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This study attempts to examine the relationship between the variables (communication for 5S System, training for 5S System, reward and recognition for 5S System and top management role for 5S System) with the employees’ motivation in implementing 5S System. The sample size of respondents is 150 and all of them are the employees from Nibong Tebal Paper Mill Sdn. Bhd (NTPM) and Muda Paper Mill Sdn. Bhd. This present study focused on manufacturing firms that are situated in northern area (Penang) and both are manufacturing paper based products. All the respondents are given the questionnaire and their responses are analyzed. In the findings of this present study shows that communication for 5S System and training for 5S System were found to have a positive significant relationship with the employees’ motivation in implementing 5S System while not for the other two variables (reward and recognition for 5S System and top management role for 5S System).

The transesterification reaction is actually replacement of alcohol group from an ester by another alcohol. The reaction was carried out by varying different parameters, like amount of catalyst in reaction, ratio of methyl alcohol to oil, temperature and stirring on the reaction; to find the best conversion of oil to biodiesel. In this paper fuzzy logic is applied to the transesterification reaction studies and the result is compared with the experimental results.

The study was carried out to assess genetic diversity among nineteen oil palm accessions collected for conservation, evaluation and future incorporation into Oil Palm Research Institute (OPRI) breeding programmes. Genetic diversity and relationship among the nineteen accessions were evaluated using 10 microsatellites. The number of alleles revealed by each of the polymorphic loci ranged from 2 to 3 with an average of 2.5. Cluster analysis resolved the nineteen accessions oil palm accessions into two clusters. The percentage similarity between the oil palm accessions ranged from about 63% to 100%. This study suggest that there was not much genetic diversity among the nineteen accessions used in the study compared to other similar genetic diversity studies in oil palm using microsatellites.

This paper dwells on combinatorial optimization with a view to unveiling various techniques for solving problems therein. We are interested in the combination of exact techniques (ET) and metaheuristics (MH) to provide optimal solutions or mainly to generate better heuristic solutions. In doing this, we were able to give a kind of categorization of the possible combinations, their usefulness and areas of applications.

Intensity of competition necessitates many industries, especially the petrochemical industry, to adopt new marketing paradigm named as successful marketing. In this turbulent environment, petrochemical industries have to change their way of response to market; therefore, it is not unexpected that the implementation of successful marketing programs face with various factors. Thus, this study investigates and identifies successful marketing factors in Laleh petrochemical Company and specifies their importance. This study is an applied research in terms of objective which has gathered information from both interviewing with experts and distributing the questionnaires. The results of theoretical investigation was reached to six individual, organizational, product, price, promotion and distribution elements as key factors of successful marketing. After identifying, these factors were prioritized using Fuzzy TOPSIS technique and based on the comments received from the experts of petrochemical industry. The results showed that the product-related factors have the most importance, and organizational, personal, promotion, price, and distribution factors have the next ranks respectively. Finally, the components of each of these factors were also prioritized.

Croton hirtus L’Herit is a poorly known exotic species naturalizing in Tamil Nadu with faster rate. Critical analysis of this taxon with recently described Chrozophora baskarani from Sirumalai hills proved that both of them are identical. Hence, the later is merged with Croton hirtus. The present communication throws light on the identity and distribution of this little known alien species.

With a large population base and untapped market, insurance industry is having big opportunity in India for the domestic as well as foreign investors. Huge untapped population and low market penetration are the two main challenges of the Indian insurance industry. Selling insurance is an important, but challenging work. Marketing of life insurance product is critical and complex for various reasons that include time span, periodicity and potentiality of claims and higher brand switching costs affecting the buying behaviour. In the present scenario, insurance companies are facing problem of transiting from a perceived selling activity to a structured strategic marketing activity. The task of the insurance agent is to convert a suspect into prospect and prospect into LIC customers. The agents have faced various problems in their profession. This paper presents the problems faced by LIC agents while marketing insurance products.

Most of our revelations, such as the basic plot of the epics, have emphasized the importance of women. Especially in the plains, the importance of women as a culture of this land has been depicted. Whether they are mythological or created in epic storylines, women are given importance in everything. "Durula Dusyas, who was engaged in drawing Draupadi's clothes, had the holy mantle of Bharatangane, the young Drupadaje's husband, always ready to protect her dignity. There is no time to be humiliated by a dog like you. In this case, the woman feels helpless and speaks with self-confidence, but the words of believing in God in such a dire hour are appropriate according to the portrayal of the character.

This paper presents the non-linear control of an induction motor (IM). The objective of nonlinear control is to can control separately flux and the speed, several techniques of control are used for (IM), The technique of control oriented flux (FOC) which permits the decoupling between input and output variables, so (IM) is assimilate to continuous current motor , this method has a problem is how exactly oriented the axis d on the flux .However, feedback linearization amounts to cancelling the nonlinearities in a nonlinear system so that the closed- loop (CL) dynamics is in a linear form . A goal of feedback linearization is to can controlled separately flux and the speed ,the motor model is strongly nonlinear then it’s composed to the autonomous and mono-variables too under systems so every under system presented an independence loop of control for each variables is given . The space vector modulation [SVM] method gives a good tracking for the non linear control, SVM became a standard for the switching power converters and important research effort has been dedicated, tens of papers, research reports and patents were developed in the theory of space vector modulation.

In this work, Khillah extract was examined as green corrosion inhibitor for zinc in 3.5 % NaCl and 16 ppm solution by using weight loss, potentiodynamic polarization, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and electrochemical frequency modulation (EFM) techniques. Results obtained showed that the extract of Khillah functioned as an effective and good inhibitor. The inhibition efficiency was found to increase with increase of extract concentration reaching maximum inhibition efficiency 87.2%. The adsorption of the inhibitor molecules on the zinc metal surface obeyed Langmuir adsorption isotherm. Polarization data indicated that this extract acts as mixed type inhibitor.