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Working Papers | 1995

Fourier Representation of Ambient Temperature and Solar Radiation

Girja Sharan and Kumar M Krishna

This paper contains fourier representation of ambient temperature and global solar radiation for Ahmedabad, Bhavnagar, Bombay and Jodhpur. The results may be useful for those working on solar thermal appliances, crop growth models, green house models etc.

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Working Papers | 1995

Impetus for Firm/Entrepreneur and Technology Institution Interaction Through Indian Developmental Financial Institutions

N Prabhu Ganesh

The Indian government recently reduced funding to technology institutions (TIs), forcing them to seek greater commercialisation opportunities. Indian firms/entrepreneurs (f/Fs), facing increasing technological competition, are exploring indigenous R&D facilities for new technology. Providing impetus to this mutually beneficial and important trend, developmental financial institutions (DFIs) in India are encouraging F/Es to complement their internal R&D with sponsored or commercialisation projects with Tis. This paper examines the role of Indian DFIs in facilitating F/E – TI interaction. These initiatives are important in the developing country context as they combine institutions, increase resource utilisation and facilitate entrepreneurship.

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Working Papers | 1995

Effective Management Styles: An Indian Study

Khandwalla P N

Management style is defined to be the distinctive way the management of an organization carries out its various functions, in this exploratory study, ten archetypal styles of top management are described, operationally defined, and measured vis-à-vis a sample of 90 Indian corporate organizations. The ten styles are the conservative, entrepreneurial, professional, bureaucratic, organic, authoritarian, participative, intuitive, familial, and altruistic. The data on the relationship between these ten styles and ten indicators of perceived organizational effectiveness are presented and discussed. The participative, professional, and altruistic management styles had the most correlations with the indicators of effectiveness. Implications for management excellence are drawn.

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Working Papers | 1995

Synthetic Daily Rainfall Data Generation

Girja Sharan and Kumar M Krishna

Long sequences of daily rainfall are often needed for simulation. These (when available) are cumbersome to input. Also in many cases historical data are to short to include all possible patterns. Hence the need for synthetic data. Discovering the stochastic structure underlying daily rains is the key to devising method for synthetic generation of data. Some works have been reported that treat daily rains as multi-state Markov chain. This is useful in studies where one needs for instance the distribution of only the dry and wet spells etc. However, for use in simulation of run-off from a watershed, or for moisture budgeting and crop planning, or for scheduling of irrigation etc. one needs the magnitudes of rainfall and not just an interval. For these applications it appears necessary to look at daily rains as a Markov process as was done for instance by Carey and Haan for Kentucky. In this paper we report the results of using C&H method to generate synthetic data for Panchmahals district of Gujarat, a drought-prone area.

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Working Papers | 1995

From Inspection Systems to Peer Learning: Teacher Development in Primary Education

Vijaya Sherry Chand and Shukla Shailesh R

The inspection system is a visible link between the large numbers of village-based teachers and the district-level administration. While it may be successful in its 'school audit' function, dissatisfaction with the system seems to be related to its inability to play a 'teacher development' role. Perhaps this failure is not of the inspection system, but of the mechanisms for teacher development. Other institutional mechanisms like the panchayati district education committee, the in-service training opportunities currently provided, or the meetings of school complexes and the pay-centre schools are unable to pay attention to teacher development issues. An alternative to such “top down” mechanisms is necessary. A perspective which puts the practices of teachers first can lead to decentralized “peer learning systems”. These systems – teacher driven and controlled – can drawn on resources already available within existing information systems, for instance, the contributions of outstanding teachers or insights from the inspection reports. District-level management systems like the inspection set-up or in-service training centres, whether bureaucratic or panchayati, can play a supportive role in the financing and monitoring of such initiatives. Such a perspective can also provide an understanding of how, in the context of the current debate on democratic decentralization, a partnership between the teaching community, the administration and panchayati raj institutions can be solved.

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Working Papers | 1995

Seed Industry in India: An Analysis of Status

Gurdev Singh and Asokan S R

Seed industry in India has been making great strides since independence. The government through policy initiatives helped the development and growth of the nascent industry. As a result quality seed production which was just 0.18 million quintals in 1953-54 has risen to 5.3 million quintals in 1992-92. Although the growth seems impressive, quality seed production has been far below the requirement for most of the crops. This paper examines the government policies for seed and analysis the performance of the three sub-systems of the seed system to highlight their strengths and weaknesses and constraints to the growth of the industry.

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Working Papers | 1995

Resource Mobilisation Strategies for Financing of Transport Infrastructure and Services

Prem Pangotra and G. Raghuram

Transport infrastructure development in India has been slow and unsatisfactory due to the excessive dependence on budgetary support from the State and due to the dominance of state controlled enterprises. Future investment requirements need much greater mobilisation of resources than that accomplished in the past. This paper reviews the Indian experience of infrastructure investment allocations, performance of parastatals and major policy makers. It provides a framework for formulating “unbundling strategies” for increased private sector participation in the financing of investment and provision of transport services.

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Working Papers | 1995

Representation of Barganing Games as Simple Distribution Problems

Lahiri Somdeb

In this paper we show that the set of all bargaining problems is isomorphic to the set of all simple distribution problems.

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Working Papers | 1995

A Note on A Reduced Game Property for the Egalitarian Solution

Lahiri Somdeb

In this paper we obtain an axiomatixation of the egalitarian solution using a reduced game property.

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Working Papers | 1995

Fourier Representation of Ambient Temperature and Duration of Sunshine

Girja Sharan and Kumar M Krishna

While constructing a transient thermal model of solar cooker, a need was felt for analytic expressions for ambient temperature and sunshine duration. This paper, therefore, presents the Fourier analysis of ambient temperature and sunshine duration data. It may be useful to those working on solar thermal systems, green houses and estimation of water loss from plants.

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