Paper Type	::	Review Paper
Title	::	A Study on Employee Engagement in Present Scenario
Country	::	India
Authors	::	S.Gousia ||, S.Sowjanya
Page No.	::	01-06
	::	10.9790/3021-04350106
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Employee engagement is the level of commitment and involvement an employee has towards their organization and its values. An engaged employee is aware of business context, and works with colleagues to improve performance within the job for the benefit of the organization. It is a positive attitude held by the employees towards the organization and its values. The paper ocuses on how employee engagement is an antecedent of job involvement and what should company do to make the employees engaged. The paper also looks at the Gallup 12 point questionnaire, welve-question survey that identifies strong feelings of employee engagement and the steps hitch shows how to drive an engaged employee.

 

Keywords: - decision making, goal achievement, intellectual commitment, leadership, motivation, psychology. Sources of Research :Usage of both primary ,secondary sourcess.

[1] A Study on Employee Engagement in Present Scenario

[2] Assistant Professor ,Dept of MBA Rajeev Gandhi Memorial College Of Engg&Tech Nandyal.

Paper Type	::	Research Paper
Title	::	Error Detection using Orthogonal Code
Country	::	India
Authors	::	Ms.Mrunal S.Panse ||, Ms.Snehal Meshram ||, Ms.Darshana Chaware ||, Ms.A.Raut
Page No.	::	07-11
	::	10.9790/3021-04350711
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		3021-0403-0511

when data is transmitted through a channel(wired or wireless),some noises may affect the reliability of data. Because of this actual information get changed. This is reffered as error. Therefore error detection and correction techniques are required at the receiver. Orthogonal code is one of the coding technique which detect as well as correct the corrupted data. In this method each k-bit data set is converted into n-bit orthogonal code. An n-bit orthogonal code contains n/2 1‟s and n/2 0‟s,that means parity of this code is always zero. In this paper we present a new methodology to enhance the error correction capability of orthogonal code. This technique is implemented using VHDL and field programmable gate array(FPGA).

 

Keywords: - Orthogonal code, Antipodal code, Error detection and correction.

[1] N. Kaabouch, A. Dhirde, and S. Faruque, "Improvement of the orthogonal Code Convolution capabilities using FPGA implementation",IEEE Electro/Information Technology Proceedings, pp. 380-384, 2007.
[2] A.Mitra, "On Pseudo-Random and Orthogonal Binary Spreading Sequences", International Journal of Information and Communication Engineering ,pp.447-454, 2008
[3] Siwaruk Siwamogsatham and Michael P. Fitz, "Improved High- Rate Space-Time Codes via Orthogonality and Set Partitioning" , IEEE Proceeding,264-270, 2002.
[4] Luca Reggiani, Annalisa Tomasetta, Gian Mario Maggio, "Orthogonal Convolutional Modulation for UWB Impulse Radio Communications", IEEE conference ISCAS . pp2441-2444, 2006
[5] S. Faruque, "Error Control Coding based on Orthogonal Codes", Wireless Proceedings, Vol. 2, pp. 608-615, 2004.

Paper Type	::	Research Paper
Title	::	Empirical models for the correlation of clearness index with meteorological parameters in IRAQ
Country	::	Iraq
Authors	::	Dr. WaleedI ||, AL-RijaboZahraa M.H
Page No.	::	12-18
	::	10.9790/3021-04351218
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The aim of this paper is to estimate the mean monthly values of clearness index in five meteorological stations in Iraq (Mosul , Kirkuk , Rutba , Baghdad , Nasiriya) for the period (1970-2000) using different meteorological parameters .Multiple Regression Equation were used to estimate clearness index.The performance of these regression equations were evaluated by comparing the calculated clearnessindex and the measured clearness index. Several statistical tests were used to control the validation and goodness of the regression equations in terms of correlation coefficient, coefficient of determination, Mean absolute error and root mean square error. The coefficient of determination (R2) of these multiple regression equations were very high in all stations and ranged between 0.973 to 1.00.

[1] Mellit, A., eadj Arab, A.,shaar ,S .,(2007), "An Anfis – Based prediction for monthly clearness index and daily solar radiation : Application for sizing of a stand- alone Photovoltaic system " , Journal of physical science , vol. 18(2) , pp.15-35.
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[4] Augustine,C. and Nnabuchi, M.N.,(2009),"Correlation of CloudinessIndex with Clearness Index for Four Selected Cities in Nigeria.", The Pacific Journal of Science and Technology,vol.10,NO.2.
[5] Iqbal, M.,(1983),"An introduction to solar radiation", AcademicPress, Canada.

Paper Type	::	Research Paper
Title	::	Effective Community Participation In Reconstruction Of Greater Aguata Water Scheme, Enhances Sustainability
Country	::	Awka
Authors	::	Otti, V. I., ||, Ezenwaji, E. E., ||, Aginam, H. C. ||, and Nwafor, A. U.
Page No.	::	19-24
	::	10.9790/3021-04351924
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The paper focus on the concept of community participation on water scheme without being wholly controlled by the State Water Corporation, rather the communities are empowered to play more active roles in safeguarding and sustaining development programme, emphasising on purpose, decision making, training, operation and maintenance, participation model and benefits, with the aid of SPSS version 21 statistical package. Therefore, the communities are expected to influence and share control over development initiatives, decision and resources that affect them.

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Paper Type	::	Research Paper
Title	::	Hysteresis Current Control of Switched Reluctance Motor in Aircraft Applications
Country	::	Egypt
Authors	::	Maged N. F. Nashed ||, Samia M. Mahmoud ||, Mohsen Z. El-Sherif ||, Emad S. Abdel-Aliem
Page No.	::	25-40
	::	10.9790/3021-04352540
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The switched reluctance motor (SRM) drives have been widely used in aircraft applications due to the motor advantages like high speed operation, simple construction, no windings on rotor. But high torque ripples and acoustic noise are main disadvantages. The current hysteresis chopping control is one of the important control methods for SRM drives. These disadvantages can be limited using the hysteresis or chopping current control. This control strategy makes the torque of SRM maintained within a set of hysteresis bands by applying suitable source voltage. This paper introduces two hysteresis control modes; hard chopping and soft chopping mode. The SRM drive system is modeled in Simulink model using MATLAB/SIMULINK software package.

 

Keywords: - Hysteresis/Chopping control, hard chopping, soft chopping, comparator, current controller

[1] Samia M. Mahmoud, Mohsen Z. El-Sherif, Emad S. Abdel-Aliem, and Maged N. F. Nashed, Studying Different Types of Power Converters Fed Switched Reluctance Motor, International Journal of Electronics and Electrical Engineering Vol. 1, No. 4, Dec. 2013, 281-290.
[2] Ahmed Abdel-Hafez, Power Generation and Distribution System for a More Electric Aircraft - A Review, in Dr. Ramesh K. Agarwal (Ed.), Recent Advances in Aircraft Technology, 2012 (InTech Publisher), 289-308.
[3] Hamid Ehsan Akhter et al., Determination of optimum switching angles for speed control of switched reluctance motor drive system, Indian Journal of Engineering and Materials Sciences, Vol. 11, June 2004, 151-168.
[4] R. Krishnan, Switched Reluctance Motor Drives: Modeling, Simulation, Analysis, Design, and Applications (CRC Press 2001).
[5] Praveen Vijayraghavan, Design of Switched Reluctance Motors and Development of a Universal Controller for Switched Reluctance and Permanent Magnet Brushless DC Motor Drives, doctoral diss., Faculty of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, November 2001.

Paper Type	::	Research Paper
Title	::	Enhanced Boosted Trees Technique for Customer Churn Prediction Model
Country	::	India
Authors	::	Kiranjot Kaur ||, Sheveta Vashisht
Page No.	::	41-45
	::	10.9790/3021-04354145
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		3021-0403-0545

As the competition grows in the market, the organizations are more concern about customers than products. To be in the competition, organizations always want to retain their profitable customers. To predict the customers‟ churn behavior, data mining techniques are used. Many algorithms have been proposed to predict churning customers. In this paper, enhanced boosted trees technique is used for customer churn prediction. This approach will improve the performance of existing boosted trees technique. The process of customer churn prediction is discussed in this paper. It will be used to identify churn customers and effective marketing strategies could be planned for this group of customers.

 

Keywords: - Boosted Trees, Churn Model, Classification Technique, Customer Churn Prediction, Data Mining

[1] J. Han and M. Kamber, Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques (Morgan Kaufmann, India, 2006)
[2] S.Y. Hung, D. Yen and H.Y. Wang, Applying Data Mining to Telecom Churn Management, Expert System with Applications, Elsevier, 31(3), 2006, 515-524.
[3] C. Wang and Y. Wang, Discovering Consumer‟s Behavior Changes Based on Purchase Sequences, Proc. 9th IEEE-International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD 2012), Sichuan, China, 2012, 642-645
[4] M. M. Rosario and V. Pedro, Tracking of consumer behavior in e-commerce, Proc. 16th International Conference on Information Fusion, Istanbul, Turkey, 2013, 1214-1221
[5] J. Hadden, A. Tiwari, R. Roy, and D. Ruta, Computer assisted customer churn management: State-of-the-art and future trends, Computers and Operations Research, 34(10), 2007, 2902-2917.

Paper Type	::	Research Paper
Title	::	A New Approach Based on Artificial Intelligent Models for Forecasting of Financial Markets
Country	::	Iran
Authors	::	Ali Ghezelbash ||, Farshid Keynia
Page No.	::	46-52
	::	0.9790/3021-04354652
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		3021-0403-0552

This paper presents a study of artificial neural networks for use in stock price prediction. The goal of the article is to research financial market efficiency and to recognize major reversal points of long-term trend of stock market index, which could indicate a forthcoming crisis or market raise periods. Software was developed by using MATLAB to simulate the performance and efficiency of the algorithm. A multilayer perception (M.L.P) neural network model is used to determine and explore the relationship between some variables as independent factors and the level of stock price index as a dependent element in the stock market under study over time. The results show that the neural network models can get better outcomes compared with parametric models like regression and others traditional statistical techniques. The hybridized approach was tested with published stock data and the results obtained showed remarkable improvement over the use of only technical analysis variables. Also, the prediction from hybridized approach was found satisfactorily adequate as a guide for traders and investors in making qualitative decisions.

 

Keywords: Stock Price Prediction, Back Propagation, Neural Network Architecture

[1] M.T. Philip, K. Paul, S.O. Choy, K. Reggie, S.C. Ng, J. Mak, T. Jonathan, K. Kai, and W. TakLam, "Design and Implementation of NN5 for Hong Stock Price Forecasting", Journal of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, vol. 20, 2007, pp. 453-461.

[2] J. Yao, C. Tan and H. Poh, "Neural Networks for Technical Analysis: A Study on KLCI," International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, Vol. 2, No. 2, 1999, pp. 221-241. doi: 10.1142/S0219024999000145

[3] K. H. Lee and G. S. Jo, "Expert System for Predicting Stock Market Timing Using a Candlestick Chart," Expert Systems with Applications, Vol. 16, No. 4, 1999, pp. 357- 364. doi:10.1016/S0957-4174(99)0011-1

[4] A. S. Chen, M. Leung and H. Daouk, "Application of Neural Networks to an Emerging Financial Market: Forecasting and Trading the Taiwan Stock Index," Computers & Operations Research, Vol. 30, No. 6, 2003, pp. 901-923. doi:10.1016/S0305-0548 (02)00037-0

[5] I. Kaastra and M. Boyd, "Designing a Neural Network for Forecasting Financial and Economic Time Series," Neurocomputing, Vol. 10, No. 3, 1996, pp. 215-236. doi:10.1016/0925-2312 (95) 00039-9

Paper Type	::	Research Paper
Title	::	A Novel FPGA Based Synchronous High Resolution Digital Pulse Width Modulators for Inverters
Country	::	India
Authors	::	Shijiny Basheer ||, Chithra M
Page No.	::	53-60
	::	10.9790/3021-04355360
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This paper presents the survey of Pulse Width Modulators for inverters. Pulse Width Modulators are widely used as the basic block for controlling the on and off of the load that connecting with the inverter. Here presents two synchronous techniques that increase the resolution of Pulse Width Modulation. The synchronous techniques based on on-chip DCM (Digital Clock Manager) present in Spartan 3 FPGA series and the second technique based on IODELAYE1 block present in the Virtex 6 FPGA series. The two techniques fully avoid glitches and improve the reliability of the circuit. The circuit also uses the coarse resolution counter and one or two DCM or IODELAYE1 blocks. The PWM is set in the beginning of the counter and resets based on certain fraction of clock periods. The first architecture, presents the generalization of DCM based circuit and it allows operating the circuit at higher clock frequencies. The second is based on the I/O delay element (IODELAYE1) available in the Virtex-6 FPGAs, and it provides higher resolution with a straightforward implementation

 

Keywords: - Field programmable gate arrays (FPGA), power conversion, Digital clock manager, IODELAYE1, Pulse Width Modulators.

[1] Angel Vpeterchev, "Digital pulse width modulation in power electronic circuits," July2002.
[2] S. Mekhilef and A. Masaoud, "Xilinx FPGA based multilevel PWM single phase inverter," 2006 Engineering e-Transaction, vol.l, no.2, pp 40-45, Dec. 2006.
[3] A. de Castro and E. Todorovich, "DPWM based on FPGA clock phase shifting with time resolution under 100 ps," in Proc. IEEE Power Electron. Spec. Conf., 2008, pp. 3054–3059.
[4] A. M. Omar, N. A. Rahim and S. Mekhilef, 'Three-phase synchronous PWM for flyback converter with power-factor correction using FPGA ASIC design," IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron., vol. 51, no. I, pp. 96-106,Feb. 2004.

[5] A. Myaing and V. Dinavahi, "FPGA-based real-time emulation of power electronic system with detailed representation of device characteristics", IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron., vol. 58, no. I, pp. 358-368, Jan. 2011.