Archives-October 2015

The continuing evolution of business needs and technology makes applications more demanding in terms of development, maintenance, usability and management. To cope with this complexity, various frameworks and patterns are integrated for producing stable, maintainable and testable code. Given this diversity of solutions, the generation of a code based on UML models has become important. This paper presents, after establishing the different meta-models, the application of the MDA (Model Driven Architecture) to generate, from the UML model, the Code following the IoC (Inversion of Control) and Dao (Data Acces Object) patterns. The model-to-model transformations are also clearly and formally established by using the standard MOF 2.0 QVT (Meta-Object Facility 2.0 Query-View-Transformation) as transformation language. The transformation rules defined in this paper can generate, from the class diagram, an XML file containing the Business and the Data Access package. This file can be used to generate the necessary code of an architecture overview of IoC and DAO patterns.

Institutional counsellors, like all mental health professionals are at a high risk of suffering burnout. High caseloads and job role ambiguity increase their propensity for burnout. The purpose of this study was to establish counsellor burnout levels in public and in private universities in Uasin Gishu County. The target population comprised of counsellors from all public and private universities in Uasin Gishu County. The Maslach Burnout Inventory Questionnaire (MBIQ) was used to collect data. The study established that burnout levels among counsellors in the public universities were found to be higher than in the private universities. The caseloads handled by counsellors in public universities were generally higher than those of their counterparts in private universities due to the student-counsellor ratio in public universities which was higher than the recommended ratio. Counsellor Training Institutions (CTI) should incorporate burnout theoretical knowledge in the counsellor training curriculum. The findings are significant to the management of universities and other learning institutions in formulating policies on student-counsellor ratio. Key words: Counsellor, Burnout, Burnout levels, Public University, Private University

In this study, the optimized geometries, electronic structures, polarizability, hyper polarizability and dipole moment of the chosen (E)-3-(5-(anthracen-3-yl)-hexahydrothieno[3,4-b][1,4]dioxin-7-yl)-2-cyanoacrylic acid (E-3-2- CYANOACRYLIC ACID) dye sensitizer has been analyzed by using Density Functional Theory (DFT) and Time Dependent Density Functional Theory (TD-DFT) calculations (based on hybrid functional B3LYP). The HOMO and LUMO energies of the dye (E-3-2- CYANOACRYLIC ACID) are -4.84 and -2.22 eV respectively based on DFT calculations. To understand the conversion efficiency of the chosen dye architecture unit we selected TiO2 as a model for semiconductor. Results reveal that the selected dye sensitizer exhibits large dipole moment difference between the ground and excited state which is comparable to that of metal based dye sensitizers. Results concluded that intramolecular energy transfer is occurring in (E-3-2- CYANOACRYLIC ACID) and further the large dipole moment would be expected to give high photo-current conversion efficiency in practical Dye sensitizer solar cells (DSSC) besides promising candidate as a sensitizer for DSSC applications.

To assess the relationship between placental location and development of Preeclampsia and its maternal and perinatal outcome. Methods: Patients attending antenatal clinic at second trimester in the Dept of OBG in Dr. B R Ambedkar Medical College and Hospital during June 2014 to December 2014.It is a prospective study. Result: Out of 100 patients in the study, 61(61%) patients developed Preeclampsia. Conclusion: This study indicate that presence of lateral placenta strongly suggest preeclampsia and also shows that lateral placenta have high uterine artery resistance, so can be considered as screening method also.

To assess fetal and maternal outcome in PROM, and also to know the risk factors behind these cases. Methods: It is a prospective study done in our hospital from January 2014 to June 2014 in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Result: Out of 100 cases, the incidence of LSCS is 12.33% in the study group and birth asphyxia about 6.6% and Respiratory distress in fetus around 14.66%. Conclusion: PROM must be managed by inducing labour either by PGE2 or Misoprostol to reduce the rate of infection and by decreases the chances of baby stay in NICU( neonatal intensive care unit).

The efficiencies of activated carbons prepared from oil cake of Sesamum Indicum by thermal and sulphuric acid activation wereinvestigated for the removal of Cd(II) ions from aqueous solutions. Various parameters as a function of contact time, initialpH, initial adsorbent dosage and metal ion concentrations were studied. The optimum time required for the maximum removal of Cd(II) was found to be 1 hr for TAGOC and 2 hrs for STGOC. The equilibrium adsorption data were fitted to Langmuir and Freundlich adsorption isotherm models. The equilibrium adsorption isotherms showed that activated carbon has high affinity and sorption capacity for Cd(II) with monolayer sorption capacities of 44.92 mg/g for TAGOC and 35.97 mg/g for STGOC. The kinetic study indicated that the pseudo-second order rate equation better described the adsorption process. The adsorbent efficiency was also tested for the removal of Cd(II), Cu(II), Ni(II) and Zn(II) from synthetic electroplating wastewater. The results indicated that the prepared both activated carbons are efficient (99.9%), alternative low-cost adsorbent for the removal of Cd(II) and other metal ions from waste water.

The present paper entitled “Dominant Mothers” concentrates on how motherhood become a dominant feelings and it made them to decide the destiny of their daughters. The portrayal of mothers as dominant ones in the novels of Difficult Daughters is realistic and also shows how mother characters voice their welfare oriented attitudinal behaviours towards their daughters.

In an attempt to control multidrug resistant bacteria, a library of some new heterocyclic derivatives containing pyrazoline, isoxazole and pyrimidine ring systems bearing 1,3,5- triazine core were designed and synthesised from chalcones. Chalcones (AI-AV) react with hydrazine hydrate / glacial aceticacid, hydroxylamine hydrochloride / alkali and guanidine hydrochloride / alkali gives 1-acetyl pyrazoline (BI-BV), isoxazole (CI-CV) and 2-amino pyrimidine (DI-DV) derivatives respectively. The structures of all the newly synthesised compounds were assigned on the basis of FTIR, 1H NMR, 13C NMR spectral data as well as elemental analysis. In vitro antimicrobial proficiency of the title compounds were assessed against selected pathogens. The minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) was determined by broth dilution method and recorded at the lowest concentration inhibiting growth of the organism. Compounds BI, BII, CII, CIII and DV exhibited excellent antimicrobial activity and said to be the most proficient members of the series.

Water is one of the important natural resource available to mankind. Proper utilization of this resource requires assessment and management of the quantity and quality both spatially and temporally. A mathematical model provides quantitative mathematical description of the processes which includes a collection of mathematical equations expressing relationships between input and output variables through establishing and estimating the relevant parameters. The ANN models have been used successfully to model the complex non-linear input-output relationship. An ANN can be defined as data processing system consisting of a large number of samples. Artificial neural networks (ANN) have found increasing applications in various aspects of hydrology. The study revealed that a feed-forward artificial neural network with back propagation algorithm having a single hidden layer with two neurons in the hidden layer was able to model the rainfall-runoff transformation quite accurately. The correlation coefficient during the training varies between 0.88 and 0.93 and during testing varies between 0.78 and 0.95 respectively whereas the model efficiency varies between 73.70% and 85.77% with an overall efficiency of 81.18% during training and between 52.62 % and 90.01 % with an overall efficiency of 66.71% during testing.

The occurrence of drought leads to reduction in reservoir and tank levels and depletion of soil moisture and groundwater. There is a need to develop suitable criteria for planning supplemental irrigation to crops for increasing and stabilizing crop yields during non-drought conditions, and minimizing crop damages during drought. The present study is aimed to study metrological drought and agriculture aspects of drought in Mirzapur districts the recurrence of drought in these parts of the country in recent years have caused unprecedented economic losses and great suffering to the affected areas. The study is based on the analysis of rainfall and critical dry spell (CDS). In this study, crop water requirement and irrigation requirement for the crop during the drought situation is also analyzed and introducing the supplemental irrigation under drought condition. In Mirzapur district the deficiency of annual rainfall is observed up to 16%. In the district approximately one out of every four to five year is drought year. The year 2007 and 2009 was most severely affected as most of the area of the district was under drought and major area of the district is found as drought prone. In the district on an average three critical dry spells (CDS) have been observed during the monsoon season.