American pilot Major Ellie has crashed his plane in the middle of a desert. Lucky for him there\"s room for him at the very refugee camp he was supposed to bomb. Teenage Momo doesn\"t see it that way: the camp is a trap, not a refuge....

There is an old saying that when lovers fall out, a plane goes down. This is the story of one such plane. Why did a Hercules C130, the world\"s sturdiest plane, carrying Pakistan\"s military dictator General Zia ul Haq, go down on 17 August, 1988? Was it because of: 1.Mechanical failure 2.Human error 3.The CIA\"s impatience 4.A blind woman\"s curse 5....

A powerful novel about war, family and love, from the bestselling, prize winning author dubbed \\\"Pakistan\"s brightest voice\\\" (Guardian) An American pilot crash lands in the desert and takes refuge in the very camp he was supposed to......

Maize processing industries is amongst one of the major industrial sector of the world. The basic purpose of this work is to provide grounds for better understanding of the OH&S issues in maize industry. Hazards recognition, evaluation and controls are also included in main objectives of this work....

Ischemic heart disease leads to the malfunctioning of the affected tissue. Stem cell transplantation near the ischemic tissue is a possible therapeutic approach to regenerate the fibrotic tissue. The ischemic or fibrotic tissue is not able to supply the nutrients and oxygen to the transplanted cells....

In Bangladesh (147, 570 km2) coastal region covers almost 20% (29,000 km2) of the country and also it covers more than 30% of the cultivable lands of the country where 53% of the coastal areas are affected by salinity....

Biopotential eye tracking detects the eye position or gaze direction using electro-oculographic bioelectrical signals called EOG from the human skin near eyes. The objective is to design and implement an inexpensive human machine interface using these EOG signals....

Pakistan is facing an intense crisis in conventional energy resources. Utilization of unlimited solar energy will help in minimizing the dependency on conventional energy resources. The purpose of the study was to develop a high performance flat plate solar collector that would be used as a solar drier for various fruits and vegetables....

This book intended to cover the overview of unequal probability sampling and Generalization of Murthy\"\"s (1957) estimator. The researcher in the field of survey sampling can get benefit from this book. This book covers an overview of the unequal probability sampling, work done for Horvitz and Thompson (1952), Raj(1956) and Murthy (1957) estimators....

As we all know that sampling with unequal probability plays most important role in large scale sample surveys, therefore in this monograph some recent developments regarding this topic has been discussed. Moreover since joint probability is difficult calculate therefore some approximations of the joint probability have been derived....

Unequal Probability Sampling has been efficiently used for estimation of population characteristics. Several developments have been made from time to time to increase the precision of estimates. In this book we present some new methods of estimation in unequal probability sampling....

A high performance parabolic trough solar collector was developed during this study and was used for drying of vegetables and fruits. The materials used are easily available in the markets and included steel sheet with high power of reflecting light, steel pipe, angle iron and fully insulated drying box....

Islamic banking is based on principles of Islamic financial laws. Interest is prohibited by Islamic law hence operations of Islamic banking are different from conventional banking although both types of banking fulfill the same needs of customers....