Authors:Robert E. Evenson, Prabhu Pingali,
Publisher: North Holland
Keywords: farm, agricultural, production, markets, farmers, development, economics, volume, handbook
Number of Pages: 846
Published: 2007-07-12
List price: $154.95
ISBN-10: 0444518738
ISBN-13: 9780444518736

Volume 3 of this series of the Handbooks in Economics follows on from the previous two volumes by focusing on the fundamental concepts of agricultural economics. The first part of the volume examines the developments in human resources and technology mastery. The second part follows on by considering the processes and impact of invention and innovation in this field. The effects of market forces are examined in the third part, and the volume concludes by analysing the economics of our changing natural resources, including the past effects of climate change.Overall this volume forms a comprehen

Author: Sailaja Pingali
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Keywords: english, dialects, indian
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2009-02-15
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 074862595X
ISBN-13: 9780748625956

Indian English is a second language to most of its speakers, yet during its 400-year history, it has acquired its own character while still looking to native varieties of English for its norms. Pinjali Sailaja discusses the complex nature of Indian English, which is not really a monolithic entity. He distinguishes between standard and non-standard varieties and provides an overview of their salient features.

Author: N.U. Prabhu
Publisher: CRC
Keywords: series, textbooks, reference, books, applied, probability, inference, stochastic, processes, statistical
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1990-12-18
List price: $93.95
ISBN-10: 0824784170
ISBN-13: 9780824784171

Covering both theory and applications, this collection of eleven contributed papers surveys the role of probabilistic models and statistical techniques in image analysis and processing, develops likelihood methods for inference about parameters that determine the drift and the jump mechanism of a di

Author: N.U. Prabhu
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: stochastic, communication, modelling, applied, probability, data, risk, storage, processes, queues, insurance, dams
Number of Pages: 206
Published: 1998-01-15
List price: $109.00
ISBN-10: 0387982485
ISBN-13: 9780387982489

A self-contained treatment of stochastic processes arising from models for queues, insurance risk, and dams and data communication, using their sample function properties. The approach is based on the fluctuation theory of random walks, L vy processes, and Markov-additive processes, in which Wiener-Hopf factorisation plays a central role. This second edition includes results for the virtual waiting time and queue length in single server queues, while the treatment of continuous time storage processes is thoroughly revised and simplified. With its prerequisite of a graduate-level course in prob

Author: C.S.R. Prabhu
Publisher: Prentice-Hall of India Pvt.Ltd
Keywords: approaches, architectures, systems, database, oriented, object
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 2005-12-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8120327896
ISBN-13: 9788120327894

Author: Prabhu Ghate
Publisher: Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd
Keywords: report, sector, state, india, microfinance
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2008-11-11
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 8178298937
ISBN-13: 9788178298931

Microfinance in India: A State of the Sector Report, 2007 is one in a series of annual reports on the microfinance sector in India. It is a comprehensive one-stop document that provides a holistic view of the sector, providing a detailed analysis of its status and future. It highlights recent developments under each of the two main models of microfinance in India -the SHG and MFI models. Most significantly, it engages with issues of topical interest such as the microfinance bill pending in parliament in a balanced and objective manner, and focuses on policy issues that need the attention of de

Author: Narahari U. Prabhu
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: applications, theory, basic, processes, stochastic
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 2007-10-02
List price: $73.00
ISBN-10: 9812706267
ISBN-13: 9789812706263

Most introductory textbooks on stochastic processes which cover standard topics such as Poisson process, Brownian motion, renewal theory and random walks deal inadequately with their applications. Written in a simple and accessible manner, this book addresses that inadequacy and provides guidelines and tools to study the applications. The coverage includes research developments in Markov property, martingales, regenerative phenomena and Tauberian theorems, and covers measure theory at an elementary level.