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How can Indian power plants cost-effectively meet the new sulfur emission standards? Policy evaluation using marginal abatement cost-curves
(ScienceDirect, 2018)
The first-ever SO2 emission concentration standards for Indian coal-power plants were notified on December 7,
2015. In light of the new stringent standards, this paper conducts a techno-economic policy evaluation of ...
The four eras of “marketing” in twentieth century India
(Emerald, 2018)
Purpose – The purpose of this study is to understand the evolution of “marketing” in the public and
corporate discourse of twentieth-century India.
Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws its inferences from an ...
India in 2°C and well below 2°C worlds: Opportunities and challenges
(Taylor and Francis, 2018)
India’s contributions to meeting global mean temperature increases of 2 C or well below 2 C would require transformational changes in its energy systems. A bottom-up model analyzes alternate futures (reference, intended ...
Project Nirman: The Way Ahead
(Sage, 2018)
Project Nirman by SAATH, a Gujarat-based NGO, aimed at empowering and training migrated workmen as masons, carpenters and electricians as per industry requirements. The project was funded by Bosch India Foundation. Although ...
Mass migration from rural India: A restudy of Kunkeri village in Konkan, Maharashtra, 1961-1987-2017
(Sage, 2018)
This article examines a particular village—Kunkeri—in Konkan, Maharashtra, characterized by persistent mass outmigration for over five decades, by combining a field study in 2017 with detailed ethnographic and statistical ...
Changes in the executive bonus payment patterns in India between 2008-16: Some evidences
(Sage, 2018)
This article provides a brief overview of the trends in bonus payment to executives in India. Using
data from the voluntary web based survey of Paycheck India, which is a part of WageIndicator
Foundation, this article ...
Theoretical comparisons of estimators of finite population proportion under simple random sampling
(Society of Statistics, Computer and Applications, 2019)
We consider the classical survey problem of estimation of finite population proportions based on a polychotomous response variable when data on an auxiliary variable is known for all units in the finite population. Under ...
Underlying determinants of health provider choice in urban slums: results from a discrete choice experiment in Ahmedabad, India
(BMC Health Services Research, 2018)
Background: Severe underutilization of healthcare facilities and lack of timely, affordable and effective access
to healthcare services in resource-constrained, bottom of pyramid (BoP) settings are well-known issues, ...
Worth the wait? How restaurant waiting time influences customer behavior and revenue
(ScienceDirect, 2018)
In many service industries, customers have to wait for service. When customers have a choice, this waiting may influence their service experience, sojourn time, and ultimately spending, reneging, and return behavior. Not ...
Stitching infrastructures to facilitate telemedicine for low-resource environments
(ACM, 2018)
Telemedicine can potentially transform healthcare delivery in
low-resource environments by enabling extension of medical knowledge to remote locations, thus enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of the larger healthcare ...