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We are very happy to announce that from 31st July 2015, Prof. Goswami Tridib Kumar has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Food Processing and Preservation. Prof. Goswami Tridib Kumar currently working as Professor, Department of Agricultural And Food Engineering, IIT, Kharagpur – 721302, India. The appointment of Prof. Goswami Tridib Kumar 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 8th June 2015, Prof. Ubaldo Comite has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Private and Public Management, Nonprofit Organizations and Accounting. Prof. Ubaldo Comite currently working as Professor, Department of Business Sciences, Budget and Business Organization at the Faculty of Economy, University of Calabria, Italy. The appointment of Prof. Ubaldo Comite 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.

Chang et al proposed an integrated inventory model with an order-size-dependent trade credit. However, quality issues were not discussed in their model. It is unrealistic for a production system to produce 100 percent good products. This paper extends Chang et al. model and studies an integrated supplier-retailer inventory model where trade credit and defective items are considered. Therefore, to incorporate the concept of supplier – retailer integration and order-size-dependent trade credit, we present a stylized model to determine the optimal strategy for an integrated supplier -retailer inventory system under the condition of trade credit linked to the order quantity, where the demand rate is considered to be a decreasing function of the retail price. In this paper, we propose an integrated supplier–retailer inventory model in which both supplier and retailer have adopted trade credit policies, and the retailer receives an arriving lot containing some defective items. An attempt is made to characterize the preservation technology for deteriorating items to reduce the deterioration rate. Moreover, we consider the capital investment in quality improvement. The objective of our analysis is to determine the optimal ordering, shipping, and quality improvement policies to maximize joint total profit per unit time. Results have been validated with relevant examples.

Holy Quran in thoughts, words and deeds Householdt: embodiment and objectivity of the findings, and character Sage and holy and spoke to them, directly or indirectly, of God's enlightening book, in its different aspects, in this paper, based on an analytical method - descriptive, and enjoying written and unwritten sources, to examine the place of the Holy Quran, the life of Imam Reza (AS) has been paid, and for this purpose, as stated in the Quran The importance of individual issues and social holiness has been, and observed that, in the important missions of Imams, the propagation of religion, expression and interpretation of the provisions of the Quran. Imam Reza, the true interpreters of the Quran, full of life Bless them, a very special thanks to this great guide to have, and in addition to the use of personal after it had other dimensions, the frequency of interest These books have been transferred to others.

Employees play a substantive role in taking many decisions in organizations. Whether the decisions made with regards to the employees are just is occasionally questioned. The behaviors of the employees against justice began to be analyzed, as justice being taken seriously in organization. (Serdar ÇÖP et al.,2008) Without a perception of justice and fairness, organizations will have great difficulty in motivating and guiding employees. Organizational fairness demonstrates the administration’s respect for employees and produces a bridge of trust that ultimately strengthens the employees’ commitment to the organization employees who feel that their employing organization is fair and just in dealing with workers will encourage trust and loyalty ., and this will ultimately increase the organizational commitment of the worker. ( Lambert,2003)

The aim of study was to screen out rice (Oryzae sativa L.) genotypes with better drought tolerance, to explore observable responses of rice plants towards drought stress and multivariate statistics were used to compare the relationships among the responses as well as their effects on yield and yield reduction under drought stress. Genotypes responded differently under same level of stress. Results revealed that as a response to drought, all the genotypes showed 42 % average increase in seedling root length; 39 % average decrease in seedling shoot length; 21 % average reduction in 1000 grain weight; delay in heading time of 13 days in average; average yield per plant reduction of 47 %; reduction in grains per panicle of 52% in average, when subjected to simulated drought stress. It was concluded that in addition to correlation and path analysis of yield components, cluster analysis, factor analysis and principal component analysis are also very important methods for screening drought tolerant cultivars of rice in large populations and give better understandings of associations and helps better to choose important variables and genotypes. Factor analysis and Principal component analysis revealed the importance of drought response index, as a best measurement for yield under stress condition. Seedling root length to shoot length ratio, followed by seedling root length ratio contrubute majorly in yield per plant under drought stress. Reduction in plant height and delay in heading time were main causes of yield reduction under stress. It was further concluded that selecting the genotypes showing higher drought response index, higher increase in s ling root length, seedling root to shoot length ratio and less reduction in plant height and delay in heading time, are important criteria in screening for drought tolerance. Also these characters showed high heritability and genetic advance, signifying their values in selection breeding, and higher phenotypic correlation values indicating their polygenic behavior and high influence of environment.

Recently, the synthesis of furoinoxime, furoinhydrazone, furoinphenylhydrazone, furoinsemicarbazone were synthesized by the interactions of furoinbenzoin with hydroxylamine hydrochloride, hydrazine hydrate, phenyl hydrazine and semicarbazide hydrochloride in presence of aqueous sodium hydroxide in DMF-water (80%) medium respectively. The synthesis of furoinbenzoin were carried out by the known literature method. The structure of all the synthesized compounds were justified on the basis of chemical characteristics, elemental and I.R. and NMR spectral analysis. Keywords :- Sodium hydroxide, DMF-water (80%) medium, substituted benzoinoximes, furoinbenzoinoximes.

The issue of plant coverage, destroying it and the resulting influence on desertification process has long been taken into consideration by the scholars and researchers of different fields of study specially natural resources and agriculture. In many areas of the world, human being has played the main role, intentionally or unintentionally, in desertification or speeding up the rate of it. It has been accepted that proper and effective plant coverage slows down the rate of desertification to a great extent in an area susceptible for desertification and also it makes the condition conducive for changing the ecosystems into a better form. The current study has been done with the objective of determining the quantitative influence of the plant coverage in Jarghooye area on desertification in this region that is one of the most susceptible areas of the country. In this study, Iranian Model of Desertification Potential Assessment (IMDPA) was applied. This model is one of the valuable models for determining the level of desertification in different areas of Iran. The results of this study shows that the coverage exploitation index with the numeral value of 3.18 is in sever class and has the most influence on the indices studied in the region. Generally the plant coverage index of this area with the numeral value of 1.99 is indicator of the average influence on desertification process in Jarghooye region.

We study the Jordan Canonical Forms of complex s-orthogonal and s-symmetric matrices, and consider some related results.

India is the agriculture based country. Agricultural sector is playing vital role in Indian economy. Our ancient people completely depended on the agricultural harvesting. This paper is a basic implementation to bring Indian agricultural system to the world class standards. Paper is used to find the exact field condition. Irrigation by help of freshwater resources in agricultural areas has a crucial importance. Because of highly increasing demand for freshwater, optimal usage of water resources has been provided with greater extent by automation technology and its apparatus such as drip irrigation, sensors and remote control. Our paper aim is to control the wastage of water in the field by using the drip irrigation and also to provide exact controlling of field by atomizing the agricultural environment by using the components and building the necessary hardware. The humidity and temperature of plants are precisely monitored and controlled. By using drip irrigation the water will be maintained at the constant level i.e. the water will reach the roots by going drop by drop. Irrigation system controls valves by using automated controller to turn ON & OFF. This allows the farmer to apply the right amount of water at the right time, regardless of the availability of the labor to turn valves or motor ON & OFF. This reduces runoff over watering saturated soils avoid irrigating at the wrong time of the day. It improves crop performances and help in time saving in all the aspects. In this paper an ARM LPC2148 Microcontroller based drip irrigation mechanism is proposed, which is a real time feedback control system for monitoring and controlling all the activities of drip irrigation system more efficiently. GSM is used to inform the user about the exact field condition. The information is given on user request in form of SMS. Eg. GSM modem can be controlled by standard set of AT (Attention) commands. These commands can be used to control majority of the functions of GSM modem. GSM serves as an important part as it is responsible for controlling the irrigation on field and sends them to the receiver through coded signals. GSM operates through SMS’s and is the link between ARM processor and centralized unit. The drip method of irrigation has been found to have a significant impact on resources saving, cost of cultivation, yield of crops and farm profitability.