The status and distribution of Hanuman langur (Semnopithecus entellus) (Dufresne) in Bidar district Karnataka
Hanuman Langurs are widely distributed nonhuman primates in South Asia. There are no reports on their status and distribution in Bidar district, Karnataka, India. Hence, the study was conducted to know their present status and distribution. Bidar District has a considerable population of the Hanuman Langur with a total of 225 troops of which 142 are unimale troops, 55 were multimale groups and 28 all-male troops. These 225 troops constitute 6384 langurs of which 828 adult males, 2792 adult females, 1558 juveniles, and 1206 infants. The study reveals that there were a statistically significant difference in the number of animals, multimale and all-male troops among the talukas of Bidar district (P<0.05). In the study, it was also observed that there was a statistically significant difference of social composition of Hanuman Langurs among talukas of Bidar district (P0.05).
Published by: Shivakumar Patil, Sanjeevareddy Modse
Author: Shivakumar Patil
Paper ID: V4I5-1336
Paper Status: withdrawn
Submitted: October 6, 2018
PCIOL implantation by small incision cataract surgery in children with traumatic cataract
Interventional Study, among children with traumatic cataracts attending Ophthalmology OPD. Patients of both sexes and at different ages under 15 years were included. The etiology included was blunt trauma causing traumatic cataract. A detailed study of the age, etiology, pre-operative status of the eye, time of surgery following trauma, the final visual outcome was done and informed consent was taken. Postoperative follow up was done up to 2 months following surgery. There were no serious operative complications. Clinically significant posterior capsule opacification was seen in 20 % cases and YAG capsulotomy was performed in 4 patients. Visual acuity was 6/12 or better in 80% of eyes at the last follow up examination. The visual acuity after implantation of posterior chamber IOLs by SICS in children with traumatic cataracts was encouraging.
Published by: Dr. Arjan Singh, Dr. Sohan Lohiya
Author: Dr. Arjan Singh
Paper ID: V4I5-1333
Paper Status: published
Published: October 6, 2018
A survey on door access security control system via Raspberry Pi
In this paper, a control system for the door is being developed. A drastic growth and an increasing trend have been seen in the field of home automation control system. The person identification system is used as the basic design for the door control system. This technology is mostly preferred because of its enhanced security and the accuracy in the recognition of the individual. The main advantage of this system is that it can be accessed or controlled from any location in the world. At first, the images of the authorized individuals, for example, a particular family consisting of 7 or 8 members are being captured and made to store in the database. If the authorized person is not available at home and in case a third person or a visitor wants to visit his/her house, the system first captures the image of the visitor and compares it with the image stored in the database. If the match is found, then the person will be given access inside a house with door unlock. If the match is not found the access is denied and the alert notification is sent to the owner’s registered mail with the image captured. Then the owner decides to either provide access or deny it.
Published by: R. Keerthana, S. Govardhini
Author: R. Keerthana
Paper ID: V4I5-1270
Paper Status: published
Published: October 6, 2018
Productivity enhancement of pentagon type solar still and dryer in series using biomass energy
Desalination alludes to the methodology of expelling salt and different minerals from water. Water is desalinated with a specific end goal to change over salt water to new water so it is suitable for human utilization or watering system. In this paper, a novel design of pentagon still was designed and operated along with dryer using biomass energy to increase the productivity of desalination and drying efficiency of the dryer at THE same time. The basin plate of the conventional still was modified with wide area and double slope covers at the top to act as pentagon still the single basin dryer was operated in series. A biomass heater was connected in between these two to supply heat. The Pentagon still was operated with different depths of water, energy storing, exposure materials to strengthen its production. A heat exchanger was attached at the basin plate with extended surfaces to circulate heat. A conventional still was operated in the solar mode in the same location to compare the performances with modified still. Solar dryer was used to dry pineapple with the waste heat from biomass heart source. The productivity of pentagon still was 29%, 47% higher than conventional still when operated in solar, biomass heated modes. Addition of energy storage, exposure materials strengthen the productivity by 47%, 48%, and 41% respectively, adding extended surfaces in heat exchanger improves 20% in production. The drying efficiency was good in biomass mode when compared to solar mode. The payback period for the Pentagon still was very less. The energy balance for the boiler was also performed.
Published by: A. Senthilrajan, K. Raja, C. Ramji
Author: A. Senthilrajan
Paper ID: V4I5-1309
Paper Status: published
Published: October 6, 2018
Geolocation using NodeMCU
Geolocation is defined as the identification/estimation of the real-world geographic location of an object, such as a radar source, mobile phone, or Internet-connected computer terminal or any other device. Apparently, geolocation involves the generation of a set of geographic coordinates and is closely related to the use of positioning systems, it is enhanced by the use of these coordinates which determine a meaningful location, such as specific area. In this project, we will be interfacing a GPS module with NodeMCU. A simple local web server is created using NodeMCU and the location details are updated in that server webpage. NodeMCU is an open source IoT platform. It includes firmware which runs on the ESP8266 module and hardware which is based on the ESP-12 module. ESP8266 can be used for geolocation by firstly obtaining nearby AP properties, and then using Google geolocation API to locate the user-device. To be able to obtain a fix on the location of the device that integrates the ESP8266 chip, we assume that the host controller first could obtain data from nearby Wi-Fi networks or cellular sub-systems. The data is consolidated into a data block that must be sent to an online geolocation API or service that will estimate the device location in terms of latitude, longitude, and accuracy.
Published by: Rumi Juwairiyyah, Kajal Kasat, Jyothsna Bhushan, Mr. Jayaraj
Author: Rumi Juwairiyyah
Paper ID: V4I5-1323
Paper Status: published
Published: October 6, 2018
Design improvements in heat exchanger using partial differential equations
In today’s world, where the loss of energy due to engineering applications is increasing at an alarming rate, therefore efficiency is much needed in order to save the energy. The aim of the paper is to propose a new design of heat exchanger which would result in a substantial increase in the efficiency of the heat exchanger. The basic principle used to increase the efficiency is to change the shape of the tube holding fluid. In this paper, instead of using conventional cylindrical tubes for heating fluid, a cone-shaped tube with cold fluid entering the pipe through the base end and hot fluid coming out of the vertex end is used. This is achieved by tweaking the surface area to volume (SAV) ratio of the fluid carrying tubes. Since the Gaussian curvature through the axis of the tubes is zero, it’s a Euclidean surface. Thus there will be no change in properties if the conical tube is bent in the form of a helix. For a given volume, the object with minimum SAV ratio is a sphere as a consequence of isoperimetric inequality in 3 dimensions. Efficiency can be further increased by bending the shape of the tubes in form of a spherical helix. This would create a central heat source and constant temperature at the contact surface. Therefore there is a gradual decrease in volume as we go from base to the vertex of the conical tube would mean that pressure of hot fluid would increase as temperature and degree of freedom is constant.
Published by: Karthik S
Author: Karthik S
Paper ID: V4I5-1331
Paper Status: published
Published: October 6, 2018
