In 140 specimens of five carangid species were captured in Playa Las Barrancas and El Cabezo Reef, Veracruz Reef System National Park, Veracruz State, Southern Gulf of Mexico:Caranx crysos (n=51), Caranx hippos (n=18), Chloroscombrus chrysurus (n=28), Oligoplites saurus (n=24) and Trachinotus carolinus (n=19), a total of 44 helminth species were recovered, distributed as follows: 18 digeneans (17 adults, and 1 metacercaria), 12 monogeneans, 9 nematodes (6 adults, and 3 larvae), 4 cestodes (all larvae), and 1 acanthocephalan (juvenile).Parasite of helminths species with the highest prevalence in five communities were Pseudobicotylophora atlantica and Amphipolycotyle chloroscombrus, while species with mean intensity wereHurleytrema catarinensis;and the nematode Hysterothylacium sp., was registered in all five communities. The component community with highest richness and diversity was forC. crysos (S=21, Shannon index H’= 2.19), atinfracommunitylevel highest richness was for T. carolinus (S = 4.5 ± 2.1) and C. hipos (S = 4.1 ± 2.8, while the highest diversity was for C. chrysurus(Brillouin indexH = 1.03 ± 0.32)andC. crysos (Brillouin indexH = 1.01 ± 0.44).The highest Similarity Index of was between the communities ofC. crysosand C. hippos (Jaccard index=60%). Results suggestthat compositions, richness and diversity are similar to other founded marine fishfromtropical and temperate latitudes

In his paper we obtained a canonical local basis {𝐽𝐽𝑖} ,𝑖𝑖=1,5 of vector bundle 𝑉 on Clifford 𝐾𝑎̈ℎ𝑙er manifold (𝑀,𝑉). The paths of semispray on Clifford 𝐾𝑎̈ℎ𝑙er manifold are infact the solutions of Euler-Lagrange equations.

This paper objects to focus on the corporate governance practices in the Algerian small and medium size enterprises where the main intention is to recognize and clarify the degree of corporate governance practices. The study has taken place in 6 enterprises located in 3 different provinces. The tool of research is considered to be the questionnaire. After the descriptive and inferential analysis of data collected, we have come out to a set of results: the level of corporate governance in Algerian small and medium enterprises is intermediate and the enterprises widely neglect the external and audit committee, also the implementation of transparency and disclosure principle are not enough which leaded us to conclude that the mode of corporate governance is facing serious imbalances and have to be enable in a good way.

This paper depicts the experimental study of the input parameters of EDM i.e. current, pulse on time and pulse off time on output parameters material removal rate (MRR), tool wear rate (TWR) and surface roughness (SR). The workpiece materials selected was AISI D2. The aluminium used as tool electrode and EDM oil as dielectric fluid. Taguchi, method was used to perform experiments, L9 orthogonal array was applied using MINITAB software. Signal to Noise (S/N) ratio and ANOVA were employed for parameter optimization and to achieve max MRR, min SR and TWR. The results indicate that the most prompting factor for MRR is Pulse off time. For TWR, the most influencing factor is current. For SR, the most prompting factor is pulse on time. Optimization is done by using Taguchi method on MINITAB 17 software

Of the most commonly celebrated propositions in international trade is the hypothesis that trade liberalization is associated with declining prices, so that protectionism is inflationary. The New Growth Theory is strongly in favor of this view. However, the “Cost-push advocators” claim for the existence of positive correlations between trade openness and inflation variables. Moreover, empirical studies have been confirming inconclusive results regarding the nature of relationships between the two variables. These theoretical and empirical departures are the principal motivations to the current study. This study is aimed to test the relationship between inflation and trade openness variables in Ethiopia, using the time series data set for the period serially ranging from 1976/77 to 2016/77. Augmented Dickey Fuller and Phillips Perron approaches will be employed for testing the stationarity properties of individual variables in the model and the Johnson’s maximum likely-hood approach will be employed for cointegration tests.

This paper postulates that tangible resources that are rare, valuable, inimitable and in substitutable, owned and controlled by a firm, are at the core of the value creation process that leads to the creation of sustainable competitive advantage for a consistently high performing firm in the motor service industry. The paper asserts that by integrating activity-based and resourcebased views of the firm, through activity drivers of scale, location and capacity utilization, the value creation process by tangible resources is explained. A new framework, the activityresource- based view (ARBV) is also generated.

The design optimizations of a golf clubhead and a ball were performed with numerical experiments. The golf clubhead was designed for maximizing the flying distance of a golfball. The thickness distribution of the clubface, the shape of the clubhead and the mass distribution were set to be the design variables. Since the sensitivity function of this kind of problem is difficult to be derived, a non-sensitivity-based method called the basis vector method was used. The basis vectors were created by using eigenmodes obtained from modal analysis. Another numerical approach of Design of Experiment was used for the optimal design of a multi-piece golfball for maximizing the flying distance and improving the feeling at impact. In this optimization, the thickness and material properties of each layer were set as design variables. Numerical examples were provided to show the effectiveness of presented approach to the optimal design of golf clubhead and ball.

The study on the factors affecting the net income of the households for mono rice production, rice-upland crop and rice-aquaculture in the Mekong Delta was conducted in July, 2013 which aimed to (1) Assess the main resources of the households; (2) Analyze factors impacting the net income and (3) Propose solutions for improving the net income for rice production, rice-upland crop and rice-aquaculture of households in the Mekong Delta. The analysis method was based on the descriptive statistics, and the multiple linear regressions. The study results showed that: (1) The educational levels of the household heads were low; (2) The farmland was large with 1.95 hectare per household; (3) There are three groups of household having the main net income from agricultural production, and the second net income from the non-agricultural activity; (4) The net income of the mono rice production households was affected by the participation association of the household heads and the farmland area; (5) the net income of the rice-upland crop households was impacted by the family man-days and the production investment in materials; and (6) the net income of the riceaquacultural households was effected by the educationallevels, the family man-days and the farmland area. Based onthe study results, some solutions for improvement of the household net income were proposed

The extent to which differences were present in college-readiness rates in reading, mathematics, and both subjects by economic status for students who were Learning Disabled in Texas public high schools for 2008-2009 through 2010-2011 school years were analyzed in this study.Archival data were obtained from the Texas Education Agency Public Education Information Management System on all high school students who were diagnosed as being Learning Disabled.Statistically significant differences in reading, mathematics, and both subjects college-readiness were present for all three school years.Extremely low college-readiness rates were present in reading, mathematics, and both subjects for students who were Learning Disabled in the 2008-2009 through the 2010-2011 school years.

Epileptic seizure is considered as one of the severe disorder of the nervous system. The quality of life hampered those have this disorder. An appropriate system which can detect the epilepsy will leverage thequality of life for the affected person. This paper mainly focuses on the development of a novel method to detect real-time epileptic seizure based on lightweight device such as ‘Emotiv Epoc’. Weighted Permutation Entropy (WPE) value was computed to segment and extract the features. A threshold based algorithm which optimizes the battery consumption of the epoc device has also been proposed.