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99 cindian Jcience /
Prime Mipister ;vranmohqn Si '!8 }z
inaugurated the 99fh edition of the
prestigious Indian Science Congre s, the
biggest congregation of the country/ s best
and brightest scientists.
More than 15,000 dlegates from across
India, 20 Nobel law:eatts ani 500 other
scientists from abroad particip {_ ted in the
five-day brainstorming science event, to be
held in the campus of KIIT University here.
About one lakh students attended the event.
KIIT University and National Institute of--.
Science Education
aAd Researc
(NISER) jointly
hosted the vent,
which also
featured t e
Children's 1 l
Science f
Congress and
Women
Science
Congress.
Former
pesidept APJ
Abdul Kalam
inaugurated
the
Children's
Science
Congress on
41h January
2012, whiZ\ I
Nirupam ao,J India's /ambassador to
United Staj,es of America, inaugurated the
Women's Science Congress on 51h January
2012 .
Renowned scientist Geeta Bali, vzce
chancellor of Karnataka State Women's
University, presided over the event. The
theme of the conference was "Science and
Technology for Inclusive Innovation - Role
of Women ".
Besides the emphasis on women and
children, the other issue in focus at the
Congress were missiles. India's premier
military weapons developer, the Defence
Research and Development Organisation
(D RDO) displayed
models of the Agni,
Prithvi, Nag,
Akash, BrahMos
and
Astra
missiles
The
event
witness
ed 35
special
lectures
and 30
plenary
sessions
and
panel
discussi
ons, a
'Pride of India' expo and other programmes.

Experts from various science and technology
related fields took part in the event which
saw a huge attendance of school child "en
from acros the co4ntry. Around 250
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delegates frbm abroad including NRis and
several noble laureates participated in the
IS C.
Best scientils in the field of medicimvto
defense and/ agriculture to communications J
including space scientist K Kasturirangan,
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agriculture scien 'st..MS Swaminathan and
atomic energy f..Q1J1mzsswn chairman
Srikumar Banerjee took part in the congress.
Nobel laureates such as Richard R Ernst,
R97f M Zinkernagel, Carolyn W Greider
and !Yale T Mortensen addressed the
delegates.
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The major highlights of the Indian Science
Congress in the five days was science
communicator's meet, science exhibition,
summery presentation (thematic/ posters),
plenary sessions, sectional sessions, panel
discussion and public lectures. Besides, the
Young Scientist Award, UNESCO-Kalinga
Award for Science will also be presented
during the event.
The Prime Minister gave away various
/SCA awards for the year 2011-12. Dr.

Samanta received ]awaharlal Nehru Prize /
for KISS, the largest tribal institute of the
world, while KilT Vice1Chancellor Prof At'S.
Kolaskar was a arded Sr;inivasa
Ramanujan Birth Centenary Jlward.
Polly Rai of UK, Harish Pant of USA, Geeta
Fleissner of Germany and M.K Sridhar of
Karnataka. Shri Naveen Patnaik, Hon'ble
Chief Minister of Orissa honoured Prof
Trinh Xuan Thuan, of University of
Virginia, USA with the prestigious Kalinga
Chair. Prof Thuan, a Vietnamese National,
known for his contribution to the field of
astronomy was the recipient of UNESCO
Kalinga Award-2009 for popularisation of
Besides, two tribal achievers in the field of
agriculture
aita Mudil and Chandra
Pradhan we e also felicitated by the Prime
Minister fo
heir valuable contribution in
conservatio of ecology by adopting
traditional•agricultural practices. General J
President Gold medal award was given to
six eminent scien ists including Nobel prize
winners dr. Richa'rcLRErnst, Dr. Rolf M .
science.
Union Minister of State fo r HRD Dr.
Purandeswari released a book named,
'Women and Society - The Road to
Challenge edited by Prof A. S. Kolaskar,
Vice Chancellor, KilT University and Prof

Motilal Dash, Director, Academics of /
Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS).
in presence of Smt. Mruyama Rao, Indian
Ambassadon to US, Mrs.
Geetha Bali,
General President, 99th ISC. The book
published by the Oxforcf University press
contains some thought provokirg papers
authored by some of the great women of
contemporary India who have excelled in
their respective fields
Science Exhibition
Hon 'ble Union Minister of Science and
Technology and Earth Sciences, Shri
Vilasrao Deshmukh ifi'augurated -the--_
science exhibition in the presence of Dr. A.
Sdmanta, Chief Patron, 99th ISC &
square meters was being participated by
more than 700 exhibitors and 150
organizations. Some of the chief pavilions
were CSIR, DRDO, State of Odisha, ICMA
etc. Replicas of various missiles like Prithvi,
Agni and Brahmos were important
attractions, among others.
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A two-day National Seminar-cum
Workshop on 'Energy Conservation' was
held at Odisha State Centre of the
Institution of Engineer's India in its
auditorium and was organized zn
collaboration with KIIT University and
Maharaja Institute of Technology,
Bhubaneswar
Founder, KilT & KISS and General
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President, 99th ISC, Prof Cjftetha Bat inside
the KilT Stadium. 'Pride of India Expo' for
this session has beeh organized by MM
Active Sci-Tech Commun ·. ations Pvt. Ltd.
The Expo had four main components -
Vigyan ]yot, Exhibition, Genesis Symposium
for one day and Hall of Pride, d(!dicated to
Archarya Prafulla Chandra Ray, father of
modern cTlt p zistry in Indi ( The exhibition
, which was organized in an area of 7000
Electricity
inaugurated the seminar.
Commission
Speaking on this occasion, Shri Nanda,
pointed out that the energy security and
climate change have emerged as the key
global challengers in the 21st century and
have to be addressed through energy
conservation.Adding more Shri Nanda said,
"energy conservation can be achieved with a

two-fold strategy bo th by the management /
of supply side and demand side."
Among others Shrz M Vjaywargiya,
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Executive Director, Indian Oil Corp ration,
Shri B K Mishra, Member, OERC, Shri G.
Mathivathanan, Commissioner-cum­
Secretary, Energy Depaertment-, Govt. Of
Odisha, Dr. R. K Biswal, Sh h Hemanta
Sharma, Chairman-cum,Managing
Director, GRIDCO, Shri L K Bisoyi, former
Chairman, Odisha Cenfte, FIE were
present.
University; Dr. A. K. Bisoi, Dean, School of
Compt. Engg. KIIT; Dr. Sasmita Samanta,
Registrar, KIIT University and Dr. D. K.
Tripathy, Pro-VC, KIIT University from
1st February to 4th February 2012. More
than 100 participants including USA,
Israel, Finland, Iran and different parts of
India took part in this conference. During
this period several events like Paper
presentations, Invited Talks, Industry
Symposium, 2nd Student Research
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The 8th ICDCIT (International Conference
on Distrib ted Computing and Internet
Technology) bas organized at KIIT premises
in presencel )vf Dr. R. K. Shyamasundar,
TIFR, India/ & Advisor, ICDCIT; Dr . .. R.
Ramajunam, IMSc, Chennai & Programme J
Chair ICDCIT-2012; Dr. Srini
Ramaswamy, 4'BB Corporate Research,
Bangalore; Dr. S. Nanda P of of eminence
& Researc Cha 1 r & VC In-Charge, KIIT
Symposium and First Student "Project
Innovation Contest" -2012 (PIC-2012) was
organized.
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KIIT - Technology Business Incubator
organized a Business Plan Competition
"Innovio" £or research scholars and students
above the age of 18years studying in Odisha.
The winners were awarded at a glittering
award ceremony at KIIT University on 4th
February 2012. Giving away the prizes, Dr.
Achyuta Samanta, Founder, KIIT & KISS
underscored the importance of such
competitions in development of innovation
and entrepreneurship in the state.

There were presentations of 10 shortlisted /
proposals in the final round. The propos ls
were scrutinized by a panel of judges wh 'rh
included Dn. Koteswd[ Rao of Transgene
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Biotek, Hyderabad; Mr. Anil Joshi, f.1-umbai
Computer Engg., KilT University), Guest
of Eminence Prof Panchanan Mohanty,
(Hyderabad University). Nearly 100
delegates covering external, internal
experts and students attended the ten days
training programme. There were 17
Angels; Mr.. S.S. Acharya, DGM, SIDBI;
Mr. Chand Sundaram, NSRCEL, liM
Bangalore Mr. Arbind Sahoo, Director,
OOFML, kers of Ruchi Masala. Mr.
Joshi expres ed surprise at the level of talfnt
in the state.and it's potential.
invited talks and they covered topics on
The competition · as $Uppvrted by SIDBI,
Bhubaneswar and N&RCEL, liM Bangalore.
It was started during September 2011 with
call for proposals.
Odia Morphology , Odia Syntax, Odia
Semantics, Odia Phonetics, Indentifying
Odia POS, Traditional Grammar, Odia
morphology: Computational approach, Odia
spell checker: Concept & Applications,
Development & Challenges, Machine
Translation, TTS-Concept, application and

Challenges, Odia Lexicon Tradition, Odia
Writing Tradition.and Reforms.
School of Electronics Engineering organized
a workshop Solar Energy and its benefits
re on 18 February, 2012. The
on parwus
aspects of the sOLar cells ·tike Silicosolar
cells, GaAs solar cells,1Thin FiLJt! solar cetls
(CdTe, CIGS, a:Ci), Dye sensitized solar
cells etc. The participants )f this workshop
gained exposure to different types of solar
cells, along with industry specific
perspective oj emerging new tecHnologies in
solar cells. J:he event was .. marked with the
presence .of eminent dignitaries like
Padamshree A.K Barua, BESU, Kolkata; Dr.
R. Bhattacharya, NPL, India; Prof Viresh
Dutta, IIT Delhi; Dr. V.K Kaul, GM, Cel,
Shahibabad; Dr. Rajiv Jindal, Moserbaer,
Naida; Prof P. C Srivastava , BHU; Dr.
Pallav Banerjee, IIT Kharagpur.
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Workshop on Value Engineering was
organized by Training and Placement
Department of KIIT University on 181h
February 2012. The Programme was held in
the presence of Chief Guest Prof Alok
Ghosal, CVS- Life, INVEST and Guest of
Honor Prof D.K. Tripathi, Pro VC, KIIT
UniversiTy. Nearly 100 faculties and
student of School of Mechanical
Engineering, Electrical Engineering and
Information Technology attended the
workshop. The workshop emphasized on
value engineering - its Junction analysis,
Creativity & Evaluation.

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A National Conference on "Advances in
Simulation and Optimization Tedlmiques in
Mechanical Engineering" (NASOME-
2012) was organized by the School of
Mechanical Engineering on 1 fth, and 19th
February 2012. The conference, which
focused on engineering design theories and
scholars to exahange their expertise and
knowledge. NASOME-2012 aimed to
provide common platform to academicians,
industrialist, research scholars to exchange
their expertise and knowledge. The topics for
focus on engineering design theories
methodologies, simulation and engineering
optimization, manufacturing systems
modeling and optimization.
Total 38 papers submitted by researchers
throughout the country were selected for
methodologies, simulation and engineering
optimization, manufacturing systems
modeling and optimization, was
inaugurated in the presence of Guest of
Efrimence Prof A. S. Kolaskar, VC, KIIT;
Chief

oriented simulation, Real-time modeling and /
simulation, Simulation Application n
Industry, Simulation, 'Experimental Scierfce
and Erzgineeringj Conventional
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optimization methods, Modern optimization
methods and Multi-aDjective optimization.
Data Warehoust and its management using
Informatica and Talend. Both Invited
Speakers gave training with hands-on in the
laboratory to all participants on using the
tool Informatica and Talend using certain
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2012
Two day Workshop on Data Warehouse
case studies. Looking at the enthusiasm o f
the participants it was proposed to come out
with a handout or user guide for easy
reference.
Managemen•l using Informatica & Talend
was organized by Schoo1 of Computer J
Engineering fro 18th to " 19th February
2012. The workshop was organized in the
presence of
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Chief Guest as Prof
A.S.Kolaskar, Vice Chancellor, KIIT
University. The invited talks from resource
t'
personal include: Mr. Suvakanta Mohanty,
Senior Consultant, WIPRO Technlogies,
Bangalore; Mr. Prayu Mishra, Senior
Project Manager, HP Technologies,
Chennai.
This workshop intended to provide
opportunity for Faculty members, Research
scholars ...iJ.ll.d tudent /participants to
upgrade the ·r knowledge basic knowledge of

37th Annual Conference of Environmental /
Mutagen Society of India (EMSI) was
organized by KIIT Schoo of Biotechnola y
from February 24th-26 h, 2012. During this
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conference, International Symposium on
"Molecular Basis of Human Health in
Response to Mutagens and Environmental
Stress" was also organized. The. conference
was inaugurated by Prof A. T. Na arajan,
Leiden University Medical C5enter, 'Fhe
Netherlands in the presence of Dr. A.
A National workshop on Nanocoatings was
organized on 20th March 2012 by School of
Applied Sciences. The resource persons were
Dr. Sunil Kumar, Director , Emerging
Trends in Nanocoatings & its medical
Applications; Dr. P.S Mukherjee, IMMT,
"National Workshop on Nanocoatings"
(NWN · 2012)
Fenech,
Scientific
Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO),
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Australia, Prof .. S. Kolaskar, VC, KIIT,
Prof K. Kalaisel'l1L
General Secretary,
EMSI, Dr. B. N. Banerjee, Organising
Secretary, EMSI and Dr. M. Suar, Director
K[IT School of Biotechnology
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The conference orgamzed every year ought
to promote and encq.urage research, and
disseminate information in broader areas of
environmental mutagenesis, as relevant to
human health and environmental safety ..
This year's theme elaborated on the impact
of environmen · and the man made
mutageni hemicals on/the health of
humans ancJ)in agricultural produce.
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who spoke on Plasma spray coatings of
materials; Dr.P.K.Sahoo, NISER who spoke
on Novel way for Anti Reflection
Application; Dr. T.Som, IOP, spoke on ION
Induced Nanopattern Formation on
Semiconductor Surfaces and Dr.N N
urthy, IIT Bhubaneswar who spoke on
Present status and Future prospects for
wide andgap semiconductor devices. An

• Clean and Green Energy, Energy
Security, sustainability and Management.
* Interaction with Manufacturers of Solar
Gadgets by the participants.
• Exhibition Stall of Solar Appliances by the
Manufacturer (Tata B.P. Solar India
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2012
'FPte National Conference on Renewable
E'nergy: Prospeots and Problems m the
Developme1, Adoption and Governance of
Sustainable Technologies (REAST- 2012)
was held o 24th March 2012 and was
organized /by School of Electri.eal
Engineering KilT University, Bhubaneswar
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in collaboration with NABARD.
Limited, Gayatri Solar, Reliance Power etc).
• To create gainful employment opportunity
with due importace for ensuring greater
access for women & other disadvantaged
groups to employment opportunities.
• To reduce environmental degradation
resulting from deforestation.
Workshop
on
"Signal
Processing
Objectives of the REAST Conference :
• Awareness 1
and implementation of
appliances related to renewable energy
/
sources.
Applications
organized by
m
Communication" was
School of Electronics

Engineering on 24th March 2012 zn the /
presence of Prof A.S.Kolaskar, Vice
Chancellor, KIIT Univers 'ty. The objecti'{}e
of the workshop w to provide an
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opportunity for students and faculties to
IGNOU, DST, MHRD, NBA, etc. This
Committee will broadly give guidelines for
growth of ISTE activities.
Total 77 members of ISTE including Prof
interact with leading researchers in signal
processing areas. The workshop included
invited talks from several experts in these
and related reas from reputed institutes in
India. The ftvited talks included Prof T.
Sreenivas, II 1 c Bangalore; Prof D. Singh,
liT Roorkee; Prof R. Panda, VSSUT; Dr. S
Das Manda¢ liT Kharagpur; Dr. D. P. Das,
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IMMT Ehrlbaneswar
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The 99th National Executive Meeting of
Indian Society for Technical Education
(ISTE) was heḷ at KIT n 31st arch
2012. The meetzng was zmfuguratedDy Dr.
A. Samanta, Founder,J

A 4-days' intensive workshop on /
Research Methodology was conducted in t e
University in the camr;us of School ?'of
Management, during 19-22 April 2012.
More than 100 faculty membe s and
Workshop
by University and was guided by Vice
Chancellor (Prof A. S. Kolaskar), Research
Chair (Prof S. Nanda) and Dean (Prof
Ashok K. Sar). Every day afternoon, the
delegates had the opportunity of getting
hands training on various software, in
Computer LAB of the school. Along with the
research scholars from various parts of India
parrtieipated in this four days workshop.
There were well designed theory and
practical c sses on different aspects of
research m thodology. All the practical
classes on xcel, SPSS and Google-doc.,
were held in the PLM lab of the school. A
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total of 7 m; urce persons were invited from
IIT Kharagpur, Utkal University, XIM-B J
and KIIT ity, who delivered lectures
regular sessions, three additional primer
sessions were also conducted in the evening
hours of first three days. This was aimed at
supplementing the basic inputs required in
the field of applied statistics and computer
applications.
Along with the workshop-handbook, a CD
containing all useful
Resource persons also interacted with
scholars, for solwng their doubts, related to
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their research UfOrk. Thity workshop was
accorded with a 2-credit equivalence status

material and web-resources was released by
Vice Chancellor on first day. Popular /
secondary database proider, CMIE, M{d
sent their a11alyst-repr entative for a userfriendly
demo on use of CMIE data-ase for
research. Delegates were asked to go through
evaluation process, in the form of individual
written tests and group assignme:nts.
Vice Chane lor of KilT University was 1he
Chief Guest for the inau.guration of )
workshop, on day-1. Pmf S. Nanda,
Research Chair if. KilT- University, was the
other guest speakerjl'f'r inauguration. Dean
(SaM) chaired the session, Prof RN
Subudhi gave a brief outline of the
w6rks op, while Prof Sasmita Mishra
offered the vote_of thanks. Qn he t c sing
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sesszon o if day-4, Dean gave away the
certificates to all the re istered aelegates.
Scientist (IASRI);
University side.
and also from the
The Course Contents, during the 4-days
workshop includes:
• Concepts of Research Methodology;
• Basic stages of Research Process;
• Types of Research; Research Design;
• Identification of research problem;
• Formulation of Research objectives and
Hypotheses;
• Review of Literature: Importance and
relevance (use of e-resources);
• Designing of questionnaire;
• Scaling Techniques, Editing and Coding
of Data;
• Sampling techniques;
• Methods of Data collection & Analysis;
• Research report; Research Proposal;
• Application of statistical software
(SPSS);
• Applications of Statistical tests;
• Advanced Quantitative tools used for
analysis of research.
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The Workshop is beautifiedith the external
Resource Persons as Dr. D. Suar, Professor,
liT Kharagapur; 1
or. F.M. Sahu, Professor,
XIM Bhubaneswar; Dr. U.N. Dash, Ex­
Professor, UU. & Utkal niversity;Dr. M.
Srinath, enior Statistician & Agrl.

The National seminar on "Outcome Based
Accreditation Process and Parameters For /
Under Graduate Engineering Programnl€"
was conduct,ed y NB and hosted by KilT
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University bn 19th may 2012. The academia
identified by NBA jar different institutes
and Universities participated .in the
programme to get ehlightened with the
objective of present process of a"ccre!litation
and to develop the system in :t..s place to
University organised a National Conference
on Industrial Mathematics and Soft
Computing during 26th - 27th May 2012.
Intellectuals from industries, academic
institutions and R&D sectors attended the
conference to discuss diversified applications
of computational and mathematical
techniques in industry during the two days.
Different technical sessions including
parallel sessions were scheduled. Talks on
mixed convection in a saturated porous
square domain, on steady plane magneto
hydrodynamic
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satisfy the f?-ission of NBA. The resource
persons wer Prof S.C. Sahabuddin Prof"'D.
K. Paliwal nd Prof M. L. Despande.
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Mathematics epartment of IlT
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ous fluid flow through porous media and
many others would be held at the conference
Dr. S. Nanda, Prof of Eminence & Research
Chair, KilT; Prof G. Das, Former VC,
Utkal University; Mr. R. N. Dash, Advisor,
KilT & KISS; Prof B. B. Patra, Dean,
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Schobl of Applied Sciences & Dr. S. K.
Samal, Assoc. Dean School of Applied
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Sciences and convener of the conference /
were present in the inaugural session of t e
conference. Chief Guest Qf the· conferenf!e,
Prof G.Das Former \l"C, Utkal University
was the keynote speaker' and deliveed his
talk on infinity. Twelve invited talks an"ti 27
papers were presented in the conference.
of NBA Accreditation Process.
The NBA has identified KIIT-U and BIT
Messra as the nodal point of Eastern Region
for the overall training process.
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Annual Faculty Development Programme
was organized in KIIT University from 26th
The special 'ZVorkshop on "New
Process was on )
25th June 2012 u'rr4er the direct guidance of
NBA, New Delhi.JJne of the resource
person was Dr. D. K. Paliwal Member
Secretary, NBA who addressed the,.
gathering on the topic" Some Aspects of
J Outcofhe Based Evaluation". The other
resoume person was Dr. /Ranjan
Bhattacharya from Jadavpur Universifywho
had appraised the "Selj Assessment Report:"
programme was
by Hon'ble Founder, KIIT & KISS and
many other functionaries of the University.
The objective of the programme was to
enhance the academic and intellectual
environment in the University by providing
Faculty members with enough opportunities
to update their research & pedagogical skills.
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It also aimed at equipping teachers with /
skills and knowledge that are essential J.or
inculcating entrepreneurial values )(n
students and guiding qpz.d monitoring their
progress towards entrfpreneurial 1 career.
Many noted personafzTy from academic and
industries delivered their tal in this
programme.
based Research";
Director, NIT,
Education zn
Prof Sunil Sarangi,
Rourkela "Technical
India-some personal
The Resource persons and their opic of talk
were Prof N.L. Mitra, Chancellor, KilT
University, "Inaugural Remark on outline
of FDP"; Dr. A. Sttmanta, Hon'ble Founder,
KilT & KISS, "Overview (KilT: InceP .
Jion
thoughts"; Prof K.C.Mishra, Vice
Chancellor, Sri Sri University, Cuttack
"Teaching Learning Process"; Prof S. V.
Jagarao, Dean, RG School of IPL, liT, KGP,
"Medical Negligence: Contemporary
Issues"; ProfH.S.Ray, Vice President,
Indian Association for Productivity,
Quality & Reliability (IAPQR) ,"Stray
thoughts on FDP- why, how and what ";
Prof Sekhar Choudhury, Director, liM,
to Excellence"; Sj. . N. Dash, Advisor,
KilT & KISS, "15ersonalised system of
Education"; Dr. D.K. Paliwal Member
Secretary , National Board of Accreditation,
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"Pocus on Development of Curricula" ;
Cmde. (Retd.) Dilip Moapatra, Sk1;,ategic
Advisor, SaM & SRM, KilT University
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, e ectwns on ca emzc F ree d om ;
ProfNisith Mohanty, He HR, Manipal
Group of Institutions, "High performanae
organisation & performance driven
culture"; Prof f.K.J.Mohapatra, Professor,
Department of Industrial ngineering and
Managemen 1 IIT,Kharagpur, "Experiments
Kolkata, "Achieving & sustaining
institutional excellence"; "Prof Kabi
Mishra, Prof of Cardiology, Director,
Medical Education, Apollo Hospitals "Art
of Teaching"; Prof A.K. Mohapatra, Prof
of Neurosurgery, AIIMS, ND "How to

write a Research Paper"; Prof / 0Jl
N.K.Chakravorty, Director, SoL, KIIT &
I-nvited Consultant on Patent, "Resear'th * KilT Faculty bags mega research project
Methodology & Patent Procedure"; Prof
S. Nanda, Head, CIR, KIIT University
"Research Guidance";ProfD.K. Tripathy,
Pro VC, KIIT University "Project Guj_dance
and Prof Pr:emendu Prakash Mathur, Dean,
Pondicherry University, "Research and
Teaching scenario in India"
All the F-ac lty members of the University
Dr. Udai P. Singh, Professor, School of
Electronics Engineering has bagged a
mega research project worth Rs. 1.4 crore
from Department of Science and
Technology(DST), Government of India
under Solar Energy Research Initiative
program. The research project is on
"Process development of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin
film solar cell on flexible substrate using
co-evaporation technique." The project
duration is of three years.
Dr. Singh is working in the area of thin film
solar cells for last 16 years. He is also
working on the research projects funded by
Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
(MNRE) and Defence Research &
Development Organisation (DRDO),
Government of India.
ICCSR has considered and sanctioned the
research project proposal of Dr. Sucheta
Priyabadini, Joint Registrar, KIIT
University. It has granted aid of around 9
lakhs to the project entitled " Tribes in
Transition Amid Alien Environment : A
Study of the Tribal Women in Slums of
Bhubaneswar City of Odisha.
A research paper authored by Dr. Indrajit
Chakraborty , Faculty of Chemistry,
School of Applied Sciences had the
distinction of featuring on the cover-page
of the prestigious journal 'Soft Matter'. The

paper titled 'Reverse thermal gelation of /
aromatic solvents by a series of easily
accessible organic salt based gelato s'
appeared in the issue vmber '8 (2Q12), pp
2595' of 'Soft Matter: w-hich is a journal of
international repute from the Royal Society
of Chemistry, UK It highlights the joint
research results from School of Applied
Sciences, KilT University ·and 1 Indian
Association of Cultivation.._ Science,
]adavpur, Kolkata. He co-authored this
paper with Mr. Pathik 5ahoo and Prof
Parthasarathi Dastidar.
teachers was Ji_eld while on 4th May he
delivered a talk on 'Impact of Biotechnology
m Health and Agriculture - Bharat
Tomorrow'. His lecture was well appreciated
Dr./. Chakraborty, Ass . Professor in
Chemistry, has a number of international
publications to his credit. In 2011, his book
.
::,
titled 'd-Keto-Enones: Exploratory Studies
on Their P oto-reactivities' was published
by Lamb t Academic Publishing
(Germany).} ecently, he has also been
invited to b ·
a part of 'Reviewer Panel/of
Cambridge niversity Press .
.I
ce
Science India Forum'TSIF), Muscat conducts
Sastra Pratibha examination and felicitates.,.
the young achievers during felicitation
funttion. 15 Indian Schools in Oman
participated in various evepts such £ guiz,
debate, science exhibition, essay competiti n,
etc which were organizfd among students of
these Indian schools. Proj.. Kolaskar was
invited as the Chief Guest for the annual
function of SIF. The function was organizd
on 3rd & 4th May, 2012. On 3r.d May the
question ansWer session of nearly two hours
/
in the arfa of Biotechnology and
• Bioinformatics with students, parents and
and attended by large number of students,
teachers, parents and industry person
particularly of Indian origin from all over the
Oman.
Prof Kolaskar was also given prestigious
'ASG Jayakar' Award. Dr. Jayakar sent by
British regime to Oman has not only worked
and prepared one of the most detailed

Omanies Health
identified several new animal species a1:ld
cataloged varwus spec'ies )n Oman. Th ee
Lizards and one speci of Bull, unique to
Oman have been named "' after Dr. /ȧyakar.
This prestigious awaia was given to Prof
Kolaskar by H.E. J.S.Mukul, the Indian
Ambassador to Oman dnd he was felititated
by Mr. Prasannan, Chairman, 'Sbene India
Forum, Oman. Previous ASG Jagakar Award
winners are Dr. K.Kasthurirangan, Dr. Anil
Kakodkar and Dr. M.A.Cliitale. During the
talk Prof Kolaskar mentioned about KIIT
University and KISS, a unique organizqjion
established by Founder Dr. A. Samanta.
/
their lives, bre9k patriarchal order, and
protest against male dominance.
Existentialism in De's novels takes into
consideration the concepts like human free
will, quest for selfidentity, self-alienation
and some aspects of society which are
unnatural - especially its traditional
religious and secular rules which are
considered to be arbitrary. The writer has
also tried to expose the moral breakdown
of modern society.
Manoj Kumar Mishra- A Timeminimization
Dynamic job Groupingbased
Scheduling in Grid Computing,
International journal of Computer
Applications, Volume 40- No. 16,
February 2012, 16-25
Swati Sa antray, Reflection .. of
Feminism nd Existentialism in Shobha )
' .
De's Novels journal of Literature and
Aesthetics: Anynternq.tional journal
Devoted to Criticql anll Creative Writing
in English Vol. 12, Number 1 63-67
Abstract: Shobha De is an eminent Indian
J novelist, socialite, celebrity, model and
columnist. In this paper modest dt empt
has been taken to find out how De tackles
the issues like, the' eaning if life, the
importance of freedom, tQe angst-ridden
nature of self identity, the challenges and
the seemingly absurdity of modern liviny.
As a feminist n 7 velist, -she has marvelous
understanding of the psyche of woman and
therefore, ner novels arl dominated by
, female protagonists, who struggle hard in
Abstract: Grid computing is the novel
framework that offers a flexible, secure and
high performance computing, on demand
for solving high compute-intensive
applications with large number of
independent jobs. However,
user jobs
developed for grid might be small and of
lfarying lengths according to their
computational needs and other
requirements. Certainly, it is a real
,..
challenge to design an efficient scheduling
strategy-to achieve high performance in
grid computing. But there exists some
grouping based job scheduling strategy
that intends to minimize total processing
time by reducing overhead time and
computation time, and on the other hand
maximlZlng resource utilization than
without grouping based scheduling. The
purpose of the study is to analyze and
achieve better performance by extending

the concept of grouping
scheduling. Therefore, this paper proposes
"A Time-Min.imizatiori Dy11amic Groupi ,g­
Based job Scheduling in Grid Computmg"
with the objective of miimizing overhead
time and computatio time, thus reducing
overall processing time of jobs. T{l work is
verified through various observations
made in different simulated/ grid
environments. The results obtained shows
that the proposed grouping-based
scheduling algorithm is on average,
comparable to, or even better than, other
grouping based scheduling algorithms.
Manoj Kumar Mishra, Nachiketa
Tarasia - An ANN based Two Pass-Two
Phase Adaptive Filter-ing of a Digital
Image Cor upted by SPN, International
(
journal Computer Applications,
No. 11, February 2012, 20-
/
/
Abstract : Images get contaminated due to J
different noise at various stages of
processing and Salt and Pepper is one such
noise. The noise removal approach used for
filtering mainly differs in their basic ,.,.
methodologies, but the purpose is to
J slippress different types and percentage of
noise. Some of the filtering schemes r:eplace
those corrupted pixels b/indentifying the
positions of the corPUpted pixels in t e
observed noisy image, wit.._ h the help of a
noise detector, whereas others remove all
the pixels irrespective of corruption. This
yaper investigates the former method in
denoising a
/ digital image through
incorporat-icm ofan adapti¢e threshold into
the noise detection process. The adaptive
threshold value thus obtained is based on
the noisy image characteristics and their
statistics using LeNN (Legendre Neural
Network) and the patterns of input image
are taken to train FLANN (Functional Link
Artificial Neural Network) corrupted by
SPN(Salt & Pepper noise). Comparative
analysis on standard images at different
noise percentage shows that the proposed
scheme outperforms the existing schemes
in terms of PSNR (peak signal to noise
ratio). Thus, the proposed method named
as 'Two pass- Two phase adaptive filtering
mechanism" is feasible and also makes it
an efficient filter to restore the gray image
fairly well preserving the quality of the
filtered image, and also provides a better
visual perception
Kulamani Parida-IMMT , Krushna Gopal
Mishrg_and Suresh K Dash- Adsorption of
copper (II) on NHz-MCM-41 and its
application fo r epoxidation of styrene: a
"two-in-one" approach , Industrial and
Engineering Chemistry Research(l&EC),
DOl 10. 1021ie200109h, 51(5), 2235-
2246
Abstract : Amine functionalized MCM-41
(NH2-MCM-41) with varying amine
amount (6.4, 10.2, 12.8, and 20 wt %) was
prepared by the cocondensation method
using cetyltrimethylammonium bromide
{CTAB) as structure-directing agent (SDA),
3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (APTES),
and tetraethylorthosilicate (TEOS). The
characterizations of the synthesized
samples were performed by X-ray
diffraction, scanning electron microscopy,

UV-vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopy, /
and Fourier transform infrared spectr.al
-studies. The results • revealed that t e
ordered he1agonal stn cture of MCM-41
was well retained i{fter the lamine
functiona/ization If'respective of 'the
amount of amine loading. AdsprR_tion of
Cu(II) from the aqueous state with varying
parameters such as concentration,
temperature, and pH was performed ouer
as-synthesized and surfactant-removed
NH2-MCM-41. Atomie adsorption
spectroscopy investigations reported a
higher percentage of adsorption in the case
of as-synthesized NH2-MbM-41 compare
to surfactant-removed samples. The
experimental data fitte.d well to Langmuir
and Freundlich adsorption isother. The
sample (1 .8)NH2-MCM-41 showed the
highest cop er adsorption at pH 5.5, Cu(/1)
concentrati of 59.6 ppm, and
MCM-41-Cu(59.6) was used as a catalyst
for epoxidatian of styrene using hydrogen
peroxide as t oxidant.' GC analyses
reported a signifioant conversion of 17.2%
with 64% selectivity toward formation of
styrene epoxide.
J ,
/
jayasli ee Mohanty-/MMT, Krushna'pal
Mishra- KIITU, Raja Kishore Paramguru
and Barada Kantal Mishra'-... -
temperatur 323 K The sample (12.8}NH2-
IMMT­
Formation of Calcium I{tanate During
Electro-reduction of Ti02 in Molten
CaC12 Bath, Metallurgical and Materials
Transaction B, 43(3) june 2012, 513-
518 lSSN I 1073-561S, DOl
10.1007 jsP1663-011-9625-z
Abstract: Direct electrochemical reduction
of Ti02 cathode in molten CaC12 bath to
produce titanium metal invariably results
in the formation of CaTi03 as an
intermediate product. In order to obtain
further insight into the formation of
CaTi03, experiments are performed in
open circuit conditions as well as at a cell
voltage of 2 V for different time periods.
Here we examine conversion of Ti02 to
CaTi03 in the molten CaC12 bath.
Prolonged electrolysis experiments are also
conducted and the newly transformed
phases are analyzed using XRD. The
formation of CaTi03 and its subsequent
transformation to different species during
reduction is discussed. An approach for
preparing CaTi03 chemically by treating
Ti02 electrode in CaC12 bath and
subsequently reducing it by
electrochemical means to produce
titanium metal has been proposed.
jayashree Mohanty-IMMT, Krushna Gopal
Mishra- KIITU, Raja Kishore Paramguru
and Barada Kanta Mishra - IMMT,
Electrochemical Studies on Cathodic
Reduction of Titanium Dioxide in
Molten
I
Calcium Chloride, High
temperature materials and Process
copyright @2012 DeGruyter DOl
10.1515/ htmp-2012-0044 issn:1093-
3611(print)
Abstract : The polarization studies have
been performed on the electrochemical
reduction of Ti02 in a molten CaC12 bath
at 950°C. The cathodic and anodic plots
have been drawn by taking Ti02 pellet as

cathode and graphite rod as anode, /
respectively. The cathodic and anodic overpotentials
dt various cf}}l voltages h
been measured. Prolo ged electrolysis has
been carried out at a eel voltage of 3 V and
the resultant productr have been analyzed
by X-ray Diffraction to find out te reaction
pathway through whieh Ti02 is reduced to
titanium. The results indicate that the
electrochemical
reduction af.. Ti02 , to
titanium proceeds through a multi-step
reduction process.
Subhra Debdas, Dr.M.Fureshi, Pritipa
Govt Polytechnique college champa (C. G)
Wavelet fo r ECq deno_ising using ,
multiresolution
technique, International
journal oft Scientific & Engineering
Research F h nce ISSN 2229-5518
Volume 3, l ue 2
/
Abstract : 1 lectrocardiogram (ECG) is an
importanttool for the primary diagnosis of
heart disease.E \; G. signa_!, • the electrical
interpretation of the cardiac muscle
-
activity is very easy to interfere with
different noises while gathering and,.,.
recording. The ECG signal must be clearly
J ,
represented and filtered to remove all
noise and artifncts fro11)-- signal. '1 this
paper a new approach to filter the EGG
signal from noise us ng Mult1 resolution
Technique based on WaVflet Transform.
This method gives better results than the
other technique applied in this field.
Subhra Debdas, Dr.M.F.Qureshi, Pricipal
Govt Polytechnique collegvchampa (C. G)
e
Application of. wavelet packet analysis
fo r speech synthesis, International
journal of Scientific & Engineering
Research France, ISSN 2229-5518,
Volume 3, Issue 1
Abstract : Wavelets are mathematical
functions that cut up data into different
frequency components, and then study
each component with a resolution matched
to its scale. They have advantages over
traditional Fourier methods in analyzing
physical situations where the signal
contains Discontinuities. Wavelet packet
analysis is analyzed the different entropy
of voice signal.
M. K Maharana & Rupali Mohanty, PSO
based Harmonic Reduction Technique
fo r Wind Generated Power System,
International Journal of Power System
Operation and Energy Management vol
1, 3, 100-104
Abstract : Converters are used in the
Z:tility interface of renewable energy
system to reduce harmonic contents in line
currenJ!J!,pltage and to increase reliability.
These converters suffer from high level of
Total Harmonic Distortion {THD) in the
utility line currents/voltages which creates
a lot of problems in the power system. In
this paper selective harmonics are
eliminated to reduce the THD, that is, the
problem is to determine optimal switching
angles for eliminate harmonics while
maintaining the required fundamental
currents/ voltages. The THD reduction is

achieved by the help of multilevel inverter /
with equal separate de sources using
particle swarm opttmiZ,ation · techniq e.
This technique can be pplied to ml!ltilevel
inverters with any numbr of levels; san
example in this pape , an 11-level inverter
is considered. Theoretical resu{ts are
verified by experiments and simplatif!Jns for
an 11-level H-bridge inverter: Results show
that the proposed method doe effectively
eliminate a great number of specific
harmonics, andthe out:put voltage is
resulted in low total harmonic distortion.
Pathik Sahoo , lndrajit Chakraborty and
Parthasarathi Dastidar, Reverse thermal
gelation of aromatic s"olvents by a"'series
of easily d; cessible organic salt based
gelators, ·oft Matter, 2012,8,2595-
2598,DOI:1 .1039/ C2SM06957A
I /
Abstract : Exploiting crystal engineering j
and supralnolecular synthon concepts, a
series of new gelator salts based on
primary ammomum dicarboxylate {PAD)
salts of azobenzen'l:-'4,4 '-dicarboxylic acid
and primary alkyl amines have been ,.,.
synthesized and characterized by various
J pliysic-chemical techniques. Most of the
salts were shown to form gels with V ;g[
ious
solvents. Interestingly, mf:st of the gelator
salts possessed rarely observed reversethermal
gelation (gelatio '\
with the rise of
temperature) ability of aromatic solvents
which may be relevant in developing
thermo-responsive materials.
I
A.S. Kola$kar and Shweta Kohli
Categorization of metabolome in
-
bacterial systems, Bioinformation
Volume 8(7}, pages 309-314
Abstract: Analyses of biological databases
such as those of genome,
proteome,
metabolome etc., have given insights in
organization of biological systems.
However, current efforts do not utilize the
complete potential of available
metabolome data. In this study,
metabolome of bacterial systems with
reliable annotations are analyzed and a
simple method is developed to categorize
pathways hierarchically, using rational
approach. Ninety-four bacterial systems
having for each >250 annotated metabolic
pathways were used to identify a set of
common pathways. 42 pathways were
present in all bacteria which are termed as
Core/Stage I pathways. This set of
pathways was used along with interacting
compounds to categorize pathways in the
metabolome hierarchically. In each
metabolome non-interacting pathways
were identified including at each stage.
The case study of Escherichia coli 0157,
Kaving 433 annotated pathways, shows
that 378 pathways interact directly or
indirectly with 41 core pathways while 14
,..
pathways are non-interacting. These 378
pathways are distributed in Stage II (289),
Stage III (75), Stage IV (13) and Stage V
(1) category. The approach discussed here
allows understanding of the complexity of
metabolic networks. It has pointed out that
core pathways could be most ancient
pathways and compounds that interact
with maximum pathways may be
compounds with high biosynthetic
potential, which can be easily identified.

Further, it was shown that interactions of /
pathways at various stages could be one to
one, one to many, mahy to one ·or many .... o
many mappings tr.ough interacting
compounds: The granularity of the method
discussed being ht!Jh; the impact) of
perturbation in a pathway on the
metabolome and partitularly sub networks
can be studied precisely. 1 The
categorizations
of metabolic, pathways
help in identifying choke point enzymes
that are useful to identify probable drug
targets. The Metabolic categorizations for
94 bacteria are available at
http:f/115.111.37.202/mftej.
Veena Goswami af!d G. B. und,
Analysis of discrete-time queues with
batch rerl wal input and multiple
vacations,
r
rurnal of Systems Science
and Compl xity, Volume 25, Number 3
(2012), 48 -503, DOl: 10. 1007 js11424-
012-0057-x
.I
Abstract :This p, per anq.lyzes a discretetime
multiple vacations finite-buffer
-
queueing system with batch renewal input
in which inter-arrival time of batches are_...
arbitrarilv distributed. Service and
J ,
J
vacation times are mutually independent
and geometrically distribpted. The ( erver
takes vacations when the system does n t
h ave any wmtmg . . , I JO b s at ..._ a service .
completion epoch or a vacN._tion completion
epoch. The system is analyzed under the
assumptions of late arrival system with
delayed access and early arri al system.
Using the supplementary variable and the
imbedded Markov chain / techniques, the
, authors /obtain the queue-length
distributions at_ pre-arrivat arbitrary and
outside observer's observation epochs for
partial-batch rejection policy. The blocking
probability of the first-, an arbitrary and
the last-job in a batch have been discussed.
The analysis of actual waiting-time
distributions measured in slots of the first-,
an arbitrary-
and the last-job in an
accepted batch, and other performance
measures along with some numerical
results have also been investigated.
N. K Sahu, C. Nahak, and S. Nanda,
Numerical Range of Two Operators in
Semi inner-product spaces. Abstract
and Applied Analysis, Vol 2012 Article
ID 846396
Abstract : In this paper, the numerical
range for two operators (both linear and
nonlinear) have been studied in semi-inner
product spaces. The inclusion relations
between numerical range, approximate
point spectrum,
compression spectrum,
eigen spectrum, and spectrum have been
established for two linear operators. We
n so show the inclusion relation between
approx:imate point spectrum and closure of
the numerical range for two nonlinear
,..
oper(Jltors. An approximation method for
solving
he operator equation involving
two non linear operators is also
established.
Sonawane A, Mohanty S, ]agannathan L,
Bekolay A, Banerjee S.; Role of glycans
and
development
glycoproteins
by
tuberculosis; Crit Rev
Aug;38(3):250-66
in
disease
Mycobacterium
Microbial, 2012

Abstract : Glycoproteins play a critical /
role in host-pathogen interactio s,
antigenicity, and virzflence determinatieh
and are therefore, co idered as pQtential
drug targets. The "" cell wdll of
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb),
the
causative agent of tuberculqsis (TB),
dominantly contains sugars pnd lipids.
Despite the efforts taken by the World
Health Organization to r.f{_ duce the
incidence rate, the prevalence of TB is
increasing in certain regions. This is mainly
attributed to the emergence of multidrugresistant
bacteria. Factors that contribute
to Mtb virulence and anl:tgenicity remain
elusive. However, several studies have
shown hat sug rs and lipids are mainly
responsible for Mtb pathogenesis and
resistance t numerous drugs. This review
gives insigh finto the role of glycoproteins
in mycoba terium pathogenesis, disease
developmenf and its implications in dr.ug
development.
•
jena P, MohanW:, S, Mallick R, jacob B,
Sonawane A.; Toxicity and antibacterial
assessment of chitosancoated silver
nanoparticles on human pathogens and
macrophage cells; lnt ] Nanomedicine.
r
2o12;r1Bos-1B. Ep ub 2:2 Apr 3l
Abstract : BACKGROUND: Pathoge, ic
bacteria are able fo develop various
strategies to counteract 'the bactericidal
action of antibiotics. Silver nanoparticles
(AgNPs) have emerged as a potential
alternative to 1 conventional antibiotics
because of their poten;, antimicrobial
properties. The purpose of this study was to
, synthesize chitosan-stabilized AgNPs (CS-
AgNPs)
and test for their cytotoxic,
genotoxic, macrophage cell uptake,
antibacterial, and antibiofilm activities.
METHODS: AgNPs were synthesized using
chitosan as both a stabilizing and a
reducing agent. Antibacterial activity was
determined by colony-forming unit assay
and scanning electron microscopy.
Genotoxic and cytotoxic activity were
determined by DNA fragmentation, comet,
and MTT [3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-
diphenyltetrazolium
Cellular
uptake
bromide]
and
assays.
intracellular
antibacterial activity were tested on
macrophages.
RESULTS: CS-AgNPs exhibited potent
antibacterial
activity against different
human pathogens and also impeded
bacterial biofilm formation. Scanning
electron microscopy analysis indicated that
CS-AgNPs kill bacteria by disrupting the
cell membrane. CS-AgNPs showed no
significant cytotoxic or DNA damage effect
on macrophages at the bactericidal dose .
Propidium iodide staining indicated active
endocytosis of CS-AgNPs resulting in
reduced intracellular bacterial survival in
macrophages.
CONCLUSION: The present study concludes
..
that at a specific dose, chitosan-based
AgNPs kil bacteria without harming the
host cells, thus representing a potential
template for the design of antibacterial
agents to decrease bacterial colonization
and to overcome the problem of drug
resistance.

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