Archives-April 2014

This study investigates that how corporate social responsibility affect the overall consumer behavior, that is, loyalty, repurchase intentions, and word of mouth. Authors purposed that CSR generates trust and then loyalty, repurchase intentions, and word of mouth are generated. Perceived service quality affects the relationship of CSR and trust. Results support the purposed relationships, as CSR adds up to customer’s trust and then customer become loyal to the company and repurchase intentions and positive word of mouth are also generated. The test results show no impact of perceived service quality on CSR and trust’s direct relation.

This research introduces a new set of 32 in-equivalent Hadamard matrices of order 404 of Goethals Seidel type. To apply the Goethals Seidel method, four Turyn type sequences of lengths 34 are found by a computer search. These sequences are used to construct base sequences of lengths 67 and are used to generate a set of four T-sequences of length 101. There were 16 possible ways of the linear combinations of these T- sequences and 1820 possible ways of choosing four sequences. Among them only 32 possible choices gave the new set of in-equivalent Hadamard matrices of order 404.

Stock control is an important functional branch of any manufacturing/service organization. Stock control has been discussed using the dynamic programming model approach. The distribution of goods to warehouses is a multistage process which the dynamic programming is adapted to providing solution to and also guarantees optimal feasible solution. The stock in warehouses is used as a partition of the firms main store. An equation ensues from the stock record which is shown to be piecewise continuous. The Laplace transform is used to test the existence of the function. The step function that derives from the supply to the warehouses is transformed to a piecewise linear function which can be approximated as continuous function. The step function is then applied on the function to obtain the returns from the respective allocations if the function exists. The allocation with the highest return is the optimum. Some relevant theorem have been stated and proved and illustrative examples included.

This study was an attempt to evaluate Iranian high school English textbooks in terms of vocabulary, grammatical structures and compatibility between reading comprehension texts and grammar exercises. Readability formula and experts’ judgment were used to ensure that high school textbooks, English American headway and English American file books were at the same level of difficulty .The findings revealed that, there were a significant lack of compatibility between the grammatical structures and reading comprehension passages in each lesson and also between high school textbooks and English American headway and English American file books in terms of the order of presentation and content.

Antihypertensive drugs are medicines that help lower blood pressure. Fast-moving lifestyles, unearthly hours at work, stress, addiction to alcohol and unhealthy meals are making more and more Indians fall prey to high blood pressure at a very young age. The biggest problem with hypertension is that there are no symptoms. Thus people tend to be unaware that they have hypertension. The prevalence of hypertension ranges from 20-40 per cent in urban adults and 12-17 per cent among rural adults. Experts estimate that the number of patients in India with high BP is likely to rise from about 140 million in 2008 to nearly 215 million by 2030 along with an increase in the risk of complications such as heart attacks, strokes, kidney problems and other serious illnesses.

A study in gully erosion management on lateritic soil is a critical issue in West Bengal. In this paper, we have used field plots data, in combination with vegetation and check dams, for all aspects of lateritic soil erosion management. A program for controlling gully erosion was carried out in Rangamati in lateritic soil region of western part of West Bengal from 2011 to 2012 include two approaches “Check dam” and “Vegetation cover”. Results indicated that at the initial stage, the percent of sand was maximum in the upper catchment of each gully basin and the concentration of silt and clay is less. Gradually as vegetation starts trapping the sediment composition of soil changes registering higher percentage of finer particles. Again, the nutrients detached from the upper catchment were arrested by check dams that induced nutrients supply and water storage, which in turn, increased the growth of vegetation. This result proved the significance of vegetation cover with check dams to curb soil erosion and it may help the planners and managers to take proper decision for the conservation of lateritic soil.

Stress?Strain response of sands focusing sand’s shearing stress, angle of shearing resistance, dilatancy and contraction during volumetric changes etc. is of highly research interest due to its application in soil modelling and prediction of soil hazards even in a case of soil liquefaction. In this research paper, grain size and state of compactness (loosest and densest) influence on the stress?strain response of 8 (eight) different and specific sized granular sand grain have been researched by analyzing the results of a digital direct shear test corresponding to a constant strain rate of 0.5 mm / minutes and increasing normal load (5 kg, 10 kg and 15 kg). In a bird’s eye view of the results, shearing stress (irrespective of compaction state) increases only 4 % from smaller to larger grain whereas approximately 30 % increase is discernible in dense grain than that of loose grain (irrespective of grain size). Larger sized grain possesses approximately 1.5 times more angular shear resistance than smaller size but in densest state it is about 2 times more. Authors have opined that, Though both the grain size and state of compactness (loosest and densest) affects the stress?strain response, state of compactness reveals more significant influence. In a dilation?contraction region, a loose grain contracts (18 %) while a dense grain contracts initially (15 %) but finally dilates (21 %) for an increase of size during plastic volumetric deformation of the grain.

Image Inpainting and denoising refers to the ill-posed problem of filling in the missing data in digital images by interpolating from the vicinity. In this paper, we present a new approach for image restoration. The denoising is performed by the smoothing equation working inside and outside of the inpainting domain but in completely different ways. Inside the inpainting domain, the smoothing is carried out by the Mean Curvature Flow, while outside the inpainting domain is carried out in a way as to encourage smoothing within a region and discourage smoothing across boundaries. The approach here presented permits the transportation of available information from the outside towards the inside of the inpainting domain. To illustrate the effective performance of our model, we present some experimental results on a Matlab and solved the diffusion equations.

Ayurveda has two main aims one is to maintain health and the second is to cure disease. The branch of rasayana or rejuvenation is one of the eight specialized branches of Ayurveda that primarily deals with the maintenance of health. Rasayana is defined as any herb, food, or activity which confers youthfulness and cures diseases. If taken in a proper way, the rasayana prevents early aging and keeps you young and active both physically and mentally. Rasayana is a special type of treatment containing various methods of rejuvenation. It derives from 'Rasa' and 'Ayana.' The literal meaning of Rasa is the essence of something. Anything ingested into the body in the form of food or medicine is first resynthesized into Rasa Dhatu, the basic plasma tissue. Ayana is the method by which Rasa is carried to all the body tissues for biochemical metamorphosis (Rasakriya). The concept of Rasayana is based on these two principles of conservation and transmutation of energy. Rasayana therapy strives to improve physical, mental and moral Qualities. It prevents old age, restores youthfulness, improves the complexion and the voice, increases physical strength and immunity. It strengthens memory and intelligence, gives happiness to oneself, and a life which is beneficial to others.

Relevant background material about speech recognition is presented, along with a critical review of previous hardware implementations. Accurate real-time speech recognition is not currently possible in the mobile embedded space where the need for natural voice interfaces is clearly important. The continuous nature of speech recognition coupled with an inherently large working set creates significant cache interference with other processes. Hence, real-time recognition is problematic even on high-performance general-purpose platforms. This paper provides a detailed analysis of CMU's latest speech recognizer (Sphinx 3.2.). Several optimizations are then described which expose parallelism and drastically reduce the bandwidth and power requirements for real-time recognition. A special-purpose accelerator for the dominant Gaussian probability phase is developed for a 0:25_ CMOS process which is then analyzed and compared with Sphinx's measured energy and performance on a 0:13_ 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 system. The results show an improvement in power consumption by a factor of 29 at equivalent processing throughput. However after normalizing the process, the special-purpose approach has twice the throughput, and consumes 104 times less energy than the general-purpose processor. The energy-delay product is a better comparison metric due to the inherent design trade-offs between energy consumption and performance. The energy-delay product of the special-purpose approach is 196 times better than the Pentium 4. These results provide strong evidence that real-time large vocabulary speech recognition can be done within a power budget commensurate with embedded processing using today's technology.