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Various features of the Indian labor market spanning regulation, financial constraints, and social norms naturally translate into a suboptimal allocation of workers' talent across productive units. In turn, such misallocation can lead to significant losses in aggregate productivity, as highlighted b...

Globally out of the 1.35 million road traffic deaths, more than half of them are amongst the pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists. There are more Motorized (Powered) Two Wheelers (MTWs) in Indian cities compared to other modes (10-15%), excluding pedestrian and public transport. Further nearly 34...

To use structural and neurochemical basis of cognitive-affective process for improving predictions of post-surgery outcomes in epilepsy patients from low socioeconomic strata.

The recent advancement in Precision Agriculture which aims to achieve yield maximization with natural resource optimization in farming practices worldwide; has brought the techniques of 'Agri-Photonics' to the forefront. In this regard, the increasing food literacy in consumer market has brought abo...

The project targets to harness the excess electricity (or electricity spillage) generated by solar PV and wind power plants which will be converted into thermal energy, and in turn will be stored in a thermal energy storage system (Thermal battery). The thermal battery is envisaged to store heat at ...

The Indian government has set ambitious targets for renewable energy expansion (175 GW by 2022) to decarbonise the national energy mix. Solar energy forms the core of India's renewable energy plans. While most focus in India so far has remained on solar PV, the pace of development and commissioning ...

Air pollution is the leading environmental cause of mortality and morbidity in the world. Despite significant progress in air pollution epidemiology, uncertainty in estimating the burden remains large, especially in data poor countries like India. Moreover, whether the relative burden of PM2.5 expos...

The greenhouse effect and global warming are the most important issue facing the present day. A number of initiatives are trying to come up with a way to decrease emissions of greenhouse gases. CO2 is a major greenhouse gas which causes global environmental problems. Carbon dioxide's radiative forci...

Advances in the field of vaccines have transformed the prevention of many health conditions and helped in improving quality of life. For example, HPV vaccines such as Gradasil® (Merck & Co) has reduced the probability of precancerous abnormalities by 34% in young adults (20-24 years). However, the ...

UN World Water Development Report predicts an increase in water demand in agricultural sector by 70-90% without improved methods to satisfy the basic feeding demand of the growing world population. Moreover, global climate change is causing steep rise in temperatures, increased temperature variabili...