Israel and the Nations: The Mission Motif in the Old Testament with Reference to the Yahwistic Passages of the Pentateuch, to Deutero-Isaiah and to the Book of Jonah

The object of this study is to investigate the mission motif in the life and thought of the people of Israel in three different periods in the nation\u27s history, namely, the early monarchical period, the exilic period, and the post-exilic period. The inquiry seeks to determine whether or not Israel had a mission to the gentile nations during the Old Testament period, the nature of that mission, and the ways in which that mission was to be carried out. An attempt will also be made to discern the difference in emphasis in the three different periods and how the situations and the needs of a particular time determined the emphasis of that time

Computational and experimental determination of the mixing efficiency of a microfluidic serpentine micromixer

In microfluidics, efficiency and mixing time are the greatest disadvantages. These parameters hinder the application of microfluidic devices for biochemical and immunological assays. However, once these disadvantages have been overcome by optimizing the parameters of the microfluidic device, it becomes the important analytical tool. In this experiment, various designs of microfluidic devices have been both simulated using COMSOL software, and experimentally verified to obtain the optimized parameter such as depth and velocity for better mixing efficiency. The COMSOL model has been validated by comparing the results with fluorescent images data of the experiment. The microfluidic device is built with Adhesive double-sided tape and glass slides. The microfluidic channels are 25μm in depth and 700μm in width. These channels have a serpentine design with three loops. It was been analyzed that by increasing the depth of the channel to 400μm at 0.1μl/min flow rate, 99.5% mixing efficiency was obtained. As both the contact area and time were increasing, which in turn lead to the increase in diffusion mixing between the two streams

Influence of Income and Education of the Parents on the Career Aspirations of Industrial Aspirants

Latest Aspiring Minds National Employability Report reveals that only 20 per cent of the engineering graduates are employable.  Career aspirations measure the strength of an aspirants’ intention to be active in a particular career field. Our notion of career aspiration shows similarities with the notion of 'career anchors' from Schein (Schein, 1977; Schein, 1994), who differentiates between managerial competence, technical competence, security, creativity, and   autonomy / independence. Furthermore, career aspirations represent a type of mental self selection. This assumption is supported by the so-called “Person-Job-Fit-Theory“, relying on the hypothesis of a “congruence between person and working environment” (Weinert, 1998), according to which there is an agreement between the expectations, needs and values of the individual on the one hand and the circumstances, opportunities, parental income, education and chances, with which certain carrier fields can fulfill these aspirations on the other hand. Holland builds his theory of “vocational choice“(Holland, 1973, 1985) on a similar premise: There is an interaction between personality and behavioral characteristics and one’s vocational choices, so that people tend to move into career fields that are congruent with their personal qualities. Thus our concept works as a so-called “matching-model” (Hall, 1987b) that focuses on the match or fit between the personality traits and the career field. In the present paper the researchers do believe and bring out the influence of the Income and Education of the parents on the Career Aspirations of Industrial Aspirants. The authors have undertaken the present Descriptive Research study among the Engineering Graduates (Fresh BE., and B.Tech.,) selected for one year Graduate Apprenticeship at a Heavy Engineering and Manufacturing Public Sector. The sample size was 149 having the mixture of major discipline in Engineering and passed out from different colleges in Tamilnadu. Data were collected at the time of their joining by using census sampling procedure through a pre-designed interview schedule. Appropriate statistical tools have been used for analysis and the results. Keywords: Career Aspirations, Technical Competency, Practical and Behavioral skills, Industrial Aspirants, Income and Education of the parents

Total absolute difference edge irregularity strength of some families of graphs

A total labeling ξ is defined to be an edge irregular total absolute difference k-labeling of the graph G if for every two different edges e and f of G there is wt(e) ≠ wt(f) where weight of an edge e = xy is defined as wt(e) = |ξ(e) − ξ(x) − ξ(y)|. The minimum k for which the graph G has an edge irregular total absolute difference labeling is called the total absolute difference edge irregularity strength of the graph G, tades(G). In this paper, we determine the total absolute difference edge irregularity strength of the precise values for some families of graphs.Publisher's Versio

MoClo-IdM: A Framework for Secured Data Access in MobiCloud Environment

Cloud Computing (CC) is an emerging technology. Mobility is considered as a key technology in CC that shifts from traditional PC to smartphones, tablets, PDAs, etc. MobiCloud has arose as a subclass of CC to empower rigorous on-demand elastic computing and storage to the mobile users. As MobiCloud integrates CC with mobile computing and networks, all the issues are inherited while accessing the cloud services. Many researchers proposed security mechanisms, but not as a complete framework. The existing mechanisms could not perform well due to issues like security, computation overhead and poor accuracy. To overcome these problems, an IdM framework is designed to authenticate and authorize user’s data access in MobiCloud environment. The proposed IdM framework incorporates three mechanisms namely Key Based Mutual Authentication (KBMA), Pattern Based User Authentication (PBUA) and Optimized Role Based User Authorization (ORBUA). The three proposed mechanisms are given as a single service called Identity as a Service (IdaaS) by the CSPs. This MoClo-IdM framework can be used by the small, medium and large scale service providers

A Study On Data Security Issues In Public Cloud

Abstract: The cloud computing concept has been evolving for more than 40 years. Cloud computing is an on demand computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet. The cloud computing services are delivered through software as service (SaaS), platform as service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as service (IaaS). Cloud Computing moves the application software and databases to the large data centers, where the management of the data and services are provided by cloud service providers. The common data security concerns are securing data in transit and at rest, access control and data separation. In this survey paper, we review the data in public cloud, identify and discuss the security risks associated with it and analyze its solution strategies

MapReduce-iterative support vector machine classifier: novel fraud detection systems in healthcare insurance industry

Fraud in healthcare insurance claims is one of the significant research challenges that affect the growth of the healthcare services. The healthcare frauds are happening through subscribers, companies and the providers. The development of a decision support is to automate the claim data from service provider and to offset the patient’s challenges. In this paper, a novel hybridized big data and statistical machine learning technique, named MapReduce based iterative support vector machine (MR-ISVM) that provide a set of sophisticated steps for the automatic detection of fraudulent claims in the health insurance databases. The experimental results have proven that the MR-ISVM classifier outperforms better in classification and detection than other support vector machine (SVM) kernel classifiers. From the results, a positive impact seen in declining the computational time on processing the healthcare insurance claims without compromising the classification accuracy is achieved. The proposed MR-ISVM classifier achieves 87.73% accuracy than the linear (75.3%) and radial basis function (79.98%)

Exploring the musical, cultural and social identities of young Indians learning Western classical music in India

This thesis explores the narratives of the young people in India engaging with Western classical music as students, teachers, and performers. India’s association with Western classical music began in the early sixteenth century with the arrival of the first colonisers. Since then, Indians have engaged with Western classical music in different cultural, religious, and political settings. However, in contemporary India, the role of Western classical music, and those engaging with it has not been studied in detail. With the focus on the musical, cultural and social identities of young Indians learning Western classical music, the study aims to situate these narratives in the wider context of postcolonial India. Data for this study was collected through semi-structured qualitative interviews conducted in the Indian cities of Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, and Hyderabad. A constructivist and grounded theory approach through coding was adapted to analyse the data which highlighted the various factors that enabled the participants to pursue Western classical music in India. The emergent themes from the analysis highlight the variables and factors such as role of family, cultural and social capital. Postcolonial studies and musical identities research provided the framework for the discussion of the emergent themes from the analysis. The discussion unearths these themes, and the identities of the participants while situating them in postcolonial India with the aim of influencing current educational policies. This study amplifies voices that are insufficiently represented in mainstream academia

Determination of In Vitro Cytotoxicity and Anti-Angiogenesis for a Bioactive Compound from Aspergillus terreus FC36AY1 Isolated from Aegle marmelos around Western Ghats, India

The biotechnological research mainly emphasis its investigation on searching new natural drugs at economical to human welfare. With this view in mind, this research has focused to develop a prospective bioactive compound isolating from an efficient endophytic fungus isolated from potential medicinal tree Aegle marmelos. The endophytic fungus was isolated from the medicinal tree and identified as Aspergillus terreus FC36AY1. This fungus produced maximum of crude metabolites and this was produced in Sabouraud’s Dextrose Broth. The produced metabolites were extracted using acetone as a sole solvent and it was taken for the assessment of antimicrobial and antioxidant analysis. The crude metabolites exhibited maximum activity at least concentration and further the crude extract were taken for purification processes through chromatographic techniques. Through purification, five different fractions were eluted and those five different fractions were also assessed for antimicrobial and antioxidant analysis. From these analysis results, TA4 was found to be efficient fraction and it was characterized through FT-IR, GC-MS and UV-VIS analysis. The compound was taken for cytotoxicity determination in HT-29 cancer cells and anti-angiogenesis analysis was assessed through HET-CAM testing. The bio-activities study revealed that the compound TA4 has the ability to target the cancer cells in an efficient manner

A Unified Architecture for Optimal Resource Utilization in a Heterogeneous Cloud Environment

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