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This paper presents the seismic behavior of beam-column joints with special confinement in the joint region along with different reinforcement detailing for anchorage of beam bars, confinement in joint and additional reinforcement in beam and column. External confinement is carried out by glass fiber reinforced polymer(GFRP).The performance of the specimens are compared in terms of lateral load- versus displacement curves. The dimensions of the specimens were fixed to be 0.2m x 0.2m cross section and the height of the column was fixed as 1m and the cantilever length of the beam was fixed as 0.6m to carry out the experimental work. Five numbers of exterior beam-column joints were designed according to Bureau of Indian Standards were cast and tested under lateral loading. The specimen was designed as per IS 456:2000 and IS 13920-1993 and reinforced accordingly with that. Out of five specimens three specimens were designed with special confinement one was control specimen and the final one was control + GFRP. Results by experimental and analytical shows that special confinement specimen carries more load carrying capacity than the control specimen and almost close to control + GFRP.

Business record (BR) is an emerging patient-centric model of information exchange, which is outsourced to be stored at a third party, such as cloud providers. To assure business data control over access to their own BRs, it is promising method to encrypt the BRs before outsourcing. To achieve scalable data access control for BRs, we leverage attribute based encryption techniques to encrypt business file. In data owner, the users divide to the BR system into multiple security domains that reduces key management complexity for owner and users. A degree of privacy is guaranteed by exploiting multi-authority ABE.

Face recognition technology has evolved as a popular identification technique to perform verification of human identity. By using the feature extraction methods and dimensionality reduction techniques in the pattern recognition applications, a number of facial recognition systems have been produced with distinct measure of success. Various face recognition algorithms and their extensions; have been proposed in the past two decades. However, face recognition faces challenging problems in real life applications because of the variation in the illumination of the face images, facial expression and background variation. This paper provides a classification of back ground variation includes uniform background and non-uniform background along with facial expression, orientation of the image and illumination invariant using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Linear Discriminate Analysis (LDA) face recognition system.

Present study was designed to investigate the factors which affect class room management at school level. The major objectives of the study were to determine whether physical facilities of classroom affect classroom management, to know the role of students in classroom management and to know the role of teacher role in classroom management. A purposive sample of 50 respondents were collected from different institutions of district Karak among them 28 were male and 17 were female teachers. Teachers’ age ranged from 20 to 51 years, their qualification ranged from, F.A, to M.A. Teachers experience ranged from 1-25 years. Respondents having F.A (CT) qualification considers physical facilities are major factor of effective classroom management. Teachers having higher qualification have opinion that student behavior, physical facilities and teacher way of managing could affects classroom management.

Growth prospects of Mutual fund is likely to improve in the coming months as measure taken by the government have contributed to arresting the rate of decline in stock index in the last few months. The two main categories i.e. equity diversified and sector specific in which all the 16 schemes have been divided for the present study. These schemes have been analysed on various parameters. Franklin Prima fund is the top ranked fund and UTI advantage is the lowest. HDFC, Reliance and ICICI funds have also faired well

The aim of the study was to evaluate ciprofloxacin-hydrochloride loaded microspheres using copolymers synthesized from acrylic and methacrylic acid esters as a the retardant material for nasal administration.. Microspheres prepared by emulsion solvent diffusion method using an acetone and dichloro methane system. Formulation parameters and processing parameters like ratio of drug to polymer (1:1, 1:1.5, 1:2 and 1:3) concentration of aerosol, volume of water and stirring speed were optimized. Aerosil was used as the inert dispersing carrier to increase the dissolution rate. The prepared microspheres characterized for their micromeritic propertics and drug loading, as well as Differential scanning calorimetry and scanning electron microscopy. The in vitro release studies performed in Phosphate buffer PH 7.4. The prepared microspheres should white, free flowing and spherical in shape. The drug-loaded microspheres showed 86-96% of entrapment and release contected up to 8-10 hr.

This paper aims to develop and analyze a framework for measuring the competitiveness of a primary school. In order to evaluate the competitiveness the qualitative analysis has been adopted. The competitiveness of City School and Roots School System was evaluated using the developed competitiveness framework. Roots School was evaluated as more competitive. City School needs to focus more on grooming of students, faculty employment, retention and feedback mechanisms. The framework can be used to further improve the private sector primary schools.

Void fraction measurements are made by the gamma radiation method in crude oil-water two phase flow. To measure the void fraction, the required gamma-ray source and the strength of the source is experimentally found for oil-water two phase flow using Cs137.This is achieved by the empty small plastic tubes were used for simulating the void fraction through the mixture. The obtained results show that, the void fraction value increase with the source count rate by the NaI (Tl) counter.

This study investigated how the exploitation of wetlands, locally known as dambos, changes their vegetation composition, soil properties and how that in-turn affects the water quality. We therefore compared diversity and soil conditions between a protected (Madikane) and exploited (Dufuya) dambo impacted by communal agriculture and grazing in Lower Gweru, Zimbabwe. Species diversity was higher in Madikane (H’ = 2.52) than Dufuya (H’ = 2.14). Species that were present in Madikane indicated a permanent or semi-permanent wetness compared to species tolerant to arid conditions, reflecting disturbance in Dufuya. Dambo utilization also indicated a change in dominance from perennials to annuals and an increase in exotic species. There was no significant difference in the physical structure of the soil between the rather pristine and exploited sites (% clay and % silt, p > 0.05). A significant difference was recorded in the chemical properties of the soil (pH, phosphorus, nitrate-N, ammonium-N and organic carbon content). Water quality was good in the protected dambo than the exploited dambo as indicated by the differences in calcium ions and conductivity. The protection of wetlands is shown to be important in conserving biological diversity.

The present workflow was designed to identify potential inhibitors for HIV-1 protease that is essential for the life-cycle of HIV. The in silico binding affinities of existing inhibitors namely Atazanavir and Ritonavir were compared using Glide module in Schrodinger suit 2013. Atazanavir was found to have the highest affinity towards HIV-1 protease. The structure based virtual screening on the basis of the binding modes of best inhibitor (Atazanavir) was performed and best scoring hits were identified.