Financial Health of Ambika Cotton Spinning Mills Limited- Pre and Post Financial Crisis: A Case Study

The performance of spinning mill is severely affect by a number of problems such as high raw material cost, frequently power cut, high fuel cost and high interest charges and as a result will fail to earn any Profit for owner. It is also affected in the current global crisis and it is absolutely imperative for the government to prepare a long – term strategy for the growth and export of textiles. This article deals with financial distress, if which not tackled on time, will leads to bankruptcy. This article aims at using bankruptcy prediction model developed by Edward Altman, Professor of Finance, Stern school of business, New York University, the application of Z score method to Ambika cotton spinning mill ltd., for the purpose of predicting its financial health. The conclusions Drawn could provide effective guidelines to the management of that company spinning mills and their stakeholders

Path Generation for Robot Navigation using a Single Camera

AbstractThe work focus on providing a path in an environment for a robot for its ease of movement, detecting and avoiding obstacles in an environment using a single camera and a laser source. Robot moves by identifying free space in floor. Wherever floor is visible and free, it moves. Novel method for floor segmentation has been used. Laser source emits light that falls on obstacle if any, and based on position of laser light on obstacle in the image and distance of obstacle from robot, robot change its direction with different angle and continues to move. This movement information is stored in text file which is used to create map of the environment. Absence of laser light with different floor mark will be treated as hole in the floor and will be skipped

Numerical Modelling of Scramjet Combustor

Numerical modelling of turbulent-reacting flow field of supersonic combustion ramjet(scramjet) combustors are presented. The developed numerical procedure is based on the implicittreatment of chemical source terms by preconditioning and solved along with unstedy turbulentNavier-Stokes equations explicitly. Reaction is modelled using an eight-step hydrogen-airchemistry. Code is validated against a standard wall jet experimental data and is successfullyused to model the turbulent-reacting flow field resulting due to the combustion of hydrogeninjected from diamond-shaped strut and also in the wake region of wedge-shaped strut placedin the heated supersonic airstream. The analysis could demonstrate the effect of interaction ofoblique shock wave with a supersonic stream of hydrogen  in its (fuel-air) mixing and reactionfor strut-based scramjet combustors

ANTIMOTILITY AND ANTISECRETORY RELATED ANTIDIARRHOEAL ACTIVITY OF THE ABELMOSCHUS MOSCHATUS MEDIK IN EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL MODELS

Objective: This study was intended to evaluate the anti-diarrhoeal potential of Abelmoschus moschatus Medik (A. moschatus Medik) seeds and the possible mechanism therein involved by using different experimental models in albino Wistar rats.Methods: The hydroalcoholic seed extract of A. moschatus Medik. (HEAM) was orally administered at the doses of 150, 300 and 500 mg/kg respectively to the different groups in order to assess the effect of extract in castor oil induced diarrhea model in rats. In order to comprehend the mechanism involved in its anti-diarrhoeal potential, the extract was further investigated for its effect on gastrointestinal motility using charcoal meal test and antisecretory action by castor oil induced intestinal enter pooling where, atropine sulphate (5 mg/kg) and loperamide (2 mg/kg) were used as reference standards respectively.Results: The HEAM exhibited significant (p<0.05, p<0.001) and dose-dependent anti-diarrhoeal effect by decreasing the mean number of fecal droppings produced upon castor oil administration as compared to the normal control. The effect of the extract at 500 mg/kg was near to that of loperamide (2 mg/kg). The extract (300 mg/kg) showed antimotility action by significantly (p<0.05, p<0.001) attenuating the charcoal meal transit in the intestine as compared to negative control animals. Further, the extract showed significant (p<0.05, p<0.001) inhibition in the accumulation of intestinal fluid due to castor oil.Conclusion: The HEAM exhibited significant anti-diarrhoeal action that could be presumably related to its observed antimotility and antisecretory activities. This study justifies the usage of A. moschatus Medik. as an anti-diarrhoeal agent in traditional practices of medicine

Synopsis of the genus Cinnamomum Schaeffer (Lauraceae) in India

A checklist of the genus Cinnamomum in India is presented including nomenclature, a brief description, details of the publications where the detailed description and illustration of the species appeared, phenology, distribution of the species within and outside India and IUCN threat status. A total of 45 taxa (43 species and two infraspecific taxa) have been recorded here based on available information. Twenty-four taxa are found to be endemic to India. Kerala in Peninsular India records the largest number of 24 taxa and may be considered as hotspot area for this genus. The genus possesses the greatest phytogeographical affinity to China with 13 species

Low Power Thermometer code to Binary code Encoder based Flash ADC

Architectural level design of a low power Thermometer code to Binary code Encoder for a Flash ADC of 4 bit resolution is presented. In the proposed architecture the thermometer code is initially converted into intermediate gray code using 2:1 multiplexers and then to the binary code using XOR gates. Various logic styles (CMOS, Transmission gate logic, DPL, CPL, EEPL, LEAP, SRPL, PPL) are studied for the design of 2:1 Multiplexers and XOR gate. The performance of proposed architecture is compared with other available architectures like multiplexer based direct conversion method, wallace tree encoder, intermediate gray code based encoder using basic gates and using 2:1 multiplexers. From the study it is obtained that the proposed architecture consumes lesser power and gives a comparable delay performance (only direct conversion using 2:1 multiplexers gives better delay performance). The proposed architecture uses minimum number of multiplexers for the conversion and consumes 25.64µW of power with a power supply of 1.8V. A 4 bit flash ADC is designed using the proposed encoder in Cadence UMC 0.18µm technology and the working is verified

Effect of media composition on growth and flower attributes of lisianthus [Lisianthus grandiflorum (Raf.) Shinner]

The media composition and the other practices for the cultivation of Lisianthus under Indian conditions are detaile

An ECG-SoC with 535nW/channel lossless data compression for wearable sensors

10.1109/ASSCC.2013.6691003Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, A-SSCC 2013145-14

A Micropolar Cohesive Damage Model for Delamination of Composites

A micropolar cohesive damage model for delamination of composites is proposed. The main idea is to embed micropolarity, which brings an additional layer of kinematics through the micro-rotation degrees of freedom within a continuum model to account for the micro-structural effects during delamination. The resulting cohesive model, describing the modified traction separation law, includes micro-rotational jumps in addition to displacement jumps across the interface. The incorporation of micro-rotation requires the model to be supplemented with physically relevant material length scale parameters, whose effects during delamination of modes I and II are brought forth using numerical simulations appropriately supported by experimental evidences

The devices, experimental scaffolds, and biomaterials ontology (DEB): a tool for mapping, annotation, and analysis of biomaterials' data

The size and complexity of the biomaterials literature makes systematic data analysis an excruciating manual task. A practical solution is creating databases and information resources. Implant design and biomaterials research can greatly benefit from an open database for systematic data retrieval. Ontologies are pivotal to knowledge base creation, serving to represent and organize domain knowledge. To name but two examples, GO, the gene ontology, and CheBI, Chemical Entities of Biological Interest ontology and their associated databases are central resources to their respective research communities. The creation of the devices, experimental scaffolds, and biomaterials ontology (DEB), an open resource for organizing information about biomaterials, their design, manufacture, and biological testing, is described. It is developed using text analysis for identifying ontology terms from a biomaterials gold standard corpus, systematically curated to represent the domain's lexicon. Topics covered are validated by members of the biomaterials research community. The ontology may be used for searching terms, performing annotations for machine learning applications, standardized meta-data indexing, and other cross-disciplinary data exploitation. The input of the biomaterials community to this effort to create data-driven open-access research tools is encouraged and welcomed.Preprin