Perception of University Students About Horoscopes in Sindh Province, Pakistan

Horoscopes are considered as one of the important content items in the mass media. Many people perceive and believe that these Zodiac signs have an impact on their lives. That is why they check these signs on different media regularly. The purpose of this study was to determine the perception of Sindh University students about horoscope. A cross-sectional survey was conducted from 100 students of Sindh University through a close-ended questionnaire. The results concluded that girls are more interested in horoscope than boys. The sources for horoscope prediction were mainly newspapers among the Sindh University students. The students reported that they read horoscope daily to skip the pressure and try to satisfy their minds. This research is limited to the University of Sindh students. In the future, the researchers should conduct a large-scale study with a more significant population to determine the perception of the public about horoscopes.

Effect of Development Strategies and Project Types on Offshore Software Development Using Agile Paradigm- an Exploratory Study

Goal of this research is to check the feasibility of blending Agile software development methods in offshore software development. We hope that this blend will result in a significant improvement in a software development cycle by benefiting from both worlds. There are many factors which contribute to the success / failure of offshore Agile project development, e.g. development strategy, project type, communication channel, cultural differences, distant locations and project size. This thesis focuses on the effect of development strategy and project types on the offshore software development. In this research, we also report on success rate and suitability of different types of software projects and development strategies using offshore Agile software development. The survey indicates that coding and testing phases of software development are best suited for off shoring in any iteration of discipline-oriented sprint life cycle development. We havefound that maximum success rates for feature-oriented development strategy is obtained by developing general modules of a project at distributed location and critical modules at onshore. The study observed maximum success rate for web-based applications and websites among others offshore developed projects.