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We are very happy to announce that from 7th July 2017, Dr. Mohammad Arif Kamal has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He/She will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Architecture. Dr. Mohammad Arif Kamal working as Associate Professor, Architecture Section, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh - 202002 (INDIA). The appointment of Dr. Mohammad Arif Kamal as member Editorial Advisory Board strengthens the links and will make it easier for prospective authors to establish contact with the journal.

We are very happy to announce that from 11th October 2016, Dr.D.Muruganandam has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He/She will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Production Engineering. Dr.D.Muruganandam working as Professor in Production Engineering, Sri Sairam Engineering College, Chennai. The appointment of Dr.D.Muruganandam as member Editorial Advisory Board strengthens the links and will make it easier for prospective authors to establish contact with the journal.

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.

Students were to research on a particular industry sector, study their governance and point out the good, bad and ugly practices of their governance. Here, in this report, I have selected Swissair airline sector for my study. Swissair, considering their dramatic fall (it used to be one of the best airlines and nation’s pride that apparently got market failure, gone under debt in 2002 and the government had to bail it out) was a very good choice for this report. The structure of this report is very simple since the scope was just to point out governance and ethics practices of this company. In my report, I have given a little background information about the company that is followed by the bad governance and ethics practices in Swissair. These bad points are followed by the ugly practices. Now when Swissair saw itself failing they started taking steps that included some governance and ethical changes as well. I have tried to include them in the good points. Overall, my report is a short paper describing governance in Swissair, where I have tried my best to include all major and critically important points.

This study was conducted to evaluation of wheat application on barley yield under drought condition at RCBD design with 3 replications. First factor included wheat (application of cytokenin and control) and second factor was drought stress (control, mild stress, sever stress). At the end of experiment some properties were studied such as height, spike length, number of seeds per spike, 1000seed weight and yield. SAS statistical software was performed for analysis and by Duncan's multiple range test used at the level of 5% for mean comparisons. Totally, results showed that drought stress had significant effect on studied traits, so severe stress led to 31, 38, 34, 37 and 60% reduction of height, spike length, number of seeds per spike, 1000seed weight and yield in compare to control, respectively. Also cytokenine led to 21, 20, 21, 22 and 40% increasing of height, spike length, number of seeds per spike, 1000seed weight and yield in compare to control, respectively

Disbursement involves approval, allocation, release and transmission of funds or grants to projects for implementation. Funds are always disbursed according to funding and implementation schedules agreed upon by the parties and based on the submitted budget and work plan. The developed schedule with each grant recipient is necessary to ensure proper funding accounting, reporting and timely disbursement of funds during the implementation phase to the devolved units. Implementation is the carrying out, execution, or practice of a plan, a method, or any design for doing something. The government of Kenya has made deliberate efforts to decentralize most of its development projects over the past few years, through the use of decentralized funds key among them are, Local Authority Transfer Fund (LATF), Constituency Bursary Fund (CBF), Women and Youth Enterprise Fund and Constituency Development Funds (CDF). This was made possible through Constituency Development Act of Kenya, (2003) which was enacted in order to re-distribute resources to every corner of the country so that poverty levels can be alleviated. Devolved funds have been taunted as the most effective way of fighting poverty on the strength of their ability to bring governance closer to the people thereby addressing their priorities. In a perfect world every project would be "on time and within budget." But reality tells a very different story. Even if the budget and schedules are met, one must ask if the project delivered the results and quality expected. True project success must be evaluated on all the three components otherwise a project could be considered a failure. Delays in disbursement of funds lead to delay in land acquisition among other factors which eventually has a serious impact on the overall performance in the implementation of the development project. The impact of delays in acquisition resulted into cost overruns due to price variations and time overruns and had an impact also on the successful completion of the development project.

Sliver nano colloids have been synthesized by chemical reduction of sliver salt solution, characterized by SEM usage of nano particles. Sliver nano colloids are treated with wool fibres and dyed wool fibres (direct and acid dyes). The physical properties colour strength, fastness properties have been studied for dyed wool fibres and ordinary wool fibres. It is observed that the fibres with nano treated fibres have better strength than untreated wool fibres. It is also observed that there is considerable improvement in colour strength and colour fastness of silver nano colloids treated wool fibres (dyed).

This article aims at investigating the impact of trade liberalization on pollution and environmental degradation in Iran. Results indicate that pollution is positively related to trade liberalization and real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per square kilometer and with increased in trade liberalization, GDP will increase. In addition, strong evidence suggests that trade liberalization, real GDP per square kilometer and Gross National Product(GNP) are positively related to environmental degradation. Therefore with increased in GDP and GNP, environmental degradation will increase. In total, result showed that effects of trade liberalization is harmful to the environment.

In the Theory of relativity there are fundamental internal contradictions. The most direct of them is, between the two sides of one unequal equation, intended to transform time. These contradictions prove, that this theory is absolutely wrong.

Present work deals with assessing antimicrobial activity of C.carandas against multidrug resistant pathogenic bacteria. Leaf, stem and root were collected, dried and extracted using standard methods for flavonoids, alkaloids and steroids. Extracts were screened by using ‘Disc Diffusion Assay’. Minimum inhibitory concentration, Minimum bactericidal concentration, Total activity, Mean and Standard Deviation were calculated. S.aureus was found to be the most susceptible organism followed by B.subtilis and E.coli. Bound Flavonoid of roots showed the best activity against B.subtilis (IZ= 15mm, MIC= 0.312mg/ml, MBC=0.156mg/ml, TA=3.20ml/g). Results reveal that extracts of C.carandas have good antimicrobial potential and may be exploited for antimicrobial drugs