144 research outputs found
Mellin-Transform-Based Performance Analysis of FFH -ary FSK Using Product Combining for Combatting Partial-Band Noise Jamming
No full textIslamic Insurance: Trends, Opportunities and the Future of Takaful
No full textOffering an overview of the Takaful Islamic Insurance industry, this book provides in-depth insight from leading Shari\u27ah scholars and examines the challenges facing the Islamic insurance industry. This industry has gone through a rapid phase of expansion, with numerous Takaful operations in 30 countries and Takaful premiums covering non-life and life. This growth gives rise to both opportunities and challenges to traditional and Islamic financial institutions in the provision, distribution and underwriting of Islamic insurance products. Edited by the best-selling author Sohail Jaffer with contributions from 21 specialist contributors, this is the only book to explore every aspect of Islamic Insurance. Topics covered include: Takaful models and their development, Re-Takaful, retailing Takaful, distributing through joint ventures, innovations in the Northern and Southern African markets, integrating Takaful within conventional bancassurance, legal, regulatory and operational issues and the rating of Takaful companies
Correction to: Strategic crossing of biomass and harvest index—source and sink—achieves genetic gains in wheat (Euphytica, (2017), 213, 257, 10.1007/s10681-017-2040-z)
No full textThe original article was corrected. Author Muhammad Kundi should instead read: Muhammad Sohail
Correction to: Strategic crossing of biomass and harvest index—source and sink—achieves genetic gains in wheat
No full textAbstractThe original article was corrected. Author Muhammad Kundi should instead read: Muhammad Sohail.</jats:p
A survey of author name disambiguation techniques: 2010–2016
No full textAbstractDigital libraries content and quality of services are badly affected by the author name ambiguity problem in the citations and it is considered as one of the hardest problems faced by the digital library researchers. Several techniques have been proposed in the literature for the author name ambiguity problem. In this paper, we reviewed some recently presented author name disambiguation techniques and give some challenges and future research directions. We analyze the recent advancements in this field and classify these techniques into supervised, unsupervised, semi-supervised, graph-based and heuristic-based techniques according to their problem formulation that is mainly used for the author name disambiguation. A few surveys have been conducted to review different techniques for the author name disambiguation. These surveys highlighted only the methodology adopted for author name disambiguation but did not critically review their shortcomings. This survey provides a detailed review of author name disambiguation techniques available in the literature, makes a comparison of these techniques at an abstract level and discusses their limitations.</jats:p
PARP inhibitor ABT-888 as potentiating agent for topoisomerase inhibitor SN-38
No full textBRCA1 is a tumor suppressor gene that has been implicated as being involved in DNA repair through a process known as homologous recombination. Mutations in BRCA 1 have been linked to an increased risk of breast cancer, but recent studies have tried to use their knowledge of homologous recombination in order to find new ways to treat cancer. Most notably with poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP), it is an enzyme involved in the DNA repair of single strand breaks. If a cell is BRCA1 deficient it cannot repair its double strand breaks and if we inhibit PAR activity the cell cannot repair single strand breaks as a result the cell should accumulate damage and undergo apoptosis and die. The goal of the research is to investigate the role of PAR inhibition in BRCA1 deficient cells. We hypothesized that BRCA1 deficient cells should die at a lower dosage of PAR inhibiting drugs in cytotoxic tests. We also tested the efficiency of cytotoxic therapies as an effective means of treatment and tested the maximum dose tolerable before the cells became changed. We first used immunofluroescence to check for PAR activity in different types of cells and to then see the effects of PAR inhibition. We then used PAR inhibitor ABT-888, topoisomerase inhibitor SN-38, and cisplatin, a DNA binding agent, to conduct cytotoxic tests in order to prove our hypothesis true.M.S.Includes bibliographical references (p. 49-53)by Honeah Sohai
Toward a New Paradigm for Author Name Disambiguation
No full textAuthor Name Disambiguation (AND) has emerged as a significant challenge in the bibliometric context with the growing volume of scientific literature. When citations written by different authors have the same names (polysemy or homonym names), and when an author has different names, there is ambiguity (synonyms or name variants). It is difficult to associate a citation with the correct author. Polysemy and synonyms cause merging and splitting anomalies in the citations. These anomalies affect the quantification of an author’s productivity (bibliometric analysis) and the reliability and quality of the information retrieved. Many techniques for AND have been proposed in the literature; most of them do not go beyond string matching or text matching. Most of the existing work do not consider the context or semantics of the terms used in the citations. In this study, the AND problem is resolved semantically using the deep learning technique on the PubMed dataset. The experimental results show that the proposed method achieves overall (11.72 %, 12.5 %, and 12.1 %) higher precision, recall, and f-measure than the pairwise class classification
Author Profiling from Short Romanized Urdu Messages: A Preliminary Investigation using Transfer Learning Models
No full textAuthor profiling, a crucial task in natural language processing, involves identifying various attributes of an author, such as gender and age, from text. This study examines how transfer learning models in the context of author profiling from Roman Urdu text. We conduct experiments employing prominent models such as ELECTRA , BERT, RoBERTa, XLNet, Distil Bert, Distil RoBERTa,. Our analysis reveals superior performance in gender prediction using BERT, attaining an accuracy of 0.74698, precision of 0.7505, recall of 0.7462, and F1 score of 0.7456. On the other hand, RoBERTa demonstrates remarkable proficiency in age prediction with an accuracy of 0.8221, precision of 0.8215, recall of 0.8221, and F1 score of 0.8215. These findings showcase the effectiveness of transfer learning models in author profiling tasks offer insightful analysis for further research and applications in this domain.
Sino-African Relations: Economic Opportunities and Challenges for China
No full textAfrica is known for its massive labour force and natural resources. In terms of economic growth, African countries have faced prolonged phases of economic crises. China is a significant contributor in Africa’s economic stability. This paper analyses and evaluates the current opportunities and challenges related to China’s engagements in Africa and its policies for triggering economic development in African countries. China’s comprehensive approach is more concentrated on the sustainable development of the domestic infrastructure and job creation for the Africa communities. But there exists a gap in the current Chinese policies that have deepened the concerns of the locals about economic growth and progress. China needs to develop policies that would be mutually beneficial, these policies must ensure economic stability, job creation and growth. Various ongoing development projects initiated by the Chinese have in fact created insecurities amongst the Africans. This anxiety among the locals have become a major hurdle for China’s plans in the continent. Ongoing Chinese policies need to be innovative along with the integration of modern economic models. A reform in the current policies would ensure maximum benefits for both economic partners
Fitness Gadgets as a Form of Preventative Healthcare
No full textFitness gadgets can be useful tools in influencing individuals who live unhealthy or sedentary lifestyles to become more active and engaged with their health. Gadgets not only motivate the already motivated to make further progress in their fitness accomplishments, but also provide a mechanism for the unmotivated and individuals with health diseases to manage risk factors. Many of these gadgets have similar functions, such as counting calories, step counting, heart rate monitoring, water consumption tracking, food planning, and sleep tracking. Fitness trackers are not just a fad, but should be perceived as a lifelong necessity to manage and improve health. Health insurance companies should embrace the fitness gadget revolution as an approach to preventative health care and as a means to lower health care costs.Spring 2016Accompanied by video fil
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