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Optimization of vehicle schedules for a road transport corporation
(2010-03-14)This paper discusses construction of a model to minimize fleet-size required to operate a time-table subject to a maintenance constraint. The constraint requires that vehicles be provided maintenance at least once every ... -
Capital expenditure planning and control: a survey of Indian Practice
(2010-03-14)The purpose of the study was to find out the policy and practice of Indian companies regarding various phase of the capital expenditure planning and control, and to ascertain corporate executives' opinion on the linkage ... -
Investment opportunities and Gordon's stock valuation model - a note
(2010-03-14)The traditional stock valuation model incorporating growth opportunities, fails to recognise the investment opportunities constraint. As a result the conventional model fails to provide an optimum reinvestment ratio and ... -
Corporate sickness and its prevention by financial institutions
(2010-03-14)Growing corporate sickness seems to be a global phenomenon, at least is the world's market-oriented economies. But the causes of sickness may differ as between Third World countries like India and the developed Western ... -
Innovations in elementary education in India
(2010-03-14)This paper reviews major innovations in primary education in India. The innovations are organized from most simple to the most complex. At the end, the authors have attempted to summarize lesson from the experiences of ... -
Fieldwork in a factory
(2010-03-14)In this paper, the author discusses his experiences of field work in a factory for collecting data for sociological research. As the main methodological approach in this study was social, anthropological, i.e. based on ... -
Approach for the agricultural strategy in the fifth five year plan of Gujarat
(2010-03-14)The basic principle in developing an approach for the agricultural strategy in the Fifth Five Year Plan is that instead of super-imposing a growth rate of agricultural sector to be achieved in the Fifth Five Year Plan, it ... -
Communal conflict in India with special reference to July 1973 riots in Ahmedabad
(2010-03-14)This study was purely exploratory in nature. Though it touched upon the causes and remedy of communal riots in India, its main thrust was to understand July 1973 riots in Ahmedabad. In order to meaningfully comprehend the ... -
Inter-role exploration: an od intervention
(2010-03-14)Role is the central concept in understanding the dynamics of an organization. The concepts of role space (relationship amongst all the roles an individual occupies) and role set (relationship of the role with other significant ... -
Trysem system
(2010-03-14)TRYSEM program is viewed as system with definite goal and an environmental of its own. The content of monitored information is analysed. It is suggested that the diagnostic value of the monitored data is low. The concurrent ... -
Reliability analysis of APOLY-12-PU-500 windmills
(2010-03-14)Breakdown data of APOLY-12-PU-500 windmills of Gujarat has been analysed. Bartlett's test suggested the plausibility of failure being exponentially distributed. The mean-time-between-failure (MTBF) was estimated, expected ... -
Experiences of designing a case based compulsory marketing course for a masters level programme in management
(2010-03-14)This paper describes authors' experiences of designing a case based compulsory marketing course for Post Graduate Programme (PGP) in Management (equivalent to MBA) at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA). Given ... -
Working capital requirements and credit needs for food grains distribution in India
(2010-03-14)This paper attempts to estimate the working capital required for the procurement and distribution of foodgrains. To arrive at the financial requirements for foodgrains distribution, estimates of the marketed surplus are ... -
On the number of non - negative integral solutions to the Kanpsack problem
(2010-03-14)This paper develops expressions for the exact number of solutions to the well known Knapsack problem. These formula are compared with the bounds given by other researchers in this problem. A computer programme has also ... -
Contributions to judgment and decision
(2010-03-14)This paper presents an overview of the theoretical, methodological, and applied contributions that the author's research program on prediction of performance has made to the literature on judgement and decision. It is shown ... -
Temporal behaviour of rural-urban migration and extent of urbanization
(2010-03-14)he paper views the phenomenon of rural-urban migration in terms of relative growth of urban areas. Four factors influencing the relative growth of urban areas are identified. They are :- (i) dependency ratio in urban areas ... -
Complete matching in a trinomial doubly-convex complete bipartite graph
(2010-03-14)This paper discusses minimum matching in a trinomial doubly convex bipartite graph. The graph consists of three categories of arcs forming a doubly convex structure. The matching involves lexicographical minimization in ... -
Management of Industrial conflict; a case for matching strategy with objectives
(2010-03-14)This paper is based on a case study of managerial problems arising from unionization among employees and subsequent events in union-management relations in one of the major commercial banks. The study shows that an initial ... -
A note on (S,s) inventory policy
(2010-03-14)This article obtains the stationary distribution of the stock level of a continuous review (S,s) Inventory policy with the following characteristics. The demand rate is a constant and unit quantity is demanded whenever ... -
An application of the Mann-Whitney 'U' test
(2010-03-14)The present study makes use of the Mann-Whitney 'U' test in order to certify whether the two independent group of units - engineering and non-engineering - have been drawn from the same population of private sector industrial ...