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A Spatiotemporal Analysis of Nitrogen Pollution in a Coastal Region with Mangroves of the Southern Gulf of Mexico
Authors: Temino-Boes Regina , Romero-López Rabindranarth , Romero Inmaculada
Published: October 2019

Nitrogen pollution is a growing problem in many rivers and estuaries of the Southern Gulf of Mexico. In Costa Esmeralda, a tourist destination in Veracruz, the increasing nitrogen pollution is causing severe environmental damage. However, very few studies addressed nitrogen pollution and its consequences for beaches and mangroves. In this study, a spatiotemporal evaluation of nitrogen concentrations was performed along two rivers discharging into Costa Esmeralda and the associated mangrove and coastal areas. The data used was obtained from the local government, which measured ammonium, nitrate and organic nitrogen concentrations between 2013 and 2016 with four annual measurements. Clustering analysis was used to detect the nitrogen concentration differences between riverine and coastal sites. Additionally, Mann-Kendall test was used to detect the trends throughout the study period. The Mann-Whitney W-test determined the difference in the median concentrations between the dry and the wet season. The results indicate that organic nitrogen concentrations are increasing in river mouths and coastal waters. Nitrogen pollution caused an intrusion of water hyacinths in touristic beaches and completely covered mangroves. The decomposition of these plants in saline waters was identified as the main potential source of increasing organic concentrations, driven by nitrogen pollution from wastewater, deforestation and fertilizers, and causing many environmental and socio-economic damage to the area. The results shed light on the prevailing water pollution problems in the Southern Gulf of Mexico.
A Modeling Platform for Landslide Stability: A Hydrological Approach
Authors: Emadi-Tafti Mohsen , Ataie-Ashtiani Behzad
Published: October 2019

Landslide events are among natural hazards with many fatalities and financial losses. Studies demonstrate that natural factors such as rainfall and human activities such as deforestation are important causes of triggering a landslide. In this study, an integrated two-dimensional slope stability model, SSHV-2D, is developed that considers various aspects of hydrological effects and vegetation impacts on the stability of slopes. The rainfall infiltration and water uptake of roots change the water content of the unsaturated zone. The temporal and spatial distribution of water content is estimated in the hydrological unit of the developed model. The vegetation unit of the model considers interception loss due to the existence of canopies and trunks, soil reinforcement effect by roots, root water uptake, the impact of root on hydraulic conductivity, and the influence of vegetation weight on slope stability. Benchmark problems with and without vegetation are solved for the model verification. The analyses demonstrate that the consideration of matric suction in the unsaturated zone can increase the safety factor more than 90%. It is also observed that the existence of trees with high density on a slope can increase the factor of safety about 50% and prevent shallow landslides. The present model is a platform for further development of more comprehensive and elaborative slope stability models.
Assessing the mental wellbeing of next generation general practitioners: a cross-sectional survey
Authors: Lindemann Fanny , Rozsnyai Zsofia , Zumbrunn Brigitta , Laukenmann Julia , Kronenberg Regula , Streit Sven
Published: October 2019

Background

Future and practising GPs encounter various stressors, which can potentially impair mental wellbeing and develop into mental illnesses.

Aim

To assess mental wellbeing of young and future GPs by their level of training.

Design & setting

A cross-sectional anonymous survey of members of the Swiss Young General Practitioners Association (JHaS) was undertaken.

Method

Basic characteristics and the current mental wellbeing were assessed using the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWBS). Specific stressors that can influence wellbeing were focused on. Participants were asked for ideas on how to improve wellbeing via open questions.

Results

Response rate was 57% (n = 503). Mean value for mental wellbeing (WEMWBS) was 52.4 (maximum 70, standard deviation [SD] 7.2). Residents had a significantly lower level of mental health (51.0, SD 7.6) compared with GPs (54.2, SD 6.2). Overall, stress level was reported as high or very high by almost half of participants (49%). Forty-five per cent indicated a lack of private time; the highest proportion was among residents. Fifteen per cent (20% among residents) were at risk of burnout. Most frequent stressors were administrative tasks, high workload, and work demands. Support requests included improvement of work–life balance and reduction of administrative workload.

Conclusion

Residents had the lowest mental wellbeing, at a stress level similarly high to that of GPs. They most often indicated not having enough time for a private life and were most at risk of burnout. Improvement suggestions should be implemented to maintain mental health of young and future GPs. Particular attention should be paid to GPs in training, as owing to their reduced mental health, they may benefit most.
ARABIC WRITING SKILLS: UITM MELAKA STUDENT WEAKNESS ANALYSIS
Authors: Sopian Anuar
Published: October 2019

Writing is an important skill in learning a foreign language. Through writing a student will be able to supplement his other skills and improve the mastery of the language. Writing is also important in any way because it can help improve student achievement in the lesson. Mastery of writing skills among students is not limited to a short period of time, even extending throughout their lifespan. This paper aims to identify the weaknesses of the students in mastering the writing skills of Arabic in order to consider the solution to this problem. This study was conducted on 30 first year diploma students who took the Arabic language (TAC151) as the third language in Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Melaka. The students are also comprised of those who do not have a religious education background in primary and secondary schools. This study uses sample writing in a week without a wall (Week Without Wall) titled 'Preparation for examination' as a data finding. The findings show that the main weakness of the students in writing is involving dictation and spelling, gender adjustment, verb usage, and idhofah use. This paper also discusses the factors that contribute to the weakness of students in mastering writing skills and some suggestions on the improvement of the lecturer's teaching techniques to help students master Arabic writing skills.
CORRELATION BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE, AND BEHAVIOUR TOWARDS RIVER POLLUTION
Authors: Alias Norshahida Akma
Published: October 2019

Lately, environmental issues are seen as one of the serious issues plaguing the world's population detected. One issue is the pollution of the river. This study aimed to determine the relationship between knowledge and attitude toward the behavior of river pollution. Research conducted the survey method through the use of questionnaires as instruments to collect data on knowledge, attitudes, and behaviour of river pollution. A total of 150 respondents participated in the study. The results showed that knowledge and attitude have a significant correlation with the behaviour of river pollution. Although both variables have seen significant relationships on knowledge there is a more powerful influence on behavior than attitude pollution.
DEVELOPING INNOVATION OF MY WAKTU SOLAT
Authors: Awang Chek Mohd Zaki , Baseri Muhammad Thaqif , Ismail Isma Liana
Published: October 2019

MY Waktu Solat is a chatbot developed to make it easy for Muslims to find information about prayer time by user area through the chat app, Telegram. It also comes with an early warning time feature of text messages such as someone sending text messages. This chatbot can also be used and join a group or supergroup just like any other user on Telegram to provide prayer time reminders in the group. This feature can also be applied to those who have a channel on Telegram. Prayer time data used for reference to all prayer times and regions are taken from the JAKIM website. The main focus of this Prayer Time is to expand the presentation of prayer time and to remind users of prayer time especially for those who do not have sufficient storage space to download prayer time applications as available in the App Store.
GDP AS A FACTOR INFLUENCING THE SOCIAL INDICATORS OF UKRAINE'S LIVELIHOOD: MODELLING
Authors: Karmeliuk Hanna  , Plaskon Svitlana , Seniv Halyna
Published: October 2019

In the period 1996-2017, the dynamics of the subsistence minimum, the minimum wage, the consumer price index and the gross domestic product of Ukraine are analysed. These indicators have a growing trend. The necessity to use the mathematical modelling to study social and economic indicators of living standards of the population is emphasised. The trend of the dynamics of the minimum wage in the UAH is given. It has a tendency to increase. This tendency is described by quadratic dependence. The following periods are distinguished: 1996-2010 – the smooth growth of wages in quadratic dependence; 2010-2016 years – their slowed down growth by linear dependence. From 2017, when average wage has increased two times, the period of significant wages growing begins. Minimum wage retardation from the subsistence minimum until 2017 is shown.
The dynamics of the subsistence minimum, which has the same periods and regularities as the salary, is analysed. Its trend is presented. The dynamics of the consumer price index is analysed. It has been broken down into the following intervals: I (1996-2010) – steady inflation growth; II (2010-2013) – price stability; III (2014 – until now) – rapid growth of prices or inflation. The inflation forecasting for 2018 is given. It is shown that economic growth (GDP) and social standards are cyclical. The main tendencies of the influence of the gross domestic product on the minimum wage, the consumer price index, the subsistence minimum are summarized. The dependence of the minimum wage on the volume of GDP is given. Econometric models of the dependence of the minimum wage on GDP in UAH and the level of inflation from the minimum wage are presented. It is shown that GDP growth is accompanied by the minimum wage increase. It is emphasized that growth of social payments negatively affects the growth of the consumer price index. It is noted that the rate of growth of the economy is not sufficient to ensure the growth of social benefits. The recommendations for economic growth are given.
METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO THE FORMATION OF MECHANISMS OF INSTITUTIONAL REGULATION OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC PROVIDING OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
Authors: Kazarian G.
Published: October 2019

In the article the methodological approaches to the formation of mechanisms of institutional regulation of social and economic provision of persons with disabilities are investigated. The macro-environment of social and economic provision of people with disabilities and the factors influencing has been segmented. The factors, which influence the implementation of institutional regulation of this mechanism in Ukraine, have been determined. An integral mechanism of institutional regulation of social and economic provision of persons with disabilities has been developed.
MECHANISMS OF INFLUENCE OF ORGANIZATIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE TRANSFORMATION ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES
Authors: Cherniavska Iryna
Published: October 2019

The scientific provisions on the use of transformation procedures in the organizational and managerial field of the enterprise activity are sufficiently substantiated in the scientific works of well-known foreign and domestic scientists. In addition to transformational models that offer a specific sequence of stages, general approaches to organizational transformations are recently developed in the theory and practice. These approaches describe the philosophy of the process. However, the theoretical basis for the emergence of the necessity and the prospect of organizational transformations, in particular in the form of restructuring, has certain gaps and inaccuracies, which often lead to a different interpretation of the necessity and procedural security of this process in the activities of industrial enterprises.
The conducted analysis of theoretical and methodical aspects of transformation processes in the organizational and managerial sphere of activity of industrial enterprises allowed identifying and justifying the criteria for the success of organizational transformations and the specific sequence of stages of their implementation. The definition of content of the category "enterprise restructuring" is proposed in the context of organizational transformation. The scheme of the process of implementation of the corresponding organizational and managerial transformations, which involves the use of new tools and methods of organization of activity and enterprise management system in order to ensure optimization of economic activity, is constructed.
The scientific novelty of the results is that the methodological provisions, which are in the article, allow us to determine possible directions and types of structural transformations; to choose the controlled factors that influence the size of the market value of the enterprise by types of transformations in the organizational and managerial sphere; to present the structural model of planning and implementation of enterprise restructuring, which is consistent with the idea of the process of structural changes of the enterprise in relation to adaptation to the external environment and application of the latest management concepts; to present a structural scheme for evaluating the effectiveness of the restructuring, aimed at the development of the enterprise.
The developed approaches to determining the need for transformation processes of organizational and managerial transformation and a scheme for evaluating the effectiveness of restructuring can be used by specialists to make grounded decisions aimed at the development of industrial enterprises.
PECULIARITIES OF STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT OF SEA PORTS OF UKRAINE
Authors: Hab Oleksii
Published: October 2019

The article determines that the complexity, multidimensionality and complexity of the tasks of strategic management of the development of domestic seaports make it impossible to limit their implementation within the framework of any one scientific approach to understanding the strategic management of the development of seaports of Ukraine. The purpose of the article is to determine the features of strategic management of the development of seaports of Ukraine. The article defines the conditions and approaches that require revision of approaches to strategic forecasting of the development of seaports of Ukraine, the state target programs according to their orientation. As a result of the research, methodological provisions have been formulated that reveal a scientific approach to improving the efficiency of state management of the development of seaports of Ukraine.
CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES TO CREATING A RISK-BASED BUDGET CONTROL SYSTEM
Authors: NEDBALIUK Iryna
Published: October 2019

Introduction. The current state of the development of the budgetary system is characterized by a number of controversial and uncoordinated moments that increase the possibility of the emergence of budgetary risks and require minimization of possible budget losses associated with the existence of budgetary risks through the formation of a risk-based budget control system.

Purpose. Formulation of conceptual approaches to the creation of a risk-oriented system of budgetary control.

Results. The article defines the notion of “budget risk” and analyzes the risk factors of the budget system depending on the stage of the budget process. The components of the risk management process are determined, including identification, qualitative and quantitative risk assessment, risk response planning, risk monitoring and control. A risk-based budget control system has been established, it should focus on minimizing the negative consequences of risk in accordance with the above risk classification; identification of budgetary risks at the planning stage, formation and approval, execution and analysis of the latter's results; risk assessment by qualitative and quantitative methods.

Conclusions. On the basis of the definition of the concept of “fiduciary risk” and its main characteristics, it is possible to distinguish conceptual approaches to the creation of a riskoriented system of budget control, which include:
– firstly, the analysis of the risk factors of the budgetary system depending on the stage of the budget process;
– secondly, compliance with the risk management process, including identification, qualitative and quantitative risk assessment, risk response planning, risk monitoring and control;
– thirdly, the formation of a risk-oriented system of budgetary control, which should be guided by the minimization of the negative consequences of the risk in accordance with the above classification of risk; identification of budget risks at the planning, formation and approval stage, implementation and analysis of the results of the latter; Assessing the level of risk by qualitative and quantitative methods, including monitoring and risk assessment at national and local level. Thus, the introduction of a risk-oriented system of budgetary control is not aimed at eliminating the consequences of negative external and internal influences, but to prevent their occurrence will reduce the negative consequences of violations in the system of budgetary control.
SYSTEM OF STATE SOCIAL INSURANCE: EXPERIENCE OF UKRAINE AND GERMANY
Authors: KOVAL Svitlana
Published: October 2019

Introduction. Social protection of the population is one of the state functions The implementation of a socially oriented state policy involves solving the problems of social protection and is aimed at creating the proper conditions for a decent standard of living and free development of the individual. The emergence and functioning of social insurance is conditioned by the presence of various social risks and the need to retain citizens who can not take an active part in the process of social production.

Purpose. The purpose of the article is to study the practical principles of the functioning of the system of state social insurance of Ukraine and Germany and to develop, on this basis, practical recommendations aimed at improving the social insurance of Ukraine in the context of the borrowing of progressive experience in Germany.

Results. Approaches to the treatment of social insurance are considered: as a system of economic relations, as an element of the social policy of the state, as a component of social protection of the population. A comparative analysis of forms of social insurance and sources of financing payments in Ukraine and Germany has been carried out. The practical aspects of functioning of compulsory medical insurance in Germany are investigated, its positive features are revealed.

Conclusion. It is revealed that the forms and sources of state social insurance of Ukraine and Germany are similar. The exception is the state health insurance, which in Ukraine is in the stage of implementation. The necessity to restore the payment of a single social contribution by hired workers in the conditions of a shortage of financial resources in the sphere of social insurance of Ukraine is substantiated. It is proposed to apply in the domestic practice the mechanism of functioning of the state medical insurance of Germany, which excludes the possibility of abuses by medical workers in the context of the appointment of unnecessary medical examinations and procedures.
MACROFINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF CENTRAL BANKS: THEORETICAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTIONAL DILEMMAS
Authors: KOZIUK Viktor
Published: October 2019

Introduction. Prediction that price stability as well as inflation targeting in commodity rich countries is very fragile typically based on logical relation between commodity prices fluctuations and macroeconomic instability. But in the same time, while counter-cyclical instruments appear, commodity prices shock should be taken as supply shock. Thus, inflation instability in resource rich countries should be taken as consequences of macroeconomic mismanagement.

Purpose. The purpose of the paper is to validate rejection of fatalism in negative influence of resource richness on price stability. Also it is important to show that inflation targeting regime compatible with large commodities export. In the same time it is necessary to take into account political regime as a supporting factor of adoption that regime of macroeconomic policy that is consistent with price stability.

Results. It is proved empirically that commodity abundance per se is not in conflict with price stability. We rich such conclusions basing on simple multifactor regression model that combine macroeconomic policy regime dummies (maturity of inflation targeting, sovereign wealth fund in operation, central bank independence, exchange rate regime) and structural features of the resource rich economies like commodity export, economic complexity, financial depth, democracy. On example of 68 resource rich countries it is shown that price stability parameters (mean inflation, 1999-2017 and standard deviation of it) are not in undoubtfull relation with fraction of nonmerchandise export, but they are in opposite relation with inflation targeting and sovereign wealth funds dummies. Resource endowed countries are not homogenous from political regime point of you. Such regime is important driver of macroeconomic policy choice. Advanced democracies are likely to choose inflation targeting, flexible exchange rate and central bank independence, while wealthy autarkies are likely to prefer fixed exchange rates and sovereign wealth funds. It is mean that price stability is not just vulnerable to commodity factor but is to unstable political regime under which it is hard to implement counter-cyclical regime of macroeconomic policy.

Conclusions. Commodity wealth is not precondition to price instability. But political regime is important activate that type of macroeconomic policy regime that consistent with low and stable inflation. By the structural features Ukraine is closer to democracies with mean level of economic complexity and financial depth. Due this inflation targeting regime is more appropriate meaning priority of price stability and exchange rate flexibility.
THE CONFIRMATION OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION OF UKRAINIAN BANK SYSTEM
Authors: METLUSHKO Olha , VASYLKOVA Yuliia
Published: October 2019

Introduction. The article outlines the priority tasks of Ukraine's economic development with the active participation of banks and the basic principles of European integration of the domestic banking system. Particular attention is paid to the forecasts of the problems of the banking system of Ukraine on the way of the processes of European integration of Ukraine and measures for the practical implementation of the main directions of integration of the banking system of Ukraine into the European Union.

The purpose of the article is a theoretical and methodological substantiation of the priority of the banking system in the process of European integration and the development of scientific and practical recommendations on the adaptation of the national banking system in accordance with EU requirements.

Results. The object of the study is the development of the banking system in the context of Ukraine's Eurointegration. The information base for research are work domestic and foreign scientists (monographs, manuals, textbooks and other scholarly publications), analytical publications of the National Bank of Ukraine, legal acts of Ukraine, Internet sources. The scientific novelty of the results the research is in the deepening some theoretical concepts and the development of scientific and practical of recommendations for adapting the national banking system of the EU requirements. The practical significance of the research results obtained is that they can be used to develop and improve the mechanisms for transforming the banking sector of Ukraine with the aim of adapting it to the requirements of European integration.

Conclusions. From the given material it is possible to draw conclusions that the main goals of the development of the domestic banking system can be defined:
– strengthening the banking system of Ukraine, increasing its resilience to crises;
– strengthening confidence in banks in particular and in the banking system, generally by
depositors and investors (creditors);
– deepening the integration of Ukraine's banking system into the global financial space;
– activation of banks' activities for raising funds and their transformation into loans for subjects of the real sector of the economy;
– expansion of the spectrum and increase of volumes of products and services in the banking and financial markets, etc.
Consequently, the economic, social and political challenges in the domestic economy should be initiated by the process of improving the functioning of the banking sector through the creation of secure, legitimate and transparent conditions for banking. These relationships should be based on trust and responsibility in the process of obtaining the maximum result with the maximum acceptable risk level.
AIR FLOW ANALYSIS AROUND THE AUTOGYRO FUSELAGE
Authors: Czyż Zbigniew , Ilhan Ibrahim , Akcay Mert , Czarnigowski Jacek
Published: October 2019

The paper presents the results of the simulation of the air flow around the gyroplane without the influence of the rotor and pusher propellers. Three-dimensional calculations were performed using ANSYS Fluent software. Based on the calculations, the values of the drag force and the lift force on each component of the rotorcraft were determined. Based on the results obtained, the effect of angle of attack on the aerodynamic forces was obtained.
On the Simultaneous Equations
Authors:   Sharadha Kumar8 , Research Scholar, Department of Mathematics, Shrimati Indira Gandhi College, Trichy-620 002, Tamil Nadu, India., Gopalan M.A. ,   Professor, Department of Mathematics, Shrimathi Indira Gandhi College, Trichy-620002, Tamil Nadu, India.
Published: October 2019

The system of double equations given by 2 3 x  yz  3w , xy  T is studied for obtaining its non-zero distinct solutions in integers.
An Improved Integrated Energy and Trust-based Routing Mechanism for MANETs
Authors:   Research Scholar, PG & Research Department of Computer Science, Sudharsan College of Arts & Science, Pudukkottai – 622104, Tamilnadu, India., Vijayagopal* V. , Prabu Dr. K. ,   Associate Professor, PG & Research Department of Computer Science, Sudharsan College of Arts & Science, Pudukkottai – 622104, Tamilnadu, India.
Published: October 2019

The degree of packet dissemination among the mobile nodes of the network depends on the reliability of each individual mobile node attributed towards the benefits of the other interacting nodes in forwarding activity. However, the selfish intent of selfish nodes in the network reduces the performance in terms of packet forwarding rate. Thus, the influence of selfish intent in the network need to be minimized to the maximum level by introducing a predominant isolation process. In this paper, a Gwet Kappa Reliability Factor-based Selfish Node Detection Technique (GKRF-SNDT) scheme is proposed for superior detection of selfish nodes in the network. This proposed GKRF-SNDT scheme inherently derives the advantages of Gwet Kappa Reliability Factor for quantifying the degree of trust possessed by each mobile nodes interacting in the network. The experimental investigations of the proposed GKRF-SNDT scheme confirmed a superior throughput rate of 18% with reduced energy consumptions of 21% compared to the existing selfish intent isolation approaches.
Multimodal KDK Classifier for Automatic Classification of Movie Trailers
Authors:   Assistant Professor in Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Delhi Technological University, Delhi, Shambharkar* Prashant Giridhar , Doja Dr. M.N. ,   Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi-, Chandel Dhruv ,   Information Technology from Delhi Technological University., Taneja Kunal ,   Technology in the field of Information Technology Delhi Technological University, Information, Bansal Kartik ,   (B.Tech) in Information Technology from Delhi pursuing Bachelors in Technological University
Published: October 2019

Movie trailer classification is a field of automation of analyzing the movie trailers and classify them into one of the various genres. In this paper, we proposed a classifier to identify the genre of a movie trailer by analyzing it's audio and visual features simultaneously. Our Approach decomposes a trailer video into frames and audio file and then analyze them based on certain specific features to categorize them into four genres. Our aim was to minimize the number of parameters involved in analyzing the trailer since other papers use many arguments which are impractical. The proposed classifier was trained on 4 audio, 2 broad visual features extracted from over 900 movie trailers distributed across 4 different genres, namely Drama, Horror, Romance, and Action. The Classifier Model has been trained using Neural Networks and Convolutional Neural Networks. Our Classifier Model can be used in Recommendation Systems and various websites like IMDB for automation of the genre classification process. As the common humanly approach is to generalize the results obtained from many inputs, the same way we use multiple models to obtain different outputs from multiple ANN models and then combine all the obtained results to get a final output. Also a Dataset containing 1000 movie trailers was introduced in this paper with trailers spanning to almost all Hollywood movies from 2010-2019 .After training and conducting Experiments on around 1000 movie trailers, the classifier model showed a maximum accuracy of 81 percent in determining top 1 genre and 91 percent in determining top 2 genres of a movie trailers in the test set.
Development of a Novel Protocol for Improvement of Qos Inwireless Sensor Networks: P-Rpeh
Authors:   BMS Institute of Technology & Management, M S* Sowmyashree , Mala C S ,   BMS Institute of Technology & Management
Published: October 2019

The Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) plays an important function in wireless communication because of its top notch utility and benefits. Wireless Sensor Networks have thousands or hundreds of potential nodes, which are minute computer like, and areable of measuring the physical characteristics of the neighboring environment location and thentransmit the gathered information using wireless radio links. This paper proposes an efficient scheme for resource allocation used for the transmission of data using priority in the nodes. The protocol, Medium Access Control (MAC) has been devisedfor evaluating the performance. The parameters considered are bandwidth, energy consumption, delay, throughput andpacket delivery ratio. A new MAC protocol,”P-RPEH”(Priority that is based on the Residual Power and Energy Harvesting rate), using priority in nodes with maximumenergyis proposed. The proposed method is compared with the PRIN (Priority in Node) and PRIMA (Priority based MAC)existing protocols. The results obtained from the new protocol proves that, the newproposed protocoloutperforms the existingmethods in terms of bandwidth, delay, energy, throughput and the ratio of packets delivered.
Role of Independent Director under Corporate Governance Process
Authors:   LLB, M. Com, LLM,Research Scholar, College of Law, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Vaddeswaram, A.P., India., Kumar* M V Suresh , Rao CH Lakshmana ,   M.A., LL.B., LL.M., Ph. D LAW), Associate Professor & I/C Principal, Collage of Law, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Vaddeswaram, A.P., India.
Published: October 2019

According to company law 2013 an independent director in view of a company and in relationship to the board can be said as a director other than the Managing or whole time or a nominee director and in the context of corporate governance an independent director is a non-executive director whose main aim is to help company in improving credibility in the eyes of stake holders with a prescribed set of standards and a set of principals laid for governing the board. The present paper is concerned with the role of Independent Director as part of company in corporate governance process and the importance of each in board.
Regional Language Support for Patient-inclusive Decision Making in Breast Cancer Pathology Domain
Authors:   Department of Computer Science, Madras Christian College (Autonomous), University of Madras, Chennai, India., Rani* G. Johanna Johnsi , D Gladis ,   Principal, Bharathi Women’s College (Autonomous), University of Madras, Chennai, India,, Mammen Joy John ,   Professor and Head, Department of Transfusion Medicine & Immunohaematology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India,
Published: October 2019

A Clinical Decision Support system (CDSS) is an application that analyzes data to help healthcare providers to make decisions and improve patient care. Clinicians use the CDSS to perform their routine tasks with computer-assistance. In the past, decision-making using CDSS was primarily oriented towards Clinicians but in recent times, shared decision-making with the patient is advocated. Shared decision-making focuses on encouraging patients to become informed and involved about their health-concerns and make right choices in discussion with expert Clinicians. In India, Breast cancer is the number one killer disease among women. The fast-growing breast cancer patient population demands development of a CDSS for the domain with patient-inclusive features. Medical documents generated in English by Medical practitioners may be understood only by patients with adequate medical knowledge and proficiency in English language. To benefit the regional-language patient population, a CDSS was developed with patient-inclusive features such as Risk assessment questionnaires and Pathology reports presented in Tamil to benefit the regional language-literate patients in the state of Tamilnadu. Translation resources for the domain such as Lexicon and Bilingual Dictionary are generated and used in Machine Translation (MT) of the reports in the CDSS. Translation of Pathology reports is performed by applying Natural Language Processing methods and Phrase-based translation approach and is refined using Synsets. The machine-translation by the CDSS was evaluated by comparing the CDSS output with output from a translation tool Anuvadaksh developed by Department of Information Technology, Government of India, and Google Translate. The outputs were also scrutinized by regional language experts and medical experts. The developed CDSS prototype is a pioneering effort to compile medical language resources for breast cancer pathology domain, and to present details to the patient in a language familiar to her. The regional language support would improve co-operation between the Clinician and patients for shared decision-making and enhance understanding in patients who would otherwise be passive due to the English language barrier. The CDSS with regional language could be used in hospitals in Tamilnadu and the implementation could be extended to other regional languages of India in the future.
SNOMED CT Annotation for Improved Pathological Decisions in Breast Cancer Domain
Authors:   Department of Computer Science, Madras Christian College (Autonomous), University of Madras, Chennai, India., Rani* G. Johanna Johnsi , D Gladi ,   Principal, Bharathi Women’s College (Autonomous), University of Madras, Chennai, India, Mammen Joy John ,   Professor and Head, Department of Transfusion Medicine & Immunohaematology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India
Published: October 2019

Breast cancer pathology reports are used in the diagnosis of the disease and determination of the stage of cancer in a patient. These reports are written or electronically generated by the Pathologist in English. The contents of a Pathology report generated by the Pathologist are usually in unstructured natural language form. The contents of a report are used to determine the Pathological classification and Cancer stage of a patient. Information extraction and making pathological decisions from natural language text is a complex process due to the heterogeneity of the report structure and its contents. The reports can be homogenized using the global annotation standard Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine – Clinical Terms, SNOMED-CT. It enables consistent representations of medical terms and can be used for clinical decision support systems (CDSS) and cancer reporting. SNOMED is a vast repository and its enormity and complexity necessitates extraction of a subset for a particular domain before using it for annotation. The annotation is performed either in online mode at the time of generation of the report or in offline mode on a batch of archived reports. A CDSS prototype is developed for breast cancer domain, which provides support to the Pathologist to determine the Pathological Classification and Cancer Staging on both natural language text and SNOMED-annotated text. With regard to Pathological decisions, a hypothesis is formulated that Annotation using SNOMED does not improve the system’s performance in determining the cancer stage of a patient. For annotating the text, the system initially extracts a SNOMED subset for the domain. Performance Analysis of the decision support processes was done by determining Precision, Recall, Specificity, Accuracy, F-measure and Error. The analysis indicates that the annotation feature improved the accuracy of automated Pathological decisions presented by the CDSS to the Clinician for finalizing his decisions. In the future, the CDSS feature can be applied to other cancer domains and thus provide a means to improve decision-making related to those domains.
Deep Learning Based-Phishing Attack Detection
Authors:   Department of Computer Applications, CMS College of Science and Commerce, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India., Sumathi* K , Sujatha V. ,   Department of Computer Applications, CMS College of Science and Commerce, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India.
Published: October 2019

Due to the rapid development of the communication technologies and global networking, lots of daily human life activities such as electronic banking, social networks, e-commerce, etc are transferred to the cyberspace. The anonymous, open and uncontrolled infrastructure of the internet enables an excellent platform for cyber attacks. Phishing is one of the cyber attacks in which attackers open some fraudulent websites similar to the popular and legal websites to steal the user’s sensitive information. Machine learning techniques such as J48, Support Vector Machine (SVM), Logistic Regression (LR), Naive Bayes (NB) and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) were widely to detect the phishing attacks. But, getting good-quality training data is one of the biggest problems in machine learning. So, a deep learning method called Deep Neural Network (DNN) is introduced to detect the phishing Uniform Resource Locators (URLs). Initially, a feature extractor is used to construct a 30-dimension feature vector based on URL-based features, HTML-based features and domain-based features. These features are given as input to the DNN classifier for phishing attack detection. It consists of one input layer, multiple hidden layers and one output layer. The multiple hidden layers in DNN try to learn high-level features in an incremental manner. Finally, the DNN returns a probability value which represent the phishing URLs and legitimate URLs. By using DNN the accuracy, precision and recall of phishing attack detection is improved.
An Efficient Image Denoising Method based on Bilateral filter Model and Neighshrink SURE
Authors:   Department of Physics and Electronics, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, India, Naragund* Mukund N , Jagadale Basavaraj N ,   Department of PG studies and research in Electronics,Kuvempu University, Shimoga, India., B S Priya ,   Department of Electronics, Kuvempu University, Shimoga, India., Panchaxri  ,   Department of Electronics, SSA Govt. First grade College, Ballari , India., Hegde Vijayalaxmi ,   Department of Electronics, MESMM Arts and Science College, Sirsi, India.
Published: October 2019

In all the instances of image acquisition, transmission and storage, the unwanted noise gets into the information content of the image and thereby introduces an unpleasant visual quality to the observer. So the field of image processing has produced a lot of image denoising algorithms and techniques to improve the visual quality of the image. Since noise cannot be reduced to zero practically, the need for faithful and efficient denoising techniques to produce almost noiseless images demands a systematic research work in the field of denoising methods. The denoising process using a bilateral filter even though produces improvement in the image quality, it does not show consistency when the noise level is high and also the peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) and Image quality Index (IQI) do not show any improvement. This paper proposes an improved algorithm that incorporates the function of bilateral filter model and wavelet thresholding using Neighshrink SURE method. The results show significant improvement in both PSNR and IQI values with respect to the four standard test images under various noise conditions.
Cumulative Works of Cardiac Arrest from Chronic Periodontitis using Artificial Intelligence
Authors:   Research Scholar, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Dev* K .G. Rani Roopha , Murugesan Dr. R. ,   Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, C.P.A College, Bodinayakanur., Chozhan Dr. R. Mahendra ,   Chozhan Dental Clinic, Kodaikanal, Periyakulam, Lakshmipuram Tamilnadu.India.
Published: October 2019

Cardiac arrest is triggered by an electrical malfunction in the heart and its pumping action is disrupted. Periodontal diseaseis an inflammatory disease of tissues that hold the teeth wherein, there is gradual destruction of tissues and subsequent loss of teeth. These two are interrelated and here, prediction is to prevent the disease occurrence in advance before it arise and create treatment strategies for future prevention of the disease.Prediction of cardiac arrest from periodontal dental disease is done using Artificial intelligence in cloud. Artificial intelligence is the “study and design of intelligent agents” where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its surroundings and adapts to make the best probable action to Maximise the probability of success.. This paper highlights latest studies regarding implemented techniques such as diagnosis of Periodontal Dental Disease for all age group people, smokers and drunken people, risk assessment of periodontal dental disease for all age group people, heart disease prediction system, and heart rate monitoring using emotional intelligence.
Quality of Worklife: Importance in Small Scale Industries for Employees
Authors:   Research Scholar, Department of commerce, Karpagam , academy of Higher Education, Coimbatore., Kannika* D. , Chockalingam Dr.S.M. ,   Research Guide, Department of commerce, Karpagam Academy of Higher Education, Coimbatore.
Published: October 2019

Today’s business world is very competitive and managing an organization has become more complex than ever before. As more companies have started realizing that ‘the satisfied worker is a productive worker’, they have started to look for ways to improve the work environment. Many have implemented various work life programs to help employees in order to improve their work life quality. The work life quality has an important bearing on the ‘total quality’ of the people. It results to better quality of life of the people and vice-versa. It has been considered a mean and at the same time an end in itself.
Introduzione alla peer review
Authors: Salucci Giovanni
Published: October 2019

A short discussion on peer review, the fundamental process that preserves quality and relevance of thescientific production, and its economic sustainability. It starts with an excursus through the first steps of a journal workflow from the article submission to its acceptation, and then proceeds with a brief introductionto the peer review types, its benefits and critiques and alternative approaches to it. This article ends uppointing out the essential factors to consider when choosing an evaluation system, and lists a fewmisconduct cases in academic publishing.
ANALISIS PENGARUH TRANSFER PELATIHAN TERHADAP PRESTASI KERJA PETUGAS PROMOSI KESEHATAN PUSKESMAS KABUPATEN KOTAWARINGIN TIMUR
Authors: Hakim Zainul
Published: October 2019

Abstract : This Study aims to know the effect of training transfer consisting of individual, motivational, and environment simultaneously and partially on the performance of health promotion officer of East Kotawaringin District Health Center. Descriptive research method Analysis is used with a sample of 38 respondents with sampling techniques use census techniques, analized using linier regression multiple analysis. The results of this study indicate that training transfer consisting of individual, motivasional, and environmental variables simultaneously has an effect on the performance of health promotion officer of Kotawaringin Timur District Health Center, while partially only individual and motivational variables have a significance influence on health promotion officer performance in Kotawaringin Timur District Health Center. The influence of individual variable to health worker health promotion officer performance of East Kotawaringin Regency Health Center stronger than motivational variable. Keywords : Transfer Training, Individual, Motivasional, Environment, Work Achievement Abstrak : Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh transfer pelatihan yang terdiri dari individual, motivasional, dan lingkungan secara simultan maupun parsial terhadap prestasi kerja petugas promosi kesehatan puskesmas Kabupaten Kotawaringin Timur. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah Deskriptif Analisis dengan sampel sebanyak 38 responden dengan teknik pengambilan sampel adalah teknik jenuh/sensus, teknik analisis menggunakan Analisis Regresi Linear Berganda. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa transfer pelatihan yang terdiri dari variabel individual, motivasional, dan lingkungan secara simultan mempunyai pengaruh terhadap prestasi kerja petugas promosi kesehatan puskesmas Kabupaten Kotawaringin Timur, sementara secara parsial hanya variable individual dan motivasional yang pengaruhnya signifikan terhadap prestasi kerja petugas promosi kesehatan puskesmas Kabupaten Kotawaringin Timur. Pengaruh variabel individual terhadap prestasi kerja petugas promosi kesehatan puskesmas Kabupaten Kotawaringin Timur lebih kuat dibandingkan variabel motivasional. Kata Kunci : Transfer Pelatihan, Individual, Motivasional, Lingkungan, Prestasi Kerja