This paper presents a survey of Indian third-party logistics (3PL) providers and compares the state of the industry with that in 2004 based on an earlier survey. The 3PL industries of India and North America are also compared. The survey finds that the Indian 3PL industry lags behind North America in terms of global reach and breadth of service. Indian 3PL providers also underperform in key var...

This article explores the meanings given by Indian viewers to a series of health-related episodes dealing with ‘Tony’s HIV’ in the Hollywood television soap opera, The Bold and the Beautiful. Forty-two respondents in six focus group interviews and in 17 in-depth personal interviews were asked for their interpretations of this television health content. Indian respondents interpreted the sexual ...

This paper investigates the first four formant frequencies of 60 normal Malaysian Indian young adults in sustained vowels using acoustical analysis. The F1, F2, F3 and F4 of Malaysian Indian males were reported at 359±87 Hz, 1457±630 Hz, 2799 ±336 Hz and 3777 ± 299 Hz respectively. The F1, F2, F3 and F4 of Malaysian Indian females were reported at 485±172 Hz, 1707±746 Hz, 3081±330 Hz and 4305±2...

INTRODUCTION American Indian youths smoke cigarettes at high rates, yet few smoking-cessation programs have been developed for them. The objective of this study, conducted during 2003 and 2004, was to determine the preliminary quit and reduction outcomes of the American Lung Association's newly adapted American Indian Not On Tobacco (N-O-T) program. METHODS Seventy-four American Indian youths...

Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India Center for Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India Centre for Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India Divecha Centre for Climate Change, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India USDA-ARS Conservation & Production Research L...

The research attempts to understand the Indian customers’ perceptions towards the service quality of multinational banks. There have been several studies to understand the service quality in the banking sector. With liberalisation policies initiated by the Indian Government, the multinational banks have been making investments in the country. To be successful in the country, they would have to ...

This research study explores the Cost efficiency of Indian banking sector by employing Stochastic Frontier Approach (SFA). This paper empirically evaluated the impact of Information Technology (IT) on the Cost efficiency of the Indian banks .The present study is based on panel data over the period of 2009-2013. For this paper 77 banks of India are being considered. This paper identifies the ave...

Indian Languages are Indo-Aryan being influenced by Sanskrit or Dravidian being influenced by Tamil. Dravidian Languages have the influence of Sanskrit also. All Indian Languages have the influence of Pali language for which the graphemes are being influenced Brahmi. All the Indian languages are phonetic in nature. Every Indian language has its distinctive phone sets. North Indian languages are...

American Indian and Euroamerican adolescents were compared in regard to the events that they saw as responsible for their alcohol use. American Indian males believed that heredity played a more important role in their use of alcohol than Euroamerican males. American Indian males also believed that fate was a more important influence on their use of alcohol than American Indian females and Euroa...

The timeliness of publication in five Indian, clinical, biomedical journals (Indian Pediatrics, The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, Neurology India, The Indian Journal of Medical Research and Journal of Postgraduate Medicine) from January 2007 to December 2008 was compared. The time from manuscript submission to publication for the journals studied (median: 358.3 days; range: 202.9-421.3 days) wa...