scholarly journals The Effect of Electricity Supply on the Performance of Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises in Nigeria: A Case Study of Calabar South and Calabar Municipality of Cross River State

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian E. Bassey ◽  
Imoh Kingsley Ikpe
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Power Supply ◽  
Public Investment ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Electricity Supply ◽  
Cross River ◽  
Cross River State ◽  
Electric Power Supply ◽  
Medium Scale ◽  
The Comparative Study

This research work analyzed the comparative study of the effect of electricity supply on the performance of small and medium-scale enterprises in Calabar South and Calabar Municipality,using small and medium scale businessmen and women as well as power holding company staff. The objectives of this study to analyze the comparative study of the effect of electricity supply on the performance of small and medium-scale enterprises in Calabar South and Calabar Municipality.The survey research design was adopted and a twelve (12) item structured questionnaire was used to obtain a sample size of 248 small and medium scale business owners and power holding staff randomly selected from the population. The results of the study revealed that there is a significant effect of electricity supply on the performance of small and medium-scale enterprises in Calabar South and Calabar Municipality. The results further revealed that insufficient electricity supply significantly affect the performance of small and medium-scale enterprises in Calabar South and Calabar Municipality.The study concludes that there are enormous difficulties being experienced by businesses in Cross River State and other parts of Nigeria due to inadequate and unreliable electric power supply. Thus an inadequate and unreliable supply of electricity imposes costs and therefore constrained firms’ operational performance as firms suffer high overhead cost due to the deficient electricity supply from the national grid. The study recommends that the Nigerian government needs to consider the issue of power supply reliability very seriously by facilitating both private and public investment in electricity infrastructure.

scholarly journals Response of a C-Shaped Building Under Blast Loadings

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S8) ◽  
pp. 1012-1016
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Blast Load ◽  
Building Structures ◽  
Finite Element Program ◽  
Building Model ◽  
Element Program ◽  
Live Loads ◽  
Triangular Function ◽  
The Comparative Study

Our structures especially building structures, are designed basically for dead loads, live loads for static loading conditions and for wind, earthquake and their combinations for dynamic lateral loadings. As the structures are not designed for unexpected blast load conditions it is not possible for the structures to resist such destructive forces of blast impacts. In this research work a comparative study has been done for the blast forces and earthquake forces. For this study purpose a C-shaped building was modelled for the analysis in finite element program SAP-2000. Initially the building model was analysed for Dead loads, live loads and Earthquake loads. In the second model the building is designed for Blast load. Blast load was defined as a triangular function using codal provisions suggested by IS-4991. The results then are compared and it was checked how far a building designed for EQ can withstand a blast of specific amount of TNT. Also the effect of blast forces due to shape of the building is checked. The comparative study has been mapped and indicated in the paper.

Study on Risk Reduction of Electric Power Supply Restriction by Reinforcement of Interconnection Lines Between Areas for the Nankai Trough Earthquake

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 566-576
Author(s):  
Tetsuya Torayashiki ◽  
◽  
Hiroaki Maruya
Keyword(s):  
Electric Power ◽  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Power Supply ◽  
Nankai Trough ◽  
Electricity Supply ◽  
Maintenance Costs ◽  
Electric Power Supply ◽  
East West ◽  
Interconnection Lines

Estimating electric power supply restrictions after the Nankai Trough earthquake and evaluating the need for reinforcing the capacity of lines interconnecting power supply areas, we found that capacity reinforcement of the Chubu-Kansai interconnection line used an electricity supply capability in the 60 Hz area of the western part of Japan after the disaster. We also found that this is effective in reducing risk in electric power supply restrictions, based on certain conditions. We also found by estimating construction and maintenance costs that the capacity reinforcement of the Chubu-Kansai interconnection line reduces risk and costs less than an east-west interconnection line.

scholarly journals A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF IMAGE FILTERING ON VARIOUS NOISY PIXELS

2013 ◽  
pp. 157-165
Author(s):  
SONALI R. MAHAKALE ◽  
NILESHSINGH V. THAKUR
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Mean Squared Error ◽  
Mean Absolute Error ◽  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Absolute Error ◽  
Image Filtering ◽  
Squared Error ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
Work Done

This paper deals with the comparative study of research work done in the field of Image Filtering. Different noises can affect the image in different ways. Although various solutions are available for denoising them, a detail study of the research is required in order to design a filter which will fulfill the desire aspects along with handling most of the image filtering issues. An output image should be judged on the basis of Image Quality Metrics for ex-: Peak-Signal-to-Noise ratio (PSNR), Mean Squared Error (MSE) and Mean Absolute Error (MAE) and Execution Time.

scholarly journals Improving quality of ac electric power supply of autonomous power sources using in agriculture

2020 ◽  
Vol 193 ◽  
pp. 01024
Author(s):  
Olga Milashkina ◽  
Vadim Zlobin
Keyword(s):  
Power Supply ◽  
Voltage Regulation ◽  
Voltage Regulators ◽  
Electricity Supply ◽  
Control Laws ◽  
Power Sources ◽  
Electric Power Supply ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Supply Systems

Autonomous AC electricity supply systems are now widely introduced in agriculture. As the experience of operation of these electricity supply systems has shown, their various properties, determined largely by the type of voltage regulators and sensors used, do not always fully meet the constantly growing requirements for the quality of electricity. Further improvement of voltage regulation systems, and, consequently, the quality of electricity, is associated with the use of technology in them that can implement optimal control laws.

scholarly journals A dataset of regressions in web applications detected by end-to-end tests

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Óscar Soto-Sánchez ◽  
Michel Maes-Bermejo ◽  
Micael Gallego ◽  
Francisco Gortázar
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Spring Framework ◽  
Apply Research ◽  
End To End ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
Unit Tests

AbstractEnd-to-end tests present many challenges in the industry. The long-running times of these tests make it unsuitable to apply research work on test case prioritization or test case selection, for instance, on them, as most works on these two problems are based on datasets of unit tests. These ones are fast to run, and time is not usually a considered criterion. This is because there is no dataset of end-to-end tests, due to the infrastructure needs for running this kind of tests, the complexity of the setup and the lack of proper characterization of the faults and their fixes. Therefore, running end-to-end tests for any research work is hard and time-consuming, and the availability of a dataset containing regression bugs, documentation and logs for these tests might foster the usage of end-to-end tests in research works. This paper presents a) a dataset for this kind of tests, including six well-documented manually injected regression bugs and their corresponding fixes in three web applications built using Java and the Spring framework; b) tools for easing the execution of these tests no matter the infrastructure; and c) a comparative study with two well-known datasets of unit tests. The comparative study shows that there are important differences between end-to-end and unit tests, such as their execution time and the amount of resources they consume, which are much higher in the end-to-end tests. End-to-end testing deserves some attention from researchers. Our dataset is a first effort toward easing the usage of end-to-end tests in research works.

Production and Distribution of Electricity in Bordeaux, 1887–1956: Private and Public Operators

1996 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandre Fernandez
Keyword(s):  
Power Supply ◽  
Electricity Supply ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
Electric Power Supply ◽  
The People ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City ◽  
Means Of Production

Like other cities, Bordeaux discovered the phenomenon of electricity by the end of the nineteenth century and tamed it during the first third of the twentieth century. Here, as elsewhere, one could follow the stages in the diffusion of the uses of electricity. But tackling the history of the electricity industry in Bordeaux means, perhaps more than elsewhere, getting involved with the evolution of the governing bodies which have dominated the process of electrification. Indeed, Bordeaux presents the case, very rare in France of a town which has known several juridical changes in the development of generation and distribution of electricity. From the start, until 1919, the construction of the network and its exploitation were taken care of by private companies. At this date, the Council appropriated the means of production and of distribution of electricity; the authority which was created then remained in existence beyond the general nationalisation of 1946, until 1956, when the city entrusted its electricity supply to the national company Electricité de France (EDF). How can these statutory changes be explained? We shall see that they can primarily be accounted for by shortcomings in the supply, whoever the operator may have been at the time. Indeed, in this field, supply first created demand and thus engendered the first faltering attempts in electricity. But, then, on several occasions, the electric power supply hit financial and technical snags. The change of juridical status then appeared as the solution to the people in charge.

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