A single pass earth-tube heat exchanger (ETHE) was installed to study its performance in cooling and heating mode. ETHE is made of 50 m long ms pipe of 10 cm nominal diameter and 3 mm wall thickness. ETHE is buried 3 m deep below surface. Ambient air is pumped through it by a 400 w blower. Air...

The economic growth achieved in India after 1991 bears an imprint of the economic policy reforms which were accelerated in 1991 with a shift in development strategy towards increasing liberalisation and globalisation of Indian economy. The present paper examines various hypotheses regarding...

Indian Railways (IR) had lost its market share in high rated freight commodities especially cement, POL, and iron and steel. IR was missing an overall strategy for freight business, which was overcharged without sensitivity to competition. Over time, other transport modes, especially road (and...

In the present study the sources of Growth of Indian agriculture have been estimated for three sub-periods during 1950-51 to 1988-89. It also estimates the contribution of adverse weather conditions and intensity of resource use to total factor productivity growth. It is found that TFPG has...

Organizations face several managerial challenges during their growth period. Growth spurts are realized when organizations overcome these challenges. Though the literature is full of studies on the enterprise growth, the knowledge about how these challenges facilitate or hinder growth is...

Research in the area of brand extensions has focused on the themes of simple affect transfer and category based affect transfer to explain attitude towards the extension. Subsequent research stresses the importance of brand-specific associations in explaining attitude and shows that...

In the initial phases, improved technologies have always been difficult to popularise among the target adoptors. To overcome this constraint, the authorities charges with the task of popularising them have opted to offer different kinds of incentives to the prospective adoptors. Such incentives...

This paper presents the formulation and a hierarchical solution procedure of multiple products, multiple constraints, single period inventory problem. The hierarchical procedure decomposes the problem into a number of sub-problems equal to the number of constraints sets. Each sub-problem is...

In this paper the effects of tariff cum subsidy policies in a small open dual economy with intersectoral migration are considered. The model used is an extended version of the mobile capital Harris-Todaro model of Corden-Findlay and McCool. Within this framework the effects of policies on...

In a rooted acyclic graph, G, there exits, in general, several rooted (not necessarily spanning) arborscences. Depending on whether the graph has weights on nodes, on arcs, or on both, it is possible to define, with different objective functions, several different problems, each concerned with...