The study involves the synthesis of PPY and PPY based gold nanocomposite (PPY-Au-nanocomposite) by polymerization procedure. The UV-Visible analysis was carried to confirm the presence of gold particles in nanocomposite. FTIR analysis was carried to identify chemical bonds in molecule by producing an infrared absorption spectrum. Size, shape and morphology of the synthesized particle were analyzed by X-ray diffraction and TEM analytic techniques. Average size of gold nanoparticles in PPY-Au-nanocomposite was recorded as ~13.5 nm. Further, conductivity of PPY was compared with finally obtained PPY-Au-nanocomposite. Results showed that addition of gold as metal nanoparticles resulted in high conductivity of PPY-Au-nanocomposite as compare to pure PPY.

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Biometrics are very useful to identify individuals based on their behavioural and physiological features, that can be used for their personal authorization. Various physical features like, iris patterns, retina patterns, palm print patterns, fingerprint patterns, facial features etc. are used for such purposes. Palm print identification involves recognizing an specific by matching the various wrinkles, principal lines and creases on the surface of the palm of the hand. The base for using the palm prints lies in the fact that since palm print patterns are generated by random orientations of tissues and muscles of the hand during birth, no two individuals have exactly the same palm print pattern. Research of Palm print can be possible with both low resolution and high resolution images. Low resolution images are more appropriate for commercial and civil applications such as financial transaction, access control, etc. while High resolution images are appropriate for forensic applications such as criminal detection. Generally speaking, high resolution rises to four hundred dpi or more while low resolution rises to one hundred and fifty dpi or less. Researchers can extract generally principal lines, wrinkles and texture in low resolution while from high resolution images features are extracted as ridges, singular points and minutia points. In this paper a comparative study for palm print features of different subspace methods have been projected. Where the different subspace methods are separately exploited by using a classifier-Euclidean distance to find the algorithm performance. The experiment results by using two palm print databases determine that the proposed method of class specific information with 2D-PCA, alternate 2DPCA, Kernel PCA and (2D*2D) PCA, Where in comparison to other algorithm (2D*2D) PCA method provides the better results and the recognition rate by this method is given around 87 percent.

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3D Printing is a modern manufacturing technology. There are various types of manufacturing processes like casting, rolling, forming, molding, machining etc. In which machining process of material removal from raw material and obtaining the required shape. But 3D printing technology works on principle of material addition. 3D printing is also known as additive manufacturing process (AM). This technology is mainly used for making prototypes. It is a type of rapid manufacturing processes therefore production rate is fast in 3D printing.

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Manufacturing industry is one of the fastest growing industry today. In the competitive business the manufacturing companies have to pay attention for the improvement in productivity, quality, efficiency, safety and its service. Today, many industries are interested in the improvement of standards and techniques for best performance so they can reign over the present market scenario. Among various important parameters which considered being very important, two most important primary parameters are safety and quality. In this article, we will the study various literatures related to 5S & Kaizen. Data is accumulated from different papers, this will help to study success factor of 5S & Kaizen. Primary data will be collected by personal observation and originated by the researchers for specific purpose for addressing research problems. Secondary data collected from various books, material, reports and data which is stored in the organization and provide by the HR people. The next step will be implementation of 5S & Kaizen in ABC Industry by applying PDCA cycle. [Note*: Because of security reasons instead of company name we used ABC Industry].

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Optical Character Recognition(OCR) is one of the most interesting and challenging research area in the field of image processing. Nowadays, different methodologies are in widespread use for character recognition. Different form filling is newly coming application area of digital document processing. Proposed system for recognition of hand-written as well as printed characters. Various approaches of handwritten and printed character recognition related with forms are discussed along with their performance. OCR to translate images of typewritten or handwritten characters into electronically editable format by preserving font properties. OCR can do this by pattern matching algorithm. Proposed system work as a time consuming system. Due to this system entry done in the database automatically and also reduces manual work.

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Today industrial service organizations are more interested in improving their processes by decreasing the variation as the competitive environment leaves no room for errors and defects. Variation is the biggest enemy of quality which is defined by the customers. We must deliver the services at the ideal targets demanded by the customers. In this article, we will the study various literatures related to quality improvement in service industries by using six sigma. The aim of this project is to reduce the number of defects of a service provided by ABC Industry and to increase the customer satisfaction by using six sigma. In present study, we perform identification of the problem and study of literatures. After this stage the primary and secondary data with voice of customer collected by visiting the company and identified defect opportunities. Further the data analyzed to measure the initial six sigma level. By implementing solutions to reduce the defect opportunities final sigma level will be measured with DMAIC process.

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Genome-wide association study (GWAS) technology has been a primary method of identifying the genes which are responsible for diseases .A genome-wide association study (GWA study, or GWAS), also known as whole genome association study (WGA study, or WGAS), is an examination of a genome-wide set of genetic variants in different individuals to see if any variant is associated with a trait. GWASs typically focus on associations between single nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs) and traits like major human diseases, but can equally be applied to any other organism like plant, animals, and model organisms. In genome-wide association studies (GWAS), researchers analyze the genetic variation across the entire human genome, searching for variations that are associated with observable traits or certain diseases.

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The steady state temperature distribution in a nuclear fuel rod using R-12 as coolant has been discussed in this paper. A high amount of energy is released by fission reaction within the nuclear fuel rod. This energy is then transferred by heat conduction to the surface of the fuel rod.. In this work, a model of the equivalent nuclear reactor is prepared in ANSYS design modeler and two particular sub channels are taken. The physical dimensions and the input data required during modeling as well as computation have been taken from an experimental paper; where inlet pressure is 4.63 MPa, inlet temperature is 392 K and heat flux is 33.5kW/m2. Analysis has been done through ANSYS CFD technique to obtain steady state heat transfer in nuclear reactor fuel rod assembly and the local heat transfer coefficient of supercritical R-12 in sub channels of CANDU reactor under cooling conditions which is equivalent to a supercritical water reactor. Hence to confirm the turbulent nature of the flow, Reynolds number variation across the heated length is found out. Later; input conditions such as mass flux, heat flux, and pitch to diameter ratio and inlet pressure are varied to observe its effects on temperature distribution and local heat transfer coefficient. Hence results in the enhancement of heat transfer from the fuel rod cladding surface.

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Food is one of the fundamental needs of humans for their survival. But contamination in food and processed food causes various diseases and it also decreases the value of food. In this study we have taken different food products to detect the presence of adulterants by physical chemical method in given food sample like fat, oil, butter, sugar, chilli powder, turmeric powder, pepper, pulses, coriander powder, cumin seeds, asafoetida and wheat flour which we collected from different villages of Phagwara region. The aim of this study is to bring awareness among the students and society.

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Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) uses spread spectrum technology where each user is assigned a code and allows multiple users to be multiplexed over the same physical channel. Whereas the time division multiple access (TDMA) divides access by time, while frequency-division multiple access (FDMA) divides it by frequency. CDMA is a form of "spread-spectrum" signaling, since the modulated coded signal has a much higher bandwidth than the data being communicated. Now, the Spread spectrum is used in the commercial applications such as, mobile handsets, internet, and satellite applications. By using Spread spectrum communication we can achieve the secure communication. In this paper the pure digital BPSK modulation technique is used to implement the CDMA Transceiver. The whole system is implemented only in the digital form, so cost is reduced. This design will makes whole system as a system on chip. All the modules functionality is verified with Modelsim simulation results. Xilinx ISE tools are used for FPGA synthesis. Spartan 3E development board is used for FPGA implementation.

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We evaluate 21 classifiers arising from 10 families (neural network, rule based classifiers, nearest neighbors, partial least squares and principal component regression, logistic and multinomial regression, multiple adaptive regression splines and other methods) executed in (with and without the caret bundle), C and Matlab, including all the significant classifiers accessible today. We use 40 data sets, which represent the whole UCI data base (excluding the large-scale problems) and other own real problems, in order to achieve significant conclusions about the classifier behavior, not dependent on the data set collection. The classifiers well on the way to be the bests are the irregular backwoods (RF) Adaptations, the distinction is not measurably significant with the second best, the Genetic Algorithm with Feature Selection portion actualized in JAVA Execution Jar File utilizing GANN-FS, which accomplishes 83.5% of the most extreme exactness.

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Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is a multi-carrier system where data bits are encoded to multiple sub-carriers, while being sent simultaneously. This results in the optimal usage of bandwidth. A set of orthogonal sub-carriers together forms an OFDM symbol. To avoid ISI due to multi-path, successive OFDM symbols are separated by guard band. This makes the OFDM system resistant to multi-path effects. The main advantage of this transmission technique is their robustness to channel fading in wireless communication environment. The main focus of this project is to design 8-point IFFT and FFT blocks which are used in transmitter and receiver blocks of OFDM system. The methodology used is the 8-point IFFT/FFT (DIT) with radix-2 butterfly algorithm. The design unit also consists of modulation and demodulation for mapping technique. The design has been coded in VHDL. The timing simulation and synthesized results are performed and the design is analyzed by using Xilinx ISE 13.2 tools.

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In order to meet increasing global demand for energy and to compensate for the depletion of fossil fuel supplies in coming years, some alternative clean energy sources is a need. Bio-diesels are one of the alternative fuels which can minimize the consumption of fossil fuels and can also meet the environmental concerns. In our work, the feasibility of Soapnut (Sapindus Mukorossi) bio-diesel is being investigated experimentally on engine performance. Soapnut bio-diesel blends with petro-diesel were tested on four stroke cylinder CI engine and the engine performance parameters were studied for low, medium and high loads on blends B5, B10 and B20 without any modification in engine design.

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Privatisation of service sector has been beneficial to the Indian economy. In the recent years, many service sectors have been privatised. Privatisation has significantly improved production and services. Privatisation is a major component of development. Privatisation of service sectors is a significant part of many developed countries. India needs a large amount of investments in the service sectors for rapid development. Even though privatisation has many disadvantages, these weaknesses can be overlooked to fulfill the significant lack of funds in the service sectors.

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Floods are among the most destructive natural disasters worldwide. In flood disaster management programs, flood mapping is an initial step. It provides an efficient methodology to recognize and map flooded areas by using TerraSAR-X imagery. First, a TerraSAR-X satellite image is captured during a flood event in some places, to map the inundated areas. Multispectral Landsat imagery is then used to detect water bodies prior to the flooding. Both the two terrasar-x image and landsat image are compared according to the three parameters such as shape, color and scale etc. Before that the speckles are removed from both the images using frost filter then gaps are filled using Local linear histogram matching method after that pan sharpening is done by gram-schmidt spectral sharpening method. The second stage is segmentation of the images. Segmentation is done by multi-resolution process using Taguchi technique. In synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery, the water bodies and flood locations appear in black; thus, both objects are classified as one. The class of the water bodies was extracted from the Landsat image and then subtracted from that extracted from the TerraSAR-X image. The remaining water bodies represented the flooded locations. Object-oriented classification and Taguchi method are implemented for both images. The Landsat images are categorized into three classes, namely, urban, vegetation, and water bodies. The classification results are evaluated using a confusion matrix. Consequently, the flooded locations are recognized and mapped by subtracting the two classes of water bodies from these images.

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The present technology focussing upon usage demands and problem sorting techniques to fulfil desires of one and all in the society mean while it is concentrating on nature procurement by maintenance, to get it fix with numerous solutions and alternatives. Automobiles have an advantage and features that makes human excite to own it, for their wants. Pickup, is a point where low speed of an automobile crosses its speed to expected one; it is necessary to reduce the time. In general, the pickup of an engine takes about 10 seconds. Here results achieves better speed in short duration. Need of one getting increased upon usage and feature failures, such failures are getting sorted by technical engineers with difficulties and essentialities of human. This paper provides such solutions that make people benefit with what they expected. The parameter pick up makes one excited to choose it due to its advantage and necessary of usage. Tests have been conducted, made for times, to get accurate values, such points given in this paper. As of now, trends of men are getting increased in, within short days. The method that we followed here, is accelerating a vehicle by regulating its pressure at various bars to both tyres so that Speed of an engine found to be that has been raised by 40 - 48 kmph just in 6 seconds and 70 – 80 kmph in 8 – 9 seconds when an engine regulated at various bars of pressure. Thus, Pickup of an engine maximised.

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Groundwater dissolves much of the impurities that it percolates through. Generally it is harder than surface water. Prime water impurities include soluble dissolved salts, hardness, alkalinity and many toxic elements. The total dissolved solids, hardness and alkalinity have significant impact on the quality of water. The amount of physico-chemical parameters affects the water for most of its uses, whether for drinking, agricultural, or industrial use. The problem of impurities arises when its concentration exceeds the permissible limit prescribed by WHO and BIS standards. It has been found that RO is the most widely used technology to minimise the soluble impurities present in water. The performance of R.Os having thin film composite membranes of hollow fiber shape and made up of polyamide but operating at different pressures has been evaluated for TDS, TH, and TA minimization.

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The objective of current medical research is to continuously improve the investigative methods. Its aim also is to develop new medical parameter checking methods, which can be used as a long term monitoring cases. Social media like Facebook and discussion forums can open the opportunity for the health care sector in patient care, address cost reduction, medical prognosis, service and product optimization. The patient and company benefits from real-time feedback that can then be used to assess if there are any problems and rapidly address such problems. Patient affected by COPD and Asthma are monitored by means of medical protocol, based on periodical measurements related to the disease. Though apparatus cannot forecast about to happen health problem, and directs a red alert indication according to a medical procedure only when one or more physical parameters overcome pre-defined thresholds value. The proposed work focuses on negative and positive emotion, as well as the on the side effects of handling, in consumers’ environment posts, and identifies user communities (modules) and influential users for the purpose of ascertaining user opinion of COPD and Asthma treatment. The proposed system uses PSO and SOM to analyze word frequency data derived from users’ forum posts. According to the discussion on social media about diseases, doctors, medicines and tests the company can predict the future scope of the manufacturing companies, equipment’s and doctors. The patient and company benefits from real-time feedback that can then be used to assess if there are any problems and rapidly address such problems. The experimental results shows that our technique offers improved solution in health care monitoring system. Our work predict the occurrence of Asthma and COPD in home in the absence of doctors and also monitor the health problem of patients and helps diagnosis.

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The purpose of this paper is to establish a common fixed point theorem for a pair of compatible self-maps of a D*-metric space using the contractive modulus and deduce corresponding results for metric spaces.

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As far as when we talk about the mechanical properties and to make better objects, we cannot forget about tribological properties. It is a very important and vast field to study about. Here in this work, more focus is on tribological properties especially friction force and wear rate. The focus was to analyse these two properties especially for coated material, Alloy Steel 20mncr5 can be coated with Hard Chrome. The coating can be done with Electroplating Process. The thin but micro coating can be applied on the material and can be sent to analyse the tribological testing with help of Pin on Disc meter. Here in this work, the Load on Pin and RPM are selected as input parameters and coefficient of friction and wear rate is selected as output parameters. The expected outcomes for this work are reduction in coefficient of friction value and wear rate.

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In this paper I am giving brief outline about my Application that is used to lock the installed Apps in iPhone for the user privacy. This Application provides dual mode of operation, one mode is for accessing the locked app using a password and other mode is just using Touch-ID recognition. Both the mode operates either or choice method (i.e. The user can open his locked app using his fingerprint or else by entering a password).The main idea of this project is to reduce the time for user to open his locked app on the go by using his fingerprint and the other manual password entering feature is attached additionally. This application works with Touch-Id, it is a fingerprint scanning interface used in iOS. There is no application for locking favourite apps using fingerprint sensor technology in both android and iOS platforms. So, my idea is to develop an application only for iOS on the above basis.

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The paper discusses the design of a robust controller using LMI for TCSC to damp out the oscillations in a power system. The focus being on robustness and better performance, the pole placement constraints and H∞ performance are formulated into LMI. These LMIs are solved using optimization method with minimization of objective function. The weight functions for conventional H∞ controller are designed for single machine infinite bus system (SMIBS). The responses of both controllers are compared. The electromechanical oscillations present in system are identified using eigenvalues of the system. The simulation results of both controllers at different loading conditions are found satisfactory in damping power system oscillations.

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Test oracles are essential to verify the testing procedure. Here the role of test metrics for making an strong, efficient test oracle is indispensible. This paper presents the principles of construction of test oracles using pseudo oracles and metamorphic relations. We have also discussed how future work in this area can be carried out using mechanisms of extended regression testing and extended metamorphic testing. Our paper acts as a readymade guide for software testing practitioners who want to know the way to work with test oracles and be cognizant about the issues which pose difficulty to work with test oracles.

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Increase in the rapid growth of Technology significantly increased the usage and utilization of CNC systems in industries but at considerable expensive. The idea on fabrication of CNC Milling Machine came forward to reduce the cost and complexity in CNC systems. This paper discusses the development of a low cost CNC milling machine components which is capable of 3-axis simultaneous interpolated operation. The lower cost is achieved by incorporating the features of a standard PC interface with micro-controller based CNC system in an Arduino based embedded system. The system also features an offline G-Code parser and then interpreted on the microcontroller from a USB. Improved procedures are employed in the system to reduce the computational overheads in controlling a 3-axis CNC machine, while avoiding any loss in overall system performance.

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This paper presents induced effect on structure of the wind-turbine due to lightning. Conventional lightning protection system is not 100 percent reliable to protect low voltage control circuits, communication devices, measurement devices inside wind-turbine. This paper gives some ideas for increasing reliability level of wind-turbine by applying various techniques like provision of individual back up protection path, shielding on wind-turbine’s main components & good grounding system.

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