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Mr. Farrukh Khan was born in the year 1960 at Karachi, in Pakistan, but spent most of the early 26 years of his life in Nigeria. He later attended Government College, Sokoto, Federal School of Arts and Sciences, Sokoto, Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria and the University of Tasmania, Australia. After university training, Farrukh received specialised training at National Panasonic Video Systems Division, Osaka, Japan and at Nokia Chimera, Lahore, Pakistan. With 20 years of working experience as a professional engineer, academic, researcher and author, Farrukh now devotes much of his time to researching topics that interest him. He now works as a freelancer from his place of birth, Karachi in Pakistan. Farrukh has worked as an assistant professor at Sir Syed University, Baqai Medical University Institute of Information Technology, CAMS College in Karachi and at Preston University, where he used to teach Electronics and Advanced Computer Architecture. Farrukh is widely travelled, having visited about 50 major cities on four continents of the world, but he has never visited North America. He was lucky to have gained professional work experience in Australia, Nigeria, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia as well as the UAE.
Farrukh researches and writes about whatever he finds interesting and has produced about 370 academic writing efforts so far, aided by grants from individuals, businesses and publishers. Some of these are presented here for distribution by Lulu. You will find the offerings interesting and more will be added as they become available.
Farrukh can assist busy executives, students or your business to produce researched and written material that they may want, but cannot find the time to complete. Perhaps a publisher or an agency involved in outsourcing research under a research grant may want to have some material produced? You can email Farrukh at: farrukh.rehan.khan@googlemail.com
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Print: $21.20 Download: $18.75 Argentina had to endure serious economic challenges in the late 1990s which resulted in a near macroeconomic collapse in the years 2001 / 2002. However, it was possible for this nation to stabilize and to restructure its economy which had seen periods of inflation as high as 5000 %. Very high levels of sovereign debt with an overvalued peso that had been pegged to the United States dollar and high levels of state spending have been mentioned as being the reasons behind the Argentine collapse. Privatization had kept the country going, with proceeds from a massive privatization program assisting with the repayment of sovereign debt and state spending, until Argentina ran out of assets to privatize. This brief essay presents a discussion about the stabilization and privatization efforts in Argentina, a nation which, despite the huge economic challenges that it had faced, was able to sustain and to improve upon a social security program for its people.
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Print: $19.70 Download: $12.50 Technology and the capacity for innovation that is provided by technology have meant that application of technology is now a critical requirement for the workplace. Reduced costs and processing time as well as a reduction in labour intensive activities are some of the obvious benefits of technology, but technology also results in better value creation. The human resource function in organisations has also been influenced by technology and recruitment has changed in form, if not in substance. Internet not only reduces recruitment costs and time, but it is also possible for organisations to benefit from individualisation and range advantages. This brief essay presents a discussion about recruitment practices in industry and the impact of technology on recruitment.
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Print: $46.00 Download: $31.25 Sukuk, or Islamic bonds have witnessed an unprecedented growth within the past several years and a number of variants of Sukuk have been identified. Thus, Sukuk is the most popular and widely used financial instrument that is available to the Islamic bankers and financial managers. However, Islam prohibits derivatives and derivative related transactions and this means that the ability to deal with the risks associated with Sukuk becomes hampered. Imaginative, innovative and creative solutions are therefore needed to better manage risks that are associated with Islamic finance and the Sukuk. This brief essay presents a discussion about how Islamic bankers can better manage the risks associated with Sukuk.
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Print: $43.30 Download: $40.00 Banks owe their customers and all those who are involved with them in a meaningful relationship a duty of confidentiality that incorporates elements of agency and that of a debtor and creditor. The duty of confidentiality is a legal as well as a moral duty and may be considered in professional or contractual terms, with elements of considerations related to privacy and fundamental human rights.This essay presents a discussion of the banker’s duty of confidentiality and a critical examination of this duty as being the cornerstone of the banker – customer relationship.
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Print: $49.90 Download: $43.75 Adaptation is nothing new and many novels and pieces of literature have been transformed into a different media, which is the audio-visual media, in which the requirements related to storytelling and keeping the audience entertained is somewhat different from those for text. However, studying an adaptation in a critical manner can be of great use to those who are studying the craft of making films that will continue to shape popular culture and present messages in the future. This essay presents a discussion about the adaptation and the transformation of Stephan King’s novel ‘The Shining’ into the movie by Stanley Kubrick with the same name.
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Print: $58.00 Download: $56.25 Public sector organisations from all over the world have experienced cost cutting, challenges to their quality of service expectations and also expectations related to their efficiency and mission fulfilment. These organisations are now expected to do more with less and this means that the procurement function has assumed a greater importance because enhancing this function has an overall impact. The traditional approach to procurement cannot work well in tight economic times and suppliers want the public sector to lift its game so that they can interact more effectively with the public sector organisations to make bottom line improvements.This literature review presents an examination of the role of strategic procurement in making the public sector a customer of choice.
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Print: $56.40 Download: $50.00 Although contemporary and customary international law provide for the right for compensation to those foreign investors whose assets have been nationalised or expropriated by a host country, it has been noticed that the practical working of the law can be somewhat disheartening. Suddenness and speed are often the characteristics of confiscatory measures and orderly preparation of legislation is only rarely resorted to. Bilateral investment treaties have made some difference, but international investments are still full of political risks that should be carefully considered and the international arena is a field for the larger commercial players. A discussion of the legal implications of nationalisation or expropriation of the property of foreign investors has been presented in this write up and this should be of interest to all those with an interest in international law and business.
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Print: $40.20 Download: $37.50 A distinction used to exist in the traditional view of humanitarian law of armed conflict between international and non – international armed conflict. The previously mentioned observation is supported by the fact that the Additional Protocols to the Geneva Convention of 1949 dealt separately with international conflict and non – international conflict. Additional Protocol I dealt with international conflict, but Additional Protocol II dealt with non – international conflicts. However, as a result of the evolution in international human rights law, practical lessons that have been learnt from both international and non – international conflicts and opinio juris as well as the opinions of international organisations, the distinction between international and non – international conflicts is now much blurred. This essay presents a discussion about the distinction between international and non – international conflict in contemporary international humanitarian law.
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Print: $33.90 Download: $25.00 Flexible manufacturing systems that are capable of producing various products while using the same adjustable machines and material movement systems have assumed a certain prominence because a need exists for expensive manufacturing plants to do this. Continuous manufacturing often requires cyclic processes or tasks that are repeated indefinitely for as long as a production system is working. The production system and the cyclic processes have to be properly scheduled because it is desirable to maximise throughput and to try to minimize costs. Thus, cyclic scheduling in flexible manufacturing systems is something that has to be well understood by all those involved with production management and researchers have tried to develop a variety of heuristics and algorithms for solving cyclic scheduling problems in flexible manufacturing systems. This research paper presents a brief discussion about cyclic scheduling in flexible manufacturing.
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Print: $27.90 Download: $25.00 Venous leg ulcers are said to be a problem for both patients and the health system which must provide care to those who have been afflicted by this painful condition. However, the treatment can be prolonged and patient compliance is important if healing is to occur and recurrence is to be prevented. Although it has been said that most of the venous leg ulcers could be healed only if adequate resources were to be found to treat all sufferers by admitting them to hospitals for leg elevation and compression therapy, this is a difficult task for a health system that is constrained by resources. Thus, it is necessary to treat most of the cases as outpatients and as far as possible, ensure that patients are educated and complying. This literature review presents a discussion about patient compliance and venous leg ulcers that not only presents a discussion about various aspects of the disease, but also examines the need for patient compliance.
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