The main aim of the study is to improve the quality of bias tyres, reduce manufacturing waste, and increase the yield of the tyre manufacturing process in a leading tyre manufacturing company in South India. This paper aims to show how Lean Six Sigma tools can be used to address and tackle...

The objective of this study was to test the market efficiency hypothesis of Colombian coffee. This is of extreme importance to Colombia because the exports of coffee from this country provides for valuable foreign exchange and provides employment for her people. Historically this country has...

Credit Rating forms the foundation of trust in the capital markets. However the US sub-prime crisis has brought forth the perils when risk and especially Credit risk is not accurately factored in the ratings. This is an area of glaring failure for erstwhile renowned rating agencies and has...

This paper examines whether the loadings on the crop insurance premium rates for risks such as moral hazard and adverse selection are adequate. From the discrete choice (tobit) analysis conducted, we discover that the premium loadings for 75% coverage level are not adequate, resulting in losses...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the economic and legal aspects of the difficulties in obtaining compensation of chemical disaster that occurred India, when the parent company is located in the United States. After this disaster, several laws regulating chemical plant operation became...

A series of wavelet analysis techniques are applied to observe the reduction in the banded vegetation pattern of Niger valley, to select the best suited wavelet pattern to describe the changes in Vegetation. The best fit pattern was found to be Mexican Hat transform. Using the Mexican hat...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2007) reports that the number of extreme precipitation and temperature events in India are projected to increase in the short term. The negative effects of this on rural populations in India may include crop and livestock loss, livelihood risk,...

In response to substantial economic and social dislocations in the United States, many rangeland owners are changing land use and management practices. Changes in land use can significantly affect the services rangeland ecosystems provide. Decisions associated with such changes are likely...