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HACCP: a quest for quality as a competitive strategy for agribusiness
(2010-03-28)While consumption of food gives material pleasure and a healthy life, contaminated food can be dangerous to health. Therefore, quality of food is very important. Even from the producers’ point of view, selling high quality ... -
Handling inverse optimal control problems using evolutionary bilevel optimization
(IEEE, 2016-07)Optimal control is a task where it is desired to determine the inputs of a dynamical system that optimize (minimize or maximize) a specified cost functional, also known as performance index, while satisfying any constraints ... -
Harnessing multiple mental models and creating opportunities for learning about human resource issues among district health officers
(2010-01-18)This paper describes and evaluates the experience of using soft systems methodology (SSM), a problem structuring method of soft operations research (OR), to create learning opportunities about people issues among District ... -
Harnessing wisdom for managing watersheds: honey bee perspective on innovations, institutions and policies for marginal environments
(2010-07-22)Participatory approaches for watershed management are now considered essential for sustainable natural resources management and yet there is very little opportunity for intellectual participation by the people. This ... -
Harvesting dew to supplement drinking water supply in arid coastal villages of Gujarat
(2009-08-03)Shortage of drinking water is chronic, sever and widespread in Kutch - a hot and very arid region. It is specially acute in coastal villages where surface sources dry up rapidly and groundwater is not potable. Many of ... -
Health for all: an alternative strategy: a note on the current tasks
(2010-03-13)The concern for the health of the population, particularly the weaker sections of the society has been articulated by an increasing number of planners. As a consequence the search for an alternative health care system 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 ... -
Health system in India: opportunities and challenges for improvement
(2010-04-03)Health and Socio-economic developments are so closely intertwined that is impossible to achieve one without the other. While the economic development in India has been gaining momentum over the last decade, our health ... -
Hedging Effectiveness of Constant and Time Varying Hedge Ratio in Indian Stock and Commodity Futures Markets
(2009-07-29)This paper examines hedging effectiveness of futures contract on a financial asset and commodities in Indian markets. In an emerging market context like India, the growth of capital and commodity futures market would depend ... -
Hedonism and Culture: Impact on Shopper Behaviour
(2009-08-21)Increasingly consumer shopping behaviour is being seen from the holistic perspective of the entire shopping experience. The experiential view of shopping takes a far more holistic approach to the consumption process, right ... -
A heuristic procedure for one dimensional bin packing problem with additional constraints
(2010-03-31)We proposed a heuristic algorithm to solve the one-dimensional bin-packing problem with additional constraints. The proposed algorithm has been applied to solve a practical vehicle-allocation problem. The experimental ... -
Heuristics for the multi-product satiating newsboy problem
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)Due to the preference of satiation (of the profit target) over maximization (of expected profit) in uncertain situations, the newsboy problem with the satiation objective is an important practical problem. In the multi-product ... -
High frequency manipulation at futures Expiry: the case of cash settled Indian single stock futures
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2014)Futures markets are known to be vulnerable to manipulation, and despite the presence of a variety of mechanisms to prevent such manipulation, instances of market manipulation have been found in some of the largest and most ... -
Higher education in India: trends and bibliography
(2010-03-13)This report is based on our survey of the work done in India on higher education. A lot of documented literature is available on higher education, most of which is general and impression based. While very few researches ... -
Hire-purchase installments: are you quoting right?
(2010-03-28)This paper is concerned with the practice in the financial sector to quote hire-purchase installments for 100% finance schemes and deposit linked hybrid finance schemes on the basis of equal IRRs. The paper shows the ... -
The horror of urban development in india – Identifying the real issues
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-06-30)The horror of India’s urban spaces cannot be understood without recognizing the core errors in planning and in the approach of infrastructural development. These stem mainly from the low FSI’s that are used, the lack of ... -
Hospital efficiency: an empirical analysis of district and grant-in-aid hospitals in Gujarat
(2010-01-16)This study focuses on analysing the hospital efficiency of district level government hospitals and grant-in-aid hospitals in Gujarat. The study makes an attempt to provide an overview of the general status of the health ... -
Household energy behaviour and urban development: The case of Ahmedabad
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1984-12-01)Energy is a key input to meet the basic needs of human beings like food, clothing and shelter. Household energy behaviour needs to be understood for ensuring individual and social well being. The urban household energy use ... -
Household survival through commons: performance in an uncertain world
(2010-07-15)The search for ethically responsible and scientifically precise alternatives for socially disadvantaged groups in high risk environments requires a multi disciplinary, multi market/multi institutional approach. Various ... -
Housing conditions and housing shortage in India - an interstate analysis
(2010-03-29)This paper makes an attempt to examine the existing housing conditions and quantify the extent of housing shortage in Indian economy. The main objectives of the study are: (a) to examine the growth and composition of housing ...