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Image Processing Test Bench for Robot Vision Using C#
Get PDFPurpose: Nowadays, image processing is a well-known technological term. In some of the industries, it has practical needs. It is an essential tool for the process and robotic industry. Various popular frameworks and libraries are available to process the image. The OpenCV is one of the best and popular libraries for image processing. It was originally written in C++ by Intel. Now various wrappers are available to implement into the different programming languages. The OpenCvSharp is the wrapper of OpenCV. Those who are familiar with C# can use it. The new researcher who wants to integrate image processing into their project takes some time for setup, function writing, and integration. Here we created a test bench application for Image processing demonstration. It has been made with some usual function to process the image. It was created using visual studio 2022 and OpenCvSharp wrapper in C# language. The researcher can learn about various image processing algorithms without writing any code or giving little bits of effort. The complete project is available on GitHub. Anyone can download, experiment, and integrate into their project without any issue.
Design/Methodology/Approach: We created a GUI (Graphical User Interface) based C# application. Using Nuget Package manager, installed two OpenCV wrapper packages. To invoke several functions, we add some buttons, and for changing the method’s parameter, we integrate some text boxes. We created some abstraction layers Between the OpenCvSharp wrapper and GUI. We made our custom module as portable as possible so that our researchers could easily incorporate it into their project.
Findings/result: This unique image processing test bench is designed for new researchers trying to integrate image processing capability into their research work. It can take still images or moving images through the connected webcam, automatically sending the various commands and promptly observing the result.
Originality/Value: This test bench has been arranged uniquely for the researcher. It might have some value to their research work. The unique feature like automatic trigger can help them send the series of commands without repeatedly typing or pressing the button to see the result.
Paper Type: Experiment-based Researc
Job Safety Analysis during Tunnel Construction
No full textPurpose: There are many tunnels under construction in Nepal as its mountainous country. Road, water supply, hydropower, and irrigation projects are under construction in Nepal through the tunnel. “Safety First” should be one of the main objectives of any construction projects mainly tunnel and shall be given high priority throughout the construction period. A single person alone cannot do it alone. A team including safety professionals to concentrate on health, safety, and environmental concerns shall be involved to ensure that safety environment will be maintained in the construction site. OSH is the relation between man and man, man and machine and man and environment. The paper aims to analyze the job safety of major selected construction activities during tunneling.
Design/Methodology/Approach: Site Observation, Key Informant Interview (KII), and Study of Methods of Statement were done as main data collection tools. Job safety analysis and identification of activity with high risk level involved should be determined so that proper prevention and control mechanism could be determined and implemented. Drilling, excavation, blasting, mocking, scaling and shotcerting were major activities whose hazards, prevention mechanism and the responsible party were identified.
Findings/Result: The study reveals that the main occupational hazards were mechanical and chemical hazards. Rockfall and landslide were noted as the major mechanical hazard whereas toxic gas and cement dust were the main chemical hazards. Similarly, noise and vibration were the main physical hazards and untimely payment of wages and leave were psychological hazards. It was reported that the major accident occurred at sites where the leg struck on steps of boomer while pulling a worker to save him from falling of boomer, penetration by fine grinding wheel material into the eye while carrying out grind cutting of drum and faint due to oxygen deficiency inside the tunnel. Some minor accidents were road traffic accidents, cut by sharp tools, fall/hit to/hit by objects, splashing of acids, burning caught by fire, etc. and the fatal accidents was one of the mechanics blown away by the erupted boomer tyres while filling up air into the same and one of the workers lost his life due to truck accident inside the work premise. The families of the demised had been compensated by the company. For safe construction requires the teamwork of sincere and coordinated effort of all stakeholders. Lack of regular inspection and monitoring at the site was the main cause of improper implementation of prevailing health and safety regulations.
Originality/Value: The study is highly significant for working engineers to perform the task without any misfortune inside the tunnel.
Paper Type: Project Management Action Research
Organizational Strategic Approach towards Work Life Balance of Women in India
No full textWith the increase in education and awareness relating to women empowerment there is aconsiderable increase in the number of working women in different sectors. Ever-changingdynamic environment and economic conditions has pressurized the organizations to perform orperish. This in turn has created an unseen pressure on the employees. Career and personal lifeare the two aspects considered important by employees, the success of which requires majorattention. The major challenge for women is to balance the demands and the requirements ofcareer and family. The various aspects like socio demographic conditions, work stress, impact ofwork on personal life negatively affects the personal life and career advancement creating a glassceiling for women employees. It is seen that in the absence of proper work-life balance policiesand practice result in work-life conflict. This can be seen in the form ofincreasedabsenteeism,high attrition, low recognition and job satisfaction. There are initiatives taken by theorganizations and the government but the question is if the initiatives taken are adequate and areactually benefitting the women employees. This paper reviews the work-life balance initiativesadopted by employers in different organizations. An attempt is also made to find the challengesundergone by the organizations in providing such measures to the women employees. Thesources referred for this purpose includes various published research papers on internet sites,magazines, doctoral thesis, newspapers etc
Literature Survey and Research Agenda of Risk Determinants in Indian Equities and Machine Learning
No full textNotwithstanding the financial slowdown and severity of the Coronavirus pandemic during 2020, several retail investors ventures directly to the secondary equities market, setting off gigantic purchasing. A review of SEBI data indicates that over 6 million new dematerialization accounts between April and September 2020 are about 125 percent growth on year on year basis. At the same time, data reported by AMFI shows net outflows from equity funds by retail investors. These data points indicate that retail investors may have opted to invest using direct stock investments instead of relying on the equity mutual fund manager. Equity Investment is a dynamic process requiring and require considering different variables in selecting and, more importantly, avoiding stocks. The cornerstone of wealth creation is to invest in stores at a price considerably smaller than their intrinsic value. The very foundation of creating long-term wealth using equities is deeply embedded. One is buying businesses at a price substantially below its intrinsic value (intrinsic value indicates the entity's future cash flows after estimating the number of accounting risk, macro-economic, managerial, and behavioral risk determinants). This Literature review, therefore, is organized to cover Behavioral, Accounting, Macro-economic, Volatility, and Management theories and Forecasting and ML techniques for clustering, predictions, and classification to support risk decisions using different models, e.g., ARIMA, LSTM, VAR, Facebook Prophet, ARCH and GARCH family models, etc. The literature review also establishes that the concept of risk is highly subjective and is perceived by different investors differently; it is not always entirely objective and outside the beliefs, cognitive and socio-cultural considerations requiring careful assessment before making investment decisions. However, examining the critical risk indicators would allow investors to make a more informed decision. The research gap and identified agenda for further review were defined and assessed using valuable ABCD and SWOT management frameworks. Consequently, the literature investigation findings are analyzed by offering recommendations for creating a comprehensive research agenda pertinent to long-term equity investors in the Indian Equity market
Analysis of Laptop Users Purchase Behaviour: A Case of Kathmandu, Nepal
No full textPurpose: The laptop market is highly competitive in Nepal. Kathmandu being the capital city with a high number of laptop users, several brands of laptops are available. The paper aims to find out the dependency between brand and gender, age, marital status, occupation, education, income, and other external factors using inferential statics.
Design/Methodology/Approach: The study is based on a questionnaire survey from 120 users from a different class. Chi-square and one-way ANOVA analysis tests are performed to test for a relationship between the importance of several independent factors and respondents’ gender, age, occupation, income, and education level.
Findings/Result: Significant influence of age was not on brand preference for laptops in less than of 10% significance. Brand preference of laptop is significantly dependent on monthly income. Educational qualification, Brand image, Features, Configuration, Audio quality, Video quality, Price, Convenience of service, Scheme and offers, Advertisement, Family, and Friend influence are not significant for brand preference of laptops. The hypothesis testing showed that brand preference has a significant relationship only with occupation, age, and monthly income.
Originality/Value: It is a significant research for buyers and sellers of laptops in Nepal using the inferential model.
Paper Type: Analytical Marketing Research
Web of Human Relationships in Select Novels of J.M. Coetzee: A Literature Review
No full textPurpose: The depiction of the problems of conflicts and contradictions and graphical portrayal of the web of human relationship among people of varied races in South African society by Coetzee has been identified as the focus of the study. The British rule had an impact on South Africa that comprised the native South Africans or black race, Afrikaners or the white South Africans and the white people of colonial authority. The research has reviewed related research articles, books and research theses done on the novels of J.M. Coetzee to consolidate the data on the portrayal of the web of human relationship among people of varied races in South Africa. A close reading of select novels of Coetzee also reveals the effects of racism and colonial oppression. More importantly, his writings transcend political, geographical and social boundaries to achieve universal significance. The study of related literature in the works of Coetzee further discloses his ability not only to delineate local situations and characters but to infuse them with universal ideology and characteristics of his mission as well. However, the study to achieve research focus has been confined to the web of human relationships. His use of the country's apartheid system and its post-apartheid transition to represent the bareness and desolation of the human state has also been brought under the discussion. Thus, the present study intends to bring out social relationship existing amidst the native South Africans, the Afrikaners or the white South Africans and the people from white authority in apartheid society of South Africa, with specific reference to select novels.
Design/Methodology/Approach: The researcher has reviewed almost fifty research articles, fifteen books and fifteen research theses for Master Degree, Master of Philosophy and Doctorate in Philosophy on the novels of Coetzee. Hard copies of some of the books were accessed in the St. Aloysius College library, Mangalore and EFLU library, Hyderabad. The online search was made to collect the database through Google scholar. The studies reviewed are peer reviewed journals, original research papers, National and International Publications. The researcher has referred and followed APA Manuel for the analyses of the research work.
Findings/Result: After reviewing a greater number of articles, books and theses it has been found that the multiple interpretations which were given to Coetzee’s novels help to emerge his mission which is more quizzical, more explorative. On reading his novels, one may find out that Coetzee does not stop with describing and delineating local situations and characters, but infuses them with universal ideology and characteristics of his mission.
Originality/Value: It’s proven that the web of social relationship and social reality are not a fixed presence; it varies from person to person, place to place, culture to culture, and country to country in any moment or situation. Genuine social and human relationship developed and sustained with the true nobleness of humanity is the means to thwart the ills and troubles of the societal conflicts and contradictions.
Paper Type: Analytical research based on review of literature
A Review-Based Research Agenda on Green Banking Service Practices through Green CSR Activities
No full textPurpose: The modern banking activities are submerged with green loans, green credit cards, green checking accounts, and also green mortgage along with online banking aspects. The purpose of this study is to identify the research gap and possible research agendas of connecting green banking practices and corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities of some chosen private and public sector banks in India.
Design/Methodology: This study reviews the current status of various green banking practices of the banks and their corporate social responsibility activities of selected private and public banks of India. The data is collected from scholarly literature and internet sources.
Findings: Through this review-based study, the current status of green banking practices and corporate social responsibility activities are identified. The green initiatives of public and private banks such as internet banking, mobile banking, green debit, and credit card loan are analyzed. Based on the current status and the ideal strategy of using CSR funds for such green activities, the research gap is determined. Based on the research gap, various research agendas to connect green banking practices and corporate social responsibility activities are developed and analyzed.
Originality: This review-based research paper identifies the current status, research gap and analyses the research agendas related to strategies of utilizing CSR funds on green banking practices to fulfill the dual objectives of social responsibility and intensifying the brand value to retain existing and attract new customers.
Paper Type: Review-based research analysi
Operational Resilience of the Indian IT-BPM Industry during the COVID-19 Pandemic – A Case Study
No full textThe whole world witnessed the COVID-19 outbreak in the initial months of the year 2020,including India that announced a nationwide lockdown to break the virus transmission chain.Total lockdown imposed in India laid restrictions not only on how people commute but alsofunctioning of all government, private and commercial establishments, except emergency andessential services. Travel and tourism, aviation, hospitality sectors and other industrialestablishments incurred a heavy loss throughout this lockdown period while only a fewIndustries were able to continue their functioning without violating the laws of the land.However, Information Technology and Business Process Management (IT-BPM) is one suchIndustry, which could exhibit operational resiliency in the wake of COVID-19 by providingwork from home option, which was indeed not a new concept for this technology industry. Itplayed a major role in creating a virtual workplace that could continue its operations byenabling one to be at a safe and comfort zone of their homes. Work from home would not havebeen successful without employee co-operation, relaxation in government regulations,technology advancement, etc. Over 32,000 registered information technology (IT) firmsoperate in the country. 7.9% of India's Gross domestic product (GDP) is contributed by the ITand BPM industries and about 41 lakh professionals are employed. Transitioning from aconventional work model to work from home model was not a simple task as it involved a lotof challenges like Information security threat, work life imbalance, psychological disorder, etcassociated with it. This paper examines the way how IT-BPM industry enabled the work fromhome model during initial days of pandemic. Further operational resilience, influencingaspects, financial status and latest industrial developments related to IT-BPM Industry havealso been studied. A systematic SWOC analysis has been conducted to understand thestrengths, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges to the IT-BPM industry during work fromhome model. Some recommendations are also made based on the SWOC analysis
Factors and Features Influencing Laptop Users of Kathmandu, Nepal
Get PDFPurpose: Consumer perception of laptop users is a great concern for market analysts, user and sellers. The aim is to assess the important factors and major media of advertisements influencing the purchase decision of a particular laptop brand using descriptive statics.
Design/Methodology/Approach: The study is based on scheduled survey of 120 laptop users. Cross tabulation, percentage, and Likert scale were used to describe the perception quantitatively.
Findings/Result: The study also showed that people are less price sensitive, people hardly switch from one brand of laptop to another because of price. In case of unavailability of their most preferred brand of laptop, most of them wait for their preferred brand, and only few buys second preferred brand or any available brand. Only higher price doesn’t mean good quality to most of the costumers and they are also not comfortable in using the recent, not proven technology. Customers are also influenced by sales schemes and offer while purchasing laptop. Focuses on 15-45 years user group should be targeted.
Originality/Value: It is survey research significant for laptop buyers and sellers of Nepal using the descriptive model.
Paper Type: Descriptive survey researc
Financial Performance Analysis of Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd (MOFSL)
No full textPurpose: Over the last two decades, globalization and technology advancements in financial markets have resulted in a surge of individual investors, granting them improved access to the financial markets. However, the large range of investment avenues available makes the investors’ decision-making process more complex. To make investors’ lives easier, a stockbroker functions as a liaison between the investor and the stock exchange, allowing them to make more precise investment decisions that are more advantageous for them. Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd (MOFSL) is the leading stockbroker firm that offers a wide range of financial services and is the popular choice among Indian investors. To attract new clients and retain the trust of existing customers, the firm needs to maintain a good financial track record. The investment advisor’s financial performance helps to a large measure in determining the firm’s overall financial health. This paper attempts to analyze the financial performance of Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd, for the past three fiscal years i.e., 2018-19, 2019-20, and 2020-21.
Design/Methodology/Approach: The technique of ratio analysis has been adopted to assess the financial performance of MOFSL using secondary data. Also, the correlation between profitability and efficiency of MOFSL was examined using Pearson correlation. Moreover, SWOC analysis is performed to gain a better understanding of the company’s strategic position.
Findings/Result: The interpretation of the ratios calculated, given a favorable impression of the financial status of the company and the tested hypothesis of correlation significance has discoursed that there is no significant correlation between profitability and efficiency of MOFSL. Further, the result of the SWOC investigation has offered new insights into the business. It can be concluded from the study that in the FY 2020-21, the company has outperformed in terms of profitability, liquidity, solvency, and efficiency ratios.
Originality/Value: To acknowledge MOFSL’s growing popularity in the financial services industry, research was conducted in which the company’s financial performance was evaluated using four key financial indicators: profitability, liquidity, solvency, and efficiency ratios.
Paper Type: A case study analysis based on empirical data