Aging is the foremost challenge in recent times, given the demographic shift in populations across the world. It implies the costs of healthcare burden and involves economic and social security challenges through shortage of labor supply, consumption-saving paradox, increase in expenditure on...

Aging is the foremost challenge in recent times, given the demographic shift in populations across the world. It implies the costs of healthcare burden and involves economic and social security challenges through shortage of labor supply, consumption-saving paradox, increase in expenditure on...

Radio frequency identification (RFID) is a term used for any device that can be sensed at a distance by radio frequencies with few problems of obstruction. The origins of the term lie in the invention of tags that reflect or retransmit a radiofrequency signal. According to a recent article by...

Several past studies have been conducted for the purpose of measuring and analyzing the dynamics of single package shipping environment for the next day delivery services provided by companies including DHL, FedEx, UPS and USPS. Over the past few decades increased shipping hazard evaluations...

The demand for fashion apparel by consumers these days is at its peak, which has caused a paradigm shift in the consumers' preferences and the retail industry. This paper is an attempt to check the impact of selected factors such as store characteristics, product characteristics, and external...

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is increasingly recognised as an essential tool of development a tool which empowers the poor by enhancing skills, increasing productivity and improving governance. The success of ICTenabled development (or e-Development) is measured not only by the...

The paper examines the current status of groundwater, discusses various policy interplays and trade offs and identifies some issues for the effectiveness of groundwater policy. Water policy is influenced by various related policies, such as agricultural policy, land-use policy, energy policy,...

The purpose of this study is to determine if the impact of transparency and disclosure (TD) levels on shareholders' current income (dividends) is moderated by technical efficiency (te) and profitability. The study employs econometrics on panel data from 78 BSE-listed enterprises across the...

The present study primarily examines the impact of financial distress (FD) on the dividend policy of 33 banks working in the Indian economy from 2010 to 2019. In addition, we further explore the association between financial distress and dividend policy under the influence of shareholder...

Bismuth ferrite has recently been extensively studies as potential material for photovoltaic and photocatalytic applications as it provides wide opportunity to tune band-gap by site engineering with suitable elements. Further, this doping modified the optical and ferroelectric properties of...