 8 ASTC’s officials (four from each station) and 2 higher officials from ASTC’s headquarters have been interviewed to understand the challenges faced by them in operating buses. Based on the collected data, the study finds that the corporation has failed to provide quality services to the passengers in many regards. The findings of the study highlight unavailability of push back system in seats in many buses, absence of a/c connections in buses allotted to rural areas, unhygienic bus stations etc. The study also reveals that service delivery is affected by the problems which are related to operation of buses such as rigid official procedures, financial deficiency, dissatisfaction of employees etc. Based on the findings, the study suggests concerned authority to take necessary steps to improve the quality of services regarding different aspects and to introducing such rules and regulations wherein employees feel comfort to discharge their duties. The study also suggests concerned authority to keeping proper surveillance over the properties of ASTC, focusing on proper maintenance of buses and bus stations etc.
Effort toward the Sustainable Agricultural Development within the Territory the ASEAN
Authors:   Faculty of Agriculture, University of Wijaya Kusuma Surabaya, Indonesia., nugrahini Wisnujati , Endang Siswati ,   Faculty of Agriculture, University of Wijaya Kusuma Surabaya, Indonesia., Koesriwulandari  ,   Faculty of Agriculture, University of Wijaya Kusuma Surabaya., Markus Patiung ,   Faculty of Agriculture, University of Wijaya Kusuma Surabaya, Indonesia., Bin Bon Abdul Talib ,   Fakulti Pengurusan Teknologi dan PerniagaanUniversiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM) Johor, Malaysia
Published: September 2019

ASEAN Indonesia and the such as Thailand and Vietnam knew the world largest rice-producing, one of its inputs for the is manure. Manure used in addition to also organic manure, fertilizer impact on pollution. Research objective analyze whether the use of fertilizer, affect the contents of rice grains, production, and productivity of the three countries, rice ASEAN this study using data time series and analyzed use software SPSS, the research results show that Indonesia users more fertilizer compared to countries Thailand and manure vietnam.Use in Indonesia influential production by, but not on productivity and contents of rice grains, in Thailand the use of fertilizer had real impact production by rice, yield, contents of rice grains, but not on in Vietnam influential manure production by, productivity, but not on contents of rice grains.
Mathematical Regression Models for Prediction of Durability Properties of Foamed Concrete with the Inclusion of Coir Fibre
Authors:   School of Housing, Building and Planning, UniversitiSains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia., Zamzani* N. Mohd , Mydin M. A. Othuman ,   School of Housing, Building and Planning, UniversitiSains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia., Ghani A. N. Abdul ,   School of Housing, Building and Planning, UniversitiSains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia.
Published: September 2019

A mathematical exploration using statistical techniques for the prediction of durability properties of foamed concrete with inclusion of coir fibre was performed for the foamed concrete data obtained from laboratory experimental work done in this research. The variable used in the prediction models was the fibre volume fractions. The multiple non-linear regression models yielded exceptional correlation coefficients for the prediction of water absorption, porosity, ultrasonic pulse velocity and depth of carbonation. The mathematical statistical procedures (regression models) that are proposed in this study provide tools of considerable value in the evaluation of durability properties of foamed concrete. The information derived from this procedure is valuable in filtering and refining design criteria and provisions related to foamed concrete with addition of coir fiber.
Regression Examination Technique: Correlation between Nozzle Velocity and Vibration Level of Hydro-Turbine in SHP Run-off-River Scheme
Authors:   Universiti Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia France Institute, Section 14, Jalan Teras Jernang, Bandar Baru Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia., Jamil* AZ , Othman J. ,   Universiti Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia France Institute, Section 14, Jalan Teras Jernang, Bandar Baru Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia., Azrulhisham E.A. ,   Universiti Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia France Institute, Section 14, Jalan Teras Jernang, Bandar Baru Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia.
Published: September 2019

Regression Examination is one of the most popular statistical analysis method used to determine the correlation between examined variables. It can also be used to predict the value of a dependent variable based on the value of at least one independent variable and this will allow explaining the impact of changes in an independent variable on the dependent variable. With the measured data of flow rate, output power and efficiency of turbine system, the nozzle velocity can be calculated using an appropriate mathematical equation. Along with vibration level data at every measurement axes, they are tabulated and imported into MATLAB program for the correlation determination. Three different set of data are used in this analysis which is based on the variation of water level at different month (low, typical and high) due to rainfall distribution within one year period. The objective of this study was to examine two questions: first is the effect of water level to the measured flow rate and generated output as well the calculated nozzle velocity. Second, with these variation of nozzle velocity, how significance their correlation with the vibration level at multiple axes of the turbine and generator? From the results, it has been discovered that there are significant correlation between nozzle velocity and vibration level, particularly during low level of water (lower rainfall distribution).
Step Over (ae) Effect on Cutting Parameters when Trochoidal Pocket Milling of Titanium Alloy Ti-6Al-4V
Authors:   Mechanical and Manufacturing Section, Universiti Kuala Lumpur, Bandar Baru Bangi, Malaysia., Ramli* A.S. , Sharif S. ,   School of Mechanical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor., Said A.Y.M. ,   Mechanical and Manufacturing Section, Universiti Kuala Lumpur, Bandar Baru Bangi, Malaysia., Karim Z. ,   Mechanical and Manufacturing Section, Universiti Kuala Lumpur, Bandar Baru Bangi, Malaysia.
Published: September 2019

Titanium alloy is highly demanding in the aerospace industry due to its unique properties such are high strength-to-weight ratio and high thermal conductivity thus, made the material widely used in aerospace industries and excellent in its applications. However, those criteria’s become a crucial issue for machinists as titanium is categorized as difficult-to-machined material. High thermal conductivity caused shorten tool life because of the heat generated during machining was transferred directly to the cutting tool and leads to rapid tool wear. This experiment was conducted using 3 axis CNC Milling machine under wet cutting conditions. In order to identify the effect of step over, cutting speed and feed rate were fixed at constant values while step over (ae) values were varieties. The effect investigated were tool wear, wear mechanisms and tool failure modes. Tools experienced a longer tool life at low cutting speed of 60m/min, while chipping and notch wear appeared at high cutting speed 90m/min. The increasing of the step over value give less than 10% of the wear and reduced only 15% of machining time. With this, trochoidal milling proved that the step over give a minor contribution to wear while the dominant contribution was cutting speed followed by feed rate where the wear rate increased as the cutting speed increased.
Influence of ‘Cocos Nucifera Linn’ Fiber Volume Fraction on Water Absorption and Porosity of Foamed Concrete
Authors:   School of Housing, Building and Planning, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia., Zamzani* N. Mohd , Mydin M. A. Othuman ,   School of Housing, Building and Planning, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia., Ghani A. N. Abdul ,   School of Housing, Building and Planning, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia.
Published: September 2019

Global apprehension and governance on carbon footprint emissions have driven a considerable amount of research on green concrete around the world. In the present day, it should be acknowledged that most of the construction products are produced using materials that require a high amount of energy and not naturally sustainable which can lead to global problem. Hence, the use of natural fiber like Cocos Nucifera Linn Fiber (CNF) in foamed concrete is considered as a useful option in making concrete as a sustainable material to overcome this problem. CNF refer to agricultural waste or by-products that can be obtained through the distribution of coconut oil and can be accumulated in a large amount in Malaysia. Moreover, it should be understood that CNF fibers are often discarded as agricultural wastes. Hence, the aim of the present study is to perform experimental studies in order to discern the effect of CNF volume fraction on water absorption capacity and porosity of foamed concrete. There were total of 21 mixes were prepared and test in this study. Three densities of 650 kg/m3, 1050 kg/m3, and 1450 kg/m3 were fabricated. CNF was used as additives in the present study at 0.1%, 0.2%, 0.3%, 0.4%, 0.5%, and 0.6% by volume fraction of the total mix. The results show that the water absorption of foamed concrete was slower at the beginning when it contained higher CNF volume fraction than the lower CNF volume fraction. CNF absorbed water and then expanded amid blending. CNF could anticipate fragility and lose microstructure arrangement, which reduces the capacity to oppose excessive loads. On the other hand, the porosity of foamed concrete is reduced due to the increase of CNF for each density examined in the present study. This occurs because of the reaction between the cement paste and CNF. Furthermore, higher density foamed concrete prompts the decrement of permeable structure, while the CNF serves to bridge the matrix. The arrangement of pores for plain foamed concrete without the incorporation of fiber was bigger compared to foamed concrete with the incorporation of CNF. CNF additionally helps in making an increasingly uniform distribution of the air voids. Thus, it will hinder bubbles from merging with one another.
Implementing Health Care Center using Hadoop for Analysis and Prediction of Diseases
Authors:   Assistant Professor, School of Computing, Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India., A* Velmurugan , Mayan J Albert ,   Assistant Professor, School of Computing, Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India., Prasad R Mohana ,   Assistant Professor, School of Computing, Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India., Felix A Yovan ,   Assistant Professor, School of Computing, Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai,India.
Published: September 2019

Healthcare is very important in the medical field.Inorder to satisfy this area,we have proposed our scheme using the big data platform for data communication as well as data access. We have also used the java program for developing the application-oriented area. In this scheme, an unique concept has been implemented like user can request the information about the health to the officer, then the officer will communicate with Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). Then HDFS will get the information from the medical research Centre without any knowledge of intermediate. In this system we also satisfied the patients on getting the information about their health on an easy basis. HDFS will help medical research Centre for organizing the people’s information in HL7 format as well and distributed. So that this system is high in use for the medical field in the future, we have also satisfied the accuracy and speed of the communication in this project.
Analytic Hierarchy Process: Automobile Steering Technology
Authors:   Assistant Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering, NMIMS University, Mukesh Patel School of Technology Management and Engineering, Shirpur, India., Katarne* Rajnish , Negi Jayant ,   Ex- Professor of Mechanical Engineering Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Indore,India.
Published: September 2019

The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a well-liked multi-criteria decision making method. In current research an attempted has been made by researcher to present an application of the AHP. It is used to find the weightages of the selected factors for the automobile steering technology. This method adopts a multi- criteria approach that can be used for analysis/comparison of parameters. Sixteen factors were used for evaluating these are: Basic cost of steering, Maintenance cost, System Efficiency, System control technology, Durability, Turning Radius, Effort required, Availability of vehicle , Sales Volume , Time period of service , Maintenance Time , percentage of failure , Adjustment as per driver , Complexity , Upgrade ability , System Safety, for these a matrix of pair wise comparisons between parameters were evaluated. Eventually resulting/emerging precedence is revealed.
Challenges Faced in the Enterprise Resource Planning Material Management Section when Transitioning Towards Agile Software Development
Authors:   Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Vel tech Multi tech Dr. Rangarajan Dr. Sakunthala Engineering College, India., Ganesh* N. , Narayanan R.C. ,   Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Sona College Of Technology, Salem, Tamil Nadu, India.
Published: September 2019

Agile Software Development Approach is the buzzword for the Organizations working with Traditional Software Development Approach. Scrum is one of the most vital frameworks used when working towards Agile Software Development projects. Material Management is one of the salient processes of the Supply Chain Management in transforming inputs into outputs. Extreme Programming is more technical in nature and Scrum is a People focused Management approach. This scrum framework is customizable according to the project teams and it is adopted widely to effectively manage software projects. Scrum framework fits into the groove for delivering quality product at a faster pace with minimal continuous feature delivery at frequent intervals. The minimal Marketable feature is delivered at the end of each Sprint. A Sprint is an iterative activity which ends up at regular intervals. But, the way of customizing the process and giving a minimal feature delivery at the end of each Sprint in the projects act as a major challenge. Other challenges resulted in the team collaboration and the involvement of the team members in the project and in integrating the minimal marketable feature. Syncing with the product owner and the other stake holders, and participation in the sprint planning were some of the issues that the team faced. The success of the entire team in implementing the Agile Software Development approach in the Enterprise Resource Planning Material Management Section is discussed.
Gender Identification via Voice Processing
Authors:   Scholar, Department of Computer Science Engineering, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies., Kushwah* Shivangee , Singh Shantanu ,   Scholar, Department of Computer Science Engineering, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies., Vats Kshitij ,   Scholar, Department of Computer Science Engineering, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies., Nemade Varsha ,   Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science Engineering, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies.
Published: September 2019

Recognizing the sexual orientation of a person via speech has an assortment of utilizations going via speech investigation to customizing machine and human collaborations. Speech Recognition Technology can be installed in different continuous applications so as to expand the human-PC association. From apply autonomy to social insurance and aviation, from intelligent voice reaction frameworks to versatile communication and telematics, speech acknowledgment innovation have upgraded the human-machine connection. Sexual orientation acknowledgment is a critical part for the application implanting discourse acknowledgment as it lessens the computational intricacy for the further preparing in these applications. This paper involves extracting the constituent parts such as frequencies and interquartile ranges which are in light of a legitimate concern for distinguishing the speaker's sexual orientation with as meager discourse as could reasonably be expected.
MICRO TRANSACTION DALAM ONLINE GAME: APAKAH MEMICU PERILAKU BELANJA ONLINE YANG BERMASALAH?
Authors: Garvin Garvin , Claudia Jennifer , Evita Irene
Published: September 2019

Pada penelitian ini, peneliti bermaksud untuk meneliti salah satu dampak dari online game yang timbul akibat adanya transaksi mikro, yakni perilaku belanja online yang bermasalah. Transaksi mikro merupakan fitur di dalam online game untuk mendapatkan kemampuan dan barang lebih sehingga memudahkan mereka dalam bermain, dan fitur tersebut diperoleh dengan cara membeli menggunakan uang di dunia nyata. Peneliti melibatkan 474 partisipan (55,6% perempuan) remaja yang berusia antara 14 - 18 tahun. Partisipan kemudian diminta untuk mengisi kuesioner yang berisi Compulsive Online Shopping Scale atau COSS (α = 0,926) dan menyebutkan apakah mereka menggunakan transaksi mikro atau tidak dalam bermain online game. Hasil uji Mann-Whitney menunjukkan bahwa tidak terdapat perbedaan perilaku belanja kompulsif online pada kelompok pengguna transaksi mikro dan kelompok bukan pengguna transaksi mikro (p = 0,715 > 0,05). Hal ini karena remaja hanya menggunakan transaksi mikro sesekali, dan faktor yang menyebabkan remaja terjebak dalam perilaku belanja kompulsif adalah penguatan dari sebaya dan mencontoh dari orangtua. Sedangkan dalam bermain online game, kepuasan yang diperoleh dalam menggunakan transaksi mikro diperoleh secara internal, bukan eksternal seperti dari sebaya atau orangtua. Peneliti menyarankan agar orangtua tetap memantau remaja dalam bermain online game. Dan dalam penelitian selanjutnya, beberapa variabel kontrol bisa dilibatkan seperti frekuensi mengunakan transaksi mikro dalam sebulan dan genre dari online gameyang dimainkan. Kata kunci: Belanja Kompulsif Online, Remaja, Online Game, Transaksi Mikro
КОМПЕНСАЦІЯ РЕАКТИВНОЇ ПОТУЖНОСТІ СОНЯЧНОЮ ЕЛЕКТРО-СТАНЦІЄЮ ТА ВПЛИВ ДАНОГО ПРОЦЕСУ НА РОБОТУ ЦЕНТРАЛЬНОЇ ЕЛЕКТРИЧНОЇ МЕРЕЖІ
Authors: Bordakov М.
Published: September 2019

Контроль реактивної потужності можна вважати однією з найменш досліджених проблем в фотоелектричній промисловості, він може дати ключ до значного збільшення прибутку власників промислових сонячних електростанцій.
В даній статті описується вплив компенсації реактивної потужності на промисловій ФЕС потужністю за техінчними умовами 9 МВт. Інверторне обладнання : Kstar 500 КВт, сонячні панелі Talesun 270 Вт. В ДСТУ 8635:2016 є вимоги що до можливості регулювання реактивної потужності промисловими СЕС. Відповідно до даного стандарту промислова СЕС має регулювати свій коефіцієнт потужності від 0.8 до 1 відповідно до вимог центральної мережі. Також, в даній статті описується вплив компенсації реактивної потужності на якість електричної енергії лінії 35 кВ. Відповідно до постанови НКРЕКП від 14.03.2018 №312, про правила розрахунку за реактивну потужність, клієнт має відшкодовувати енерго-передаючій компанії збитки за перетікання реактивної потужності.
В статті описано алгоритм керування рективною потіжністью на рівні точки підключення до центарльної електирчної мережі. Він полягає в керуванні інверторним обладнанням через інформаційний протоколок ModBus TCP. Кожен інвертор має запрограмований виробником реєстр інформаційних команд. Посилаючи команду через інформаційний протокол в потрібний реєстр інвертор може виконати дію чи передачу параметрів, відповідно до типу реєстру в який послано команду. Інвертор починає компенсувати реактивну потужність коли отримує команду в реєстр, який відповідає за значення коефіцієнту потужності. Значення для компенсації зчитується з пристрою аналізу якості електромережі на вхідній комірці. Зчитане значення оброблюється сервером і відправляється на інвертор. Використовуючи компенсацію реактивної потужності, збитки клієнта за перетікання реактивної потужності зводяться до мінімального значення. Бібл. 10, табл. 3, рис.3.
ЧИСЕЛЬНИЙ РОЗРАХУНОК ПАРАМЕТРІВ ПАРАБОЛОЇДНОГО ТА ПАРАБОЛО-ЦИЛІНДРИЧНОГО КОНЦЕНТРАТОРІВ ДЛЯ СОНЯЧНОЇ ЕНЕРГЕТИЧНОЇ УСТА-НОВКИ НА БАЗІ ДВИГУНА СТІРЛІНГА
Authors: Stoudenets V. , Slavinska K.
Published: September 2019

Концентратори сонячної енергії набувають все більшого значення у зв’язку з необхідністю вирішення важливих науковихта інженерних задач при створенні нової техніки та використанні сонячної енергії.Основними характеристиками дзеркал, що концентрують пряме сонячне випромінювання, є опромінення у фокальній площині Er та максимальне опромінення Emax у фокусі дзеркала. При проектуванні потужних геліоустановок виникає необхідність застосування нового програмного забезпечення для розрахунку технічних характеристик сонячних концентраторів.Розглянуто питання створення універсального програмного забезпечення для обрахунку основних енергетичних характеристик параболоїдних та параболоциліндричних концентраторів сонячної енергії у середовищі Windows. Узагальнена математична модель забезпечує реалізацію етапів розрахунку та проектування з урахуванням енергетичних характеристикджерела випромінювання, неточності відбиваючих поверхонь та інше.Представлений аналіз існуючих моделей розрахунку параметрів параболічного та параболоциліндричного концентраторів.За результатами дослідження визначено відмінності між методиками, розраховано ключові параметри, визначено відмінності між підходами.Створено математичну модель розрахунку основних характеристик для ідеального та реального концентратора сонячноїенергії. Наведено відмінність та особливості розрахунку параболічних та параболоциліндричних сонячних концентраторів.Змодельовано покроковий алгоритм обрахунку характеристик сонячного концентратора.Побудовано графік залежності максимальної опроміненості параболоїдного та параболоциліндричного сонячного концентратора від максимального кута розкриття.Розроблену програму можна застосовувати у сучасній геліотехнічній практиці, пов’язаній з проектуванням потужнихгеліоустановок. Бібл. 8, табл. 3, рис. 7.
ІМІТАЦІЙНА МОДЕЛЬ ПРОЦЕСУ ЗАРЯДЖЕННЯ ЄМНІСНОГО НАКОПИЧУВАЧА ЕЛЕКТРОДИНАМІЧНОГО ПРИВОДА НАСОСУ АВТОНОМНОЇ ВІТРОЕЛЕКТРО-УСТАНОВКИ
Authors: Holovko V. , Kokhanievych V. , Shykhailov M. , Donets A. , Percova I.
Published: September 2019

Ємнісні накопичувачі, як необхідний складовий елемент, знаходять широке застосування в різноманітних електротехнічних установках і системах. Аналіз відомих підходів збільшення ККД зарядного кола показав, що вони пов’язані з певними труднощами. Наприклад, зарядні пристрої із джерелами, регульованими за певним законом напруги, є складними і їхнє застосування може бути виправдано лише у виняткових випадках. Крім перетворювача, що узгоджує джерело енергії та ємнісний накопичувач, потрібні додаткові реактивні елементи, що запасають енергію і підтримують на одному рівні вхідну і вихідну потужності протягом процесу зарядження. Ця вимога грає істотну роль у випадку застосування джерела обмеженої потужності. У більшості випадків енергетичні процеси заряду конденсатора аналізувались при нульових початкових умовах.
Максимальний ККД може бути досягнутий при незмінній формі вхідного та вихідного струму. Для досягнення максимального ККД перетворювача ємнісний накопичувач в початковий відрізок часу повинен запасати енергію, щоб в кінці заряду віддати запасену енергію для підтримання струму зарядження.
Вітроустановка працює при стохастичних умовах зміни рівня швидкості вітру, що спричиняє до відповідних показників на клемах зарядного пристрою. Оцінка необхідної кількості енергії для зарядження ємкісного накопичувача ускладнюється.
Метою роботи становила задача визначити час зарядження ємнісного накопичувача електродинамічного привода насосу автономної вітроелектричної установки до заданих технологічних меж за допомогою імітаційного моделювання при стохастичних умовах зміни рівня швидкості вітру. При зміні значень математичного сподіванням швидкості вітру в межах 4…5,2 м/с час зарядження ємнісного накопичувача при технологічній межі напруги 100 В складає відповідно 12,5…7 с. Бібл. 10, рис. 10.
ОСОБЛИВОСТІ ЗАСТОСУВАННЯ НОРМАТИВНИХ ДОКУМЕНТІВ ЩОДО ОБМЕЖЕННЯ ЕМІСІЇ ЗАБРУДНЮЮЧИХ РЕЧОВИН ПРИ СПАЛЮВАННІ БІОМАСИ
Authors: Zhovmir M. , Budko M.
Published: September 2019

Мета роботи – з’ясування впливу змін у нормативних документах щодо охорони атмосферного повітря від забруднення на подальшу експлуатацію існуючих та впровадження нових енергетичних установок, розробку нових процесів та котельного обладнання для спалювання біомаси. Представлено аналіз змін чинних міжнародних документів, стандартів та нормативних актів України стосовно обмеження емісії забруднюючих речовин від енергетичних установок зі спалюванням біомаси.
Перевиданою директивою ЄС встановлено екологічні вимоги до великих спалювальних установок (більше 50 МВт) диференційовані залежно від їх потужності по паливу, що введені для нових установок з 2018р., а для існуючих – впроваджуються у два етапи – з 2014р. та 2028р. Нормативними документами України стосовно великих спалювальних установок заплановано поступовий перехід на нормативи ЄС до 2033р. Зважаючи на особливості введення сучасних екологічних вимог, сумісне спалювання біомаси та вугілля на існуючих великих електричних станціях України може стати реальним з наближенням періоду 2028-2033 років.
У 2015 р. в ЄС прийняті екологічні нормативи щодо середніх спалювальних установок (1-50 МВт), які для нових установок вводяться в дію з 2018 р, а для існуючих установок потужністю більше 5 МВт вводяться з 2025р, а для установок потужністю 1-5 МВт - з 2030р. В Україні щодо середніх спалювальних установок технологічні екологічні нормативи прийняті тільки для спалювання лушпиння соняшнику, а для спалювання інших твердих палив діють екологічні нормативи загальні для всіх стаціонарних джерел забруднення. При плануванні реконструкції та продовженні експлуатації існуючих середніх енергетичних установок зі спалюванням лушпиння можна орієнтуватися на перспективні технологічні нормативи встановлені в Україні. В Україні граничнодопустимі викиди твердих часток загальні для всіх стаціонарних джерел забруднення при спалюванні твердого палива є нижчими, ніж вимоги стандарту EN 303-5:2012 до опалювальних котлів (до 500 кВт) третього класу, особливо при спалюванні торфу та соломи, тому є необхідність розробки первинних заходів для зменшення їх емісії до загальних вимог. Бібл. 24, табл. 11.
Caracterización morfométrica y faneróptica del cerdo criollo de la región Chortí, Chiquimula, Guatemala
Authors: Jáuregui Jiménez Raúl
Published: September 2019

En la región chortí de Guatemala, la presencia de cerdos criollos y su crianza sigue siendo una práctica de obtención de proteína para consumo y de recursos económicos. En esta investigación el objetivo fue generar información sobre las principales características zoométricas, morfológicas y fanerópticas, del cerdo criollo (hembras 44/machos 24), se utilizó un muestreo simple aleatorio para proporciones con varianza máxima, considerando un nivel de confianza del 95%. La caracterización se realizó en animales jóvenes que cumplieron con el estándar racial, ambos sexos,no gestantes y de las comunidades previamente identificadas; se analizaron 12 variables morfométricas y 10 fanerópticas,7 índices corporales. Como resultados las morfométricas son homogéneas al igual que los índices corporales,de tamaño corporal de pequeño a mediano, cabeza larga y angosta (dolicocefálicos) de cuerpo corto y delgado (mediolíneoscon tendencia a longilíneos). No presentan dimorfismo sexual, con perfil frontonasal rectilíneo, con orejas asiáticas e ibéricas, de capa negra a manchada colorada y negra, escaso pelo a abundante, pezuñas pigmentadasy blancas, mucosas pigmentadas. Su alto índice pelviano indica que son animales de capacidad reproductiva baja,debido a la estreches de pélvica. Además, se concluye que el cerdo criollo tiene su origen en el tronco Ibérico.