{"title":"Interlinking feasibility of five river basins of Rajasthan in India","authors":"Sunil Kumar Vyas , Gunwant Sharma , Y.P. Mathur , Vinay Chandwani","doi":"10.1016/j.pisc.2016.04.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pisc.2016.04.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The increasing population and large scale growth with the development of modern science and technology has indicated very high stress on water sector in Rajasthan in India. Availability of water and uniformity of rainfall distribution is changing day by day due to shifting of monsoon in Rajasthan. The spatial and temporal variations in the rainfall in different river basins in Rajasthan are drastic due to which flood situation arises in the tributaries of Chambal river basin every year. Simultaneously on the other hand drought situation arises in the other different places in the most of the river basins which are also under dark zone. In totality natural water resources are also limited in Rajasthan so there is an urgent need for its proper planning, development and management of the available water duly taking care of environmental, ecological, socio-economic aspects and their inter-relationships.</p><p>Annual surplus water of about 1437 MCM in the river Chambal is going waste and ultimately reaches to sea after creating flood situations in various places in India including Rajasthan, while on the other hand 1077 MCM water is a requirement in the four other basins in Rajasthan i.e. Banas, Banganga, Gambhir and Parbati at 75% dependability. Interlinking and water transfer from Chambal to these four river basins is the prime solution for which 372<!--> <!-->km link channel including 9<!--> <!-->km tunnel of design capacity of 300<!--> <!-->cumec with 64<!--> <!-->m lift is required.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":92112,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives in science","volume":"8 ","pages":"Pages 83-86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.pisc.2016.04.002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90549898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Performance testing (load) of web applications based on test case management","authors":"Rijwan Khan, Mohd Amjad","doi":"10.1016/j.pisc.2016.04.073","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pisc.2016.04.073","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper includes the importance of performance testing of web applications and analyses the application's bottleneck based on hardware, software and resource utilization. The main focus of this paper is performance testing based on load test. It has been seen that everyone wants a very fast application, but at the same time, reliability of the application takes an important role; so, customer's satisfaction is the push for performance testing of a given application. Performance testing determines how fast some aspects of the system perform under a pre-defined workload. The performance testing is calculated by analyzing the production, which comes from the application hosted on the server. The main performance is calculated when business is at its peak by its hits.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":92112,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives in science","volume":"8 ","pages":"Pages 355-357"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.pisc.2016.04.073","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76513802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Focal point computation and homogeneous geometrical transformation for linear curves","authors":"E. Mamatha , C.S. Reddy , S. Krishna Anand","doi":"10.1016/j.pisc.2016.01.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pisc.2016.01.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In computer graphics, computer aided design, solid modelling and robotics and pattern recognition evaluation of focal point for a collection of line segments is the bottleneck problem. In the computer era the significant importance is given to this problem in present research world, however resolving its complexity has persisted imperceptible. This paper presents an efficient and optimal algorithm to evaluate intersection point in Euclidean space by evolving the mathematical analysis. Analysis of mathematics of the algorithm is rather seems to be intricate but implementation of algorithm is simple and straightforward.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":92112,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives in science","volume":"8 ","pages":"Pages 19-21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.pisc.2016.01.006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78390880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Performance and Emission of VCR-CI Engine with palm kernel and eucalyptus blends","authors":"Srinivas kommana , Balu Naik Banoth , Kalyani Radha Kadavakollu","doi":"10.1016/j.pisc.2016.04.030","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pisc.2016.04.030","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study aims at complete replacement of conventional diesel fuel by biodiesel. In order to achieve that, palm kernel oil and eucalyptus oil blend has been chosen. Eucalyptus oil was blended with methyl ester of palm kernel oil in 5%, 10% and 15% by volume. Tests were conducted with diesel fuel and blends on a 4 stroke VCR diesel engine for comparative analysis with 220<!--> <!-->bar injection pressure and 19:1 compression ratio. All the test fuels were used in computerized 4 stroke single cylinder variable compression ratio engine at five different loads (0, 6, 12, 18 and 24<!--> <!-->N<!--> <!-->m). Present investigation depicts the improved combustion and reduced emissions for the PKO85%<!--> <!-->+<!--> <!-->EuO15% blend when compared to diesel at full load conditions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":92112,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives in science","volume":"8 ","pages":"Pages 195-197"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.pisc.2016.04.030","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78872230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gajanan Anne , M.R. Ramesh , H. Shivananda Nayaka , Shashi Bhushan Arya
{"title":"Investigation of microstructure and mechanical properties of Mg–Zn/Al multilayered composite developed by accumulative roll bonding","authors":"Gajanan Anne , M.R. Ramesh , H. Shivananda Nayaka , Shashi Bhushan Arya","doi":"10.1016/j.pisc.2016.04.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pisc.2016.04.008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The present study aims at development of light weight, high strength Mg–2%Zn/Al and Mg–2%Zn/anodized Al based multilayered composite by the accumulative roll bonding (ARB) process. The ultrafine grained multilayer composite was successfully roll bonded by using binary Mg–2%Zn alloy, pure aluminium and anodized aluminium at 300<!--> <!-->°C with 50% reduction up to 5 passes. Multilayered composites are characterized with respect to microstructure, mechanical properties. Density of the ARB processed Mg–Zn/Al multilayered composites have been found to be 21% reduction of weight as compare to pure Al. The composite with anodized Al showed better tensile strength and microhardness as compare to Mg–Zn/Al multilayered composites.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":92112,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives in science","volume":"8 ","pages":"Pages 104-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.pisc.2016.04.008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79430682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of axial conduction and viscous dissipation on heat transfer for laminar flow through a circular pipe","authors":"Mohan Jagadeesh Kumar Mandapati","doi":"10.1016/j.pisc.2016.03.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pisc.2016.03.008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The effect of viscous dissipation and axial conduction on heat transfer for laminar forced convection flow through a circular pipe was studied. Constant wall temperature boundary condition was imposed on the circular pipe and the flow is assumed to be hydrodynamically developed and thermally developing. Numerical solutions were obtained to observe the variations of non-dimensional bulk mean temperature, Nusselt number and wall heat from (or) to the fluid for Brinkman numbers ±1.0, ±0.5, ±0.2, 0.0 and Peclet numbers 10, 50, 100, 300 and 500. It was found that the heat generated by viscous dissipation was higher for higher Brinkman number and it delays the thermal entrance development of the fluid. The effect of axial conduction becomes negligible when the value of Peclet number crosses hundred.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":92112,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives in science","volume":"8 ","pages":"Pages 61-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.pisc.2016.03.008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74337175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Experimentation on accuracy of non functional requirement prioritization approaches for different complexity projects","authors":"Raj Kumar Chopra , Varun Gupta , Durg Singh Chauhan","doi":"10.1016/j.pisc.2016.04.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pisc.2016.04.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Non functional requirements must be selected for implementation together with functional requirements to enhance the success of software projects. Three approaches exist for performing the prioritization of non functional requirements using the suitable prioritization technique. This paper performs experimentation on three different complexity versions of the industrial software project using cost-value prioritization technique employing three approaches. Experimentation is conducted to analyze the accuracy of individual approaches and the variation of accuracy with the complexity of the software project. The results indicate that selecting non functional requirements separately, but in accordance with functionality has higher accuracy amongst the other two approaches. Further, likewise other approaches, it witnesses the decrease in accuracy with increase in software complexity but the decrease is minimal.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":92112,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives in science","volume":"8 ","pages":"Pages 79-82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.pisc.2016.04.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74270261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Dhoulath's method” – An investigative probe into mortality rate to aid diagnoses","authors":"J. Dhoulath Beegum, D. Chithraprasad","doi":"10.1016/j.pisc.2015.12.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pisc.2015.12.008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Inspired by the urgent need to save life, during cardiac arrest, time is an important factor, and time factors, if not speeded up, may lead to death. Baby cries proved to be an obstacle for cardiac diagnosis. To speed up the diagnoses, ‘Dhoulath's method’ was proposed and result proved that the data quality of cardiac data, ‘aortic regurgitation sound’ from a mixture of ‘crying baby's cry’ was faithfully separated out. This separation, by utilizing the features of blind source component separation, in the case of medical emergency, can lead to a speedy diagnoses, to reduce the mortality rate.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":92112,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives in science","volume":"8 ","pages":"Pages 1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.pisc.2015.12.008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74692475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jarosite added concrete along with fly ash: Properties and characteristics in fresh state","authors":"Priyansha Mehra , Blessen Skariah Thomas , Sanjeev Kumar , Ramesh Chandra Gupta","doi":"10.1016/j.pisc.2016.03.012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pisc.2016.03.012","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper presents the results of different properties and characteristics of jarosite added concrete along with fly ash during its fresh state. Jarosite is an industrial by product from zinc manufacturing industry obtained through hydrometallurgical process from its sulphide ore. It has been tried to incorporate jarosite in concrete as sand replacement. Different concrete mixtures have been prepared for three water–cement ratios (0.40, 0.45 and 0.50) and 5 jarosite replacement levels (0, 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25%). Cement has been partially replaced (25%) by fly ash in all the concrete mixtures. Density, workability and setting & hardening of fresh concrete has been evaluated and analyzed. Keeping the environmental suitability of concrete in mind, toxicity leaching characteristic potential test has been performed on raw jarosite and concrete samples.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":92112,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives in science","volume":"8 ","pages":"Pages 69-71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.pisc.2016.03.012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74901126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Compatibility issues of cement with water reducing admixture in concrete","authors":"A.K. Shrivastava, Munendra Kumar","doi":"10.1016/j.pisc.2016.04.055","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pisc.2016.04.055","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Multiple brand of cement and water reducing admixtures are available in the market, even though these cements and admixture comply with the respective codal provisions there performance are not same in the concrete for each and every brand of cement and water reducing admixture, even if quality and source of other ingredients of concrete is kept same. This has created a lot of confusion among the user about what type/brand of admixture is used with what type/brand of cement and what should be optimum dose of admixture. Common problem associated with incompatibility issue is flash setting, delayed setting, rapid slump loss, improper strength gain and cracking, these not only effect the strength of the concrete but also the durability of the structure. Hence, in the present study different brand/type of cement and water reducing admixture available in the market is used to find study the compatibility issue and optimum dose of admixture. To achieve this marsh cone test has been performed. Test results indicate that the optimum dose of admixture vary from 0.9 to 1.1% of the weight of cement with different type/brand of cement and type/brand of admixture.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":92112,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives in science","volume":"8 ","pages":"Pages 290-292"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.pisc.2016.04.055","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85000212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}