A fully illustrated pocket guide to happiness from leading Positive Psychologist Miriam Akhtar. What is happiness? What can we do to be happier? Why does happiness matter? In this beautifully illustrated little book, leading Positive Psychologist Miriam Akhtar introduces us to the key ingredients of a well-lived and fulfilling life....

Pakistan is always in the debate of international political arena for the diversification of its cultural manifestation that have the garb of Islam to provide the coalesce to the contenders of power....

The problem and primary aim of this study is to disclose predictors of employee turnover and create an understanding of the impact management has and the role it plays in actively shaping the degree of employee satisfaction and ultimately the attachment to the employer....

The last two decades have seen the emergence of Islamic banking as a viable banking system. Since 1971, Islamic banks have continued to grow in size and in numbers. The main mission of these banks has been the achievement of social and economic development through the delivery of financial services in line with the principles and teaching of Islam....

This research study examines the relationship between interest rate and stock prices in Pakistan. For this purpose, secondary data source from the period January 2005 to May 2009 has been used....

Moxifloxacin is a fourth generation fluoroquinolone has potent activity against Gram-positive bacteria, especially against pneumococcus and anaerobes, and still retain excellent activity against aerobic Gram-negative pathogens....

The high thermal stresses generated at the contacting surfaces of single-clutch system (pressure plate, clutch disc and flywheel) due to the frictional heating during the slipping, This thermal stresses are consider one of the main reasons of clutch failure for contact surfaces....

In this book the convergence of the multiscale finite element method (MsFEM) for second order elliptic equations with oscillating coefficient in two space dimension is studied. Such equations often arise in composite materials and flows in porous media....

The present research work was carried out at to study the growth and yield of barley as affected by irrigation, sowing method and phosphorus level. The experiment had three factors i.e irrigation frequency viz. no irrigation (Io), one irrigation (I1) at 25 DAS, two irrigations (I2) one at 25 DAS and 45 DAS and sowing method viz....

The quality of sorghum is severely deteriorated by the Pyrilla perpusilla which is best controlled by Epiricania melanoleuca. Their tritrophic interaction is greatly affected by the host-plant quality. Plants growing in nutrient deficient environment are weak and vulnerable to pest attack....

In this study, various cost items related to cost of cultivation of tomato are examined. These are cost of labour, cost of ploughing, cost of seedling, cost of manure & fertilizer, cost of irrigation, cost of insecticide & pesticide, and miscellaneous expenses. These are productive costs. The non productive cost is interest on working capital....

Increasing energy demand with rapid depletion of limited fossil fuel reserves has led to increase in global demand for clean energy sources and its harnessing technologies with higher efficiency and reliability. Solar energy has proved to be very promising in its usefulness as an effective, inexhaustible and environmental friendly source of energy....

Agriculture is the basic sector in the life of every civilization and country acting as core of a country progress and development. Every agronomic and horticultural crops are invaded by a wide range of insects and other pests. They lead to failure of a crop and also income reduction....

Fodder quality of sorghum is deteriorated due to heavy infestation of pyrilla. This pest is being managed by insecticides which result in ecological backlash, destruction of beneficial insects and plant toxification....

Nitrogen is a macro-nutrient, essentially required for plant growth. It is actually part and parcel of certain macromolecules like protein. So it is required by the potato plant in substantial amount. In this way a managed supply of nitrogen fertilizers is a great strategy for obtaining economic yield of potato crop....