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Sorting and shaping, explorations in helplessness of higher education institutions
(2010-03-13)After independence, the Education Commission called for creation of new institutions to undertake the task of higher education in technology, agriculture and management. Three models of higher education were imported. In ... -
Sources of economic growth in India implied by the seventh five year plan 1985-90
(2010-03-14)Two volumes of the 7th plan released by the government of India have provided a reasonably good empirical base to look into the implicaitons and consistency of the plan targets. In the present short paper, all attempt is ... -
Sources of India's economic growth
(2010-03-28)An attempt has been made in this study to estimate the sources of economic growth of Indian economy during the period 1960-61 to 1993-94. The study presents the estimates of the contribution made by various factors such ... -
Sources of output growth in Indian Iron and Steel Industry
(2010-03-13)The present study makes an attempt to assess, in quantitative terms, the contributions made by various factors to the observed rate of growth of Indian Iron & Steel Industry during the post-war period. The analysis is ... -
South Asian experience in agricultural mechanization
(2010-03-13)A remarkable feature of economic growth in South Asia during the last decade or so, is the emergence of agriculture as a buoyant sector. This is accompanied with popularization of machine power or the farms. An interesting ... -
Spatial dimension of the acceleration of economic growth in India
(2010-03-26)The study of 20 state economies of India over the period 1960-61 to 1989-90 reveals that the phenomenon of acceleration in economic growth is spatially dispersed and covers about two-thirds of the national economy. The ... -
Spatial optimisation of the fuel purchase decision for road transport undertakings
(2010-03-22)Road transport undertakings in India have been spending approximately between 15-20 % of their total expenses on fuel. Given the fact that they visit different towns and sometimes even different states, the fuel which is ... -
Spatial overview of urban systems
(2010-03-14)The broad focus of this paper is to seek a framework of functional Urban regions to give better understanding of the impact of public policies in the fields of population distribution and economic development. There are ... -
Spatial overview of urban systems
(2010-03-20)The broad focus of this paper is to seek a framework of functional Urban regions to give better understanding of the impact of public policies in the fields of population distribution and economic development. There are ... -
Spatial underdevelopment, small towns and public policy: the Indian experience
(2010-03-13)The role of small towns in national development has assumed significant importance in recent times in the light of renewed interest in decentralised development strategies. Conventional approaches which viewed small towns ... -
Specialist Services in the Indian Rural Public Health System for Maternal and Child Healthcare – A Study of Four States
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)The present study attempts to examine the role of specialist services in rural public health system of India in the areas of maternal and child healthcare. The study uses primary data collected through a survey of doctors ... -
Speeding up neighborhood search for the tool indexing problem
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016)The arrangement of tools in tool holding pockets of a tool magazine in a CNC machining center plays an important role in reducing processing times of complex job processes in automated machining environments. This problem ... -
Speeding Up the Estimation of Expected Maximum Flows through Reliable Networks
(2011-05-27)This paper presents a strategy for speeding up the estimation of expected maximum flows through reliable networks. Computational experiments with the strategy on three types of randomly generated networks show that it ... -
Spotting difficult weakly correlated binary knapsack problems
(2010-04-16)We examine in this paper that the possibility of quickly deciding whether or not an instance of a binary knapsack problem is difficult for branch and bound algorithms. We first observe that the distribution of the objective ... -
Spurs and props of agricultural research - economic and social under pluming - a case study of rice research in India
(2010-03-13)The paper deals with the problem of agricultural research management, particularly with reference to rice research in India. The growth of rice production has lagged behind wheat production mainly because the rice research ... -
State income inequalities and interstate variations in the Growth of real capital stock in India
(2010-03-29)This paper makes an attempt to analyse the behaviour of regional income inequalities and capital inequalities in India. It also seeks to examine the relationship between the trend in regional income inequality and regional ... -
State of art and research priorities in leather industry in India
(2010-07-20)India had a very strong base for the potential supply of raw material for its leather industry. This was reflected in the absolute numbers in the livestock population statistics of India. However, in the planning exercises ... -
State of marketing analytics in India: prospects and potential challenges
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)The paper provides an overview of the state of the Marketing Analytics practice in India today, its contribution and its possible challenges for future growth. A diverse set of practitioners from multiple sectors of ...