019111   Narjes Z S;Heydar H S (Business Management Dep, Payame Noor Univ, P O BOX 19395-3697 Tehran, I. R. of Iran, Email: roja_wersha@yahoo.com) : Investigation of relationship between managerial triple skills and staff's performance of red crescent in fars province. Biosci Biotechnol Res Asia 2015, 12(3), 2535-42.

Today, managers should adopt various roles for success in performing of their duties and specific skills are needed to perform them. The need to inform these skills enough in managerial positions is the main challenges facing with managers. Given the importance of management performance and its effect on staffs' performance, the present study was performed based on investigation of relationships between triplet managerial skills and staff's performance of Red Crescent in Fars Province. This study was a survey research and had been implemented in field. The statistical communities of the research were included 167 managers and 360 staffs on three levels of high, middle and operational and they were randomly selected using stratified random sampling method. The statistical samples based on Morgan table and sampling ratio were 116 managers and 186 employees. The number of 120 managers and 186 staffs were select to ensure more results. Reliability was calculated by SPSS Software. Then, the obtained results were analyzed by Pearson correlation analysis. The results showed that the assumptions of this study (there is a direct and significant correlation between triplet managerial skills and staff's performance of Red Crescent organization in Fars Province) were confirmed using Pearson correlation analysis at level of 95%. Considering the above, as managers have more skills (human, conceptual and technical) as a result, better performance of staffs will observe. So skill is considered as an integral part of management.

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019110   Mirali H (Urban Management, Payam Noor Univ, Iran) : Review and identify the CRM relation with getting competitive advantage, happiness with transformative leadership, personality style of managers with effectiveness in Credit and Financial Samen Alhojaj institute. Biosci Biotechnol Res Asia 2015, 12(3), 2705-9.

The effect of relationship management with customer on taking competitive advantage, the relationship between the personality style of managers and the level of their effectiveness as well as the impact of transformational leadership on the managers' freshness of the credit and financial institution of Samen Alhojaj are evaluated in this study. The goals of this study are expected in the first area: identify of the dimensions and components of CRM evaluation model and determinate the relationship between the quality of banking services and innovation, in the second area: the role of personality and mental health of the managers in effectiveness and promotion of the job performance and in the third area: the population of the study are all managers and employees and customers of the credit and financial institution of Samen Alhojaj, from that 1400 people were selected as sample. Research methods used in this study consisted of simple random sampling, descriptive and cross correlation. Assumptions of this study were examined by reviewing the reports and documents in the first phase and by distributing questionnaires among samples through inferential statistics, measures of central and Pearson correlation in the second phase. In the first area CRM has an effective and positive impact on taking competitive advantage, therefore, it is suggested that emphasis more respectively on the role of location services, promotional factors, physical facilities, service innovation, continuous market research and regular contact with customers. In the second area: The personality of the managers depend on their mental health, so, it is suggested to hold regular administrative meetings in order to solve workplace problems, psychological consultations to identify possible mental problems between the managers and staff. Security, justice, participation, significance, interesting in work and learn among the ten basic factors of happiness, respectively have the greatest impact on managers' transformational leadership financial of the credit and financial institution of Samen Alhojaj. And personal relationship was not established among the components of interact with colleagues, flexible structure of the organization, positive thinking and self-openness- one of the aspects related to the efficiency and effectiveness of communication has a direct role- with transformative leadership.

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019109   Kar S;Roy S C (NO, , International Conference of "Socio-economic and Technological Innovation (STIGE): Mechanism and Institutions" held in Ne, Email: editor.scienceandculture@gmail.com) : Globalization of technological innovation: Challenges and opportunities. Sci Cult 2015, 81(7-8), 182-6.

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019108   He W;Sheng Z;Hao R (Donlinks School of Economics and Management, Univ of Sciences and Technology Beijing, No. 30, Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100 083, P.R. China, Email: haorongnfc@hotmail.com) : Productivity analysis of the industrial security in the mineral resources mining industry. J scient ind Res 2016, 75(1), 14-8.

This study elaborates on the evaluating indicator system of mining industry security, and presents a method of combination between entropy and grey relation and makes an assessment of the security situation in China's mineral mining industry during the period from 2002 to 2009. Then, this study establishes a safety warning model for the mineral resources industry based on BP neural network and simulates the warning of related security conditions. The final analysis finds that warning effect simulation and empirical assessment results of the model are basically the same and this further demonstrate the effectiveness of this study.

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019107   Gaisina L M;Mikhailovskaya I M;Khairullina N G;Pilipenko L M;Shakirova E V (NO, Ufa State Petroleum Technological Univ, Russia, Republic of Bashkortostan, 450062, Ufa, Kosmonavtov Str., 1) : Features of the formation of the corporate identity of the staff. Biosci Biotechnol Res Asia 2015, 12(3), 2543-55.

Corporate identity has an impact on the efficiency of the enterprise, increasing the cohesion of employees, increasing productivity, promoting the development of labor discipline, motivation and teamwork of employees. The article analyzes the scientific approaches to the management of corporate culture that promotes the formation of the corporate identity of the staff. The article presents the author's approach to the formation of the corporate identity of employees, involving the content of the following elements in its structure: staff morale; relationships within a team; internal communication; interaction with the immediate supervisor; training; motivation and incentives; values, traditions, image and culture.

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019106   Gaisina L M;Bakhtizin R N;Mikhaylovskaya I M;Khairullina N G;Belonozhko M L (NO, Ufa State Petroleum Technological Univ, Russia, Republic of Bashkortostan, 450062, Ufa, Kosmonavtov Str., 1) : Sociological evaluation of effectiveness of labor workers' behavior. Biosci Biotechnol Res Asia 2015, 12(3), 3091-100.

The main problem, that prevents the effective using of staff, is not so much the lack of or improper streamlining labor relations, how much deformation behavior of individuals in the production sphere. This is because quite often the improvement of qualitative characteristics is not leads to the growth of their wealth and doesn't create positive behavior examples. Therefore, the individual's relationship to work should be reviewed and to the basis of personnel management should put incentives to selfdevelopment as a key factor in productivity combined with a high level of self-development and labor discipline. This article focuses on the need for exposure studies of motivation of the personnel the stimulating effects. There was made analysis of motivational mechanism in organizations based on determining the level of effectiveness of labor employee behavior. The findings that have made it necessary to study the exposure of staff motivation incentive effects. To do this, the authors believe, can be based on an examination of capacity and staff needs for self-expression and improving their social status.

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019105   Gaisina L M;Bakhtizin R N;Mikhaylovskaya I M;Khairullina N G;Belonozhko M L (NO, Ufa State Petroleum Technological Univ, Russia, Republic of Bashkortostan, 450062, Ufa, Kosmonavtov Str., 1) : Social technologies as an instrument for the modernization of social space in the social and labor sphere. Biosci Biotechnol Res Asia 2015, 12(3), 2947-58.

Social changes have a feature, namely, they cover all the social space of any society. Social changes are manifested both in the transformation of the institute and in the reflexive change of social practices at the level of the enterprise. Accordingly, the change of the management paradigm and the social relations take place in the social and in labour sphere. In this article the necessity of introducing the social technologies into the practice of management services staff is considered. The author has proposed a classification of social technologies, the staff development technology and the algorithm of implementation of social technologies in the sphere of personnel management. The analysis of the results of the author's research on the problems of social changes affecting the personnel management system and the nature of social dynamics in a team has been given in this article. According to the results of the conducted survey in the observable organizations violation of the principle of social justice and existence of a problem of motivation of the personnel, caused by insufficiently high level of a salary is revealed.

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019104   Bahambari R T;Kelidari H R (MA Business Management, (International Business), Rasht Branch Islamic Azad Univ, Rasht, Iran) : Effect of electronic procurement on the performance for car parts supply chain companies. Biosci Biotechnol Res Asia 2015, 12(3), 2757-62.

Companies Have To Improve Their Procedures In Order To Have An Increase In Their Performances. One The Most Important And Most Costly Activities In Companies Which Causes A Great Deal Of Official Expenses For The Companies Is Procurement Procedure. Therefore, The Aim Of This Study Was To Investigate The Role Of E Procurement Via Supply Chain Integration On The Performance Of Supply Chain. The Current Study Was Done On SAPCO Car Parts Production Companies Which Have Grade A In Their Products. This Study Is A Descriptive-Correlational Study. The Sample Under Investigation Have Been Selected Through Non-Random Sampling. The Data Gathered In This Study Via Chang Et Al (2013) Questionnaire. In Order To Test The Hypothesis, Structural Equation Modeling Has Been Used. The Result Of This Research Showed That E Procurement Has An Effective Role In Improvement Of Performance Of Supply Chains Under Investigation.

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019103   Abasian H;Abadi H Z;Sasanian M (Management Dep, Al-Khwarizmi Univ, Karaj, Iran, Email: sasanian.m58@gmail.com) : Quality assessment of educational services technical complex tehran (tehran representation) based on seroquel. Biosci Biotechnol Res Asia 2015, 12(3), 2739-45.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the quality of educational services Technical Complex Tehran (Tehran representation) is based on SERVQUEL model. SERVQUEL model has dimensions of tangible, reliability, responsiveness, assurance and empathy is. The purpose of this study, is an applied research and the collection of data and analysis is a descriptive study and survey. The population of the study consisted of all students complexes of Tehran (representing Alborz) up to 285 people, among them a randomly selected sample. Data were collected by questionnaire Parasuraman (1994) that its validity and reliability were confirmed by standard methods. In this study, the Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistic and descriptive data to determine the normality of the data and Wilcoxon tests were used to test the hypotheses. The results show that in all aspects of Servquel (of tangible, reliability, responsiveness, assurance and empathy) between what the students understand and what about the quality of educational services is expected, there is a significant difference at the 0.05 level.

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018109   Sohoni M (Computer Science and Engineering Dep, Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas, Indian Institute o, Powai, Mumbai-400 076, Email: sohoni@cse.iitb.ac.in) : The AICTE review: an opportunity for engineering education reform. Curr Sci 2016, 110(2), 159-66.

This article outlines the issues faced by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), the statutory body which governs technical education in India. It points out various lacunae in many areas of technical education such as placements, the use of GATE and JEE scores for selection, accreditation, TEQIP and research in engineering, and the role of the centrally funded institutions. The article also recommends expanding AICTE into a think-tank which may design policy for such an important area.

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018108   Ramamurthy V S (NO, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengalurur-560 012, Email: vsramamurthy@nias.iisc.ernet.in) : Indo-US nuclear deal-a decade after. Curr Sci 2016, 110(2), 141-3.

018107   Chand K;Jangid L;Rohilla P P;Vikas Kumar (NO, ICAR-Central Arid Zone Research Institute, Jodhpur-342 003, Email: kcmamnani@gmail.com) : Economics of bovine production reared on common pasture lands. Range Mgmt Agrofor 2015, 36(2), 211-16.

Present study was conducted in Pali district of western Rajasthan, which represents both arid and a semi-arid tract and purposively selected for the study. The study was based on primary data, which were collected from 72 bovine rearers from six villages, selected using stratified random sampling. The composition of bovine was found to be changing in favor of buffalo species with 1.93% growth rate during 1966 to 2007. Primary data on various costs and returns were collected during the year 2004 to 2007 using personal interview technique. On an average, a farmer invested around Rs 101512 on a bovine unit of 6.47 adult cattle unit (ACU) in study area. Bovine rearing was found profitable enterprise with net return of Rs. 108049 per year with average herd size of 6.47 ACU. The technical efficiency of cattle and buffalo at the average level of input use indicated a potential of increasing milk production and the returns by 30 and 25%, respectively by adopting better management practices without incurring additional expenditure.

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017081   Lal B;Kalam U;Singh A;Bhakat M (NO, National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal-132 001, Email: blal2k5baif@gmail.com) : Perception of constraint at different developmental stages of common interest group by stakeholders in Rajasthan, India. Indian J agric Res 2015, 49(3), 241-4.

Government of Rajasthan (India) had focused on community group approaches in project of "District Poverty Initiative Project (DPIP)". The relevance of Common Interest Group (CIG) comes in this context. The study was planned in 3 district and total of 18 CIGs, six from each district involved in dairy farming were selected. All the 250 members of selected CIGs were taken as respondents and data was collected by using structured interview schedule. The constraint that CIG members faced in the group formation stages includes is sceptic about success of the sub project and lack of information about schemes well-on time as perceived by 94.40 and 91.60 per cent of the members. In group stabilization stage the members depicted that Hurdles from DPIP officials in sanctioning grants (86.40%), constant lack of involvement of members in training (85.20%) and lack of timely availability of dairy inputs and services (81.60%) were ranked high by the members. The respondents perceived 'lack of training opportunities for effective and smooth functioning, feeling of superiority complex among higher caste people (84.80%), ambiguity in terms of leadership roles (74.40%) and delay in repayment of loans by CIG members were also important constraints at functioning stage. The CIG had helped to improve the assets, mutual cooperation among members and increased awareness about the scheme.

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017080   Grills N;Velavan J;Balaji S;Grace E;Arun S; Raji B;Tan N (S Bhattacharjii, Nossal Institute for Global Health, The Univ of Melbourne, Australia, Email: ngrills@unimelb.edu.au) : Opportunistic research in rural areas through community health worker training: a cost-effective method of researching medication misuse in rural India. Indian J community Hlth 2016, 28(1), 28-34.

Objectives is to investigate a novel methodology, which was cost effective, to collect large amounts of data to further understand medication purchases and misuse in rural India. This study explores the research approach that was conducted in 2012-13 by Layleaders enrolled in the Community Lay-Leaders' Health Certificate Program initiative by Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore, India. The methodology demonstrated a large data collection capacity, where 100 Layleaders participated and collected over 5000 surveys across 515 villages in North, Central and North East India. Incorporating opportunistic research methods into community health worker training can be a cost effective way to collect meaningful and useful data in rural India. This study demonstrates a successful methodology that may be transferable to other rural areas and others conducting research training as part of community health worker training should consider such opportunistic research.

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017079   Avhad S R;Kadian K S;More B D;Kale R B (NO, National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, 132 001, Email: sharadavhad@yahoo.co.in) : Perception of dairy farmers and officials towards dairy venture capital fund scheme in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra, India. Indian J agric Res 2015, 49(3), 274-7.

Present study was conducted to know the perception of dairy farmers' and officials' towards Dairy Venture Capital Fund (DVCF) Scheme in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra. Total 120 dairy farmers, who were beneficiaries of DVCF Scheme and 40 officials involved in implementing the scheme, were selected as respondents. Majority of beneficiaries perceived awareness regarding scheme as inadequate whereas they were also unsatisfied with benefits specified in the scheme. More than half of beneficiaries (63.33%) agreed to the statement that 'The scheme sustains the interest of young farmers' and they were optimistic about future of dairying in the state. Majority of the beneficiaries (61.67%) were satisfied with the present mode of functioning of the scheme. A higher percentage of beneficiaries (69.17%) perceived loan obtaining procedure as laborious and 81.67 per cent agreed to the statement that 'unit cost need to be increased'. A large number of officials (90.00%) were of the view that there is proper flow of information from officials and all of the officials (100.00%) were optimistic that the scheme shall encourage dairying in the state. Regarding financial attribute of the perception 70.00 per cent of the officials agreed that there is need to increase unit cost of the items and a bulk of the officials (90.00%) perceived present mode of collection of finances as appropriate.

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017078   Abudulwahhab B A;AlEnezi M;AlHati M; AlDulijan J;Babidan S (Riyadh Colleges of Dentistry and Pharmacy, Royal Clinics of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, P.O. Box-102 799, Riyadh 11685, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Email: dr.badarw@gmail.com) : The staining potential of different tea products available in the Saudi market: An in viro study. Int dent med J advd Res 2015, 1, (NULL).

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the propensity of different brands of tea available in the Saudi market, to produce staining. A sample of 40 extracted caries free premolars was immersed in seven different red tea brands. Color measurements were obtained before and after staining, according to the CIELAB system, using a colorimeter, and color changes (ΔE) were estimated. Color changes of stained teeth were found to be significant in ΔE, Δa, and Δb (P <60> 0.05), compared with the control group, while no significant changes were found in ΔL (P <62> 0.05). Among the different seven brands of tea in which teeth were placed, maximum change in color was seen with Kaboos tea (ΔE = 3.92), and minimum change was in Abo Jabal tea (ΔE = 1.60). Red tea significantly affects the color of the teeth, causing external staining. Decreasing the frequency of tea intake and changing the tea brand to a less staining one can be helpful to reduce the color change.

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016062   Yabin L;Xing X;Li C (College of Management and Economics, Tianjin Univ, Tianjin, China, Email: licdtju@163.com) : Dynamic pricing model of medical services in public hospitals in China. Curr Sci 2015, 109(8), 1437-44.

For improving the current pricing mode of medical services, the present study seeks to explore the pricing elements and processes, and establish the dynamic pricing model of involving both the government and hospitals. The pricing process and mathematical model show the logical relationships between medical prices and pricing elements. The causal relationship model reveals how to accomplish dynamic equilibrium between elements. The simulation model has been built based on system dynamics theory. Results of the simulation and sensitivity tests show that different grades of hospitals while applying the pricing model may better perform their respective responsibilities and continuously improve core strengths.

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016061   Turani A (Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Taibah Univ, Medina, KSA, Email: aimanturani@hotmail.com) : Flexible conceptual framework for supporting collaborative work. Oriental J Chem 2015, 31(4), 2215-21.

Many practitioners and researcher have stated that the widespread of Computer Support of Collaborative work has not been as successful as hoped. There have been many challenges that have faced managers and team members when conducting collaborative work sessions in the virtual environment. Collaboration Script is considered a relatively a new approach in assisting designing successful collaboration sessions. Collaboration Script is a script that formally defines the flow of activities that are needed during a collaboration session. Yet, researchers have been uncertain regarding the complexity nature of such scripts. The key strength of the proposed framework is in its ability to derive a collaborative scripting language that can describe complex designs and in the same time keeps its simplicity. The resulted scripting language should be similar to software programming scripting languages and in the same time based on profound collaboration techniques. Team leaders and managers with basic programming skills should be able to adopt and use such language in a short time and in the same time not afraid of designing complex team collaboration sessions. The proposed framework is composed of four main layers. The First layer is based on well known collaborative techniques that contain a set of mini-activities which are located in the second layer. The third layer formulates the notation and rules of the proposed scripting language. It encloses the required components and commands that should be used in such script. The forth layer provides the needed support to implement such scripts by providing appropriate set of collaborative and supportive tools.

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016060   Simula H;Hossain M;Halme M (NO, Aalto Univ, P.O. Box-11000, FI-00076 AALTO, Finland, Email: henri.simula@gmail.com) : Frugal and reverse innovations- Quo vadis?. Curr Sci 2015, 109(9), 1567-72.

The concepts of frugal and reverse innovations are recent entrants to the innovation literature. Frugal innovation conveys the important idea of innovating under circumstances of resource scarcity. Reverse innovation refers to another significant turn in thinking and practice - innovations from low-income contexts can enter wealthier markets, a major shift from the previous innovation paradigm. There are some hallmark examples of these types of innovations but the current academic literature is still limited. The purpose of this article is to study these concepts and present a conceptual framework that combines underlying drivers. We also present ideas for future research avenues.

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015034   Roman T;Vasilache S;Maxim E;Manolica A (Management Dep, Marketing and Business Administratin, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, AL. I. Cuza Univ of Iasi-700 506, Romania, Email: throman@uaic.ro) : Factors that influence the behaviour of consumers of smartphone services in multinational companies. Curr Sci 2015, 109(6), 1038-46.

This article reports a study relating to the behaviour of users of smartphone services conducted in three multinational companies and provides an overview of the specialized literature on the sociopsychological behaviour of consumers, as well as on adopting new technologies. The purpose of the article is to identify and analyse factors that influence the users of smartphone services to further increase the usage of such services. The approach adopted was first to review the literature related to the technology acceptance models and then to test the hypotheses using SPSS regression analysis.

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015033   Rajur B C;Patil B L (Agricultural Economics Dep, College of Agriculture, Dharwad Univ of Agricultural Sciences, Dahrwad-580 005, Email: bcrajur@gmail.com) : Price spread, marketing costs and margins of chilli in Karnataka state. Karnataka J agric Sci 2015, 28(3), 364-18.

Chilli (Capsicum annuum L.) is one of the important commercial crops of India. It is a crop of tropical and sub-tropical regions and requires a warm humid climate. Though, chilli can be grown on many variety of soils, well drained loamy soils, rich in organic matter are best suited for the cultivation. There are more than fifty chilli varieties grown in India. There was marginal difference in marketing costs incurred by the farmers among the various districts and overall. The per quintal cost of marketing incurred by farmers in Raichur district (Rs. 112.65) was comparatively higher than that of Bijapur (Rs. 110.02 and Gulbarga (Rs. 103.80) districts. The total cost incurred by commission agent was more in Raichur market followed by Gulbarga and Bijapur, the total cost incurred by wholesaler was more in Gulbarga compared to Bijapur and Raichur. The total cost incurred by retailers was highest in Bijapur (Rs. 47.20) followed by Gulbarga (Rs. 46.80) and Raichur (Rs. 44.20). The magnitude of price spread in channel I was more in Gulbarga (818.92) followed by Bijapur and Raichur. Retailers share was the major constituent of the total marketing margin.

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014025   Sinranjeet Kaur;Baslas V;Aggarwal H;Pradeep Kumar;Pooran Chand (Dentistry Dep, FH Medical College, Tundla, Uttar Pradesh, Prosthodontics and Dental Material Sciences, King George's Medical Univ, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, Email: simranbaslas@gmail.com) : Snoring: an annoyance or a serious health problem (obstructive sleep apnea). Indian J community Med 2015, 40(2), 143-4.

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014024   Sanjiv Kumar;Neeta Kumar;Deshmukh V;Adhish V S (National Health Systems Resource Centre Dep, National Health Mission, Ministry of Health Family Welfare, Goverment of India, Baba Gangnath Marg, Munirka, New Delhi-110 067, Email: drsajivkumardixit@gmail.com) : Leadership and Strategic Management for Health Professionals: change management skills. Indian J community Med 2015, 40(2), 85-9.

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014023   Sanjiv Kumar;Adhish V S;Chauhan A (National Health Systems Resource Centre, National Health Mission, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Goverment of India, National Institute of Health and Family Welfare Campus, Baba, Email: drsanjivkumardixit@gmail.com) : Managing bosses and peers. Indian J community Med 2015, 40(1), 14-18.

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014022   Rajagopal S S;Pannaerselvam D (NO, State Water Resources Management Agency, National Informatics Centre, Tamil Nadu) : Basin planning for water resources development using web-enabled GIS-based TN-WRIS, Tamil Nadu. Wat Energy int 2015, 58(7), 64-70.

Government of Tamil Nadu has been working hard to cater to ever increasing various Sectorial demands of over 7.21 Crore people of Tamil Nadu as the State is a water stressed, with limited supplies and rainfall distribution is found skewed temporally and spatially. Due to climate change effects, even though the average annual rainfall is realised, nowadays the rainfall is intense and occurs over short period reducing the number of rainy days leaving more runoff rather depriving sustained infiltration to ground. Sustained efforts to create more space for harnessing the rainfall we get that too in shorter time is the need of the hour the total rainfall are and to cater to ever increasing growing demands of over 7.21 crore people.

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014021   Landefeld J;Sivaraman R;Arora N K (UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical program, California Univ, Berkeley, Calilfornia, USA, Email: john.landefeld@gmail.com) : Barriers to improving patient safety in india : focus groups with providers in the southern state of Kerala. Indian J community Med 2015, 40(2), 116-20.

Objective is to understand the perceptions of health care providers about barriers to improved patient safety in the Indian state of Kerala. Five focus group discussions were held with 16 doctors and 20 nurses across three institutions (primary, secondary and tertiary care centers) in Kerala, India. Transcripts were analyzed by thematic analysis. Setting: One rural primary care clinic, one secondary care hospital and one tertiary care center in Kerala, India. Participants: 16 doctors and 20 nurses participated in five focus groups. Overall, there were 129 unique mentions of barriers to patient safety; these barriers were categorized into five major themes. 'Limited resources' was the most prominent theme, followed by barriers related to health systems issues, the medical culture, provider training and patient education/awareness. Although inadequate resources are likely a substantial challenge to the improvement of patient safety in India, other patient safety barriers such as health systems changes, training, and education, could be addressed with fewer resources. While initial approaches to improving patient safety in India and other low- and middle-income countries have focused on implementing processes that represent best practices, this study suggests that multifaceted interventions to also address more structural problems (such as resource constraints, systems issues, and medical culture) may be important.

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014020   Gupta V K (Technical Adviser, Century Enka Ltd. & Century Rayon, Director, Eurotex Industries and Exports Ltd.) : Enhancement in the profits through structured cost reduction mechanism. J Text Ass 2015, 76(2), 107-10.

Indian Textile Industries are facing global competitive environment and are having pressure on the profits. Gone are the days of huge profits. Domestic value addition and export opportunities are diminishing for the organized sectors. Countries like China are dumping their products at lower cost. Basically cost has become deciding factor. I believe, Cost saved is profit earned and that is the only way to face competition to survive and grow. Normally, we just desire and communicate to reduce costs at all the levels without any specific methodology. Hence nothing happens and sometimes it increases instead of reducing. Unless we have structured specific way for creating cost awareness and method to reduce the costs, without incurring expenditure, it does not happen. In this article, I have suggested unique way for cost awareness and mechanism to reduce through two ways. One is with individual innovation, which leads to self-pride on the achievements. In this system, no investment is needed but individual creativity plays vital role.

014019   Bagga R;Jaiswal V;Tiwari R (Management sciences Dep, National Insitute of Health and Family Welfare, New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi-110 067, Email: rajnibagga@hotmail.com) : Role of Directorates in Promoting Nursing and Midwifery Across the Various States of India: Call for Leadership for Reforms. Indian J community Med 2015, 40(2), 90-6.

The paper, is part of the WHO supported study, entitled "Study on Nursing and Midwifery in India: a critical review", is developed with the objective to review the current organizational and management structure for the nursing positions at the State Directorates in India and obtain a Leadership perspective to strengthen nursing management capacities to address maternal health issues. The study descriptive and qualitative in nature and the sources of information were both primary and secondary collected from 16 states of India. Since none of the states have neither a Nursing Cell nor the post of Director Nursing, final decision-making powers rest with state health secretaries and medical directors. The nursing management structure majorly managed by senior policy makers from the medical fraternity, and provides very little scope for nursing professionals to participate in policy decision making to bring about reforms. There is no uniformity on HR issues concerning career graphs and pay structures across the states. In order to strengthen nursing as a profession and for facilitating their role at the policy level, more powers and autonomy needs to be given to them and this requires HR policy guidelines for nurses. Setting up a separate nursing directorate, to be headed by a senior nursing professional, is suggested in every state along with a strong nursing division at the National level. This total paradigm shift will empower nursing professionals to take up the leadership role at the policy level to bring about necessary reforms. Across the country, nursing professionals repeatedly echoed one requirement: To reframe nursing leadership at all levels.

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014018   Ambadekar N N;Sharma K;Zodpey S;Lanjewar S P (NO, Shree Nivas (Chintamani Netralaya), Near Arni Naka, Singhaniya Nagar, Yavatmal-445 001, Email: nambadekar@yahoo.com) : Revisiting the district level human resources for health architecture in Department of Public Health in Maharashtra. Indian J community Med 2015, 40(2), 75-8.

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014017   Abdulkader R S;Goswami K;Rai S K;Misra P; Kant S (Community Medicine Centre Dep, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, Email: skant76@gmail.com) : HIV-Risk Behavior Among the Male Migrant Factory Workers in a North Indian City. Indian J community Med 2015, 40(2), 108-15.

Male migrants act as a bridge for transmitting infection from core risk groups to general population and hence this group becomes essential for the HIV control program. Migrant workers constitute a large proportion of workforce in India and HIV/AIDS epidemic in them would cause huge economic losses. The aim of this study was to ascertain the HIV-risk behavior among male migrant factory workers. This was a cross-sectional facility based survey conducted in 2011. Male migrant workers aged ≥18 years, who were born outside Haryana, who had moved to current location after 15 years of age, who had worked in the current factory for at least one year, who were willing to participate and able to give valid consent were eligible. A consecutive sampling was done. Descriptive, bivariate and multiple logistic regression analyses were done. A total of 755 male subjects completed the interview. About 21.5% had experienced non-spousal sexual intercourse in last one year. Nearly 60% did not use a condom at the last non-spousal sex. Factors associated with recent non-spousal sex were being unmarried, younger age at migration, recent migration to Haryana, greater number of places migrated and lesser total duration of migration and those associated with non-use of condom at the last non-spousal sex were older age, lower education, lesser number of places migrated and lower level of HIV/AIDS knowledge. Conclusion: Unprotected, recent non-spousal sex was common among male migrants, which could increase their HIV/AIDS vulnerability.

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013010   Verma C;Dayal R;Sultan A (Family Resource Management Dep, College of Home Science, C.S.A. Univ of Agriculture and Technology, Kanpur (U.P)) : Role of the important retention benefits for IT sector employees. Indian J soc Res 2016, 57(1), 125-30.

The Indian IT professionals are the most sought after by IT Companies all over the globe. In India also the IT professionals are well paid and are offered world-class benefits. Therefore, job in IT sector is a dream come true for many young educated professionals in India and they strive towards this goal. They also get an opportunity to live and work abroad in addition to attractive pay package and benefits. The study entitled "Job Retention of Employees Working in Private Sector" is an attempt to assess the retention strategies for improving job retention in private sector employees. Questionnaire through mailing method was adopted for collection of the data. The sample comprised of 240 respondents from various IT companies, the study was limited to five companies(TCS, WIPRO, HCL, HP, Infosys) and five cities i.e Hyderabad, Noida, Gurgaon, Chennai, Banglore. Likert scale was used for knowing the opinion important benefits for job retention. "House rent allowance" and "Basic wage" were considered as very important economic benefits, whereas "Company compensatory allowance" was identified as least important. "Competitive rewards" along with "Flexible salary" benefits were recorded important performance based incentives while "Laptop", "Cellular phone" and "Credit cards" were not attracted much to the employees. "Health insurance" and "Flexi time" were perceived-as very important benefit for retention in the company.

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013009   Swetha M;Reddy M J M;Sudharani V (Agricultural Extension Dep, College of Agriculture, ANGRAU, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad-30, Andhra Pradesh) : Parameters for development of women enterpreneurs. Indian J soc Res 2016, 57(1), 147-52.

Women's entrepreneurship is both about women's position in society and about the role of entrepreneurship in the same society. Women entrepreneurs faced many obstacles specifically in marketing their products (including family responsibilities) that have to be overcome in order to give them access to the same opportunities as men. Empowerment among women makes them to join in the mainstream of development. Hence the present paper focused on analyzing the 'Parameters for development of women entrepreneurs'. Majority of the respondent women entrepreneurs were young aged, possessed primary school education, had medium level of family size, annual income and self confidence, had low level of Information source utilization, socio-political participation and training received where as high level is observed in commitment, level of aspiration and ability to coordinate.

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013008   Rajkumar K;Keshavanarayan P;Sivaram V (Botany Dep, Laboratory of Apiculture and Biodiversity Conservation, Bangalore Univ, Bangalore-560 056, Email: sivaram900@gmail.com) : Pollination biology and breeding system of eugenia discifera gamble- an endangerd species of Western ghats, India. Int J Sci Nat 2015, 6(1), 1-11.

Knowledge of the pollination biology and breeding systems is very important for understanding the life history of longlived tree species. In case of endangered species, the information may have implication for conservation practices. In the present investigation on Eugenia discifera Gamble, an endangered tree species, belongs to the family Myrtaceae, the reproductive phenology, floral biology, pollination biology and breeding system has been studied during 2012-2013. Based on the observation, the lifespan of a single flower was about 1-2 days and to complete the whole process of fruit formation was 102-112 days. Inflorescence is terminal raceme or axillary, flowers are hermaphrodite (bisexual), zygomorphic, epigynous and complete. Sepals and petals are four. Stamens are conspicuous and numerous, stigma simple, fruits are globoid with crowed by calyx lobes. Breeding experiments showed there is no apomixis. The lowest mean fruit set were observed with autogamy pollination (34.00±16.73%) and highest mean fruit set were observed with geitonogamy pollination (48.00±21.68%) respectively. However, there is no significant difference in the fruit set by geitonogamy and xenogamy. The flowers are often visited by various pollinating insects. The most frequent visitors are butterfly, Apis sp, Anomala sp, Altica cyanea (Weber) and they visit to collect food sources such as pollen and nectar for their survival in turn helps in pollination. The factors responsible for declining the population of Eugenia discifera were recorded.

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013007   Pant S;Nagpal N (NO, Banasthali Vidyapeeth, Banasthali, Rajasthan) : Sustainability and eco management aspects of shoddy industry at Panipat (Haryana). Indian J soc Res 2016, 57(1), 99-108.

Shoddy industry at Panipat is single largest duster of this type of industry, not only in India, but in whole world. This industry is engaged in recycling of rags imported from effluent western countries, where people change their wardrobes more frequently in comparison to Indian Society and these rags discarded as waste is reused to form yarn, which is further utilized to weave blankets, sweaters, shawls and lois at a very low cost, which is a boon for poor people. In present study eco-friendly and sustainable aspects of shoddy industry have been studied in detail and a survey was done to find-out that how eco-management is being done in this industry and the processes related with the shoddy industry have been investigated for effective analysis.

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011991   Vitalievna N O;Mihailovna S V (NO, National Mineral Resources Univ(Univ of Mines), 199106, St Per ersburg, Line 21, H.2) : Managing a mining enterprise on the basis of the balanced scorecard. Biosci Biotechnol Res Asia 2015, 12(2), 1031-40.

Main purpose of the article is to demonstrate the results of applying the balanced scorecard at the enterprises of the mining industry, and to identify the problem areas and promising directions of development of methodological tools and the enterprise development strategy with the use of the key success factors. The strategic balanced scorecard has been formed.

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011990   Verstina N G;Mescheryakova T S (Federal State Budgetary Educational, Institution of Higher Professionl Education "Moscow State Univ of Civi, Moscow, Russian Federation) : Reducing energy consumption in industrial enterprises in modern conditions. Biosci Biotechnol Res Asia 2015, 12(2), 1411-23.

Objectives of the study is to analyze the status and trends of development of industrial enterprises - consumers of energy resources, implementing a policy of energy saving, analysis of management practices of energy consumption using energy service contracts and the development of a conceptual model of the organization of management energy consumption of industrial enterprises using energy service contracts. Application of the proposed conceptual model of the energy cost management for industrial enterprise defines a comprehensive approach to energy management, taking into account the implementation of the mechanism of modern energy service contracts.

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011989   Tiwari A K;Sharma V N (NO, Banaras Hindu Univ, Varanasi) : Sick sugar mills of eastern Uttar Pradesh: a survey regarding causes of sickness. Natn Geogr 2013, 48(1-2), 95-108.

Industrial sickness is the major problem in modern industrial era which is increasing in such huge extent that many new factories are being added day by day. High magnitude to industrial sickness is a serious problem for all times especially in sugar industry in India. It has become a substance of serious distress for entrepreneurs as not only, money blocked up in quite a lot of sick factories but also worthless the national growth. About 18 sugar mills are sick in eastern Uttar Pradesh due to different problems. A survey of all sick mills has been conducted to explore the causes of sickness. This paper is an attempt to analyse the causes of sickness of sugar industry in eastern Uttar Pradesh based on the field observation.

011988   Tatuev A A;Lyapuntsova E V;Tatuev A A; Rokotyanskaya V V;Zhankazieva Z N (NO, Kabardino-Balkarian State Univ named after Kh.M. Berbekov-360 004, Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, Nalchik, Chernyshevskogo St., 173) : Program budgeting as a tool of introducing a higher-level performance of the public sector of the economy. Biosci Biotechnol Res Asia 2015, 12(2), 1329-8.

In the article the advantages of program budgeting in comparison with the traditional one are dealt with the analysis of state programs of the Russian Federation from the point of view of basic elements of efficiency is carried out, the main problems arising in the course of their development are revealed and measures for their further improvement are suggested.

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011987   Shah N H;Shah D B;Patel D G (Mathematics Dep, Gujarat Univ, Ahmedabad-380 009, Email: nita_sha_h@rediffmail.com) : Optimal credit period and purchase quantity for credit dependent trended demand. Opsearch 2015, 52(1), 101-7.

Seller offers its buyer a credit period to settle the account which attracts more buyers and boosts market demand. However, the offer of credit period leads to default risk for the supplier. In this study, the seller is the decision maker. The demand is considered to be increasing with time and is dependent of permissible trade credit. The default risk in incurring in sales revenue is incorporated in objective of profit maximization. The necessary and sufficient conditions to obtain the seller's optimal decision about setting the permissible credit period and purchase quantity are discussed. A procedure to determine the optimal solution is outlined. Finally, the numerical example is given to illustrate the theoretical results and sensitivity analysis is carried out to deduce some managerial insights.

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011986   Roy K;Singh P K (NO, Allahabad Univ, Allahabad) : Human resource and socio-economic development in Sonebhadra district (Uttar Pradesh). Natn Geogr 2013, 48(1-2), 109-16.

Human resource development plays an important role in the socio-economic development of any region. This is due to the reason that if there is underinvestment in human resources the rate at which additional physical capital can be productivity utilized will he limited since technical, professional and administrative people are required to make effective use of material resources. According to Mandela (1994), "Education is the great engine for personal development. It is through education that the daughter of peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine that a child of a farm worker can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have not what we are given that separates one person from another". Sonebhadra district is situated in south-eastern part of Uttar Pradesh. The district lies between latitude 23 °52 'N to 25°32' N and longitude 82°72'E to 83°73' E in Uttar Pradesh. Population of the district according to census 2011 is 18,62,642. Population is supposed to he good resource in economic development of any area.Sonebhadra district is full of natural resources but underdeveloped human resource is major hindrance in the development of the district and that is why it is responsible for poor socio-economic condition of the people in the district. So, this paper attempts to bring the centrality of human resource development in order to push socio-economic development.

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011985   Palanivel M;Uthayakumar R (Mathematics Dep, The Gandhigram Rural Institute-Deemed Univ, Gandhigram-624 302, Email: palanimathsgri@gmail.com) : EPQ model for deteriorating items with variable production cost, time dependent holding cost and partial backlogging under inflation. Opsearch 2015, 52(1), 1-17.

This paper develops an economic production quantity (EPQ) model with price and advertisement dependent demand under the effect of inflation and time value of money. Here, the rate of replenishment is considered to be a variable and the generalized unit production cost function is formulated by incorporating the several factors like raw material, labour, replenishment rate, advertisement and other factors of the manufacturing system. The selling price of an unit is determined by a mark-up over the production cost. In most of the inventory model for perishable items, the holding cost has been considered as a constant function. But in realistic situation this cost is varying according to time. In this model, the holding cost per unit of the item per unit time is assumed to be an increasing linear function of time spent in storage. Also in this model, shortages are allowed and we consider that shortage occurs before the starting of inventory. This type of inventory is called SFI (shortage followed by inventory) policy. In the model, the customers are viewed to be impatient and a fraction of the demand is exponentially backlogged. This fraction is a function of the waiting time of the customers. This model aids in minimizing the total inventory cost by finding the optimal cycle length, optimal production and the optimal order quantity. The model is extended to the case of non-perishable product also. The optimal solution of the model is illustrated with the help of a numerical example.

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011984   Mukhina E R;Deputatova L N (NO, Perm National Research Polytechnic Univ, Russia, 614 990, Perm, Komsomolskiy Prospect, 29) : Development of budgeting system for electrotechnical plants of Perm region of Russian Ferderation. Biosci Biotechnol Res Asia 2015, 12(2), 1751-8.

Interview of 11 directors of electrical engineering industry organizations showed the problems of management accounting at the enterprises and allowed to diagnose the quality of using such elements of management accounting as budgeting, calculation, internal reporting. Such measures as the creation of a unified automated enterprise management system, the development of the financial structure of the enterprise, the organization of financial responsibility centers, the development, production and implementation of the budgeting system are proposed. The budgeting method is developed. The stages of this method are following: the analysis of the existing planning system in the enterprise; the formation of the financial structure of the enterprise; the creating interaction scheme budgets; the distribution budgets centers of financial responsibility; the definition of key performance indicators in budget execution; the monitoring and analysis of budget execution. The factors which influence establishing budgeting system at the enterprises have been defined. Centers of financial responsibility were created to keep track on efficiency rate of companies' activity. The advantages of proposed method have been formulated in comparison with existing approaches. They are the principles of providing scheduling flexibility, completeness budgets, complexity of the system, delegating responsibility, transparency of information.

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011983   Gerasimov A N;Gromov Y I;Kulish N V;Sytnik O E;Varivoda V S (NO, Stavropol State Agrarian Univ, 355 017, Russia, Stavropol, Zootechnical Lane, 12) : Trends and patterns of development of regional agriculture markets in the Russian federation. Biosci Biotechnol Res Asia 2015, 12(2), 1637-50.

Main purpose of this study is to develop a comprehensive scientific issue of ensuring development of local agricultural markets in modern Russia, as well as to identify the main factors that shape the nature of the development of these markets, assess the objective tendencies and patterns of their development, model the condition and project their growth. Synthesized econometric models of production and sales of major agricultural products by undertakings should be seen as a tool for taking management decisions aimed at improving the economic relations and providing the most efficiency of the ongoing policy measures in the region. It should be remembered that in order to obtain reliable results of modeling and forecasting, the synthesized system of econometric equations and predictions derived from them require periodic updating and addition due to changing conditions.

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011982   Choudhury K D;Karmakar B;Das M;Datta T K (Mathematics Dep, Assam Univ, Silchar, Silchar-788 011, Email: karabidc@gmail.com) : Inventory model for deteriorating items with stock-dependent demand, time-varying holding cost and shortages. Opsearch 2015, 52(1), 55-74.

In this article, an inventory model for deteriorating items with two components demand and time-varying holding cost has been developed. Demand is assumed to be stock-dependent up to the level of available stock. After which the demand is considered as constant i.e. during stock-out period. Shortages are allowed and are fully backlogged. Profits are maximized in both the infinite and finite time horizon cases. Some special cases are also derived from the main models. Two numerical examples are provided for both finite and infinite time horizon. Sensitivity analysis performed has shown successful effects of various model parameters on net profit.

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011981   Chaudhuri A;Singh K N (Operations Management, Indian Institute of Management Lucknow, Prabandh Nagar, off Sitapur Road, Lucknow-226 013, Email: atchaudhuri@iiml.ac.in) : First mover advantage in launch of platform based variants: a leader-follower game with upper bound in prices. Opsearch 2015, 52(1), 42-54.

Product choice and pricing are critical decisions taken by firms while launching new products. Firms need to consider the effect of competition while taking the above decisions. Extensive literature is available for pricing, positioning and launch sequence determination of differentiated products under competition. But, there is need to understand the leader-follower behaviour of firms with differentiated products. The classical game theoretic models do n6t consider bounds on prices. Hence, applying these models for product choice and pricing decisions in a real-life industrial setting may result in infeasible product choices and generate misleading results. To overcome this gap between theory and practice, we develop game theoretic models for sequential decision making by two firms using reservation price as upper bound on prices by formulating it as a quadratic programming problem. Our approach generates interesting insights on the competitive behavior of firms and shows that leaders can indeed enjoy first-mover advantage under certain conditions.

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011980   Boudaghi E;Saen R F (Industrial Management Dep, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad Univ, Karaj, Iran, P.O. Box: 31485-313, Email: farzipour@yahoo.com) : Developing a model for determining optimal η in DEA-discriminant analysis for predicting suppliers' group membership in supply chain. Opsearch 2015, 52(1), 134-55.

This study aims at developing a model for determining optimal 77 in data envelopment analysis -discriminant analysis (DEA-DA) in order to predict the suppliers' group membership in supply chain. Also, this paper improves the DEA-DA model developed by Sueyoghi (Eur. J. Oper. Res. 115(3), 564-582; [11]). hi this model, 77 parameter is used in order to avoid a trivial solution and to create more discrimination. Since the main shortcoming of the DEA-DA is determining η value based on the researcher's subjective decision, the present paper develops a model to determine optimal 77. Consequently, this paper leads to the estimate of an optimal set of weights for producing a hyperplane for determining the discriminant linear function and. hence promotes the prediction precision of the group membership of a set of observations. The efficacy of proposed model is presented using a numerical example as well as a case study.

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011979   Bose A;Patel G N (NO, Birla Institute of Management Technology, Greater Noida, Email: amarnath.bose@bimtech.ac.in) : "NeuralDEA" - a framework using neural network to re-evaluate DEA benchmarks. Opsearch 2015, 52(1), 18-41.

This paper revises data envelopment analysis (DEA) estimates of efficiency for decision making units (DMU). This is done by smoothing the DEA efficiency frontier by training an artificial neural network (ANN) to fit a closed functional form for input or output prediction of multiple DMUs. By using neural network we overcome the regression model shortcoming of a single dependent variable. DEA is known to be sensitive to the operational efficiency of Decision Making Units (DMU). In the absence of high-performing DMUs, DEA reports falsely elevated efficiency levels. The problem of non-smooth, piece-wise linear efficiency frontier poses a handicap in the measurement of relative efficiency. In this paper we describe a procedure that uses two-stage DEA, a data generation procedure (DGP) and ANN training and prediction to overcome this data-based shortcoming. We also provide two empirical illustrations of this procedure and conclude by explaining the differences in the revised efficiencies of the DMUs. Though we have used constant returns to scale for the empirical illustrations, any other return-to-scale formulation would work just as well.

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011978   Anatolievna S N (NO, LLC, Budget and Financial Technologies, Building 1,3, Skladochnaya St., Moscow, The Russian Federation, 127 018) : Current legal aspects of implementation of efficient financial and economic instrument of budget control by chief supervisors of budget funds. Biosci Biotechnol Res Asia 2015, 12(2), 1843-7.

Purpose of this review is a brief highlight of the most important information regarding the present situation and changes in the practice of establishment and application of efficient financial and economic tools of budget control by chief supervisors of budget funds in implementation of scientific and technical priorities fixed in Strategy for innovative development of the Russian Federation till 2020 (Main directions of budget policy for 2015 and planned period of 2016 and 2017, 2015; Strategy for innovative development of the Russian Federation till 2020, 2011).

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011977   Anatolievna S N (NO, LLC, Budget and Financial Technologies, Building 1, 3 Skladochnaya St., Moscow, The Russian Federation, 127 018) : Comprehensive set of advanced approaches to establishment of efficient financial and economic instruments of budget control in implementation on scientific technical priorty. Biosci Biotechnol Res Asia 2015, 12(2), 1545-50.

Objective of this review is brief highlights of intermediary theoretical and practical results of the research on methodological and practical approaches and recommendations on improvement of financial and economic instruments of budget control in implementation of scientific and technical priorities.

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010944   Sinha M K (Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, New Delhi) : Achieving inclusive growth from large water resources projects. Wat Energy int 2015, 57(12), 39-44.

Water is essential for everybody's life, living and livelihood. It is this unique reach, which makes water a most effective means to achieve inclusive growth. It fulfils most basic human and ecological needs and is indispensable to almost all economic activities, including agriculture, energy production, industry, and mining. With impacts on health, gender equity, education and livelihood, water management and water resources projects are crucial to sustainable economic development and the alleviation of poverty. Since beginning of the civilization, water resources projects have contributed towards all round development of the region. But sometimes these projects lack holistic approach thereby inviting criticisms for skewed and lopsided developments along with concerns for environment and displacement of inhabitants of the submergence area. While the command area benefit from irrigation, water supply, etc., people from submergence area not only lose their land and/or livelihood but also their social networks. Similarly, implementation of environment safeguard measures and resettlement & rehabilitation measures often raise several questions. In the process, the opportunity for inclusive growth is not utilized fully. There is a need to learn from implementation of large projects, such as Tehri HE Project, Sardar Sarovar (Narmada) Project, etc., so that proper policy perspectives emerge towards achieving inclusive growth. These experiences and best practices were also corroborated during consultation meetings for National Water Policy (2012), which helped in evolving some policy recommendations in this regard. This paper makes an attempt to present these best practices and policy prescriptions so that project authorities may adopt these and make large water resources projects more beneficial and contribute towards achieving inclusive growth.

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