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A scoping review of the contributions of farmers' organizations to smallholder agriculture
(Springer Nature, 2020)Farmers' organizations (FOs), such as associations, cooperatives, self-help and women's groups, are common in developing countries and provide services that are widely viewed as contributing to income and productivity for ... -
A snapshot of gut microbiota of an adult urban population from Western region of India
(Public Library of Science, 2018)The human gut microbiome contributes to a broad range of biochemical and metabolic functions that directly or indirectly affect human physiology. Several recent studies have indicated that factors like age, geographical ... -
A System Dynamic Study of Apple Movement from Orchards to Wholesale Market
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 1997)This paper presents a simulation model of fruit movement from orchards in Himachal Pradesh to the market of Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) in Delhi. Daily arrivals in Delhi as predicted by the model are ... -
An abstract model for branch and cut
(Springer Link, 2023-06-30)Branch and cut is the dominant paradigm for solving a wide range of mathematical programming problems—linear or nonlinear—combining efficient search (via branch and bound) and relaxation-tightening procedures (via cutting ... -
Accelerating agricultural development for inclusive growth: Strategic issues and policy options
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Adapting the Women's empowerment in agriculture index to specific country context: Insights and critiques from fieldwork in India
(Elsevier B.V., 2019)The Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) is a direct, multi-dimensional measure of women's access to resources and decision-making in various domains of agriculture. However, several challenges characterize its ... -
Addressing grand challenges through the bottom-up marketing approach: Lessons from subsistence marketplaces and marketplace literacy
(Springer, 2024-04-17)We present a bottom-up marketing approach as a pathway to addressing the grand challenge of poverty and inequality for the marketing discipline. We derive this approach from the research stream on radically diferent ... -
Advertising competition under consumer inertia
(INST OPERATIONS RESEARCH MANAGEMENT SCIENCES, 2003)We construct a multistage game-theoretic model of advertising and price competition in a differentiated products duopoly, in which proportions of consumers exhibit latent inertia in favor of repeat purchase. Advertising ... -
Agile auto sub assemblies: Challenges in managing growth, resource productivity, and demand variability
(INFORMS Inst.for Operations Res.and the Management Sciences, 2019)Ms. Swathi Bhargava, welcome and thank you for agreeing to join us for your internship. As you know, we are a small-scale auto parts manufacturing company but have quite a reputation in the local market. We just secured ... -
Agility and the transition from uncertainty to recovery: the Indian IT industry and COVID-19
(Elgar Online, 2023-07-01)This paper reports a study of how the Indian IT industry navigated the COVID-19 pandemic. Agility emerged as the crucial determining factor aiding the industry’s successful survival. IT organisations’ agility, facilitated ... -
Agroindustry for rural and small farmer development: Issues and lessons from India
(International Food and Agribusiness Management Association, 1999)This article examines the priority given to agroindustries in India in the context of their role in rural and small farmer development. The features and constraints of agroindustry are examined to assess their real and ... -
Air pollution co-benefits of low carbon policies in road transport: A sub-national assessment for India
(Institute of Physics Publishing, 2015)This letter assesses low carbon scenarios for India at the subnational level in the passenger road transport sector. We estimate the future passenger mobility demand and assess the impact of carbon mitigation policies using ... -
Alcohol, babies and the death penalty: Saving lives by analysing the shape of the brain
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2013)Alcohol can damage the brains of unborn babies. Shape analysis can assess the damage in fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. Kanti Mardia, Fred Bookstein and John Kent explain how it works, and how it can help babies and even ... -
Amtrex hitachi appliances limited: Competing for the future
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2001)The case featured in this issue presents the history and managerial initiatives of a rapidly growing organization in the consumer durable industry. The industry is characterized by the presence of several competing ... -
An enhanced memetic algorithm for Single-Objective bilevel optimization problems
(MIT Press Journals, 2017)Bilevel optimization, as the name reflects, deals with optimization at two interconnected hierarchical levels. The aim is to identify the optimum of an upper-level leader problem, subject to the optimality of a lower-level ... -
An Examination of Response of Consumers with Different Levels of Uniqueness to Limited Quantity Offers
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2016)Marketers try to influence consumers through promotional offers by restricting availability of products to a limited number of customers, a limited time period, or a specific segment, thereby creating a perception of ... -
An improved soy-processing technology to help alleviate protein malnutrition in India
(1988)A small-scale soybean-processing technology has been developed that will produce both high-quality edible oil and protein meal for human consumption. This technology is attractive as an alternative to solvent extraction ... -
An interactive graphics based visual modelling tool
(1992)Interactive computer based graphics systems are increasingly being used in modelling environments. In these situations the main design goals for software systems, which support visual output display, are: the ease of ... -
An analysis of the dual burden of childhood stunting and wasting in Myanmar: a copula geoadditive modelling approach
(Cambridge University Press, 2024-01-19)Objective: To analyze the spatial variation and risk factors of the dual burden of childhood stunting and wasting in Myanmar. Design: Analysis was carried out on nationally representative data obtained from the Myanmar ... -
Antecedents to Customer Dependency in Buyer-Seller Relationship: A BOP Retailer Investigation
(SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, 2016)Relationship marketing research extensively covers such variables as customer dependence, satisfaction, trust and loyalty, which play an important role in building and maintaining long-term relationships. Countries like ...