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Major constraints on shisham(Dalbergia sissoo) plantations and pathological debate on dieback disease in Punjab,Pakistan

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Journal of Forestry Research 2015年第2期26卷 267-271页

作者： irum Mukhtar R.Bajwa G.Nasim Institute of Agricultural Sciences University of the PunjabQuiad-E-Azam CampusLahore 54590Pakistan

Today,shisham plantations in Punjab,Pakistan face major constraints,especially dieback *** article reviews the multidisciplinary team work by forest and plant pathologists and economists to resolve the confusions in the pathology of dieback *** is intended to be of practical use to the foresters and plant pathologists reporting on this issue.

关键词： Shisham Dieback disease Plantations Forest

Role of circular economy,energy transition,environmental policy stringency,and supply chain pressure on CO_(2)emissions in emerging economies

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Geoscience Frontiers 2024年第3期15卷 209-220页

作者： Sunil Tiwari Kamel Si Mohammed Grzegorz Mentel Sebastian Majewski irum Shahzadi Department of Tourism Studies School of Business StudiesCentral University of KeralaIndia Faculty of Economics and Management Department of EconomicsUniversity of Ain TemouchentAlgeria Department of Quantitative Methods Faculty of ManagementRzeszow University of Technology35-959 RzeszowPoland Institute of Economics and Finance University of Szczecinul.A.Mickiewicza 6471-101 SzczecinPoland Department of Business Administration IQRA University Karachi-75300Pakistan Department of Production EngineeringSão Paulo State University(UNESP)BauruBrazil

This paper investigates the effect of the circular economy on CO_(2)emissions growth by considering the role of energy transition,climate policy stringency,industrialization,and supply chain pressure from 1997 to 2020 using panel quantile Autoregressive Distributed Lags(QARDL)and the panel *** employ cointegration association in the long run among the variables,and the results of the two models confirm *** reveal that circular economy and climate policy stringency significantly negatively impact carbon *** the other hand,the energy transition,industrialization,and supply chain pressures are crucial to determining CO_(2)emissions in the short and long *** finding further explores that municipal waste generation recycling is considerable at the mean and upper 90th quantiles than the lower ***,the empirical results of the current study provide acumens for policymakers of advanced economies and emerging markets to maintain the balance among circular economy,energy transition,environmental policy stringency,and supply chain pressure for reducing CO_(2)emissions without halting economic growth and sustainable ***,practical implications are reported through the lens of carbon neutrality and structural changes.

关键词： Circular economy Energy transition Supply chain Carbon emissions Panel QARDL

A Bio-Inspired Global Finite Time Tracking Control of Four-Rotor Test Bench System

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Computers, Materials & Continua 2018年第12期57卷 365-388页

作者： Rooh ul Amin irum Inayat Li Aijun Shahaboddin Shamshirband Timon Rabczuk School of Automation Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityXi’an710072China Department of Computer Science National University of Computer and Emerging SciencesIslamabad44000Pakistan Department for Management of Science and Technology Development Ton Duc Thang UniversityHo Chi Minh CityVietnam Faculty of Information Technology Ton Duc Thang UniversityHo Chi Minh CityVietnam Institute of Structural Mechanics Bauhaus University Weimar99423WeimarGermany

A bio-inspired global finite time control using global fast-terminal sliding mode controller and radial basis function network is presented in this article,to address the attitude tracking control problem of the three degree-of-freedom four-rotor hover *** proposed controller provides convergence of system states in a predetermined finite time and estimates the unmodeled dynamics of the four-rotor *** model of the four-rotor system is derived with Newton’s force *** unknown dynamics of four-rotor systems are estimated using Radial basis *** bio-inspired global fast terminal sliding mode controller is proposed to provide chattering free finite time error convergence and to provide optimal tracking of the attitude angles while being subjected to unknown *** global stability proof of the designed controller is provided on the basis of Lyapunov stability *** proposed controller is validated by(i)conducting an experiment through implementing it on the laboratory-based hover system,and(ii)through *** of the proposed control scheme is also compared with classical and intelligent *** performance comparison exhibits that the designed controller has quick transient response and improved chattering free steady state *** proposed bioinspired global fast terminal sliding mode controller offers improved estimation and better tracking performance than the traditional *** addition,the proposed controller is computationally cost effective and can be implanted on multirotor unmanned air vehicles with limited computational processing capabilities.

关键词： Bio-inspired global fast terminal sliding mode controller attitude tracking radial basis function network four-rotor hover system

Testing the LCC hypothesis by considering environmental sustainability and economic development:Role of green energy and resource management

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Geoscience Frontiers 2024年第3期15卷 419-430页

作者： Sunil Tiwari Syed Ali Raza Shiv Kumar Gupta irum Shahzadi Mahendra Babu Kuruva Department of Tourism Studies School of Business StudiesCentral University of KeralaIndia Department of Business Administration IQRA UniversityKarachi 75300Pakistan Centre for Mountain Tourism and Hospitality Studies HNB Garhwal Central UniversitySrinagarUttarakhand 246174India Department of Production Engineering São Paulo State University(UNESP)BauruBrazil Department of Business Administration IQRA University Karachi-75300Pakistan Department of Business Management HNB Garhwal Central UniversitySrinagar GarhwalUttarakhand 246174India

This study aims to demystify the role of green energy and green technology in establishing the nexus between behavioural intentions of tourists,technologies,and digital payments by using Perceived value(PV),Compatibility(CO),Perceived Enjoyment(PE),and Social Influence(SI)as a predictor variables,Trust(TR)and Satisfaction(SA)as a mediating variables and Behavioural Intentions(BI)as an outcome *** the empirical estimation,we employ smart PLS-SEM,TAM(Technology Acceptance Model)and SPSS and Tested the LCC *** findings suggest that green energy and perceived value have the highest positive impact on tourists’trust towards digital payments followed by compatibility,social influence and perceived ***,tourists’satisfaction and green technology is one of the important determinants of choosing any digital mode of payment,is mostly influence by perceived value,perceived enjoyment,compatibility and social ***,if we choose between trust and satisfaction,trust plays a significant role in exploring the behavioural intentions of tourists about green energy and green technology followed by tourists’*** addition,Tourists’trust and satisfaction are highly correlated and influence each *** study offers novel policy implications in terms of use of green technology and green energy in enhancing trust and satisfaction of tourists in order to deeper understanding of different dimensions of digital payments and M-wallets,and allowing them to explore the long-term value inherent of digital payments and M-wallets.

关键词： Digital payment Green technology Green energy Tourism LCC hypothesis

Psychometric properties of the Urdu version of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale(HADS)among pregnant women in Abbottabad,Pakistan

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General Psychiatry 2020年第5期33卷 311-318页

作者： Fahad Saqib Lodhi Aymen M Elsous Saadia irum Adeel Ahmed Khan Unaib Rabbani Community Medicine Department Women Medical CollegeAbbottabadPakistan School of public Health Department of Epidemiology and BistatisticsTehran University of Medical SciencesTehranIran Unit of Planning and Policy Formulation Ministry of HealthGaza StripPalestine College of medical sciences Israa universityGaza stripPalestine Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics Ayub Medical CollegeAbbottabadPakistan Ministry of Health Saudi Board Preventive MedicineMeccaSaudi Arabia Ministry of Health Family Medicine AcademyQassimSaudi Arabia

Background The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale(HADS)is a widely used instrument to measure anxiety and depression *** This study aimed to translate,validate and test the applicability of the Urdu version of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale(HADS/UV)among pregnant *** The original English version of the HADS was translated into Urdu by three bilingual experts and retranslated to English using the forward-backward *** questionnaire was administered to a sample of 200 pregnant women availing obstetrics and gynaecology services for routine prenatal checkups of Ayub Teaching Hospital,Abbottabad,*** properties of the instrument,including reliability(internal consistency,test-retest analysis and interitems correlation),were *** and content validity were also *** Validity Index(CVI)was determined using the average approach and ItemLevel Content Validity Index(I-CVI)and Scale-Level Content Validity Index(S-CVI)were calculated *** validity was examined through exploratory factor *** Cronbach's alpha coefficient has been found to be 0.82 for the anxiety subscale and 0.64 for the depression subscale,while overall alpha of the HADS/UV is *** Urdu version is content valid,and the SCVI of anxiety subscale,depression subscale and HADS/UV are 0.947,948 and 0.947,***-retest reliability is 0.884 and 0.934 as measured by Pearson correlation and intraclass correlation,***/UV items correlated positively with the whole scale(p<0.001).Factor analysis with varimax rotation revealed that two factors explained 42.75%of the ***'distribution was quite similar to the original *** The HADS/UV is a psychometrically sound instrument with satisfactory measurement,including good internal *** instrument shows promise to be a sound tool to assess anxiety and depression in pregnancy.

关键词： instrument routine Abbott

Photodynamic therapy vs radiofrequency ablation for Barrett's dysplasia: Efficacy,safety and cost-comparison

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World Journal of Gastroenterology 2013年第41期19卷 7106-7113页

作者： Atilla Ertan irum Zaheer Arlene M Correa Nirav Thosani Shanda H Blackmon Ertan Digestive Disease Center Memorial Hermann HospitalTexas Medical CenterHoustonTX 77030United States Division of Gastroenterology Hepatology and NutritionThe University of Texas Health Science Center at HoustonHoustonTX 77030United States Division of Gastroenterology The Methodist HospitalHoustonTX 77030United States Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterHoustonTX 77030United States Department of Surgery The Methodist HospitalHoustonTX 77030United States

AIM:To compare effectiveness,safety,and cost of photodynamic therapy(PDT)and radiofrequency ablation(RFA)in treatment of Barrett’s dysplasia(BD).METHODS:Consecutive case series of patients undergoing either PDT or RFA treatment at single center by a single investigator were ***-three patients with high-grade dysplasia(HGD)had treatment with porfimer sodium photosensitzer and 630 nm laser(130 J/cm),with maximum of 3 treatment ***-three patients with BD(47 with low-grade dysplasia-LGD,6 with HGD)had step-wise circumferential and focal ablation using the HALO system with maximum of 4 treatment *** groups received proton pump inhibitors twice *** biopsies were acquired at 2 and 12 mo after enrollment,with 4-quadrant biopsies every 1 cm of the original BE extent.A complete histological resolution response of BD(CR-D)was defined as all biopsies at the last endoscopy session negative for ***’s exact test was used to assess differences between the two study groups for primary *** all outcomes,a two-sided P value of less than 0.05 was considered to indicate statistical ***:Thirty(91%)PDT patients and 39(74%)RFA were men(P=0.05).The mean age was 70.7±12.2 and 65.4±12.7(P=0.10)year and mean length of BE was 5.4±3.2 cm and 5.7±3.2 cm(P=0.53)for PDT and RFA patients,*** CR-D was(18/33)54.5%with PDT vs(47/53)88.7%with RFA(P=0.001).One patient with PDT had an esophageal perforation and was managed with non-surgical measures and no perforation was seen with *** was five times more costly than RFA at our *** two groups were not randomized and had different BD grading are the limitations of the ***:In our experience,RFA had higher rate of CR-D without any serious adverse events and was less costly than PDT for endoscopic treatment of BD.

关键词： Barrett’s esophagus Dysplasia Photodynamic therapy Radiofrequency ablation Cost comparison

Towards Improving the Quality of Requirement and Testing Process in Agile Software Development:An Empirical Study

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Computers, Materials & Continua 2024年第9期80卷 3761-3784页

作者： irum Ilays Yaser Hafeez Nabil Almashfi Sadia Ali Mamoona Humayun Muhammad Aqib Ghadah Alwakid University Institute of Information Technology Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture UniversityRawalpindi46000Pakistan Department of Software Engineering College of Computer and Information SciencesJouf UniversityAl Jouf72388Saudi Arabia School of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences University of RoehamptonLondonSW155PJUK Department of Computer Science College of Computer and Information SciencesJouf UniversityAl Jouf72388Saudi Arabia

Software testing is a critical phase due to misconceptions about ambiguities in the requirements during specification,which affect the testing ***,it is difficult to identify all faults in *** requirement changes continuously,it increases the irrelevancy and redundancy during *** to these challenges;fault detection capability decreases and there arises a need to improve the testing process,which is based on changes in requirements *** this research,we have developed a model to resolve testing challenges through requirement prioritization and prediction in an agile-based *** research objective is to identify the most relevant and meaningful requirements through semantic analysis for correct change *** compute the similarity of requirements through case-based reasoning,which predicted the requirements for reuse and restricted to error-based ***,the apriori algorithm mapped out requirement frequency to select relevant test cases based on frequently reused or not reused test cases to increase the fault detection ***,the proposed model was evaluated by conducting *** results showed that requirement redundancy and irrelevancy improved due to semantic analysis,which correctly predicted the requirements,increasing the fault detection rate and resulting in high user *** predicted requirements are mapped into test cases,increasing the fault detection rate after changes to achieve higher user ***,the model improves the redundancy and irrelevancy of requirements by more than 90%compared to other clustering methods and the analytical hierarchical process,achieving an 80%fault detection rate at an earlier ***,it provides guidelines for practitioners and researchers in the modern *** the future,we will provide the working prototype of this model for proof of concept.

关键词： Requirement prediction software testing agile software development semantic analysis case-based reasoning

A Multilevel Deep Feature Selection Framework for Diabetic Retinopathy Image Classification

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Computers, Materials & Continua 2022年第2期70卷 2261-2276页

作者： Farrukh Zia Isma irum Nadia Nawaz Qadri Yunyoung Nam Kiran Khurshid Muhammad Ali Imran Ashraf Muhammad Attique Khan Department of ECE COMSATS University IslamabadWah Campus47040Pakistan Department of Computer Science and Engineering Soonchunhyang UniversityAsanKorea Department of Electrical Engineering NUMLRawalpindiPakistan Department of Computer Science HITEC University TaxilaTaxilaPakistan

Diabetes or Diabetes Mellitus(DM)is the upset that happens due to high glucose level within the *** the passage of time,this polygenic disease creates eye deficiency referred to as Diabetic Retinopathy(DR)which can cause a major loss of *** symptoms typically originate within the retinal space square in the form of enlarged veins,liquid dribble,exudates,haemorrhages and small scale *** current therapeutic science,pictures are the key device for an exact finding of patients’***,an assessment of new medicinal symbolisms stays ***,Computer Vision(CV)with deep neural networks can train models with high *** thought behind this paper is to propose a computerized learning model to distinguish the key precursors of Dimensionality Reduction(DR).The proposed deep learning framework utilizes the strength of selected models(VGG and Inception V3)by fusing the extracated *** select the most discriminant features from a pool of features,an entropy concept is employed before the classification *** deep learning models are fit for measuring the highlights as veins,liquid dribble,exudates,haemorrhages and miniaturized scale aneurysms into various *** model will ascertain the loads,which give the seriousness level of the patient’s *** model will be useful to distinguish the correct class of seriousness of diabetic retinopathy pictures.

关键词： Deep neural network diabetic retinopathy retina features extraction classification

Genome-wide identification and expression profiling of photosystem II(PsbX)gene family in upland cotton(Gossypium hirsutum L.)

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Journal of Cotton Research 2024年第1期7卷 1-14页

作者： RAZA irum PARVEEN Abida AHMAD Adeel HU Daowu PAN Zhaoe ALI Imran DU Xiongming Institute of Cotton Research Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesNational Key Laboratory of Cotton Bio-Breeding and Integrated UtilizationAnyangHenan 455000China Department of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Kohat University of Science and TechnologyKohatPakistan Department of Botany Kohat University of Science and TechnologyKohatPakistan.

Background Photosystem II(PSII)constitutes an intricate assembly of protein pigments,featuring extrinsic and intrinsic polypeptides within the photosynthetic *** low-molecular-weight transmembrane protein PsbX has been identified in PSII,which is associated with the oxygen-evolving *** expression of PsbX gene protein is regulated by ***’s central role involves the regulation of PSII,facilitating the binding of quinone molecules to the Qb(PsbA)site,and it additionally plays a crucial role in optimizing the efficiency of *** these insights,a comprehensive understanding of the PsbX gene’s functions has remained *** In this study,we identified ten PsbX genes in Gossypium hirsutum *** phylogenetic analysis results showed that 40 genes from nine species were classified into one *** resulting sequence logos exhibited substantial conservation across the N and C terminals at multiple sites among all Gossypium ***,the ortholo-gous/paralogous,Ka/Ks ratio revealed that cotton PsbX genes subjected to positive as well as purifying selection pressure might lead to limited divergence,which resulted in the whole genome and segmental *** expression patterns of GhPsbX genes exhibited variations across specific tissues,as indicated by the ***,the expression of GhPsbX genes could potentially be regulated in response to salt,intense light,and drought ***,GhPsbX genes may play a significant role in the modulation of photosynthesis under adverse abiotic *** We examined the structure and function of PsbX gene family very first by using comparative genom-ics and systems biology approaches in *** seems that PsbX gene family plays a vital role during the growth and development of cotton under stress ***,the results of this study provide basic information to unveil the molecular and physiological function of PsbX genes of cotton plan

关键词： Photosystem Phylogenetic Synteny RNA seq Gene expression Orthologous