Android Application for Ticket Booking using QR-Code

India?s population increase day by day, mostly common peoples are depends on the railway locals for travelling to their destinations. Due to increase in travelling passengers by local trains, it is time consuming and frustrated process to buy tickets in a standing queue. To encounter this, the railway has introduced the concept of ATVM cards but losing or theft cards proved to be uneconomical. Our project deals with implementation of a smart-phone application to buy a local railway tickets which is simple and easy to use.The customer application consists of Registration and buying ticket through QR-code.Payment can be done through user?s account i.e. if user is agree to buy ticket then the equivalent ?amount? of the ticket will be deducted from the users account. After payment, ticket is generated on server side, saved in the database and also sent back to the user mobile and saved in the application?s memory which serves as a ticket for the user. The ticket checker application is used to validate the ticket by entering the serial number obtained by the user and searching in the railway database to check whether the user?s ticket is valid or invalid

Advances in automated tongue diagnosis techniques

This paper reviews the recent advances in a significant constituent of traditional oriental medicinal technology, called tongue diagnosis. Tongue diagnosis can be an effective, noninvasive method to perform an auxiliary diagnosis any time anywhere, which can support the global need in the primary healthcare system. This work explores the literature to evaluate the works done on the various aspects of computerized tongue diagnosis, namely preprocessing, tongue detection, segmentation, feature extraction, tongue analysis, especially in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). In spite of huge volume of work done on automatic tongue diagnosis (ATD), there is a lack of adequate survey, especially to combine it with the current diagnosis trends. This paper studies the merits, capabilities, and associated research gaps in current works on ATD systems. After exploring the algorithms used in tongue diagnosis, the current trend and global requirements in health domain motivates us to propose a conceptual framework for the automated tongue diagnostic system on mobile enabled platform. This framework will be able to connect tongue diagnosis with the future point-of-care health system

Performance Evaluation of Farmers’ Onion Varieties against Purple Blotch Disease

Aims: To evaluate the performance of farmers’ onion varieties against purple blotch disease at different locations and to correlate Percent Disease Index with yield attributing and other important traits. Study Design: Randomized Block Design, Field demonstration. Place and Duration of Study: National Innovation Foundation- India Gandhinagar Gujarat, Repoli and Palghar research stations of Dr. Balasaheb Sawant Konkan Krishi Vidyapeeth, Dapoli Maharashtra during October 2017 to April 2019. Methodology: Two farmers’ onion varieties Sona-40 and Sandip were characterized and tested for their response against purple blotch disease under field condition in comparison with location-specific check varieties. Percent Disease Index of purple blotch was observed, compared and correlated with important traits viz. the plant height, leaves per plant, bulb diameter, maturity period, bulb weight, bulb yield and keeping quality. In Maharashtra areas, the study was conducted under Repoli and Palghar conditions during winter (Rabi) 2017, whereas at Gandhinagar Gujarat, it was undertaken in winter (Rabi) 2017 and 2018. Results: The farmers’ onion cultivars Sandip and Sona-40 were found to be tolerant to the purple blotch disease at all the locations. In Maharashtra and Gujarat, the average Percent Disease Index (PDI) in Sona-40 (12.1%, 12.2%) and Sandip (10.75%, 14.64%) was found significantly lower as compared to the checks respectively. The present studies also confirmed that onion bulb’s yield, weight and keeping quality were significantly correlated with the purple blotch disease. Conclusion: This study exhibited that the farmers’ onion varieties may perform better against disease infestation such as purple blotch disease. It also confirmed that the response of the onion varieties against purple blotch may vary in different locations. It is shown that the bulb weight, yield and shelf life of bulbs are significantly affected by purple blotch disease

High Band Gap Nanocrystalline Tungsten Carbide (nc-WC) Thin Films Grown by Hot Wire Chemical Vapor Deposition (HW-CVD) Method

In present study nanocrystalline tungsten carbide (nc-WC) thin films were deposited by HW-CVD using heated W filament and CF4 gas. Influence of CF4 flow rate on structural, optical and electrical properties has been investigated. Formation of WC thin films was confirmed by low angle XRD, Raman spectroscopy and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analysis. Low angle XRD analysis revealed that WC crystallites have preferred orientation in (101) direction and with increase in CF4 flow rate the volume fraction of WC crystallites and its average grain size increases. Formation of nano-sized WC was also confirmed by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analysis. UV-Visible spectroscopy analysis revealed increase in optical transmission with increase in CF4 flow rate. The WC film deposited for 40 sccm of CF4 flow rate show high transparency (- 80-85 %) ranging from visible to infrared wavelengths region. The band gap shows increasing trend with increase in CF4 flow rate (3.48-4.18 eV). The electrical conductivity measured using Hall Effect was found in the range - 103-141 S/cm over the entire range of CF4 flow rate studied. The obtained results suggest that these wide band gap and conducting nc-WC films can be used as low cost counter electrodes in DSSCs and co-catalyst in electrochemical water splitting for hydrogen production