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Database structure for a class of multi-period mathematical programming models
(Decision Support Systems, 2008-11-10)
We introduce how a generic multi-period optimization based decision support system (DSS) can be used for strategic and operational planning in a company with five fundamental elements, namely Materials, Facilities, Activities, ...
The healthcare system HIV/AIDS: an inextricable component in the experience of family care
(Critical Public Health, 2008-11-10)
Through a phenomenological study following van Manen's approach, family care experiences of caregivers and care receivers in the context of HIV/AIDS were studied in Mumbai, India. Data gathered through conversational ...
Women in leadership roles: an agenda for change
(NHRD Network Journal, 2008-11-09)
This article examines the issue of women in leadership roles. Presenting research evidence which shows that presence of women in top leadership roles is accompanied by superior organizational performance, it asks the ...
Mapping expressive differences around the world: the relationship between emotional display rules and individualism versus collectivism
(Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2008-11-02)
Despite the importance of the concept of cultural display rules in explaining cultural differences in emotional expression and despite the fact that it has been more than 30 years since this concept was coined, there is ...
Self employment and human capital
(Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 2008-11-10)
The structure of production in the process of economic development embodies a shift from self-employment to wage work. This paper develops a simple labour allocation framework to explain this. The extent of human capital ...
From the sub-prime to the Ridiculous
(Economic and Political Weekly, 2008-11-11)
It is somewhat misleading to label the present crisis a "subprime crisis". This suggests that when banks Subprime loans, that is, practise financial inclusion, they are apt to get into trouble. Some commentators have even ...
Reforming the banking sector
(Economic and Political Weekly, 2008-11-11)
The committee on financial sector reforms highlights several concerns on the Indian banking sector - about financial deepening, inadequate competition, lack of scale, high spreads banking, the low usage of new technologies, ...
Sovereign wealth funds: Western fears
(Economic and Political Weekly, 2008-11-11)
Sovereign wealth funds control assets of somewhere between $ 1.9 and $ 2.9 trillion. What are swfs, how are they governed and why are developed countries anxious about such funds being set up by developing countries? And ...
Tolerance-based branch and bound algorithms for the ATSP
(2008-11-09)
The selection of entries to be included/excluded in Branch and Bound algorithms is usually done on the basis of cost
values. We consider the class of Depth First Search algorithms, and we propose to use upper tolerances ...
Colloquium on union budget 2008 - 09
(2008-11-02)
This was the seventh Union Budget presented by the Finance Minister (FM),
Shri P Chidambaram. Since this one was the last regular Budget of the present
government before the forthcoming election of the Parliament, it was ...