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The study was carried out to evaluate various selected crops which were used as intercrops to control fruit drop in hot pepper (Capsicum frutescens). A Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) was used. There were six treatments and four replications. The treatments were control (pepper), Pepper-tomato, Pepper-mint, Pepper-citronella, Pepper-onion and Pepper-garden eggs intercrops. It was observed that there were significant differences between the mean total number and weight of harvested marketable pepper fruits but the other means were not significantly different for the other parameters that were observed. Pepper-citronella recorded the highest number of harvested pepper fruits. Pepper-tomato intercrop recorded the least number of harvested pepper fruits. Percentage fruit drop in the pepper fruit was high in all treatments.

Cross-cultural Differences in Managing Businesses: Applying Hofstede Cultural Analysis in Germany, Canada, South Korea and Morocco Abstract Recently, expansion to new markets is a common thing for international business. Nevertheless, any decision to expand should be preceded by a thorough analysis of all possible obstacles. Culture is among the most significant factors influencing the business model. Therefore, it is of critical importance to demonstrate cross-cultural competence while making any decision to establish business in a foreign country. The purpose of this study is aimed at providing support for the decision-making process related to expanding business to other countries. This study utilizes Hofstede cultural analysis applied to four countries including Germany, Canada, South Korea and Morocco. Basing on the findings it is possible to better understand the peculiarities of each country in terms of their cultural differences including the following factors: power distance, individualism, masculinity/femininity, uncertainty avoidance, long term orientation and indulgence. The results of analysis are gathered in a table offering brief information on each reviewed country. Moreover, this paper reviews business opportunities and potential conflicts in the above-mentioned countries. Keywords: Establishing business, foreign countries; Cross-Cultural Differences, Hofstede Cultural Analysis, power distance, individualism, masculinity/femininity, uncertainty avoidance, long term orientation and indulgence

In this paper, we introduce the notion of degree to which a Q- fuzzy subset is a Q- fuzzy group by means of the implication operator of [0,1]. A Q-fuzzy subset A in a group G is a Q- fuzzy group if and only if its subgroup degree dg(A) = 1. Some properties of subgroup degree are investigated.

Hydraulic jump type energy dissipaters are widely accepted methods of energy dissipation while designing the hydraulic structures like dams, weirs and barrages. They are popular for their simplicity and efficiency, but have certain limitations when there is variation in discharge conditions. The energy dissipaters satisfactorily function at design discharge condition. But in case of varying discharge conditions they are not efficient as the location of hydraulic jump tends to shift on apron. This would result in percentage reduction in energy dissipation and in turn damage hydraulic structures and adversely affect tail channel conditions. Therefore it is necessary to address the issue of controlling the location of hydraulic jump and evolve a new technique for the same. This paper discusses the design of hydraulic jump type stilling basin for the overflow weir of canal escape at Warana dam (India). It also throws light on the aspect of jump location and percentage energy dissipation. A physical model study is carried out by applying Froude’s model law.

This research is carried out to study the used of SPC tools towards identifying the variation in quality finished product at Bio-organic fertilizer company. The objectives of this research are to analyze and monitor quality of finished product using Xbar R chart and identify the relationship between variables using scatter diagram. Data was obtained from Quality Department through finished product of 5.5.5PE from January 2008 until December 2008. This finished product can be measure according to pH, moisture, and crash. SPSS version 11.5 software has been used to analyze and interpret the data into control chart and scatter diagram. The unstructured interview with respective workers was done in order to support the data analysis. The finding revealed that the SPC tools can determine process variation in finished product through systematical analysis with more accurately. Since All Cosmos has no specific tool to analyze the data, it is suitable for them to implement this tool.

We are very happy to announce that from 21st March 2019, Dr. Alireza Valipour Baboli has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He/She will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Mathematics. The appointment of Dr. Alireza Valipour Baboli as member Editorial Advisory Board strengthens the links and will make it easier for prospective authors to establish contact with the journal. Please send any expressions of interest to elixirpublishers@gmail.com.

We are very happy to announce that from 21st February 2011, Dr. Ali Keshavarzi has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on the Fuzzy Logic and Artificial Neural Network. Dr. Ali Keshavarzi is currently working Department of Soil Science Engineering, University of Tehran-Iran, P.O.Box: 4111, Karaj 3158777871. The appointment of Dr. Ali Keshavarzi as member Editorial Advisory Board strengthens the links with Iran and will make it easier for prospective authors to establish contact with the journal. Please send any expressions of interest to chiefeditor@elixirjournal.org. Sincerely Editor-in-Chief

We are very happy to announce that from 17th November 2018, Dr.Erastus Muchimuti Wekesa has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He/She will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Educational Management. The appointment of Dr.Erastus Muchimuti Wekesa as member, Editorial Advisory Board strengthens the links and will make it easier for prospective authors to establish contact with the journal.

We are very happy to announce that from 28th September 2018, Dr.R.Uthrakumar has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He/She will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Crystal Growth and Nanomaterials. Dr.R.Uthrakumar is working as Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Government Arts College (Autonomous), Salem, Tamilnadu, India. The appointment of Dr.R.Uthrakumar as member, Editorial Advisory Board strengthens the links and will make it easier for prospective authors to establish contact with the journal.

The Discrete Tchebichef Transform (DTT) based on orthogonal Tchebichef polynomials can be an alternative to Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) for JPEG image compression standard. The properties of DTT are not only very similar to DCT; it has also higher energy compactness and lower computational advantage using a set of recurrence relation. In this, DTT is coupled with Set partitioning in hierarchical coding techniques (SPIHT).It has been demonstrated that, DTT requires lesser number of bits to encode the coefficients than DCT for a given compression ratio. We present SPIHT which provides better performance than EZW .Later median filter is added in order to increase the PSNR and improve the quality the taken input image.