New Visions in Science and Technology Vol. 4

Objective: The purpose of this study was to compare the fingerprint and palm print patterns of female schizophrenia patients and normal controls.

Study Design: Cross-sectional study.

Material and Methods: Fifty females with schizophrenia, ranging in age from 16 to 60, were selected, along with an equal number of age-matched normal controls. The fingerprints and palm prints were taken using the standard ink process.

Results: In schizophrenic females, the arches are considerably shorter than in controls (p<0.05). In schizophrenic females, there is a higher percentage of frequency of presence of patterns in Th/I1 and hypothenar areas of the right hand; the difference in frequency of Th/I1 area is statistically significant (p<0.05) and low percentage of frequency of presence of patterns in I2, I3 and I4 areas of left hand in schizophrenic females as compared to that of controls; of which, I4 area shows highly significant less presence of patterns in schizophrenic females (p<0.01). In schizophrenic females, there is a substantial increase in the prevalence of ridge dissociation in both hands when compared to controls (p<0.001). In both palms of schizophrenic females, the mean ‘atd' angle is higher than in controls (left hand - (p<0.05). In schizophrenic females, the mean ‘a-b' ridge count in the left hand and the mean ‘b-c' ridge count in the right hand are lower  (p<0.05) than in controls..

Conclusion: Dermatoglyphic patterns are recognized by genetic factors. When analysed in conjunction with clinical features of schizophrenia, dermatoglyphic patterns can distinguish between patients and control groups.

The aim of this article is to design and fabricate a detergent mixing machine that will be easy and economical to maintain, and cost effective. Mild steel is used in fabrication of the bowl mixer (pan), frame, paddle and shaft. During operation, the machine ensures an even combination of detergent ingredients and a smooth discharge of the detergent at the base. Using detergent and liquid ingredients/constituents, the mixing machine’s performance was evaluated. Various volumes of samples containing detergent and liquid ingredients were first prepared and were ensured that the same quantities of each of the samples were mixed by the mixing machine and the conventional mixer (manually operated). The results obtained for mixing machine were compared with the performance of the conventional mixer under the same conditions. The efficiency of the mixing machine was found to be 80.7%. This study shows that where mixing of detergent and liquid soap is involved, the conventional mixer takes longer time of operation and consume more man power whilst the mixing machine yield at a shorter time of operation and at a reduce cost. The application of detergent mixer by laundry workshops will eliminate the use manual effort which is cumbersome, time wasting and inefficient. It also save the cost of purchase and manufacture for production and also encourage its use for laundry at home.

An attempt was made to streamline and show experimental results devoted to the purposeful study of the neutrino capture cross section by an array of radioactive substances, that is, the observed essence of anomalous neutrino radioisotope (ANRI) absorption as a new effect. For the reliability of the results obtained, two types of experimental facilities were used based on different physical processes - mechanical energy conversion of absorbed neutrinos and thermal. Both types of measurements were successfully carried out; it is possible to note a qualitative coincidence of the results (capture cross section \(\sim\) 10^–12). ANRI - the effect is applicable in all types of research and technology, the design of modern technology.

The current maintenance management method has affected the efficiency and capabilities of the operation management. Maintaining the production capability in any production system is an essential part of an operations management.  Many issues such as poor productivity and quality, inadequate finance, poor safety and morale, as well as environmental risks have emerged due to the current maintenance practice. In today’s world, company is moving towards implementing green as an effort and attractive strategy to achieve sustainability and maintaining competitiveness in their business practice to cater the consumer demands. In this sense, green maintenance management capability (GMMC) permitting better company awareness and commitment to environmental sustainability while gaining effective maintenance practice. In this research, green technology and green human resource management were assessed, important issues were addressed and recommendation were made for prospect research.

Scientists are generally honest, in what they say – but not in what they choose to study. Despite a diligent search in one of the world's best libraries (the University of California, Berkeley), I wasn't able to find a single book or article on the harm done by trail-building. I notice that whenever I see a picture of a trail, I think "Oh, a trail – so what?" It takes an effort of will to think about the wildlife habitat that was destroyed in order to build the trail. And the habitat destruction isn't restricted to the trail bed. As Ed Grumbine pointed out in Ghost Bears, a grizzly can hear a human from a mile away, and smell one from five miles away. And grizzlies are probably not unique in that. In other words, animals within five miles of a trail are inhibited from full use of their habitat. That is habitat destruction! If there were no trails, we would be confronted by our own destructiveness every time we entered a park. It is only because the habitat has already been destroyed for us, that we can pretend that we are doing no harm. That leaves only one option compatible with wildlife conservation: minimizing the construction, extent, and use of trails.

Objectives:  To develop an image enhancement technique that includes both resolution and contrast enhancement. Resolution is the ability of an image to show its details.  In this method, Stationary Wavelet Transform (SWT) is used in combination with Lifting Wavelet Transform (LWT) for resolution enhancement and SWT with the combination of Contrast limited adaptive Histogram Equalization (CLAHE) for contrast enhancement. SWT is used in combination with LWT improves the resolution and also minimizes the execution time drastically. SWT is combined with CLAHE to enhance the Contrast and mitigate the noise effects than existing methods. The proposed method gives superior results, and it is proved with Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR), Noise Estimation and Root Mean Square Error (RMSE), and pictorial results.

Risk management has been recognized as an important topic for organizations not only in assessing and responding to risk, but also in providing an important venue to identify opportunities and bringing values to organizations. Today most organizations still rely on the traditional approach to risk management. Such approach is built on stovepipe-oriented risk management where the focus is mainly on the tactical business issues and does not consider strategic sources of risk. Moving to an enterprise risk management (ERM) is in practice but the level of maturity is different from one organization to another. Although, ERM overcomes many of the limitations of the traditional risk management models, it brought with it its own limitations and challenges. The establishment of an enterprise risk management framework is an ongoing effort by various organizations as it has been agreed that it has an influential role in shaping organizational-wide risk strategies and policies in a shared governance structure. The perceived silo-based nature of risk management and the relevant risk function integration and communication holistically, however, remains a challenge. The main objective of this paper is to address this significant problem by proposing a holistic multidimensional risk management framework with three key domains: a Business Process-Centric Risk Management System (BPC-RMS), a Risk Dialogue Matrix (RDM) based on Expert rules and Data Mining, and a Risk Management Program (RMP) led by a Risk Management Office. A holistic multidimensional risk management approach looks at all functional areas in the enterprise, identifies all the risks in these areas, analyzes their relationships and impacts, and provides a balance among all risk activities. The proposed framework is designed to build upon the standards and best practices of risk management. Using design science methodology, we propose and evaluate a multidimensional framework to integrate these risk management concepts into the business process of the enterprise.

Self-organization using simple dynamic laws has been applied to migration across a common border between two entities, states or countries. The motion of the migrants and their final positions are presented. In the system there were two sets of objects. One set was on a side of the boundary. One side, the right side, was considered to be the better entity. That is it had a good government and the economy was strong. On the left side the entity was decidedly different with respect to the governance and the economy. Each side's objects were further divided into two groups. The two groups were referred to as strong and weak. The strong represent the governance, rich or elite and weak refers to the general population. Initially the objects were randomly distributed in this two dimensional square bounded region, and then allowed to dynamically interact for a number of iterations. The forces among all of the particles as groups were defined to be attractive or repulsive and could be adjusted to study the resulting configuration from the dynamics. Four experiments were conducted to see how self-organization applies for these scenarios. In Experiment 1 the migration took place with only the object-to-object forces active. In Experiment 2 the concept of employment was introduced. An unemployed object was allowed to move faster than an employed object thus giving the unemployed greater mobility. The employment rate on right side is considerably higher than on the left side. Experiment 3 explored changing one of the forces from repelling to attract. Experiment 3 was the same as Experiment 2 except for this and it went for twice as many iterations. Experiment 4 created employment centers on the right side. These centers provided jobs to left side migrants that came close enough to a center. If the left side object got a center job then that migrant did not move for the remainder of the simulation. In Experiments 1 and 2 there was no incentive for a migrant to remain so the migrant traveled back and forth across the border. In Experiment 4 it was assumed that the job provided incentive for the migrant to remain at a fixed location. Thus clusters of migrants formed around the job centers. The clusters that formed were not sustainable indicating lack of reason to stay. The objectives of this effort were to apply computer simulation to a group of migrants to observe the traffic patterns from one side to the other and to observe if cluster or enclaves were formed.

Curing plays a chief function in improving the strength of concrete. The function of a self curing agent is to save the water and to reduce the water evaporation from the concrete, and hence they increase the water retention capacity of concrete compared to the conventionally cured concrete. Prosopis juliflora root powder is used as admixtures for self-curing concrete in this study. Prosopis juliflora (Seemai Karuvelam in Tamil) grows tremendously and spreads due to its mechanism to overcome adverse conditions like drought and salt. With deep penetrating roots, it can draw water from deeper layers. Their root has a high water holding capacity, so powder made from it can be used as an admixture for self-curing concrete. This study involves the experimental investigation of the self-curing property of concrete by using Prosopis juliflora root powder. Tests on fresh concrete and hardened concrete were conducted. From the results, we have concluded that by adding Prosopis juliflora root powder as a self-curing agent in the concrete mix at various percentages, the addition of 0.75% of Prosopis juliflora root powder by the weight of cement attains the 28 days compressive strength of conventional M25 grade concrete in 7 days. The further addition of Prosopis juliflora root powder decreases the compressive strength of concrete.

One of the largest sectors in India is a livestock sector. It has 56.7% of world’s buffaloes, 12.5% cattle, 20.4% small ruminants, 2.4% camel, 1.4% equine, 1.5% pigs and 3.1% poultry. The average yield which we get from animals in terms of milk or meat is 20-60% lesser than the global average. Their production potential is not fully developed because of the lack of the breeding, feeding, health and the management issues. And also because of the diseases the animals do get like Brucellosis, Swine fever and so on. The veterinary support for this is insufficient. This paper focuses on identifying these diseases from cattle using some Artificial and Machine Learning techniques. In this work, four major diseases are addressed FMD Foot and Mouth disease, HS, BQ Black Quarter, and Anthrax. A mobile app is being developed to detect the diseases through the camera. Data science and deep learning technology is used to detect, to store and to predict the disease. Once the result is obtained from the data, those results could be shared with doctors nearby through the mobile phone. Based on doctor’s advice some medicines could be given by the farmers itself. As a result, one doctor can serve more patients virtually.

This study explores the deeper meaning of socio-economic frequency distributions, particularly in their accumulated form, called an OGIVE [1]. Due to the obsession of statisticians during the past century with “significance” little attention had been paid to statistical methods in the social sciences [2]. The first part of this study, reviewing the asymmetric nature of frequency distributions of socio-economic data may surprise statisticians in the medical and bio-science fields. Customary measures developed for their symmetric distri- butions do not apply to socio-economic data. The second part of this study deals with the Ogive, a cumulative form of the same frequency data. Textbooks on statistics mention the Ogive only as a curiosity, describing how to construct one. Yet never mentioned is its meaning, its interpretation, its contribution to a fuller understanding of the underlying socio- economic situation This study explores how to extract from an Ogive features of the frequency distribution that otherwise remain unnoticed.

The paper aims to explore how aging adults influences the fitness centre’s service quality. A conceptual framework was developed which revealed an aging adults influenced fitness centre service quality by considering five factors; employees or working staff, activities or progtrammes offered by the facilities, locker room conditions, physical and workout facility. The findings provide a reference for researchers to conduct further studies related to the fitness centre and the need to provide service quality to aging adults. The finding can be applied to aid references to aging adult’s fitness centre’s owner to improve their service quality or for those business owner who plan to attract aging adults as their customers. This research identifies and discusses that fitness centre, as one kind of place where people go to exercise, is open not only for some people but for everyone, including aging adults.

This study aims to introduce biometric fingerprint authentication in an automated student attendance system using individual fingerprint minutiae features, which could effectively manage students' attendance of the Computer Science and Engineering department at Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University, Bangladesh. In this study, attendance was marked after the student's biometric fingerprint enrollment and verification. For automatic student identification, an authentication system based on fingerprint recognition was done by using minutiae features. Fingerprint minutiae features are considered to be the best and fastest method for biometric identification. These minutiae features are more secure to use and unique for every person that doesn't change in one's lifetime. Fingerprint recognition is a mature field today, but identifying individuals from a set of enrolled fingerprints is a time-consuming process. Thus, it is necessary to improve fingerprint identification accuracy and implement it on large databases (e.g., an institute or organization). In this work, the fingerprint minutiae-based algorithm was used to develop the authentication system. The proposed automated attendance system using fingerprint recognition was tested on a class of student fingerprint databases. It achieved significant results for taking attendance of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering students. The proposed system has been implemented using the C# programming platform.

This paper is a historical presentation of the development of television and chronologically presents the evolution of the use of plasma in television. The idea of a plasma television, as presented here, seems closer to a research hypothesis than a technical solution realizable according to the manuscript concept.

The first inventors who proposed the use of plasma together with imagined solutions and patents related to a plasma display panel - PDP are presented.

The first attempt to accomplish an extra flat display by using a modified cathode tube is also presented. Yet, the technological difficulties stopped its utilization at a large scale in television. The solutions that determined the realization of certain TV displays with applications in other fields of electronics are also introduced. A pioneer invention from the 1960s’, which set the bases of future TV displays, is also specified. The utilization in the 1970s’ was the most adequate technological solution for the realization of the first thin displays, a solution which survived even after the appearance of the LCD and LED systems.

The objectives of the study are:

- presentation of the evolution in time of the researches made by the inventors regarding a flat screen,

- correlating these inventions with the realization of a flat screen TV that uses plasma,

- highlighting the researches that through their vision had innovative priority and made pioneering inventions.

The technology of an organo-mineral additive based on clay with a high proportion of montmorillonite is described. Given the limited reserves bentonit clay, used of organic- additives on based multimineral clays with a high content of montmorillonite. The concentration of plasticizer is determined by the variation in surface tension of the plasticizer solution. The usage of organoclay in polystyrene paint composition is demonstrated. Comparative properties of polystyrene paints modified with organoclay and coatings based on them are presented.