{"title":"Devastating Stroke Following Subclavian Artery Angioplasty","authors":"J RatheeshKumar","doi":"10.19080/jojcs.2019.10.555798","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19080/jojcs.2019.10.555798","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":32665,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Experiential Learning Case Studies","volume":"108 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74373678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Orbital Metastasis as Primary Presentation of Misdiagnosed Breast Cancer: A Case Report","authors":"Lazareva E","doi":"10.19080/jojcs.2019.10.555797","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19080/jojcs.2019.10.555797","url":null,"abstract":"We report the case of orbital metastasis from a hormone-positive infiltrating lobular carcinoma in a previously misdiagnosed metastatic breast cancer in a 61-year old woman presenting with ophthalmic symptoms (diplopia, bulb proptosis). She received external beam radiotherapy, particularly 3D conformal radiotherapy, chemotherapy and hormone therapy. The metastatic involvement of the orbit in malignant tumors is a rarely diagnosed condition. Breast cancer accounts for the majority of these cases. This article highlights the importance of evaluating the one such unique metastatic site (orbital metastasis) as the first indication of advanced malignancy and reinforces the importance of an early correct diagnosis.","PeriodicalId":32665,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Experiential Learning Case Studies","volume":"21 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72487928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effects of Firm-Specific Factors on the Financial Soundness by using CARAMELS Framework Indicators: A Case of Non-Life Insurance Industry of Pakistan","authors":"N. Ali, Zahid Ali Chanar, S. Ghauri, Shahid Obaid","doi":"10.22555/IJELCS.V4I1.2452.G536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22555/IJELCS.V4I1.2452.G536","url":null,"abstract":"The study is carried out to identify the relations of firm-specific factors with the financial soundness indicators of CARAMELS framework for the non-life insurance industry, by using a panel data set of 22 non-life insurance companies of Pakistan from 2007 to the year 2016. This study is established on two most applicable panel data techniques (random effects as well as fixed effects models), referring to the Hausman’s test. This test proves that the fixed effect model is appropriate for the analyses of firm-specific factors. Based on the highest number of relationships among variables, fixed effects model’s results propose that three firm-specific factors (age of company, management competence index and operating ratios) have significant relations with the CARAMELS financial soundness indicators. However, seven firm-specific factors (size of the company, equity capital, leverage, market share, investment ratio, premium growth and solvency margin) have insignificant relation with the CARAMELS financial soundness indicators. According to author’s best knowledge, it’s the first study that identifies the relations of firm-specific factors with the CARAMELS financial soundness indicators, that will assist to the scholars, managers and policymakers of the non-life insurance industry of Pakistan to consider the significant factors.","PeriodicalId":32665,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Experiential Learning Case Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45372907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impact of Green In-Store & Green Supply Chain Processes on the Performance of Large Retailers in Pakistan","authors":"Mustafa Ali Channa, M. Asim","doi":"10.22555/IJELCS.V4I1.2452.G534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22555/IJELCS.V4I1.2452.G534","url":null,"abstract":"This study aimed to explore the relationship of green in-store activities and green supply chain processes with the economic performance of large retailers in Pakistan. It used a quantitative research approach using co-relational research design. The variables under the domain of Green In-Store processes included the Energy Management (EM), Waste Management (WM), and Green Consumption (GM) while the variables under the domain of Green Supply Chain processes included the Green Purchasing (GP), Green Logistics (GL), and Cooperation with Suppliers (CS). On the other hand, the performance of the large retailers in Pakistan was measured via two variables including Environmental Performance (ENP) and Economic Performance (EP). The results show that that Energy Management, Waste Management and Green Consumption are positively related to Green Supply chain practices like Green Purchasing, Green Logistics and Cooperation with Suppliers. It recommends that organizations, particularly large retailers in Pakistan should focus on environmental problems by executing supplier related green processes such as evaluating suppliers’ performance on greening, perform environmental audits, offer feedback to suppliers about these audits with training..","PeriodicalId":32665,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Experiential Learning Case Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47934933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fath ul Rahman Qurashi, A. Kharroub, Noura Zouai, Masood Ahmed
{"title":"Islamic Rules and Strategies to Bring Peace in Community","authors":"Fath ul Rahman Qurashi, A. Kharroub, Noura Zouai, Masood Ahmed","doi":"10.22555/IJELCS.V4I1.2452.G533","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22555/IJELCS.V4I1.2452.G533","url":null,"abstract":"Islam aims to achieve peace and security in the humanitarian community and prevents it from all the fearful causes that surround the Muslim community and non-Muslim on the face of the earth. This case study attempts to highlight the most important Islamic rules and strategies for peacebuilding in the community by discussing the rules of peace in Islam and the strategies for peace in the community. The f indings of the study reveal that true faith instils in the soul of human goodness and fairness, which prevents him from evil. This faith deprives him of injustice and corruption in the earth. The disbelief in God and turning away from his remembrance is the source of fear and misery, worries and problems, distress in the livelihood, deprivation of moral and material security. To achieve the peace in the community, six key strategies are necessary including holding the Book (Quran) and Sunnah (Consistent way of the Prophet), f ighting the ingratitude towards the bounties, understanding the Islam towards the phenomenon of hypocrisy and hypocrites, managing pluralism in Islam, understanding the strategic distribution of wealth among the people, and f inally administrating of justice and the prohibition of injustice.","PeriodicalId":32665,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Experiential Learning Case Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42141259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"TheUnipedia.Com: Fit or a Misfit?","authors":"S. A. Saeed, M. Amin, Shahnawaz Khan","doi":"10.22555/IJELCS.V4I1.2452.G527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22555/IJELCS.V4I1.2452.G527","url":null,"abstract":"This case is based on the entrepreneurial venture of MBA students from Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, named Ali Gohar (CEO) and Mubashsar Qureshi (CTO). Both studied at Cadet College and remembered the struggle they faced when they were looking for pretest preparations for the university admissions. That’s when they partnered to build the Unipedia, an easy way for struggling students to find quality aptitude test preparation at the low prices in comparison to coaching centres. This case is a brief about the online aptitude test preparation services in Pakistan. It will be a quick understanding of the industry dynamics and as to how the customer functions in this industry.","PeriodicalId":32665,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Experiential Learning Case Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45603536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Muhammad Faisal Sultan, Umair Ahmed Jalali, M. Asim
{"title":"Issues and Challenges inManaging Catering and Food Retail Businessin Karachi: Study of Tikka Inn Caterers","authors":"Muhammad Faisal Sultan, Umair Ahmed Jalali, M. Asim","doi":"10.22555/IJELCS.V4I1.2380.G529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22555/IJELCS.V4I1.2380.G529","url":null,"abstract":"Catering Business is one of the fastest growing businesses hence managing this with limited resources intough market conditions is a big challenge for entrepreneurs. Same is valid for Pakistan where the industry is dominated by giants like Hanif Rajput Caterers and United Caterers etc. Tikka-Inn is treated as one of the new and fastest growing parts of the industry. Therefore this study has been purposively designed on Tikka-Inn, in order to demonstrate the challenges pertaining to new entrepreneurs. Hence in order to validate f indings of the case, data achieved through systematic interviews has been linked with the company’s records and available research literature. After all the association and validation f indings of the study indicated that scarcity of f inancial resources is still a major issue for the entrepreneurs coupled with the intense level of competition, conditions of the city and regularity issues which entails entrepreneursto device proper mechanism to overcome these hurdles especially in the category of catering and food retail business.","PeriodicalId":32665,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Experiential Learning Case Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41653031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Role of Gender in Employee Retention: A Study of Private Hospitals in Karachi","authors":"Fouzia Nasir, M. Ashraf, Muhammad Riaz","doi":"10.22555/IJELCS.V4I1.2452.G537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22555/IJELCS.V4I1.2452.G537","url":null,"abstract":"The retaining and draining talent has been the most perplexing saga for the organizations. The corporate arena remained the battlef ield between these two positive and negative challenges. In this regard, several strategies are devised by offering lucrative benef its to the talent to stick around with the organization. The objective of this study was to analyse the role of Gender in retention, with specif ic reference to the private hospitals in Karachi, Pakistan. The study further intended to answer if Private hospitals inclined more to retain male or female employees. Employee’s retention policies are planned to increase the employment agreement and decrease the ample expenses concerned with recruiting and training the employees. After implementing managerial behaviour concepts organization can improve retention charges and reduce the related expenses of high turnover.A descriptive, causal study wascarried out using purposive samplingto conduct an interview with 50 employees with the help of a structured questionnaire. Data were analysed through SPSS applying Regression model to identify key factors influencing employee retention. The two leading hospitals were the focus of the study. The study found the health care organizations had a particularly subjective approach while allocating salaries among male, female employees.Therefore, it recommends to all organizations whether services or industrial, that the improved job setting by no inequity lead to rises the eff iciency of the workers as well as of a business.","PeriodicalId":32665,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Experiential Learning Case Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47124812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Should we Build Mega Transport Project in Cities? The Case of TransPeshawar Pakistan","authors":"S. Ahmad, S. Ahmad","doi":"10.22555/IJELCS.V4I1.2452.G531","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22555/IJELCS.V4I1.2452.G531","url":null,"abstract":"The research indicates that TransPeshawar Project faces a huge gap for its successful completion and implementation due to many reasons which approve the recommendations of BRT studies conducted worldwide. Its aim is to f ind out the present status and challenges of mega transport projects carried out in four cities of Pakistan. Total budget, numbers of riders and operating cost were analyzed for each project. It is interesting that all of the three completed projects are not earning enough money to support their own operations. They are still getting a huge amount from the government in order to operate smoothly. In a country like Pakistan, neither had they obtained their objectives nor support the government f inancially but benef it a specif ic sect one way or the other way. The situation will be even worse for BRT Peshawar. Therefore it is recommended that the government should prefer roads, highways or motorways instead of such mega projects in cities. The research is focused on a single case study of BRT projects of Pakistan, its f indings may apply to such projects in other cities in similar economic and political contexts.","PeriodicalId":32665,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Experiential Learning Case Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47498746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Audience Preferences and Popular Program Patterns on News Channels in Karachi","authors":"Erum Hafeez","doi":"10.22555/IJELCS.V4I1.2487.G530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22555/IJELCS.V4I1.2487.G530","url":null,"abstract":"This research aims to study the factors that influence the viewership of leading Television News Channels including ARY, Geo, Express, Samaa, and Dunya in Pakistan. It examines the impact of content, presentation style, channel positioning and anchors, alongside overall news viewing patterns, on the public image of the identif ied news channels and their viewership with focus on Express News. Following a qualitative research approach, a representative sample of 51 news viewers are identif ied and interviewed, with a proportionate weightage to geographical areas and socio-economic classif ication of audience, based on recent Census and People’s meter, an audience measurement tool. The respondents are investigated through a comprehensive questionnaire, comprised both close and open-ended questions. This study focuses on three categories of viewers including Express News Viewers, Express News Lapsers and Competitive Channels Viewers. One-on-one interviews reflect the mindset and viewing patterns of news channels’ audience. It is also instrumental to highlight the factors that hinder Express News ratings against its competing channels. Findings of the study indicate that the programme content, presentation style, and cable positioning of news channels signif icantly influence its viewership that result in the quantum of recall for Express News, and how its viewership and ratings are presumably affected by the very factors.","PeriodicalId":32665,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Experiential Learning Case Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44758831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}