Good HR Practices and Their Impact on Perceived Organization’s Financial Performance: A Case Study of the BoK

Today organizations are competing not on the basis of their sizes but by the quality of their inputs and the processes that they employ to convert inputs into the outputs. Keeping in view that min this study looks into the impact of some HR Practices on perceived financial performance in the Bank of Khyber. The study uses a sample of 142 managers collected from 116 bank branches from all over Pakistan. The hypothesized relationships are tested using Amos 18 through path analysis. Out of the three hypotheses the empirical data supported two while one has not been supported. Overall, the study validates the theory of good HR practices have positive relationship with perceived financial performance of the banks. The Future research should examine the impact of this perception on the actual performance. The current study is purely quantitative. Therefore there is a need of carrying out a qualitative study with the same variables to get more subtle findings. This research could also be replicated in other banks and comparison could be drawn for more holistic results and increasing the generalizablility of the results

Climate Change and Farming Vulnerability in the Coast of Bangladesh

The present research is highly related with a public interview to capture the data directly from the field related to the random data sampling based information. The farmers within the study region were earnestly affected by various types of hazards like, river bank erosion, salinity effects, effects of tidal flood, overweening rainfall, monsoonal cyclone, water logging as well, which are directly colligated to climate change. Agriculture is the main source of economy of the country, which is jeopardized by almost all the hazards. In the study area most of the farmers (46.36%) were having below 0.2 hectors of land and only 4.54% farmers had above 0.3 hectors. The major field crop of the study area was rice (Boro/Aman). Generically farmers were not acquainted to cultivate Aus in this area. During Aus growing season the salinity intensity became higher and they had less opportunity to use the land for Aus cultivation. Majority of the farmers (72.73%) used rain water for agricultural purpose instead of river water. As a consequence, around 37% farmers were migrating from affected areas to non affected areas and among the displaced farmer 21% were permanent and 16% were seasonal. In rainy season, more than 25% households were confronting water logging, tidal flood problems due to low plinth height of the houses. The farmers had been suffering from various communicable and non communicable diseases like arsenicosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, malaria, dengue, cholera, encephalitis, malnutrition and prevalence rate of the climate change associated diseases was 5.09. The present study revealed that climate change induced hazards severely leading to crisis of freshwater, decreasing in rice and other essential crop production. Finally, the study found that environmental migration, food deficiency and health problems that increasing vulnerability and reducing the sustainable capacity of the farmers to climate change adaptation. The livelihood of majority of the farmers was very dull and farmers community in the study area, a poorest among the poor. Keywords: Climate Change, Agriculture, Migration, Food Deficiency, Health, Sustainable Capacity

Impact of tire and traffic parameters on water pressure in pavement

It is generally believed that, irrespective of pavement type, the water on the pavement surface, water buildup in the internal voids, and water pressure through cracks due to traffic action play a significant role in the functional and structural failure of the pavement. Although extensive studies on water-related material degradation have been conducted in the last 50 years, research on measuring water pressure due to dynamic action of load and its impact on pavement performance is very limited. The influence of tire characteristics on asphalt surfaces is also very limited. This study attempts to address the impact of water and tire parameters in the pavement subjected to dynamic loading. The idealized pavement consists of a 100-mm concrete slab with a 2-mm continuous fissure. The concrete pavement was overlaid with a 20-mm semipermeable asphalt surface to evaluate the influence of asphalt surfaces on the water pressure. The slabs were submerged with 2- and 4-mm water and were subjected to 5- and 10-kN loads applied at 1, 5, 10, and 15 Hz. The loading plate was designed to simulate new and partly worn tires with a square and a square with a channel pattern with up to 8-mm thickness to represent tread characteristics. It was found that dynamic water pressure increases significantly when high-frequency loading is combined with a square type of tread, and water is trapped inside the groove, which generates pumping action. The water pressure also increases with thread thickness. Load magnitude and depth of surface water have a marginal impact on the water pressure in the pavement

The Historical Analysis of the former State of Chitral

Chitral being a small area in terms of population but it is multilingual area, which is inhibited by decent, non-prejudices, religious minded, Hospitable, Sober and Calm people. Question is, from where these people came? How Islam was introduced to Chitral? and people of Chitral accepted Islam? Sharia has been implemented and practiced as code of life in Chitral for centuries. The state of Chitral remained under control of Mehter till 1954 AD. What are its advantages and disadvantages? The role of Waali Chitral in the annexation to Pakistan, the integration of the state of Chitral and its effects? Answers to many important questions are given in the relevant article (Introduction and History of Former State of Chitral)

Manner of Apical Meristem Destruction Affects Growth, Reproduction, and Survival of Sea Oxeye Daisy

Although herbivory may result in plant death, the mode and timing of damage may produce variable wounding responses in the attacked plant. In this study, effects of different types of apical meristem damage on growth and performance of sea oxeye daisy Borrichia frutescens (L.) DC were compared. Damage involved either clipping or galling of the apical meristem by the gall midge Asphondylia borrichiae Rossi and Strong. Apical dominance was relatively weak before flowering and stronger in short ramets that were shaded by taller neighbors later in the season. Clipped ramets delayed sprouting new stems, and galled ramets sprouted new stems quickly compared to intact ramets, but final stem counts were similar across treatments. Clipping significantly delayed flowering, reduced seed head ripening time, and resulted in fewer seed heads and seeds. Galling did not significantly impact reproduction compared to intact ramets. Nitrogen supplementation significantly increased stem count and seed count and lengthened seed ripening time. Borrichia frutescens responds differently to clipping versus galling by A. borrichiae and better tolerates galling in terms of nonreproductive performance and survival. Galling from A. borrichiae likely prevents Borrichia frutescens from flowering, which suggests resource regulation of meristems by the midge

Convex and Concave Hypersoft Sets with Some Properties

Abstract. Convexity plays an imperative role in optimization, pattern classification and recognition, image processing and many other relating topics in different fields of mathematical sciences like operation research, numerical analysis etc. The concept of soft sets was first formulated by Molodtsov as a completely new mathematical tool for solving problems dealing with uncertainties. Smarandache conceptualized hypersoft set as a generalization of soft set (hS, E) as it transforms the function hS into a multi-attribute function hHS. Deli introduced the concept of convexity cum concavity on soft sets to cover above topics under uncertain scenario. In this study, a theoretic and analytical approach is employed to develop a conceptual framework of convexity cum concavity on hypersoft set which is generalized and more effective concept to deal with optimization relating problems. Moreover, some generalized properties like δ-inclusion, intersection and union, are established. The novelty of this work is maintained with the help of illustrative examples and pictorial version first time in literature

Project implementation success and Change Management practices in Malaysian Government-linked companies (GLCs)

The purpose of this research is to address the practices of project change management in the context of Government-Linked Companies (GLCs) in Malaysia, focusing on Project Managers (PMs), Project Team Members (PTMs), Change Managers (CMs) and any other Top Managers involved in a project. Also, checking the validity of a number of critical success factors from Project Implementation Profile (PIP) in the context of GLCs in Malaysia. PIP is a comprehensive managerial tool that was introduced by Pinto and Slevin. Later Belout and Gauvereau have enhanced and re-tested it in their study. Government-linked companies were previously government agencies or public enterprises established to provide services for social purposes. The Malaysian Government considers the importance of the Government-linked companies’ (GLCs) role. Critical success factors (or CSFs) are the actions and processes that can be controlled or affected by management to achieve the goals set by an organization. Many studies has been conducted on Malaysian government-linked companies, but few focused on examining the validity of the critical success factors in these companies where these factors will lead to successful project implementation and assess in change management

Linguistic Exegesis from the Books of Mu'ajm, A’arab Al۔Qur’ān, and Al۔wajuh o Al۔Nazair

The Glorious Quran has been revealed by Allah Almighty as a guidebook for the entire humanity of the world. So, its understanding is necessary in the way that is closest to the meaning of Allah Almighty. That is why, the highest level of understanding of Glorious Quran is Tafsir al-Quran with the Holy Quran. Then, the best and standard source of interpretation of the Quran is with the Hadith of our beloved Holy Prophet PBUH. After that the tafsir of Quran is very important in the light of Holy Companion's sayings. Like that a source of Tafsir is literal interpretation. So, in this paper, this specific aspects of tafsir have been discussed that the sources through which the literal interpretation of the Holy Quran can be done, along with it, how a special arrangement has been made about it and how these sources can be utilized? Therefore, in this article, there are discussions about deriving commentary from the books of Mu'ajm, Aaarab Al-Qur'an, and Al-wajuh o Al-Nazair, as well as briefly describing the authors of these books and their compilations and presented many examples as a sample for them

Combatir la dependencia y promover la protección infantil en Ruanda

Depender constantemente de una ayuda que aumenta y disminuye a lo largo del tiempo y que procede en gran medida de fuentes externas puede producir la sensación de no tener poder alguno, además de menoscabar las iniciativas basadas en las familias y en la comunidad para proteger a los menores