The intention of this paper was to analyze prosthetic socket of distinct materials and for different geometry for optimum design solution by finite element analysis. A modified three-dimensional finite element model of the patellar tendonbearing (PTB) socket was developed in workbench of ANSYS 14.0 to find out the stress distribution and deformation pattern under functionally appropriate loading condition during normal gait cycle. All essential materials used in the analysis were assumed to be homogeneous, linearly elastic and isotropic. A variety of materials were used for the analysis of the socket like Polypropylene, Composite,90/10 PP/PE, HDPE and LDPE. Analysis was done on a various thickness of socket and of different length along with of different materials commonly applied in developing countries. For boundry condition, fixed support was applied to the distal end of the socket and vertical loads were applied under static condition at pattelar tendonbrim, medial tibia, lateral tibia and popliteal area during stance phase of gate cycle.

- Investor’s behaviour is influenced by many factors during investment decision making. Demographic profile of investors is also one of the decisioninfluencing factor among others .The aim of this paper is to examine the effect of demographicfactors on investors level of risk tolerance regarding the choice of investment. 100 investors from twin cities of Pakistan (Rawalpindi and Islamabad) were selected as sample, chisquare test and correlation was conducted to explore the effectof demographic factors oninvestor’s level of risk tolerance regarding the choice of investment. Result of the paper showedthat demographic factors of investors such as academic education, income level, investmentknowledge, and investment experience effect the investors level of risk tolerance, while investorsgender, marital status, occupation, and family size showed no effect on investors level of risktolerance .These results are important for managers to advise theirclientsaboutbetterarea ofinvestmentandrisklevel according to their demographic profile.

Oral mucositis (OM) is the non-hematological toxicity with the highest prevalence and morbidity in anticancer treatment. This study evaluated the use of low-level laser for the prevention of chemotherapy-induced OM by comparing 101 cycles with prophylactic irradiation using a gallium aluminum arsenide (GaAlAs) laser diode (λ=660 nm; P=40 mW, dose of 4 J/cm²) and 121 cycles with no irradiation. The conditions associated with oral health, chemotherapy cycles, neutropenia patterns, infectious complications and nutritional status were evaluated. OM occurred in 41.9% of the cycles. The probability of developing OM in the final cycles (7 to 10) was 7.34 times higher than in the initial cycles (1 to 6); 4.19 times higher in febrile neutropenia than in physiological neutropenia; 2.08 times higher when a therapeutic antimicrobial drug was used; and 2.12 times higher when gingivitis was present. After finding similarity between the groups with respect to the variables studied, it was concluded that the application of prophylactic laser did not reduce the frequency of chemotherapy-induced OM but was effective in preventing severe forms of the disease, reducing the occurrence of OM grades III and IV from 22% to 7% with no adverse effects, which justifies its routine use.

Aboveground biomass (AGB) is one of the key parameters for carbon accounting in a forest area. However, estimating this parameter by using remote sensing approach has been challenging as the interpretation of remotely sensed has been challenging as the interpretation of remotely sensed complex tropical forest ecosystem. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensor system has its potential in obtaining acceptable AGB estimation but several issues such as complex forest structure and saturation at certain biomass levels remain unanswered and continuously being studied. This study was carried out to identify factors that contribute to the variation of backscattering properties on forest biomass. The sensitivity of L-band backscatter from Alos Palsar satellite with a wavelength of about 23 cm to the forest biomass was examined. Natural and logged forests of Dungun Timber Complex in Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia were selected as the study area. AGB at a number of sample plots were measured on the ground in the study area. Both aspects of forestry and remote sensing comprised several variables namely tree allometry, vertical forest strata, tree diameter classes, radar polarimetry, and spatial variability were examined in four experiments. AGB was calculated based on these parameters and tested by using statistical backward elimination method to identify the most significant factor that infer the backscatter. The study revealed that the L-band Alos Palsar backscatter interacts only with canopies of forest at certain size of trees.

In this paper cell range for different region and modulation schemes has been calculated for WiMAX and 3G mobile technologies, considering both as a cellular mobile technology. While resolving the cell range using different propagation models, effect of various parameters like frequency, base station antenna height, transmitting power, maximum allowable path loss and SNR over cell range have also been studied. Analysis has been done for both uplink and downlink. From the study it reveals that for downlink, cell range increases with increasing transmitting power and decreases with frequency and SNR. For uplink, cell range decreases with SNR. When adaptive modulation advances, it affects cell range significantly for parameters such as frequency, base antenna height and SNR.

Cloud Computing shifts the databases and application software to the centralized huge data centers, where the organization of the data and services can not be completely truthful. Different organizations generate a huge quantity of responsive data including private information, electronic health report, and economic information. A data owner paid for a desired level of protection and has to get some returns in case of any misbehavior dedicated by the cloud service providers (CSP). This work studies the difficulty of ensuring the reliability of data storage in Cloud Computing. In exacting, we consider the task of allowing a trusted third party (TTP), to confirm the reliability of the dynamic data stored in the cloud. Nearly all universal types of data operation, such as block insertion, deletion and modification, is also a important step toward reasonableness, while services in Cloud Computing are not limited to backup data or archive only. We studied cloud-based storage method so as to let the data owner to advantage from the services offered by the CSP and allows indirect mutual trust between data owner and CSP. It make sure that authoritative users (i.e., persons who have the right to access the owner’s data or files) obtain the most recent version of the outsourced data it permits the data owner to grant access or revoke access to the outsourced data.

Brand is the name, associated with one or more items in the product line, which is used to identify the source of character of the item(s). It is important that organizations work hard to create strong brands and nurture them carefully. There are multiple competitive advantages associated with strong brands. So, brands should be valued like any other assets of the company. There are several methods for valuing brands currently in force that range from the simplistic to the sublime. Top-down Approaches, Bottom-up Approaches, Combination Approaches, Economic Value Approach, Formulary Approaches, and Economic Value Added Approaches are some popular methods of brand valuation. The brand values of 28 private commercial banks of Bangladesh and their ranks according to their brand values are discussed in this paper.All the data of this report are secondary data and they have been collected from the Annual Reports of the sample banks.

This paper investigates the nexus between economicaspect of globalization and poverty across the six key divisionsof Bangladesh. Arguments are based on theories of dualisticdevelopmentandstructuraltransformationprocessinlowincomecountries.InthismodeleconomicglobalizationofBangladeshismeasuredbythreemajorfeatureswhicharetrade of merchandise and services, FDI and remittance inflow.Additionally a control variable is taken which is population. Soforthisstatisticalpanelregressionisusedi.e.fixed-effectmodel and random-effect model. The lack of data deficiencydid not let us execute any statistical procedure to choose anyspecificmodel. Inthispaperboththemodelhaveuniformoutcome.Theempiricalfindingsinboththemodelareconsistentwithconventionalwisdomforremittanceinflow.Populationandtradehavetraditionalaffiliationwithpoverty,butstatisticallyinsignificantinbothmodel.Howeverthepositive FDI link implies that it totally contradicts with normalnorm. Then the emphasis is on dummy variableanalysis. Inthe dummy variable analysis Dhaka division is excluded to getrid of the dummy variable trap and to make comparison withfiveotherdivisions.Eachofthedivisionhasdirectlyproportional relationship with poverty. Additionally it was foundtobestatisticallysignificantapartfromKhulnadivision.Toconclude, the fruits from economic globalization are unequallydivided across divisions.

This paper presents the concept of Multi-Function Operating Machine mainly carried out for production based industries. Industries are basically meant for Production of useful goods and services at low production cost, machinery cost and low inventory cost. Today in this world every task have been made quicker and fast due to technology advancement but this advancement also demands huge investments and expenditure, every industry desires to make high productivity rate maintaining the quality and standard of the product at low average cost. We have developed a conceptual model of a machine which would be capable of performing different operation simultaneously, and it should be economically efficient .In this machine we are actually giving drive to the main shaft to which scotch yoke mechanism is directly attached, scotch yoke mechanism is used for sawing operation. On the main shaft we have use bevel gear system for power transmission at two location. Through bevel gear we will give drive to drilling centre and grinding centre. The model facilitate us to get the operation performed at different working centre simultaneously as it is getting drive from single power source. Objective of this model are conservation of electricity (power supply), reduction in cost associated with power usage, increase in productivity, reduced floor space.

Access to an area or environment can be controlled by conventional and electronic keys, identity cards, personal identification numbers (PINs) pads and smartcards. Due to certain limitations of existing door access schemes deployed for security in buildings, this paper presents speaker recognition for building security as a better means of admission into important places. This is proposed due mainly to the fact that speech cannot be stolen, copied, forgotten, lost or guessed with accuracy. This paper, therefore presents design of an affordable voice activated door control system for building security. The proposed system uses the Mel Frequency Cepstrum and the Gaussian Mixture Model for feature extraction and template pattern matching respectively. The analysis of the result which is based on the false acceptance and rejection rates indicate a system accuracy of more than 80%.