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President Asif Ali Zardari’s Row With David Cameron Meant to Shore Up Support With the Military and Provincial Governors
No full textBy now, no doubt, President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister David Cameron have hashed out their differences. And no doubt, both peace and justice now reign supreme in some Kingdom Far, Far Away. I live in a fantastical world, built from the ground up, molded and cast in my hopes and dreams. So, why not this
Biodegradation and settlement behaviour of mechanically biologically treated (MBT) waste
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Wound Healing in Pyoderma Gangrenosum
No full textPyoderma gangrenosum (PG) is an ulcerative painful, chronic neutrophilic dermatosis that is often associated with an underlying illness. There is limited evidence on the best treatment for PG, and first-line systemic therapies are associated with adverse events. In order to optimize therapeutics, topical therapy and local wound care should be carefully addressed. Topical therapies for PG include topical and intralesional immunosuppressants, immunomodulators, and alternative therapies. Multiple moisture-retentive dressings and compression therapy have been used to promote healing. Less often used but still beneficial for more severe cases are negative pressure wound therapy and skin substitutes. PG is not only a physical disease but affects patients psychologically as well. A therapeutic relationship must be maintained to provide holistic care and achieve common ground with the patient in order to ensure patient adherence
Digitalizing sustainability in Pakistan’s textile sector: An investigation of lean digital transformation adoption
No full textRapid digital technology adoption is reshaping manufacturing worldwide, yet Pakistan’s textile industry faces challenges – outdated practices, high innovation costs, and limited lean operations – that constrain competitiveness and sustainability. Addressing this gap, the study adapts the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2) framework, extending it with lean thinking and sustainability concerns to identify drivers of digital transformation. Data were gathered via a cross-sectional survey of 124 stakeholders from small, medium, and large textile industries in Punjab, Pakistan, and analyzed using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). Findings indicate that effort expectancy, performance expectancy, facilitating conditions, innovation cost, lean thinking, and social influence significantly predict behavioural intention toward adopting digital technologies. Moderation analysis reveals that firm size amplifies the effects of performance expectancy, lean thinking, facilitating conditions, innovation cost, and social influence on adoption intention, while sustainability concern does not show a significant impact. Moreover, behavioural intention robustly forecasts actual adoption behaviour. These results underscore the need for robust digital infrastructure and integrated lean management practices, together with cost-effective strategies, to drive digital transformation in Pakistan’s textile sector. Policy recommendations urge targeted interventions that enhance digital competencies and provide tailored support for small- and medium-sized enterprises, thereby boosting industrial competitiveness and sustainable growth
CPEC: A TOOL FOR REGIONAL INTEGRATION AND LIBERAL INSTITUTIONALISM
No full textoai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/2China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has been visualized by political scientists as a structural change in the balance of power of the world. The corridor has far-reaching economic and geopolitical impacts on Southwest Asian countries in general and Pakistan in particular. CPEC, being a transnational project, may face challenges in geographic as well as human terrain during its implementation phase. It would involve extra ordinary engineering resources to execute, massive funds to realize, and political acumen to manage social elements of Southwest Asian countries. This paper, therefore, explores China’s evolving relationship with the international system to achieve accelerated infrastructure development and boosted socio-economic growth through regional integration and liberal institutionalism. It is a multilateral strategy that will help Pakistan realize its true potential in the economic and strategic domains. It also endeavors to find linkages between China’s multilateralism with regional integration under the framework of CPEC based on liberal values of connectivity.
Bibliography Entry
Ali, Asif. 2020. "CPEC: A Tool for Regional Integration and Liberal Institutionalism." Margalla Papers 24 (2): 1-15.
Bollywood cinema: A critical genealogy
No full text"Bollywood" has finally made it to the Oxford English Dictionary. The 2005 edition defines it as: "a name for the Indian popular film industry, based in Bombay. Origin 1970s. Blend of Bombay and Hollywood." The incorporation of the word in the OED acknowledges the strength of a film industry which, with the coming of sound in 1931, has produced some 9,000 films. (This must not be confused with the output of Indian cinema generally, which would be four times more). What is less evident from the OED definition is the way in which the word has acquired its current meaning and has displaced its earlier descriptors (Bombay Cinema, Indian Popular Cinema, Hindi Cinema), functioning, perhaps even horrifyingly, as an "empty signifier" (Prasad) that may be variously used for a reading of popular Indian cinema. The triumph of the term (over the others) is nothing less than spectacular and indicates, furthermore, the growing global sweep of this cinema not just as cinema qua cinema but as cinema qua social effects and national cultural coding. Although Indian film producers in particular, and pockets of Indian spectators generally, continue to feel uneasy with it (the vernacular press came around to using "Bollywood" only reluctantly), its ascendancy has been such that Bombay Dreams (the Andrew Lloyd Weber musical) and the homegrown Merchants of Bollywood both become signifiers of a cultural logic which transcends cinema and is a global marker of Indian modernity. As the Melbourne (March 2006) closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games showed, Bollywood will be the cultural practice through which Indian national culture will be projected when the games are held in Delhi in 2010. International games (the Olympics, World Cup Soccer, Asian Games, Commonwealth Games, and so on) are often expressions of a nation's own emerging modernity. For India that modernity, in the realm of culture, is increasingly being interpellated by Bollywood
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