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Relationship of Family Support Towards Self-Management and Quality of Life of Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Authors: Yamin Ahmad , Sari Citra Windani Mambang
Published: August 2018

DM disease will be suffered for life, so the patient is expected to establish self-management behavior in managing the disease. Self-management behavior in patient tends to decline with increasing complications perceived by patients. The presence of social support one of important factors to improve adherence of self-management Diabetes patients. The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship of social support towards self-management and the quality of life in DM patients in Bandung. This research used correlational approach with purposive technique sampling. Numbers of respondent were taken from the region of 10 Puskesmas with highest DM in Bandung on 92 patients who came to Puskesmas. The questionnaires used were Hensarling Diabetes Family Support Scale (HDFSS), Summary of Diabetes Self-management Activities Measure (SDSCA) and SF-36. The analysis used analysis using frequency distribution, and Spearman-rho. Most respondents (51.1%) had social support below the group median. Most respondents (50%) had a quality of life below the group median. Most respondents (52.2%) had DM self-management behavior below the group median. Bivariate results showed no relationship between social support support and self-management and quality of life of respondents (p value = 0.801). There is no significant relationship between social support and self-management and quality of life. Therefore, the studies are expected to be recommendations of this study was integrate nursing care to improve self-management and quality of life of DM patients.
The Effect of Five-Finger Relaxation Technique to The Sleep Quality of Breast Cancer Patients
Authors: Dewi Rosliana , Rahayuwati Laili , Kurniawan Titis
Published: August 2018

Sleeping disorder is a symptom often suffered by breast cancer patients. To overcome it, five-finger relaxation technique is considered helpful. In previous research, this technique can be utilized to lower the level of anxiety and fatigue. This research, therefore, aims at identifying the effect of five-finger relaxation technique to the sleep quality of breast cancer patients.The research method used that of quasi experiment with pre-test and post-test control group design. The population included breast cancer patients within the service of the healthcare in Sekarwangi Hospital and R. Syamsudin SH Hospital. Sampling was done consecutively. The number of samples from control and intervention group were 30 people each. The intervention group received a standard hospital therapy and five-finger relaxation technique divided in 15 sessions with 10-15 minutes time every other day for 1 month. Meanwhile, the control group received only a standard hospital therapy. The measurement tool was PSQI. The analysis used paired sample t-test and independent sample t-test.The result of the research has shown a difference in scores during pre-test and post-test of the sleep quality on both groups due to p value < 0.05. A difference has striken on the scores of sleep quality between control and intervention group with the latter having higher scores than the former.It can be concluded that five-finger relaxation technique does affect the quality sleep of breast cancer patients. The result of this research can be an additional intervention to decrease the symptoms suffered by breast cancer patients.
Comparison of Lecture and Video Methods in Increasing Caregiver Knowledge in Treating Clients Halusination
Authors: Eryanto Bambang , Hernawaty Taty , Iskandar Shelly
Published: August 2018

Efforts to improve caregiver’s knowledge on hallucination is by providing an education the caregivers. Enhancing such knowledge can be carried out by different methods, include lecture and watching video methods. The purpose of the present research was to compare the effectiveness of lecture  and watching video method in enhancing caregiver’s knowledge on hallucination.          The research used a quasi-experiment method with a pretest and posttest group design, with the research sample was 60. The sampling technique used was a total sampling. The scores of caregiver’s knowledge were determined by a questionnaire of knowledge on hallucination that was self-developed by validity test (0.707) and reliability test (0.968). The data obtained was then tested by using Independent Sample T-test, Mann-Whitney test, and Wilcoxon test.          The result of pretest of caregiver’s knowledge before the intervention showed that there was no difference between intervention and control group (p-value=0.624), while result of posttest of caregiver’s knowledge after the intervention showed that there was a significant difference between lecture group and video group (p-value=0.000). The research findings revealed that there was a significant increase in the scores of knowledge for both methods (p-value=0.000), but the increase of video group’s knowledge score was higher (4.23) than that of lecture group (2.57).          The conclusion of the research was that wathing video method was more effective than lecture method in enhancing caregiver’s knowledge so that video can be used as an alternative method for mental health education.
Pareto Analysis on National Issues in Textile Industry in Pakistan
Authors: Memon Mohammad Salih , Sattar Shah Abdul , Murtaza Maitlo Dr.Ghulam , HussainKhuwaja Imdad , Rahat Mr. Sarmad , Shoaib Khan Muhammad
Published: August 2018

This research investigates the Pareto Analysis on National Issues in Textile Industry in Pakistan. Data were collected from Primary as well as secondary sources It is a statistical research technique in decision making that is used for the selection of a limited number of tasks that produce significant overall effect. It separates the few major problems from the many possible problems. It is named after Vilfredo Pareto, a 19th-century Italian economist. It was revealed that Textile spinning sector detail of analysis performed for reducing a huge number of issues explored from textile industry of Pakistan in the era of trade liberalization.Â  It was revealed that high cost of production, industrialists are highly risk averse, lack of training programs, R&D facility of 6% has been withdrawn, no collective method for solving the industrial problems, changing name from EPB to TDAP is not the solution, textile / garments city project can be a powerful tool, industrialist shifting business to other countries , lack of funds, labors shifting to other countries, there is a huge paper work which takes a great time, lack of interaction between industry & academia, constraints for the Industry. Finally, the identified global issues are; removal of quota, awareness about the trade liberalization, worse image of Pakistan internationally, restriction of EU to buy raw material from them, lack of ETP, evaluation of factory, delay in delivery, lack of diversification in the direction of trade, Only developing country to sign the ILO conventions completely, millions of dollars spent to destroy Pakistanâ€™s image internationally, quality issues, labor-intensive production, Increase in the foreign buyersâ€™ check, Imposition of antidumping duties, preferential treatment to the competitors, competitors are much stronger.
The practices and Understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility in Public sector of Pakistan: A CaseofPPL-Pakistan
Authors: Memon Mohammad Salih , Ali Jariko Mushtaque , Mushtaque Tania , Ahmed Ahmadani Munir , Muhammad Shaikh Faiz , Abdul Sattar Shah Syed
Published: August 2018

The current research investigates the practices and understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in public sector of Pakistan. CSR is becoming very familiar in the field of business and is getting much popularity among scholars, academicians, practitioners, and communities. But, through this paper it is identified that practice and understanding of CSR in most of the developing nations including Pakistan is philanthropic and has not fully developed in accordance with international standards. Moreover, most of the companies believe that doing charitable activities is CSR.Â  This, off course is not the CSR as it is being practiced and developed in the West. The discourse of CSR among the developing nations is still at infancy stage and has to develop in accordance with the International standards. Further, with the help of this paper CSR and its overall structure is presented in which some key theories of CSR are also presented. The purpose of presenting this is to make aware the public companies of Pakistan to think beyond the current philanthropic approach of CSR.We believe that by broadening the practice and understanding of CSR can help companies to better develop their image before the various stakeholders.Â  Because, we believe that CSR oriented organizations are more efficient of attracting, motivating and retaining their internal stakeholders e.g. the employees and can have better image before the external stakeholders. Thus, we believe that more empirical research is needed and we encourage the future research be carried particularly in public sector because public sector plays vital role in solving the most of the societal problems.Â  In this paper the extent literature on CSR is presented in which the broader perspective of CSR is discussed.
Application of Mobile GUI Design Theory to the Development of an Open Source Touchscreen Smartphone GUI
Authors: Sooknanan Daniel Jovan , Joshi Ajay
Published: August 2018

It can be argued that the focal point of every smartphone is its GUI. The Graphical User Interface is the aspect of any touchscreen smartphone with which users directly interact. Of late, the touchscreen smartphone has become ubiquitous. As such there is a myriad of smartphone platforms, each of which boasts a user-friendly GUI in its own accord. This paper outlines the design and development of an open source touchscreen smartphone GUI, implemented on an Embedded Linux development board, which serves as a hypothetical smartphone. It gives an overview of GUI design theory and mobile usability studies and shows the application of this theory in the programming process for an embedded platform. This paper goes in depth into the development process for an ARM-based Linux platofrm. The major outcomes of this study include the successful formulation and design of a hierarchical, touchscreen GUI suitable for a smartphone, as well as successful development and target-specific implementation of this GUI on an Embedded Linux, ARM-based platform, by adopting of an open source philosophy.
How America Government Framed Crisis and Interacted with public on Social media
Authors: Xie Qihui
Published: August 2018

Social media is a subject of government interest in emergency response. Government usage of social media in crisis has four functions: information display, information obtain, public expression platform and interaction tool. Though much attention has been given on government usage of social media in crisis, little research is focused on governmentâ€™s interaction with public via social media. This research did a case study on how government agencies of New York City (NYC) use social media to frame crisis and interact with public. By coding crisis framing and counting public re-tweets per tweet, public question, government reply and public positive and negative attitude numbers of five main crisis management agencies in NYC. The findings indicate that public and government had different attentions over crisis; NYC government had a relative high interaction intensity with public and interaction with public may influence public attitude. This research concludes some advice for government using social media in crisis.
THE FORWARD EXCHANGE PREMIUM DYNAMICS Dr. Nessrine HAMZAOUI ALOUI
Authors: HAMZAOUI ALOUI Dr. Nessrine
Published: August 2018

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the JPY/USD and the CAD/USD forward exchange premiums by adopting the ARCH/GARCH modeling, given its descriptive and predictive advantages. We estimate a symmetric linear model by taking into account the effect of the mean and the conditional variance in a univariate framework. The estimation results show that the shocks induced by the volatility are very persistent, so that forecasts of the conditional variance converge very slowly to the regular state. This shows the relevance of the heteroscedastic GARCH-in-Mean model in the estimation of the forward premium on the international foreign exchange markets. This result may have several important implications for monetary policy in most developing countries.
Banking Management Control Systems in Greece
Authors: KARAOULANIS ANDREAS
Published: August 2018

This paper aims to explore the way the management control systems(MCSs) work in the Greek banking sector. It also gives us a comparison betweenwhat is currently known and what the findings of the research indicated.Methods- The method used for this case study research is described in the book â€œCase study research, Design and Methodsâ€ (Yin Robert K., 2014).Research questions:Major Findings- The major findings of this case study research are indicating the way banks exercising their management control. The findings are giving us a clue of how the MCSs are working in the bank from the bottom to the top management level. They are a combination of bankâ€™s papers research, interviews and in the field observations.
PRICING DIGITAL PRODUCTS
Authors: KARAOULANIS ANDREAS
Published: August 2018

Digital products are the dominant force of tomorrow. Under this reality, companies need to take under consideration many new paragons in order to determine their pricing policy, which is quite different than the traditional one when we come to digital products. Several factors that determine digital pricing are discussed in this paper, although the subject needs a deeper approach. Social media and search engines are MSPs which are crucial in terms of pricing determination for digital goods, as they are the prevalent way these products are advertised via the internet.
Art of Teaching with Case Studies
Authors: Kharka Damber Singh
Published: August 2018

In this paper I have shared some of my experiences on how to handle case studies in teaching with the intent to facilitate more discussions during our meeting over the two day conference on â€œresearch informed teachingâ€ at Samtse College of Education organized by the Royal University of Bhutan in October 2014. We know that case studies are stories used as knowledge and skill transfer vehicles by which a lot of real life scenario is brought into the classroom to be discussed by the students and instructors. How we use case studies dependsuponthe objectives and the format of the course. My experience suggest that if it is a regular university dictated course with astrict timetable (one hour period everyday per subject) with pre-identified contents and has a large class size,it is not normally possible or at least not meaningfully efficient to go beyond the use ofsimple cases that will only help to illustrate the subject concepts and demonstrate afew practical aspects. However, if the class is smaller and the course is more discussion based with properly designed sessions, we choose to use cases through complex analysis thereby guiding the students in a step-wise fashionin the analysis of relevant information, problem identification and option evaluation. Whatever may be the format of the course or the class in which we use case studies, it is important that we, as case teachers, prepare ourselves well and know all the issues involved in the case, prepare questions in advance and prompt discussions and debate in the class, and anticipate where students might run into problems. Needless to mention that we encounter within the class, few or even all students findingthemselves out of place when case studies are used; it particularly true in the Bhutanese situation as our teaching and learning system is historically predominant with the traditional lecture method. To overcome such problems, it is essential to prepare students for case based learning methods. We must know about our studentsâ€™ backgrounds in advance so that wecan productively draw on their areas of expertise, experiences and personalities to enhance the discussionandenrich learning across the board as facilitators rather than acting as a traditional teacher[1].Â
Correlation between the Issues of Processing Textile Sector in Pakistan
Authors: Memon Muhammad Salih , Sattar Shah Abdul , Ali Shah G.Syed Dr.Anwar , MunirAhmadani Dr.Muhammad , Muhammad Shaikh Faiz
Published: August 2018

This research investigates the Statistical Correlation on Internal Issues of Processing textile sector in PakistanData were collected from Primary as well as secondary sources It is a statistical research technique in decision making that is used for the selection of a limited number of tasks that produce significant overall effect. It separates the few major problems from the many possible problems. It is named after Vilfredo Pareto, a 19th-century Italian economist. It was revealed Initially as the issues of Processing Sector were about 5, after performing Pareto analysis the output shows total counts equivalent to 813. As it is suggested to take about 80% to solve the overall issues but here the 80% is nearer to 4 issues. Therefore it is decided to take about 82.5% through which 4 issues may be selected as shown in the Pareto chart 6-6. However 3 issues are equal to 527 which is about 64.8%.that may not be sufficient.
Understanding Consumer Characteristics in an Online Tourism Community in India
Authors: Phutela Nidhi , Dasgupta Hirak
Published: August 2018

Analysing customer perceptions is an important requirement not only for offline stores, but for online stores as well. Study of customer perceptions helps the company in understanding the requirements and expectations of the customers in a better way. This study is an extension of the researcherâ€™s previous study of identifying antecedents of consumer trust for e-tourism companies in India. This study tries to explore the relationship between factors that build trust of the consumers on the online companies and their satisfaction level. Apart from studying the preferences and expectations of the consumers from e-tourism companies in India, the researcher has also tried to study the customer perceptions in context of online shopping in general. Data was collected by the researcher from 367 tourists (customers) who plan their tours online in Delhi NCR. Hypothesis testing has been done by using ANOVA and t-test. Findings of the study revealed that that amongst seven Consumer Trust dimensions, only â€œPromotional dealsâ€ and â€œPrice Competitivenessâ€ have a significant positive impact on â€œCustomer Satisfactionâ€, whereas the impact of other five variables are not significant.
THE IMPACT OF FACTORS OF SUCCESS ON THE IN-HOUSE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT FOR PRESERVING TACIT KNOWLEDGE: SURVEY
Authors: Kahloot Khalid , W. Shbair Mohammed , F. AlSarraj Wael
Published: August 2018

Pair-programming is aimed to provide knowledge-intensive organisations to better manage their knowledge value. There are multiple ways to capture organizationâ€™s knowledge and make it available to all their members while it is not easy to capture/share the tacit knowledge among the stakeholders. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of pair-programming on the in-house software development for preserving tacit knowledge. We conducted a survey to study the impact of these five factors on the tacit knowledge sharing between the developers within the in-house software development environment.This paper is firstly exploring the definition of the knowledge and introducing the types of knowledge those are explicit and tacit knowledge. We discuss the in-house software development concept in which the non-IT organizations may need to develop their own software internally with no need to have a third party software development organization. For tacit knowledge sharing, we considered four factors reviewed in other researches and we added to them the pair programming as a practice. Case study is local bank in Palestine. Based on the results we have, it is confirmed the hypothesis of a positive effect of working in pairs on the process of knowledge sharing.
IMPLICATION OF PAK-INDIA TRADE RELATIONSHIP ON PHARMACETICAL AND AUTOMOBILE AND ECONOMY OF PAKISTAN BY USING COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBIUM MODEL (CGE) Model
Authors: SalehMemon Muhammad , M.Shaikh Dr.Faiz , Ali Shah G.Syed Dr.Anwar , Sethar Dr. Abdullah , Ali Dr.Muhammad
Published: August 2018

This research investigates the Impact of PAK-INDIA trade on Economy of Pakistan. Data were collected from GTAP-7 database and six sectors were included in the database, Textile, Pharmaceutical, Automobile parts and engineering, Agriculture, Financial and Insurance services and logistics.Â  Data were analyzed by using GEM-software.Â  Different simulation run on GTAP-7 database and various tariff rates applied.Â  It was revealed that if India were removing the sensitive list item, in this scenario both countries would have positive impact on GDP, Export, Import and Employment of Pakistan.Â  The results indicates that there in Agriculture, textile, Auto Pakistanâ€™s is head on India in MFN status.Â  In Pharmaceutical, Financial services and Logistics India has positive gain.Â  It was further revealed that if Pakistan is given MFN status to India, Pakistanâ€™s import decreased and Export increased and overall positive impact on Economy. This research analyzes the potential economic costsand benefitsof Pak-India trade in Textile, Pharmaceutical, Automobile parts and engineering, Agriculture, Financial and Insurance services and logistics. Thefirstscenariois whennormaltradingrelationwithIndiawillberestored;it meansthat bothcountries will give theMFN (Most FavoredNations)statustoeach other. Inthesecondscenario,the SAFTAwill beoperativeandthere will be freetrade between IndiaandPakistanandbothcountrieswill remove all tariffsandcustom dutiesfrom eachothersâ€™imports.TheGlobal tradeanalysisGTAPmodelisusedtoanalyzethe possibleimpactofSAFTAonPakistaninamulticountry,multisectorappliedGeneral equilibrium framework.After employingthe simplifiedstaticanalysisframework,theanalysisbasedonsimulationsrevealsthatcurrentdemandfor PakistaniTextile, Pharmaceutical, Automobile parts and engineering, Agriculture, Financial and Insurance services and logistics willexpandaftertheFTAand consumersurplus willincrease.Thedropinthedomesticpricesofdates willincreasethe production ofmany downstream industries,whichwillhave pleasantmultipliereffectsontheeconomyofPakistan.Thegovernmentmay reduceMFNtariffsonindustrialdatesbeforeimplementingtheFTA.Â
IMPACT OF MOTIVATION ON THE PERFORMANCE OF EMPLOYEES:A CASE STUDY OF BANKING INDUSTRY OF PAKISTAN
Authors: SalehMemon Muhammad , Shaikh Najma , Bashir Shah Aisha , Mirza MsAlbeena , Ali Bhatti Dr.Muhammad
Published: August 2018

The current research investigates the impact of motivation on the performance of employees: A Case study of banking industry of Pakistan. Data were collected from 200 respondents from Branch Managers to operation Managers five Banks UBL,Â  HBL, ABL, Askari and Alfalah Bank limited.Â  It was revealed that motivation has positive impact on the employee performance.Â  It was further revealed that motivation is the only tool through you will satisfy your team. It was further revealed that most of the branch managers were not happy with long office hours from 9.am-9.pm.Â  Motivation is the only factor that boost up their performance.
Challenges faced by Women Entrepreneurs : A Case study TandoAllahyar District.
Authors: SalehMemon Muhammad , Mirza MsAlbeena , Shaikh Najma , Bashir Shah Aisha , U-ddinShaikh Hisam
Published: August 2018

The research investigates the domestic violence against women in TandoAllahyar District-Sindh Pakistan..Â  Data were collected through survey from 200 respondents. Data were analyzed by using SPSS-21 version.Â  It was revealed that most of the surveyed women were quiet depressed and their male counterparts not working but they are solely depending on women work in SMEs.Â  It was further revealed that the rural women is less confident and their husbands were always given them hard time once they are exposing themselves to outside the boundaries of the house
Impact of Gender Inequalities on Women Violence: A Case Study of Ghotki District Sindh Pakistan
Authors: SalehMemon Muhammad , Bashir Shah Aisha , Shaikh Najma , Mirza Ms Albeena , Ali Bhatti Dr.Muhammd
Published: August 2018

The Current research Explore theÂ Impact of Gender inenqulities on Women Violence: A Case Study of Ghotki District Sindh Pakistan.Â Â Â Data were collected from 200 respondents from Ghotki and their vicinity. ResearchStudy reveals that male child preference; forced marriages in early age, illiteracy and women dependency on men are key factors of inequity on the basis of gender.Apart from that honor killing is also an evil custom victimizing the ladies since long and even increasing in the area despite the fact that literacy rate has been improved and media has played vital role for public awareness to address the issue. It was also observed that female are being dealt as slaves and male are wasting their time in unhealthy social activities in local hotels without consideration of economic responsibilities of family.
Computation Of Binomial Option Pricing Model With Parallel Processing On A Linux Cluster
Authors: Widiputra Harya
Published: August 2018

Binary Option Pricing Model (BOPM) is one approach that can be utilized to calculate the value of either call or put option. BOPM generally works by building a binomial tree diagram, also known as lattice diagram to explore all possible option values that occur based on the intrinsic price of the underlying asset in a range of specific time period. Due to its basic characteristics BOPM is renowned for its longer lead times in calculating option values while also acknowledged as a technique that can provide an assessment of the most fair option value. Therefore, this study aims to shorten the BOPM completion time of calculating the value of an option by building a computer cluster and presently implement the BOPM algorithm into a form that can be run in parallel processing. As an outcome, a Linux-based computer cluster has been built and conversion of BOPM algorithm so that it can be executed in parallel has been performed and also implemented using Python in this research. Conclusively, results of conducted experiments confirm that the implementation of BOPM algorithm in a form that can be executed in parallel and its application on a computer cluster was able to limit the growth of the completion time whilst at the same time maintain quality of calculated option values.
How to Increase the Participation of Customers to Location-Based Mobile Marketing: The Case of an Emerging Country Turkey
Authors: KIR Burak , ALTINBAÅžAK FARÄ°NA Ä°pek
Published: August 2018

Location-based service is a rapidly growing mobile service group in the mobile technology world. Upon their permissions, location information of consumers can be used to provide them with marketing-related messages and information. However, certain factors have to be considered in order to increase consumersâ€™ willingness to participate in location-based marketing activities. In this article, those factors have been investigated in an merging country, namely Turkey.After a thorough literature review on mobile marketing, location-based mobile marketing and relevant areas topics discovered have been checked with mobile marketing professionals in Turkey through in-depth interviews. A model has been proposed covering factors that affect mobile marketing and a scale has been developed. Statistical analyses were performed using the data collected from 364 surveys. As a result, personal innovativeness, personalization, permission, perceived ease of use, mobile marketing experience, perceived usefulness and perceived trust have proven to have an effect on the intention of consumers to participate in location-based mobile marketing.
TOTAL HIP REPLACEMENT AND RELATED DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUPS (DRG's) IN THE GREEK HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
Authors: I. Tagarakis Georgios , Dikeos Costas , Tsilimingas Nikolaos , Tsairidis Charalampos , Tsolaki Fani , Daskalopoulos Marios , Polyzos Nikolaos
Published: August 2018

Aim. To evaluate the Greek Diagnosis Related Groups(DRG's)system in regard to the procedure of total hip arthroplasty. Methods. In a tertiary university orthopedics department implementing clinical protocols we recruited 75 consecutive patients planned to undergototal hip arthroplasty. Indicators of quality and performance were rates of mortality, pulmonary embolism, trauma dehiscence, disarticulation and readmission. Results. All rates of performance were excellent and equal to zero. The mean length of stay was almost identical to the one predicted by the Greek DRG's. Conclusions. Clinical protocols are connected with good clinical results. The predicted by the Greek DRG's hospital length of stay for total hip arthroplasty lies within pragmatic limits.Â
Moderating effect of Firm Characteristics in the Financing Diversification â€“ Performance nexus among Credit Unions in Kakamega County, Kenya
Authors: Mwau Mulwa Jonathan
Published: August 2018

The last two decades has seen a lot of creativity and diversity in the funding strategies pursued by credit unions as a result of financial sector liberalization and competitive pressure in the financial system. Research has shown that this diversification is both beneficial and hurting at the same time. However, firm characteristics have not mostly been factored in the diversification â€“ performance analysis though studies in other sectors underline their importance. This therefore prompted this study to analyze the moderation effect that firm characteristics â€“ specifically age, size, membersâ€™ occupation and management structure of credit unions â€“ could have on the relationship between diversification and performance of credit unions in Kenya. The study used a correlation analysis approach on a data set of sixteen credit unions in Kakamega County and found that whereas financing diversification had a significantly positive relationship with credit union performance; credit union size and membersâ€™ occupation significantly improved this relationship while age and management structure significant suppressed the relationship.
IMPACT OF FINANCING DECISIONS ON FIRMâ€™S PERFORMANCE: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF PAKISTANI LISTED FIRMâ€™S IN KSE
Authors: Salih Memon Dr Mohammad , KHAN AKMAL , Shaikh Maria , Bashir Shah Aisha , Zahid Imtiaz , MuhammdShaikh Dr.Faiz
Published: August 2018

The basic purpose of our research paper is to analyze the impact of financing decisions on the firmâ€™s performance in Pakistani listed firms in KSE. The OLS has been employed on a sample of conveniently selected 100 pakistanilisted firms in KSE (with 600 observations) over the period of 2004 to 2009.Financing decisions are measured through debt to equity and firmâ€™s performance measured through ROE, ROA, Tobinâ€™s Q and market capitalization.Ourresults show that the financing decisions have no significant impact on firmâ€™s performance in Pakistan.
IMPACT OF MARKETING STRATEGIES ON CUSTOMER RETENSION IN COMMERCIAL BANK: A CASE STUDY OF HBL SUKKUR
Authors: Salih Memon Dr Mohammad , Ahmed Bhatti Dr.Nadeem , Bashir Shah Aisha , Shaikh Maria , Muhammad Shaikh Dr.Faiz
Published: August 2018

The current research investigates relationship marketing enhance customer retention and cross buying in Commercial bank. Data were collected from cross section survey method. Data were analyzed by using SPSS-21 version. It was revealed that relationship marketing enhance the customers retention and satisfaction. The Chi-Square might have been used to judge those variety for watched variables to demonstrating the idle variables. Numerous regressions were utilized on provide for those Decision for the stated hypotheses. From the study, a fulfilled client won't constantly enter under a long haul relationship with the firm. However, those conferred client with level of trust enters under An long haul association for those firm. The outcomes recommend that, An long haul customer-organization association is essential in making longer-term client maintenance.
Privatization of Banking Sector in Pakistan- A Case Study of MCB Bank Limited
Authors: Kartio Dr Munawwar , Ishaque Bajoi Prof Muhammad , Zaib Khaskelly Prof Dr Ambreen
Published: August 2018

This research study aimed at to explore the performance and efficiency of selected sample bank after its privatization. Privatization is the process to sale and transfers the assets of public sector entities to private sector to boost the laissez fair economy in line with international trends in the wake of failure of socialism and communism.

Pakistanâ€™s banking sector was performing very poor after the nationalization of banks in 1974 and witnessed financial indiscipline due to political interference in day to day activities particularly in hiring and lending which badly affected the quality of service on one hand and accumulation of bad debts on other. Therefore need was felt to privatize the state owned organizations with main objective to restrict the role government interference so that performance of banking industry of the country could be improved.

Prior researchers worked a lot to identify the positive and negative effects of privatization on the performance of newly privatized firmsâ€™ globally. This research has been carried out to evaluate and assess the performance of MCB (Formerly Muslim Commercial Bank Limited) after privatization. The research revealed that bank has performed very well in terms of growth, profitability, liquidity and solvency. Financial ratios have been used to evaluate the performance and efficiency and were represented by using graphs. Software SPSS (statistical package for social science) was also used to gauge and find descriptive & graphical analysis. It was concluded that bank has shown tremendous growth in building deposits base, generating profits and ensuring long term solvency.
Save Energy in Wireless Sensor Networks Routing Using Fuzzy Approach and Biogeography Based Optimization
Authors: AlRikabi Yasser Kareem
Published: August 2018

Extending the lifetime of the energy constrained wireless sensor networks is a crucial challenge in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) research. When designing a WSN infrastructure Resource limitations have to be taken into account. The inherent problem in WSNs is unbalanced energy consumption, characterized by multi hop routing and a many-to-one traffic pattern. This uneven energy dissipation can significantly reduce network lifetime. This paper proposes a new routing method for WSNs to extend network lifetime using a combination of a fuzzy approach and Biogeography Based Optimization (BBO) algorithm which is capable of finding the optimal routing path form the source to the destination by favoring some of routing criteria and balancing among them to prolong the network lifetime. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method in terms of balancing energy consumption and maximization of network lifetime, we compare our approach with the BBO search algorithm and fuzzy approach using the same routing criteria. Simulation results demonstrate that the network lifetime achieved by the proposed method could be increased by nearly 25% more than that obtained by the BBO algorithm and by nearly 20% more than that obtained by the fuzzy approach.
Leadership, Strategic Planning, Organizational Performance and Innovation: A Case of Dubai/ UAE Public Sector
Authors: Al Hammadi Ali Hassan
Published: August 2018

The idea that the Dubai Government via its public sector institutions can and needs manage itself strategically, in a similar manner to any well-performing private sector organisation, has been translated into practically across government departments and authorities. This study is intended as contribution to knowledge production that will also fill a gap in literature on the salient and fundamental factors that enabled Dubaiâ€™s post-colonial state to be become agile, innovative and responsive to the growing size and scope of activities undertaken by Dubai and by extension the UAEâ€™s public sector institutions. On the basis of documentary analysis and observation, the conclusion has been arrived that a multiplicity of factors and initiatives such as strategic planning, innovation and technological advancement, leveraging of political leadership and hiring the finest minds from the global pool of transnational bureaucrats with the view to transfer skills and efficiently run public institutions.
A Method for the Sustainable Documentation of Operations Processes in Parcel Distribution Centers
Authors: DrÃ¤gestein Melanie , Jung JÃ¼rgen , Gadatsch Andreas , Kogan Ilja
Published: August 2018

There is often no common understanding on operational processes in logistics companies as they are not properly documented. Hence, people execute the same process differently and training is conducted by experienced operators on an ad-hoc basis. Furthermore, continuous process improvement is hampered as neither the ideal process nor current issues in as-is processes are visible. A major reason for the missing documentation is the complexity of existing business process modelling languages. Modelling experts are required for initially describing the processes and also for updating the models after process changes. Furthermore, operations people are usually not used to read complex process models in EPCs or BPMN diagrams. In order to overcome these limitations, a domain-specific modelling language which facilitates maintaining up-to-date process models has been designed with a large logistics company in Germany. The paper at hand briefly describes this language and illustrates the method on how to apply it in operations environments.
Analytical functions of generalized complex variables and some appllications
Authors: Sagindykov Bimurat
Published: August 2018

The object of this work is to use functions of a generalized complex variable to solve the problems of fluid dynamics and elasticity theory. In this paper, we obtain Cauchy-Riemann conditions, generalized Laplace equation and the generalized Poisson formula for such functions.
The Role of Bronfenbrennerâ€™s Ecological Systems Theory in Enhancing Interpretive Consistency in Mixed Research
Authors: Onwuegbuzie Anthony John , Collins Kathleen M. T.
Published: August 2018

One of the nine major threats to legitimation (i.e., the degree that integration of findings leads to credible and defensible meta-inferences) is sample legitimation integration (Onwuegbuzie & Johnson, 2006). Addressing this form of legitimation requires the researcher to maintain interpretive consistency between the selected sampling design and the inferences made from the ensuing findings.Â  To facilitate researchersâ€™ efforts to address interpretive consistency, in this article, we provide a meta-sampling framework that is structured in accordance to the dimensions of Bronfenbrennerâ€™s (1979) ecological systems model. In this meta-framework, the four dimensions of the model are juxtaposed to various types of generalizations, sampling-based considerations, and mixed sampling criteria. Application of this inclusive framework is appropriate for the conduct of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed research.Â
Confidence intervals, missing data and imputation: a salutary illustration
Authors: Gorard Stephen
Published: August 2018

This paper confirms that confidence intervals are not a generally useful measure or estimate of anything in practice. CIs are recursive in definition and reversed in logic, meaning that they are widely misunderstood. Perhaps most importantly, they should not be used with cases that do not form a complete and true random sample from a known population â€“ the latter is a key premise underlying their calculation. This means that, whatever their merits, CIs should not be used in the vast majority of real-life social science analyses. The second part of the paper illustrates the dangers of ignoring this premise, perhaps on some purported pragmatic grounds. Using 100 simulations of a sample of 100 integers from a uniform population with members in the range 0 to 9, it shows that CIs are very misleading as soon as there is deviation from randomness. For example, when 5% of the cases in each sample are deleted a reported 95% CI would be no better than a 66% CI in reality. If 10% of the lowest score cases are replaced with the achieved mean for the sample, then a reported 95% CI would be more like a 43% CI in reality. In addition, the simulation shows that the mean and standard deviation for any sample are correlated (an issue of linked scale). This illustrates that using the sample standard deviation as an estimate for the SD of the sampling distribution in order to try and assess whether the sample mean is close to the mean of the sampling distribution will simply make matters worse. The best and only available estimate of the sampling distribution mean, in practice, is the sample mean.
The Quality Lecture: How Do We Rate?
Authors: Pan Tzong-Yang , Owen Cathy
Published: August 2018

Aims: to review the key features of an effective lecture and to rate a series of medical school lectures to inform a broader initiative in staff development in effective lecturingBackground: Lectures are the primary method of delivering information to an audience in tertiary education and remain a key part of medical school educationMethod: Literature review confirmed fourteen elements thought to contribute to the quality of a lecture. A lecture series was then rated using these criteriaÂ Results: The three highest rated criteria were explaining and summarising key concepts, presenting material at an appropriate level to the audience, and the use of clear audio-visual aids and voice. The three lowest rated aspects of our lecture program were stating goals of the talk, monitoring audience understanding and responding appropriately, and providing a conclusion to the talk.Conclusions: These findings will provide direction to staff development to further improve the quality of lectures provided to students.Â
Experimentation of Java Software of Geometrical Optics JSGO during the geometrical construction of the virtual image
Authors: Touhami Abderrahmane Ouazzani , Benjellouna Nadia , Alamia Mohamed , Aounia Haddou
Published: August 2018

This work aims to study the impact of using Java Software of Geometrical Optics JSGO on the geometrical construction success of the virtual image among the pupils in the first year of Baccalaureate, option: Experimental Sciences (ES).To examine this impact, we realized an experiment towards the end of the school year 2012/2013 among a group of learner consisting of 43 pupils. These pupils took a pretest using the traditional method, followed by a formation on how to use JSGO and finally they set for a posttest using the mentioned software.The analysis of the results of our study â€œevolution of the nature of geometrical constructions producedâ€ confirms that using JSGO does not induce, in any case, the pupils to make an error in the construction of the virtual image.By analyzing the results concerning â€œpupilsâ€™ conceptual difficultiesâ€ we have scored the presence of the conceptual difficulty associated with an incorrect status that about 32 % of learners attribute to the construction ray extension. The use of JSGO provides a useful tool to overcome this conceptual difficulty. This analysis also indicates that, despite the interactive character of JSGO, about 12 % of pupils still face the conceptual difficulty related to the correspondence image object (punctual and global) and also to the conceptual difficulty related to the minimum number of rays departing from the same point of the luminous object.Finally, the study of â€œpupilsâ€™ perceptions about using JSGOâ€ showed that the participants are very satisfied with using this computer wizard.
NEW OSAZONE DIAGRAM FOR DETERMINATION OF TWO ALDOSES AND A KETOSE THAT FORM IDENTICAL OSAZONE
Authors: Pesyan Nader Noroozi , Rahbari Jalaladdin , Elahi-Rad Saeed
Published: August 2018

A new and interesting osazone diagram was presented for determination and identification of a pair aldoses and a ketose that makes the same osazone. This chart facilitated the finding any aldose and/or ketose yielded the same osazone.
E-learning in Iran as a developing Country: Challenges Ahead and Possible Solutions
Authors: Notash Masoud Yaghoubi , Shahrebabaki Mas`oud Mahmoodi
Published: August 2018

E-learning has lately grown into a proliferating area because of its good potentials for instructional and assessment purposes. Context of instruction where e-learning is commissioned can bear implications for the scope and instances of application.Â  The present study addresses the major challenges faced in this respect by Iranian practitioners and also offer some practical solutions to these challenges. As a descriptive study in nature, the data population comprised 350 Iranian citizens from various social, economical and educational backgrounds aged between 16 and 53 who were asked to prioritize six major challenges Iranian people face regarding the e-learning arena on a standardized Likert-type scale. The challenges were selected from among those earlier cited in the related literature. Six major challenges to be prioritized were: lack of government support, lack of public awareness, high costs of e-learning, collectivist society of Iran, low-speed internet, internal filtering and external sanctions. The results indicated that lack of public awareness, lack of government support and collectivist society of Iran were chosen by the participants as the main hurdles in the path of e-learning development in Iran, respectively. Further solutions and implications of the study are discussed in the study.
Social professionals in school: a comparative study
Authors: Vieira Ana
Published: August 2018

School education is progressively becoming a social question and not only a matter of pedagogic nature. The increase of the diversity of the audience present in the school has brought forth policies and differentiating school responses which aim to build a â€œschool for allâ€. In this paper we seek to understand how the growing social tensions which are observed in the form of indiscipline at school are managed, whether towards other social professionals or only towards teachers. This paper presents a comparative study between three educational contexts which comprise socio-pedagogic mediation practices: Educational Context of Early Intervention (TerritÃ³rio Educativo de IntervenÃ§Ã£o PrioritÃ¡ria - TEIP) and two Support Offices for Students and their Families (Gabinetes de Apoio ao Aluno e Ã  FamÃ­lia - GAAF). In the three cases, there are senior social workers (tÃ©cnicos superiores de trabalho social - TSTS), social educators, youth workers and social assistants who work with teachers on a daily basis. The research done in this paper focuses mainly on the teachersâ€™ opinion concerning the emergence of these new professions and their socio-pedagogic contribution in the school.
Monitoring â€œTesting Language Skills: From Theory to Practiceâ€ from the Perspective of Assessment Literacy
Authors: Zolfaghari Fatemeh , Sahragard Rahman
Published: August 2018

The present study was conducted in order to overcome the problems associated to the unsatisfied assessment literacy needs of the university students with the aid of textbook monitoring procedure. To this end, using the teachersâ€™ recommendations, the book entitled â€œtesting language skills: from theory to practiceâ€ which is a well-known book being taught at Iranian BA testing courses of English translation and English literature was analyzed from the perspective of assessment literacy and in line with the monitoring and assessment dimension of Nation and Macalisterâ€™s (2010) framework of curriculum design. This analysis was instantiated with interviews regarding learnersâ€™ assessment literacy expectations of their BA testing courses. Then monitoring was performed based on the identified components that were required for learners and the objectives maintained by the authors in the initial pages of the book.Â