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This paper proposes cost effective method of monitoring of government schools which are functioning in rural area where no internet and other advanced technologies are available. The main objective of this paper is to monitor students / employee attendance and management of schools using biometric and mobile technology. Many rural schools may not have facilities such as computers, Laptops, or internet connection at the school. But most of the employees / teachers are well versed with usage of Mobile phone now a days and it is easy to carry and maintain. Many activities are happening at the school level such as construction of school building, construction of classrooms, providing drinking water facility, providing toilet facility and other incentives schemes such as mid-day meal, textbook distribution, uniform distribution etc. In this context, to manage rural school and to get accurate and correct data instantly from rural schools to the state level, mobile technology is proposed. The system allows the user’s to monitor students/employees by capturing attendance details and civil works progress details along with its GPS location with the help of mobile phone which is equipped with an internal GPS receiver and a GPRS transmitter. A mobile phone application has been developed and deployed on an Android phone whose responsibility is to capture attendance with the help of fingerprint scanner and civil work’s GPS location. Data captured through software will be sent to remote server by creating GPRS packet. Biometric technology involves the identification and verification of individuals by analyzing the human fingerprint. Commercially available android supported biometric device is used to capture students/employee attendance details. Smartphone with 5MP and above camera is used to capture image of civil works. Once the data is uploaded to the remote server, the data will be made available in the form of reports or dashboard through web portal. Instant data sharing across different levels in the organization is possible which leads to effective and efficient administration. This system ensures transparency, accuracy and accountability at all levels.

An exact analysis of unsteady radiative flow past a uniformly accelerated infinite vertical plate with variable temperature with uniform mass diffusion is presented here, taking in to account the homogeneous chemical reaction of first order. The plate temperature is raised linearly with time and the concentration level near the plate is also raised to . The dimensionless governing equations are solved using Laplace-transform technique. The velocity, temperature and concentration fields are studied for different physical parameters like thermal Grashof number, mass Grashof number, Schmidt number, Prandtl number, radiation parameter, chemical reaction parameter and time. It is observed that the velocity increases with increasing values of thermal Grashof number or mass Grashof number. But the trend is just reversed with respect to the thermal radiation parameter. It is also observed that the velocity increases with decreasing chemical reaction parameter.

Real estate sector is under deep crisis due to global financial meltdown. To mitigate the impact of GFM the real estate players were forced to adopt uncalled for practices such as lay-off, suspension of capital intensive projects etc. resulting into job losses. DLF Ltd, a leading real estate player in Indian was giving lot of thrust to sell its core assets such as residential, industrial and commercial plots to ease liquidity crunch faced by it due to GFM. As there are very few buyers available in the real estate market today the real estate players are wooing them by offering incentives and have adopted various management practices to neutralise the impact of GFM on their bottom-line. The real estate players have adopted practices such as redefining capital structure, low cost housing projects, value engineering, asset monetization, offering discount etc. to face the burnt of GFM effectively rather than adopting uncalled for means. These management practices adopted by Indian real estate players have helped them not only in bringing down adverse impact on bottom-line but also in managing their business effectively. In the back drop of this a study has been conducted to study effective management practices do adopted by DLF Ltd, a leading player in the Indian real estate market to manage global financial meltdown.

Teaching of Physics at secondary level of education is most crucial. Secondary education is a decisive stage of individual’s entire academic tenure; at this level any ambiguity regarding concepts may deprive an individual intellectually and potentially. Keeping importance of physics in view this study was intended to develop module based on some innovative practices to teach physics effectively. The objectives of this research were to analyze the current methods of content presentation of physics, commonly used to teach in secondary level classroom and to develop a concept maps for content presentation of physics for secondary level students.

The Fourier-Finite Mellin transform is a variant of the Fourier transform; however, it certainly does not have as glorious or as predominant a history as the Fourier transform. This Fourier-Finite Mellin transform is used to correct various optical distortions, including noise in lenses, it is also used in radar classification of ships. Theoretically, the Fourier-Finite Mellin transform should provide a truly translation, rotation and scale invariant measure of an image. Fourier-Finite Mellin transform is frequently used in content-based image retrieval and digital image watermarking.The Object of the present paper is to prove an Inversion theorem for distributional Fourier-Finite Mellin transform with the help of two lemmas which are also given in this paper.

The kinetics of nickel leaching from lateritic Chromite overburden (COB) by organic (Oxalic) acid has been investigated. In this context, the effects of oxalic acid concentration and temperature upon the rate of nickel extraction from COB were evaluated. The leaching kinetics study was also performed for nickel extraction from thermally pre-treated COB, since nickel extraction was improved by the thermal pre-treatment of the COB. Well established shrinking core models were applied to study the kinetics of nickel extraction from raw and pre-treated COB. The experimental outcomes evident that, rates of nickel extraction from raw as well as the pre-treated COB were controlled by diffusion controlled shrinking core rate kinetics model. Further, apparent activation energies for extraction of nickel from raw and pre-treated COB were estimated to be 14.31 kJ/mol and 14.56 kJ/mol respectively.

Leiomyoma of the urethra is a rare benign tumor composed of smooth muscle tissue often overlooked by most practitioners. This tumor results in a variety of clinical signs, diagnosis is histological. This pathology can generates significant repercussions on the social life of the patient.

The concentrations of the toxic elements As, Cd, Hg, Sb and V in well and borehole water, samples from the Bibiani mining area in the Western Region of Ghana have been measured using instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) following irradiation with thermal neutrons and counting with a conventional counting system. This study was conducted to assess the impact of mining activities on the ground water resources of the Bibiani mining area. The concentrations of the elements measured in the rainy season water samples were in the ranges: As, 0.04 – 6.08 mg/L; Hg, 1.63 – 2.05 mg/L; Sb, 0,52 – 0.96 mg/L and V, 0.06 – 0.62 mg/L. The concentrations of Cd were below 0.01 mg/L (i.e. the detection limit) in all the rainy season samples. In the dry season samples, the concentration ranges of the various elements were: As, 0.67 – 4.71 mg/L; Cd, 0.35 – 2.80 mg/L; Hg, 0.30 – 4.93 mg/L; Sb, 0.08 – 0.70 mg/L and V, 0.07 – 0.52 mg/L. In the rainy season, the concentrations of As in 54% of the samples, Hg in 31% of the samples, and Sb in 23% of the samples were above their respective World Health Organization (WHO) limits whereas in the dry season water samples, the concentration of As in 31% of the samples, Cd in 62% of the samples, Hg in 23% of the samples and Sb in 15% of the samples were above their respective WHO limits. The pH values of all the water samples ranging from 3.90 to 5.93 pH units fell below the lower limit of the range 6.5 – 8.5, the WHO (1985) pH range for good quality drinking water. Therefore it could be concluded on this grounds that the wells and boreholes studied in Bibiani mining area were polluted hence not suitable for human consumption.

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