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Can Taguchi Method be applied to Improve Software Quality ? A Case Study
(2015)
Taguchi method was formulated by Dr. Genichi Taguchi for the purpose of improving quality and hence the productivity of industrial products, ref. Burgam (1965), Moen et al. (1992), Peace (1992), Roy (2010). Since then ...
Modelling of Energy Utilization of Tourism Industry to have an Insight of the Existing Electricity Generation Plan of Sri Lanka
(2015)
Tourism industry in Sri Lanka shares a substantial amount of GDP (Gross Domestic Product) and predicts an immense expansion within a short time frame. Owing to its energy intensiveness and competitiveness, a scrutiny in ...
Optimized Power Output from Piezoelectric Flexure Element Driven by Low Frequency Vibration
(2015)
Energy harvesting is the process of capturing readily available energy and converting into usable energy. Among the many different types of energy harvesting methods, piezoelectric energy harvesting has become popular as ...
A Comparative Evaluation of Existing Mppt Algorithms and Development of a Hybrid Algorithm for Photovoltaic Systems
(2015)
This Research paper is about a comparative evaluation of different existing algorithms for Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) of photovoltaic (PV) systems, and developing of a new hybrid-algorithm. Solar panel is a non ...
Efficient 3D City Modelling from Airborne Laser Scanning point clouds
(2015)
Geometrically and topologically correct 3D building models are required to satisfy the increasing demand in, for instance virtual reality, emergency response, robot navigation, and urban planning. Airborne Laser Scanning ...
Landscape as a Tool in Achieving “Adaptive Comfort”, a Study on Multi-Storied Residential Buildings in Tropics
(2015)
Maintaining indoor thermal and visual comfort has become the basic means of energy consuming modes in residential buildings in tropical climates. The amount of energy consumption in domestic building activities per year ...
Development and Experimental Evaluation of a Visible Light Communication System with Ambient Light Cancellation
(2015)
Light emitting diodes (LEDs) hold several attractive characteristics such as low power consumption, fast switching times, high durability and size reduction to find applications in modern digital communications. This paper ...
Railway Warning and Control Systems
(2015)
This paper presents overall system description of the implemented system on the sensor network based railway warning and control system. With the main objective of providing the protection to the public at the unmanned ...
An Analysis of Speed Drop in ADSL Lines in Sri Lanka
(2015)
This paper investigates the possible reasons for the very common problem faced by internet users at present: speed drop in ADSL lines in Sri Lanka. ADSL is a variant of DSL in which unused bandwidth of existing copper cable ...