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Predicted Increases in Heat related Mortality under Climate Change in Urban India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
Mapping mortality impacts of the projected climate in urban areas of developing countries will play a crucial role in instituting planned adaptation measures to protect public health. We provide a comprehensive assessment ...
ROC Curve Analysis for Randomly Selected Patients
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves and the area under the curve (AUC) are widely used in medical studies to examine the effectiveness of markers in diagnosing diseases. In most of the existing literature for ...
Economic Globalization: Boon or Bane for African Health?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
The effect of globalization, especially economic liberalization, on socioeconomic development has long been debated in development economics. There is a view that globalization is not beneficial to the underdeveloped and ...
Evaluating the Purchase Process of Household Appliances Accounting for Consumers’ Attitudes towards Eco-Friendly and Sustainable Consumption Behavior
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
Globally depleting fuel resources like coal, oil and gas has triggered discussions in various forums in India emphasizing the significance of renewable energy sources like solar, hydro, wind and bio gas for future sustenance ...
Intellectual Property Protection in India and Implications for Health Innovation: Emerging Perspectives
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
With the advent of TRIPS, the IP regimes have changed in most WTO member countries. India also came up with its own version of TRIPS compatible IP regime which has been hailed by some as a „model‟ regime for developing ...
A study of technological capability among product based telecom start-ups in India: Role of knowledge, learning and bricolage
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
Present work explores the development of new products among telecom start-ups in India. This paper weaves together threads of literature including innovation, bricolage, learning and knowledge acquisition and technological ...
The consumer protection bill, 2015: (lack of) rights of the consumer to terminate sale contract
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
Consumer protection law rests on the foundations of contract law and the law of sale of goods. A consumer law has to conceptually express this foundation and the modifications it is bringing about in these laws. Without ...
Damages in a consumer sale contract: Reviewing the consumer protection bill, 2015
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
Consumer protection law rests on the foundations of contract law and the law of sale of goods. A consumer law has to conceptually express this foundation and the modifications it is bringing about in these laws. Without ...
An overview of the trucking sector in india: Significance and structure
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015-12-23)
The objective of this paper is to provide an overview of the trucking sector. It describes the significance of road transport and the structure of the trucking industry. It also explores the causes and consequences of the ...
India’s air traffic system: network topologies, hierarchies and evolution
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
The paper examines multi-dimensional patterns of network characteristics for scheduled Indian airlines between 2006 and 2014. The well-known skewed traffic distribution which concentrates traffic around relatively few hub ...