Given the criticality of civil aviation policy for developing countries such as India and China and developed countries such as Japan, Britain and the United States, we review global airline competition to shed light on the seemingly varied approaches adopted by different countries. What are the...

The report is based on a study made to find the factors influencing the choice of elective courses by the second year students of IIMA. The statistical technique of Factor Analysis has been used to identify the factors.

This paper explores the synergistic relationship between energy and environment in an urban system through a case study of the city of Ahmedabad, India. The analytical framework is based on estimation of sectoral fuel consumption patterns, emissions inventory of major pollutants, and projections...

This paper examines the empirical validity of stochastic dominance rules and the mean-variance framework by analysing data generated through an experiment on individual investment decisions under uncertainty. The analyses indicated that none of the two approaches provided adequate explanation...

While constructing a transient thermal model of solar cooker, a need was felt for analytic expressions for ambient temperature and sunshine duration. This paper, therefore, presents the Fourier analysis of ambient temperature and sunshine duration data. It may be useful to those working on solar...

The paper highlights the importance of discovering people potential for organizations. It argues that constant search for people potential in teams and as individuals has to be an important item on organizational agenda, more so in the current context of rapid changes in the environment of...

The paper presents preliminary results from a study of the economics and adoption of Bt cotton in India. Biotech crops, which made their appearance in the world about a decade ago, have gained substantial popularity and acceptance in many parts of the world including US, China, Australia,...

Ideally seed should be replaced every year for hybrids and every three to four years for non-hybrids. However, in practice seed is replaced less often especially in case of open pollinated crops. As a consequence, seed replacement rates are lower than recommended for different crop varieties. As...

This paper discusses construction of a model to minimize fleet-size required to operate a time-table subject to a maintenance constraint. The constraint requires that vehicles be provided maintenance at least once every two days at a specific location. A heuristic algorithm was devised which...

Biotechnology is the application of scientific and engineering principles to the processing of materials by biological agents. It is based on enhanced understanding of the genetic structure of organisms at the level of cells and molecules and offers powerful tools to modify them for a specific...