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Background: The study was conducted in a Chemical process shop engaged in electroplating operations. The studies were conducted in the Process Shop with varying plating operations. The hazards under study are alkali dust, hydrochloric acid, phosphoric acid, sulphuric acid mists, chromium, zinc fumes and ammonia vapour and studied in selected work stations. Process and engineering control measures were implemented after conducting Lean Six Sigma projects by production team. Another set of study was conducted with the same methodology after 12 � 15 months after the implementations of the Lean Six Sigma methodologies. Aim: This study was initiated to explore and assess the prevailing chemical work environmental factors / hazards in the plant as well as the distribution of these hazards in the plants before and after implementation of six sigma studies. It is to assess the work room air quality by static sampling before and after the implementations of the process and engineering measures by Lean Six Sigma studies and determine the effectiveness. Materials and Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted with 15 samplings in each sub locations of the main processes like acid pickling zinc plating etc. About 50 workmen are engaged in these operations. Convenient sampling method was adopted to collect 15 static samples in each sub locations/processes in two different conditions. The work exposures were compared for compliance with the occupational standards and for the effectiveness of the implemented Lean Six Sigma measures in these operations. Statistical Analysis: Plant wise and operation-wise hazard distribution analysis was done on the compiled data. The data was analyzed by using the IBM-SPSS version-20 and the Mini-Tab Version-16 and the results were tabulated using p<0.05 as statistically significant. Paired t tests, Chi Square tests and Pearson�s correlation were performed to establish the effectiveness. Results: The measured data on various chemical air borne factors were compared with the Threshold Limit Values. For all the measured hazards like dusts, mists, fumes and vapours under study in two different conditions, Correlation and association analysis were done and it is found to be at 5% level of significance and 95% confidence interval level. Conclusions and Implications: This study has demonstrated that the chemical air borne factors were varying based on the process, operational conditions and control mechanisms. It is concluded that there is a significant level of association (p<0.05) before and after the implemented Lean Six Sigma measures and it is found that the implemented Lean Six Sigma measures were found effective to mitigate the hazard exposures in the process plant.

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Industrial hygiene, Chemical air borne factor, Lean Six Sigma, Threshold Limit Values, control measures.

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This paper discusses poverty alleviation in Islamic banks within the purview of Islamic micro financing. It will touch the on; the prohibition of riba (interest/usury), population and poverty distribution in different regions of the world, Islamic finance�s emphasis on welfare maximization as against profit maximization. Specific attention will be placed on Islamic micro finance instruments such as micro credit, micro equity, and charity financing.

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Key words: zakat interest, sadaqah, waqf, ijara, murabaha, mudarabah, musharakah, riba, salam, usury

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Nigeria as a nation remained the theatre of armed communal conflicts which result in widespread destruction, thousands of deaths, and enormous property losses for several years. These violent conflicts are labeled ethno-religious because what we normally call religious conflicts here often has ethnic, political and economic undertones, while the so called ethnic conflict are complicated by religious, political considerations. The perennial occurrence of the problem does suggest the inadequacies of both the prevailing intellectual analysis and prognosis of the problem as well as the remedies proposed and tried so far. This require an adequate understanding of its root cause, the course it takes, the intervening variables, and the potential outcome of the complex series of events which go into its making. This paper is an attempt at providing such an explanation concerning the devastating consequences of the long period conflicts and crises of and also discusses various strategies that should be adopted by all relevant agencies and groups for a lasting peace in the country.

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Keywords: ethno-religious, conflicts, socio- economic, political, government, crises, management.

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The phenomena of multiple drug resistance has led for the search of medicines from alternative sources, mainly those obtained from plants and hence termed as Phytochemicals. Although this search is challenging but this bioactive species serves mankind by providing an array of medicines along with overcoming the threats posed viz. drug resistance. Plants, during metabolism produce metabolites which may be primary (sugars and fats) and secondary (such as protective agents as well as bioactive compounds produced in response to stress and pathogens). In depth perusals of available studies reveal that Terpenoid contents in all the selected plants ranges between 40 to 60 %. Hence the forthcoming literature and study would be helpful in determining of therapeutic use of terpenoids, their isolation and use for the welfare of mankind.

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Terpenoids, Therapeutic use, Phytochemical, Terpenoids estimation.

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: Life in twenty first century is very fast and sometimes unknowingly the rider starts the bike and move forward without pulling off the side stand because of urgency which may cause unavoidable accidents. To avoid such accidents cause due to the carelessness of rider , we may produce the new advancement in bike that as we press the gear lever, the cable wire get stretched due to the hook catch lock get de-locked to lift the side stand automatically. There is a need of prevent the rider in this type of condition, which arises many times, hence, it is important to create one mechanism, which prevents the rider from the accidents caused due to ungifted side stand. The mechanism should be such that it should neither affect the original mechanism nor create make the side stand more bulky. In additional it should not increase the price of the bike. It is just a small mechanism, which operate the stand and operation will be easy. Therefore, it is necessary to have a separate attachment in a bike to lift up the side stand automatically

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Automatic, Avoid Accident, Mechanism

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Present study describes the formation of biogenic AGNPs containing Antidandruff shampoo with minimum side effects which provides a simple, rapid and economical route will have a great potential in cosmetic field. Nanoparticles were prepared by green method by using neem leaves using magnetic stirrer. These prepared nanoparticles was identified by particle size , UV spectroscopy , FTIR , Zeta potential and these prepared NPs were used for the preparation of antidandruff herbal shampoo. The herbal ingredients such as Amla , Shikakai , aloe vera , Reetha , turmeric, lemon oil were used and the prepared herbal shampoo was evaluated by using various test such as visual examination , foaming ability , pH , viscosity , detergency . From the above evaluations it is concluded that herbal shampoo was found to be safe and effective without any side effect.

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Neem extract, nanoparticles, herbal antidandruff shampoo, biogenic AGNPs, herbal ingredients, antidandruff.

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It is the need of the hour to establish the role of Ayurveda in antenatal care, which is under national rural health programs. Human evolvement throughout the conception to adulthood is conjoined association, shaped within cells, of nature [the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) we inherit] and nurture (the comprehensive nutritional, social, and physical environment). The augmenting field of epigenetic has perception that environment and individual lifestyle can directly interact with genome to influence epigenetic transformation. Ayurveda sighted the urge for the physical, mental, and spiritual anticipation of the mother to be for the momentous event of childbirth and emphasis has been given on care of mother during antenatal period. Developing living being seems to have a wide range of perceptivity to epigenetic modulation. Befitting drift in epigenetic modifications is essential for embryogenesis, early foetal development, and early postnatal growth. Thereupon, the inappropriate endowment of epigenetic changes during critical developmental periods as a result of changes in maternal diet and other environmental components may induce paediatric developmental diseases and even influence health in adulthood. Garbha Samskara as explained in classical texts of Ayurveda involves the combination of Garbhadhan samskara (preparation of to be mother and father prior 3 months of conception), Pumsvana Samskara and Garbhini Paricharya (planned program of observation, education, lifestyle modification, nutritional and medical management of pregnant lady). By adopting the custom of Garbha Samskara, antenatal care along with epigenetic programming can be done in order to have a healthy progeny. Garbha Samskara may be considered as Ayurveda antenatal care and a novel preventive measure in the context of adverse epigenetic changes.

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Antenatal care, Epigenetics, Garbha samskara, Garbhini Paricharya etc.

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Abstract: According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Storm water management is the effort to reduce runoff of rainwater or melted snow into streets, lawns and other sites and the improvement of water quality. Storm water runoff from urban and suburban areas generates numerous pollutants. The areas include residential areas, parks, commercial areas, industrial areas and road or highways. Nowadays there is an increasing amount of everyday flood incidents around the world, the impact of which poses a challenge on the society, economy and environment. The goals of storm water management include protecting our environment; reducing flooding to protect people and property; reducing demand on public storm water drainage systems; supporting healthy streams and rivers; and creating healthier, more sustainable communities. In this project we are aiming to manage storm water effectively by providing appropriate storm water control measures (SCMs). Index Terms �Storm water management, runoff, flood, rainwater, pollutants.

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Storm water management, runoff, flood, rainwater, pollutants

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ABSTRACT Researcher started the study with statement of the problem as Investors in india and their awareness of investment process and opportunity philosophy of mutual fund. With reference to Equity mutual fund, Debt mutual fund and balanced mutual fund. This study deals with identifying the better performing equity midcap funds among the selected group of funds by considering various parameters to help the advisors suggest the investors in choice of their investment. This study driven with Need for the study of doing this work is to know about mutual funds and its functions. This helps to know in detail about mutual fund industry right from its inception stage, growth and future prospects and It also helps in understanding different schemes of mutual funds. Researcher has set an Objective for the study as to study the various schemes to invest from investor point of view, to compare the risk involved and the yield in each scheme and to study the price movement and variation involved in the scheme with respect to NIFTY index. The secondary data was obtained from various mutual fund schemes and investors magazine and websites. Yearly fact sheets of mutual fund companies are important source of secondary data. The data obtained is analyzed using mathematical models and present value method analysis.

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Keywords � equity midcap funds, Debt mutual fund, NIFTY index, balanced mutual fund; schemes of mutual funds.

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Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) is the most widely recognized malignant growth in youngsters and grown- ups. The identification of leukemia in the prior stage is significant before it spreads into the circulatory systems and other fundamental organs. For a considerable length of time, the finding of leukemia has been finished by experienced administrators and it is a tedious undertaking for pathologists. Programmed recognition of Acute lymphoblastic leukemia disease in tiny pictures is difficult because of the complicated structures. To handle this issue, a programmed and powerful indicative framework is required for early identification and treatment. Right now, machine learning-based implementation of Transfer learning for classification is proposed to recognize leukemic cells and ordinary cells. The purpose of this paper is to compare three types of Convolution Neural Network (CNN) architectures and to find which of them is suitable for our detection application. These architectures are MobileNet, VGG16 and ResNet50. All the methods are done using Google Colab which is a free cloud service to create machine learning model, Tensorflow a machine learning library, openCV, keras and other libraries to accurately detect Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.

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Machine learning; Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL); Google Colab; Tensorflow; openCV; keras; CNN ;ResNet50 ;MobileNet ; VGG16 ;transfer learning.

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Background: Dental anxiety has been known as a global public health concern that is a common problem affecting the populace broadly in different societies. So far, there are few studies considering the advancement of dental nervousness and oral wellbeing proficiency. Objective: The article intended to review the hypotheses that substantiate dental uneasiness and oral wellbeing education. To be included, articles need to have been distributed between the long periods of 1950 and 2019 concerning uneasiness inside dentistry. Methodology: This audit of the writing utilized the PRISMA strategy for the review of articles. Articles collected and reviewed between June 2019 and March 2020. An example decided by the incorporation and prohibition standards of the subject by utilizing PubMed, Scholar, Medline by means of OVID, and Cochrane databases. Studies that have broken down the impact of oral wellbeing education and dental anxiety. Result: Findings from most of the investigations recommend that Lack of sufficient dental wellbeing training may bring about an elevated level of dental uneasiness among adults populace. On typical prosperity capability levels were lower among explicit social affairs (youngsters, those in destitution, the people who got publically financed assurance, those with lower levels of guidance and the people who ignored to complete secondary school). Conclusion: complete ends from the investigations looked into are impractical because of the distinctions in the examination populace, age qualities considered, techniques utilized and measurable tests performed. Further research is required to concentrate on progressively young patients and patients who report past negative experiences identified with a dental gathering.

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Dental Anxiety, Oral Health Education, Adults

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Hoarding is a collection of various items where an individual finds it difficult to discard the items, clothes, and at an edge where individual is unable to discard the items. Hoarding can happen to anyone and it is a disease which doesn�t discriminate male and female. This occurs equally in both the gender. Sometimes you would have seen in our own home where your parents especially your mother would be stocking up the old things or commonly the plastic bag which you see in every house hoarded in a huge amount, but there is lot of difference between hoarding and collecting.

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Nowadays, intrusion is a serious security threat in a network environment. To solve this security requirement, many researchers have argued that data mining can improve the performance of intrusion detection system. Among the datamining techniques, clustering is an important means for intrusion detection. The aim of clustering is to group the two observations into the same cluster if these observations close to each other in the original data space. Because of growing the size of computer networks and developed applications exponentially, the signi?cant increasing of the potential damage that can be caused by launching attacks is becoming obvious. The most important defence tools against the sophisticated and ever-growing network attacks are Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) and Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPSs) which can compromise the confidentiality, integrity or availability of resource.

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Intrusion Detection System; Cyber Security; Clustering; K-means clustering

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Abstract: This examination investigations the natural and money related maintainability of strong waste administration in Indian urban areas. It presents an evaluation of the quickly rising volume of metropolitan strong waste, its evolving synthesis, the proceeding with training of blending biodegradable (wet) squander with dry waste at the wellspring of age, and the developing volume of plastic in the waste. The current framework is centered around assortment and transportation of to a great extent blended un-isolated waste. Asset recuperation from the waste and safe removal of the lingering waste in logically planned landfills are horribly disregarded. Rules have now been set up for feasible strong waste administration, yet the ability to design and deal with the framework and guarantee the requirement of the standards is a significant test. The powerlessness to guarantee isolation of waste comes in the method of legitimate reusing, compelling working of bio-methanation plants, and furthermore of safe activity of waste to vitality plants which therefore prompts arrival of harmful poisons into the climate. Destinations assigned for landfills are utilized as open dumping locales where to an extreme degree an excessive amount of waste is dumped without asset recuperation, creating leachate and methane gas. This examination additionally presents the wellsprings of ozone harming substance outflows from the strong waste segment. Other than introducing some alleviation decisions to react to the developing test, it likewise recommends components for guaranteeing that the framework is monetarily reasonable.

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Solid Waste Management, Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Solid Waste Sector, Sustainable Materials Management, Waste to Energy.

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The concept of Professional Learning Community (PLC) has become quite popular in the developed countries as a means for teachers to engage in professional development for enhancing learning of each student. Studies have proven that PLC makes improvement and progress in all over school culture and performance of the teachers and students. All the stakeholders of the school learn, consult, collaborate, plan, act and reflect to address the needs of the school for making it a learning organisation. Tripura, with highest literacy rate in the country and having access of schooling even in the remote areas, of late shifted its focus to improve quality in education. But quality education cannot be achieved only by appointing quality teachers, improving the physical infrastructure or using technology in education. It is essential that we create a favourable environment in the schools so that each teacher is in a learning mood and experiment innovative strategies to achieve the goals and overcome the challenges. The objective of this paper is to study the current situation of school education and find the need of forming professional learning communities in the schools of Tripura for transforming teaching learning system for imparting quality education to each child which is his/her right now.

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The phosphors Ca2MgSi2O7:Eu2+ have been successfully prepared by high temperature solid-state reaction process. . This used synthesis method is simple, time saving, and cost effective. X-ray power diffraction (XRD) analysis for characterize the crystallography structure, and SEM images were recorded for determine the topography, morphology, composition. Photoluminescence emission (PL) and excitation (PLE) measurements were investigated. Under the ultra violet excitation of 315 nm, the emission spectrum shows a strong band with a peak at about 462 nm. The results represented the type of phosphor may have potential applications in the fields of Ultra-Violet (UV) excited white LEDs.

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XRD, SEM, PHOTOLUMINESCNCE (PL)

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Investment in gold is always a preferred choice for Indians. There is an unquenchable demand for gold among Indians and the demand for gold has increased over the years. Recently, the Indian government increased the import duty of gold and this can impact the demand for gold among consumers. However it is arguable that this could make any significant impact among the retail investors who want to possess gold for long term in non-physical form like gold ETFs. While physical gold has lot of costs involved such as cost of depreciation, pilferage and transaction, the retail investor can save on such costs and efficiently plough money back into gold ETFs. The investment on gold ETFs has gradually increased in the last decade. Market analysts suggest gold ETFs to be part of investment portfolio to mitigate market risks. As India has undergone radical changes in the economy for last few years, the research attempts to find how investment in gold ETFs have gained momentum from 2014 and how comparable are the risks and rewards of gold ETFs with physical gold. 5 popular gold ETFs are taken for the study and a SWOT analysis is made based on their efficiency and performance in comparison with physical gold. The analysis reveals that the gold ETFs lack in certain aspects which can affect investors� perception on gold ETFs and can enable them to carefully consider the option of investing in gold ETFs.

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Exchange Traded Funds, ETFs, Gold ETFs

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The process of arranging items systematically is called sorting. Manual sorting of fruits is preferred at the wholesale market and food processing industries based on different parameters such as size, shape, quality, etc. But it is a time-consuming, less efficient, and inconsistent method. The existing systems in the market can sort single fruit with single or multiple parameters. To replace this traditional sorting way, the proposed system presents an automatic fruit sorting mechanism with an image processing technique and classification algorithm. It recognizes and classifies two different fruits with two different feature analysis method i.e. quality and size-based analysis at a time.

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Sorting, image processing, KNN Classification.

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FMCG products covers all aspects of human life, as these products relatively cost less and are sold quickly. FMCG is an escalating sector among all other growing sectors in our country. Consumers have different tastes, preferences, likes and dislikes and adopt different behaviour patterns while making purchase decision. The aim of this research article is to study the buying decision of the consumers of FMCG product. A number of factors affect the buying behaviour of consumers. So, knowledge of consumer behaviour is helpful to the company in understanding consumers� needs and developing appropriate marketing strategies. Advertising plays a very important role in promoting the FMCG products which is highly essential for moulding the buying decision of the consumer. A number of factors affect the buying behaviour of consumers such as promotion, price etc. Data is collected by obtaining information from the consumer basing on a number of variables. The study thus conducted is put in the factor analysis using the Eigen values. The results show that consumers buying decisions are affected mainly by seven factors viz. Convenience, efficacy, price, promotion, hedonistic, brand and conviction.

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Consumer, products, behaviour, brand, efficacy, demand.

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Bianchi Type-I cosmological model has obtained in the general theory of relativity. The source for energy momentum tensor is assumed a perfect fluid. The field equations have solved by using special form of the average scale factor proposed by Cai et al.[10]. The physical properties and the bouncing behavior of the model are also discussed.

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Bianchi Type- I space-time, bouncing universe, relativity, scale factor.

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