Due of the growing effects of the globalization in various business environments, the manufacturing industry is expected to be effective and yet efficient. According to this, in planning, scheduling and controlling a project, which is a combination of various activities, project management techniques (PERT and CPM) are used. Therefore, the research question is how will the implementation of CPM and PERT influence the effectiveness and efficiency of Furniture Company. In oder to point out the importance of those methods in reducing the project completion time and costs. The data are taken from the furniture company ''Dallas'' and it will be combined with literature reviews. The research study is fuelled by the following objectives: First is to determine the activities that are involved in the manufacturing process in selected company. Second is to demonstrate the benefits, as well as the drawbacks that those methods might create in the organization. And third is to demonstrate the influence of CPM and PERT in the entire furniture industry and its competitiveness. Implications of this research paper are evaluation of the project completion time and control of the resources, in order to see that the project is completed within the planned time and cost by using mentioned methods. At the end of the study, the result is expected to help all the individuals as well as the companies to understand more the concept of CPM and PERT methods in reducing the project completion time and costs.

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Distributed generation (DG) is an emerging concept in the power sector, which represents good alternatives for electricity supply instead of the traditional centralized power generation concept. Due to sharp increase in power demand, voltage instability & line overloading has become challenging problems for power engineers. Voltage collapse, unexpected line & generator outages & blackouts are the major problems associated with voltage instability. Reactive power unbalancing is the major cause of voltage instability. So that the problem of enhancing the voltage profile and decreasing power losses in electrical systems is a task that must be solved in an optimal way. This type of problem is in single phase & three phases. Therefore to improve & enhance the voltage profile & stability of the existing power system, FACTS devices and load flow analysis are the alternative solution. This paper describes a forward backward sweep method based approach for load flow analysis in radial distribution system to improve voltage stability and to minimize the transmission line losses considering cost function for entire power system planning. The proposed approach will be tested on IEEE -33 bus system.

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Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) is a kind of wireless ad hoc network and is infrastructure-less network of mobile devices connected wirelessly. MANET consists of Peer-to-Peer, self-forming, self-healing network. Generally different routing protocols are available for MANET, the widely used protocol is Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) Protocol. These algorithms are mainly focusing on routing efficiency, resulting causes various attacks in the network. One of the major attacks is DOS attack called Node Isolation Attack in OLSR. We proposed a novel solution to prevent the DOS attack and to reduce the network overhead by minimizing the fictitious nodes in the network and also select an alternative path.

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Rice husk slag is a stringy waste result of rice refining industry. This item causes extreme condition id contamination, which calls for dire methods for taking care of the waste. Bagasse fiery remains mostly check ins aluminum particle silica, press and calcium oxides The slag consequently turns into a mechanical waste and stances transfer issues. So few examinations have been accounted for that sugarcane bagasse fiery remains as great pozzolanic material in fractional substitution of bond In ibis venture objective is to ponder the impact of incomplete supplanting of Portland concrete with nee husk cinder in cement exposed to various relieving conditions Experimental examination on corrosive obstruction of cement in H2SO4 arrangement. The variable components considered in this investigation were solid review of M35 and relieving times of 7days, 28days, 60days, 90days, 180days of the solid examples in 1%. 2%, 3%, 4% and 5% H2SO4 arrangement. Rice husk fiery remains has been artificially and physically described and in part supplanted in the proportion of 0%, 5%, 10%, 15%, and 20% by weight.

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The inspection planning in electric power industry is used to assess the safety and reliability of system components and increase the ability of failure situation identification before it actually occurs. It reflect the implications of the available information on the operational and maintenance history of the system. The output ia s ranked list of components, with the most critical ones at the top, which indicates the selection of the components to be inspected. In this paper, we demonstrate the use of a fuzzy relational database model for manipulating the data required for the critically component ranking in thermal power systems inspection planning, incorporating criteria concerning aspects of safety and reliability, economy, variable operational conditions and environmental impacts. Often, qualitative thresholds and linguistic terms are used for the component critically analysis. Fuzzy linguistic terms for criteria definitions along with fuzzy inference mechanisms allow the exploitation of the operator’s expertise.

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The majority of the historic cities in India are not only momentous for their historical monuments and precincts, but also for their rich and diverse mix of tangible and intangible heritage resources: built and natural heritage, communities of craftsmen and ordinary people with their beliefs, practices, and rituals. In such areas, structures are under a constant threat of demolition because of development pressure. Such special areas are generally under private owners where the need of development of the community cannot be denied. Enactment of rules and restrictions need to be imposed, public awareness as well as people‘s involvement. What is required is a pragmatic approach to make people understand that conservation is not a liability but a desirable approach for the sustainable and holistic living, an approach that ensures the better quality of life and also economical in the long run. The present study focuses on protection, restoration and enhancement of the image and essence which includes key monuments, buildings, and landmarks, together with associated contents and surroundings, throughout the old city. For this study, the evolution process of the city over the years is understood and the historical context is analyzed. To study the changes in the characteristic features, the historical fabric and the major causes of deterioration are understood. Tried to minimize permanent cultural heritage losses and improve, contribute and rehabilitate to social life. The major findings show that the basic facilities are lacking behind and also the new construction is a threat to the urban fabric of Agra. The recommendations for the same also portrait well.

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The current trends point to a growing mandatory for cyber threat "resilience" in the digital age. Governments, organizations and individuals must all contribute their part in building an ecosystem that is resilient to cyber threats.

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Scholarly letter box is an online aggregation which holds loads of sends connected to not at all like subject regions. Letter box additionally has a rundown page herself to introduction the presents comparing on sends proposed for a given client inquiry interest. This query output leaf shows the investigation results as per the significance order, with no substance based collusion. This paper exhibits an exploratory reasoning of a query output bunching strategy to aggregate the sends, pursued by the mission result page for a specific catchphrase, in light of the substance of the email archives, symbolized by the related and name these come about sets seriously. The anticipated approach depends on the ideas and hypotheses of Text Mining. Gathering of list items makes laid-back and capable for the client in finding the coveted electronic post. It is likewise conceivable to see the different applications and utilizations of a given catchphrase rapidly. This work distinguishes the best collection calculation for archive packaging and examines the approaches to decide ideal number of bunches to have a superior gathering and mark the gatherings. We gage our proposed strategy by going with a few examines and the outcomes demonstrate that our way has a higher exactitude and review.

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The present research paper discusses the Juniper network including its history, growth and development, merits-demerits and future scope. Juniper is found to be more advantageous due to its free accessibility, open architecture, smart automation and many other reasons. This has led Juniper to form a huge market across the world in a few years of time. Thus, Juniper is believed to have a huge scope in future.

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In this paper, various machine learning techniques investigates to predict used car price in India. The prediction is based on the historical data and the data is fetched from various website which is selling the used cars. Here the predictions are made with different techniques like, M5P, Random Tree, Random Forest, K nearest neighbors, K*, Fast decision tree and various regression methods. We have derived the top prediction methods post analyzing above prediction methods.

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The current article describes about construction and working of desiccant assisted various cooling technologies. The contribution of the building sector to the above problem so as to maintain indoor environment providing human thermal comfort is prone area for the future research. In the present review, the alternative cooling methods for the provision of the human thermal comfort through desiccant dehumidification and cooling technologies are discussed. These technologies are potential alternatives to the conventionally used mechanical vapor compression cooling technologies in the provision of human thermal comfort conditions. However, the development and application is mostly in developed and advanced developing countries. For a global scale solution to the problem of energy and environment contributed by the building air-conditioning sector for the maintenance of comfortable conditions, dissemination of ideas and technologies to the developing countries enhances the applicability and practicability of these technologies in building cooling sector.

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Digital marketing is the booming technology which paves an effective and efficient way for promoters for promoting their products, services into the market. Internet users are gradually increasing in day to day life like paying bills in online, e-shopping and finally increased marketing is done online. Digital marketing have changed the mode and way of communication through its effective social media which attracts the customers all over the world. Marketers use digital marketing for electronic communication for better services. Overall growth of the firm is achieved by the digital marketing. Cost is less expensive when compared to offline purchases. Customers are attracted through digital media. But this online practice is not much effective compared to offline due to many fraudulent practices. This creates a negative attitude among the online purchasing customers. Due to highly developed cybercrime systems, this fraudulent practice has been detected and avoided in the infant stage itself. This proposed article focuses the impact of digital marketing for consumers and marketers and discusses various scopes and opportunities in digital marketing.

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Customer satisfaction is the major concern for developing web based platform which analyze customer’s sentiments along with the relationship of the customer with the company and helps to generate priority levels to resolve the complaint depending upon the negation. The real benefit of this application is the ability to provide advice and information’s for a healthy life because some groups of people don’t have a good basic knowledge of health. Some people live for years with debilitating but they do not pay attention to symptoms simply because they think they don’t require a doctor.

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Bridges, over the overall scaffolds the expense of railroad connect is more than alternate scaffolds. The issue of productively planning auxiliary framework includes unwavering quality imperatives forced at both workableness and extreme limit state. Strategies are created utilizing auxiliary unwavering quality guideline to assess time subordinate dependability of structure. These techniques empower the effect on security and usefulness of vulnerabilities in stacking conditions, basic corruption because of forceful condif administration life of harmed or decayed steel structures stays at the phase of parametrisation to be evaluated subjectively. Which are utilized for various purposes, for example, on the off chance that it is utilized to cross cycles and creatures, it is called as foot spans. In the event that it utilized for expressway activity, it is called Highway Bridge, or in the event that it is utilized to convey railroad stacking, it is called Railway erosion in steel structures for as fa back as three decades. Administration life of steel structures is restricted by the powerlessness of the part to erosion. Oxidation of iron prompts the plan of different items, (for example, ferrous and ferric oxides), some of which possess a lot more noteworthy volume than the first iron that gets devoured by the erosion procedure. At this stage the part loses its capacity to oppose the powers.

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This work is a comparative study of thermal and mechanical behavior of 04 different mortars including a reference mortar made from commercial binder (Portland cement CEMII / A-LL 42.5 R) and sand, three other mortars made from industrial fly ash (based on bituminous coal), ash obtained by incineration of cow dung in laboratory and ash obtained by artisanal incineration of cow dung. In order to better appreciate the influence of ashes incorporation in mortars, various assays were carried out : 0 %, 5 %, 10 %, 15 %, 20 % and 25 % of each ash. Thermal conductivity and resistance of mortars were measured with FOX200 device, in accordance with ASTM C518-04 (Standard Test Method for Steady-State Thermal Transmission Properties by Heat Flow Meter Apparatus). Compressive strength of mortars was determined with Tecno Test device, in accordance with NF EN 12390-01 standard. The results obtained showed that thermal conductivity and resistance vary from 0.6132 W.m^(-1).K^(-1) to 0.3782 W.m^(-1).K^(-1) respectively, and from 0.0498 m^2.K.W^(-1) to 0.0877 m^2.K.W^(-1). Thermal conductivity decreases and thermal resistance increases as ash content increases. In addition, the lowest thermal conductivity and therefore the highest thermal resistance were obtained with bituminous coal ash mortar. It is also observed that thermal resistance of cow dung ash mortars are very close between 0 and 5 % of ash, but beyond 5 %, thermal resistance of artisanal ash mortar is greater than that of mortar based on laboratory ash. Mechanical results showed that mortars compressive strengths of 28 day and 90 day decrease as the ash content increases. Compressive strength varies from 24.35 MPa to 35.56 MPa at 28 days, and 29.65 MPa to 37.89 MPa at 90 days. Highest compressive strength was obtained with reference mortar, and the lowest with artisanal ash mortar.

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Masonry infill wall panels may not contribute towards resisting gravity loads, but contribute significantly, in terms of enhanced stiffness and strength under earthquake (or wind) induced lateral loading. However, in practice, the infill stiffness is commonly ignored in building frame analysis, resulting in an under-estimation of stiffness and natural frequency. Also, the infill has energy dissipation characteristics that contribute to improved seismic resistance. Thus a reasonably accurate model for the soil-foundation-structure interaction system with computational validity, efficiency and accuracy is needed in the improved seismic design of structures. Most of the times, the effect of soil flexibility is not considered by structural designer with the feeling that such omission is conservative and simple, this could be true for static analysis but not for dynamic analysis. This omission is because of experimental and computational difficulties of the soil data and complicated modelling behaviour of substructure and superstructure. It is instructive to study the implications of the common practice of ignoring the infill stiffness with regard to performance under seismic loading. The present study makes an attempt to show the effect of flexibility and rigidity of foundation in earthquake analysis of structure by the considering the combined effect of soil structure interaction and infill wall stiffness of building. For superstructure G+3 simple rectangular building is considered for seismic analysis. The infill wall is replaced by equivalent diagonal member. The total work is divided into two parts. In first part, the manual analysis is done in which response spectra applied in both X (longitudinal) and Y (transverse)direction and in second part the analysis is done with ANSYS software considering soil structure interaction effect. The more emphasis is given on manual earthquake analysis by using model superposition response method as per IS 1893-2016 (part-I). The stiffness of soil is calculated by the formulae as per the FEMA 356. After studying this behaviour, it is found that base shear decreases in seismic analysis of superstructure by considering the effect of soil structure interaction in X (Longitudinal) and Y (Transverse) direction.

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The Cloud computing scenario is the reason why we are widely speaking about Security, Privacy and Trust issues even though it exists since the evaluation of the Internet. Any client/small organization/enterprise that processes data in the cloud is subjected to an inherent level of risk because outsourced services bypass the "physical, logical and personnel controls" of the user. When storing data on the cloud, one might want to make sure if the data is correctly stored and can be retrieved later. As the amount of data stored by the cloud for a client can be enormous, it is impractical and very costly to retrieve all the data, if one's purpose is just to make sure that it is stored correctly. Hence there is a need to provide such guarantees to a client. Hence, it is very important for both the cloud provider and the user to have mutual trust such that the cloud provider can be assured that the user is not some malicious hacker and the user can be assured of data consistency, data storage and the instance he/she is running is not malicious. Hence the necessity for developing trust models/protocols is demanding. Here we give a brief survey of the different techniques used for securely stored data on the cloud by keeping in mind all the necessary parameter.

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All assaults originate from the effective usage of the vulnerabilities of the telecommunication system or frameworks by the assailants. So it is the first critical thing to clear the powerlessness of certain system or framework. The theoretic strategies are accessible to break down the deficiencies of system topology and activities. Loads of vulnerabilities are found by useful work. This paper dissects and outlines the vulnerabilities of keen system framework from acknowledgment application cases. It is significant to the father innovative work.

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This review attempts to describe a cultural approach towards understanding SIS. It aims to help the reader understand SIS from a cultural viewpoint, and how SIS culture can be assessed as part of a process of organizational improvement. The aim is to convey up-to-date information on this complex topic in a straightforward, condensed way, trying to build a bridge between research and practice. The review is intended as an informative text for business managers in general, and as a practical guide for SIS practitioners. This is because much of the academic research related to the topic is published in scientific books and journals that are often less accessible for non-academic SIS professionals. Furthermore, in the course of this study, data was collected through open-ended Questionnaires to the workers and the Occupational Health Doctor. Also, Environmental Monitoring/Surveillance was carried out in seven main units of the Refinery. The questionnaire was administered to the workers randomly and was used to identify the Health Hazards, determine the awareness of the workers of the Health Hazards and evaluate the Occupational Health Practice that exists in the Refinery. Environmental Monitoring/Surveillance which includes the use of specialized equipments and good housekeeping were used to identify the different Health Hazards, and also, to assess the risk associated with the Health Hazards identified. Hazard Risk Assessment Matrix was used to identify the Health Hazards and the risks associated with them. A total of 85 respondents participated in the study. Most of the respondents were in the age range of 31- 40 years and approximately 31% run Shift Duty. Majority of respondents (82.4%) were males, married (64.7%) and had completed tertiary education (81.2%) respectively. Majority of respondents were able to identify the Health Hazards: Physical Health Hazard (74.2%); Chemical Health Hazard (70.9%); Mechanical/Ergonomics Health Hazard (78.8%) but the level of awareness of Psychosocial Health Hazard (48.3%) and Biological Health Hazards (9.6%) were low especially that of the latter. For the evaluation of Occupational Health Practice most of the respondent (78.1%) agree that management is committed to the health and well-being of their workers. With the Environmental Monitoring, it was deduced that the above named first three Health Hazards and the Biological Health Hazard are prevalent in the Refinery. With the Hazards Risk Assessment Matrix, the level of risk these identified Health Hazards pose on the workers was 3D, 5E, 3C and 0A respectively. However, workers’ susceptibility to work related-diseases depends on a lot of factors, and it usually takes some time before the manifestation of the illnesses and diseases on the worker could be diagnosed. Consequently, Health Effect Management Process which is an element in Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OHS-MS) amongst others is recommended management protocol that would assist the management of an Oil and Gas Refinery protect, promote and rehabilitate the health and well-being of their workers.

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Cloud computing is a distributed computing paradigm capable of providing agile IT services to individual users and organizations. Cloud computing is a technology which will facilitate companies or organizations to host their services without worrying about IT infrastructure and other supporting services. Cloud computing providers can build large data centres at low cost due to their expertise in organizing and provisioning computational resources. Cloud security has emerged as arguably the most significant barrier to faster and more widespread adoption of cloud computing. Indeed, cloud computing suffers from threats and vulnerabilities which hinders the users from trusting it. In this paper, we explore the vulnerabilities and threats of cloud storage one of the domains of cloud computing that affects the different cloud service model.

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ERP is used in most of the businesses to operate it. When integrating many processes like banking, finance, marketing, HR etc. together, it keeps changing itself. Here, there are possibility of data based fraud because transaction are varied and have different sources to process on. There is a approach called association rule mining with process mining can be apply to detect such fraud. Process mining technique mine the fraud in the business process by checking the mismatch between event logs of business process with business process model of a company, which is better known as Standard Operating Procedure (SOP).As the event logs of a company is secured data for them, we will get results on artificial data of a school or a business with customized ERP. Here, the process fraud detection ratio is 96%, but they have considered limited resources. And because the data is not original the result can be processed on likewise criteria. We will try to get it processed with more trust worthy data.

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When its big data, it's extremely large data sets. These datasets are analyzed computationally to reveal patterns, trends, and associations. That could be related to human behavior and interactions and product reordering ratio or understanding the symptoms or related signs of a disease. Many data analysis techniques are already defined and used by researchers. Results are still showing the scope of improvement. Based on the volume, variety, and velocity of data, the techniques are needed to be used or improved. Association rule mining is one of the technique to solve issues of accuracy in retrieved results. They are used to detect changes in customer behavior, buying trends and reasons that affect such process. Researches till date has proven the results are better than the earlier one. Though several methods have been suggested for the extraction of association rules, problems arise when data is in growing pattern with large volume. To overcome such issue, we propose, in this paper, a hybrid approach based on ARM techniques with Map Reduce framework, modified for processing large volumes of data in an increasing manner. Furthermore, because real life databases lead to a huge number of rules' including many redundant rules, our algorithm proposes to mine a compact set of rules with no loss of information. The results of experiments tested on large real world datasets highlight the relevance of mined data. Additionally in this research, the experiments are performed in continuous growing data which still yields comparative results.

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The Cyber Security indispensable are the basic cyber security fundamentals applicable to all the organizations. By deploying these indispensable or essentials, organisations can defend against the most common form of basic cyber-attacks originating from the Internet or malicious insiders. The security identified through these indispensable deal with diminished the initial attack surface.

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A bridge is a structure built to span physical obstacles without closing the way underneath such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle. There are many different designs that each serve a particular purpose and apply to different situations. In engineering, a bridge is a structure that "consists of two-force members only, where the members are organized so that the assemblage as a whole behaves as a single object". In this Project work, live project of cable stayed bridge i.e. (Raja Bhoj Setu), Bhopal is considered. It is located at V.I.P. road. It has been designed, constructed considering details and hydraulic data as per site. In this study analysis of different types of pylon in cable stayed bridge i.e. H-type, A-type and Y-type is presented to determine the most suitable type and compare it with the executed H-type pylon. It is concluded in this research work that A-type pylon is comparatively more stable, economical and efficient in bearing load whereas H-type is second best and Y-type is worst in comparison.

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A significant revolution with computers’ usage in civil engineering business and construction process has been presented. Computers reduce all the extensive work specifically through the introduction of programs and software. Lately, software development has effectively contributed in various civil engineering disciplines, as it provides engineers with the ability to perform variety of complex calculations, modeling, drafting, designing practice and several analysis processes for civil engineering infrastructure. Many commercial companies that provide users with thousands of software are available today in the markets. However, the recent requirement is to select the suitable software that can perform multi engineering tasks efficiently and satisfy more specific users’ demands. In this regard, this paper presents lists of common software that is used in civil engineering field with their contributions in civil engineering applications.

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