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Perceptions of youth involvement in public policy making: A case study of selected areas within the La Nkwantanang Municipal Assembly, Ghana

The perceptions of youth involvement in public policymaking have been subject of discussion amongst various scholars around the globe. With youth confirming their displeasure in many ways (such as demonstrations and violent acts) about the failure of the communist authorities in involving them in policies that affect their present and future life, this study sought to investigate their perceptions of involvement in policymaking. In addressing these concerns the youth involvement model and political system model as well as objectives such as examining the relationship, effect and significance between youth involvement and public policy making in three communities within the La-Nkwantanang municipal assembly (the suburb of Accra Ghana) were included. Using the regression model with a quantitative approach as well as a random sampling technique to administering an adapted structured questionnaire to 120 sampled youth, results indicated that factors of youth involvement positively relate to public policy-making while views gathered indicated that youth-adult partnership factor relates more and should be a better approach to enhancing public policymaking. Secondly, results indicated that perceptions of youth involvement have a positive effect on public policy making. Lastly, perceptions of youth involvement were significant to public policymaking. It was however recommended that synergizing youth involvement factors such as community readiness, youth-adult partnership, youth leadership, and decision making as well as youth diversity will go along the way to limit the challenges that come with including the youth in public policy reforms.

Published by: Enoch Tufafa Koshi Adedze

Author: Enoch Tufafa Koshi Adedze

Paper ID: V4I6-1161

Paper Status: published

Published: November 16, 2018

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Research Paper

Vibration detection instrument based on Internet of Things

This project is based on Vibration Detection using the Internet of Things. Vibration monitoring is the measurement of passing movements in a structure. This project involves developing an SMS alert when unusual vibrations are detected. It includes a lab-based experiment of detecting vibrations when a different magnitude of the force is applied. This force causes the change in values of the sensor from its initial values. Values of acceleration can be seen on the webpage and analysis can be done when required. Considering the maximum magnitude at which destruction is high, the alert signal would be generated. This alert would be sent to different mobile phones using GSM Technology. With the help of this, we can be aware of the vibrations. Properly done, vibration monitoring can be extremely helpful in preventing damage to structures understanding the nature of the damage and ascertaining its cause. Currently, we are using Arduino microcontroller, accelerometer sensor, and GSM Module as our main components. The code of the Arduino Uno microcontroller is written in C++.

Published by: Urvashi Jindal, Vaibhav Gupta, Dr. Sujata Dash

Author: Urvashi Jindal

Paper ID: V4I6-1199

Paper Status: published

Published: November 16, 2018

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Forming a mathematical relationship between voltage generated and sound inputted using piezoelectric plates

Today’s rate of population growth is soaring higher than ever and shows no signs of regressing. Consequently, more and more resources are being consumed at an accelerated rate. In lieu of this energy and resource crisis, many alternate energy harvesting systems are being designed. This project aims to understand and appreciate the potential of sound via piezoelectric materials as a source of electricity. The aim is to recognize the relation between frequency and SPL of a sound wave with the voltage that the sound is capable of producing.

Published by: Ritvik Singh

Author: Ritvik Singh

Paper ID: V4I6-1183

Paper Status: published

Published: November 16, 2018

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Review Paper

An intelligent car for physically handicapped with voice based control and vision based steering

People with physical disabilities have limited capabilities in moving, performing manual tasks and taking participation in some life activities. The objective of this paper is to bring to you a technology that helps those handicapped who don’t have healthy hands to run a vehicle by using head movement and the user can control the various sections of the car using voice recognition. This project will deal with Vehicle guidance and control based on human voice where the user can control the various sections of the car by Voice Recognition using MFCC Algorithm. At the start, the user can unlock / Lock the car doors using a voice-based password. Also, we will interface an Accelerometer Sensor to the user’s head. The user can control the steering of the car using the head movement. This project presents the design, implementation and experimental platform of a low-cost intelligent Vehicle for the physically disabled.

Published by: Vijay Berad, Dr. R. K. Patil, Nishant Chandane, Akshay Kamble

Author: Vijay Berad

Paper ID: V4I6-1174

Paper Status: published

Published: November 15, 2018

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Security risk assessment in pension fund administration using ARM as a case study

In the current age of information systems, computers and related technologies have become inevitable to business. Financial institutions are among the top sectors that rely heavily on information systems for ease of operation. Information security comprises of risk assessment and risk management which plays a vital role in identifying risk, threats and vulnerabilities. This paper makes an attempt to perform an assessment on risk management in Pension Fund Administrators (PFA); a subsector of the financial institution. This study used a survey method to actually assess the risk that PFA customers are actually exposed to. In this study, we focused on only one PFA which is ARM Pension.

Published by: Samuel, J. A. Ojeniyi, M. Olalere, S. M. Abdulhamid

Author: Samuel

Paper ID: V4I6-1197

Paper Status: published

Published: November 15, 2018

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Finding the optimal cost for transportation of plywood and hardware in Mumbai

Transportation of raw materials within a city can be quite a daunting task. Various problems such as traffic conditions, temporary shut-down of roads, parking issues and low quantity of good increases the per unit cost of transportation and make it infeasible for the seller. The objective of this study is to provide a cost-minimizing solution by using the Modified Distribution Method on the transportation model. We quantify our hypothesis by using real life data of transportation of raw materials used by a furniture making firm based in Mumbai. Furthermore, additional restrictions were added to our model to reflect the real life problems that arise in transporting raw materials. The results showed that we were able to reduce the cost of transportation from ₹2,17,26,000 (quoted by the owner of the firm) to ₹1,98,50,000 (calculated using MODI method) by using the scientific method of the transportation problem. But when applying conditions like traffic movement & congestions and parking difficulties we notice an increase in cost. In conclusion, applying the Modified Distribution can help a firm manage its costs well and quote the appropriate price so as to not be in a loss-making solution.

Published by: Subin Oswal, Shubham Jatania, Sindhuja Thapliyal

Author: Subin Oswal

Paper ID: V4I6-1182

Paper Status: published

Published: November 13, 2018

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