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This analysis investigated with the boundary layer flow and heat transfer aspects of a micropoloar nanofluid over a porous shrinking sheet with thermal radiation. The boundary layer equations governed by the partial differential equations are transformed in to a set of ordinary differential equations with the help of suitable local similarity transformations. The coupled nonlinear ordinary differential equations are solved by the implicit finite difference method along with the Thamous algorithm. Dual solutions of dimensionless velocity, angular velocity, temperature and concentration profiles are analyzed by the effect of various controlling flow parameters viz., Lewis number Le, thermophoresis Nt, Brownian motion parameter Nb, Radiation parameter R, Prandtl number Pr, material parameter K, mass suction parameter S, magnetic parameter M. Physical quantities such as skin frication coefficient, local heat, local mass fluxes are also computed and are shown in a table.

The significance of Cloud Computing is growing and it is getting an increasing awareness in the technical and industrial community. This paper is mainly focused on the security concerns of cloud computing and techniques to prevail over the data privacy issue. Before studying the security concerns, the definition of cloud computing and brief discussion to under cloud computing is presented, then it surveys the cloud security issues and problem faced by cloud service provider. Thus, defining the authentication, integrity and confidentiality techniques that will be used to overcome the problem of image security.

The occurrence of Diaretiellarapaeparasitizing Lipaphiserysimiin Brassica alba,Brassica campestris cv. BSH-1, Brassica carrinata,Brassica nigra,Erucasativa cv. T-27, BrassicajunceaL. cv. Varuna,YST-151 and GSC-6 were evaluated.The correlation coefficients between aphid population and D. rapaeand its hosts on different Brassica species with different abiotic factors revealed contradictory results.Except for a few instances the weather parameters showed low order of associations with L. erysimiand its parasitism byDiaeretiellarapae. Thus, the ecologicalfactors exhibited little impact on the population build- up of mustard aphidand its parasitism byDiaeretiellarapaeon different species of Brassica.Brassicanigraharboured relatively higher populations of the aphid While,B. carrinataand Taramina,T-27 have lower aphid population.

With the rapidly growing interest in smart grid technology, plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) are expected to become more popular as low emission replacement for the petroleum based vehicles. Significant PEVs charging activities will mostly take place in customer’s premises, public or corporate car parks and electric charging stations. Therefore, utilities are concern about the possible detrimental impacts of these sizeable and unpredictable loads on the performance of distribution grids. Based on a recently proposed real-time smart load management (RT-SLM) control strategy, this paper focuses on the impact of uncoordinated and coordinated PEVs charging on substation transformer loading, system losses and voltage profile. Detailed simulations are performed on a 449 node smart grid system consisting of the modified IEEE 23 kV distribution system serving 4 charging stations and 22 low voltage residential networks populated with PEVs.

The paper presents an optimal fuzzy logic controller – controlled shunt active power filter (SAPF) used to compensate for harmonic distortion in three-phase systems. A optimal fuzzy logic controller based current controller strategy is used to regulate the filter current and hence ensure harmonic free supply current. The optimal adjustment of the membership functions and normalization gains are realized by using Ant Colony Optimization. Simulations results show the best dynamic behavior and performance control compared with traditional Fuzzy controller. as well as effective in reducing harmonic. The validity of the presented approach in harmonic mitigation is verified via simulation results of the proposed test system under different loading conditions.

Treatments with biologics drugs have become the order of the day for many diseases and ailments including cancer. Unlike the availability of small molecule generics at lower costs, generic versions of biologics are not available at costs that are affordable to the patients in the developing countries. This is mainly due to factors such as immunogenicity, interchangeability, and difficulties in the manufacturing and characterisation of these biosimilars. These factors also raise a question on the conductance of pharmacovigilance programme, since each version of biologic is different. In this review, we analyse the major issues and the regulatory mandates concerning biosimilars and discuss some recommendations for the pharmacovigilance programme.

This study is aimed to observe the effect of mix proportion of Sylhet and locally available river sand on the compressive strengths of concrete. A series of laboratory tests is carried out for six different mix proportions 5:0, 4:1, 3:2, 2:3, 1:4 and 0:5 of Sylhet sand and local river sand. For all of the mix ratios, compressive strengths are determined at 28 days. The compressive strengths increase by designing the appropriate gradation of sand mix, which is determined by fineness modulus of both types of sand and their mixes. The results indicate that the best of the corresponding six mix proportions of Sylhet and local sand is 3:2.

Ad Hoc Network provides quick communication among knob to convey the packets from one knob to other. These networks are independent of any fixed infrastructure or central entity like cellular networks [10] which requires fixed infrastructure to operate. Any malicious knob in the network can disturb the whole process or can even stop it. Several attacks like Replay attack, black hole, wormhole, rushing etc [13], in which legitimate knob behaves like malicious knob and disturbed whole the network. To define and detect the malicious behavior of a knob, it becomes obligatory to define the regular and malicious behavior of a knob. Whenever a knob exhibits a malicious behavior under any attack, it assures the breach of security principles like availability, integrity, confidentiality etc [13].

Investigations on the production of xanthan with a locally isolated strain have been emphasized. We can isolate the strain by diluting serially the extract of infected banana petioles. By considering the cost-effective aspects of the xanthan fermentation process, agro industrial substrate sugarcane molasses was exploited. The effect of initial concentration of carbon source for the substrate was studied by varying the glucose concentration in the range of 2% to 6% (glucose equivalent). The time course of cell mass, xanthan production and substrate utilization were recorded in order to facilitate the kinetics of fermentation. The substrate chosen for study, sugarcane molasses resulted the xanthan gum yield of 27.2 g/l at a fermentation period of 96 h with the initial glucose concentration of 4%. The study confirmed that the logistic equation for growth kinetics and Luedeking-Piret model for substrate utilization and product formation model fits well with the experimental data

The Third Medium Term Plan is an implementation programme for the Vision 2030 running from 2018 to 2022. It outlines the sectors which the winning party in the August 2018 General Election will focus on for the next 5 years in addition to its manifesto. The projects that were not completed in the Second Medium Term Plan will be carried forward in the Third Medium Term Plan. The primary focus on the Third Medium Term Plan will be to expand the sectors of export, manufacturing and mining. It purposes to achieve a 10% economic growth by the end of the Third Medium Term Plan. The implementation of the Third Medium Term Plan comes at a time when Kenya has committed to implement the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and African Union Agenda 2063. The implementation of the MTP 3 faces multiple challenges such as a climate change sensitive economy that is necessitating the government of Kenya to adopt supplementary budget to counter food shortage and deal with national emergencies. The implementation of the Medium-Term Plan is also facing a rising foreign debt to GDP ratio as the government is forced to borrow externally to finance the MTP 3. The implementation of the MTP 3 faces multiple legal challenges such as lack of coherence in laws dealing with manufacturing, disputes in the acquisition and transfer of land, legal lacuna in the prosecution of corruption cases that pave way for rampant corruption in Kenya. The lack of a comprehensive legislation on Agriculture and a policy on reducing post-harvest loses is one of the main challenges facing the Third Medium Term Plan. The paper will explore the legal challenges facing he implementation of the MTP 3 and offer recommendations on how to streamline the implementation of the MTP 3.