With a focus on water sustainability, Fluminense Federal University developed the Macacu Project, which included the integrated management of water resources in the basin of the Guapi-Açu River. One component of the project was the simulation of the rivers’ flow patterns, supported by topographic and bathymetric surveys conducted in 2008. New surveying services were provided in 2012. From the data generated, new simulations with HEC-RAS (1D) and IBER (2D) models were performed by combining the use GIS. Hydrographs with return periods of 2, 10, 20 and 50 years were simulated and the results showed that areas potentially most affected by flooding are pasture and forest, but flooded spots were observed also in some constructed areas. The 2D model produced results more compatible with what would occur naturally in floodplains, but it requires a large amount of data and lengthy processing time.

In thisshortreportIwanttoexplainabouttheeconomicgrowthinPakistan.HereIexplainthehealthandnutritional economic growth in Pakistan almost last ten years.GovernmentofPakistanmadedifferentpoliciesforthedevelopment of nation. These policies include health policies,medicaltreatment,HIVcontrolprogrammesetc.Theseallpolicies helps for the prosperity of Pakistan.

The major issues associated with MANETs include the precious battery power of the nodes and security threats from compromised nodes inside the network. The introduction of an additional dynamic node may optimize the power, but however it leads to jamming and interference and thereby reducing the efficiency of the network. Since MANETs have a highly dynamic topology, they are vulnerable to active and passive adversaries. We aim to optimize the network power with added security features and propose a new algorithm “Power with Computational Security (PCS Algorithm)” to overcome the above mentioned drawbacks. The PCS Algorithm employs a dynamically computed “Power Threshold” to achieve efficiency. Also, We make the network secure by introducing a “Security Provider” which consists of dealer phase and combiner phase to ensure all the security requirements are met. Thus, We achieve power efficient and secure data transfer with minimal information and thus it minimizes the mobility, resource and prior-trust relationship constraints.

We propose to contribute to the emerging body of cancer treatment research by developing and analyzing mathematical models of the treatment of tumor with various strategic treatments. We build on existing models of the immunology that are already successfully developed and then the effects of chemotherapy and interleukin-2 were applied to the model. Thus we build a mathematical model of tumour and effector cell with scheduled chemotherapy.The effect of scheduled il2 dose with chemotherapy and adoptive immunotherapy reduced the tumor growth.

Field experiments were conducted at the Main Agricultural Research Station, UAS, Dharwad, Karnataka, India to investigate the effect of planting time and plant geometry on the activity of chilli sucking pests. Pooled data from two years revealed that, the interaction effect between the date of planting and different spacings was significant. Significantly lower level of sucking pest and leaf curl index was observed in the interaction of July 15th planting and 90x60cm spacing followed by July 15th and 60x60cm and July 15th and 75x45cm treatments. Whereas, it was higher in interaction of June 30th and 60x30cm. Similar pattern of treatment significance was observed in case of natural enemy population also. Significantly highest chilli yield was registered in interaction of July 15th planting and 90x60cm spacing (4.21 q/ha) whereas, lowest chilli yield of 1.99 q/ha was registered in the combination of June30th + 60x30cm treatment. The interaction effect between July 15th and 90x60cm was found to be the most cost effective which recorded highest net returns (Rs 15,921/- per ha).

A four parameters model including collective rotational energies to fourth order is applied to reproduce the ΔI=2 staggering in transition energies in four selected super deformed rotational bands, namely, 148Gd (SD6), 194Hg (SD1, SD2, SD3). The model parameters and the spin of the bandhead have been extracted assuming various values to the lowest spin of the bandhead at nearest integer, in order to obtain a minimum root mean square deviation between calculated and the experimental transition energies. This allows us to suggest the spin values for the energy levels which are experimentally unknown. For each band a staggering parameter represent the deviation of the transition energies from a smooth reference has been determined by calculating the fourth order derivative of the transition energies at a given spin. The staggering parameter contains five consecutive transition energies which is denoted here as the five - point formula. In order to get information about the dynamical moment of inertia, the two point formula which contains only two consecutive transition energies has been also considered. The dynamical moment of inertia decreasing with increasing rotational frequency for A∼150, while increasing for A ∼190 mass regions.

In this paper, a new particle swarm search algorithm is proposed to solve the optimal reactive power dispatch (ORPD) Problem. The ORPD problem is formulated as a nonlinear constrained single-objective optimization problem where the real power loss and the bus voltage deviations are to be minimized separately. As an optimization technique, particle swarm optimization (PSO) has obtained much attention during the past decade. It is gaining popularity, especially because of the speed of convergence and the fact that it is easy to realize. To enhance the performance of PSO, an improved hybrid particle swarm optimization (IHPSO) is proposed to solve complex optimization problems more efficiently, accurately and reliably. It provides a new way of producing new individuals through organically merges the harmony search (HS) method into particle swarm optimization (PSO). During the course of evolvement, harmony search is used to generate new solutions and this makes IHPSO algorithm have more powerful exploitation capabilities. In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm, it has been tested on IEEE 30 bus system.

Political and security risks coupled with cultural distance have profound effects on foreign investments by multi-national enterprises. A qualitative case study was conducted to investigate the impact of cultural distance on foreign direct investment in the heterogeneous and postconflict country of Iraq. Data were collected from interviews with 15 business and government subject matter experts, and from a review of publically available documents. The findings showed majority of foreign investment was from Arab countries and Iraq’s neighbors. There was limited investment by Western firms in Iraq, outside its oil and gas sector, and those taking place were mainly in the housing construction market. Kurdistan region attracted significant investment activities. Wholly-owned and joint ventures characterized mode of entry by MNEs. Substantial number of investment licenses issued did not materialize due to hurdles brought about by government agencies. Statistical data regarding the real dollar amount of foreign investment in Iraq are still lacking. The findings showed an important role played by Iraqi expatriates as facilitators of foreign investment. Implications to other post conflict and heterogeneous countries are presented and recommendations made.

In this paper one tries to explain the rotation and expansion of the Universe in the light of Anderson’s flyby-anomaly prediction formula. The result of the effort is a prediction that the Universe rotates with the equatorial speed of half the speed of light and we land at the Pole of that Universe with the speed of expansion of the Universe which is apparentlyzero sincein such circumstances the inbound speed equals the maximal decrement of speed. The maximal speed of expansion of the future Universe 〖100 km/s