A Wearable Glove for Measuring Fingers Flexion to Identify Specific Hand Gestures Using Flex Sensors

This paper presents a special method of communication for the speech impaired people and other patients using their hand gestures. A microcontroller based system has been developed for measuring fingers flexion to identify specific hand gestures using flex sensors. The system is made wearable and has been deployed on a glove. To measure the fingers flexion for a specific hand gesture five flex sensors are tailored for each finger on the glove. These flex sensors produce signals corresponding to different hand gestures and finger movements. Flex sensors simply change their resistance values according to the degree of bend angle made. They convert the change in bend to electrical resistance-the more the bend, the more is the resistance value. The system has been built around a widely used eight bit microcontroller ATMega328P that has a built-in 10-bit multiplexed channel Analog-to-Digital Converter for the signal conditioning purpose. The important factors while designing a glove is the calibration, the finger size, height and thickness varies from patient to patient and these inaccurate measurements of parameter leads to overlapping of the sign

An Analysis of Economic Growth and Its Dynamics in Nepal

This study has aimed to analyze the economic growth and its dynamics in the contribution of three major sector such as agricultural, industrial and service sector of Nepal. Mainly, the GDP growth rate is deepening on the various sectors but this study analyzed relationship between Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and three main sectors. The Multiple Regression Analysis and Pearson’s Correlation Coefficients statistical tool is used for secondary data available from the Central Bureau of Statistics of Nepal. This study covers time frame for the period of 2001/02 - 2015/16. And the study found that economic growth has positive relation with service sector and agriculture sector. But Industry sector has a negligible contribution to economic growth of Nepal. In this empirical analysis, economic growth parameters; GDP of Nepalese economy is taken in order to oversee into the relationship between sectoral growth rate and economic growth. The major economic contributors have high potentiality of inclusive, broad based and sustainable development of long term economic growth of Nepal. This study suggests all the stakeholders to bust up the national economy empowering the key economic parameters

Increasing Embedding Efficiency & Security of Extended Matrix Encoding Algorithm by Providing Compression & Encryption

Extended Matrix Encoding Algorithm is totally different from most of the LSB replacement or matching steganographic schemes. With reducing the amount of necessary changes the extended matrix algorithm is used to increase embedding efficiency. By using this algorithm, the hidden message is inserted into carrier media and can be transferred via safer channel. In this algorithm the quantitative DCT coefficients of JPEG image which makes the data safe from visual attack. The embedding efficiency and embedding rate get increased to large extent by changing the hash function in matrix encryption and changing the coding mode. In this paper I am trying to show that we can increase embedding efficiency by compressing the secrete data also increase the security by encryption and provision of double password. DOI: 10.17762/ijritcc2321-8169.15075

Serving what’s served: a survey of scholarly dishonesty and plagiarism awareness of research scholars of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow

The present study is inclined towards identifying the cause and awareness of the scholarly community in institutes of higher education toward the issue of academic dishonesty. A questionnaire was distributed to research scholars pertaining to the faculty of science and social science of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow. The results show that the students are aware of the issue of plagiarism and academic dishonesty. However, due to lack of encouragement to be fair and thorough system they do not consider it to be a big challenge. The author recommends mission mode action for awareness of students and faculty towards the issue of fair use and plagiarism. It has also been emphasised for all Indian universities to design a proper mechanism and honour code for all academic outputs to be channelized through review and anti-plagiarism system

Emergency Data Activation

EDA (Emergency Data Activation) is an application which give emergency data(internet) to its users for their usage for this users have to performs certain procedure embedded in our application

Fifty Years (1970-2019) Journey of \u27Journal of Documentation\u27: A Scientometric Analysis of Research Productivity and Publication Trends

Purpose In this study, we conducted quantitative analysis of 1706 scholarly literature published in Journal of Documentation during the period of 1970 to 2019 (fifty years) using a series of scientometric indicators. Annual scientific production, most local cited sources, the ranking of authors; profiles, contributions, correlation, collaboration and authorship pattern, most contributed countries, most cited articles, frequently used search terms/keywords, and the legend of historiographic mapping were analysed in detail to measure the impact of the source. Design/methodology/approach We used the Scopus database for retrieving the desired sample data. In total, 1,706 numbers of publications records were considered for the literature analysis considering their relevancy. Biblioshiny data visualization tool is used to create the various maps. Findings The present study found that annual scientific production and average citations constantly have had an uptrend. The journal\u27s had tremendous impact with an h-index of 80, with a g-index of 148, total citations of 37,161 within the studied period. Although Bawden D contributed the highest number of research papers (n=78), the work published by Hjørland B received the highest citations. Lotka\u27s Law reveals that about 75.04% of the authors (1319 authors) have one publication, and approximately 12.73% of the authors (225 authors) have two publications. The United Kingdom was the dominant country in terms of number of papers and citation count whereas University of Sheffield topped with 128 publications. The thematic map consists of eleven clusters and ‘information retrieval’ found to be the largest cluster comprehending 56 subthemes occurring 995 times. Co-citation network identified four clusters with revealing Wilson TD as the most cited authors. The study also indicates the most collaborative authors are from the United Kingdom. Research limitations/implications The study exclusively deals with 1732 published research literature indexed in the Scopus database covering a span of fifty years (from 1970 to 2019). Thus, documents which are not covered in Scopus are excluded from the purview of research. This study is significant in order to measure the impact of Journal of Documentation and useful to identify valuable research patterns from publications and of developments in the field of Information Science

Experimental and Numerical Investigations of Deep Drawability of AA1200

The ability of a sheet metal to be formed in a given process without failure is known as formability. Formability is a measure of the amount of deformation a material can withstand prior to fracture or excessive thinning. Forming Limit Diagram (FLD) is a graphical representation of limit strains at which necking/fracture occurs in a sheet metal under all possible modes of deformation. Anisotropy is the variation in properties with respect to directions, due to variations in microstructures introduced in forming operations such as rolling. The values of strength (YS and UTS) and ductility (% elongation) show a large variation in mechanical properties because of the differences in as rolled specimens, annealed specimens, and different thickness of the Al sheets. From the LDH test the limiting strain values and the formability of sheet metal were found to increases with increasing sheet thickness

Camlens – an Innovative Android Phone Application to Empower the Blind and Visually Impaired in Reading any Kind of Printed Text in Real-Time using Opencv, Optical Character Recognition and Text-To-Speech

CamLens is an innovative mobile phone application with the vision to empower the blind and visually impaired people in reading any kind of printed text. CamLens intelligently scans the frame inside the camera view to automatically select the exact edges of the document containing the text in real-time; crop the file from the four selected edges and alternate the perspective transformation of the cropped photographto obtain an image containing the scanned document. The application then applies Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and (TTS) conversion to extract the text from the image and to convert the extracted text into audio output respectively which may be listened by the blind and visually impaired person the usage of earphones.The genesis of the research comes from the fact that the three edges of a page of the book are easier to find with lesser possibilities of finding the fourth edge precisely which, in turn, hampers the cropping accuracy as well as the OCR and TTS output

So1ar Powered Unmanned Surface Vehic1e for Survei11ance

The unmanned surface vehic1e is more popu1ar because of its 1ow cost, f1exibi1ity and a1so it he1ps to reduce the danger to human beings. In this artic1e we describe measurement of environmenta1 monitoring app1ications using integrated sensors and a1so water ph. 1eve1, enemy monitoring using wire1ess camera. So1ar pane1 is used power the mode1. It can f1oat on the water and can a1so run on the surface of earth using servo motor. Using ESP8266 node MCU can send the data to c1oud

Municipal Solid Waste Management in India- Revisited

Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) is a socioeconomic activity that entails with solid waste generation. Management of municipal solid waste is a national problem and is faced in all the cities of India. Urbanization contributes enhanced municipal solid waste (MSW) generation and unscientific handling and final disposal of MSW degrades the urban environment and causes health hazards. Various collection systems engaged by the municipalities collect less than half of the total waste generated. As a result, wastes are either scattered in urban centres or disposed of in an unplanned manner in low lying areas or open dumps, or fired by the residents in their backyards. Insufficient collection and inadequate have made the situation exasperating due to which various environmental and health related issues are increasing. Keeping in mind of the present situation, the current paper reviews about municipal solid waste management system in the country and initiative to be taken by education institutions.