The paper first deals with the current scenario of the wind energy in India. Wind energy is available without any cost and it does not emit any greenhouse gases. This makes it a great source of energy production for any developing state. The field of wind energy has tremendous scope for innovation, translating to real world applications and tremendous economic opportunity. It is crucially impor...

In this paper, we propose a one-pass algorithm on MapReduce for penalized linear regression fλ(α, β) = ‖Y − α1−Xβ‖ 2 2 + pλ(β) where α is the intercept which can be omitted depending on application; β is the coefficients and pλ is the penalized function with penalizing parameter λ. fλ(α, β) includes interesting classes such as Lasso, Ridge regression and Elastic-net. Compared to latest iterativ...

The work addresses the NP-hard problem of scheduling a set of jobs to unrelated parallel machines with the overall objective of minimizing makespan. The solution presented proposes a greedy constructive algorithm followed by an application of a Variable Neighborhood Decent strategy that continually improves the incumbent solution until a local optimum is reached. The strength of the approach li...

Abstract John Ahlquist's essay proposes a notion of “decent jobs” that is multidimensional, context-dependent, and dynamic. I suggest simple test for work”: work the worker thinks valued by people whom values (a measure exemplary virtue, hence eudaimonic). High pay in cash society but one such signal value, much labor provided without signal. advocate making relationship-building, decision-maki...

T he Women’s Empowerment Project (WEP) was created by the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless (CCH). Its goal is to empower women who are homeless to advocate for their right to decent and affordable housing, child care, and livable wage jobs. Critical to these efforts was the acquisition and development of an abandoned building on Chicago’s South Side: the Brand New Beginnings Project (BNB)1, a...

This contribution, which serves as the lead article for the Research Topic entitled "From Meaning of Working to Meaningful Lives: The Challenges of Expanding Decent Work," explores current challenges in the development and operationalization of decent work. Based on an initiative from the International Labor Organization [ILO] (1999) decent work represents an aspirational statement about the qu...

Decent work concept is based on four pillars namely employment, employment rights,social dialogue, social security. The uptake of decent work practices in smallholder dairy farms is poorly understood. This paper explores the linkage between socioeconomic status of smallholder farmer and compliance to decent work standards. The study involved 123 farmers. Three index scales were constructed to m...