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    • Apollo Health and Lifestyle Limited: Retail Franchising in the Healthcare Industry 

      Patro S.; Kumar V. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2009)

    • Application of pooled testing in estimating the prevalence of COVID-19 

      Guha P.; Guha A.; Bandyopadhyay T. (Springer, 2021)
      Testing at a mass scale has been widely accepted as an effective way to contain the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Virus. In the initial stages, the shortage of test kits severely restricted mass-scale testing. Pooled testing ...

    • Appraisal politics: Revisiting from assessors' perspective 

      Dhiman A.; Singh M. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2007)
      Politics is a bane of administrative systems such as performance appraisals. It not only debilitates the system's credibility in the eyes of various stakeholders, but also adversely affects the employees' morale and the ...

    • Appropriate return to- equity in private power projects case of the enron project 

      Sinha S. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 1997)
      There has been considerable controversy about the appropriate return to equity in private power projects. This case study by Sidharth Sinha discusses the appropriateness of the return to equity in the Enron project. � 1997, ...

    • Asoka Spintex 

      Gupta P. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 1999)
      The case featured in this issue discusses the turnaround of Asoka Spintex from an ailing company in 1987 to a growing company in the year 1997. What strategies should Anang Lalbhai adopt for the long-term survival of the ...

    • Assessing Administrative Reform in India 

      Mathur K.; Mathur N. (Springer, 2017)
      This paper outlines trends in efforts at administrative reform in India. It spans the shift of ideological paradigm of the Indian political economy. While the pre-1991 period was marked by a waning Statism, structural ...

    • Assessing policy options for sustainable water use in India's cereal production system 

      Singh, Vartika; Stevanovi´c, Miodrag; Jha, Chandan Kumar; Beier, Felicitas; Ghosh, Ranjan Kumar; Lotze-Campen, Hermann; Popp, Alexander (IOP Publishing, 2023-10-05)
      In India, the production of rice and wheat account for more than 80% of its total agricultural water use. As farming is highly dependent on water availability, rapidly receding water levels require urgent measures to ...

    • Assessing policy options for sustainable water use in India's cereal production system 

      Singh, Vartika; Stevanovic, Miodrag; Jha, Chandan Kumar; Beier, Felicitas; Ghosh, Ranjan Kumar; Lotze-Campen, Hermann; Popp, Alexander (IOP Publishing, 2023-10-05)
      In India, the production of rice and wheat account for more than 80% of its total agricultural water use. As farming is highly dependent on water availability, rapidly receding water levels require urgent measures to manage ...

    • Assessing teacher innovations: expert versus peer ratings 

      Chand, Vijaya Sherry; Kuril, Samvet; Deshmukh, Ketan Satish; Avadhanam, Rukmini Manasa (Emerald, 2020-12-11)
      Purpose The growing recognition of the role of teacher innovative behavior in educational improvement has led to more systematic assessment of teacher-driven innovations, usually through expert panels. Innovative peer-teachers ...

    • Assessment of a widely applicable torso ECG in acute coronary syndrome 

      Gurunath P.; Chinmay P.; Hrishikesh P.; Vaijayanti G.; Sharada K.; Pratap R.; Wasim B.; Gopi P.; Rajeev S.; Yash L. (Elsevier B.V., 2021)
      Introduction: The time from symptom onset to arrival at healthcare facility, and door to reperfusion time in treatment of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) can be improved significantly if the patient or the relatives can ...

    • Assessment of Tobacco Control Policy in India: An Evaluation using the World Health Organization MPOWER Framework 

      Saxena, Anurag; Sharma, Khushbu; Avashia, Vidhee (WOLTERS KLUWER MEDKNOW PUBLICATIONS, 2020)
      Background: Tobacco consumption is considered to be one of the most avertable causes of premature mortality and morbidity. In 2004, the World Health Organization (WHO) successfully negotiated the Framework Convention on ...

    • Awareness of legal issues related to libraries among library professionals of gujarat 

      Patel H.; Hanumappa A. (Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre, 2019)
      The awareness of legal issues related to libraries among library professionals in Gujarat is discussed in the current study. The research is based on an online survey of library professionals of Gujarat. The major findings ...

    • Barriers to biogas dissemination in India: A review 

      Mittal S.; Ahlgren E.O.; Shukla P.R. (Elsevier Ltd, 2018)
      Biogas has emerged as a promising renewable technology to convert agricultural, animal, industrial and municipal wastes into energy. Biogas development can be integrated with strategies to improve sanitation as well as ...

    • Batch service systems with heterogeneous servers 

      van Ommeren J.-K.; Baer N.; Mishra N.; Roy D. (Springer, 2020)
      Bulk-service multi-server queues with heterogeneous server capacity and thresholds are commonly seen in several situations such as passenger transport or package delivery services. In this paper, we develop a novel ...

    • Beliefs, Values, and Ethics 

      Singh S.P. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2001)
      Ethics has been a perennial human problem: the gap between action based on reality 慳s it is' and ideals 慳s it ought to be.' Sometimes, the gap has been more and sometimes less, It has also differed with cultural differences. ...

    • Beyond job security and money: Driving factors of motivation for government doctors in India 

      Purohit B.; Bandyopadhyay T. (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 ...

    • Beyond the technology-centric and citizen-centric binary: ontological politics of organizing in translation of the smart city discourse in India 

      Mittal, Harsh; Kandathil, George; Mathur, Navdeep (SAGE Publications, 2023-02-02)
      Smart city (SC) experts in India often center-stage citizens as an alternative to a technology-led transformation. A substantial body of literature on smart cities sustains this resultant binary between techno-centrism and ...

    • Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) 

      Teltumbde A.; Tripathy A.; Sahu A.K. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2002)
      Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) embarked upon a major change initiative towards the end of 1996. It planned an enterprise-wide integration through Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). The objectives were to ...

    • BHP limited: Risk management strategy 

      Sinha S. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2002)
      BHP Limited, a global natural resource company based in Australia, has traditionally hedged its market price risks with derivatives. Based on the analysis of a 'Cash Flow at Risk' model, which exploits the diversification ...

    • A bibliometric analysis of behavioral finance and behavioral accounting 

      Singh, Bharati (Pompea College of Business, University of New Haven, 2021-11)
      This paper presents a bibliometric analysis of relevant publications in the field of behavioral finance and behavioral accounting. The analysis shows that the emerging themes of research in recent years in behavioral finance ...