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Alcohol, babies and the death penalty: Saving lives by analysing the shape of the brain
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2013)
Alcohol can damage the brains of unborn babies. Shape analysis can assess the damage in fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. Kanti Mardia, Fred Bookstein and John Kent explain how it works, and how it can help babies and even ...
Posterior consistency of bayesian quantile regression based on the misspecied asymmetric laplace density
(International Society for Bayesian Analysis, 2013)
We explore an asymptotic justication for the widely used and em-pirically veried approach of assuming an asymmetric Laplace distribution (ALD) for the response in Bayesian Quantile Regression. Based on empirical ndings, ...
Mandatory IPO Grading: Does it Help Pricing Efficiency?
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2015)
Infection control in delivery care units, Gujarat state, India: A needs assessment
(2011)
Background: Increasingly, women in India attend health facilities for childbirth, partly due to incentives paid under government programs. Increased use of health facilities can alleviate the risks of infections contracted ...
Social Entrepreneurship in India: an exploratory study
(UNIV NOVE JULHO, 2015)
Social Entrepreneurship is an all-encompassing nomenclature, used for depicting the process of, bringing about social change on a major and impactful scale compared to a traditional Non-Governmental Organization (NGO). It ...
Gratitude: An emotional approach in business relationship
(2012)
Most theories of Relationship Marketing (RM) emphasize the role of trust, commitment and/or customer satisfaction in development of long term business relationships. In spite of recognition of gratitude as core of reciprocity ...
Credit off-take from formal financial institutions in rural India: quantile regression results
(SpringerOpen, 2014)
Extending financial services to unbanked population in India has remained a central part of the policy thrust of the Indian government for decades. To that effect, a widespread formal credit delivery mechanism has been ...
Realigning Business Strategy to Cater to Customers with Disability (CwD) in the Indian Context
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2015)
Creativity in research and development laboratories: A new scale for leader behaviours
(2013)
In this paper, we report an inventory of leader behaviours that can promote creativity among R&D professionals. Specifically, we constructed and quantitatively validated a scale that was previously developed using a ...
Role of Indian Commodity Derivatives Market in Hedging Price Risk: Estimation of Constant and Dynamic Hedge Ratio, and Hedging Effectiveness
(UNIV INDONESIA, 2011)
This paper examines hedging effectiveness of four agricultural (soybean, corn, castor seed and guar seed) and seven non-agricultural (gold, silver, aluminium, copper, zinc, crude oil and, natural gas) futures contracts ...