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Estimating urban and rural incomes in Gujarat: 1993 - 94 to 2004 - 05
(Journal of Income and Wealth, 2012)
The study aims to estimate the state income by rural and urban areas and carry out an analysis of urban – rural income inequality in Gujarat.
Beyond job security and money: driving factors of motivation for government doctors in India
(Human Resources for Health, 2014)
Background Despite many efforts from government to address the shortage of medical officers (MOs) in rural areas, rural health centres continue to suffer from severe shortage of MOs. Lack of motivation to join and continue ...
An empirical approach using spatial and nonspatial data for surface water availability along canal
(Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability, 2013)
Why it is necessary for canal administrators to understand what happens after canal water is discharged from a canal branch head? Canal water management involves complex issues of distance from water source, losses during ...
Three representations of insecurity in three narratives of unorganized workers
(Shri Ram Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources, 2013)
Introduction Theoretical effort depicts job insecurity as "the severity of the threat to one's job and powerlessness to counteract the threat" (Greenhalgh Rosenblatt, 1984:440), thus suggesting that there are two [...]
Three ...
A diversification operator for genetic algorithms
(Springer, 2012)
Conventional genetic algorithms suffer from a dependence on the initial generation used by the algorithm. In case the generation consists of solutions which are not close enough to a global optimum but some of which are ...
Framing and modeling of a low carbon society: an overview
(Elsevier Ltd, 2012)
Asian Modeling Exercise (AME) studies show feasible GHG emissions pathways consistent with the 2degrees centigrade global stabilization target. The aim of the low carbon society subgroup is to propose frameworks, modeling ...
Role of evidence in maternal health policy processes in Vietnam, India and China: findings from HEPVIC project
(Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate & Practice, 2013)
This paper explores the role of evidence in maternal health policy processes in Vietnam, India and China. Both formal and informal types of evidence were used; and differences were found between the stages of policy ...
Creating synergies for business transformation: brigade enterprises limited
(Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers, 2013)
The article presents a case study on the business transformation of Brigade Enterprises Ltd. It provides an overview of the company, which was founded in 1986 by M. R. Jaishankar and was then recognized as of the South ...
Insertion based lin-kernighan heuristic for single row facility layout
(Elsevier Ltd, 2013)
The single row facility layout problem (SRFLP) is the problem of arranging facilities with given lengths on a line, while minimizing the weighted sum of the distances between all pairs of facilities. The problem is known ...
Optimal partitioning of vertical zones in vehicle-based warehouse systems
(International Journal of Production Research, 2014)
New innovations in warehouse automation systems such as autonomous vehicle-based storage and retrieval (AVS/R) system offer greater flexibility and responsiveness in processing unit-load storage and retrieval transactions ...