The stock evaluation process plays an important role in portfolio selection because it is the prerequisite for investment and directly influences on the stock allocation. This paper presents a methodology based on Data Envelopment Analysis for portfolio selection, decision making units which can be stocks or other financial assets. First, DMUs efficiencies are computed based on input/output, an...

A cross‐sectional questionnaire study was conducted for 4 months among mothers of 3‐5 year old preschool children who visited Dental Colleges in Mumbai from August 2012 to November 2012. Ethical clearance was obtained from Institutional Review Board and an informed consent was obtained from the study participants. The study was carried out in four randomly selected Dental Colleges in Mumbai (Te...

The formation and occurrence of urban heat island (UHI) is a result of rapid urbanization and associated concretization. Due to intensification of heat combined with high pollution levels, urban areas expose humans to unexpected health risks. In this context, the study aims at comparing the UHI in the two largest metropolitan cities of India, i.e., Delhi and Mumbai. The presence of surface UHI ...

We examine procurement auctions for public works in Mumbai with the goal of understanding game theoretic values and optimal auction structures to recommend to policy makers in this context. We first convert an independent private values framework for traditional auctions to an analogous framework for procurement auctions. Then we use a fixed effects regression to estimate the idiosyncratic comp...

India is said to be a socio-linguistic giant and the nerve system of this giant is multilingualism. “Indian multilingualism is huge in size, having 1620 mother tongues reduced to 200 languages.... With the population of many of minorities larger than European countries”(Annamalai E. 2001) . This multilingual character of India is represented by Mumbai City, the industrial capital of India, wher...

CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 87, NO. 8, 25 OCTOBER 2004 1066 Srinivas Krishnagopal and Vinit Kumar are in the Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore 452 013, India; Srinivas Krishnagopal and S. K. Sarkar are in the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai 400 085, India; Sudipta Maiti and S. S. Prabhu are in the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Colaba, Mumbai 400 005, In...

Genetic diversity and phylogenetic analyses of culturable extremely haloarchaea isolated from marine solar saltern pond in Mumbai, IndiaDipak T. Nagrale , Renu, Priyanka Das

Nayreen Daruwalla and colleagues describe the Centre for Vulnerable Women and Children, which serves clients coping with crisis and violence in the urban setting of Dharavi, Mumbai.

Addressing the human right to water and sanitation in the slums of Mumbai, India requires disentangling the provision of basic services from a more complicated set of questions around land security and land ownership. Millions of slum-dwellers in Mumbai lack adequate access to safe drinking water and sanitation, which places them at risk for waterborne diseases. Many slums are located in hazard...

OBJECTIVE To study the clinical profile of patients with giant cell arteritis in Mumbai. METHODS From our database, patients with a diagnosis of giant cell arteritis (GCA) over a fifteen year period (January 1990 to December 2005) were included. Clinical manifestations, temporal artery biopsy, treatment, and follow-up data of these patients were analyzed. RESULTS Twenty one patients with GC...