Archives-April 2015

There has been recent upsurge, alleging judicial bias in sentencing process, especially in awarding capital punishment. Even Apex Court has admitted that doctrine of ‘rarest of rare case’ is not working properly. Taking note of that, few scholars blamed the very core of sentencing policy, and demanded ban on capital punishment. Their argument is precisely based on constitutional doctrine of ‘arbitrariness’, ‘equality’, and ‘fairness’. This work examines few of such allegations, and explains that non-implementation of ‘rarest of rare’ formula may be rooted in lacadiascal approach by the trial courts. However, the doctrine is, constitutionally unassailable.

Complexes of monoethanolamine with Co, Ni, Zn and Cd are obtained according to the previously reported literature. Empirical formula assigned to the synthesized complexes from elemental analysis was found to be [Co(MEA)(H2O)2Cl2], [Ni(MEA)2Cl2], [Zn(MEA)(H2O)2Cl2] and [Cd(MEA)2SO4]. Thermogravimetry was done from ambient to 1000°C in order to check the thermal stability of complexes which was supported by FTIR spectra obtained at 150°C and 500°C. Initial decomposition temperature (Ti) values of complexes from Thermogravimetry showed the following order of thermal stability: [Cd(MEA)2SO4] > [Co(MEA)(H2O)2Cl2] > [Zn(MEA)(H2O)2Cl2] > [Ni(MEA)2Cl2].

In the present scenario childhood obesity is a burning problem worldwide. The consequences of childhood obesity dramatically perceived and it leads to severe life threatening illness such as heart diseases, hypertension, behavioral disorder and so on. So the investigator felt need that to identify the childhood obesity among school children. Quantitative approach with descriptive survey research design was adapted and 80 school children studied 9th & 10th standard at Apollo English High School were choose by non probability convenient sampling technique. Data were gathered and analyzed by descriptive & inferential statistics. The study findings revealed that 38.75% of school children had Grade-1 obesity and 11.25% & 3.75% of school children had Grade-II obesity & Grade-III obesity respectively. The investigator found that there were five variables such as father education, father occupation, mother education, monthly income of the family and place of residence had association with obesity.

Information revolution implies the use of technology especially electronic devices in communication, information, knowledge and skills. Today, in electronic era information technology is sharing and interchanging information such as knowledge, mental skills, motor skills and attitude through the use of mass media, especially electronics. In the broadest sense information technology refers to both the hardware and software that are used to store, dissemination and manipulate of information. Information technology comprises computers, networks, satellite communications, robotics videotext, cable television, electronic mail, electronic games and automated office equipments. Information technology mainly includes computer, internet and multimedia. The main objective of the study is to find out the level of academic creativity and achievement of adolescents not using information technology. Also, another objective is to study the effect of use of information technology on creativity and information technology of adolescents. Descriptive survey method has used in the research. Baquer Mehdi’s verbal test of creative thinking (TCW) has used to measure the creativity of adolescents. It provides three factor scores-fluency, flexibility and originality. Final results of the students are collected for measuring Academic Achievement. A sample consist 200 adolescents of two streams (science and arts) of graduation class which has selected by Purposive Sampling Method from Mathura. To interpret & analysis the data statistical techniques Mean, Standard Deviation, t/ CR test, ANOVA were used. The study of interactional effect of all three independent variables - AXBXC i.e. stream * sex x use of information technology results in the rejection of null hypothesis and it was found that all the three variables combinedly effect the creativity and academic achievement of adolescents. On the basis of the findings given above it may be concluded that the use of information technology effect the creativity and academic achievement of Adolescents.

The present study was conducted to assess the impact of academic staff functioning on research in higher education organized by the University Grant Commission. The present study based on to find out research abilities of teachers such as knowledge up-gradation, art of thinking, research skills, technological information environmental awareness and writing skills etc. Primary and secondary data collected and analyzed by appropriate statistical methods. The study carried out during the UGC sponsored Orientation Programme and Refresher Course in their respective ASCs in year 2013-14, for measuring the impact pre-programme and post-programme survey was conduct on the same participants. On the basis of the findings of the research the Z test value inferred that all the parameters had predicted a significant impact on research abilities in orientation and refresher programmes offered by ASCs.

Speech is an efficient mode of communication among human beings. The shape of glottal excitation may be speaker and language dependent. The objective of this paper is to investigate the quality of speech with respect to glottal excitation modification in Hindi and Dogri languages. For this, recordings of six speakers (3 males and 3 females) were carried out in Dogri and Hindi languages. Cardinal vowels (/a/, /i/, /u/) were extracted from recordings of each speaker. Investigations were carried out by modifying the glottal excitation component of speech and this modification is obtained by adding noise which is a random signal to the glottal excitation component. The analysis of the results showed that quality and intelligibity of speech changes with the modification of the glottal source component in such a manner that identity of a speaker is fully lost and the clarity is degraded though not fully lost. Further, it is perceived that with the modification clarity in male speakers is more degraded than female speakers.

In this paper, the laser beam welding is studied and Aluminum temperature field is gained in this process. The thermal effect of laser beam that specially depends on the laser type and temperature field of it in workpiece, is the main key of analysis and optimization of this process, from which the main goal of this paper has been defined. Utilizing laser as a method to join plastic components is growing in popularity. There are two laser welding mechanisms, keyhole mode and conduction mode. Keyhole welding is widely used because it produces welds with high aspect ratios and narrow heat affected zones. However keyhole welding can be unstable, as the keyhole oscillates and closes intermittently. This intermittent closure causes porosity due to gas entrapment. Conduction welding, on the other hand, is more stable since vaporisation is minimal and hence there is no further absorption below the surface of the material. Conduction welds are usually produced using low-power focused laser beams. This results in shallow welds with a low aspect ratio. In this work, high-power CO2 and YAG lasers have been used to produce laser conduction welds on 2mm and 3mm gauge AA5083 respectively by means of defocused beams. Full penetration butt-welds of and 3mm gauge AA508 using this process have been produced. It has been observed that in this regime the penetration depth increases initially up to a maximum and then decreases with increasing spot size.

In Wireless sensor networks the major concern is how to conserve the nodes' energy so that network lifetime can be extended significantly. Employing one static sink can rapidly exhaust the energy of sink neighbors. Furthermore, using a non-optimal single path together with a maximum transmission power level may quickly deplete the energy of individual nodes on the route. This all results in unbalanced energy consumption through the sensor field, and hence a negative effect on the network lifetime. In this paper, we present a comprehensive taxonomy of the various mechanisms applied for increasing the network lifetime. These techniques, whether in the routing or cross-layer area, fall within the following types: multi-sink, mobile sink, multi-path, power control and bio-inspired algorithms, depending on the protocol operation. In this taxonomy, special attention has been devoted to the multi-sink, power control and bio-inspired algorithms, which have not yet received much consideration in the literature. Moreover, each class covers a variety of the state-of-the-art protocols, which should provide ideas for potential future works. Finally, we compare these mechanisms and discuss open research issues.

Social helpers can play an important role in empowering vulnerable groups. One of these vulnerable groups is women with addicted husband that encounter with the crisis of addiction of their husband in life. Undoubtedly, one of the practices in the field of empowering them is enhancement of their resiliency. Recognition of effective factors on the resiliency can be helpful in direction of empowering them in next steps. The purpose of the current study was to investigate the effect of the role of family function on the resiliency of women with addicted husband. In viewpoint of data collection, the method of current research is descriptive research (non-experimental) from field study branch and in viewpoint of the relationship among research variables this study is a type of correlation. Statistical population of the current research was women with addicted husband in Tehran that 350 of them were selected based on Cochran’s formula and were studied using a simple random method. In order to collect data and required information in this study, standard family assessment device (FAD) and Conner and Davidson’s standard resiliency questionnaire (2003) were used. Data were tested using SPSS software and correlation and multivariable regression tests. The results showed that there is a significant positive correlation between family function and the resiliency of women with addicted husband (r=+0.343, P<0.01), between problem solving and the resiliency of women with addicted husband (r=+0.343, P<0.01), between communications function and the resiliency of women with addicted husband (r=+0.624, P<0.01), between role and responsibility and the resiliency of women with addicted husband (r=+0.414, P<0.01), between blended emotions and the resiliency of women with addicted husband (r=+0.375, P<0.01), between behavioral control and the resiliency of women with addicted husband (r=+0.675, P<0.01). Also, the results of multivariable regression showed that all of components of family function are as a predictor of the resiliency of women with addicted husband (P<0.01). The results of this research can be helpful for social helpers, policymakers and programmers in order to programming in direction of empowering vulnerable groups such as women with addicted husband.

Gurpi formation (Companian-Maestrichtian) is one of the importance formations that include as a Cap rock for reservoirs Sarvak in south west of Iran. Assessment of Gurpi formation facies in the wells A,B and C lead to know ten microfacies that related to facies belts of middle ramp and outer ramp. Outer ramp’s facies are allocate the maximum thickness in these wells. Field studies and assessment of vertical facies changes in sequence lead to know main surface of sequence in studied area. This formation have been formed of two sequences (3rd cycles). Sequences are separated by sequence boundaries type of 1 and 2 (SB1 and SB2).