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How much capital does a bank need?
(Economic & Political Weekly,2013, 2013)
Most companies would think twice before operating at a debt to equity ratio (or leverage) of 2:1. Some capital-intensive businesses, such as shipping, opt for a ratio that is considered [...]
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 ...
Support system for women entrepreneurship in India, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, China, Uganda and Russia: a comparative exploratory study
(Serials Publications, 2014)
Over centuries, extensive work has been done in the area of entrepreneurship and its impact on economic performance. Gradually, policy makers have realized that women can also contribute in the spur of economic development. ...
The effect of surveillance and appreciative inquiry on puerperal infections: a longitudinal cohort study in India
(PLoS ONE, 2014)
Objective: To evaluate the effects of an intervention comprising surveillance and an organisational change called Appreciative Inquiry on puerperal infections in hospitals in Gujarat state, India. Methods: This longitudinal ...
Sensitivity analysis of the newsvendor model
(Elsevier, 2014)
Quality of decisions in inventory management models depends on the accuracy of parameter estimates used for decision making. In many situations, error in decision making is unavoidable. In such cases, sensitivity analysis ...
Modeling emergency evacuation with time and resource constraints: a case study from Gujarat
(Elsevier Ltd, 2015)
This study develops an off-site emergency response plan for a nuclear power plant in Gujarat, India subject to time constraints with resource limitations and risk of radiation exposure to victims. We formulate an optimization ...
Navigating the extended reach: target experiences of cyber bullying at work
(Elsevier Ltd, 2013)
With research on workplace bullying having so far focused on face-to-face interactions via proximate physical presence, cyberbullying remains to be understood. Through a hermeneutic phenomenological inquiry of target ...
Sectoral credit choice in rural India
(Elsevier, 2015)
This article examines the question, what makes a rural household a preferred choice for formal lenders? A sample selected ordered probit model is developed to address this question. While the selection equation models the ...
Women entrepreneurship in India: a case study of Rink’s creation of Rinku lakdawala
(www.iiste.org, 2014)
The recent advances in technology and the modern Automation world demand the able administration and initiations from the educated women class and dynamic women entrepreneurs, who absolutely vouch for accidental to the ...
A constrained nash bargaining approach to the stock rationing problem in multi-echelon supply chains
(International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 2014)
In order to survive in the global volatile market place, supply chain analysts are brainstorming to arrive at robust inventory control policies that prevents inventory worth of millions of dollars to get tied up in the ...