Archives-November 2017

The main objective of the present study is to predict the ultimate strength of PVC-concrete composite columns (a new type of composite columns consisting of a PVC tube filled with concrete). The study aimed at to investigate the potential of using fuzzy inference system (FIS) to predict the strength of the composite columns. Two models, Mamdani and Sugeno FIS model, having three inputs, one output, and twenty linguistic rules were constructed. The models were trained with input and output data. Using only the input data in trained models, the ultimate strengths values of PVC-concrete composite columns were found. According to the coefficients of correlations, both models have high prediction performance. The obtained values ewre very close to the experimental results. The average values of ratios of experimental to predicted ultimate loads were 0.994 and 0.999 for the Mamdani and Sugeno FIS model, respectively. Fuzzy inference system (FIS) model has been proved to be very effective in predicting the ultimate strength of PVC-concrete composite columns without attempting any experiments in a quite short period of time with tiny error rates.

This research seeks to critically analyse the portrayal of the life of Gautama Buddha in the Zee TV serial Buddha telecast from 2013. The television serial presents itself as a didactic religious discourse and for the first time it offers to present Buddha’s teachings on the small screen. Through the narrative, the show successfully attempts to answer some of the fundamental questions which are essentially sought after by anyone on the path of eternal truth, like what is reality, what is one supposed to do in life, what is life, who are we, what is our goal of existence. The research also investigates the various ways in which the text serves to express spirituality in an approachable manner. It intends to look at how the show contributes to the first representation of Buddha on the small screen. The aspects explored do not include portrayal of characters and the acting prowess of the cast.

This research paper is examined to find out the relationship between customer loyalty, service quality, Bank reputation and customer satisfaction in the Pakistan banking industry. This research paper uses administrative questionnaire. The variable include in this paper are customer loyalty as dependent variable and customer satisfaction, bank reputation and service quality as independent variable. The questionnaire includes 9 items of service quality, 5 items of bank reputation, 5 items of customer satisfaction and 5 items of customer loyalty. A sample size of 50 respondents is conducted in Narowal cities, Pakistan. A regression analysis is performed to study the impact of banking service quality on customer satisfaction in Pakistan banking industry. The findings from regression analysis suggest that banking services quality significantly influenced by customer loyalty. . In addition, the results from linear regressions analysis show that the Tangible dimension has the largest influence on customer loyalty.

In this article, we present a general fractional dynamical system related to cancer tumor. The considered model describes tumor – immune cell interactions using a system of fractional order differential equations. The conditions for global stability of cancer free state are studied, for the ague therapy fractional model. In order to stabilize or completely eliminate the cancer, we suggest suitable choices of functions and parameters in our fractional model.

The basic purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of terrorism on Karachi stock exchange in Pakistan. Terrorism attacks throughout the world have disrupted the flow of nation and stock prices. Karachi stock exchange used as dependent variable and terrorism, foreign direct investment, gross domestic product, inflation, money supply and industrial production as independent variables. The secondary data used form the sources of Karachi stock exchange, world development indicators and Asia terrorism portal. The time period of data collection (2003-2014) .The data was analyzed by using correlation, descriptive statistics and regression techniques run on E-views. The research findings show that terrorism has negative impact on Karachi stock exchange of Pakistan. When terrorism occurred than foreign direct investment, gross domestic product, and inflation has insignificant and negative relationship with Karachi stock exchange (KSE). This study examines only banks impact/effect of terrorism on Karachi stock exchange in Pakistan by taking twelve years data. The further research can be conduct by taking different segment, more year data and other countries. This study envisions the on the whole impact of terrorist actions, not just a single activity, on the health but also effect all over the factors of the economy. For studying this impact, a Terrorism scale has been developed for this study, based on the impact of every terrorist activity in the country.

The main objective of this study was to describe the epidemiological and evolutionary characteristics of children infected by Ferragat (PF) at the pediatric ward level of the Ibn Zohr Hospital in Marrakech over a three-year period from January 2013 to December 2015. 58 cases of (PF) were identified (7.97%) out of 727 cases of poisoning received. Children under one year of age were affected in 94% with a male predominance (70%) from the urban environment and observed in the winter and spring periods. Obstacles related to training, management and practice are among the factors hindering Poisonings by Ferragat care. 

We develope the models of defense budget demand by bureaucratic model. To see the business usual characterstics, we assume defense spending is the degree of inertia of the budget period, because a group of actors who enter into, always want to maintain the status quo and their positions. The results shows that Indonesia's defense budget policies positively affected by last year's defense budget with a low level of sensitivity. Although still business as usual, but the military actors only gave little influence to the policy.We develope the models of defense budget demand by bureaucratic model. To see the business usual characterstics, we assume defense spending is the degree of inertia of the budget period, because a group of actors who enter into, always want to maintain the status quo and their positions. The results shows that Indonesia's defense budget policies positively affected by last year's defense budget with a low level of sensitivity. Although still business as usual, but the military actors only gave little influence to the policy.

The Retail employees are driven by the same universal motivational theories. Though their life style and the aspirations in economic terms are different in the Indian society, their behaviour towards the motivational stimuli are almost the same as employees of other industry. When we apply Maslow’s need hierarchy and check where the preference of the Retail employees lay. They are concentrated as social and elite needs as the lower physiological and basic needs are taken care of easily given their economic stand in the society. Work is an important event, a fact that is inevitable in the life of an individual whatever form, it is done; it is an activities and source of satisfaction ones needs. Employee try to find satisfaction in what they do and as a result the manager should be able to understand the problems faced by his workers and find a way of satisfying their needs and aspiration The general assumption is that an adequately motivated worker will in turn give in his or her best towards the attainment of a general consensus. The observations of the present study corroborate the fact that, there is a strong positive relationship between employee motivation and His/her productivity. 98% of the employees responded that they will get motivated by their working environment. The kind of monitoring they have from their managers, the compensation what they get from the company is also important motivator to retain them. Over 90% of the employees say that quality of their working environment motivates them to work with enthusiasm, working culture, behaviour and attitude about their work. Based on the above respondents response we can say that there is a relation between employee motivation and his/her productivity.

Over a period of time India has emerged as a global attraction for retail industry. Unfortunately due to rising employee costs and alarming attrition rates, the retail companies are now worried about losing business to upcoming countries like Philippines, China and South Africa. The Indian retail professionals are now days have become known for their job hopping habits. Employee turnover has always been a matter of concern for organizations. A large degree of employee turnover is highly detrimental to both the organization as well as the employees. How to reduce employee’s turnover intention is a very pivotal challenge for today’s HR managers. Pay better incentives and employee’s motivational techniques have been useless and old practices of the human resource management. To analyze employee’s turnover intention and its impact on organizational outcomes 50 questionnaires were distributed to the first and middle line employees in selected organized retail outlets in Bangalore. This is a qualitative research. The study was done through questionnaire. From the econometric analysis, it is found out that turnover intention has influence on attrition factors such as working environment, career growth, working hours, personal/family reasons, and relation with internal co – worker, welfare, working condition, and salary.

Poultry manures are widely used in market gardening in South Benin. Several studies have shown that the use of raw poultry manures in market gardening has an impact on both the microbiological and chemical quality of the vegetables produced. Therefore, the hygienisation of these manures, through various composting processes, is necessary. The main objective of this research is to study the efficiency of aerobic composting and the anaerobic digestion of poultry manures in terms of reduction of pathogenic microbial load. To do this, poultry manure collected on a target farm in southern Benin was treated according to the two composting processes. Samples of the raw manure and humus obtained after composting were collected and analyzed in the laboratory for the count of the pathogenic flora. The quantum of Escherichia coli decreased by more than 90 % at the end of both processes, but aerobic composting was more effective than anaerobic digestion. On the other hand, there was a proliferation of coagulase-positive Staphylococcus and Clostridium perfringens whose quanta increased considerably at the end of the two processes, which can be justified by several factors whose redox potential of these two particular bacteria, conditions of the composting process and the hygiene of post-composting operations.