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Empirical Analysis of Ride Sharing Applications in Karachi
Full text linkThis study is an empirical analysis that evaluates the performance of Ridesharing and Taxi booking applications working in Karachi. It also investigates the quality and comfort offered across different classes of rides along with the prevalence of problem experienced by the rider in each class. It is concluded that Taxi Booking or Ride sharing applications in Karachi tend to exhibit various patterns and problems across different classes and frequency of rides. It is empirically verif ied that Business class is less disposed to diff iculties and glitches, which is an extra-advantage of Business class. However, the user experience of business class is not signif icantly different from the economy, which indicates that quality is not up to the mark. The level of comfort decreases with the frequency of rides, which means that it there is no cross-subsidy behaviour
Implementation of Microsoft SQL Server using ‘AlwaysOn’ for High Availability and Disaster Recovery without Shared Storage
Full text linkIt is important for any organization to handle increase in data; normally this is the job of the DBA in organization to take care of this data growth, along with its protection and its availability. High availability of data is also most important for organizations, for that purpose, shared storage is usually the solution, for example, SAN or NAS storage as Microsoft Cluster Database instances. Mostly Organization does not have shared storage in their infrastructure, which was required for Microsoft cluster SQL database instance; due to that they used other native methods to implement like log shipping or database mirroring, which was not efficient method for high-availability and disaster-recovery solution. After that, Microsoft introduced native method called SQL AlwaysOn method that could be implemented without using SAN and NAS storage method to implement high availability and disaster recovery without using shared storage. SQL AlwaysOn option is using only Microsoft cluster service and shared folder between the nodes. This paper written for DBA and System Administrators; and is implementation of Microsoft SQL Database tier step by step
Consumer Willingness to Use Digital Coupons: A Case of Karachi Market in Pakistan
Full text linkThe coupon concept since its emergency in 1887 in US as marketing tool has gained lot of popularity in US market and emerged as effective marketing tool in South Asian Market. Unlike Indian and US Markets, the uptake of coupons has been very slow in Pakistan. This study aimed to check consumer willingness to use mobile coupons in Pakistan revealed that the interest and usage of mobile applications is growing with each day. People are willing to convert from traditional to digital platforms, similar to what we have noticed in the secondary research. Hi-Tec HHD devices are expanding throughout along with the usage. This research showed that the people are fond of downloading free mobile apps, which are mainly social, and gaming apps and a very small portion of the audience downloads paid apps (high-end market). It has been analyzed that the 50% of the audience would like to download a paid coupons app, which offers buy one get one free but there is a small portion of the population who is willing to spend Rs.4500 on purchasing the coupons book like Vouch365. There is a great potential for a business in Pakistan for the companies like Entertain Asia to penetrate into the market
Samsonite: Case Study
Full text linkThis case study aimed at shedding light on the new emerging trends of business observed in the Asian region. Today, big multinationals are learning from Asia and applying best practices, developed in this continent, in their operations worldwide spanning from USA, South America and Europe. In particular, this case study paid focus on the strategy adopted by Timothy Charles Parker, the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Samsonite International S.A, incorporated in March 2011. It also focused on the turnaround strategy applied by him for the Samsonite (Luggage Company). Charles Parker is a man with a reputation for turning around companies from losses to prof itability. He was put in charge by the Board to revive Samsonite that was continuously losing its strength and market share in the year of 2009. From this perspective, this study tried to explore the methodology adopted by Timothy Charles Parker to successfully revive the company. It is also noteworthy to note how Timothy Charles Parker paid careful attention to the integration strategy by Ramesh Tainwala in India to support the Samsonite operations in American and European operations. Furthermore, Asian region was also used for tapping funds from the stock market because of damage to the brand equity of Samsonite in the developed markets. Within the period of merely seven years, Samsonite is now one of the most thriving and successful luggage companies in the world and its share is most sought after in Hong Kong stock market. Based on the studies case, it can be recommended that management practices developed in Asian region can also be adopted in order to revive
Automatic Speaker Identification System for Urdu Speech
Full text linkSpeaker recognition is the process of recognizing a speaker from a verbal phrase. Such systems generally operates in two ways: to identify a speaker or to verify speaker’s claimed identity. Availability of valuable research material witnessed efforts paid to Automatic Speaker Identification (ASI) in East Asian, English and European languages. But unfortunately languages of South Asia especially “Urdu” have got very less attention. This paper aims to describe a new feature set for ASI in Urdu speech, achieving improved performance than baseline systems. Classifiers like Neural Net, Naïve Bayes and K nearest neighbor (K-NN) have been used for modeling. Results are provided on the dataset of 40 speakers with 82% correct identification. Lastly, improvement in system performance is also reported by changing number of recordings per speaker
Human Resource Practices and Organizational Performance in Pakistan: An Empirical Study on Pharmaceutical Industries
Full text linkThis research study intended to examine the relationship between HR practices and organizational performance of pharmaceutical industries of Pakistan. For this research, primary data were collected from 200 respondents from pharmaceutical industries of Pakistan using structure questionnaire sent to employees of different departments having different job status, asked the questions about training, payroll for performance, participation in decision making, organization commitment and organizational performance. The correlation and regression analysis is used in this paper to measure the impact of HR practices on organizational performance. The correlation results shows significant relationship between the HR practices and organizational performance and Regression results shows that independent variables significantly affect the dependent variable. It is found that human resource practices enhance the pharmaceutical industries of Pakistan. I also found, by increasing the practices of training, payroll performance, participation in decision making and organization commitment raised the organizational performance. In order to ensure the organizational performance, the pharmaceutical industries may pay special focus and attention to these four HR practices. Key Words: Human Resource Practices, training, participation in decision making, organization commitment, payroll for performance and organizational performance
Comparing Traditional Teaching Method and Experiential Teaching Method using Experimental Research
Full text linkThe modern time is shaping a world of opportunities that has glorified the roleand functions of multinational organizations across the globe. An individual hasbecome a global citizen, who explores employment opportunities in differentcountries of the world. This has signified the importance of interpersonal skills that allow individuals to connect with people from different cultures. As a result, the role of business communication instructors has become vital because they impart the skills of communication among their students. For this, instructors’ sensitivity towards the teaching methods used in classrooms are of prime significance. These methods determine the interest level and motivation of students towards learning and acquisition of communication skills. Therefore, this study aims to compare experiential learning method and traditional learning method to explore which method inculcates and improves the communication skills of business administration students of a private sector university. The study was conducted in a quantitative paradigm using an experimental research design. The sample size comprised 60 BBA students from two different sections of business communication courses. The data were collected using a pretest and posttest. For the pretest, communication skills were imparted to both the groups using the traditional teaching method that heavily employed lecturing. For the posttest, the controlled group was taught using the same traditional teaching method while the treatment group was taught using the experiential learning method. Mean scores 20.46 & 19.90 with a significant value of 0.375 for the pretest established identical nature of both groups. Mean scores 27.80 & 30.36 with a significant value of .002 of posttest showed that the two groups under study had different identities in scores, which proved that experiential learning method improves students’ communication skills better than traditional communication skills.Keywords: business communication, experiential learning, experimental research, traditional learnin
Prospects & Challenges of Implementing Knowledge Management System in IT Industry
Full text linkRecent past has seen an epidemic growth in the adoption of strategic information systems. In order to be successful, enterprises are putting in huge investments into implementation of information technology (IT) and knowledge management systems (KMS). KMS implementation in an IT industry has been discussed in this paper. Several challenges including multiple information sources, access control, and employee’s mistrust among others are being identified along with their possible solutions. Later foreseen benefits of KMS implementation including quicker problem identification, faster response time, and cost saving among others are being highlighted. The paper concludes with revealing future research possibilities
Finite Difference Method with Dirichlet Problems of 2D Laplace’s Equation in Elliptic Domain
Full text linkIn this study finite difference method (FDM) is used with Dirichlet boundary conditions on rectangular domain to solve the 2D Laplace equation. The chosen body is elliptical, which is discretized into square grids. The finite difference method is applied for numerical differentiation of the observed example of rectangular domain with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The obtained numerical results arecompared with analytical solution. The obtained results show the efficiency of the FDM and settled with the obtained exact solution. The study objective is to check the accuracy of FDM for the numerical solutions of elliptical bodies of 2D Laplace equations. The study contributes to find the heat (temperature) distribution inside a regular rectangular elliptical discretized body
Teaching Practices of English Language in The Schools of Lasbela District, Pakistan
Full text linkThis study critically analyses the teaching practices of English language in the context of Lasbela district, the southern district of Balochistan, a province of Pakistan. The survey method was applied to collect data through classroom observation, Checklist and interview protocol from randomly selected secondary public schools in Lasbela district were applied. The research demonstrated that Translation Method of Teaching was adopted instead of Direct Method of Teaching. It also revealed that the manner of teaching the English Language was similar to the teaching of other subjects, such as Pakistan Studies, General Science. This teaching approach is teacher-centred and students are not provided with the opportunity of developing language skills through practice in classrooms. This research also identif ies that the factors responsible for this approach of teaching the English language are lack of capacity building programs/courses for language teachers, overcrowded classrooms, teachers’ workload, poor infrastructure, examination system and ineff icient monitoring mechanism. This study recommends that teachers of English language must be trained accordingly prior to embarking on the language teaching profession