bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
MAIN DIRECTIONS OF CRYPTOCURRENCY INFLUENCE ON THE MONETARY POLICY AND FINANCIAL SAFETY OF BANKING SYSTEMS
Authors: Vasylchyshyn Oleksandra
Published: October 2019

Introduction. The article deals with the peculiarities of the development of the market of cryptocurrency. The main directions of the negative influence of the growth of the capitalization of cryptocurrency market on the monetary policy of the central banks and the financial security of the banking systems are outlined. Possible variants of creation of national cryptocurrencies are investigated. The necessity of introduction of the blockchain system into the practice of organizing of currency turnover and functioning of banking systems is substantiated.
Purpose. The article aims to study the impact of the expansion of cryptocurrency on the monetary policy of central banks and the financial security of banking systems. It also aims to work out the recommendations for the implementation of perspective, in our opinion, cryptocurrencies into the national banking system.
Methods. In this research we have used the general scientific methods of analysis and synthesis (to understand the functional purpose of cryptocurrencies and to determine the directions of their influence on the monetary policy of central banks and financial security of banking systems); economic and statistical methods (to analyse the dynamics of capitalization of cryptocurrencies, to compare the share of cryptocurrency in the money supply of countries the world); systematic approach (to justify the prospects for the creation of national cryptocurrencies and the introduction of blockchain into the practice of the organization of fiat money circulation and the functioning of banking systems).
Results. The main directions and consequences of the influence of cryptocurrencies on monetary policy and financial security of banking systems have been determined. The prospects of the introduction of blockchain into the practice of organization of the circulation of fiat money and the functioning of banking systems, as well as the positive aspects of the creation of national cryptocurrencies have been grounded.
ELEMENTS OF PROTECTION AND PREVENTION OF CORPORATE CONFLICTS
Authors: Tsisetskyi Orest
Published: October 2019

The problem of developing and functioning of the system for managing corporate conflicts is not enough, so we want to offer our vision of its solution.
Along with the main elements of protection and prevention of corporate conflict, which are applied on the basis of review, mediation, involvement of the arbitral tribunal, in practice it is expedient to use the following: collecting information and building a database of potential participants in the conflict; search and analysis of vulnerable positions of the parties; development and implementation of organizational and technical measures for the protection of information about the corporation and participants in the conflict; collection, systematization, processing, analysis of the illegal activities of the parties to the conflict; interaction with law enforcement agencies, antimonopoly committee; legal aid; physical protection of persons involved in the conflict; engineering and technical protection.
All these measures complement corporate conflicts or minimize their negative consequences.
Analysis of the possibility of shortening the time of creating a mobile application for Android and iOS systems using Xamarin technology
Authors: Molenda Daniel , Skublewska-Paszkowska Maria
Published: October 2019

The article presents a comparison of times needed for creating a mobile application for Android and iOS system using multi-platform Xamarin technology and respective native technologies for both systems. The authors’ application was implemented in three programming environments: VisualStudio (using Xamarin technology), Android Studio and XCode. The results of the conducted research have shown that thecreation of an application in Xamarin technology takes approximately half the time.
Own system of intelligent building in comparison with an open - source solution
Authors: Kryczka Cezary
Published: October 2019

This article is an attempt to answer the question whether and under what conditions it is beneficial to develop an own intelligent building system, when many free open source systems are available. The publication presents the characteristics of author's own home automation system - sHome, as well as the open-source system - Domoticz, in a configuration that is as close to the functionality of the author's system as possible. The work ends with a comparative analysis of the systems and conclusions from the analysis.
Analysis of the development Android’s runtime
Authors: Honcharenko Kostiantyn , Smołka Jakub
Published: October 2019

The article presents the development of the Android runtime. Own application for Android is presented, which implements performance benchmarks used to test different versions of the Android runtime. The methods measure the benchmark execution times in different versions of the Android runtime environment.
Numerical Simulation on Influence of Nozzle to Plate Distance for Spout Impact Cooling with Water-Al2o3 Nanofluid
Authors:   Department of Production Engineering, Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Burla, Sambalpur (Odisha), India., Kund* N. K.
Published: October 2019

Present exploration connect with the influence of nozzle to plate distance aimed at spout impact cooling through water-Al2O3 nanofluid. CFD codes got established to compute the governing equalities of mass, force and drive for envisaging the thermal issues. CFD codes got executed through water-Al2O3 nanofluid spouts to envisage thermal issues on the chosen plate. It uses 60 m/s spout velocity, 3 mm nozzle dimension and varying nozzle to plate distances of 3, 4, 5 and 6 mm. As projected from every temperature arena, the temperature gently grows from spout impact spot on chosen plate along centrifugally peripheral course. This could stand because of thermal outflow using water-Al2O3 nanofluid. The developments of temperature disparities alongside the radial course aimed at the identified cases are really similar. Still, the extreme temperatures over the chosen plate for situations with nozzle to plate distances of 3, 4, 5 and 6 mm are detected to remain 318, 314, 310 and 316 K, respectively. Well along the nozzle to plate distance of 5 mm embraces rather lesser mean temperature and so, it stands as the perfect one.
Implementation and Performance Analysis of Low Complex Beamforming Algorithms
Authors:   Research Scholar, Department of Electrical and Electronics, VTU-RRC, Belagavi, H.M* Guruprasad , Kulkarni Dr. S.B. ,   Associate Professor, Department of CSE, SDMCET ,Dharwad
Published: October 2019

The work comprises of low complexity and cost effective technique referred as RAB (Robust Adaptive Beamforming) with the use of two algorithms i.e. LOSCME (Low complexity shrinkage based mismatch estimation) and OKSPME (Orthogonal krylov subspace projection mismatch estimation). The LOSCME is used to estimate the steering vector based on the correlation of the observed input data and beamformer output. This algorithm also uses OAS (oracle approximating shrinkage) in order to estimate the input data covariance matrix and INC (interference noise covariance) matrix that only requires a prior knowledge of angular sector in which the actual steering vector is located. It is not cost effective and need not to know any extra information that is related to interferers which keeps away from finding the direction of all interferers. Simulation result of LOCSME technique shows very close to optimum. The OKSPME algorithm is based on cross-correlation estimation between the observed input data array and output of the beamformer. In this technique the steering vector mismatch is estimated by considering the larger dimension linear equation and FOM (full orthogonalization method) is used to decrease the dimensional subspace. In addition to this, adaptive algorithm is implemented, which is based on the SG (stochastic gradient) & CG (conjugate gradient) searches used to update the beamforming weights, leads to low complexity of the system and avoid any costly matrix inversion. Major advantage of this mismatch estimation with low rank proposed algorithm is cost efficient when using with number of sensor arrays. The result of OKSPME technique shows excellent performance in terms of output SINR (signal to interference noise ratio), increase in the directivity and also increase in the antenna gain, when compared with other RAB algorithms.
Improving Employee Retention using Path Analysis At E-Commerce Company in Indonesia
Authors:   Information Systems Department, School of Information Systems, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia, Noerlina  , Simamora Bachtiar H. ,   Management Department, BINUS Business School, Undergraduate Program, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia, So Idris Gautama ,   Management Department, BINUS Business School, Undergraduate Program, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia, Mursitama Tirta Nugraha ,   International Relations Department, Faculty of Humanities, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia, Angelina Ferlyn ,   International Relations Department, Faculty of Humanities, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia, Prasetya Jessie ,   International Relations Department, Faculty of Humanities, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia, Stevani Joy ,   International Relations Department, Faculty of Humanities, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia
Published: October 2019

To keep best talent to stay in the organization, managing human capital is an important part to compete with competitors through its people. The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of training and development, compensation, and performance appraisal toward turnover intention through organizational commitment so that employee retention improvement can be suggested. Methods of data collection used in this study is through questionnaires distributed to 117 office employees. Data analysis method used in this research is path analysis. The result of this study showed that training and development, compensation, performance appraisal, and organizational commitment have significant influence toward turnover intention simultaneously and individually. The way to improve employee retention recommendation are discussed.
Prediction of Top Tourist Attraction Spots using Learning Algorithms
Authors:   M. Tech, School of Computing Science and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Gupta* Sagar , Livingston L.M. Jenila ,   Associate Professor, School of Computing Science and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Livingston L.G.X. Agnel ,   Assistant Professor, St. Xavier’s Catholic College of Engineering, Chunkankadai, Nagercoil, Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India
Published: October 2019

Dealing with the growing amount of user posted content like preferences, responses, comments, past experiences and beliefs spread through social media is a vital but challenging task. Being applied in several domains, recommender systems are used to find solutions and suggestions based on users interests including tourism-related opinion detection and tourist-attraction spot identification. Tourists can access and analyze this information for making decisions and predicting best tourist places. This study aims to predict tourist attraction spots and their related information by analyzing the data from social media (Facebook, Twitter etc.) which in turns help the tourist industry by deliberating what kind of attractions tourists can have and how to obtain their preferences. For this purpose four algorithms such as Kernel Density Estimation, K- Nearest Neighbor, Random forest and XG Boost have been used. The findings revealed that XG Boost yields better results in terms of accuracy than other three algorithms.
An Assessment of Brick Masonry Strengthening Practice by Special Methods
Authors:   School of Civil Engineering, SASTRA Deemed to be University, Tamil Nadu, India., Kanchidurai* S. , Krishanan Dr. P.A. ,   Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Tamil Nadu, India, Baskar Dr. K. ,   Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Tamil Nadu, India
Published: October 2019

This study aims to identify the best suitable method to enhance strength and the structural performance of masonry. There are different techniques available to strengthen the existing and new masonry structures. This paper deals the metal/mesh embedment in the masonry wall, strengthening by added different polymers and textile strips, masonry grout, engineered cementitious materials (ECC) and interlocking masonry method. The comparison of different unique masonry strengthening methods helps us to provide a better suggestion for construction issues. In contrast to the conventional method, welded wire mesh gives better results than all other ways. Also, embedment of TRM, ECC, FRP, GFRP, CFRP, and interlocking holds an excellent performance in some other aspects.
Sarcasm Detection using Naïve Bayes SVM Hybrid
Authors:   Department of CSE, SGBAU, Amaravati, Maharashtra, India., Joshi* Ashwini , Prabhune Sameer ,   Department of CSE, SGBAU, Amaravati, Maharashtra, India., Jyoti B N Divya ,   Department of CSE, PES University, Bngalore, Karnataka, India.
Published: October 2019

Sarcasm detection plays a vital role in Sentiment analysis and sentiment classification as the occurrence of sarcasm in an input text may drive Sentiment Analysis job in different (Wrong) classification. Our research work aims in sarcasm detection using basic ML approaches like Naïve Bayes and SVM. Understanding the importance of each model and its merits and combining them accordingly. This work majorly aims at building a hybrid model which leads to better accuracy which will help readers for better decision making.
Estimating Performance of Intelligent Software Systems
Authors:   Ph.D. Scholar, ASET, Amity University, Noida, India, Banga* Manu , Bansal Abhay ,   H.O.I. & Professor, Amity University, Noida, India, Singh Archana ,   Professor, Amity University, Noida, India
Published: October 2019

Reliability is one of the most critical and fundamental aspect while evaluating any software. With the rapid growth in the use of software, the issues concerning the trustworthiness of the software are also increasing. This provides the authors, the motivation to evaluate the software systems fiducially through the implementation of entropy based on the combination weights (CW) methods. These weights are the result of mathematical computation and are based on experts’ opinion. The entropy based approach enables the authors to determine the degree of criteria as per experts’ judgment and also remove the biasness in the weights, by providing objective weights. On contrary the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) has been considered as principal precise methods for decision making with multiple criteria has been extensively considered in the operations research literature as well as useful to solve countless real-world problems. The result of this research contributes in providing better judgments by imparting decision information to the decision makers and also illustrates the robustness of this approach.
Comprehensive Optimal Fir Filter Design Procedures With Various Impacts
Authors:   Research scholar, Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India., Santhanaraj* Mr.M. , Pandian Dr. Dr.S. Immanuel Alex ,   Assistant Professor, Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences, Coimbatore ,Tamilnadu, India
Published: October 2019

Digital-signal-processing (DSP) is one of the recent emerging techniques contain more filtering operations. It may an image type or audio/ video signal processing. Each processing unit has filtering sections to filter noise elements. Hence, there is a need for efficient and secure algorithmic scheme. Here, a exhaustive scrutiny use of complex optimization algorithms towards the digital-filter construction is conferred. In appropriate, the scrutiny target on the identification of various suggestions and limitations in FIR system design. For exact representations, the infinite impulse response adaptive filters and finite impulse response models are considered for estimation. It is designed to review a various swarm and evolutionary computing structures employed for filter design schemes. Some popular computing algorithms are noticed to recover characteristics of percolate design approach. Further, compared with recent research for identifying the updating features in optimization schemes. Finally, this review suggested that the swarm intelligence based researchers improved the constraints and its attributes.
Prediction of Survivors in the Titanic Cruise
Authors:   Computer Science and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India., M* Rajesh
Published: October 2019

On the 15th of April, 1912 the titanic witnessed a disaster resulting in the sinking of her passengers on the maiden voyage near North Atlantic. Even though it is a very long time since this maritime disaster took place, the idea behind what impacts each individual survival is still a great research attracting researcher’s attention. The approach taken in this paper is to utilize the publically available data set from website called Kaggle. Kaggle is a popular data science webpage that put together information of people in the titanic into a data set for the data mining competition: “Titanic: Machine Learning from Disaster”. The research and comparisons in this paper uses a few machine learning techniques and algorithms to analyse the data for classification and prediction of survivors. The prediction and efficiency of these algorithms depend greatly on data analysis and model. The techniques used to do so are Random Forest, Support Vector Machine, Gradient Boosting Machine.
Bounded Interval Fuzzy Control for Half Vehicle’s Active Suspension System
Authors:   Mechanical Engineering Department, Hashemite University, PO. Box 330127, Zarqa 13133, Jordan., AL-Jarrah* Rami , Tlilan Hitham ,   Mechanical Engineering Department, Hashemite University, PO.Box330127, Zarqa 13133, Jordan., Al-Jarrah Ayat ,   Mechatronics Engineering Department, Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan.
Published: October 2019

A novel efficient control scheme for an active vehicle suspension system is to be designed and simulated in this paper. A half car model has been designed and controlled using two different schemes of standard fuzzy control and bounded interval fuzzy control using MATLAB/SIMULINK. The bounded interval fuzzy control is designed to reduce the uncertainties in the fuzzy sets system and solve the non-linear control problem that the standard fuzzy control cannot handle it. It should be noted that fuzzy logic system is capable of dealing with imprecise concepts and numerous vague but the design of membership functions is nontrivial task. This is because of uncertainty degree that is caused due to road inputs profiles, fuzzy knowledge rules and immeasurable disturbance. The proposed method is expected to be able to mimic the heuristic knowledge of design the membership functions which depends on degree of uncertainty. The membership functions will be generated online during the process in order to deal with uncertainties. The simulation results have demonstrated that the proposed control exhibits better performance and stability as compared to standard fuzzy logic. In addition, the proposed scheme presents a preferable solution and balancing achievement between ride comfort and handling performance. These results demonstrated that the body accelerations and tire dynamic loads will be reduced for the vehicle suspension system in either automobiles or robotics suspension systems.
Ductile Behaviour of Beam Made from Modified Tyre Rubber Concrete
Authors:   Research scholar of Civil Engineering Department, Hindustan University, Padur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India & Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Techno International Batanagar, West Bengal, India, Mandal* Aritra , Banerjee Sulagno ,   Research scholar of Civil Engineering Department, Hindustan University, Padur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Rooby Dr. Jessy ,   Professor Civil Engineering Department, Hindustan University, Padur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Published: October 2019

In last little decade technology being guided by the sustainability and environmental issues. Civil engineering is not exceptional ion this matter. As concrete is deriving from natural resource, a big question is being asked all time what will be the future technology and future path. Last few years researchers tried to incorporate the waste material in concrete especially in cement and in fine aggregate. Waste tyres can be an alternate material to replace mineral aggregate. But the mechanical properties decrease with the increase of tyre rubber. So in present study we replaced 40% cement with fly ash and use 5% extra silica of the weight of cement to enhanced the property of tyre rubber concrete which made by replacing 5% coarse aggregate by chipped rubber. Made beams with the modified concrete and check the ductility factor of both types.
Writer Identification with Hybrid Model using Hybrid HMM and ANN
Authors:   Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering., Patil* Vinita Balbhim , Patil Dr. Rajendra R ,   Professor & HOD in Dept.of ECE, GSSSIETW, Mysuru, India,
Published: October 2019

In this paper, writer identification is performed with three models, namely, HMMBW, HMMMLP and HMMCNN. The features are extracted from the HMM and are classified using Baum Welch algorithm (BW), Multi layer perceptron (MLP) model and Convolutional neural network (CNN) model. A dataset, namely, VTU-WRITER dataset is created for the experiential purpose and the performance of the models were tested. The test train ratio was varied to derive its relation to accuracy. Also the number of states was varied to determine the optimum number of states to be considered in the HMM model. Finally the performance of all the three models is compared.
Internet Skills for Expediting Students’ Learning
Authors:   Department of Vocational and Technical Education, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Nigeria., Francis* Bakare Shola , Latib Azlan Bin Abdul ,   Department of Technical and Engineering Education, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Johor Bahru, Malaysia.., Kamin Yusri Bin ,   Department of Technical and Engineering Education, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Johor Bahru, Malaysia., Nordin Mohd. Safarin ,   Senior Lecturer in the Department of Technical and Engineering Education, Faculty of Education, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), 81310 Johor Bahru, Malaysia., Subari Kamalularifin ,   Senior Lecturer in the Department of Technical and Engineering Education, Faculty of Education, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), 81310 Johor Bahru, Malaysia.
Published: October 2019

The accomplishment of any educational system despite the strategic design depends to a large extent on the quality of teachers. Therefore, this study was carried out to determine the internet skills needs of vocational and technology teachers to facilitate students’ learning in Nigeria technical and vocational institutions. The study adopted a survey research design. The population for the study consisted of 215 technology and vocational education teachers from Six (6) south western states of Nigeria. A research question was developed to guide the study. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data from the respondents which was duly validated by experts. Cronbach Alpha reliability technique was used to determine the internal consistency of the questionnaire items at 0.91. Data collected were analysed through Confirmatory factor Analysis (CFA) using Statistics Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) and Analysis Moment of statistics (AMOS). After a preliminary analysis (descriptive), data from respondents were found suitable for inclusion in Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The CFA was performed and the results of the analysis support the one-factor model of the internet skills component for facilitating students’ learning. The study found that technology teachers require nine (9) internet proficiencies under investigation. Thus, it was recommended that conferences, workshops, seminars, training and retraining programmes should be organized at regular interval for teachers in order to enhance their competency for the purpose of boosting their performance in teaching.
Concrete Canvas: A Multifaceted Construction Material
Authors:   ME*, AP State Police Housing Corporation Limited, Andhra Pradesh, India, Prasanna C.Lakshmi , Deepak B.Amar ,   M.Tech, AP State Police Housing Corporation Limited, Andhra Pradesh, India
Published: October 2019

Cement concrete is a most used construction material, due to its enormous demand worldwide in the construction sector. Concrete serves many purposes in different adverse conditions, there are many advantages but there is one limitation that is concrete is not flexible. Concrete Canvas brought a revolutionary change in the construction materials called Geosynthetic Cementitious Composite Mats (GCCMs) which as many applications and used as an alternative to conventional concrete. It is a flexible, concrete canvas that gets hardens on hydration to form a thin, durable, waterproof and low-carbon concrete layer. Concrete Canvas may find its tremendous scope in the Construction sector as fire resistance and water proofing material. The concrete canvas has a self healing property thereby adds good benefit to the life of material and economically because of its zero percent repairs maintenance. Even though if the concrete canvas gets damaged after a period of time, it gets self healed with the contact of water which helps in the hydration process. This paper mainly focuses on the case study done on the applicability of concrete canvas for fire resistant, Water proof and bulletproofing with the help of AP State Police and to explore different applications in Construction sector as well as Defense sector.
Ranking of Delay factors in Road Construction Project due to Improper Construction Equipment Management
Authors:   Research Scholar, B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India, Indhuab B. ,   bAssistant Professor, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India., Yogeswari K. ,   Associate Professor, B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India., Dhivya D. ,   Department of Civil Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India.
Published: October 2019

Construction time overrun is considered one of the most appearing problems in construction industry. In Road construction, Equipment plays a major role, Hence there is a need for control of delay in road construction projects. This paper aims to identify the equipment delay causes in road construction projects and ranks the critical factors. The equipment delay causes were identified through pilot study and literature papers. The pilot study was done by interviewing 20 experts and the questionnaire were designed. Totally 19 causes were identified and categorized into four main groups namely 1.Maintenance related causes, 2.Equipment related causes, 3.Financial related causes and 4.Personnel related causes. The questionnaire survey received 180 responses on the opinion of Contractor, Equipment dealer, Equipment operator, Site engineer, Project manager and others. The results were analysed using Relative Important Index (RII), Ranking the equipment delay causes identifies the most risky equipment delay factors in road construction project. The most five risky factors are Lack of spare parts, Over usage of equipment leads to crashing, Inadequate equipment, Non allocation of fuel purchase staff and Inexpert or unpractised equipment operator.
Acoustic Signal Attenuation Determination Technique Traveling Through Obstacles
Authors:   ECE*, department, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, India., Tyagi Kapil Dev
Published: October 2019

This paper presents a novel technique for calculation of attenuation of acoustic signals in the materials in underwater channel. A laboratory procedure and algorithms have been developed for finding attenuation. In many applications like sonar signal processing acoustic signal attenuation in the dome or in an enclosure are required to be known. Finding the actual attenuation while signal passes through the materials is very useful in calculating the precise power transmitted through the enclosures. The attenuation in materials mainly dependent on type of material, signal frequency and launch angle of the signal. A proper procedure has been presented in this paper.
Image Map: Alternative for Password Based Authentication
Authors:   Professor CSE Dept., TKREC(R9), JNTU Hyderabad, India., Pulicherla Prof. Dr. Padmaja , Baddam Shiva Reddy ,   Student-CSE, TKREC(R9), JNTU Hyderabad, India.
Published: October 2019

In the world today there are millions of websites and other web applications which operate with customizations to the user using the user account registration. This naturally requires a user name or a unique ID like email address and a password. This kind of authentication is being employed from days past to invention of authentication systems. But today with many such websites it has become a herculean task to remember the passwords of each and every sites. There are solutions like writing down or noting on any electronic device but these has equal physical chances of being revealed. So there is a need for a brand new authentication techniques which are better than existing ones and are easy to implement. Image map is one such an alternative that can replace traditional systems. This technique makes use of images taken from users during registration and certain number of points on one exclusive image from taken set of images.
Pulse Rate Monitoring Embedded System during Indoor Exercises using Microcontroller
Authors:   Dept. of Electronics & Communication Eng., Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Deemed to be University, Odisha, India., Das* Arun Kumar , Pattanaik Priyabrata ,   Dept. of Electronics & Communication Eng., Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Deemed to be University, Odisha, India.
Published: October 2019

In the current paper we have described the design, testing and result data of a low cost heart beat measuring device. The proposed model works on the properties of optics. Our model is non-invasive in nature and able to measure heart rate of any individual during different physical activities. We have also developed a better algorithm for measuring heart beat rate at a fixed interval of 5 seconds. The heart beat is counted by a specific microcontroller that displays the heart rate data on an LCD continuously. We have also measured the heart beat rate of an individual running on the trademill at variable speed and compared the result with our model.
Why Some Undergraduate Students Are More Entrepreneurially Innovative than Others: Empirical Evidence from Nigeria
Authors:   Department of Business Administration and Management, College of Administrative & Business Studies, Potiskum, Yobe State, Nigeria., Bularafa* Bukar Ali , Abdullah Abdul Rashid ,   Department Management and Marketing, Faculty of Economics and Management, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
Published: October 2019

University undergraduate students vary in the degree and nature of novelty that they bring to the business. Entrepreneurial innovativeness is very low among some undergraduate students despite undergone two semester course on entrepreneurship and other entrepreneurial activities on the campus. The purpose of this paper is to add to the entrepreneurial literature by providing some empirical insights that aid better understand the reasons behind the differences among undergraduate student on their entrepreneurial innovation. Hence, there is need to investigate why some undergraduate students are lagging behind in entrepreneurial innovation after undergone a course in entrepreneurship. This study provides empirical evidence on the emergence of entrepreneurial innovativeness among university undergraduates. The study is unique because, to the best of the researchers’ knowledge, no study exists on entrepreneurial innovation among undergraduate in Nigeria. Data used originated from empirical analysis of a student population of 3,024, 2017 final year undergraduates, sampled 383 students selected from Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Bauchi, Modibbo Adama University of Technology Yola, and University of Maiduguri, all in north-eastern, Nigeria. The data were analysed by means of descriptive, correlation, and regression analysis. The findings suggest that entrepreneurial innovativeness depends on cultural factors. In particular, the findings indicate a positive correlation between all the variables (low power distance, individualism, low uncertainty avoidance, masculinity, and long-term orientation) on entrepreneurial innovation. The findings further indicate all the variables except individualism have a significant positive relationship with entrepreneurial innovation. Therefore, based on findings of the study, the researchers suggest that the culture of low power distance, low uncertainty avoidance, masculinity, and long-term orientation should be emphasised in the curriculum by the universities.
Identification of the Causes of Conflict among Construction Players in Sarawak, Malaysia
Authors:   Associate Professor University College of Technology Sarawak, Malaysia., Kamaruddeen* Ahmed Mohammed , Wei Li Bong ,   Bachelor of Quantity Surveying (Honours) University College of Technology Sarawak, Malaysia, John Ogbonna Ndubuisi ,   Senior Lecturer Akanu Ibiam Federal Polytechnic, Unwana Afikpo, Nigeria., Wahi Wahida ,   lecturer at the University College of Technology Sarawak, Malaysia.
Published: October 2019

Construction-related conflict is one of the issues that require considerable attention in the construction industry. Hence, this study intends to identify the factors causing conflict among the construction players in Sarawak, Malaysia. Simple random sampling was used to select the respondents for this research. Respondents for this research comprised contractors, consultants, and clients in organizations. Out of 196 distributed copies of the questionnaire, a total of 80 copies were completed and returned amounting to40.81% response rate. The Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) was used to obtain descriptive statistics. The Relative Importance Index (RII) was used to rank the factors causing conflict. A total of twenty-five (25) factors were identified. Insufficient funding was ranked the most severe among factors causing the client-related conflict. Changes in design was ranked first among factors causing the contractor-related conflict. Poor contract management was ranked first among the factors causing the consultant-related conflict. The findings in this research complement the existing body of knowledge on construction-related disputes. This research has provided a better understanding of the factors that could lead to conflicts among the construction players during the execution of construction projects.
Evaluate the Irrigation Water Quality in Salem District, Tamil Nadu, India
Authors:   Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr.Sangunthala R& D Institute of Science and Technology, Avadi, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India., Selvarani* A. Geetha , Maheswaran G. ,   Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, V S A Group of Institutions, NH-47 Main Road, Uthamasolapuram Post, Salem
Published: October 2019

Water is one in all the foremost indispensable renewable assets and is that the elixir of life. In this present world population is increasing tremendously. Rate of technological development in industry and agriculture is also high. The mentioned top of the reason has enlarged the demand for water which is going to be a major crisis in next to the upcoming future. Quality of groundwater was assessed by collecting sixty-six sampling spots in January 2017(Post monsoon) and May 2017(pre monsoon) Irrigation water quality interpretation was done by using Sodium Adsorption Ratio (SAR), USSL classification, Doneen’s classification and Wilcox’s classification. The influence of anions and cations was done by Piper’s trilinear diagram. Groundwater quality for irrigation purpose during premonsoon season is in doubtful category in almost all parts of the study area.
Implementation of Machine Learning Algorithms on CICIDS-2017 Dataset for Intrusion Detection using WEKA
Authors:   Department of Computer Science and Engineering, H.N.B. Garhwal University Srinagar Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India,, Panwar* Shailesh Singh , Negi Pritam Singh ,   Department of Computer Science and Engineering, H.N.B. Garhwal University Srinagar Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India., Raiwani* Y. P. ,   Department of Computer Science and Engineering, H.N.B. Garhwal University Srinagar Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India.
Published: October 2019

For protecting and securing the network, with Intrusion Detection Systems through hidden intrusion has become a popular and important issue in the network security domain. Detection of attacks is the first step to secure any system. In this paper, the main focus is on seven different attacks, including Brute Force attack, Heartbleed/Denial-of-service (DoS), Web Attack, Infiltration, Botnet, Port Scan and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS). We rely on features derived from CICIDS-2017 Dataset for these attacks. By using various subset based feature selection techniques performance of attack has been identified for many features. Using these techniques, it has been determined the appropriate group of attributes for finding every attack with related classification algorithms. Simulations of these techniques present that unwanted feature can be removed from attack detection techniques and find the most valuable set of attributes for a definite classification algorithm with discretization and without discretization, which improve the performance of IDS.
Risks in the Management of Corporate Intellectual Potential
Authors:   Candidate of Sociological Sciences, Perm State National Research University, Perm, Russian Federation., Bulatetskaya* Alena Yurievna
Published: October 2019

The article analyzes the risks that arise in the process of managing intellectual potential, including determining the prerequisites for their occurrence, as well as studying possible ways to prevent their manifestation and negative impact on the results of the corporation. As a result of the analysis, systematization, and generalization of scientific views, key factors of risk origin have been formulated in the context of intellectual potential management. Within the framework of the problematics, a possible classification of risks that has practical value in the management process has been substantiated - according to the stages of the reproduction of intellectual potential, the impact on the result over time and the structural elements of intellectual resources. Key risks associated with each structural element of intellectual potential have been identified and described. A number of measures have been proposed, the fulfillment of which will help reduce the level of influence of risks in the management of intellectual potential on the process of activity of economic entities. Detailing and improving such methods are the basis for further research in this direction.
Start-up of Hybrid Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket Reactor with Organic Wastewater
Authors:   Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Government College of Engineering, Thanjavur, Tamilnadu., Kavimani* T. , Balaji Dr. K. ,   Assistant Professor in Department of Civil Engineering, University College of Engineering, Panruti, Tamilnadu., Poongothai Dr. S. ,   Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Annamalai University, Chidambaram, Tamilnadu., Gnanaprakasam Dr. G. ,   Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, IFET College of Engineering, Villupuram, Tamilnadu.
Published: October 2019

In the process of treating wastewaters from different industries by using anaerobic reactor, initially the start-up process is the first step to stabilize the reactor. The aim of this research is to conduct the start-up process and to evaluate the characterization of synthetic organic wastewater using Hybrid up flow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket reactor (HUASBR) with the effective volume of 20L. Initially the reactor was processed with synthetic organic wastewater with COD of 3200 mg/l. The processes were continuously operated with hydraulic retention time of 24 hours for 48 days. The results obtained after the process of stabilization were, COD removal is 87.8%, VFA was Stable for the operating condition, Biogas production was increased as 13.2 l/d during the maximum removal of COD and the pH value of outlet is ranging from 5.5-7.9.
Optimal Posture Prediction in Brick Stacking Operation for Reducing Ergonomic Risk Factor
Authors:   Production Engineering department, VSSUT, Burla, Odisha, India., Rout* Biswaranjan , Dash R. R. ,   Mechanical Engineering department, CET, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India., Dhupal D. ,   Production Engineering department, VSSUT, Burla, Odisha, India.
Published: October 2019

Ergonomic risk factors are vital for posture prediction of human, working in manual assembly is founded on the human movements at each joint to decrease energy level and fatigue level of the worker. In this study a simple measure of human performance is introduced that permits the mathematical model to assess the cost functions. Here human is modeled as a structure of 20 DOF. The necessary procedure is the evaluation of the performance in the system of cost factors. Here two main cost factors are considered as discomfort factor and energy expenditure rate in different limbs movement. The basic objective is to optimize the limb movements to the cost factors. The above procedure is verified through a example case of fly ash bricks plant. Here two workers are stacking bricks in stacking pan. A Multi Objective Optimization (MOO) technique is utilized for the prediction of posture, in which cost factors are minimalized, ultimately reduced level of ergonomic risk factor.
E-cigs e vaping: nuove prospettive di rischio per la salute.
Authors: Mazza Clelia , De Chiara Nicoletta
Published: October 2019

L’uso delle sigarette elettroniche, e-cigs, “vaping”, è aumentato esponenzialmente negli ultimi anni, aprendo nuovi scenari di rischi per la salute, orale e sistemica. Il presente articolo nasce dall’esigenza di analizzare tali rischi, con l’obiettivo di comprendere come attuare un’efficace prevenzione diretta ai pazienti utilizzatori dei dispositivi elettronici. Dalla letteratura presa in esame, è emerso che le e-cigs sono adottate da un numero sempre più crescente di fumatori convenzionali, come mezzo di disassuefazione dal fumo, incoraggiando tra l’altro un numero significativo di adolescenti, con tassi di utilizzo più elevati rispetto alla stessa sigaretta tradizionale. Pur comportando un rischio cancerogeno minore per l’assenza di combustione, le e-cigs sono ugualmente associate ad effetti citotossici, a causa delle particelle ultra fini emesse, inclusi formaldeide, altamente cancerogena e derivante dalla decomposizione termica, e metalli pesanti, che possono essere inalati in profondità nei polmoni ed assorbiti nel sistema circolatorio, determinando eventi avversi respiratori e cardiovascolari.
È riportato, inoltre, un rischio di esposizione a fumo passivo, derivante dall’uso delle e-cigs indoor, che determina il rilascio di composti organici volatili, rappresentando una nuova fonte di inquinamento atmosferico. L’uso di tale devices rende necessario l’impegno dell’igienista dentale nel chiarire al paziente-vaper gli effetti nocivi associati alle e-cigs, sostenendo, attraverso il counselling, i benefici derivanti dall’abbandono di tali devices, il cui utilizzo, come strumenti di disassuefazione, è da considerarsi solo per brevi periodi
Cultura ed innovazione: una proposta per l’uniformità dei prodotti della ricerca dei tecnici di radiologia medica e delle professioni sanitarie tecniche, della riabilitazione e della prevenzione
Authors: Di Trapani Giovanni
Published: October 2019

La creatività prima e l’invenzione poi sono un processo di ricerca e sviluppo che conducono all'individuazione di una realtà nuova: sconosciuta. Prototipi, modelli, algoritmi, talvolta una semplice idea che si configurano come una risposta originale ed inventiva ad un problema che può essere a volte piccolo o finanche piccolissimo. Sviluppo è, quindi, anche incentivare gli investimenti in creatività, ricerca ed innovazione, non senza una premialità degli sforzi compiuti dagli autori e dagli inventori.
Simulasi drag-type turbine ditinjau dari pengaruh variasi sudut kelengkungan sudu untuk diaplikasikan dalam pipa air
Authors: Rosyidi Muh. Alwan , Hadi Syamsul , Tjahyana Dominicus Danar Dono Dwi Prija
Published: October 2019

Curah hujan yang tinggi dan bangunan bertingkat tinggi di daerah perkotaan merupakan faktor potensial penting dalam pengembangan energi alternatif. Konsep Horizontal Axis Water Turbine diusulkan sebagai media untuk menghasilkan energi listrik dengan kondisi head rendah. Penelitian ini fokus pada pengaruh berbagai sudut lengkung blade turbin type tabung dengan metode simulasi. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui kinerja maksimum dari berbagai sudut lengkung sudu 100 Â°, 110 Â°, 120 Â°, 130 Â°, 140 Â°, dan 150 Â°. Hasilnya adalah kinerja maksimum didapatkan pada sudut lengkung sudu 150 Â° dengan nilai torsi 16,8 Joule.
Analisa keausan pahat pada pemesinan bor magnesium AZ31 menggunakan metode taguchi
Authors: Ibrahim Gusri Akhyar , Iskandar Joni , Hamni Arinal , Lestari Sri Maria Puji
Published: October 2019

Pengeboran (drilling) adalah proses pembuatan lubang dengan caramenekan sebuah mata pahat yang berputar pada benda kerja. Selama prosespermesinan terjadi interaksi antara mata bor dengan benda kerja dimanabenda kerja terpotong sedangkan mata bor mengalami gesekan. Gesekanyang dialami pahat berasal dari permukaan geram yang mengalir danpermukaan benda kerja yang telah terpotong, akibat gesekan ini pahatmengalami aus. Tujuan penelitian ini akan menganalisa umur pakai pahatHSS pada pemesinan bor magnesium AZ31 dan untuk mendukung penelitiantersebut digunakan Metode Taguchi untuk menganalisa pembahsan hasilpenelitian. Parameter permesinan bor yang digunakan yaitu; mata bor HSS(hight speed steel) dengan ukuran (10 mm, 12 mm, dan 14 mm), kecepatanputaran (635 Rpm, 970 Rpm, 1420 Rpm) dan menggunakan gerak makan(0,10 mm/rev, 0,18 mm/rev dan 0,24 mm/rev), dengan kedalaman potong 50mm. Pengambilan data keausan pahat dilakukan menggunakan mikroskopdigital USB dengan perbesaran 50x. Data keausan pahat dilihat setiap satukali proses pengeboran dan proses pemesinan akan dihentikan jika mata borsudah mengalami aus. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa umur pahattertinggi diperoleh pada diameter bor 10 mm dengan kecepatan putaran 635rpm dan menggunakan gerak makan 0,10 mm/rev yaitu selama 12,74 menit,sedangkan umur pahat terendah diperoleh pada diameter bor 14 mm dengankecepatan putaran 1420 rpm dan menggunakan gerak makan sebesar 0,18mm/rev yaitu selama 0,68 menit. Berdasarkan analisys of varian (ANOVA)