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APPLICATION OF DEEP CONVOLUTIONAL NETWORK FOR THE CLASSIFICATION OF AUTO IMMUNE DISEASE
Get PDFAbstract—Indirect Immuno Fluorescence (IIF) detection analysis technique is in limelight because of its great importance in the field of medical health. It is mainly used for the analysis of auto-immune diseases. These diseases are caused when body’s natural defense system can’t distinguish between normal body cells and foreign cells. More than 80 auto-immune diseases exist in humans which affect different parts of body. IIF works both manually as well as by using Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD). The aim of research is to propose an advanced methodology for the analysis of auto-immune diseases by using well-known model of transfer learning for the analysis of autoimmune diseases. Data augmentation and data normalization is also used to resolve the problem of over fitting in data. Firstly, freely available MIVIA data set of HEP- type 2 cells has been selected, which contains total of 1457 images and six different classes of staining patterns named as centromere, homogeneous, nucleolar, coarse speckled, fine speckled and cytoplasmatic. Then well-known model of transfer learning VGG-16 are train on MIVIA data set of HEP-type 2 cells. Data augmentation and data normalization used on pre-trained data to avoid over fitting because datasets of medical images are not very large. After the application of data augmentation and data normalization on pre-trained model, the performance of model is used to calculate by using a confusion matrix of VGG-16. VGG-16 achieves 84.375% accuracy. It is more suitable for the analysis of auto-immune diseases. Same as accuracy, we also use the other three parameters, Precision, F1 measures, and recall to check the performance of model. All four parameters use confusion matrix to find performance of model. The tools and languages also have great importance because it gives a simple and easy way of implementation to solve problems in image processing. For this purpose, python and colab is used to read and write the data because python provides fast execution of data and colab work as a simulator of python. The result shows that transfer learning is the most sufficient and enhanced technique for the analysis of auto-immune diseases since it provides high accuracy in less time and reduces the errors in image classification
RELATIONSHIP OF LEARNING ENVIRONMENT AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; A CASE STUDY OF HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION STUDENTS
Get PDFPurpose: This study explored the relationship between learning ambiance and academic attainment of health and physical education students at secondary school level. Methods: A survey of 800 (males=400; females=400) randomly selected from 40 secondary schools was conducted to collect the required information. However, after elimination of some spoilt questionnaires; the researchers finally used 768 valid questionnaires for data analysis. Results: The analyzed information stated that the current student teaching and learning facilities in the chosen region were discovered not up to the mark, so these facilities have an adverse effect on learners, academics. Therefore, a major portion from both the groups of gender fell in the category of low achievement. Conclusion: The findings of the study also revealed  girls reporting lesser academic achievement might be due to societal norms and domestic pressure. Recommendations: The findings of the study may help the teachers to work in collaboration with their respective head of the institution to establish an arsenal of strategies that could inoculate students against low and average academic achievements by providing a conducive to learning environmen
EXPLICIT RECOMMENDATIONS FOR HOME-BASED PHYSICAL TRAINING DURING CORONA-VIRUS PANDEMIC (COVID-19) FOR BEGINNER AND PROFESSIONAL PLAYERS
Get PDFPurpose: The novel Coronavirus disorder 2019 (COVID-19) globally affecting human behavior, especially affecting human bodily culture, forcing many people around the sphere to quarantine themselves for some time. As for the sake of protection after the out-break of Covid-19, many countries and regions take precautionary measures as they close all the schools and universities and banned all the social activities like travelling, cultural and sports events and prohibited all social gatherings. A lot of training sessions were affected due to the coronavirus pandemic (covid-19). Athletes training, cardio workout drill on a treadmill, bodyweight exercises, dance and energetic virtual reality, can resource to prevent the bodily damage and intellectual cataclysmic outcome of the pandemic and are the pragmatic hints for staying energetic while quarantining or self-isolation. This commentary offers beneficial facts on domestic-primarily based totally on bodily exercises for sedentary humans throughout the continuance, along with kids and adolescents, which could be undertaken for the duration of the prevailing pandemic or different outbreaks of infectious disorder. Conclusion: In this study, the researcher recommended a home-based physical activity plan for beginner and professional players
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LIFE SKILLS AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS AMONG HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION STUDENTS
Get PDFPurpose: The present study was subjected to determine the relationship of life skills with academic achievements among health and physical education students at the university level of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Methods: The research sample consisted n=335 (265 (79.1%) males and 70 (20.9%) females from the discipline of health and physical education. In this regard, stratified random sampling was applied. A survey research design from s descriptive model was used. A self-made closed-ended questionnaire was properly developed and used for the collection of the required information. The collected data were evaluated using both descriptive and inferential statistical tests. Results: Results indicated that the overall level of academic achievement and the various life skills of participants are desirable. The findings also showed that life skills (decision-making skills, interpersonal communication skills, and identity development skills) have an important connection with academic achievement as well as having the required predictive capacity for determining the criterion variable of academic achievement. Conclusion: The results supported the hypotheses as the student from the university consider life skills development an important tool for the improvement of academic achievement of student
ORGANIZATIONAL ISSUES IN THE FIELD OF SPORTS AT THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL
Get PDFBackground: Schools, colleges, and universities are the foundations of a successful sports program of a nation. A well-planned, school sports program is important for the success of every athlete. The primary aim of the study was to evaluate the organizational issues (administrative responsibilities, communication with parents, political involvement, training time, human resources, technical resources, and material resources (equipment and facilities)) in the government girls’ high school of district Layyah. Methods and Materials: The population of this research study contained all the female Principals and all the female PETs (Physical Education Teachers) during the academic year 2017 in the government girl high school of district Layyah, Punjab, Pakistan. The entire population was 134 (67 Principals and 67 PETs) which is finite for the researcher and no need to take a sample. Results and Conclusion: The main finding of the study was that there is a significant effect of organizational issues upon sports programs at the government girls’ high school level. Recommendation: The researcher recommended based on finding that organizational issues which affect the government girls high school sport should be minimized and the administration, parents, and politician may support the school sport and in addition to the politician may support the school sports not only financially but also provide skillful coaches who are cognizant with latest technologies and techniques
ANALYSIS OF PARENT TEACHER COUNCIL COLLABORATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
Get PDFPurpose: Parent Teacher Council (PTC) is a school community which has the role in educational institutions to develop schools academically and financially. Methods: In this study, the output analysis of school communities for the schools’ development and educational enhancement were investigated. The tool of the study was a questionnaire which was administered to the school community secretaries and chairpersons. The tool of the study was already validated by sending to the panel of experts and its reliability was tested on Cronbach’s alpha (0.83) and factor analysis (0.56). It was a descriptive and non-experimental survey research. In this study, the collected data were analyzed on Chi square as statistical test. Results: The findings of the study revealed that PTC as school communities were established and had not put into account their tasks as they were asked to perform. The problem with these communities that they were not functional and did not know what was their role in schools which they had to perform. Their role was suffered owing to illiterate parents and due to that, the vacuum was found in the schools and school community collaboration
SPORTS SENTIMENTS AND FINANCIAL MARKETS: SHADENFREUDE IN RIVALRY OF INDIA AND PAKISTAN
Get PDFThis paper examines the reaction of sports (International Cricket) outcomes on stock markets of Pakistan and India. Valuation of stock markets is taken in terms of abnormal stock returns around the dates of one day international (ODI) matches. Event study has been employed in this paper for 605 ODI matches played by Pakistan and 660 ODI matches played by India in period of 1990-2019. Findings suggest that on next trading day following the match stock returns are positive after win and negative after losing the game in both countries. In this paper one novel finding is existence of negative abnormal returns one day before matches due to anxiety of fan investors before game starts. Another important aspect of rivalry is examined as two rival countries are taken as sample. Results suggest that fan investors experience schadenfreude as they feel positive when their national team wins or rival team loses and feel bad when their team loses or rival wins. This optimism or pessimism results in abnormal stock returns mentioned in results of this paper
UNDERSTANDING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF FIRMS AND CONSUMER’S ETHICAL MOTIVATION
Get PDFGiving back to society termed “Corporate Social Responsibly (CSR) has become a fundamental believe and important function of any successful organization in the business world. In the current research researcher aims to empirically test the impact of CSR on consumer’s ethical motivation of consumers in Pakistani corporate sector. Data on the variables was collected by questionnaire survey from 195 respondents across the Pakistan. Descriptive statistics along with simple regression analysis by SPSS software was run to test the relationship among variables. Results of the regression analysis support the hypothesis/relationships that there is positive and statistically significant impact of CSR on the consumer’s ethical motivation. The results confirm that consumers becomes ethically more motivated the corporate is investing in CSR. There is dart of such studies especially from developing countries like Pakistan. The current study is value addition the existing literature of CSR by testing its impact on the consumer’s ethical motivation
REVISITING THE ENIGMA OF WORKING CAPITAL, PROFITABILITY AND RISK: EVIDENCE FROM PAKISTAN
Get PDFThis study investigates the relationship between working capital management and firm profitability. We incorporate moderating effect of systematic and unsystematic risk to ascertain the impact of risk on working capital decisions. The study uses secondary data of 244 listed non-financial firms over 10 years from 2009 to 2018. The findings reveal that inventory turnover, receivable collection period and cash conversion cycle negatively influence firm performance. However, accounts payable period has significant and positive effect on firm performance. Systematic risk negatively moderates the relationship between accounts payable period and return on assets and positively moderates relationship among accounts collection period, cash conversion cycle and return on assets. Unsystematic risk has insignificant effect on the relationship between working capital and profitability
UNFOLDING ORGANIZATIONAL RISK AND COST ASSOCIATION FROM STAKEHOLDERS PERSPECTIVE: EVIDENCE FROM ASIAN EMERGING MARKETS
Get PDFIn this study we extend the conventional risk-return debate to a more intriguing and practically significant conundrum of risk-cost association. The analysis is performed on large sample of 4609 listed companies operating in nine Asian emerging markets, using 2SLS estimation. We established that risk act as a specter and have consequences for long term contractual relationship between key stakeholders and organization. Further, organizational costs are directly affected by organizational risks hence it also provides an immediate opportunity to management to take corrective measures. As whole, the empirical evidence provides an essential perspective and insight to understand the nature of organizational risk, slack, stakeholders and it implication for organizational costs in Asian emerging markets.Â