Vehicle-2-Vehicle Communication Based on Wireless Sensor Network

Truck Platooning is a car innovation that permits gathering various trucks into a single element where one truck intently takes after the other that outcomes in an expanded street limit. This kind of detachment allows to a significant degree tight separations and synchronous driving between the vehicles.  Our point is to plan and exhibit a self-ruling truck platooning framework given vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) correspondence innovation. The structure utilises IEEE 802.15.4 remote convention joined with separation going sensors to enable vehicles inside the company to safely trade data progressively and naturally break and quicken in light of the lead truck. The rapid of remote correspondence permits to a significant degree tight separations and synchronous driving between the platooning vehicles

Statistics and Probability of Detection in Wind Turbine Radar Clutter

A wind develops inside the perceptible pathway of a radar not simply makes undesirable radar returns as false targets furthermore truly impacts the radar's ability to distinguish centres of excitement for the area of the farm. In this work, accurate RCS models of wind turbines are delivered in perspective of honest to goodness wind turbine mess estimations, and acknowledgement probabilities of Swerling-1 centres and moreover undesirable wind turbines are registered. Results appear differently about those gained by expecting that wind turbine chaos is Rayleigh (or exponentially) circled

Water Pollution and Human Health - Transdisciplinary Research on Risk Governance in a Complex Society

Increasing population, geological factors, rapid urbanisation, agricultural developments, global markets, industrial development and poor wastewater regulation have affected the quantity and the quality of water. These activities have not only exhausted existing water resources, but also have triggered contamination of water by naturally occurring toxic minerals (fluoride, nitrate and arsenic), and have caused chemical pollution affecting human health and the environment. Water pollution is intricately linked with a number of sub-systems of urbanisation, agricultural activity, food security, and human health, making it a complex system responding to stimuli in various sub-systems. Complexity, non-linearity and interactions across multiple scales are compounded by the interplay of social, political and technological processes. ZEF's research programme on 'water and health' aims to examine the complex ways in which local and global forces influence water pollution and human health through a comprehensive and integrated perspective. 'Comprehensive' and 'integrated' approaches represent a sequential combination, in which comprehensive assessment helps to understand the openness of the system and the diversity of actors and components that interact within the system, while an integrative perspective helps in understanding how the interaction of the key components exhibits self-organisation capacity, making the system a complex adaptive system. This approach helps to consciously design rules, and at the same time, build capacity of human entities to design rules, to manage risk posed by water pollutants. This is vital for prevention of diseases, for human well-being, and, more importantly, for alleviation of poverty. The presented research framework identifies four phases of risk governance. The first two phases - risk assessment and risk impact, generate and collect information on risk, while the latter two phases - risk strategies and risk adaptation, offer insights on the decision-making strategies to risk mitigation. The risk governance framework proposes transdisciplinary research on human health by engaging with non-academic stakeholders in the research design and dissemination of the research findings. The research seeks to make substantial and innovative contributions in the field of global change and human health research

The environment and human health: An agenda for research

The Working Paper Environment and Human Health gives a comprehensive review of the related literature in order to aid understanding of the (missing) link between the environment and health. Given the exhaustive literature on the subject the paper focuses on the water]related and land]related diseases namely in the fast growing and poor countries. By assessing the terrain of research on the subject, the paper aims to look beyond the causal linkage between environment and health and instead emphasis the underlying question about how environmental factors, along with man]made changes, influence human health. Specifically, the review examines the ability of the literature to define the incidence of environmentally]related diseases as well as their distribution across social and geographical scales, understands the role of diverse factors influencing these diseases and the adaptive capacity of societies in managing these illnesses or disorders. The paper draws on a wide range of sources from a variety of disciplines to unpack the linkage between the environment and health, and identifies issues, themes and questions raised by the literature. The review reveals limited understanding of the complex relationship between the environment and health. Although these researches provide grounds for a curative approach and in recent years have called for a preventive approach, they still retain a esimplistic high school modelf of examining the linear cause]effect relationship. This nevertheless fails to take on the growing risks posed by climate change and globalisation, as well as the dynamics of pathogens (and vectors) and of society affecting human health. These risks characterise complexity, uncertainty, conflicts and change. Given this characterisation of risks, the review calls for a modern approach to foresee and control the future consequences of human actions in order to live and adapt to the risks. This requires a comprehensive understanding of risk (from water pollutants) by identifying the pathways of risk assessment, understanding the impacts of pollutants and identifying a diverse set of strategies adopted by the individuals, organisations and agencies involved in bringing change to existing institutions and bio]physical resources

Seborrhoeic keratosis with autosomal dominant inheritance - a rare case report

Seborrhoeic keratosis is a benign tumour composed of epidermal keratinocytes, displaying varying morphological features, frequently pigmented and more common in the elderly. Various clinical and histopathological variants have been described. A genetically determined predisposition to Seborrhoeic keratosis is largely accepted. We report a case of multiple Seborrhoeic keratoses of childhood onset and transmitted for three generations in her family members as an autosomal dominant trait

Deducing temporal correlation between nearshore wave process and surficial heavy mineral placer deposits: A case study along the central Tamil Nadu coast, India

126-136In the present study monthly observation (January 2011 to January 2012) of wave measurements and sediment samples are considered for multivariate statistical analysis. The CCA plots revealed that heavy mineral concentration in the tidal region proportional to the breaker wave height, longshore current velocity and surf zone width, while concentration in berm region proportional to the wave period. The distant projection of backshore samples revealed that heavy mineral distribution controlled by the aeolian process. Moreover, results of 3D scatter plot between sediment characteristics and heavy mineral deposits confirm this correlation on a temporal scale. The overall result implies that the monsoonal wave process does not affect the heavy mineral distribution, but influencing the quantity of deposits

Reaction of Hydrazine Hydrate with Oxalic Acid: Synthesis and Crystal Structure of Dihydrazinium Oxalate

The reaction of oxalic acid with hydrazine hydrate (in appropriate mole ratio) forms the dihydrazinium oxalate under specific experimental condition. The title compound is a molecular salt containing two discrete hydrazinium cations and an oxalate anion. The oxalate anion is perfectly planar and there is a crystallographic centre of symmetry in the middle of the C-C bond. The C-O bond distances are almost equal indicating the presence of resonance in the oxalate ion. The crystal packing is stabilized by intermolecular N-H…Oand  N-H…Nhydrogen bonds. The oxalate ions are linked together end to end through hydrogen bonds (via N2H5+ ions) and run parallel to the [101] direction. It is interesting to note that each oxalate group in the structure is surrounded by six hydrazinium ions through hydrogen bonding. Similarly, each hydrazinium ion is surrounded by three oxalate and one hydrazinium ion.KEY WORDS: Hydrazine, oxalic acid, dihydrazinium oxalate, crystal structure

4-(4-Chloro­phen­yl)-5-[1-(4-chloro­phenyl)-2-methyl-2-nitro­prop­yl]-1,2,3-selenadiazole

In the title compound, C18H15Cl2N3O2Se, the selenadiazole ring makes dihedral angles of 49.87 (3) and 55.70 (3)° with the two benzene rings. The dihedral angle between the two benzene rings is 11.90 (5)°. In the crystal structure, intra­molecular C—H⋯O and C—H⋯Se inter­actions and inter­molecular C—H⋯O, C—H⋯Cl and C—H⋯N inter­actions are observed

Solid waste management in Rameswaram Island - “Green Ramesawaram project”

Hand in Hand Inclusive Development and Services (HHIDS), is a non-profit company registered under Section-25 of the Indian Companies Act, 1956 with its office at Kancheepuram, Tamil Nadu, India. HHIDS works in the field of Solid Waste Management. This involves educating the people in waste management principles, conducting awareness programs and on field implementation of waste management. The project also ensures that the practices are implemented in a sustainable manner through community participation. The long-term objective is thus to reduce the environmental degradation caused by the unscientific handling of solid waste. The project aims at ensuring environmental, social and financial sustainability in a period of three years and advocating the 3 R concepts (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle), to achieve that the people are educated on the importance of segregating garbage at source and avoiding usage of disposable plastics. At present, Hand in Hand’s solid waste management project is implemented with community participation at 22 locations, in 8 districts, in the State of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, and Union Territory of Puducherry; covering 156,878 families with a total population of 6, 27,512

Accelerated Short-Term Techniques to Evaluate Corrosion in TiC Reinforced AA6063 Composites

AA6063-TiC composites have several weight percentages up to 9 wt. % were fabricated by using stir casting route method. The effects of the weight percentage of TiC particles on the microstructures and corrosion behavior of AA6063-TiC composites were studied. The results revealed that the AA6063-TiC composites exhibited higher density than the AA6063 matrix. The accelerated corrosion tests of AA6063-TiC composites in 3.5 wt. % NaCl aqueous solution at room temperature, the AA6063-TiC composites have better corrosion resistance than the AA6063 matrix. Increasing the weight percentage of the TiC particles to reduces the corrosion rate of the AA6063-TiC composites. In this process corrosion rate of 0.4402 mm/year for AA6063 matrix, 0.3891 mm/year for 3 wt. % , 0.3568 mm/year for 6 wt. % and 0.3062 mm/year for 9 wt. % of TiC particles respectively. The poor corrosion resistance of the composites can be attributed to the galvanic effects between the AA6063 matrix and TiC reinforcement