this study used the partial least squares (pls) approach to examine the effect of corporate reputation on the customer loyalty of the food and beverages industry in nigeria. the data for this study were collected from the customers in kano state nigeria. out of 250 distributed questionnaires, 212 usable questionnaires were returned. before examining the effect of corporate reputation on the cus...

Increasing interest is being shown in the use of microprocessor for protection, switching and data acquisition required in modern high voltage substations. One of the most difficult functions to fulfill is that of transmission line distance protection employing samples of the voltage and current waveform taken from high voltage transducer equipment at the usual relaying point. This paper examin...

Quality of broadband connectivity over a residential power line is dependent on its topology; which is very different from twisted pair copper used in telephony. In this paper methods to estimate the topology of a power line are investigated. A two step procedure comprising of a set of correlation time domain Reflectometry (CTDR) measurements based on Single Ended Loop Testing (SELT) and an ini...

Coordinate measurement machine (CMM) probing techniques can involve direct mechanical contact (e.g., tactile probing) or diverse non-contact principles (e.g., laser line scan probing). For some applications, contact methods are not capable of measuring fast enough to ensure 100% quality controlled parts. A laser line scanning probe uses a laser triangulation-based method to acquire 3D measureme...

PURPOSE The purpose of this in vivo study was to compare the accuracy of primary incisor length determined by direct digital radiography (straight-line measurement and grid superimposition) and measurement of the actual tooth length. METHODS Twenty-two primary maxillary incisors that required extractions were selected from 3- to 5-year-old children. The teeth were radiographed with an intraor...

A new principle of on-line crook measurement for long size rolling stock while running is devised, instead of customary off line static measurement. Rolled steel beams and plates aretransferred on roller tables generally accompanied with the motion of traverse and rotation. Therefore, the following three measuring methodes are described. (1) For the case of both traverse and rotation are neglig...

In order to obtain power line communications channel transmission characteristics, impulse responses measurements were performed on the basis of PN sequence’s excellent periodic autocorrelation properties. Meanwhile, a compensation method in frequency domain was proposed to improve the measurement precision. Then, the empirical multipath channel model of power line is presented from the measure...

In the paper a new method for the measurement of R, L, C parameters under non-sinusoidal condition is proposed. The measurement procedure, starting from the consideration that for a non-linear SISO system the discrete transfer function H(z) functionally depends on the applied input, uses the estimated z parameters to obtain the best estimate of the equivalent circuit R, L, C parameters of first...

In this work, structural and magnetic properties of LaMnO3+δ compound prepared by citrate precursor method and annealed in presence of oxygen are investigated. The structural characterization of LaMnO3+δ by X-ray powder diffraction and using X’pert package and Fullprof program is evidence for a rhombohedral structure (R-3c space group) confirmed by FTIR measurement. The magnetic measurements sh...