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Differential game in advertising
(2010-03-21)A general dynamic oligopolistic price-advertising model is formulated and open-loop nash solutions are derived. a detailed discussion of long run equilibrum solution is given. conditions for globle stability are discussed. -
Dynamic optimization with integral state equations
(2010-03-21)In this paper we obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for optimality in dynamic optimization problems governed by integral state equations. -
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 ... -
Communication for social marketing: an approach for developing communication appeals for family planning programs
(2010-03-21)This study has developed and tested an approach and a methodology for identifying persuasive communication appeals that have the best chances of influencing people's attitudes and behaviour in the area of social marketing, ... -
Interactive evaluation and bound procedure for selecting multi-attributed alternatives
(2010-03-21)An evaluation and bound procedure is developed which offers substantial improvement over conventional approach. The improvement is measured in terms of the simplicity of the judgments and the number of judgments that are ... -
A note on the Indian motor vehicle industry
(2010-03-21)This note describes the history of the Indian Motor Vehicles Industry and its current status. There are a number of manufacturers in the public, joint and private sectors. Several new manufacturers also intend to enter the ... -
Some aspects of U.S. textile import policy relating to selected developing Asian countries
(2010-03-21)This paper highlights some aspects of the practice of discrimination by the United States of America in its import policy for regulating the imports of "textiles" (including textiles and clothing) from selected developing ... -
Institution building and self renewal needs of education systems
(2010-03-21)A large number of educational institutions have become static, rigid, complacent and change-resistant. This is because they have not paid adequate attention to their own internal culture, values and processes from the ... -
An inteactive procedure for subset selection with ordinal preferences
(2010-03-21)Many decision situations involve the selection of a subset of alternatives (items, projects or actions) when the pay-offs of these decisions are difficult to quantify. An interactive procedure is developed to identify an ... -
Change and innovations: a select bibliography of books for the use of those who are concerned with educational innovations
(2010-03-21)It is a classified annotated bibliography of recent books on various aspects of change and innovation. The bibliography is meant for those who are concerned with educational innovations. The bibliography has been classified ... -
Planning and management for excellence and efficiency in higher education
(2010-03-21)Higher education has multiple goals of character building for social development, skill building for national development and teacher competency building for education development. Higher education today faces many ... -
Towards understanding the values of future managers
(2010-03-21)This study attempts to look at the effect of sex, previous academic background and the annual family income on the value patterns of students who have opted for management education. Barring a few exceptions the results ... -
Averaging as a general principle of information integration
(2010-03-21)Virtually all situations require a judgment or decision on the basis of several separate pieces of information. Grading a term paper, evaluating a job applicant, selecting a leader, or simply listening to a speaker, all ... -
Some methodological and practical aspects of accounting the returns from clearfelling natural forests in the evaluation of intensive forest development projects
(2010-03-21)The Forest Development Corporations (FDCs) in India have the responsibility of formulating and implementing intensive forest development projects for their respective areas. Since the FDCs operate on the lands currently ... -
Strategies of implementation of rural development programmes in India
(2010-03-21)It is clear that in order to achieve peoples' development as a major objective of rural development programmes, it almost always would require structural shifts supported by a dialogical process of total mobilization of ... -
Financial performance of public enterprises in india: a case study of Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers Limited
(2010-03-21)The failure of public enterprises to generate the targeted resources is a major factor responsible for the rising public sector deficit in India - a problem which in turn may create the following problems: crowding out of ... -
Wage structure in consumer goods and capital goods industries in India
(2010-03-21)An attempt has been made in this paper to examine the wage structure in consumer goods industries in relation to that in capital goods industries in the light of the two major hypotheses, viz., 'the expected ability to pay ... -
Formulating public policy for distribution of essential goods: an analytical approach
(2010-03-21)Public Policy concerning distribution of essential goods of mass consumption has assumed critical importance in several developing countries. In India, such policies have generally been reactive, in response to exigencies ... -
Continuity of bargaining solutions defined with respect to a criterion
(2010-03-21)In this paper we study continuity properties of bargaining solutions which are defined with respect to a criterion function. Sufficient conditions are obtained for the solutions to be continuous and the exercise is carried ... -
Financial ratio patterns in Indian manufacturing companies: a multivariate analysis
(2010-03-21)The objectives of the study were: (a) to present Indian evidence on empirical-based classification of financial ratios, and (b) to examine the intertemporal stability/change of classification of ratios so obtained for the ...