The proposed system presents power- control strategies of a grid-connected Micro grid generation system with versatile power transfer. This Micro grid system allows maximum utilization of freely available renewable energy sources like wind and photovoltaic energies. For this, an adaptive MPPT P&O Controller along with standard perturbs and observes method will be used for the system.

The proposed Micro grid can operate in autonomous mode. fuzzy logic controller and controlling converters are proposed for smooth power transfer between ac and dc links and for stable system operation under various generation and load conditions. This Micro grid system operates under normal conditions which include normal room temperature in the case of solar energy and normal wind speed at plain area in the case of wind energy. The Power Balancing Control simulation results are presented to illustrate the operating principle, feasibility and reliability of Micro grid proposed system

This paper is about model building to evaluate manufacturing sustainability. This study aims to support manufacturing industries by providing with a tool to evaluate the degree of sustainability by measuring their production performance. Literature review, data collection, conceptual model building, mathematical model building and report writing are the main steps involved of this work. Information has collected from scientific publications on sustainable manufacturing, green manufacturing, sustainable life cycle engineering, remanufacturing and edited. This study has successfully generated an empirical model to evaluate the sustainability degree of manufacturing industries’ production process. Literature suggest, wastage or underutilized capacity creates gap in productivity and appears as non-value added input to production process. This gap contributes to increase production cost, reduce production performance and ultimately it negatively impacted on economy and environment. In this aspect, developed model is useful for relevant stakeholders to eliminate non-value added inputs for achieving economic and environmental sustainability. The developed model is original as developed from fundamental manufacturing concept. This work will add new information in the manufacturing knowledge domain; in this aspect, this work is novel. This paper will provide guideline for future research in sustainable manufacturing.

Today every investor has to learn to analyze the savings and investment avenues cautiously. Life insurance policies are also one of the investment alternatives. Life insurance policies are available in numerous forms. Nowadays banks have been involving in the distribution process of insurance products. Bancassurance is a significant milestone in the insurance business. The article explains the emergence and development of bancassurance in India. The article also outlined the regulatory framework of bancassurance business in India. The growth of bancassurance in the life insurance sector is described in the article.

Ultrasonic is the science of acoustics and the technology of sound. The frequency range of ultrasonic waves is greater than 20 KHz up to several MHz, which is beyond the audible range or limit. Ultrasonics characterization allows for the measurement of velocity, viscosity, density, adiabatic compressibility, internal pressure, Gibb’s energy, impedance and all the parameters of binary or ternary liquids. This ultrasonic characterization using pulse echo technique is discussed in this paper takes the principle of ultrasonic characterization and applied it to some binary liquid mixtures. A new instrumentation system using LabVIEW was designed to allow rapid data collection through varying liquid mixture and their characterization. The system is composed of pulse system and acquired data is then graphically shown using LabVIEW software. LabVIEW is a graphical development environment for creating test measurement and other control applications. Using LabVIEW, virtual instrumentation (VIs) is created to control or measure a process. In this application LabVIEW was used to create a virtual instrument that was laboratory to collect the data required for ultrasonic characterization of the binary systems, Acrolein + Methanol and Acrolein + Cyclohexane. Experiments were conducted to calibrated and validate the system for ultrasonic velocity, viscosity, density, adiabatic compressibility, internal pressure, impedance, free length, free volume, and Gibb’s energy. Transducers are incorporated for sensing purpose. In this paper, the results of an ultrasonic velocity, density and viscosity to study the related acoustical parameters, for the binary systems of Acrolein + methanol and Acrolein + cyclohexane at the temperature 303K using Lab VIEW software have been reported. The behavior of these parameters with composition of the mixture has been discussed in terms of molecular interaction between the components of liquids.

This article is analyzed the factors that affect to the construction contract administration of the government. The relationships of the government’s construction contract administration principles and structures were presented. The present study is a documentary research one. The data were collected from documents, texts, and printing media. Then, the problems affecting the administration were analyzed and synthesized. It was found that the factors include the initial processes before the administration. Moreover, there are other factors during the administration that could cause the effects at any time. These factors were divided into two groups: internal and external factors. The factors could be controlled if the practices were improved and adjusted according to the construction strategies which will be reduce the effects in contract administration continuously.

The main objective of the work is to carry out the weight reduction and cost optimization of connecting rod, which is achieved by changing the material of the existing connecting rod to epoxy resin. The model is developed in CATIA V5 and then imported in ANSYS workbench. The work analysis of the single cylinder four- stroke engine connecting rod is carried out using Finite Element Analysis software ANSYS WORKBENCH 9.0 and taken as a case study. The Von Mises stress, strain and total deformation determined for the same loading condition and compared with the existing results. The current work consists of two types of analysis. In the first part of the study, a static analysis is carried out for the optimization of connecting rod. The static analysis is carried out under axial load and buckling load. In the second part, a fatigue failure analysis is carried out to check the fatigue strength of the optimized connecting rod. FEA and the load analysis results, the load for the optimization study are selected. A fatigue tool is used to determine the life, stress multiaxiality, factor of safety and damage of the connecting rod.

The prevalent need for alternative eco-friendly building materials and the demands for improved concrete strength have compelled researchers to intensify work on substitutes to cement for the purpose of investigating their usefulness as absolute or partial replacement of cement. This project investigates the possible use of Pulverized Bentonitic Clay (PBC) sourced from Nigeria as a partial replacement of cement in concrete production. The experimental work involved the use of concrete mix design aimed at strength of 25N/mm² as control sample. The ordinary Portland cement used for the mixture was replace with 0%, 5%, 10%, 15% and 20% Pulverized Bentonitic Clay (PBC). 150mmx150mmx150mm concrete cubes specimen were cast from mixture of binder, fine aggregate and coarse aggregate using mix ratio 1:1.5:3.The cube specimen were subjected to compressive strength test at 7, 14, 21, and 28 days curing ages. The compressive strength of the ordinary Portland cement/Pulverized Bentonitic Clay (PBC) concrete generally decreases as the percentage of Pulverized Bentonitic Clay (PBC) content increases.  The maximum compressive strength of 25.50 N/mm² was recorded for the 5% PBC-cement cube specimen at 28 day curing age. Addition of bentonite clay resulted in poor early stage and good later stage compressive strength compare to the control mixture. The maximum value of 25.50N/mm² for the 5% replacement level is found suitable and recommended having attained a 28-day compressive strength of more than 25.0N/mm². The findings indicate that the use of 5% Nigerian bentonite clay as partial replacement of cement is suitable for concrete work in which later stage strength is required. The split tensile strength of concrete containing 0%-20%PBC satisfies the minimum requirement for structural grade lightweight concrete. Addition of PBC had a negative effect to the workability of a fresh concrete. It generally lowered the workability of the concrete.

In todays competitive economy, major emphasis is on the availability of product and process, at low cost and high quality. Though the approach for managing quality are different from one company to another, there are few common factors among them which is summarised to form quality principle known as Total Quality Management (TQM).

Tools of TQM are used in optimisation of the business process through waste reduction and quality improvement. With the proper usage of these tools several issues within the organisation like poor quality and higher percentage of scraps can be addressed which would be beneficial in attaining higher profitability.

                Here few tools of TQM such as Poke-A-Yoke being used in a auto duct manufacturing industry to eliminate human errors in finishing, fishbone diagram being used in a manufacturing firm to show effect of providing excess tolerance limit, the application of Root cause analysis in a manufacturing firm to analyse root cause of problems such as cracks in cradles, vibrations and noise during machining, PDCA cycle used for continuous improvement in quality of the product in a manufacturing firm are discussed.

No single tool can provide solutions to all the applications; usage of TQM tools requires proper knowhow about each tool and its areas of application. But results obtained by TQM tools take time to have a noteworthy effect when implemented in the industry

We needed evidence as to which exercises were appropriate in the treatment of patients with brachial plexus impairment.

Presentation of kinesitherapeutic methodology and reporting results of its annual application to patients with traumatic injury to the plexus brachialis with motor deficits of the left upper limb.

Our subject of treatment was a 32 year-old man with traumatic brachial plexus, to whom we conducted a systematic physical therapy, including therapeutic massage of the shoulder girdle and upper limb, proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitating techniques, analytical gymnastics, exercises for grip training.

As a result of the applied kinesitherapeutic methodology the muscle strength of the upper arm and forearm were increased. There has been an overall improvement of functional upper limb gestures and the grip strength.

To remove dysfunctions and disabilities in patients with brachial plexus impairment it is necessary to use the patient’s locomotive apparatus in its dynamics and complexity of movements.

The adsorption properties of platinum from hydrochloric acid solutions on an anionic exchange resin (AG1-x8) were investigated. Adsorption of Pt increased with increasing temperature and decreasing acid concentration in the stock solution. The adsorption equilibrium isotherm of platinum on AG1-x8 resin could be described by the Langmuir adsorption model. Thermodynamic parameters indicated that adsorption of Pt on AG1-x8 resin was spontaneous and endothermic. Kinetic studies showed that adsorption of Pt onto AG1-x8 resin in this system followed pseudo-second-order kinetics.

Electrocardiography (ECG) is the process of recording the electrical activity of the heart. The analysis of ECG has greater importance in the detection of cardiac diseases. The ECG signal are normally contaminated by various types of noises like power line interference, instrumental noise, external EMF interference, noise due to random body movements and respirational movements. The artifacts and noises need to be eliminated for better clinical evaluation. In this paper, noise reduction is done using window-based Finite impulse response (FIR) filters such as Welch, Hamming, Hanning and Blackman-Harris and Blackman Nutall window and Undecimated Wavelet Transform (UWT). The performance of both the FIR filter method and UWT is evaluated in terms of signal to noise ratio (SNR) by means of LabVIEW (Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench).

Here we have analyzed the impact of gate dielectric, device width, and metal electrodes on Tunnel Field Effect Transistor (TFET). A numerical T-CAD device simulator 3-D ATLAS version 2.10.18.R shows that reducing the width will reduce the effective threshold voltage. Transistor with high I_ON/I_OFF ratio of 10¹¹, sub-threshold swing of 42mV/decade for the channel length of 50nm with Hafnium oxide as gate dielectric material of thickness 3nm is considered. The performance analysis of Tunnel Field Effect Transistor is done by varying dielectric material, width of the device and varying the applied voltages. The simulation results indicate the suitability of proposed novel structure.

In this paper fuzzy reasoning methodology is proposed as a technique for the balanced scorecard method to evaluate the performance of the industrial enterprises, and this is the integration of qualitative and quantitative variables expressed in terms expressive language, and to see how effective that emulate the information and data obtained from the study applied to one of the institutions that operate in the field of food production that using matlab program to emerge in recent results indicate the performance ratio reached from enterprise under study during the period 2005 to 2014.

this paper shows the outcomes of an investigation of the response onto knee joint replacement during daily life activity. Obese weight category has been studied for this investigation during six activities of daily life activity. A model of knee joint replacement has been designed for this study and the simulation of model has been done by using ANSYS software. The outcomes of this study illustrates that one legged activity occurred the minimum effect of the forces and moments on the knee joint replacement. While the ascending stair activity cause the maximum effect of knee joint replacement. Knee bend and Stand up / sit down seem to have the same results while the level walking has an average values

There is much discussion these days about the fundamental changes of universities and higher education (HE). That is why they need to shape themselves the way of delivering methods as well as whole model of conducting their services because of that we propose a model for the university of the future based on Business Model Canvas. This is mainly a conceptual paper where literature reviews were conducted and initial model of University-of-the-Future (UotF) was established; and surveys based on structured questionnaire were conducted involving 30 participants on their preference of future universities. Also we make interview with some of the participants of those thirty to find out several factors like value proposition, key resources, key partners, key activities, and so on. After this survey and interview, we propose a model of future universities where we find some important points which can make universities more dynamic and successful such as MOOC, hologram, website for discussion, involving industry leader to make curriculum, those are crucial factors which universities must need to adopt. Moreover, there are some other points which need more attention like flexible curriculum, part-time jobs within universities in different forms, and selling research products. Even though we find some important points, this paper is not enough to get the whole idea about UotF as we only focus on two customer segments: undergraduate and post graduate. Also, our survey participants are limited in numbers and most of them are undergraduates’ students. Still it is a great joy for us that people are thinking universities need to be changed and it should give more importance on collaboration with industry and other parts of the world.

The challenges ahead for higher education not just in Malaysia but around the world appears driven by disruptive change in the forces of technology, economic, political and education sector which threaten to undermine its business model, governmental support and operating mission. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to build a successful future business model canvas for university of the future while addressing a number of challenges in the coming years. A total of 20 respondents were interviewed encompassing two customer profiles which are endowment contributors and investors. Based on the analysis, a more comprehensive business model canvas (BMC) and value proposition design (VPD) were established fit the upcoming higher education system’s environment. The number of respondents was rather small due to time limitation. The results are predominantly beneficial to universities, policy makers, business organizations and students by offering a comprehensive understanding into the new practical business model into the future. This study offers a beneficial source of information to each party to produce incredible strategies for higher education sector that meet global needs.

Stephens (2013) explains higher education is being challenged to meet inflated expectations and that creating the future requires collaboration across organizational and national boundaries.  Moreover, Tight (2004) also explains that higher education research has grown substantially in importance over the last two decades. These statements emphasize higher education to change. In addition (Abeles, 2006,p.41 in Stephen, 2013) tells us that universities change continually. The purpose of this study is find out what is university of the future will be like.  The methodology use the business model canvas (BMC) and value preposition design (VPD) canvas to analyze the results. The finding of the study shows that student would like to have quality knowledge with they apply it into real life.

Changing times warrant a change in the way companies and organizations deal with their stakeholders and shareholders. In other words, predictable and unpredictable environmental factors push organizations to keep changing and improving their strategies in order to have competitive advantage over other organizations in the market. In the case of universities, not only does it have competitors within the educational sector but it also has within other sectors. This makes it challenging for a university to remain relevant in the next few years.

This paper examined the different environmental factors that are affecting the universities. It has established that in order to have competitive advantage over its competitors, it has to re-evaluate its business model and processes. After studying and analyzing BMC and value proposition canvas, the study has discovered that to be a “the future of universities”, a university needs streamline its business model according to the needs of the customer segments by offering specializations on sought after degrees (e.g. Islamic banking), training (online), develop an MOOC, as well as provide other online educational resources for the customers. This study forms a basis for future research and work on the ever changing environmental factors that continuously affect a university.

Cryptography and Steganography are the major part of information security. In this paper we combine these two techniques to perform a powerful data encryption. In first level, the concept of sparse matrix has been introduced to encrypt the target string and in second level, by using the standard LSB method, the message is secretly embedded into a cover file in such a way so that its existence is unidentified. A temporary 4*4 matrix is constructed from the target string where most of the elements are zero. Instead of embedding the target string directly, the positional values of the nonzero elements (row and column number) are identified from the temporary matrix. By using the traditional LSB method, the numbers of nonzero elements with their positional value are embedded into the cover file. In the next segment, the performance of the proposed method is calculated in terms of two parameters: the first one is Means square error (MSE) and the second one is Signal to noise ratio (SNR). And finally, a comparison has been carried out with the traditional LSB method. The experimental results and the comparisons demonstrate that our proposed work is highly efficient in terms of encryption and the capacity size of the text. A huge volume of text can be accommodated into the cover file and the difference between the original cover file and the stego file is so minute that it can’t be identified by the human auditory system.(HAS).

The challenges into the university of the future for E-learning not just in Malaysia but around the world appears driven by disruptive change in the forces of technology, to enhance the delivery of lectures to enhance communication between instructors and students, and among students to provide asynchronous access to course materials which threaten to undermine its business model, Public Private administration workers. University across the world have been forced to accommodate this new ELearning technics to ensure its desire mission and vision competitively and respectfully around the world. As a result, the purpose of this paper is to construct an effective future business model canvas the future while addressing a number of challenges in the coming years. This participant will be compose of IIUM students, Student Recruitment Agency. Established on the study, an extra comprehensive business model canvas (BMC) and value proposition design (VPD) were established suitable the future ELearning education. The people of respondents was rather minor due to time control. The results are new practical business model into the future a comprehensive understanding into the in the main valuable to universities, strategy creators, business organizations and students by offering. This study proposals a valuable foundation of data to each party to goods incredible plans for eLearning that meet worldwide wants.

The study examines the impact of credit risk, especially credit risk of non-performance load on performance of Sri Lanka Commercial Banks. For this purpose this study used capital adequacy, liquidity and company size as independent variable and the financial performance of the Bank as the dependent variable. Five licensed commercial banks are selected on the basis of purposive sample. Study had conducted based on secondary data which are collected from the sample banks for the financial period from 2008 to 2014. Descriptive analysis and regression analysis are employed to analyze the data.

The findings revealed that there is a significant effect of credit risk of non-performance loan on financial performance of commercial banks in Sri Lanka. The model explained 62% influence on the performance of the banks. However, only two factors, liquidity and company size shown significant influence whereas others, capital adequacy not.

The findings suggest that the Government of Sri Lanka should introduce policy and legal environment which mitigate risks. Similarly, the bank management also should adapt mechanism which  will ensure effective risk identification and assessment, and periodical evaluation of the financial performance which may lead to ensure the stability in financial position and avoid unnecessary financial crisis. This study is particularly important and useful for future investors and the senior management