PUBLIC INVESTMENT IN AGRICULTURAL AND GDP GROWTH-- ANOTHER LOOK AT THE INTER SECTORAL LINKAGES AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS

Despite its reduced share in India’s GDP, agriculture continues to have a strategic importance in ensuring its overall growth and prosperity. As part of the new economic policy package introduced in the early nineties, there has been a reduction in the rate of public investment. While this may not be bad for the industrial sector, the impact of this policy on agriculture is a matter of concern, in sofar as it not only affects steady growth of agriculture but also influences the overall performance of the economy. This is more so because the agricultural sector public investment has also promoted private investment by way of what is termed as the crowding-in phenomenon. This phenomenon together with inter-sectoral linkages is used in this paper to examine the effect of higher public investment for agriculture on the stable growth of this sector as well as of the entire economy. Policy implications of this exercise are important for obvious reasons.Sectoral linkages, Public Investment, crowding-in

EFFICIENCY AND PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH IN INDIAN BANKING

This paper attempts to examine technical efficiency and productivity performance of Indian scheduled commercial banks, for the period 1979-2008. We model a multiple output/multiple input technology production frontier using semiparametric estimation methods. The endogenity of multiple outputs is addressed by semi parametric estimates in part by introducing multivariate kernel estimators for the joint distribution of the multiple outputs and correlated random effects. Output is measured as the rupee value of total loans and total investments at the end of the year. The estimates provide robust inferences of the productivity and efficiency gains due to economic reforms.Banking, Frontier efficiency, Productivity

Simple methods for crossing and genetic analysis of Neurospora crassa strains

In the asexual cycle of Neurospora crassa, the wild-type strains produce only mycelia and conidia when grown at 30o-34oC. In contrast, during the sexual cycle the female reproductive structures - protoperithecia - can be produced and fertilized successfully only if the incubation temperature is around 25oC. Normally, a large number of conidia are also produced at this low temperature

Estimation of Stress Strength Reliability for Transmuted Exponentiated Inverse Rayleigh Distribution

The problem of estimation of reliability of systems in stress-strength set up is an important area of research in Statistics, particularly, in Statistical Inference on reliability. In this paper, the estimation of stress-strength reliability when the strength and stress variables are assumed to be independently distributed as transmuted exponentiated inverse Rayleigh distribution (TEIRD) is considered. The TEIRD is a general distribution which includes transmuted inverse Rayleigh distribution, exponentiated inverse Rayleigh distribution and inverse Rayleigh distribution as a particular cases. The maximum likelihood estimator of stress -strength model is derived. Also, asymptotic confidence interval for reliability is constructed. The real data analysis is considered and the simulation study is conducted

The bli regulon - a network of blue light inducible genes of N. crassa

Several physiological responses of N. crassa are observed when this fungus is exposed to blue light. Here, we do not intend to make a comprehensive list of all the light effects observed so far in N. crassa (for a review, see Degli Innocenti and Russo 1984. In Blue Light Effects in Biological Systems ed. H. Senger, Springer-Verlag. pp 213-219.), but point out only the underlying themes. First, the time interval between the light stimulus and the observed response can be very different, and ranges from a few minutes to several hours - or even days - depending on the nature of the physiological response in question

Scaling of the giant dipole resonance widths in hot rotating nuclei from the ground state values

The systematics of the giant dipole resonance (GDR) widths in hot and rotating nuclei are studied in terms of temperature T, angular momentum J and mass A. The different experimental data in the temperature range of 1 - 2 MeV have been compared with the thermal shape fluctuation model (TSFM) in the liquid drop formalism using a modified approach to estimate the average values of T, J and A in the decay of the compound nucleus. The values of the ground state GDR widths have been extracted from the TSFM parametrization in the liquid drop limit for the corrected T, J and A for a given system and compared with the corresponding available systematics of the experimentally measured ground state GDR widths for a range of nuclei from A = 45 to 194. Amazingly, the nature of the theoretically extracted ground state GDR widths matches remarkably well, though 1.5 times smaller, with the experimentally measured ground state GDR widths consistently over a wide range of nuclei.Comment: 15 pages, 4 figures, Accepted for publication in Physical Review

Co-regulation of two tandem genes by one blue-light element in Neurospora crassa

Many genes of Neurospora crassa are regulated by blue light: al-1 (Schmidhauser et al. 1990 Mol. Cell. Biol. 10:5064-5070), al-2 (Lauter, Schmidhauser, Yanofsky, Russo unpublished), al-3 (Nelson et al. 1989 Mol. Cell. Biol. 9:1271-1276), bli-3, bli-4, bli-7, bli-13 (Sommer et al. 1989 NAR 17:5713-5723). For none of these genes are the blue light cis-regulatory sequences (blue-light elements, BE) known. Here we report the presence of such BE in front of bli-4

Investigation of complete and incomplete fusion in 7^{7}Li+124^{124}Sn reaction around Coulomb barrier energies

The complete and incomplete fusion cross sections for $^{7}$Li+$^{124}$Sn reaction were measured using online and offline characteristic $\gamma$-ray detection techniques. The complete fusion (CF) cross sections at energies above the Coulomb barrier were found to be suppressed by $\sim$ 26 \% compared to the coupled channel calculations. This suppression observed in complete fusion cross sections is found to be commensurate with the measured total incomplete fusion (ICF) cross sections. There is a distinct feature observed in the ICF cross sections, i.e., $\textit{t}$-capture is found to be dominant than $\alpha$-capture at all the measured energies. A simultaneous explanation of complete, incomplete and total fusion (TF) data was also obtained from the calculations based on Continuum Discretized Coupled Channel method with short range imaginary potentials. The cross section ratios of CF/TF and ICF/TF obtained from the data as well as the calculations showed the dominance of ICF at below barrier energies and CF at above barrier energies.Comment: 9 pages, 8 figure