These strategic alliances, called competitive alliance or global strategic partnership, are business arrangements in which two or more partners agree to cooperate for the mutual benefit, they are a way to support or strengthen the competitive advantages of partners. The main motivations of firms to choose this type of combination would be the first new market penetration, and representing a much cheaper way to penetrate the home market of the partner or on another market where the partner has a strong position, and sharing the risks of investment. In addition to these great benefits this paper shows a multitude of other associated benefits such as tax-related benefits, is often a possibility of penetrating the protected markets, division of market risk and political risk by creating an association with a local partner that would ensure the minimization of negative interference caused by the policy of the state at the same time respecting and industrial policy of the host country. Another motivation for the adoption of strategic alliances is that each partner will learn from the other partner.

In recent times, a number of studies have been done on object tracking with wireless sensor networks (WSN) due to its broad applications. Most object tracking schemes uses prediction to minimize the energy consumption and to maintain low missing rate in a sensor network. However objects need to be localize, when object was found missing during tracking process. In this paper, we propose an inference system such as fuzzy Inference system (FIS) to calculate the edge weight of each sensor node and also we propose a searching technique such as simulated annealing to optimize the fuzzy inference system to accurately estimate the location of the missing object and Finally, we simulated our proposed method against the centroid and multilatertion methods to evaluate its performance in terms of network energy consumption and localization error.

It was to determine some metal concentrations in some tissues of Capoeta trutta collected from four various sites (S1, S2, S3, S4) of the Keban Dam Lake, Turkey. The highest heavy metal level in all tissues was Fe except that in muscle, while Ni was the lowest except that in muscle. The lowest heavy metal levels were observed in all tissues of fish from site S4 for (P<0.05). There were statistically differences among fish from four sites for Fe, Mn, Pb and Ni in all the tissues (P<0.05), but no difference in Ni in muscle (P>0.05). Generally, the fish from S1, S2 and S3 showed the highest heavy metal levels than from S4. The highest levels of Fe (1064.67±487.06 mg kg-1dw) and Pb (18.27±1.25 mg kg-1dw) were obtained in liver tissues of fish caught from S2 and S3 (P<0.05), respectively. The highest levels of Mn (143.42±14.14 mg kg-1dw) and Ni (11.32±1.4 mg kg-1dw) were obtained in gills of fish caught from S2 (P<0.05), while Hg (30.42±11.04 mg kg-1dw) was in kidney of fish caught from S3. In conclusion, Capoeta trutta caught from Keban Dam Lake based on the higher levels of Pb and Hg, might be unsafe for human consumption.

Urdu is a lingua franca in Pakistan. It is our national language. It is associated with education and being educated in our country. In addition, it is the language of media in Pakistan. These and other factors seem to have brought about a change in the linguistic behavior of educated people speaking regional languages as their mother tongues. The study tries to bring to light this linguistic change through a questionnaire based survey. According to the findings of the study Urdu seems to have become the language of family communication among the educated native speakers of Saraiki and Punjabi in Bahawalpur. The survey was conducted in Bahawalpur among married people working at different state-run institutes. 90% of the respondents in the survey speak Saraiki and Punajbi as their mother tongues. 57% of the respondents speak Urdu with their spouses. 78% of the respondents speak Urdu with their children. 94% of the respondents think that they prefer to speak Urdu at home with their children because it is the medium of instruction of education in Pakistan. The study rounds off by discussing various social and linguistic implications of this change in the linguistic behavior of the people of the Southern Punjab.

This research work is devoted to general equilibria in abstract spaces, through the agency of the ideal points, fixed points of multifunctions, Isac’s cones, Choquet boundaries and applied mathematics for academic and industrialists engaged in eco - efficiency

Several approaches such as two dimensional shear deformation and higher order theories, three dimensional exact elasticity methods along with 2-D and 3-D finite element method are available for the prediction of natural frequencies of composite laminates. Out of all a 3-D finite element method is useful in modeling the structures where complex geometries, materials and constraints. But finite element approach gives an approximate solution depending upon the type of discretization and the method of polynomials eligible for field variable. Therefore it is required to conduct convergence test to improve the accuracy of the finite element results and validating with other benchmark results. In the present investigation, free vibration analysis of thick rectangular plates of isotropic and orthotropic materials under various boundary conditions are found using 3-D finite element method and convergence results are compared with available analytical results. In addition experiments are conducted on thick isotropic and orthotropic materials to validate 3-D FEM with experimental modal analysis also. From this study it is observed that the finite element results are in close agreement with all analytical and experimental results of isotropic material. In case of comparison of 3-D FEM with experimental results of orthotropic materials there is a deviation of 5-8%.

Because of rapid sharing of information internet is an important repository. There are\nmillions of websites. It is impossible to remember all of them during the access time. So we\nadopt a network analysis method by which we can retrieve similar category of websites. To\nget the above result we cluster the websites. Website clustering can contribute to spam\nwebsite, pornographic website and political sensitive website detection. So it can be applied\nto websites supervision.