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We are very happy to announce that from 13th April 2018, Mr. Aqa Raza has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He/She will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Law. The appointment of Mr. Aqa Raza as member Editorial Advisory Board strengthens the links and will make it easier for prospective authors to establish contact with the journal. Please send any expressions of interest to elixirpublishers@gmail.com.

In this paper, we study some of the properties of multi intuitionistic fuzzy rw-open mappings and multi intuitionistic fuzzy rw-closed mappings in multi intuitionistic fuzzy topological spaces and prove some results on these.

This paper outline is an experimental study to optimize process parameters of plasma arc cutting for stainless steel 420. Three process parameters were chosen these are cutting speed, cutting current and torch height. The experiments are conducted based on taguchi’s L9 OA. The objective of optimization is to attain minimum Ra and maximum MRR individually. Regression models for Ra and MRR are developed based on Regression analysis in Minitab 17 Software. The optimal settings is obtained for Ra and MRR by using Genetic algorithm optimization technique in MATLAB R2013a software.

Participatory Notes are offshore derivative instruments (ODIs) issued, by SEBI-registered Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) in India, against an underlying security, which entitles the holder to a share in the income, either dividend or capital gain, from the underlying security. These are issued to foreign investors, which may be hedge funds, foreign pension and mutual funds, or other High Net worth Individuals abroad. They are issued outside of India to people outside of India. The underlying securities, shares of listed companies in India, are held in the custody of FIIs on behalf of the P-Note holders.There are several issues associated with P.Notes. The anonymity of investors-difficulty in fulfilling KYC (Know Your Client) and FTAF (Financial Action Task Force) norms for P-Notes, the Anti-Money Laundering issues and difficulty in tracing the identity of the funds, Lack of transparency and anonymity worries the government authorities. There are fears that P-Notes are ideal money-laundering vehicles. Some reports suggest that some FIIs created their own separate and parallel offshore market for Indian securities in derivative form-which will develop and this will take volumes and revenues from our markets. About 50% of the portfolio inflows into India come in the form of P-Note There are some apprehensions, and some evidence, that the P-Note route was being used for “round-tripping” resident Indians’ money-going out by questionable means and coming back through the P-Note route. It is in light of these features the paper analysis the various issues related with P. Notes.

Violent behaviour has contributed to destruction of facilities, physical disability, anxiety and poor academic performance in schools. In Bungoma County, cases of student violence in secondary schools have been reported in the recent years. For instance, in 2008, eight cases were reported, whereas in 2009 the number rose to over 30 cases. The purpose of the study was to establish teachers’ and students’ perceptions on forms and Psycho-social determinants of violent behavior among public secondary school students in Bungoma County, Kenya. The study was based on the Social learning theory by Albert Bandura which states that learning of behavior is through imitation, reinforcement and identification. A descriptive survey research design was adopted. The study population was composed of 63 Principals, 2,340 teachers, 20,670 form two students and 4 County Education Officers. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select 364 teachers and 1,152 form two students from 213 public secondary schools while 213 Principals and 7 District Education Officers were selected using purposive sampling technique. Questionnaires and in-depth interview guides were used to collect data. Findings of the study revealed that forms of violent behavior as perceived by teachers and students were; rioting, fighting, bullying and sexual violence. Psycho-social determinants perceived by the teachers and students included; anxiety problems, experiencing mental problems and being fearful. It was concluded that rioting was the main form of violent behavior in secondary schools. Recommendations of the study were that: guidance and counseling be reinforced; and consistent control and discipline be encouraged.

The area of sentiment mining (also called sentiment extraction, opinion mining, opinion extraction, sentiment analysis, etc.) has seen a large increase in academic interest in the last few years. Researchers in the areas of natural language processing, data mining, machine learning, and others have tested a variety of methods of automating the sentiment analysis process. The feasibility and the benefits of the proposed approaches are demonstrated by means of spam review that is widely used in the field of sentiment classification. In the proposed work, a comparative study of the effectiveness of ensemble technique is made for sentiment classification. Bagging and boosting are two relatively new but popular methods for producing ensembles. In this work, bagging is evaluated on spam review data set in conjunction with Naive Bayes (NB), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Genetic Algorithm (GA) as the base learners. The proposed bagged NB, SVM, GA is superior to individual approaches for spam review in terms of classification accuracy.

An attempt is made to provide a deconstruction of the theoretical underpinnings of performance management and development within the context of modern public sector organisations. The article provides a discussion on the concept of an employee management and development system (EPMS), as well as the key steps in the employee performance management and development process. The article further discusses the various techniques used in the modern public sector organisations.

According to traditional financial theory, the world and its participants are, for the most part, rational "wealth maximizers". However, there are many instances where emotion and psychology persuade our decisions, causing us to act in irregular or irrational ways. Behavioral finance is a rather new area that seeks to combine behavioral and cognitive psychological theory with conventional economics and finance to provide explanations for why people make irrational financial decisions. There are some irregularities that conventional financial theories have failed to explain. And what are the original reasons and biases that cause some people to behave irrationally and often in opposition to their top benefits. When using the labels "conventional" or "modern" to describe finance, we are talking about the type of finance that is based on rational and logical theories, such as the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) and the efficient market hypothesis (EMH). These theories assume that people, for the most part, behave rationally and predictable in making decisions.

This study involves the preparation and characterization of hydrothermally grown zinc oxide (ZnO) nanorods. Zinc acetate dihydrate, ethanol and de-ionized water were used to prepare seed layer. Zinc nitrate and hexamethylenetetramine solution were used for growth of ZnO nanorods. The ZnO nanorods were grown for 5 hours at three different temperatures of 80°C, 90°C and 100°C and annealed at 500°C in air atmosphere. Nanorod growth temperatures are varied and the corresponding changes in structural, morphological, optical and photoluminescence properties were reported. The ZnO nanorods were investigated by XRD, SEM, UV and PL studies.

Urinary bladder cancer is the second most frequent tumour of the genitourinary tract with bladder adenocarcinoma comprising for about 0.2-2% of all malignant bladder tumours. Other primary sites for such tumours include rectum, stomach, endometrium, breast, prostate, seminal vesicles and ovaries. Such non-urothelial bladder tumours with intramural bladder tumour growth may delay the onset of symptoms which may lead to a delay in diagnosis and thereby adversely affecting the prognosis as compared to urothelial bladder tumours. Traditionally bladder adenocarcinomas were believed to be resistant to both chemotherapy and radiotherapy, but recent advancements have shown encouraging responses with adjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy.We present here-in a case of primary adenocarcinoma of the urinary bladder highlighting its relative rarity of occurrence and the difficulties encountered in diagnosing primary bladder adenocarcinoma, its management and a review of the literature.