bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Measuring Reading Strategy Use
Authors: Clairmont Anthony
Published: September 2019

This study describes the development and validation of a multidimensional measure of preadolescent and adolescent readers’ abilities to apply reading comprehension strategies necessary for understanding challenging academic texts. The Strategy Use Measure (SUM) was designed with the intention of being pedagogically informative to the increasingly multilingual student population in the U.S. in grades 6 through 8. The SUM aims to measure four areas of knowledge and skill that are widely purported to support the use of reading strategies: (a) morphological awareness, (b) knowledge of cognates, (c) ability to relate micro- and macro- ideas within a text, and (d) the ability to use intra- and inter-sentential context clues for defining unfamiliar words. The test was developed following a principled, iterative process to instrument development, employing Rasch models and qualitative investigations to test hypotheses related to the instrument’s validity. Findings suggest promising evidence for the validity and fairness of this multidimensional measure.
SANITARY-EPIDEMIOLOGIC AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WELLBEING OF ADOLESCENTS: RISK FACTORS, TECHNOLOGIES OF PROVIDING
Authors: Labutieva I.S.
Published: September 2019

In modern conditions, there is an increase in the prevalence of mental disorders among all age groups and high rates of adolescent suicides. The purpose of the study is to assess the sanitary-epidemiological and psychological well-being of adolescents studying in various educational institutions. The object of the study was 100 girls and 100 boys aged 15-18 years, studying in general education schools and col-leges. The study used hygienic, sociological, clinical, follow-up and statistical methods. The assessment of the conditions and organization of training in the schools surveyed allowed them to be classified as optimally acceptable, and in colleges – to potentially dangerous, and to predict in the latter the formation of morphofunctional deviations in adolescents. Various forms of mental disorders were revealed in 67.5 % of the surveyed patients. A significant part (36 %) of them were made up of painful conditions, 16 % of them – neurotic reactions, 20 % – pathocharacter reactions. Actually, neuroses were revealed in 20 % of surveyed patients. There was found a significant prevalence of mental disorders in adolescents in colleges – 82 %, compared to schools – 53 % due to pathocharacter reactions. Pathocharacterological and accented personal characteristics are the most important predictors of mental disorders. From them are formed risk groups, which should be in the sphere of attention of medical and pedagogical workers of educational organizations. The features of the formation of mental disorders in adolescents require pri-mary and secondary psychoprophylaxis in these groups.
HYGIENIC ASSESSMENT OF MENTAL PERFORMANCE AND EMOTIONAL STATE OF SCHOOLCHILDREN OF DIFFERENT GENDER OF 5–9 GRADES IN LESSONS WITH DIFFERENT TIME DURATION OF USE A PERSONAL COMPUTER
Authors: Laponova E.D.
Published: September 2019

The article is devoted to the study of mental working capacity and emotional state of schoolchildren of 5–9 grades of different age and gender groups in the lessons with and without using a PC. There were ob-served 277 students of grades 5-9 (113 boys and 164 girls). Dynamic changes in the indices of mental working capacity and emotional state of children of different gender were analyzed at 94 lessons. It is shown that the use of computers in the educational process is a significant factor in the formation of fa-tigue in pupils of both gender, but the nature and level of reaction to it are not the same for boys and girls. The use of PCs in the classroom predetermines a variety of changes in the studied indicators, the orientation of which depends on the gender, age and time of its use in educational activities. The differ-ent duration of use of the PC affects, first of all, the quality of the proof-reading work - its accuracy. From the beginning to the end of the training in the main school, against the background of the growing intensification of training, the resistance to the training loads associated with the use of the PC in the lessons of girls is increasing, and in boys is decreasing. This indicates the need to take into account the various psychophysiological reactions of children of different gender, as well as the peculiarities of their perception of educational information in the development of methodological support for the learning pro-cess associated with the use of a personal computer.
RISK ASSESSMENT OF SOMATIC HEALTH DISORDERS IN CHILDREN WITH POLYHYPOVITAMINOSIS
Authors: Yambulatov А.М. , Luzhetskiy K.P. , Ustinova О.Yu.
Published: September 2019

This paper deals with study of the seasonal vitamin provision for 188 organized children attending pre-school educational institutions with standard main meal C-fortification. The study showed that 75–85 % of children have year-round vitamin deficiency, 40 % of whom have it in the nature of polyhypo-vitaminosis. The study has shown that even in the autumn-winter period the basic vitamin provision for children does not exceed the lower bound of the physiological norm, and during the spring months about 70 per cent of children suffer from subclinical vitamin C deficiency and 15 % suffer from vitamin A de-ficiency. While every third child has a vitamin B6 deficiency, and every 10 has vitamin D deficiency in September and October, in April-May the number of children with insufficient provision of these vita-mins is 1.8-6.3 times more. А dynamic study of the vitamin provision for organized children found that half of them suffer from year-round vitamin B12 deficiency. Risk assessment of somatic health disorders in children with polyhipovitaminosis revealed that the low vitamin level in the blood leads to increase in the risk of children physical developmental abnormalities, dysfunction of vascular tone and vegetal re-sponsiveness, not to mention the fact that children's morbidity of chronic somatic diseases is 1.3–2.2 times more. Low vitamin provision increases 1.6–3.2 times the risk of physical and biological develop-ment during childhood; leads to the development of functional disorders of the respiratory, cardiovascu-lar and autonomic nervous system 2.1–3.3 times more. For children suffering from polyhipovitaminosis the risk of developing chronic diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and nervous system, allergic respira-tory and skin diseases, as well as musculoskeletal disorders is 1.3–4.1 times higher.
PENGARUH KONSUMSI RUMPUT LAUT TERHADAP TEKANAN DARAH PADA PENDERITA HIPERTENSI DI RW 05 KELURAHAN GEDONGKIWO YOGYAKARTA TAHUN 2018
Authors: Kustanti Christina Yeni , Nilasari Prilly Ariska
Published: September 2019

Latar Belakang: Di Kota Yogyakarta, angka kejadian hipertensi masuk dalam 10 besar penyakit tidak menular. Berdasarkan Profil Kesehatan Tahun 2015 Kota Yogyakarta, dilakukan pengukuran tekanan darah pada penduduk usia >15 tahun sebanyak 40.363. Hasilnya diketahui yang menderita hipertensi sebanyak 7.464 penduduk (18.49%). Penyakit hipertensi menempati posisi pertama pada tahun 2017 di Puskesmas Mantrijeron Yogyakarta.

Tujuan: Mengetahui pengaruh konsumsi rumput laut terhadap tekanan darah pada penderita hipertensi di RW 05 Kelurahan Gedongkiwo Yogyakarta tahun 2018.

Metode: Desain penelitian menggunakan quasy experimental design dengan rancangan time series. Populasi penelitian ini adalah penderita hipertensi di RW 05 Kelurahan Gedongkiwo Yogyakarta dengan jumlah 49 orang. Teknik pengambilan sampel menggunakan purposive sampling dengan jumlah sampel 31 orang. Metode pengumpulan data dengan observasi.

Hasil: Hasil p value 0,003 < 0,05 yang berarti H0 ditolak dan Hα diterima.

Kesimpulan: Ada pengaruh konsumsi rumput laut terhadap tekanan darah pada penderita hipertensi di RW 05 kelurahan Gedongkiwo Yogyakarta tahun 2018

Saran: Hasil penelitian ini dapat dijadikan acuan untuk penelitian selanjutnya mengenai hipertensi dengan menggunakan variabel bebas lain.

Kata Kunci: Rumput laut - Tekanan Darah – Hipertensi

 

 

ABSTRACT

 

Backgroud: In Yogyakarta, incidence of hypertension is one of the top 10 non infectious disease. Based on Health Profile of Yogyakarta City 2015, blood pressure measurement was done to 40.363 people at age >15 years old. The results showed there were 7.464 people (18,49%) who were suffering from hypertension. Hypertension disease was at the first position at Puskesmas Mantrijeron Yogyakarta in 2017.

Objective: To examine the effect of seaweed consumption on blood pressure of people with hypertension at RW 05 Gedongkiwo Yogyakarta in 2018.

Method: It was a quasy experimental research with time series design. Population of this research was 49 people with hypertension at RW 05 Gedongkiwo Yogyakarta. The sample was 31 people selected with purposive sampling technique. Data collection used observation.

Result: The result shows P value 0,003 < 0,05, which means H0 is rejected and Hα is accepted.

Conclusion: There is an effect of seaweed consumption on blood pressure of people with hypertension at RW 05 Gedongkiwo Yogyakarta in 2018.

Suggestion: The result of this study can be used as a reference for the next research about hypertension using other free variable.

Keywords: Seaweed - Blood Pressure – Hypertension
HUBUNGAN DURASI PENGGUNAAN GADGET DENGAN INTERAKSI SOSIAL ANAK USIA PRASEKOLAH DI KELURAHAN TERBAN WILAYAH KERJA PUSKESMAS GONDOKUSUMAN II 2018
Authors: Sari Ignasia Yunita
Published: September 2019

Latar Belakang : Era digital berkembang cepat dan pesat, seiring dengan berkembangnya gadget. Gadget bukan merupakan barang yang asing, termasuk untuk anak prasekolah. Penggunaan gadget yang tidak sesuai mengganggu proses tumbuh kembang anak.

Tujuan Penelitian : Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengidentifikasi hubungan durasi penggunaan gadget dengan interaksi sosial pada anak usia prasekolah di Kelurahan Terban wilayah kerja Puskesmas Gondokusuman II Tahun 2018.

Metode Penelitian : Penelitian ini menggunakan merupakan penelitian survey analitik korelasional dengan metode case control Teknik pengambilan sampel yang digunakan adalah cluster random sampling dengan 74 responden.

Hasil Penelitian : Hasil uji statistic diperoleh hasil nilai p value = 0,025 ( yang berarti  ada perbedaan proporsi interaksi sosial antara anak yang jarang menggunakan gadget dengan anak yang sering menggunakan gadget. Dari hasil analisis diperoleh pula nilai OR= 4,469, artinya anak yang jarang menggunakan gadget mempunyai peluang 4,469 kali untuk mempunyai interaksi sosial yang baik.

Kesimpulan dan Saran : ada hubungan signifikan antara durasi menggunakan gadget dengan interaksi social. anak yang jarang menggunakan gadget mempunyai peluang 4,469 kali untuk mempunyai interaksi social yang baik. Sebaiknya dilakukan penelitian selanjutnya mengenai faktor yang terkait penggunaan gadgetpada anak prasekolah.

                          

Kata Kunci : gadget, interaksi, interaksi social, prasekolah

 

ABSTRACT

 

Background: The digital age is developing fast and rapidly, along with the development of gadgets. Gadgets are not foreign items, including for preschoolers. The use of inappropriate gadgets interferes with the child's growth process.

Objective: This study aims to identify the relationship between the duration of gadget usage and social interaction in preschool children in the Kelurahan Terban working area of Puskesmas Gondokusuman II in 2018.Method: This study uses a correlational analytic survey with a case control method. The sampling technique used was cluster random sampling with 74 respondents.

Result: The results of the statistical test obtained the value of p value = 0.025 (which means there is a difference in the proportion of social interactions between children who rarely use gadgets and children who often use gadgets. From the analysis results also obtained OR = 4.469, meaning children who rarely use gadgets have the opportunity 4,469 times to have good social interaction.

Conclusion and Reccomendation: There is a significant relationship between the duration of using a gadget and social interaction. children who rarely use gadgets have 4,469 chances to have good social interactions. It is better to do further research regarding factors related to the use of gadgets in preschool children

 

Keywords : gadget, interaction, social interaction, preschool
Implementation of Clustering Algorithms for Real Time Large Datasets
Authors:   Asst.Professor, CMR Engineering College, Hyderabad, India., Rajyalakshmi* P. , Kumar M.Kiran ,   Asst.Professor, Guru Nanak Institutions Technical Campus(A), Hyderabad, India., Maheswari G.Uma ,   Asst.Professor, Sri Indu College of Engineering and Technology(A), Hyderabad, India., Naresh P. ,   Asst.Professor, Guru Nanak Institutions Technical Campus(A), Hyderabad, India.
Published: September 2019

Now a day’s clustering plays vital role in big data. It is very difficult to analyze and cluster large volume of data. Clustering is a procedure for grouping similar data objects of a data set. We make sure that inside the cluster high intra cluster similarity and outside the cluster high inter similarity. Clustering used in statistical analysis, geographical maps, biology cell analysis and in google maps. The various approaches for clustering grid clustering, density based clustering, hierarchical methods, partitioning approaches. In this survey paper we focused on all these algorithms for large datasets like big data and make a report on comparison among them. The main metric is time complexity to differentiate all algorithms.
3D (.Obj) Image Watermarking and Key Generation Using Dwt Algorithm
Authors:   Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering,Anna University, Sri Krishna College Of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, India., Rani* J.Jansi , Anusuya S. ,   Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Anna Universit, Ramakrishna College of Engineering and Technology,Trichy, India., Senthamilarasi C. ,   Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Anna University, Sri Krishna College Of Engineering and Technology , Coimbatore, India.
Published: September 2019

Digital media like images ,3D models audio and video can be used to embed signals in digital form. This process is popularly known as Digital Watermarking.The digital watermarking process is done by different methodologies such as steganography and by cryptography. The steganography method is used to hide the data and the cryptography method is used to encrypt the data into desired format. In this paper we proposed the method of cryptography and DWT (Discrete Wavelet Transform) algorithm for hiding the data and to generate a secret key for the data transmission. The data is embedded in a 3D real time object (.obj). The frequency and energy of the image pixel is calculated by DWT algorithm and by doing XOR operation the secret key will be generated by cryptography method. The 3D image is divided by vertical splicing technique. The data is embedded into an image in the form of binary data as 0’s and 1’s.
Modeling change of Land use on Hydrological Response of River by Remedial Measures using Arc SWAT: Case of Weib Catchment, Ethiopia
Authors:   Water resources and Irrigation Engineering, Madda Walabu University, College of Engineering, Bale Robe , Ethiopia., Addisu* Tesfahun , Moti Dereje Tolosa ,   Water resources and Irrigation Engineering, Madda Walabu University, College of Engineering, Bale Robe , Ethiopia.
Published: September 2019

Ethiopia has altered natural ecosystems through experiencing a huge amount of land use change has effect on the hydrological condition. Therefore, this study was initiated to compare the past and potential future change of land use with its effect the hydrological response of the Weib catchment which is found in the upper Genale Dawa River basin which covers a total area of 7407.42km2. The Soil and Water Assessment Tool model was used to compare the impact of land use change on stream flow of the study area. The study was used model by using readily available spatial and temporal data and calibrated against measured discharge. The analysis of land use change has shown that the Settlement area has increased from 12.8% to 30.8%, cultivated land from 10.8% to 39.1% between 1986 and 2010, while area of Forest has reduced from 32.5% to 9.4 % and Grassland from 20.9% to 12.3%. The performance of the model was evaluated based on performance rating criteria, coefficient of determination, Nash and Sutcliff efficiency values for monthly runoff were 0.85 and 0.81during calibration, 0.88 and 0.87 during validation, respectively. The evaluation of the model response to changes indicated that the mean wet monthly flow for 2010 land cover enlarged by 40.7 % from 1986 land cover. Similarly, the 1986 land cover mean month flow was higher by 10% than the 1995 land cover flow for wet months. The dry average monthly flow was less by 45.2 %, for 2010 and 26 % for 1995 land covers when compared to that of 1986 land cover. The rapid conversion of Forest and Grassland cover to Urban and cultivated land resulted in higher peak flow and less base flow on Weib river hydrology.
Electrical Discharge Machining: Vital to Manufacturing Industries
Authors:   PhD Scholar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technical Teacher’s Training and Research (NITTTR), Chandigarh, India., Khan Mohd. Yunus , Rao P. Sudhakar ,   Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technical Teacher’s Training and Research (NITTTR), Chandigarh, India.
Published: September 2019

This paper presents an insight of state of art of electrical discharge machining process. In this process, material gets eroded from the workpiece because of chain of speedily repeating current discharges amidst twin electrodes, which are parted by dielectric fluid and made prone to a potential difference. This process offers various advantages over conventional process and finds wide applications in various industries. The information provided in this study will be very useful for the beginners to understand the basic fundamentals of unconventional EDM process.
Modified LECTOR Technique for Level Shifters
Authors:   Dept. of E.C.E, GMRIT, Rajam, Andhra Pradesh, India, Indraja G.V.S.R. , Divakar T.V.S. ,   Dept. of E.C.E, GMRIT, Rajam, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Published: September 2019

Static power dissipation is a major problem in CMOS circuits and this is due to the increase in sub threshold leakage current which is the effect of voltage scaling and also leading to reducing the threshold voltage. Here we propose Lector technique to reduce the leakage current and at the same time it will not increase the dynamic power dissipation. Two leakage control transistors of which one is p-type and the other one is n-type were introduced into the logic gate. The source of one transistor controls the gate terminal of the other transistor. For any combination of input one of the two leakage control transistors will be near to its cutoff voltage by this the leakage currents can be minimized as the path resistance to ground will increase. For both idle and active states of circuit the proposed Lector technique is applicable which will result in more leakage reduction when compared to remaining techniques used for leakage reduction and it will also out pass the limitations Occurred due to the implementation of other power and delay reduction techniques. Experimental results indicate a delay is reduced by 50.3% and power is reduced by 94.4% for proposed level shifter circuits.
Assessing the Relationship between Program Education Objectives and Program Learning Outcomes in Outcome-Based Education Using Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Model
Authors:   Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science and Mathematics, Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris, 35900 Tanjong Malim, Perak, Malaysia., Mohamed Zulkifley , Zain Haniza Hanim Mohd ,   Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Mathematics, Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris, 35900 Tanjong Malim, Perak, Malaysia., Yahya Razak Abd. Samad ,   Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Mathematics, Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris, 35900 Tanjong Malim, Perak, Malaysia., Damanhuri Muhd Ibrahim Muhammad ,   Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Mathematics, Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris, 35900 Tanjong Malim, Perak, Malaysia.
Published: September 2019

Institution of higher learning in Malaysia has implemented an Outcome-Based Education (OBE) since 2007. Among the crucial components of OBE were the Program Education Objectives (PEOs) and Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs). The development of PEOs has to take into consideration the involvement of stakeholders, in order to address their needs and requirements and also must in line with the institutional vision and mission. PLOs, on the other hand, has to be aligned with PEOs to attain OBE. The study withal strive the relationship between PLOs and PEOs in OBE by using Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Model (PLS-SEM) approach as the sample size was too small to utilize Structural Equation Modelling-Analysis of Moment Structure (SEM-AMOS). A simple random sampling was used to select 90 teachers throughout Malaysia. The selected teachers were a graduate of Sultan Idris Education University's (UPSI) Mathematics Education Degree (BEd Maths). From the analysis, it revealed that all the relationships in the developed model were significant at p<0.001. The results indicated that the developed model was strengthened by empirical analysis and in parallel with the preceding findings and theoretical framework. Apart of PEOs and PLOs path model, the study also successfully validated all the indicator variables depicted in PEOs and PLOs measurement model. This study had successfully developed and evaluated PEOs and PLOs relationship in OBE by means of structural equation model through PLS-SEM approach. In conclusions, the relationship between PEOs and PLOs can not only be expressed qualitatively, but also be modeled in the structural equation.
Job Satisfaction and Employee Engagement – Contemporary Tools to Eliminate Stress among Work Force in an Organization
Authors:   Research Scholar (Part-Time), Yogi Vemana University, YSR Kadapa-516005, Andhra Pradesh., Mazeed Shaik Abdul , Saritha Pabbati ,   Assistant Professor, Department of Business Management, Yogi Vemana University, YSR Kadapa-516005, Andhra Pradesh., Begum Naiymunnisa ,   Associate Professor, Amjad Ali Khan College of Business Administration, Hyderabad-500034, Telangana., Illangi Chitti Babu ,   Research Scholar (Part-Time), Vikrama Simhapuri University, SPSR Nellore-524320, Andhra Pradesh. Sub Divisional Engineer, O/o DE TM-1, STSR, BSNL, Vijayawada, Manjula G. ,   Research Scholar (Part-Time), Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Ananthapuramu-515002. Andhra Pradesh.
Published: September 2019

Stress is a not a new word to the organizations. It is been a boiling subject from years ago as it is spread across the globe. To evade this, organizations tries to improve their employee’s satisfaction levels at job, so that a positive attitude can be inculcated among workforce. The other tool to abstain from mocking execution and deriding performance of an organization is employee’s engagement. It is a key which prompts hierarchical achievement and furthermore a fundamental factor to be considered while assessing stress. Stress cannot be eliminated from any organization but can be handled with utmost care to get good results. If stress is not managed well, it generates a negative behavior in workforce which destroys the end results or an organization fails to achieve its goals. If it continues for a long period of time, the result could be closure of an organization because over stress will reduce the employee performance. This research paper is expected to comprehend the reasons which lead to employee stress inside an organization, to discuss the variables which robustly correlate with stress level of employees and also to suggest the mechanism to overcome stress.
Telugu and Hindi Script Recognition using Deep learning Techniques
Authors:   Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Andhra University College of Engineering (Autonomous), Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India, Sujatha P. , Bhaskari D. Lalitha ,   Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Andhra University College of Engineering (Autonomous), Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India
Published: September 2019

The need for offline handwritten character recognition is intense, yet difficult as the writing varies from person to person and also depends on various other factors connected to the attitude and mood of the person. However, we are able to achieve it by converting the handwritten document into digital form. It has been advanced with introducing convolutional neural networks and is further productive with pre-trained models which have the capacity of decreasing the training time and increasing accuracy of character recognition. Research in recognition of handwritten characters for Indian languages is less when compared to other languages like English, Latin, Chinese etc., mainly because it is a multilingual country. Recognition of Telugu and Hindi characters are more difficult as the script of these languages is mostly cursive and are with more diacritics. So the research work in this line is to have inclination towards accuracy in their recognition. Some research has already been started and is successful up to eighty percent in offline hand written character recognition of Telugu and Hindi. The proposed work focuses on increasing accuracy in less time in recognition of these selected languages and is able to reach the expectant values.
Fast Broadcast Technique for Real Time Applications with WAVE 1609.4 Protocol
Authors:   Professor. Digital signal processing and Electronics Devices and circuits. India, S.Agrawal Dr. Mrs. Sujata , M.Daigavane Dr. Mrs. Prema. ,   Professor & Head of Electronics/Electronics &Communication Engineering, Sursesh Deshmukh College of Engineering, Wardha – Maharashtra (India),, Daigavane Dr. Manoj B. ,   Professor & Head of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Disha Institute of Mgmt. and Tech., Raipur (C.G.), Agrawal Sandeep ,   Vice President at Neilsoft Limited Pune
Published: September 2019

As the technology improves, the attention on vehicular communication is increasing with a wide range of applications accessible to the passengers and also the increasing number of cars on the roads leads to delay in accessing the various applications. The safety and entertainment applications need fast transmissions of messages and due to the specific characteristics of vehicular mobility (such as short connection times of oncoming vehicles, high relative velocities and possibly unstable connections) the inter-vehicular communication is affected. Considering this, we propose a system with faster broadcast technique and with the use of IEEE WAVE 1609.4 protocol and DSRC with an aim to reduce number of hops, transmission time. The simulation has been carried out in NS 2.34.
Service Delivery and Consumer’s Satisfaction under Assam State Transport Corporation (ASTC)
Authors:   Research Scholar, Department of Political Science, Assam University Diphu Campus (AUDC),, Gogoi Lenin
Published: September 2019

So far as the hostile geographical locations such as hilly mountains, large forest, remotest of the remote areas and flood affected regions are concerned, passengers are heavily reliant on Road Transport Sector. Assam State Transport Corporation (ASTC) is a Public Sector Road Transport Corporation which has been providing bus services to the people of Assam and its connected regions but many studies and reports show that the corporation fails to provide quality services to the passengers in the regions. Infact consumer’s satisfaction is more and more dependent on quality of services produced by an organization. Thus, this study attempts to understand the issue of service delivery and consumer’s satisfaction under the ASTC following certain indicators. On the basis of field observation and data collected from 200 respondents, the study finds that ASTC fails to provide quality services to the passengers with regard to different issues such as addressing technical problems, availability of A/C connection in bus, availability of push back system, availability of Closed Circuit Television (CCTV), quality of shelter during halt etc. The study suggests that the issue of consumer’s satisfaction should be taken care of seriously by the corporation and it is only possible if quality of services is improved under ASTC concerning different issues such as adherence to bus time table, availability of alarm used by passengers, cleanness of bus stop, availability of road safety guide book etc. The prime need of the time is to handle the matter in a strict hand.
Predicting Facebook Group Relationship
Authors:   Division of Computer Engineering, NSUT, Dwarka, India., Rani Poonam , Bhatia M.P.S. ,   Division of Computer Engineering, NSUT, Dwarka, India., Tayal Devendra. K. ,   Computer Engineering, IGDTUW University, Delhi, India.
Published: September 2019

Facebook has become the leading social networking site in most countries worldwide. It provides a diverse platform that caters to social, educational and entertainment needs of a user. So, this paper has focused on the Sociocentric Analysis of Facebook. It predicts group relationship of the Facebook social network. The paper proposes to aggregate user’s relationships with similar interests and perspectives on the basis of the way in which they provide a reaction to a post on Facebook. The paper has selected the widely used reactions on Facebook posts. The selected reactions on posts are Like, Laugh, Sad, and Wow. In this, a fuzzy pairwise relation between two users in the social network is obtained. For every pair of social actors or users, we have extracted the total number of Facebook posts to which they have reacted in a particular way over a fortnight. The number for each reaction is multiplied with the corresponding weight of the reaction computed by Analytics Hierarchy Process. This fuzzy pairwise relationship is further employed for finding the closely linked group between users by using Ordered Weighted Averaging operator. The devised algorithm has been applied to a sample data of students connected via Facebook social network. The paper has also given several application areas for the proposed work.
Design of Production-Based Entrepreneurship Technology Training Model to Improve the Skills of Engineering Students
Authors:   Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Negeri Padang, Padang, Indonesia., Ganefri  , Hidayat Hendra ,   Faculty of Teaching and Education Science, Universitas Bung Hatta, Padang, Indonesia., Yulastri Asmar ,   Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality, Universitas Negeri Padang, Padang, Indonesia., Yondri Surfa ,   School of Basic and Applied Sciences, K.R. Mangalam University, Gurgaon, India.
Published: September 2019

The high unemployment rate of engineering graduate students in higher education contributes to the increasing need for employment and the high number of job seekers in the era of the industrial revolution 4.0. Need solutions from this case, especially how engineering students in higher education provide alternative applied solutions that can be implemented. Entrepreneurship technology training is an alternative solution for engineering students in higher education. This study aims to design a model of production-based entrepreneurship technology training to improve the skills of engineering students in higher education. To produce a production-based entrepreneurship technology training model, four stages of development research are carried out: 1) Define; 2) Design; 3) Develop; and 4) Disseminate. This paper is limited to, the design stage of a production-based entrepreneurship technology training model. A sample of 550 students took entrepreneurship technology courses in higher education in Padang, Indonesia. Data collection instruments in the form of questionnaires and Focus Group Discussions. The results of this preliminary study are the framework of a production-based entrepreneurship technology training model consisting of five phases, namely, phase 1) Analysis of Entrepreneurial Material and Consumer Needs; phase 2) PIKEN: Evaluation of Student Entrepreneurship Competencies; phase 3) Designing a Business Start Up; phase 4) Formulation of Production-Based Business Plan; phase 5) Online Store Collaboration and Evaluation. This production-based entrepreneurship training model is expected to help reduce the unemployment rate of tertiary education graduates, especially vocational education graduates and students can survive with their entrepreneurial competencies.
Unsupervised Learning Based Stock Price Recommendation using Collaborative Filtering
Authors:   Department of CSE, KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, India., Mohapatra Pratyush Ranjan , Swain Santosh Kumar ,   Department of CSE, KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, India., Basa Santi Swarup ,   Department of CS, North Orissa University, Baripada, Odisha, India.
Published: September 2019

In this study, 17 stock market data were adopted for long term Prediction of stock price. Now days, Stock market data have got a significant role for invest finance in portfolio management. The various non-linear algorithms and statistical models are used for forecasting of financial data. In this article, we have used application of recommender system for this purpose. We primarily focused on use of machine learning algorithms for developing a stock market data recommender system. Machine learning has become a widely operational tool in financial recommendation systems. Here we considered the daily wise equity trading of Nifty 50 from National Stock Exchange (NSE) of 50 companies in 10 different sectors around 5986 days’ transactions as data. We adopted k-Nearest Neighbors classification algorithm to classify users based recommender system. Collaborative filtering method uses for recommend the stock, the performance measure through RMSE, and R2. The result also reveals that k-NN algorithm shown more accuracy as compare to other existing methods.
BIM Software in Architectural Modelling
Authors:   Professor Architecture Department, Near East University, Nicosia, North Cyprus, via Mersin 10, Turkey., Onur Zeynep , Nouban Dr. Fatemeh ,   Assist. Prof. Civil Engineering Department, Near East University, Nicosia, North Cyprus, via Mersin10, Turkey
Published: September 2019

The Computer Models Of Buildings That Contain All The Information About Future Facilities, Which Is Called BIM (Building Information Modeling) Technologies, Took An Important Place In Architectural Offices And Architectural Design. By Means Of BIM Technologies, The Main Groups Of Specialists Had A Chance To Collaborate From The Very Beginning Of The Creation Of The Building Model And Its Use Up To The End Of The Design Of The Building. Since The 1960s, Computer Programs Were Mainly For Drawing, But With BIM Technologies, It Is Possible To Present A Virtual Reality Of A Building Process. Since It Is Extremely Important To Select Suitable Software To Perform The Analysis And Design In Building Tasks, With The Existence Of Much-Specialized Software In These Domains, In This Paper, Based On The Investigations Performed Especially For The Last Decade Developments And Added Capabilities, A Guideline For Architects And Engineers Is Presented. In This Regard Many Software Were Evaluated And The Most Useful Used Ones Such As Graphisoft Archicad, Autodesk Revit Architecture, Gehry Tech., Nemetschek Allplan Architecture, TAD, Nemetschek Vectorworks Architect, Digital Project Designer, Microstation, Dynamo Studio, Freecad Architecture, Sketchup Software Are Recommended To Be Employed In Analysis And Design Of Buildings. Employing The Recommended Software, Not Only Facilitate The Teamwork In Design But Also Increase The Performance Of The Design.
Enumeration of Parallel Flow Heat Exchanger using RK-4 Numerical Method
Authors:   Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology, Avadi, P Sankarganesh , P Gowtham ,   Department of Mechanical Engineering, Government College of Engineering, Srirangam, R Vijayaraghavan ,   Department of Mechanical Engineering, CIT Sandwich Polytechnic College
Published: September 2019

This paper presents the details of theoretical and numerical investigation of parallel flow heat exchanger. Theoretical or Empirical Formulae are used only for simpler geometry object but numerical technique can be used for complex geometry. Runge-Kutta fourth order numerical method is used here for high accuracy. Accuracy is also increased by increasing the number of elements. The numerical results had high degree of consistency and showed a perfect match with the theoretical readings. Using the parallel flow arrangement, the temperature difference between the hot and cold fluid dropped from 70 oC at the entry side to 40 oC at the exit of the heat exchanger
Cryptocurrency Adoption in Malaysia: Does Age, Income and Education Level Matter?
Authors:   Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Seri Iskandar, Malaysia., Yeong Yoon-Chow , Kalid Khairul Shafee ,   Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Seri Iskandar, Malaysia., Sugathan Savita K ,   Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Seri Iskandar, Malaysia.
Published: September 2019

Dated back in 2008, the first blockchain-powered cryptocurrency-Bitcoin was introduced by Satoshi Nakamoto. Over the years, the types of cryptocurrencies available in the market amounted to more than 2,000. With the disruptive potential to revolutionize the traditional financial services, cryptocurrencies become a topic of interest among scholars, global regulators, investors, business operators, information technology enthusiasts and consumers. Nevertheless, the negative activities associated with cryptocurrencies such as money laundering and illicit trading, have resulted in the legality of cryptocurrencies remain controversial in the global context.As the worldwide regulators expressed different stance towards cryptocurrency acceptance and adoption, this study sought to gauge the individual’s behavioral intention to use cryptocurrency. Recognizing the dearth of study in Asian countries, especially the developing country, this study addresses the literature gap by focusing the case of Malaysian individuals. Specifically, this study investigated the effects of age, education level and income level differences in an individual’s behavioral intention to use cryptocurrency.The sample is made up of 176 Malaysian individuals who are equipped with cryptocurrency knowledge. The empirical data were gathered using online survey questionnaire via Google form. Subsequently, the data were analyzed using one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) to understand the demographics effect on the intention to adopt cryptocurrency.Finally, the results revealed that the role of age, education and income level are not significant in influencing an individual’s behavior towards cryptocurrency adoption.
Aspect Term Extraction for Aspect Based Opinion Mining
Authors:   Research Scholar, Department of CSE, JNTU Anantapur, AndraPradesh, India., Babu Mr. M. Yesu , Reddy Dr.P.Vijaya Pal ,   Professor & Head, Department of CSE, Matrusri Engineering College, Hyderabad, Telangana, India., Bindu Dr. C. Shoba ,   Professor, Department of CSE, JNTUCE, Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Published: September 2019

Opinion Mining (OM) is also called as Sentiment Analysis (SA). Aspect Based Opinion Mining (ABOM) is also called as Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA). In this paper, three new features are proposed to extract the aspect term for Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA). The influence of the proposed features is evaluated on five classifiers namely Decision Tree (DT), Naive Bayes (NB), K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Conditional Random Fields (CRF). The proposed features are evaluated on the Two datasets on Restaurant and Laptop domains available in International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation 2014 i.e. SemEval 2014. The influence of proposed features is evaluated using Precision, Recall and F1 measures. The proposed features are highly influencing for aspect term extraction on classifiers. The performance of SVM and CRF classifiers with proposed features is more influencing for aspect term extraction compared with NB, DT and KNN classifiers.
Multi-Agent Based Traffic Signal Optimization under Fully Actuated Control
Authors:   Department of Computer Applications, National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur, India, Rani Pushpi ,   Department of Information Technology, University College of Engineering and Technology, Vinoba Bhave University, Hazribag, Jharkahnd, India, Shaw Dilip Kumar ,   Department of Computer Applications, National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur, India
Published: September 2019

This paper presents a multi-agent based distributed traffic control model to optimize the traffic signal for multiple intersections. Previous works in the area of traffic signal control suffer from a number of inadequacies, including the use of fixed cycle length, centralized mode of operations and dependency on historical data. Considering these, the aim of this work is to control the traffic signal timings by adjusting the phase sequence in order to minimize the delay in traffic at the intersections. To model the traffic network, a three-tier multi-agent system has been adopted in distributed mode. In addition, a fully actuated signal control algorithm is designed and it utilizes state-space equations to formulate the queue length at the green light phase and red light phase. The proposed model is simulated with SUMO simulator and a comparative analysis has been made between adaptive control method, multi-agent method based on collective learning and multi-agent based fully actuated control method on a similar platform. The results spectacle the proposed traffic control model outperforms that of other existing control methods in all condition; hence it can be deployed to control the tremendous traffic on the road network and to optimize the traffic signal in more effective manner.
Euler Movement Firefly Algorithm and Fuzzy Kernel Support Vector Machine Classifier for Keystroke Authentication
Authors:   Assistant Professor in Department of Computer Technology, Dr. NGP Arts and Science College, Coimbatore since, M Rathi. , Kumar Dr. A. V. Senthil ,   Professor and Director of Department of Computer Applications, Hindusthan college of Arts and Science, Coimbatore.
Published: September 2019

User authentication can be successfully employed using keyboard typing patterns which is a form of behavioural biometrics. This modern method is highly analyzed for static authentication which refers to typing of fixed texts like ‘password’ and ‘pin numbers’. Most of the methods with respect to keystroke dynamics are restricted to the study of user’s activity involving fixed text. The formulated work concentrates on the investigation of the log of the user activity focused on the keyboard usage within the computer system through free text which refers to typing of texts throughout the login session. The Buffalo dataset is used in User Profiling Similarity Measurement (UPSM) stage and to recognize the time slice of the users, Euler Movement Firefly Algorithm (EMFA) is utilized. The typing behaviour is formulated in the form of time series in User Profiling Continuous Keystroke Authentication (UPCKA). Moreover the progression is made to user’s Continuous Authentication so as to predict unauthorized users with the consideration of the classifier called Novel Fuzzy Kernel Support Vector Machine (NFKSVM). The experimental results provide the enhanced performance by utilizing the formulated UPCKA in correlation with the NFKSVM classifier when compared with SVM and Iterative Keystroke Continuous Authentication (IKCA) techniques.
Probing Low Productive area in Steel Re-Rolling Mills
Authors:   Mechanical Engineering department, Gujarat Technological University, Ahmedabad, India., Jani Rita K. , Vadher Dr. J. A. ,   Head and Professor, Mechanical Engineering department, Government Engineering College, Palanpur, India., Kalani Anand D. ,   Mechanical Engineering department, Shantilal Shah Engineering College , Bhavnagar, India.
Published: September 2019

Steel Re-Rolling mill is the second most important steel forming industry in India. The manufacturing process of steel re-rolling from ingots to finished products has high energy consumption and it directly affects productivity and manufacturing cost. Measuring the productivity of the process can unleash the low productive process, which leads towards rectification for increasing the productivity of lean area. The productivity of Steel Re-Rolling mill is measured by Performance Objective – Productivity model. Key performance areas were identified by intensive survey and process of prioritization was carried out. The actual values of the Key performance Areas of the system were compared with the objectivated values of the system. The outcomes lead to Productivity Index of the system, sub-system and key performance areas of the process revealing the areas with low-performance index which have the highest impact on productivity of the process. The energy subsystem is having the lowest performance index and is the main source of loss and recommendations are made to increase the productivity of energy sub-system.
Hand Arm Vibration of Coconut Grater Machine
Authors:   School of Electric and Electronic Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia., Seman M. T. Abu , Hamid M. N. A. ,   Engineering Section, Malaysian Spanish Institute, Universiti Kuala Lumpur, Kulim Kedah, Malaysia., Noor N. R. Mat ,   School of Electric and Electronic Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia.
Published: September 2019

Vibration are found almost everywhere in rotating machines. Solving or reducing vibration in rotating machinery is difficult engineering task. The impact of exposure to the vibration operating the coconut scraper machine at conventional method will affected the health, exposure to the physical injury and exposure to the Hand-Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS). Basically, Vibration-induced White Finger (VWF) is the most condition the user will suffer when operating the vibration tools. The aim of this study was to measure the level of hand-arm vibration when operating using conventional method at coconut scraper machine and to analyse hand-arm vibration level during operating while using proposed adapter. During measurement, spindle speed of coconut scraper machine operating with 1485 RPM. In this study, for the first measurement between conventional method (free hand) and using glove (latex and leather glove) shows leather glove is better compared with others (free hand and latex glove). The reduction of hand-arm vibration in orthogonal direction (X, Y and Z- axis) are X-axis is 33%, Y-axis is 38% and Z-axis is 8%. The second measurement is using the proposed adapter that was designed and fabricated. The percentages reduction of the proposed adapter as compared to conventional method are X-axis is 38.3%, Y-axis is 51.9% and Z-axis is 25.5%.