There are intermittent moments of high political drama in every country, but in its short history Pakistan has experienced more than its share of striking events....

The book describes the major trends and issues of Secondary Education in comparative perspective. It also throws light on the major parameters which are important for quality education....

SMEs serve as a backbone to keep an economy going and to boost it up in times of difficult hours like recession, for example. They are considered as the main source of modernization, innovation and entrepreneurial spirit....

Significant portion of existing structures world wide are made of brick masonry units. Earthquakes have shown repeatedly the seismic vulnerability of existing masonry structures....

Ever increasing population of the globe and use of productive agricultural lands for housing has posed serious threat to future food supply. Low productivity of wheat due to different management practices is a serious problem. Different wheat cultivars are sown in Pakistan in same conventional row spacing ignoring their tillering potential....

Most of the systems nowadays are becoming highly software intensive. Testing such systems requires us to competently decide which testing techniques to use. However, at present, we have very limited practical information of testing techniques....

There are many commercial information visualization tools that enable domain experts to create visualizations on their own. However, when the data and the domain is complex, the visualization design task is delegated to a visualization designer....

Different scandals around the globe during the past, in specific during the last decade, have intrigued the stakeholders to question the roles of both auditors and management....