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Considerable uncertainty exist with regard to stability of slopes due to several factors and recognition of these uncertainties has made designees to introduce factor of safety. Several studies, during recent years on analytical methods using soil properties have improved understanding the several uncertainties. The reliability analysis of slopes can be used to represent uncertainty in mathematical models, which can be assumed to follow the characteristic of random uncertainty. The distribution uncertain variable, which is unknown, makes its estimation difficult. Hence, the concepts of fuzzy set theory appear to be quite reliable when limited information is available. This paper attempts to review the slope stability problem and deals with the intricacies of the concept of reliability and fuzzy logic as applied to stability analysis of slope. It has been suggested that the FOSM algorithm provides a general agreement among the different slope stability solutions.
Keywords: factor of safety, fuzzy logic, reliability method, slope stability,, uncertainty

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Nazarullah Khan, Dr. R Bhuvana Vijaya, Dr A Mallikarjuna Reddy, Dr M T Prathap Kumar, "Reliability and Fuzzy Logic Concepts as Applied to Slope Stability Analysis – A Review" Vol. 5 - Issue 6 (June - 2015), International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) , ISSN: 2248-9622 , www.ijera.com

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As a new material in the construction field，polyvinyl alcohol fiber cement stabilized macadam pavement has a very broad application prospects. The study of the basic mechanical properties of polyvinyl alcohol fiber cement stabilized macadam is also a hot spot today. This paper studies the flexural strength of polyvinyl alcohol fiber content is at 0.9Kg / m3,and the affect between the splitting tensile strength and the polyvinyl alcohol fiber.
Keywords: Polyvinyl alcohol fiber, engineering application ,splitting strength, flexural strength.

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Wang Shipeng, Liang Nai Xing, "The study of the basic mechanical properties of polyvinyl alcohol fiber cement stabilized macadam" Vol. 5 - Issue 6 (June - 2015), International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) , ISSN: 2248-9622 , www.ijera.com

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Today, innovation is an important pillar to effectively position in global markets. Nevertheless, produce a good completely new or significantly improved, requires reducing the gap between the intended purpose and the end result it either internally or externally of the firm. This paper also proposes a measurement model based on the "process" approach. This proposal is based on a set of explanatory variables and explained linking internal and external effectiveness of innovative product.
Keywords: Food SME's, innovation process, measure indicators of innovation, Product innovation, Process approach.

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Fatimaezzahra Fouad, Amina Tourabi, Ghizlane Lakhnati, "Measuring innovation in the "Process" approach: the case of agro-food products in Morocco" Vol. 5 - Issue 6 (June - 2015), International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) , ISSN: 2248-9622 , www.ijera.com

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Multimodal biometrics means the unification of two or more uni modal biometrics so as to make the system more reliable and secure. Such systems promise better security. This study is a blend of iris and fingerprint recognition technique and their fusion at feature level. Our work comprises of two main sections: feature extraction of both modalities and fusing them before matching and finally application of an encryption technique to enhance the security of the fused template.
Keywords: Multimodal ,unimodal ,fusion ,security.

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Muskaan, Tarun Gulati, "Performance Enhancement Of Multimodal Biometrics Using Cryptosystem" Vol. 5 - Issue 6 (June - 2015), International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) , ISSN: 2248-9622 , www.ijera.com

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The aim of this study is to determine homogenous region in the Tensift basin within which the hydrological behavior is similar. In order to do this we used two methods: The Principal components analysis on the monthly precipitation registered at the 23 rainfall stations. This resulted in setting apart 4 groups of stations. The second method is analysis of land use map, geological map, pedagogical map, vegetation map and slope map of the studied area. This method allowed us to delineate 4 homogenous areas. The two methods yielded complementary results and the superposition of groups and regions obtained allowed us to retain 4 homogenous regions corresponding to 3 groups of stations.
Keywords: Areas, flood, homogenous regions, PCA, Tensift basin.

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Jihane Ahattab, El Khadir Lakhal, Najat Serhir, "Determination of homogenous regions in the Tensift basin (Morocco)." Vol. 5 - Issue 6 (June - 2015), International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) , ISSN: 2248-9622 , www.ijera.com

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Microstrip antennas play a vital role in communication system. It is required in high performance wireless applications. But due to its resonant nature microstrip antennas have some considerable drawbacks like narrowband performance. Extensive study has been carried out on microstrip patch antennas in the recent past, but it still have large scope for improvement in the near future. To overcome narrow bandwidth problem, number of methods and techniques have been suggested and investigated, keeping in mind that the basic advantages of microstrip antenna should not be altered such as low profile, light weight, low cost and simple printed circuit structure. The area of investigation includes modification in geometrical shape of the antenna, use of resonators, use of dipole, and many other parameters. This paper presents a comparison between conventional microstrip antenna and microstip antenna with finite ground plane at ultra wideband. HFSS simulation tool is used here for antenna simulation. For feeding purpose microstrip feed line is used (50Ω). Optimized result provides impedance bandwidth of 7.2GHz with VSWR<2, operating frequency range is from 6.5GHz to 13.7GHz. Proposed antenna is useful for many ultra wideband applications.
Keyword— Ultra wideband, Microstrip antenna, Narrowband, HFSS, Partial ground plane.

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Priyanka Mishra, Paras Gupta, "Bandwidth Improvement of UWB Microstrip Antenna Using Finite Ground Plane" Vol. 5 - Issue 6 (June - 2015), International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) , ISSN: 2248-9622 , www.ijera.com

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In this paper, with the aim of developing a nondestructive evaluation technique using piezoelectric signals in wooden materials, we theoretically study the electroelastic field in a semi-infinite body with D∞ symmetry subjected to surface friction parallel to the ∞-fold rotation axis. By applying the analytical technique previously proposed by us, we formulate expressions for electroelastic field quantities, including electric potential, electric field, electric displacement, elastic displacement, strain, and stress by using two "elastic displacement potential functions" and two "piezoelastic displacement potential functions." These potential functions and, consequently, the electroelastic field quantities are formulated using Fourier transforms in order to satisfy electroelastic boundary conditions. We carried out numerical calculations to correctly evaluate field quantities inside the body and at its surface. As a result, we were successful in quantitatively elucidating the surface electric displacement in response to the elastic stimulus of surface friction and suggested the possibility of a nondestructive evaluation technique using piezoelectric signals.
Keyword— D∞ symmetry, electroelastic problem, piezoelectric body, theoretical analysis.

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Masayuki Ishihara, Yoshihiro Ootao and Yoshitaka Kameo, "Electroelastic Response of a Piezoelectric Semi-infinite Body with D∞ Symmetry to Surface Friction" Vol. 5 - Issue 6 (June - 2015), International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) , ISSN: 2248-9622 , www.ijera.com ×

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The purpose of this paper two fold. First and foremost it presents a background narrative on the origins, innovations and applications of novel structural automation technologies and the rarity of experts involved in research, development and practice of this field. The second part of this paper presents a rudimentary framework for a solution addressing this paucity – the creation of an interdisciplinary academic program at PAAET that will be the first ever in the region to address applied information communication technologies ICT in the design, planning, engineering and management of structural automation projects. In doing so, we need also to define the level of implementation. This field, as all fields in ICT, have been loosely defined and most applications carry less weight in its implementation than what should be applied. This paper gives an attempt to define an indexing scheme by which we can easily classify such implementation and generate a ranking by which we can safely define its level of ―Intelligence‖.

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ENG. TAREQ YOUSEF ALOMAIRI, "Indexing Building Evaluation Criteria" Vol. 5 - Issue 6 (June - 2015), International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) , ISSN: 2248-9622 , www.ijera.com ×

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The Information Communication and Technology industry is made up of enterprises concerned with the design, manufacture, installation, development, support and management of computer-based information systems (both software and hardware). The rapid expansion of electronic technologies within the global TELECOM industry has been accompanied by an explosion of automation applications that are redefining the way we perceive and experience communication, entertainment and security in our personal and professional environments. Convenience is now a function of the extent to which electronic appliances and gadgets are "online‟ and accessible through land and wireless networks. Information flow is expected on demand -constant, reliable, accurate and accessible. Such changes have understandably raised expectations with regards to the how effectively we function, in the places we live and work. No where have the effects of this new technology been felt as powerfully as in the global real estate industry.

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ENG. TAREQ YOUSEF ALOMAIRI, ENG. HAJRAF FALAH ALHAJRAF, "SMART BUILDING" Vol. 5 - Issue 6 (June - 2015), International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) , ISSN: 2248-9622 , www.ijera.com ×

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All people want to improve their quality of life and this can be achieved only by technology. Many problems are faced by daily vehicle users in payment based parking systems, both in open air parking system where the parking is done along the streets and in closed parking system where parking is done in closed infrastructure added with entry and exit points. Delays (long queues) and accuracy in fares are the main problems faced by the users. Many solutions are proposed to solve this problem but all have their own drawbacks. In this paper a new solution is proposed based on Near Field Communication (NFC) which makes the payment system reliable and easy.
Keyword— NFC, Closed parking, Open parking, Parking Payment.

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Arun Radhakrishnan, "NFC based parking payment system" Vol. 5 - Issue 6 (June - 2015), International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) , ISSN: 2248-9622 , www.ijera.com ×

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In this paper we introduce a synchronizing device for power electronic converters with single-phase or threephase AC input voltage. The voltage synchronizing transformer in this device has been replaced by a current transformer and a double galvanic isolation has been realized by means of optical media. Results from computer simulation and experimental studies have been brought out.
Keyword— power electronic converters, high AC voltage, synchronizing device.

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MihailH. Antchev, MintchoS. Mintchev, KostadinG. Milanov, HristoM.Antchev, "A Synchronizing Devicefor Power Electronic Converters" Vol. 5 - Issue 6 (June - 2015), International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) , ISSN: 2248-9622 , www.ijera.com ×

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Attribute Selection is an important topic in Data Mining, because it is the effective way for reducing dimensionality, removing irrelevant data, removing redundant data, & increasing accuracy of the data. It is the process of identifying a subset of the most useful attributes that produces compatible results as the original entire set of attribute. Cluster analysis or clustering is the task of grouping a set of objects in such a way that objects in the same group called a cluster are more similar in some sense or another to each other than to those in other groups (Clusters). There are various approaches & techniques for attribute subset selection namely Wrapper approach, Filter Approach, Relief Algorithm, Distributional clustering etc. But each of one having some disadvantages like unable to handle large volumes of data, computational complexity, accuracy is not guaranteed, difficult to evaluate and redundancy detection etc. To get the upper hand on some of these issues in attribute selection this paper proposes a technique that aims to design an effective clustering based attribute selection method for high dimensional data. Initially, attributes are divided into clusters by using graph-based clustering method like minimum spanning tree (MST). In the second step, the most representative attribute that is strongly related to target classes is selected from each cluster to form a subset of attributes. The purpose is to increase the level of accuracy, reduce dimensionality; shorter training time and improves generalization by reducing over fitting.
Keyword— Attribute Selection, Clustering, Data Mining, Graph-based Clustering, Minimum Spanning Tree.

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Ms.Sonam R. Yadav, Prof. Ravi Patki, "A Survey on Constellation Based Attribute Selection Method for High Dimensional Data" Vol. 5 - Issue 6 (June - 2015), International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) , ISSN: 2248-9622 , www.ijera.com ×

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The formation of waste matter sedimentation in settling ponds, along with accumulation of heavy metals, such as Nickel (Ni), Chrome (Cr₃₊ and Cr₆₊), manganese (Mn) and Cobalt (Co) and elements or compounds in laterite soil. These heavy metals will concentrate in different environmental geochemistry, which are laterite sediment layers pre- and post-mining. The purposes of this study are to identify changes of heavy metal distribution in settling ponds and analyze heavy metal mobility in settling ponds. The research methods were qualitative and quantitative methods. Laboratory research used AAS (Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer) which was studied, analyzed, and synthesized comprehensively. Data processing technique used SPSS v.21 software and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) method. The result showed that distribution of heavy metals Fe and Cr relatively strengthened constantly. The graphs of Fe and Cr were interpreted as similar mobility and mechanism of transportation os elements which can form chemical compounds. Meanwhile, metals Ni and Co had similar graph which was relatively flat constantly. This was interpreted as similar mobility of heavy metals in settling ponds. The mobility of heavy metals Fe and Cr were mostly concentrated to form ferrochrome compound in the sediment of settling ponds compared with Ni with its low mobility and Co with its very low mobility.
Keyword— Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer (AAS), Heavy Metal, Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Settling Pond.

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Muhammad Chaerul, Muhammad Saleh Pallu, Mary Selintung, Johanes Patanduk, "Distribution and Mobility of Heavy Metal Materials in Settling Ponds Post Laterite Nickel Min" Vol. 5 - Issue 6 (June - 2015), International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) , ISSN: 2248-9622 , www.ijera.com ×

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Modern world's wireless communication is booming and it uses multiple carriers for modulations .OFDM is multi carrier modulation and utilized in many standards of wireless communication such as DAB, DVB, wireless LAN etc. Notable fact is that the OFDM frame structure of these wireless communication are similar , this OFDM frames consists of number of OFDM symbols following with synchronizing signal with different cyclic prefix and guard interval. This paper shows how to develop generic OFDM modulator through a novel reconfigurable architecture to meet different wireless communication standards.
Keyword— Multi-carrier, synchronization, indexing.

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C Lakshmi Kanth, "Implementationof Reconfigurable Architecture For Generic OFDM Modulator (Hybrid Modulator Architecture)" Vol. 5 - Issue 6 (June - 2015), International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) , ISSN: 2248-9622 , www.ijera.com ×

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In process industries, heat exchanger networks represent an important part of the plant structure. The purpose of the networks is to maximize heat recovery, thereby lowering the overall plant costs. In process industries, during operation of any heat exchanger network (HEN), the major aim is to focus on the best performance of the network As in present condition of fuel crises is one of the major problem faced by many country & industrial utility is majorly depend on this. There is technique called process integration which is used for integrate heat within loop so optimize the given process and minimize the heating load and cooling load .In the present study of heat integration on VCM (vinyl chloride monomer) distillation unit, Heat exchanger network (HEN) is designed by using Aspen energy analyzer V8.0 software. This software implements a methodology for HEN synthesis with the use of pinch technology. Several heat integration networks are designed with different ΔT min and total annualized cost compared to obtain the optimal design. The network with a ΔT min of 90C is the most optimal where the largest energy savings are obtained with the appropriate use of utilities (Save 15.3764% for hot utilities and 47.52% for cold utilities compared with the current plant configuration). Percentage reduction in total operating cost is 18.333%. From calculation Payback Period for new design is 3.15 year. This save could be done through a plant revamp, with the addition of two heat exchangers. This improvement are done in the process associated with this technique are not due to the use of advance unit operation, but to the generation of heat integration scheme. The Pinch Design Method can be employed to give good designs in rapid time and with minimum data.
Keyword— VCM Process, Process Integration, Synthesis of HEN, Aspen Energy Analyzer V 8.0.

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VISHAL G. BOKAN, M.U.POPLE, "Design of Heat Exchanger Network for VCM Distillation Unit Using Pinch Technology" Vol. 5 - Issue 6 (June - 2015), International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) , ISSN: 2248-9622 , www.ijera.com ×

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Granite fines which are the byproduct produced in granite factories while cutting huge granite rocks to the desired shapes. Granite fines are used as a filler material in the concrete, replacing the fine aggregate which will help in filling up the pores in the concrete. Filling up of the pores by granite fines increase the strength of the concrete and also a material which is abundantly to investigate the strength behavior of concrete with use of granite fines as an additive. Concrete is prepared with granite fines as a replacement of fine concrete in 4 different propositions namely 2.5%, 5%, 7.5% and 10% and various tests such as compressive strength, split tensile strength and flexural strength are investigated and these values are compared with the conventional concrete without the granite fines. It was observed that substitution of 7.5% of cement by weight with Granite fines in concrete resulted in an increase in compressive strength for both 7 & 28 days to 33.14 & 43.40 N/mm2 compared to 23.26 & 39.41 N/mm2 of conventional concrete. Tensile strength too followed a similar pattern with a 7.5% substitution with granite fines increasing the tensile strength for 7 & 28 days to 2.87 &4.19 N/mm2 compared with a 2.4 & 3.4 N/mm2 of conventional concrete. However flexure strength of 7.5% granite fine replacement exhibited a good improvement of flexural strength for 28 days to 6.34 N/mm2compared to a 3.35 N/mm2 of conventional concrete. Further investigations revealed that to attain the same strength of conventional concrete a 10% substitution with granite fines is effective. So it can be concluded that when locally available granite is a good partial substitute to concrete and improves compressive, tensile and flexure characteristics of concrete, while simultaneously offsetting the overall cost of concrete substantially.

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K.Chiranjeevi reddy, Y.Yaswanth Kumar, P.Poornima, "Experimental Study on Concrete with Waste Granite Powder as an Admixture" Vol. 5 - Issue 6 (June - 2015), International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) , ISSN: 2248-9622 , www.ijera.com ×

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Over the recent years, several smart applications like RFID‟s, sensor networks, including industrial systems, critical infrastructures, private and public spaces as well as portable and wearable applications in which highly constrained devices are interconnected, typically communicating wirelessly with one another, working in concert to accomplish some task. Advanced safety and security mechanisms can be very important in all of these areas. Light weight cryptography enables secure and efficient communication between networked smart objects. This proposed system focuses on the FPGA implementation of light weight cryptographic algorithm Tiny Encryption Algorithm TEA to adapt with many real time constraints such as memory, data loss and low cost. The proposed scheme uses Linear Feedback Shift Register to generate the random key making it more secure for sensitive information transfer in many real-time applications. In this study,operation of this cryptosystem is analyzed by implementing the cryptographic algorithm TEA with the key generation unit in FPGA Spartan 3E. We have also compared the results with the IDEA.
Keyword— Light weight cryptography, Linear feedback shift register,Tiny Encryption Algothim RFID.

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Kiran Kumar.V.G, Sudesh Jeevan Mascarenhas,Sanath Kumar, Viven Rakesh J Pais, "Design And Implementation Of Tiny Encryption Algorithm" Vol. 5 - Issue 6 (June - 2015), International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) , ISSN: 2248-9622 , www.ijera.com ×

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Anew technique to reduce latent heat to improve energy consumption in air-conditioning is by using Desiccant . The aim of dehumidification process is to remove the water vapor from the processed air to liquid desiccants. Dehumidification is considered as a key feature of HVAC systems for thermal comfort. Chemical dehumidification is remove the water vapour from the air by transferring it towards a desiccant material (adsorption or absorption). Results illustrate that the application of liquid desiccant in air conditioning can improve indoor air quality, reduce energy consumption and bring environmentally friendly products, also. Lewis number increased rapidly with the increase of solution concentration Therefore liquid desiccant air conditioning systems are drawing more and more attention in recent years.
Keyword— HVAC systems; Dehumidification; Chemical desiccants; desiccants.

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ENG/ Yacoub Yousef Ahmad Alotaibi, "Energy consumption in air-conditioning; Improvement and Reduction" Vol. 5 - Issue 6 (June - 2015), International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) , ISSN: 2248-9622 , www.ijera.com ×

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Neighbour Table based shortcut tree routing protocol provides the near optimal routing path as well as maintains the advantages of the ZigBee tree routing such as no route discovery overhead and low memory consumption. However, in Neighbour table based Shortcut tree routing the limitation is that route discovery is only on basis of Distance between Nodes; thus, it cannot provide optimized paths. Here, the concept of link quality factor between nodes along with the distance between two nodes to calculate the shortest path between source and destination. Where the Link quality will depend upon traffic between two nodes, higher the traffic lesser the link quality and vice versa. Score will be calculated for links which is function of Distance and Link Quality between nodes i.e score= f(d,l^q), this is the idea proposed in OPTIMIZING ROUTING PATHS UING SHORTCUT TREES FOR ZIGBEE BASED WIRELESS NETWORK.

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Parag Pimple,Dr.B. G. Hogade, Dr. Ravish R. Singh, Atul Sankhe, "Shortcut Path Tress for Zigbee based Wireless Network" Vol. 5 - Issue 6 (June - 2015), International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) , ISSN: 2248-9622 , www.ijera.com ×

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Due to the degradation of observed image the noisy, blurred, distorted image can be occurred .To restore the image informationby conventional modelsmay not be accurate enough for faithful reconstruction of the original image. I propose the sparse representations to improve the performance of based image restoration. In this method the sparse coding noise is added for image restoration, due to this image restoration the sparse coefficients of original image can be detected. The so-called nonlocally centralized sparse representation (NCSR) model is as simple as the standard sparse representation model, fordenoising the image here we use the histogram clipping method by using histogram based sparse representation to effectively reduce the noise and also implement the TMR filter for Quality image. Various types of image restoration problems, including denoising, deblurring and super-resolution, validate the generality and state-of-the-art performance of the proposed algorithm.
Keyword— Image restoration, nonlocal similarity, sparserepresentation,histogram clipping.

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Abdussayeed khan, M.Sc. Electronics,Khalifa UniversityAbuDhabi, "Image Restoration UsingNonlocally Centralized Sparse Representation and histogram Clipping" Vol. 5 - Issue 6 (June - 2015), International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) , ISSN: 2248-9622 , www.ijera.com ×

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Solid Polymer electrolyte films have been prepared from Starch-Poly vinyl alcohol (PVA) blend a well acknowledged biodegradable material. Solution cast technique was employed for the preparation of solid polymer electrolyte films added with Lithium Bromide (LiBr) salt. X-ray diffraction (XRD) studies of the prepared films portrayed the evolution of an amorphous structure with increasing content of salt which is an important factor that leads to the augmentation of conductivity. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopic analysis revealed noticeable ionic conductivity ~ 5x 10_-3 S/cm for 20 wt% of salt at ambient conditions. Ionic conductivity showed an increasing trend with salt content at ambient conditions. Transference number measurements confirmed the ionic nature of the prepared solid polymer electrolyte films. Dielectric studies revealed a sharp increase in the number of charge carriers which contributed to enhancement in conductivity. Low values of activation energy extracted from temperature dependent conductivity measurements could be favorable for device applications. For the composition with highest conductivity a temperature independent relaxation mechanism was confirmed by electric modulus scaling.
Keyword— Solid Polymer electrolytes, XRD, Ionic Conductivity, Dielectric Properties.

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B. Chatterjee, N. Kulshrestha and P.N. Gupta, "Preparation and Characterization of Lithium Ion Conducting Solid Polymer Electrolytes from Biodegradable Polymers Starch And PVA" Vol. 5 - Issue 6 (June - 2015), International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) , ISSN: 2248-9622 , www.ijera.com ×