The present work was conducted to assess the physiological response of onion plant to GA3 at Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Bangladesh in the open environment under natural sunlight during the period from October 2014 to March 2015. GA3 at levels of 0, 20, 40 and 60 ppm were used with the onion by laid out in a Randomized Complete Block Design with three replications. The factor levels of GA3 which were applied during transplanting by root soaking, and foliar spray at 30 and 60 days after transplanting. GA3 has a great effect on increasing vegetative growth, shoot biomass, bulb biomass and also dry matter accumulation in onion plant compared to control. Insignificant effect by all concentration of GA3 was found in bulb length, fresh root biomass, and dry root biomass. Thus, the use of 60 ppm GA3 was better compared to the other three concentrations and significantly increased the fresh bulb biomass about 42.96 % over control. It is concluded from this study, GA3 @ 60 ppm can be used to bring the improvement of onion production from the economic point of view.

The effectiveness of on-the-job training has been the focus of many researches in the area of training. It has been known as important to many business organizations. The focus of the present study is to find out if OJT is used in Saudi business organizations as training type to improve the KAS of employees. Thirty general managers and thirty HR managers were part of the sample group. The following research questions were studied: (1) Do companies in Saudi Arabia conduct on-the-job training to their employees as an organizational HR policy? (2) Do on-the-job training efforts of some companies in Saudi Arabia have shown effectiveness as perceived by the HR managers and general managers? (3) What are these perceived changes? and (4) What factors brought about the perceived success of on-the-job training in Saudi Arabia? The findings show that Saudi business organizations conduct on-the-job training to its employees as an organizational HR policy; HR managers and general managers perceive OJT as effective in effecting positive changes in the knowledge, attitudes and skills (KAS) of employees; changes include: increased knowledge, improved skills, and developed right attitudes toward work of trainees; and there are factors in the training that help in making the OJT successful such as: designing training that have appropriate objectives and assessment measures to the needs of the trainees and the organization, skilled trainers, appropriate and useful methods or processes, encouraging training preview and the trainee’s willingness to undergo training.

This contribution delivers theoretical analysis of the process and relevant findings related to the above process. Design solutions on used metal sheet holders for forming are presented in this article. In the experimental part we conducted laboratory tests using sheet metal samples. This contribution is complemented with discussion on the presented issue.

The aim of this paper is to analyze, following a theoretical framework, the scientific language used in the DSM-5 to diagnose “mental disorders”. In particular, the concepts of “science of mental disorders” and “scientific progress” are investigated and the epistemological and operative implications of their use are introduced, covering the fields of psycho-social sciences. Arguing from a interactionist theoretical perspective, for the first set of implications, the concepts of a-theoretical, objective and neutral, evidence-based research and the tools used in order to pursue diagnostic validity and reliability are analyzed. For the second set, some consequences of the use of such concepts in the work of mental health professionals with their patients, are highlighted. In conclusion, some considerations about the relationship between the object of study, epistemological references and practical instruments are expressed.

In order to improve its robustness, a Variable Structure Control (VSC) is applied to a vector-controlled Induction Machine (IM) system drive, the robustness is ameliorated and compared using several intelligent methods of observation, Sliding Mode Control (SMC) with an Extended Luenberger Observer (ELO) and Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) Observer, controlled by Proportional Integral (PI) and Fuzzy-PI (FPI) controllers. The results show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

An accurate system for diabetes prediction is proposed in this paper. The proposed system used K-nearest neighbor algorithm for eliminating the undesired data, thus reducing the processing time. However, a proposed classification approach based on Decision Tree (DT) to assign each data sample to its appropriate class. By experiments, the proposed system achieved high classification result which is 98.7% comparing to the existing system using Pima Indians Diabetes (PID) dataset.

Diabetes mellitus is one of the metabolic diseases diseases with high prevalence in Mexico, and this has increased recently the interest for the evaluation of the effects of consumption of plant extracts as a safe alternative for diabetes treatment. Recent studies have shown that sangre de grado (Jatropha dioica) extracts possess antioxidant properties. However, it is unknown if such plant infusions (aqueous extracts) have hypoglicemic properties. Hypoglycemic capacity and toxicity of an infusion or tea of sangre de grado (Jatropha dioica) were evaluated using in vivo models, using male albine Wistar rats (evaluation of hypoglycemic capacity), and Artemia salina larvae (determination of toxicity). Moreover, it was determined the phenolic content and antioxidant capacity of the infusions. Consumption of the evaluated infusion reduced the glucose levels in diabetic rats, having a higher hypoglycemic effect than the application of glybenclamide, and its antioxidant capacity was 2.5 mM equiv Trox/ gm BS. The evaluation of toxicity showed that the sangre de grado infusions were not toxic and can be consumed safely as a potential hypoglycemic agent.