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The study undertaken the explored the factors of Quality of working-life experiences in organizations. The factor analysis of the component ‘quality of working-life experiences’ led to the extraction of the factors from various organizations. The most points were “Career Growth”, “Work Stress” and “Job Satisfaction”. The results indicate that these factors have substantial roles to play in satiating the needs of the employees and how at middle managerial level different aspects are valued and employed for developing a unique and inimitable quality of working life within their socio-technical systems for eliciting favorable job-related responses.

A brief review of the structural reliability design methodology and its applications at system level are compiled from various sources. The main objective of this study is to present the developments in the reliability based analysis and design of land based structures, marine structures specially a diaphragm wall of a berthing structures. The present paper discusses right from the basic concepts of risk, reliability, safety and the methodologies to define reliability in a quantitative manner to aid to design a structure for a given reliability and the reliability concepts applied to aging structures, creep, shrinkage and serviceability, application of reliability analysis in other fields such as geotechnical engineering, design of marine structures, etc.,. To avoid unforeseen failure, the structural designs often undertake the concept of a safety factor to reduce the probability of failure or to increase the reliability. Analysis need to be carried out using Monte Carlo simulation assessing the partial factors, levels of risk and degree of uncertainty.

Micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS)also known as micro fabricated systems(MS) has evoked a greater interest in scientific and engineering communities. This is generally because of smaller size and better performance than other solutions, cost effective integration with electronics, large reduction in power consumption, etc…In this project SIMULATION OF HEART DISORDERS were detected using three equations such as FitzHugh-Nagumo equation, Landau-Ginzburg equation and Hermite-Quadratic element equation. We used the fourth order Hermite element for the complex landau-ginzburg equation because of less nonlinearit nonlinearites. We have used COMSOL MULTIPHYSICS for the simulations.

Karandamalai is one of the floristically rich hill ranges in Eastern Ghats harbors many rare, endemic and endangered plants. During 2006-2007, the present author has made extensive botanical explorations in this hill range which resulted in the collection of several interesting plants. A total of 23 species belonging to 21 genera under 14 families were discussed in the present communication. This includes one new species Tylophora thiyagarajariae R. Kottaimuthu and four new records for Eastern Ghats. A new name Caralluma ravikumariae R. Kottaimuthu, is proposed for Caralluma adscendens var. gracilis.

In this paper, we consider the stability of the An Alternating Direction Explicit Scheme for solving two-dimensional Sine-Gordon Equation .The derivation of the An Alternating Direction implicit Scheme schemes was presented. The stability and consistency of the scheme are described . The scheme is found to be unconditionally stable and convergent.

There is an increasing state and private sector investment in community- irrigation schemes in Africa. Both governments and private sector investors are equally concerned about the willingness to pay and affordability of such schemes to local farmers. Others are equally concerned about sustainability of public investments in irrigation infrastructure, production enhancement, operation and maintenance costs, climate variability, market failure, externalities, decreasing marginal costs and cost recovery. Investors are worried about return on investments (ROI) when investing in such risky areas and advise farmers and government to use appraisal tools such as net present value (NPV), internal rate of return (IRR) and accounting rate of return (ARR). In a study conducted in three provinces of Mozambique, Maputo, Sofala and Zambezia involving five districts (Boane, Magude, Manhica, Gorongoza and Mopei) where questionnaires and interviews were conducted with 281 farmers, it was established that farmers were not willing to pay operation and maintenance costs, embarked on collective action, thus frustrating the government’s efforts to recover costs. There is an increasing perception that community irrigation schemes remain reliant on state subsidies and financial analysis projected through NPV, IRR and ARR is not often translated into sustainable return on investment (ROI) for both the private sector and government investors. This paper looks at strategic investment initiatives of the Government of Mozambique and the private sector in terms of yielding sustainable irrigation and agricultural outputs and ensuring long-term benefits for both farmers and investors. The paper attempts to balance issues of investment appraisal systems and endogenous factors that are relevant in dealing with irrigation schemes.

Synthetic dyes are indispensable to the textile and dyeing industries. Among all synthetic dyes, azo dyes are the most common, being used up to 90 percent of the tonnage, as they are versatile and easy to synthesize. Yet many azo dyes are toxic and cause genetic mutations. Even a very low concentration of these dyes in industrial effluents is enough to do great damage to the environment. Textile effluent is known to contain strong color, large amount of suspended and dissolved solids, and high BOD and COD concentration. Because of these characteristics, treatment of textile effluent has been a rather difficult task. Several processes have been attempted and reported in literature for removal of dyes present in the textile effluents such as adsorption, membrane separation and biological treatment etc. Among this biological treatment method are found to be cost effective and gives high efficiency over other methods for the removal of dye compounds present in the textile effluent and hence in this present work an attempt is made to reduce the BOD, COD, TDS and TSS using biological method.

This study aims to examine the effects of macroeconomic variables on non-oil exports in Iran, for the period of 1965-2010. The paper employs the ordinary least square (OLS), unit root tests and co-integration technique of Johansen as analytical tools. Result found indicates that the positive significant effects of real gross domestic product and free market exchange rate on non-oil exports. While, the effect of inflation rate on non-oil exports have been found insignificant with unexpected positive sign.

In the crystal structure of [2,6-(C2H5)2C6H3NH3]2(HSO4)2.3H2O, inorganic entities form corrugated layers parallel to ab plane between which organic groups are located. This structure is characterised by the existence of two groups HSO4- crystallographically independent which form dimmers (H2S2O8)2-. These dimers are interconnected by water molecules via strong H-bonds (dO...O < 2.73 Å).

Good quality of semi organic single crystals of a urea copper sulphate (UCS) was grown from solution by slow evaporation technique at room temperature. Good optical quality single crystals with dimensions 15×11×3 mm3 were obtained. The grown crystal had been confirmed by single X-Ray Diffraction Method. UV -Vis absorption, studies reveals that the grown crystal was optically transparent through the visible range. The vibrational frequencies of various functional groups in the crystals had been derived from Fourier transform infrared spectrum. Dielectric studies have been made. Dielectric studies give information about the charge transport mechanism of a material. The optical absorption studies indicate that for the sample, optical transparency window is quite wide, making it suitable for NLO applications.