This study is a major effort towards a comparative assessment of the historical and political economy dimensions of fertility transition in the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. The states represent two distinct paradigm in terms of historical, cultural and political economy factors shaping the varying origin and context of demographic changes and fertility transition. In this analysis, an extensive volume of evidences have been constructed on the demographic trends, progress in development and infrastructure, evolution of political economy structure, both relating to historical...

Software development efforts estimation is the process of predicting the most realistic use of effort required to develop or maintain the software project. The ability to accurately estimate the time and/or cost taken for a project to come in to its successful conclusion is a serious problem for software engineers. The use of a repeatable, clearly defined and well understood software development process has, in recent years, shown itself to be the most effective method of gaining useful historical data that can be used for statistical estimation. These estimates are ultimately influencing...