Open Access Journal Articles: Recent submissions
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Underlying determinants of health provider choice in urban slums: Results from a discrete choice experiment in Ahmedabad, India
(BioMed Central Ltd., 2018)Background: Severe underutilization of healthcare facilities and lack of timely, affordable and effective access to healthcare services in resource-constrained, bottom of pyramid (BoP) settings are well-known issues, which ... -
Does signaling childcare support on job applications reduce the motherhood penalty?
(Springer, 2021)There is substantial evidence that due to perceived childcare obligations, mothers are disadvantaged in labor markets. To what extent can childcare support ameliorate such a disadvantage? To answer this question, we ran a ... -
Grade configuration is associated with school-level standardized test pass rates for sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-grade students
(Routledge, 2020)Educators and researchers have long debated the best grade configuration grouping for middle grade students. This study examined school-level differences in reading and mathematics standardized test pass rates for students ... -
Financial fluctuations anchored to economic fundamentals: A mesoscopic network approach
(Nature Publishing Group, 2017)We demonstrate the existence of an empirical linkage between nominal financial networks and the underlying economic fundamentals, across countries. We construct the nominal return correlation networks from daily data to ... -
Provision of anaesthesia services for emergency obstetric care through task shifting in South Asia
(2009)Anaesthesia is required for certain procedures in emergency obstetric care, such as caesarean section and the repair of ruptured uterus. Task shifting for provision of anaesthesia has been implemented in public sector rural ... -
Gratitude: An emotional approach in business relationship
(2012)Most theories of Relationship Marketing (RM) emphasize the role of trust, commitment and/or customer satisfaction in development of long term business relationships. In spite of recognition of gratitude as core of reciprocity ... -
When the Big One Came: A Natural Experiment on Demand Shock and Market Structure in India's Influenza Vaccine Markets
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2019)This study examines the relationship between exogenous demand shock and market structure in India's influenza vaccine markets. Using a novel dataset of detailed purchasing information for vaccines in India, and exploiting ... -
Batch service systems with heterogeneous servers
(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 ... -
Experimental evidence on promotion of electric and improved biomass cookstoves
(National Academy of Sciences, 2019)Improved cookstoves (ICS) can deliver "triple wins" by improving household health, local environments, and global climate. Yet their potential is in doubt because of low and slow diffusion, likely because of constraints ... -
Parasite stress and pathogen avoidance relate to distinct dimensions of political ideology across 30 nations
(National Academy of Sciences, 2016)People who are more avoidant of pathogens are more politically conservative, as are nations with greater parasite stress. In the current research, we test two prominent hypotheses that have been proposed as explanations ... -
The effect of surveillance and appreciative inquiry on puerperal infections: A longitudinal cohort study in India
(Public Library of Science, 2014)Objective: To evaluate the effects of an intervention comprising surveillance and an organisational change called Appreciative Inquiry on puerperal infections in hospitals in Gujarat state, India. Methods: This longitudinal ... -
Posterior consistency of bayesian quantile regression based on the misspecied asymmetric laplace density
(International Society for Bayesian Analysis, 2013)We explore an asymptotic justication for the widely used and em-pirically veried approach of assuming an asymmetric Laplace distribution (ALD) for the response in Bayesian Quantile Regression. Based on empirical ndings, ... -
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 mathematical model for predicting length of postoperative intensive care requirement following cardiac surgery in an Indian hospital
(Springer, 2021)Intensive care unit (ICU) is a critical resource in a hospital, especially in developing countries such as India. The length of ICU stay after a cardiac surgery is an important variable for effective use of this critical ... -
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 ... -
Business Model Innovation for Inclusive Health Care Delivery at the Bottom of the Pyramid
(SAGE Publications Inc., 2016)This article investigates business models innovation for delivering health care at the base of the pyramid (BoP). The examination of six health care organizational cases suggests that co-creation of patient needs, community ... -
'From boom to where?': The impact of crisis on work and employment in Indian BPO
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2014)This article locates Indian business process outsourcing (BPO) within the global supply chains of business services delivery and an international division of service labour. It acknowledges the BPO market's essential ... -
Multi-model comparison of the economic and energy implications for China and India in an international climate regime
(Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2015)This paper presents a modeling comparison on how stabilization of global climate change at about 2牥C above the pre-industrial level could affect economic and energy systems development in China and India. Seven General ... -
Dialoguing with teacher-educators, valorizing teacher innovations
(UCL IOE Press, 2020)This article describes the educational innovation fairs (EIF), a large-scale collaborative action research initiative undertaken by an academic institution and the teacher-education department of a provincial government ... -
Taking stock of national climate policies to evaluate implementation of the Paris Agreement
(Nature Research, 2020)Many countries have implemented national climate policies to accomplish pledged Nationally Determined Contributions and to contribute to the temperature objectives of the Paris Agreement爋n climate change. In 2023, the ...