517 research outputs found
Green Innovation and Environmental Performance: The Moderating Roles of Governance and Policy
No full textThis study investigates the impact of green innovation (GI) on corporate environmental performance (CEP), while examining the moderating roles of corporate governance practices (CGPs) and environmental policy pressure (EPP). This study uses advanced statistical methods to ensure the reliability of the results. These include techniques such as propensity score matching (PSM), difference-in-differences (DID) analysis with China’s National Green Development Fund (2020) as the policy intervention, and the generalized method of moments (GMM), and this study examines how internal governance mechanisms and external regulatory pressures influence the GI-CEP relationship. The results show that GI significantly increases CEP, and that this effect is amplified by robust CGPs and EPP. By analyzing data from 4026 firm-year observations of A-share listed Chinese companies (2017–2022), the findings highlight the importance of innovation, governance, and policy in achieving sustainable environmental outcomes. This study provides valuable insights for firms and policymakers to foster green innovation and align corporate strategies with global sustainability goals
sj-docx-1-jef-10.1177_15589250221091265 – Supplemental material for Eco-friendly bio-dyeing of bio-treated nylon fabric using Esfand (P. harmala) based yellow natural colorant
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-jef-10.1177_15589250221091265 for Eco-friendly bio-dyeing of bio-treated nylon fabric using Esfand (P. harmala) based yellow natural colorant by Shahid Adeel, Mahmood ul Hasan, Fatima Batool, Meral Ozomay, Mozhgan Hosseinnezhad, Nimra Amin and Muhammad Hussaan in Journal of Engineered Fibers and Fabrics</p
R from Zero to Hero (Arabic)
No full textThis is a course designed by Batool Almarzouq and delivered in JeelAIDM. All Materials are licensed under CC-BY license. CC-BY license means you can re-use, modify and build upon the materials with attribution to the source. The course is delivered over six weeks, with two sessions each week, each lasting two hours.
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Introduction to R and Open Science
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Project Management
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R Markdown
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GitHub in RStudio
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Tidydata
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Tidyverse
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ggplot2 Part 1
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ggplot2 Part 2
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YAML in R Markdown
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Blogging in R
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Reproducibility with renv
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Create your first R package!
The Slides are accompanied by live coding in this GitHub repository associated.The author acknowledges JeelAIDM for making the materials ope
Erratum: Cloaking using anisotropic multilayer circular cylinder (AIP Advances (2020) 10 (095312) DOI: 10.1063/5.0012769)
No full textCo-author Mehwish Nisar should have had an additional affiliation noted in the byline of our original manuscript.1 The correct affiliations for this manuscript are as listed above
International Conference on Information Management & Libraries (ICIML): An Overview
No full textThe centennial celebrations under the theme “Looking Back, Moving Forward” took place under the leadership of the Chair, Professor Dr. Kanwal Ameen throughout the year 2015. A number of events were planned in this regard. However, the highlight of the centenary celebrations was the International Conference on Information Management and Libraries (ICIML), held from November 10-13th, 2015.Professor Kanwal Ameen, served as the Conference Chair, Professor (Honorary) Mumtaz Ali Anwar, as the Honorary Chair and Dr. Muhammad Rafiq, Associate Professor, as the Secretary of the Conference. To organize this mega event, six committees were formulated, i.e. Program Advisory; Organizing; Promotion; Sponsorship; Finance and Registration convened by Dr. Nosheen Fatima, Dr. Shafiq-ur-Rehman, Syeda Hina Batool, Haseeb Ahmed Piracha, Alia Arshad and Amara Malik respectively. In addition to these committees, a number of volunteers did a lot of work for making this event successful.More than 500 participants from Asia, Middle East, Africa, Europe and USA attended the conference. Eighty authors contributed 57 presentations including 3 key note speeches, 13 invited papers, 15 full papers, 9 short papers, 7 best practices and 10 short presentations (PechaKuchas) during four days of conference. The contributors presented their papers on education, information seeking, information literacy, management, ICT, Big data, Scientometrics, Makerspaces in libraries, E-books, digital libraries, disaster management, library services and other areas. Each session included questions-answer by the audience after the papers’ presentations, and concluding remarks by the Chairs. At the end of session, presenters, secretaries and chairs were presented souvenirs by the Conference Chair. The conference was exemplary in time management from the very beginning to the last event and applauded for this aspect by all.</div
Air Pollution Control Policies in China
No full textAbstract:In developing countries, feeble environmental regulatory institutions regularly undermine ordinary summon and-control policies. Accordingly, these nations are progressively trying different things with elective methodologies that intend to produce new gauges for the health harm of air pollution over a 13-year plan and age, from 2017 to 2030. The Chinese government defines required objectives of reduction of emission and decrease of energy in its thirteenth Five-Year Plan period, green belt activities and 2030 sustainable development goals. This investigation utilizes China to demonstrate the health impacts of air pollution and health advantages coming about because of different air pollution control situations in China, outline how policies and measures have been actualized by and by in the region as a reaction to the National Environmental Five Year Plan issued by the central government and show how the different reactions have added to meeting targets.
Introduction Global air pollution The Mitigation of Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gases (MAG) Program takes a unique systems perspective that integrates physical, social, economic, and policy aspects of air quality management. In 2015 the program brought these viewpoints into various new policy and logical activities that address the part of air quality administration for enhancing human prosperity and add to numerous UN Sustainable Development Goals. The fundamental examination on the Global Burden of Disease to which MAG contributed, attracted overall regard for air pollution as the most imperative environmental factor for impeded wellbeing and untimely mortality. Powerful air quality administration can have various gainful impacts for manageability not minimum by harvesting close term and local co-benefits from greenhouse gas mitigation strategies. Because the most visible impacts of pollution occur at local scales and in the near-term they have not traditionally been the focus of global longterm scenario studies. The rather stylized and highly aggregated treatment of pollution control in such models did not reveal the multiple benefits from dedicated policy interventions which are now seen as an important leverage to motivate action for long-term transformative change. To enhance the portrayal of these perspectives in worldwide long term examines MAG cultivated various research joint efforts in this field and contributed high-determination databases on vaporized emissions, moderation advances, and health impacts. This will improve air pollution estimates in initiatives such as the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways, the Energy Modelling Forum project EMF30, the International Energy Agency World Energy Outlook study and the EU project Low climate Impact scenarios and the Implications of required tight emission control Strategies (FP7 LIMITS). With this work MAG has highlighted the pivotal role of effective governance of air pollution control strategies in longterm transformational pathways. In parallel MAG has established itself as an important partner in a number of global policy initiatives on pollution management, including the Global Forum on Air Quality and Health recently established by the World Health Organization, the Pollution Management and Environmental Health program of the World Bank, and the new Asian-Pacific Clean Air Partnership coordinated by the UN Environment Program. Air Pollution in China Air pollution in China has been very severe causing huge health damages and social losses for a long time. Meanwhile air pollution control polices have in the course of the most recent few decades experienced significant changes particularly a progress from powerless to solid usage. As of late air pollution in China has advanced into an issue of wide and politically organized concern. National large scale polices have been started and actualized for example, the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan (hereinafter the Action Plan). It is outstanding that energy (or all the more definitely coal) is the essential wellspring of air pollution and carbon emissions in China and the firmly related energy and atmosphere polices are likewise encountering huge changes. Individuals who wish to investigate the surface of China's air pollution control policies are instantly looked with challenges. Research-based data is scattered in a few lines of the literature scientific publications in orders for example, environmental science require some train particular aptitude of peruses. Surveys by specialists in these orders concentrate more on air pollution itself and the policies significant exchanges gave are expansive, and from a national viewpoint. Natural administration and law literary works more often than not talk about Chinese environmental regulation in general only here and there examining air pollution control policies freely. Environmental economics aspects contemplates generally give a spellbinding foundation of air pollution control and after that emphasis on singular policies. There are late Chinese observational examinations and a few reports on air pollution control policies specifying the most recent improvements
Social-ecological resurgence through farmers’ traditional knowledge and agroecology in Pakistan
No full textThere is an urgent need to transform global food systems. Basic food supply chains have
been disrupted due to the structural vulnerabilities within the dominant food system. Scholars,
ecologists, smallholder farmers, economists and activists are increasingly advocating for
agroecology as part of a path forward, emphasizing the importance of drawing on the latest
agricultural research while harnessing farmers’ traditional knowledge to drive social-ecological
resurgence.
Farmers’ traditional knowledge is essential to agroecology and social-ecological systems.
The basic understanding that humans are an integral part of the natural world, interwoven with
the environment, rather than separate from it, is necessary for comprehending the complex
relationships that rule our existence. This study focuses on Pakistan, an agricultural country,
constantly influenced and pushed towards industrial agriculture. Industrial agriculture relies on
high yielding variety seeds, synthetic fertilizers, and pesticides to boost food production.
However, this approach has damaged the ability of farmers to depend on their local ecosystems
for food. The research explores how traditional agroecological knowledge has been embraced as
a form of social-ecological resurgence in Badin, Sindh, Pakistan. [...
Bioactive Peptides in Alcoholic Beverages: Origin, Impact on Quality, and Future Trends
No full textopenThe field of bioactive peptides promises a wide range of applications in healthcare, food technology, and alcoholic beverages, attracting significant attention. This assessment aims to give an overview of the current research and future directions regarding the utilization of bioactive peptides, with a specific focus on their use and potential in beer, wine, and spirit products. In this chapter, we examine these peptides in terms of their contribution to the sensory properties and shelf life of alcoholic drinks and their potential for healthy beverages. The interdisciplinary methodology combines survey techniques, in silico analysis, and market tracking. This includes the extraction methods and functional roles of peptides, such as their antimicrobial and antihypertensive properties. This article also provides a whole picture by incorporating emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence for peptide sequencing and market growth projections. The assessment ends with a statement indicating bioactive peptides' potential in transforming alcoholic beverages into high-quality and healthy products. This book provides a basic information platform for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers interested in innovative developments at the interface of bioactive peptides and alcoholic beverages.The field of bioactive peptides promises a wide range of applications in healthcare, food technology, and alcoholic beverages, attracting significant attention. This assessment aims to give an overview of the current research and future directions regarding the utilization of bioactive peptides, with a specific focus on their use and potential in beer, wine, and spirit products. In this chapter, we examine these peptides in terms of their contribution to the sensory properties and shelf life of alcoholic drinks and their potential for healthy beverages. The interdisciplinary methodology combines survey techniques, in silico analysis, and market tracking. This includes the extraction methods and functional roles of peptides, such as their antimicrobial and antihypertensive properties. This article also provides a whole picture by incorporating emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence for peptide sequencing and market growth projections. The assessment ends with a statement indicating bioactive peptides' potential in transforming alcoholic beverages into high-quality and healthy products. This book provides a basic information platform for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers interested in innovative developments at the interface of bioactive peptides and alcoholic beverages
Optimum Average Silhouette Width Clustering Methods
No full textCluster analysis is the search for groups of alike instances in the data. The two major problems in cluster analysis are: how many clusters are present in the data? And how can the actual clustering solution be found? We have developed a unified approach to estimate number of clusters and clustering solution mutually. This work is about theory, methodology and algorithm developed of newly proposed approach. // Average silhouette width (ASW) is a well-known index for measuring the clustering quality and for the estimation of the number of clusters. The index is in wide use across disciplines as standard practice for these tasks. In this work the clustering methodolo- gies is proposed that can itself estimate number of clusters on the fly, as well as produce the clustering against this estimated number by optimizing the ASW index. The performance of the ASW index for these two tasks are meticulously investigated. // ASW based clustering functions are proposed for the two most popular clustering domains i.e., hierarchical and non-hierarchical. The performance comparison for clustering solutions obtained from the proposed methods with a range of clustering methods has been done for the quality evaluation. // The performance comparison for the estimation of the number of clusters of the proposed methods has been made using a wide spectrum of cluster estimation indices and methods. For this, large scale studies for the estimation of the number of clusters have been conducted with well-reputed clustering methods to find out each method’s estimation performance with different indices/methods for various kinds of clustering structures. // Developing mathematical and theoretical aspects for clustering is a relatively new and challenging avenue. Recently this research domain has received considerable attention due to the present need and importance of theory of clustering. The purpose behind the theory development for clustering is to make the general nature of clustering more understandable without assuming particular data generating structures and independently from any clustering algorithm/functions. Lastly, a considerable amount of attention has been drawn towards the theory development of the ASW index in the latter part of the thesis
Facilitators and barriers in access to mental health services for women with depression in Karachi, Pakistan
No full textBACKGROUND: Women in Pakistan experience a high prevalence of depression; yet make negligible use of mental health services. Information about the barriers and facilitators to mental health services for women is scarce. The present study explored the barriers and facilitators in accessing mental health services and potential strategies to increase the access for women in Karachi.
METHODS: A qualitative study was conducted with the help of 78 interviews. Women from primary care were screened for depression and thirty in-depth interviews were conducted with those who were not accessing mental health services. Twenty-nine interviews were conducted with women accessing mental health services for depression at mental health clinics. Nineteen key informant interviews were conducted with various stakeholders. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and coded for thematic analysis.
RESULTS: Themes elicited were categorized into family and household, health services, and socio-cultural levels. At family and household level, lack of awareness, normalization of depression, lack of empowerment, burden of looking after children and threats of divorce discouraged women from seeking professional care. Stigma, discouragement to seek mental health care and religious interpretations of depression were reported as broader socio-cultural issues, driving many to visit faith healers instead. Gaps in medical education, general practitioners’ case overload, and poor quality of health care, gender bias, poor resource allocation and dearth of referral systems were highlighted as barriers at health services level.
For facilitators themes of awareness, concern for children, the severity of the symptoms, family support, receiving a referral, affordability and organizational support were identified as factors that enabled women to access services. Both women and key-informants suggested that providing community-based interventions could be a viable option to increase the access.
CONCLUSION: Study findings suggest that providing mental health services in communities, and reforming medical education through the training of health workers can improve access to mental health services for women. An intervention is proposed to provide mental health services through community based lady health workers in Karachi. This may provide more accessible, and potentially cost effective, mental health services to better address the mental health needs of the population.2018-12-08T00:00:00
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