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Design and Application of Risk Adjusted Cumulative Sum (RACUSUM) for Online Strength Monitoring of Ready Mixed Concrete
(2009-07-29)The Cumulative Sum (CUSUM) procedure is an effective statistical process control tool that can be used to monitor quality of ready mixed concrete (RMC) during its production process. Online quality monitoring refers to ... -
Design of greenhouse irrigation system at Bhujodi
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-12-01)Kutch is extremely arid, hot and short in agricultural quality ground water. Greenhouse is expected to reduce water requirement in such conditions. It is for this reason that this approach is being followed. In the write-up ... -
Design of Organization and Structure for Ocean Development
(2012-09-27)The development of ocean resources has become a major strategic programme for India. The vastness, complexity and uncertainty of the ocean environment necessitate a co-ordinate, and responsive organization structure. This ... -
Design Thinking a Fad or Reality
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Identity crisis faced by design as a discipline is not new. Richardson’s essay The death of the designer states that design is in the midst of a crisis of identity, purpose, responsibility and meaning, and ‘The viability ... -
Designing and conducting microlab for training
(2010-03-13)Microlab is a technique evolved originally as a part of T-group technology to unfreeze the participants before their participation in a T-group. This technique has been used in several innovative training programmes to ... -
Designing developmental organizations: search for an Indian theory
(2010-03-13)Developmental organizations in public sector emerge largely to allocate resources to such regions and people which may not be able to attract market forces on their own. However, many of these commercial organizations ... -
Determinants of Cellular Competition in Asia
(2009-09-02)Using data from the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Database I explore the market for the provision of cellular services in Asia. This study looks at the diffusion of mobile technologies and mobile tariffs ... -
Determinants of disagreement: learning from Indian inflation expectations survey of households
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-01-01)This study explores the determinants of disagreement in households' belief on future inflation. Households commonly show strong information rigidity as a consequence of stickiness in their information update (Mankiw and ... -
Determinants of effective working capital management - a discriminant analysis approach
(2010-03-13)Currently, many financial analysts rely on traditional financial ratios for assessing the effectiveness of the working capital management. They correlate corporate performance in this area with the so-called "ideal" ratios. ... -
DETERMINANTS OF ENTRY IN THE INDIAN MANUFACTURING SECTOR
(2009-09-04)Since 1991, the Indian economy has experienced major structural and policy changes. These changes were expected to reduce barriers to entry and increase competition. While anecdotal evidence seems to support the contention ... -
Determinants of error variance in individual child analysis for studying integrational capacity
(2010-03-14)In research on information integration by children, integrational capacity of a child is ascertained by the number of statistically significant main effects in analysis of variance for the child. Such an approach has an ... -
Determinants of Export Performance of Indian Firms – A Strategic Perspective
(2009-09-02)Macroeconomic policy reforms initiated in India since 1991 have brought about a significant improvement in the export performance of Indian firms. This paper examines the export performance of firms with the help of balance ... -
Determinants of export performance of Indian firms: a strategic perspective
(2010-01-16)This paper examines the export performance of firms with the help of balance sheet data of 557 firms for the years 1980-81 to 1995-96. The paper also draws certain strategic and policy implications likely to be relevant ... -
Determinants of family planning acceptance and of worker and organisational performance in rural Uttar Pradesh
(2010-04-17)The poor performance of family planning in rural Uttar Pradesh would be incomprehensible without some understanding of the rural population, their past knowledge and practice of contraception and their previous contact ... -
Determinants of growth in rice productivity in India, 1980-95
(2010-04-01)This paper analyses various price and non-price factors that induce rice productivity during 1980-95 using a multi-variate model. This is studied separately for states where rice is a multi-season crop and mono-season crop. ... -
Determinants of inter - industry wage structure in India
(2010-03-13)This paper deals with an analysis of the main factors explaining the inter-industry wage differentials in manufacturing sector of the Indian economy. It examines the basic theoretical framework which can provide a satisfactory ... -
Determinants of Small-Scale Farmer inclusion in Emerging Modern Agrifood Markets: A Study of the Dairy Industry in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)In response to structural transformations taking place in the Indian dairy sector mainly in processing segment this paper examines determinants of market channel choices of milk producers based on a survey of 390 farm ... -
Determinants of the sources of FDI into India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)Inward FDI flows over 2000-01 from many source countries into India, one of the fastest growing large developing economies in the period, have been explained by an extended gravity model and the an extended allometric ... -
Determinants of total factor productivity in Indian agriculture
(2010-04-03)Past literature shows that technical change in agriculture is determined by non-price like government expenditure on R&D and infrastructure. But more recent literature also considers relative farm prices that would provide ... -
Determining lags in export supply function in India
(2010-03-29)This paper considers a partial adjustment model of the export supply function in Indian economy at the aggregate level. A minimum of one month and a maximum of 12 months is considered as the plausible range of the length ...