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    • 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 ...

    • Blockchain in Finance 

      Varma J.R. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2019)
      Blockchain—the decentralized replicated ledger technology that underlies Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies—provides a potentially attractive alternative way to organize modern finance. Currently, the financial system ...

    • Boom Country? The New Wave of Indian Enterprise 

      Mendonca V.; Jain R. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2019)

    • Brand affiliation and the hotel asset market 

      Liu, Peng; Freybote, Julia; Das, Prashant (ScienceDirect, 2023-01-21)
      Brand affiliation represents a signal about the future operating performance of a hotel that reduces information asymmetries between hotel buyers and sellers. However, information asymmetries vary across property-level and ...

    • Budget: A retrograde for agriculture 

      Desai B.M. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 1997)
      According to the author, though the budget has some positive initiatives for agriculture, they are unlikely to pull the sector out of its poor growth in postreform period. Moreover, the budget shows that the govern~ent ...

    • Building NGO-corporate partnership: An alternative perspective 

      Mote V.L. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2000)
      In its Perspectives section, Vikalpa (Vol 25, No 2, April-June 2000) had published the views of Anil Bhatt on the theme "Building NGO-Corporate Partnership for Social Development.*" In this issue, V L Mote, while agreeing ...

    • Building world class educational institutions in India: Challenges and prospects 

      Narayana Murthy N.R.; Mote V.L.; Indiresan P.V.; Jayagovind A.; Balaram P.; Pental D.; Rao M.R.; Ballal H.S.; Bisoi A.K.; Narang P.; Ravichandran N. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2007)

    • Business ethics: The next frontier for globalizing Indian companies 

      Seshadri D.V.R.; Raghavan A.; Hegde S. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2007)
      Nowhere is the fast changing nature of the global business landscape more perceptible than on the ethics front. With a spate of recent unethical behaviours by large corporations in the Western world, especially in USA, ...