Tourism is the largest industry in the world and is considered the main factor in the infrastructure of the economy in terms of its importance in the field of marketing, sales and strengthening the economy between countries. Media has an effective role in the dissemination and promotion of tourism, so this study seeks to identify the role of the media in providing tourists with information About Egypt. Despite the importance of tourism marketing campaigns, however, the studies that dealt with...
Topics: Tourism, Marketing, Media & Egypt
In the present work, performance analysis of twin cylinder CI engine is performed. Roselle seed oil methyl esters are extracted from the crude roselle oil by the method of trans-esterification. The tests are conducted in the 4- stroke twin (2) cylinder CI engine and tests were conducted in different stages. Primarily, the tests were performed with4-stroke twin cylinder diesel engine with a diesel fuel and noted down the observations. In the next step, experiments are done on the same engine...
Topics: Alternate Fuel, Roselle Seed Oil, Oil Trans-Esterification & Bio-Diesel
The growth of the BPO sector in India can be recognized mainly by the abundance of the necessary manpower. The human resource has also emerged as a cause of a major challenge for the sector, and the problem is vested in high levels of employee attrition. High attrition is reliable for the financial and performance-related setbacks faced by the Business process organizations (BPO). The high attrition rate affects the productivity of the organization. Therefore, it's very vital to curb attrition,...
Topics: Attrition, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Employees, Job Stress, Perception, Retention &...
The paper considers the effect of imperfect length on the buckling behavior of mild steel truncated cone subjected to axial compression. The contact interaction problem between the rigid plate and the cone was successfully benchmarked against experimental data on axially compressed cone with imperfection amplitude-to-thickness ratio, A/t = 0.28 and 5.6. Conical shells are assumed to be made from mild steel with the following geometric properties: big radius-to-small radius ratio, r2/r1 = 2.0;...
Topics: Buckling, Imperfect Cone, Axial Compression, Mild Steel & ABAQUS
IT Organizations undergo many transformational programs and conduct competitor analysis for managing change in this dynamic business world. Few Organizations have a well-defined strategy managing the critical factors that drive success and are moving in the right direction. There are variations in responding to change which provides the platform to do evaluation on change management practices across companies. In this paper to study on barriers and Challenges of Change Management in I.T sector...
Topics: Organizational Change, Technology, Process, Employees, Barriers & Challenges
The carotid artery begins at the aorta within the chest and courses up through the neck to the head. The most common site of atherosclerotic plaque development is at the carotid bifurcation. The size, shape and location of the carotid bulbs are unique to each person. The individual geometry of each person’s carotid artery has different flow features and the possibility of atherogenesis. In this work, the effect of inlet flow profile and variations in the carotid bulb sizes and the...
Topics: Inlet Flow Profile, Carotid Bulb Diameter, Non-Newtonian Blood Viscosity, Wall Shear Stress &...
In earlier studies sound velocities and elastic moduli of some minerals like MgO, MgAl 2 O 4 , Al 2 O 3 , Y 3 Al 2 (AlO 4 ) 3 and pyrope (Mg 3 Al 2 Si 3 O 12 ) up to a pressure of 200 GPa have been analyzed. The Hama-Suito theory of equation of state based on the Augmented Plane Wave (APW) and quantum statistical methods have been used for the determination of pressure-density relationships. In present work, Holzapfel AP2 equation of state is being used for calculating the elastic moduli such...
Topics: Shear Modulus, Young’s Modulus, Poisson’s Ratio & Equation of State
Accurate estimation of the aerodynamic stability derivatives of airplanes is essential to evaluate the performance of the aircraft, whether civilian or military. Theoretical prediction methods for the dynamic stability derivatives at high angles of attack have not advanced, and in the present paper, an attempt has been made to study the effect of damping derivatives for delta wings for different angles of incidence, and the Mach number for a wing whose leading edge is straight. In this paper,...
Topics: Damping Derivative, Straight Leading Edge, Delta wing & Hypersonic
This work deals with injection moulding simulation of Knob, in which the gate location, diameter and the possible defects during the filling& packing phase is determined and warpage effects under variable shrinkage with process parameters. In this simulation process is carried out by using Hyper mesh and Mould Flow Software. In the Hyper mesh phase, meshing works are carried along with thickness assignment. In the Mould Flow phase, material flow, positioning of gate location, gate size and...
Topics: Injection Moulding Simulation, Hyper Mesh, Mould Flow Software & Warpage Effects
The present paper focuses on the recovery of energy from the unitary passage of people inside the turnstiles. Positioned at strategic points such as stadiums, buildings and fairs, the turnstiles are objects that interact with a large number of people, so we decided to take advantage of this peculiarity to get electricity immediately usable [1-3]. The issue of energy sustainability is increasingly discussed in terms of climate change that is undergoing our planet; hence an ever increasing...
Topics: Energy Harvesting, Inflow, Unitary Transition & Rotation
Biopharmaceuticals based on proteins, antibodies or nucleic acids are progressively used for the treatment of various diseases. This review discusses Tissue plasminogen activator ( tPA or PLAT ) as a biopharmaceuticals product, its synthesis, and administration of disease. Tissue plasminogen activator is a serine protease. It plays the role of conversion of plasminogen to plasmin. It is the major enzyme, responsible for the breakdown of the clot . In order to fulfill the acute demand of...
Topics: Tissue Plasminogen Activator Protein (Reteplase), Transplastomic Tobacco Cell Cultures, Cytoplasm,...
This case report describes about a case of a 13 year old male child with Volkmann’s Ischemic Contracture of Left Forearm following a fall on the granite stone . This case demonstrates the results and follow up of conservative Physiotherapy management with appropriate bracing revised on time to time basis as a part of Multidisciplinary approach. During the continuous follow-up of 8months under Physiotherapy, the subject has shown functional recovery in terms of range of motion, flexibility and...
Topics: Physiotherapy, Volkmann’s Ischemic Contracture, Hand Function, Forearm Contracture, Scar...
Epoxy clay nanocomposites were prepared by ultrasonication and were applied on flat and cylinder or pin shaped mild steel specimen for microhardness and sliding wear resistance test, respectively. The optimum thickness of coating that doesn’t experience any substrate effect when indented was determined to be 200 microns. Microhardness was optimized by conducting microhardness tests as per Taguchi’s technique (L9 orthogonal array). The input factors influencing the microhardness were...
Topics: Epoxy Clay Nanocomposite Coating, Substrate Effect & Microhardness
Shape memory alloys (SMAs) received significant attention by biomedical, aerospace and automotive industries due to their captivating properties called shape memory effect (SME) and Pseudo elasticity. However, the applications of these alloys are mostly found to be biocompatible, and are very sensitive to aerospace and automotive applications. This realization of developing the materials amenable to both aerospace and automotive applications along with biomedical applications needs...
Topics: Shape Memory Effect, Pseudo Elasticity, Constitutive Models, Free Energy & Nitinol
The present study was conducted to understand what children appreciate in the films E. T.: The Extra Terrestrial (ET) and Saving Private Ryan (SPR). The study consisted of a sample of 93 school children of class XI aged between 15-17 years. A film appreciation instrument was designed drawing insights from Teasley and Wilder (1997). The research study was quantitative in nature. It was found that the percentage of girls is more in the appreciation of literary aspects in the film ET and SPR in...
Topics: Appreciation, Literary Aspects, Dramatic Aspects & Cinematic Aspects
This paper focuses on the experimental study on performance and emission characteristic of an existing single cylinder four stroke overhead valve (OHV) spark ignition engine. The main advantage of this project is to reduce weight of the overhead valve engine components in two ways, one is selection of material and, other is to optimize the design layout within the design region, by using topology optimization. At first, the performance and emission characteristics of the single cylinder four...
Topics: Over Head Valve (OHV) Engines, Topology Optimization, Brake Power, Mechanical Efficiency, Brake...
The paper investigates integral road accessibility method for evaluation road network quality and condition. An Integrated Road Accessibility (IRA) - measured in travel time (hours) and shows the availability from one node to the other node in the territory (district, region, state, set of states) taking into account the number, density and weight of the population, location of the node, density of the road network, state of the traffic flow and roads, as well as traffic safety. Proposed...
Topics: Integrated Road Accessibility, Traffic Quality & Road Condition
Landfill leachate is the result of rainfall which passes through the dumped waste, the pollutants in the landfill leachate may lead to the contamination of surface and groundwater resources. Sufficient treatment is required for leachate before the disposal. The concentration of high organic content like COD (Chemical Oxygen Demand), Nitrogen and Phosphorous content and settlement of sludge causes major damage to the environment. Hence, the biological treatment with a suspended growth process...
Topics: Leachate, MBBR, Biofilm & Biological Treatment
Sheet metal forming industry has evolved over a number of decades, shaping its way from craftsmanship to technology driven processes. Even after the development of non-conventional processes for sheet metal processing, stamping remains one of the most suitable method of converting components from sheet metal for large volumes. The ever-demanding requirements from customers and the challenges forced in the tooling are of increasing quality norms and that of...
Topics: Sheet Metal Tooling, Online Monitoring & Closed Loop
Present work deals with the analysis of a four layered symmetric angle-ply CFRP laminate for the prediction of critical load for an existing crack and critical crack length at an existing load that causes mode-I fracture in laminate. The problem is simulated in finite element software ANSYS. Virtual crack closure technique (VCCT) is used to estimate the strain energy release rate (SERR). The effect of fiber orientation and crack length on SERR and condition of the laminate are studied.
Topics: FRP, SERR, VCCT, FEM & Delamination
This paper discusses a mathematical model and an experimental plant developed and studied for a borehole plunger pump driven by the cylindrical linear induction motor (CLIM) and equipped with elastic elements of mechanical energy storage, where a single phase switching is performed at a three phase power supply. A design was put forward for a borehole plunger pump equipped with the cylindrical linear induction motor and mechanical energy storage elastic elements. The design ensures energy...
Topics: Borehole Plunger Pump, Cylindrical Linear Induction Motor, Mechanical Energy Storage Elastic...
This research study primarily aims to explore the role of information communication technology’s performance of small and medium scale enterprises in the Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu. The researchers conducted an exploratory and empirical research for the purpose of exploring the answers to the research questions of the study. The questionnaire has been issued to the respondents through survey method of data collection. The results indicate that information and communication technology...
Topics: ICT, SME’s, Performance & Technology
The Wing Rotor Configuration is designed for the purpose of VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) which is a combination of Delta wing and rotor together integrated at the empennage section of the aircraft wing. The model of the delta wing rotor configuration will be modelled by using the solid works part modelling software, later the model will be studied in cfd to understand the aerodynamic performance of the aircraft. The objective of the work is to achieve high aerodynamic efficiency of the...
Topics: VTOL (Vertical Takeoff and Landing), CFD, MAV’S (Micro Aerial Vehicle) & Fighter Aircrafts
Air pollution has become a serious environmental concern which is a major problem of Kathmandu Valley. The plants growing along the roadsides of the Kathmandu are under stress. The dust depositions on the leaves of shrubs were adversely affected by air pollution. It was found that dust particles affect leaf biochemical parameters which have changes micro-morphological symptoms. The study deals visible changes in the micro-morphological structure like specific leaf area, size of stomata, the...
Topics: Cuticle Thickness, Epidermal Thickness, Stomata Density, Specific Leaf Area, Road side Pollution...
Packaging contributes to about 2-3% of the total Sales turnover in an automobile industry. It’s an important, yet ignorant aspect of a Supply Chain. This area is not being focused so far as being considered at least priority business operation. But now its importance is very well recognized with the emerging concept of Green Supply Chain Management. Recyclable Packaging also termed as Green Packaging is a new dimension in packaging. It...
Topics: GSCM, Recyclable Packaging, Automobile Industry, Supply Chain Management, Organizational...
It is a passive heat transfer device that is used to remove the amount of heat from the heat source. The behavior of screen wick and nanofluid to improve the performance of a heat pipe.Al 2 O 3 /DI-water based nanofluid is utilized as a working fluid. An exploratory arrangement is planned and built to think about the heat pipe execution under various working conditions. The effect of filling ratio, the volume fraction of nano-particle in the base fluid, screen mesh as wick and heat input rate...
Topics: Thermal Performance, Heat Pipe, Aluminum Oxide, Nanofluids & Screen Mesh Wick Type
The widely used engineering construction materials such as fiber and laminated composite materials are usually under the thermomechanical forces and undergoes thermoplastic deformations. These composites may be considered as a transversely isotropic or orthotropic materials. In this paper, the plasticity constitutive relations for isotropic and transversely isotropy materials proposed in [33]are developed taking into account the temperature and written up the strain and stress space...
Topics: Constitutive Relations, Thermoplasticity Theory, Strain-Stress Space, Isotropy, Transversely...
Online shopping has become one of the commonly and broadly used channels in the Internet fraternity for convenient shopping. Many websites are opening daily to meets the ever-rising demands of comfort and convenience shoppers. Online shopping is a convenient way of shopping for various items from various locations and a faster process. The digital economy is driven by information technology introduced high-speed Internet connection as a convenient platform for online purchases and firms to...
Topics: E-Commerce, Satisfaction, Trust, Quality, User-Interface, Privacy, Security & Service
Ana Historic (1988) by Daphne Marlatt is a well-known novel for its deployment of disruptive narrative strategies. This novel is unique for its attempt at shattering the illusion of a coherent narrative by defamiliarising our accepted notions of femininity, gender and sexual identity. The story line of this novel revolves around a protagonist called Annie Anderson, who moulds her life story not only from the preconceived traditional images of women, but also ventures into exploring new possible...
Topics: Femininity, Gender, Identity & Heterosexuality
The aim of this work is to study the effect of zirconium alloying element (0.5, 1, 1.5 and 2 wt%) on corrosion resistance of Aluminum bronze alloy in (3.5% NaCl and 2M HCl) solutions. Casting of aluminum bronze alloys was done with 15 wt % Al, using gas furnace and steel mold under inert atmosphere of argon. Homogenization heat treatment at 500 ºC for 4 hours was accomplished for ingot alloys. Light optical microscope was used for microstructure observation. Electrochemical tests (OCP – Time...
Topics: Corrosion Resistance, Aluminum Bronze, Zirconium, NaCl & HCl
Automation within the contemporary world is inevitable. Any automatic machine focuses towards the economical use of man, machine and material well worth the most. For small and tiny scale industrial units the sheet cutting machine is manually operated. In this paper, solenoid valve and Arduino controller is used for automation. The machine works with the help of double acting pneumatic cylinder. The piston is connected to the moving cutter. The machine is easy to...
Topics: Automation, Arduino Controller, Solenoid Valve & Double Acting Cylinder
CO 2 emissions from buildings and construction rose by nearly 1% per year between 2010 and 2016; releasing 76 Gt CO 2 in cumulative emissions. India is amongst the major producer of Fly ash, 57% of total power obtained from combustion of pulverized coal. By the end of the year 2020, the production of fly ash is going to cross 350 million tones. In order to utilize this fly ash that is considered as a waste in the manufacturing of roof tiles replacing the traditional clay and feltspar. The roof...
Topics: Fly Ash, Utilization of Fly Ash, Waste Material, Environment & Mechanical Properties
The workload of female basket weavers was analyzed in this research study. Purposive random sampling method was used to select the respondents. A structured questionnaire and body map was used to determine the body pain and discomforts. The results revealed that most of the respondents experienced body pain in the neck, shoulder, upper arm, lower arm, wrist, fingers, ankle and toes. The frequency and intensity of pain varies from activity to activity performed by the weavers. Majority of the...
Topics: Bamboo Basket, Weaving, Female, Workload, Body Map & Body Pain
The study was done to deeply understand the diversity in traditions, cultures, and customs of Kashmiri Pandits. The paper gives details of attires worn by Kashmiri Pandits throughout the most important and meaningful ceremonies of their lives. Kashmir is home to an array of distinct ceremonies and traditions. Mundan, Namakarana, Yagnopavit are some of the most significant ceremonies after the birth of a child. Pre-wedding ceremonies like engagement, Divgun, Mehendiraat and the wedding...
Topics: Yagnopavit, Divgun, Shran sonder, Kahnethar, Tarang & Lagan
ABSTRACT Quality of Work Life (QWL) is the satisfaction of employees towards their working environment. The turnover intention is referred to as the intention of employees to quit the current job. QWL is one of the predominant factors influencing employee turnover intention. The study was undertaken to find the QWL experienced by the employees in SVCM textile mill at Salem district and to find its relationship with employee turnover intention. A sample size of 120 employees from textile mill...
Topics: Quality of Work Life, Turnover Intention & Textile Mill
Diesel Engine is very popular and is being used in many industries. It is used in automobile for transmitting power to the wheels, used in generator sets for producing electricity and also used in the constructing machinery to mix the construction materials. Diesel engine is also used in telecommunication infrastructure and mining facilities. Internal combustion engine has four strokes. Intake, compression, expansion and exhaust strokes are the common four strokes in an internal combustion...
Topics: IC Engine, Port Flow Simulation, Swirl, Mass Flow Rate & Valve
Therapeutic Literary Novels: A Step Back from Mental Agony Psychological fiction offers a unique kind of therapy to its readers. Proposed paper intends to reflect upon few exemplary characters from English literature around the world. This particular genre of writing tries to delve into circumstances that force characters to behave in an abnormal manner. Internal observation is stressed upon in order to understand the character; motivation behind actions is more important than the actions of...
Topics: Monologues, Interior Dialogues, Catharsis, Psychological Characters, Stream of Consciousness &...
The study was carried out to evaluate three rice genotypes of paddy viz., Lalat, IR-64 & Naveen under conservation agricultural practices as farmer puddle transplanted (FP-T), zero tillage transplanted (ZTT) and zero tillage with direct seeded rice (ZT-DSR) at farmers field during kharif season of 2016 and 2017. The two years pooled data revealed that higher number of tillers/plant (8.72) and numbers of panicle/row (49.6) were recorded in FP-T while panicle length had no significant effect....
Topics: Direct Seeded Rice, Zero Tillage Transplanting, Conventional Tillage, Farmers Practice, Economics...
Grading of fruit is important phase after harvesting and before marketing. The automatic fruit grading system extracts its defective region and grading, according to its level of defection. The classification of Fruit is done into four categories by considering smaller changes in defective parts, so it increases output efficiency and user acceptance level of different fruit categories. In this proposed system of image processing algorithm, rgb2gray method and median filter are used to...
Topics: Otsu’s, Tri-class Thresholding, GLCM, Multi Spectral, Four Categories & KNN
This research consists of two parts. The first part examines mainstream communication studies as a discipline which emerged from other social sciences like, psychology, sociology, and anthropology with historical roots in Greek and Roman oratory and rhetoric. In the analysis of texts in communication studies, critical methods such as discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, and the semiotic approach are often employed. These methods add to critical and scientific depth as well as...
Topics: Communication Studies, Critical Approaches & Semiotic Methods
In this research the effect of porosity is studied at three different holding times(1.5, 1 and 0.5 hours) for the first sintering stage, to fixing aluminium in its solid state phase at temperatures (500°C), of the memory alloy based on copper. The powder metallurgy method has been used to manufacture 3 samples for this alloy with(83%Cu,13%Al,4 %Ni). To make sure of the generation phases for Marten site and Austenite, physical tests (Optical microscopy, XRD, and SEM) were carried out before and...
Topics: (Cu-Al-Ni) Smart Alloys, Powder Metallurgy, Porosity, XRD & SEM
In this paper, optimization of WEDM process parameters was focused. The optimization was done in machining of AMMNCs sample of Carbon Nano Tubes (CNT) reinforced Al 5056. Experimentations were performed as per Taguchi design of experiments for diverse combinations of process parameters like pulse on-time, pulse off-time, water pressure, peak current to study the responses such as removal rate (MRR), surface roughness (Ra), kerf width (KW) and tool wear (TW). A combined WASPAS-Taguchi S/N ratio...
Topics: WEDM Process Parameters WASPAS-Taguchi S/N Ratio Analysis, Responses & Optimization
Numerous analyses were performed to establish the optimal shape between circular and elliptical plain cross bore at both radial and offset positions in closed thick walled cylinders. Seven cross bored cylinders with thickness ratios between 1.4 and 3.0 were studied. For effective comparison between circular and elliptical cross bores, the major radius of the elliptical cross bore was equal to that of circular cross bore. The behaviour of hoop stresses together with that of Stress Concentration...
Topics: Pressure Vessels, Cross Bore Shape, Cross Bore Location, Thickness Ratio, Hoop Stress & Stress...
Ensuring the availability of safe and clean drinking water at a given price is the right of a consumer as well as the key responsibility of the governing authorities. This is practically enforced by the standardization authorities exclusively for the industry. In the Indian packaged drinking water industry, there are three standards namely ISI (Indian Standards Institute), FSSAI (Food Safety and Standards Authority of India) which are mandatory for Indian products and ISO (International...
Topics: Packaged Drinking Water Industry, Indian Standards & Mandatory
This paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of pre-hospital emergency care. The objective of this review is to study how the ambulance’s transport time can be reduced. It aims to address the waiting time of the patient before being given care. To overcome traffic, evolving sensors are being used and how it can be used for emergency vehicles will be studied in this paper. The study shows how wireless accelerometers of IoT wireless sensor system is being used to classify vehicles and monitor...
Topics: Compartment Design, Paramedic, Pre-hospital Transport Time & Stretcher Loading
Crude oil reservoirs have different formation types according to their environmental and geological conditions. Sandstone is one of the most common formations of crude oil reservoir, which has high oil bearing capacity than carbonate formation. In this research article, oil field sandstone was collected and analysed through porosity and permeability. The sandstone was visually observed for the classification of sandstone. The porosity of the sandstone was determined by porosimeter equipment and...
Topics: Carbonate, Permeability, Porosity, Recovery, Sandstone & Water Flooding
Digitizing and computerization plays a major role in the manufacturing of dental implants. However, dental implants are manufactured by conventional methods and due to the advancements in computer aided engineering and software applications are a important part of the upsurge of technical change that has taken digital manufacturing today. Dentists and patients have equally set high requirements on quality, material, precision and cost so providing digital solution to a dental doctors is a real...
Topics: Dental Implants, Implant Root, CAD Modelling, Customized Design & Rapid Prototyping
This paper examines whether the difference exists when the only high frequency pulse is introduced to a lead-acid battery charger, and when continuously charged with ordinary charger. Intend to designed to charger when input to AC power, circuit design changing to general trend what charger size is smaller and efficiency of charger to the max, PFC, Fly-back converter, switching technology of passive element make the best use of technology. Lead-acid battery inner part are checked to find if it...
Topics: High Frequency, Pulse, Lead Dioxide (PbO_2), Charger & Current
In Lamellidens corrianus, showed maximum protein content was from hepatopancreas 388± 0.0444 mg/gm in summer season and minimum 17± 0.0109 from foot in winter season. Glycogen content was more during the summer season in all tissues. Maximum glycogen (306.28 ± 0.4206) was found from hepatopancreas in May and the minimum in gills from 24.32 ± 0.0055 in December. The lipid content was maximum from foot is 14.4± 0.8944 whereas the minimum from mantel is 5.4± 0.5477 in May.
Topics: Lamellidens Corrianus, Protein, Glycogen & Lipid
The study explored the perceptions, preferences and factors that are contributing to the growth of fast food among people in Hyderabad. To meet these objectives this study helped in understanding what exactly a consumer looks for in choosing fast food. It gave an idea about the important factors that are required now a day to attract consumers in this competitive world. The study made an attempt to understand the consumer eating habits, what a consumer wants while eating fast food and their...
Topics: Fast Foods, Perception, Preferences, Consumption & Students
