393 research outputs found
Southeastern Indian Guide Project Records - Accession 403
Get PDFThis Southeastern Indian Guide Project Records include surveys, questionnaires, correspondence, research notes, and reference materials for a book-length collaboration authored by Dr. Arnold Shankman and Ronald J. Chepesiuk concerning research materials on Indians of the Southeast. The book was published by Greenwood Press in 1982 and is entitled American Indian Archival Material: A Guide to Holdings in the Southeast.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/1438/thumbnail.jp
CLIVAR Exchanges - VAMOS: Joint Edition of the Newsletter of the Climate Variability and Predictability Project (CLIVAR) Exchanges and the CLIVAR Variability of the American Monsoon Systems Project (VAMOS)
Get PDFEssays on the Indian Economy: Competitive Pressure, Productivity and Performance.
Get PDFIndia undertook a drastic economic reform program in 1991, with the significant objectives of removing existing inefficiencies and enhancing global competitiveness. A competitive environment is a prerequisite condition for gaining higher productivity. The main desired role of economic liberalization is to enhance the efficient utilization of inputs with relaxing constraints input use and technology choices and gains from international trade by bringing global competitive pressure to the economy. The dissertation proposes a macro productivity-efficiency analysis while taking care of the inter-linkages in the economy. This is extended to address to a few important issues of the Indian economy, viz. income distribution, poverty, wage inequality between skilled and unskilled labour, returns to education and performance of formal and informal sectors. These above-mentioned issues are captured with the help of three independent essays. The analytical tool is based on a general equilibrium-activity analysis where welfare maximization subject to input and trade constraints results in competitive equilibrium. Competitive input prices reflect factor productivity. Incorporation of input-output framework captures the inter-sectoral linkages. The social accounting matrix (SAM), which plays an important role in establishing inter-linkages in the economy by combining input-output analysis and household income distribution, provides the basic data set for our model.
Social Capital and Entrepreneurship in Aspatial Indian Ethnic Communities
No full textThis research contributes to an understanding of how work is done in India through an exploration of the effects of religious philosophies, cultures and value systems on management practices. The overarching research question addressed is: How do unique philosophies and traditions influence management systems and practices in India?
Central to this thesis are social networks. Embeddedness and interdependence are two important considerations, where dense interactions between economic and non-economic activities provide access to inimitable resources. Embeddedness in ethnic communities leads to the formation of strategic groups, linked by ethnicities, kinship and multiplex ties. Social capital becomes available, which refers to the ability of members to access resources by virtue of their memberships in these social structures.
This study shows how a reliance on religious teachings and value systems can lead to the creation of inimitable and valuable resources. How traditions and ties influence collective and independent entrepreneurship is discussed. An important theoretical contribution is the identification and prioritising of orders of social capital, and effects at each level. Contributions to theory include demonstrating the importance of quality and balance in ties, as well as the significance of cognitive anchoring. In research contributions, an Indian management framework, or chakra, is developed to conceptually capture the parameters that are relevant in the Indian context. In practice terms, the importance of the joint family structure in the Indian framework is highlighted and policy recommendations are provided
Exploring Indian Indigenous Counselling Techniques: Evaluating their Effectiveness and Contribution to Counselling Psychology
Get PDFA thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the University of Wolverhampton for the degree of Doctor of Counselling PsychologyThe purpose of this study was to explore whether Indian counsellors and psychotherapists in the UK practice in an indigenous way with their Indian clients. The aim was to find out more information about the different types of Indian indigenous interventions that may currently be used by these professionals. The study also bridges the gap in the literature about the lack of research on the practical uses and applications of Indian indigenous counselling skills in the UK.The study reports data from six face-to-face open-ended semi-structured interviews with Indian counsellors who have been trained in Western psychotherapeutic approaches and have knowledge of Indian psychotherapeutic approaches. The research was analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Firstly, the analysis concluded the use of several Indian indigenous interventions used by the participants, such as Prekshadhyan which can be used for psychosomatic pain relief, Jain virtue of forgiveness which can be useful for working with sexual abuse, use of spirituality and cultural beliefs for bereavement, and so on. Secondly, the analysis identified some of the most common barriers to therapy (e.g. stigmas and taboos) experienced by Indian clients in the UK, and it provided suggestions on how to overcome these. Finally, the analysis suggested factors that therapists should pay attention to (e.g. client context and use of Indian languages) in order to maximise Indian clients’ engagement in therapy and to minimise their exclusion from it
Tropical cyclones in the South-West Indian Ocean : intensity changes, oceanic interaction and impacts
No full textIncludes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-253).This study investigates the climatology, intensification and ocean atmosphere interaction in relation to the passage of tropical cyclones (TCs) in the South-West Indian Ocean (SWIO). A Climatology of TCs in the SWIO including landfall in the area of Mozambique and Madagascar was developed for the 1952-2007 and 1980-2007 periods
The missing link: an examination of skin clothing production of north central plains Native Americans
Get PDFDeer hides are one of the most commonly used materials for clothing production among the prehistoric Northern Great Plains peoples. Richard Michael Gramly?s 1977 article, Deerskins and Hunting Territories: Competition for a Scarce Resource of the Northeastern Woodlands, assumed an estimate of 3.5 hides per person per year. A figure widely cited in anthropological literature, yet provides no supporting data. This investigation seeks to find that data as applied to the Plains Indians. Measurements were taken of known clothing articles to determine surface area, and these were compared with the surface areas of average sizes of small, medium, and large hides. Comparing the surface areas allowed for an accurate estimation of the number of hides needed by both a man and woman for an appropriate climate wardrobe. Such information can be vital in interpreting prehistoric and historic hunting patterns, with significant social and ecological implications
Debt maturity and firm performance : a panel study of Indian companies
Get PDFEconomic policy makers traditionally hold the view that, because of imperfections in capital markets, a shortage of long-term finance acts as a barrier to industrial performance and growth. Long term finance is thought to allow firms to invest in more productive technologies, even when they do not produce immediate payoffs, without fear of premature liquidation. As a result, special state-supported term-lending institutions have been established, especially in developing countries. But some believe that short-term finance may offer better incentives because it allows suppliers of finance to monitor and control firms more effectively, thus improving the firms'performance. The authors empirically investigate the determinants and consequences of the term structure of debt. Using a rich panel of data on privately owned companies in India, they also examine the influence of debt maturity structures on those firm's performance, especially on productivity. The results are not conclusive, but seem to support conventional beliefs about the importance of long term finance to firm performance. Heavy leveraging, however, has a strong negative impact on productivity. They base their econometric evidence on estimates of a maturity equation and of a production function augmented by financial variables. The data on which these results are based have been generated by a financial system in which there is little competition, in which state-owned financial institutions are not guided by the profit motive and have no control over interest rates, so one cannot say whether short term finance would have been more beneficial in a less regulated system. Moreover, by the end of the 1980s, the capital base of India's government-owned financial institutions had been severely eroded and they carried a heavy burden of nonperforming assets. This means that the benefits of long term finance must be weighed against the costs.Banks&Banking Reform,Financial Intermediation,Economic Theory&Research,Municipal Financial Management,Environmental Economics&Policies
Methods of enhancing the sustainability and scale of community based disaster risk management
Get PDFDisasters are always local in their impact, and therefore approaches towards their
alleviation need to be designed and implemented based on this certainty. So this
research is designed to investigate methods of enhancing the development,
sustainability and scale of community based disaster risk management (CBDRM).
This is undertaken with a special focus upon community risk assessment (CRA) and
its relationship with disaster risk reduction (DRR).
Action Research (AR) is the methodological approach adopted to investigate three
primary research objectives:
• To investigate the link between community risk assessment (CRA) and
community based disaster risk management (CBDRM).
• To identify key issues when addressing the underlying causes of vulnerability
within community based disaster risk management (CBDRM).
• To identify challenges in enhancing the sustainability and scale of community
based disaster risk management (CBDRM) through stakeholder partnership.
The AR carried out has three main components:
1. The development and testing of a CRA methodology.
2. The identification of good practice CBDRM.
3. Supplementary semi-structured interviews.
Perspectives on the research objectives are collated from a broad array of
international experiences, but with the primary location of fieldwork in Bihar, India.
Conclusions to the research demonstrate the importance of linking government policy
and practice on DRR with CBDRM, and addressing the underlying causes of
vulnerability. While important in their own right, these subjects have also been
considered in terms of their inter-connectedness with one another. Indeed they are
shown to be mutually reinforcing. However, even more pivotal is the emphasis on
their relationship with CRA. Furthermore, contrary to much practice CRA, engaging
government officials from the outset and incorporating an investigation into the
underlying causes of vulnerability, must not be segregated from action planning but
must be fully synchronised with a CBDRM process
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An investigation into Indian apparel and textile supply chain networks
No full textThe activities of the Indian clothing industry supplying Western markets have been investigated, with particular reference to identifying where improvements could be made to supply chain management. Focus group discussions, case studies and questionnaire analysis established that long lead-times in pre-production areas were of great concern. However Indian apparel manufacturers were found to be more cost conscious and rather less conscious about the value of time in pre-production areas. It was found that pre-production activities constituted 73% of total manufacturing lead time and have high positive correlation (0.96) with total manufacturing lead time. Preproduction activities in India mainly consist of prototype making and pre-production sample development; of which approval processes were found to have a high correlation (0.63) with pre-production. A significant (more than 50%) time of all activities consist of waiting time, which has positive influence on total lead time (0.86)
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