Recycled used lubricant oils offers the benefits of recovering base oils prevents environment from harmful uses and protects the environment from disposal of used lubricant oils. It also promises to save billions of dollars of new base oil used in formulating new lubricant oils. It is argued that failure to ensure return of used lubricant oil and poor reverse logistics [...]
This study investigates the autocorrelation in economic indicators of Pakistan before and after Natural disaster in the light of variables, which includes GDP (deflator), Inflation (CPI), Money supply (M2), Remittances and Net export (X-M). This study considers the data for the period of 1989-2009. In this study, data has been divided into two sets; first having a data for the [...]
The study aims at examining the satisfaction level of women with their socioeconomic conditions and education, based on survey data relating to 262 married females. It is suggested that education enables women to earn, resulting a higher level of satisfaction. Another important predictor in the study is social class of women, which plays an important role in their satisfaction level. [...]
The purpose of this research is to examine the outcome of liquidity crunch on bank profitability. Comparison of bank’s profitability has been done for a panel of 30 Pakistani banks over the period of 2003 to 2010. Focus has been kept on total bank profits and its components: Gross Profit, ROE and ROA. Three eras have been selected as 2003-2006: [...]
Finance is a basic need to run a business and the need of external financing is also required during the business cycle, expansion, growth etc. In this research, Retail Business Owners (RBO’s) were being questioned to find out the reasons for their preference on informal financing rather on formal financing. Karachi was the sample population to investigate the rational of [...]
Job and family is defined “as a form of inter role conflict in which the role pressures from the work and family domains are mutually incompatible in some respect. There is a conflict between work and family when the earning member or brand winner is occupied by too many demands. One of the major societal changes, two jobs at a [...]
A healthy stock market is a sign of sound and healthy economy. Stock market is a volatile market affected, at times directly and most often indirectly, by many micro and macroeconomic players. Of these players interest rates and exchange rates are among the ones undertaken in this study. The rationale behind this study is to ascertain the volatility in stock [...]
This study is concerned to the billboards advertising and their impact over the consumer attention. The main aim of this study is to understand the consumer attention towards billboards, whether the target audience gives importance to the billboards or not. Final results indicate number of factors in the billboards advertising, which attracts the customer. A customer gives proper attention to [...]
This research investigated that do management styles have any significant effect over employee performance with HR being an intervening variable, a trend setter or culture molder in the organization and judging its impact over employee performance of Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) limited, which is an organization with diversified backgrounds and cultures of working people having different norms and values. [...]
This case study provides some interesting insights and phenomena. It was observed that how monetary policy badly affected the poverty situation in Pakistan. This study covers three important aspects of the socio-economic changes in Pakistan in the recent past. First, it describes the macroeconomic growth in the different political regimes. Second aspect of the study is to assess the poverty [...]
Brand awareness remains fundamental to consumer life as the interaction initiation point to the brands. This paper put forwards the relationship of brand awareness on consumer/brand loyalty in the packaged milk brands in the urban Pakistan. There is evidence of brand awareness and consumer/brand loyalty on brand equity. The approach takes into account sources of brand equity-brand awareness, consumer/brand loyalty [...]
The need to understand the human mind so as to make a robotic mind work is well recognized. In cognitive and neurosciences many questions are left still unanswered in understanding this phenomena. Since a robot faces numerous difficulties in programming itself to the degrees of freedom that it embraces with the characteristics that match with humans. The need to develop [...]
The work reported here is an effort to construct and validate an instrument to measure the students' attitude towards science. This work is likely to be a predictor of students' emotional attachment to science and is expected to help to classify or enroll students in science for higher grades. 150 students of 6th grade (of age 10.5 -12.5 [...]
In the age of anxiety; it has been a very crucial task both for the foreign investors (MNCs) and Governments, whether the investment would be viable in consideration of the expected return and sustainability of the project on the one hand, and the socio-economic development of the country on the other. Foreign investors, while analyzing the viability of the investment [...]
Stock exchange and interest rate are two crucial factorofeconomic growth of a country. The impacts of interest rate on stock exchange provide important implications for monitory policy, risk management practices, financial securities valuation and government policy towards financial markets. This study seeks evidence supporting the existence of market efficiency on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) based on the daily general [...]
Productivity-based analysis for the Indian Banking Sector is in itself an area of enormous significance in this globally viable environment. If banks wish to become superior and competitive entities, they require connecting themselves with efficiency. It is also essential for the sake of a safe and sound financial system in a meticulous economic system. This paper analyses the cross relationship [...]
This paper is about a work that was carried out by the authors in an attempt to identO, technologically robust and economically viable solution for commercial implementation and installation of WIMAX optima!frequency spectrum. A variety of broad band working spectrums are discussed. This paper especially focus' on parameters which play an important role in the selection process. Some of [...]
This study aims to investigate the impact of packaging characteristics on consumer’s brand preference in perspective to edible oils. Packaging characteristics are being measured such as various sizes of Package, different shapes of Package, safety, shelf life, convenience of storage, convenience of use, extra use of package and package attractiveness as per its importance in selection of edible oil brands. [...]
This study examines the association between the daily investments in government bonds with Consumer price index (CPI) for Pakistani space for the period beginning from July 2001 to September 2009. The findings significantly supports the proposition that consumer price index (CPI) has an association with the investments in government bonds and also the non-seasonal investments in government bonds for lag [...]
The study of the investment decision process consists of economic perspectives derived from the relationship between the lifestyle, demographic variable and behavioral. Through this examination it has been analyzed that the behavioral variables and utility maximization are taken together for a complete study. This study incorporated this concept by taking 30 variables from diverse decision criteria including contemporary concerns. The [...]
