Open Access Journal Articles: Recent submissions
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Donning the mask: Effects of emotional labour strategies on burnout and job satisfaction in community healthcare
(Oxford University Press, 2016)Emotional labour involves management of one's emotions to match the demands of their roles. This emotion display involves just expression (surface-level emotional labour) or experience in addition to expression (deep-level ... -
The Waiting Game � How Cooperation Between Public and Private Hospitals Can Help Reduce Waiting Lists
(Springer, 2021)Prolonged waiting to access health care is a primary concern for nations aiming for comprehensive effective care, due to its adverse effects on mortality, quality of life, and government approval. Here, we propose two novel ... -
A review of health system infection control measures in developing countries: What can be learned to reduce maternal mortality
(2011)A functional health system is a necessary part of efforts to achieve maternal mortality reduction in developing countries. Puerperal sepsis is an infection contracted during childbirth and one of the commonest causes of ... -
Using 'appreciative inquiry' in India to improve infection control practices in maternity care: A qualitative study
(Co-Action Publishing, 2015)Background: Infections acquired during childbirth are a common cause of maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity. Changing provider behaviour and organisational settings within the health system is key to reducing ... -
Do the pre-service education programmes for midwives in India prepare confident 'registered midwives'? A survey from India
(Co-Action Publishing, 2015)Objective: The graduates of the diploma and degree programmes of nursing and midwifery in India are considered skilled birth attendants (SBAs). This paper aimed to assess the confidence of final-year students from pre-service ... -
Methods and models for costing carbon mitigation
(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 ... -
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 ... -
Ground truthing the cost of achieving the EAT lancet recommended diets: Evidence from rural India
(Elsevier B.V., 2021)In this paper, we quantify the divergence in the cost of current diets as compared to EAT Lancet recommendations at the subnational-level in India. We use primary data on food prices and household food purchases, and ... -
A "NOTCH" deeper into the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) program in breast cancer
(MDPI AG, 2019)Notch signaling is a primitive signaling pathway having various roles in the normal origin and development of each multicellular organisms. Therefore, any aberration in the pathway will inevitably lead to deadly outcomes ... -
Toward an Understanding of Parental Views and Actions on Social Media Influencers Targeted at Adolescents: The Roles of Parents' Social Media Use and Empowerment
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2019)Recent studies suggest that adolescents are spending significant amounts of time on social media. Brands are taking advantage of this fact and actively using social media to reach adolescent consumers, primarily via social ... -
Generic Paradoxical Tensions, Appraisals, Work Motivation, and Performance: Insights From a Weekly Repeated-Measures Study
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2021)Drawing on the paradox theory, the author developed a theoretical model of appraisal杕otivational responses to generic paradoxical tensions. The author postulated that paradoxical tensions are appraised both as a challenge ... -
Nutritional outcomes of empowerment and market integration for women in rural India
(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 ... -
Seasonal time trade-offs and nutrition outcomes for women in agriculture: Evidence from rural India
(Elsevier Ltd, 2021)Women in agriculture are involved in agricultural activities and are solely responsible for household-level unpaid work. They face severe time trade-offs between agricultural and household activities across crop seasons. ... -
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 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 ... -
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 ... -
Optimal factorial designs for cDNA microarray experiments
(2008)We consider cDNA microarray experiments when the cell populations have a factorial structure, and investigate the problem of their optimal designing under a baseline parametrization where the objects of interest differ ... -
Reducing stranded assets through early action in the Indian power sector
(IOP Publishing Ltd, 2020)Cost-effective achievement of the Paris Agreement's long-term goals requires the unanimous phase-out of coal power generation by mid-century. However, continued investments in coal power plants will make this transition ... -
SDG implications of water-energy system transitions in India, for NDC, 2 癱, and well below 2 癱 scenarios
(IOP Publishing Ltd, 2021)India needs to address the immediate concerns of water supply and demand, due to its increasing population, rapid urbanization, and growing industrialization. Additionally, the changing climate will influence water resources, ... -
Farmer's perception and factors determining the adaptation decisions to cope with climate change: An evidence from rural India
(Elsevier B.V., 2021)The farmer's adaptation decision to cope with climate change has drawn considerable attention and recognition of the local and global scale's human-environmental approach. In this paper, we tried to understand the human ...