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Satellite-retrieved direct radiative forcing of aerosols over North-East India and adjoining areas: climatology and impact assessment
No full textThe article by J. Biswas et al. contained an update in affiliation of author Binita Pathak. The author would like to add another affiliation to her name. Her updated affiliations are the following
Potential of Avoid-Shift-Improve Interventions in Achieving Climate Targets of Passenger Transportation Sector
No full textThe repository holds data outputs from the research paper titled 'Potential of Avoid-Shift-Improve Interventions in Achieving Climate Targets of Passenger Transportation Sector,' authored by Deepjyoti Das, Pradip P. Kalbar, and Nagendra R. Velaga from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, India.
For details, you can contact the corresponding author Deepjyoti Das at [email protected]
Preview and Download of Multiplayer Games
Get PDFOnline game players routinely browse and obtain multiplayer games from online game stores. In addition to enabling game downloads, many online game stores offer a trial mode in which a user can preview and play the game without downloading the entire game to their device. This disclosure describes techniques for preview and download of online multiplayer games. Per techniques of this disclosure, an online game store enables users to preview an online game without a full download to their device. The user can also invite other users to simultaneously join the preview. During or subsequent to the preview, any of the participating users can request to download the game
Networks of small enterprises, architecture of governance and incentive alignment: some cases from India
No full textIsolation and Characterization of an Entomocidal Secretory Protein from Vegetatively Growing Bacillus thuringiensis
No full textA Classificatory Scheme of Technological Innovations in Rural Industries
No full text232-242The paper presents
a classificatory scheme of technological innovations in rural industries. These
industries are heterogeneous and the nature of innovations varies widely such
as, improvement of tools and implements of product design and quality. It takes
place in the traditional industries through partial mechanization of the traditional
crafts and introduction of entirely new technology based on new scientific principles.
While classifying innovations, the proposed scheme uses composite criteria
based on parameters, namely sources of innovation, degree of participation of
artisans, enterprise size, nature of promotional bodies, characteristics of innovations
and the effects of innovations. By using this scheme, six categories of
innovations have been identified namely, traditional technology with improvement
of product design and quality (TIDQP), traditional technology with improved
tools and implements facilitating product innovations (TIIDQP), partial
mechanization of traditional crafts (TPM) mechanization facilitating product
innovations in traditional craft s (TPM IDQP), capital intensive modern
industries that displace traditional crafts ((ROMI) , and newly introduced
industries producing entirely new products (NMI). Rural and semi-urban
industries in Eastern India were surveyed, and
the results are analysed following the proposed criteria
Quality Differentiation as a Strategy for the Viability of Traditional Olive Farming in Trás-os-Montes Region
Get PDFDespite special quality of the olive oil of Trás-os-Montes (TM), producers fail to create niche market and raise price commensurate with the high cost. Some local manufacturers made some attempts to establish special brands for their oil and the association of the local producers (AOTAD) made the required efforts to bring the product of the region under PDO, designated as Azeite de Trás-os-Montes DOP. Only a small part of the marketed product is sold under PDO (4%) and a fraction of which is sold under some brand till date.
The cost structure of olive oil depends on multiple factors - the type of production system (traditional or intensive), plant variety, inclination of plots and productivity, among others. The harvesting cost in general represents more than 50 percent of the total costs. The massive increase of production with the use of intensive farming at lower unit cost in other regions has pulled down the overall market price making traditional farms unviable. For the modern super intensive farm unit cost is only one fourth of that of traditional farm.
The issue is not of protecting an unviable traditional system from the competition of an intensive system, but of the realisation of the true value of a product that the market mechanism fails to accomplish. This kind of problem of adverse selection due incomplete/ asymmetric information in the market is often interpreted in terms of the ‘lemon effect’ or ‘Gresham’s Law’. It states that in the case of buyer failing to discriminate between the products of different qualities at the time of purchase, the producers of higher quality products cannot charge a premium price. Under these circumstances, if the cost of high quality product exceeds that of low quality product, the producers of the former cannot sustain in the market. This is precisely what happens with the good quality high cost olive oil of TM against the competition of the low quality low cost olive oil of some other places. As an exotic high quality product its characteristics must be described in most visible and attractive forms and search its niche market globally
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