Name: Arslan AhmadReg No: 2013-EE-72

Overview Of The Year2013

The 1st moments of 2013 were New Year’s Eve like all the

other Years.It was the Chinese Snake Year

Islamic Date:18-Safar-1434 Hijri

TimeLine of 2013An eye on the biggest happenings

General InformationThe facts and figures

Networking Statistics

• 2.7 billion people – almost 40% of the world’s population – are online • Number of mobile-cellular subscriptions approaching 7 billion• 91% of all people on earth have a mobile phone

Social networking Statistics

• More than 350 billion tweets have since gone out worldwide from some 232 million active users, as of June. Some 77 percent of Twitter users are outside the United States

• Of Facebook’s nearly one billion strong users, approximately 200 million are mobile only

• YouTube is more popular than cable television• Statistical research has revealed that more than 95 percent of Facebook users log into

their account every day. The same number for Twitter is 60 percent and for LinkedIn is 30 percent.

• Asia Pacific region dominates the social media landscape

Best Inventions

• The Atlas robot - designed to imitate human rescuers in disaster response and emergency recovery

• The Mission - an electric motorcycle that has a top speed of 240 kilometers per hour and a range of up 225 kilometers.

• The Oculus Rift - virtual-reality headset that puts the gamer inside the game.• Volvo's solar pavilion - flexible solar panel that charges your car and folds up to fit in the boot.• Artificial memories - MIT scientists are able to make a mouse react as if it had received shocks

in one part of its body when it had actually experienced that pain in another.• The Gravitylight - operated by the weight of a bag of stones, sand or water it could replace

kerosene lamps widely used in the developing world

• Sony's smart lens - the DSC-QX100 has all the fixings of a high-quality digital camera but clips to your smartphone• The edible password pill - consists of a tiny chip powered by stomach

acid that emits a signal that can be detected by your phone or computer, essentially turning your body into a password• The Argus II - an implanted retina attached to a pair of glasses and a

video unit that can restore partial vision to those who have severe retinitis pigmentosa• The artificial pancreas - detects dropping sugar levels and shuts off

regular insulin delivery for Type 1 diabetes, just like a real pancreas•  The X-47B drone - developed by the U.S Navy and powered by the

same jet engine used on fighters carrying 2040 kilograms of weapons with a greater range

Source: IBT

Health StatisticsHealth workforce• Physicians: 13.9 (per 10 000 population)• Nursing and midwifery personnel: 29 (per 10 000

population)• Dentists: 2.6 (per 10 000 population)• Pharmacists: 4.4 (per 10 000 population)• Environment and public health professionals: _

(per 10 000 population)• Community health workers: _ (per 10 000

population)• Psychiatrists: 0.3 (per 10 000 population)

Infrastructure and technologies• Hospitals: _ (per 100 000 population)• Hospital beds: 30 (per 10 000 population)• Psychiatric beds: 2.5 (per 10 000

population)• Computed tomography units: _ (per

million population)• Radiotherapy units: 1.8 (per million

population)

Source: WHO 2013

• Life Expectancy: 70 years• Infant mortality rate: 37 deaths out of 100 births • Adult mortality rate(probability of dying between 15 and 60

years of age per 1000 population): 129 deaths out of 1000 adults• The figures were 62,61 and 240 as per 1990 statistics

Source: WHO 2013

Major EventsThe main happenings of 2013

The second inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of USA took place in a private swearing-in ceremony on Sunday, January 20, 2013 in the Blue Room of the White House .The inauguration marked the beginning of the second term of Barack Obama as President and Joe

Biden as Vice President

January

February

Meteorites struck Russia's Ural mountains, injuring some 1,200 people, including 200 children, mostly by shattered glass. A large fragment was thought to have landed in a frozen lake near Chebarkul, a town in the Chelyabinsk region. A Russian army spokesman said a crater 6m (20ft) wide

had been found there.

Russian meteorite explosion was as powerful as 400,000 tonnes of TNT and appeared 30 times brighter than the sun, study reveals

May

Huge protests across Egypt calling for the resignation of President Mohammed Morsi had taken place through the night, with some outbreaks of violence.

The general elections in Pakistan were held on 11th May when PML(N) came into power and Nawaz Sharif became the Prime Minister of Pakistan for the 3rd time

May

June

In June thousands of people fled their homes as deadly flood waters caused havoc across central Europe. Here a swimming pool is surrounded by flood water from the River Elbe near Magdeburg in Germany.

November

Typhoon Haiyan struck central parts of the Philippines in November, causing immense damage and loss of life. Roaring winds and a major tidal surge left buildings flattened and more than 6,000 people confirmed dead - and more remain missing.

Nelson Mandela, the South African revolutionist, died on 5th

December from Lung Infection at the age of 95

December

October

But for us ,one of the main event was our admission in UET Lahore

21st October,2013

In ShortLike every year, the year 2013 had some sweet

memories for everyone and a year of great improvements