The Indus flood in 2010 was one of the greatest river disasters in recent history, which affected more than 14 million people in Pakistan. Although excessive rainfall between July and September 2010 has been cited as the major causative factor for this disaster, the human interventions in the...

In this paper, we present a novel maximum power point tracking method for a photovoltaic system consisting of a photovoltaic panel with a power electronic converter; the whole is feeding a battery. This maximum powerpoint depends on the temperature and irradiation conditions. A robust control...

Image forgery detection is an approach for detection and localization of forged component from a manipulated image. To find manipulation or tampering in the original image, an adequate number of features are required to classify the given image is either a forged or non-forged. To achieve this...

To find out whether our government is spending an astronomical amount of taxpayer’s money publicising itself rather than disseminating information, facts and figures were assimilated. By tracking five leading national dailies for government advertisements, over the month of June 2003.,...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of Indian investor sentiments on contemporaneous stock returns of Bombay Stock Exchange, National Stock Exchange and various sectoral indices in India by developing a sentiment index. Design/methodology/approach: The study uses...

Purpose: This paper aims to study the corporate governance practices followed by the listed companies in India to find out if industry and business group affiliation of firms influence their corporate governance practices. Design/methodology/approach: The authors have created a corporate...

Purpose: Fear grips stock markets when a pandemic like COVID-19 strikes, severely affecting stock prices. However, fundamental value drivers of companies do not change drastically during pandemics. The sensitivity of firms' cash flows to lockdowns during pandemics...

Purpose: This study examines individual ambiguity attitudes alone and in groups by leveraging the descriptive model of anchoring and adjustment on decision-making under ambiguity. The study extends Ellsberg's probability ambiguity to outcome ambiguity and examines decisions made under both...