Repo auction formats, bidders' behaviour and money market response in India

The treasury securities repo-auction is an important instrument for central banks in managing liquidity and sending interest rate signal to the money market. In the Indian context, the repo-auctions have been used actively in the post-reform period. The present study illustrates the money market reaction to repo-auctions and points out whether such reaction is consistent with applied auction rules. The policy implications are analysed in the light of alternative rules pertaining to discriminatory price auctions and fixed rate repos.Repo Auction Formats; Money Market Response

Anxiety as a Source of Motivation: A Critical Study of the Select Novels of Bapsi Sidhwa

The Parsi community in India is currently threatened by extinction due to diverse factors including low birth rate, fecundity, strict laws against religious conversion, and extreme urbanization. This small ethno minority forms a well-defined community by following an inveterate way of living; they only breed among community members, which is an outcome of their long-established allegiance. This closed way of living directs the collateral emergence of ethnic anxiety in its members about the prospect of their survival in the next century. This dwindling community has survived through adapting to centuries of social and cultural cataclysms in pre- and post-partition India. Bapsi Sidhwa, one of the first authors to give a voice to the Parsis, epitomizes herself on behalf of her community and tries to surmount this anxiety in a creative comportment. Her desire to triumph over her authorial anxiety is clearly reflected in her efforts to transcend the limits of her physical disability as well as the collective struggle of the minority she belongs to. Her works are not confined to individual anxiety; rather they contextualize the community’s ceaseless quest for identity and survival. This paper closely scrutinizes various key aspects of the Parsi community and its sensibilities in the novels of Bapsi Sidhwa. The fear of assimilation, an undiminished appetite for the eternal perpetuation of their own identity in postcolonial India, and the author’s consequent emigration to the West are all manifestations of the community’s centuries-old anxieties, which too have been the focal point of Sidhwa’s works

Isolated Identities: The Impact of Government Policies and Socialization Agents on the Root Causes of the Current Conflict in South Sudan

In his book Power Sharing and International Mediation in Ethnic Conflicts, Timothy Sisk has argued that “What is most important is not whether ethnic group identity is innate and fixed or contrived and manipulable; it is that members of an ethnic group perceive the ethnic group to be real. Perceptions are critical in understanding the extent to which intergroup relations can be peaceful or violent” (Timothy Sisk, 1996, p. 13). In South Sudan, Identity Groups are not only perceived to be real, they are real, and as such serve as the basis ethnic differentiation. Before the separation and independence of South Sudan in 2011, Sudan was inhabited by over five hundred distinct ethnic groups; South Sudan seceded with sixty-four of these ethnic groups. Importantly, each of these groups had unique cultures, traditions and religious beliefs that shaped their identities. This multi-ethnic and multi-communal setting created an environment conducive to social conflict, in that it set the stage for the absence of a unified Sudanese identity. The result was protracted civil conflict (Azar, 1990), resulting in decades of political instability and civil wars. First, there were two post (1956) independence civil wars with the North, and second, following its independence in 2011, a civil war broke out within South Sudan. The net result is that since independence in 1956, these civil wars totalled thirty-nine years of conflict that killed over three million and three hundred thousand people on both sides, mostly from South Sudan – totals not to be envied. This paper initially seeks to trace the origins of identity groups in Sudanese/South Sudanese history, both before and after the Turko-Egyptian and Anglo-Egyptian condominium eras beginning in 1821 and lasting until 1956. Further, it will trace the continuing impact of colonial and independent Sudanese government policies on creating isolated identities as the root causes of the protracted social conflict seen in Sudan following independence in 1956. Finally, through the author\u27s first-hand experience growing up in South Sudan, the paper explores how these identity groups have been perpetuated into the present through an examination of the socialization process. In conclusion, the paper will document how a lack of a common shared identity created dysfunction in South Sudan\u27s Transition Government, resulting in instability, insecurity and widespread human suffering

Synthesis and Characterization of Sm3+ Doped CeO2 Nanoparticles

Samaria-doped ceria powders were prepared with varying doping concentrations (0.05, 0.5, 1.0, and 2.0). The nanopowders were synthesized using inorganic salts of cerium ammonium nitrate and samarium nitrate. Cerium ammonium nitrate was used as the precursor for ceria and samarium nitrate as the precursor for Sm3+. Dodecylamine was used as surfactant. The characteristics of the sample were investigated by X-ray diffraction studies, DSC-TG analysis, UV, IR, SEM images and BET surface area measurement. From the thermal studies the mass loss was found to be 16 %. XRD data showed the as-prepared sample has cubic fluorite structure and the broad peaks implied that the crystallite size is small (~ 8 nm). 2 mol% Sm3+ doped CeO2 sample heated at 500C possesses high BET surface area of 75 m2/g. FT-IR results showed that the nanopowders heated at 500oC was free from surfactan

Effect of size and strain rate on deformation behaviour of Cu50Zr50 metallic glass: A molecular dynamics simulation study

Metallic glasses or amorphous metals have attracted considerable attention due to their unique properties and have been evolved as a potential field of research in recent years. The recent discovery of new glass-forming compositions makes it possible to produce metallic glasses in bulk shapes. Bulk metallic glasses provides a promising future to revolutionize the field of structural materials with combinations of strength, elastic limit, toughness, wear resistance and corrosion resistance. Some of their superior properties over crystalline metals have made them a versatile engineering material for many commercial applications now-a-days. Since the fabrication of metallic glasses require high cooling rates and sometimes practically impossible in laboratory conditions, so computational approaches are extensively used to explore various properties and behaviour of metallic glasses. This project work presents a molecular dynamics simulation study on deformation behaviour of Cu50Zr50 metallic glass where the effect of parameters like sample-size and strain rate on the tensile deformation behaviour have been thoroughly studied. Computational methods to create alloy models, subsequent quenching and further tensile deformation have been mentioned. Stress-strain plots were drawn at same strain rate for different sizes of alloy models and at different strain rates for a particular size. Reasons for getting different stress-stress curves for different conditions have also been discussed

The Virtual Ambience with Electronic Human Resource Management System: A Systematic Literature Review

There is no exception that organisation and Human Resource Management were greatly influenced by the Information Technology. There is no doubt about it that the use of informationtechnology bringsbenefits such as cost reduction, time savings and strategic transformation. The term E-HRM can be described as the plan schedules for systematic dimensions , proper implementation of those corollaries and usage of applied sciences in the networking technonlogy for both net working and supporting atleast both the individual or collective actors in their shade in the acting of the HR activities . Both the terms electronic human resources management and the virtual human resource management systems doesn?t go with the same interpretations that is being streamlined by Lepak and Snellas ?Thenetworkfounded structure built on partnerships and typically framed by networking technologies to support the organisation attain, develop and deploy intellectual capital.It?s not even wrong to say that thedecentralization of Human Resourcefunctions to manage and workers is the essence of E-HRM. The access of those functions typically can be availed through intranet or other web technology channels. When such kind of facilities are provided with in the organisation it helps the managers and employees in empowering themselves to perform the chosen HR functions in a way relieving the HR Department from those tasks. In a way the Human Resource personnel?s needs to be liberal on the working activities rather than on the premeditated issues of Human resources and these all processes helps the organisation in saving the cost by not recruiting more staff in HR and likewise the administrative work pressure is eased. It is even foreseen that E-HRM grows and renovates the part of a business culture while there would be changes apparently but the need is to be inculcated to a substantial measure. The introductory researchon CIPD survey (2007)resultedthat ?The shared services, outsourcing and E-HR have had relatively little impact on costs or staff numbers?

Energy Efficient Virtual Machine Migration in Cloud Data Centers

Cloud computing services have been on the rise over the past few decades, which has led to an increase in the number of data centers worldwide which increasingly consume more and more amount of energy for their operation, leading to high carbon dioxide emissions and also high operation costs. Cloud computing infrastructures are designed to support the accessibility and deployment of various service oriented applications by the users. The resources are the major source of the power consumption in data centers along with air conditioning and cooling equipment. Moreover the energy consumption in the cloud is proportional to the resource utilization and data centers are almost the worlds highest consumers of electricity. It is therefore, the need of the hour to devise efficient consolidation schemes for the cloud model to minimize energy and increase Return of Investment(ROI) for the users by decreasing the operating costs. The consolidation problem is NP-complete in nature, which requires heuristic techniques to get a sub-optimal solution. The complexity of the problem increases with increase in cloud infrastructure. We have proposed a new consolidation scheme for the virtual machines(VMs) by improving the host overload detection phase of the scheme. The resulting scheme is effective in reducing the energy and the level of Service Level Agreement(SLA) violations both, to a considerable extent. For testing the performance of our implementation on cloud we need a simulation environment that can provide us an environment with system and behavioural modelling of the actual cloud computing components, and can generate results that can help us in the analysis so that we can deploy them on actual clouds. CloudSim is one such simulation toolkit that allows us to test and analyse our allocation and selection algorithms. In this thesis we have used CloudSim version 3.0.3 to test and analyse our policies and modifications in the current policies. The advantages of using CloudSim 3.0.3 is that it takes very less effort and time to implement cloud-based application and we can test the performance of application services in heterogeneous Cloud environments. The observations are validated by simulating the experiment using the CLoudSim framework and the data provided by PlanetLab

Activity Process Re-Engineering-Greatest Challenges In Implementation of ERP Systems in Government Organization

In recent year, the implementation of enterprise resource planning in different small, medium and large scale industries is not at all a problem with respect to financial investment. The top level management also interested to implement integrated customized software for their organization. But it has observed that almost half of the implementation is fruitless for their organization. This has happened due to problem in mappling from manual system to automatic system. In this paper we are interested to more thrust on the challenges of activity process re-engineering of enterprise resource planning system in government organizatio

A Comprehensive Literature Review and Measurement Techniques on Emotional Intelligence & Indian Youth in context of Leadership and Entrepreneurial Abilities

Youth are the major seekers of employment as they traverse their journey of life from adolescent to youth. A significant proportion of youth take over the business of their family as heir apparent, but the major proportion of youth becomes the first time jobseekers and searches for economic opportunities as existing in their country of residence. Employment market is a dynamic system where people keep getting in and out of system. Through this paper the authors are interested to explore the relationship among the emotional intelligence with the Indian youth with respect to leadership and entrepreneurial ability. The author’s are explored the measurement techniques for the emotional intelligenc

Overview of WSN Infrastructure Models, Design & Management

Network management for Wireless Sensor Network Infrastructure is a challenging area where the management operation is to run on very minimal or zero cost. The network data packets routing costs more, hence managing this unstructured network improves the network efficiency and extend the network life time. The deployed sensor nodes have a fixed battery life and there are also some attempts made to manage this WSN network efficiently. In this paper we focus on different networking parameters used to measure efficiency, different network functionality and different design structure evolved in this area