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 monitoring of the concrete quality at the RMC plant during its production...

Many important class of economic problems find their mathematical models in linear programs with variables taking only one of the values, zero or one. The major difficulty with these models is that the time required to solve even medium size problems is enormous. In the present work, a new...

This Study has primarily been concerned with the issues and perspectives on the historical evolution and working of the arrangements governing international trade in “textiles”, particularly the latest such arrangement, unofficially knows as the Multi Fibre Arrangement (MFA). While we have...

When one looks at the Television commercials scene in India, one easily sees three distinct patterns of communication. One is the nation-wide campaigns that are language neutral, meaning, they are purely music based. The other kind is a pure regional communications, with regional content...

The arm’s length analysis of international transfer prices of multinational firms lacks sound methodological approach of the so-called function and risk analysis. In practice, such analyses are descriptive. Derived from Zadeh’s mathematical theory of fuzzy sets, this paper investigates a...

Mediclaim insurance run by government owned insurance company General Insurance Corporation of India (GIC) is the only private voluntary health insurance scheme available in India currently. This scheme has been in operation since 1986 and from time to time a number of revisions have been...

Kindergarten through fourth grade children (n = 120) predicted exam performance of stimulus students from information about their current motivation and ability. Each kind of information came from two independent sources and so children had to integrate four opinions. Contrary to the previous...

This paper describes a diploma programme in HRD being offered by the Academy of Human Resource Development in distance education mode to prepare HRD professionals for the HRD function. This diploma ranging over an 18 month period has been started recently. Application oriented assignments,...

Given the importance of communications in todays world, its spread in developing economies is critical for their development. Emergence of standards reduces market and technological uncertainty and lays the foundation for market creation and enhances the diffusion of communication technologies...

This paper estimates the social time preference rate for India using DMVL model. The fundings of the study suggest that public investment in India has been grossly misallocated. The current problems of Indian economy can not be dissociated with the DDW deliberate misallocate of public resources...