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Roy, Rahul
- Study of TFR Techniques for Chirp Parameter Estimation
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Digital Signal Processing, Vol 5, No 1 (2013), Pagination: 33-38Abstract
Chirp parameter estimation is the topic of research interest for various years. Nowadays, chirp signals are applied in many engineering fields such as radar and passive/active sonar systems. Related to the use of chirp signals, the problem of parameter estimation of the signal has been receiving a great deal of interest. Chirps signal is a non-stationary signal whose frequency varies with the time. Ordinary Fourier transform is inefficient due to strong non-stationary characteristics of the signal. Hence special techniques are required to evaluate a chirp signal. Literature survey shows that the parameter estimation techniques are broadly categorized as Time-Frequency representation and statistical representation. In this paper we will discuss some of the Time-Frequency representation techniques like FrFT, WVD and Bowtie in detail and their respective results are further evaluated. Simulations of some of the techniques are done with respect to various parameters taken into account. Comparative study based on the simulation results is also done. All these techniques have trade-off between the accuracy and complexity. The evaluation results show FrFT has more accurate results than WVD and Bowtie in presence of noise. That is noise immunity of FrFT is much more than WVD and Bowtie. But complexity is less in WVD and Bowtie is simplest to implement.Keywords
Chirp Parameter Estimation, Time-Frequency Representation, Fractional Fourier Transform, WVD, Bowtie.- Financing Sources and Problems of SMEs in Developing Countries:A Study Based on Khulna Region of Bangladesh
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1 Business Administration Discipline, Khulna University, BD
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Journal of Entrepreneurship & Management, Vol 6, No 1 (2017), Pagination: 12-22Abstract
In pursuit of her economic development, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) conquer leading positions in economy. The present study is conducted to analyse the problem of SMEs to collect fund in Khulna city. Data were collected from 100 SME units by using simple random technique. A structural questionnaire was developed to get the responses from different SME units in the country. For Bangladesh SMEs, it is assumed special significance for poverty reduction programme and potential contribution to the overall industrial and economic growth. Some of the constraints related SME financing are identified and some pointers for the future are provided through the study. Considering the importance this study has strived to identify those factors contribute the success of SMEs using causal model. Several factors were selected typically that affects the SME activities from pervious literature. Important factors were identified first using rotated components matrix later regression statistics was applied to find out which are statistically significant. The SME owners collect their fund basically from some sources such as money lenders, private banks, state owned banks, NGOs as well as specialised banks. They face various problems during the fund collection which are main focus in this study. In order to overcome the problems a few suggestions for the development of SMEs are given by the authors.
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SME Activities, Finance Khulna City, Bangladesh, Money Lenders, State-Owned Bank, Private Bank, NGO, Specialised Bank.References
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- Study and Experiment Analysis of the Feasibility of Partial Replacement of Industrial Waste Glass Powder as Cement in Self Compacting Concrete
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1 School of Civil and Chemical Engineering (SCALE), VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu 632014, IN
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International Journal of Technology, Vol 7, No 1 (2017), Pagination: 29-36Abstract
Cement manufacturing industry is one of the Carbon-di-oxide (CO2) emitting sources to the atmosphere. To reduce this emission the alternative material to be used in the concrete in which the glass is adopted. Glass is an economical and environmental friendly construction material. Glass is non-biodegradable material not suitable for landfill. In this paper partial replacement of cementitious material in self compacting concrete in 5%, 10%, 15%. The replacement of glass powder decreases the unit weight and porosity by decreases in water absorption. The early consumption of alkalis by glass particles helps in reduction of alkali silica reaction. The workability of concrete is determined by using slump test and the crushing strength of aggregate is determined by using impact test. Therefore, the glass powder is used to some extent can replace the cement and contribute the strength development and characteristics of durability.Keywords
Domestic Glass, Self Compacting Concrete, Alkali Silica Reaction, Workability, Carbon-Di-Oxide.References
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