Based on case studies of five NGO training interventions for informal economy workers.

Studying a stream of migration from Jharkhand to western Uttar Pradesh (UP), this article focuses on the work and life experiences of migrant labour from tribal India. Based on an in-depth study of a Jharkhand village, alongside a briefer stint at the destination village in UP, it examines the...

In this paper, we consider the problem of estimating the number of components of a superimposed nonlinear sinusoids model of a signal in the presence of additive noise. We propose and provide a detailed empirical comparison of robust methods for estimation of the number of components. The...

Forecasting currency exchange rates is an important financial problem that has received much attention especially because of its intrinsic difficulty and practical applications. The statistical distribution of foreign exchange rates and their linear unpredictability are recurrent themes in the...

Chirp signals play an important role in the statistical signal processing. Recently Kundu and Nandi (2008) [8] derived the asymptotic properties of the least squares estimators of the unknown parameters of the chirp signals model in the presence of stationary noise. Unfortunately they did not...

<title>Abstract</title> The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been investigating early warning accident prevention systems in an effort to prevent runway collisions. One system in place is the Airport Movement Area Safety System (AMASS), developed under contract for the FAA. AMASS internal logic is...

The changing economic and labor conditions have motivated firms to outsource professional services activities to skilled personnel in less expensive labor markets. This offshoring phenomenon is studied from a political, economic, technological and strategic perspective. Next, an analytical model...

Grid computing and grid topologies are attracting a growing amount of attention. Originating as a concept for sharing computing resources among wired participants, the grid concept is gradually been extended into the wireless world. A Wireless Grid is an augmentation of a wired grid that...