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Tabernaemontana divaricata (L) R. Br. (Apocynaceae) commonly known as Tagar in Bengali. It is a garden plant in tropical countries and found throughout the Indian subcontinent. The present investigation assessed the scavenging potential by 1, 1-diphenyl-2-picryl-hydrazyl (DPPH) assay. All of the extracts exhibited potent in vitro free radical scavenging activity that increased with extract concentrations. The methanol extract was found to be the most potent in this regard, followed by the benzene and ethyl acetate extracts. Therefore, the present study confirms marked in vitro free radical scavenging activity Tabernaemontana divaricata leaves.

Hopfield Network is able to convert noisy data provided to the network because it can act as content addressable memory. Hopfield Network can convert images of noisy fingerprint to the noiseless images or the images with the minimum noise by training through receivable models set. In this research, fingerprint recognition process has been performed through Hamming Distance and effect of use of Hopfield network on fingerprint recognition process has been mentioned. In case those Hamming Distance operations are performed after Hopfield Networks processing, error of fingerprint recognition will be reduced.

Despite the many benefits of modern urban life, it has some disadvantages as well. One of the most important disadvantages is that modern urban life affects the mental and physical health problems due to exposure to urbanize problems such as air and noise pollutions, behavioral disorders including lawbreaking and law violation. Therefore, it seems crucial to allocate a special time to leisure activities in the natural or quasi natural environment to reduce the impacts of urban life.Parks can be one of the most suitable places for spending leisure time. Most parks, particularly urban parks are rarely designed and constructed based on scientific criteria. Thus, redesigning of urban parks based on cultural, educational and environmental criteria should be taken into consideration. Urban parks are one of the most important places that have the highest crime rates due to their inappropriate design. Urban parks are often designed in low quality due to the lack of implementation of standard rules such as massive vegetative areas, low lighting, dark corners and informal investigation. This makes the park less effective and its quantity, quality and sustainability can be affected. Therefore, the only solution for sustainable use of parks, especially the urban parks, which are not designed based on scientific criteria, is to redesign them. The ultimate aim of the present study is to resolve the problems relevant to lack of information discussed above by designing the park with creating priority maps needed for redesigning a park and by a comparative study of the correspondence between the criteria used in designing the Azadi Park in Shiraz and the actual ecological and socio-cultural criteria that are used in designing by a descriptive approach and data analysis using ANP method

Stress is an adaptive response, mediated by individual characteristics and/or psychological processes that are a consequence of any external action, situation or event that places special physical and/or psychological demands upon a person. A total of 112 out of 132 rehabilitation counsellors completed occupational stress questionnaire and 13 administrators were interviewed in five counties. Descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation and percentages) were used to analyse the data. Results of the study revealed that the causes of occupational stress were found to be workload, clients’, organisational and interpersonal demands. The study further revealed that demographic and work characteristics interacted with the causes of occupational stress. This study recommends that regular assessment of occupational stress for preventive measures be done among the respondents.

This paper presents the characterization of solid state sintering schedule for near-net shaping of warm formed metal powder compacts. Iron ASC 100.29 powder was used as main powder constituent during this investigation.  The feedstock was prepared by mechanically mixed iron powder with 0.4 wt% zinc stearate as admixed lubricant. The powder mass was then formed as solid cylinder at 180ºC.  The defect-free green compacts were sintered in an argon gas fired furnace at different sintering schedule. The sintered products were characterized through dimensional measurement, and mechanical testing. The results revealed that sintering schedule plays an important role in manufacturing near-net shape yet high strength components.

The nutritional compositions of Hunteria umbellata were examined in this study. Proximate, mineral and inorganic elements of dehulled Hunteria umbellata seed (DHUS) and whole Hunteria umbellata seed (WHUS) were analyzed. The proximate composition (%) of the DHUS and WHUS seed are as follows; crude protein (13.65) and (9.0), crude fibre (26.79) and (2.74), crude fat (2.87) and (14.97), ash (3.89) and (3.45), moisture (9.57) and (10.95) and carbohydrate (43.23) and (58.88). Hunteria umbellata are good source of macro and micro nutrient (mg/100g) with Potassium (1130) and 1150, Magnesium(180) and (189), Calcium (76) and (78), Sodium (87.5) and (90), Iron (60) and (63), Manganese (5) and (7) also present in appreciable quantities. The result of inorganic element (mg/100g) also revealed in Hunteria umbellata; Nitrogen (7.14) and (2.11), Carbon (52.1) and (68.4), Hydrogen (4.22) and (6.11), Sulphur (2.33) and (2.26) and Oxygen (34.3) and (21.1) respectively. Nitrogen content was determined by micro-Kjeldahl method. Total carbohydrate was calculated by the difference method while mineral analysis was carried out after acid digestion using spectrophotometer and flame photometry. The high value obtained for potassium, carbohydrate, and carbon reveal that Hunteria umbellata seed has potential of serving as supplement for food, source of synthetic and antimicrobial drugs, and traditional herbal medicine. 

Automatic annotation is in fact the process of classifying medical using global and local features of standard image codes (IRMA) while being extracted. This includes four technical data axes of providing image (modality), direction, anatomy, and biological system. A number of recent researches have been conducted on the extraction of the local binary pattern texture features for automatic annotation, but until now no complete comparison has been conducted on the accuracy of the different classifications in resolution and annotation of the images based on the local binary pattern texture features. The results from the known and famous classifiers used on the four characteristics of anatomy, direction, biological system and modality are presented in this paper, which show that Sequential Minimal Optimization is the most efficient classification group as far as accuracy is concerned.

In tandem with the impending full liberalization of global economy and Basel III requirements in 2015, most commercial banks worldwide might encounter the risks of being taken over by larger bank on account of full liberalization. Therefore, it is imperative for commercial banks to be in the know about the macroeconomic factors that might affect their total assets. In this dissertation, macroeconomic determinants of total assets volume for commercial banks in Malaysia was scrutinized in 2008 – 2010 intervals (post 2008 financial turmoil) via quarterly data through multi-variate single-equation regression method and correlation. Regression results advocate that all the macroeconomic determinants in this thesis have statistically significant impact on total assets of the banks except Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The empirical findings demonstrate that Base Lending Rate (BLR) together with Foreign Exchange Rate (FER) are negatively interrelated to total assets of the banks whilst FDI has positive relationship with the same dependent variable (DV). The most influential factor against total assets of the banks is BLR. Albeit correlations techniques in this paper signify that BLR, FER as well as FDI have not significantly explained the variations in total assets of the Malaysian banking sector, it is noteworthy that the empirical findings produce similar results as regression methods.

The present students at the tertiary level need a learning environment in which they seek more involvement. The challenge for the English language teacher is to create such a situation and enhance the morale of the students. Cooperative learning certainly does augment the motivational levels of the students and provides a platform for better learning. The present paper explores the cooperative learning as a learning strategy and includes the findings of a questionnaire on English language learning at the tertiary level in VIT University. As competition is valued over cooperation, a student should be made aware of the need for healthy and positive interaction.

In this paper, a compact, low cost and high radiation efficiency antenna structure, planar waveguide, substrate integrated waveguide (SIW), dielectric resonator antennas (DRA) design using Advanced Design System (ADS) tool is presented. Since SIW is a high Q waveguide and DRA is a low loss radiator, then SIW-DRA forms an excellent antenna system with high radiation efficiency at millimeter-waveband, where the conductor loss dominates. The impact of different antenna parameters on the antenna performance is studied. Experimental data for SIW-DRA, based on two different slot orientations, at millimeter-wave band are introduced and compared to validate this antenna model. The measured gain for SIW-DRA single element showed a broadside gain of 5.51 dB. The Return Loss/Reflection coefficient is found to be -48.617 dB at the Cut off frequency 33.02 GHz.