This article assesses insurance uptake in three community-based health insurance (CBHI) schemes located in rural parts of two of India's poorest states and offered through women's self-help groups (SHGs). We examine what drives uptake, the degree of inclusive practices of the schemes and the influence of health status on enrolment. The most important finding is that a household's socio-economic...

This paper describes design, tuning and evaluation of integrated Adaptive Cruise Control with Collision Avoidance (ACC/CA). The control scheme is designed to control the vehicle so that it would feel natural to the human driver during normal safe driving situations and to completely avoid rear-end collision in vehicle following situations. Driving situations are divided into safe, warning and d...

Effective Microorganisms (EM) is a commercially available liquid containing a variety of lactic acid bacteria, yeasts and phototrophic bacteria. These organisms create conditions which favour mutual support and enable them to outcompete harmful pathogens, while producing useful substances such as vitamins, enzymes, hormones, amino acids and anti-oxidants that create a reducing environment. Vari...

The asymptotic properties of the maximum likelihood and bayesian estimators of finite dimensional parameters of any statistical model depend strongly on the regularity conditions. It is well-known that if these conditions are fulfilled then the estimators are consistent, asymptotically normal and asymptotically efficient. These regularity conditions are of the following type: the model is suffi...

The Modified Arkansas Off-Stream Reservoir Analysis (MARORA) model estimates the economics of on-farm reservoirs and other water conservation improvements in alternative ground water situations. With restricted ground water supply, a combination of different water conservation methods is estimated to provide the greatest economic return. On-farm reservoirs are not economical if ground water is ...

The present work is a contribution of mathematical and operations research models that help in arriving at the best replacement strategies to determine an age of motor vehicle at which the replacement is most economical. Parameters like depreciation, money value, forecasted inflation, nominal interest rate and real interest rate are taken into consideration in model development and for various ...