Participative Management in Post Liberalisation- A case study of Indian Jute industry

The concept of employee participation in organization’s decision making is not new. However, the idea couldn’t gain that much popularity among organizations. Studies have shown that only 3-5 percent of organizations have actually implemented this concept in their daily operations. Jute Industry is one of the oldest and high labour intensive industries particularly unskilled and semiskilled. This industry lost huge number of manly hours and productivity due to poor industrial relations. Various studies revealed that the industrial relations are improved in post liberalization in India. So, the researcher studied the importance and application of participative management in post liberalization in this industry. The researcher collected the opinions from the sample respondents through a questionnaire and analyzed with five point Likert scale and weighted average. It reveals in post liberalization employers recognized the importance of participative management which improve the operational efficiency of the employees and maintain cordial industrial relations. Keywords: Participative Management, industrial relations, liberalization, jute industry, operational efficiency, productivity, employee involvement, job enrichment

Effect of Radiation Absorption, Chemical Reaction and Non-Uniform Heat Source, MHD on Mixed Convective Heat and Mass Transfer Flow Past a Stretching Sheet

The objective of the present work is to investigate the combined influence of radiation absorption, chemical reaction and MHD on mixed convective heat and mass transfer flow of a viscous electrically conducting fluid past a stretching sheet in the presence of non-uniform heat source and Hall effects. The equations governing the flow of heat and mass transfer have been solved numerically employing Runge-Kutta fourth order technique together with the shooting technique. The velocity, temperature and concentration have been analyzed. The rate of heat and mass transfer on the plate has been evaluated numerically for different variations. Keywords: Hall Currents; Heat & Mass Transfer; Radiation absorption; Non-Uniform Heat Source; Soret and Dufour effects; Stretching sheet; Chemical reaction

FABRICATION OF SODIUM ALGINATE/GUM GHATTI IPN MICROBEADS INTERCALATED WITH KAOLIN NANO CLAY FOR CONTROLLED RELEASE OF CURCUMIN

Objective: The objective of this study is to fabricate sodium alginate (SA)/gum ghatti (GG) microbeads intercalated with Kaolin (KA) nano clay for the sustained release of curcumin (CUR). Methods: The microbeads were prepared by a simple ionotropic gelation technique. The developed beads were characterized by fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), X-ray diffraction (X-RD), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Swelling studies and in vitro release studies were investigated under both pH 7.4 and pH 1.2 at 37 °C. Results: The developed microbeads were characterized by FTIR, which confirms the interaction between CUR, polymeric matrix and KA. DSC and XRD analysis reveals that the CUR has molecularly dispersed in the polymer matrix. In vitro results illustrated that microbeads were influenced by the pH of test media, which might be suitable for intestinal drug delivery. The drug release mechanism was analyzed by fitting the release data into different kinetic equations and n values are obtained in the range of 0.609-0.640, suggesting that the developed microbeads showed the non-Fickian diffusion type drug release. Conclusion: These results clearly illustrated that the developed KA intercalated polymeric microbeads are potential drug carriers for the controlled release of CUR

Climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies for sustainable crop production

Climate change is the main environmental problem facing humanity. Evidences over the past few decades show that significant changes in climate are taking place all over the world as a result of enhanced human activities through deforestation emission of various greenhouse gases and indiscriminate use of fossil fuels. Carbon dioxide (CO2) Methane and Nitrous Oxide are the major greenhouse gases. CO2 enters the atmosphere mostly through burning fossil fuels. Methane emissions also result from livestock and other agricultural practices and Nitrous Oxide is emitted during agricultural and industrial activities. Global atmospheric concentration of CO2 has increased from pre-industrial level of 280 parts per million (ppm) to 408 ppm in Feb 2018. Global projections indicate higher temperature of 1.5 to 4.5°C by the year 2050 as a result of enhanced greenhouse gases. There is medium confidence in that the Indian summer monsoon circulation weakens but this is compensated by increased atmospheric moisture content leading to more rainfall. There is medium confidence in an increase of Indian summer monsoon rainfall and its extremes throughout the 21st century under all RCP (Representative Concentration Pathways) scenarios

Frame Difference And Kalman Filter Techniques For Detection Of Moving Vehicles

Abstract Background subtraction is a method to identify object and famous used in moving object detection. The aim is to obtain a clean background and then detect moving objects by comparing it with the current frame. In this paper, kalman filter method and Frame difference has used to detect the objects. The kalman filter has better accuracy than the Frame difference method. Experimental results show that the kalman filter is a good solution to obtain high accuracy, low resource requirements in given video of each technique. The detection of object will be shown in the result

Simple synthetic protocols for tertiary alkyl and allyl thiols

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IMPLEMENTING INCURRENCE OF SOPHISTICATED ATTACKS STRATEGY

Particularly, the greater excellent delay is, the higher the cost to acquire incurred. Therefore, a particular attention ought to be paid for stealthy DoS attacks. They goal at minimizing their visibility, and concurrently, they may be as harmful since the brute-pressure attacks. The success within the cloud computing paradigm is a result of its on-demand, self-service, and pay-by-use nature. According to this paradigm, the outcome of Denial and services information (DoS) attacks involve not only the conventional within the shipped service, nonetheless the service maintenance costs with regards to resource consumption. They are sophisticated attacks tailored to leverage the worst-situation performance inside the target system through specific periodic, pulsing, and periodic-rate traffic designs. In this paper, we advise a process for orchestrate stealthy attack designs, which exhibit a progressively-growing-intensity trend designed to really make the utmost financial cost for your cloud customer, while enhancing the job size combined with the service arrival rate enforced while using recognition systems. We describe both simplest approach to make use of the recommended strategy, that's effects over the target system deployed inside the cloud. Therefore, several works have recommended strategies to acknowledge low-rate Websites attacks, which monitor anomalies inside the fluctuation inside the incoming traffic through either a while or frequency-domain analysis

Binge eating and sitting behavior as a risk cluster in obesity among software employees

Introduction: Binge eating disorder (BED) was underdiagnosed, underestimated eating disorder known to be responsible for obesity in both children and adults. Sedentary behavior estimated by measuring the sitting time was one of the major contributing factors in the development of metabolic syndrome in adults. People working in Information Technology (IT) sector possess both of these determinants in a significant capacity and thereby might be at risk for obesity, which in turn can be responsible for various cardio-metabolic events in their life. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 513 working adults belonging to the IT sector, using a face-to-face interview with a pre-tested questionnaire along with anthropometric measurements to measure BMI for obesity. Binge-eating disorder screener-7 for adults was adopted to assess the disorder, and the Marshall Sitting Questionnaire was used to evaluate their sitting behavior. Results: The study found that the prevalence of BED (23%) was higher in unmarried individuals, and moderate BED is significantly associated with higher BMI among them. Conversely, sitting time (Mean=8.83 hours/day) was seen mostly in married adults, and is also associated with higher BMI. As a risk cluster, both BED and sitting time combined had higher odds of resulting in Obesity than existing separately. Conclusion: Several lifestyle factors such as binge-watching TV, late working hours, higher salaries, etc., have contributed to developing Binge eating disorder and higher sitting time, which pose a significant risk for metabolic disorders like obesity

Basic studies leading to the development of an ultrahigh strength, high fracture toughness low-alloy steel

Ultrahigh strength steels have been used increasingly in recent years for critical aircraft and aerospace structural applications. In such applications, though materials performance is of prime consideration, cost and availability makes the low-alloy steels an attractive option. This paper describes the development of an ultrahigh strength NiSiCrCoMo low-alloy steel, supported by significant findings obtained from the basic studies that were aimed at understanding how solute additions influence fracture resistance of iron, with and without the presence of carbon. The results of the basic studies, in combination with the work of Garrison (1986) on a NiSiCr steel, have profitably been employed in the development of a NiSiCrCoMo low-alloy steel possessing a strength-toughness combination quite comparable to the highly alloyed 250-grade maraging steel. Reproducibility of attractive strength and toughness properties has been established in tonnage scale melts. This steel, in the softened condition, has good formability and machinability. Weld parameters have also been established. The NiSiCrCoMo low-alloy steel thus meets the requirements of performance and cost rendering it an attractive option for advanced structural applications