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Papers by Zeeshan Siddique

Veterinary Medicine and Science

Scientific Programming

Social communication has evolved, with e-mail still being one of the most common communication me... more Social communication has evolved, with e-mail still being one of the most common communication means, used for both formal and informal ways. With many languages being digitized for the electronic world, the use of English is still abundant. However, various native languages of different regions are emerging gradually. The Urdu language, coming from South Asia, mostly Pakistan, is also getting its pace as a medium for communications used in social media platforms, websites, and emails. With the increased usage of emails, Urdu’s number and variety of spam content also increase. Spam emails are inappropriate and unwanted messages usually sent to breach security. These spam emails include phishing URLs, advertisements, commercial segments, and a large number of indiscriminate recipients. Thus, such content is always a hazard for the user, and many studies have taken place to detect such spam content. However, there is a dire need to detect spam emails, which have content written in Urd...

International Journal of Gastrointestinal Intervention

Additional file 2: Fig. S1. Description of the study area, Haripur District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, ... more Additional file 2: Fig. S1. Description of the study area, Haripur District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Fig. S2. Images of some ethnoveterinary medicinal plant of District Haripur. Table S1. Relationship between Relative frequency of citation (RFC) and Use Value (UV)

Additional file 1: File S1. Sample of questionnaire used during field survey for obtaining ethnob... more Additional file 1: File S1. Sample of questionnaire used during field survey for obtaining ethnobotanical information

Applied Sciences, 2021

Histopathological image analysis is an examination of tissue under a light microscope for cancero... more Histopathological image analysis is an examination of tissue under a light microscope for cancerous disease diagnosis. Computer-assisted diagnosis (CAD) systems work well by diagnosing cancer from histopathology images. However, stain variability in histopathology images is inevitable due to the use of different staining processes, operator ability, and scanner specifications. These stain variations present in histopathology images affect the accuracy of the CAD systems. Various stain normalization techniques have been developed to cope with inter-variability issues, allowing standardizing the appearance of images. However, in stain normalization, these methods rely on the single reference image rather than incorporate color distributions of the entire dataset. In this paper, we design a novel machine learning-based model that takes advantage of whole dataset distributions as well as color statistics of a single target image instead of relying only on a single target image. The prop...

This research paper is related to a project using networking in hospitals and has looked at vario... more This research paper is related to a project using networking in hospitals and has looked at various recommendations and techniques to use private addressing schemes for the hospital network. We have performed fast switching between the LANs and have ensured the provision of a secure WLAN network. This will contribute towards health promotion which is a core dimension of quality in hospital services, along with patient safety and clinical effectiveness

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2021

Background The utilization of plants and plant resources for various ethnobotanical purposes is a... more Background The utilization of plants and plant resources for various ethnobotanical purposes is a common practice in local towns and villages of developing countries, especially in regard to human and veterinary healthcare. For this reason, it is important to unveil and document ethnomedicinal plants and their traditional/folk usage for human and livestock healthcare from unexplored areas. Here we advance our findings on ethnomedicinal plants from Haripur District, Pakistan, not only for conservation purposes, but also for further pharmacological screenings and applied research. Methodology Information of ethnomedicinal plants was obtained using a carefully planned questionnaire and interviews from 80 local people and traditional healers (Hakims) in Haripur District, Pakistan, from 2015 to 2017. Informed consent was obtained from each participant before conducting the interview process. Quantitative ethnobotanical indices, such as relative frequency of citation (RFC), use value (UV)...

Revista de Biología Tropical, 2020

Introduction: Indigenous people in a far-flung mountainous area without basic facilities, mainly ... more Introduction: Indigenous people in a far-flung mountainous area without basic facilities, mainly rely on medicinal plants to cope with various veterinary health problems. Objective: The present study was carried out to explore the traditional knowledge of ethnoveterinary practices in Kaghan Valley, district Mansehra, Western Himalayas-Pakistan. Method: Ethnoveterinary data were collected between February to October 2014 from nine villages of the Kaghan Valley by involving 80 local people include traditional healers using a semi-structured interview. Results: A sum of 41 plant taxa of ethnoveterinary medicinal plants was documented for treating livestock ailments. Out of which, herbaceous plants were recorded with high percentage (27 species, 65.8 %). Most of the species were used to treat gastrointestinal diseases (12 taxa), followed by health improvement (7 taxa). The widely used part of plants for livestock aliments was the whole plant (9 species) followed by leaves (7 species), a...

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2019

Wounds, burns, cuts, and scarring may cause a serious problem for human health if left untreated,... more Wounds, burns, cuts, and scarring may cause a serious problem for human health if left untreated, and medicinal plants are identified as potentially useful for wound healing. Therefore, the study focused on ethnophytotherapy practices for wound healing from an unexplored area, Pakistan. Ethnophytotherapeutic information was collected through well-planned questionnaire and interview methods by targeting 80 informants (70 males and 10 females), in the study area. Data was analyzed through quantitative tools like use value (UV) and credibility level (CL). A total of forty wound healing plant species, belonging to twenty-nine families, were being used in forty-six recipes. Herbs constitute (35%), shrubs (30%), trees (30%), and climbers (5%) in the treatment of multiple human injuries. For remedies preparations, leaves were most frequently utilized (52%) followed by whole plant, flowers, twigs, roots, bulb, bark, rhizome, resin, oil, leaf gel, latex, gum, and creeper. The most form of he...

AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference, 2009

Journal of Plant Interactions, 2014

Leaf curl disease caused by Cotton Leaf Curl Burewala virus (CLCuBuV) has been recognized as seri... more Leaf curl disease caused by Cotton Leaf Curl Burewala virus (CLCuBuV) has been recognized as serious threat to cotton in Indian subcontinent. However, information about cotton-CLCuBuV interaction is still limited. In this study, the level of phenolic compounds, total soluble proteins, and malondialdehyde (MDA) and the activities of phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL), peroxidase (POX), catalase (CAT), proteases, superoxide dismutase (SOD), and polyphenol oxidase (PPO) were studied in leaves of two susceptible (CIM-496 & NIAB-111) and two resistant (Ravi and Co Tiep Khac) cotton genotypes. Disease symptoms were mild in the resistant genotypes but were severe in highly susceptible genotypes. The results showed that phenolic compounds, proteins, PAL, POX, CAT, proteases, SOD, PPO, and MDA play an active role in disease resistance against CLCuBuV. The amount of total phenols, proteases, MDA, and PPO was significantly higher in leaves of CLCuBuV-inoculated plants of both resistant genotypes as in non-inoculated plants, and decreased in CLCuBuV-inoculated plants of both susceptible genotypes over their healthy plants. POX, protein content, SOD, and PAL activities showed lower values in resistant genotypes, while they decreased significantly in susceptible genotypes as compared to the noninoculated plants except PAL, which showed non-significant decrease. CAT was found to be increased in both susceptible and resistant genotypes with maximum percent increase in resistant genotype Ravi, as compared to non-inoculated plants. The results showed significantly higher concentrations of total phenols and higher activity of protease, MDA, SOD, and PPO in resistant genotype Ravi after infection with CLCuBuV, suggesting that there is a correlation between constitutive induced levels of these enzymes and plant resistance that could be considered as biochemical markers for studying plant-virus compatible and incompatible interactions.

BioScientific Review

Maxillofacial trauma, such as superficial cuts and bruises, lacerations, and facial bone fracture... more Maxillofacial trauma, such as superficial cuts and bruises, lacerations, and facial bone fractures, is a common health concern in youngsters. In this cross-sectional study, we sought to determine the prevalence and pattern of maxillofacial trauma in school-aged children (5 to 16 years) with a history of trauma. The study was conducted at the oral and maxillofacial surgery department, Khyber College of Dentistry, Peshawar. We excluded firearm injuries and maxillofacial trauma older than 15 days, whether treated or untreated, from the study. We enrolled 153 schoolchildren of both genders consecutively using non-probability sampling. To determine the etiology and nature of the trauma, we did radiographic confirmation utilizing many imaging modalities and comprehensive clinical assessments of the craniofacial region. The data was analyzed using SPSS version 22.0. The results of our study indicate that falls are the leading cause of maxillofacial injuries among school-aged children. A to...