November 2017

This research aims to contribute with the design optimization of multilayer absorber material applicable in stealth technologies. This study involves a pre-analysis of the electromagnetic properties of five individual plates (absorbing layers), considering the reflection and transmission coefficients. From these characteristics was established the best combinations of the individual layers in sets of three layers. For this, five plates based on styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) matrix loaded with carbon black (2-50 phr) were processed. Electrical conductivity, electric permittivity, and the reflection and transmission coefficients at NRL Arch of the five plates were measured. The results were correlated to obtain the best impedance matching of the sets of three layers looking for the lowest reflectivity. The proposed experimental data correlation was compared to computational simulations based on the model of Small reflections in stratified medium. Besides this, all possible arrangements of three layers were experimentally evaluated by NRL Arch in the range of 8 – 11 GHz. The top five arrays with three layers are shown. The experimental results present a good fit with the performed simulations. The good adjustment between the experimental measurements and theoretical predictions allow us to state a pre-analysis route to support the processing the multilayer microwave absorbers.

Ogi, a popular fermented cereal-based foods consumed as weaning foods by infants and as dietary staples for adults in west Africa is usually processed by natural fermentation, which takes up to 48h to produce. This is the first report of producing the maize gruel (ogi) in less than 5h, by pre-treatment of the maize grains before fermentation. Pre-treatment involved particle size reduction of the maize grains, hydrolysis of starch (steeping of maize grains) and addition of fermentation starter, with short term low heat exposure (at 45o to 60oC; for one to 3h) to encourage the growth of fermenting microbes (1o fermentation). The desired product was obtained after blending, sieving and stabilizing the fermented maize gruel for 1 to 2h at ambient temperature (2o fermentation). For consumption, the gruel was stirred with an appropriate quantity of boiling water into a consistent gel paste, ogi. The microbial load of the different combinations of pre-treated maize gruels increased appreciably, as the inoculum size of the fermentation starter increased and fermentation progressed. The incidence of different strains of Lactobacillus fermentum was very prominent in all the samples. Other species of the genus Lactobacillus, such as L. plantarum and L. lactis were also isolated from the maize gruel samples, even after the pre-treatment of the maize grains.

Land use in urban areas are to date being regulated within the frame work of a development plan. One of the key components of the development plan is a proposed land use plan for a target year. Zoning is now a major tool for regulation of land use in urban area. Urban structure of the city is meant to provide facilities to the people. So, either the people go to the facilities or the facilities come to the people. The former part deals with zoning concept and zoning based urban structure is transport oriented. In Indian situation, where the infrastructure is poor and the funds are scare, the concept of bringing facilities to the people sounds promising and should work. Mixed land use is one of the ways to bring in facilities to people. Rapid urbanization with increasing mixed land use character has led to various serious problems in different parts of the city. To fight these problems heavy investments have been done in research to provide basic infrastructure at a minimum cost and with minimum environmental damage with optimum level of mixed land use. This paper, analyses the mixed land use intensity with its physical, social as well as environmental impact based on studies of Cuttack city, Orissa. Different infrastructural factors influencing the mixing of land uses are also found out and the empirical relationship between them is also established by Multiple Regression Analysis Method.

There is a huge treasure of Compound drugs described in various pharmacopoeias that have developed as a result of painstaking and cumulative efforts of elite scholars of Unani medicine. However, there has always been scope for inclusion of new compound drugs whose safety and efficacy has been proved scientifically. Majoon Aarad Khurma which is widely used as an effective aphrodisiac is prepared with sugar as base. It is contraindicated in diabetic patients who are suffering from sexual dysfunctions. Preparation of medicines which are sugar free should be innovated or designed to meet the demand of the diabetic patients. Therefore the present study is aimed to develop granules of Majoon Aarad Khurma with natural sweetening agent Stevia rebaudiana. Granules are more convenient and comfortable in usage and dispensing. Granules uphold the same principles and maintain the same characteristics as traditional dosage forms, granules are safe, light, efficacious, stable and quality controlled. In present study an important Unani formulation i.e. Majoon Aarad Khurma has been modified into granules using Stevia rebaudiana as a sweetener and the safety and toxicity of the granules of Majoon Aarad Khurma has also been evaluated. Majoon Aarad Khurma and Granules of Majoon Aarad Khurma were prepared and subjected to Physico-Chemical evaluation with reference to the standards mentioned in Physicochemical Standards of Unani formulations by CCRUM.

In 2012, Turkish Capital Markets Board of Turkey (CMBT) took the first step about increasing women’s participation on Turkish publicly traded company boards with a soft law. However, under the framework of the Corporate Governance Principles of CMBT, the regulation did not have the intended impact and had very limited application. In order to draw attention to the issue and extend the influence of the regulation, supportive projects were launched in Turkey. On the other hand, there are significant practices to appoint more women on corporate boards in the world with some impressive results. However, the current implementation in Turkey is not effective enough to keep up with the ongoing practices around the world. In this paper, a managerial perspective was suggested to design a system that Turkish publicly traded companies could adopt in order to promote gender equality in their boards and catch up with the global trend in increasing women’s participation.

The measurement of countries’ human development levels goes beyond measuring gross domestic product in recent years. There is not a general concern about the structural expression of human development. United Nations Programme makes researches to measure development with human development index (HDI) based upon the perspective of “enlarging people’s choices”. On the other side, European Union (EU) analysis how to measure human development in European context. There is ahuge necessity of alternative data and methods for the analysis. In this study, it is aimed to develop an approach to measure the human development level with a different method from the United Nations’ human development index and rank the countries of European Union (EU) members, candidates and potential candidates according to their development levels. For this purpose, two of Multicriteria Decision Making Methods (MCDM): TOPSIS and WSA are used. These methods are applied by using three weighting techniques; equal weighted, point method and Saaty’s method separately. The results obtained are compared with the values of HDI.

Statistics is one of the major tools to study the quantitative aspects of Biological theories. In the literature about Biostatistics, many statisticians have applied basic biometric methods for medicinal applications where as a few statisticians have applied those for genetic applications. In the present study, an attempt has been made by estimating gene frequencies in ABO blood group system in human beings through the Maximum Likelihood method.

Background: Rotator cuff injury is a major problem for rural as well as urban population and the rehabilitation plays an important role in decreasing pain and improve disability in the shoulder joint. Purpose of Study: To know the efficacy of Ultrasound Therapy and LASER therapy in the pain and disability management of rotator cuff muscles injury of the shoulder joint. Methodology: 20 male patients (10 in each group) were randomly recruited for the study. Group A is Ultrasound therapy whereas group B is LASER therapy for 5 days in a weak for four weeks. The data were taken on baseline, 30 days and 90 days. Result: The result shows that the VAS and SPADI scores are improved significantly higher in LASER group compared to as ultrasound therapy group. Conclusion: Thus the study concludes that ultrasound therapy as well as LASER therapy is helpful modalities for management of rotator cuff injuries but LASER causes higher improvement. Therefore LASER is much better than the Ultrasound therapy for the management of grade 1 and 2 rotator cuff injury.

Software Configuration Management (or Software Change Management) is defined as the task of tracking and controlling changes in software. It is a part of a larger field of configuration management. It helps in identifying individual elements and configurations, tracking changes, and version selection, control, and baselining. Software products are very complex to develop and are even more difficult to maintain. There are various problems faced in SCM such as balancing the costs of productions with benefits from increased sales of software products. As a solution to these problems, SCMs have a key role in handling the complexities of software variability. More and more systems are developed using components. There is a move from monolithic to open and flexible systems. In such systems, components are upgraded and introduced at run-time, which affects the configuration of the complete system. Keeping up-to-date information about which components are installed is a problem. Updating a component also affects the compatibility of the system. It is therefore important to keep track of changes introduced in the system. In the product life cycle, CM is traditionally focused on the development phase, in particular on managing source code. Now when changes are introduced in systems at run-time and systems are component-based, a new discipline, component configuration management is required. The future holds many avenues for progress in addressing technology, such as new functionality; process, such as better process support involving semantics of data; management, such as improved recognition of the need for resources and politics and standards.

The Dynamic Proof of Storage is a very useful cryptographic scheme which enables a user to update the file or check for the integrity of the data in a cloud server. There exists dynamic schemes in the single user environment but for the multiuser environment, the algorithm is still not been analysed yet. For a multi user cloud storage system, a secure multi user deduplication technique is needed which would enable the user to skip the file upload and gain the instant automated ownership when the other owner of the file have uploaded the file on the server. This paper introduces the concept of deduplicatable dynamic proof of storage and also propose an efficient construction in order to achieve a dynamic and secure cross user deduplication simultaneously.

Anticholinergic side effects of medications often misdiagnosed as cognitive function decline in the elderly. The study aims to explore the effectiveness of home medication reviews on reducing anticholinergic burden caused by medications with anticholinergic properties in elderly patients in Australia. The study was a qualitative, prospective, observational case-control study. Interviews at baseline and six-month were performed. Medications changes were theoretically possible to reduce the Anticholinergic Cognitive Burden score, but occasionally are impractical to implement. When it was safe to implement, recommendations were in most cases dismissed by doctors. The study could not draw a clear conclusion on pharmacist ability to improve older patients’ cognitive functions as the recommendations were not tested. The home medication review process is lacking the step that obligate the referring doctor to communicate the reason for not implementing the recommendations made by the pharmacist who needs to be addressed by Medicare. This will ensure that medication use is optimised.

All the educational information can be accessible through the Internet sites (e.g., Wikipedia, news administrations). Learning the information by searching through random website is difficult, one of the main difficulties is to frame the questions for famous people who have a Wikipedia page. Here, we address some portion of this test via mechanizing the formation of a particular kind of useful inquiries that can improve the learning background. In particular, we focused consequently producing true questions from the text or keywords provided. We have attempted to make a customised framework that can take as information a content from a site like Wikipedia and deliver as yield inquiries as questions for evaluating a person learning of the data in the content.

In computing, Scheduling refers to a set of policies which define the order of execution of processes. The scheduling for the processor is done to keep it as busy as possible. Parallel computing includes scheduling of multiple processors, and managing the resources for all the processors. The scheduling in multiprocessors is more difficult than scheduling in a single processor unit. In scheduling of multiple processors it should be ensured that any processor should not be overloaded and any processor should not be under loaded. So the overall system should be balanced. In parallel processing system, as there will be multiple processors as well as multiple queues, so there is need of scheduling multiple queues simultaneously. The scheduling algorithms for multiple processors should be capable of scheduling all the queues optimally. A descriptive study of different types of task scheduling algorithms along with concise analysis of different parameters is considered in this paper.

Water demand projections (WDPs) are widely used for future water resource planning. Accurate WDPs can reduce waste or scarcity associated with over development or under development of water resources. Considering that the projection period of some WDPs have now passed, this paper examines how closely such past projected withdrawals match current water withdrawals to identify lessons that can be learned and strengthen future studies on WDPs. Six WDPs conducted before 1990 and seven conducted after 1990 are analyzed in detail. The review shows that the pre-1990 WDPs, which considered population as the main driver of change, over predicted current water use by 20 to 130%. In this paper analysis of water availability adopting Ministry of water resource, India methodology, Hargreaves Samani (1985) method for crop water and Hussain S. K. (1977) method for livestock water requirement based on climatic and population data for 9 drought- prone tahsils. Climate data for 31 years collected from IMD, Pune. Using this database and methodology find out tahsil and sector wise present status of water demand. The average per capita domestic water withdrawals at present already exceed projections. The accuracy of global WDPs could be increased, within areas, and influence of rapidly changing key exogenous and endogenous drivers of water demand in different sectors are taken into account. Present study shows that the per capita availability of utilizable water in the study region in 1981 was 1638 m3; in 2011 it came down to 1,096 m3. Also it is expected to decrease by 990 m3 & 894 m3 per person in 2021 & 2041 respectively.

Immunization is one of the most important public health interventions and a cost effective strategy to control the infectious diseases especially in children. Advent of combination vaccines has facilitated incorporation of additional vaccines into immunization schedule. Pentavalent vaccine, against five killer diseases–diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, hepatitis B and Hemophilus influenza type B (Hib), has been introduced in almost all GAVI eligible countries by 2011 and it was launched in Punjab on 7thjan 2015. Material and Methods: Focused group discussion was conducted on mothers in urban area covered by urban health centre, rural area covered by rural health center and Community Health centre, Nathana attached with community medicine department, Adesh medical college. Framed questions were introduced to the participants by the moderator in the form of discussion. Results: Maximum number of mothers (88%) did not have any knowledge about the vaccine. Very less number of mothers had received information regarding pentavalent vaccine through Doctors, ANMs or Immunization cards (12%). Overhaul the health workers played a very poor role in imparting information regarding the vaccine. Conclusion: This study shows that not much is being done to disseminate the information to the community and to motivate them which needs to be done to bring maximum children under the ambit of vaccination.