1,149 research outputs found
Spatial variability of soil micronutrients (Cu, Fe, Zn & Mn) and population dynamic of mycoflora in potato fields of CKNP region Gilgit-Baltistan Pakistan
No full textsj-docx-1-whe-10.1177_17455057231213270 – Supplemental material for A rare case of Swyer syndrome from Pakistan in a young girl with primary amenorrhea and 46XY genotype
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-whe-10.1177_17455057231213270 for A rare case of Swyer syndrome from Pakistan in a young girl with primary amenorrhea and 46XY genotype by Inshal Jawed, Ayesha Azhar Javed, Syeda Alisha Johar, Daayl N Mirza, Ayesha A Abdani and Asad Ali Khan in Women’s Health</p
Design and Implementation of E-1 Stream Analyzer for CCSS7 Protocol
No full textE-1(PCM -30) Stream is a European Telecommunication standard for communication of data/voice channels in a digital network. This paper will deal with the design and implementation of a transparent stream analyzer, capable of handling (up to 2 Mbps) E-1\ud
stream and analyzing 30 voice /data channels using an out-of-band Common Channel Signaling System number 7(CCSS7) [1] protocol .The analyzer is capable of generating an E-1 stream and thus can be used for generation, monitoring and blocking of channels. The\ud
analyzer can be used to test any E-1 link. As our analyzer performs the analysis functions in the software it is very flexible and can perform many additional features such as algorithms and protocols testing and analysis
Decomposition of Changes in Poverty Measures: Sectoral and Institutional Considerations for the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper of Pakistan
No full textTwo extremely significant empirical questions on the relationship between growth, distribution and poverty have remained the focus of attention for researchers and academicians. First, how does a change in aggregate poverty reflect intrasectoral gains/losses versus intersectoral shifts in population? Second, how much of an observed change in poverty can be attributed to the changes in the distribution of income, as distinct from growth in average incomes? Standard inequality measures like the Gini coefficient can be misleading in this context. At any rate, the change in an inequality measure can be a poor guide to its quantitative impact on poverty. Ravallion and Huppi (1991) proposed decomposition formulae to throw light on the contributions of sectoral gains and population shifts (on the one hand) and economic growth and changes in inequality (on the other) to aggregate changes in poverty. They found that both population shifts and gains to the urban and rural sectors alleviated aggregate poverty in Indonesia over the 1984–87 period. In addition, they obtained estimates of the relative contributions of growth and greater equity to poverty alleviation in Indonesia. Datt and Ravallion (1992) extended the analysis to study poverty in Brazil and India during the 1980s. Kakwani (1993) explored the relation between economic growth and poverty for Cote d’Ivoire from 1980–85. He developed his own methodology to measure separately the impact of changes in average income and income inequality on poverty. Kakwani (2000) applied the same methodology to analyse changes in poverty in Thailand covering the period from 1988–94. Recently, Contreas (2003) examined the evolution of poverty and inequality in Chile between 1990 and 1996. Using the “Datt-Ravallion decomposition”, he computed that economic growth accounted for over 85 percent of the poverty reduction in Chile.
Perfect Competition
No full textIn his 1987 entry on ‘Perfect Competition’ in The New Palgrave, the author reviewed the question of the perfectness of perfect competition, and gave four alternative formalisations rooted in the so-called Arrow-Debreu-Mckenzie model. That entry is now updated for the second edition to include work done on the subject during the last twenty years. A fresh assessment of this literature is offered, one that emphasises the independence assumption whereby individual agents are not related except through the price system. And it highlights a ‘linguistic turn’ whereby Hayek’s two fundamental papers on ‘division of knowledge’ are seen to have devastating consequences for this research programme.Allocation of Resources; Perfect Competition; Exchange Economy
PERSPEKTIF BARAKAH DALAM KESARJANAAN MUSLIM BARAT: STUDI ATAS PEMIKIRAN NAOUMAN ALI KHAN DI YOUTUBE
No full textBarokah has been around for a long time even though it does not appear to be about its form, but everyone must feel the sweetness of barokah. The problem is that barokah has experienced a decline and has even begun to become extinct because its existence is not clearly visible. That is caused by the lack of public awareness of the power of Allah, so that it depends on the progress of science and technology at this time. Therefore, the author examines the interpretation of Nouman Ali Khan through Youtobe which contains a discussion of baraka as a form of recommendation to the public that the interpreter is very suitable to be studied at the present time. This article includes thematic methods (maudhu'i) as well as patterns of adab ijtima'i with a linguistic approach, so that the discussion presented by Nouman Ali Khan can be used as a basis for knowing, understanding and changing the paradigm of society through cognitive effects, affective effects, and behavioral effects
Monitoring resistance to methomyl and synergism in the non-target Musca domestica from cotton fields of Punjab and Sindh provinces, Pakistan
No full textAbstract Insecticides are an integral part of most of the cropping systems worldwide; however, these usually exert negative impact on the environment and non-target insects as well. Non-target insects are prone to develop resistance to insecticides due to prolonged and repeated lethal and sublethal exposures. Musca domestica is a common non-target, pollinator and nectar feeder species in cotton ecosystem, besides its status as a public health pest in human habitations. In the present work, resistance to methomyl, one of the major insecticides used for cotton pest management, was assessed in 20 M . domestica strains from the major cotton producing areas of the Punjab and Sindh provinces of Pakistan. The results revealed that toxicity values of methomyl for Punjabi and Sindhi strains ranged from 28.07 to 136.16 µg fly−1 and 29.32 to 136.87 µg fly−1, respectively. Among Punjabi strains, D.G. Khan, Lodhran, Bahawalpur, Toba Tek Singh, Bahawalnagar, Rajanpur and Jhang strains exhibited very high levels of resistance (RR > 100) to methomyl; Bhakkar, Kasur, Vehari, Layyah, Muzaffargarh and R.Y. Khan showed high resistance (RR = 51–100 fold), while the Mianwali strain showed a moderate level of resistance to methomyl (RR = 36.45 fold). In case of Sindhi strains, very high levels of resistance (> 100 fold) were reported for Sukkar and Sanghar strains, high levels of resistance (RR 51–100 fold) for Khairpur, Jamshoro and Ghotki, and moderate resistance to methomyl (38.08 fold) in the Dadu strain. There was a significant synergism of methomyl toxicity in all field strains when methomyl bioassayed along with piperonyl butoxide (PBO) and S,S,S-tributylphosphorotrithioate (DEF) providing clues of metabolic-based mechanisms of resistance to methomyl. In conclusion, insecticides used in crop farming can cause resistance development in non-target M. domestica. It is necessary to adopt the pest management activities that are safe for the environment and non-target insect species
Perfect Competition
No full textIn his 1987 entry on ‘Perfect Competition’ in The New Palgrave, the author reviewed the question of the perfectness of perfect competition, and gave four alternative formalisations rooted in the so-called Arrow-Debreu-Mckenzie model. That entry is now updated for the second edition to include work done on the subject during the last twenty years. A fresh assessment of this literature is offered, one that emphasises the independence assumption whereby individual agents are not related except through the price system. And it highlights a ‘linguistic turn’ whereby Hayek’s two fundamental papers on ‘division of knowledge’ are seen to have devastating consequences for this research programmeAllocation of Resources, Perfect Competition, Exchange Economy
Existence of marginal cost pricing equilibria with public goods
No full textWe examine the existence of marginal cost pricing equilibria under non-convex technology. We formalize marginal cost prices in terms of Clarke's normal cone."First, we are concerned with the formalization of marginal cost prices and the existence problem. Khan (1987) introduced Ioffe's normal cone as a formalization of marginal cost prices because, without free disposal, Clarke's normal cone may be too ""big."" Although it may not be convex, Khan showed that its lack of convexity is of no consequence for the second welfare theorem, but left open the question as to whether the convexity property is essential for the existence of a marginal cost pricing equilibrium. We answer this question in the negative.""Next, we study the existence of marginal cost pricing equilibria, and the related notion of equilibria for the economy with public goods. We provide an alternative proof of the existence of marginal cost pricing equilibria for the private goods economy. Our proof does not depend on the assumption of the presence of one convex producer, which is commonly used in the literature. We also present existence result without free disposal under rather restrictive conditions. Moreover, we provide an alternative proof of the existence of Lindahl-Hotelling equilibria (Khan-Vohra (1987)). Our result can discard several assumptions including the one that public goods are not ""bads."""Finally, we further extend the result to an economy with public inputs as well as public goods. We propose an equilibrium notion, named Lindahl-Hotelling-Kaizuka Equilibrium, in which producers with non-convex technology are regulated to follow marginal cost pricing with deficits financed through given rules for lump sum taxation; producers with convex technology maximize profits, and consumers maximizes utilities; all producers and consumers are charged Lindahl prices according to their marginal evaluation of public good; and the sum of Lindahl prices over all producers and consumers is equal to its marginal cost (output) price. We provide a set of sufficient condition for the existence of such equilibria.Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:11:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5)
9010873.pdf: 2867253 bytes, checksum: 983219ae6cd3031d1c59c0eb5a1d75bc (MD5)
Previous issue date: 1989Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding ([email protected]) on 2011-05-07T14:51:26Z
Item is restricted indefinitely.Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:23:36-05:00
Original Data
Group with Access UIUC Users [automated]
Release Date: none
Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permissionETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permissionU of I Onl
Espiritualidade política no governo de Khomeini: o sistema político do Irã após a revolução de 1979
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia Política, Florianópolis, 2014.O propósito desta dissertação é a compreensão da dinâmica do sistema político do Irã nos dias de hoje, pensado e construído no decorrer das décadas de 1970 e 1980. A partir de uma série de confrontos com a monarquia que ocasionaram diversos momentos de tensão no país e enfraqueceram o papel do Xá, o sistema político iraniano e todo o modelo de organização social passa a ser questionado e repensado. Muitas foram as personalidades de destaque nesse processo, entre elas Khomeini, que, com seu discurso carismático, conseguiu reunir em torno de si diferentes grupos e classes sociais do Irã, fortalecendo seu projeto de Governo Islâmico ao resgatar a essência do Islã. Por essa razão, Khomeini e suas principais obras serviram de fonte de pesquisa para a construção deste estudo. Muitos também foram os intelectuais, pesquisadores e cientistas que acompanharam os acontecimentos iranianos à época, entre eles Michel Foucault, que viajou ao país e escreveu sobre o testemunho da ideia de espiritualidade política no Irã. Foucault é um dos autores utilizados neste trabalho, com o intuito, principalmente, de sugerir um novo caminho de interpretação do acontecimento iraniano. Foi importante, da mesma forma, o contato com obras de autores islâmicos, como Ali Gheissari, Vali Nasr, Benazir Bhutto, Sayyd Abdul A'la Al-Maudidi, dentre outros. Esses autores foram fundamentais para manter esse trabalho dentro do seu principal propósito, quer seja, apresentar uma versão em nada etnocêntrica do movimento revolucionário iraniano e dos seus desdobramentos. Após a Revolução Iraniana de 1979, serão esses fatores - o papel de Khomeini, o resgate do Islã em sua essência tradicional e política e o conceito de espiritualidade política - que nos farão compreender o surgimento da República Islâmica e do novo sistema político iraniano. Perceber as especificidades da sociedade muçulmana que se desdobram num novo modo de ser, de vivenciar, é fundamental para compreender as dinâmicas e tensões de muitos países muçulmanos e suas relações com o Ocidente.Abstract : The purpose of this dissertation is to understand the dynamics of today's Iranian political system, designed and built during the 1970s and 1980s. From a series of confrontations with the monarchy, which caused several moments of tension in the country and weakened the role of the Shah, the Iranian political system and the entire model of social organization began to be questioned and rethought. Many were the prominent personalities in this process, including Khomeini, who, with his charismatic speech, managed to gather around him different groups and social classes in Iran, strengthening his project of Islamic government by rescuing the essence of Islam. Therefore, Khomeini and his major works were used as source of research for the construction of this study. In addition, many were the intellectuals, researchers and scientists who followed the events in Iran at the time, among them Michel Foucault, who traveled the country and wrote, in excited manner, about the testimony of the idea of political spirituality in Iran. Foucault is one of the authors used in this work, aiming mainly to suggest a new way of interpreting the Iranian event. Equally important was the contact with Islamic authors such as Ali Gheissari, Vali Nasr, Benazir Bhutto, Sayyid Abdul A'la Al - Maudidi , among others. These authors were critical to keep this work within its main purpose: to present a non-ethnocentric version of Iranian revolutionary movement and its outcomes. After the 1979 Iranian Revolution, these factors - the role of Khomeini, the rescue of traditional and political Islam and concept of political spirituality -were and are fundamental to make us understand the emergence of the Islamic Republic and the Iranian new political system. Understand the specifics of Muslim society that unfold in a new way of being, of experiencing, is essential for understanding the dynamics and tensions of many Muslim countries and their relations with the West
- …
