The study is an attempt to examine empirically the impact of capital structure on firm performance using a data sample 56 Indian manufacturing firms listed Bombay Stock Exchange, National Exchange or both during 2010-2022. uses three financial measures namely return assets, employed and earnings per share as dependent variables. eight such long-term debt, short-term interest coverage ratio, cur...

We propose a systematic method for creating constellations of unitary space–time signals for multiple-antenna communication links. Unitary space–time signals, which are orthonormal in time across the antennas, have been shown to be well-tailored to a Rayleigh fading channel where neither the transmitter nor the receiver knows the fading coefficients. The signals can achieve low probability of e...

A nalysing, in 1997, the likely impact of electronic commerce is about as easy as estimating the impact of the automobile a hundred years ago. Intuitively you know that the impact will be large, but as yet few people know how to drive, roads are of varying quality and garages and mechanics are nearly non-existent. With some confidence you can say that there will be a beneficial effect on supply...

The issue of automobile recyclability is a problem with complex ramifications for car makers world-wide. Confronted with increasingly stringent fuel economy, emissions, and safety standards, recyclability is an attribute which can limit the ability of the automaker to meet these other goals economically. Nevertheless, social and political pressures upon the industry require that it responds to ...

OBJECTIVE Various support measures useful for promoting joint change approaches to the improvement of both shiftworking arrangements and safety and health management systems were reviewed. A particular focus was placed on enterprise-level risk reduction measures linking working hours and management systems. METHODS Voluntary industry-based guidelines on night and shift work for department sto...

The use of modularity in the design of a new product or the adoption of a product platform, as the base to define new solutions within a product family, offers the company a chance to meet diverse customer needs at low cost due to economies of scale in all the phases of the product’s life-cycle. At present, the concept of modularity in product design is becoming widely used in many industries f...

The insurance and risk management industries are typically considered to have little interest in energy issues, other than those associated with large energy supply systems. The historical involvement of these industries in the development and deployment of familiar loss-prevention technologies such as automobile air bags, fire prevention/suppression systems, and anti-theft devices, evidences a...

The issue of automobile recyclability is a problem with complex ramifications for car makers world-wide. Confronted with increasingly stringent fuel economy, emissions, and safety standards, recyclability is an attribute which can limit the ability of the automaker to meet these other goals economically. Nevertheless, social and political pressures upon the industry require that it responds to ...

T he chemical process industries are probably the least understood of all manufacturing sectors, largely because few final products are sold directly to consumers. The chemical process industries are perhaps best summarized by the BASF ad: “We don’t make the products you buy, we make the products you buy, better.” A consumer who purchases an automobile generally has some appreciation for the se...