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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: $19.40 Download: $15.00 Strategy and strategic management are important concepts for British Petroleum because it is only by paying attention to strategy that this company can hope to grow and to remain ahead of its competitors. British Petroleum is now amongst the largest of the international oil companies and it is a well known name around the world. This company started off as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in the early 1930s and was involved with the development of the oil sector in Iran, prior to the nationalisation of the oil interests. This brief essay presents a discussion of some of the more interesting strategy aspects that confront the company in the present global business environment.
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Print: $44.55 Download: $40.00 This literature review presents selected published research material that will be of interest to those who have an interest in price and volume movements and the impact of announcements, news or the release of information on such movements. Although it is difficult to accurately predict the psychological impact of information on traders and how this psychological impact will translate into factors that influence market dynamics, researchers have tried to apply a number of modelling techniques, including GARCH models, neural network techniques and chaos system theory in an effort to better understand market behaviour.
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Print: $66.40 Download: $62.50 This study attempts to present an analysis of United States foreign policy towards People’s Republic of China since President Nixon’s visit to this country. The policy of détente that had been set up by President Nixon and Mr. Henry Kissinger not only made it possible for America to disengage itself from a costly war in Vietnam, but this policy also made it possible to stabilize the Asia – Pacific region. It will appear that the confrontation between the communist ideology and that of capitalist egalitarianism has been better settled through dialogue and engagement rather than through the force of arms. However, progress has not always been smooth and a difference in the thinking prevailing within the two nations has sometimes proven itself to be difficult to resolve to a common view.
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Print: $60.00 Download: $50.00 The purpose of this study has been to try to discover the benefits that accrue to franchising firms because of their international franchising operations in foreign markets. Franchising has been thought of in terms of being a method for business expansion, especially in retailing, in which the risks arising out of expansion into new territories can be better shared and the capital needed can be reduced as a result of contributions that are made by franchisees. International franchising has the potential for reducing the capital required and the risks associated with expansion into foreign markets, despite added problems associated with intellectual property and long supply chains. It was found that international market expansion through franchising can provide several benefits to franchisors, but only the best are likely to be accepted and the increasing costs of energy for transport is likely to introduce some new paradigms into the international franchising equation.
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Print: $70.90 Download: $62.50 Within the past decade, family law related to child contact, contact orders and enforcement of such orders has undergone legislative and operational changes in both Canada and the United Kingdom. Changes that have taken place impact stakeholders including children, parents, the judiciary and all those involved with providing a degree of care to children involved in high-conflict divorce or separation cases. This dissertation presents a comparative study of contact orders and the manner in which these orders are enforced in Canada and the United Kingdom.
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Print: $62.50 Download: $62.50 Oman has an ancient history and old commercial traditions that date back centuries. This country is now dependant on the export of its crude oil, but the oil reserves are expected to be depleted by the year 2020. Thus, it is important that Omanis become more proficient in identifying opportunities and turning them into practical realities. Entrepreneurship is about bringing about change and without change Oman cannot continue to maintain high standards of living. Although the natural gas reserves and the tourism potential of the nation will continue to provide opportunities for economic growth, it is important that the potential of the beautiful coastal areas of the country be exploited in a sustainable manner. This write-up presents a discussion about entrepreneurship development in Oman.
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Print: $41.30 Download: $40.00 Competition in the hospitality industry and especially the hotel industry demands that guests be provided with a new level of excellence in service, along with the right ambiance. However, the key to providing excellence in service lies with employees who are the frontline hotel staff members and act as an interface between the customer and the internal hotel organisation.This study attempts to explore what motivates part-time and full-time frontline hotel employees to deliver that which is right and why they work in their hotels of choice.
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Print: $69.40 Download: $62.50 Within the last few years, India has continued on a path towards banking reforms after several decades of heavy state involvement. The pace of reform in India has been much faster compared to the reform in other comparable economies, such as China. The process of liberalisation has attracted new entrants into the banking sector from both within and outside the nation. Thus, the banking sector in India now has banks that are owned by the public, the old private sector banks and the new private sector banks. It is, therefore, appropriate to examine what ownership influences, if any, can be observed on the performance of banks in India. This study tries to take a look at the cost and efficiency components of bank performance for various ownership types that are to be found in the banking sector in India.
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Print: $58.90 Download: $37.50 The Stirling engine is a closed-cycle external combustion engine which has the ability to deliver engine efficiencies that are greater than those of the internal-combustion engine. Stirling engines are quieter and capable of working on various fuels. However, despite their advantages, the Stirling engine is not without complications. Stirling engine designs are generally more complex and variations in engine power are brought about gradually by altering the pressure of the working fluid and temperature within the engine. Thus, although Stirling engine prototypes have been built for use in automobiles and other transport applications, they are not widely used. However, as fuel prices continue to increase and the world becomes energy reduced, the Stirling engine offers opportunities for innovation. This project report presents an examination of the use of the Stirling engine for transport applications.
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Print: $69.20 Download: $50.00 Although counselling has been provided as a support service in many educational programmes, including those for adult education, its significance within the context of the overall effort to educate learners has remained poorly understood. Teaching in the classroom, curriculum and student performance in examinations is often thought of as being a hint of how effective an educational programme is. However, support services are essential and help with developing students in a manner that aids them in functioning in a practical way.This thesis examines why counselling services are needed in adult education.
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