E-learning has offered numerous advantages such as flexibility, remote operability, cost effectiveness, simplicity, consistency and many more. The utilization of smart tools and technologies has provided easy and convenient education in an effective way without barrier of time and place. The paper explains the conceptual mechanism of e-learning. The chapter presents role of technological players of e-learning environment which are various instructional and computer technologies. The paper focuses on theory of multiple intelligences which can become inherent part of basic model of e-learning. It provides various activities of e-learning in which different intelligences play important role. In order to achieve e-learning in an effective way, human being requires different types of intelligence in different measurement. The paper has presented detailed discussion on the same. To claim the impact of multiple intelligences on e-learning activities, an example is presented which shows tight integration of multiple intelligence with model of e-learning.

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Mobile Ad-hoc network (MANET) is a type of wireless network without any fixed infrastructure. MANET includes different nodes which are connected in random manner and are placed dynamically. In this paper the performance of AODV protocol has been analyzed with optimized NODE_TRAVERSAL_TIME using fuzzy logic controller with the help of scheduling techniques. The optimized value of NODE_TRAVERSAL_TIME has been decided by the proposed fuzzy logic controller to be used in conventional AODV protocol using the power of transmission and speed of the nodes. The performance of the network using AODV protocol with this fuzzy based node traversal time has been compared with conventional AODV protocol using different scheduling techniques like SP, RR and SCF in terms of average throughput, average packet delivery ratio and average routing overhead. It has been found from the simulated and manually calculated results that performance of the network using AODV with fuzzy based node traversal time has been improved. The simulation has been done using qualnet 6.1 simulator.

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In this paper we are going to study the structures of plate with spot welded stiffeners using Ansys(14.5) software under the loading conditions for Harmonic analysis. These structures mainly consists two parts i.e. Upper and lower part which are joint together using spot weld. Spot welding is most preferred and widely used method for joining the metal sheets in automotive and many other industrial assembly operations. The finite element (FE) modelling of plates with spot welded stiffened structures and its Harmonic analysis is research area of this paper. In FEA study, modal analysis method is used to find the natural frequencies of all test structural models.

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The utilization of plastic and related materials is expanding exponentially because of huge development in the populace, urbanization and a changed way of life prompts to far reach littering of plastic on the scene. Transfer of waste plastic is a major issue all around because of their non-biodegradability and perilous to human wellbeing, following these is not arranged logically and in this way, make ground and water contamination. In the event that this condemnation of humankind as waste plastic is utilized as a shelter for humankind by utilizing it as added substances as a part of street development, it will end up being a better arrangement over most noticeably bad street conditions. In the present paper systems has been created to utilize plastic waste for development of bituminous streets and adaptable asphalts. As a rule bitumen is utilized as a fastener as a part of street development. Tying properties of this bitumen can be changed by mixing it with waste plastic pieces. It can be utilized for development reason. Waste plastic covered street totals can enhance street quality. This adjusted bitumen blend and totals show better tying property, solidness, thickness and the sky are the limit since they're impervious to water therefore expanding toughness of streets with expanded imperviousness to wear and tear of street.

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Vehicular Ad-hoc Network (VANET) is a rising technology. The vehicle in the network uses the wireless medium to interconnect with other vehicles in their radio range. A heterogeneous wireless network (HWN) which is hybrid network of cellular network (having access routers (AR) and Internet Service Providers (ISP) for providing interaction and internet services to the VANET) and VANET. Internet Engineering Task force (IETF) given MIPv4/v6 (Mobile Internet Protocol -version4/6) and FMIPv6 (Fast) as mobility and handover management methods which is standard protocol. An improvement of FMIPv6, a handover management method using concept of tunnelling is simulated in VANET. NS2 is the simulating tool for evaluating performance of advanced FMIPv6 against standard FMIPv6 by seeing the parameters like Tunnelling Performance, Handover Latency, Packet Loss, Signalling Overhead Ratio, Service Disturbance Time, and Network Time.

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This paper,’ Design of an electronic system for Internets Of Things Using Power line communication’ discusses the communication of electronics devices over existing power line system in a building. Power Line Communication (PLC) is a communications method where signals are carried across already existing power lines, rather than through other mediums such as optical fibers or radio waves. PLC has been a very important interdisciplinary topic for power, communications, industrial and automation engineers and researchers since 1980s. The benefits are obvious: valuable additional uses without the need for expensive infrastructure investments. PLC promises to be an enabling home network technology due to its ability to deliver data over existing power lines in homes. The paper aims to thoroughly explore the theoretical and practical aspects of power line communications (PLC) techniques to research and design a working PLC and on/off control system for IOTs.

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Mobile nodes in military environments like a field of battle or a hostile region area unit there is a possibility to suffer from intermittent network connectivity and frequent partitions. Disruption tolerant network (DTN) technologies are becoming unbeaten solutions that permit wireless devices carried by troopers to converse with one another and access the confidential information or command reliably by exploiting storage device nodes. Some of the most difficult issues in this scenario are the enforcement of authorization policies and the policies update for secure data retrieval. In this proposed work a secure data retrieval scheme using Cluster Zone Partition Scheme for decentralized DTNs background is used where multiple key authorities manage their attributes independently. The proposed method demonstrates how to send the data securely and efficiently and how to manage the confidential data in the disruption tolerant network.

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Rapid industrialization has led to increase disposal of heavy metals into the environment. The tremendous increase in use of heavy metals over the past few decades has inevitably resulted in an increased flux of metallic substances in the aquatic environment. There are numerous methods currently employed to remove and recover the metals from our environment and many physico-chemical methods have been proposed for their removal from wastewater. Adsorption is one of the alternatives for such cases and is an effective purification and separation technique used in industry especially in water and wastewater treatments. Cost is an important parameter for comparing the adsorbent materials. Therefore, there is increasing research interest in using alternative low-cost adsorbents. The use of tea waste as the low-cost adsorbents was investigated as a replacement for current costly methods of removing heavy metal ions from aqueous solutions. Experiment results showed that removal of Copper ion by tea waste at optimum condition (60 min. contact time, 0.4g/100mladsorbent dose and 10ppm concentration) is maximum and then for Nickel & Ferrous ion respectively at optimum condition.

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springback has attempted to be expressed in handbook tables or in springback graphics. But both ways of giving expression to springback. Paper presents new springback graphics for air vee bent sheet metal parts. The developed experimental procedure has two main stages. First, the material identification by means of tensile test has been done. Next, bending tests for several specimens of different thicknesses have been carried out. This paper presents a study of spring-back in the V-bending metal forming process with one clamped end and one free end.

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Flow pattern for water-oil flow in horizontal (inner diameter of 0.6 cm) glass pipe was used. Experiment was based on (1) Study of various flow patterns at different superficial velocity of (water and oil were: 0.28 to 1.467 m/s and 0.24 to1.64 m/s) water-oil immiscible flow using visualization technique. (2) Pressure drop and hold up measurement using manometer. The analysis reveals that homogeneous model suitable for dispersion flow were as bubbly flow pattern is observed batter by drift flux model. In present study stagnant film model and moving film model were used by taking account of velocity of fluid against pressure drop. The stagnant film model was adequate to accurately predict the liquid- liquid slug flow pressure drop having relative error was 3.4 %. Stagnant film model was in good agreement with experimental data with a mean relative error of less than 11%. The purpose of this thesis is to study the behavior of the simultaneous flow of oil and water in horizontal pipes which is common in a diverse range of process industries and particularly in the petroleum industry

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This paper aims to help HR Practitioners thinking about the status of research on distance learning. We have done a review of various papers on distance learning and have identified several research areas that are fast emerging. This paper reports those areas. In this paper we also ask question where the research is heading in these particular areas.

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In this paper, design and performance analysis of canonic signed digit (CSD) filters on the aspect of power consumption, area required, hardware complexity and speed of the filters which can be easily implemented in hardware applications especially for wireless communication applications where higher order filters are often required to meet the channel attenuation specifications. The expected results of this study will show reduction in power consumption upto 33% than the binary representation of the filters when implemented using the SIMULINK software which increases the efficiency of the filters. Also, results show reduction in area required to design filters when implemented on the FPGA kit and therefore, hardware complexity will reduced to a great extent.

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Flexible manufacturing system (FMS) is a production system. A flexible manufacturing system (FMS) is an arrangement of machines interconnected by a transport system. The transporter carries work to the machines on pallets or other interface units so that work-machine registration is accurate, rapid and automatic. This article presents a intelligent heuristic search algorithm (IHSA) for solving flow-shop problems with three machines and three jobs. Following its initial development the algorithm has been modified in two different ways in order to reduce backtracking and to improve its performance. The first modification concerns the choice of the largest heuristic functions to use, and the second modification concerns the way in which heuristic estimates at nodes on the search path are determined as the search progresses. Experimental evidence of the improved performance of the algorithm as a result of each of these modifications is presented.

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Head injury is the leading cause of long term disability among children and young adults and the number of people surviving it with impairment has increased significantly in recent years. This has led to a call for nurses’ skill in trauma and rehabilitation, especially in acute phase. This study was undertaken to assess the effect of planned teaching programme on knowledge of nurses regarding care of acute head injury patients. Objectives: To assess the pre test and post test knowledge score of nurses in providing care to patients with acute head injury, to determine the effectiveness of planned teaching programme in providing care to patients with acute head injury and to find the association between pre test knowledge score with selected sociodemographic variables of nurses. Research methodology: A pre-experimental one group pre-test and post-test research design was selected for the study and non probability convenient sampling technique was used to select 60 staff nurses. A structured knowledge questionnaire was used to evaluate the knowledge level on acute care of head injury patients before and after the Planned Teaching Programme. The collected data were analyzed with chi-square and t test. Findings: The result showed the significant difference suggesting that the Planned Teaching Programme was effective in increasing the knowledge of the staff nurses (t = 20.94). There was highly significant (P<0.01) association between the knowledge of the nurses regarding care of acute head injury patients and selected sociodemographic variables like professional qualification, total clinical experience and area of work. Conclusion: The study concluded that developed Planned Teaching Programme (PTP) was effective in improving the knowledge of nurses regarding care of acute head injury patients.

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This paper presents the integrated approach using AHP and MACBETH method to develop a decision making model to select the best supplier. Now a day, in an extremely competitive environment. Supplier selection plays a vital role in the success of any manufacturing or production organization. Selection of suitable supplier is a multi-criterion problem having both quantitative and qualitative criteria. In this paper, we develop a methodology which helps in ranking of supplier. In this study I have consider most important criteria which is quality, service, delay time and cost .in this study weights calculation for each criterion is based on analytic hierarchy process(AHP) and after that these weights are used in measuring attractiveness by a categorical-based evaluation technique (Macbeth) method for ranking.

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In this paper analytical analysis has been carried out on Reinforced Concrete beam strengthen by Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer (GFRP) laminate using ANSYS software. Effect of width of the beam and thickness of Fiber Reinforced Polymer FRP laminate are the parameters used to study the behavior of the beam. Four full span 3D beam specimens were modeled. One among these models is Reinforced Concrete beam and other three are RCC beams with FRP laminate. Load versus deflection and variation of stress intensity has been studied in this paper.

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This paper presents the analytical calculations for the hydraulic ram pump using the average head losses. The study specifies that head losses includes while doing the sample calculations affects on the output results of the ram. These are based on a systematic study of hydraulic ram pump and testing of on hydraulic ramp pump model. For which we consider literatures reviews & some of them are used for the analytical calculations.

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Finite Element Analysis applied to Solid Mechanics problems, leads to uniform Stresses to be throughout the element. This results in disparities at the intersection of elements along the edges and at nodes connecting a number of elements. Hence a smoothing technique is required to arrive at an appropriate stress value which could be obtained from those values in the vicinity, within certain accepted levels of accuracy. Moving Least Square Method with Moving Polynomial formulation has been conceptualized here to smoothen the stress values along the boundary of an area of influence of a node connecting a number of elements in a typical 2D elastic problem. Its utility to find the stresses at Gauss points along the boundary is illustrated and its applicability in interpolation is studied.

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This paper introduces the concept of Cluster based Ad-Hoc On Demand Distance Vector Routing protocol (CAODV) in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANET). Energy perseverance is the main parameter to be considered in MANET. In our proposed work, attempt is made to achieve energy efficiency by clustering and hybrid routing. The MANET is first divided into clusters and then cluster head is elected such that its energy level and signal strength is maintained above some pre-defined threshold value. The head selection and its maintenance is done using the Signal and Energy Efficient Clustering (SEEC) algorithm. Once head is selected, routing is carried out such that inter cluster routing is done using reactive protocol, whereas intra cluster communication takes place using proactive protocol. Considerable energy efficiency can be achieved using clustering and hybrid routing.

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In this paper basic of image compression and various image compression techniques are explained. It also highlights the advantages of various image compression techniques. In this paper two image compression techniques: lossy compression and lossless compression are highlighted. Image compression is the process to reduce the amount of data that is required to store a digital image. An image can be compressed in various ways depending upon the application of image. In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey on various digital image compression techniques.

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Communication and interaction between people is today rapidly changed by social network platforms. Establishment and participation in digital communities is enabled by social networks and also representing, documenting and exploring the social relationships. Users can share their own services, resources and data easily by apps. A social compute cloud is presented in this report to substantiate above mentioned things. A social compute cloud means where the cloud infrastructure is provisioned through “friend” relationships. Resource owner offer virtualized containers on their smart devices or personal computers to their social network in a social compute cloud. In simulation it can be seen how users may or may not wish to share their resources based on their complex preferences and also observed that how effectively users can share their resources within the social community. This report demonstrates how a social compute cloud infrastructures can be constructed using social networks and also how resources are shared between users.

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With ever increasing use of renewable energy the photovoltaics are getting popular by leaps and bounds. But the unpredictable and fluctuating nature of photovoltaic power requires a careful design and analysis. A five parameter single diode model of PV modules has been implemented using Matlab script as well as Simulink As the parameters of module vary with different operating conditions, their effect on maximum power point is considered separately.

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The purpose of this work is to study the impact of Municipal Solid Waste on sub surface environment. Municipal solid waste landfill represents significant threat to ground water and sub-surface soil. The leachate percolating through soil up to ground water table through voids between sub soils and significantly contaminates it. To study and analyze the possible impact of leachate percolation on soil properties and ground water quality. Soil samples and Ground water samples are collected from various areas of nashik landfill sites, where large concentrations of municipal solid waste are dumped. The physical parameters of these collected samples such as, specific gravity, Maximum dry density (MDD), Optimum moisture content (OMC), Permeability and Consistency limits for soil sample and pH, Total dissolve solid (TDS), Hardness, Total solid (TS), and Alkalinity for ground water samples are studied. It has been found that most of the parameters of soil and water are affected because of municipal solid waste and leachate. Here based upon experimental values suggested the some preventive measure to minimize the pollution of sub soil and ground water.

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Speech processing is emerged as one of the important application area of digital signal processing. Various fields for research in speech processing are speech recognition, speaker recognition, speech synthesis, speech coding etc. The objective of automatic speaker recognition is to extract, characterize and recognize the information about speaker identity. Feature extraction is the first step for speaker recognition. Many algorithms are suggested/ developed by the researchers for feature extraction and for feature matching. In this work, the Mel Frequency Cepstrum Coefficient (MFCC) feature has been used for designing a text dependent/independent speaker identification system. The individual Gaussian component of Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) represents vocal tract configurations that are effective for speaker identification. Gaussian Mixture Modeling(GMM) algorithms are used for generating template and feature matching purpose.

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Steel bracing system is one of the very efficient lateral load resisting system for multistory buildings. Steel bracings are generally used in steel structures to resist lateral forces, this concept is extended to RC buildings. Bracing members are subjected to compression and tension, hence they are provided to take these forces. Steel bracing system increase the stiffness and stability of the RC multistory building and decrease there deformation. Present study based on seismic analysis of RC building frames with different types of steel bracings provided externally and internally in the building using three different steel section for bracing members. For this study, a fifteen storey building assumed to be located at seismic zone IV as per IS: 1893-2002. Four types of bracings (X type, V type, inverted V type and diagonal type) are provided on two different location in the building and for these bracing members, three steel section ISA, ISMC and ISMB are used by considering same cross-sectional area. StaadproV8i computer software is used for structural modeling and analysis work. Results are in terms of following seismic parameters-bending moment, shear force, storey displacement and storey drift, which are compared with bare frame model. Results shows that steel bracings increase the stiffness and stability of the RC building as compared to bare frame model. From which X-type and inverted V type bracing shows better result than other type of bracing system. Location of these bracing members in the structure also effects the behavior of the RC building frame under seismic forces.

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