Hand anthropometry data collection of a sample population is a conventional and important first step during design and evaluation of any hand operated product. The purpose of this work is first to discuss some of the deficiencies in the use of hand anthropometry nomenclature in published scientific literature. Based on the limitations observed, a mnemonics-based novel nomenclature system called TWHP (TYPE-WHAT-HOW-POSE) is proposed for easy and efficient referencing and management of the nam...

VANET is a vital part of wireless networking. Vehicular movement is expanding indefinitely everywhere and is causing terrible problems to daily life. Almost all of the traffic lights now feature a fixed green light sequence and so green light sequence is determined without taking the existence of emergency vehicles into consideration. Consequently emergency vehicles such as ambulances, fire engines, police vehicles etc. are struck in traffic which might cause loss of valuable life and propert...

. Vehicle accidents are increasing day by day as a result of high-speed vehicles on highways so, the speed determination of fastapproaching vehicles is becoming a challenging task with moving camera. Most of the vehicles are driven above the prescribed vehicle speed. On expressways, light motor vehicles are unaware of the speed of the rapid vehicle following to them. So in this paper, an algorithm has been proposed to anticipate the speed of the fast approaching vehicle by a moving camera to ...

Development of intelligent surveillance systems for anomalous event detection is essential to save human life and property. In recent years, various deeplearning techniques have been proposed to increase the system performance. However, due to complexity involved in the deep architectures very few can be applicable to real world scenarios. In this paper, a two-stream CNN architecture for anomalous event detection is proposed by exploiting both normal and anomalous videos. Furthermore,a datab...

Silicon nanowires (SiNWs) are promising semiconductor material for various device applications such as Lithium-ion batteries, sensors, thermoelectric devices, and solar cells due to their unique optical, mechanical, electrical, and thermal properties. Metal-assisted chemical etching (MACE) is a low-cost process to fabricate SiNWs at room temperature on crystalline Si (c-Si) substrate. However, the c-Si substrate is rigid, fragile, and costly that preclude the use of SiNWs in flexible devices....

A landfill liner should be a low permeable barrier which prevents a pollutant in a waste containment system from entering surface water, ground water and thus polluting them. The performance of the lining system is greatly affected by its hydraulic conductivity (Daniel 1987, 1990). Highly expansive clays such as bentonites (because of their low hydraulic conductivity, k ≤ 10-9 m/sec) mixed with certain geo-materials are used for the construction of hydraulic barriers. Bentonites consist of mo...

The Sukinda ultramafic complex contributes nearly 95% of the total chromite reserve in India. The occurrence of high level of Cr(VI) in the area has been reported. The Cr(VI) is highly mobile than Cr(III) and it is carcinogenic in nature. Thus, main objective of this study is to understand the governing mechanism that influences the Cr(VI) in various water bodies. The pH varies from 6.46 to 8.48 and the Eh varies from 12.3 to 245.9 mV. Most of the water is classified into Mg- HCO3 - facies. ...

Hydraulic barriers are a part of lining systems which are responsible for preventing a potential pollutant present in the waste containment from migrating to surface water, groundwater and thus polluting them. Natural clays, calcium or sodium-based bentonite mixed with specific geo-materials are widely used in the construction of hydraulic barriers such as liners and covers due to their low hydraulic conductivity (i.e. k ≤ 10-7 cm/sec). However, the long term interaction of landfill liner wit...

Multigenerational nature of the workforce makes engagement more captivating as each generation has distinctive engagement drivers. However, Gen Y is found to be the least engaged segment of the workforce worldwide. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to identify the factors which affect the engagement level of Gen Y and to develop a model of employer branding for Gen Y. The paper also prioritizes the identified factors and sub-factors relating to the different aspects of employee engageme...

In the mines, run off water gets polluted by many reasons. During rainy season the mine water generally mix up with the sulphides, particularly iron sulphides and form a yellowish coloured waste called acid mine drainage (AMD). To deal with AMD is a great challenge as this contaminates the drinking water in different ways and as a result the miners and residents are suffering from different diseases. This AMD further permeates through the ground and pollute the runoff for a long period of tim...

The present research focuses to evaluate a complete outlook of virgin high density polyethylene (HDPE) and polypropylene (PP) polyblends. Virgin PP of 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 weight % is compounded with virgin HDPE. Tensile, Flexural and impact test specimens of virgin HDPE, Virgin PP and HDPE-PP composites are prepared via twin screw extruder and injection moulding methods as per ASTM D638-02a (Type-I), ASTM D790 and ASTM D256-A standa...

The removal of heavy metals from wastewater has become crucial to meet safe discharge standards. Development of more economic process has been strived owing to high cost of adsorbents. Thus, biosorption process has become the area of interest to researchers and engineers. The present study has carried out the transient removal of heavy metals from wastewater by both physically treated and chemically modified Cajanus cajan (Pigeon pea) husk (CCH) as novel biosorbents. Work includes five differ...

In the present world, Scientists are very much concern on to reduce the concentration level of carbon dioxide in environment to save the world. In the present work, the CO2 capturing efficiencies of three different amine solvents were analyzed. The selected solvents were mono-ethanol amine (MEA), solvent containing mixture of methyl diethanol amine (MDEA) and piperazine (PZ) called activated -MDEA and aqueous ammonia (NH3) solution. Rigorous simulation method was considered in the current st...

Rare earth (RE) doped upconversion materials capable of turning the incident NIR photons into UV–vis photons have shown promising potentials in the fields of solar cells [1], sensors [2], and so on. The efficient upconversion materials are based on fluorides specially NaYF4, which are codoped with rare earth (RE) ions. These are generally exhibit multicolor fluorescence emission from ultraviolet to infrared (IR) because of the abundance of the 4fN electronic states of the RE ions. Therefore, ...

Reuse of waste materials has been a general issue in all walks of life. Paving industries now face serious crunch of coarse aggregates, a by-product of natural stone resources, which constitute about 70% of bituminous paving mixes. Considering this, some researchers have already taken a cue to explore use of recycled concrete aggregates (RCA). Similarly few works show that there has been improvement in bituminous mix performance by using shredded waste plastics. Taking a note of these two fac...

Bioenergy has been widely accepted with the potential to deliver a significant portion in projected renewable energy provisions of the future. Pyrolysis of plastics mixed with biomass found to reduce the adverse effects of plastic recycling on the environment. The present work was carried out to produce high-grade pyrolytic oil from a mixture of biomass, plastic and modified fly ash. The resultant oil obtained from non-catalytic mixed pyrolysis of sugarcane bagasse (SB) and polystyrene (PS) w...

Natural fibres have gained researchers’ attention as a replacement to synthetic materials for reinforcing material in polymers such as epoxy due to their advantages such as environment friendliness, biodegradability, renewability and cost effectiveness. Due to such advantages, further exploration of new natural fibres as a filler material in polymer matrix composites for different tribological applications is needed. Lantana camara is one such abundant natural resources whose potential as fil...

Natural fibers have many advantages like biodegradable, recyclable, easy availability and low cost along with high specific strength and mechanical properties which are comparable to synthetic fibers, creating interest among researchers worldwide for their suitable use in composite industries. Rubber wood is one such natural fiber whose potential as reinforcement in polymer composite is not yet explored till date. The present work based on the study of the mechanical properties and solid part...

Tribe is otherwise known as Adivasi. A tribe is referred as a exiting group before the development of or outside of states. Like that “Adivasi” is a generic term for a heterogeneous set of ethnic and tribal groups believed to be the aboriginal population, a substantial indigenous minority, of India. Over a period of time, unlike the terms "aborigines" or "tribes", the word "Adivasi" has also developed a connotation of past autonomy which was disrupted during the British colonial period in Ind...