99 research outputs found
Review of Aakash Singh Rathore, Plato’s Labyrinth: Sophistries, lies and conspiracies in Socratic dialogues
No full textAakash Rathore Singh’s book Plato’s Labyrinth: Sophistries, Lies and Conspiracies in Socratic Dialogues attempts to break ground substantially, as far as I can discern, in two areas—one, on textual interpretive method or hermeneutics and the other on the content of what Plato has to say regarding issues like tyranny, the polis and the role of the philosopher in the political community. The kind of division I have just made regarding the intent of the author might not sit very well with the author himself, however. The reason I say this is because what Aakash Singh Rathore is attempting to do is to say that, with Plato, the content and the method of explicating that content always go hand in hand and that it is futile to separate them
A Global Analysis on Microgrids through the PESTEL Framework
No full textMicrogrids enable distribution of electricity with higher shares of variable renewables, higher power quality, greater reliability and higher efficiency. There are a large number of factors in addition to the technology, which affect their shift towards market competitiveness and widespread adoption. The PESTEL framework, covering Political, Economic, Social, Technical, Environmental and Legislative factors, is used to identify and describe the drivers and barriers for microgrid development at the global level. The framework enables a broader approach to describe potential for microgrid applications. The results aim to provide engineers, project developers and microgrid specialists with an overview of the prospects for microgrid deployment.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Energy Technolog
Leadership and participatory development in post-reform (2001-2010) District Governments of Punjab, Pakistan: the cases of Attock and Sahiwal districts
No full textThis thesis explored whether, why and how leadership or other factors in Punjab’s District Governments were related to participatory development programme introduced in Pakistan’s local governments in 2001. Networking/Partnering and transformational styles were found to be significantly correlated with participatory programme utilization levels in sixteen districts. Qualitative analysis in two districts concluded that leadership; local socioeconomic and power patterns; public awareness, trust and confidence; institutional-legal design of participatory development; policy-orientation of higher-level government(s); and local group politics were important factors affecting participatory development programme.
Charismatic leadership is highly conductive to change when it builds integrity and trust in a novel public programme, but strong charisma could also lead to discouragement or even suppression of a poorly designed change when leaders intellectualize it in an unfavourable way. Participative leadership led to building follower ownership in participatory policy. Individualized consideration sub-style led to building follower capability for participatory development while intellectual stimulation was the most important leadership sub-style for checking elite-capture. The extent of participatory programme utilization was determined by Networking/Partnering leadership style. ‘Deliverance’ leadership behaviour was idealized by followers under conditions of poor citizen-rights. An ongoing uninterrupted participatory programme was found to be generally empowering for the communities in the long-term
Approximation of unbounded functions with linear positive operators
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The Mediating Impact of Self-Confidence on Relationship of Perceived Formal Support and Entrepreneurial Intention in the Education Sector of Pakistan
Full text linkThe purpose of this study is to find out the mediating influence of selfconfidence level (SC) on the relationship of perceived formal support (PFS) and students‟ entrepreneurial intention (EI). There are few studies that investigated the influence of mediator (self confidence level). As a result, this study contributes to the area of entrepreneurship. The study used a crosssectional research design. The population of this study consists of final year undergraduates of University of the Punjab, Lahore. Sample consists of 250 students from three departments. Zero-order correlation, multiple regression analysis and t-test are used for data analysis. The multiple regression analysis shows that self-confidence level (SC) significantly mediates the relationship of perceived formal support (PFS) and entrepreneurial intentions (EI) of students. Furthermore, t-test shows that male and female students significantly different in terms of perceived formal support (PFS) but there is no difference between male and female students in terms of their entrepreneurial intentions (EI). 
Error Analysis of TRMM, WFD and APHRODITE datasets using Triple Collocation
No full textThe use of global precipitation datasets such as TRMM, WFD etc. for data scarce regions is gaining popularity since they provide forcing input for hydrological models. They make up for the lack of ground based data or the poor quality of whatever is available in many parts of the world. Using these datasets would be perfect if they were free of errors. Unfortunately, this is not the case. The geo-spatial data obtained from satellites or reanalysis products are not direct measures of precipitation. They are derived from atmospheric parameters such as cloud depth, brightness temperature etc. (Huffman 2007). The conversion of these to precipitation is done using complex algorithms. Efforts are made to calibrate this data but still errors sneak in. Similarly the interpolated gauge data like APHRODITE also has errors because of the inability of interpolation techniques to capture the high spatio-temporal variability in Precipitation. Hence the error estimation of these datasets remains a big problem. Lack of ground based data ensures there is no reference to check these global datasets against. In this research, Triple collocation technique is applied to 3 datasets namely APHRODITE, TRMM and WFD for the river basins in Myanmar. The technique gives an estimate of the residual errors in the 3 datasets (with uncorrelated errors) without using any ground measurements or true values (R. A. Roebeling 2012). This is the first time tit has been used to estimate errors in Precipitation datasets on a daily scale. Though the errors are not absolute, the results give an insight into the relative quality of these datasets. The errors have been calculated in space and time. Hence both temporal and spatial error characteristics are analysed. The study period is from 1998-2001. The results obtained show that for TRMM and WFD, the errors are concentrated and of higher magnitude. For APHRODITE, the errors are more evenly distributed in space. All three datasets showed high errors in the central dry parts and the delta region. Overall, APHRODITE seems to show lowest error values in space. The temporal error characteristics were also different for the 3 datasets. WFD showed highest average and maximum errors. TRMM had some very high error peaks but was in general better than WFD. Looking at the maximum and Average errors, APHRODITE seems to be the best of the three. WFD also shows some error peaks at the onset and end of Monsoon season. This shows its inability to estimate the localized pre and post monsoon storms. The assumption of uncorrelated errors was also verified post analysis. Errors for 2 locations, Bago and Yangon were used to make scatter plots. No strong correlation is visible in the scatter plots reinforcing the assumption that the errors are uncorrelated. The research shows that it is possible to make qualitative and quantitative inferences about the errors in the global precipitation datasets in the absence of in-situ measurements. Based on this research, it is concluded that overall, APHRODITE is the best of the 3 datasets. The possibility of a merged dataset formed by combining these 3 based on the error patterns observed in this study should be explored further.Water ResourcesWater ManagementCivil Engineering and Geoscience
Relationship of benevolent leadership and organizational citizenship behavior: Interactional effect of perceived organizational support and perceived organizational politics
No full textBenevolent leadership has emerged as a contemporary leadership style that has scantly been studied. To address this gap in literature, current research pursues a threefold objective. First, it validates the measurement scale of benevolent leadership in the context of Pakistan. Second, it tests the effect of benevolent leadership on employees' organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). Third, it studies the role of perceived organizational support (POS) and perceived organizational politics (POP) as potential moderators. Data was collected from a representative sample of 202 information technology companies operating in Pakistan through structured questionnaires. Confirmatory factor analysis via AMOS was conducted to validate the measurement scale. Model fit indices, AVE and Fornell & Larcker criteria provided the evidence of its validity, while reliability was ensured through Cronbach's alpha and composite reliability measures. The analysis through linear regression and PROCESS MACRO revealed that benevolent leadership enhances employees' OCB. Furthermore, POP and POS moderate the relationship between benevolent leadership and employees' OCB
Relationship of Benevolent Leadership and Organizational Citizenship Behavior: Interactional Effect of Perceived Organizational Support and Perceived Organizational Politics
Full text linkBenevolent leadership has emerged as a contemporary leadership style that has scantly been studied. To address this gap in literature, current research pursues a threefold objective. First, it validates the measurement scale of benevolent leadership in the context of Pakistan. Second, it tests the effect of benevolent leadership on employees’ organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). Third, it studies the role of perceived organizational support (POS) and perceived organizational politics (POP) as potential moderators. Data was collected from a representative sample of 202 information technology companies operating in Pakistan through structured questionnaires. Confirmatory factor analysis via AMOS was conducted to validate the measurement scale. Model fit indices, AVE and Fornell & Larcker criteria provided the evidence of its validity, while reliability was ensured through Cronbach’s alpha and composite reliability measures. The analysis through linear regression and PROCESS MACRO revealed that benevolent leadership enhances employees’ OCB. Furthermore, POP and POS moderate the relationship between benevolent leadership and employees’ OCB
The Influence of Leadership Styles on Employees Performance under Perceptions of Organizational Politics: A Study of Telecom Sector in Pakistan
Full text linkThe purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship of leadership styles and employee performance. In addition to that, this study also examines the mediation effect of perceived organizational politics between leadership styles and employee performance in the telecom sector of Lahore, Pakistan. Positivism research paradigm and deductive research approach has been adopted. Survey research method and focus group interviews have been triangulated in order to validate the findings of the research. Random sampling technique has been used in which 360 questionnaires has been distributed in the selected telecom companies of Lahore, Pakistan and 249 valid questionnaire were received at a response rate of 69%. Results of this study indicated that transformational leadership is insignificantly related with employee performance while transactional leadership significantly related with the employee performance. This findings of this study also indicated that perceived organizational politics fully mediate the relationship of transformational leadership and employee performance. Moreover, perceived organizational politics partially mediate the relationship of transactional leadership and employee performance. Future implications and limitations are also discussed
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