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The concept of quality of life is very broad and dynamic. We can find several definitions for this term in literature, but all of them take physical, cultural, social and environmental conditions into consideration (C.S. Peranambuco et al. 2012). World Health Organization (WHO) defines quality of life as an individual’s perception of their position in life in the context of the culture and value systems in which they live and in relation to their goals, expectations, standards and concerns. It is a broad concept incorporating an individual’s physical health, psychological state, level of independence, social relationships, personal beliefs and relationship with the environmental conditions (WHO 1998).

The new complexes of novel ligand with Zr (IV), In(III) Tl (III), and Th (IV) have been synthesized. These complexes were then characterized by melting point, magnetic studies and spectroscopic techniques involving infrared spectra (IR), UV–Vis, 1H NMR. C, H, N and halogen elemental analysis and thermal behavior of complexes also investigated. The results suggested that the molar ratio for all complexes is 1:2 where ligand acts as a bidentate via one of the oxygen atoms of the hydroxyl group tetracycline and oxime .through the Eyring parameters were calculated from thermo gravimetric (TGA) and differential thermo gravimetric (DTG) curves, using Coats–Redfern (CR). The cell dimensions were found by X-ray powder pattern and molecular structure were optimized by Chem Office Ultra-11 software programme.

Nigeria is one of the countries of the world with a variety of oil seeds, therefore the potential of Nigeria leading Africa, and the world at large, in the area of seeds oil production was examined by evaluating the oil yield and physicochemical qualities of oil extracted from Citrullus lanatus from the southern region of the country. The lipid content of Citrullus lanatus seeds was found to be 57.26%. The iodine, saponification, acid, free fatty acid, peroxide, specific gravity, refractive index and pH, were analysed using standard procedures and values were found to be 114.94g I₂/100g, 220.19 mgKOH/g, 7.09 mgKOH/g, 4.512%, 20.00 meq/kg, 0.913, 1.35, and 4.45 respectively. The oil contains five main fatty acids: palmitic, stearic, oleic, linoleic are linolenic acids, but the most abundant fatty acid is linoleic with a value of 64.15% which is used industrially as a drying agent in gloss paint. Due to their high oil yield and abundance, oils from Citrullus lanatus seeds may be considered as Nigeria potential asset for soap production and other industrial applications.

Different node splitting criteria are available for the construction of classification and regression trees. Two of these criteria i.e. Gini and Twoing criterion have been implemented in CART (Salford systems, 1995), Entropy function in C4.5 (Quinlan, 1993) etc. These criteria provide similar results especially for the small number of categories but not for large. To overcome this problem, we proposed a new node splitting method for the construction of classification trees. The performance of the new method is compared with conventional methods using two real life datasets and it is observed that the new method gives better results in terms of misclassification and deviance.

As a result of globalization the world is getting closer day-by-day and transforming into universal community. The organizations are in progressive state and converting into a hub of culturally varied individuals. This diversity is good as it brings significant prospective like innovative thinking, improved judgement, inspiration, etc. But on the other side,these cultural discrepancies have also become the root cause of clashes, encounters, intricate situations and communication collapse, etc. Among all these issues, communication can be considered as one of the biggest challenges of multicultural organizations, as different area employees’ speak different languages and unable to communicate effectively.This ineffective communication leads to a state of confusion and ambiguity among employees, partners and customers. Due to unsuccessful projects, business partners and customers become unsatisfied and organizations get converted into a dejected place. The purpose of this paper is to know that how communication is acting as a challenge in multicultural organizations. With the help of the existing literature the authors have made an attempt to explore the various factors which make communication, a challenge to Multicultural organizations, and to explore what all are the areas which may get affected due to dearth of productive multi-cultural communication and suggestions are given to overcome these barriers. Keywords: Miscommunication, Multicultural, Communication Challenges, Diverse Workforce, Leadership.

Compatibility of implements with tractors has direct impact on quality of work (planting and tillage). To determine the degree of compatibility, data were collected from 310 tractor users throughout Kurdistan, West Azerbaijan, East Azerbaijan, Kermanshah and Hamadan provinces in Iran by random sampling method using Cochran’s formula. Each questionnaire sheet had six check boxes indicating different levels of satisfaction (excellent, very good, good, moderate, weak and very weak) with the values of 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1, respectively. Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.67 obtained for the questionnaires. The results showed that the slope of land had significantly negative effect on compatibility of tractors with the equipment. Also tillage and planting equipment were less compatible with MF240 tractor. MF285 tractor was incompatible with all the equipment used. On the other hand, MF399, because of its high traction capacity, observed to be the most compatible with equipment. Results also showed that the farmers' education had direct impact on compatibility between tractor and implements. Providing the farmers with more knowledge about the compatibility factors, draft and implement adjustments through CDs and manuals as well as short training courses may help to overcome tractor-implement incompatibility problems.

In this paper, we propose to integrate Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT), Genetic algorithm (GA) and Gantt chart (GC) for scheduling a construction project. Here, earliest start (ES) and earliest finish (EF) times of the activities are considered. Then, the parents, which depend on ES and EF, are selected from the uniform distribution. Crossover and mutation are implemented on the offspring for a better solution. The fitness, which represents the total cost, is computed. As a result, the finishing time and the cost expended for the project are minimized. In conclusion, the efficiency of the approach proposed is shown.

Correlation measure is an important tool in the field of fuzzy, rough and neutrosophic environments. The main aim of this paper is to introduce the correlation measure for rough neutrosophic refined sets. This concept is the extension of correlation measure of neutrosophic sets and intuitionistic fuzzy multi sets. Finally, using the correlation of rough neutrosophic refined set measure, the application of medical diagnosis and pattern recognition are presented.

The main purpose of this research is to examine the impact of corporate social responsibility initiative of the state bank of India on the customer satisfaction. A conceptual frame work comprised of four elements (economic, social, legal and philanthropic) developed by carroll 1991 is used to examine the impact of corporate social responsibility on customer satisfaction. A multivariate likert scale (1-5) has been developed with one additional dimension customer satisfaction. A sample of 192 customers of the bank has been used to collect the data. Regression and correlation analysis is conducted using SPSS 22 on full version of data to generate the result of analysis. The results show that there is a significant and positive impact of CSR dimensions on customer satisfaction. Also this research shows that economic CSR have a significant impact on customer satisfaction. This result is confirmed by correlation analysis. Correlation analysis shows that the CSR positively and significantly correlated with customer satisfaction. Hence the research found that there is significant and strong positive relationship between improved customer satisfaction and CSR. This study concluded that improving customer perception of CSR practices such as legal, ethical and philanthropy CSR will improve customer satisfaction. Therefore the banks should take initiatives to improve their CSR practices to enhance customer satisfaction

Bioinformatics is a science typically associated with databases in genomics and proteomics and structure and Function information for genes and proteins, of all forms of life on earth. In the past decade there has been a ‘cyber-war’, with the introduction of a number of biological databases on genomics and proteomics. The major aim here is to introduce data mining techniques as an automated means of reducing the complexity of biological data in large bioinformatics databases and of discovering meaningful, useful patterns and relationships in data. The main purpose of data mining in the field of bioinformatics is the mining of complex data which is fast growing and can be said to be outgrowing our processing power.