The purpose of the experimental work presented in this study is to study the effect of concrete compressive strength and steel reinforcement ratio on capacity and deflection of reinforced concrete two-way slabs. Three steel reinforcement ratios are considered which are minimum, maximum and average of them in addition to two concrete compressive strength
values of 20 and 30 MPa. The results from experimental work show that increasing the reinforcing steel ratio leads to increase the ultimate capacity of the slab in addition to decrease the maximum deflection. For slabs with
= 20 MPa, increasing the reinforcing steel ratio from the minimum to the maximum, i.e. 600 %, leads to increase ultimate capacity by about 156 % and decrease maximum deflection by about 52 %. Wheras, For slabs with
= 30 MPa, increasing the reinforcing steel ratio from the minimum to the maximum, i.e. 900 %, leads to increase ultimate capacity by about 155 % and decrease maximum central deflection by about 27 %. In addition, matmatical expresions for load-deflection relationships are presented in the current study.

The article is devoted to the problem of limiting water inflow in a production well. The authors consider the main features of the reservoir, which contribute to premature flooding. This paper presents the basic classification of plugging selective compositions, outlines the advantages and disadvantages of each type. Gel composed of carboxymethylcellulose, chromium acetate and copper sulfate was developed for water production restriction. An alternative way was offered to determine the optimal concentrations of plugging compositions on the change of the total porosity and x-ray density measured in the x-ray tomograph. Dynamics of the effective viscosity on the magnitude of the gap, simulating the fracture was obtained – the viscosity decreases logarithmically. Filtration experiments confirmed the selective properties of the gelforming composition

This study provides reports that Indonesian students are still struggling from underdevelopment. TIMSS and PISA is a challenging vehicle in the 21st century. TIMSS and PISA as a very comprehensive evaluation material in monitoring and providing information on the state of education in the form of mathematics and science of a country. Indonesia still lags far behind other Southeast Asian countries such as Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. Based on the results mentioned in 2015, Indonesia is at number 44 of 49 countries. The slumped condition makes Indonesian students still struggle to be at a better level. The weaknesses, for examples, are the distribution of education for educators, access to places of education and limited learning facilities. Indonesia is an archipelago country that stretches with thousands of islands from Sabang to Merauke so that education is still not evenly distributed. Limitations do not make Indonesian students break up. The implication of this paper is to give an overview of the major Indonesias ac

This paper is devoted to a critical analysis of the current state and prospects for the development of digital technologies that change production methods and increase productivity, flexibility, and reorganize the supply chain facilitating the transition to mass customization. Digitalization is fundamentally changing business: 65% of professions that will be relevant in 2050 do not yet exist today. In modern conditions, the latest technologies make it possible to increase the efficiency of production business processes. Traditional approaches and methods of work are changing as new technologies penetrate into new industries and areas of life. The purpose of the work is to analyze and estimate the nonuniformity of digitalization of the world industry and its impact on the development of the Russian economy as a whole. The relevance of the topic is due to the fact that the digital development of the state should be determined by the flexibility of management and the need to anticipate the impact of new technologies and the speed of response to the changing competitive environment. Results: Today, working in difficult conditions, Russia should use new technologies that expand the capabilities of market participants, but also involve a number of challenges. Conclusion: The efficiency of the digital economy implementation shows the patterns of todays technological state of production and the possibilities to control its development.

The globalization of the Russian and Chinese economies in the 1990 – 2010s, as well as the policy of strategic partnership between two countries come together with strengthening their political activity and interaction in the Arctic. Based on the methodology of fundamental system analysis, the article is a critical study of real interests, the common strategy that is formed, resource potential and probable prospects for the Chinese policy in the Arctic as an important component and factor for the development of the Russian and Chinese relations. The conclusions and recommendations made at the end of the article are relevant and important both for China and Russia as one of the Arctic states.

Shadow banking is a relatively new, quickly spreading financial phenomenon, which can be observed in both developed and developing countries. Its essence consists in the transformation in the course of securitization of loans granted to commercial banks and held on their balance sheets into financial assets (bonds) and their subsequent realization in the financial market. As a result of securitization, the Basel Committee standard of capital/assets activity decreases, and commercial banks gain the opportunity to increase the lending volumes. Experts point to a decrease in the level of the shadow sector customers’ safety, its unpredictable and destructive impact on the monetary policy of leading countries, the growth of the number of ineffective mergers and acquisitions, a reduction in taxes wired to the budget. Shadow banking institutions bear a systematic risk that adversely affects the state of the entire system of financialmarkets or its individual key segments. Efforts taken by national and international organizations during the past few years to impose tougher regulatory requirements on the operation of shadow institutions aim to substantially improve the business climate in this area. The purpose of the paper is to conduct a comprehensive research of the peculiarities related to shadow banking, reveal reasons behind the emergence of shadow banking and assess consequences of shadow banking for the performance of the financial system.

The authors of this article propose the methods of the complex studies of the rheological properties of the cross-linked polymer composition used as a waterproof compound for the technologies of the in-situ waterproofing in the certain geological and physical conditions of the reservoir. These methods were used in a research of the rheological properties of the cross-linked polymer composition in order to select the optimal component concentrations of the waterproofing compound and the optimal technological mode of its injection into the well. The authors present the methods of calculation of the following parameters: - minimum radius of the injection of the polymer composition in order to create a strong waterproof screen; - injection volume of the polymer composition into the washed zone of the reservoir; - specific and relative well injection capacities of the polymer composition into the washed zone of the reservoir

In this work, we define a new method for indexing and retrieving non-geotagged video sequences based on the visual content only by using the Local Binary Pattern (LBP) and Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) techniques. The main question of our system, Is it possible to determine the geographic location of a video film on the GISmap from just its pixels of frames?. The proposed system is introduced to answer the questions like that. The GIS database was constructed by storing the reference images on the intersection between segment roads in the map. The Local Binary Pattern (LBP) is used to extract the features form images. The Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) technique is used for compress the length of features and indexing the images in the database. The input to the system is a video taken from the camera puts on a vehicle as forward facing camera. The output of the proposed system is the geolocation of keyframes of video which correspond the geo-tagged images retrieved from the GIS database

This paper presents an experimental result on the behavior of fly ash and slag based geopolymer concrete exposed to 5% sulphate solutions for 3.5 months of G30 and G50 which are equivalent to M30 and M50 grades respectively. The test specimens were cast and after one day rest period, half of the specimens were cured in an oven at 60°C for 24 hours and the remaining period cured in sun light until the testing is done and remaining half of the specimens were ambient cured. After 28 days the specimens were immersed in sulphates such as Na2SO4 and MgSO4 for 15, 45, 75 and 105 days then tested on 15th, 45th, 75th and 105 th day according to codal procedures and the results are compared with the controlled concrete. From the test results, it is observed that the geopolymer concrete has better resistance to sulphates attack than controlled concrete.

The modern trends in public management determine the need to form an innovative theoretical and methodological framework for the customs management based on the integrative model. In this study, the conditions and areas for the evolution of the institutional management environment have been defined, entirely new requirements for customs management have been formulated, and the conceptual basis for their implementation has been chosen. The concept of adaptive and situational management as a key area for the development of the customs management has been offered. The graph-analytical model and the mechanism of adaptive and situational management have been presented, and the paramount problems that ensure their practical implementation have been formulated.

The purpose of the conducted study is to develop the applied aspect of tax analysis as part of the managerial analysis of a commercial organization. Tax analysis allows assessing the clarity and feasibility of the organization’s objectives and is aimed at determining its business situation at a specific point in time. To accomplish performance target, the authors studied and summarized the accumulated practical experience and theoretical studies, which allowed developing existing methods of tax analysis of commercial organizations and the influence of taxes on the formation of business performance. In consequence of the analysis, specific proposals were developed for the factor analysis development as exemplified by severance tax . The scientific novelty of the study consists in developing tax analysis methodology, taking into account the peculiarities of the formation and computation of the tax on extraction of commercial minerals, which is one of the most important budgetgenerating revenue sources.

The article deals with the analysis of the modernization prospects of transport and logistics services in Russia based on the use of an innovative mechanism. The expected result of the transformation should be improved quality and availability of services. The article reveals the conceptual approaches to understanding the essence and advantages of transport and logistics services; shows the evolutionary transformation of transport and logistics services forms; formulates logistics concept; as well as characterizes logistics business and logistics structure. On the basis of the structural analysis the main types of logistics are defined. The authors assess the business climate in the transport and logistics services sector in Russia, which is characterized by a steady decline in demand, a decrease in the number of contracts and the number of employees, rising prices for transport services, reducing profits that clearly indicates the deterioration of the economic situation of organizations in the sphere of transport and logistics services, and the preservation of an unfavorable business climate in the Russian market. The authors substantiate the possibility of using the state regulation tools in the development of transport and logistics services to improve the quality and availability, extend the range of services, as well as achieve economic sustainability of transport organizations. The conclusion is made about the prospects of using public partnership not only in the development of transport and logistics services, but also in the modernization of the entire Russian economy.

The article describes the institutionalization of the Russian-Chinese economic relations (RCER) and the problems and ways to improve the mechanism for their state regulation in terms of the methodological standpoint of the interdisciplinary system and retrospective analysis. It studies the main forms, trends and imbalances in the RCER development, as well as the nature of their current and future impact on regional and transregional integration processes in East Asia and Eurasia.

The article analyzes the main directions for ensuring economic security in the context of customs-legal regulation within the international community. Particular attention is paid to the modernization of state legislation in terms of liberalization of administrative, fiscal and other barriers aimed at reducing risks, eliminating and overcoming obstacles to the development of national economies. Scientifically based proposals are aimed at optimizing criminal policy in the field of improving the mechanism of customs-legal regulation, taking into account the peculiarities of regional development.

Conceptual modeling of R&D effectiveness improvement processes has been carried out. The study was conducted in three different areas of the R&D improvement that allowed identifying a wide range of concepts in the area under study.Based on a systematic approach to the activities in the field of team building and innovative development, the authors developed a questionnaire for a survey of professional teams involved in the R&D and tested it at the instrument-making enterprise, as well as identified negative characteristics that reduced the level of productivity of the creative teams surveyed. Using the system analysis and cognitive modeling approach, the authors revealed the key concepts influencing team decision-making under uncertainty on the national economy scale. The factors affecting the labor effectiveness within theenterprise are identified on the example of implementation of the R&D support system in a large department of the project organization. The novelty of the research consists in comprehensive consideration of the scientific activity issues at three different levels of organizational complexity. The study can be used in the planning of major projects dealing with labor effectiveness improvement in scientific work.

This study concerned the study and analysis of the demand function of the railway transport sector in Iraq and the factors influencing it. These factors influenced the numbers of passengers and the quantities of goods transported by them. It was found by estimating the demand analysis that the railway transport sector in Iraq suffers from a decline in the level of services provided passenger and cargo transport, due to the deterioration of infrastructure lines and units moving and lack of comfort, speed and safety in which factors, led the sector important loss in support of the national economy , And the reluctance of most passengers and owners of goods for the acquisition of this service in the mobility and transition to other modes of transport and then lost to compete with other means of transport. In the estimation of the demand function, the variables that should increase the number of passengers and the quantities of goods have a negative effect .Despite the increase in the size of the population, this increase did not increase the number of passengers and the quantities of goods. This indicates that the population does not want to purchase the railway mode. The speed of the train is very slow and does not meet the ambition. The reason for this is the footing and weariness of lines, trains, cars and trucks, as well as the lack of comfort and safety in that medium, making it a mode of expulsion rather than attracting individuals

Disposal of tyre rubber is becoming a huge problem in India day by day. Researchers are trying to use those rubber in civil engineering projects from long day back. Crumb rubber replaced fine aggregate is qute a common practice now a days. An attempt was made to replace 10% chipped rubber with coarse aggregate and beams were casted with that concrete mix.They were tested to failure. Deflection, ultimate load, first crack,stress vs strain,load vs deflection are all studied. Efforts have been taken to identify the potential application of waste tyres in civil engineering projects. This study can show an alternative way of recycling tyre by incorporating them into concrete construction. Main focus was made on the behaviour of beam made from recycled rubber chips .

The need for efficient and better construction methods and materials is increasing day by day due to the rapid urbanization taking place around the globe at the same time it is our responsibility to make sure that the application of materials involved in the construction does not create adverse environmental impacts. In this research an attempt to review the optimization of the material usage of a hollow core in Reinforced concrete (RC) flexural members in the zone of tension. This shall facilitate the reduction of the dead loads which is an important factor with respect to seismic effect on structures. This paper studies the research works carried out on RC hollow beams in order to understand the flexural behaviour compared with the conventional solid beams.

The One-to-One fixed method has been proposed in this article to find an optimal solution for solid assignment problems (SAP). The procedure of the One-to-One fixed method is illustrated by numerical example. The result achieved by the proposed procedure will support the decision making people to take a correct decision while using different types of solid assignment problems

This study examines the loyalty of local party voters who are influenced by political marketing factors; products, places, people, promotions, physical evidence, through the image of political parties. It involved 250 respondents from 8 districts/cities in the Aceh province as a research sample. Only 3 exogen variables; price, people and process.

The article outlines conceptual approaches to the formation of a strategy for managing customs-logistics activities based on innovative transformations in the customs sphere and establishment of integration interactions of regional participants in transboundary activities. The relevance of innovation activities of participants in transboundary management acting as a determinant of the development of transboundary business is justified; the reasons for restrainment of the given process are identified. The methodological principles of innovation development of customslogistics link are revealed, the target orientations and tasks of innovation development of customs-logistics activity are shown. Special attention is paid to methodological aspects of the development of strategies for innovation development, analysis technology of innovation activities of the customs-logistics link. The authors vision of an innovative development model of the customs-logistics link is presented. The conceptualization of the essence, trends and advantages of development of regional integration relations, which entail logistic optimization of transboundary business processes, is carried out. Hierarchical platforms of business integration in the field of transboundary business are structured and their description is given at the macro and micro levels. The conclusion is made about the prospects of integration in customs-logistics sphere due to receipt of multiplicative income from the cooperation of participants in customs-logistics activities. The strategic role of managing the logisticsoriented modernization of the customs sphere and related business processes in solving a large number of economic and social problems of modern society is stated.

Locally available Red soil were used for the experimental analysis to study the effects of seawater impact in concrete structures with comparison of normal water in terms of its strength properties and changes on the behavior of Red soil. M-20 & M30 concrete cubes were casted with 0.45 water-cement ratio. Casted Concrete cubes are buried in red Soil near Costal zone to observe the Compressive strength and NDT during 28th day and 84th day with addition of fly ash class-C of two different proportions 20% & 30%. Totally 72 specimen were cast with normal water. The highest value of compressive strength obtained is 35.13N/Sq.mm during 84th day for Seawater curing in addition of fly ash class-C and lowest value is 15.57N/Sq.mm during 84th day for seawater curing without fly ash

The buildings that arent “connected” are the same they were decades ago and have retained fundamentally the same purpose i.e. to provide shelter, temperature control, and safety at the same efficiency level. Globally the built environments account for significant energy use and equivalent production of carbon dioxide (CO2) and carbon footprint. Growing concerns about safety, comfort, global warming, and climate change are leading to technological evolution, that will make the buildings smart, more comfortable, and nearly zero energy buildings. The building architectures are obviously smarter today than they were a few years ago and will continue to do so as the people become more energy aware and efficiency focused. Smart architectures and smart technologies are effective means to make buildings more comfortable, secure and reduce greenhouse gas emissions and carbon footprint. Smart metering, smart grid, energy storage, and smart energy management system are some of the technologies that find their use in smart architectures along with ubiquitous digital technologies. These evolving technologies being relatively new can indeed make the buildings smart, intelligent, energy efficient and environmentally sustainable which will attract higher rentals and more resale values in the near future. For commercial real estate, the savings can be impressive. A reduction in energy use is equivalent to an increase in building’s asset value and net operating income. This paper provides a contemporary look at the potential of smart architectures and evolving smart energy technologies to reduce energy consumption and carbon footprint in built environments. The scope of this paper is limited to the brief overview of these technologies and their applications.

This paper aims to identify some of the key challenges and issues inherent in ensuring a company’s economic security in the conditions of today. In a climate of the globalization, informatization, and intellectualization of the present-day economy, and, as a consequence, rapid technological changes (e.g., the Internet of Things, big data, etc.), issues related to the economic security of enterprises and sectors within industry are becoming increasingly complex, with an increasingly greater number of external and internal factors being at play. The paper analyzes some of today’s key geopolitical threats to businesses, including those associated with major political and economic changes (e.g., Brexit, changes in the US administration, etc.), technological innovation, social issues, etc. The authors explore a set of categories of economic security and summarize a set of issues related to the effective stewardship of a company’s economic security through the example of the Russian airline Aeroflot.

Currently, an increasing number of purchases are carried out using the Internet. However, according to official statistics, the proportion of such purchases is quite low, and also at times varies for different regions. Thus, the aim of the present study is to identify the factors influencing the use of e-commerce technologies by the consumer. The study is carried out based on the analysis of the statistical relationship between regional indicators. Data of the Russian Federation as a state with a sufficient number of regions with statistically significant indicators are used as an information base. The study has revealed that along with the penetration of the Internet, a standard of living has positive impact on the development of e-commerce. Also interesting is the potential of using multiple network connections.

Despite the growing importance of building an internal control system to ensure the goals of economic entities, most of them develop an internal control system separately from the accounting system. At the same time, the modern computer accounting software allows to significantly expand the control functions of accounting by introducing internal control procedures directly into the accounting process and ensure control of every business operation item. The goal of the study is to theoretically substantiate the model of a control-oriented accounting system. The scientific novelty of the study is to systematize the existing problems in the formation of a control-oriented accounting system and justify the concept of a controloriented accounting system of the organization – in particular, justify its essence, principles, objectives and methodological tools that will allow to minimize the costs of its introduction.

The article conducted clustering of regional labor markets applying the integral index of labor market depression, proposed by the authors in order to Russian regions ranking. In accordance with obtained clusters, the subsidies allocated by the government to equalize regional budgets have been distributed. The main research hypothesis is whether the extent of regional labor markets depression interrelated with subsidies aimed to balance out the budget provision of Russian regions. A substantial aspect in reducing regional economic depression is the formation of self-development mechanisms. Government capital injection cannot be effective without creating an appropriate manufacturing and social infrastructure. The research revealed obvious interrelation between subsidy dependence and depression in Russia regional markets. As part of the study, on the basis of seven indicators, Russian regions have been ranked into five clusters by the degree of economic depression as of 2016. The authors evaluated the subsidy dependence as regions (per capita) and clusters as well [1]

Use of silica fume as mineral admixture has become more common these days for production of silica fume concrete. The extent of replacement has been different depending upon the exposure and prevailing conditions of the project and most of the silica fume concrete are tailor made. In this work, an exhaustive study was done experimentally optimizing the replacement extent of cement with silica fume. From more than 150 results from the study, this paper aims in predicting compressive strength of silica fume concrete using Artificial Neural network (ANN). The constituent materials added for production of concrete are taken as inputs. There are five different parameters: weight of cement, silica fume, fine aggregate, coarse aggregate and water in kgs that are considered in this prediction analysis. ANN is an effective tool in predicting the output if the training is done with proven sets of data. In this work, a portion of experimental data was used in the training phase of ANN. The compressive strength was fed as the target. The ANN was trained with the experimental data till the Mean Square Error (MSE) was consistent. After the training, few unknown sets were given as inputs to the ANN and the simulations were carried out. The compressive strength was predicted and the values were close to the experimental results. Hence we conclude that ANN can be used to predict the compressive strength for various values of input instead of conducting experiments.

The article describes the design of the surface topography. The model uses experimental data on the rough surface morphology. It is a 3-dimensional surface microtopography. In case of incomplete or absent data, we can use statistically processed parameters for longitudinal and transverse surface profiles. Taking into account the possible inhomogeneity of the object of research, the microroughness of generation uses a specially developed mathematical apparatus. The simulated surface credibility. This approach makes it possible to estimate the parameters of each surface microroughness. The analysis of the simulated and real surfaces. The actual rough surface inhomogeneity causes discrepancies. It has been found that the physical processes have been carried out during the contact. It has been found that the process is to complete the process. The simulator has the highest possible reliability. It is necessary to solve a specific engineering task. This software combines a rough surface generation. It is a separate basic module modeling system

The hydrogeological conditions for the construction of the subway in St. Petersburg are complex. To avoid water flow in the tunnel, it is necessary to calculate the height of water conducting fractures zone for massif. The article considers the geological structure of the soil in St. Petersburg, the value of the boundary curvature for the massif is calculated. The thickness of the sediments with disturbed water resistance was determined, and the dangerous sections of the tunnel under construction in the NevskoVasileostrovskaya line are indicated.

The most interesting aim of the study is to assess and compare the dependability of using the multiple linear regressions (MLR) model and the artificial neural networks (ANN) model to predict the concrete compressive strength using metakaolin (MK) and silica fume (SF) admixtures materials. A proposed prediction model of artificial neural network (ANN) for concrete compressive strength. That proposed model is trained, validated and tested using the available test data of 132 concretes with various mixture proportions that were collected from different technical literature. Next the prediction of concrete compressive strength is conducted on those models. The collected data organized in a form of eight input variables (parameters) which includes concrete specimen age, water, fine aggregate, metakaolin, cement, coarse aggregate, silica fume, and superplasticizer. Relating to these input parameters in the ANN model, the concrete compressive strength containing MK and SF, are predicted. The results from the training, validation, and testing stages from making use of the ANN model showed that neural networks (NN) have strong potential use for the prediction of concrete compressive strength that contain materials such as MK and SF. The correlation coefficient for the ANN model in the training, validation, and test stages that achieved are equal to 0.99661, 0.99093, and 0.98577, respectively. Whereas the correlation coefficient for the the MLR model was 0.794. The results suggest that the prediction using ANN model is more accurate than when using the MLR model.

The article analyzes typical examples of modern communal conflicts in a megalopolis and possible methods of their settlement, primarily with the help of mediative technologies. The authors explain in detail and convincingly why the involvement of representatives of civil society in the process of solving social problems, in particular, communal conflicts, can become a way of mobilizing the activity of the population in a positive and constructive direction, demonstrating the example of effective interaction between the population and authorities

The article is devoted to the substantiation of social prerequisites for the development of an individuals innovation culture in modern society. It has been established that it becomes necessary in many segments of the societylife, to develop the innovation culture at the level of a person, organization and state. It has been proven that it is possible to solve this problem only by training specialists with a certain level of innovation culture achieved in the course of their education. It has been determined that as part of the societys social structure, the innovation culture can be considered as a factor for the development of entrepreneurial activity. It is essential to focus on employees innovation and entrepreneurial culture. It has been revealed that a person with a high level of the innovation culture has key competences that include his/her ability to interact with others in the conditions of a polycultural society while being guided by national and common spiritual values.

Since the beginning of the descent of Quranic Recitation Modes and the scholars of Hadith narration have a prominent role in enriching the science of Quranic Recitation Modes. This is evident when we track texts of the books of the Sunnah. However, some may think that the science of Quranic Recitation Modes is irrelevant to the science of Hadith, or that the Quranic Recitation Modes were transmitted to us through weak narrations. Here lies the research problem. Therefore, this research aims to present the efforts of the scholars of Hadith knowledge to enrich the science of Quranic Recitation Modes, to illustrate that through the Hadith literature that contained the two sciences together, the science of Hadith and the science of Quranic Recitation Modes, and to clarify the relationship between them. The research adopted the inductive analytical methodology in which the researcher tracked the books of Hadith Scholars to collect the texts containing the Quranic Recitation Modes, and then analysed them to reach the desired results. The findings were summarized as follows: the history of the Honorary Sunnah proves that the scholars of Hadith strived to enrich the science of the Quranic Recitation Modes, and that this enrichment is evident through the pure productions about the Quranic Recitation Modes, the productions that contain the Hdith science but they have parts about the Quranic Recitation Modes, or the productions that contain that the Quranic Recitation Modes scattered in the different chapters. All this shows the relationship between the Science of Quranic Recitation Modes and the Hadith Science.

This study aims to select the location of Naval Harbor that already exists, with various characteristics of different regions to be developed or increased classification status becomes the main Naval Harbor. The model used is the application of the ZeroOne Matrix Decision Variable (ZOMDV) and Fuz zy Multi Criteria Decision Making (Fuzzy MCDM). ZOMDV used to select the naval harbors by minimizing the number of naval where bases selected can cover and replaces other bases based on variables: ship within range of the harbor to the sector of operation, the distance between the harbor, and the ability of ships cruising distance. Fuzzy MCDM used to select the harbor by assessing the weight of the base by the political, technical and economic.

Climate change is an issue of grave international importance. It has an obvious direct impact on human health. The healthcare sector, which consumes a significantly substantial amount of resources through the construction and operation of complex hospitals and healthcare establishments, the use of modern technologies that are energy-intensive and the generation of a large amount of waste, has itself become a public health concern of some significance1 . 10.6% of all energy utilized by commercial establishments in Brazil is by hospitals2 . The National Health Service (NHS) in England, which is the country’s largest healthcare provider, accounts for almost one fourth of all emissions from the public sector in England: amounting to 18 million tons of Carbon dioxide per year

Karimunjawa is inhabited by Javanese, Buginese, Maduranese, etcetera. They live harmoniously in the surrounding not only with the same language but also with different ones. This article aims at elaborating the interlingual communication and intercultural discourse, mutual comprehensibility, and language transgenerational process. Using convenient, snowball, and event sampling techniques, we chose the respondents -- 12 out of 23 students of the Safinatul Huda Senior and Junior High school students whose parents are intercultural and the twelve students’ parents. We used observation, questionnaire, and interview to gather the data. The observation was used to record the situation when the respondents were communicating each other using different languages. The questionnaire was used to ask the respondents’ sociolinguistic profiles and multilingual competences, while the interview was used to confirm the use of different languages and the trans-generational process of language maintenance. Referential, inferential, and distributional methods were used. The result shows that intercultural communication implies intercultural discourse and mutual intelligibility of not only the same codes or languages but also different ones. Children are exposed to bahasa Indonesia as the first language and language of instruction at school. This study can support Stevens (2008) proposing mutual comprehensibility supporting Hocket’s mutual intelligibility

Curriculum is the heart of education that is considered important and should be considered by all parties related to education itself. Curriculum is flexible and must be developed to achieve the quality of graduates, let alone the quality of graduates in college. Higher education is seen as the highest institution and must print graduates as agent of change. Therefore, students must be equipped with life skills by integrating in learning activities so that it can be applied in the real world and everyday life. Although up to now all universities have developed curriculum with ideal, but in reality in the implementation level is not in accordance with what is written on the curriculum. This means there is a gap between idea and reality. Curriculum development should pay attention to various aspects of its development, such as its own curriculum, actors who play a role in curriculum development and the approach used for curriculum development. Thus, we must remain optimistic to innovate in developing the curriculum as a future curriculum in Higher Education.

Using fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) bars as an alternative to traditional steel reinforcement solves durability problems in reinforced concrete structures. This study investigated the effects of bar slippage on the pre- and post-heating flexural response of concrete beams reinforced with different FRP and conventional steel bars. A total of twenty-four control and heat-damaged concrete beams with different FRP/steel bars were loaded (in triplicates) under a four-point loading configuration to evaluate their mechanical performance and failure modes while acquiring strains in tension steel and compression concrete. A new theoretical method was proposed to predict the load capacities of the beams with consideration of slippage between the FRP bars and surrounding concrete. The results were then compared with the load capacities computed using the ACI code that assumes a prefect bond between FRP bars and concrete. The post-heated concrete beams failed at a relatively low load capacity. They also presented an increase in deflection and ductility and a decrease in stiffness and total absorbed energy. The theoretical ultimate load of the FRP-RC beams, computed on the basis of the ACI code, was overestimated relative to the corresponding measured values. By contrast, the computations based on the actual pre- and post-heating mechanical properties of the FRP bars and concrete and their bond characteristics provided reasonably reliable results

It is noted in the article that there had been changes throughout the world in relations among the state, civil institutions and private companies lately, which evoked the emergence of new forms of social interaction. One of such forms is based exclusively on a voluntarily created system of relationships – corporate (social) responsibility (CSR). Approaches to understanding the concept of the CSR are explored in the article. Four elements of the global CSR pyramid are identified and described. The norms of legislative regulation of the CSR in the Russian Federation (RF) are described. The reasons behind the leadership of the companies from the oil and gas industry of the RF in the implementation of the CSR policy are identified. The structure of social investment of Russian oil and gas companies and Western companies, the main activities of oil and gas companies of the RF and Western companies in the CSR, and the volume of investments are presented. In conclusion, the main barriers to the global CSR policy development are identified, and proposals for their elimination are provided

Presented is an approach to estimating the influence of human factor on the activity of operators of complex technical systems in civil engineering. An adaptive diagnostics technique based on multivariate statistical analysis of testing paths and wavelet representations is considered as a means for relevant measurements. It is applied to the empirical time series representing results of performing test items in order of their appearance. The adaptability of this technique is achieved by varying the number of presented items as well as by selecting useful test parameters to be measured. The given approach can be used even in the case of a small sample of analyzed subjects represented in the database that is important for practical applications.

The methods of cointegration analysis and the Vector error correction model (VECM) were used in the study of the peculiarities of Russian foreign economic relations with the main partner countries in the sectoral context. As a result of the research, reliable models of cointegration interrelations were obtained, which allowed us to reveal certain patterns of trade development of the selected group of countries. The obtained cointegrating coefficients made it possible to estimate the speed of recovery of trade links that were disrupted due to external influences. This information about the resistance of international trade ties is important for economic analysis and forecasting.

The major challenge in municipal solid waste management using landfills is leachate, which causes a significant threat to subsurface resources. Leachate is the liquid that passes through soil and has extracted dissolved and suspended solids from it. Municipal solid waste landfills are one of the severe environmental impacts on the urban environment. Landfills are one of the practices of disposal of municipal solid waste in the Indian scenario. Understanding the leachate composition is an equally important and critical factor in terms of environmental production. When the municipal solid waste is buried in a landfill, physical, chemical and biological reactions occur, and the refuse reacts with the moisture present in the soil. Studying leachate characteristics and its treatment is essential as it could threaten the ecosystem. Rapid urbanization is one of the major contributions to the generation of municipal solid waste. The present study reviews the different applications available to treat the leachate generated from municipal solid waste landfills. Nano-particles are recently gaining great interest in the protection of the environment, which will ensure sustainable development.

The main factor in the development of the Russian economy at present is human capital. The capitalization of the human factor, i.e. the transformation of knowledge into value added, is impossible without increasing innovation activity. In Russia, despite the rather high educational level of the population, there is low innovation activity in comparison with the leading countries. There is a clear contradiction. One problem is the assessment of human capital. The article presents the authors method of assessing the human capital of an innovative organization. To determine the scenario of human capital development, a theoretical matrix is used, which characterizes the interdependence of the level of human capital assessment and the effectiveness of innovative activity of the organization

In the present work, static and free vibration response of functionally graded beam is investigated under thermal environment using Finite Element method (FEM). The functionally graded (FG) material beam is considered to be composed of various material combinations like metal/metal, metal/ceramic and ceramic/ceramic. The material properties of the beam are assumed to be graded in the thickness direction according to a simple power law distribution. The deflection and mode shapes of the FG beams are obtained for Clamped-Free, Clamped-Clamped and Simply Supported boundary conditions under both mechanical and thermal load. Numerical results are obtained for the model in ANSYS software to show the influence of grading of materials, material constituents, boundary conditions, volume fraction and temperature conditions on the response of the FG beams.

Science and knowledge are important factors in ensuring preventive measures, such as assessing the risk of various emergency situations, in order to prepare for and respond to natural disasters. Perspectives on risk assessment, risk reduction and sustainable disaster recovery are reflected in such global programs as the Hyogo Framework Program (2005-2015), the Sendai Framework Program (2015-2030) and the Sustainable Development Goals (IMC) (2016- 2030). Close interaction of nature and humans led to more systemic view that the increase of natural disasters, depletion and environmental degradation are directly related to climate change, ecosystem functioning, human health and socio-economic security. The Russian Federation actively supports international framework programs and researches which contribute to a better understanding of risk in all its aspects. Interdisciplinary researches and development in the field of natural disasters and man-made disasters allow to create innovative methodology for forecasting and monitoring man-made and natural hazards. On the other hand, research efforts in support of risk management and crisis management greatly contribute to emergency preparedness and response and help to reduce the loss of human lives and economic costs. This article discusses issues of international cooperation of Russia in the field of monitoring, early detection and prevention of emergency situations, as well as in the field of disaster risk reduction

The authors conducted a detailed analysis of accidents circumstances associated with explosions of gas and dust during the period from 1991 to the present day. The assessment results of emergency situations causes carried out by statistical methods and methods of technical analysis are provided. The conducted researches showed that currently there is a steady trend towards stabilization of accidents number, despite the high technical equipment of the enterprises and enhancement of the main direction of methane control - ventilation and draining-out of gases - widely used in mining enterprises. The reason for this, in the opinion of the authors, is the fact that the factors affecting the gas situation within the excavation site can be classified as manageable and difficult-to-control. The signs making it possible to attribute factors to manageable ones, provided by the technology of works performance have been proposed. It is shown that the affect on the controllable factors with strict occupational health and safety and technology of works compliance minimizes the risk to the magnitude of the acceptable risk. The factors affecting the stability of the process of ventilation and having a natural or mixed natural and anthropogenic character are advised to qualify as the difficult-to-control ones. In the process of investigation, the additional accounting and classification of difficult-to-control factors in combination with other causes will allow you to evaluate more completely, the places, circumstances and structure of their interrelationships, the ways of development and nature of accidents, identify the maximum number of violations in case of accidents. The probability of complete detection increases when investigating the accidents across spatial and temporal chain of causes. The improving safety management in mining practice is only possible at the differentiated approach to the role of each factor that may affect the accident emergence and development.

In this paper, a novel approach is proposed to determine a ship position by combining the azimuth of a celestial body and the planning route of ship. First, the equation relating the azimuth of observed body to the ship position in spherical coordinate system is described. Second, Mercator sailing method in the marine navigation is employed to initialize potential results of the ship position. Finally, simple iterative method is applied to obtain the ship position. The advantage of this approach in comparison with existing methods is the ability to find the ship position when there is a single celestial body. Additionally, this approach can be performed at night when the horizon is invisible

As a sign system, architecture could be analyzed the way we examine a work of literature. While group of words arranged syntagmatic could establish an integrated meaning, elements in a building are systematically configured to form a meaningful work of architecture. Analogous to words, those architectural elements are symbols representing meaning which serves as a foundation for an architectural object. Therefore, as a system of signs, architecture serves as a medium which communicates relevant and contextual meaning. Occasionally, architects overlook meaning which lives among the cultural context of the society, or even worse, they neglect the meaning possessed by signs built in an architectural work. More or less, buildings subsequently turn into meaningless signs. With the semiology approach of Saussure and Jencks, we could decipher the formation of meaning possessed by architectural objects from various standpoints, both denotative and connotative, and through the lens of architect and user. Thus, we may understand architectural work as a whole, even to its most fundamental meaning.

This research aims to study the problems of the rotary kiln of al Kufa cement plant. The heating process of the furnace starts by burning a certain amount of wood near the fuel outlet inside the rotary kiln to provide the initial combustion process of the heating oil at (80-100°C). Then the front fan of the furnace is operated while the heating process is continuing for 24 hours. The most important problems that appear during the use of the rotary kiln were: mechanical wear, thermal wear and chemical wear. These problems have been diagnosed and taking the necessary treatments to reduce them, whereas the operational limits must e observed during the operation. When mechanical, thermal or chemical problems occur they will result high torque furnace that causes the risk of the main vehicles of the rotary kiln.

There was proposed a model for a computerized decision support system in course of mutual investment in advanced information technologies for SMART CITY in conditions of the absence of complete information about the financial status of the second investor. The model differs from the known ones, that a dynamic programming method was used to solve a problem with incomplete information. This allowed at the algorithmic and software implementation of the proposed model with high performance to solve problems in which the information content has a stochastic nature. The article presents the results of computational experiments conducted with the help of the developed decision support system. During the computational experiments, the adequacy of the model was confirmed. In this case, the deviation of the results of the computational experiment from practical data was 9–14%.

The precast channel system (U-Ditch) is one of the innovations of precast concrete designated as a channel for drainage and irrigation systems. The U-Ditch must have sufficient bending capacity to carry a major load due to ground pressure. However, the addition of wall thickness will lead to the heavy construction product. Therefore, a new product innovation was developed in this study, where the wall thickness was reduced and strengthened using fiber reinforced polymer (FRP). In these regards, this study aims to investigate the effect of FRP strengthening on the behavior of precast channel systems. Three types of specimens were tested in this study. Type N was normal U-ditch which without a reduction of wall thickness. Type C was U-ditch with a reduction of wall thickness (corrugate). Type CF was U-ditch with a reduction of wall thickness (corrugate) and strengthened using fiber reinforced polymer (FRP). The dimension of all specimens was 500x500x1000 mm3 . The specimens were tested based on Japan Industrial Standard (JIS). The results indicated that the weight reduction can be achieved by reducing the wall thickness in the area between the main reinforcement. However, it reduced the bending capacity of the wall. The strengthening using FRP sheet in the thickness reduction section was effectively to increase the bending capacity of wall, which had relatively the same with Type N (normal). Finally, all the specimens failed due to the flexural cracks around hook area of the precast channel

This study investigates the combined effect of deploying Metakaolin and banana fibers (BF) on mechanical properties of hardened concrete of grade M40. Banana has been used as the partial replacement of cement by 0, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 by weight and BF has used as volume substitution by 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6%. In our present investigation, banana fibres having 40mm length were used. Compressive strength and splitting tensile strength are determined by using various combinations of Metakaolin and BF. A notable improvement is being noticed in the strength properties of concrete when Metakaolin is used. The addition of Metakaolin to the concrete improved the properties of strength as well as durability to a great extent. On the other hand, the addition of banana fibres to the concrete results in the reduction of permeability and the improvement in the crack resistance eventually.

The paper proposed a model for estimating the quantitative indicator of current risks of threats and cyberattacks realization on information communication systems of transport (ICST), that differs from the existing models with ability to take into account the degree of influence of each threat or cyberattack within the class on the probability of an emergency situation that arises at cyber-attacks on components ofinformation communication systems of transport, which in many cases can be attributed to critical computer systems. For approbation of the proposed model the simulation experiment was conducted, the results of which also are presented in the article. Simulation modeling is also carried out for verification of adequacy of the proposed model and algorithm of estimation of current risks for components of ICST. It is considered that many components of ICST work in real time. It is shown that the proposed model takes into account current values of information security metrics and new classes of cyberthreats for ICST.

The activities of Student Real Work Lecture (KKN) in University of Madura still have some obstacles. One of which is the length of process in choosing a place for KKN because of the continuous changes of temporary residence by many students. This process requires accuracy, because registered KKN participants should be provided a place that is in fairly close distance to their residence (boarding house/house) therefore causing various problems. The process is normally carried out by subjective assessment of the person in charge of KKN student manually. Therefore, to facilitate and assist the LPPM in determining the location of KKN, it is necessary to build a computerized Management Information System that could help the process of determining the location of the Real Work Lecture. Based on these problems, it is necessary to design and implement a management information system using Algorithms (Distance Matrix) that can help in determining the location of student KKN at Madura University. This community service aims to implement the MIS-KKN at Madura University to help improve the quality of Student Real Work Lectures

This study aims to determine the magnitude of the effect of population growth on the unemployment rate in Merauke Regency. This type of research is quantitative descriptive with data collection techniques using observation and documentation. Primary data were collected from the office of the Merauke Regency Central Bureau of Statistics, while secondary data was obtained through literature. Data analysis techniques used Simple Linear Regression analysis and Correlation Coefficient analysis. While testing the hypothesis using Partial Significant Test (T Test) and Determination Test. The results showed that population growth had a positive relationship to the unemployment rate in Merauke Regency. The results of simple regression analysis known regression coefficient value of 0.350, meaning that every increase in population by 1% will have an impact on increasing the unemployment rate of 0.350%. While the results of the Determination Test show that population growth affects the unemployment rate of 90% and the remaining 10% is influenced by other factors not included in this analysis model. This is caused by the expansion of Merauke Regency into 4 districts (Merauke Regency as the parent district, and 3 pemekaran districts, namely Boven Digoel Regency, Mappi Regency, and Asmat Regency). As a result of the expansion of the new autonomous region, many job seekers from Merauke Regency were absorbed by government and private agencies in other newly created districts. With more open employment, it automatically reduces the unemployment rate.

This paper presents the test results of an experimental study that investigates the behavior of reinforced concrete (RC) beams strengthened or repaired in flexure by adding thin lower concrete layer reinforced mainly by Fiber Reinforced polymers (FRP) bars. A total of seventeen RC beams were constructed and tested under fourpoint loading. One of these beams was un-strengthened and considered as a reference beam. Eight beams were strengthened in flexure, and the other eight beams were loading up to 70% from the ultimate load of reference beam and then repaired using the same methods provided to the strengthened beams. Five test parameters were considered in this research; status of beam (strengthened or repaired), type of reinforcement used (glass FPR, carbon FPR or steel), amount of reinforcing FRP bars used (2 bars or 4 bars), type of the strengthening technique (reinforcing bars installed in the adding concrete layer or FRP sheets externally bonded to the soffit of the adding concrete layer) and type of connection between the adding lower concrete layer and the original beam (installing dowels bars or not). The test results included ultimate load, cracking load, the corresponding deflection, the failure modes and calculated relative ductility and flexure stiffness at un-cracked and cracked stages. The percentage enhancement in the flexural capacity of the tested beams ranged from 32% to 106% compared with the reference beam. Using FRP bars showed greater ultimate load and more ductile behavior than using externally FRP sheets. Many failure modes were observed during testing; FRP rupture, FRP debonding or partial debonding between the adding concrete layer and the original beam depending on the method of strengthening or repairing had been applied to the tested beams. The experimental ultimate strength for all strengthened and repaired beams were compared with the design provisions provided by ACI 440-2R-08, which showed reasonable and lightly conservative predictions for all strengthened and repaired beams

The article analyzes the structure and volume of wood products export, explores how customs control of wood products evolved in the Russian Federation and looks at prohibitions and restrictions applied to their export. The authors have studied the types and forms of customs control after release of goods conducted in the course of wood products export, identified specific features of declaration procedures, reviewed the court rulings about the export of wood products in order to determine the most frequent violations, and developed recommendations for improvement of customs control of wood products export. The conclusions made as a result of this research allow specifying the ways to improve the efficiency of customs control exercised by customs bodies of the Russian Federation in the course of wood products export in order to guarantee general economic security of the country. The results can be used to enhance the interaction between customs authorities and law enforcement bodies, sanitary and currency control bodies, in the course of development and amendment of regulations in the sphere of customs control of wood products export from the Russian Federation. The economic significance of the paper consists in the establishment of a trend towards ensuring the economic security of Russia based on the improvement of efficiency shown by customs control of wood products export from the Russian Federation

This study aims to examine growth factors, namely the growth patterns of the dominant fish caught on the Digoel River, Edera District, Mappi Regency, by using a long-weight relationship index. This research was carried out from August to September 2017. The sample fish was obtained by stocking fishing gear, gill nets, fixed rawi, and spoon webs. The results of the study obtained dominant fish based on the number of catches namely species Parambassius gulliveri (141 tails), Kurtus gulliveri (100 tails) and Cinetodus crasslabris (97 tails). The pattern of fish growth is based on the catch of the three species of fish Parambassius gulliveri, Kurtus gulliveri and Cinetodus cassilabris are positive allometric which means that the weight gain is proportional to body length increase and the condition of fish conditions during the study is relatively small and is in the enlargement stage.

The scale of innovative technologies in education induces pedagogical science to go beyond purely academic and to develop real practice-oriented models for the integration of education, science and production. In this regard, this article reveals the features, advantages and basic guidelines of such integration models of education, science and production, such as: college - enterprise, university - enterprise, university - research institute - enterprise, university - enterprise - research institute, college – university the enterprise, and also conditions of productive integration of their subjects are revealed. These models are based on the interpenetration of educational, research and production processes, integration educational institutions, levels of vocational education, the content of educational programs, technologies of training and education, organizational and managerial forms, financial and economic resources and manufacturing processes.

Indonesia is an agrarian country where most of the population lives from the agricultural sector. The largest rice producing area in Papua Province is Merauke Regency. This can be seen from the potential of rice production in Merauke Regency in 2015, which amounted to 156,489 tons with a harvest area of 35,124 ha. One of the rice cultivation systems is known as the planting system, namely the Direct Seed Planting system (tabela) besides the Moving Planting System. The study was carried out in Yaba Maru village as one of the villages which is a center for rice production in Tanah Miring District with 20 farmers selected by considering the implementation of the tabela system on their farming where each planting system has advantages and disadvantages, so the use of both planting systems it is adapted to environmental conditions both internal and external farming environment. This study aims to analyze the feasibility of rice farming with the tabela system. Using the Revenue Cost Ratio (R/C) analysis method to determine the feasibility of farming. Break Event Point (BEP) method to determine the lowest selling price of farm products. The results show that rice farming is feasible to be cultivated with a R / C value of 1.86. BEP value of product price is Rp. 4.867, - / kg and the number of BEP of the product unit is 601 Kg. shows that if farming wants to get a profit, it must sell its product at a price more than the price of BEP.

Composite board made from sago pulp waste has been made which aims to utilize unused waste into a more useful and value-added material, in addition to reducing the use of wood as the main ingredient in making furniture. The adhesive used for the manufacture of composite boards is epoxy resin. For 1 composite board sample with a size of 18 cm × 25 cm using a mass of sago pulp 320 grams with 10% adhesive mass so that the adhesive mass used is 10% × 320 gram = 32 grams, with a ratio of 16 grams of epoxy resin and 16 grams of epoxy hardener, the adhesive concentration used is 9%. The crude fiber of sago pulp mixed with epoxy resin is then pressed hot for 1 hour at 100 ° C at a pressure of 10 kgf / cm² and cold pressing is carried out for 48 hours at a pressure of 10 kgf / cm². To determine the mechanical properties of the sago pulp composite board was carried out through a press test. The results of the tests that have been done obtained a fractured modulus value of the sago pulp waste composite board of 1322.82 kgf / cm2 and the largest force that can be retained by the composite board before deformation is 21982, 51 kgf.

Health City) is a term used in public health and urban design to give an impression of the policy of achieving human health. Urban health enhancements mean not only the distribution of health services to all suburbs of the city, but also points to the need for all residents of the city to have the same amount. The problem of research is the weakness of urban harmony in health, which is the poor distribution of health services spatially as well as weak performance, which led to the failure to meet the citys health requirements in Kut city. Kut city is one of the important urban centers that is witnessing a continuous increase in the population, and the importance of the distribution of health services spatially to the services provided directly and to different age groups of the population. The study aims to analyze the distribution of health services in the master plan of city, Urban harmony has two aspects: the first is the spatial distribution of health services in the citys master plan, while the second dealt with the efficiency of its performance according to the planning standards adopted in Iraq to show the extent to which the citys health requirements in the study area

The level of deer productivity is influenced by several factors, namely the feed which has sufficient nutrient availability. The purpose of this study was to determine the nature of the meal as measured by the level of palatability to the introduction of alternative feeds namely feed fermentation from several forages and agricultural wastes. The method used in this study is to provide silage feed including silage of king grass, gamal, and banana stems. The design used was a completely randomized design with 3 treatments and 3 replications. Palatability analysis using Manlys Alpha showed that deer (Cervus timorensis) response to alternative feed was positive and adaptive to treated feed fermentation. Analysis of variance showed that from the three treatments (P1, P2 and P3) there was no significant effect (P <0.05) on the amount of daily consumption and feed conversion value, but overall the P3 feed conversion rate was better compared to the others. The conclusion of this study is that alternative feeding on CervusTimorensis deer in captivity can be given with regard to feed balance such as silage because it satisfies the palatability properties

Technically sound standards of time and production standards are designed to improve production efficiency, improve technical and economic indicators of construction enterprises, timely commissioning of buildings and structures being erected, as well as ensuring the proper organization of workers wages. Labor standards are used in determining the need for construction machinery and equipment, the required number of workers, and also serve as the basis for the development of network and calendar schedules that are part of the construction organization project (POS) and the production work plan (CPD). Standards of time and standards for the production of most of the construction work are contained in the collections of EPR and GESN. However, in the conditions of continuous development and introduction of new production technologies, there is a need to update and refine the existing technical regulation database. Standards of time, corresponding to the modern level of technical development and reflecting the advanced experience of workers, allow you to make the right choice when analyzing the most economical ways of producing work. Definition and removal of production standards is to determine the weighted average number of working hours to perform a particular technological operation, while taking into account the conditions of production of this workflow, the numerical and qualification composition of workers.

As a reaction to the phenomenon of the desacralization of Catholic church architecture after the Second Vatican Council, many studies have examined the relationship between the liturgical activities and the architectural form of the Catholic church. However, the research that addressed the issue about the meaning of Catholic Churchs architectural form is still a rarity. This study aims to explicate the meaning of architectural form in one of the oldest Catholic churches in Jakarta, Indonesia, namely the Santa Theresia Church. The analytical steps were to describe all the composition and property in each scope of the building, then interpret the meaning that is expressed based on the theory of meanings in architecture. Based on this theory, it can be seen whether the meaning displayed by the Santa Theresia church architecture tends to be perceptual, cultural, or ideological. The analysis showed that the dominance of the Catholic symbol supported by site composition, building mass, the inner space and building elements act as the basis for the appearance of the divine ideological meaning. In addition to enriching the realm of substance and methods of architectural knowledge, this research is also useful for practitioners and stakeholders involved in the design of the Catholic Church

Road damage in Indonesia on average is caused by water. Water causes the binding capacity between asphalt and aggregate to decrease. Therefore, research is needed to improve the stability of the asphalt mixture by adding fillers such as Polypropylene fiber and Fly Ash with variations in immersion. In this study, the variation of Polypropylene fibers is 1%, 2%, 3% and 4% of the total aggregate. While the use of Fly Ash remains, at 6% of the total aggregate. To test the resistance to water, a 1 hour, 24 hours and 48 hours immersion is used. The results showed that Polypropylene fiber and Fly Ash can be used as fillers in asphalt mixtures because they meet filler characteristics and are able to improve stability and flow in the asphalt mixture. Variation of 2% Polypropylene fiber with a 24 hours immersion resulted in a stability value of 2004, 97 kg. In the variation of 2% Polypropylene fiber with a 24 hours immersion produced a flow of 6, 08 mm. Addition of 2% Polypropylene fiber with 24 hours immersion can increase stability by 17, 18% and flow by 14.33%. At 2% addition of Polypropylene fiber and 24 hours immersion, optimum stability and flow are obtained.

Demand for communication towers has increased in the last several years due to revolution in the networking domain. Recently, advancements in the field of material and structural engineering have yielded several types of concretes such as ultra-high performance fibre-reinforced concrete (UHPFRC) which is particularly used for special structures. Generally, the connection of concrete segments in the foundation is constructed through dry joints with appropriate shear strength for transferring the imposed lateral loads such as wind loads, earthquake or vibrations from the structure to the foundations. Therefore, the connection in the foundation is considered as the critical point in a cylindrical tower because the height of the tower causes huge lateral load. This study presents an experimental and FE simulation to investigate the behavior of circular flange-bolted connections (CFBCs) as a common connection for precast segments of a hollow section tower subjected to a lateral cyclic load. On this basis, a precast UHPFRC communication tower located in Ipoh, Malaysia is considered. Results of experimental tests and numerical analyses showed a close agreement with each other. According to the test results, the foundation connection with bolts and epoxy demonstrated resistance against high lateral forces when lateral cyclic loads were applied

Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is an alternative innovation to the Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) because CMOS has scaling limitations that lead to high leakage power. QCA is structured on quantum cells, whose sizes are on the nanoscale. This component causes faults in QCA circuits. Converting a code into another that is programmed in logic arrays becomes important in the physical realization of the circuits. There are many methods to resolve this problem in circuits. A code converter is a solution to convert one code into another. In this paper, QCA-based “4-bit binary-to-gray” and “4-bit gray-to-binary code converters” are suggested. The offered layout prospects to a decrease in energy expenditure and can be utilized in many fields for shielding data from outsiders and increasing information flexibility. We executed a relative analysis of the suggested design with present earlier designs and turned out that the suggested layout is productive on condition that complexity, cell count, area intake, and clocking. This paper offers a streamlined design and layout concerning code converters depending on QCA. These structures are designed with the QCADesigner, simulator and the simulation results are examined

Programmable reversible logic is growing for a potential logic design type concerning execution around advanced nanotechnology as well as quantum computing with minimum effect upon circuit temperature production. Current improvements in reversible logic utilizing additionally quantum computer calculations permit enhanced computer structure plus arithmetical logic unit layouts. Since reversible circuits continue to be fairly unique, the most significant study effect is found on the synthesis of these circuits. Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) can be a promising part of investigating at reversible computing. QCA-based design of the reversible 1-bit full adder is using the Toffoli and Feynman gates have been achieved in this study. We develop an improved reversible full adder with overflow detection to enhance reliability. This component promises to complete the fundamental mathematical functions of addition, subtraction alongside overflow detection, comparison, along with logic procedures such as significance. Thus our design is very efficient and versatile alongside lower quantity of lines as well as quantum cost. This work understands and nurtures the necessity of reversible full adder for future revolutionary computing technologies. In this paper, a reversible 1-bit full adder is proposed and compared with other reversible full adders. Proposed gate performs better than existing methods and ensures maximum logical operations like the full adder, full with less quantum cost where other existing gates are not viable.

Irian Arwana Fish is one type of potential ornamental fish that has high economic value. Some rivers in Merauke Regency are categorized as arwana fish production centers, one of which is Wanggo River. The high market demand for Irian Arwana fish encourages local people to make arrests continuously. The purpose of the study was to determine the value of MSY and Fopt and determine the stock status of Irian Arwana Fish on the Wanggo River. The study was conducted for 2 months with data analysis including CPUE, MSY and Fopt. The results showed that the sustainable potential value (MSY) of Irian Arwana fish in Wanggo River was 521,358 with Fopt 5000 trip. Stock of Irian Arwana Fish is classified as under fishing because the number of catches and catching efforts have not passed the total MSY and Fopt, so that fishing efforts can still continue, while maintaining the specified MSY and Fopt limits

The research objectives achieved in this study were estimating the level of income and feasibility of pulut uri organic farming in the District of Muting in Merauke Regency. the type of research used is descriptive analytical research using basic data from the results of previous studies, namely experimental research in organic cultivation of uri corn. The basic data obtained is the data of organic uri corn on the treatment of 0 tons / ha, 5 tons / ha, and 10 tons / ha of organic fertilizer. In this study, identification of production, income and business feasibility costs will be carried out using basic selling prices at the merchant level and at the end of the consumer level. The data were analyzed by revenue, income / profit and feasibility analysis of uri corn pulp. The results of the study concluded that with the selling price of R. 3,000 / kg in the yield of pulverized corn, farmers would not get a large profit with a feasibility rate of <1, which means that at that price level the farmers would lose. Whereas with the selling price of Rp. 10,000 / kg of farmers income will be greater with the feasibility level> 1 which means that farmers will get profits or in other words pulut organic corn farming can be developed in Merauke Regency.

This study aims to analyze the influence of physical and chemical factors on the existence of Kurau Fish (Eleutheronema tetradactylum) in the Maro River Estuary of Merauke Regency. Data collection was carried out by measuring the environmental parameters directly, namely temperature, salinity and pH, while the fish catch data of Kurau was obtained by calculating directly the number of catches per trip with the data amount of 34 data. Environmental factor data and catch results were tested statistically using regression models. The results showed that environmental factors that influence the presence of Kurau Fish in the Maro River Estuary are water temperature and salinity.

In recent years there has been a trend of growth and dominance of stagnant regions in the Russian Federation. The reasons for this are, among other things, low innovative activity of the periphery, deindustrialization, predominance of the share of extractive industries, growth of social and property stratification, and other, no less urgent, reasons. So it becomes extremely necessary to search for new drivers for the regional economy, support the most promising sectors, and effectively allocate resources. Interregional cooperation is one of the most important factors of the regional development on the basis of establishing long-term, equal and mutually beneficial relations between the regions. The barrier in its’ development is the absence of a well-thought-out socio-economic policy of the state in relation to the regions. In this regard, the current task is to systematize the best domestic and foreign practice of interregional cooperation, and to develop on this basis methodological aspects of interregional cooperation evaluation. The developed proposals may be applied by the public administrations to increase the efficiency of using the factor of interregional cooperation as a driver of the growth of the regional economy when developing normative, legal, strategic and program-planning documents at the regional level.

Growing increase of human activities in recent years has resulted into an unprecedented increase in Energy use. With very little awareness in the utilization of Renewable Energy, in some region in Africa, the emergence of new innovative technologies with respect to energy efficient is minimal. This leads to high energy consumption cost in ensuring appropriate comfort level in building especially residential. This research looks at the possibility of using Agricultural residues in Namibia to develop appropriate materials that can be used to ensure more efficient energy consumption in residential buildings in Namibia or any semi-arid region.Vary mixed percentages of residues of maize, millet, rice and cow dung were designed to developed eleven 220cm by 110 cm by 40 cm board samples (labelled AK) from residues of maize, millet, rice and cow dung. The samples were compacted, sun dried for 7 days and tested for thermal conductivity and thermal resistivity using a thermal conductivity test machine EP500e. Results from the eleven samples tested revealed that sample C (composed of 10% maize, 10% millet, 30% rice and 40% cow dung) gives the lowest thermal conductivity (i.e. of 54.65 mW/(m*K)) and the highest thermal resistivity (i.e. 0.6935 m2K/W), hence a very good thermal efficient as compared with sample A (composed of 40% maize, 30% millet, 10% rice and 20% cow dung) that gave the highest thermal conductivity and lowest thermal resistivity, hence considered poor thermal efficient. Regression analyses conducted between the best (i.e. sample C) and the worst (i.e. sample A) revealed R 2 value of 95% and 91% respectively.

The objective of this study is to study the effects of partial replacement of MIRHA on processed fly ash as a geopolymer concrete & is compared with the unprocessed fly ash and Plain Cement Concrete. The strength of plain cement concrete, increases gradually from 3 to 28 days of water curing. The strength of processed and rice husk ash processed flyash geopolymer concrete mixes gain early strength within 3 days of curing and later increases only by 20 to 25% at the end of 28 days of curing. The strength of rice husk ash processed flyash geopolymer concrete mixes increases the strength from 2% to 3% replacement and beyond 5% replacement the strength starts decreasing. 3% rice husk ash processed flyash geopolymer concrete gives the maximum value of compressive strength as compared to other mixes. As the percentage of rice husk ash is replaced from 2% to 10% the flyash to alkaline activator ratio goes on decreasing from 0.66 to 0.43. The more the rice husk is replaced less will be flyash to alkali activator ratio, but there will be decrease in strength.

In this work we discuss issues of economic justifiability of usage of combined production of heat and electric energy in the existing market realities basing on the analysis of the main criteria of efficiency of cogeneration in the planned economy ofthe Soviet Union. A criterion of added value maximum for energy products is proposed to assess the feasibility of technology usage. When comparing the options we used the value of reduced annual cost, including the costs related to capital expenses, depreciation, fuel costs, operating costs and capital costs for construction of the facility. In relation to the performance comparison of combined and separate production of electricity we used the value of specific income from sale of energy products (heat and electricity) produced per a unit of consumption of 1 toe of equivalent fuel. The relationship between CHPP and boiler income from the sale of thermal and electric energy at various tariffs is presented. It is shown that with increasing the share of heat supply to external consumers, the increase in income from the sale of thermal energy exceeds the decrease in income from the sale of electric energy and total specific revenue of the CHPP is increased. So, the CHPP has the largest total specific income at maximum specific heat load equal to 2/3, due to the high yield from the sale of thermal energy at existing tariffs for heat and electricity. We developed a basic computational model for analysis of consolidated energy and economic indicators of various sources of thermal and electric energy. It is established that the final choice of shares of each alternative sources, involved in coverage of thermal loads is based on multiple optimization calculations taking into account many factors: investment in the sources and distribution network, fuel cost, graphics of thermal loads, operation modes of sources, including diagrams of thermal networks and others.

The Social Security Organizing Agency Indonesia has noted that the number of workplace accidents in Indonesia tend to increase. As many as 123 thousand work accident cases were recorded throughout 2017 and the value increased around 20 percent compared to 2016. Total work accidents in 2017 were 123 thousand cases with a claim value of Rp. 971 billion. The purpose of this study is to get an overview of the key success factors (KSF) that hold the most dominant factor in the success of work safety management programs in Indonesian Project. A total of 48 questionnaires spread to safety expert on several construction projects in Indonesia to get input on the priority of KSF that play a role in implementing work safety programs. The results of the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and Pareto analysis show that there are seven KSF make a major contribution to the 80% successful implementation of work safety programs in the field. Consecutively there are Management Support; Work Motivation; Team Work; Authority, Delegation & Responsibilities; Sufficient Resources Allocation; Clear and Measured Targets and Safety Meetings. Verification has carried out on 3 project examples to assess whether the key success factors obtained are in accordance with the conditions in the field

A parity generator is a circuit that generates redundant bits used for error detection and is used when transmitting binary information. Previous parity generator circuits based on quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) are designed to reduce the area of the circuit. Input cells of existing circuit are designed inside the circuit and the circuit’s signal is not propagated properly due to the influence between adjacent wires. In addition, existing circuits consume many clocks because the XOR gate, which is an essential component of the parity generator circuit, consumes many clocks. In order to solve this problem, we design a 3-bit odd parity generator circuit using QCA for fast operation. The proposed circuit uses an XOR gate that can operate one clock faster than the existing XOR gate to reduce the clock, and by extending this XOR gate, the output value can be obtained faster than the conventional circuit. In the proposed circuit, the result is verified through simulation and the performance is compared with the existing circuit.

Presented is the approach for supporting the outcome grading for activities of operators of complex technical systems. It is based on comparisons of current exercises with the activity database patterns in the wavelet representation metric associated with observed parameters as well as on probabilistic assessments of skill class recognition using sample distribution functions of exercise distances to cluster centers in a scaling space and Bayesian likelihood estimations with the aid of probabilistic profile of staying in activity parameter ranges. These techniques have demonstrated the capabilities of recognizing sets of abnormal exercises in the scaling spaces with the wavelet coefficient metric and detection of parameters characterizing operator mistakes to reveal the causes of abnormality. The techniques presented overcome limitations of existing methods and provide advantages over manual data analysis since they greatly reduce the combinatorial enumeration of the options considered.

The urban areas of Yogyakartas carrying capacity tend to decrease. This is due to the socio-economic dynamics of the community is more concentrated in Agglomeration Yogyakarta. This study attempts to examine various policies that have to do with the implementation of public transportation. Some data were collected such as passenger public transport performance indicators, perceptual data and user expectations of transportation services. All data is processed, analyzed and conducted discussion and interpretation as necessary. The results showed that the performance of public transportation mode of passengers in terms of the load factor is still below 35% for the Trans Jogja mode and the regular mode is still below 17%. The result of service quality (servqual) method to user perception and expectation, all attribute of service happened gap which is negative sign (-) with average score gap score to all service attribute item is equal to -1,4157. While the demand satisfaction score average of all items of service attribute based on user interest rate is -6,200. From these indicators can be explained that the performance of public transport services passenger urban areas of Yogyakarta is still far from what is mandated legislation.

The fracture zone is characterized by two peculiarities. The first of these is the fact that it begins after the tensile strength has been reached and the neck has begun. The second feature in this area is that rupture occurs sharply (instantly) and there is no significant deformation. It is known that corrosion has a serious impact on steel ductility, geometric characteristics, structural changes and surface defects. Its influence should not be neglected and should be investigated, especially when corrosion is an accidental destruction of the steel due to the influence of various aggressive factors. This is a perfectly natural process. We investigate the change in this area by using S355JR steel subjected to an electrochemical accelerated corrosion method. We have 3 groups with varying degrees of corrosion, which groups we experienced on tension test. We took the values of the fracture zone of the stress-strain curve, processed through the stochastic way and so we got the final results. We did a micro study and found that there were deformations in the corrosion section, which gave us reason to conclude that corrosion layer accepted stress/strain.

System airline as one of business to customer (B2C) is an enterprise application which needs service system architecture. Many systems that have been connected to this system has complexity of integration. SOA using enterprise service bus (ESB) is one way to manage the integration of information systems. ESB is a software infrastructure that can solve complexity problems with n-to-n integration, where n is the number of integrated applications. The business case has been implemented each function of services and ESB. The results obtained show that each services and ESB has its own strengths and weakness. As regards strengths, it should be noted that ESB copes very well with both kinds of files and small and large size but put the effort if the application of ESB is not working well it can be affected to another application system. N-to-n integration performs as good enough with small files and size but need to manage if there were any add or updated with the service. This research implemented SOA using ESB to proves to be a good choice for integration solution in a business environment with a large number of users and diversified communications

The agricultural commodity, especially rice, is one that greatly influences economic and political stability in Indonesia, so it is very possible for the need for food security especially in the morning as the main need for food in the community. One of them is Merauke Regency has an average household income in agriculture. Banking potential in the distribution of agricultural credit massage, especially rice commodities. This research was conducted in the Tanah Miring District of Merauke Regency with a descriptive and explanatory research approach with 97 farmers as respondents, by conducting structured interviews using multiple questionnaires (open and closed) and making direct observations or observations of the area and sample responses. To analyze the data obtained by using a variable measurement scale namely the Likert scale, and testing the research instrument carried out by testing the validity and reliability using SPSS 21. Quantitative data processing using the Binary Logistic Regression Test

Programming testing is the stage which makes programming as usable quality scholarly amount. Programming testing under experiences distinctive stages. The accompanying stages according to the examination are investigation test, test arranging, experiment or test information or test condition creation, test execution, bugs logging, following and test strategy. Past research has been improved the situation advance test process in nature of programming. All accessible testing forms incorporate distinctive advancement models and diverse programming testing procedures are performed. Each organization chooses their testing procedure dependent on the basic condition of the applications each organization selects their testing procedure. The security, execution and utilitarian parts are most basic in every application these are altogether to be tried and carrying on obviously. This paper will clarify and guaranteeing about programming applications quality to do enhanced testing forms. The real programming testing systems are Security, Performance and Functional are handled by Analysis, Preparation and Execution will be finished up

Predictive models are quasi experimental structures used to determine the future patterns in data. These meaningful data patterns form the building block of any decision support system. Researchers all over the world have built many prediction models for major industries. Research works in the educational sector has increased steeply. This steep increase may be due to the high availability of data in the educational domain. This survey tries to comprehend a few literary works on academic performance prediction of engineering students with the focus on grade predictions. Meaningful interpretations have been made and inferences are presented at the end of this paper

Water is an important natural resource, which forms the cause of all life. Water is one of the most requisite materials in our day to day life. It is a key resource in all economic activities ranging from agriculture to industries. Only a minimal fraction of the planet’s plentiful water is available to the living beings as fresh water. About 97% is found in the oceans and is very salty for drinking, irrigation, or industry. The remaining 3% is fresh water. About 2.997% of it is arrested in ice caps or glaciers or is concealed so deep that it costs too much time & money to extract. Only about 0.0035 of Earth’s total volume of water is easily available to us as soil moisture, exploitable ground water, water vapor, rivers, lakes and streams. In this present study by a systematic sampling has been carried out to find the water quality parameters of the Lake, by collecting samples from Six different positions, which covering entire area of the lake, and the stations were distributed covering the periphery of the entire tank, and also considering the inflow and the discharges and to suggest required management techniques to make water free from the pollution

The use of fingerprints in a voting system for registration and authentication application has its limitations. Among these limitations are mismatches caused by disparity in fingerprint trait and templates of voters taken at the point of registration and at the point of authentication (voter’s accreditation). Manual labour, aging, variations in user interaction (i.e. pressure on the scanner), environmental changes and injuries are a few of the factors that can cause these disparities. The iris is more resistant to these factors that cause disparity in biometrics. In this designed model, the iris was used in place of fingerprints as the biometric measure to register and authenticate voters. An iris scanner obtains the voter’s iris image, segments and digitizes it. The digitized iris image of the voter is used as a training data and stored in the template. This template is stored together with the voter’s particulars in a database. An algorithm design using the C# (C sharp) language issues a PIN for the voter’s authentication. At the point of authentication, the PIN of the voter is keyed in. The iris scanner obtains the voter’s iris image, generates a template of the iris and with the aid of the system’s embedded algorithm, compares the details of the voter’s pin and iris trait with the one in the database for a match. A match grants the voter the pass to vote. A mismatch denies the voter access to the voting system. This implemented Iris Recognition Technology drastically reduces the chances of mismatches for genuine voters and denies imposters in the voting system due to its reliability and robustness as revealed by the tests carried out on the designed model

In order to solve the water scarcity problem in South Malang, East Java, Indonesia, we have attempted to investigate groundwater by assessing the subsurface geology and groundwater potential zones. An attempt had been made to identify the subsurface lithology and aquifer zones by VES (Vertical Electrical Sounding) method in Pagak, Kepanjen, Kromengan and Gondanglegi district. The study area consists of major subsurface litho units like sand, silt, clay, tuff, limestone and andesit. In order to explore the groundwater resources of the study area with an aerial extent of 100 km2, electrical soundings have been conducted by adopting Schlumberger technique in 12 locations with AB/2 200 m and 5 resistivity profiles were acquired. The field data were interpreted and processed qualitatively and quantitatively by using computer software. Considering the geological, geomorphology and hydrogeological conditions the VES interpretation was done. The study has shown that the region is underlain by 5 geoelectric layers within the depth penetrated. The groundwater potential in South Malang reveals four distinct classes (zones) representing ‘Very good’, ‘good’, ‘moderate’ and ‘poor’ groundwater potential in the area. From the interpretation result the VES no. 7 (Pagak), and VES no. 9 (Kepanjen) are found to be prospective for groundwater. It’s also identified that Groundwater occurs under water table conditions the depth of water table ranges from 5 to 30 m

This research investigates the vitality advantages and future capability of using Electrochromic Glazing (ECG) System in sustainable courtyards in residential buildings inside the climatic states of the Amman city at the concept stage.This research considers the applied methodology to improve sustainability of courtyard, considering solar irradiation and buildings energy needs for cooling and heating.The Revit “energy modeling software” programming is utilized to evaluate the energy efficiency, chiefly the decreases in lighting,”heating, ventilating, and air conditioning” (HVAC), for various states and contrast that to the regular glassThe study findings show that adding ECG system to courtyard reduces the energy consumption, therefore the building saves 25 % of the energy in clear state, and when the system is tinted, it saves 57,5% of the energy, this applies to the summer season. While in the case of winter, the ECG system is efficient in energy consumption with heating, the building saves 80% of energy consumption, which reduces the cost. The study concludes that the number of years needed to recover the price of ECG system is 7.8 years which means that the courtyard is a sustainable solution in residential design according to Revit Program and Enterprise Green Communities (EGC) standard

The problem in question is relevant since the process of detonation and shockwaves collision and recompression of detonation products is a challenging task in terms of gas dynamics. The paper is aimed at addressing this problem that would enable to intentionally control the process of transferring energy of explosive to environment through choosing optimal structure of charge or mode of triggering. The problem is examined mostly through method for numerical simulation of non-steady detonation and gas dynamic processes occurring while blast-hole charge is exploded. An attribute-based pattern of process for transferring energy of explosion products to environment when blasting charges of different structures and with different parameters of triggering modes was pre-investigated. The paper describes mathematical model of calculating parameters of dynamic loads on a blast-hole (hole) wall when exploding charges of various structures in various triggering modes. The results of calculating parameters of stress wave generated in rock mass by explosive charge blast and gas dynamic parameters in powder chamber of a blast-hole (well) were presented. The obtained coefficients of explosion pulse effect allow to correct calculations of unit rate of differently-structured charges.

Image processing techniques play a significant role in many areas in life, especially in medical images, where they play a prominent role in diagnosing many diseases such as detection of the brain tumor, breast cancer, kidney cancer, and the fractions. Breast cancer is a common disease, regardless of the type of this disease, whether it is benign or malignant, it is very dangerous and early detection may reduce the risk of the disease spreading in the body leading to death. This work presents an approach to detect breast cancer based on image processing algorithms, including image preprocessing, enhancement, segmentation, Morphological operations, and feature extraction to detect and extract the breast cancer region.

Hanoi is capital Viet Nam. Currently, the metro system is being constructed in Hanoi. This paper uses the 2D numerical method with Abaqus software to set up the tunnel model that has a horseshoe shape cross-section of the Hanoi metro system, passing through the Hanoi center. On the basis of the data about the strongest earthquake that could occur in Hanoi center, the paper calculated the impact of this strongest earthquake to the tunnel in two case: the first case with the soil environment surrounding the tunnel that has been studied is elastic, uniform and isotropic, the second case with the soil environment surrounding the tunnel is elastic perfectlyplastic according to Mohr-Coulomb failure criterion and has a damping ratio is 5%. On the basis of the results obtained, the paper assessed and given results about the impact of the strongest earthquake that could occur the Hanoi area to the stability of the tunnel that has a horseshoe shape cross-section from the Hanoi metro system.

There has been an increase in the occurrence of road accidents over the years with the vehicle-accidents as one of the highest rated causes of accidents in Nigeria. In this regard, information on “vehicle-caused” accidents and its effects is required in order to proffer solutions and preventive measures in avoiding consequent deaths. This data article therefore presents the data on road accidents caused by vehicles within a 5-year period: 2010 – 2015. The degree of these accidents is categorized as minor, fatal and serious as the highest degree and the types of vehicles involved in these accidents are also presented and analyzed with the use of tables and graphs with a view to easily extract useful deductions needed to make informed decisions

Entrepreneurship education has not received ample consideration in engineering pedagogy. One of the greatest challenges facing engineering students in the classroom is visualization or conceptualization of the objects of learning. Therefore, to make teaching and learning of entrepreneurship more productive and interesting for engineering students, an innovative teaching strategy based on experiential models is considered appropriate. Therefore, the aim of this study was to propose a conceptual model showing the link between experiential teaching models considered effective and appropriate with respect to university entrepreneurship education and engineering students’ business startup. Based on the conceptual model proposed, the study suggests that experiential teaching models such as invitation of guest speakers, individual and group project, business simulations activities, and role play are considered more effective and appropriate teaching methods required stimulating business startups among engineering students.

We examined the effect of bank credit on agricultural productivity in Nigeria so as to ascertain the existence of causal relationship between the dual. To achieve this objective, the time frame secondary data used in the study includes: written materials such as books and journals and also the use of time series data such as Agricultural Gross Domestic Product (AGDP), commercial bank credit to agricultural sectors (CBCA), Interest rate charges (INT), Government spending on agriculture (GSA), and Agricultural Credit Guarantee scheme (ACGSF).THE DATA collected were all sourced from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Statistical Bulletin. The statistical tool of analysis is the Toda and Yamamoto granger non causality techniques. Conversely the variables were exposed to the Unit Root Test to ensure stationarity both with and without structural break, the Johansen Co-Integration Test which showed that a long term relationship does not exist among variables and also the Vector Autoregression Estimates Decompositions Test was also computed to shows the contribution of each endogenous variable to the forecast of other variables before the application of the Toda and Yamamoto non granger causality test to determine if a causal relationship exist among variable of which the result attained was that there is a unidirectional causality running from ACGSF to AGDP thereby buttressing the estimate of the VAR model with respect to the role of ACGSF in explaining changes to AGDP. No other causality is found to run from AGDP to any other variable and vice versa.

This work is a technical feasibility study of steam generation through municipal solid waste conversion into refused derived fuel at Providencia Island, in Colombia. This study explores the possible benefits produced from a well-planned waste-toenergy facility constructed on a geographically distinct situation which limits considerably the optimal available options of energy generation. In this paper, is explained in detail the importance of a proper process for waste classification and separation to obtain a suitable fuel. A mathematical model is develop to obtain useful data of energy content from RDF, then using this results, a basic model is calculated for the operation of a steam generating boiler, following this step, the most important characteristic data, such as main steam pressure (2 MPa), mass flow rate (0.425011 kg/s) and outlet temperature (400 °C) is obtained. This information is of the most vital importance, as it is used to design and set up the basic parameters of the steam turbine, which lead in the election of the best electric generation set for this application. This work remarks some of the most important benefits of waste-to-energy electric generation, some of the compelling factors to consider this option are based on electric demand covered, CO2 emissions, waste disposition and money savings with less uses of diesel for electric generation. This paper conclude that although the electric generation through RDF usage can only cover from 7 up to 15 percent of the electric demand of the mentioned population, the environmental benefits cover the entire demand of the island and can actually increase to cover the neighboring islands, so, from two compelling reasons for the implementation

To improve the efficiency of gas turbine units (GTU) at compressor stations (CS) of main gas pipelines, we studied the influence of outdoor air temperature on GTU capacity; the ability to use the expander-generator to generate electricity; preheating of air and gas entering the gas turbine aiming at fuel saving. A GTU scheme was developed consisting in air heating before the compressor, gas supply through the expander-generator and gas heating after it. We carried out efficiency analysis for both GTU, and CS as a whole.

Cloud computing is pools of virtualized resources that are easily usable. Now a days people are accustomed to store their personal data in cloud. Cloud computing store, Manage and process data which is hosted on the internet using Servers. In the earlier days, security concerns deter many organizations from using cloud computing services. Cloud computing presents another level of risk because essential Services are often outsourced to a third party vendor, which makes it harder to uphold data Security and privacy. In this paper, we accentuate on the area of cloud computing, identify the various threats related to the cloud computing

Intellectual capital is an important dimension of entrepreneurship orientation that highly contributes in the performance of the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The measurements of intellectual capital more concern about employees’ knowledge, trademarks, patents, compensation and rewards. This study aims to examine the relationship between knowledge management and organizational performance among Malaysian food and beverage SMEs. It also identifies whether or not protecting patents and trademarks positively contributes in organizational performance. The primary data was collected through quantitative method and 262 questionnaire administered within food and Beverage SMEs in the Malaysian State of Selangor. The findings indicated a positive relationship between knowledge management and organizational performances. A good management of employees’ knowledge adds value to the firms and make them competitive in the market economy. Apart from knowledge, the study found that protecting patents and trademarks can positively contribute in the performance of SMEs. Also, the study identified moderate positive correlations between compensation and reward with organizational performance. To improve the performance of the firms, SMEs has to adopt effective techniques such as compensation and reward that encourage employees to sincerely perform their tasks and utilize their knowledge and effort for the purpose of profit maximization

Forest fires become the most frequent large-scale natural disasters, the protection from which is a complex, labor-consuming and expensive process. The extent of the damage from fires in Russia amounts to 20-110 billion rubles annually. Forest fires that raged in October 2017, Northern California, caused damage of $9 billion dollars. Today the most effective and safe means of firefighting are fire-prevention robotic systems. Research-and-production Enterprise «Tenzosensor» with the support of the Russian Federation Ministry of education and science and in collaboration with FBI «Avialesokhrana» develops the multiagent robotic system for forest firefighting. The scientific objectives of the study are: justification of the composition of the light multiagent robotic system for forest firefighting; justification of the structure of the multiagent remote control system; justification of the unified control interface composition based on polijoysticks. The set tasks were solved by the methods of experimental modeling and theoretical analysis of the obtained results. As a result of the research the following results were received: the new composition of multiagent robotic system for forest firefighting was developed including; the structure of hierarchical multiagent remote control system was developed; the unified polijoysticks-based interface for the control of the multiagent robotic system elements. It is expected that by its performance and efficiency the developed robotic system will be able to replace a brigade of firemen of 40-60 people

The writing of this thesis aims to explain data analysis using the structural equation modeling method which is then used as a method of data analysis to measure the trust and purchase decisions of smartphones. In this study structural equation modeling is used to analyze the relationship between brand awareness, perceived value, perceived quality, trust and purchasing decisions. SEM analysis will be used to determine the best model of trust and purchasing decisions for Samsung products. The method used in collecting data is a quantitative method that is supported by SEM. Data was collected by distributing questionnaires to Samsung smartphone users, to analyze the data using the SEM method. SEM analysis has seven stages, such as (1) development of theoretical models, (2) development of path diagrams, (3) conversion of path diagrams into structural equations, (4) selecting input matrices and types of estimates, (5) identifying models, (6 ) assess the criteria of goodness of fit, (7) interpret results. Based on the results of the study, brand awareness and perceived value significantly influence trust, but perceived quality does not have a significant effect on trust, then brand awareness, perceived value, and perceived quality do not have a significant impact on purchasing decisions, then trust has a significant influence on purchasing decisions.

Continuous models of economy adopted to either define evolutions of economic systems or investigate economic dynamics, amongst its other areas of applications, are known to be related to differential equations. The considered model in this article takes the form of a second order non-linear ordinary differential equation (ODE) which is conventional solved by reducing to the system of first order. This approach is computationally tasking, unlike block methods which bypasses reduction by directly solving the model. A new approach is introduced named Modified Taylor Series Approach (MTSA). Hence, the resultant MTSA-derived block method is implemented to solve the second order non-linear model of economy under consideration.

The development and operation of regional systems cannot be carried out solely on the basis of market self-regulation. The policy of state non-interference leads to the growth of various kinds of contradictions and asymmetries that can destroy the integrity of the national economy and regional systems, so taking care of the balanced development of the national economy and regional economic systems is an indispensable function of the state, a guarantee of its development and selfpreservation. This is reflected in the existence of program-target methods of managing the socio-economic development of regions.

Construction activities are characterized by a high level of risk. Adverse effects can include outlawing of construction, poor quality (unsafe) of constructed facility, fatal accidents during construction or operation of the facility. Professional legal consciousness specifies possible options for making managerial and legal decisions, choice of legal remedy, the building legality. Russian and foreign scientists acknowledge that adverse effects depend on mentality. Deformation of professional legal consciousness is reflected in ignorance of legal norms in the construction sector, non-compliance with safety and health regulations, disregarding the mandatory legal procedures. The more deformed professional legal consciousness, the higher the risk of adverse effects. Risks in construction activities can be financial, organizational, technical. The research process has made recommendations aimed at reducing the identified risks in construction activities. Construction business specialists should know more deeply the technical regulations, rules, standards enshrined in the laws, apply them in practice in a seamless manner. Managers should develop internal policies and procedures, provide employees with training to safeguard the occupational health and safety for construction works. Authorized lawmakers should monitor changes in the construction sector, timely eliminate gaps and conflicts in legal regulation, create conditions for the reliable implementation of construction regulations.

This paper mainly deals with the evaluation of suppliers and allocating orders using hybrid multi criteria decision making such as rough set theory, analytic hierarchy process and grey relational analysis. Selection of supplier includes both quantitative and qualitative factors. Qualitative factors are analyzed by rough set theory, analytic hierarchy process to determine the weight of each supplier. Quantitative factors are integrated with the weights of each supplier to evaluate the best supplier. The model has been applied to supplier selection of a high technology company named Multi-Flex Lami-Print Ltd which manufactures Flexible Packaging materials. Based on the numerical calculations this model can be considered as an effective model which is applicable to all type of industries

An investigation survey was carried out to examine factors affecting processing and quality of rice in Ekiti State, Nigeria. Nine major towns were selected from six Local Government Areas involved in rice production in the State. A structured questionnaire was used to collect information from three hundred (300) rice processors. Findings revealed that 47% of the processors were males and 53% are females, 66.7% of the processors have family size ranged within 4 to 7 persons, 63.78% of them have only primary education and 22.67% have no formal education, 70% of rice is gotten from middle men and 80% of the processors used their personal savings as capitals. 70% of the milling machines used was obsolete being single pass type characterized with high broken grains and 90% of the processors depend on diesel engines to power the mills while 7% had access to good storage facilities. None of the processors had accesses to a rice destoner. The result obtained is used to improve the processing deficiency of rice in Ekiti State

Intersectoral linkages represent the economic and organizational interaction between industries, characterizing the relationship to ensure the production process, as well as the production and sale of products in the industry based on exchanging equivalent costs and ensuring the same level of production profitability. Due to the need to develop branches of the national economy, the authors suggest a methodological approach to assessing the efficiency of the economic mechanism for establishing and developing intersectoral linkages.

This article considers the definition of the economic mechanism of import substitution as one of the new directions in the theory and practice of the modern enterprise management process, the industry and the economy as a whole. The authors identify the main aspects of the concept and describe the structure of this economic mechanism. Moreover, they determine the role of the economic mechanism in the agrarian economy and the need for its improvement to solve the problems of import substitution.

In Aleg, Mauritania, especially in the rural areas where there is no supply of treated water for drinking and other domestic uses, natural surface water is the only source. The objective was to assess the water quality of natural sources of water in the rural areas of the BRAKNA region (in the south-west of the country) using a water quality index (WQI) for different seasons. A total of 40 samples, that is, 20 in winter and 20 in summer were collected from different sources for physicochemical analysis, and a WQI was calculated. Twenty-seven parameters were evaluated (Rrgaonkar and V. Deshpande et al. 2007). Follow-up and physicochemical analyzes made it possible to determine the WQI index. The results obtained show that raw water from Lake Aleg is classified in the category "Unsuitable" (undesirable). The overall quality of the waters is strongly influenced by the alternation of seasons of the year. Correlation analysis showed a perfect correlation between WQI and water turbidity (r = 0.999). This made it possible to specify the turbidity as a factor of deterioration in the quality of the lake water The water quality of the natural sources indicated that the water is poor-quality and not totally safe for human consumption, and that it needs treatment before consumption.

Emissions emanating from poor solid waste management have increased steadily on a global scale particularly in developing countries including Nigeria. Incidentally, such, emissions in Nigeria have been estimated based on national statistics on waste generation which are neither accurate nor consistent. This study therefore characterized generated Municipal Solid Wastes (MSW) and determined the carbon emission potentials of the open dump in the solid waste management facility in Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria.Solid wastes brought to the MSW facility from three locations viz: markets, residences and kerbside, were characterised and quantified monthly for a period of one year. The methane emission potential arising from the wastes for the period of study was determined using the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Default Method (DM) and First Order Decay (FOD) method. Carbon-dioxide emissions estimate based on the MSW composition was also determined using the IPCC (2006) guidelines Data were analysed using descriptive statistics and ANOVA at ??0.05 The total wastes generated from all the sources were 5,834,005.0 + 5,079633.8 and 4,266,871.0 +3,745,337.8 kg;9,159,995.0 + 8,453,005.4 and 6,777,621.3+6,313,977.0 kg and 7,794,894.0 +7,569,909.7 and 5,724,532.0 +5,596,562.0 kg, for paper, plastics and food wastes in the wet and dry seasons respectively. Methane emissions were 80.8 and 42.3 Gg/yr for DM and 2.9 and 1.5 Gg/yr for FOD in the wet and dry seasons respectively. The estimated CO2 emissions was 1.2 Gg/Yr. The solid waste disposal facility is a significant contributor of methane and carbon dioxide emissions in Akure. Further studies should be carried to provide methane and carbon dioxide specific properties of the solid waste generated in Akure in order to build an inventory of carbon emission parameters

The lead of the article. The question of implementation of “Single Window” IT on the border for import-export operations is relevant for many international formats. One of the most important tasks of the state in the modern world is to create conditions to perform foreign trade activities and to simplify the formalities connected to export, import and transit of goods. Ten to fifteen years ago, advanced countries put their trust in introducing the “Single Window” mechanism in foreign economic activity, which led them to achieve significant growth of trade that they are witnessing today. Member states of Eurasian Economic Union also pay attention to this matter. The development mechanism of the “single window” on the territory of the Russian Federation is analyzed in this article. Considered the signs and stages of building a "single window". Analyzed the state of development of "single window». Problems were defined and suggested ways to solve them

The paper focused on the role of extension service providers in ensuring that mechanization is adopted at the grassroot level among farmers. Information dissemination, farmers’ education and awareness creation in motivating the smallholder farmers to utilizing these farm machineries optimally plats a major role in actualizing mechanized farming among these farmers. It further highlights the various challenges hampering the operational use of these farm machines by farmers such as cultural barriers, high cost of machines, low access to credit facilities, high cost of rental, lack of technical expertise among others. It offers practical guide to solving these barriers for optimum use of these farm machines by grassroot farmers through the assistance of extension personnel in creating awareness, and educating the farmers into embracing farm mechanization, sustaining their interest as regards introduction of one technology per time, need specification, technical know- how, action and satisfaction. All of these will help in improving mechanization effectively at the grassroot level with the assistance of extension personnel.

Merauke as a food barn has been carried out since the days of the Dutch administration, namely by making Merauke an Asia Pacific food warehouse. To realize this target, the Dutch government conducted a program to move the population known as colonization, namely by bringing residents from Java to be moved to Merauke. After the independence period the Indonesian colonization program was still held by the name of transmigration. These transmigrant farmers then live side by side with local residents and transmit the ability to cultivate rice to local residents in Merauke Regency who previously lived from gathering, shifting fields, sago farming, fishing, hunting and farming with the method of lagging, finally getting interested in learning to grow crops rice. The purpose of this study is to analyze (1) the factors that influence rice farming production on transmigrant farmers and local farmers in the Semangga District and Tanah Miring District of Merauke Regency, Papua-Indonesia (2) Factors that influence technical efficiency of rice farming in transmigrant farmers and local farmers in the Semangga District and Tanah Miring District of Merauke Regency, Papua-Indonesia (3) Technical efficiency of farming in transmigrant farmers and local farmers in the Semangga District and Tanah Miring District of Merauke Regency, Papua-Indonesia. This research was conducted in Merauke Regency, Papua - Indonesia, in two districts, namely Semangga District and Tanah Miring District, each district was selected by transmigrant villages and local villages which had the highest number of farmers. Semangga District was chosen by Waninggap Kai Village, Urumb, and Marga Mulya Village, while Isano Mbias Village in Tanah Miring District, Waninggap Sai Village, Kamangi Village and Sarsang Village were chosen. The study was conducted in June - August 2018. The time period of this study was to use data from one planting season in 2017. This study was a descriptive analysis. The population in this study was 7213 rice farmers. Sampling was carried out in proportional random sampling and obtained 216 respondents consisting of 185 respondents of transmigrant farmers and 31 respondents of local farmers. Data analysis uses the stochastic frontier production function. The results showed that significant gamma means that rice farming of transmigrant farmers and local farmers in Merauke Regency has not been technically efficient. 79% of technical inefficiencies in research are caused by managerial factors, which are factors that can be controlled by humans and 21% are caused by factors that cannot be controlled by humans (noise), namely pests, natural disasters, weather, and so on. The land area factor has a negative effect on rice production, while pesticides, seeds, urea fertilizer, and human labor have a positive effect on rice production. Technical efficiency factors can be improved by increasing the experience of farmers and increasing the number of family members, and transmigrant farmers more efficiently than local farmers. Transmigrant farmers who achieve technical efficiency values above 0.70 by 91% of farmers, while local farmers who achieve technical efficiency values above 0.70 by 62%. The value of transmigrant farmers technical efficiency is 0.85 higher than the value of local farmers technical efficiency of 0.69. This means that transmigrant farmers are more efficient than local farmers

Considering the past earthquakes in India, the regions of Chamoli, Uttarkashi, Rudraprayag and numerous other areas in Uttarakhand have been repeatedly jolted by earthquakes. This study compares the seismic response of Reinforced Concrete frames incorporated with diverse steel bracings systems exposed to the ground motions of Chamoli earthquake. The structural response of Moment Resisting frames (MRs), VBraced frames (VBs), Inverted V-Braced frames (IVBs) and X-Braced frames (XBs) are analyzed for storey heights of 4, 8, 12 and 16. The responses of each frame in terms of base shear, displacement, plastic hinge formation are studied by pushover analysis. The time based roof displacement, global damage index, over-strength factor, design factor are studied using time-history analysis. Etabs 2016 software is utilized for carrying over both non-linear pushover and dynamic time-history analysis. Comparative analysis shows enhancement in structural response of RCC frames as expected.

Publicity is very important to evening culinary tourism information in Merdeka Walk Medan, North Sumatra to increase the number of local and foreign tourists who visit and enjoy the evening atmosphere and menus. A Public Relations Officer has the means to carry out his/her duties such as a publicity agent. Publicity is carried out to the public, and the public is needed to inform about the products or services offered by government agencies, organizations, companies, or individual to attract local and foreign tourists to visit the aforementioned evening culinary tourism. The method used in this paper is a qualitative; focusing mainly on the role of Public Relations Officer who uses mass media to publish events held at Merdeka Walk and also publishes a variety of menu that reflects the taste of the region and its ethnicity. Internet-based social media plays an important role in publicity. Through social media, people can be made aware of the beauty and convenience of culinary locations at Merdeka Walk. Social media, thus, results in boosting the popularity of this culinary tourism, and it shows that the effects of the publication have been felt

The accommodation business is developing quickly in its training and execution of green and maintainable activities so as to protect the indigenous habitat and effectively meet the desires and wants of green-disapproved of buyers. The motivation behind this examination is to evaluate the level of appropriation and usage of natural maintainability rehearses in the star lodgings and extraordinary occasions enterprises of Chennai city. Information was gathered from members speaking to various lodgings and occasion scenes in the city. The survey is set up by utilizing standard inquiries taken from audit of writing. The outcomes demonstrated that the seven properties are effectively building up and rehearsing ecological maintainability rehearses and are persuaded to constantly look for further enhancement. This is a basic report to be used in looking at the Chennai cordiality industrys present and future supportability advance with different zones all through the world. This investigation finished up by making exceptional occasion maintainability suggestions.

The study aims to determine the percentage of attacks from caterpillar pests (C. pavonana) in some parts of the cabbage plant (B. oleracea) and mustard greens (B. sinensis L) in Isanombias Village, Tanah Miring District, Merauke Regency, Papua Province. The study was conducted on cabbage and mustard planted areas in Isanombias Village, Tanah Miring District, Merauke Regency. The study lasted for two months, starting from October to November 2018. The study was carried out in a survey at the location of cabbage and mustard plantations in Isanombias Village, Tanah Miring District, Merauke Regency using purporsive sampling method. The things observed in this study were (i) symptoms of caterpillar pest attack, (ii) number of each part of the plant (leaf, crop, and growing point) that showed symptoms of being attacked. The results showed that caterpillar pest attacks in Isanombias Village is 39.44% in cabbage plants and 41.53% in mustard plants. The highest pest attack on cabbage plants on leaves (16.20%), growing points (10.47%) and crop (10.47%). The most attacked mustard plants were growth points (20.22%), crop (11.27%) and leaves (10.04%). Pest attacks at growing points will result in crop failure while attacks on plants will reduce the quality of mustard and cabbage plants

Merauke Regency is one of the districts in the Papua Province. In 2017, Merauke Regency Government through the assistance of the Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR) has implemented a program to provide subsidized housing units. Affordable prices make demand increase, so for some people prefer to build their own homes. Building a house certainly requires careful planning. There are tools to manually calculate RAB using an application such as ms. Excel. The disadvantage is that it takes time to understand how to calculate and enter measurements. In this study, the information system was built in the form of a website, so that it could be used by the community in Merauke Regency without having to install the application on a computer. The RAB calculation method used to make the budget is the SNI method by means of a coefficient multiplied by the unit price to find the unit price of each job. The unit price is multiplied by the total volume of work to get the total cost. At the end, the total calculation of work volume is multiplied by the price of the work unit

The aim of this research is to know the specific gravity and depth of soil consolidation. The method of this research was carried out for three years, and in the third stage drilling of soil with a machine at 5 points at 30m depth. Furthermore, the property test and soil mechanical properties in the laboratory. This research produced a map of puddles in Semarang City and shows that the land in the northern part of Semarang city has decreased over time because the land has been consolidated due to the burden of residential buildings, the use of groundwater and motor vehicles

Compliance issues are important because simultaneous non-compliance will result in efforts to avoid taxes, such as tax evasion and tax avoidance, which results in reduced tax payments to the state treasury. Therefore, it is necessary to compile a taxpayer compliance index based on the business sector. The results showed that the Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) approach, Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) that the taxpayer compliance model is a fit model, and indicators on taxpayer service quality, local tax regulations, taxpayer satisfaction levels, taxpayer attitudes and compliance taxpayer is valid convergently and discriminant and reliable. The biggest indicator of service quality of taxpayers is responsiveness, while local tax regulations are clarity of local tax regulations. The biggest satisfaction level of taxpayer indicators on expectations, the attitude of taxpayers on sanctions and fines and taxpayer compliance on tax reporting. Attitude Taxpayer, Taxpayer Satisfaction and quality of taxpayer services is a dominant factor in influencing taxpayer compliance. The Taxpayer Compliance index for the best business fields in a row are Parking, Advertising, Hotels, Restaurants, Entertainment, but in the area of restaurant and parking businesses, the quality of service for taxpayers does not affect Taxpayer Compliance

The writing seeks to illustrate examples of waqf (endowment) in education that has been implemented in Indonesia. Pondok Modern Darussalam Gontor (hereinafter called PMDSG) is taken as a sample since it is a very successful waqf-oriented educational institution. This concept of waqf-based education in PMDSG is a good example of welfare-based education endowment which provides immense benefits to the community at large. Thus, this research aims to examine the administration of PMDSG particularly relating to its waqf management. In this research, the researchers used both primary and secondary data. The primary data is based on the interviews conducted to several respondents from PMDSG, while secondary data is obtained from extensive literature in the form of books, journal articles, relevant statutes and related data and documents. The finding of the research shows that the waqf-based education implemented in PMDSG is a good model to be applied in today’s education system. It is recommended that the administration of waqf in education should be implemented in modern, professional, transparent, systematic and well-planned manner by the government and private sector

Strut-and-tie modelling (STM) is a very useful tool to analyze and design the irregular concrete deep members. This work presents the results of the experimental tests conducted on two reinforced concrete continuous deep beams that had a constant cross section of 140 mm×500 mm and a total length of 1700 mm. The beams are subjected to single and uniformly distributed load. Each test specimen is designed by using the STM that presented in Appendix A of ACI 318-14 provisions. The cracking load, failure load, deflection, crack pattern, steel reinforcement strains, concrete surface average strains and locations of failure for the tested beams were observed, recorded and discussed. The experimental results (????) and (????) are compared with the STM theoretical results (????????). Test results indicated that each beam carried loads greater than the STM theoretical design load. In other words, results show that the STM is a conservative method that gives the designers wide flexibility. More specifically, in this study, in case of singly concentrated force, ???????? is less than ???? by about 21%, while ???????? is less than ???? by about 27% in case of uniformly distributed load.

Permeable concrete is an environmental friendly concrete used in pavement structures which reduces the water runoff and helps in maintaining the ground water level. The objective of this study is to scrutinize and inquire the change in engineering properties of permeable concrete by addition of granulated waste plastic. The waste plastic used in this permeable concrete mix is in the form of granules having size between 2 mm and 3 mm. These were added in different percentages – 25%, 50%, 75% and 100% as a partial replacement to fine aggregates. Tests were conducted on fine aggregates, coarse aggregates, cement and modified mix (waste plastic mix permeable concrete) to investigate their physical strength, mechanical strength and the rate of infiltration of water. The testing included the tests for Loss angel’s abrasion value, Impact value, Specific gravity and Water absorption for the aggregates, and fineness, consistency, compressive strength and permeability tests for the concrete. Concrete cubes were casted with different proportions of the materials and were tested after 7, 14, and 28 days for the strength. Cylindrical samples were also cast and were tested after 24 hours to determine the infiltration rate of the concrete. It was found that the compressive strength and permeability of permeable concrete starts decreasing significantly only after 25% replacement of fine aggregates by granulated waste plastic. For a 25% replacement, no significant decrease in strength or permeability was observed.

In Ukraine, there are practically no structures capable of providing high-quality environmental control over agricultural production; this situation is acquiring critical significance. Therefore, the problems of forming a specialized agroecological service within the production infrastructure are urgent and re-quire scientific research and justification. The issues of formation of specialized agroecological services within the production infrastructure capable of providing high-quality environmental con-trol over agricultural production have not been studied. Issues related to the development of the production infrastructure in the context of ensuring the improvement of the environmental safety of agricultur-al production and the efficient use of the resource potential of the agricultural sector of the economy have not been sufficiently studied. The research paper analyzes the problems in the interaction of industrial infrastructure with agroecological production. The basic principles of sustain-able development of the agroindustrial complex in the context of socio-economic transformations that will produce a fundamental ecological recon-struction of all business entities are suggested. Agricultural enterprises are not able to maintain a constant capital-labor ratio, which leads to a decrease in the growth rate of production of the final product. In this case, it is important to determine the duration of the transition period in changing economic growth rates and the policy of introducing inno-vative forms of scientific and technological progress into individual technologi-cal processes (capitalintensive or fund-saving), which should be directed to environmentally safe agricultural production. Agricultural enterprises are not able to maintain a stable capital-labour ratio, which leads to a decrease in the growth rate of production of the final product. In this case, it is important to determine the duration of the transition period in changing economic growth rates and the policy of introducing inno-vative forms of scientific and technological progress into individual technologi-cal processes (capital-intensive or capital-saving), which should be aimed at environmentally safe agricultural production.

The research paper deals with the method of forming an information system for mining areas management on the basis of conducting comprehensive monitoring and maintaining a cadastre of mining areas (MAs). Ensuring security and safe living conditions of the population when using such areas, especially in the interests of future generations, is a priority as-pect of their sustainable development. Extraction of minerals is accompanied by active transformation and destruction of the earths surface, which leads to the formation of specific mining landscapes that have a significant impact on the sus-tainable development of such areas. The objective of this study is to provide information management of the sustainable development of landscapes of mining areas based on the formation of an integrated information system for monitoring these areas and the development of cadastral works of the objects of mining complexes (MCs). The method proposed by the authors for the formation of an information database of MCs objects justifies the need to work on the classification of the objects of mining complexes, the formation of MCs real estate objects, the organization of comprehensive monitor-ing to obtain relevant and reliable information about MCs real estate objects and their cadastral registration

In this article, theoretical analysis of sinkage relation and effects of pressure distribution of different plates using incompressible second order fluids is presented. The sinkage relation involving film thickness and time are calculated and also the variation pressures with film thickness for distinct values of second order fluid parameters are presented. The results revealed that in second order fluids the squeeze is faster than that of in Newtonian fluids and the pressure increases with film thickness for the decreasing values of second order fluid

Addiction of ketum juice among some Muslims in Malaysia has become a hot topic for discussion in mass media. The reason is that ketum juice has been abused for the wrong purpose such as for getting high or stoned and intoxicated. Nevertheless, it cannot be denied that ketum juice has its own benefits for treating weak bodies as practised by people in the olden days. In addition, past society also used ketum leaves as a basic ingredient in traditional medicine. For that reason, scholars presently differ in their views to determine the legal status of ketum juice. Thus, in order to determine the legality of ketum juice, whether halal, haram, mubah or makruh, a study was conducted to study the good and bad of ketum juice from the scientific perspective. The research methodology used are document and content analysis. Research results find that ketum juice has benefits for humans. The benefits in using ketum leaves outweigh the disadvantages. Ketum leaves can be the alternative treatment for certain diseases followed up by doctors’ prescribed medication. The bad of ketum leaves are caused by a group of people who mix ketum juice with prohibited substances so as to cause getting high or stoned and intoxication. In that regard, scholars are of the opinion that it is permitted (mubah) to take ketum juice if it is not mixed with prohibited substances and is for treatment and not other purposes. If ketum juice is mixed with unclean sources,then its status changes from permitted (mubah) to forbidden (haram).

Islam encourages Muslims to discover the remedy for every disease. One hadith stated that the Prophet (PBUH) had suggested use of camel urine to treat his companions who were suffering from abdominal pains at that time. This became a disputed issue among the scholars in determining the legality of treatment with unclean sources such as animal urine and so on. It is generally known that human or animal urine is an unclean source and it is not permissible to benefit from it. The above hadith gave rise to debate among the Muslim scholars, whether it was specific for the Prophet (PBUH), darura (necessity) or it is absolutely permissible till today. In that respect, this article discusses the concept of using animal urine, particularly camel urine, fromthe scientific and Islamic perspectives. Content analysis of classical and contemporary scholars’ views based on research by scholarsd in the relevant field was conducted. Scientific research found that there are diseases which can be treated by using urine. Based on the scientific research, Muslim scholars are divided into three views. Of the three, the selected view is that which regards animal urine as unclean for Muslims to benefit from in the absence of darura (necessity). This means that Muslim scholars still maintain that animal urine is unclean to be used as a method of treatment except on the ground of darura (necessity) to serve a bigger public interest. Results of this research will be of assistance to authorities such as JAKIM and MAIN in dealing with the issue of Malaysian halal certification, especially concerning products which contain urine of animals such as the camel and so on

The land is a natural resource that is very important for human life. From the entire surface of the earth which is inhabited by about 5 billion people, only 25% is the land where humans can live and the rest is the surface of the ocean. In the use of land, water and space, besides land rights there are also other rights such as; business use rights, building use rights, usufructuary rights, building rights, the right to open land and collect forest products, land rights for sacred and social purposes, water use, maintenance and fishing, and space use rights. In ownership rights, there is a minimum determination of the maximum area and area. With the determination of the maximum area, in Indonesia, there will be no concentration of land ownership or landlords. Land is always the one that has an economy that is getting longer and higher in value, always in this case used by certain people to get more and more easily available profits, for this reason we need to keep understanding and understanding the importance of structuring or use planning land for our survival and our lives in the future, in addition to the interests of our beloved nation and state of Indonesia

Process innovations in recent years are based on renewable sources processes, such as photovoltaic panels. In the case study analysed are shown the benefits obtained from the investments of the central Italy after installing photovoltaic systems. The total expenditure for the electricity purchase is € 52.326, while the total benefit of the investment is € 18.789, equal in percentage to a 53% energy saving over a period of 20 years. The company expeniture in the absence of a photovoltaic system is equal to € 109.03, while in the presence of a plant, considering also all costs incurred for € 93.090, with a percentage of profit on the investment made equal to almost 15% in 20 years.

Indiscriminate disposal of solid waste is a major issue in urban centers and it poses a serious threat to healthy living of the citizens. Timely access to reliable information on the level of solid waste at different locations within the city will help both the local authorities and the citizens to effectively manage this menace. In this paper, an intelligent solid waste monitoring system is developed using Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing technologies. Waste containers are strategically situated within the communities and the fill level of solid waste in each of the containers is detected using ultrasonic sensors. The sensor data is transmitted to an IoT cloud platform, ThingSpeak, via a Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) communication link. At different fill levels, the system is designed to send appropriate notification message (in form of tweet) to alert relevant authorities and concerned citizen(s) for necessary action. Also, the fill level is monitored on ThingSpeak in real-time. The system performance shows that the proposed solution may be found useful for efficient waste management in smart and connected communities.

Having a dual function of conveyance and storage integrated to a permeable road is demonstrated here. Yet, this function could only be executed when appropriate inlet and outlet designs are decided. The mentioned permeable road is referring to StormPav Green Pavement which is designated along the front street of typical commercial premises. Stormwater runoff generated from building and road catchments of the commercial area is simulated by using Storm Water Management Model (SWMM). Subjected to 10-year average recurrent interval design rainfall with durations ranging from 5 to 180 minutes, results show that 100mm diameter inlets and 0.19m x 0.7m outlet are the optimized sizes to allow for the filling and draining in StormPav Green Pavement system.

Pervious concrete is a concrete composite material consisting of coarse aggregate, cement and water. Because of the absence of fine aggregate in the mixture, the aggregates are bonded together at its points of contact by cement paste, resulting in a high percentage of interconnected voids that, when functioning correctly, permit the rapid percolation of water through the concrete. In this work, polypropylene monofilament and fibrillated fibres are selected as raw materials in three varying percentage. 0.2% of fiber is added by the total volume of concrete and a new method for determining the permeability of pervious concrete that provides better design methodology is used. The experimental test values of permeability are discussed and validated using Avizo software. The mix design is done for the water to binder ratio of 0.30. Coarse aggregate of 10 mm and 4.75 mm are selected in order to reduce the void content as per the ACI 522R-06 codal provision. The addition of polypropylene fibers shows enhancement in mechanical properties of the pervious concrete as expected

The use of filter aid to improve the performance of conventional rapid sand filter is a comparatively recent development in drinking water treatment. Use of filter aid generally results in reduction in ripening period, higher turbidity removal as well as relatively stable effluent quality while the limitations includes the reduction in filter rate as well as reduction in filter run.To overcome the limitations attempt is made to devise the RSF with media having higher effective size (around 0.85mm) and lower coefficient of uniformity (around1.2) as compared to conventional filter media, with use of poly-aluminum chloride (PACl) as a filter aid. The study was conducted at one of the water treatment plant at Ichalkaranji, Maharashtra by installing a pilot scale model.Various dosages were tried to determine the better performing dose. High turbidity removal, extended filter run, and low head loss as compare to conventional rapid sand filter was observed. The net backwashing requirement also was reduced

The takaful market has become more diverse with a tremendous increase in the number of takaful operators worldwide. In overall, the growth of takaful has been consistently increasing since 2010. Nevertheless, there is a slight difference between family takaful and general takaful growth, unfavorably the family takaful. Thus, this research is carried out to examine the significant factors influencing the choice of family takaful among its participants. For that purpose, one takaful operator has been sampled out. The findings relate to three contributing factors to the demand of family takaful products; benefits, product features and quality services. Based on the findings, takaful operator should focus in improving the takaful agents’ knowledge

In a digital economy, the phenomenon of crypto-assets recently received considerable attention. The article describes in more detail the features of the functioning of cryptoassets and blockchain technology, identify their inherent risks and propose a mechanism for managing these risks by incorporating crypto-asset risk management units in the culture of risk management

The analysis of influence of multiple coal seam mining on stress and strain condition of the rock massif was made with use of a finite element method. Researches were conducted for conditions of mining of three coal seams in the Alardinskaya mine in the Kuznetsk coal basin. The scientific novelty of researches consists in establishment of distribution of stress at consecutive multiple coal seam mining. As a result of the executed researches recommendations on ensuring safe multiple coal seam mining are made

The article gives the description of the basis for building the ethno-cultural park “Tavla”, based on the formation of the cultural landscapes of the upper Tavla river basin. The research is based on the engineering and landscape analysis of spatiotemporal design of geo-systems and natural heritage, landscape-cultural analysis of material and spiritual heritage, ecological and landscape analysis of interaction of natural, social and production systems

Rapid industrializations and urbanizations were produces very huge amounts of waste water and effluents during various unit operations and the processes. It seems to huge burden to manage to supply the sufficient quantity of water and also very difficult to manage the waste water and its effluents, and it may lead to increasing of cost and maintenance of the ETP’s. In this contest this present study attempt was done for reduction of total water consumption and to recovery of Nickel and Copper metals from the waste water effluents coming from electroplating industry were analyzed by Nickel Recovery Units and Copper Recovery Units, The metals, which are casted from aluminum wheel. The recovery units, which has a rinse bath – 1, rinse bath - 2, drag out bath, copper plating bath and cartridge filter, carbon filter , copper recovery. It was found that, after following of Nickel & Copper recovery systems, total water consumption is drastically reduced, sludge generation also reduced and also effluent generation in both the cases of nickel and copper were also reduced

The Noble Quran has been fair to the Muslim women by giving them a high position and a lofty status. Nevertheless, those who do not ponder the Quranic verses may think that women are deprived of their rights in the Noble Quran. The research problem lies in the lack of understanding the book of Allah, which results in wrong interpretations. This article aims to confirm the lack of credibility of these false claims and similar cases. It also highlights on the status of women and their impact on Islamic propagation and education in light of the Noble Quran. This article is intended to enlighten those who have been dragged behind these false claims and explain to the Muslim women about their status evident in the Quran. The study adopted an inductive method to extrapolate the Quranic verses. Also, an analytical approach was used to extract relevant information from Quranic verses. This study concluded that women are influential in the aspect of Islamic propagation based on evidences from the Noble Qurans. Also, the Quran revealed the womens ability and influence in education.

The conventional sources of power generation are diminishing constantly and more dependency on renewable sources becomes mandatory and wind energy is actively pursued in recent years in India and world. In India State like Gujarat has more wind potential available and more energy can be harvested by increasing height of wind mill. This wind mill towers are attributed by heavy mass of nacelle at top and rotor at eccentric distance. Conventional Wind mill turbines supporting structures are constructed using either mono type or lattice type structural system. In present investigation combination of mono lattice type structural system and conventional mono system is investigated for 125 m high tower and vibration response of both system is compared. Detailed dynamic analysis of supporting structure under working loads are performed in FE software and the response of both system is quantified in terms of shear at base, shell stresses and displacement at top in time domain. From investigation it reveals that mono lattice supporting system is less sensitive to loads caused during operation of wind mill and less dynamic magnification appears in mono lattice system compared to conventional mono system. It is concluded that mono-lattice system can be used for higher hub height wind mill towers to harvest more wind energy.

The article presents an extended concept of human capital management based on the allocation of explicit and implicit knowledge that is important for innovative economic development. It is shown that the result of the integration of implicit knowledge of scientists with the accumulated rational explicit knowledge in the process of knowledge is new knowledge (innovation). The authors classification of knowledge in innovative economy is developed and presented. The economic content of knowledge in the interests of innovative development is revealed

The study seeks to examine the effectiveness of Corporate Social Responsibility approach in health care marketing. The other specific objectives are to investigate the extent to which obstructive approach to CSR influences the profitability of the firm, to examine the extent to which defensive approach of CSR influences the corporate image of the firm, to evaluate the extent to which accommodative approach to Corporate Social Responsibility influences customer satisfaction, to investigate the extent to which proactive approach to corporate social responsibility influences sales growth performance. Data were retrieved from the one hundred and seventy-two engineers of this firm. The study made use of descriptive research design. The study utilised the stratified sampling technique as its sampling technique. The hypotheses were tested using the multiple regression technique. The findings showed that obstructive Approach to CSR is not a significant predictor of the Profitability of the firm, defensive approach is a significant predictor of Corporate Image of the firm, accommodative approach is a significant predictor of Customer Satisfaction and that proactive approach is a significant predictor of Sales Growth Performance. Overall, CSR approach has significant effect on firm Performance. Using the findings as a stepping stone, recommendations were made that funds should be kept aside for social responsibility activities and the firm should take a proactive approach in carrying out their CSR

In the present technological world, an online real-time technology is needed to facilitate credit to the private sector. Absence of continuous credit to the private sector has hindered sustainable development in developing countries such as Nigeria. This study therefore empirically examined the impact of credit to the private sector on economic growth in the present technological world in Nigeria using time series data from the period of 1986 to 2016. Dependent variable was GDP growth rate (GROWTH), as proxy for Economic Growth. Credit to the Private Sector (PSCR) was the main explanatory variable, while other explanatory variables were; Broad Money Supply (M2), Real Interest Rate (RINT), Labour Rate (LABR), Gross Fixed Capital Formation (GFCF). Augmented Dickey Fuller (ADF) unit root test was used to test for the stationarity properties and order of integration of the data used in the study, the result revealed that Real interest rate was stationary at levels, while all other variables were found to be stationary at their first difference. The Vector Autoregressive (VAR) econometric technique of estimation was employed to detect the effect of Credit to the Private Sector on complete time path of Nigerian economic growth and vice versa. Research findings revealed that the response of GROWTH to most of the shocks (impulses) were positive except for Interest Rate while GROWTH appeared to be unresponsive to the Interest Rate shocks. Under the Credit to the Private Sector bloc, the first 2 lags of PSCR being significant at the 5 percent and 1 percent level respectively are found to be significant predictors of the dependent variable (PSCR). Furthermore, the estimation result shows that factors like LABF (the three lags) and RINT (third lag) are equally significant determinants of PSCR.The study therefore recommends that government should increase credit to the private sector to boost the sector so that banks and other financial institutions can increase lending to the Nigerian economy.

The construction industry is the tool through which society goals of urban and rural development can be achieved. It has a great impact on the economy of all countries (Leibing, 2001). However, the construction process is influenced by highly changing and unexpected variables, which could result from different sources. These sources include performance of construction parties, financial issues, managerial issues, resources unavailability, and external conditions. As a result, poor performance in terms of delay and cost overrun in construction projects could occur. The construction industry and its parties are associated with high degree of risk due to the nature of construction business activities, processes, environment and organization. Risk in construction has been the object of attention because of time and cost overruns associated with construction projects (Kartam et al., 2001).

Development of the tourism industry - a new approach to the development of the economy of the Republic, in achieving high results of improvement and attracting investment from the outside. Today, Kazakhstan is the new economic approach of a breakthrough, gradually begin to introduce innovations in every sector of the economy, adopted various strategies and programs for the development and application of innovation, the tourism industry is no exception. The country should carry out accelerated technological modernization through the cultivation and introduction of new industries, the development of industrial and tourist infrastructure. The transition to innovative development of the country is defined as the main goal of the state policy in the field of science and technology and as one of the most important areas - the formation of the national innovation system

The article presented an integrated data set on the alternative dispute resolution and employee commitment of selected Construction Companies. The objective of the study was to determine the effect of negotiation on continuance commitment; identify the influence of mediation on affective commitment; determine the effect of conciliation on continuance commitment and investigate the influence of arbitration on normative commitment. A structured questionnaire was administered to 268 respondents which was determined using stratified random sampling techniques. The copies of questionnaire were analysed using AMOS 21, while Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) analysis was done on the constructs to enable further comprehensive investigations. However, further comprehensive investigations will help in establishing the significant effect of alternative dispute resolution on employee commitment and how this can be incorporated in organisations/institutions for ultimate success

Symptoms of social problems among adolescents nowadays are increasingly worsening and worrying all parties concerned. This is due to the lack of religious and spiritual appreciation among society. This phenomenon, if not contained, will have a negative impact on the well-being of the community, the family institution and the teenager’s character . The objective of this study is to examine the Islamic spiritual approach based on mystical concepts developed by tasawuf scholars. This study also aimed to identify the forms of personality disorders in adolescents living in Baitul Sakinah and the Silent Repetition of Prayers and Self-reflection or Introspection treatment used to overcome the problem at the centre. In addition, the study also aimed to analyze the implications of the Silent Repetition of Prayers, Self-reflection or Introspection approaches used on the trainees in Baitul Sakinah. This was a qualitative study that applied the case study design comprising interviews as well as several other methods such as document analysis and questionnaires. The instruments used were interview protocol and questionnaire. Data from interviews were analyzed using the manual and Nvivo 11 software. The manual method covered the process oftranscription, reduction, coding and data display. Whereas the data from the questionnaire were analyzed descriptively using SPSS 23.0. The results showed that there were 22 types of problematic behaviors exhibited by trainees in Baitul Sakinah. This negative phenomenon requires a solution. The findings also indicated that there are several spiritual treatment approaches used in Baitul Sakinah, such Silent Repetition of Prayers and Self-reflection or Introspection. The implication is that the treatment creates awareness among the trainees and convinces them to abstain from negative elements that cause their problematic behavior

The most common form of organization of activities of domestic integrated structures are holding companies. In modern conditions, the successful development of a production company is inextricably linked with strategic management. The article discusses vertical integration as a direction for the strategic development of a holding company.

Lateritic soil is one of the main soil types in the tropical countries like India for basic construction works. Since lateritic soils are the main underlying soil structure in coastal Karnataka, its detailed study of mineralogical properties is of utmost importance. The study area chosen is Udupi district and samples were procured from coastal plains and hinterland regions. The samples taken from each places (three layers-top, middle and bottom at around 2.5-3 m depth) were collected in zip locked polythene bags and were oven dried at 1050 Celsius for 24 hours and then passed through 75 µm IS sieve size. For clear images of the soil structure and for identification of elements, samples were coated with gold sputtering. These samples were tested by Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) and Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy (EDAX/EDS) and analyzed. SEM results show various minerals present in the samples. EDAX results show the percentage of each element (like C, O, Si, K, Cu, Ti, Mg etc) present in the sample. Therefore it can be concluded that laterites change their composition from iron to aluminium resulting in bauxite ore as one moves towards north in the coastal belt of Karnataka

Elevated water tanks are becomes most vital life line structures in earthquake prone areas. These structure are generally used to store the liquids in containers which are placed at the top end of assisting systems (staging’s) and are most effected by seismic forces during earthquakes. They are very important in water supply, fire-frightening systems and also in many industrial use to store water. At the time of earthquake, damage to these tanks creates so many problems like interruption in drinking water supply, creates uncontrollable flames when damage to tank with flammable fluids in industries. So therefore these elevated water tanks must remain in working condition even after the earthquake. Due to this reason, a very large studies carried on seismic behavior of tanks at different conditions. In this, we are going to analyze the tank under seismic forces with the variations of different seismic zones and shape of containers e.g. rectangular tank and circular tank with constant staging height. In this paper, analysis is carried according with IS 1893-1984 (i.e. single lumped mass method) and IS 1893-2002 (i.e. two mass model method), by changing seismic zone and soil type i.e. hard rock and soft soil. Analysis is carried out for two different tank fill conditions i.e. full and empty tank conditions. Seismic forces acting on the tank are evaluated by the response spectrum method by changing response spectrum value (R), by using the software STADD PRO. Seismic response such as nodal displacement, base shear, base moment, shear force& bending moment are evaluated and compared.

Construction is an essential process for all of the developing countries. Moreover, highway and infrastructure construction projects are rigid development in a country. Delay is a common phenomenon in the construction industry which directly impacts the cost and quality of the project. Delays can only be reduced when the causes and its influences are identified and analyzed. In the past, most researchers have been working on finding the causes of delay in the construction project through several method and analysis. Nevertheless, the study on the delay causes and its influences towards the infrastructure and highway construction project is still limited and require more precise attention on it. The main objective of the study is to find the significant factors causes delay in the construction project especially in highway and road construction projects. Thus, the review methodology based on the frequency of occurrences of the factors causes delay in the highway and road construction project were significantly analyzed. This paper contributes a deep review on the factors that cause delay in the construction industry especially in the construction of highway and road projects. The top most significant factor causes delay in construction project was poor project planning and scheduling with the highest frequency of occurrences and percentage value which is 25 and 2.5% respectively. Therefore, this findings will be useful for future planning and time management in order to minimize the delay occurrences on the highway and road construction projects

Labor productivity of Vietnamese economy in general and Vietnamese construction industry in particular is low in comparison with other countries. There are many reason causing this low productivity in Vietnam. Boosting labor productivity is becoming an urgency and is attracting much attention from both domestic and foreign researchers. This paper focuses on a series of factors affecting labour productivity on construction sites in Vietnam. The research aims to evaluate and rate the extent of impact of each factor on labour productivity in Vietnam. The Relative Importance Index (RII) is used to measure the impact of these factors on labor productivity of construction workers on site in Vietnam based on the results of a survey collected all the necessary data. Totally, 43 factors are identified and classified into eight groups affecting the labor productivity of construction workers on sites in Vietnam while ten most influential factors have been determined that will provide the basis for the construction firms to provide effective solutions to achieve and increase the productivity of construction workers. By referring to the outcomes of this study, Vietnamese construction contractors will be able to come up with workable solutions which will contribute towards a better performance of construction workers. On that basis, the productivity of construction firms and national economy will be improved correspondingly

The article discusses the methodological approaches to assessing the socioeconomic development of the region. Methodical approaches to the formation of economic and social programs, as a tool for strategic management of the region’s development, should be adequate to its goals, taking into account regional peculiarities, and first of all, aimed at solving specific problems relevant to a particular region.

Kudus has a slogan Gusjigang "Bagus Ngaji Dagang". This is because Kudus is one of the cities that is granted 2 Sunan namely Sunan Kudus and Sunan Muria. One of Sunan Kuduss remains is the Holy Tower. Where to be one of the protected cultural heritage by the government. Many cultures in the city of Kudus make the city of Kudus become one of the religious tourism destinations. As technology evolves, the cultural blend of the sacred Tower is packed into a three-dimension combined with augmented reality technology. With the marker less method, the preservation of the culture of the Tower of the Holy became one of the worlds cultural heritage

Women are the backbone of the development of rural and national economies. There is no tool of development that is more effective than the empowerment of the rural women. Nigerian rural women lack sufficient economic resources that will enable them to articulate their needs and interests and organize themselves with a view to developing the nation. The prospects of achieving food security in a rapidly growing population and relative self-sufficiency in animal protein supply calls for the production of all classes of meat animals by rural women to achieve sustainable economic development and empowerment. The animal farming opportunities through which women can be empowered included: snail, broiler, quail, duck, laying chicken, fish, bee, rabbit, pig, sheep and goat farming. The paper concluded that in order to get sustainable productivity in animal production, rural women needed be empowered to be actively involved in the various opportunities available in animal agriculture for advancing development and reducing poverty, since empowered women contribute to the health, productivity of whole families and communities and also improve the prospects of the next generation. It is recommended that Government should play key role in activities involving livestock through the formulation of policies, provision of agricultural credit for women participation in animal production, increased technical know- how in animal production through capacity building for women via livestock extension trainings, and provision of enabling environment for proper growth of the livestock industry. Also, rural development programme packages should involve women empowerment through animal production activities to achieve sustainable development.

In the present study biodegradable agro and horticultural waste materials have not only been used to adsorb pollutant Cr (VI) from wastewater but it will help in the agro waste management also. Using agro waste materials to purify water for reuse indicates indirect social welfare for the organization which is not directly measured. Low cost sorbent used by tanneries, electroplating industries and other metal finishing industries that release Cr (VI) in effluent wastewater joining natural streams it is sure that these industries will control this pollution at the source itself. So the Cr (VI) removal comparatively at a low cost will be the financial benefit to such type of industries. This benefit will certainly lower the overall costing of the process and products as well. First time an attempt has been made to estimate the cost of adsorption while studying economic feasibility of various agricultural and horticultural wastes like pea (Pisum sativum) pod peels, tea (Camellia sinensis) & ginger (Zingiber officinale) mix and banana (Musa lacatan) peels to adsorb Cr (VI) from wastewater. The removal cost of 1g of Cr (VI) from wastewater using these adsorbents like; Pea Pod Peels, Tea & Ginger mix and Banana peels Waste were estimated as Rs. 9.14, Rs. 4.71, Rs. 3.11 respectively. The findings indicate that the cost of using these agro wastes as adsorbents is lesser than that of commercial activated carbon which is Rs. 142.145.The developed adsorbents were prepared from agricultural wastes which undoubtedly require proper waste management. Adsorbents pea pod peels waste; tea & ginger waste and banana peels waste the positive enthalpy ?H values 1.089, 1.627 and 1.494 respectively showed the endothermic sorption and the strong binding, the positive free energy change ?G; 1.31632, 1.946 and 1.752 showed the random feasibility. Adhering, fixing adsorbate on the interface between two phases result in loss of the degree of freedom showing a negative entropy (?S) for pea pod peels waste (-0.0126 and tea & ginger waste (- 0.0055) whereas positive 0.0107 for banana peels waste.

This paper deals with the applications of optimization principle in optimizing profits of a production industry using linear programming to examine the production cost and determine its optimal profit. Linear programming is an operation research technique which is widely used in finding solutions to managerial decision problems. However, many enterprises make more use of the trial-and-error method. As such, firms have been finding it difficult in allocating scarce resources in a manner that will ensure profit maximization and/or cost minimization. This paper makse use of secondary data collected from the records of the Landmark University Bakery on five types of bread produced in the firm which include Family loaf, sliced family bread, Chocolate loaf, medium size bread, small size bread. A problem of this nature was identified as a linear programming problem, formulated in Mathematical terms and solved using AMPL software. The solution obtained revealed that Landmark bakery unit should concentrate much more in production of 14,000 loaves of Family loaf and 10,571 loaves of Chocolate bread while others type should be less produced since their value is turning to zero in order to achieve a maximum monthly profit of N1,860,000. From the analysis, it was observed that Family loaf and the Chocolate bread contributed objectively to the profit. Hence, more of Family loaf and Chocolate bread are needed to be produced and sold in order to maximize the profit.

In post-conflict community rebuilding, the significance of reintegration exercise for returning displaced persons and the manner of programs put in place will determine whether they will be sustainable reintegrated or otherwise. However, there is little empirical documentation regarding critical questions such as: Can restoration of vandalized sources of water supply in their communities of origin guarantee sustainable reintegration as they return home? How can regular water supply aid their occupation to blossom so that earning a living is not difficult? What significant relationships exist between the background characteristics of returning migrants and water supply as an integral part of social reintegration strategy? Using a case study of the returning displaced persons in North-East Nigeria, this paper addresses these questions.

This project is study of Self-healing behaviour of concrete which deals with mechanical properties of concrete is widely used to improve the durability of the concrete. Self-healing concrete is a product that will chemically produce hydrates to heal the cracks that appear on the surface of concrete structures. In self-healing process healing agent absorbs the moisture content present in atmosphere to heal. This process enhanced mechanical properties of concrete. Superabsorbent polymers (SAPs) are materials that have the ability to absorb and retain large volumes of water and aqueous solutions. SAP is now a mature product that has quickly progressed from specialty chemical to special commodity. Sodium silicate is used as SAP chemical admixtures as well as self-healing agent for concrete. Sodium silicate in liquid form at 2% is mixed with concrete based on previous work. As per IS 10262 : 2009, M40 grade concrete mix design is derived for both control and SAP concrete and specimens are prepared for compressive strength, split tensile strength and flexural strength. At age of 7, 14, and 28 and 56 days, tests are conducted to determine the compressive, split tensile and flexural strengths. The specimen are also pre-cracked on 28th day and re-cured for 28 days to undergo rapid self-healing process. On 56th day, they are tested for determining the recovery of strengths. The effect of 2% sodium silicate on the strength and the healing property of concrete is studied by determining the self-healing efficiency.

Flat slabs systems are massively used in multi-story buildings because of their savings in story height and construction time, as well as for their flexibility in architectural remodeling. However, they frequently suffer brittle punching-shear failure around columns when subjected to gravity and lateral loads. Thus, punching is one of the most important phenomena to be considered during the design of reinforced concrete flat slabs. An experimental testing is the best way to study the performance of the failure of different structural elements. The present study includes experimental of the punching behavior of shear reinforced square simply supported flat slabs. The experimental work is constructed tested in the Cairo structures laboratory in the department of civil engineering at the Cairo University. This research goal is investigating some construction alternatives to enhance flat slab strength, ductility, and deformability. The alternatives are: adding different types of punching shear reinforcement, using closed stirrups, open stirrups, and bent bars. The benefits of using punching shear reinforcement are reducing slab thickness, cost, and weight of structure. This study is carried out to investigate the behavior of 12 flat slab specimens having average concrete strength about of 35 MPa subjected to a concentric compressive load. The slab dimensions are the same for all twelve specimens, (1100 x 1100 x 120) mm, with a square column dimensions equal to (150 x 150 x 400) mm at the center of slab. The ratio of flexural reinforcement is 2.22% to ensure obtaining punching failure before flexural failure. During testing, ultimate capacity, steel strain, cracking pattern and deformation are recorded. The experimental results are analyzed and compared against values estimated from different design codes.

The increasing advent of technological innovations in Banking has led to a gradual decrease in quality of service standards. Post the recent amendment of Banking Ombudsmen Scheme in July 2017 by RBI which has included Electronic / Mobile Banking, there has been a considerable increase in the number of complaints received in recent years. Amongst these complaints a major component is related to deteriorating service standards of private banks. When the responses of the Banks are analyzed, their defense ranges from sensitizing the staff to having technical issues in service areas. On deeper inspection of the reality amongst the employees at the branches, several disparities were found. Due to the stiff competition in the Banking sector, there is a greater emphasis on customer acquisition segment rather than on the service segment. Most of the employees need to be out in the field during business hours and only few employees are available in the branches for proper customer servicing. It is high time now that the Banks acknowledge this widening rift between customer expectations and reality, as customers are feeling alienated from the Banks. While the sales aspect cannot be compromised, Banks need to find a balance between efficient acquisition and effective servicing by using Digital Banking and technology in an astute manner. This Paper intends to explore the implementation of important Service Quality models in conjunction with usage of digitalization which can improvise the service standards in Bank branches. An ideal model and methods is suggested by which technology can be amalgamated with service quality to so that customers genuinely feel privileged to be associated with the Bank.

This research aims to provide an alternative design of core house and its development by using GDS-BB principle for Mandailing etnic society in mountainous area. This qualitative research is use the combine methods such as planning, design and brainstorming. An analysis of the characteristics of the findings in the previous study yielded two land alternatives for the proposed GDS-BB home design development. Two types of land are proposed after analyzing each stage of housing development in 24 growing house cases in three villages. The stages of development and construction of each case study house indicated that houses which is grow static but also developing dynamically, even extent of reaching three times the core house. This phenomenon shows that there are two tendency of interest of society to its dwelling, such as simple type (small) and big type. This finding recommends two types of land to be developed into GDS-BB core house and its development, namely 1) land type 1 with measuring 8 x 9 meters called pakarangan and 2) land type 2 with measuring 9 x 13 meters called pakarangan bolak. For one type of land, there are four design alternatives, while two land types have two alternative design of core house and its development. The number of GDS-BB design of core house and its development in each type of land was influenced by the tendency of more modest grown houses (13 samples) compared to the vast growing house (11 samples).

Corrosion of mild steel in HCl was investigated using the weight loss method. The mild steel used was cut into 16 coupons with 5.0 cm x 5.0 cm x 0.2 cm dimensions which were degreased with ethanol and washed with distilled water and finally weighed. The mild steel coupons were exposed to HCl with varied concentrations (0, 10, 25 and 40%) of Garcinia kola extracts used as corrosion inhibitors for 4 hours at 400C and 600C respectively. The result showed that at 400C; the inhibition efficiency of 65.5% was observed at 25 % HCl concentration and 62.9% at 40% HCl concentration while at 600C; inhibition efficiency of 87.7% was at 25% HCl concentration and 88.1% at 40% concentration respectively. It can be concluded that increase in concentration increases the inhibition efficiency. The presence of flavonoid and alkanoids in bitter kola stem is a good inhibitor.

Agriculture activities play significant roles in ensuring that halal food particularly staple food is accessible to consumers when there is a demand to fulfill the consumers’ needs. In relation to this, there is a need for adequate land space to make sure the process of supplying the local halal food products in Malaysia is achievable. In line with this, the abandoned land should be treated efficiently by doing a conversion to become agricultural land as to fulfill the consumers’ needs. This paper aims to examine the Malaysian government efforts in converting abandoned land for the agricultural purposes in order to increase halal food products. This study involves in-text document to gather the information, then it will be analyzed by using content analysis and constant comparative techniques as well. The study has shown that there is a need for widening the practice of benefiting the abandoned land to become the agricultural land since it will reduce the dependability of our country towards the imported halal food products.

This study is to determine the effect of government expenditure in the education, health sector and GDP per capita towards the Gini Ratio of 38 Cities in East Java from 2010 to 2016. Quantitative analysis, explanatory method with panel data. The process of selecting panel data with data normality test through estimating common effect, model parameters, fixed effects or random effects. the selection of the right model using a panel data regressiThe index value of gini districts/cities in East Java is quite volatile,on model that is processed using software e-views 10. The results of the study show;The level of income inequality each district/city has a moderate stage gap. The index value of gini cities in East Java is quite volatile,the highest scores of Madiun City, Malang City, Blitar City, and Pasuruan City.Education spending, health spending, and GDP per capita partially each has a significant positive effect on the Gini ratio City in East Java. Education spending, health spending, and GDP per capita together have a significant positive effect on the Gini ratio of districts/cities in East JavaThe Gini Ratio is one model of approach to economic growth and fair economic. one of them is through the tax and subsidy sector in the population of a region. Education sector spending, health sector spending, goods/services expenditure such as roads, bridges, airports, terminals, ports.Education and health sector expenditure thats the most important thing for increasing economic growth and fair economic equality.

This paper discusses the ineffectiveness of collaboration between stakeholders in the case of disaster management in Pangandaran District, West Java, Indonesia. Disaster management cannot be carried out by a single government unit. Collaboration with other stakeholders is very important so that disasters can be managed more proportionally. Qualitative methods are used in this study by observing, interviewing, and studying relevant documentation. Determination of informants was done purposively as many as thirty-three people selected from eleven stakeholders who were very understanding of the problems in the field. The researcher gathered information regarding collaboration in disaster management in Pangandaran District. The findings in this study indicate that central government and local government must have political will to overcome the ineffectiveness of disaster management collaboration

Nigeria is among the countries that have applied Public-Private Partnership (PPP) in the development and operation of airport passenger terminal buildings. However, research attention has not really been give to indentifying the key success factors for such projects. This study therefore examined the critical success factors (CSFs) for PPP in airport infrastructure provisioning using the Murtala Mohammed Airport terminal (MMA2) building in Lagos airport as a case study. The research was based on documentary analysis and oral interviews with officials in four partner organisations including government agencies and private sector entity involved in this project. Content analysis involving the use of Nvivo 12 was used to analyse the data. It was found that the build-operate-transfer (BOT) concession was the type of PPP used in the project. Totally, 14 CSFs were identified in the study, but the top four were availability of a viable funding structure; transparent procurement process, appropriate risk allocation/sharing and cost recovery. This study implies that for a successful adoption of PPP in the airport the development and operation of passenger terminal buildings, intended partners should give adequate attention to the factors identified in this study

The position paper presents the interconnection between demographic and gender gap dimension in university admission, and the suspected limitations to the success of STEM curricula in Nigeria. The thoughts presented were supported by archivalreview of existing literature and empirical descriptive analysis of university enrolment with respect to STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). The paper was a post-departmental seminar adjusted paper following audience comments. The presentation emphasised the systematic biases in support for higher institution with potential to constrain and weaken the humanities, social sciences and consequently discourage universities (especially the private) from advertising for humanities and social sciences courses. The result of analysis shows that the 4-year cumulative admission (2005-2008) for courses like agriculture, medical science, sciences and engineering was higher than the preceding 4-year (2001-2004) cumulative admission. The opposite was recorded in administration, arts, education and law, that range from 14.7% in 2006 to 18.5% in 2008. The social sciences witnessed 20% and 8.0% admission cut down in 2005 and 2008 respectively. Male/female enrolment gap range from 13.6% to 21.1%. The position is that STEM could be a dependable programme for technological advancement but the persistence gender gap in university enrolment could sustain the existing low economic status of women with possible potential for more socio-economic vices such as high fertility rate, infant and maternal morbidity and mortality, unemployment and poor family wellbeing. The authors recommend intervention programme that could boost women university enrolment in STEM subjects in Nigeria without relegating the humanities and social sciences.

The paper reveals the issue of improving the quality of rock mass crushing in quarries of building materials. The analysis of methods for improving the quality of crushing has been performed. A method to increase the time of impact of explosion products on a mountain massif by changing charge design has been proposed. The method was tested and the results of explosions at the quarry of Leningrad region were presented. The experimental data show: theoretical calculations are consistent with experimental data and have a slight deviation; the parameters of the rock mass disruption allow using wheel loaders in the quarry. Yet, the use of new charge designs enabled improving the quality of crushing, namely, increasing percentage of output of an average piece of conditioned fraction, therefore, optimizing operation of the mining entity as a whole

The climate and land in Southeast Sulawesi that is very supportive in the development of farming commodities and cashew nut becomes one of the huge potentials to be developed. This study analyzed the structure of the cashew nut market which conducted purposively from May to August 2018 in five cashew nut production center in Southeast Sulawesi. The results of the study show that the number of sellers is more than the buyers which show imperfect market competition. The analysis of market valuations shows that the market structure that addresses low competition among traders is very unlikely. At the level of inter-island traders and market structure, wholesalers lead to tight oligopolies that are agreed upon as price agreements can be made, even at the inter-island level of traders leading to a tight oligopoly market. Meanwhile, the market structure of cashew nuts at the level of wholesalers and retailers leads to a dominant corporate market without strong competitors. Market entry challenges indicate that new competitors will have high challenges when entering the cashew market at inter-island traders, Middlemen, wholesalers and retailers. The overall analysis shows that new competitors will get very high challenges at the retailer level with an MES value of 81.38%.

The purpose of this study is analyze the perceived risk in purchase intention ebusiness travel agency risk in Indonesia. In this study the independent variables are financial risk, product risk, social risk, physical risk, psychological risk, time risk dan information security and privacy risk, and the dependent variable is e-business travel agency. This research is a kind of quantitative research. The type of data used is the primary data obtained by distributing questionnaires directly to the Indonesian people. The total population of 17 million people and the number of samples in this study 400 people are respondents using simple random sampling technique. Statistical analysis used in this research is multiple regression analysis. The result show that product risk and information security and privacy risk significantly affect e-business travel agency. On the other hand, financial risk, social risk, physical risk, psychological risk, time risk do not significantly affect e-business travel agency

The efficacy of coconut Shell nanoparticle (CS-NPs) in any application either as activated carbon, filler, or reinforcement depend absolutely on if the particle is in the form of macro-, micro-, and nano- particles. It has been established by various authors that investigated the effect of milling on particles size that reductions in particle size improve mechanical properties, absorption rate, and morphological characteristics. Coconut Shell nanoparticles (CS-NPs) has been studied using Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Energy Dispersive X-ray (EDX), and X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) analyses. The SEM magnifications were taking at 1.00kx which gives 50 µm at varying milling time of 0, 20, 40 and 60 Mins. A digitalized mechanical vibratory disc milling machine was used for the grinding of the Coconut Shell. In this study, processing of SEM images has been carried out using ImageJ software by the method of thresholding segmentation. The processing was carried out to determine the foreground from a background of the CS-NPs, this enhanced visual perception and a better understanding of the Images at the same time high resolutions and better quality of the final result of the analysis were achieved. It was revealed that at 0 minutes which has been taken as 75 µm sieved, the highest values for the mean particle area was found to be 16.105 µm2 and its area standard deviation at that point was found to be 200.738 µm2which gives the least value for a number of particle size distribution as 809 µm. However, 60 minutes milling time was noted to have the least mean particle area with area standard deviation value of 8.945 µm2 and the highest value for the number of particle size was recorded at the point to be 2032 µm. In overall, milling time is directly proportional to the increasing number of particle size distribution and inversely proportional to the area of particle size.

The benefits of job satisfaction on organizational performance and survival cannot be ignored, particularly in a people centered industry like construction. Middle management level employees play a critical role in translating organizational strategy and managing lower level operatives. It is middle management staffs that will eventually grow and replace the aging senior management level staff. Nurturing middle level management employee will include motivating them with financial and non-financial incentives. In this paper, factors affecting job satisfaction of middle management level professionals in the construction industry was assessed. The opinions of 65 middle management level employees were elicited with the use of questionnaires distributed to Architects, Builders, Civil Engineers and Quantity Surveyors in Delta State, Nigeria. The major factors affecting job satisfaction of the respondents surveyed were salary, job security and prospects for career development. There was a general agreement of the factors affecting job satisfaction by the respondents that partook in the study. The factors with the least effect on job satisfaction were age and gender.

The objective of this article is to determine the relevance of sustainable innovation on the business environment in Nigeria. The research focused on the top management to find out about the benefits of innovation to the relevance of the company over the past century. Feedback from a few of their final customers was taken in order to review sales and customer-product loyalty. Then, we conducted a series of multiple regression models using the data we obtained. Overall, it’s interesting to note that the rate of increase in profit due to sustainability rose by 23% and 37% But perhaps most important: Averagely about 50% of businesses have improved on their corporate models due to sustainability in managing opportunities hence the effect of 20% increase above that of the previous and also majority of the respondents believe that the marketing strategies of P and G are very effective. This study will serve as a practical tool to investors and shareholder of organizations as they work towards increasing their worth in their organization. This article delivers valued input in advancing knowledge in expounding relevance of sustainable innovation on the business environment using Procter and Gamble Nig. PLC as a case study, also recognising the measurable impact positively and otherwise of these dimensions of innovative involvements.

This paper presents a synoptic survey on water demand estimation and the literature review on provisioning services and cultural services that is applicable for Kenyir Lake, Terengganu, Malaysia. A good water demand method serve as one of the principal role in planning, operation and management of water supply system of an area. The water demand methods consider geography of the region, weather and community characteristics. Identification of ecosystem services namely provisioning services and cultural services in relation to ecosystem of Kenyir Lake clarify the contribution of those services in economy. This paper concludes that applicable water demand estimation for Kenyir Lake is micro-component analysis method. Meanwhile for the provisioning service is aquaculture and the cultural services are recreation, ecotourism and cultural heritage have been analysed from ecosystem of Kenyir Lake.

Social network analysis is a method of big data analysis which reveals the nature of connections between objects, including implicit connections. This is a tool of interest since it can be applied to large data sets, manual processing of which is very laborintensive, while automated processing through self-learning linguistic engines requires a lot of resources. In this regard a study was carried out: it was aimed at development and testing of social network analysis tools and creating a research algorithm which is applicable to solve a wide range of analytical and search tasks. The current image of Russia and its activities in the Arctic was chosen as a case. The research algorithm helps to discover implicit patterns and trends, relate information flows and events with relevant newsworthy events and news stories to form a “clear” view of the study object and key actors which this object is associated with. The work contributes to filling the gap in scientific literature, caused by insufficient development of applied issues of using social network analysis to solve managerial tasks, while theoretical papers, which describe the theory and methodology of such an analysis, are abundant.

There are a number of intelligences that humans’ are expected to possess in order to maximise life on the earth. These intelligences include spiritual, mental, physical, social and financial. Whereas all the different intelligences are important determinants of wellbeing, financial intelligence (FI) is pivotal for individual/family prosperity. Unfortunately, the configuration of Nigeria education curriculum at all levels does not include financial intelligence. This lacuna in the educational system has been reckoned to have contributed to the ever increasing rate of poverty in Nigeria. This paper theoretically discussed financial intelligence as a panacea to winning the war against poverty in Nigeria. The discussion covered an overview of the laws of financial intelligence, personal financial statement, the psychology of wealth creation and sources of passive income as well as the process of financial freedom among others. The paper concludes that if financial intelligence is embraced at the same level with other intelligence, the incidence of poverty in Nigeria will plummet significantly.

This study was examined and analyzed the factors that influence the success of risk management implementation in the local government. Risk management implementation can reduce fraud in the North Sumatra provincial government. Risk management is not an option but a necessity in public sector organizations especially local governments. The government is expected to make large investments to implement risk management. The population in this study were all internal auditors and budget users in Sumatera Utara Province. This study used all population as samples. Data were collected by questionnaire. Data were analyzed using the Structure Equation Model using the PLS application. The results of this study indicate that Management commitment, quality of human resources and conflicts of interest influence the successful implementation of risk management in local governments. The top managements did not commit to implementing risk management because of their lack of understanding of the benefits of risk management. There is a tendency for top management to avoid implementing risk management. This can be attributed to the facts nowadays, precisely top management who make fraud.The higher conflict of interest in local government is also a barrier to the successful implementation of risk management. There is a tendency for the executive and the legislature to have different interests with the of the local government objectives, so that the existence of risk management will actually hinder their goals. In addition, human resources in local government have low understanding risk management at all, so as internal auditors. If the expected internal auditor who will supervise units in local government does not understand risk management, how can they be expected to help organizational units to implement risk management? Based on the results of the interview, the regional government hopes that there will be cooperation between the regional government and the Educational Institution to conduct research on the right strategies in implementing risk management. So far the strategy has been applied specifically to banking and financial companies and there is nothing specifically applied to the public sector, especially the regional government

It is known that one of the major negative impacts of the corrosion of steel structures is the reduction in geometry. The calculations of the load-bearing capacity of the steel elements depend on the geometric characteristics. The theory confirms that if the geometric characteristics decrease, the load-bearing capacity of the steel elements will also decrease. We conducted an experiment using the S355JR construction steel to determine how the geometry changes. We used electro-chemical accelerated corrosion on which our steel test samples were subjected. We interrupted the electrochemical corrosion process at some point in order to make the necessary measurements regarding the change in geometric characteristics of the test samples. Once we received the experimental data, we processed them using the stochastic method. We also performed theoretical calculations using classical theory and determined the theoretical load-ability (force, bending moment) of our test samples. We have come to the conclusion that the change in geometric characteristics is nonlinear and results in a slight decrease in the corrosion of the steel elements, but significantly reduces the theoretical ultimate load-capacity due to corrosion and the corresponding decrease in geometric characteristics.

This study aims to analyze the hydrological characteristics as a result of changes in land use with the help of the SWAT hydrological model and can provide recommendations on the best land use in the Koto Panjang Electric Power catchment area. Based on the results of the analysis using the SWAT hydrological model, it was seen that there were effects of land use changes in 2011 and 2014 on hydrological characteristics; yield of water (WATER YLD) of 2,413.38 mm, and 1.008, 65 mm, runoff coefficient (C) of 0.19 and 0.063 respectively, and river regime coefficient (KRS) of 11.449 and 12.212, respectively. The best land use to be developed in agricultural cultivation areas as a recommendation to maintain water stability in the Koto Panjang hydropower catchment area is a simple and complex agroforestry pattern in scenario III, which is run together with hydrological characteristics in the form; water yield (WATER YLD) of 1.038, 41, surface runoff coefficient (C) of 0.023, and river regime coefficient (KRS) of 11.13. The hydrological characteristics in scenario III are far better than 2014 land use characteristics (existing).

This research is to analyses hydraulic parameters of the spillway design for WADI HORAN Dam. The spillway design of type Ogee overflow and the design based on Water Experiment Station (W.E.S) of the U.S. Corp of Engineers. The inflow are routed in order to decrease the maximum discharge passing on the spillway. The maximum discharge passing are 1400 m 3 /sec with maximum head over the crest equal to 3.4 m and 50 m 3 /sec Attenuation and 2 hrs Reservoir Lag. Froude number is determined in order to select the type of stilling basin, the Froude number equal to 5 that can choose type II stilling Basin. The method used for routing is Inflow- Storage Discharge ( I.S.D.) The profile of the downstream and upstream are calculated

Zakat, as one of the instruments in poverty reduction, requires good management to give contribution to the people transforming from poverty to prosperity. Therefore, Zakat Institution should increase the acquisition of zakat in an effective way and, of course, under Sharia manner by improving loyalty of muzakki through Islamic work ethic. The author take a research entitled "The Effect of Islamic Work Ethics Implementation on Muzakki Loyalty on Zakat Institutions in Surabaya". It takes the theory of Cultivating Isamic Work Ethics developed by Tasmara (2002) as its reference and uses shiddiq, amanah, tabligh, and fatonah as indicators. Furthermore, the theory of Consumer Loyality refers to the theory developed by Alma (2000) using repurchase, recommendations, and increasing the proportion of sales as indicators. This study aims to see the effect of the implementation of Islamic work ethic on muzakkis loyalty. this study predicts that Islamic work ethic may bring a significant effect on muzakkis loyalty to zakat institutions in Surabaya. This research is quantitative research. Data collection was carried out with surveys through questionnaires. The results showed that the Islamic work ethic had a significant effect on muzakki loyalty

In future one will continue to construct buildings interesting rather than monotonous, however this has to be done at the cost of poor performance of buildings. The braced system will give more flexibility in architectural design and it is structurally more efficient compared to other normal framing systems and lateral load resisting systems like shear wall, core wall systems, and tubular framing system and outrigger structural systems. In this study the behaviour of the high rise steel structure with and without braces and different type of braces like X-type, A-type, V-type and single diagonal type brace are studied by comparing results of different models. Dynamic Analysis by response spectrum is carried out using ETABS 2016. The results are discussed through various parameters like displacement, storey drift, storey stiffness etc

In the present paper, physicochemical studies of camel milk (bottled) were analyzed and studied their effect on viscosity and conductivity. Milk samples were characterized by chemical analyzes such as content of fat, dry matter, protein content, lactose and titrable acidity. All milk samples were collected from local markets and used same day for physical and chemical studies. The pH of all samples lies in the range of 6.72 ± 0.01 – 6.81 ± 0.01 and determined by Scichem Tech pH meter. Viscosity was determined by using Ostwald viscometer and found in range from 1.765±0.01 to 1.785±0.01 at 25°C. Viscosity of camel milk was clearly/significantly depended on content of fat, proteins and dry matter. No major change found in surface tension which was determined by number drops method using stalagamometer. Surface tension of milk samples ranges from 58.35 dynes /cm to 58.37 dynes/cm. The mean electrical conductivity was 6.10 mmho and is affected by concentration of ions present in milk. Generally, in milk about 60 to 80% of the current carried by Na+ , K+ and Cl- . Titrable acidity of camel milk also affect its electrical conductivity.

The main objective of researches is studying of ventilation flow path on longwall panel taking into account influence various geological and mining factors. The results of computational fluid dynamics study with use of three-dimensional models of longwall panel are presented in the paper. As the result of numerical analysis recommendations about ensuring effective ventilation in initial the period of longwall mining until the first collapse of the main roof are made. The novelty of the received results consists in establishment of influence of the broken-down rock in the goaf on the ventilation flow path and efficiency of ventilation of a longwall face

The numerical analysis of the stress-strain state of the rock massif at different location the longwall erection of recovery rooms are executed. Need of accounting of value of periodic roof weighting is shown. As the pacing factors having the impact on the value of periodic roof weighting durability and power of the main roof and speed of advance of the longwall face are specified. The possibility of use of MARCO electro-hydraulic control equipment systems for exact determination of periodic roof weighting is shown. The recovery rooms erection technology providing decrease span of time and costs of moving of the longwall equipment is offered.

This paper, basing on analytical review of the disasters and incidents related to explosions of dust/methane/air mixtures in mine working space, assumes that it is possible to improve the current explosion protection system of coal mines. The activities of the dust control mode, aimed at preventing formation of coal aerosols and their mixtures with methane, have been analyzed. The advantages and disadvantages of the current explosion protection systems have been considered from a critical point of view, and particular attention has been paid to application of inert (shale) dust for the purposes of explosion suppression. The experimental part of the paper contains the results of studying the effects of different concentrations of inert dust on the hazardous explosion factors of dust/methane/air mixtures. Above all, these factors are excessive explosion pressure and pressure rise rate at explosion. These parameters were determined via the methodology developed by the author, in a 20-litre sphere (explosion chamber). As a sample of coal dust, coal of D grade (long-flame) dispersed up to 63-94 micrometer fraction, was used. On the basis of the obtained results, an assumption was made that it is expedient and feasible to reduce the concentration of inert dust via adding to the inert dust composition of the inhibitors of the coal dust detonation combustion processes

The article is devoted to issues of designing, developing and implementing projectoriented spatial data infrastructures (SDI), which form the information space for solving urgent problems in the field of economics, ecology, social sphere, preparing project documentation, forecasting natural processes. The article proposes a platform solution architecture for building a SDI, summarized in a structural-component scheme, and based on the hypothesis that in order to optimize the storage and practical use of spatial data, a design-oriented SDI should contain weakly linked and strongly related spatial data storage subsystems, modules for analysis and synthesis, visualization and distribution of spatial data in the form of geoportal systems

Malaysia is a developing country with a valid comprehensive health care infrastructure. Hospital as one of the vital public infrastructure is a complex building with unique engineering system and high-end medical equipment that provides clinical services to the public and can be described as a critical building due to continuous demand in treating patients throughout the years. However, the cost to sustain the engineering system, high-end equipment and other special requirements are rapidly expanded. Thus, this paper will present the development and implementation of sustainable energy management programme in Hospital Langkawi as part of the main elements in achieving sustainable infrastructure. The strategy for the implementation of sustainable energy programme will be introduced to improve energy usage and energy initiatives will be promoted to achieve the set target which in line with the government commitment to reduce carbon emission by 40% in 2020 compared to 2005 level of the emission intensity of gross domestic product

This paper reports a study into the motion of water in a gradually pivoting barrelshaped bowl using a Discretization method. The solutions were performed in a cylindrical basin with a radius equal to 1 m and water level inside the basin at 0.5 m from the bottom of the cylinder. The cylinder was coated with a uniform grid of cubic grid size and a time step of sec. Coriolis parameter f effects on both the free surface elevation and velocity components in the three dimensions were evaluated. The results of this study revealed that the free liquid surface assumed a parabolic shape that could be attributed to the balance between the centrifugal and gravitational forces. Also, it was found that both water surface elevation and velocity components decreased with a Coriolis parameter decrease. The results obtained from this study agree with those obtained using the classical finite element method. Results from such an investigation may have useful applications in oceanographic studies

The aim of research is to develop methodical base for complex analytical and optimization models of the innovation development management regarding the sectors of national economy taking into account their compliance with technological progress and resource potential. In order to construct the models of sectoral innovation development, we propose to observe structural models. They demonstrate the structure of the system, which is the subject of the survey, its internal parameters, features of external fluctuations. The main terms, which make possible evaluation the innovation development level of the national economic sectors were studies. The proposed conceptual foundations of innovation processes evaluation at the sectoral level are based on the fact that tasks for the innovation development management are combinatory, and its complexity is growing when projects’ number is increasing or when planning horizon is extended. The improved multiplicative dynamic model of Tinbergen-Solow production function through the technological progress parameter is presented

Ten open pollinated low nitrogen tolerance maize genotypes were tested using a randomize complete block design at Landmark University Teaching and Research farm in 2016 to 2017 cropping season to estimate the genetic variance, heritability, and expected genetic advance of 12 maize population for grain yield and its component characters. The 10 low N maize populations and 2 checks were evaluated under two different nitrogen regimes 90kg and 30kg of N/ha classified as high N and low N respectively. The study revealed lower phenotypic variances (s2p) and PCVs relative to genetic variances (s2g) and GCVs for all the studied characters, suggesting the low influence of environmental factors in the expression of these characters. High degree of genotypic coefficient and phenotypic coefficient of variance, heritability and genetic advance were recorded for grain yield, anthesis silk interval, husk cover, plant height, ear height, plant aspect, days to silking and days to pollen shed. This result suggests that the parameters tested were under the control of additive gene action; and that standard selection protocol may therefore be well appropriate for the improvement of these characters. Moreover, selection of these traits with high degrees of heritability base are predicted to be reliable across different environment in the tropics Lowest value of interval between days to anthesis and silk (ASI) was obtained by BR 9928-DMRSR LN C1. This maize genotypes is a better candidate for the future maize improvement programmes in quest for the development of drought tolerance maize variety in the tropic. Highest maize grain yield were recorded by varieties TZLCOM1C6LNC I (6.19 t/ha) and Sint Marzocalarga (5.26 t/ha) under high N and low N respectively. These two maize genotypes can therefore be suggested for the future maize grain yield improvement programmes in the tropic

Road transportation has amplified over the years with the improvement in connectivity between cities, towns and villages. As on 2016, India has the second largest road network across the world with a total road-length of 5.603 million km, just behind The United States of America (6.722 million km). In order to preserve and rehabilitate this vast road network in a desired condition, a robust network management strategy is essential. This strategy should make use of pavement and traffic data to decide the type of treatment to be provided on a pavement section and is widely known as Road Asset Management System (RAMS). RAMS is a relatively new concept and is widely accepted and put to use by road agencies in developed countries, where it is now also a mandatory requirement. In developing countries like India, however it is in the process of being introduced, but slowly. Introduction of RAMS in developing countries presents unique challenges which are needed to be addressed along with possible approaches to resolve the same. RAMS is not a part of the undergraduate civil engineering curriculum in the universities and technical institutes of these countrieswith some exceptions that too at postgraduate level. One of the reasons for the same is that the field of RAMS involves not only civil engineering, but also several diverse disciplines such as Information Technology (for Programming and Database Management System), Geographic Information System (GIS), Mathematical Modelling etc. This paper describes the concepts and components of a modern Road Asset Management System (RAMS) and its use and application by road agencies. The various challenges along with the solutions in implementing RAMS in countries like India have been discussed in details. The authors have covered various dimensions of the multidisciplinary aspects of RAMS, which is bound to be an essential component of road agencies in India, sooner or later.

Background: Research regarding e-learning has shown mostly positive results among nurses with benefits like flexibility to learner and repetition whenever desired. In fact, e-learning can replace classroom training, as instructor centered falls prey to the challenges of scheduling a place and time to conduct the class and is more expensive to deliver overall. In critical care settings, the working professionals can’t spare much time for furthering their class room training. Current trend in asynchronous learning is through M-Learning. In India, we have rules for renewal of nursing licenses differing from state to state, minimum of 30 hours per year to 75 hours per year. This prompted us to study the utilization of M-Learning as a mode of content delivery and conducting monitored assessment among Critical care nurses. Aim: To study the effectiveness of teaching on mobile based platforms versus regular classrooms. Methodology: 335 nurses from Intensive Care Units who owned smartphones were included as sample. Connectivity on a mobile platform, was using their personal network, as data is available at comfortable price. As a pilot study, “hand hygiene” related topic, was circulated among them through Whatsapp, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube. A post-training questionnaire was circulated to understand their experience and perception. Results: Of the 335 nurses participated in the study, 89% were females, 11% were males, between 18 to 40 years. 159 spend between 1-3 hours in a day on mobile, whereas 50 people spend less than 1 hour in day. 87% of the participants showed positive Behavior intention towards using devices for learning. We can reduce on-the job training costs for critical care nurses.

The article presents a comparative analysis of the fundamental neuroevolutional methods, which are widely applied for the intellectualization of the decision making support systems under uncertainty. Based on this analysis the new neuroevolutionary method is introduced. It is intended to modify both the topology and the parameters of the neural network, and not to impose additional constraints on the individual. The results of the experimental evaluation of the performance of the methods based on the series of benchmark tasks of adaptive control, classification and restoration of damaged data are carried out. As criteria of the methods evaluation the number of failures and the total number of evolution epochs are used.

Every industry should have a good emergency response procedure to prevent incidents such as gas leaks from turning into major accidents. The early warning of a leak is very important and implementation of gas detection systems is a part of preventive safety measures to reduce the risk caused by hazardous gas leaks to the workers, assets and the environment. The installation of a gas detection system at certain locations is one of the essential solutions to avoid leaks causing major accidents. The main function of gas detection is to detect the presence of hazardous gases (flammable, toxic or asphyxiant gas). Malaysia’s industry has low awareness and regulations to implement gas detection system to prevent gas leaks and explosions. There are many gas leak accidents in Malaysia, either recorded or not recorded in the Department of Occupational Safety (DOSH). However, it still considered that gas leaks accidents in the industry are very rare if, fortunately, they do not yet happen. In this study, it is therefore intended to examine the level of awareness of the implementation of the hazardous gas detection system for major industries in Malaysia in order to minimize the risk. To accomplish the goals, the objectives are set to analyze the overview of hazardous gas detection system implementation in major industries in Malaysia, to investigate the level of awareness of potential exposure to hazardous gases, to evaluate the acceptance of gas detection system maintenance as means of regular inspection for continuously improving workplace safety. The data gathered was analyzed using comparative analysis of the frequency. It was examined the level of awareness within the selected major industries on the implementation hazardous gas detection system as a preventive control. Concurrently, the survey also explored the awareness of regular inspection, maintenance of existing gas detection system installed as typically it is exposed to harshest conditions for example oil, dust, extreme weather and debris

Malaysia experiences predictable tides year round. Areas with the greatest potential are Terengganu and Sarawak waters with average annual power generation between 2.8kW/m to 8.6kW/m. This condition gives excellent opportunity to explore power generation using tidal energy converters by utilization of stand-alone marine facilities such as breakwater with the tidal stream energy. The tidal energy converter is a device that converts the energy in a flow of fluid into mechanical energy by passing the stream through a system of fixed and moving fan like blades. The power output is dependent on its design characteristics, which covers the turbine specification and the met-ocean environmental condition. Hence, this paper focused on the conceptual design of the integrated marine turbine mounted on wave breakwater known as WABCORE. The proposed marine turbine was installed in the breakwater and the generated energy was estimated based on the performance analysis through Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and ANSYS Fluent Computational Fluid Dynamics (Fluent CFD) simulations. It was found that a maximum power output of 30 Watts could be generated by horizontal-axis axial-flow marine turbine with excellent venturi-effect of piping design that provided significant contribution on power generation

This research aims to investigate; strength characteristics of artificial granular material for soft soil cement stabilization, design parameters of artificial granular column elements encased geogrid, and bearing capacity of artificial granular column soft soil reinforcement models. Artificial granular material consisting of triangular prisms, cubes and hexagon prisms of the same volume, made from cement stabilized soft soil using the trial mix method to represent strength equivalent design criteria of road sub-base layer. Artificial granular column elements test and soft soil reinforcement models test with geogrid-made granular column systems were carried out in each shape variation. Based on design criteria CBR value=20% for road subbase layer, then cement stabilization is set at 12.5% which corresponded to the value of qu=400 kN/m2 with cement water ratio w/c of 1.9. Sub-grade modulus column elements in various granular forms E=1.58-2.67 kN/m2 with poisson ? =0.29-0.33, granular hexagon prism shows higher capacity performance and design parameters. Soft soil reinforcement model with artificial granular columns-geogrid is significance improving bearing capacity of soft soil foundation systems with an increase ratio of 28.5-33; the granular hexagon prism shows capacity performance and design parameters higher than other granular types.

When a fire occurs in high-rise and super-high-rise buildings in Hanoi city, it will take a long time to organize fire fighting and rescue activities for victims; for example, the case of officers and soldiers injured in performing their duties due to insufficient preparation of vehicles, as well as not deploying proper fire fighting tactics ... Therefore the leader should take the initiative right from when receiving information on the occuring fire and characteristics of fire and location as well as the deployment of activities contributed to improve the efficiency

Inspiration has for some time been recognized as one of the fundamental components influencing English dialect learning (Gardner, 1985). This investigation analyzed the sort and dimension of English dialect learning Inspiration (instrumental or integrative) of 104 understudies from Department of training and English Department at a Lebanese French University in Erbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq. A changed Inspirational overview of 20 things adjusted from Gardners Attitude/Inspiration Test Battery (AMTB) was directed. The information were broke down by methods for recurrence, rate, math mean and standard deviation. The primary discoveries demonstrate that the understudies are moderately "exceedingly" inspired and observed to be marginally more "instrumentally" roused to learn English. This uncovers instrumental Inspiration is a noteworthy factor among this gathering of understudies learning English. In view of this current investigations discoveries, some applicable and helpful Inspirational learning suggestions are prescribed for upgrade and enhancement of the understudies Inspiration. Important dialect enhancement projects and exercises are additionally talked about as per the understudies dialect troubles as imparted in the open-finished inquiries to expand their Inspiration in English dialect learning

This article aims to develop a Web-GIS based flood early warning system (EWS) for urban areas in Jakarta based on the overflow from Krukut River, where, in recent years, the flood has caused the great losses of lives and properties. There is a method for combining the real time data (water level, depth, flow distribution, velocity) with the digital data. These maps were used and were applied with the Fuzzy Logic to produce the flood early warning system maps. After model validation, the Fuzzy Logic method is used for finding the best fitting and classifying the alert level. The water level analysis (1999–2018) revealed the highest water level in 2014 that is 2.65 m and it could initiate the flood in aroundof the Krukut River areas. Later, the hydraulic simulation based on the water level to produce the inundation area (depth, flow distribution, velocity, and time) and then to combine with the digital data and alert level in accordance with the conditions of the study areaby using the Fuzzy Logic. Each inundation areas were associated with a hazard class (no warning vs. warning state) based on the assumption that the higher susceptibility will cuase the the lower rainfall. Finally, the EWS was developed by using the various libraries and frameworks that are connected with a reliable online-based water level application programming interface. The method in this system is publicly available, dynamic, and replicable. The proposed EWS is novel and the first of its kind in Jakarta is especially used for the Krukut River, and can be applied to mitigate the flood disaster risks.

Expansive soil causing problems due to its swelling and shrinkage characteristics. Expansive soils are a worldwide problem that poses several challenges for civil Engineers. Various methods are adapted to improve the engineering characteristics of expansive. Literature is available on adding and mixing the fiber into the soil as this technique has been incorporated since ancient times. Cement created in the ignition of sub bituminous coals shows self-cementing characteristics and can be utilized as a part of an extensive variety of application. In this paper the main focused on increasing the Compressive strength and CBR value of the Black Cotton soil by varying the percentage of Polypropylene fibre in the range of 0.5%, 1.0%, 1.5%, and the Cement is varied as 2%, 4%, 6%, 8% 10%, 12% & 14% by weight of soil mass

Flood Forecasting is a complex procedure because of its uncertainty nature. This problem can be solved by using machine learning techniques. Also short term forecasting with higher accuracy is critical at peak values. Hence, in the current study, using Extreme Gradient Boosting, a rainfall - runoff model has been demonstrated for Kolar Basin, Madhya Pradesh, India. Hourly data of Rainfall and Discharge from 1987-1989 were collected and used for forecasting floods for one to 5 hours ahead. Performance of the model is evaluated using four metrics: Nash Sutcliffe efficiency (NS), Percentage Bias (PBIAS), Root Mean Square Error (RMSE), Coefficient of determination (R2). From the values of the above measures the proposed method has been compared with the Random Forest Model and Support Vector Machine, in which the proposed method shows high accuracy when compared to the existing methods of short-term flood forecasting. The results of this study ensures that Extreme Gradient Boosting method outperforms the Random Forest and Support Vector Machine in terms of Accuracy

Stone mastic asphalt is a gap graded asphalt mixture used in heavily trafficked highways due to its high resistance to rutting. However, stone mastic asphalt has some shortcomings such as more susceptible to moisture damage compared to other types hot mix asphalt and excessive and unstable binder content which leads to rutting when heavy loads are applied at high ambient temperatures. One of the ways to improve the performance of stone mastic asphalt is to modify the bitumen using nanosilica, which has strong absorption, large surface area and excellent stability. The objective of this study is to investigate the use of nanosilica as a bitumen modifier to improve the moisture susceptibility, stiffness and rutting resistance of stone mastic asphalt mixtures. Bitumen PEN 60/70 was modified with nanosilica at 2% by weight of bitumen. The performance of the stone mastic asphalt specimens were then evaluated in terms of its moisture susceptibility, stiffness and rutting resistance. The results obtained from the testing showed that the addition of nanosilica increased the resilient modulus value and reduced the rutting depth of stone mastic asphalt mixes, while achieving the required moisture resistance. It can be concluded that the addition of nanosilica in the bitumen improved the performance of stone mastic asphalt mixtures.

Day by day, the Concrete consumption is increasing world over. Ever increasing cost of Cement, the main ingredient of concrete, is on one side and depletion of natural resources like Lime Stone (to manufacture Cement), Coarse and fine Aggregates on other side over the Globe is compelling to think for alternatives.. Added to this, undesirable scenario of ever increasing emission of Green house gases like Carbon Dioxide (CO2) due to production of Ordinary Portland Cement OPC) is resulting in to an alarming state of Global Warming; every one Ton of Cement Production generates one Ton of CO2. Further, in the production of Thermal Power, Tons and Tons of Coal is Burnt leading to a bi-product called Fly Ash whose disposal has become a gigantic problem world over. It is in this context, the present experimental investigation is aimed to dispose the industrial wastes like Fly Ash and Ground Granulated Blast Furness Slag (GGBS) to some extent and to reduce the emission of CO2 by consuming less OPC in manufacturing of Concrete meant for Building Construction and other Infrastructure Projects and Developmental Works. Experiments conducted on concrete made with 60% OPC + 40%mineral admixtures + 0.5% or 1% Fibers with 3 combinations: ? 60% OPC + 20% FA + 20% GGBS ? 60% OPC + 20% FA + 20% Metakaoline ? 60% OPC + 20% Metakaoline + 20% GGBS However, the maximum compressive strength and split tensile strength of concrete at 28 days is observed for the mix with OPC replaced by mineral admixtures 20% Fly ash + 20% GGBS @1.0% glass fibers as 9 % and 33% respectively. Replacement shall result about 20 to 25% economy in production of Concrete and retard the rate of global warming as well as the depletion of natural resources

Introduction: Swarna river is one of the major sources of water for Udupi district, Karnataka State. Trace elements present in water gives valuable data about the quality and origin of water and remedial actions that need to be taken if there is any deficiency or excess of elements present in water, as it impacts both the general health and dental health of the populations using the water. It is known that the quality of water affects the development of the skeletal and dental hard tissues in the populations. There was no recent reports related to trace elements present in Swarna river and hence a trace element analysis of the river water during pre-monsoon and monsoon was planned to get a fair assessment of the quality of waterObjectives: 1. To assess the concentrations of trace elements in the groundwater sources along the course of Swarna river in Udupi district 2. To assess the effect of monsoon on the concentrations of trace elements in Swarna river water in Udupi district. Methods: The water sample collection was done during two different periods to assess the effect of monsoon on trace elements concentration. These periods include Pre monsoon and Monsoon. A total of 30 sampling points were identified according to the river flow. Trace metal analysis was carried out using 797 VA Computrace (Version 1.3.1.84) which is a modern voltammetric measuring stand Results: The color, odor, turbidity and temperature of collected samples across the two seasons was assessed and tabulated. Conclusion: The ground water in Swarna river basin was found acceptable for human consumption with various trace elements within reasonable limits in maximum sampled sites in the pre monsoon season. But excessive lead contamination was seen at all the sampled sites in the monsoon phase, the reason for which needs to be ascertained with further focused studies

This article presents a novel algorithm for the Relational Chain Sampling Inspection in order to value the quality of the products from the production environment. It is obvious that whenever the items are expensive or destructive, the customers hope for quality items. The qualities control practitioners’ give importance on zero defective products in such production environment. The Operating Characteristics curve of zero plans has poorly differentiate the bad lots from a good one. Hence, the design of Chain Sampling Plans has been suggested by Prof Dodge in 1955. In this work, Relational Chain Sampling Plans are designed and developed by indexing through Average Outgoing Quality Limit (AOQL) which is the maximum outgoing quality of the lots after the inspection. This Relational Chain Sampling Plans are also designed through minimum angle method. The procedure for designing RChSP (0, i) is specified and indexed through standard quality levels. The experimental results assist the practitioners in the quality control process to choose and implement the RChSP (0, i). This work is experimented by simulating the samples in the MATLAB program

Soil salinization is one of the most important indicators of soil degradation. This work, conducted in the Senegal River delta (southwestern Mauritania), assesses the effects of salinity on soil quality.Les analyses de la variation spatiale de la salinité, et les cartes de conductivité électrique effectuées et développées à laide dune méthode dinterpolation et danalyse spatiale tel que : Pondération Inverse à Distance (PID/IDW). The results show that the values of the remote inverse weighting (PID / IDW) in areas south and north of the delta higher than 17 so these areas are characterized by a high electrical conductivity (63.95mmohs / cm), and shows that the PID values in the center of the study area are <5 therefore characterized by a reliable electrical conductivity (0.289mmohs / cm) compared to other territories. It should be noted that the appearance of certain points, weak conductivities, dispersed in these zones, can be related to the structure of the soil.Comparing the results of this work with those of other studies, we note (Emadi and Baghernejad 2014, Karydas et al., 2009 and Poshtmasari et al., 2012) that PID (IDW) is a good predict conductivity. The results obtained showed that the best estimator is the PID method, which offers a good ability to predict electrical conductivity, with a Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) of 0.339 mmohs / cm and a correlation coefficient ( R2) of 0.9.

The paper is devoted to the development of the Altai Territory (the Russian Federation) as a border region with the involvement of production potential and capabilities of the neighboring region – East Kazakhstan Region (the Republic of Kazakhstan). The authors performed a SWOT analysis of the regions as a "crossborder growth pole". The study also examines the development of a border region in the context of the theory of integration and clustering. The authors suggest an algorithm for creating a local development axis in the territory of a border region. Agricultural engineering is presented as the main branch of cooperation between the Altai Territory and the East Kazakhstan Region. Moreover, the paper examines the form of enterprise management within the local development axis and the effect of these enterprises functioning

Economic relations in the modern world are especially important. This dictates the importance of linguistics and its rules: the need for the translation of economic terminology. The study is caused by difficulties in the translation of terms in the texts of economic subjects. The relevance of the study is to increase the importance ofeconomic terms and their translations into Russian in the context of the country integration into the world economic community. The aim of the study is – the study of the structure, the semantics and the translation of English economic terms in the Russian language. The subject of the research is economic terms, their manifestation, peculiarities of translation as a means of intercultural communication. The analysis of numerous lexicographical sources and the study of works on economic topics, makes it possible to identify the stages of formation and development of economic terminology. The structure of economic terminology includes terms from the following layers of Turkology: General Altai, General Turkic. The presence of these layers indicates the antiquity of the formation of economic terminology. Until October 1917, Arabic-Persian borrowings were actively functioning in the Tatar language. After the October revolution, Arabic-Persian borrowings were ousted from the vocabulary of the Tatar language. This period is characterized by an active growth of Russian-European borrowing. It was during this period, the rise of AngloAmericanisms. Based on the above, in the development of economic terminology, borrowing plays a leading role.

The paper discusses the impact of digital technologies and professional competencies of specialists and workers in the agricultural industry to increase production efficiency. The study highlights a group of factors to the greatest extent influencing the formation of human capital in a digital economy. The authors found that these elements create the need to focus efforts on the transition to a new scientific and technological structure in which the use of digital technology is an integral part of people daily lives

With the development of international relations regarding the status of the Arctic and the whole Arctic Region, it is becoming apparent that Arctic territories are among the most important strategic areas in the global politics. Economic and political interests along with cooperation in the field of science and technology and implementation of logistic projects remain priority orientations for the development. Development of the Northern Sea Route as the main transport logistics network is impossible without determination of its legal status and resolving the issues related to the lack of unified and structured legal environment that could regulate maritime traffic, particularly one in the high latitudes. Studying national and international rules of law allows for the conclusion that the Russian state maritime policy is generally similar to the legal framework established in other Arctic countries, which main strategic aim lies in identifying tasks and ways of fulfilling their national interests. At the same time, the study revealed a number of legal problems, which are to be resolved by means of scientific cooperation and more active exploitation of resources provided by the Arctic Council, the Barents Euro-Arctic Council and its Working Group for the Northern Sea Route, as well as by the Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy, the Arctic Initiative and the Northern Dimension.

One important factor in the urban areas is the selection of suitable excavation method which has a significant effect on the stability of the structures surrounding the tunnel during excavation, surface settlement induced by excavation and long-term stability of the excavated space (subway station).In this paper, considering the geotechnical properties of the ground and geometry of the investigated station, three methods of pre-supporting concrete arch, side drifts and German method are evaluated for the execution of underground stations for space stability, tunnel peripheral displacements and ground surface settlement due to excavation operations. In other words, the main objective of this study is to evaluate the application of different excavation methods (with the inclusion of support structure or not) on the peripheral tunnel deformations, ground surface settlement and other parameters and finally, to propose the appropriate excavation method for the desired station. Numerical modeling of different execution methods of the desired space is performed using finite element method. Maximum surface ground settlement is occurred by applying side drifts method while the minimum value is occurred by applying pre-supporting concrete arc method.

The technology of freight transport systems contributes to increasing capacity and speed of transport, which has an impact on the volume of people and goods transported. Goods transport vehicles on the highway significantly increase their carrying capacity, while the carrying capacity of the road does not increase as fast as the vehicles carrying capacity increases. Maintenance of sustainable road infrastructure is needed so that the service life of the road is as planned. Research methods with quantitative analysis using primary and secondary data from road conditions, vehicle loads from the field and maintenance costs. The results of the analysis using regression and multiple logarithms on the eastern cross roads of Sumatra obtained the relationship of the level of road damage (SDI) according to the equation which is a function of the costs of planning, maintenance and construction of roads. The conclusion is that maintenance costs increase every year to maintain SDI in good and moderate conditions. Road Damage Rate is influenced by the variable cost of constructing goods transport traffic loads according to plan (Standart Axle Load/SALstd) and overloading load (SAL Over).

This article deals with analysis and consideration of the space planning solutions of production and warehouse enterprises as exemplified by the Istra District of the Moscow Region. Based on broad experience, the author recommends layout schemes of various functional facility buildings or blocks.

In this paper, the strength and ductility characteristics of the exterior beamcolumn joint with the addition of the hybrid steel fibres have been studied. From the past earthquake studies, it revealed that the failure of the beam-column joint mainly occurs due to the reduction of its moment carrying capacity and shear strength during the earthquake. This may be due to the provision of ordinary reinforcement in the joints and concrete which behaves as brittle materials. In this study, two sets of exterior beam-column joints were designed as per IS1893code procedures and detailed as per IS 13920 recommendations for two bay five-story structures. Another one set of the beam-column joint was designed as per IS 1893 code provision and detailed based on IS 456 recommendations. Among the beam column joint subassemblages, the first one was manufactured with an ordinary reinforced concrete with the detailed reinforcement as per IS 13920 and the second one was prepared with 1% of steel fibre which has Crimbed and Hooked end, with the ordinary reinforcement as per IS 456.The third specimen was created with 1% fibre reinforcement which had detailed reinforcement as per IS 13920. The model was developed by considering the 1/5thscale of the prototype and was tested under forward cyclic loading. The loading frame was used to produce the cyclic loading to examine the behaviour of the beam-column joints in terms of load carrying capacity, deflection, ductility and energy observation. The study concluded that increased energy absorption capacity and ductility properties of the exterior beam-column joint with the addition of the steel fibres and detailed reinforcement as per IS 13920. Thus, the experimental results indicated that fibre reinforced concrete is an innovative solution to conventional confining reinforcement

This study statistically evaluates the acute proportionality between human exposure and ambient exposure of respirable particulate matter (RSPM) in the Chennai metropolitan city. This assessment significantly discovered the potential health risk of respirable particulate matter and the importance of human exposure monitoring in Chennai city. The concentration of RSPM in the atmosphere is determined by IS 5182 Part 23 and its human exposure is determined by NIOSH 0600 method. Monitoring conducted in the period of January 2018 to December 2018 at five terrific traffic zones of Chennai city viz. Saidapet (L1), T. Nagar (L2), Vadapalani (L3) Nungambakkam (L4) and Mount road (T5), twice in a week and 104 measurements were completed. The outcome of daily average assessment during the month of January to September in all locations were exceeded 60% of the days and 40% of the days were close to the limit of NAAQS (100.0 µg/m3). However from October to December, 35% of the days were exceeded, 25 % of the day very close to the limit and 40% of the day was significantly lower than the specified maximum permissible limit of NAAQS. While comparing all the locations, L1 and L5 are contaminated with high RSPM. Further assessment of monthly and annual mean of RSPM exceeded the maximum permissible level of 100 µg/m3 and 60 µg/m3 respectively. The most critical evaluation of proportionality percentage between ambient and human exposure of respirable particulate matter illustrates a person living an entire year in the selected locations, is breathing 45.7%, 39.4%, 41.4%, 35.7% and 36.3% of RSPM present in his near environment of L1, L2, L3, L4 and L5 respectively. When comparing all those locations, the highest level of proportionality percentage was found at L1 and lowest proportionality percentage was found at L3. The estimated proportionality percentage specifies the serious impact of RSPM on human health. However, the existing referral monitoring system does not measure human exposure of air pollution. Hence this research can insist, to consider the human exposure of air pollution as a serious concern, because of the risk factors and life-threatening. The governing authority needs to take appropriate human exposure measurements and I mplement a control system to secure human life.

The article discusses investment projects to diversify the production of an industrial company and a set of action models and techniques for the simultaneous development of several unrelated technological areas that can be used as the basis for expanding the range of high-tech goods and services aimed at increasing their competitiveness in various niche markets. The development of investment processes in all spheres of activity is a prerequisite for the effective organization of business in a transitive economy. Investment analysis provides an information base for deciding on the inclusion of projects in the investment portfolio, analyzing the structure of its funding sources, the feasibility of investing in various conditions, thereby ensuring an increase in the efficiency of investment activities of business entities.

This paper presents a method of obtaining reliable confidence intervals when conducting the dynamic averaging procedure for linear regression models of economic time series. It is explicitly shown, that when we adapt models weights each time new data occurs, the traditional approach to computing an unbiased estimator of errors variance systematically underestimates the true variance. The traditional approach is valid only in case of static weights, when the optimization procedure is conducted just once. The same conclusion holds for dynamic and static specification procedure as well. However, when applying static weights to time series processes model accuracy is usually lower than for dynamically adapted weights. Thus, in this paper, the authors make an attempt to solve this conundrum concerning the choice between either better prediction (adaptive weights) or reliable confidence intervals (static weights). To achieve this goal, the authors work out a substantial solution for obtaining an adjusted estimator of true errors variance that yields a reliable result. Such an estimator is proposed to be computed numerically by simulating the errors variance-covariance matrix by Wishart distribution with a prior equal to a sample variance-covariance matrix and, thus, obtaining the average bias of traditional estimator. To prove the efficiency of the proposed approach, the authors also conduct rigorous out-of-sample simulation testing

Open vehicle routing problems, as a variant of vehicle routing problem (VRP), define that the vehicles are not required to return to the depot after completing service. In this paper, we extend the problem to include process control due to the customer demands. Each customer has a demand and eeach customer must be serviced by a single vehicle and no vehicle may serve a set of customers whose total demand exceeds its capacity. Each vehicle route must start at the depot and end at the last customer it serves. The objective is to define the set of vehicle routes that minimizes the total costs. We solve the model using a strategy of releasing nonbasic variables from their bounds, combined with the “active constraint” method. This strategy is used to force the appropriate non-integer basic variables to move to their neighborhood integer points.

Geopolymer1 concrete (GPC) is a green concrete of sodium hydroxide2 , sodium silicate, fly ash and ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBS) 4 . The use of GPC reduces CO2 in the atmosphere which leads to the reduction of green gases globally. In the past most of the research work has been done on the usage of GPC with different molarities such as 6 M, 8M, 10M, 12M, 14M, etc. From research findings done in the past, a molarity3 of 12 has been considered in the current investigation. In the proposed GPC mix the fly ash has been replaced by GGBS in various proportions in order to get the optimum dosage of GGBS in fly ash. To overcome the deficiencies in concrete, in the present study Forta Ferro Fibers (FFF) 5 have been incorporated in various percentages to achieve the optimum dosage. In the present study M40 grade concrete is considered to study the strength aspects of GPC with FFF such as compressive strength, cylindrical split tensile strength and flexural strength. Experimental results shown that the strength GPC with FFF was significantly higher than that of conventional concrete.

In article it is revealed that at the solution of problems of management of economy of territorial education – the region, some of them dont give in to formalization because of existence of hardly measured qualitative factors and "a human factor", having essential impact on quality of decisions. Need of the accounting of these factors arises especially sharply in a problem of forecasting and perspective scientific and technical development of the region and the regional industrial is connected - diversified systems i.e. where are most often used scientific and technical and economic information. The value of information received in the course of preparation of administrative decisions and influencing change of degree of confidence of the subject of an industrial network of the validity of any event is estimated by means of Bayess theorem.

We researched the strategies of Pilsen, which intends to meet the requirements of EU, to make the most of their own uniqueness, and to become an open city. Pilsen presents Openness as the core of city strategies as shown in its slogan. The reasons why the slogan is “Pilsen, Open Up!” can be summarized into three categories. First, it shows the countrys aspiration for change to the open society escaping from the closed traditional characteristics of Czech society that comes from historical experiences of the past totalitarian system. Second, it means Pilsen is opening up towards Europe and the world, and prior to it, they open themselves first. Third, this “Open up” can be interpreted in a variety of meanings depending on people and situations, and it can be used depending on their own circumstances. It can be learned that the European Capital of Culture Program has become a means to raise awareness and enjoyment of citizens culture and to promote the identity of local culture

The article discusses the technologies of the educational process, reveals the state and development trends of subjects of educational activities in the context of globalization. The current problems of reforming educational activities are identified. The analysis of sociological research is carried out allowing to assess the effectiveness of used technologies and the quality of adaptation of the subjects of educational activities. The main directions of implementation at the present stage of technological and methodological tools in the educational process in the field of legal education are identified.The motivation of educational activities in the system of higher education in the conditions of the modern labor market has been studied. The problems of external and internal motivation of the educational activity of the subject are studied. In the course of the research, conclusions were drawn up on the determinants of the fall in the level of motivation of the subject of receiving educational services. Suggestions were made to improve the technology of the educational process, to intensify the quality of motivation of the educational activity of the subject. The basis for increasing the motivation of educational activity based on the key areas of the methodology of scientific knowledge on the example of legal education

The development of pipeline systems of hydrocarbon transportation and their ageing cause the need for the creation of a contactless system for express-diagnostics of pre-breaking conditions. Low-contrasting physical responses from the damaged pipeline sections are localized by the methods of interpretation of an anomalous magnetic field. The authors consider the problem of limiting automation of interpretation procedure with the estimation of the expert’s role decrease. Despite the commercial attractiveness of the idea of automation, one cannot ignore the paradox in a possible solution of the problem: any automation is based on a particular model but this model is developed with the application of experience of a particular expert.

The modern media have a powerful influence in shaping peoples lives and they are also influential in the way they facilitate the spread of culture and lifestyle, especially regarding the younger generation. It is common knowledge that young people, e.g. university students, are much more sensitive to the alluring dominance of the digital media discourse. Social networking, blogging, vlogging, gaming, instant messaging, downloading music and other content, uploading and sharing their own creative work: these activities made possible by the new digital media are rich with multiple opportunities as well as risks for young people. It is worth mentioning that the present-day new media are acting the role of reflection, that is to say, the psychological ability of human beings to penetrate into their mind, feelings and moods. Moreover, the new media are the reflection of the common world. It is common knowledge that reflection as a psychological mechanism helps young people to understand who they are, what they are looking for and what they want to become in the future. Moreover, reflection creates real opportunities for awareness and evaluation of all aspects of young persons activity and personality from the standpoint of their effectiveness and determining the ways for further life and professional development of the young individual. Our studies reveal the role of the reflection, its structure and unique features of its components in relation to university students awareness and perception of the media world they are existing today A special survey was developed and conducted to focus on the reflection as a psychological mechanism and its functioning in the young persons mind while contacting the new media discourse and being under the round-the-clock influence of the digital media space. The data are statistically processed and analyzed to understand whether reflection in the university students consciousness can be affected by the evolving nature of the present-day new media discourse and what quantitative and qualitative changes of this essential psychological mechanism can be expected due to the development of the relationship between the media world and the younger generation. Finally, recommendations are given on how to overcome the new media discourse addiction among university students and how to be able to use the media space in a positive academic, professional and social lives for the youth of the new millennium.

The modern financial situation of organizations, having a developed corporate network both in Russian and abroad, has exacerbated a problem of establishing an effective system of settlement management inside the group of organizations and the necessity in development of the methodology of accounting and control over settlements in corporate systems, which would meet the requirements of the international practice. Objective. Several proofs, justifying the necessity of implemented settlements and occurrence of liabilities in corporate systems, are considered in this paper. It was substantiated that corporate systems are a centre of concentration of the capital and property, and settlements with partners and contracting parties become the connecting link that unite any system of holding type into a unique organism, which allows one, having separated circulations and profits, to design and build an efficacious model of management of such corporative system, to lower tax risks and to reduce expenditures on maintenance of the whole corporate system. Methods. In the studies, the methods of empirical research, comparison, grouping, and analysis of results of corporate activity, concerning the problems of financial resource reallocation inside the group and assessment of the occurring liabilities in corporate systems, have been applied.Results. Application of the method of empirical research is instruments of substantiation of divergent opinions among scientists with respect to liabilities assessment, on the value of which different factors exert influence in corporative systems. Having applied the comparison and grouping methods, the conclusions on structuring and validity of accounting procedures by the facts of occurrence, movement and termination of liabilities in corporate systems were made. The present paper aims to induce discussions and further studies of the revealed problems. Conclusion. As a result of the undertaken studies, the definition of liabilities is disclosed, and on its basis, the scheme of interaction of capital, profits and net assets has been developed, as well as on the basis of the essence of the guaranteeing function of authorized capital, the ways of minimization of liabilities inside a corporate system have been developed.

This article is an attempt to determine the place and role of the reinsurance contract in the reinsurance legislation in Russia. Insurance as a whole complex of protection of property interests of citizens, organizations and the state is an indispensable element of the economic and social systems of society. Among the insurance organizations, the proper development has such direction of insurance activity, as reinsurance, which is one of the methods of reducing and dividing insurance risk. The methodological basis of the article is a systematic approach combining structural functional, dialectical, and hermeneutical methods. Results of a research are at least two possible conclusions. First, taking the risk (concluding the insurance contract), the insurance company does not always have the ability to cover it, to pay possible insurance losses. Secondly, in this case, it applies for help to another insurance company (or a specialized reinsurance company), offering to divide the accepted risk. In the course of carrying out activities, the insurance company is at risk of a shortage of funds to meet payment obligations. Insurers use different ways to manage this risk. On the one hand, the insurer can raise tariffs, to tight the selection of insurance contracts, denying the insurance of customers, characterized by a high probability of losses on the insurance policy. Such measures can lead to the loss of the market and the flow-out of insurants to other insurance companies. Another way to manage risk is to reinsure contracts, which involves transferring part of the responsibility for the accepted risks to other insurance companies (reinsurers).

The object of the research in the article is the strategy of the digital economy as a condition for ensuring the economic, financial and technological security of the country as a result of using the industrial Internet and production robotization;it was proposed to characterize the digitization of the economy as a new trend linking all directions of the country socio-economic development, which, ultimately, will lead to an increase in digital dividends, which consist in the most rapid provision of customers with new information services and goods, thanks to more flexible management of production processes;an assessment was made of the role of the digital economy as a factor in the growth of the integration of science, education, business, government (federal, republican and municipal), the creation of digital space to solve the problems of coordinating Russian actions on a global scale; The developed mechanism for implementing the new model of economic development creates a fundamental basis for solving practical problems by proposing and stimulating the active participation of civil society in shaping the prestige of the domestic business and government in the digital economy.

Changes in all social dimensions have had a considerable impact on the educational system. Today many people realize that schools should train graduates who can successfully socialize and are ready for their future professional lives. As a part of the process of solving this problem, the issue of choosing a future vocation seems the major one. It is obvious that such a choice should be made in educational organizations where the environment of professional identity is present, comprising the elements of early vocational guidance and pre-vocational training of students. The easiest way is to demonstrate the results of such a design in the form of a practice-oriented model and, as is appropriate in such cases, to reveal the potential capabilities of its elements. This is exactly what the authors of this article did, revealing the genetic points of the constructed environment in the form of a block structure at each stage of development, “supporting” each of the stages with its own resource supply, and filling the structure with activity content. Materials and methods. Principle research methods include theoretical analysis of relevant psychological, pedagogical, sociological and philosophical literature on the problem of professional identity and vocational guidance; roadmap method; modeling method for constructing an organizational model of the professional identity environment based on early vocational guidance and pre-vocational training of schoolchildren. Results. We managed to formalize the problem of schoolchildrens professional identities; unravel approaches to the formation of an environment of early vocational guidance and pre-vocational training of students; identify the process of its construction; create a specific development roadmap with elements of networking among interested organizations; identify trends and features of the modern development of Western and Russian educational reality; establish in the course of the study the relationship and patterns of specialized education and professional identity of students; revealed organizational and pedagogical conditions necessary to improve the effectiveness of schoolchildrens professional identities; set forth an organizational model of the environment for professional identity based on early vocational guidance and pre-vocational training of schoolchildren; articulate the principles of its creation and existence. Discussion and Conclusion. The results of the study can be useful for the consistent and systematic creation of an environment for professional identities, early vocational guidance and pre-professional training of students in educational institutions and centers, which will ensure with a high degree of accuracy the rise of “new-type” graduates, i.e. young people who are both professionally mobile and able to make a conscious choice of a professional path.

The paper deals with the issues of communication process in management in terms of different cultures. It reviews communication process, its classification and rules. The research object is national mentality and its expression within intercultural communication (German case). Methods employed include observation, analysis of academic literature, communication with representatives of different cultures etc. The research goal consists of two parts: intercultural communication and communication with members of other cultures

In present era demand for land is high for residential, commercial and industrial growth of any country and also we need to preserve land for agriculture. Due to this there is increase demand for high rise structures. These tall buildings are subjected to lateral forces due to wind and earthquake. Social and functional needs like vehicle parking, shops, reception etc. are compelling to provide soft storey in high rise building. Soft storey can form at any level of a high rise building to fulfil required functional necessity and serve various purposes. Soft-story formation due to sudden change in the vertical stiffness between following stories. To improve the dynamic response of these slender tall buildings different forms of structural system need to be adopted. One of the structural forms for RC buildings is by using shear walls. Lateral forces due to wind or earthquake are usually resisted by shear walls which are provided parallel to the direction of lateral load. These shear walls, by their shearing resistance and resistance to overturning, transfer the lateral loads to the foundation. In this study different location of shear wall is studied. Dynamic Analysis is carried out using response spectrum method.

This study aims to determine the perception of sustainable transportation in the community using public transport in the city of Makassar. Data was collected from the passenger of the BRT (Bus Rapid Transits) Dan minibus. The method used was a qualitative method of distributing questionnaires to respondents. The sample used in this data was passengers on BRT routes of corridors 2,3 and 4, and passengers on Minibus route A, D and C in the city of Makassar. The data were analyzed by using SEM (Structural Equation Modeling) via the SmartPLS 2.0 M3 software. The variables reviewed included of reliability, comfort, security, timeliness and generosity. Based on the evaluation results of the measurement model, there were 34 indicators met the 40 initial indicators. The 34 indicators affect the respective variables significantly while 6 indicators did not influence their respective latent variables significantly. Latent variables, namely reliability and comfort had a significant effect on transportation sustainability, while security, generosity and timeliness did not show a significant influence on the sustainability variable of transportation. From the description of these conclusions, it is expected that there were good policy directions so that an effective and efficient public transportation system that meets the requirements for sustainable transportation will be created in the future.

The processes of transformation of the socioeconomic system are realized through various mechanisms, where the mechanism of structural change is a key one. A structural change occurs in economic systems at various levels: at the level of a person and household (nanolevel), a company (microlevel), an industry or region (meso-level), the level of the national economy (macrolevel) and global economy (megalevel). Eventually, a structural change stimulates the processes of an appropriate level. According to the authors opinion, the issues of efficiency and synchronous functioning emerging in the process of transformation of the socioeconomic system of a country are the most relevant. This article considers the problem of evaluating the results of transformational changes, which is the most important for the development of the theory of economic systems. Also, this problem may determine the direction of reproduction processes in the national economy at the theoretical and applied levels.

The controlled (flexible) AC power transmission systems are considered. Simulation of their use in a real energy facility with the aim of reducing the cost of transporting electricity is performed

The authors carry out modeling of long-term economic cycles of the national economy and analyze on this basis the system-forming factors that generate its phase shifts. Realized assessments based on the economic and mathematical modeling methods have made it possible to determine the prospects and time horizons for the transition of the Russian economy to the channel of the fourth industrial revolution, to carry out factor analysis on this basis and to reveal the role of higher education in the system of future transformations. The results of the research made it possible to identify the main problems in the system of higher education in Russia in terms of limiting the pace and quality of development of the Russian economy in accordance with emerging global principles and mechanisms of economic growth. The method of conducting the research is based on the use of statistical analysis tools for a wide range of data characterizing the institutional and market potential of national economy for the period from 1962 to 2017 as well as descriptive analysis tools, which revealed the main shortcomings in the system of higher infrastructure, economic stability education, limiting the prospects for formation of economic development rates in accordance with the identified next cycle of long-term development of the Russian economy. The novelty of the research consists of the developed conceptual approach of determining the key directions for development of higher education, taking into account the global trends in the transformation of reproduction processes and projected phases of economic transformations in the national economic system

This study aims to analyze the potential and needs of Papuas contextual science curriculum based on indigenous Malind tribal science data. The study was carried out using an ethopedic approach. Ethnopedagogy is a learning approach by incorporating elements of local wisdom into learning so that learning becomes more meaningful. The researcher tried to make an analysis of the potential and needs of integrating indigenous Malind science into the Papua contextual science curriculum. From the results of the research conducted, it was found that the integration of indigenous Malid science in the Papua contextual science curriculum was very necessary. Aside from being a step in the preservation of the indigenous science (local wisdom) of the Malind tribe, this study is expected to be able to change the student paradigm of science learning. So far science has been considered a complicated subject. But by integrating original science in science learning at school will make students discover the benefits of learning science. Learning like this makes the role of the teacher only as a facilitator and mediator in understanding the essential concepts of science learning. While students are given the opportunity to develop other concepts.

The article focuses on the analysis of the pedagogical conditions provided in Kazan Federal University for the creative self-actualization of the students completing an art teacher education programme. The research was based on the analysis of the educational process in Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication of the University, review of academic and methodological literature, the working documents (principal educational programmes, curricula, the programmes and materials of the professional training disciplines, the reports on academic and educational work), observation, survey of teachers and students. The methodological basis of the study was the author’s concept implying that the creative self-actualization of students is determined by the space of future professional activity. It is a conscious, task-oriented process of disclosing students’ creative nature in educational and professional activities, characterized by satisfaction, awareness of personal significance of achievements. According to the authors, the structure of the creative self-actualization of future art teachers as a system includes such components as personal artistic and pedagogical culture, the need for creative self-actualization, self-awareness, selfcognition (reflection), self-regulation, self-identification, self-education, artistic and pedagogical creativity. As a result of the study, the authors identified pedagogical technologies, methods and tools, as well as organizational forms of educational and extracurricular activities. The findings contribute to the effective development of personal components of the creative self-actualization of future art teachers in the educational process of the university and can be spread as advanced educational experience. At the same time, it was revealed that students often fulfill their potential in a certain area of art without fully using the opportunities for creative selfactualization.

Global warming is a long-term rise in the average temperature of the Earths climate system. Due to global temperature change its impact on Earths climate there is extreme weather condition cause early deterioration of parking lot pavement which affects its intended design life. One of the parameters of deterioration may be in the form of uncontrolled cracking due to temperature gradient occurs in overlay slab because of temperature stresses. To overcome this type of distress in pavement there is common method of rehabilitation by providing overlay. In this Paper attempt was made to use overlay by changing material properties of concrete with reinforcing material which can reduce the early deterioration because of tensile stresses. This research investigates the use of self-compacting concrete ferrocrete overlay as effective crack arrester in overlays to increase their performance by providing additional tensile strength. This paper presents the experimental testing set up to assess and quantify the effect on self-compacting concrete ferrocrete overlay by conducting direct tension test on conventional and ferrocrete specimen. The experimental testing results show that specimen of ferrocrete overlay enhances the properties in terms of strength and ductility and this has been phenomenally observed till mode of failure. The results show that the ferrocrete specimens have higher tensile strength than conventional specimens which can be recommended to use to increase the life of parking pavement.

The article is devoted to discussing the problem with using the gross domestic product (GDP) indicator to assess the level of the country’s economic development. The paper reveals the main disadvantages of the methodology for calculating this indicator: inaccurate accounting of changes in the level of increment (depletion) of the national wealth; ignoring the problem of inequitable distribution of value added among countries; exaggeration of GDP due to the imposed consumption; including of the accrued and forming indicators in the GDP; the neglect of labor within the households and the mutual exchange of goods and services; and the neglect of changes in the structure and quality of products when using base price technology. The problems related to calculating GDP by the purchasing power parity and per capita are considered. The possibilities of using GDP as a key macroeconomic indicator are discussed. It is substantiated that high rates of GDP growth do not always point to high efficiency of the country’s economic activity. That is why the focus of public authorities mainly on the GDP indicator can damage the economy of the country. The article concludes that it is necessary to expand the range of indicators used to assess the level of development of the national economy, as well as to improve the methodology for calculating the GDP.

The paper deals with the interrelation and mutual influence of economic growth and inequality amid digital economy, taking into account the appearance of augmented reality. Particular attention is paid to the transformation of the four-link innovation spiral into "network 4+". In the paper, it is proposed to supplement it with a "connecting element" - a person, along with science, industry, state and society. Since a person plays a key role in the innovation process and is the end user of innovation, he/she significantly affects the creation of knowledge and technology through the demand and realization of his utility function. To implement the proposed initiative, we need a revision of the tools for all parts of the network, as well as tight control and evaluation of effectiveness. Some recommendations are offered on the alleviation of inequality for different actors in the economy, including the state, business, society, universities and scientific institutions

Today, insurance is widely used in many countries to address major financial issues such as education. However, in Russia, the market segment of education insurance is poorly developed. A review of the literature shows that there is no consensus among scientists on the main factors in the development of voluntary insurance, which in turn makes it difficult to find ways to effectively address the problems that prevent the widespread use of education insurance. The paper proves that one of the key factors of low demand for education insurance programs in Russia is the low level of public awareness in this area. The insufficiency of measures implemented in Russia to improve financial literacy, in general, is shown, the ways of raising awareness of the population in matters of education insurance are proposed.

Water is an essential component for the existence of life on the planet earth. It is a tasteless, odourless, and nearly colorless liquid. In some way or the other, it also full fills the need of minerals in our body up to a certain limit. But the anthropogenic activities leads to the imbalance of these minerals in water resulting in degradation of its quality. Today, it is a known fact that the groundwater quality is degrading day by day which is a serious matter of concern, as poor quality water pose threats to health and hygiene of living beings. Good quality of water is of utmost importance for survival of man and animals. The present study aimed at assessing the status of the groundwater in Sikandra Rao and its adjoining villages. In the light of aforesaid facts, it becomes necessary to assess the current groundwater quality in study area on the ground of various parameters such as temperature, pH (6.5-8.5), Turbidity (0.85 NTU-3.00 NTU), Electrical Conductivity (206 µS/m -931 µS/m ), Chloride (12 mg/l-52 mg/l), Total Hardness (102 mg/l -314 mg/l), Total Alkalinity (84 mg/l-370 mg/l), Total Dissolved Solid (103 mg/l-464 mg/l) , Nitrate (0 mg/l -4.43 mg/l), Sulphate (26 mg/l-66 mg/l), Iron (0.02-0.07 mg/l) and Fluoride (0.08 mg/l-1.17 mg/l). The values of these parameters are found to be within the acceptable limits, below the acceptable limits as well as partially in the range, as prescribed by Bureau of India Standard (BIS) -10500-2012. Thus, the study reveals the need for proper and timely evaluation of groundwater quality and simultaneously highlights the urgency of the necessary steps to be taken for the preservations and up-gradation of water quality. Hence the drinking water quality in the study area is not scaled as per the standard values of the concern parameters and showing alarming levels of pollutants. Therefore it needs some degree of treatment before utilizing it for any consumption purpose