This study was conducted at Wallecha Watershed in the middle course of Bilate River Basin in Wolayitta Zone, Southern Ethiopia with the main objective of assessing the patterns of spatial and temporal dynamics of land use/land cover (LU/LC) and implications on sustainable land management (SLM). The study area was covered 10116.7ha, and had previously undergone substantial LU/LC changes. The changes in LU/LC which occurred between 1984 and 2010 were monitored in a context of geographical information system (GIS) and remote sensing (RS). The Lands at imageries of 1984, 2000 and 2010 were used to produce three land cover maps of the respective years using GIS and RS techniques with field verification. Changes in the density of vegetation cover and land degradation over time in the watershed were also estimated with the help of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI). The general trend was observed as there is decrease in forest lands and shrubgrasslands at a rate of 34.27and 15.63ha per year respectively, and a decrease in degraded lands at a rate of 7.63 ha per year. A corresponding increase was observed in tree plantations and cultivated lands at a rate of 30.07 and 27.46 ha per year respectively. The decrease in forest lands and shrub-grasslands partly reflects the considerable degradation of natural vegetation in the watershed. Three state of vegetation disturbance levels viz. Highly, Moderately and Less stressed areas were identified and delineated using NDVI values which were measured through the analysis of the spectral reflectance of the red and the near infrared bands for the imageries. This finding has highlighted that the changes were not in favor of the natural ecosystem, rather triggered large scale clearing of forests and shrub-grasslands. Hence, greater emphasis must be given to wise use and SLM practices, regulated population growth and integrated environmental rehabilitation programs in the studied watershed.

This paper describes one of the ways for the design and analysis of the die of the technology of pressure die casting process. This paper is to maintain the closest tolerances, reduced all machining and can make the process the optimum choice for small volume production as well. Such exact and light parts are one of the premises for the automobile industry, parts with a lightweight design and exact products directly influence the fuel consumption of an automobile and consequently the users are satisfied. These requirements are met using aluminium alloys, high strength steels and fibre reinforced for the structural components. In this work a die was designed based on factors to be considered in the critical dimensions and filling analysis is used to determine the size, location and to ensure a complete and balanced filling of the part while designing for proper runner system. This work uses different software such as Solid Works, 3-Diamesional Flow, Pro-Engineer respectively. The design, analysis, and testing work are carried at Automotive Private Limited, Gurgaon, Haryana.

We propose a new method for estimating a regression function from noisy data when the underlying function is known to satisfy a certain smoothness condition. The proposed method fits a function to the data set so that the roughness of the fitted function is minimized while ensuring that the sum of the absolute deviations of the fitted function from the data points does not exceed a certain limit. It is shown that the fitted function exists and can be computed by solving a quadratic program. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed method generates more efficient estimates than its alternative in terms of the mean square error and the amount of time required to compute the fit.

People looking at Mona Lisa believe that she looks at them from every direction they will look at her. However in a numerical survey I have conducted, that has never been done before, 500 people were asked to look at her from right, front and left sides. The results negate the well-known myth that Mona Lisa looks at the observer from all directions viewed where only 65% confirm that she was looking at them from all directions. Likewise, 93% confirmed that Mona Lisa was looking at them while viewing at her from right, 72% when viewing at her from front and 78% when viewing at her from left. The illustration demonstrates what they observer as seen from each direction. A thorough analysis of the subject brought me to extend and formulate a principle that I named “Mona Lisa’s gaze principle” which fits each element in a picture - portrait, wall in a construction, details in a landscape and the like. This principle guides also people how to look at pictures. According to this principle: “If you look at any detail in a picture and this detail turns to you from certain direction, it will turn to you from each direction you view it: from right, from front, from left, from above and from below. However, if from your looking direction the element does not turn to you, it will never turn to you.” Hence, I suggest to an observer of every picture

In this approach electrode kinetics and mechanism of pesticides having different electro active centres at carbon nano tubes paste electrode was studied. Universal buffer used as supporting electrolyte and the techniques employed are cyclic voltammetry, differential pulse adsorptive stripping voltammetry, millicoulometry and controlled potential electrolysis. All investigations were made from pure samples dissolved in di methyl formamide. Peak currents were linear over the concentration range of 10-7 M to 10-12 M with lower detection limits of 1.02x 10-11 M. The relative standard deviation and correlation coefficients for phenothrin, chlorpropham and fenclorim are found to be are found to be 1.30%, 0.998, 1.25%, 0.996 and1.26%, 0.997respectively for 10 replicates.

Copper (II) oxide nanoparticles (CuO-NPs) are widely used in industry, cosmetics and medicine. People have increasingly been exposed to these active materials. Several studies indicate that CuO-NPs could be taken up by different organs and cause toxicities. However, there is still a lack of data on the toxicological effects of CuO-NPs in neuronal system. In the present study, the toxic potentials of CuO-NPs were investigated in human SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells. After assessment of their cellular uptake potential, cytotoxicity by MTT and neutral red uptake (NRU) and genotoxicity by comet assay were evaluated. Enzyme-Linked Immune Sorbent Assays (ELISA) determination of malondialdehyde (MDA), 8- hydroxy-deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG), protein carbonyl (PC), and glutathione (GSH) levels for oxidative damage, and Annexin V-FITC with propidium iodide (PI) for apoptosis were used. In conclusion, CuO-NPs were found to accumulate in the cells and induced significant cytotoxic and genotoxic, and oxidative and apoptotic effects. CuO-NPs are hypothesized to dangerously affect human health, especially neuronal system. However, further studies should be done to elucidate their toxic mechanism.

This research study sought the influence of peer group relationship on the academic performance of the students in secondary schools. The study was limited to five secondary schools in Atiba Local Government Area of Oyo state. Three research questions guided the study. The findings of the study revealed that the peer group influences learning and certain factors like the social economic status and parental factor as they determine membership in most groups. The study also found out that pupils are closer to their friends than to their teachers and parents concerning their academics and that parents monitor their children’s peer group association.The findings were discussed and recommendations were made.

The purpose of this research is to examine how the HRM practice affects on organizational performance in Banal Financial Banking Industry measuring the Labile Marketing Strategy in South Asisan Country, Bangladesh. It has been noted that there is a trend here in Bangladesh in financial & banking sector is establishing Islamic Banking with differentiate marketing strategy. This is why, in our research, we mainly focus to find- how HRM practice affects on Organizational Performance in Islamic & Conventional or Banal Banking Industry as banal financial banking industry in changeable marketing strategy of Bangladesh. We collected data from a large number of employees of 10 banks in Bangladesh to find the affiliation in between of human resource policy and organizational performance. As our main focus on banal financial banking industry measuring labile marketing strategy, we collected our data from 10 Islamic banks. The employees were from managerial & non managerial level of those banks. We use statistical analysis by using SPSS statistical software.

This document presents a wide new way of handling a wheelchair. The wheelchairs which were being used in the present time are controlled by the persons sitting over them. The person sitting over the chair has to exert a force by his hands in order to move the chair and get to the desired location. So for the sake of the handicapped persons, a new implementation is going to be made on the wheelchair which enables the person to move the chair without applying any kind of force. The person just has to make a simple gesture using his body part (for example: hand) to move the chair. This application is done using the microcontroller and the accelerometer sensor. The physically handicapped people will have the option of controlling the system through hand gesture wirelessly from ranges up to several meters and will have the independence of using the wheelchair without the help of any other people. The project includes the locomotion of the wheelchair without the application of any external force. This application is done using triple axis accelerometer sensor and the complete phenomenon is made wireless by using RF modules.

The only host for H. pylori is human and it is found to be present in stomach, duodenum, oesophagus and rectum. H. pylorus is responsible for causing chronic infections and therefore its complete eradication from the society is very much essential. This article therefore aims to review the recent treatment options prevalent for the eradication of this dreadful disease.