The Indian Agricultural Research Institute

Use of Collection and Services: A Study of Indian Agricultural Research Institute Library

The main aim of this study is to investigate the users’ opinion concerning the use of collection and services in the IARI library. Therefore, the study is focused on users’ opinion not only in terms of use, purpose, and satisfaction level with the library collection and services, but also in terms of use of e-resources, and adequacy of library collection. The questionnaire was administered to s...

CSIR - Indian Institute of Toxicology Research Lucknow , India

Indian Statistical Institute

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...