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Urban commons service generation, delivery, and management: a conceptual framework
(Elsevier B.V., 2017)
Urban commons are currently not studied holistically under the rationale used by the ecosystem cascade framework. In this paper, we build on the ecosystem cascade framework to present a conceptual model that provides a ...
Rough information set and its applications in decision making
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017)
The decision making in the real world is inevitably characterized with vagueness, and imprecision due to incomplete knowledge. To this end, we combine the information set with the rough set theory to represent both the ...
Adoption of system of rice intensification under information constraints: an analysis for India
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-06-15)
This study examines the role of information constraints in the adoption of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in India by explicitly incorporating information in the adoption model. The results showed that effective ...
Brand adoption by BoP retailers
(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2017)
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework to understand how bottom of the pyramid (BoP) retailers adopt brands who sell to a very different set of customers and are served through long indirect channels. ...
Approximated set-valued mapping approach for handling multiobjective bilevel problems
(Elsevier Ltd, 2017)
A significant amount of research has been done on bilevel optimization problems both in the realm of classical and evolutionary optimization. However, the multiobjective extensions of bilevel programming have received ...
Optimal management of naturally regenerating uneven-aged forests
(Elsevier B.V., 2017)
A shift from even-aged forest management to uneven-aged management practices leads to a problem rather different from the existing straightforward practice that follows a rotation cycle of artificial regeneration, thinning ...
Let the people speak: improving regional adaptation policy by combining adaptive capacity assessments with Vulnerability perceptions of farmers in Gujarat, India
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-12-13)
Farmers throughout the Global South are vulnerable to extreme heat events and shifting precipitation patterns associated with climate change. This is particularly the case in Gujarat, India, which is experiencing fluctuating ...
Sentiment analysis of financial news articles using performance indicators
(Springer, 2017-11-24)
Mining financial text documents and understanding the sentiments of individualinvestors, institutions and markets is an important and challenging problem in the literature.Current approaches to mine sentiments from financial ...
Two-stage test of means of unordered pairs
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2017-04-16)
has been considered when the labels of the observations are either missing or not known. The problem may arise in many applied settings, especially in genetics. Classical likelihood ratio test fails here because of ...
Transnational Indian business in the Twentieth Century
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-12-12)
This article argues that migration and investment from India moved in tandem to chart the evolution of transnational Indian business in the twentieth century, first toward Southeast Asia and Africa and later toward the ...