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Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance

Mobile phones have become the ubiquitous and integral part of modern lives, providing human conne... more Mobile phones have become the ubiquitous and integral part of modern lives, providing human connectivity in a way never before witnessed. This gives us a unique opportunity to build an innovative platform for service delivery to the common citizens of India. Any service delivery platform must meet the benchmark of 4A's-namely Availability, Accessibility, Authenticity and Affordability. This paper attempts to bring forward the idea to build a robust service delivery platform using SMS gateway and the opportunities offered by the technologies and the challenges of implementation and operation and suggest its mitigation. This paper also discusses the unification of SMS with competing technologies like eMail/OBD/IVR/Missed-Call system to architect unified and innovative solutions for government and common citizens.

Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, 2021

Graph theory is used for finding communities in networks. Graphs are used as device for modeling ... more Graph theory is used for finding communities in networks. Graphs are used as device for modeling and description of real world network systems such are: transport, water, electricity, internet, work operations schemes in the process of production, construction, etc. Although the content of these schemes differ among themselves, but they have also common features and reflect certain items that are in the relation between each other. So in the scheme of transport network might be considered manufacturing centers, and roads and rail links connected directly to those centers. In this paper is designed the solution for an practical problem to find a Minimum Spanning Tree by using Kruskal algorithm and graph search Dijkstra's Algorithm to find the shortest path between two points, Also, for this case was developed a network model of the transportation problem which is analyzed in detail to minimize shipment costs and to find the eccentricity along with Jordon's centre.

Journal of emerging technologies and innovative research, May 1, 2021

This study involves the knowledge about the application of geosynthetics in various engineering i... more This study involves the knowledge about the application of geosynthetics in various engineering infrastructures as they are the revolutionary products in the construction industry. They are having ravishing impacts as they enhance the properties of every material to be used in like from improving the bearing capacity of soil to filtration beneath the subgrades. They are used in various other engineering designs like in stabilization of soil, backfill retaining walls etc. It is widely used because of its speedy installation, being economical and easy handling. The most important factor regarding the geosynthetics is general environment safety and its durability. The lecture will briefly show some case studies of use of geo synthetics in civil infrastructure.

Proceedings of the Special Collection on eGovernment Innovations in India - ICEGOV '17, 2017

Citizen empowerment is one of the key elements for success of any democratic government. Deliveri... more Citizen empowerment is one of the key elements for success of any democratic government. Delivering essential services to the common citizens is one such steps that leads to citizen empowerment. Advances in ICT has lead to evolution of eServices, which has the potential to deliver services to the doorstep of a citizen. Deployment of multi-channel and its integration with eServices platform holds the promise of delivering the services at the tap of citizen's finger. Employment of multi-channel in eService platform offers a larger canvas of opportunities to meet and exceed the citizen expectations. However, there are many management and operational challenges which need proper mitigation. This paper attempts to discuss the integration of multi-channel eService delivery platform with special reference to the work being done at NIC (National Informatics Center). Also brings forward the idea to build a robust service delivery platform using mobile enabled ICT technologies and the opportunities offered by these technologies and the challenges of implementation and operation and suggest its mitigation. This paper also discusses the unification of competing technologies like USSD/OBD/IVR/Missed-Call/SMS/MobileApps to architect unified and innovative solutions for government and common citizens [9].

IntroductionThere is a large body of theories and research on violence and aggressive behavior in... more IntroductionThere is a large body of theories and research on violence and aggressive behavior in the social sciences, mostly coming from psychology and sociology. Psychologists in most cases tend to focus on individuals in face-to-face interaction and neglect large scale conflict between people and groups. Psychologists focus on how mental processes impact individual propensities for violence. Psychologists are often interested in the association between learning, intelligence, and personality and aggressive behavior. Sociologists, on the other hand, mostly focus their analysis on the social structure to explain how violent behavior of an individual or group may be socially and culturally embedded. Broadly speaking, some theories provide general or macro level explanation while other theories provide specific or micro level explanation of violence. These theories primarily try to answer questions relating to the ?why' and ?how' of violence in an abstract fashion. In the fol...

This study explores the attitudes of students towards gender based discrimination in punishment a... more This study explores the attitudes of students towards gender based discrimination in punishment at schools in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.A case study of selected districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was carried out in districts Peshawar and Mardan with the purpose of eliciting the students‟ perception on violence/punishment. The study intends to find reasons of school violence through its perpetrators, in light of its manifestations on the basis of gender, ethnicity and class, by looking into the methodologies owned by the schools and suggesting policy recommendations. A sample size of 522 respondents was randomly selected on proportional allocation basis from Grade 10 students. Frequency and percentage distribution along with Chi-square test was carried out at uni-variate and bi-variate levels. Through this study five major issues are addressed to clear the image of students‟ perception of gender based violence/discriminations in punishments at school. These five indicators determinin...

Humanities and social sciences, 2011

This thesis contributes to existing knowledge on NGOs in the global South through examining the c... more This thesis contributes to existing knowledge on NGOs in the global South through examining the case study of RDO, an NGO in Pakistan, investigating the influence of historically structured formal and informal institutions and the politico-economic factors shaping its efforts for democratic and empowerment-oriented change in rural communities. It analyses RDO’s philosophy and practice regarding the formation of community organisations, which are intended to work democratically for their own development and to access government and other NGOs’ services. It does this by analysing 63 qualitative interviews, 20 Focus Group Discussions (FGDs), organisational documents and observational data from 8-months fieldwork. It is argued that, rather than democratising and empowering community members, whose relationships with each other and with the state agencies have been historically patronage-based (Gough et al., 2004) and marked by inequalities based on ethnicity, gender, and class, RDO tend...

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 2018

Elicitation is the entry point of any digital transformation project. Domain knowledge is a criti... more Elicitation is the entry point of any digital transformation project. Domain knowledge is a critical factor for successful elicitation. Hence, elicitation is usually executed by subject matter experts (SME), who have fair amount of domain knowledge required for the project. However, such SME are scare and costly resources. Hence there is an urgent need to design a framework that can help build domain knowledge of the business analyst (BA) involved in elicitation in order to lower dependence on SME. Such framework should be programmatically implementable and should be able to work seamlessly with the existing techniques of elicitation. Several solutions based on organizational theories, cognitive models, and strategic frameworks have been proposed with varying results. This work is in progress. As elicitation generates a web of interactions in natural language, natural language processing (NLP) techniques can be utilized to extract and build domain knowledge. This paper investigates ...

Gems & Gemology, 2021

D escending into Peshawar for the first time, a foreign tourist might be surprised to learn that ... more D escending into Peshawar for the first time, a foreign tourist might be surprised to learn that amid the clutter of buildings in this historical city lies an important gem trading center. This market serves a wide range of buyers and sellers from Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Iran who deal with locally mined gemstones from Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan, and parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan (figure 1). They might also be surprised that this trading hub does not have a modern name. Namak Mandi, meaning "salt market" in Urdu, was originally established decades ago as a trading center and storage facility for salt (Hussain, 2015). Fifty years ago, no one could have imagined it becoming a primary trading center for rough and faceted gemstones in Pakistan. The au-138 FIELD REPORT GEMS & GEMOLOGY SUMMER 2021

International Journal of Economic and Environmental Geology, 2019

14 September, 2019 Accepted: 07 October, 2019: Deforestation and forest degradation are not only ... more 14 September, 2019 Accepted: 07 October, 2019: Deforestation and forest degradation are not only a problem of north western mountainous region of Pakistanbut it is one of the main global environmental issues. To find out deforestation rate and its extent in Swat, KhyberPakhtunkhwa, Landsat 5 (October 2, 2011) and Landsat 8 OLI (October 15, 2016) data were processed in CarnegieLandsat Analysis System (CLASlite v3.3). Primary data related to deforestation in Swat were also obtained from localpeople through a structured questionnaire. Primary data were analyzed in Statistical Package for the Social Sciences(SPSS). Changes in land cover can be clearly identified during image analysis. The temporal analysis of forest coverbetween 2011 and 2016 showed a significant change in forest cover. About 11 km² area is converted from forest tobarren land, while approximately 9,985 km² area of forest cover was degraded. The perceived causes of deforestation inthe study area are unsustainable use and...

Journal of Asian and African Studies, 2020

This paper critiques the poverty scorecard (PSC), a monetary-based tool for measuring poverty tha... more This paper critiques the poverty scorecard (PSC), a monetary-based tool for measuring poverty that has been adopted by community development programmes and participatory non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in 66 countries including Pakistan. Drawing on 15 interviews and five focus group discussions conducted with the staff members and community members of Frontier Organization for Rural Development, a participatory NGO in Pakistan, I argue that it uses clouds intra-household power and resources distribution thereby furthering gender, class, and ethnic inequalities. Instead of solely relying on the PSC, the paper suggests supplementing it with participatory methods.

Cureus, 2020

Enhanced External Counterpulsation (EECP) is a non-invasive FDA approved therapy for patients wit... more Enhanced External Counterpulsation (EECP) is a non-invasive FDA approved therapy for patients with refractory angina pectoris. The EECP mechanism of action is similar to that of an intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) by administering a vigorous pressure pulse via external blood pressure cuffs during the diastole. The benefit of EECP includes improvement in angina severity, angina stability, maximal walking capacity and generalized improvement in overall health. Seatle Angina Questionnaire (SAQ) is a valid, reliable and sensitive measure of healthrelated quality of life. It is also a sensitive and reproducible evaluation tool to measure the response to an intervention. We did a pre-test post-test designed prospective study to evaluate the effect of EECP on the quality of life in patients with CAD. There was a significant difference between SAQ-7 health-related quality of life between the pre-EECP and post-EECP groups (P value= <0.01). Moreover, a positive correlation was reported between the New York Heart Association (NYHA) Functional Classification before treatment and post-EECP SAQ-7 healthrelated quality of life (P value=0.015).

Development in Practice, 2020

This article presents an institutionalist account of historically structured formal and informal ... more This article presents an institutionalist account of historically structured formal and informal institutions and the politico-economic factors that influenced the efforts of a Pakistani NGO (FORDP) to democratise rural communities. Using interviews with FORDP staff members, the article demonstrates that its bottom-up democratisation has gradually succumbed to structures of inequality at the micro level and to macro politico-economic changes. At the macro level, Pakistan's alliance in the "war on terror" and the post-2005 earthquake relief efforts translated into large-scale NGO interventions at the grassroots. However, as these were patronage-based, they made it harder for FORDP to instil longlasting change in communities.

Progress In Electromagnetics Research C, 2020

Today, worldwide more than five billion of wireless devices are directly communicating for voice ... more Today, worldwide more than five billion of wireless devices are directly communicating for voice and data transmission. The amount of data utilization has increased remarkably and here comes 5G technology with more prominent features, offering high data rate, low latency rate, efficient EM spectrum utilization, an immense machine-2-machine communication, etc. The efficient implementation of 5G technologies requires efficient and compact antennas. This work presents a novel multiband rectangular dielectric resonator antenna for future 5G wireless communication system, having stacked radiator with semi-circular slots etched on the left and right sides of an upper radiator. Additionally, a semi-elliptical slots rectangular microstrip patch antenna of the same dimensions for the purpose of comparison is designed. 28 and 38 GHz, which are the proposed 5G bands by most researchers, are the core target of this work. Alumina with a high relative permittivity of 9.8 is used as a radiator in the design of DRA, while common in the design of both proposed antennas, Rogers RT/DUROID 5880 with a relative permittivity of 2.2 having standard thickness is used as substrate material. Both the proposed antennas have an overall same size of 13 × 11.25 mm 2. The proposed dielectric antenna resonates at 25.4, 34.6 and 38 GHz with 7.34, 4.04, and 3.30 GHz of wide impedance bandwidth covering the targeted 5G, 28, and 38 GHz bands, having a good return loss of −34.7, −31.8, and −33.5 dB, respectively. Further, the proposed dielectric antenna has a maximum radiation efficiency of 97.63%, with overall radiation efficiency greater than 90%, and maximum gain of 7.6 dBi is also noted. On the other hand, the proposed microstrip antenna resonates at 28 and 38 GHz with a 1.49 and 1.01 GHz of moderate impedance bandwidth, having −23.6 and −27.1 dB of satisfactory return loss. Further, the proposed patch antenna has a maximum radiation efficiency of 90.33% at 28 GHz, with overall radiation efficiency of greater than 84%, and moderate gain of 5.45 dBi is also noted. Both the proposed antennas have a nearly omnidirectional radiation pattern at resonance frequencies, with VSWR less than 2. Comparative study of the two proposed antennas regarding radiation efficiency, return loss, gain, data rate, and impedance bandwidth evidently shows that performance of DRA over MPA at millimeter wave is very good. The proposed antennas are simulated in CST Microwave studio v18.

Cureus, 2019

Takayasu arteritis is a type of large vessel vasculitis that mainly affects the aorta and its maj... more Takayasu arteritis is a type of large vessel vasculitis that mainly affects the aorta and its major branches. The disease can have a myriad of manifestations ranging from non-specific symptoms of low-grade fever and weight loss to lower limb claudication. A 21-year-old woman presented with uncontrolled hypertension for the last six months. The CT aortogram revealed total occlusion of the abdominal aorta with collateral vessels formed by the right and left internal mammary artery. We present a case of Takayasu arteritis in a 21-year-old woman with complete obstruction of the abdominal aorta. She was treated only with oral medications. The associated review of the literature is also discussed.

EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2017

The study compared the students' level of understanding using two scenarios i.e. S1 (Classroom Le... more The study compared the students' level of understanding using two scenarios i.e. S1 (Classroom Lectures) and S2 (Lectures based on AR). An independent sample t-test was applied to correlate the results of two groups (experimental and control) and paired sample t-test was applied to evaluate the two scenarios S1and S2 within two groups: the experimental and the control. When the effect of augmented reality in blended learning framework is broke down, it is examined that augmented reality learning outperform classroom learning environment in enhancing students' performance. The result revealed that there is a difference between classroom learning and AR learning. AR experiences have positive effect on students' learning. Furthermore, students' confidence and motivation towards learning are achieved.

Journal of Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad : JAMC

Juvenile Angiofibroma (JNA) is a benign tumour that tends to bleed and occur in the nasopharynx w... more Juvenile Angiofibroma (JNA) is a benign tumour that tends to bleed and occur in the nasopharynx with most cases occurring in pre-pubertal and adolescent males 10-20 years. We present the case of a 50-year-old male shopkeeper who consulted the ENT out patients' department (OPD) of Khyber Teaching Hospital (KTH) with the chief complaint of right sided nasal obstruction for the last 2.5 months which was associated with two episodes of epistaxis and diplopia which started 2 months back. He complained of right sided frontal and periorbital pain for the last 15 days. Past medical and surgical history was insignificant. Computerized Tomography (CT) scan without contrast and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed finding consistent with a pedunculated tumour like growth. After baseline investigations, surgery was done and a Wilson's incision was given and the mass was excised and sent to the lab for histopathological report which showed angiofibroma. The age of the patient shows th...

Protocols, 2013

Stem cell transplantation for high risk acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in paediatric patients in f... more Stem cell transplantation for high risk acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in paediatric patients in first remission.