mutual funds are the best tool to mobilize savings and investments in an economy and pakistan is the pioneer in south asia, but this industry is not as much mature in comparison to its age in pakistan. this paper examines the performance of closed ended mutual funds in pakistan by using five different ranking measures during a period of january 2009 to december 2013 and the sample consists of o...

The successful implementation of many management best practices (just-in-time, total quality management, concurrent engineering, etc.) heavily depends on proper organisational communication and information management. In this paper, we address the issue of how these best practices, labelled as high-performance manufacturing (HPM) practices, can a!ect a "rm's communication structure. The paper "...

in persian society, illustrators and skilled portraitists developed a particular method of painting in qajar era, a period in which artwork and historical treasures can be considered among the best, especially in painting and they reflect the tastes of kings and social circumstances of that time. one of the best works of that time is illustrated pen cases created mainly in tehran, shiraz and is...

An emerging requirement for the evaluation of the rural development policy is the adoption of an objective method accounting for both material and immaterial achievements, and measuring the performance in order to understand the degree of accomplishment of policy objectives. In this paper we propose a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach capable of dealing with economic and social indicator...

On a weighted sample of more than 1500 firms from the French manufacturing industries, we explore the relation between individual organizational practices dedicated to innovation and the output of the process. 16 different organizational practices are identified dealing with the constraints or objective applied to employees. The belonging to a national and foreign group is also considered. Cont...

A solution to the exact best-case response time analysis for a set of independent periodic tasks with fixed priorities is presented here. The analysis is dual to the well-known worst-case response time analysis. The motivation for this work comes primarily from the study of jitter in real-time systems dedicated to feedback control. In the best-case response time analysis, higher priority tasks ...

In a parity judgment task, the ERPs at parietal electrode sites become more negative as more mental rotation has to be executed. This article provides a review of the empirical evidence regarding this amplitude modulation. More specifically, experiments are reported that validate both the functional relationship between mental rotation and the amplitude modulation as well as the temporal relati...

We investigated whether concurrent processing of a tone (T1) interferes with early sensory-perceptual processing of a visual target (T2) in variants of the psychological refractory period paradigm using the event-related potential (ERP) method and 70-channel electroencephalographic recordings. T1, which required a speeded response, was presented in all trials. In half of the trials, T1 was foll...

M. A. Van Selst, E. Ruthruff, and J. C. Johnston (1999) found that practice dramatically reduced dual-task interference in a Psychological Refractory Period (PRP) paradigm with 1 vocal response and 1 manual response. Results from 3 further experiments using the highly trained participants of M. A. Van Selst et al. (1999) support 4 main conclusions: (a) A processing bottleneck exists even after ...