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    • Maternal health situation in India: A case study 

      Vora, Kranti S.; Mavalankar, Dileep; Ramani, K. V.; Upadhyaya, Mudita; Sharma, Bharati; Iyengar, Sharad; Gupta, Vikram; Iyengar, Kirti (International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, 2009)
      Since the beginning of the Safe Motherhood Initiative, India has accounted for at least a quarter of maternal deaths reported globally. India's goal is to lower maternal mortality to less than 100 per 100,000 livebirths ...
    • Maternal healthcare financing: Gujarat's Chiranjeevi scheme and its beneficiaries 

      Bhat, R.; Mavalankar, D.V.; Singh, P.V.; Singh, N. (International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, 2009)
      Maternal mortality is an important public-health issue in India, specifically in Gujarat. Contributing factors are the Government's inability to operationalize the First Referral Units and to provide an adequate level of ...
    • Measuring Complexity in Financial Data 

      Yadav, Gaurang Singh; Guha, Apratim; Chakrabarti, Anindya S. (FRONTIERS MEDIA SA, 2020)
      The stock market is a canonical example of a complex system, in which a large number of interacting agents lead to joint evolution of stock returns and the collective market behavior exhibits emergent properties. However, ...
    • Measuring gender attitudes: developing and testing Implicit Association Tests for adolescents in India 

      Jain, Tarun; Dhar, Diva; Kapoor, Vrinda; Kapur, Vrinda; Raj, Anita (PLOS, 2022-06-16)
      We develop and test gender attitude measures conducted with a school-based sample of adolescents aged 14–17 years in India. We test a measure with survey items and vignettes to capture gender-based value and stereotypes, ...
    • Measuring Retail Service Quality: An Empirical Assessment of the Instrument 

      Parikh D. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2006)
      Retailing in India is growing at the rate of about 18-20 per cent per annum. As part of its strategy to gradually open it up to foreign competition, the government is also in the process of increasing foreign direct ...
    • Measuring retail service quality: Examining applicability of international research perspectives in India 

      Kaul S. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2007)
      Service quality is being increasingly perceived as a tool to increase value for the consumer; and as a means of positioning in a competitive environment to ensure consumer satisfaction, retention, and patronage. Existing ...
    • Medical education in Maharashtra: The student perspective 

      Hira R.S.; Gupta A.K.; Salvi V.S.; Ross M.W. (2009)
      Background: There is hardly any structured study reporting the perspective of medical students, with regard to the medical education system in Maharashtra, which is facing challenges. Aim: A perception study of students ...
    • Methods and models for costing carbon mitigation 

      Sathaye J.; Shukla P.R. (2013)
      Using the results of more than 20 different global models with a particular emphasis on two rapidly growing large countries (China and India), this paper discusses the cost estimation methods that are used in setting up ...
    • Modeling and design of container terminal operations 

      Roy, Debjit; Koster, Rene De; Bekker, Rene (Informs, 2020-04-23)
      The design of container terminal operations is complex because multiple factors affect operational performance. These factors include numerous choices for handling technology, terminal topology, and design parameters and ...
    • Movies, stigma and choice: evidence from the pharmaceutical industry 

      Aggarwal, Mayank; Chakrabarti, Anindya S.; Chatterjee, Chirantan (Wiley, 2023-02-02)
      Do movies reduce stigma, increasing healthcare product choices offered by firms? We provide causal evidence on this question in the context of Indian pharmaceutical markets. For unpacking these effects, we use an exogenous ...
    • Moving towards "mobile warehouse": Last-mile logistics during COVID-19 and beyond 

      Srivatsa Srinivas S.; Marathe R.R. (Elsevier Ltd, 2021)
      Supply chains in general and last-mile logistics in particular, have been disrupted due to COVID-19. Though several innovative last-mile logistics solutions have been proposed in the past, they possess certain limitations, ...
    • Multi-model comparison of the economic and energy implications for China and India in an international climate regime 

      Johansson D.J.A.; Lucas P.L.; Weitzel M.; Ahlgren E.O.; Bazaz A.B.; Chen W.; den Elzen M.G.J.; Ghosh J.; Grahn M.; Liang Q.-M.; Peterson S.; Pradhan B.K.; van Ruijven B.J.; Shukla P.R.; van Vuuren D.P.; Wei Y.-M. (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2015)
      This paper presents a modeling comparison on how stabilization of global climate change at about 2牥C above the pre-industrial level could affect economic and energy systems development in China and India. Seven General ...
    • Multiple allocation hub location with service level constraints for two shipment classes 

      Jayaswal, Sachin; Vidyarthi, Navneet (Elsevier, 2023-02-07)
      In this paper, we study a hub network design problem arising in the context of a third-party logistics (3PL) service provider, which acts as an intermediary between shippers and carriers. A 3PL service provider usually ...
    • National Digital Infrastructure and India’s Health care Sector: Physician’s Perspectives 

      Chandwani, Rajesh; Edacherian, Saneesh; Sud, Mukesh (NSUWorks, 2023-02-02)
      Patient-centric digital infrastructure can potentially enhance the efficiency of healthcare systems. However, even in developed nations, evidence suggests low adoption rates for such infrastructure and lack of support from ...
    • New trends in sensitivity training in organizations 

      Parikh I.J.; Jeyavelu S. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2002)
      Sensitivity Training (ST) is a process through which an individual explores the journey of human existence to ask some basic questions about life, relationships, interface across many roles, and purpose of one's own life. ...
    • Numeracy and Financial Literacy of Forest-dependent Communities 

      Balakrishna S.; Virmani V. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2019)
    • Nutritional outcomes of empowerment and market integration for women in rural India 

      Gupta S.; Vemireddy V.; Pingali P.L. (Springer, 2019)
      Over half of all women of reproductive age are affected by anaemia in India. In this paper we study the role that both household market integration and women's empowerment in agriculture can play in determining women's ...
    • The oil and gas sector in India: balancing business policies and public interest by the Supreme Court of India 

      Mohan, M P Ram; Yadav, Shashi Kant (Elsevier, 2021-04-19)
      Indian authorities have formulated and implemented several policies for exploration, production, refining, transportation, and distribution of its Oil & Gas (O&G) resources. With respect to governance of O&G industry, ...
    • On corporate strategy and financial strategy 

      Korwar A. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 1996)
      This article by Ashok Korwar makes an attempt to systematically develop the link between corporate strategy and financial strategy. Drawing on concepts from both strategic management and financial theory, the paper develops ...
    • On posterior concentration in misspecified models 

      Ramamoorthi R.V.; Sriram K.; Martin R. (International Society for Bayesian Analysis, 2015)
      We investigate the asymptotic behavior of Bayesian posterior distributions under independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) misspecified models. More specifically, we study the concentration of the posterior distribution ...