It is unclear whether the survey regions, namely 6 of 1212 Villages and 4 peri-urban areas of 70 municipal wards, were chosen through an unbiased randomization process accounting at least for the socio-economic status. Apparently, the data primarily pertains to the marginalized and lower socio-economic population. The survey was largely conducted during the non winter period, when VAD estimates...

In this paper, we investigate the application of descriptive data mining techniques, namely subgroup discovery, for the purpose of the ad-hoc analysis of election results. Our inquiry is based on the 2009 German federal Bundestag election (restricted to the City of Cologne) and additional socio-economic information about Cologne’s polling districts. The task is to describe relations between soc...

Qualitative survey data are used widely to provide indicators of economic activity ahead of the publication of official data. Traditional indicators exploit only aggregate survey information, namely the proportions of respondents who report “up” and “down”. This paper considers disaggregate or firm-level survey responses. It derives alternative disaggregate indicators of economic activity relat...

This paper presents a Simulated Annealing (SA) algorithm for solving the Environmental/Economic Dispatch Problem (EED). This problem is formulated as a multi-objective one with two competing functions, namely economic cost and emission functions, subject to different constraints. The inequality constraints considered are maximum and minimum limits of power generation while the equality constrai...

The present cross-sectional study on adult Asian Indians in Calcutta, India was undertaken to look into the effects of socio-economic and behavioural characteristics in explaining waist-hip ratio (WHR). A total of 500 apparently healthy individuals (300 men and 200 women) were subjects in the study. A random sampling procedure using local voter's registration list was followed to select the sub...

The defining characteristic of wireless and mobile networking is user mobility, and related to it is the ability for the network to capture (at least partial) information on where users are located and how users change location over time. Information about location is becoming critical, and therefore valuable, for an increasingly larger number of location-based or location-aware services. One k...

BACKGROUND Although socio-economic factors have been identified as one of the most important groups of neighbourhood-level risks affecting birth outcomes, uncertainties still exist concerning the pathways through which they are transferred to individual risk factors. This poses a challenge for setting priorities and developing appropriate community-oriented public health interventions and plann...

The aim of this paper is to develop an approach based on fuzzy-sets to handle the uncertainty of nuclear power costs. The underlying aim is to appraise the economic advantages of nuclear power compared with other traditional energy sources, namely coal and natural gas. Having illustrated the general state of the art of nuclear power in terms of production, installed power and economics, a more ...

The integration of Andrographis paniculata under Pinus roxburghii (Chir pine) plantation has been studied to evaluate the growth and yield for its economic viability and conservation. It was grown on three topographical aspects, namely, northern, north-western, and western, at a spacing of 30 cm × 30 cm, followed by three tillage depths, namely, minimum (0 cm), medium (up to 10 cm), and deep (u...

This talk, with reference to the prevailing economic, social, cultural, technological conditions, will problematise traditional definitions of literacy. It will discuss new forms of appropriation and meaning-making, namely those that valorize the cultural resources and media practices of everyday life and that take seriously the subjectivities and identities of learners and their modes of (self...