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Development Priorities of the Founding Father of Pakistan
Get PDFA close reading of the speeches and statements of the founding father of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, brings forth a striking consistency of understanding and approach towards priorities that the nation must determine to move steadily on the road to progress and development. These priorities were—in that order—education, industrial development and defence. Political historians generally present descriptive analyses of what appear to be radically different phases of the Quaid’s passage to lead the nation to its destiny—freedom. But at no point in any phase does one come across a weakening of resolve to advocate the priorities of Education, Industry and Defence—EID, for short. No better acronym of happiness would be possible for the Muslims of British India, EID being happiness and progress for them literally as well as religiously. After the adoption of the Pakistan Resolution in March 1940, the Quaid reiterated these priorities time and again. There is a noticeable accent in his speeches to specify the ramifications of these three pillars of progress. The most succinct statement of priorities came in March 1941. While addressing the Pakistan Session of Punjab Muslim Students Federation, the Quaid said “There are at least three main pillars which go to make a nation worthy of possessing a territory and running the government……..One is education. . . . Next, no nation and no people can ever do anything very much without making themselves economically powerful in commerce, trade and industry. And lastly, when you have got that light of knowledge by means of education and when you have made yourselves strong economically and industrially, then you have got to prepare yourselves for your defence against external aggression and to maintain internal security”.
Why you don't need to write much to be the world's bestselling author
Get PDFAn account of my use of stylometry to analyse the works of James Patterson, written for a public audience
Rent-sharing, hold-up, and manufacturing wages in Cote d'Ivoire
Get PDFLabor costs in Francophone Africa are considered high by the standards of low-income countries, at least in the formal sector. Are they a brake on industrialization, or the result of successful enterprise development? Are they imposed on firms by powerful unions, or government regulations, or a by-product of good firm performance? The authors empirically analyze what determines manufacturing wages in Cote d'Ivoire, using an unbalanced panel of individual wages that allows them to control for observable firm-specific effects. They test the rent-sharing, and hold-up theories of wage determination, as well as some aspects of efficiency-wage theories. Their results lean in favor of both rent-sharing, and hold-up, suggesting that workers have some bargaining power, and that in Cote d'Ivoire workers can force renegotiation of labor contracts, in response to new investments.Economic Theory&Research,Public Health Promotion,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Labor Policies,Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Health Economics&Finance,Statistical&Mathematical Sciences
Prego / Nurul Anis Athirah Mohd Azam
Get PDFEvery new parent has struggled with a car seat at some point, and many complain that their car seat struggles have made them doubt their own abilities. Do not surrender the battle. Those few minutes you spent fighting a mass of plastic and metal will literally save your child's life. Air crashes remain a leading cause of death and serious injury of young children, but car seats decrease the chance of death in an accident by 54%. Car seats saved 451 lives in 2004. This year, one of those 451 children may be yours, so master car seat safety and make it a faith. Few parents make car seat mistakes on purpose to harm their children, as they do with other parenting mistakes. Much of the time, they are simply unaware of the magnitude of the chance they are taking. Car accidents, on the other hand, are normal, and almost everyone will be involved in one at some stage. Per year, over 10 million injuries occur, with 3 in 1,000 resulting in casualties. Accidents are much more severe for children and it only takes a small amount of impact to send an infant crashing through a windshield. Few parents choose not to argue with their older children over car seats, reasoning that an ill-fitting car seat is preferable to none at all. However, in some circumstances, a car seat that doesn't fit properly is potentially more risky, since the infant can get stuck in the straps or strangle if she falls. Always buckle up your kids. It is not only the rule, but it is also the single most important thing you can do to protect your kids
Dual estimation of partially observed nonlinear structural systems: a particle filter approach
No full textDual estimation consists of tracking the whole state of partially observed systems, and simultaneously
estimating unknown model parameters. In case of nonlinearly evolving systems, standard filtering procedures
may provide unreliable model calibrations, either because of estimates affected by bias or due
to diverging filter response. In this paper, we propose a particle filter (PF) wherein particles, i.e. system
realizations evolving in a stochastic frame, are first sampled from the current probability density function
of the system and then moved towards the region of high probability by an extended Kalman filter. We
show that the proposed filter works much better than a standard PF, in terms of accuracy of the estimates
and of computing time
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