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Textiles have been concomitant of human civilization for thousands of years. With the advances in chemistry and materials, integrating textiles with energy harvesters will provide a sustainable, environmentally friendly, pervasive, and wearable energy solution for distributed on-body electronics in the era of Internet of Things. This article comprehensively and thoughtfully reviews research activities regarding the utilization of smart textiles for harvesting energy from renewable energy sources on the human body and its surroundings. Specifically, we start with a brief introduction to contextualize the significance of smart textiles in light of the emerging energy crisis, environmental pollution, and public health. Next, we systematically review smart textiles according to their abilities to harvest biomechanical energy, body heat energy, biochemical energy, solar energy as well as hybrid forms of energy. Finally, we provide a critical analysis of smart textiles and insights into remaining challenges and future directions. With worldwide efforts, innovations in chemistry and materials elaborated in this review will push forward the frontiers of smart textiles, which will soon revolutionize our lives in the era of Internet of Things.

Smart Textiles for Electricity Generation.

Propulsion system development requires new, more affordable manufacturing techniques and technologies in a constrained budget environment, while future in-space applications will require in-space manufacturing and assembly of parts and systems. Marshall is advancing cuttingedge commercial capabilities in additive and digital manufacturing and applying them to aerospace challenges. The Center is developing the standards by which new manufacturing processes and parts will be tested and qualified. Rapidly evolving digital tools, such as additive manufacturing, are the leading edge of a revolution in the design and manufacture of space systems that enables rapid prototyping and reduces production times. Marshall has unique expertise in leveraging new digital tools, 3D printing, and other advanced manufacturing technologies and applying them to propulsion systems design and other aerospace materials to meet NASA mission and industry needs. Marshall is helping establish the standards and qualifications “from art to part” for the use of these advanced techniques and the parts produced using them in aerospace or elsewhere in the U.S. industrial base.

Additive manufacturing

Consumer use of mobile banking (M-Banking) in Saudi Arabia: Towards an integrated model

To realize the broad vision of pervasive computing, underpinned by the “Internet of Things” (IoT), it is essential to break down application and technology-based silos and support broad connectivity and data sharing; the cloud being a natural enabler. Work in IoT tends toward the subsystem, often focusing on particular technical concerns or application domains, before offloading data to the cloud. As such, there has been little regard given to the security, privacy, and personal safety risks that arise beyond these subsystems; i.e., from the wide-scale, cross-platform openness that cloud services bring to IoT. In this paper, we focus on security considerations for IoT from the perspectives of cloud tenants, end-users, and cloud providers, in the context of wide-scale IoT proliferation, working across the range of IoT technologies (be they things or entire IoT subsystems). Our contribution is to analyze the current state of cloud-supported IoT to make explicit the security considerations that require further work.

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Twenty Security Considerations for Cloud-Supported Internet of Things

Purpose




The purpose of this paper is to identify factors influencing the adoption of mobile banking in India and develop and empirically validate a model explaining the behavioural intention to use mobile banking in the Indian banking sector




Design/methodology/approach




In this study, a model is developed and proposed to explain customers’ intention to use mobile banking The model comprises six constructs, namely, perceived ease of use, computer self-efficacy, social influence, perceived financial cost, security, and trust The model also describes the relationship between perceived ease of use and computer self-efficacy, as well as that between security and trust The proposed model was tested by using a survey method, with a sample of 855 bank customers from public, private, foreign, and cooperative banks in India Structural equation modelling analysis was performed with AMOS 160




Findings




The proposed theoretical model was found to predict, with statistical significance, the intention to use mobile banking, explaining 769 per cent of the variance in the dependent variable The results found that security, computer self-efficacy, perceived ease of use, and perceived financial cost, in that order of influence, affect customers’ intention to adopt mobile banking




Practical implications




The results obtained will help both academic researchers and practitioners explain, understand, and elucidate the status of mobile banking in India, as well as helping them formulate strategies to expedite the use of mobile banking




Originality/value




The adoption of mobile banking in India is in a nascent stage compared with developed countries such as the USA, the UK, and Finland, but it is expected to increase or surpass the rate of adoption of internet banking in those countries Further, only limited research to date has examined the adoption of mobile banking in India, especially the drivers and inhibitors of mobile banking adoption

Predicting the intention to use mobile banking in India

This study aimed to investigate the reliability and validity of a new version of job stress scale, which measures the extended set of psychosocial stressors by adding new scales to the current version of the job stress scale. Additional scales were extensively collected from theoretical job stress models and similar questionnaire from different countries. Items were tested in workplace and refined through a pilot survey (n = 400) to examine the reliability and construct validity. Most scales showed acceptable levels of internal consistency, intra-class reliability, and test–retest reliability. Factor analysis and correlation analysis showed that these scales fit the theoretical expectations. These findings provided enough evidences that the new job stress scale is reliable and valid. Although confirmatory analysis should be examined in future studies. The new job stress scale is a useful instrument for organization and academicians to evaluate job stress in modern Indian workplace.

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Development of short questionnaire to measure an extended set of role expectation conflict, coworker support and work-life balance: The new job stress scale

Polymeric foams are now widely used and researched. The physical properties of polymeric foam can be related to a set of independent structural parameters or variables of the foam. Study of these variables and correlation with commercial FE packages is essential for reliable and faster product development. Some aspects of foam behavior are widely studied while some are little less, like correlation of physical unloading behavior. For example, a lot of work in the area of phenomenological constitutive modeling of uniaxial loading was done, though research in areas of unloading–reloading and their correlation still demands more attention. Increasing number of OEMs and suppliers are moving to computer simulations in the design phase to assess their future products. Hence, different parameters within FE packages play a significant role and also affect the results. Appropriate use of these parameters will narrow down error band and automatically reduce the cycle time and development cost. This brief review is expected to set the perspective for major research work done so far in terms of FE modeling correlation and constitutive modeling of polymeric foam vis-a-vis to its properties.

On the polymeric foams: modeling and properties

A bacterial strain, designated AcBz01, was isolated from a water sample collected from Gomti River, Lucknow, India, and identified using a molecular approach. On the basis of the bacterial 16S rRNA gene sequence phylogeny and comparison of this gene sequence with sequences in Ribosomal Database project II, evidence given in this study, it is proposed that isolate is closely related to members of the genus Acinetobacter. Identification and annotation of regulatory elements in the 16S rRNA gene and characterization of their interaction with the respective transcription factor can provide basis for better understanding of the mechanism of network of gene interaction of functionally related genes. The identification of such sites is relevant for locating promoter boundary of a gene and it also allows the prediction of specific gene expression pattern and response to disturbances in a known signaling pathway. Computational identification of regulatory elements and Transcription Factor with their binding sites in 16S rRNA gene of Acinetobacter sp. was performed using BPROM tool. We predicted the regulatory elements are TSS, -10 box, -35 box and three Transcription Factor (narP, ompR and fadR) with their binding sites in the upstream region of 16S rRNA gene of Acinetobacter sp. AcBz01. The GenBank accession number for 16S rRNA gene of Acinetobacter sp. AcBz01 is {"type":"entrez-nucleotide","attrs":{"text":"EU931637","term_id":"197205391","term_text":"EU931637"}}EU931637.

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Rajeev Srivastava

Papers

Predicting the intention to use mobile banking in India

Development of short questionnaire to measure an extended set of role expectation conflict, coworker support and work-life balance: The new job stress scale

On the polymeric foams: modeling and properties

Identification of regulatory elements in 16S rRNA gene of Acinetobacter species isolated from water sample.

Design & fabrication of ABS part by FDM for automobile application