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Indian Institute of Management Calcutta

R&D expenditure has dramatically increased for a segment of the Indian pharmaceutical industry since around the mid-1990s when TRIPS came into effect. It is not only that the amount of R&D expenditure has gone up. There has also been a change in the structure of R&D activities of the Indian companies. While in the past they were primarily engaged with development of new processes for manufactur...

Indian Institute of Management Calcutta

Among various models like TSQL2, XML and SQL:2003 for temporal databases, TSQL2 is perhaps the most comprehensive one and introduces new constructs for temporal query support. However, these constructs mask the user from the underlying conceptual model and essentially provides a “black box” flavour. Further, the temporal attributes are not directly accessible. In this paper, we propose a “chron...

Indian Institute of Management Calcutta

The advent of deep sub-micron and nanometric regime for CMOS semiconductor technology has resulted in several restrictions in the physical design of VLSI circuits primarily through constraints imposed by interconnects. These constraints typically include the interconnect delay, congestion, cross-talk, power dissipation and others. These issues have to be considered in the physical design of VLS...

Economics Seminar , Indian Statistical Institute , New Delhi

The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India (NREGA) has generated a lot of interest among the researchers to measure its impact on labor market outcomes. A few papers in this literature use the differences-in-differences (DID) strategy exploiting the phase wise implementation of the program across districts in India to identify its impact on private sector casual wages. This identifica...