In recent weeks there has been squabble over the safety of two new nuclear power plants proposed to be built near the coastal belt of Karachi. While most of the world’s developing countries are leaning towards nuclear energy, some ‘interested’ Pakistanis, like Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy, are repeatedly asserting that the Government of Pakistan is gambling […]
Good Firm vs. Bad Firm, by Phin Upham
Scholars often say that there are good firms and bad firms. Here Phin Upham looks at a seminal work which challenges some of these findings. In Thomas H. Brush and Philip Bromiley’s What Does a Small Corporate Effect Mean? A Variance Components Simulation of Corporate and Businesses Effects, they analyze, reinterpreted, and retest Rumelt’s 1991 essay […]
What needs do you experience?
Individual can be classified according to the strengths of their various needs; or, in technical jargon, in terms of a `recurrent concern for a goal state.’ Each need is believed to have two components: 1) A qualitative or directional component, which includes the object towards which the need is directed. 2) A quantitative or […]
Hard Drive Failure and Data Recovery
There are really two primary forms of failure in a hard drive, logical and physical. Logical failures are usually a result of file-system corruption. This can occur due to a virus, accidental deletion of key files or registry components, and in some cases even electro-static discharge. In most cases where a logical failure has […]