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In this paper, we propose to integrate Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT), Genetic algorithm (GA) and Gantt chart (GC) for scheduling a construction project. Here, earliest start (ES) and earliest finish (EF) times of the activities are considered. Then, the parents, which depend on ES and EF, are selected from the uniform distribution. Crossover and mutation are implemented on the offspring for a better solution. The fitness, which represents the total cost, is computed. As a result, the finishing time and the cost expended for the project are minimized. In conclusion, the efficiency of the approach proposed is shown.

Correlation measure is an important tool in the field of fuzzy, rough and neutrosophic environments. The main aim of this paper is to introduce the correlation measure for rough neutrosophic refined sets. This concept is the extension of correlation measure of neutrosophic sets and intuitionistic fuzzy multi sets. Finally, using the correlation of rough neutrosophic refined set measure, the application of medical diagnosis and pattern recognition are presented.

The main purpose of this research is to examine the impact of corporate social responsibility initiative of the state bank of India on the customer satisfaction. A conceptual frame work comprised of four elements (economic, social, legal and philanthropic) developed by carroll 1991 is used to examine the impact of corporate social responsibility on customer satisfaction. A multivariate likert scale (1-5) has been developed with one additional dimension customer satisfaction. A sample of 192 customers of the bank has been used to collect the data. Regression and correlation analysis is conducted using SPSS 22 on full version of data to generate the result of analysis. The results show that there is a significant and positive impact of CSR dimensions on customer satisfaction. Also this research shows that economic CSR have a significant impact on customer satisfaction. This result is confirmed by correlation analysis. Correlation analysis shows that the CSR positively and significantly correlated with customer satisfaction. Hence the research found that there is significant and strong positive relationship between improved customer satisfaction and CSR. This study concluded that improving customer perception of CSR practices such as legal, ethical and philanthropy CSR will improve customer satisfaction. Therefore the banks should take initiatives to improve their CSR practices to enhance customer satisfaction

Bioinformatics is a science typically associated with databases in genomics and proteomics and structure and Function information for genes and proteins, of all forms of life on earth. In the past decade there has been a ‘cyber-war’, with the introduction of a number of biological databases on genomics and proteomics. The major aim here is to introduce data mining techniques as an automated means of reducing the complexity of biological data in large bioinformatics databases and of discovering meaningful, useful patterns and relationships in data. The main purpose of data mining in the field of bioinformatics is the mining of complex data which is fast growing and can be said to be outgrowing our processing power.

Electronic Mail is the “killer network application”. It is ubiquitous and pervasive. This paper presents an implemented framework for data mining behavior models from email data. There are different methods for detection of spam through email. The main goal is to develop a method that outperforms the existing methods in terms of detection of spam, ham and wrongly classified spam, that is, the accuracy of the proposed method is higher compared to the other existing methods. The other goal is to implement the proposed algorithm for reducing the time. So, to recapitulate, this paper deals with the accuracy and process timing based on prioritization of detecting email messages.

We are very happy to announce that from 1st February 2017, Dr. Dipti Sharma has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He/She will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Food Technology. The appointment of Dr. Dipti Sharma as member Editorial Advisory Board strengthens the links and will make it easier for prospective authors to establish contact with the journal.

This paper describes the study of coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) of as-cast and heat treated aluminium 7075/ SiC composites. These composites were subjected to different aging durations. The stir casting technique is used to prepare the castings. Castings were machined in accordance with ASTM standards followed by heat treatment process. All the castings were aged to different periods of 1hr, 3hr, 5hr at an aging temperature of 175 oC. Coefficient of thermal expansion tests were performed in both as-cast and heat treated conditions. In each case the coefficient of thermal expansion values were found to increase with increase in aging durations. Solution heat treatment at 530 oC followed by artificial aging at 175 oC found to increase in dimension change of every specimen tested. The coefficient of thermal expansion curves exhibited some residual strains, which were decreased with the increase in aging durations.

The study was carried out to ascertain the antioxidant effect of vitamin E on sub-acute toxicological effects of alpha cypermethrin in male albino rats using hepatic enzymes aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and alkaline phosphatase (Alkphos) as indicators. Nine albino rats divided into 3 groups were fed diets mixed with vitamin E for 2 weeks to saturation prior experiment were administered with alpha cypermethrin intraperitoneally at concentrations of 50, 100 and 500mg /kg concentrations while the 4th group of 3 albino rats were fed normal rat diet with distilled water and injected with physiological saline and compared with albino rats fed normal rat diets administered with alpha cypermethrin intraperitoneally at similar concentrations. The result showed dose dependent significant increases in mean ± SEM Aspartate transaminase, Alanine transaminase and Alkaline phosphatase in the cypermethrin treated when compared with the vitamin E treated male albino rats (P< 0.05). Alpha cypermethrin elicited severe dose dependent changes in the hepatic enzymes, while treatment with vitamin E reduced enzyme activities in male albino ratswith milder alterations. The results of this study have shown that vitamin E conferred some level of protection on Alpha cypermethrin treated male albino rats.

Gold nanoparticles were prepared by reduction of Chloroauric acid (HAuCl4) using enzymes of Glycyrrhiza Glabra root extract as a reducing agent and also used as stabilizer. UV–visible spectroscopy was used for quantification of Gold nanoparticle synthesis. The synthesized gold nanoparticles were characterized with Transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray Diffraction (XRD) and Fourier transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR).The results of TEM, XRD, and UV–vis absorption spectra show that the Gold nanoparticles have a narrow size distribution.

Fisheries sector is one of the fastest growing sector in the world in the world as well as India, contributing to national income, export, food and national security and employment. India’s fish export has emerged as the largest group in agricultural exports. In India, Peanaeus monodon (shrimp) farming has become immensely popular with about 1,57,000 ha under culture and an average annual production of 1lakh tonnes. Farmed shrimp contributes about 60 percent by volume and 82 percent by value of India’s total shrimp export. Shrimp farming in India provides employment directly to about 0.3 million people and indirectly to about 0.6 to 0.7 million people mainly in coastal states Despite the progress, the shrimp industry has been facing severe crisis especially from 1994 owing to the outbreak of infectious diseases caused mass mortalities fetching crop losses to about Rs.1, 203 croes. To control the disease outbreaks and secondary infections, the shrimp growers resorted to use indiscriminately several antibiotics, chemicals and drugs. Even as they failed in controlling the diseases, the indiscriminate use of antibiotics caused the problem of tissue residues in the harvested shrimp. To over come the problem of antibiotic residues in the harvested shrimp, Government of India banned several antibiotics and allowed some antibiotics with MRL’s. Inspite of these remedial measures the problem of antibiotic residual problem had not been controlled as several reports have confirmed with contamination antibiotics. To address these antibiotic residual problems, a commonly used broad-spectrum antibiotic Oxytetracycline was used for the present study to estimate the withdrawal time. Oxytetracycline (OTC) is an approved antibiotic in India with a Maximum Residue limit of 0.1 ppm in the harvested shrimp, most commonly used in shrimp farming and hatchery operations to control endemic and systemic Vibrios through medicated feed. OTC was selected for estimation of withdrawal period for the black tiger prawn Peanaeus monodon under given conditions.