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Maternal Health Situation in India: A Case Study
(2009-08-03)Maternal Health Services are one of the basic health services to be provided by nay government health system as pregnant women are one of the most vulnerable victims of dysfunctional health system, India, in spite of rapid ... -
Mathematical modeling for demurrage reduction in coal transportation for an Indian thermal power plant
(2010-04-01)Competitive pressures on power plants have seen them attempting to reduce their operating expenses for profitable operations. In India, the plants use wagons of the Indian Railways to transport coal from the mines (in ... -
Mathematical modelling for time-of-use pricing of electricity in monopoly and oligopoly
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-10-17)This study establishes the feasibility condition for efficiency gains to arise from time-of-use pricing in the electricity market in a monopolistic and oligopolistic set up using constrained optimization. In an oligopolistic ... -
Mathematical models for urban water supply and waste disposal systems
(2010-03-14)Most urban areas are facing an ever increasing demand for fresh water due to population and industrial growth. This peper proposes ans integrated approach for optimal design of urban water supply and waste disposal systems. ... -
A mathematical programming approach with revenue management in home loan pricing
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020-02-25)We formulate a dynamic pricing model for home loans for a bank. The model optimizes the net present value of money available at the end of 15 years subject to pricing limits and cash flows. We collected the real data from ... -
Mathematical programming method to determine exact optimum allocation in stratified random sampling
(2010-03-20)In this paper an exact integer programming formulation is proposed and an efficient method of finding optimal solution is given. An alternative method using incremental or marginal analysis approach is also given. A numerical ... -
Max-min solution for variable threat games
(2010-03-25)In this paper we obtain general inequality properties that max-min strategic solutions to Variable Threat Games satisfy under a set of very plausible assumptions. -
"McKinsey" versus "movement" change management: Kurukshetra of the 21st century?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-10-01)The paper contrasts two paradigms of management change that may increasingly compete for management allegiance: the professionalist, a analytical, bottomline oriented McKinsey mode and the participatory, collectivist, ... -
Mean variance optimality criteria for discounted Markov decision processes
(2010-03-22)The criteria of maximizing expected rewards has been widely used in Markov decision processes following Howard [2]. Recently considerations related to higher moments of rewards have also been incorporated by Jaquette [4] ... -
Measurement issues in state income from registered manufacturing sector – case of Gujarat
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)The present paper discusses some important issues involved in estimation of state income originating in the registered manufacturing sector with illustrations drawn from Gujarat. It highlights the present practices in ... -
Measurement of attitudes
(2010-03-13)People have likes and dislikes and have them in varying degrees. But why study and measure them? Attitudes are action tendencies and as such they can facilitate or hinder action at all levels: individual, group, community, ... -
Measurement of attitudes
(2010-03-15)People have likes and dislikes and have them in varying degrees. But why study and measure them? Attitudes are action tendencies and as such they can facilitate or hinder action at all levels: individual, group, community, ... -
Measurement of capital input and estimation of time series production functions in Indian manufacturing
(2010-03-13)This study makes an attempt to examine the impact of errors in the specification and measurement of capital input on the estimates of time series production functions in Indian manufacturing. -
Measures of efficiency for family planning evaluation
(2010-04-17)During the past ten years evaluation and management specialists have separately developed procedures for assessing program performance. -
Measuring and managing institutional environment of institutes of professional education
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2014)Questionnaire surveys of perceptions of institutional environment have been found to be a good diagnostic tool to facilitate self-renewal, leading to effective management of institutions of Higher education. Normally, such ... -
Measuring consumer preferences for sales promotion schemes through conjoint design in FMCG sector
(2010-04-03)This paper first attempts a brief synthesis of the existing literature on consumer respect to sales promotion and use of conjoint design in the study of consumer preferences. Based on insights developed through literature ... -
Measuring Institutional Relatedness
(2011-05-26)Firms in most emerging economies are engaged in seemingly unrelated activities. This is particularly observed in the case of business groups which dominate the landscape of these economies. Initially, diversification in ... -
Measuring performance of small farmers' development agency
(2010-07-20)The purpose of this paper is to evolve certain methods of analysis and indicators for measuring the performance of the Small Farmers' Development Agency and apply these to the type of data which is normally collected by ... -
Measuring Retail Service Quality: Examining Applicability of International Research Perspectives in India
(2009-09-02)Service quality measures developed internationally are often accepted as adequate in India. This study evaluates the Retail Service Quality Scale (RSQS) developed in the U.S. and considered valid across a variety of formats ... -
Measuring the perceived impact of internet on individuals in rural india
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-04-12)Internet has greatly influenced the way individuals socialize, create and exploit economic opportunities and knowledge resources. However, previous studies on assessment of impact have largely been empirical and limited ...