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Bridging the Gap: phasing out coal
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2017)
The goal of the Paris Agreement on climate change, as agreed at the Conference of the Parties in 2015, is to keep global temperature rise this century to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. It also ...
Preferences-based choice prediction in evolutionary multi-objective optimization
(Springer, 2017)
Evolutionary multi-objective algorithms (EMOAs) of the type of NSGA-2 approximate the Pareto-front, after which a decision-maker (DM) is confounded with the primary task of selecting the best solution amongst all the equally ...
SB-robustness of estimators in recent advances
(Springer, 2016)
This book offers a collection of recent contributions and emerging ideas in the areas of robust statistics presented at the International Conference on Robust Statistics 2015 (ICORS 2015) held in Kolkata during 12–16 ...
Reinventing educational organisations
(Orient BlackSwan, 2016)
Indian organisations are more complex than organisations elsewhere, because of the unique cultural, economic and political contexts to which they belong. They present a diverse mix of new and old, religious and secular, ...
Breaking new ground: dispatches on law & economics from India
(Eastern Book Company, 2017)
The book Law and Economics: Breaking New Grounds aims to educate and spread awareness on the interdisciplinary subject of law and economics among technocrats, scientists, social engineers, professionals and policy makers, ...
Technological innovations and equitable access to clean drinking water
(2017)
Someone once told me that if you share and idea it would never be yours again
and this book is the best representation of that though. I always have problems
finding articles that explore the linkages between human rights ...
Institutional innovations in paddy rice production and marketing in India: experience and strategies
(Elsevier, 2017)
The Future Rice Strategy for India presents forward-looking insights toward achieving sustainable development of the rice sector, ensuring future food and nutritional security. As a staple food for many in India, including ...
Managing corporate reputation through social media
(IGI Global, 2016)
Each consumer now has the power to be a journalist, reviewer, and whistle blower. The prevalence of social media has made it possible to alter a brand’s reputation with a single viral post, or spark a political movement ...
Statistical challenges with big data in management science
(Springer, 2016)
This book has a collection of articles written by Big Data experts to describe some of the cutting-edge methods and applications from their respective areas of interest, and provides the reader with a detailed overview of ...