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Dismantling Fertilizer Subsidies in India: Some Issues and Concerns for Farm Sector Growth
(2013-11-21)
While fertilizer subsidy has probably been one of the most hotly debated issues in the
country over the past two decades but debate reached a new height following a
recommendation by the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory ...
Population Heuristics for the Corridor Allocation Problem
(2013-11-22)
The corridor allocation problem is one of assigning a given set of facilities in two rows
along a straight corridor so as to minimize a weighted sum of the distances between every
pair of facilities. This problem has ...
Health policy processes in Gujarat: A case study of the Policy for Independent Nurse Practitioners in Midwifery
(2013-11-21)
Background: The policy processes of the policy on ‘Nurse practitioners in midwifery’
(NPM) are described. The policy aims to educate and create a new cadre of
competent midwives in the government hospitals as an alternate ...
Key Account Management
(2013-11-25)
This note tries to explain concept of key account management (KAM), factors leading to
importance of this emerging concept, criteria to determine key accounts from customer
base, benefits to both buyers and sellers ...
Advertisement Placement in TV Programs: Different Roles of ELM and Mood Protection Mechanism
(2013-11-27)
This study explores how involvement of the audience with cognitive/affective program
influence their processing of advertisements aired in between the program because of
varying involvement within program. An experimental ...
Education and Employment among Muslims in India: An Analysis of Patterns and Trends
(2013-11-22)
After the submission of the Sachar Committee Report, several studies have
undertaken data-based analysis of the socioeconomic and educational
conditions of Muslims in India. Many researchers, policy makers and, in ...
A competitive genetic algorithm for single row facility layout
(2013-11-25)
The single row facility layout is the NP-Hard problem of arranging facilities with given
lengths on a line, so as to minimize the weighted sum of the distances between all pairs of
facilities. Owing to the computational ...
Corporate Governance: Confidentiality and Role of Media in Changing Times
(2013-11-22)
There is a certain tension between the primary objective of the media to tell as much
as possible to the public and the objective of the companies to retain confidentiality.
In this tussle, legal and ethical issues are ...
Role of culture in celebrity endorsement: Brand endorsement by celebrities in Indian context
(2013-11-27)
Celebrity endorsement is a big market in India and continues to grow bigger.
However, inspite of prevalent use of celebrities for endorsement, not all celebrity
endorsements have been successful. The list of unsuccessful ...
Path relinking for single row facility layout
(2013-11-22)
The single row facility layout problem is the problem of arranging facilities with given lengths
on a line, while minimizing the weighted sum of the distances between all pairs of facilities. The
problem is NP-hard. In ...