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Supplemental Material - Virtual screening of phytochemicals by targeting multiple proteins of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2: Molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulation studies
No full textSupplemental Material for Virtual screening of phytochemicals by targeting multiple proteins of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2: molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulation studies by Muhammad Azeem, Ghulam Mustafa and Hafiza S Mahrosh in International Journal of Immunopathology and Pharmacology</p
Pakistan’s Agricultural Development since Independence: Intertemporal Trends and Explanations
Full text linkThe main objective of this paper has been to review Pakistan’s historical experience in agricultural development in terms of growth, income distribution, and rural poverty. While the long-term growth rates between 1949-50 and 1994-95 were satisfactory, the variations around the average have been rather too large over the various decades. Beginning with a stagnating sector of the 1950s, agriculture witnessed record growth rates during the Sixties. This was followed by the lowest growth rates of the early Seventies, and acceleration in the second half of the Seventies. The experience since 1979-80 has been mixed, but the growth rates have been rather low through the Eighties and the Nineties. The trends in income distribution and poverty varied directly in relation to the agricultural growth rates, especially when they were in excess of the threshold level of 4.5–5.0 percent per annum. In general, a growth rate of 5.0 percent or higher has induced positive changes in income distribution and poverty. In view of this positive association, the pursuit of a high growth policy in agriculture should guide Pakistan’s future development strategy. The efficiency of resource use, a greater dependence on modern technologies, and a minimisation of government intervention in the market mechanism are the essential pillars of the high growth strategy.
Supplemental Material - Exploring the antihyperglycemic potential of tetrapeptides devised from AdMc1 <i>via</i> different receptor proteins inhibition using in silico approaches
No full textSupplemental Material for Exploring the antihyperglycemic potential of tetrapeptides devised from AdMc1 via different receptor proteins inhibition using in silico approaches by Ghulam Mustafa, Hafiza S Mahrosh, Muddassar Zafar, Syed A Attique and Rawaba Arif in International Journal of Immunopathology and Pharmacology</p
Evaluation of dominant allelopathic weed through examining the allelopathic effects of four weeds on germination and seedling growth of six crops
No full textLeaf aqueous extracts were used to examine the allelopathic effects of Melilotus indica, Medicago polymorpha, Elusine indica and Fumaria indica at four concentrations (10, 20, 30 and 40% W/V) on germination percentage, radicle and hypocotyl growth of six crops, namely Triticum aestivum, Hordeum vulgare, Medicago sativa, Trifolium spp., Raphanus sativus and Trigonella foenum-graecum. All weed extracts showed pronounced inhibitory effect on germination and seedling growth of tested crops, however inhibition was not consistent over studied parameters. Weeds exerted different allelopathic effects on test crops. Fumaria indica exhibited a significant negative effect on germination of all tested species at 20, 30 and 40% aqueous extracts, followed by Elusine indica and Medicago polymorpha, and Melilotus indica at 10% concentration level. Melilotus indica halted the hypocotyl growth of tested crops at 10 and 20% aqueous extracts, followed by F. indica at 30 and 40% dosage. Radicle growth of all recipient species was also stunted under the aqueous extract of M. indica at 20, 30 and 40%, followed by Medicago polymorpha except 10% concentration. Elusine indica showed negative effects on hypocotyl growth at higher concentrations as compared to Medicago polymorpha, whereas radicle growth was not affected under different aqueous extracts of E. indica. Leaf debris method was used in greenhouse to further authenticate the allelopathic effects of dominant allelopathic weed viz., Melilotus indica at four concentrations (0, 25, 50 and 75 g per 300 g of soil) on germination percentage, shoot and root length of four crops, namely Medicago sativa, Trifolium spp., Hordeum vulgare and Triticum aestivum. Powdered leaf debris of M. indica mixed with clay loam soil appeared to have strong allelopathic inhibition under higher concentrations on germination and shoot growth of Medicago sativa and Trifolium spp. as compared to Hordeum vulgare and Triticum aestivum, whereas inhibitory effects were more pronounced on Trifolium spp. and Triticum aestivum, in terms of their root length. Hence, M. indica proved a strong allelopathic weed that should be removed from field to avoid harmful effects during early growth stages of tested crops. Moreover, it is recommended that all these species be phytochemically examined for their allelopathic potential and possible development of environmental safe bio-herbicides to control weeds
The efforts of Sheikh Ghulam Mustafa Al Qasimi in the interpretation of the Quran
Full text linkThe Sheikh Ghulam Mustafa Al Qasimi was one of the great scholars of the twentieth century, and he received knowledge from the great scholars of Sindh, and among the great sheikhs of India affiliated in their thought to Imam Shah Wali Allah Al-Dahlawy. And so on, as it appears from his many books, then Sheikh Al Qasimi has well-known services to the Shah Wali Allah Academy, to government departments and others, in terms of member, director, etc. Then Sheikh Al Qasimi preferred to supervise many of these - Ph.D. and Master of Honor when he was an assistant professor in the Department of Sindhi Culture Islamic Sciences, and Comparing Religions at the University of Sindh Jamshoro, which number more than a hundred and are written in Arabic, Persian, Urdu and Sindhi. The list has been mentioned for some of the titles of PhD theses in the thesis, and this indicates that he was not an individual but rather a party.Sheikh Al Qasimi has left scientific traces in various religious sciences such as translating the meanings of the Qur’an into the Sindhi language, history, jurisprudence and its origins, the Sindhi language, interpretation, hadith, hadith sciences, the Prophet’s biography, literature, Islamic philosophy and others, and his writings are more than forty. Serving the Holy Book from the point of view of teaching, teaching, and from the point of view of authorship, investigation, arrangement and other of his books on interpretation: Interpretation of Surat Saba (The Revolutionary Interpretation - The Predominance of Religion Over All Religions - in the New Color of the Holy Qur’an) which is a valuable interpretation, and the translation of the interpretation of Ilham al-Rahman into the Sindhi language ( The first part) and others, then Sheikh Al-Qasimi wrote the footnotes to the book Ilham Al-Rahman in the interpretation of the Noble Quran, and it includes useful comment
1st International Seminars’ Week (Autumn 2016)
No full textInternational Seminars’ Week (Autumn 2016). Seminari (6) tenuti da Visiting Scholars, Researchers and Professors provenienti dalle Università di Aberdeen (Scozia), Goteborg (Svezia), Jawaharlal Nehru (India), Leicester (Regno Unito), Stenden (Paesi Bassi), Turku (Finland), Umea (Svezia) – Università di Macerata, Dipartimento di Scienze della formazione, dei beni culturali e del turismo, 12-16 dicembre 2016. Responsabile scientifico e organizzatore
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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