Microenterprise success of home-based garment makers in Bangalore, India

Home-based producers are some of the most invisible workers in the unorganised sector in India. In many industries, including garment production, they comprise a significant proportion of the workforce. In order to document this as well as to make visible the contribution of home-based producers, proper estimates of their numbers and output are necessary. Because these producers work within their homes, often on activities closely related to household production for consumption, they are easily slipped in labour force estimates. Added to this problem is the fact that many home-based producers are women, and women have traditionally been an under-counted group within labour force statistics. The purpose of this paper is to make visible the number and contribution of male and female home-based garment producers in Bangalore, India illustrating any deficiencies in official statistics on home-based industries. The paper concludes with recommendations to incorporating the home-based producers and strategies to improve the contribution of female home-based garment producers in Bangalore

Stock market investor grievance redressal system-an empirical study

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) laid down several regulatory measures to protect the investors of capital market. Effective investor protection is not simply a function of �law on the books�, but it depends heavily on �law in action� which depends on issues like innovative supervisory strategies, product design initiatives, capital market research, investors redress and investors education. This study is considered to be interesting for two reasons, firstly, it covers the recent trends in grievance redressal rate and secondly, it examines the fluctuations in pending grievance redressal rate. The present research is based on purely secondary data available at SEBI web sites and used analytical tools like simple percentage analysis and hypothesis testing. The paper pleads for implementation of effective investor grievance redressal mechanism

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New studies and a short review of heavy neutron-rich transfer products

International audienceWe present new results on multi-nucleon transfer reactions in low-energy collisions of $^{48}\hbox {Ca}+{}^{238}\hbox {U}$ measured at the velocity filter SHIP of GSI Helmholtz Centre, where we observed around 90 different nuclides from Tl to Am ($Z=$ 81–95). We followed the idea to use uranium targets for the synthesis of neutron-rich MNT products, particularly in the region below lead, which was triggered by model calculations. The $\gamma$, $\alpha$ and spontaneous fission activities of the populated nuclides have been analyzed for their identification. The cross-sections of the observed isotopes for elements $Z =$81–93 as a function of their mass number have been investigated. Excitation energy, total kinetic energy and the influence of nuclear shell effects on the production cross-sections of the observed transfer products have been studied. Also we present a compact review and comparative analysis of various multi-nucleon transfer and fragmentation reactions which are aimed at the synthesis of neutron-rich nuclides along the $N=126$ shell closure in heavy nuclei