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Analysis of claims and reimbursements made under mediclaim policy of the General Insurance Corporation of India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2001-08-01)The analysis suggests that the number of policies and premiums collected have grown at significant rates, more than 30 per cent during 1998-99 and 50 per cent during the year 1999-00. The growth had implications for the ... -
Analysis of congestion in wholesale vegetable and fruit market of ahmedabad
(2010-03-31)Regulated Wholesale Markets in cities are the first destination of vegetables and fruits meant for fresh retailing. Congestion, crowding and litter are the striking features of these markets. Although the produce spends ... -
Analysis of disturbances in Gujarat (from January 1,1974 to January 28, 1974): the food problem and suggestion
(2011-09-02)Recent disturbances in Gujarat were analyzed and it was observed that the major cause of the disturbance was non - availability of food grains from the fair price shops particularly in the urban areas of Gujarat. This ... -
Analysis of Mixed Outcomes: Misclassified Binary Responses and Measurement Error in Covariates
(2009-08-13)The focus of this paper is on regression models for mixed binary and continuous outcomes, when the true predictor is measured with error and the binary responses are subject to classification errors. Latent variable is ... -
Analysis of Non Suburban Passenger Coaching Stock Utilization
(2011-05-26)This paper assesses the utilization of coaches on the parameters percentage of runtime, kms/day, and average speed of rakes servicing express/mails and passenger trains in the South Central Railway (SCR). This is done by ... -
Analysis of public expenditure on health using state level data
(2010-07-22)Increasingly the governments are facing pressures to increase budgetary allocations to social sectors. Recently there has been suggestion to increase the government budget allocations to health sector and increase it to ... -
Analysis of Rice Production and Productivity in Eastern India
(2012-09-28): The Problem of low productivity of rice in Eastern India is currently being discussed among the policy makers, academicians and technologists. This paper attempt to analyses the data of rice production, area and productivity ... -
Analysis of the Indian securities industry: market for debt
(2010-03-27)Though the Indian equity market has shown some encouraging growth in the last decade, the Indian debt market has continued to remain sluggish. In an environment where India is keen to attract foreign investments, it will ... -
Analysis of two-unit parallel redundant system - a review
(2010-03-13)Ever since Gaver (1963) made an attempt to analyse a two unit parallel redundant system, several attempts have been made by many applied probabilists, engineers to analyse two-unit parallel redundant systems. While various ... -
An analysis of upward influence strategies using speech act theory and face threatening acts
(2010-04-05)This study borrows from sociolinguistic research, specifically speech act theory (SAT), as a way to analyze and explain how UI strategies are performed. We have attempted to provide an explanation for the choice of strategies ... -
Analysis of wagon utilization and estimating the optimal freight transport effort (loaded and empty wagon movement) for the Indian railways
(2010-03-29)Over the past four decades, the freight movement output of the Indian Railways has increased substantially. The tonnes originating increased over fourfold from 73.2 million tonnes in 1950-51 to 302 million tonnes in 1988-89. ... -
Analytical study of performance and regional variations in Indian agriculture in the post - green revolution period
(2010-07-27)The paper presents the results of an analysis of all-India and state level data on area, production and yield of major crops in the post-green revolution period. It reveals that there was a marked acceleration in the overall ... -
Animal Health Policy in South Asia: What Can Economic Analysis Contribute?
(2009-08-03)Animal health policy in South Asia region has been characterized predominantly by direct action by the government either in providing services to livestock farmers or in undertaking livestock productivity enhancing measures. ... -
Antecedents and consequences of brand equity: a meta analysis
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03)Brand equity provides the firms, a competitive, financial and strategic advantage over other firms in the market. Over the past few decades, brand equity has received increasing attention from various domains. However a ... -
Antecedents and consequences of product innovation: a meta-analytic review
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-04-05)Building on the meta-analytic model suggested by Montoya‐Weiss et al., Journal of Product Innovation Management, 11(5), 397-417, (1994), this study proposes a framework for product innovation to identify what strategies ... -
Application of markov chains to management of leasing
(2010-03-15)The paper presents application of Markov Chains to management of leasing. The paper demonstrates that, despite low percentage of bad debts, there could be a significant reduction in the returns earned by a lessor because ... -
Application of optimization based decision support system in a polymer manufacturing company in India
(2009-12-12)In this paper we describe the application of the multi-period optimization based DSS in a polymer manufacturing company in India. This is probably the first attempt to use a mathematical programming model for operating and ... -
Application of systems approach at the micro level in education: two cases
(2010-03-13)The problems in the field of education are very complex. The process of education involves various human beings like students, teachers, parents, educationists, administrators and other members of the community. To effectively ... -
An application of the Mann-Whitney 'U' test
(2010-03-14)The present study makes use of the Mann-Whitney 'U' test in order to certify whether the two independent group of units - engineering and non-engineering - have been drawn from the same population of private sector industrial ...