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On posterior concentration in misspecified models
(Bayesian Analysis, 2015)
We investigate the asymptotic behavior of Bayesian posterior distributions under independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) misspecified models. More specifically, we study the concentration of the posterior distribution ...
Air pollution co-benefits of low-carbon policies in road transport: a sub-national assessment for India
(Institute of Physics Publishing, 2015)
This letter assesses low carbon scenarios for India at the subnational level in the passenger road transport sector. We estimate the future passenger mobility demand and assess the impact of carbon mitigation policies using ...
Analyzing rental vehicle threshold policies that consider expected waiting times for two customer classes
(Elsevier, 2015)
Vehicle rental providers, which operate in an uncertain environment, offer differentiated services to priority and non-priority customers. In this research, we study one such service differentiation strategy, a vehicle ...
Cancun’s paradigm shift and COP 21: to go beyond rhetoric
(Springer Netherlands, 2015)
This foreword explains why the success of COP21 is dependent upon its capacity to operate the paradigm shift announced in Cancun. It comes back to the recent history of the Conference of the Parties and shows the reasons ...
Dynamic interactions between foreign institutional investment flows and stock market returns – the case of India
(Wyzsza Szkola Finansow i Zarzadzania w Warszawie, 2015)
There has been a marked increase in the magnitude of Foreign Institutional Investments (FIIs) into India since the 1990s, resulting in increased forex reserves and liquidity and a higher-valued Indian capital market. ...
A heuristic for the multisource weber problem with service level constraints
(Transportation Science, 2015)
In this paper we develop a column-generation-based heuristic procedure to solve a generalized version of the multisource Weber problem where in addition to the transportation cost we also consider staffing level costs that ...
Telemedicine in India: current state, challenges and opportunities
(Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, 2015)
Purpose – The purpose of this conceptual paper is to present the scope of telemedicine, current state of telemedicine in India, challenges in its diffusion and suggest the way forward for implementation of such initiatives. ...
Understanding food policy change in Ghana
(Development in Practice, 2015)
Evidence-based policy-making has become a critical aspect of development strategy in developing countries. Yet the assumption that policymakers will automatically use available evidence may not be valid in all contexts. ...
Do the pre-service education programmes for midwives in India prepare confident 'registered midwives'? a survey from India
(Global Health Action. 2015; 8: 10., 2015)
The graduates of the diploma and degree programmes of nursing and midwifery in India are considered skilled birth attendants (SBAs). This paper aimed to assess the confidence of final-year students from pre-service education ...
Robustness of tests for directional mean
(Taylor & Francis, 2015)
In this paper we study the robustness of the likelihood ratio, circular mean and circular trimmed mean test functionals in the context of tests of hypotheses regarding the mean direction of circular normal and wrapped ...