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Papers by abid hussain

PLoS ONE, 2013

Formosan subterranean termites, Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki, live socially in microbial-rich h... more Formosan subterranean termites, Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki, live socially in microbial-rich habitats. To understand the molecular mechanism by which termites combat pathogenic microbes, a full-length normalized cDNA library and four Suppression Subtractive Hybridization (SSH) libraries were constructed from termite workers infected with entomopathogenic fungi (Metarhizium anisopliae and Beauveria bassiana), Gram-positive Bacillus thuringiensis and Gram-negative Escherichia coli, and the libraries were analyzed. From the high quality normalized cDNA library, 439 immune-related sequences were identified. These sequences were categorized as pattern recognition receptors (47 sequences), signal modulators (52 sequences), signal transducers (137 sequences), effectors (39 sequences) and others (164 sequences). From the SSH libraries, 27, 17, 22 and 15 immune-related genes were identified from each SSH library treated with M. anisopliae, B. bassiana, B. thuringiensis and E. coli, respectively. When the normalized cDNA library was compared with the SSH libraries, 37 immune-related clusters were found in common; 56 clusters were identified in the SSH libraries, and 259 were identified in the normalized cDNA library. The immune-related gene expression pattern was further investigated using quantitative real time PCR (qPCR). Important immune-related genes were characterized, and their potential functions were discussed based on the integrated analysis of the results. We suggest that normalized cDNA and SSH libraries enable us to discover functional genes transcriptome. The results remarkably expand our knowledge about immune-inducible genes in C. formosanus Shiraki and enable the future development of novel control strategies for the management of Formosan subterranean termites.

Carbohydrate Polymers, 2014

Cellulose nanofibers (diameter=10-70 nm) were produced using chemical treatments (alkali treatmen... more Cellulose nanofibers (diameter=10-70 nm) were produced using chemical treatments (alkali treatment and bleaching) and high pressure homogenization from de-pectinated sugar beet pulp (DSBP). Chemical analysis and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) indicated that the chemical treatments greatly removed the hemicellulose and lignin from the DSBP and significantly increased the cellulose content. The crystallinity of the cellulose nanofibers increased from 35.67% to 69.62% after alkali treatment and bleaching. The thermal degradation temperature of DSBP cellulose nanofibers was 271.7 °C which was found to be 47.3 °C higher than that of the untreated DSBP. The DSBP cellulose nanofibers can be preferably used as reinforcement in the biocomposite material at high temperature.

International journal of molecular sciences, Jan 12, 2017

The survival and foraging of Coptotermesformosanus Shiraki in a microbe-rich environment reflect ... more The survival and foraging of Coptotermesformosanus Shiraki in a microbe-rich environment reflect the adaptation of an extraordinary, sophisticated defense mechanism by the nest-mates. We aimed to explore the host pathogen interaction by studying caste-specific volatile chemistry and genes encoding the antioxidant defense of winged imagoes, nymphs, soldiers and workers of Formosan subterranean termites. Qualitative analyses of C.formosanus Shiraki performed by HS-SPME/GC-MS showed considerable variations in the chemical composition of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and their proportions among all the castes. Winged imagoes produced the most important compounds such as naphthalene and n-hexanoic acid. The antifungal activity of these compounds along with nonanal, n-pentadecane, n-tetradecane, n-heptadecane and methyl octanoate against the conidial suspensions of Metarhiziumanisopliae and Beauveriabassiana isolates enable us to suggest that the failure of natural fungal infection in...

Cornell University - arXiv, Dec 16, 2013

Lars Kaczmirek was the social science project head and supervisor at GESIS. Philipp Mayr was the ... more Lars Kaczmirek was the social science project head and supervisor at GESIS. Philipp Mayr was the computer science project head and supervisor at GESIS. Manuela Blumenberg and Tobias Gummer developed the project goals under the supervision of Lars Kaczmirek. Alexander Wenz helped in researching the politicians and their accounts. Together, they constructed the source information. Armin Bleier and Mark Thamm conducted the data collection on Twitter and developed the necessary tools. Kaveh Manshaei helped with resolving the shortened URL in the Twitter dataset into the original URL. Ravi Vatrapu was the supervisor in Copenhagen. Abid Hussein conducted the data collection on Facebook and developed the necessary tools under the supervision of Ravi Vatrapu. Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda and Katrin Weller developed the perspective on data archiving and dissemination. Katrin Weller contributed the overview of existing research literature. Christof Wolf was the scientific advisor of the project. The project started in March 2013.

Recently, retrieving and searching for relevant images from large datasets has become increasingl... more Recently, retrieving and searching for relevant images from large datasets has become increasingly challenging for researchers. Hashing methods that mapped raw data into a short binary code have attracted increasing attention from the researcher. Most existing hashing approaches map samples to a binary vector with a single linear projection. This paper introduces a CNN-based hashing method that uses multiple nonlinear projections to produce additional short-bit binary code. Applying a convolutional neural network, we obtain an end-to-end. In order to maintain similarity between images, a loss function was also designed. Moreover, it minimized the quantization error by providing a uniform distribution of the hash bits. Extensive experimental results from various image retrieval benchmarks show the superiority of the proposed method and demonstrate its efficient performance compared with other state-of-art methods.

Technological advancement has a deep influence over all the sectors of life including libraries. ... more Technological advancement has a deep influence over all the sectors of life including libraries. The libraries are coping with these developments accordingly but the pace of development is not the same around the globe. The Smart library concept emerge s from the idea of smart cities, where all functions are controlled by the latest technology to minimize human involvement. This study aims to present a comprehensive mod el of smart library technolog ies and applications. The peer-reviewed literature published from 2016 to 2020 w as reviewed to model eleven smart library technologies. The feedback from the selected, senior university librarians of Pakistan on the proposed model of smart libraries was collected. The experts apprised the smart library model as a good combination of related technologies and applications. The findings reveal that each participating library is using some of the smart library technologies. The problems faced by university librarians of Pakistan while adopting smart library technologies are discussed. The study also suggests a way forward to overcome barriers to adopting the proposed model.

The paradigm shift in medical academic practices in Pakistan is becoming a challenge for medical ... more The paradigm shift in medical academic practices in Pakistan is becoming a challenge for medical librarians. Majority of medical schools in Pakistan have started problem based learning, undergrads medical research program and Postgraduate programs. This quantitative study aims to investigate the information literacy program in medical libraries situated in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province of Pakistan. The questionnaire administered with in 20 medical colleges libraries using Google Forms as an instrument for data collection and distributed link among all medical college librarians of the province. Findings of the study revealed that majority medical libraries are providing informal information literacy using orientation, bibliographic instructions and occasional lectures as method. The target audience of the information literacy was newly inducted Students. The effectiveness and importance of information literacy program for medical students considered by (87.50%) librarians. This study by large will contribute to modify the current practices of information literacy by the medical libraries.

Library Philosophy and Practice, 2018

The main purpose of this study is to determine the awareness and extent use of Web 2.0 technology... more The main purpose of this study is to determine the awareness and extent use of Web 2.0 technology in the academic libraries of Islamabad, Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach The survey research methods was employed in this exploratory study through google forms on Awareness of Web 2.0 tools, the questionnaire were distributed among 100 library professionals of 43 Public and private sector universities based on Islamabad were selected for this study,72 questionnaires were received, showing a response rate of 72% per cent , the data were scrutinized and tabulated using MS Excel 2010 and SPSS. Findings-The study imply that the young library professionals are more interested in the activities of web 2. technology. In Web 2.0 applications the social networking sites are more usable for the marketing library services, so these tools can be used in order to provide latest and up-to-date information to the end users. The time consumption and and fear of misusing peroneal information are some major obstacles by using Web 2.0 technologies in the library services. Research limitations/implications As this research covering only Islamabad region of Pakistan, so, the research in future may be conducted in order to know more about these kind of applications in future in library services of Pakistan. Practical implications As this paper has justified the web 2.0 technologies in academic libraries of Islamabad , so, in future it may be considered as a guidance tools for the researchers in Pakistan and may be demonstrated while conducting research on Web 2.0 in its proper perspective. Originality/value This paper provides factual and reliable data on the same topic which will be valuable as justifiable by highlighting the same issue in future.

Molecules, 2020

With the inception of high voltage (HV), requisites on the insulating permanence of HV equipment ... more With the inception of high voltage (HV), requisites on the insulating permanence of HV equipment is becoming increasingly crucial. Mineral/synthetic oil liquid insulation—together with solid insulation materials (paper, pressboard)—is the fundamental insulation constituent in HV apparatuses; their insulation attributes perform a substantial part in a reliable and steady performance. Meanwhile, implications on the environment, scarcity of petroleum oil supplies and discarding complications with waste oil have stimulated investigators to steer their attention towards sustainable, renewable, biodegradable and environmentally friendly insulating substances. The contemporary insulating constituent’s evolution is driven by numerous dynamics—in particular, environmental obligations and other security and economic issues. Consequently, HV equipment manufacturers must address novel specifications concerning to these new standards. Renewable, sustainable and environmentally friendly insulatin...

PLOS ONE, 2015

Background Existing reading schemes for chest X-ray (CXR) used to grade the extent of disease sev... more Background Existing reading schemes for chest X-ray (CXR) used to grade the extent of disease severity at diagnosis in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) are often based on numerical scores that summate specific radiographic features. However, since PTB is known to exhibit a wide heterogeneity in pathology, certain features might be differentially associated with clinical parameters of disease severity. Objective We aimed to grade disease severity in PTB patients at diagnosis and after completion of DOTS treatment by developing a reading scheme based on five different radiographic manifestations and analyze their association with the clinical parameters of systemic involvement and infectivity.

The focus of this paper is on the research productivity and their relevant parameters of top twen... more The focus of this paper is on the research productivity and their relevant parameters of top twenty international journals of Library and Information Science from 2015 to 2019. The analysis of data revealed that Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JAIST) is the top cited journal followed by Scientometrics and Journal of Informetric during the mentioned period. The year 2015 was reported as the most productive year with 45% citations from the top twenty LIS journals. The average citation rate of Scholar Google is at the top followed by Scopus. "The sharing economy" was declared as the most cited research paper with 2391 citations followed by "The journal coverage of Web of Science and Scopus" with 688 citations.

2014 Ieee 18th International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, Sep 1, 2014

Computational approaches to social media analytics are largely limited to graph theoretical appro... more Computational approaches to social media analytics are largely limited to graph theoretical approaches such as social network analysis (SNA) informed by the social philosophical approach of relational sociology. There are no other unified modelling approaches to social data that integrate the conceptual, formal, software, analytical and empirical realms. In this paper, we first present and discuss a theory and conceptual model of social data. Second, we outline a formal model based on fuzzy set theory and describe the operational semantics of the formal model with a real-world social data example from Facebook. Third, we briefly present and discuss the Social Data Analytics Tool (SODATO) that realizes the conceptual model in software and provisions social data analysis based on the conceptual and formal models. Fourth, we use SODATO to fetch social data from the facebook wall of a global brand, H&M and conduct a sentiment classification of the posts and comments. Fifth, we analyse the sentiment classifications by constructing crisp as well as the fuzzy sets of the artefacts (posts, comments, likes, and shares). We document and discuss the longitudinal sentiment profiles of artefacts and actors on the facebook page. Sixth and last, we discuss the analytical method and conclude with a discussion of the benefits of set theoretical approaches based on the social philosophical approach of associational sociology.

Formal methods, models and tools for social big data analytics are largely limited to graph theor... more Formal methods, models and tools for social big data analytics are largely limited to graph theoretical approaches such as social network analysis (SNA) informed by relational sociology. There are no other unified modeling approaches to social big data that integrate the conceptual, formal and software realms. In this paper, we first present and discuss a theory and conceptual model of social data. Second, we outline a formal model based on set theory and discuss the semantics of the formal model with a real-world social data example from Facebook. Third, we briefly present and discuss the Social Data Analytics Tool (SODATO) that realizes the conceptual model in software and provisions social data analysis based on the conceptual and formal models. Fourth and last, based on the formal model and sentiment analysis of text, we present a method for profiling of artifacts and actors and apply this technique to the data analysis of big social data collected from Facebook page of the fast...

This paper introduces the Repertory Grid Technique (RGT), developed in personal construct psychol... more This paper introduces the Repertory Grid Technique (RGT), developed in personal construct psychology, for Technology Enhanced Formative Assessment (TEFA). Repertory Grid is a method for eliciting personal constructs of learners about elements belonging to the topic of study. The method of Repertory Grid is presented first followed by brief descriptions of two classroom studies and two eye-tracking controlled laboratory studies. Empirical findings contribute to a better understanding of the integration of Repertory Grid into teaching as an in-class learning activity or a take-home exercise, methodological support for teachers to designing and deploying RGT exercises, and computational support for visualizing the Repertory Grid data at the individual student level and whole classroom level for "teaching analytics" purposes. We outline the design and development of the Repertory Grids for Formative Assessment (RGFA) tool and conclude with directions for future work.