Predicting the structure of proteins from their amino acid sequences has gained a remarkable attention in recent years. Even though there are some prediction techniques addressing this problem, the approximate accuracy in predicting the protein structure is closely 75%. An automated procedure was evolved with MACA (Multiple Attractor Cellular Automata) for predicting the structure of the protein. Artificial Immune System (AIS-PSMACA) a novel computational intelligence technique is used for strengthening the system (PSMACA) with more adaptability and incorporating more parallelism to the system. Most of the existing approaches are sequential which will classify the input into four major classes and these are designed for similar sequences. AIS-PSMACA is designed to identify ten classes from the sequences that share twilight zone similarity and identity with the training sequences with mixed and hybrid variations. This method also predicts three states (helix, strand, and coil) for the secondary structure. Our comprehensive design considers 10 feature selection methods and 4 classifiers to develop MACA (Multiple Attractor Cellular Automata) based classifiers that are build for each of the ten classes. We have tested the proposed classifier with twilight-zone and 1-high-similarity benchmark datasets with over three dozens of modern competing predictors shows that AIS-PSMACA provides the best overall accuracy that ranges between 80% and 89.8% depending on the dataset.

This paper deals with the development issues of marginalized section of population living in slums in India. The people in slums live under the most deplorable conditions, with little access to effective social and health care services, potable water, or sanitation facilities and are therefore more vulnerable to epidemics and developmental challenges. Their low socio-economic status, low level of education and high fertility and mortality- all indicate that they need special attention in terms of public health, family planning and reproductive health programs. However, unfortunately reverse is the case with such segments of slum population. Rapid slummification has caused wide spread of environmental degradation in the city. The government has conceded that despite imposition of regulatory measures, the magnitude of pollution from industrial sources in the city has not shown any appreciable decrease during the last few years. An attempt has been made to unfold several development issues needed for the slum dwellers through this study.

The face of a human being conveys a lot of information about identity and emotional state of the person. Face recognition is an interesting and challenging problem, and impacts important applications in many areas such as identification for law enforcement, authentication for banking and security system access, and personal identification among others. In our research work mainly consists of three parts, namely face representation, feature extraction and classification. Face representation represents how to model a face and determines the successive algorithms of detection and recognition. The most useful and unique features of the face image are extracted in the feature extraction phase. In the classification the face image is compared with the images from the database. In our research work, we empirically evaluate face recognition which considers both shape and texture information to represent face images based on Local Binary Patterns for person-independent face recognition. The face area is first divided into small regions from which Local Binary Patterns (LBP), histograms are extracted and concatenated into a single feature vector. This feature vector forms an efficient representation of the face and is used to measure similarities between images.

Introduction: Occupational exposures to blood and body fluids in healthcare settings have the potential to transmit hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), or human immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Adherence to standard infection control practices is best way to prevent blood born infections in health care setting. This study tried to assess exposure management practices of HCWs and medical students to blood and body fluids (BBFs) in University of Gondar Hospital. Methods:A cross sectional survey was conducted from September 6 to October 2, 2012, in University of Gondar hospital. Two hundred eighty five participants (including health professionals, janitors and medical students) were participated in the study. Stratified simple random sampling technique was used to select the participants. Data was collected through Self-administered questionnaire and interview using structured questionnaire.

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of a corporate entity is its Chief Accounting Officer. He is at the head of management which according to Miller (2005) is more of hands on activity; conducting and supervising actions with the judicious use of means to accomplish certain goal/s. The Chairman of the Board of Directors on the other hand is the chief policy or law maker of the enterprise. CEO Duality occurs when the CEO is equally the Chairman of the company or Board of Directors.

Résumé Dans cette contribution, nous avons procédé à un audit des différentes fonctions d’un échantillon représentatif d’entreprises de la chaine gazière. Au terme e cet audit nous avons réalisé un audit qui confirme des disfonctionnements au niveau de l’ensemble des fonctions. Ce qui conduit a une nécessaire mise à niveau par des bureaux d’études très couteux. Mise à niveau nécessitant un SMQ(1) ou un TQM (2) voire un reengineering. Les pays à économie dite dirigée ou planifiée ont hérité d’entreprises qui connaissent de multiples lacunes en matière de management. Ces dysfonctionnements s’expliquent en partie par une absence totale d’environnement concurrentiel durant plus de cinquante années voire un peu plus pour les entreprises de l’ex URSS. En effet les entreprises des pays de l’ex bloc socialiste se trouvaient dans des situations monopolistiques voire oligopolistiques qui ne les incitaient d’aucune manière à améliorer la qualité de leurs produits ou services ou de réduire leurs coûts. Bien plus, elles étaient coupées de toute confrontation avec les entreprises internationales et vivaient en quasi autarcie .De fait toutes les fonctions à commencer par les approvisionnements, la fonction technique, la production, la comptabilité analytique et financière, la gestion des ressources humaines et enfin la commercialisation étaient défaillantes. De même dans les situations de pénurie chronique et permanente de biens et services la fonction marketing était atrophiée. Le management de ces entreprises était de type centralisé, autoritaire et archaïque. Des pays qui ont choisi le même paradigme ont connu exactement ce type de situation à quelques nuances près Cette étude propose une mise à niveau de ces entreprises par le biais de la mise en place d’un système de management intégré par le contrôle de gestion. Nous proposons donc la mise en place dans ces entreprises d’un système de management p

This article highlights secularization debate; identifying its major variants; critiquing the idea with particular reference to Peter Berger’s rendition; and presenting his recent position on the debate. The paper then provides a snapshot of development from the Western perspective, examining the relationship between religion and development, showing how it differs from an African perspective. The paper argues that,the Western models of development are not compatible with Africa because they are alien, incompatible with the norms and values of most Africans, and notably, neglect or relegate several important aspects of the people’s culture, including the role of religion in development.Thus, when African leaders embrace and applaud the Westernbased idea of secularized development at the expense of the subalterns, who do not feel the impacts of these superficial developments, it becomes a terrific façade. The article concludes by proposing a bottom-up approach to development conception and implementation in non-Western society, notably Africa, asserting that it has to beconsidered as a process compatible with the people’s realities, reflecting their values, including religion and culture generally.

The M/M/c/c model is the most widely applied queueing model in the mathematical analysis of call centers. The M/M/c/c model is also referred to as the Erlang Loss System. The Erlang loss model does not take into consideration system attributes such as blocking and busy signals, balking and reneging, retrials and returns. Although, the Erlang loss model is analytically tractable, it is not easy to obtain insight from its results. The need to develop a more accurate call center model has necessitated the modification of the Erlang loss model. In this research, we model and analyze a call center using M/M/c/N the model. The goal of this paper is to extend existing results and prove new results with regards to the monotonicity and limiting behaviour of the M/M/c/N model with respect to the system capacity N.

This communication investigates the effect of radiating heat transfer on unsteady free convection flow past a vertical surface in a rotating porous medium. It is assumed that surface is rotating with angular velocity Ω. The variable heat flux is assumed on the vertical surface varies with time; the governing equations are solved by adopting complex variable notations. The analyticalexpressions for velocity and temperature fields are obtained. The effects of various parameters on mean velocity, mean temperature, transient velocity and transient temperature have been discussed and shown graphically.

In India more than 72% population is living in villages and FMCG companies are famous in selling their products to the middleclass households, it means rural India is a profitable and potential market for FMCG producers. Rural consumers’ incomes are rising and willing to buy the products which improve their lifestyle. Producers of FMCG have to craft their marketing strategies exclusively for rural consumers. In this process they need to understand the rural consumer buying behaviour which may differ geographically. The present study focuses on the understanding of rural consumer buying behavior for FMCG in Haryana. The study stresses on the factors which the purchasing of rural consumers. The study was conducted in four districts of Haryana namely panipat, jind, kuruksetra and gurgaon.