Search

Proton Computed Tomography is a new imaging technique which reconstructs the relative stopping power more accurately than X-ray Computer Tomography. This gives us a better proton range and it becomes easy to treat small tumors. In this paper, we have discussed the details of the design, construction and high-performance p-MCz Si material tracker detector in the proton computed tomography. It also describes the generations of proton beams of ∼200 MeV energy and how it is delivered to the patient. By using the p-MCz Si microstrip detectors, Si tracker will be able to track the path of protons entering the patient. In addition to proton doses, the Si tracker will also be used to monitor the proton beam profile and total dose delivered during the high fluences used for cancer treatment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study aimed to examine the impact of employee silence on Job engagement and emotional exhaustion among nurses working in five private hospitals situated in different districts of Punjab state in northern India. The study was carried out using a self-structured questionnaire based on existing literature and already developed scales. The questionnaire was duly filled online by 150 nurses (response rate of 75%). To examine the observations and to test the proposed model, Partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) version 2.0 was applied. The results confirmed a statistically significant negative relationship between employee silence and Job engagement. Also, the results concluded a positive relationship between employee silence and emotional exhaustion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Several firms encourage employees' silence because they think it is secure for them, but they are ignorant that it may eventually lead to staff members' outbursts or serve as a sign of stagnation. Employees occasionally choose to keep quiet at work in order to avoid bringing attention to themselves and risking the reputation of being a terrible worker, which can lead to job stress, low morale, and disengagement. The current investigation of the complexity of healthcare workers' quiet behaviour is exploratory in nature. 150 nurses who work at private hospitals in Punjab provided the data. Acquiescent silence, Defensive silence and Pro-social silence were investigated as the dimensions of silence behaviour of employees using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The development of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of the Indian text is an active area of research today. The presence of many characters in a set of alphabets, their intricate combinations, and intricate grapes are a challenge for the OCR designer. This paper focuses on improving the efficiency of the Tesseract OCR in the Hindi language. This paper introduces Google's Tesseract Optical Character Recognition software. An optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the process of identifying and converting the text into images in pixels in a computer-friendly presentation. The present work aims to improve the accuracy of the Tesseract 4.0 OCR engine. The OCR engine will extract the text from the image. Some information has in the extracted text is calculated to provide the decision to accept. The test results in Hindi, taken from a random sample of books, show the characters and the accuracy of the words. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rice is most consumed staple food in the world providing over 21% of the calorie intake of world's population having high yielding capacity. Elements detected in rice are Al, As, Br, Cd, Cl, Co, Cs, Cu, Fe, Hg ,K, Mg, Mn, Mo, Rb, Se and Zn by using Instrumental Neutron Activation with k0 standardization (R. Jayasekera etal,2004). Some of these trace elements are C, H, O, N, S, Ca, P, K, Na, Cl, Mn, Ti, Mg, Cu, Fe, Ni, Si and Zn are essential for growth of human physique The deficiency or excess of these elements in food is known to cause a variety of malnutrition or health disorders in the world. Every year, various varieties of rice are launched by Punjab Agriculture University, Ludhiana. The main purpose of which is to increases the yield to attain the maximum profit. But this leads to changing the elemental concentration in them, which may affect the human health according to variation in the nutrition values. The main objective is to study the presence of elemental concentration in various varieties of rice using EDXRF technique. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We present electrical and magnetic properties of nanostructured Pb1-xSrx(Fe0.012Ti0.988)O3 (PSFT) (x = 0.2 to 0.4) thin films. The magnetoelectric coupling is studied by polarization hysteresis under applied magnetic field. The nano grains of PSFT control the dielectric constant up to 10 MHz and exhibit large tunability. At room temperature PSFT shows diffuse phase transition. The cole-cole model has study the effect of grain boundaries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]