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The study was undertaken to know the investment behaviour of investors towards commodity market. Commodity markets have become alternative investment class world over. Commodity markets are an ideal investment for today’s modern financial scenario. The study evidences that the investors are risk averse on past performance. Their experience and knowledge in investment activity helps them to analyze the price variations at regular intervals in commodity market and make rational decision making. The impacts of various demographic factors on investment behaviour of investors towards commodity market have also been studied. For measuring various phenomena and analysing the collected data effectively and efficiency for ANOVA and t-test has been used to analyze the various demographic values. A Sample of 119 respondents is taken for this study.

Vibration technique in a machine condition monitoring provides useful reliable information, bringing significant cost benefits to industry. By comparing the signals of a machine running in normal and faulty conditions, detection of faults like journal-bearing defects is possible. This paper presents an appropriate procedure for the fault detection of main engine journal-bearing based on vibration analysis. The frequency-domain vibration signals of an internal combustion engine (IC engine) with normal and defective main journal-bearings were obtained. The signal processing technique plays one of the important roles for recognizing the journal-bearing fault in the proposed system. In the present research, the data mining method based on feature extraction and selection is proposed. The database is established by the feature vectors of frequency domain signals which are used as input pattern in the training and identification process. The SVM and KNN is proposed to identify and classify the journal-bearing fault conditions in the condition monitoring system. The experimental results verified that the proposed diagnostic procedure has more possibilities and abilities in the fault diagnosis of the main journal-bearing of IC engine.

This article aims to review the basic and typical features of Language Poetry and analyse them in a number of the best representative of this particular mode of versification. Language Poetry appeared in the second half of the 20th century and soon found many followers and practitioners who celebrated and commended its emphasis on formal and visual qualities of poetry and regarded linguistic and lexical elements as significant instruments in conveying certain feelings, ideas, or thoughts. The central questions of the present article are: what are the standard characteristics of Language Poetry and what functions do they play in a typical Language poem. To answer the question, first a brief historical and conceptual digest of the term is given and then the various formal and thematic implications of the employed Language Poetry aspects are explored in some of the well-known Language poems including “Poem” and “My/My/My” by Bernstein, “A Substance in a Cushion” by Stein, “Chronic Meanings” by Perelman, “the nose of kim darby's double” and “NON” by Ron Silliman, “A Song of Degrees” by Zukofsky, and “Fleecing” by James Sherry. The present research argues that all of these poems are clearly theme-based as much as they are clearly form-based. In other words, Language Poetry is not simply and merely about the semantic load or potentials or the visual effect of the selected/arranged words, which may seem nonsensical, since meaning and content – or even the didactic message – is almost always a very important aspect of Language Poetry. Key Words: Language Poetry, Traditional Poetry, Form, Content, and Poetic Function

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Truancy is deliberate absence from school on the part of learners without the knowledge and consent of parents. The aim of this study to establish the factors that contribute to students’ absenteeism and their effects in secondary schools in Midnapore District of West Bengal. The study examines the factor that contributes to truancy among secondary school learners. The investigate the effect of truancy. Truancy, or the habitual act of being absent from school without permission, is a major issue affecting the overall success of the school in which I am employed. Truancy may be identified differently between districts, states, or governments; however, consecutive unexcused absences from school is the most common and acceptable definition. Lying and stealing are common, but inappropriate, behaviours in school aged children. Lying and stealing are more common in boys than girls, and happen most often in children ages 5 to 8 years. Children from the ages of 6 to 12 understand what lying is and the moral wrongness of this behaviour. However, children may continue to lie in order to test adult rules and limits. The child may admit to telling a lie, but usually he or she has many reasons for having done so. Rules are very important at this age, so cheating becomes less important. Hysteria is undoubtedly the first mental disorder attributable to women, accurately described in the second millennium BC, and Util Freud considered an exclusively female disease. The evolution of these diseases seems to be a factor linked with social “westernization”, and examining under what conditions the symptoms first became common in different societies became a priority for recent studies over risk factor. The study explored teacher’s perceptions of maladjustment problems manifested by pupils in West Bengal Secondary schools using the psycho-social lens to view and interpret the phenomena. The study found that teachers who were not adequately trained to deal with maladjusted pupils did not endeavour to implement any interventions to alleviate them. It also revealed that not all maladjusted pupils cause disciplinary problems for teachers as some of the pupils who are unsocial with drawn, unhappy, depressed, fearful and nervous do attract very little attention to themselves. In examining the causes of pupil maladjustments the study found that these can be traced to some unfulfilled or thwarted psy-cho-social needs. Several symptoms that interfere with the ability to work, sleep, study, eat, and enjoy life. An episode can occur only once in a person’s lifetime, but more often, a person has several episodes.

This study investigates the mechanical properties of Chrysophyllum albidum to determine its potential for utilization in Nigeria. The test samples were obtained from tree at breast height. Results of test on Chrysophyllum albidum showed that the mean impact bending was 1.08m which increased from the corewood to the outerwood and remained constant upward along the tree. The mean MOR was 155.18N/mm2, which ranged from 151.46 to 157.53N/mm2 radially. Also the axial values ranged from 158.77 to 152.58N/mm2. There was an increase in MOR from the corewood to the outerwood and there is a decrease in MOR from the top of the tree (25%) to the base (75%). The mean MOE was 39309.04N/mm2, and ranged from 36303.84 to 40409.65N/mm2 radially and from 40993.7 to 39547.57N/mm2 axially. There was an increase in MOE from corewood to the outerwood. Conversely, there was a decrease from the base to the top of the tree.The mean maximum compression strength parallel to the grain was 45.55N/mm2, the highest value was obtained at the middlewood and decrease from the base (25%, 46.91N/mm2) to the top (75%, 43.95N/mm2) of the wood. In conclusion, a comparison of the strength properties values obtained with economic tree species such as Milicia excelsa, Mansonia altissima, Khaya species e.t.c shows that Chrysophyllum albidum wood has almost the same values with these economic species.

self compacting concrete, also referred as self-consolidate concrete, is able to flow in and consolidate under its own weight and is almost completely while flowing in all type of formwork. It is cohesive enough to fill the spaces of almost any size and shape without any segregation and bleeding. This makes SCC particularly useful wherever placing is difficult, such as in heavily –reinforced concrete members or in complicated work forms. In this study it is proposed to place the constituent material by mineral admixtures and adding chemical admixtures. Also, it is proposed to use self curing compound instead of normal curing concrete. Self compacting and self curing concrete specimens in size of cubes (150mmx150mm x150mm), cylinder (300mm x150mm), and prisms (500mm x 100mmx100mm) were cast and tested. The ANN modeling also derives and compares the results.

The present study is an attempt to find out appropriate ARIMA model by using Box-Jenkins methodology to forecast the export/import of wood based panel in India on time series data for a period of 16 years from 1996-97 to 2011-12. Test criterion like lowest Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC), R2 value and lowest of mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) are applied to predict the accuracy of the model. This study found ARIMA (0,1,0) with R2: 0.83 for the export and ARIMA (0,1,1) with R2: 0.87 for the import to forecast of export/import of wood based panel. The estimated export and import of wood based panels in the year 2020 would be increased by 170% and 127% in respect to 2012.

Mean shift tracking is a widely used tool for robust and quick tracking of the object in video, against partial occlusion and clutter. This paper proposes a Parzen window based mean shift tracker for visual object tracking. It combines three RGB color histogram and generates its Kernel Density estimation using Gaussian Kernel. Parzen window density estimation method is used to solve the basic problems of mean shift like, divide by zero problems in the weight computation and its association to tracking interruption. The Parzen window interpolates the histogram of target candidate. The experimental results show that proposed method performs better than traditional mean shift for fast moving objects and objects having background clutter at moderate increase in computational complexity.

The concept of pair resolving sets in graphs are defined as a generalization of resolving sets. Some properties of pair resolving sets are discussed.