311 research outputs found
sj-docx-2-whe-10.1177_17455057241231420 – Supplemental material for A comparative study of the knowledge and practices related to menstrual hygiene among adolescent girls in urban and rural areas of Sindh, Pakistan: A cross-sectional study
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-2-whe-10.1177_17455057241231420 for A comparative study of the knowledge and practices related to menstrual hygiene among adolescent girls in urban and rural areas of Sindh, Pakistan: A cross-sectional study by Amina Aziz, Salma Memon, Farhana Aziz, Farzana Memon, Bakhtawar M Hanif Khowaja and Shehla Naeem Zafar in Women’s Health</p
sj-docx-1-whe-10.1177_17455057241231420 – Supplemental material for A comparative study of the knowledge and practices related to menstrual hygiene among adolescent girls in urban and rural areas of Sindh, Pakistan: A cross-sectional study
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-whe-10.1177_17455057241231420 for A comparative study of the knowledge and practices related to menstrual hygiene among adolescent girls in urban and rural areas of Sindh, Pakistan: A cross-sectional study by Amina Aziz, Salma Memon, Farhana Aziz, Farzana Memon, Bakhtawar M Hanif Khowaja and Shehla Naeem Zafar in Women’s Health</p
sj-docx-3-whe-10.1177_17455057241231420 – Supplemental material for A comparative study of the knowledge and practices related to menstrual hygiene among adolescent girls in urban and rural areas of Sindh, Pakistan: A cross-sectional study
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-3-whe-10.1177_17455057241231420 for A comparative study of the knowledge and practices related to menstrual hygiene among adolescent girls in urban and rural areas of Sindh, Pakistan: A cross-sectional study by Amina Aziz, Salma Memon, Farhana Aziz, Farzana Memon, Bakhtawar M Hanif Khowaja and Shehla Naeem Zafar in Women’s Health</p
Hanif Abdurraqib, 43rd Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textHanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. He is the author of a New York Times best-selling biography on A Tribe Called Quest called Go Ahead in the Rain (University of Texas Press, 2019); A Fortune For Your Disaster (Tin House, 2019); The Crown Ain\u27t Worth Much (Button Poetry/Exploding Pinecone Press, 2016), which was nominated for a Hurston-Wright Legacy Award; and They Can\u27t Kill Us Until They Kill Us (Two Dollar Radio, 2017), named a best book of 2017 by NPR, Pitchfork, Oprah Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, Slate, Esquire, GQ, and Publisher\u27s Weekly, among others. He is a Callaloo Creative Writing Fellow, a poetry editor at Muzzle Magazine, and a member of the poetry collective Echo Hotel with poet/essayist Eve L. Ewing. Abdurraqib has a forthcoming book that is a history of Black performance in the United States titled They Don\u27t Dance No Mo\u27 (Random House, 2020)
Overturning imperial views : a talk with Hanif Kureishi
No full textHanif Kureishi, author of the screenplay of My Beauliful Launderette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid as well as numerous stage plays, was in Barcelona in June 1991 to promote his first novel The Buddha of Suburhia
Overturning imperial views : a talk with Hanif Kureishi
No full textHanif Kureishi, author of the screenplay of My Beauliful Launderette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid as well as numerous stage plays, was in Barcelona in June 1991 to promote his first novel The Buddha of Suburhia
Book Review: UN Peacekeeping Operations in Somalia, 1992-1995: The Pakistani Perspective by Tughral Yamin
No full textBook Review: UN Peacekeeping Operations in Somalia, 1992-1995: The Pakistani Perspective by Tughral Yamin
NUST Journal of International Peace & Stability 2019, Vol. II (2)
Author : Farhan Hanif Siddiqu
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
X-efficiency Analysis of Commercial Banks in Pakistan: A Preliminary Investigation
No full textThe emergence of a fast-paced dynamic environment in the business world in general, and in the financial services sector in particular, has highlighted the significance of competition and efficiency. The need for deregulation has become a touchstone of success in fostering both competition and efficiency especially in the economies, which are exposed to structural reforms. In addition to that, intense competition both among domestic and foreign banks, rapid speed of innovations and introduction of new financial instruments, changing consumer’s demands and desire for product augmentation have changed the way a bank conducts business and services its customers. Larger the degree of competition, it is perceived that the firms would become more efficient. However, when the structure of an industry is product of the government regulations, the degree of competition is impaired markedly implying that the efficiency suffers negatively. Banking industry acts as life-blood of modern trade and commerce acting as a bridge to provide a major source of financial intermediation. Thus, appraisal of its efficiency is vital in context of an efficient and competitive financial system. Study of x-efficiency is believed to be important in particular as Berger, et al. (1993) found that x-inefficiencies account for around 20 percent or more of banking costs. Similarly, recent drive among banks towards downsizing, rightsizing and rationalisation of banking costs also implicates for the assessment of x-efficiency analysis of banks. It becomes vital in Pakistani context as there appears to be no study in literature on efficiency or x-efficiency analysis of banks in Pakistan. “A great deal more work is needed on x-efficiency research in banking. Managerial efficiency, the concept of x-efficiency, appears to be a much more important strategic and policy consideration” [Molyneux, et al. (1960), p. 273]. Given
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