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Facility location optimization of battery electric vehicle (BEV) fast charging stations in an urban transportation network
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023-03)Electric Vehicles (EVs) are expected to play a significant role in the reduction of global emissions originating from the transportation sector. Penetration of EVs has been shown to be a significant enabler for rapid ... -
Factoring Affecting the Demand for Health Insurance in a Micro Insurance Scheme
(2009-08-08)Health insurance schemes are increasingly recognised as preferable mechanisms to finance health care provision. In this direction micro health insurance schemes and community based health insurance schemes are assuming ... -
Factors affecting Child Labour in India
(2009-08-03)Child labour in India is a critical socio-economic problem that needs special attention of policy makers. In order to make effective policies to reduce child labour it is important to understand the specific factors that ... -
Factors determining inbound and outbound m&a in an industry in India
(IIM Ahmedabad, 2016-03)There is an increasing trend in outward and inward FDI from India and in India over last one decade. It is interesting to observe that some industries have attracted more inward and outward FDI as compared to others. ... -
Factors determining the roles board members play in firms
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-04-05)Directors play an important role in influencing board’s action and its effectiveness (Adams, Hermalin, & Weisbach, 2010). Therefore, corporate governance researchers have looked extensively at the determinants of director ... -
Factors influencing attitude toward computers: a study of bank employees in India
(2010-04-17)The paper examined exposure, gender, use and organizational level as correlates of Attitudes Toward Computers (ATC) among bank employees in India. The ATC scale and a demographic profile were administered to a sample of ... -
Factors influencing outcome expectations and self-efficacy in driving internet use in rural india
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-04-12)Past studies of individual Internet adoption and usage have been mostly empirical and in developed countries or in urban settings of developing countries. These have largely examined socio-economic factors such as age, ... -
Factors influencing the perceived priority of tuberculosis in India
(2010-04-03)The objective of this study was to understand the priority attached to tuberculosis in India by the major stakeholders in the National Tuberculosis Programme, to explore the underlying factors, and to suggest illustrative ... -
Fair allocations and distortion of utilities: A note
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-01-01)Given two agents with von neumann- morgenstern utilities who wish to divide n commodities, consider the two- person non- cooperative game with strategies consisting of concave, increasing von neumann- Morenstern utility ... -
Family and Store Choice - A Conceptual Framework
(2009-08-21)Retail Store choice has traditionally been studied from the perspective of an individual. The retail offering is however consumed more by the family than by an individual. This study questions the study of store choice by ... -
Family planning place and personality profiles
(2010-07-27)This study examines the relationship between awareness, attitude and practice of family planning of people who belong to top and bottom performing districts of a state on one hand and on the other with seven biographic ... -
Famine and famine relief: coping strategy at the district level
(2010-03-13)Drought induced famine is a recurrent feature in Rajasthan. The district (Udaipur in this case) is the critical unit for planning and implementing relief measures to tackle the crisis of famine. This paper such to examine ... -
Fan charts as useful "maps" for an inflation - targeting central bank: an illustration of the Sveriges Riksbankszs method for presenting density forecasts of inflation
(2010-03-31)In this study I illustrate the usefulness of Fan Charts for a central bank and show how they can be used to present its viewpoint on likely paths of future inflation. Exploiting a bivariate unobserved components model, ... -
Farmer producer organizations as farmer collectives: a case study from India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Small and marginal farmers in India have been vulnerable to risks in agricultural production. Several organizational prototypes are emerging to integrate them into the value chain with the objectives of enhancing incomes ... -
Farmers innovations for sustainable resources management and conservation of biological diversity
(2010-03-28)The agricultural transformation during green revolution is no more green in most developing countries. The declining productivity of inputs clearly points to the non-sustainable nature of current growth processes. While ... -
FDI and Human Capital Development
(2009-08-07)FDI has considered a major catalyst in promoting sustainable development in developing countries. FDI has the potential to generate employment, raise productivity, transfer skills and technology, increased income, enhance ... -
FDI Outflows from India: An Examination of the Underlying Economics, Policies, and their Impacts
(2011-05-27)This paper discusses the trends in India's outward FDI over the last decade and then attempts to identify the driving factors. The aim is to provide policy makers with insights regarding levers which would help in encouraging ... -
Feasibility and Sustainability Model for Identity Management
(2011-05-26)National identity projects and providing such identification to citizens in various countries around the globe have captured attention of late. Although the perceived benefits are numerous, the challenges and bottlenecks ... -
Feasibility of institutional financing for dairy development
(2010-03-13)A commercial bank had undertaken an Integrated Development Project for dairy development in collaboration with a dairy plant. The scheme envisaged the supply of bank finances to the farmers for the purchase of quality ... -
Feasibility of integrating solar desalination
(2009-12-12)In this paper, we examine via simulation, feasibility of using solar stills as partial source of water to irrigate crops inside polyhouses. Need to consider such a possibility arose in the course of our work in Kutch, a ...