Cloud computing refers to manipulating, configuring and accessing the hardware and software resources remotely. It facilitates us to store data online. Without installing any software locally we can use this service. It is a service oriented architecture that reduces overhead for the end-user with a great flexibility. This paper discusses about efficient multi owner data sharing technique over cloud storage. The proposed scheme provides privacy and complexity while handling the data sharing over cloud.
Abstract Online: 20-December-2015

This paper propose the analysis and design of a high-performance high frequency-link (HFL) single-phase inverter for single phase Induction motor drives. It offers bidirectional two-stage galvanic isolation power conversion without bulky dc link capacitors. An active clamper circuit and corresponding modulation strategy can be developed to enable this HFL converter to operate in soft-switching modes and be free of voltage spikes during device commutation. Power efficiency can be improved by reducing switching power losses. A high performance control schemes can also developed to enable it to equally function as a high-performance conventional pulse width modulation (PWM) inverter. This HFL inverter provides a high-reliability, high-efficiency, high-power-density, and high-performance power conversion solution.
Abstract Online: 20-December-2015

Public transportation provides people with mobility and access to employment, community resources, medical care, and recreational opportunities in communities across city. Generally, journey in a bus is a safe and comfort factor, but due to increase in number of buses and passengers its going be tougher now a days and it will be more difficult for blind people to travel in bus at the bus stop as they cannot able to see which is coming on the bus stop. Passenger in bus stop who is waiting for bus have to look at the bus in order to know which bus is coming. This could be a problem to blind people to know which bus is coming since they cannot see due to their flaw. They normally does not know which bus is stopping at bus stop. This report proposed a systems that can help blind people to know which bus is stopping at bus stop using long range Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system. This system also will develop a General User Interface (GUI) which could provide information to passenger. A RFID tag which stored identification is installed at each bus which can read by a reader located at a bus stop. This system then will announce the bus destination to alert the blind people by using developed system GUI. The selected hardware for this system is active RFID reader and passive RFID tag which operated at 902-928MHz. The software that being used are Visual Basic and Microsoft Access. This system have total seven interfaces developed which able to identify the coming bus and provide bus information to passenger. The RFID tag also been analysis to study the performance of the tag being scan in one meter and three meter distances. As the result the tag were good being detect at both one and three meters which provide excellent performance for the system.
Abstract Online: 20-December-2015

The balanced scorecard is a strategic planning and management system which is used extensively in business, industry, government and non government organizations to align business activities to the organizational vision and strategy. It tries to improve internal and external communication, and monitors organizational performance against its strategic goals. It was originated by Dr. Robert Kaplan and David Norton as a performance measurement framework and that is added strategic non-financial performance measures to traditional financial metrics to give management a more 'balanced' view on organizational performance in the early 1990s,and it includes the pioneering works of General Electric company on performance measurement reported in the 1950‟s and the French engineers processed this work (who created the Tableau de Bord – literally, a "dashboard" of performance measures) in the beginning of the 20th century.
Abstract Online: 20-December-2015

The goal of the present work is to study the effect of fabric structure and washing/drying on the seam quality of two woven cotton fabrics. The effects of weave type, seam direction and washing/drying on the seam quality were investigated and predicted using the analysis of variance technique ANOVA and multiple regression models. The seam quality and performance of the woven cotton fabrics was characterized by the seam strength, the seam efficiency, the seam slippage and the seam pucker. The results of this study showed that fabric structure and washing/drying have a profound influence on the seam quality of the cotton woven fabrics and accepted adjusted R² were obtained.
Abstract Online: 20-December-2015

This study aimed at exploring the impact of information systems on human resource management and its quality through using a mediator called Human Resource Information System. Organizational leaders overlooked the role of human resources it plays in the success of implementing new technologies to foster organizational success in the era of transformation. To achieve this objective a questionnaire was developed and distributed to a quota sample consist of 22 banks operating in Jordan. The return completed questionnaires were (20) at ratio of 90.9%. After Data analysis and hypothesis testing, the following results have been achieved:
1. The HRIS is operating with a medium level at all 22 banks operating in banking industry of Jordan.
2. There are obstructs hampering HRIS to performed well in banking industry of Jordan.
3. There is a significant evidence of statistical correlation (at α =0.05 and 0.01) between HRIS components and Effectiveness of the banks implemented HRIS software.
4. There a significant impact of bank size, number of branches, and date of bank Issuance on Effectiveness of HRIS implemented in banking industry of Jordan.
Researcher suggested some points to be placed in order to get the full benefits of HRIS used; a transformational leadership must be well capable and skillful to manage the deficits of HRIS. Environmental factors must be considered well to eliminate obstructs of HRIS implementations. Finally, more conducted studies on HRIS correlated with decision making processes are highly recommended.
Abstract Online: 20-December-2015

Payments of dividend to shareholders in the manufacturing sector has not been encouraging. The sector has not been consistent in dividend payment over the years. This study examines the determinants of dividend payout and its impact on the financial performance of Quoted Manufacturing Firms in Nigeria with particular reference to earnings per share, profitability (ROE), liquidity, leverage, corporate tax and sales growth. Fourteen quoted manufacturing firms are selected each to represent a group of the entire population as classified by the Nigerian Stock Exchange. The regression model is used to explore the relationship between the variables of the study for the period of ten years (i.e. 2002-2011). The findings of the study show that, earnings per share, profitability (ROE), liquidity and sales growth are positively related Dividend payout, while financial leverage and corporate tax are negatively related. This implies that, while dividend payout increases as earnings per share, profitability (ROE), liquidity and sales growth increase, it decreases with increase in financial leverage and corporate tax. The study also finds out insignificant relationship between dividend payments and financial performance indicators (profitability and liquidity). Thus, concludes that earnings per share, profitability (ROE), liquidity and sales growth have linear relationship while that of financial leverage and corporate tax is inverse. This implies that, the higher the ratio of earnings per share, profitability (ROE), liquidity and sales growth the higher the dividend payout and the higher the ratio of financial leverage and corporate tax the lower the dividend payout. The study also concludes that dividend payment is irrelevant. On this note recommends that, earnings per share, profitability (ROE), liquidity and sales growth should be strengthened to maintain stable dividend payment that will encourage prospective investors and retained earnings should be seen a panacea to increase performance of the firms among others.
Abstract Online: 20-December-2015

Objective image quality assessment (IQA) aims to evaluate image quality consistently with human perception. Most of the existing perceptual IQA metrics cannot accurately represent the degradations from different types of distortion, e.g., existing structural similarity metrics perform well on content-dependent distortions while not as well as peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) on content-independent distortions. In this paper, we integrate the merits of the existing IQA metrics with the guide of the recently revealed internal generative mechanism (IGM). The IGM indicates that the human visual system actively predicts sensory information and tries to avoid residual uncertainty for image perception and understanding. Inspired by the IGM theory, we adopt an autoregressive prediction algorithm to decompose an input scene into two portions, the predicted portion with the predicted visual content and the disorderly portion with the residual content. Distortions on the predicted portion degrade the primary visual information, and structural similarity procedures are employed to measure its degradation; distortions on the disorderly portion mainly change the uncertain information and the PNSR is employed for it. Finally, according to the noise energy deployment on the two portions, we combine the two evaluation results to acquire the overall quality score. Experimental results on six publicly available databases demonstrate that the proposed metric is comparable with the state-of-the-art quality metrics.
Abstract Online: 20-December-2015

Dielectric relaxation measurement of Allyl Chloride with Methanol mixture for different concentration over the frequency range of 10 MHz to 20 GHz have been carried out using picoseconds time Domain Reflectomerty. Static permittivity (0) and relaxation time () were found through dielectric measurements. The Bruggeman factor was determined and discussed to yield information on the molecular interaction and change in volume.
Abstract Online: 30-December-2015

Solid wastes are non-liquid and non-gaseous products of human activities, regarded as being useless and which are disposed of or are intended to be disposed of or are required to be disposed of. Its management which involves control, storage, transfer, collection, transport, processing, recycling,recovering or disposal, and monitoring of waste materials is generally undertaken to reduce their effect on health, the environment or aesthetics. The concurrent effects of a fast national growth rate, rapid urbanization and a pressing demand for urban environmental protection create a challenging framework for waste management in Nigeria andthe complexity of context and procedures is indeed a primary concern of local municipal authorities due to problems related to the management of it. However, Improper handling of solid waste and indiscriminate disposal in open spaces, road margins, and tank bedsgive rise to numerous potential risks to the environment and to human health. Inaddition, infrequent collection of waste provides an attractive breeding ground for flies and rats and the most obvious environmental damage caused by solid waste is aesthetic, i.e. waste that litter public areas is ugly and smelly. Hence, this has made us to realize that the environmental policies related to the collection, storage and disposal of solid wastes in the local government area are not effectively enforced and had contributed immensely to the degradation of the environment.It was discovered that yearly increase in population and socio-economic activities have been influencing the generation of solid waste of the area. Lastly, studied shown that Ido Local Government Area of Oyo State were not being visited on a regular basis for collection which has being contributing to overflow of refuse at their dumping station resulting to social economic impact of the area.
Abstract Online: 30-December-2015

As web is a vast collection of completely uncontrolled heterogeneous documents. Due to these characteristic, the web poses a fertile area of data mining research with the huge amount of information available online. This paper consists of brief description about existing methods for Web mining techniques. First section of the paper, consists of the concept of web mining & their categories. Secondly, it covers web mining techniques useful in search engines (like AltaVista , google) which has become inevitable part of our day to life. Lastly, a brief introduction about a Japanese search Engine-"Mondou (RCAAU)", based on the emerging technologies of data mining have been discussed.
Abstract Online: 30-December-2015

Environmental degradation and climate change is one of the most pressing issues at present. Thus, sustainable development and preservation of environment are now a day‟s recognized important all across the world. Banking sector being an intermediary sector plays a major role in an economy. Although, banking is never considered a polluting industry, the present scale of banking operations has considerably increased the carbon footprint of banks due to their massive use of energy. Green Banking refers to the initiative by banks to encourage environment friendly investments, to give lending priority to those industries which have already turned green or are trying to grow green and thereby help to restore the natural environment. Considering its importance, RBI has given guidelines for greening banking in two levels: Greening Processes, Products, Services, and Strategies i.e. making day-to-day business operations, banking products and services greener by following simple practices and making them environmentally friendly and Greening Infrastructure i.e. making IT infrastructure (including data center) and physical infrastructure (including buildings) greener and taking initiatives so that a bank could itself generate electricity for its own consumption. Realizing the importance of green banking, various banks have taken strong initiatives to reduce their carbon footprints. In the end, the paper generates following recommendations for banks: paperless statements, online bill payment, online saving account etc. Green banking has strong future prospects with customers also valuing and giving preference to green banks.
Abstract Online: 30-December-2015

This study focuses on corporate profitability and cash liquidity as independent variables proxies by ROA and Current Ratio respectively while the dependent variables are Dividend payout and dividend yield proxies by DPS/EPS and DPS/MPPS respectively. Multiple regressions are used with the aid of Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) to analyze the relationship between corporate profitability and cash liquidity on one hand and dividend payout and dividend yield on the other hand. The finding of the study shows that, corporate profitability insignificantly positively influences dividend payout and dividend yield while cash liquidity insignificantly negatively influences dividend payout and dividend yield. This implies that dividend payout and dividend yield increases as profitability increases and decreases as liquidity increases. The study on this note recommends that determinants of profitability should be strengthened for profitability growth in order to maintain stable dividend payout to shareholders and cash liquidity should be maintained to meet prompt needs and retain earnings for further investments as a result, increase performance of the firms among others. This study utilizes a descriptive research design using a cross sectional time series data of ten years 2005-2014 to examine the effect of corporate profitability and cash liquidity on dividend payout and dividend yield. The population of the study is the Fifteen commercial banks quoted on the Nigerian stock exchange and the sampled commercial banks are Eco bank plc, FBN Holding plc, UBA Plc, Union Bank plc and Zenith Bank plc arbitrarily selected with the use of Yamane‟s sampling technique (n=N/3+N(e)2) at 5% margin of error.
Abstract Online: 30-December-2015

In this paper, theoretical stress concentration factor for rectangular finite and infinite plate with centered opening is investigated by use of finite element analysis. In the first part, the finite element (FE) model is validated by comparison analytical equations for finite and infinite isotropic plates, with various cutouts(circle, elliptical, square and triangular)with verified model, the stress concentration factor is calculated for isotropic rectangular plates with centered elliptical opening subject to uniform tension. The effect of major and minor radius for constant opening area with different d/w ratio is investigated. This study shows the stress concentration factor increases with increases of minor radius and little effect in increases in major radius of elliptical hole.
Abstract Online: 30-December-2015

With the advent of new materials with high performance to meet the current applications has increased the complexity in machining because of their high strength, hardness, toughness. Two widely accepted solutions are there to overcome this problem which is hard metals and surface coatings. In coatings physical vapour deposition technology and chemical vapour deposition technology had used on cutting tools to machine these types of materials. Even though there are some problems like rapid tool wear and/or abnormal tool failure occurred because of poor adhesion, high surface roughness value and sharp cutting edges of the cutting tools. To eliminate these difficulties, pre-treatment technique is one of the viable solution and also to enhance the tool life further. Micro-blasting on PVD films has been documented, among others, as an efficient method for inducingcompressive stresses, thus for increasing the coating hardness and potentially tool life of coated tools. Sincecontradictory results have been registered concerning the efficiency of wet micro-blasting on coated tools forimproving the wearbehavior, the paper aims at explaining how this process can be successfully applied forpost-treatment of PVD films. In this context, the employed conditions such as pressure and grain size affectsignificantly the wear resistance of the micro-blasted coated tools.
Abstract Online: 30-December-2015

The life time of any work piece depends up on its surface properties. Because it is in direct contact with atmosphere. In today‟s manufacturing industries quality is one of the significant factors, the only component to influence the customer to a level of satisfaction. In every industrial sector surface quality is detected by the surface roughness of the component. The demand for high quality aluminium alloys with good surface finish increasing day by day because of newer applications in various fields like aerospace, automobile, die and mould manufacturing and thus manufacturers are required to increase productivity by improving surface quality by avoiding stress concentrators on the surfaces. Some of the parameters which effect the work piece at the time of machining are namely cutting speed, depth of cut, feed and nose radius, cutting environment(dry or wet), etc. The experiment will be carried on three machining parameters, viz., speed, feed and depth of cut as independent variables and the surface roughness parameter as response variable
Abstract Online: 30-December-2015

Robot is a machine that collects the information about the milieu using some sensors and makes a decision robotically. People prefer it to use different field, such as industry, some dangerous jobs including radioactive effects. In this point, robots are regarded as a server. They can be managed easily and provides many advantages. Robot kinematics is the study of the motion (kinematics) of robots. In a kinematic analysis the position, velocity and acceleration of all the links are calculated without taking into consideration the forces that cause this motion. The correlation between motion, and the associated forces and torques is studied in robot dynamics. In this Paper, a robotic arm with 3 freedom degrees is designed and modeled using Solidworks. Kinematic analysis will be performed on the robotic arm manipulator to calculate position velocity and acceleration without considering the forces. Static analysis will also be performed to calculate the stresses by considering the forces.
Abstract Online: 30-December-2015

(MANETs), opportunistic data forwarding, proactive routing, routing overhead control, source routing, tree-based routing. For routing BFS and DFS used after comparing which is better then select for the routing.
Abstract Online: 30-December-2015

Present paper is fretful with the design and analysis of some of the input elements of a gearbox that is used for high speed operations. Since the pinions swivel at high speeds the complete gear system is subjected to noise and ambiance. The gear system is composed of one bull gear and two pinions. The helical gears are designed as per American Gear Manufacturing Association standard procedure. Conventional parallel axes helical gears with Involute profile teeth are insensitive to center distance assembly errors and possess line contact under design assembly condition. Involute helical gear is very sensitive to axial misalignments, causing discontinuous transmission error and edge contacts. To reduce this effect, the teeth of helical gears are thinned at the tip by an amount that is estimated to exceed the sum of deflections of a pair loaded teeth and a maximum sum of spacing error of adjacent teeth this is known as tip relief or profile crowning. It is eased off down the profile so that when the gears are running, the readjustment of relative position on engaging teeth is effected in a longer time than would be the case with unrelieved profiles therefore the impact on engagement is reduced. The contact analysis of helical gear tooth is done using finite element software, ANSYS.
Abstract Online: 30-December-2015

The basic purpose of damper is to reduce the vibration and to have a better comfort and safety. The characteristic of damping system has an important influence on its design and overall performance of the system. In this paper magnetic damping effect is considered for characterization. This effect is the most recently used due to their low price and high reliability. An experiment has been conducted to establish the behavior of magnetic damper. The damping materials are water, magnet and SAE 40 grade oil used for characterizing the vibration behavior. The amplitude Verses frequency response curves are plotted for above damping materials.
Abstract Online: 30-December-2015

Till now Engineers use vibration transducer FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) to measure the Unbalance, Misalignment etc. But these are costly equipment and skilled persons are required to diagnose the problem.For diagnosis of machine engineers need to go near by the machine and has to take the readings for analysis and instruments need to contact with the machines. Whereas, in the proposed techniquethe presence of unbalance can be measured by sitting in the control room. The condition monitoring can be converted in to a continuous monitoring.This paper inspects the unbalance at the overhang disk by analyzing the deflection curve. The unbalance in machines can cause decrease in efficiency and in the long-run it may cause failure because of unnecessary vibration, stress on motor, bearings and short-circuiting in stator and rotor windings. In this study, authors investigate the onset of deflection at different points on the shaft and overhang portion. From that deflection, the authors draw a curve through these deflection points and measure the how much amount of unbalance present at the disk. Verification of shaft alignment is done by precision laser alignment kit. Result shows that unbalance and misalignment is the parameter that is more responsible for the cause of instability.
Abstract Online: 30-December-2015

Most people think as long as they are saving, they need not worry about financial planning. It's true, savings are essential. Retirement occurs when the person permanently ends active employment. Retirement is a state of mind as well as a financial issue. Researchers consistently conclude that finances and health are the two most significant factors connected with retirement decision-making and a successful retirement experience. Retirement planning is one mechanism by which individuals prepare for the retirement changeover. Saving and Investing are the two powerful tools which will really put your money for you. Saving is what people usually do to meet short-term goals. A best financial planning ensures you have access to the right amount of money at the right time. Creating a financial plan helps you set long and short-term goals, a critical step in mapping out your financial future.
Abstract Online: 05-January-2016

The banking sector in Zimbabwe has introduced the use of ATM technology to enable customers to reduce their visits in banks, that they can carryout their transactions via ATM machines. Therefore this study examines the customers' attitudes, preferences, challenges and suggestions about the feasibility of using ATM machines as an alternative to visiting banking halls. The questionnaire approach was used to collect data from a convenience sample of 500 customers of the 12 banks in Chinhoyi District. Meanwhile, most of the customers cited a number of factors that influence their attitudes towards the use of ATM machines. These factors included; convenience, efficient operation, security and privacy, reliability and responsiveness. Regression results indicate that convenience, efficient operation, security and privacy, reliability and responsiveness are very important factors that influence customers' satisfaction .The research results reflect a positive and statistically strong relationship between ATM service usage and customer satisfaction. This association concurs with the findings of prior studies in ATM service quality context. This study therefore recommends that banks should reinvent the ATM by adding functionality to the machine, simplifying its use and educating the customers on the need to use ATM machines all the time.
Abstract Online: 05-January-2016

Now days not only motor bikes, the vehicles like cars, trucks are also theft by the criminals. The mechanical key based lock is the drawback in the present vehicle systems. If someone steals the vehicle's key he can easily start the engine of the vehicle. To protect our vehicles from being stolen, the present mechanical key based security system has to be replaced with face detection based lock system. This project focuses on the use of face recognition technique for Car ignition, as opposed to the natural method of using keys. Face recognition is a fast increasing, interesting area in real time applications .The face recognition methodology enables face recognition of valid users of the vehicle to be enrolled in a database. Before any user can access the car, the image of his face is matched against the faces in the database. The users with no match in the database are prevented from accessing the vehicle. Haar features are used for object detection and Principal Component Analysis is used for face recognition. This work is implemented on "Raspberry Pi" microcontroller and this is very low cost system.
Abstract Online: 10-January-2016