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Green building research and construction is getting day by day a place in construction industry worldwide. With augmenting issues of environment and growing concern over climate change, a social sustainable green building research is getting importance. However, construction of green buildings still encounters impediments, as there is a lack of proper framework and research. The present study aims to identify common barriers encountered and social factors which are important for the sustainability of green building research. The findings from this review reveal that, although project cost is the paramount barrier among others, there is no paucity in sustainable knowledge in construction industry. Furthermore, a sustainable green building research (SGBR) framework for green building construction should be developed to overcome the barriers.

Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) is an important African cereal crop and is listed among Africa’s lost crops but is now gaining popularity as other cereals are declining in production due to climatic change. To promote food security, many researchers and policy makers are shifting the focus on production of sorghum. In Kenya, sorghum is primarily grown in ASALs whose suitability is climatic factors but the extent is not known. This paper modeled the potential sorghum suitable areas of current and the years 2050 and 2080 climatic periods. The sorghum location data were downloaded from GENESYS and Kenya Agricultural Research Institute while climate data was from world climate database website. Analysis was done using Maxent and DIVA-GIS softwares. The model generated an excellent AUC of 0.97 and the suitable areas in the future are shown to expand in both 2050 and 2080 climatic periods though not in same magnitude. The main variables contributing more than 10 % of change in suitability areas in decreasing order are precipitation of wettest period, temperature seasonality (STD * 100), precipitation of warmest quarter, and precipitation of driest month. The generated information will guide the policy makers and stakeholders in making informed decisions with regard to the efforts of re-introduction and promotion of sorghum production in ASALs.

Cut twigs with fresh leaf of Som plant (PerseabombycinaKost) are used in indoor rearing of Muga Silkworm (Antheraeaassamensis) as food. Through the consumption of leaf the silkworm get required water content and nutrients for their normal metabolic activities for growth and development. A number of chemicals in single and combination were tested as water solutions keeping the twigs lower cut ends dip in solution inside bottles. Sucrose and gibber relic acid solutions are found to keep the leaf fresh for considerable period. Sucrose at a concentration of 40 g per liter of distilled water keep leafs fresh up to 96 hours. This concentration of the solution has a pH value of 3.25. Gibber relic acid solution at the concentration of 0.01 g per liter of distilled water with pH measuring 4.00 keeps leafs fresh for 36 hours. The best concentrations of these two chemicals were also worked out to be 4% for sucrose and 0.015% for gibber relic acid that give a pH value of 4.2 in distilled water. This concentration of gibber relic acid keeps Som plan leafs fresh for 48 hours.

The quest for a versatile standardization method for Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis Technique has been the major driving force behind many research works for the past few decades. The key factor is the desire to overcome the limitation of dependence on multi-elemental standards without sacrificing analytical accuracy and experimental simplicity. Appraisal of the different approaches towards standardization of Neutron Activation Analysis has been carried out; re-visiting the strengths and weaknesses of each standardization method. k0-standardization method is proposed to be the most suitable for its robustness and for providing remedy to the drawbacks in other methods. The basic principle of Neutron Activation Analysis and the superior qualities of k0-standardization has been reviewed.

In recent years, preparation of polymer materials either soluble or insoluble in water with various functional groups has been developed, which can absorb metal ions in aqueous and non-aqueous media. In general, functionalized polymers for metal ion complexation can be prepared either by derivation of a basic polymer (precursor) with the desired ligand or by polymerization of the corresponding ligand derivatives. Among functionalized polymers, those containing EDTA have attracted much attention. EDTA with amino carboxylic acid groups can be introduced into or graft onto the backbone of polymer chains. Polymers bearing such groups can form stable complexes with various heavy metal ions. Therefore, we attempted to prepare new complexing polymer materials, which can be used in wastewater treatment. The synthesised random copolyesters were characterized by viscosity measurements, solubility studies, and spectral analysis. Thermal studies were also made on these copolyesters.

4-aminopyridinium oxalate (4APO), an organic nonlinear optical single crystal has been grown by slow evaporation solution growth technique. Single crystal X-ray diffraction studies were carried out to determine the unit cell parameters.4APO crystallizes in monoclinic system. The grown crystal has been characterized by Fourier transform infrared and UV-Visible spectral studies. Thermogravimetric analyses (TGA) and differential thermal analysis (DTA) have been carried out to study the thermal behavior of the grown crystal. The mechanical stability of the grown crystal has been studied by using Vickers microhardness test. The Kurtz and Perry powder SHG technique confirms the NLO property of the grown crystal.

Benzotriazole has been prepared as a corrosion inhibitor to control the rate of corrosion. This compound has been investigated as corrosion inhibitor at room temperature for preventing mild steel corrosion in Sulphuric acid medium at different concentration at two hour time interval by weight loss method. The result showed that the corrosion inhibition efficiency of these compounds was found to vary with Sulphuric acid concentration. Also, it was found that the corrosion inhibition behavior of Benzotriazole is greater in 1M H2SO4 when compared to 2M H2SO4 at two hour time interval. So Benzotriazole can be used has a good inhibitor for preventing mild steel material for many construction purpose.

In the world wide network, there are several websites, in which each and every system has to be protected securely. The DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) make DNS the first core Internet system to be protected using public key cryptography. The DNSSEC not only protects the DNS, but has created interest in using this secured global database .There are several websites which are protected using different security schemes and are made less prone to the intruder .To save the data from misused, the admin control are also needs to be protected from viewing the public data. And to enforce these techniques, we need to fully encrypt the data and the database from viewing the actual data and transform into unusual data .Therefore, the data has been hided and protected from general view. In this paper, I propose to achieve a new theoretical model, called Public Data, which is robust and free from verification deployments as Communities of Trust (CoTs) by which it makes them secure . A reasonable DNSSEC deployment model and a typical choice of a CoT, has been properly implemented to protect the full data access for the general view of the user. Our limited deployment of Vantages has outperformed the verifiability of DNSSEC and has properly validated .Then the various adversary would be able to Man-in-middle attacks on arbitrary traffic into autonomous systems. Then the whole database and the backend process are encrypted and are in non-viewable formats.

Present paper addresses to the most important implications of natural rights including the right of life, freedom, equity and ownership that are based on many other rights. The answer to this question that whether rights in today constituting are influenced by natural rights is positive and its importance is emphasized in interpreting constitutions. It is also tried to determine it and to clarify the way of entering natural right concepts to constitutions. Hence, in the first discourse, it is shown that in terms of natural right school practitioners, the right of life, freedom, equity and ownership are natural rights. In the second discourse, the channels of entering natural rights to constitutions are studied including entrance through declarations especially human right global declaration and constitutionalism. The amount and way of natural right implications for Iranian Constitution is also considered.

The main focus of this study was to probe the relationship among motivation, high school classroom stress, and academic achievement of Iranian high school learners. Students’ motivation was surveyed and analyzed using Instrumental Motivation designed by Kimura et al. (2001) and their classroom stress was measured through the Vulnerability to Stress designed by Miller L. and Smith A. D. (1985). Furthermore, in order to get the participants’ academic achievement, their Grade Point Average (GPA) will be taken into account as well as the grade of English course. The results of the Spearman rank order correlation coefficient indicate that there is moderately negative relationship between classroom stress and instrumental motivation. Regarding the relationship between instrumental motivation and academic achievement, motivation was only slightly related to scores on English course. Findings also demonstrated that classroom stress was negatively related to learning English.