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- Balancing Diversity among Indian Life Insurers Looking Back and Looking Ahead
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1 Tiruppur Kumaran College for Women, Tirupur, Tamilnadu., IN
2 Higher College of Technology, Muscat., OM
3 Department of Business Management, PSGR Krishnammal College for Women, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu., IN
1 Tiruppur Kumaran College for Women, Tirupur, Tamilnadu., IN
2 Higher College of Technology, Muscat., OM
3 Department of Business Management, PSGR Krishnammal College for Women, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu., IN
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International Journal of Marketing and Business Communication, Vol 1, No 4 (2012), Pagination: 53-63Abstract
Today, insurance business has proved rapid growth and sizeable gain among all service sectors. Both LIC and private players did a commendable job in developing their market penetration. With impressive achievements inhand there are also few fresh challenges likely to be faced in the immediate future like how successful have been the enacted reforms? How do the insurers, intermediaries and insured customers feel that their interests and concerns have been fairly served by each of the other stakeholders at the market place? What are the shortcomings in their expected performance? The entire organized insurance system exists only to serve the ultimate interests of the consumers, with the Government as an indirect beneficiary of insurers' acting as social security net for those who can afford insurance and for funds to be generated to develop national economy. There is always a debate about who serves best the interest of the economy, whether the public giant LIC or the private players? Each segment has its Unique Selling Preposition and this causes diversity in sense of understanding, information, reporting, perception, and quality of service between public and private insurers. This study is an attempt to identify where the gap arises and what actually differentiates or diversifies the private and public life insurance companies in India and what according to them is their area of preference in providing service to the Indian customers. The analysis was made on the basis of five crucial determinants namely Understanding, Information, Reporting, Perception and Quality using Likert's scaling technique on the basis of which mean, standard deviation and variance were calculated. Z-test was used to find the mean differences among private and public life insurance sector. The findings reveal the positive and negative gaps among the life insurer's in India.Keywords
Diversity, Understanding, Information, Reporting, Perception, Quality of Service and Gaps
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- Small Cell and Cell Zooming Approach for Cost Effective Green Cellular Communication
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1 Department of Electronics and Communication, College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, Chennai, IN
1 Department of Electronics and Communication, College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, Chennai, IN
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Networking and Communication Engineering, Vol 5, No 7 (2013), Pagination: 330-334Abstract
The meteoric growth in wireless communication applications and hence the corresponding growth in the cellular network infrastructure to be provisioned has resulted in a growing concern on the energy consumption of the network, the carbon footprint and the electromagnetic pollution. Cell size in cellular networks is in general fixed based on the estimated traffic load. However if the cell size can be adjusted according to traffic, it can save a lot of energy and cost. Cell Zooming is a new concept which adaptively adjusts the cell size according to traffic conditions. Implementing cell zooming in cellular networks needs to introduce some new components and functionalities to the current network architecture. Another technique is to divide the existing cells into a number of small cells covering a few metres each having a low-power, low-cost base station (BS). Umbrella macrocells would be needed to ensure area coverage while most of the data traffic is carried by a large number of small cells. When traffic is very low in one cell, it can even be switched off for some time to save power. When traffic is too low all small cell BSs can be switched off keeping the main BS on, which sends beacon messages to sense the traffic load. This project is aimed at combining these two techniques to simulate a green cellular architecture and to determine the electromagnetic pollution index (EPI) and total energy consumed by the network in different traffic situations.Keywords
Cell Zooming, Small Cell Networks, Energy Efficiency, Electromagnetic Pollution Index.- Basic Characteristics of Speech Signal Analysis
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1 V.L.B. Janakiammal College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, IN
1 V.L.B. Janakiammal College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, IN
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International Journal of Innovative Research and Development, Vol 5, No 4 (2016), Pagination: 169-173Abstract
Speech signal include several fundamental characteristics and it is divided into two types of features such as time-domain speech signal features and frequency domain signal features which is mainly used for segmenting speech signals. Three important characteristics of speech signal is short time zero crossing, energy and auto correlation. The short time energy and short time zero crossing rates are important properties for detecting the end point of a speech signal analysis. Especially these two properties are used in voiced and unvoiced segmentation and classification.
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Short-Time Energy, Short-Time Zero Crossing Rate, Autocorrelation, Spectral Centroid, Spectral Flux.Full Text
- The Higher Mode Elimination in Microstrip Patch Antenna using Defected Microstrip Surface for Suppression of Cross Polarized Radiations and Improved Isolation
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1 Department of Physics, SBRR Mahajana First Grade College, IN
2 Department of Electronics, Yuvaraja’s College, IN
3 Department of Electronics, Postgraduate Centre, University of Mysore, IN
1 Department of Physics, SBRR Mahajana First Grade College, IN
2 Department of Electronics, Yuvaraja’s College, IN
3 Department of Electronics, Postgraduate Centre, University of Mysore, IN
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ICTACT Journal on Microelectronics, Vol 6, No 4 (2021), Pagination: 1005-1009Abstract
This paper proposes unique design technique using defected microstrip surface (DMS) for the suppression of higher mode, reduced cross polarization (XP) and improved isolation. The proposed technique can be easily adapted to any conventional working rectangular microstrip patch antennas (RMPA) in the practical applications. The modification can be made by etching the rectangular slots called DMS of optimized dimensions in the rectangular microstrip patch. This will enhance the radiations by suppressing XP radiations and eliminates nearby undesired higher order mode, which is the source for the XP radiations. In this design the conventional RMPA is designed to resonate at 3.04 GHz with broad side radiations with co-polarized peak gain of 5.2dBi and XP of -15.5dB. The proposed RMPA resonates at the same frequency with a gain of 6dBi. The XP is significantly suppressed by 31dB and it is -46.5dB over the span of ±500, with co-pol to cross-pol isolation of 52.5dB is achieved for S-band applications. The performances of the designed antennas have been experimentally verified.Keywords
Cross–Polarization, DMS, Isolation, RMPA.References
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