Indian economy is rural in character. This is evident from the fact that a very high proportion of the population is living in rural areas. Further two-thirds of its workforce is engaged in agricultural and allied activities, which contribute about 27% of India’s gross domestic product. In a predominantly agrarian country like India, rural development is a sine qua non for national development....

The creation of Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) has been suggested in recent years as the means for achieving the cost-efficient integration of the many distributed energy resources (DERs) that are starting to emerge in the electricity network. In this work, we contribute to the development of VPPs by offering a game-theoretic perspective to the problem. Specifically, we design cooperatives (or “co...

Storing multiple copies of data on widely distributed nodes is a strategy to increase availability and survivability of data. To reduce the cost of distributing redundant data, researchers have been investigating the use of storage cooperatives in which members share bandwidth and storage resources. We present the foundations of a simple, extensible economy in which network entities share stora...

renewable natural resources are the wealth that not only belongs to the currentgeneration but also to future generations. diversity in rangeland user viewpoints and policymakers has caused these lands to face some damages. this study was conducted to compareviewpoints of ordinary members as rangeland users, and board of directors as executives ofmanagement plans. statistical population of the s...

Excessive leverage is one of the most important problems facing Italian agricultural cooperatives as the competition in the EU intensifies. An empirical study of 500 agricultural cooperatives supports the hypothesis that cooperatives characterized as having “powerful managers” have a capital structure that is significantly different from the “nonpowerful manager” cooperatives. Powerful manager ...