Optimization of the Inspection of Large Composite Materials Using Robotized Line Scan Thermography

NDT methods and applications Many useful NDT methods were introduced in the literature to detect the defects and delamination which has been used according to defect size and type, material, and defect location [6]. Some of the most commonly used...

Assessing Performance of Silicon Photonic Modulators for Pulse Am- plitude Modulation

Lumped Element Segmented MZM solution The performance of an MZM is characterized by parameters such as analog bandwidth, voltage swing required for a _ phase shift (V_), and insertion loss [17]. Simultaneous achievement of low V_ and high bandwidth is...

A multi-dimensional measure of poverty using the fuzzy approach

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » DEFINITION OF POVERTY The definition of poverty is very complex. A definition is difficult to formulate because poverty means different things to different people. Some people may define poverty as a lack of...

Agricultural inputs in partial equilibrium models

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Policy Environment South African agriculture has undergone major policy changes since the early 1980s. A complete summary of these changes is extensively discussed in Kirsten et al., (1994), Van Zyl et al., (2001),...

Documenting the within-case and cross-case analysis

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Semi-structured Interviews The semi-structured questions for the direct manager (line manager or project manager) of the individual team members were also divided into components similar to those used for the individuals. These are...

A gld type with skewness-invariant measures of kurtosis

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » FAMILIES OF DISTRIBUTIONS As part of the development of continuous univariate distributions, the construction of generalized families of probability distributions has featured prominently in the literature. These distributional families include, amongst others, the...

Data and selected socio-economic features of the study area

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Approaches and methods of the study As noted above, this study has two main objectives. First was to establish the determinants of SFM and conservation technologies. Secondly, to provide an understanding of the...

Analysis of the imbizo communication strategy framework

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Dependency paradigm In the 1960s the modernisation paradigm with its ethnocentric perspective on development was challenged by Latin American social scientists, and a theory dealing with dependency and underdevelopment, the dependency paradigm, was...

Human resources management practices

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » The concept of HRM The concept of human resources management is comparatively new in the management and organizational behaviour literature. Human resources management only emerged as a planned and systematic approach to human...

Financial market conditions, target zones and asymmetries

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Theoretical model The central bank’s monetary policy design problem is a targeting rule following Svensson (1999) and draws from Boinet and Martin (2008). The monetary policy reaction function is an adaptation of the...