Government Role in Road Toll Collection: The Coimbatore Bypass Experience

India has the second largest road system in the world with a road length of 3.3 million kms. In the past 50 years, while the aggregate length of the roads has increased eightfold, the traffic has increased to almost twentyfold, resulting in congestion. To reduce the congestion and improve road quality, the central and state governments have focused on road development projects in the recent years. Public private partnerships have also been leveraged through the Build, Operate and Transfer (BOT) framework. This paper discusses various issues in toll based BOT projects, with the focus on a specific case study. L&T Transportation Infrastructure Limited, the BOT operator has been facing financial problems, experiencing a difficult time collecting tolls from the Athupalam Bridge segment of the Coimbatore Bypass project. Though the government has been trying to resolve the problem, it has not arrived at any positive solution as yet. This paper highlights the lessons from the Coimbatore Bypass experience for the future road BOT projects.

Lessons for Asian Countries from Pension Reforms in Chile

Chile's 1981 reform revolutionized pension design and created a system that was lauded and emulated widely. The main feature of the system was the creation of state-mandated, privately managed individual pension capitalization accounts based on contributions of employees. After nearly three decades of experience, there is a reassessment of the extent to which the pension system has achieved its objectives, particularly with respect to coverage and adequacy. In March 2006, the newly elected President Bachelet set up a Presidential Advisory Council on Pension Reform under the chairmanship of Mario Marcel to evaluate the existing pension system. This paper examines the rationale and the nature of the recommendations made by the Council. The analysis focuses on the structure of the proposed new pension system and risk-sharing implications of different pillars of the system, the accessibility of the existing pension system in terms of coverage, particularly for women and self-employed persons, the impact of reform on transaction costs; investment policies and management and their implications for rates of return and financial market development. The implications of the new system on pension design and policy debate in Asian countries are addressed. The paper suggests that must imbibe lessons from countries such as Chile and urgently undertake the task of constructing sustainable, robust and adequate pension systems and social safety nets.Chile, Asia, Pension Reform

PPSB: AN OPEN AND PLATFORM FOR PRIVACY PRESERVING SAFE BROWSING

The approach of arising processing advancements, for example, administration situated design and distributed computing has empowered us to perform business benefits all the more productively and viably. In any case, we actually experience the ill effects of unintended security spillages by unapproved activities in business administrations. Firewalls are the most generally sent security system to guarantee the security of private organizations in many organizations and foundations. The viability of security assurance gave by a firewall chiefly relies upon the nature of strategy designed in the firewall. Shockingly, planning and overseeing firewall approaches are frequently mistake inclined because of the perplexing idea of firewall setups just as the absence of methodical examination instruments and devices. In this paper, we speak to a creative approach abnormality the board structure for firewalls, embracing a standard based division method to recognize strategy irregularities and infer viable peculiarity goals. Specifically, we articulate a network based portrayal procedure, giving an instinctive intellectual sense about strategy inconsistency. We additionally examine a proof-of-idea execution of a representation based firewall strategy investigation instrument called Firewall Anomaly Management Environment (FAME). Moreover, we show how effectively our methodology can find and resolve peculiarities in firewall arrangements through thorough trials

SCALABLE AND SECURE SHARING OF PERSONAL HEALTH RECORDS IN LARGE NETWORKS USING ATTRIBUTES BASED ENCRYPTION

Outstanding Fitness Record is an electronic application used by patients to keep up and manage their prosperity information in a private, secure and mystery atmosphere. In appropriated figuring, cloud providers go probably as an outcast for the information exchange of individual prosperity records. Notwithstanding the way that this advancement supports successful organization and the sharing of patient's own special prosperity record, there are wide assurance worries, for instance, the presentation and transparency of fragile prosperity information by unapproved customers. To give security and insurance, it is essential to scramble the data preceding re-examining and just affirmed customers with significant attributes should be allowed to get to the data. Hiding the customers' information is furthermore critical while getting to data over the association. Moreover to reduce the key organization unpredictability of data owners, singular prosperity records are requested into various security spaces. To achieve fine-grained and versatile data access control for PHRs, to impact attribute based encryption techniques to encode each patient's PHR record. Not equivalent to past works in secure data re-examining, to base on the various data owner circumstance, and partition the customers in the PHR structure into various security zones that colossally diminishes the key organization unpredictability for owners and customers. A genuine degree of patient security is guaranteed at the same time by manhandling multiauthority ABE. Our agreement in like manner engages dynamic change of access methods or record credits, maintains valuable on-demand customer/property disavowal and break-glass access under emergency circumstances to cover the customer information, baffling approval through Attribute-Based Encryption method and fine-grained data access control through AES are gotten. This mix gives a genuine degree of assurance and security for the PHR record. This preparation enables the dynamic change of access approaches or best credits and on-demand customer repudiation. Expansive test and execution inspection show that the proposed contrive is capable to the extent security and pledge

A FRAMEWORK FOR TOURIST IDENTIFICATION ANMD ANALYTICS USING TRANSPORT DATA

Tour Sense, a structure for adventurer ID and propensity evaluation utilizing city-scale transport information. Our work is animated by the watched hindrances of using standard information sources that reliably experience the underhanded effects of the restricted thought of explorer individuals and unusual data delay. Visit Sense shows how the vehicle information can beat these detainments and give better snippets of data to various accessories, ordinarily including visit work environments, transport administrators and visitors themselves. In particular, we from the outset propose an outline based iterative instigating taking in figuring to see voyagers from open subject matter experts. Mishandling the follow information from the perceived visitors, we by then structure a voyager propensity assessment model to learn and imagine their after visit, where an adroit UI is finished to energize the data access and augmentation the snippets of data from the evaluation results. Using Big Data headways to screen voyager advancement and survey traveler travel direct in excellent zones. By get-together the data and guiding out a data exhibiting study to at the same time address the allocation of voyager hotspots, traveler territory, and occupant information, etc We by then arrangement a traveler tendency assessment model to acknowledge where an instinctual UI is familiar effortlessly induction to information and gain encounters from the examination results, abusing the follow data from the recognized explorer

Analysis of batch arrival bulk service queue with multiple vacation closedown essential and optional repair

The objective of this paper is to analyze an queueing model with multiple vacation, closedown, essential and optional repair. Whenever the queue size is less than , the server starts closedown and then goes to multiple vacation. This process continues until at least customer is waiting in the queue. Breakdown may occur with probability when the server is busy. After finishing a batch of service, if the server gets breakdown with a probability , the server will be sent for repair. After the completion of the first essential repair, the server is sent to the second optional repair with probability . After repair (first or second) or if there is no breakdown with probability , the server resumes closedown if less than ` \u27 customers are waiting. Otherwise, the server starts the service under the general bulk service rule. Using supplementary variable technique, the probability generating function of the queue size at an arbitrary time is obtained for the steady-state case. Also some performance measures and cost model are derived. Numerical illustrations are presented to visualize the effect of various system parameters

Stabilized Lateritic Blocks Reinforced With Fibrous Coir Wastes

Tropical countries are rich in lateritic soil, a naturally available raw material for building construction. But its potential in block making is not yet satisfactorily explored. This paper focuses on an experimental investigation for improvising stabilized lateritic blocks (SLB) with coir cutting wastes from coir industry as reinforcing elements. Lateritic soil used in this study showed a higher percentage of clay content. Hence it was pre-stabilized with sand and cement. Blocks were prepared by stabilizing it further with waste fibrous additives and tested for strength and durability. Considerable improvement in strength (compressive strength @19% and tensile strength @ 9%) and durability characteristics were exhibited by the new fiber reinforced lateritic blocks (FRLB) with fiber content of 0.5%. These blocks can be successfully proposed for load bearing construction and as well as for earthquake resistant structure

ANALYSIS OF PHYTOCHEMICALS FROM EUPATORIUM ODORATUM FLOWER

The Eupatorium odoratum is included in sun flower family Asteraceae has many properties as anti-bacterial, anti-mycobacterial properties. It also contains many phytochemicals. It used as tea in many places. An ointment prepared from the leaves of Eupatorium odoratum is has been shown to promote the healing of soft tissue wounds by enhancing the proliferation and migration of fibroblast. It has been identified that the presence of antioxidants and other bioactive compounds might have helped the people to use the leaves and roots of this plant as natural medicine. It used as medicinal as well as ornamental plant. Successive extracts from dried flowers of Eupatorium odoratum were investigated for the presence of phytochemicals. Methanol extract was used for the phytochemical and antibacterial studies. Aqueous extracts of Eupatoriumodoratum was used for the insecticidal and larvicidal activity. As a result it was found that the plant flowers have insecticidal and larvicidal activity and a slight range of antibacterial activity. Aqueous extract exhibited the presence of enzyme polyphenol oxidase. The extract was subjected to ammonium sulfate precipitation and dialysis to precipitate proteins. It was then eluted out using ion exchange chromatography and partially purified. The PPO have a wide range of applications, it is an important natural component in dye industry, it is good for bioremediation as it cleaves phenol rings of many of the petroleum compounds which cause soil pollution