Open Access Journal Articles: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Barriers to biogas dissemination in India: A review
(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 ... -
Looking under the hood: A comparison of techno-economic assumptions across national and global integrated assessment models
(Elsevier Ltd, 2019)Integrated assessment models are extensively used in the analysis of climate change mitigation and are informing national decision makers as well as contribute to international scientific assessments. This paper conducts ... -
Increased mortality rate associated with chikungunya epidemic, Ahmedabad, India
(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2008)In 2005-2006, R閡nion Island in the Indian Ocean reported ?266,000 cases of chikungunya; 254 were fatal (case-fatality rate 1/1,000). India reported 1.39 million cases of chikungunya fever in 2006 with no attributable deaths; ... -
The changing role of the nation-state and regulation: Workplace bullying legislation in The Netherlands
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2019)Workplace bullying literature has focused mainly on actions of individual targets of mistreatment, undertaken to address the problem, and on analyses of the effectiveness of responses. Less attention has been paid to the ... -
Iterative patching and the asymmetric traveling salesman problem
(2006)Although Branch-and-Bound (BnB) methods are among the most widely used techniques for solving hard problems, it is still a challenge to make these methods smarter. In this paper, we investigate iterative patching, a technique ... -
Computerised decision aid for timetabling - a case analysis
(1992)Timetabling is a large and complex problem. In the absence of a precise objective function, the solution process mostly aims at obtaining a feasible solution. There is a quality aspect of time- tabling which is often not ... -
Source sink flows with capacity installation in batches
(Elsevier, 1998)We consider the problem of sending flow from a source to a destination where there are flow costs on each arc and fixed costs toward the purchase of capacity. Capacity can be purchased in batches of C units on each arc. ... -
Self-regulatory effects of performance management system consistency on employee engagement: A moderated mediation model
(Pompea College of Business, University of New Haven, 2021)The study investigates the influence of performance management system consistency on employee work engagement. Drawing on the 'job demands-resources model' and 'regulatory focus theory', it was hypothesized that when ...