After the passage of a hurricane numerous infrastructures suffer water and wind damages. From engineering meteorology viewpoint, many cases are related to the impact of the wind on a roof. In order to estimate the wind speed on a roof, the three second gust is employed according to ASCE-7 for the wind load analysis. However, since there is no 3-s gust measurement on a roof, constant disputes occur as to who is liable to pay for the damages. After a brief review of recent literature, this technical note provides a methodology to resolve these disputes objectively. The formula is verified by full-scale field measurements during Hurricanes Frances an Ivan. Furthermore, in order to help engineers and contractor estimate the 3-s gust on the rooftop, methods are provided so that the needed 3-s gust can be computed from wind speed measurement available routinely from airports.

Test-driven development (TDD) is a software development process that relies on the repetition of a very short development cycle: first the developer writes a failing automated test case that defines a desired improvement or new function, and then produces code to pass that test and finally refractors the new code to acceptable standards. TDD is a good approach for the development of the new software but it is more time consuming process model when test the existing software system. In this research we are introducing a new technique which reduces the effort of the TDD approach.

In-Process testing metrics has been used from some years and its usage is frequently increasing. There are different metrics for software testing i.e. to measure testing progress, Mean time between arrival of error, density of errors, fixation of errors, failure rate, test execution Productivity, cost of defects, Test efficiency and efficiency checking and so on. But all these metrics are independent and have no relation with each other. There are some attributes of testing metrics which are very much homogenous and interrelated with interdisciplinary measurement. It is quit natural to inter-relate all these metrics into a single metric which should provide overall functionality of some of existing selected metrics and also depicts some new approach of testing measurement. So the derived frame work modeled a new metric. This new metric covers the measurement of major quality attributes such as Correctness, Reliability, Efficiency, Flexibility, Inter-operability, Usability and Maintainability. The derived new metric possess higher level of reliability, early predication of testing progress, less cost of correctness in maintenance phase, effectiveness in error exploration, efficient approach of measuring testing process, Compatibility of different existing metrics, reduce the corrective maintenance effort, less cost of corrective maintenance, a new stander for measuring corrective maintenance effort, high degree of flexibility and interoperability of different Tools.

The objective of this paper is to analyze a composite drive shaft for power transmission applications. Composite materials have many applications ranging from automotive to most of the industrial application and numerous advantages due to its high specific strength (strength / density) and high specific modulus (modulus / density), lighter weight and longer life. Analysis of composite drive shaft is carried out to understand the effect of fiber orientation on load carrying capacity (axial loadings, torque and buckling torque) of drive shaft. MODAL analysis is carried out to observe the effect of fiber angle on modal frequencies. Static and Modal analysis is carried out using FEM, results of FEM analysis is further used to develop a regression equation. These developed regression equation can be used for tuning of properties of shaft and understand the behavior with fiber orientation

In this article, corresponding to certain general sequence we introduce the fuzzy real valued double sequence spaces space where is a double sequence of bounded strictly positive numbers, closely related to the space . We study their different properties. We study some algebraic and topological properties of the space Also we obtained the necessary and sufficient conditions for inclusion and equality of and

Human analyze different sight in daily life images to perceive their environment. More than 99% of the activity of human brain is involved in processing images from the visual cortex. A visual image is rich in information and can save thousand words. Many real world images are acquired with low contrast and unsuitable for human eyes to read, such as industrial and medical X-ray images. Image enhancement is a classical problem in image processing and computer vision. The image enhancement is widely used for image processing and as a preprocessing step in texture synthesis, speech recognition, and many other image/video processing applications. The main challenge is to transpose the validated algorithms into a language as hardware description languages. It is also the need that the input and output data files should be reshaped to match the binary content permitted into the hardware simulators. Research focuses on Simulation, Design and Synthesis of 2D and 3D Image enhancement chip in Hardware description language (HDL) Environment. The chip implementation of image enhancement algorithm is done using Discrete Wavelet Transformation (DWT) and Inverse Modified Discrete Cosine Transformation (IMDCT). Hardware chip modeling and simulation is done in Xilinx 14.2 ISE Simulator. Synthesis environment is carried out on Diligent Sparten-3E FPGA. . Image enhanced values are seen in the waveform editor of Modelsim software.

In India, the service sector has assumed greater economic importance over the past decade and enjoys the largest share in GDP. Banking and financial services, being an important part of service sector, are facing critical challenges to compete with the international players while satisfying customers by offering quality services. As delivering quality service to customers is a must for success, it needs to be continuously evaluated. Extant literature on the subject supports the contention that SERVQUAL and SERVPERF are the two most prominent scales forming the genesis for service quality assessment in different service sectors. Present paper attempts to present a review of the above mentioned two scales in an elucidative, concise and thoroughly documented manner. It also tries to posit the best approach of evaluating service quality in a more efficient and valid method for marketing managers/researchers in Indian context. Literature shows that in Indian context, SERVPERF has outperformed SERVQUAL as it not only cut down the number of variables but also reduced the work load of customer survey and helped in generating unbiased responses. Thus, from a pragmatic viewpoint, it is expected that the paper will serve as a useful of source information for researchers interested in selecting the most efficient service quality scale for assessing service quality in a developing economy like India as also solving complex issues related to service quality and other behavioural outcomes such as customer satisfaction, loyalty, recommendation, trust, word-of-mouth etc. in their future researches.

The paintings of Giuseppe Archimboldo (1527-1593) populate the imaginations of children and adults of all times, allowing the distance from the look of your images, the visualization of new figures, generating curiosity, or even strange. I tried to understand the relationships established between youth identities and their creative expressionsportraits and self portraits - artistic embodied in threedimensional structures, which served as sources of research on teaching. Drew up a proposal for readings and compositions plastic three-dimensional elements of nature or industrially produced, selected and collected by the students of 5th and 6th grades in the subject of Visual Arts, an elementary school in RS, Brazil, in 2007. Producing pictures full of visual sensory appeals to the touch and smell, students recreating elements of everyday life curious figures, exotic and inquisitive, which express their identity forms.

Prenatal care is universally considered important for women and children. This study aims to assess the knowledge of women beneficiaries of ICDS centres related to prenatal care belonging to district Budgam of Kashmir region. Nursing mothers (NM), Pregnant women (PW) and Mother of children beneficiaries (MCB age 6 months-3years) were included to assess and compare the their awareness levels. A total of 600 women beneficiaries were randomly selected from four blocks of district Budgam (150 from each block). The results of the study revealed that majority (79.1%) of the respondents were aware of the importance of medical consultation during pregnancy and about 48.6% were fully aware with appropriate time of consultation. Almost all respondents were aware of weight monitoring during pregnancy but not about its significance. Respondents were also aware about the doses and time schedule of TT vaccination during pregnancy. Basic pre-natal care components are effective means to prevent range of pregnancy complication and reduce maternal mortality. The findings indicate that there is need for enhancement of intervention educational programme in ICDS regarding importance of prenatal care and service for the healthy birth outcome and mothers’ well being.

Cancelable biometric key generation is vital in biometric systems to protect sensitive information of users. A novel technique called Reciprocated Magnitude and Complex Conjugate- Phase (RMCCP) transform is proposed. This proposed method comprises of different components for the development of new method. It is tested with the multiple aspects such as cancelability, irrevocability and security. FVC database and real time datasets are used to observe the performance on Match score using ROC, time complexity, and space complexity. The experimental results show that the proposed method is better in all the aspects of performance..