This paper examines the functioning of India's institutions of governance, namely, the legislative and executive branches of government, the judiciary, and the bureaucracy. An economist's view of the role of government is adopted, i.e., as a provider of public goods and corrector of externalities. Governance is analyzed along three dimensions: (1) the degree of commitment or durability of laws ...

This paper examines the functioning of some of India’s institutions of governance, namely, the legislative and executive branches of government, the judiciary, and the bureaucracy, from an instrumental, economic perspective. Governance is analyzed along three dimensions: (1) the degree of commitment or durability of laws and rules, (2) the degree of enforcement of these laws, and (3) the degree...

This paper presents the architecture and synthesis of a damage-mitigating control system where the objective is to achieve high performance with increased reliability, availability, component durability, and maintainability. The proposed control system has a two-tier structure. In the lower tier, a linear robust sampled-data controller tracks a reference trajectory vector while the upper tier c...

One of the problems that organizations are facing is employee desertion. The desertion of poor staff can lead to increase organizational productivity and it’s benefit for organization, while the desertion of effective staff has bad consequences for the organization. These staff imposes significant direct and indirect costs to the organization when leave it. These costs include finding, training...

Fatigue phenomena, which appear generally below the yield stress, is the cause of more than 80 % of in-service mechanical failures. However, the optimization of the weight and cost when designing mechanical components or structures, linked to improved performance, leads to increasingly stressed components. Therefore a fatigue design approach must be done by the engineer. This paper shows the ex...

the purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of organizational ambidexterity on strategic entrepreneurship in software companies. therefore we examined the ambidexterity with two dimensions i.e. exploration and exploitation as an independent variable and strategic entrepreneurship with four dimensions i.e. entrepreneurial mindset, innovation, managing resources strategically and competit...

purposes: the aim of this study was to evaluate the intra and inter-examiner reliability and reproducibility of linear measurements in cone-beam tomography (cbct) images taken by calibrated radiologists and periodontists. materials and methods: the alveolar ridge dimensions in selected cbct images were measured by two calibrated radiologists and two periodontists. intra and inter-examiner relia...

background and purpose   methods   results   conclusion:   key words   journal of medical education fall 2006; 10(1); 3-10 : q uality g ap , e ducational s ervices , s tudent , b andar a bbas negative quality gap means students’ expectations are more than their perceptions. so improvements are needed across all of the five dimensions. : the results demonstrated that in all of the five servqual ...

ME:3052 Mechanical Systems 4 s.h. Topics in mechanical behavior and failure of materials; materials selection in design; stress and deflection analysis; static failure theories; fatigue and durability in design; fracture, statistical, and reliability considerations; introduction to finite element analysis using commercial software packages; standards, product liability, engineering ethics. Prer...