We have examined the antecedents of luxury consumption by conducting a thorough review of literature. Valid scale items for measuring psychological, personal, social, cultural antecedents of luxury consumption in India are proposed. Using Factor Analysis on a sample of 550 responses of the scale items, we have developed a valid questionnaire for Indian luxury consumers. The proposed questionnaire is relevant in context of the proposed model and luxury consumption in India. The proposed questionnaire achieves parsimony in terms of reducing the cardinality of the set of items from 141 to 55.

The contrasting values of the oscillator strengths for the (0,0) band of SiH+ molecules for the A 1II-X 1∑+ transition reported in literature, motivated us to reinvestigate the same with the help of a new set of well accepted solar photospheric models, elemental abundances and dissociation energy.

Solar IR spectra have been utilised by us to derive log gf values for atomic lines due to 17 chemical elements. in the J and H bands, i.e. in the wavelength ranges 1.00 - 1.34 μm and 1.49 - 1.80 μm respectively. The observed central line depths were based on the FTS atlases published at. Liege and KPNO. We also reprot new log gf values for 51 lines for which neither theoretical nor experimental values are available till date.

We present here the solar LOG GF values obtained using the Liege solar at las and the standard solar photospheric models for the spectral lines in the wavelength range ⋋⋋ 6209 - 6273 Å. These log gf values shall be used to interpret a high resolution spectra of the star ɤ Draconics.