Longitudinal study of local authority child and family social workers (wave 1) Findings from a 5 year study of local authority child and family social workers in England.

The longitudinal study investigates recruitment, retention and career progression in local authority child and family social work over 5 years. This is the first of 5 reports. It provides workforce information for employers and policy makers. Topics covered in this report include: •entry routes into local authority child and family social work •current employment and career history •workplace wellbeing •management, supervision and working environment •job satisfaction •career progression and future career plan

Mapping of Bioremediation Research Output in India: A Scientometric Study

An analysis of 1981 publications published by Indian scientists during 1994 to 2018 indexed by Web of Science online Database indicates the Bioremediation Research Publication. This study tries to map the number of publications, growth rate and doubling time, scattering of publication over journals, and its impact on publication output, authorship patterns and Global citation score of bioremediation research publication in India using the HistCite, VOSviewer software. Indian Institute of technology, Baba atomic research centre and CSIR are the major producers of research output in the area of bioremediation

Thirty Years of Global Literature on Bioleaching: A Scientometric Analysis

The study deals with the Scientometric analysis of thirty years publication on ‘Bioleaching’ collected from Web of Science Databases for the period of 1989 – 2018. A total of 2477 papers were identified. The study reveals that most of the researchers preferred to publish their research results in the form of journal articles. 2050 (82.8%) articles were published in journals. The authorship trend shows, 95% of the publications were published under the joint authorship. Central South University with 268 (10.8%) publication tops in the institutional wise publications. This study also identifies Relative growth rate, Doubling Time, Degree of Collaboration, the Bibliographic Coupling of the institution, document-wise distribution and prominent keyword

The Reality of Digital currency as a Financial Medium of Exchange

This paper presents a discussion of the requirements for the long term acceptance of digital currency as a financial medium of exchange through the examination of fundamental criteria associated with common tender and the examination of selected digital currencies. According to the U.S. Treasury, digital currencies are subject to regulation if that digital currency has a substitutive purpose for facilitating exchanging goods and services (Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, 2013). Although governments can place stipulations on currencies, users of common tender, such as digital currencies, expect at least three basic privileges for a digital currency to evolve from conception to realization. First, a digital currency must be considered intangible personal property similar to trademarks, copyrights, and patents. Second, ownership disputes must be subject to a system such as a Judicial Proceeding or Binding Arbitration to resolve property conflicts. Finally, a digital currency must be subject to similar regulatio

Detection of Calcification Using Filter in Mammograms -A Survey

Abstract Microcalcification is one of the key symptoms facilitating early detection of breast cancer. In this paper image are acquisition from the mini mias database and perform various steps they are image enhancement, feature extraction and classification .In image enhancement the images are enhanced using filters and the features are extracted from the enhanced image using Gabor filter, and classify the micro calcification using support vector machine to classify the masses into benign, malignant, normal

Diversity and Bioecological studies of butterflies of Kashmir Himalaya.

Butterflies are the most abundant group of insects on the earth which belong to the insect order Lepidoptera, under phylum Arthropoda and are recognizable among the general public, and science due to their beautiful colours, and graceful flight. The butterflies are found in every part of the world wherever the flowering plants are existing and even in very high-altitude, arctic, antarctic mountains, covered with perpetual snow and glaciers. Butterflies are one of the best studied groups, not only geographical subspecies, but even varieties, races, seasonal and sexual forms have been named and described from different regions of the world. The study area, Kashmir Valley, is of paramount importance, because of its central position in Asia, and also as a doorway in between Palaearctic and Oriental region in the Northern India. Kashmir Valley lies between 330.20/ and 430.54/ N Latitude and 730.55/ and 750.35/ E Longitude, covering an area of 15,948 Sq. Kms. Topographically, it is a deep elliptical bowl-shaped valley bounded by lofty mountains of the Pir Panjal Range in the south and south east and the Great Himalayan Range in the north and east, with 64% of the total area being mountainous. The valley is an asymmetrical fertile basin stretching from northeast to northwesterly direction. Its diagonal length (from southeast to northwest corner) is 187 Km, while the breadth varies considerably, being 115.6 Km along the latitude of Srinagar. The altitude of the floor of the valley at Srinagar is 1600m (above sea level). On the basis of temperature and precipitation, the Kashmir valley has four seasons as: (a) Winter Season (December to February); (b) Spring Season (March to May); (c) Summer Season (June to August) and (d) Autumn Season (September to November) in a year.Digital copy of ThesisUniversity of Kashmi

Classification of Acute Myelogenous Leukemia in Blood Microscopic Images Using Supervised Classifier

Abstract: Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML) is a subtype of acute leukemia that is prevalent among adults. The age of a person with AML is 64 years. The need for automation of leukemia detection arises since current methods involve manual examination of the blood smear as the first step toward diagnosis. It takes lot of time and its accuracy depends on the operator's ability. in proposed system a simple technique that automatically detects and segments AML in blood smears is presented. The proposed method differs from others in: 1) the simplicity of the developed approach; 2) classification of complete blood smear images as opposed to sub images; and 3) The nucleated cells are segmented and detected by the help of this algorithm. Computer simulation involved the following tests: comparing the impact of Hausdorff dimension on the system before and after the influence of local binary pattern digits and then comparing the performance of the proposed algorithms on sub images and full images, and then with some of the existing systems the result of the proposed system will be compared. Eighty microscopic blood images are detected, The current system will managed to obtain 98% accuracy for the localization of the lymphoblast cells and to separate it from the sub images and complete images

High-Gain Low-Noise Pre-Amplifier and Narrow Band-Pass Filter for Photoacoustic Spectrometer

ABSTRACT: In this paper an attempt is made to design and develop a high-gain low-noise pre-amplifier and a narrow band-pass filter for photoacoustic spectrometer (PAS). A two-stage pre-amplifier with the gain of 1000 and a second order state variable narrow band-pass filter are designed and fabricated. The pre-amplifier and narrow band-pass filter circuits are designed with a low-noise op-amp (LM308). This arrangement improves the sensitivity and signal-to-noise ratio of the photoacoustic (PA) signal. The frequency response of the PA cell is studied with carbon-black and liquid crystal samples. The resonant frequency of the PA cell was found at 345Hz. The performance of the system is tested in both the presence and absence of modulated laser beam applied on the sample, and it is found that the signal quality has been improved with the pre-amplifier and narrow band-pass filter designed for the present study

Crystal Growth, Characterization and Anisotropic Electrical Properties of GaSe Single Crystals for THz Source and Radiation Detector Applications

The single crystal growth of large semi‐insulating GaSe by the vertical Bridgman technique using zone‐refined selenium (Se) and HP gallium (Ga) is described. The grown crystals (up to 10 cm long and 2.5 cm diameter) have been characterized thoroughly by X‐ray diffraction (XRD), energy dispersive analysis by x‐rays (EDAX), optical absorption/transmission, X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), charge carrier electrical property measurements, second harmonic test, and radiation detection measurements

An Investigation on the Diffusion of Momentum and Mass of Fuel in a Diesel Fuel Spray

An investigation on the diesel fuel spray injected into stagnant ambient air in a chambe