As a result of good modeling capabilities, neural networks have been used extensively for a number of chemical engineering applications such as sensor data analysis, fault detection and nonlinear process identification. However, only in recent years, with the upsurge in the research on nonlinear...

China's economic development has advanced from a high-speed to a high-quality growth stage in recent years. The optimization and upgrading the economic structure require high-quality human capital to support an innovation-driven economy. In this paper, a general equilibrium model of human...

India is one of the several fast growing economies of the world. Despite this, poverty is still pervasive in the nation, especially in rural areas where almost 70% of India’s 1.3 billion people dwell. For combating this debauched scenario, a wide range of poverty alleviation policies have been...

The unpredictable weather phenomenon is a cause for major concern as it brings along with it a series of difficulties. This draws our attention to drought which is one of the reasons of concern and needs to be dealt with in an effective manner. Although the rain gauge stations with a resolution...

The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) was introduced to the general public by Kaplan and Norton in 1992. Over the last two decades, it has evolved from an improved Performance Measurement System to a Comprehensive Performance Management System. Its use has spread globally and it has become an important...

The first part of a research proposal for researching the effectiveness of the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) based on using the process perspective was developed in an earlier article ('http://ssrn.com/abstract=2368919' http://ssrn.com/abstract=2368919). It had described how applying a ‘process'...