Expressive creative encounters (ECE) are designed as spaces for the subjects to express and interpret their emotions in the context of social research. The expressiveness of the social subjects has always been a controversial issue for social sciences, because nobody can “live-within-the-other”. But the “development” and “improvement” of qualitative social research strategies incorporating the “expressiveness capture technologies” in a progressive yet steady way have been able to bridge the gap between what the researcher sees and what the subject expresses. In this work, creativity is taken as a starting point to produce expressive experiences where individuals "share" and interpret, both with the researcher and with others, in particular social conditions of existence, their sensations and emotions.

This paper presents a new approach for hiding information in digital image in spatial domain. In this approach three bits of message is embedded in a pixel using Lucas number system but only one bit plane is allowed for alternation. The experimental results show that the proposed method has the larger capacity of embedding data, high peak signal to noise ratio compared to existing methods and is hardly detectable for steganolysis algorithm.

Consumers are concerned with their health and physical fitness and are seeking for alternative plant products with potential for providing nutrients with enhanced health benefits. Hence, this study investigates the effect of mixture of Ehuru (Monodora myristica) and Njasang (Ricinodendron heudelotii) oil extract on serum lipid profile and blood glucose concentration of albino rats. The spices were processed into fine flour and the oil was extracted with n-hexane as the solvent. A total of twenty five rats weighing 125-160g were separated into five groups of five each to represent control, olive oil and varying concentrations of the spices. After acclimiatization for one week, experimental administration of the extract was carried out daily for 28 days. Blood samples were collected by cardiac puncture into tubes. A portion of the blood was used for fasting blood glucose determination. Serum was separated from the other portion and used for assay of lipid profile using standard kit methods. The results obtained showed percentage fatty acid yield for Ehuru and Njasang as 79.54 and 81.0 (polyunsaturated) and 13.40 and 15.0 (monounsaturated) respectively. Fasting blood glucose assay showed that only rats in group 1 (6.46mmol/L) became significantly (p<0.05) hyperglycaemic while groups 2-4(6.03, 5.98 and 5.53mmol/L) showed a hypoglycaemic effect with respect to control (6.13mmol/L). Serum total cholesterol and low density lipoprotein-cholesterol were significantly (P<0.05) low for test samples and olive oil compared to control. The serum high density lipoprotein-cholesterol (1.15 – 1.55mmol/L) increased with increase in extract administration compared to control (1.02mmol/L). Triglyceride level also increased (0.60- 0.65mmol/L) for test samples compared to control (0.6mmol/L), but the increase was not significant at P< 0.05.

The article compares two approaches that attempt to explain the socio-economic events and policy within states and global society: the Coloniality of Power and Cosmopolitanism. The article reconstructs the discourse of both of these theoretical perspectives to continue next with an assessment of their strengths and weaknesses. In a third stage, the article compares the commonalities and disagreements between the two. We conclude that the two paradigms make significant contributions, and that the social researcher has the important challenge of articulating both of them coherentlyin order to account for a concrete reality.

Cloud computing is mostly used for highly scalable applications which are very catchable now a day in the world of Internet as on primary needs. The important feature provided to the customers’ data is done in unknown systems will do all different transmissions remotely. Using the transmission through remote systems of cloud computing makes users’ scares of their data is that secured or not specially in some particular categories like online transmissions and health. These are the threats that create a significant barrier in the cloud computing services. To tackle this crisis, in this paper, we explored a novel highly decentralized information accountability framework. That maintains complete history of the usage of the registered user’s data in the cloud. In this way, we explored an objectcentered approach that creates enclosing our details of logging history combining with the users’ data. We referrers couple of provably-secure PDP schemes which are most accurate when compared to old ones, not only that when compared with schemes that results less efficient than our proposed. In particular, the overhead at the server is low as opposed to linear in the size of the data. Researches using our implementation verify the practicality of PDP and reveal that the performance of PDP is bounded by disk I/O and not by cryptographic computation.

Destiny is the most complicated subject in our world and cannot be comprehended without taking a global view in both space and time. Therefore this paper takes a multi disciplinary approach using mathematics, physics, engineering, economics, and philosophy. The paper has two major related objectives (A) Provide a theory for the existence of destiny and (B) Explain away the counter logic. For part A we take the following approaches. (a1) The idea of destiny is well recognized by Newtonian physics. In our universe everything happens because of simultaneous interactions of everything. Thus destiny is not an individual concept. It is not my destiny or your destiny, it is our destiny. (a2) From this global concept of our destiny, we derive how the destiny plays out locally for an individual; how humans are really part of nature, work in cooperation with nature, and according to its dictates. In particular we show that our first reaction to every natural event is planned. (a3) Reincarnation theory of soul is an integral part of destiny theory. We prove giving real life examples, that reincarnation is a law of nature, and we are all reincarnated souls. Thus destiny is not only global in space; it is also global in time, covering all past lives. For part B we cover several important opposing views. (b1) The uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics says nothing can be certain, and therefore destiny cannot be true. We point out that the core idea behind Heisenberg’s original mathematical proof is based on Fourier Transform theory. Fourier Transform uses infinity, which as we show is not meaningful in nature. Replacing infinity by any finite number changes the uncertainty to certainty, just like the Newtonian physics. (b2) Destiny is not in the mainstream, therefore it must be wrong. We show that it is the opposite. All Mathematical and physical theories have assumptions that are invalid in nature and therefore they cannot describe nature. These theories are not approximat

The effect of cadmium (Cd) on adsorptiondesorption behavior of Simazine [2-chloro-4, 6 bis (ethylamine)-1,3,5-triazine] which is anionic herbicide were investigated at three different temperature 10, 25 and 40 ±1˚C on six agricultural soil samples which has different texture. The first order rate law was most fitted with the best correlation factor, the Linear, Freundlich and Langmuir models also were applied to describe the adsorption-desorption affinities to the soil samples. Values of adsorption rate constant ka were in the range 0.836 - 1.818 h-1 while desorption rate constant kdes were in the range 0.779 - 1.376 h-1. The activation energy Ea * for adsorption processes followed the range 11.041- 17.684 KJmol-1. Values of equilibrium constant lnKo were in the range 0.048 - 0.278. The standard free energy change ΔGo values were in the range -0.126 to -0.655 KJmol-1. Values of the standard enthalpy change ΔHo followed the range -2.702 to - 4.850 KJmol-1. The value of standard entropy change ΔSo followed the range-7.557 to-14.965 Jmol-1k-1. The negative values revealed that the adsorption-desorption processes spontaneously, exothermic and physical in nature to some extent and chemical in others. The distribution coefficient Kd values for adsorption-desorption process varied between 2.369 - 2.611 mlg-1, 5.556- 22.85 mlg-1 respectively. Freundlich coefficient KF ranged between 0.180-0.506 mlg-1 for adsorption processes. The value Freundlich coefficient for desorption process KFdes ranged from 0.107 to0.498 mlg-1. Langmuir coefficient KL for adsorption process varied between 0.027 - 0.064 mlg-1. Langmuir coefficient KLdes values for desorption process from 0.014 to 0.067 mlg-1. All desorption isotherms exhibited hysteresis.

A method is proposed for selecting the most informative diagnostic symptoms in lifetime consumption monitoring of complex objects. Typically in such cases many symptoms are available and their suitability cannot be evaluated even with a detailed knowledge of object layout and operation. The proposed procedure involves two stages. Preliminary symptom selection is based on the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) method. Second stage is based on the information content assessment and employs the continuous analogue of Shannon entropy. An example is presented for a steam turbine fluid-flow system.

New model of teaching and learning was introduced in our school to meet the needs of our students who seek greater autonomy, connectivity as well as opportunities for socio-experiential learning. The Connected Learning Pedagogy (CLP) was designed to mine the learning potential of the new social and digital media domain to create a community of ownership of learning, promoting collaboration and connectedness among students, lecturers and parents. To support the implementation of CLP, laboratories were equipped with computers and tablet PCs. Through them, students were connected to various social and digital media such as Facebook, Moodle, YouTube and iDe’Lite (ITE video portal) to conduct their required research and learning. The tablet PCs provided lecturers with the added advantage of mobility during lessons, allowing them to facilitate the learning process with ease. Students were engaged in many exciting ways through Apps in the tablet PCs. In addition, parents were connected to students learning through PRISM (ITE Parents’ Real-time Information System on Mobile). With the mobile apps, PRISM, parents are connected to realtime data on their child’s learning.

The continued focus on the collegiate careers of student athletes continues its presence within the community of higher education. As this focus has been historically centered on academic performance, we are beginning to see a growing concern for the overall experience obtained in a higher education setting, especially concerning athletes participating in the sport of football. Research in student athlete experiences has demonstrated that participation in athletics enhances learning, character development, leadership skills, social self-esteem and motivation (Astin, 1993; Childs, 1987; Hirko, 2009; Miracle & Rees, 1994; Pascarella & Smart, 1991; Shulman and Bowen, 2002). While this experience has traditionally been examined through a comparative lens between traditional non-athlete students and the student athlete population, the athlete experience needs to be further investigated through a qualitative lens to assess the true phenomenological environment.