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The surrogacy law conundrum
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-01-21)India has emerged as an international centre of ‘surrogacy industry’. The practice raises complex ethical, moral and legal questions. With reference to the Baby M Case, the paper explores the legal validity of surrogacy ... -
A survey of advertising themes in 1970's
(2010-03-14)Advertising is a reflection of the total environment of the society; hence advertisers are expected to respond to the changing needs and expectations of their potential audience. To find out the changing trend of themes, ... -
Survey of literature on the attitudes and values of the professionals - with reference to the countries in the third world
(2010-03-18)This survey reviewed studies published during 1963-1979. In all 26 studies were reviewed which dealt with data collected on samples drawn from 14 different occupations representing 26 countries of the world. The following ... -
Survey of mathematical programming applications in integrated steel plants
(2009-12-14)Mathematical programming techniques were used in the steel industry as early as 1958, and many applications of optimization in steel production have been reported since then. In this survey, we summarize published applications ... -
Survey of research in business policy in India (1970-1982)
(2010-03-12)Business policy is taken as the study of how chief executives and general managers, with responsibility for several functions or businesses, shape and accomplish organizational purposes, policies and objectives. To determine ... -
Survey of strenghs and weaknesses of senior executives as perceived by them and their juniors
(2010-07-27)Survey of strengths and weakness of senior executives was undertaken in the context of increased use of self-awareness and personal growth programmers in the country and the use of open appraisal systems to enhance development ... -
Survey on exports and future export plans of large Indian companies: 1970-75
(2010-03-13)The survey on exports and future export plan of large Indian companies during 1970-75 with the following objectives in mind: (1) to understand the extent of commitment on the part of large Indian manufacturing companies ... -
Survival under stress: socio ecological perspective on on farmers innovation and risk adjustments
(2010-03-22)Need for closer interactions between natural scientists and farmers to generate relevant technologies is being increasingly recognised. The uniformity of ecological endowment and its correspondence with conditions at ... -
Sustainability through biodiversity: designing crucibles of culture creativity and conscience
(2010-07-27)In this paper there is a widespread concern world over about non-sustainability of present development strategies and structures in both developed as well as developing world. Most debates have however, ignored the ... -
Sustainable development of Indian agriculture: green revolution revisited
(2010-03-18)Indian experience of technological change through 'Green Revolution' in now an internationally acclaimed achievement. Several countries in Africa are being advised to follow Indian experience. We have reappraised the lessons ... -
Symbolic role models and identity patterns of Indian women
(2010-03-18)Woman is a phenomenon yet to be explored, experienced, and understood in all her viccisitudes, multiplicities, contradictions, and complexities. As she begins her journey in life at the dawn of birth and proceeds through ... -
Symbols, themes and liking: a study of advertisements
(2009-12-14)Advertisers use various strategies to make an advertisement effective. The use of symbols and themes is one of these strategies. This is a qualitative study aiming to understand whether the presence of some symbols and ... -
Synchronous innovation the new trend in manufacturing management
(2010-03-21)In this paper, we discuss a recent development in the area of manufacturing management-aptly called "Synchronous Innovation". This is a strategy which calls for synchronous deployment of technological and administrative ... -
Synergy in government policies and global competitiveness of two Indian industries: an empirical study
(2010-04-05)The paper analyzes the role of Government policies in influencing the competitiveness of two Indian industries: Automobile Components and Leather. These industries were chosen due to their good export performance, prima ... -
Synthesis Paper on Strengthening Policy Reforms for Transport Infrastructure Development
(2010-07-20)This paper presents the results of a series of eight resserach papers commissioned by the Asian Development Bank and the Dept. of Economic affairs, in the area of transport infrastructure development in India. The research ... -
Synthetic daily rainfall data generation
(2010-03-27)Long sequences of daily rainfall are often needed for simulation. These (when available) are cumbersome to input. Also in many cases historical data are to short to include all possible patterns. Hence the need for synthetic ... -
System dynamic study of apple movement from orchards to wholesale market
(2010-07-27)Two northern states, Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) and Himachal Pradesh (HP) account for most of the apple grown in India. Fruit is graded and packed near orchards and sent to Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC), Delhi ... -
System dynamics simulation model of a blast furnace
(2009-12-12)In this paper, we present a simulation model of a blast furnace. In a blast furnace the quality and productivity of the output (hot metal) depends on a large number of input variables and operating variables. The complex ... -
Tabu search for multi-period facility location: uncapacitated problem with an uncertain number of servers
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)This paper supersedes the work presented in WP.No.2014-02-06. We study the problem of allocating doctors to primary health centers (PHC). We model the problem as a multi-period uncapacitated facility location problem under ...