Choices to Decrease Cooling Tower Water Wastage in Fertilizer Plants (Lagging KPIs)

Water recognizes our planet gap with all the others we think about. There are numerous districts where our freshwater assets are lacking to meet natural needs and thus we all associated with inquire about discover approaches to evacuate these imperatives. We face various difficulties in doing that, particularly since 1965, the paper Water reserve Exploration has assumed a significant profession in revealing and scattering existing study. This paper recognizes the issues confronting water today and future research expected to more readily advise the individuals who endeavor to make a progressively manageable and attractive future. In fertilizer lagging key performance indicators at cooling tower water wastages addressed by experimentally to overcome the evaporation, blow-down and make-up water losses from maximum (576 ) to minimum 288 level to promote environment sustainability

Performance Evaluation of LoRaWAN for Green Internet of Things

LoRa is a long-range, low power and single-hop wireless technology that has been envisioned for Internet of Things (IoT) applications having battery driven nodes. Nevertheless, increase in number of end devices and varying throughput requirements impair the performance of pure Aloha in LoRaWAN. Considering these limitations, we evaluate the performance of slotted Aloha in LoRaWAN using extensive simulations. We employed packet error rate (PER), throughput, delay, and energy consumption of devices under different payload sizes and varying number of end devices as benchmarks. Moreover, an analytical analysis of backlogged and non-backlogged under slotted Aloha LoRaWAN environment is also performed. The simulation shows promising results in terms of PER and throughput compared to the pure Aloha. However, increase in delay has been observed during experimental evaluation.Finally, we endorse slotted aloha LoRaWAN for Green IoT Environment

Offline printed Sindhi optical text recognition: survey

Optical Charter Recognition (OCR) applications are becoming more intensive than before and show great prospective for rapid data entry, but has limited success when applied to the Sindhi language. This paper summarize the general topic of optical character recognition and highlights the characteristics of Sindhi script. It also presents an historical review of the Sindhi text recognition systems. More this paper underlines the capabilities of different OCT=R systems, and then introduce a five stage model for off-line printed Sindhi text recognition system and classify research work according to this mode

McDonalds Pakistan: Food and Fun Together

McDonalds is a leading fast food chain that revolutionized the food industry in the world. In 1980s, many companies expanded into international operations through franchise mode of business. Though these companies wanted to stick to their original knitting, they had to attune themselves to regional preferences. McDonalds’ operations in Pakistan are no different to this theory, but they negated the traditional marketing philosophy of “rule of cumulative attraction “by locating their outlets where their customer segment is in dense concentration.McDonalds defied the “rule of cumulative attraction” and “affluent segment being the trend-setters” by initially locating their outlets in Gulberg, Lahore and Nazimabad, Karachi instead of “Boating basin” where most restaurants were located. Middle class and working classes in Pakistan mostly live in Gulburge and Nazimabad. Fast-food industry thrives on footfall of customers and high volume sales at low prices instead of premium pricing trategies. The very spirit of McDonalds would have been distorted if the general perception amongst the target market had been that “McDonalds is for the rich”. In 1998, Boating basin a seaside locality near Clifton, Karachi had turned into a food street and all eating outlets opened withinthis vicinity being more averse risk project, Pizza Hut launched its outlet in Boating basin, Karachi in 1993.Though McDonalds is popular, yet there are many challenges before them. In spite of their popularity, the different chains are not able to bring much change in their product range and service conditions. Environmental changes like healthier food preferences, depressive income levels and variety seeking cuisine requirements dictate that innovative and nutritional value added products should replace the traditional products.Keywords: McDonalds Pakistan, Lakson Group of Company, Mission, Fast food Restaurant, Franchise, Burger market

Surgical Outcome of Anterior Cervical Decompression and Fusion in Patients with Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy and Radiculopathy in Terms of Improvement of Pain

Objective: Cervical spondylosis is a common degenerative condition leading to compression of nerve roots or spinal cord, causing radiculopathy or myelopathy. Anterior cervical decompression and fusion (ACDF) techniques are commonly recognized procedures in treating axial cervical spine pain and upper extremity radicular discomfort. The study analyzed the surgical outcome of anterior cervical decompression and fusion (ACDF) in cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) and radiculopathy patients in terms of pain improvement. Material and Methods: This descriptive case series analysis was performed at the Neuro Surgery department, Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar. A total of 146 patients between age 18 – 65 years meeting the inclusion criteria underwent anterior decompression &post-procedure improvement in pain of neck and arm/shoulder was determined using patient reported outcome (PRO) measure, namely visual analog scale (VAS) of 0-10 and a final outcome that is an improvement of pain, i.e., Mild to no pain (VAS score ≤3) was considered after 12 months. Results: The mean age was 52 years ± 8.273. As regards gender distribution, 78% of patients were male, while 22% were female. The mean baseline VAS score was 6.5 ± 2.37, mean postoperative VAS score was 3.5 ± 1.161 with a mean point improvement in pain of 3.0 points (p-value < 0.05). 80% of patients had shown improvement in reducing pain, while 20% did not have shown any improvement. Conclusion: This study revealed that independent of symptoms duration and presentation, patients reported dramatic improvements in neck and arm pain after ACDF

Genetic Analysis of Triple Pistil Wheat Derived F2 Populations to Enhance Genetic Yield Potential

Triple pistil (TP) wheat is a novel genetic resource which holds the ability to produce three grains in a single floret. In this research, TP wheat derived two F2 populations were studied to investigate genetic variability, heritability, genetic advance, genetic correlation, inheritance pattern and potential of TP trait for grain yield improvement. Phenological data were recorded for 12 morpho-agronomic traits. Most of the traits exhibited significant genetic variability (P ? 0.05) for further trait improvement. Strong positive genetic correlations (r ? 0.99 at P ? 0.01) were computed within yield contributing and yield limiting traits, indicating common genes controlling these traits and opportunity for simultaneous improvement. Inheritance analysis indicated double dominant (15:1) and double recessive (9:7) epistatic ratios in investigated populations, proposing that TP trait was controlled by two nuclear epistatic genes. In conclusion, TP wheat is a valuable germplasm resource for grain yield improvement and floral development studies

Social commerce in e-business of Pakistan: opportunities, challenges and solutions

social media make ultimate building blocks in the development of novel approaches in e-business of Pakistan with the conjuncture of Web 2.0 social media has a variety of application domain including social commerce. S-commerce is redesigning modern e-business with promising economic technological and social outcrop. Customers keep their expectations higher always, so precisely all business are trying to exceed the customers' expectations with pre and post-sale interaction on social networking sites like face book or Twitter accounts. Customers can interact, look and compare company products, reviews and feedback in their social circle friends of friends of friends. This paper proposes a survey about prospects of social commerce in e-business of Pakistan. In addition, this paper would proposes research framework for foster future e-business opportunities, challenges and provide a solution to build up buyers trust as well as to enhance the interactive online buying process in local e-business of Pakistan using social media

Antioxidant, antimicrobial and antiproliferative activities of peel and pulp extracts of red and white varieties of Ipomoea batatas (L) Lam

Purpose: To investigate the antioxidant, antibacterial and anticancer potentials of methanol and ethanol extracts of the peel and pulp of red and white species of Ipomoea batatas (L.) fruit.Methods: Total phenolic contents and flavonoids were determined using chemical assays. Antioxidant studies were carried out using 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) free radical scavenging assay, inhibition of linoleic acid peroxidation assay and reducing power assay. Antibacterial and antiproliferative activities of extracts were determined using disc diffusion and MDBK cancer cell line inhibition methods, respectively.Results: The extract of peels of red specie (PERS) showed total phenolic contents (TPC) 8.9 mg gallic acid equivalent (GAE)/g dry extract and flavonoids 6.5 mg catechin equivalent (CE)/g dry extract. The extract of PERS also showed promising DPPH free radical scavenging activity, inhibition of linoleic acid peroxidation and reducing power activity. However, mild antibacterial and anti-proliferative activities were noted except that the extract showed significant inhibition of Bacillus subtilis growth.Conclusion: The results indicate that the peel and the pulp of red sweet potato (SP) specie are rich in antioxidants and can potentually be processed as antioxidant food supplements.Keywords: Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam, Sweet potato, Phenolic content, Antioxidants, Antibacterial activity, Antiproliferative activit

An Internet of Things Based Bed-Egress Alerting Paradigm Using Wearable Sensors in Elderly Care Environment

The lack of healthcare staff and increasing proportions of elderly population is alarming. The traditional means to look after elderly has resulted in 255,000 reported falls (only within UK). This not only resulted in extensive aftercare needs and surgeries (summing up to £4.4 billion) but also in added suffering and increased mortality. In such circumstances, the technology can greatly assist by offering automated solutions for the problem at hand. The proposed work offers an Internet of things (IoT) based patient bed-exit monitoring system in clinical settings, capable of generating a timely response to alert the healthcare workers and elderly by analyzing the wireless data streams, acquired through wearable sensors. This work analyzes two different datasets obtained from divergent families of sensing technologies, i.e., smartphone-based accelerometer and radio frequency identification (RFID) based accelerometer. The findings of the proposed system show good efficacy in monitoring the bed-exit and discriminate other ambulating activities. Furthermore, the proposed work manages to keep the average end-to-end system delay (i.e., communications of sensed data to Data Sink (DS)/Control Center (CC) + machine-based feature extraction and class identification + feedback communications to a relevant healthcare worker/elderly) below 1 10 th of a second