Archives-January 2017

This study discussed issues relevant to the peer review in the science social system. A background discussion was used to identify the significant clamor of biases in peer review. This was identified as the basis of most author and reviewers conflicts during peer review, however, exposition on the purpose of blinding during peer review was provided. This is to avoid decisions based on sentiment as result of connections between reviewer(s) and author(s).

Treatment of wastewater has become a real challenge in recent years. Effluents of a large variety of industries usually contain important quantities of synthetic organics. The discharge of these colored compounds in the environment causes considerable non-aesthetic pollution and serious health-risk factors. The textile industry is one of the most important export industries of India. This paper presents a general review of efficient electrochemical techniques to decolorize dyeing effluents for environmental protection. The electrochemical treatment of wastewater is considered as one of the advanced oxidation processes, potentially a powerful method of pollution control, offering high removal efficiencies the removal of colour in textile industry. Electrochemical treatment of dye industry wastewater was investigated using different electrodes. Also it has to be seen that whether this type of industrial waste influent can be reused by proper implementation of treatment on water and choosing the correct method for treatment of dye waste water.

This paper presents a novel long-term renewable energy (RE) planning model for remote communities (RCs). Over the past few years, there has been a significant increase in assessing and deploying RE projects in northern remote locations. The model proposed in this paper adds to such efforts by creating a multiple-year community planning tool. This can be used to determine economic and technically feasible RE solutions, considering the current operating structures, electricity pricing systems, subsidy frameworks, and project funding alternatives under which RE can be deployed in RCs. The proposed model is implemented in a case study. The case study shows that RE projects can be feasible undercurrent operating conditions, for a set of funding alternatives that share the economic risks.

Knee Osteoarthritis (KOA) is a degenerative joint disease and a major public health problem all over the world. The present study is focused to evaluate the Socio-demographic and Risk factors associated with radiographic evidence of KOA subjects who were attended to Government Ayurveda Hospitals in Jaffna District from January 2013 to August 2014. There were 177 (70.8%) female and 73 (29.2%) male with a mean age of 57.02 (SD±8.78) years and highly significant association between age and gender (P<0.05) and BMI and gender (P<0.05) of KOA subjects. The findings of this study had indicated that risk factors as age, gender, family history, menopause and BMI were similar to the findings of KOA studies of other research studies.

The aim of this study is to investigate, identify and compare Human Resource Management (HRM) practices in private hospital in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu India. Self developed survey; based on literature reviews are an instrument used for data collection. The findings of this study such as social characteristics sex, ages religion, community, nativity etc., are important for understanding the needs of human resource management practices in hospitals. This study also deals with the contributions of different factors towards quality care of patients and work culture among the staff.

To develop a sustainable concrete using new supplementary cementitious material (SCM) like Lime sludge which is produced in paper industry while producing paper. It was replaced partially with Ordinary Portland cement (OPC). The properties of concrete investigated include compressive strength, split tensile strength, flexural strength and sorptivity keeping optimum percentage of Lime sludge supposedly supplementary cementitious material (SCM). Also compared the cost of sludge based concrete with conventional concrete. In this work, M25 grade was developed and test results indicate that the use of Lime sludge with cement in the concrete has improved the performance of concrete on mechanical properties and cost economical.

Web Services describes an identical way of integrating Web-based applications. For satisfying users demands these services have higher probability. All these services are publicly offered as a web data in the web repository. Web Services are of two kinds likely SOAP and REST offer different methods to invoke a service. Mobile and cloud applications, social networking websites, and automated business processes are among the drivers fueling the need for RESTful Web APIs. A survey on approach that is to be applied for analyzing and selecting web services from the number available web service is be conducted.

Biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles using Diospyros chloroxylon Roxb. ripened fruit pulp of extract was investigated and the effect of broth concentration in reduction mechanism and particle size is reported. The rapid reduction of silver (Ag+) ions was monitored using UV-visible spectrophotometer and showed formation of silver nanoparticles within 20 minutes. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) showed that the synthesized silver nanoparticles are varied from 10-25 nm and have the varying in shapes like spherical, round uneven. Further the XRD analysis confirms the nano-crystalline phase of silver with FCC crystal structure. FTIR examinations confirms the Silver particles. The present study, it was found that the increasing broth concentration increases the rate of reduction and decreases the particle size.

Till date polymeric membranes play a major role in Reverse Osmosis Desalination Industries. Many researchers have been concentrated in order to develop optimum polymeric membranes. The optimization is done in previous decades by controlling the membrane formation reactions and by use of catalysts and some additives but the emergence of Nano-technology in membrane could provide a better alternative for polymer based membranes. In this research a general review on different conventional membrane process that are currently employed are discussed and how Nano-structured membranes that can be employed which will enhance the Reverse osmosis desalination performance and but number of challenges remain with regard to their practical execution.

One of the amazing inventions of science is super absorbent polymers capable of absorbing liquids. Super absorbent polymers (SAP?s) are materials that have the ability to absorb and retain large volumes of water and aqueous solutions by swelling. Various applications of super absorbent polymers are being explored by various experiments across the world. The mechanism of absorption by these polymers and their few applications are being discussed.