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Supplementary Material for PhD Thesis
No full textThis dataset is part of the Supplementary Material of Pradeep Kumar Gopalakrishnan's PhD thesis
The Honorable Mr Pradeep Kumar Gyawali Minister for Foreign Affairs Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal
No full textVisit by The Honorable Mr Pradeep Kumar Gyawali Minister for Foreign Affairs Federal Democratic Republic of Nepa
A model approach to precision motion control
No full textThesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1999.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 256-264).by Pradeep Kumar Subrahmanyan.Ph.D
Female headship, poverty and child welfare: A study of rural orissa, India
Full text linkFirst, on the basis of primary data collected in a rural setting in the State of Orissa, an attempt has been made in this paper to compare the socioeconomic status of male- and female- headed households. Subsequently the differences in the use of resources (time and money) between male-headed and female-headed households have been analysed. Finally, the paper explores the relative well-being of the children between the two groups, i.e., to what extent female headship influences children's access to social services, and children's actual welfare outcomes, measured in terms of health and education indicators. The results suggest that poverty and female headship are strongly linked in rural Orissa, India. For eample, if we draw a poverty line that corresponds to 15 per cent of the population who are poor, 12 per cent of people living in male-headed househols are poor as compared with 33 per cent of people living in female-headed households. This result is based on per capita consumption as the welfare indicator. When 40 per cent poverty line is used, the differences are still large in economic terms and are statistically significant. Moreover, when we use adjusted consumption as the welfare indicator, the comparisons show a much higher incidence of poverty among female-headed households. This is true for both masures of poverty line, i.e., 15 per cent and 40 per cent. Thus, we conclude that female headship can be a better targetting indicator for poverty alleviation in rural Orissa. The results further suggest that the use of resources are significantly different between the two types of households. Labour force participation data indicate that female heads are more likely to work in the market place than women who are spouses of male heads of household. The differences are large: on average 74 per cent verus 54 per cent. The comparison of household expenditures indicates that, female-headed households spend relatively less on higher quality food items such as meat, vegetables, milk and other dairy products. However, there is some evidence that they spend less on personal consumption such as alcoholic beverages. Overall, the differences are pronounced between these households. Finally, the findings show that children in female-headed households are disadvantaged both in terms of access to social services and actual welfare outcomes.female headship, poverty, child welfare, gender,differential resource use, social services, household
Some topological properties of solution sets in partially ordered set optimization
No full textIn this paper, we study some topological properties, in particular, arcwise connectedness and connectedness of solution sets in set optimization, where the acting space is equipped with partial set order relations. We obtain continuity, generalized convexity, and natural quasi arcwise connectedness of the nonlinear scalarization function and use them to study some topological properties and convergence of efficient and weak efficient solution sets in partially ordered set optimization. We also employ derived results to vector-valued game theory with uncertainty. </p
HAST: A Hardware-efficient Spatio-Temporal Correlation Near-Sensor Noise Filter for Dynamic Vision Sensors - Supplementary Material
No full textSupplementary Material for the journal paper: "HAST: A Hardware-efficient Spatio-Temporal Correlation Near-Sensor Noise Filter for Dynamic Vision Sensors
Connectedness of the solution sets in generalized semi-infinite set optimization
No full textWe first establish sufficient conditions for the arcwise connectedness of the image of the constraint set map and for the upper semi-continuity of the constraint set map. These results, together with scalarization techniques, are further used to establish the connectedness of the solution sets of generalized semi-infinite set optimization problems. An application to vector-valued game theory with uncertainty is given.</p
sj-jpg-1-pie-10.1177_09544089211045796 - Supplemental material for Fabrication and characterization of Al6063/SiC composites using electromagnetic stir casting process
No full textSupplemental material, sj-jpg-1-pie-10.1177_09544089211045796 for Fabrication and characterization of
Al6063/SiC composites using electromagnetic stir casting process by Farhan A Shamim, Akshay Dvivedi and Pradeep Kumar in Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part E: Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering</p
Inefficiency and institutional issues in the provision of merit goods: A case study of public water supply in rural Kerala
Full text linkThis paper discusses the issues of inefficiency in the provision of merit goods, taking the case of public water supply in rural Kerala. The analysis has identified two source of inefficiency in the provision of merit good. First, is due to the fact that the state and its agencies autonomously decide the nature and characteristics of the merit good. If the nature of good provided is not preferred by the people, or its consumption require effort on the part of citizens, these may lead to the non-consumption of the good by a large number of people. Thus, the definition of safe water as pipe water (from a centralised system) in the case of Kerala, lead to its effective non-use by a significant part of rural population. The second source of inefficiency in the provision of merit good, is in the selection of the institutional framework. The acquisition and free distribution of water by the state agency, is the prevailing institutional framework in Kerala, and this is inappropriate in efficiently solving the drinking water problem of different localities, taking their specific characteristics into account. The paper outlines a logical framework, which can be used to identify the necessary mechanism of government intervention in water supply in different localities.merit good; rural water supply; institutional choice and inefficiency; new institutional economics; Kerala
Government intervention in industrial R & D: Some lessons from the international experience for India
Full text linkThere is now substantial empirical evidence, based essentially on the experience of developed countries, that there is underinvestment in industrial R&D consequent to the gradual withdrawal of the state. It is generally observed that government can solve this problem of underinvestment in two ways: by increasing the profits of innovators, or by undertaking R&D in areas where the private sector underinvests. An examination of the nature of government intervention in developed countries show that it is increasingly moving towards the latter variety. However, contrary to normal impression, the extent of government intervention in industrial R&D in India is of the former variety. The state has been using tax incentives as the major instrument for stimulating R&D by production enterprises. Direct grants, which has become the dominant instrument of intervention in the west, is considered to be better as it can be targeted towards specific projects. In fact the efficacy of tax incentives to encourage R&D requires further scrutiny. The state in India also have to intervene for making available technically trained manpower to engage in industrial R&D radically redesigning the higher education system, by improving the incentive system for those working in the R&D system etc. The paper thus underscores the fact that there is enough space for the Indian state to increase its interventionist role in industrial research contrary to the arguments for its gradual withdrawal.appropriability, government intervention, industrial R&D system, technology policy
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