Industrial medicine and hygiene have made considerable strides in this country during the past two decades. A great many facts dealing with the signs, symptoms, toxicology, and preventive aspects of this branch of the medical sciences have been accumulated, but, unfortunately, the application of the data and the distribution of industrial medical care have not proceeded with parallel speed. In ...

In this paper, we measure productivity growth of the information technology (IT) industries in fourteen OECD countries over the thirteen-year period of 1978 through 1990. The IT industries are the providers of IT capital goods, and this macro-level analysis seeks to find out how efficiently IT capital goods are produced. The basic unit of analysis employed is the Malmquist Total Factor Producti...

Direct firing of biomass in conventional clay brick manufacturing process aggravates deforestation, climatic change, poor economic benefits to rural industries, and health issues the public. To overcome such drawbacks, adaptation eco-friendly energy sources, implementation advanced technologies conversion systems systematic studies on are mainly focused recent times. The utilization biomasses t...

The paper has studied the structure and extent of value addition in different agro-processing units in Himachal Pradesh. It has also examined the financial viability of agro-processing industries in the state. The break-even analysis has shown enough leverage for processing units to stay in the business even at low capacity utilization. The extent of value addition has been about 53 per cent in...

The linear customer loads are now being dominated by sensitive and sophisticated non-linear customer loads with the growth in the power electronics and control system industries. This have a catastrophic impact on a power system and equipment: increasing harmonics “pollution”. In this paper the modelling of power electronics loads used in domestic and small scale industrial distribution systems...