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Racial/ethnic differences in perceptions of school climate and its association with student engagement and peer aggression
(Springer New York LLC, 2017)
Research indicates that a positive school climate is associated with higher levels of student engagement and lower rates of peer aggression. However, less attention has been given to whether such findings are consistent ...
Addressing the agrarian crisis in Punjab: role of agro-markets and policy
(Economic and Political Weekly, 2017)
The state of agricultural markets, the agricultural market policy and regulatory reforms in Punjab are reviewed in the context of the agrarian crisis. The farmer and farm worker manifesto of the Aam Aadmi Party is critically ...
Rags to riches? intergenerational occupational mobility in India
(Economic and Political Weekly, 2017-11-04)
The paper examines intergenerational occupational mobility in India among males. This analysis differs from previous work in three important respects. First, a finer-grained categorisation that takes into account differences ...
Determinants of safe and productive truck driving: empirical evidence from long-haul cargo transport
(Elsevier Ltd, 2017)
Using GPS data of 370 long-haul trips in India, survey data of 49 truck drivers, and ERP data, this study examines the role of driver personality characteristics in predicting risky and productive driving. The results show ...
Is loss-aversion magnitude-dependent? measuring prospective affective judgments regarding gains and losses
(Society for Judgment and Decision making, 2017)
Prospect Theory proposed that the (dis)utility of losses is always more than gains due to a phenomena called ‘loss-aversion’, a result obtained in multiple later studies over the years. However, some researchers found ...
Electric vehicles and India's low carbon passenger transport: a long-term co-benefits assessment
(Elsevier Ltd, 2017)
Electric vehicles have attracted the attention of India's policy makers as clean technology alternatives due to their multiple advantages like higher efficiency and lower air pollution in short to medium term and reduced ...
A cutting plane approach to combinatorial bandwidth packing problem with queuing delays
(Springer Verlag, 2017)
The combinatorial bandwidth packing problem (CBPP), arising in a telecommunication network with limited bandwidth, is defined as follows. Given a set of requests, each with its potential revenue, and each consisting of ...
A multi-tier linking approach to analyze performance of autonomous vehicle-based storage and retrieval systems
(Elsevier Ltd, 2017-06-23)
To improve operational flexibility, throughput capacity, and responsiveness in order fulfillment operations, several distribution centers are implementing autonomous vehicle-based storage and retrieval system (AVS/RS) in ...
Optimal stack layout in a sea container terminal with automated lifting vehicles
(Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2017)
Container terminal performance is largely determined by its design decisions, which include the number and type of quay cranes, stack cranes, transport vehicles, vehicle travel path and stack layout. We investigate the ...
Strategic global strategy: the intersection of general principles, corporate responsibility and economic value-added
(Blackwell Publishing Inc., 2017)
An ongoing argument often made by business ethicists is that a singular preoccupation on profitability, will lead, in the long run, to disvalue for all the stakeholders and the communities it affects, and often (but alas ...