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Papers by Muhammad Imran

Coatings, 2020

Nanobiotechnology has offered great attention in drug delivery and the development of various med... more Nanobiotechnology has offered great attention in drug delivery and the development of various medicines used to treat microorganism infections. The present investigation deals with antimycobacterial activity, in-vitro hemolysis assay, and antioxidant activity of nickel oxide nanoparticles (NiO NPs). NiO NPs, with controlled size and shape, prepared by a simple and inexpensive successive ionic layer adsorption and reaction (SILAR) method was scanned using field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM) and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HR-TEM) digital images for surface morphology confirmation. Spherical irregular island-type NPs of about 24 nm diameter are obtained. The X-ray diffraction pattern demonstrates the synthesis of polycrystalline and cubic in phase NiO NPs. The Raman spectrum has revealed the presence of two vibration bands cantered at 550 and 1095 cm−1 for one photon longitudinal optical, and two longitudinal optical modes, respectively. The as-p...

Revista Gestão Inovação e Tecnologias, 2021

The increasing percentage of processed food has transformed human diseases trends from acute to c... more The increasing percentage of processed food has transformed human diseases trends from acute to chronic diseases which are the cause of unhealthy food choices. To educate consumers the food label is the most suitable source of information. The primary objective of the current study is to examine how external factors encourage consumers to purchase package food and to what extent consumers' inner voice reply. The model was tested on 467 sample size. For the final analysis SEM AMOS was employed. Results have unfolded the fact that there is partial mediation exist. Conscientiousness has made relation weaken which indicates that although external factors such as attitude towards food label and subjective norms are decisive for informed food choices but personality traits' role is inevitable. The current study has contributed in existing literature but a comprehensive model required in developing consumers' awareness towards selection of right amount package food. Practical: Food processing companies are designing easy to interpretive labels but the understanding of consumers' personality traits can give them competitive edge in market.

Journal of the chemical society of pakistan, 2020

Schiff base ligand 2,2-{benzene-1,4-diylbis[(E)methylylidene(1E,2E)hydrazine-2,1-diylidene(E)meth... more Schiff base ligand 2,2-{benzene-1,4-diylbis[(E)methylylidene(1E,2E)hydrazine-2,1-diylidene(E)methylidene]}diphenol (H2-BHMD) was synthesized by reacting together the ortho vaniline and 1,4-bis(hydrazonomethyl)benzene. It was characterized by analytical and spectroscopic techniques including 1H-NMR, elemental analysis, FT-IR, and UV-Visible studies. Different transition metal ions like Co (II), Ni (II), Cu (II) and Zn (II) were reacted with well characterized ligand to obtain the metal derivatives. AAS, elemental analysis, FT-IR, molar conductance and UV-Visible methods were used to study the metal complexes. The analytical and spectroscopic technique suggested the formation of coordination polymers. The FT-IR results conﬁrmed the bidentate binding of the ligand involving phenolic oxygen and azomethine nitrogen. The UV-visible studies suggested the formation of distorted square planar geometries for all the metal complexes. Hydrazone Schiff bases are known for their antioxidant activ...

The purpose of this research is to analyze, the influence of professionalism on the performance o... more The purpose of this research is to analyze, the influence of professionalism on the performance of employees in the Social Service Of North Labuhanbatu Regency, the influence of work characteristics on the performance of employees in the Social Service of North Labuhanbatu Regency, the influence of organizational commitment to the performance of employees in the Social Service of North Labuhanbatu Regency and the influence of professionalism, characteristics of work and organizational commitment to the performance of employees in the Social Service of North Labuhanbatu Regency. Sampling techniques in this study is total sampling, namely all employees in the Social Service Of North Labuhanbatu Regency of 42 people. Analysis techniques used are descriptive analysis methods and multiple linear regression analysis, Variable Research Results professionalism, characteristic work and organizational commitment simultaneously have a significant effect on the performance of employees in worki...

2019 UK/ China Emerging Technologies (UCET), Aug 1, 2019

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) have been widely adopted in self-organizing networks (SON) for automat... more Deep Neural Networks (DNN) have been widely adopted in self-organizing networks (SON) for automating different networking tasks. Recently, it has been shown that DNN lack robustness against adversarial examples where an adversary can fool the DNN model into incorrect classification by introducing a small imperceptible perturbation to the original example. SON is expected to use DNN for multiple fundamental cellular tasks and many DNN-based solutions for performing SON tasks have been proposed in the literature have not been tested against adversarial examples. In this paper, we have tested and explained the robustness of SON against adversarial example and investigated the performance of an important SON use case in the face of adversarial attacks. We have also generated explanations of incorrect classifications by utilizing an explainable artificial intelligence (AI) technique. Index Terms-Adversarial machine learning, Self Organizing Cellular Networks 1 GDPR is an EU law regulation aiming at data protection and privacy for all individual citizens of the European Union and the European Economic Area.

Acta Universitatis Danubius Oeconomica, 2013

This study objective to examine the relationship between gold prices, oil prices and KSE100 retur... more This study objective to examine the relationship between gold prices, oil prices and KSE100 return. This study important for the investor whose want to invest in real assets and financial assets. This study helps investor to achieve the portfolio diversification. This study uses the monthly data of gold prices, KSE100, and oil prices for the period of 2000 to 2010 (monthly). This study applied Descriptive statistics, Augmented Dickey Fuller test Phillip Perron test, Johansen and Jelseluis Co-integration test, Variance Decomposition test to find relationship. This study concludes that Gold prices growth, Oil prices growth and KSE100 return have no significant relationship in the long run. This study provides information to the investors who want to get the benefit of diversification by investing in Gold, Oil and stock market. In the current era Gold prices and oil prices are fluctuating day by day and investors think that stock returns may or may not affected by these fluctuations. This study is unique because it focuses on current issues and takes the current data in this research to help the investment institutions or portfolio managers.

ABSTRACT This document presents the overall architecture of the Liquid Publication integrated pla... more ABSTRACT This document presents the overall architecture of the Liquid Publication integrated platform and describes all components in detail. In addition to that, it also describes LiquidPub applications. This final version not only introduces advances in the development of the platform but also a more mature understanding of the requirements and possibilities, explored in the LiquidPub applications covering the aspects of knowledge creation, dissemination and evaluation.

Proceedings of the 21st international conference companion on World Wide Web - WWW '12 Companion, 2012

In this demonstration, we present ResEval Mash, a mashup platform for research evaluation, i.e., ... more In this demonstration, we present ResEval Mash, a mashup platform for research evaluation, i.e., for the assessment of the productivity or quality of researchers, teams, institutions, journals, and the like-a topic most of us are acquainted with. The platform is specifically tailored to the need of sourcing data about scientific publications and researchers from the Web, aggregating them, computing metrics (also complex and ad-hoc ones), and visualizing them. ResEval Mash is a hosted mashup platform with a clientside editor and runtime engine, both running inside a common web browser. It supports the processing of also large amounts of data, a feature that is achieved via the sensible distribution of the respective computation steps over client and server. Our preliminary user study shows that ResEval Mash indeed has the power to enable domain experts to develop own mashups (research evaluation metrics); other mashup platforms rather support skilled developers. The reason for this success is ResEval Mash's domain-specificity.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2011

The paper discusses some trends in end user programming (EUP) and takes inspiration from the disc... more The paper discusses some trends in end user programming (EUP) and takes inspiration from the discussions in a panel and in a vertical session on research evaluation within the second Search Computing workshop. We discuss the controversial successes and failures in this field and we elaborate on which facilities could foster adoption of end user programming. We discuss various dimensions of end user programming, including vertical versus horizontal language definition, declarative versus imperative approaches. We exemplify our discussion in the realistic scenario of research evaluation by comparing the Search Computing and ResEval approaches.

International journal of pediatric obesity : IJPO : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, 2011

Congenital leptin deficiency is a rare human genetic condition clinically characterized by hyperp... more Congenital leptin deficiency is a rare human genetic condition clinically characterized by hyperphagia and acute weight gain usually during the first postnatal year. The worldwide data on this disorder includes only 14 cases and four pathogenic mutations have been reported in the leptin gene. The objectives of this study were to measure serum leptin levels in obese children and to detect leptin gene mutations in those found to be leptin deficient. A total of 25 obese children were recruited for the study. Leptin deficiency was detected in nine of them. Leptin gene sequencing identified mutations in homozygous state in all the leptin deficient children. Two cases carried novel mutations (c.481_482delCT and c.104_106delTCA) and each of the remaining seven the previously reported frameshift mutation (c.398delG). The results suggest that leptin deficiency caused by mutations in the leptin gene may frequently be seen in obese Pakistani children from Central Punjab.

Journal of Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad : JAMC

Gallbladder carcinoma is a relatively uncommon neoplasm which is more common in the seventh decad... more Gallbladder carcinoma is a relatively uncommon neoplasm which is more common in the seventh decade of life compared to that of cholelithiasis which is in the fourth decade. The objective of the study was to determine the frequency of carcinoma gall bladder in cases of acute and chronic cholecystitis particularly with reference to cholelithiasis. This cross-sectional observational study was done in the department of Surgery at Fauji Foundation Hospital, Rawalpindi from 1st January, 2009 till 3 1st October, 2011. All 310 cholecystectomies performed during this period were included in this study. The specimens collected were macroscopically examined and sent for histopathology. All the reports were reviewed and the results recorded. Out of 310 cases, 27 (8.7%) had acute cholecystitis and 280 (91.2%) were chronic cholecystitis. 3 specimens got autolysed and therefore excluded from the study. 290 cases had cholelithiasis. 2 out of 290 calculous cases were found to have coexistent carcino...

BioMed Research International, 2013

Numerous studies confirmed the association ofFTO(fat mass and obesity associated gene) common var... more Numerous studies confirmed the association ofFTO(fat mass and obesity associated gene) common variant, rs9939609, with obesity in European populations. However, studies in Asian populations revealed conflicting results. We examined the association of rs9939609 variant ofFTOgene with obesity and obesity-related anthropometric and metabolic parameters in Pakistani population. Body weight, height, waist circumference, hip circumference, and blood pressure (BP) were measured. BMI and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) were calculated. Levels of fasting blood glucose (FBG), insulin, leptin, and leptin receptors were measured by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), and homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) was calculated. The results showed association ofFTOgene, rs9939609, with obesity in females (>18 years of age).FTOminor allele increased the risk of obesity by 2.8 times (95% CI = 1.3–6.0) in females. This allele showed association with body weight, BMI, waist cir...

Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2014

Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications, 2009