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Sacrifice ratio and cost of inflation for the Indian economy
(Indian Institute of Managment, Ahmedabad, 2014)Traditional concept of the Sacrifice Ratio measures the loss of potential output sustained by the society in the medium term to achieve reduction in the long-run inflation by one percentage point. This concept is critically ... -
Safety at the work place: a behavioural approach
(2010-03-14)The most common and popular approaches to safety have been technologically and engineering oriented. Recent resarch, however, indicates that it is possible to develop an effective approach to occupational safety based on ... -
Safety management in transportation
(2010-03-21)This paper presents a framework for identification and analysis of issues in Safety Management in Transportation. The paper analysis Safety Management in the three modes of transport namely Road, Rail and Air. Safety ... -
Sales incentive decisions within an attribution theory framework
(2010-03-22)Sales incentives are frequently used by marketers to launch new products or boost the sale of existing products. Two of the major decisions concerning the use of sales incentive are what size and what form of incentive to ... -
Sales Promotion Practices in Apparel Retail Sector and Challenges Ahead
(2009-08-03)Indian organised retail industry is poised for growth. Apparel sector in particular has a great opportunity with alignment of Indian economy to globalised markets. With the widespread use of sales promotions- short term ... -
Salesperson’s Customer Orientation: A Reconceptualization and a New Definition
(2009-07-30)This study critically examines the existing domains, conceptualizations and operationalizations of the salesperson’s customer orientation constructs present in the literature. The widely used Salesperson orientation-Customer ... -
Same language subtitling: a buterfly for literacy?
(2010-01-18)Same Language Subtitling (SLS) refers to the idea of subtitling motion media programmes (television and films) in the 'same' language as the audio. This simplest of additions in existing television programmes, especially ... -
Same language subtitling: literacy development in India through film songs
(2009-12-14)India s efforts in basic primary and adult education are turning an increasing number of non-literates into semi- and neo-literates. But due to a serious lack of literacy skill practice opportunities, many relapse into ... -
A sandwich likelihood for Bayesian quantile regression
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SB-robustness of performance measures of control chart
(2013-04)Control charts play a very important role in the control of manufacturing processes. In this paper we consider the commonly used performance measures for control charts and study their SB-robustness. It is shown that the ... -
Scale equity and efficiency: a stone may kill more than one bird
(2010-03-27)Policy goals of efficiency, equity, and sustainability may not be independent. Also the policy instruments. i.e. price mechanism, fiscal policy, and scale may be related. We need to find answers about who shall decide the ... -
Scatter search algorithms for the single row facility layout problem
(2013-11-25)The single row facility layout problem (SRFLP) is the problem of arranging facilities with given lengths on a line, with the objective of minimizing the weighted sum of the distances between all pairs of facilities. The ... -
Scenario based stochastic programming approach for technology and capacity planning
(2009-12-12)In response to market pressures resulting in increased competition, product proliferation and greater customization, firms in many industries have adopted modern technologies to provide operational flexibility on several ... -
Scheduling partially ordered activities under resource constraints on parallel machines
(2009-12-14)A four-step strategy is proposed for scheduling a set of partially ordered resource-constrained activities on a given number of identical parallel machines. For regular measures, the generated schedule is optimal. In the ... -
A Scheme for Efficient Subsidisation of Kerosene in India
(2009-03-11)The distortions in price based subsidisation are very severe. The direct fiscal cost of ensuring that a rupee of value is delivered to all household users of kerosene is as high as Rs.3 and when the consideration is the ... -
School drop outs as bare foot veterinarians: lessons from a nonformal education project
(2010-03-29)This paper is based on the experience of a non-governmental organization in educating 113 school drop-outs as ybare-footz veterinarians in the tribal areas of Gujarat. The pedagogy focussed on yunlearningz and countering ... -
School incentives program: a case - study of the Ambakach primary school, Limkheda talluka, Gujarat
(2010-03-14)The paper takes up a case study of a primary school in one of the tribal villages of Panchmahals district, Gujarat. The objective was to study whether the special incentives for primary education given to certain selected ... -
Schools and students across cultures
(2010-03-14)This study attempts to explore the personality differences of the students who are studying in denominational and non-denominational institutions. The personality variables which are measured are dogmatism and security-insecurity. ... -
Science and Technology for Inclusive Social Development in 12th Five Year Plan
(2013-11-26)India has used science and technology for social development right from the beginning of planned development. The first time when television programmes were beamed through satellite, it was for education and not just ...