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There are many ways to minimize the failure of the structures made up of reinforced concrete. The custom approach is to adhesively bond fiber polymer Composite on to the structure. This also helps to increase the toughness and tensile strength & to improve the cracking & deformation characteristic of the resultant composite. But this method adds another layer, which is prone to degradation, when exposed to marine environment due to surface blistering. As a result adhesive bond strength is reduced, which results in the de-lamination of composite. So, the approach is to use fibers in concrete known as FRC. This method of reinforcing the concrete substantially alters the properties of non-reinforced cement based matrix which is brittle in nature, possesses little tensile strength compared to the inherent. Compressive strength.

Madurai Block belt is the largest high among the crustal fragments of the Southern Granulite Terrane. Our study focuses on the southeastern part of the Madurai Block which falls in the Thoothukudi District of Tamil Nadu. The geomorphology of the area is represented by high and mid-land regions with prominent hillocks and associated valleys. This region chiefly comprises of crystalline basement rocks that experienced granulite facies metamorphism. The southeastern region has been mapped, and the major rock types observed were identified as charnockite, hornblende-biotite gneiss, pyroxene granulite, quartzite, granite, pink granite and pegmatite. Massive garnet bearing charnockite exists as hills and which are intermixed with banded and migmatised hornblende-biotite gneiss. Diorite occurs as boudins and small enclaves within the charnockite. The charnockite occurs as both massive and foliated rocks in outcrops. A 5 km long intrusive body of pyroxene granulite is identified during the field study which trends NW-SE. Due to intense weathering they are found as boulders of varying size and shape.

Region V, also known as the Bicol Region, is one of the seventeen regions in the Philippines. An organization in the region known as the Bicol Autonomy Movement claims that for a very long time its people have entrusted the region’s destiny to the national government which had been perennially accused of poor governance, and relegated the region to social and economic oblivion. The movement asserts regional autonomy so that Region V can rise up from the bondage of poverty and neglect (Jimenez, 2006). This study examined the actual revenues of the cities, municipalities and provinces of the Bicol Region, and the actual and projected revenues from national taxes collected locally through the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Then it proceeds with projected expenditures of setting up new governance structures for the Bicol Autonomous Regional Government, separate and distinct from existing expenditures of local government units. As an ending note, the paper brings forward some points that may be considered by the Bicol Autonomous Movement in terms of fiscal sustainability.

In this paper fixed point theorems on fuzzy soft normed linear space are discussed in a different way. Also the concepts like mapping using set of all soft points, fuzzy soft contraction,contraction, R-weakly commuting, etc are defined.

Parkinson disease (PD) is characterized by a loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compact, whose diagnosis is based on the presence of a hard-bradicinetic syndrome, resting tremor, postural instability, akinesia and festination gait. This study aimed to investigate, from functional activity tests, postural stability and balance of patients with PD. The sample comprised 34 volunteers, divided into two groups, Parkinson Group, composed of 17 patients with clinical diagnosis of idiopathic PD and Control Group with 17 healthy subjects without musculoskeletal disturbances. Balance and postural stability were assessed in both groups by using functional activity tests: Figure 8 test, Timed Up and Go test, sit and lift, bearings, Turning 360º, Functional Reach Test and Berg Balance Scale. The mean age of Parkinson Group and Control Group was respectively 64.11±10.7 and 60.47±8.53 (p=.42). Control Group obtained better results in the performance of tests: Figure 8 (p=.0003), Timed Up and Go (p=.0001), bearing (p=.0002), Functional Reach Test (p=.029) and Berg Balance Scale (p=.0001) between the groups. The outcomes of this study confirm that both balance impaired and loss of mobility are among the main consequences of PD.

As is known that cable car is functioning all over the world adding lot of money. It opens with the brief scenario of tourism in world, India and in Jammu and Kashmir. Tourism and cable car are interrelated if we look from tourism point of view; it is cable car by which there went great boom in flow of tourism in world. We have examples of many countries like Switzerland, Austria, and Canada etc. which use cable car as an additional product to attract tourists at their destinations. They use cable car for lifting adventure tourists during winter activities at higher snow capped peaks to enjoy skiing and other touristic activities. The business of cable car is so much profitable, that every country is trying to start its projects at large scale. Our main objective of this study in Jammu and Kashmir state cable corporation (JKSCCC) is to know about the working of JKSCCC and its role in Jammu and Kashmir tourism.

As the modernization of government is growing, E-Government is a grand new domain in recent years. More and more data is sent to databases system and large amounts of data are accumulated. Abundant knowledge exists in those Historical data. Meaning is to analyze those historical data and find useful knowledge and rules from the mass of data to provide better decision support and better adjustment guidance. The concept and steps of data mining is introduced in particular. When we use the E-Government system to process data, we need to choose what data is useful and what kind of new information we can get from the log file or from the database. Because of the special characters of knowledge, this paper presents an algorithm of the fuzzy data mining, and put great importance on the steps of the Fuzzy data mining.

This theoretical paper summarises arguments and findings pertaining to the impact of green product positioning strategies upon green perception. Substantive literature supports that the legitimacy of green claims is enhanced by combined use of definitive (rational) and symbolic (emotional) claims. The emotional and rational responses vary in their impact time period. Consumers have the environmental consciousness/attitude but fail to reflect it in their actions/behaviour. This attitude/behaviour gap exists due to lack of confidence in environmental claims. Also the role of regulatory authority in scrutinizing the form and content of green messages is important in eliminating deceptive claims. Legitimate green claims enhance green purchase confidence among consumers already possessing environment values. This paper is divided into five parts. Part I discusses elements of green positioning. Part II throws insight into how green perception determines the green consumer’s buying behaviour, part III sums up the ineffectiveness of green positioning strategies and discusses possible reasons for the behaviour- action gap. Part IV gives possible outcomes of this study in context to green positioning and its impact on psycho graphics and part V concludes and offers possible insights into better positioning, future marketing and academic prospects in the field of green content promotion.

This research proposes a different conception of knowledge economy by examining knowledge as a philosophical term and by arguing against Peter Drucker’s conception of knowledge economy. It primarily seeks to address the problem on how the Philippine education responds to the challenge posed by knowledge economy as contrastively conceived here. The research explains how the performance of Philippine education in the past decades, though demonstrating quantitative growth particularly during the 60s and 70s, failed to produce a real qualitative growth adequate to impact on the Philippine knowledge economy. It also substantiates the writer’s claim that there are types of knowledge economy, and that of the Philippines exemplifies a particular type. Though it aims to reach the type of knowledge of economy that characterized those countries in the First World, the Philippine education has to harness first the potential of its present type of knowledge economy by improving the curriculum and teacher education as well as by focusing on BPO, Service-Oriented, and low-end technological courses. This paper ends by proposing a new curriculum for its basic education, secondary education, and tertiary education. It views additional two years of education not as one of the options anymore but the only option to address the present woes in education that are slowly becoming irreversible.