Pub Date : 2021-09-23DOI: 10.9734/bpi/nvst/v4/1918c
Saiful Azmir Kasdi, M. Abdullah, Farah Akmar Anor Salim, Afizan Amer, Irwan Ibrahim, A. Rahmat
The current maintenance management method has affected the efficiency and capabilities of the operation management. Maintaining the production capability in any production system is an essential part of an operations management. Many issues such as poor productivity and quality, inadequate finance, poor safety and morale, as well as environmental risks have emerged due to the current maintenance practice. In today’s world, company is moving towards implementing green as an effort and attractive strategy to achieve sustainability and maintaining competitiveness in their business practice to cater the consumer demands. In this sense, green maintenance management capability (GMMC) permitting better company awareness and commitment to environmental sustainability while gaining effective maintenance practice. In this research, green technology and green human resource management were assessed, important issues were addressed and recommendation were made for prospect research.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-23DOI: 10.9734/bpi/nvst/v4/2557e
W. Oldham
Self-organization using simple dynamic laws has been applied to migration across a common border between two entities, states or countries. The motion of the migrants and their final positions are presented. In the system there were two sets of objects. One set was on a side of the boundary. One side, the right side, was considered to be the better entity. That is it had a good government and the economy was strong. On the left side the entity was decidedly different with respect to the governance and the economy. Each side's objects were further divided into two groups. The two groups were referred to as strong and weak. The strong represent the governance, rich or elite and weak refers to the general population. Initially the objects were randomly distributed in this two dimensional square bounded region, and then allowed to dynamically interact for a number of iterations. The forces among all of the particles as groups were defined to be attractive or repulsive and could be adjusted to study the resulting configuration from the dynamics. Four experiments were conducted to see how self-organization applies for these scenarios. In Experiment 1 the migration took place with only the object-to-object forces active. In Experiment 2 the concept of employment was introduced. An unemployed object was allowed to move faster than an employed object thus giving the unemployed greater mobility. The employment rate on right side is considerably higher than on the left side. Experiment 3 explored changing one of the forces from repelling to attract. Experiment 3 was the same as Experiment 2 except for this and it went for twice as many iterations. Experiment 4 created employment centers on the right side. These centers provided jobs to left side migrants that came close enough to a center. If the left side object got a center job then that migrant did not move for the remainder of the simulation. In Experiments 1 and 2 there was no incentive for a migrant to remain so the migrant traveled back and forth across the border. In Experiment 4 it was assumed that the job provided incentive for the migrant to remain at a fixed location. Thus clusters of migrants formed around the job centers. The clusters that formed were not sustainable indicating lack of reason to stay. The objectives of this effort were to apply computer simulation to a group of migrants to observe the traffic patterns from one side to the other and to observe if cluster or enclaves were formed.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-23DOI: 10.9734/bpi/nvst/v4/11493d
Michael J. Vandeman
Scientists are generally honest, in what they say – but not in what they choose to study. Despite a diligent search in one of the world's best libraries (the University of California, Berkeley), I wasn't able to find a single book or article on the harm done by trail-building. I notice that whenever I see a picture of a trail, I think "Oh, a trail – so what?" It takes an effort of will to think about the wildlife habitat that was destroyed in order to build the trail. And the habitat destruction isn't restricted to the trail bed. As Ed Grumbine pointed out in Ghost Bears, a grizzly can hear a human from a mile away, and smell one from five miles away. And grizzlies are probably not unique in that. In other words, animals within five miles of a trail are inhibited from full use of their habitat. That is habitat destruction! If there were no trails, we would be confronted by our own destructiveness every time we entered a park. It is only because the habitat has already been destroyed for us, that we can pretend that we are doing no harm. That leaves only one option compatible with wildlife conservation: minimizing the construction, extent, and use of trails.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-23DOI: 10.9734/bpi/nvst/v4/12921d
S. Kolekar, S. Sawant, P. Jyothi
Objective: The purpose of this study was to compare the fingerprint and palm print patterns of female schizophrenia patients and normal controls. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Material and Methods: Fifty females with schizophrenia, ranging in age from 16 to 60, were selected, along with an equal number of age-matched normal controls. The fingerprints and palm prints were taken using the standard ink process. Results: In schizophrenic females, the arches are considerably shorter than in controls (p<0.05). In schizophrenic females, there is a higher percentage of frequency of presence of patterns in Th/I1 and hypothenar areas of the right hand; the difference in frequency of Th/I1 area is statistically significant (p<0.05) and low percentage of frequency of presence of patterns in I2, I3 and I4 areas of left hand in schizophrenic females as compared to that of controls; of which, I4 area shows highly significant less presence of patterns in schizophrenic females (p<0.01). In schizophrenic females, there is a substantial increase in the prevalence of ridge dissociation in both hands when compared to controls (p<0.001). In both palms of schizophrenic females, the mean ‘atd' angle is higher than in controls (left hand - (p<0.05). In schizophrenic females, the mean ‘a-b' ridge count in the left hand and the mean ‘b-c' ridge count in the right hand are lower (p<0.05) than in controls.. Conclusion: Dermatoglyphic patterns are recognized by genetic factors. When analysed in conjunction with clinical features of schizophrenia, dermatoglyphic patterns can distinguish between patients and control groups.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-23DOI: 10.9734/bpi/nvst/v4/4024f
T. Lakshmi, T. Madhu, K. C. Srikavya, K. Kumar
Objectives: To develop an image enhancement technique that includes both resolution and contrast enhancement. Resolution is the ability of an image to show its details. In this method, Stationary Wavelet Transform (SWT) is used in combination with Lifting Wavelet Transform (LWT) for resolution enhancement and SWT with the combination of Contrast limited adaptive Histogram Equalization (CLAHE) for contrast enhancement. SWT is used in combination with LWT improves the resolution and also minimizes the execution time drastically. SWT is combined with CLAHE to enhance the Contrast and mitigate the noise effects than existing methods. The proposed method gives superior results, and it is proved with Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR), Noise Estimation and Root Mean Square Error (RMSE), and pictorial results.
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