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Trends in the economic efficiency of Indian railways
(2010-04-17)This paper aims at examining the performance of Indian railways based on the criterion of total factor productivity. The paper makes an attempt to analyse the available data on output and factor inputs to estimate the rate ... -
Trends of outpatient and inpatient admissions in public hospitals of ahmedabad, India over last 24 years
(2011-09-02)This paper tries to show the trend of registration of patients (indoor & outdoor) in various medical institutes of Ahmedabad which are run by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) in last 24 years (1971-94). The Civil ... -
Triangle Effect and the Connotative Meaning of Trust in Prisoner’s Dilemma
(2012-09-27)Two hundred and forty-nine male Postgraduate student of management played the Prisoner’s Dilemma Game (Deutsch) and filled out post game questioner measuring attitude toward the “other player”. Striking differences ... -
The trucking industry an introductory note
(2010-03-24)The paper concludes that considering the inability of Railways to provide piecemeal wagons, it is essential to encourage the movement of goods by roads. Inspite of the unorganized nature of the private companies engaged ... -
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 ... -
Tuberculosis control in developing countries: a generalized community health worker based model
(2009-12-12)This paper documents the BRAC model for TB control. We introduce the concept of value chain, in the context of TB control. Based on the concept of value cahin, the logic for the effectiveness of the BRAC model is discussed. ... -
‘Turnaround’ of Indian Railways: A Critical Appraisal of Strategies and Processes
(2009-08-13)Indian Railways (IR), which was declared to be heading towards bankruptcy as per the Expert Group on Indian Railways in 2001, is today the second largest profit making Public Sector Undertaking after ONGC. The fund balance ... -
‘Turnaround’ of Indian Railways: Increasing the Axle Loading
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Turning over a golden leaf? : Global liquidity and emerging market central banks’ demand for gold after the financial crisis
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-04-12)The quantity of gold reserves held by central banks in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) has risen sharply following the global financial crisis in 2008. This paper examines factors driving holding of gold ... -
Two characterizations of the independence of irrelevant alternatives assumption
(2010-03-25)In this paper we propose alternative characterizations of the Independence of irrelevant alternatives assumption, as conceived in bargaining theory. We provide two distinct characterizations, which allows us to view both ... -
Two commodity network design: the convex hull
(2010-04-01)We study the uncapacitated and capacitated one facility versions of the two commodity network design problem. We characterize optimal solutions and show that we can restrict the search for optimal solutions to feasible ... -
Two hundred mile economic zone and its implicaitons for fisheries management
(2010-03-13)This paper deals with a broad overview of the international legal context in which problems of fisheries management have to be viewed. After discussing the weaknesses of the old fisheries regime, the new international ... -
Two problems in cognitive algebra: imputations and averaging - versus - multiplying
(2010-03-13)Imputations are important, but they have received only scattered attention. Most studies of information integration present specific pieces of information that control the judgment. The wide success of cognitive algebra ... -
Two stage heuristic for designing data communication networks
(2010-03-15)In this paper, we present a two-stage heuristic which identifies the most economical way to connect the nodes of a date communication network. We formulate this network design problem as a star-star concentrator location ... -
Typology of headlines
(2010-03-13)This paper brings out a theme-based typology of headlines normally useful for verbal component in print advertising. The existing modes of presenting or classifying the headlines is briefly presented to indicate their ... -
Uitlity theory and participation in unfair lotteries
(2010-03-13)This paper provides an alternative explanation for the observed behaviour of individuals, that is consistent with consumer choice theory. The basic hypothesis is that there are certain commodities, mainly luxuries, which ... -
Uncertainty modeling with information and probabilistic information granules
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-02-29)Linguistic representations by human brain are often characterized with an intertwined combination of imprecision (due to incomplete knowledge), vagueness or uncertainty. A powerful framework of information and probabilistic ... -
Uncovered choice functions
(2010-01-16)An abiding problem in choice theory has been one of characterizing those choice function which are obtained as a result of some kind of optimization. Specifically, the endeavour has concentrated largely on finding a binary ... -
Understanding coefficient alpha: assumptions and interpretations
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-04-04)A procedure is developed for determining appropriate levels of scale reliability by examining coefficient alpha in conjunction with the standardized regression coefficient for each variable. Present study aims to examine ...