bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Sintomas de Ansiedade, Angina Pectoris e Diagnóstico de Pacientes Submetidos ao Cateterismo Cardíaco
Authors: Cantoni Eliandra De Paula , Silveira Michele Marinho da
Published: July 2018

O objetivo desde estudo foi avaliar a relação entre sintomas de ansiedade, angina pectoris e o diagnóstico de pacientes submetidos ao cateterismo cardíaco. Foi utilizada a Escala de Ansiedade de Beck e um questionário sociodemográfico e de saúde. Participara m do estudo 30 sujeitos com idade entre 18 e 65 anos do setor de hemodinâmica de um hospital do interior do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil submetidos ao procedimento. Os resultados indicaram que 24 (80%) indivíduos apresentam sintomas de ansiedade, não obtendo resultados de significância entre o diagnóstico de extensão da doença, porém 28 (93,3%) apresentam sintomas de angina, com a angina tipo fisgada a mais relatada 11 (36,7%). Pelo teste qui-quadrado observou-se que há diferença estatisticamente significativa entre angina e o diagnóstico de cinecoronariográfico (p=0,008). A maior parte dos pacientes com angina não possuía diagnóstico de doenças cardíacas 17 (56,7%), não apresentaram lesões obstrutivas, mas relatavam sentir angina e ansiedade.
A Medida Liminar em Habeas Corpus
Authors: Santaguida Barbara Maria Moreira Dante , Marinho Gisanne De Oliveira , Santiago Juliana de Fátima Dos Santos , Farias Athena De Albuquerque
Published: July 2018

O objetivo do presente estudo foi analisar a concessão do uso de liminar em habeas corpus. Buscou-se introduzir inicialmente, o conceito do instituto através da doutrina e da própria legislação constitucional, à construção histórica e desenvolvimento do instituto para chegar à natureza jurídica do habeas corpus. Discute-se ainda o direito tutelado pelo remédio judicial, ou seja, a liberdade e suas características peculiares ao direito de ir, vir, permanecer e circular. A discussão avança para as condições da ação do habeas corpus, tratando finalmente das tutelas provisórias e da procedência de liminar em habeas corpus. Trata-se de um estudo descritivo, histórico e documental. Os resultados levam a crer ser necessária a concessão de liminar em habeas corpus, quando da urgência da medida definitiva e, a demora nos julgamentos. Quando se busca a tutela da liberdade do cidadão, é inadmissível a morosidade jurisdicional.
As Diretrizes Curriculares Nacionais – 1998 e o Plano Nacional de Educação 2001 – 2010
Authors: Lima Maria Belo Silva , Silva Meryelle Macedo da , Lemos Sebastiana Micaela Amorim
Published: July 2018

A educação é inerente ao desenvolvimento social, à medida que tende a transformar os educandos em cidadãos críticos e conscientes da realidade. Entretanto, a compreensão de educar, no Brasil, restringe-se a formalidade da escola, e a instrução, no sentido de adaptação do aluno a sociedade e não na transformação desta. Corrobora para tal fato, a inexistência de políticas de Estado e a permanência de políticas de governo, que se adequam aos grupos partidários que estão no poder. Diante desse contexto, o referido estudo analisou marcos importante da história da educação brasileira, a saber, as Diretrizes Curriculares Nacionais de 1998 e o Plano Nacional de Educação 2001-2010 e as contribuições e limitações dos referidos documentos para a educação brasileira.
Sobre algunas ventajas en la práctica del pluralismo agonista
Authors: Penelas Federico
Published: July 2018

El comentario se concentra en la práctica del voto como mecanismo de decisión y en las estrategias de disolución de las fuerzas antidemocráticas. El que las prácticas efectivas en ambos casos no difieran parece redundar en un déficit para el deliberacionismo, el cual, a diferencia del agonismo, no puede justificar claramente dichas prácticas. A su vez, se detiene en las diferencias epistemológicas que ambas posiciones presentan.
Beyond Traditional Audits: The Implications of Information Technology on Auditing
Authors: Shaikh Humaiz , Uzair Jokhio Mohammad , Ahmed Maher Zulfikar , Chandio Shahmurad , Manirajah Mirza , Abdullah Bin , Raza Ali , Salam Shah , Shah Asadullah
Published: July 2018

This paper examines the manner in which audits would be conducted in the future and how technology has transformed and impacted the business processes of public, private sector entities and various organisations and the guidelines which need to be followed to ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations. The tranperancy of financial statements is of paramount interest to shareholders and other significant stakeholders. This necessities that the financial statements are audited to acquire a certain level of confidence over the integrity of numbers and the validity of business rationale which thereby arises a need for auditor to be well equipped with all the tools and system essentials in carrying out an effective and efficient audit. Information Technology can act as an impediment or stimulant towards the achievement of the above discussed objective. Various organizations use automation tools and ERP applications which have become a vital cog in their internel control environment. Understanding by auditor of these automated controls is necessary to ensure that the they are  well equipped with the requisite skills and have knowledge of all technological tweaks that would be required in the audit process of a complex structured entity. The primary function which can be performed by generalized audit software include customizing data in numrous ways to serve the distinct purpose. The audit teams obtain insights into latest developments and plan their procedures accordingly keeping in view the applicable professional standards.
Robotic Exoskeleton Control for Lower Limb Rehabilitation of Knee Joint
Authors: Faiz Ahmed Syed , Kamran Joyo M , Ali Athar , Malik M. Ali Abdul , A. Kadir Kushsairy , R. Naqvi Yarooq , A. Bakar Badri , Shah Asadullah
Published: July 2018

Wearable devices such as exoskeletons are being opted frequently during rehabilitation processes for the post stroke recovery. Such devices are playing important role in the development of assistive rehabilitation robotic systems. In this paper three control strategies MPC and LQR and PID are introduced which were applied to knee joint of lower limb exoskeleton model for passive exercise. The two controls MPC and LQR are model based control which empowers them for stable responses. In this paper the analysis of robustness of control is done under the noisy and disturbance conditions. The results showed good performance of the exoskeleton model with the applied controls in the provided condition. In the future work the applied controls will be implemented on hardware.
Preliminary Study for Customer’s Online Shopping Satisfaction from Security Perspective
Authors: Imtiaz Ali Najma , Samsuri Suhaila , Sadry Abu Seman Muhamad , Ali Brohi Imtiaz , Shah Asadullah
Published: July 2018

The objective of this paper is to present the results of preliminary study that has been performed to measure the reliability of the questionnaire for collecting the quantitative data for the proposed security model of online shopping satisfaction. This paper is endeavours of our previous paper, in which we have developed the research model. Quantitative methodology was adopted to conduct the study by collecting the data through survey questionnaire based on five point Likert scale. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 23.0 was used to analyse the data. Results shows that the Cronbach’s alpha value to ensure the reliability of the items is ≥ 0.7, It means all our variables are acceptable for the further studies and for the actual data collection. This paper conclude that the pilot study is necessary phase to conduct before going to collect the actual data in order to avoid any ambiguity in items. Although the sample data is small for the pilot study still, it shows the strength between the related items.
Dynamic Approach for Detection of Suspicious Transactions in Money Laundering
Authors: A Rao Anagha , V Kanchana
Published: July 2018

In the previous year, India has been among the most active nations in venturing up the battle against money laundering and related financial and security issues. The effort that likely got the most consideration was “demonetization” approach which intended to evacuate around 85% of the aggregate illegal cash available for use. To survey India's overall anti-money laundering (AML) system, it's more essential to center on the fundamental legitimate structure set up. In this paper, the proposed methodology is to analyze the user transactions and characterize based on their behavior of transactions. Then it focuses on the characterized transactions and obtains the connectivity among different accounts. To predict the suspicious transactions, we examine the log or trends found in previous years transactions of the user. By comparing the obtained data with the previous data, we will be able to predict suspicious transactions, providing the details are moved for further investigation.
Analysis of Road Accidents Using Data Mining Techniques
Authors: Nidhi. R Ms , Kanchana V Ms
Published: July 2018

Road Accident is an all-inclusive disaster with consistently raising pattern. In India according to Indian road safety campaign every minute there is a road accident and almost 17 people die per hour in road accidents. There are different categories of vehicle accidents like rear end, head on and rollover accidents. The state recorded police reports or FIR’s are the documents which contains the information about the accidents. The incident may be self-reported by the people or recorded by the state police. In this paper the frequent patterns of road accidents is been predicted using Apriori and Naïve Bayesian techniques. This pattern will help the government or NGOs to improve the safety and take preventive measures in the roads that have major accident zones.
Analysis of Shortest Path Routing for Large Multi-Hop Wireless Networks
Authors: S.Girija Ms , S.Kayathri Mrs , S.Meena Ms
Published: July 2018

In the concurrent system, each node avails as a packet over the network depends on the length of the node. The length of the node generated through straight line routing algorithm. The cost of routing depends on the shortest path routing algorithm. The shortest path is determined by the cost of a distance from one node to another over the network. The capacity of a network is balanced and maintained by the straight routing. The traffic and cost is balanced over the network by using the algorithms.
Advance Identification of Cloning Attacks in Online Social Networks
Authors: Renuka Prasad Megha , Kumar B J Santhosh
Published: July 2018

Online social networks (OSN) have changed the way individuals collaborate and convey to reconnect with old companions, acquaintances and set up new associations with others considering leisure activities, interests, and fellowship circles. Shockingly, the member's lamentable acknowledgment of reckless conduct in sharing data, often worthless safety efforts from part of the framework heads and, at last, take advantage of the distributed data in Online Social networks as an intriguing objective to attackers. As OSN is becoming increasingly popular and identity cloning attacks (ICA) mechanism designed to fake the identity of users on OSN is becoming one significant growth concerns. This attack has been seriously affected the victims and other users to establish the relationship of trust, if there is no active application defense. In this paper, the first step analyzes the member constraints and characterize the profiles based on their behavior. Then focusing on the categorized profiles of the framework and verify each of them using their area of interests. To detect suspicious identities, two methods are followed based on attribute similarity of profiles and by verifying similar profiles in a cross-site environment by their area of interests.
Remote Sensing and GIS Applications in Natural Tank Management Studies of Salem District
Authors: Subramani T , Gopi J
Published: July 2018

Today the water shortage is one of the highlighted trouble persist in the global which causes several troubles in surroundings. Based on this in our attention we proposed to do research within the natural tank's development which performs the essential position in the garage of water and supply to all human wishes. To study the tank settlements and its utility we use GIS device for mapping and factors affecting. To develop the records on land use/land cover inside the shape of maps and statistical records is very crucial for spatial making plans, control, and utilization of land. Land use change can also influence many natural phenomena and ecological procedures, inclusive of runoff, soil erosion and sedimentation and soil situations. The goals of this examine are to locate land use modifications and different affecting parameter in Salem district purpose of water scarcity.
Analysis Cost Overruns, Delays and Risk Involved in Construction Management Using Primavera
Authors: Subramani T , Sivakumar P
Published: July 2018

Construction industry is taken into consideration as one of the maximum crucial industries in India. These phenomena may additionally have an effect on the development of construction industry in India. In addition to may additionally expose many establishments of construction to be destroyed. Delays in addition to disruptions are sources of capacity risks that studies are looking into techniques to manipulate along with technical, social, monetary, felony, economic, useful resource, creation and commercial. To evaluate the reasons of delays and conflicts are due to: layout modifications, delays in price to contractors, facts delays, investment troubles, bad challenge management, compensation problems and disagreement at the valuation of labor accomplished. On the other hand, time overrun, cost overrun, bad social effect, idling assets and disputes are the principle outcomes of delays and disruptions. The observe concludes the reasons of delays and disruptions and their outcomes placed construction projects at extremely great risk that have an impact on their performance the use of primavera.
Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy Evaluation of Organic Coating on Mild Steel
Authors: Zainoldin Zailelah , Bahron Hadariah , Kamal Harun Mohamad , Athirah Dzolin Syaidah
Published: July 2018

Electro-oxidation of 4-hydroxybenzalaniline in alkaline solution on mild steel surface was successfully carried out using cyclic voltammetric technique. Results demonstrated that brownish colour appeared on the mild steel surface after the cycle of voltammetric study. The presence of film was confirmed by the EIS measurement whereas the Nyquist plots obtained from EIS measurements were fitted with suitable electrical equivalent circuit. The coated mild steel exhibit better polarization resistance than uncoated mild steel.
Spray Characteristics and Internal Flow Structures of Swirl Effervescent Atomizer
Authors: A. Ghaffar Z , Kasolang S , H. A. Hamid Ahmad
Published: July 2018

Spray characteristics and internal flow structures of an atomizer are important parameters in indicating their performances. Both parameters are affected by the operating conditions and atomizer geometries. This study investigates the effect of operating parameters and atomizer geometries on spray angle, breakup length and gas core diameter of swirl effervescent atomizer. This work is conducted specifically to find the most critical parameters that will produce the required spray characteristics and internal flow structure. The atomizer performance tests were carried out using water as the working fluid and nitrogen gas as the atomizing agent. High-speed shadowgraph technique was utilized to record the videos of the spray and internal flow structures. The video recordings were converted to image sequences and analyzed using image processing software. Geometrical parameters were found to be more dominant for characterizing the resultant sprays, but operating conditions was more critical in affecting the internal flow structures. The widest spray angle (~25°) and shortest breakup length (~10mm) were observed at the high level of swirl-generating vane angle and discharge orifice diameter. Gas core diameter expanded up to 1.13mm at the high level of GLR.
Tensile Resistance of GFRP Wrapped Steel-Dowelled Half-Lap Timber Connection
Authors: Ali Chew Amirah , Atikah Seri Nurul , Nur Syazni Wan Shaari Wan , Hanafie Yasin Mohd , Hassan Rohana
Published: July 2018

Generally, the use of timber mainly focuses on simple structures or structures that can take small loads. This paper report on tensile resistance of steel dowelled timber connection wrapped with glass fibre reinforced polymer (GFRP). It involved experimental work in laboratory designed to determine the tensile strength behaviour for half-lap timber connections with steel dowel as the mechanical    fasteners. Bintangor species representing strength group 5 and Yellow Meranti species representing strength group 6 were tested in the conditions of with and without the GFRP wrapping. The performances of the connections were observed using the European Yield Model (EYM) as the guideline. The EYM theory is generally used to determine the load carrying capacity of timber-to-timber, panel-to-timber and steel-to-timber connections, reflecting all possible modes of failures. All half-lap connection members were tested at the rate     0.0006 mm/min using the universal testing machine. As a result, it was found that the steel-dowelled half-lap timber connection with GFRP wrapping performed better than the timber connection without the wrapping. The ultimate load of GFRP wrapped connections made of Bintangor and Yellow Meranti species were found increased at 17% and 44% higher compared to the connection without the GFRP wrapping accordingly.
Effect of Toxicity Concentration of Waste Lubricating Oil (Hazardous Noxious Substances) on Aquatic Life
Authors: Munirah Bt Abdullah Nor , Sabiha binti Mohd Aluwi Nur , Park Heekyung , Binti Ahmad Kamal Norashikin
Published: July 2018

This lab scale study aims to investigate the effect of different concentration of waste lubricating oil on the African catfish juveniles, Clarias gariepinus. Five different concentrations of waste lubricating oil were used for 96 hours period which are 0 ml/L, 5 ml/L, 10 ml/l, 15 ml/l, and 20 ml/L. After 96 hours of experiment, tank 4 which being added with 20 mL waste lubricating oil shows the highest percentage of fish mortality (100%) followed by tank 3 (95%), and tank 2 (76%) while the lowest percentage of mortality is recorded in tank 1 (19%). The result from the toxicity test showed that the higher the concentration of waste lubricating oil, the higher the mortality rate of fish.  The lethal concentration LC50 that caused 50% mortality of test fish was estimated at 8.1 ml/L. From the observation, waste lubricating oil which contains heavy metals had cause damage to renal and nervous system of fishes thus causing them to lost equilibrium and irregular vertical swimming that will finally cause death. It can be concluded that the harmful environment that will trigger death of fish will be created by indiscriminate discharge of waste oil into water bodies. Therefore, it is recommended to treat the wastewaters, sewage and industrial wastes before it is being discharged into the aquatic ecosystems to sustain the aquatic species for the future.  The proper effluent treatment technology should be adopted to check the present of oil spillage in the water. The enforcement of laws and legislations related to the protection of aquatic environment must be enhance and take into considerations.
Seasonal-Spatial of Putrajaya Lake Water Quality Parameter (WQP) Concentration Using Geographic Information System (GIS)
Authors: Asmat Arnis , Atiqah Hazali Nur , Nasuha Mat Nor Anis , Khairunnisa Zuhan Fatin
Published: July 2018

This study presents the assessment of selected water quality parameters (WQP) distribution at Putrajaya Lake during the dry and wet season using spatial analysis. The WQP used in this study were dissolved oxygen (DO), biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), chemical oxygen demand (COD), ammonia-nitrogen (NH3-N), total suspended solid (TSS), pH and temperature. Total thirteen water samples were obtained during both dry and wet seasons from May 2015 until March 2016 distributed throughout the areas. To explore the WQP distribution, Inverse Distance Weighted (IDW) was employed. The results have shown that mean values of WQ concentration during dry and wet season are varies accordingly. The highest value parameters of water quality during dry season which are COD (17.2 mg/L), DO (7.11 mg/L) and NH3N (0.94 mg/L). Meanwhile on the wet season, the highest values are recorded for BOD (5.27 mg/L), pH (7.62 mg/L) and TSS (18.4 mg/L) respectively. This has indicated that the concentration of WQP in the lake changed seasonally. Furthermore, among the WQPs; DO, TSS and COD have exhibited significant relationship between others for both seasons.
Socio-Environmental Factors and Tuberculosis: an Exploratory Spatial Analysis in Peninsular Malaysia
Authors: Rauf Abdul Rasam Abdul , Mohd Shariff Noresah , F Dony Jiloris , Misni Alamah
Published: July 2018

Spatial pattern of tuberculosis (TB) describes the environmental variation of the disease. Controlling the disease is not only depends on bio-medical method, but there is also a need to explicitly understand socio-environmental contexts which include the elements of people, space and time. A spatial exploration of local TB dynamic in Malaysia’s perspectives is necessary since earlier studies were limited in addressing these contexts. This paper discusses a general spatial pattern of TB distribution pattern in Peninsular Malaysia for a ten-year period from 2005 to 2014 and its general possible correlation with socio-environmental factors in 2010. Geographical information system (GIS) and correlation analysis are fundamental techniques used to explore the local pattern of TB distribution and the relationship. Data on annual TB cases and state map were collected from the Ministry of Health and the Department of Rural and Country Planning Malaysia respectively. The overall spatial pattern of TB cases has shown increasing trends and concentrating in five states, including Selangor, Johor, WPKL, Kelantan and Kedah, even though there is no specific pattern in the area. This study suggests that the majority of the cases have occurred in the urban states, having high-medium incomes and populous areas.
Quasi-Static Indentation Properties of Aluminium Foam-Frp Sandwich Panel
Authors: Raihanah Hashim Ummu , Jumahat Aidah , Fashan Md Ghazali Muhammad
Published: July 2018

Synthetic FRP have been used for many years in wide applications owing to their versatility and good performance. However, environmental problems caused by extensive use of polymeric materials arise mainly due to lack of landfill spaces and depletion of finite resources of fossil raw materials, such as petroleum or natural gas. Hence, materials derived from natural products are emerging as potential substitutes for petroleum-based material. The usage of natural fibre reinforced polymer (NFRP) composite have triggered considerable interest to explore the usefulness of this material. Excellent energy absorption of sandwich-structured composite made it a versatile structure used in various industries such transportation, automotive, building construction and marine. On top of that, the research data on aluminium foam as a core material in sandwich panel are limited and need to be further studied. This research is aimed to determine the quasi-static indentation properties of Basalt Fibre Reinforced Polymer/Aluminium Foam (BF-AF) sandwich panel and compare with the properties of Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymer/Aluminium Foam (GF-AF) sandwich panel. In this study, BFRP and GFRP composites with nanosilica were fabricated using vacuum bagging method. Aluminium foam was used as a core in the sandwich panel structure. The quasi-static indentation tests were performed using 10mm indenter and the specimen size was 50mm x 50mm with thickness of 3mm. The effect of aluminum foam on indentation properties were studied. The results showed that the addition of nanosilica enhanced the energy absorption, depth of penetration and damage area of the composites. The indentation properties of BF-AF were higher than those of GF-AF sandwich panel composites. Therefore, this research contributes to a new knowledge on the properties of aluminium foam-FRP composite materials
Effects of Ultrasonic Waves During Waterflooding for Enhanced Oil Recovery
Authors: Dollah Aqilah , Zainol Rashid Zakirah , Hidayati Othman Nur , Nurliyana Che Mohamed Hussein Siti , Mat Yusuf Suriatie , Shuhadah Japperi Nur
Published: July 2018

Ultrasonic waves is an unconventional enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technology and has been a point of interest as it is more economical and environmentally friendly. Numerous research works on ultrasonic waves application in EOR have been reported, nevertheless the studies on the effect of ultrasonic waves towards oil mobilization in porous media are still debatable. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the effect of ultrasonic waves on enhanced oil recovery of three types of oil (kerosene, engine oil and crude oil) and a brine sample at different temperatures (27°C, 35°C, 45°C, 55°C). A series of ultrasonic waterflooding experiments were conducted under controlled temperature conditions. Results demonstrated that oil recovery increases as the temperature increases during ultrasonic exposure compared to conventional waterflooding. The ultrasonic waves creates energy that increase the mobility of a displacing fluid thus reduce the viscosity of displaced fluids whereas the vibration energy produced from ultrasonic waves induced the mobility of the entrapped oil within the pores. The IR Spectra test indicates that the oil produced from ultrasonic simulated waterflooding for oils with different viscosity and density from the IR Spectra result without ultrasonic exposure due to the influence of flow behavior and sweep efficiencies of fluids. As conclusion, the ultrasonic cavitation is one of mechanism that could improve oil mobilization and enhanced oil recovery.
Sorption of lead from aqueous system using cocoa pod husk biochar: kinetic and isotherm studies
Authors: Kong Yong Soon , Leyom Jesielyna , Chay Tay Chia , Abdul Talib Suhaimi
Published: July 2018

Cocoa pod husk (CPH) was pyrolyzed at 500°C to produce biochar (CPHB) for sorption of lead (Pb) from aqueous system. Chemical characterization for CPHB was conducted using Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, Boehm titration and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectroscopy. Sorption parameters for CPHB (i.e., sorbent dosage, pH, contact time, and Pb concentration) were optimized. Elemental compositions for CPHB are C (66% w/w), O (19% w/w), and N (2% w/w). The ash of CPHB consists of calcium oxide (CaO) (4.6% w/w) and potassium oxide (K2O) (4.2% w/w), with negligible amount of heavy metals (1% w/w). Upon treatment with artificial Pb wastewater, FTIR spectra for CPHB revealed shifting of nasymm(COO-) and nsymm(COO-) bands from 1560 cm-1 to 1575 cm-1 and 1416 cm-1 to 1398 cm-1, respectively. The optimum sorption parameters were determined (i.e., sorbent dosage: 1.0 g/L; pH 5; input Pb concentration; 50 mg/L; and sorption time: 210 minutes). Sorption of Pb by CPHB was best described by pseudo-second-order kinetic model (R2= 0.835), and Langmuir isotherm model (R2= 0.962). Maximum Langmuir Pb sorption capacity for CPHB (qmax) was 69.9 mg/g. These findings suggested that the sorption of Pb by CPHB may have occurred through (1) coordination with polar groups (i.e., carboxylate and phenolate) and (2) precipitation with alkaline materials (i.e., CaO and K2O).
Empirical investigation of indoor environmental quality (IEQ) in a hospital building in Merida Yucatan, Mexico
Authors: C. Cocom Martínez Fanny , . .
Published: July 2018

This research summarizes the result of physical measurement of the indoor environmental quality (IEQ) in two different hospital rooms, from a small hospital in Merida Yucatan, Mexico. The results show wide differences in the established parameters for this evaluation and the measures obtained. The temperature levels exceed the range of 20-26ºC in both rooms, considering that bothrooms have air conditioning system (ISO 7730, 2005). The levels of Relative Humidity also exceed in more than 20% of the permitted range. The amount of CO2 is registered in higher levels when the air conditioning system is on, this is due to the lack of circulation and proper ventilation (ASHRAE 62.1, 2016). About Light Intensity showing the difference between rooms, is represented in the obtained results in the established parameters and their physical characteristics (NOM-025-STPS, 2008). Optimum conditions in indoor environments should result in health, well-being and comfort, both in terms of working life and in the areas where healthcare is concerned. The current society demands safe, clean and well-conditioned places, for which it is necessary to integrate perceptions and demands of the users to reach an optimal balance between social and legislative standards.
Multi-objective optimization considering cost, emission and loss objectives using PSO and fuzzy approach
Authors: Surender Reddy S
Published: July 2018

A novel approach to solve multi-objective optimization (MOO) problem which aims at minimizing fuel cost, emission release and real power loss of the system simultaneously has been proposed in this paper. Conventional minimum cost operation cannot be the only basis for generation dispatch; emission release minimization and loss minimization must also be taken care of. Power system must be operated in such a way that both active and reactive powers are optimized simultaneously. Reactive powers should be optimized to provide better volt-age profile as well as to reduce system losses. In this paper, the proposed multi-objective optimal power flow (MO-OPF) problem is solved using particle swarm optimization (PSO) and Fuzzy satisfaction maximization approach. In this paper, it is assumed that the decision maker has imprecise or fuzzy goals of satisfying all the objectives, and the proposed problem is thus formulated as a fuzzy satisfaction maximization problem which is basically a min-max problem. It is an efficient technique to obtain trade-off solution for the proposed optimization problem. The MO-OPF problem is tested on IEEE 30 bus, 6 generator system. The obtained results are found to be effective for the MO-OPF problem.
Radon and thoron concentrations and resulting dose in air of southeast Baghdad regions
Authors: Khalaf Rejah Basim
Published: July 2018

The levels of radon, thoron and their progeny concentrations in Al-Nayriya, Al-Musbah Street, Nawab Al-dhubat and Al-mashtel, as well as Canal Street in southeast Baghdad were studied by using The Twin Cup Dosimeter. A total of 15 samples selected from 5 regions (3 samples from each region) in Baghdad city have been placed in the dosimeters for 100 day. The average radon and thoron concentrations were found to be 45.47 and 43.15 Bq/m3 respectively. Their average progeny concentrations were found to be 4.91 and 1.16 mWL.The dose received by persons living in the studied areas is less than the internationally permissible limits, which were determined by the ICRP of 3-10 mSv /y.
Review on alternative propulsion in automotives -hybrid vehicles
Authors: B Basavaradder Arun , Pai K. Dayananda , K N Chethan
Published: July 2018

The dynamic diminishing in overall oil stores and proximity of stringent outflows runs the world over, have made a desperate prerequisite for the making of automobiles with upgraded effectiveness. This is the change time frame to move with elective powertrains as an Electric driven, hybrid, fuel cell models are being produced. Energy Management System (EMS) are given significance for capacity and improving the effectiveness of machines. The operation of Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs) in different landscape with their fuel utilization is accounted. Hybrid powertrain like series, parallel and mixed are clarified. Testing undertaking is the appropriation of charging station situation for India and compelling use of hybrid vehicles. Battery management is the key part in HEV which require search for various methodologies are taken into for creating. The correlation of the customary motors finished with hybrid vehicles.
Collaborative filtering-based recommendation of online social voting
Authors: Mohammed Ismail Dr , K. Bhanu Prakash Dr , M. Nagabhushana Rao Dr
Published: July 2018

Social voting is becoming the new reason behind social recommendation these days. It helps in providing accurate recommendations with the help of factors like social trust etc. Here we propose Matrix factorization (MF) and nearest neighbor-based recommender systems accommodating the factors of user activities and also compared them with the peer reviewers, to provide a accurate recommendation. Through experiments we realized that the affiliation factors are very much needed for improving the accuracy of the recommender systems. This information helps us to overcome the cold start problem of the recommendation system and also y the analysis this information was much useful to cold users than to heavy users. In our experiments simple neighborhood model outperform the computerized matrix factorization models in the hot voting and non hot voting recommendation. We also proposed a hybrid recommender system producing a top-k recommendation inculcating different single approaches.
Regression model of rank –frequency data of Tamil text
Authors: Lakshmisridevi S , Devanathan R
Published: July 2018

The application of Zipf’s law is universal not only in linguistics but also in various other areas. Mandelbrot modified Zipf law as Zipf Mandelbrot law and it is further we proposed a modification of the ZM law for modeling rank frequency- data of linguistic text. Our model generalized ZM law into a linear regression model involving arbitrary order of Zipfian rank of words in a text .The performance of the proposed model is studied for an English text and it shown to compare favorably with that of Z-M law using Chi-Square goodness of fit test. In this paper we have applied to Tamil text and its performance is also up to the mark and it is been proved by the Chi-Square test and it addresses mainly the lower ranks, we propose to extend the work to higher order ranks using LNRE model in the future.
Performance of wood ash blended reinforced concrete beams under acid (HCl), base (NaOH) and salt (NaCl) curing conditions
Authors: Tejo Manikanta B , Ranga Rao V , Achyutha Kumar Reddy M
Published: July 2018

Nowadays disposal of wood ash generated from various sources became a very challenging problem. Utilization of wood ash in cement and concrete was started from last 10 years. In this research, an attempt was done to examine the durability properties of reinforced cement concrete with 5, 10, 15 and 20 percentage replacement of cement with wood ash in concrete. The specimens with all proportions were cast, cured 28 days for one set specimens while another 3 set were cured in acid (HCl), base (NaOH) & salt (NaCl) conditions for 90 days. All specimens were tested to failure under loading frame of 500 kN capacity with 1 kN/sec as the rate of loading, weight loss, ultimate load, and deflection were determined. The better performance is shown by blended specimens against NaCl, NaOH and week resistance against HCl. The concrete with 5 percent replaced with wood ash can be used coastal regions as a result of greater resistance to against NaCl.
Sine cosine optimization based multilevel segmentation of digital images
Authors: Rakoth Kandan S , Srinivas Rao P , Durgalakshmi B
Published: July 2018

This main objective of this paper is to present a sine-cosine optimization algorithm for multilevel segmentation of real-time and medical images. It chooses the threshold values for all R, G, B channels of real life and medical images through effectively exploring the solution space in obtaining the global best solution. The results are compared with existing methods and finally, the proposed method is able to offer better segmentation results than that of an existing method.
Design of cigarette disposal blower and automatic freshner using mq-5 sensor based on atmega 8535 microcontroller
Authors: Miftakul Amin M , Azel Aji Nugratama M , Maseleno Andino , Huda Miftachul , Azmi Jasmi Kamarul
Published: July 2018

Design is an important thing in this research. This design includes the specifications of the components contained in the circuit and how the circuit works. In the early stages, component selection is done as needed. After getting the required components, the next step is the design and manufacture of tools. This design is intended to learn the circuit and work system tool that will be made. The purpose of making this tool is design and make blower smoke and auto fragrance disposal using MQ-5 sensor based microcontroller ATMega 8535. The benefits of making smoke disposal and auto fragrance blower using MQ-5 sensor based microcontroller ATMega 8535 is to dispose cigarette smoke and automatically fragrances the room to prevent the build-up of cigarette smoke in a room and to help minimize the dangers of cigarette smoke for passive smokers so that the air circulation in the room keeps going well.
Selection of dancer member using simple additive weighting
Authors: Adela Hana , Azmi Jasmi Kamarul , Basiron Bushrah , Huda Miftachul , Maseleno Andino
Published: July 2018

Travel and dance form in Indonesia is closely related to the development of community life, both in terms of ethnic structure and within the scope of the unitary state. This study determines the criteria for selecting dancer members and how to apply the qualified Simple method. Based on predetermined criteria is the ability to dance physical flexibility, skilled, nimble, confident, have the ability, fill out the form, and certificate of achievement. From the results obtained values then V1, V2, V3, V4, V5 is a member of a qualified dancer and has a highest value with a score of 100 which was obtained from V2.
Using Mapreduce Techniques to Predict and Examine Crime Pattern
Authors: Kumar Anushka , S Vishnudas , Kayalvizhi R
Published: July 2018

The evolution of computer structures and networks has created an alternative set for crook acts, extensively known as the crime. Crime incidents occurrences of specific criminal offenses lead to a heavy risk to the world economy, protection, and well-being of society. This paper provides complete information of crime incidents and their corresponding offenses combining a sequence of strategies in line with the appropriate literature. Initially, this paper evaluates and identifies the alternatives to crime incidents, their individual components and proposes a combinatorial incident-description schema. The schema offers the chance to systematically blend various elements or crime traits. Moreover, a complete listing of crime-associated offenses is provided in this paper. So, to increase the performance of crime detection, it is essential to choose the data mining strategies appropriately. Hadoop enables to solve the crime as a radical expertise of the repetition and underlying criminal activities. Using Hadoop, we can locate the specific city and analyze the crime patterns, based on that give preventive measures to people.
Smart Shoe for Visually Impaired Person
Authors: Vignesh N , Srinivas Reddy.P Meghachandra , Raja.G Nirmal , E Elamaram , Sudhakar B
Published: July 2018

Eyes play important role in our day to day lives and are perhaps the most valuable gift we have. This world is visible to us because we are blessed with eyesight. But there are some people who lag this ability of visualizing these things. Due to this, they will undergo a lot of troubles o move comfortably in public places. Hence, wearable device should design for such visual impaired people. A smart shoe is wearable system design to provide directional information to visually impaired people. To provide smart and sensible navigation guidance to visually impaired people, the system has great potential especially when integrated with visual processing units. During the operation, the user is supposed to wear the shoes. When sensors will detect any obstacle, user will be informed through Android system being used by the user. The Smart Shoes along with the application on the Android system shall help the user in moving around independently.
Characteristic Investigation on Impact Strength of Aluminium Based Hybrid Composite Plates Weld by FSW
Authors: M Sadashiva , H K Shivanand
Published: July 2018

Aluminium Alloy 2024 metal-matrix composites fortified with Silicon carbide fine greenish particulates show enhanced mechanical properties like high toughness , high flexible modulus, and good  resist  wear, which makes them promising auxiliary materials for automobile field and aviation enterprises. Notwithstanding, these composites likewise demonstrate poor in malleability and ductility because of reinforce of non-deformable ceramic particulates, which restrains their wide applications to a specific degree, stifle this by strengthen arbitrary spasmodic E-glass fibers and exceeds expectations structure with higher sturdiness. The Current work is meant to examine the process parameters of friction stir welding on Aluminium metal matrix composite plates of measurement 100mmx50mmx6 mm joined by the high carbon high chromium tool, rotational speed of 600rpm, 900rpm and 1200 rpm also compiled welding speed rate of 40 mm/min, 80mm/min and 120 mm/min, Followed via completed Charpy Impact test on ASTM standard samples, classify the effect quality and contrasted and that of unreinforced matrix.
Multimodal Authentication of Ocular Biometric and Finger Vein Verification in Smartphones: A Review
Authors: Hebri Dheeraj , . Vasudeva
Published: July 2018

Biometric authentication has demanded a lot of attention from the researchers in the current age, as the field aimsto identify human behavioral charcteristics based on fingerprint, finger vein, ocular, face, palm, etc. So, this field is useful in many applications for offering security and authentication of industry or business. Also, the multimodal biometric system is used to provide a greater security and higher reliability that combines two or more biometric identifiers. Finger vein and ocular-based multimodal biometric authentication system are one of the major techniques which have been considered for efficient identification and verification purpose. This system mainly works in some common stages which include, scanning of finger vein and ocular, pre-processing, feature extraction and matching of finger vein and ocular in a database as well. This paper attempts to review various recent and advanced multimodal finger vein and ocular biometric authentication systems. Finally, possible directions in the multimodal biometric authentication system for the future work are also discussed.
Protection Preserving Over Encrypted Data Using Key with Similarity Check
Authors: Sabari prasanth G , Rajasekaran M
Published: July 2018

Computing gives people to store enormous data efficiently and economically since it depends on third party management security is the million dollar question. In order to provide protection over the private data user can encrypt the data and can upload in cloud. Encryption process could be done by Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm which is highly secure and unbreakable. Encrypted data with key management play significant role in cloud computing in order to get decrypted data user should appropriate key for the file to get decrypted data which would be transferred very securely. Proposed system try to avoid update of unwanted data like inappropriate sentences will be avoided from malicious user to misuse the data .The concept of data mining plays a  vital role. This concept of combination of cloud computing and data mining gives us the good result of security of personal detail and unwanted data would not accommodate on the internet .This process would help mostly on providing authenticated data by only legitimate user can access the data even legitimate user cannot find the decrypted content if unwanted data exist in the file. This approach have overcome security issues of own personal or organization data.
Effect of Utilizing Prosopis Juliflora Ash as Cementitious Material
Authors: Amal Anik S George , Kathirvel Parthiban , G Murali
Published: July 2018

Since the building made of cement concrete consumes almost half of the total energy generated and accordingly accountable for huge amount of CO2 emission, it is necessary to replace the Portland cement (PC) with sustainable construction material. Similarly, Prosopis juliflora is a shrub or small tree in the family Fabaceae, a kind of mesquite which is considered to be a potential threat for ground water in South India. Hence, this has to eradicate so as to maintain the groundwater and also to effectively utilize its ash thereby reducing environmental pollution, this can be used as a partial replacement for cement. In this regard, this paper investigates the technical feasibility of using prosopis juliflora ash (PJA) as cementitious material by partially (10, 20, 30 and 40 %) replacing cement by prosopis juliflora ash. The mixes were evaluated for their fresh, physical and strength properties such as workability, density and compressive strength and the results were compared with the conventional mix
A Four Novel Energy Pattern Factor Method for Computation of Weibull Parameter in Impact Strength Reliability of Fibre-Reinforced Concrete
Authors: R Gayathri , G Murali. , Kathirvel Parthiban , M.K Haridharan , K Karthikeyan.
Published: July 2018

Impact strength data is a noteworthy factor for designing airport pavements, civilian and military structures etc and it is ought to be modelled precisely. In order to achieve an appropriate modelling data, it is important to select a suitable estimation method. One such commonly used statistical tool is the two parameter Weibull distribution for modelling impact failure strength accurately besides the variations in test results. This study statistically commandsthe variations in the impact failure strength (number of blows to induce failure) of fibre reinforced concrete (FRC) subjected to drop hammer test. Subsequently, a four-different novel method for the computation of Weibull parameter (Shape parameter) based on the earlier researchers test results has been proposed. The accuracy of the proposed four novel method is demonstrated by comparing with power density method and verified with goodness of fit test. Finally, the impact failure strength of FRC is offered in terms of reliability. The proposed four NEPFM is very suitable and efficient to compute the shape parameter in impact failure strength applications.
Factors Affecting Construction Labour Productivity using Questionnaire Survey
Authors: Madhan A , G I Gunarani
Published: July 2018

Theoretically the most difficult issue in development industry is to enhance the production efficiency. Numerous researches have been done previously, however a more profound comprehension is as yet expected to enhance the labour productivity. The fundamental result from the writing is that there is no standard definition for labour work profitability. It covers the development labour productivity definitions, angles and factors influencing it. The labour productivity is particularly essential in developing countries, where the vast most of the building development work is still on manual premise. The point of this investigation is to get the most recent data and to recognize the key factors that influence the labour work efficiency in and around Thanjavur. So overview is brought out through questionnaire surveys and circulate to respondents who work at different undertakings in wide region in Thanjavur and the poll are evaluated by venture supervisors, project managers, construction engineers, field workers and furthermore with works utilizing their experience. What's more, the information's are gathered and investigated utilizing Relative Important Index (RII) and Importance Index (IMPI) methods, utilizing this the influenced factors are distinguished and positioned, through the vital advances are given to enhance the work efficiency.