40 research outputs found
DR. TAHIR TAUNSVI'S WORK ON MASOOD HASSAN RIZVI ADEEB
No full textDr. Tahir Taunsvi is a well-known and acclaimed researcher, critic, and poet of Urdu language and literature. His, more than seventy remarkable books (compilations and compositions) are a great contribution to Urdu research and criticism. He has also written more than three hundred valuable research articles. He introduced many literary personalities to the arena of the Urdu language and literature. Prominent Indian researcher and critic Syed Masood Hassan Rizvi Adeeb and his literary dimensions are an important field of Dr. Tahir Taunsvi’s research work. In this article, the authors have presented an analytical study of the following four research books of Dr. Tahir Taunsvi. Masood Hassan Rizvi Adeeb: Hayat Aur Karnamay, Lakhnawyat_e _Adeeb, Razm Nama Anees O Dabeer Taaruf O Taqabal, Masood Hassan Rizvi Adeeb, Kitabyaat. In these detailed and comprehensive research books, the author has unfolded the life history, different literary dimensions (especially, as a critic, researcher, and poet), and the worth of literary achievements of Syed Masood Hassan Rizvi Adeeb. This study not only unveils the salient features of these exceptional research books of Dr. Tahir Taunsvi but also throws light on the multidimensional literary aspects of renowned writer Masood Hassan Rizvi Adeeb
Interview with Bonnetta Adeeb by Chris Keeve, July 26, 2023
No full textMrs. Bonnetta Adeeb shares the story of her childhood and leaving the Jim Crow South to California with her family, as well as her return to the East. Adeeb reflects on the prominent projects she has led in Maryland and the SE, as well as the work she is currently doing with seeds, collards, and school forest farming. She explores themes of African cultural heritage, the South, gardening, and seed saving. Towards the end of the interviews, she emphasizes the importance of involving everyone in the work of reconnecting to their cultures, food, and nature
Consciousness as the Self-Embedded Illusion of Conscious Frames: A Thought Experiment on the Illusory Continuity of the Self in a Static Universe
No full textThis thought experiment proposes a novel metaphysical hypothesis: that consciousness consists of isolated, static frames embedded within a non-dynamic, block universe. Each frame is an independent, self-contained configuration with embedded illusions of memory, anticipation, and continuity. There is no actual movement of consciousness through time; rather, the subjective impression of temporal progression arises from informational structures within each discrete frame. This work, termed the Self-Embedded Illusion of Conscious Frames (SEICF) theory, arose spontaneously through introspective reasoning influenced by the concept of a four-dimensional spacetime. While not developed through formal philosophical or scientific methods, the hypothesis aligns with certain themes in the philosophy of time, metaphysics of identity, and cognitive science. Its speculative nature invites interdisciplinary engagement and provides a provocative lens through which to explore the problem of consciousness and temporal experience.
(Author: Sheikh Mohammad Adeeb
Adeeb of Dr Taha Hussein, Translated by Professor Munawar Hussain: An Analysis
No full textThe famous Novel Adeeb is written by a blind Egyptian modernArabic wri ter Dr. Taha Hussain and Translated in Urdu by Prof.Muhammad Munawwar. He is renowned for his urdu translation of Arabic, English and Persian.His translation style is very creative and comprehenive. Taha Hussain's this Novel is the portrayal of an author whose idiosyncrasies make him a unique character. Inspite of being a blind man, he possesses phenomenal foresight. Craving for a Paris-based fellowship in literature, he divroces his wife. But after some time, formented by regrets, he languishes in his sense of guilt. This novel denotes Taha Hussain's attitude to life
Frequency and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Pattern of Gram-Negative Bacilli Isolated From Urine Specimens at a Tertiary Care Setting
No full textOBJECTIVES:
To find out the frequency and pattern of conventional antibiotic susceptibility of gram-negative bacilli cultured from urine specimens of patients at a tertiary care setting.
METHODOLOGY:
This study was conducted at the Microbiology Department of Combined Military Hospital Multan from June 2016 to May 2017. The data in this retrospective descriptive study was collected from urine culture records of the Microbiology Department, CMH Multan. Only those urine specimens who revealed positive gram-negative bacilli cultures were included in the study. Drug susceptibility patterns of these isolates were recorded against routinely used antibiotics (e.g. Nitrofurantoin, Imipenem, Sulbactum-cefoperazone, Gentamicin and Ciprofloxacin) and evaluated accordingly.
RESULTS:
A total of 1703 urine specimens were submitted for culture and antibiotics susceptibility testing during the period of study. A total of 128 specimens showed growth of gram-negative rods. Imipenem (95% sensitivity), Sulbactam- Cefoperazone (88% sensitivity) and Nitrofurantoin (87% sensitivity) were highly effective antibiotics against the cultured gram-negative bacilli in the study.
CONCLUSION:
This study showed that E. coli is the commonest cause of urinary tract infection (UTIs), followed by Klebsiella and Enterobacter species among gram-negative bacilli in our set up. In-vitro efficacy of Imipenem, Sulbactam- Cefoperazone and Nitrofurantoin was found to be the highest against these gram-negative bacilli as compared to other antimicrobials. On the contrary, in-vitro efficacy of ciprofloxacin and gentamycin was found to be extremely low
Survival in general surgery: The female surgeons’ perspective
No full textObjective: Specialty choices in health profession has long been influenced by gender. The field of General Surgery remains the least preferred specialty by females, especially in Pakistan. The objective of this study was to identify the factors leading to success and retention of females in General Surgery in Pakistan. Methods: Qualitative case study was conducted from February to May 2020 at Khyber Medical University, Peshawar. Ten semi-structured interviews were conducted with purposive sample of female surgeons at various academic position in different tertiary care hospitals of Pakistan. Data were thematically analyzed. Results: Participants were driven by their passion for surgery, which led them to choose this specialty in the beginning. Their survival in male dominant workplace was made possible by their own personality traits and conducive environment provided by the supervisors and peers. However, a structured mentorship program for females was found lacking. Conclusion: The necessary ingredients for success are passion and personality traits in any field but attention to nurturing and supportive environment for females in the General Surgery is paramount in determining success. Due consideration to the factors identified in the current study will enhance the retention and success of females in General Surgery.The authors would like to thank all the participants for their time. The study was conducted as part of MHPE at Khyber Medical University, Pakistan and supervised by Dr Ahsan Sethi.Scopu
Socio-demographic Factors Affecting Health-related-quality of Life in Post-renal-transplant Patients
No full textObjective: The objective of this study was to identify the socio-demographic factors affecting health related quality of life in renal transplant recipients.
Material and Methods: A census of all registered post-renal-transplant patients was conducted from October 1, 2018, to January 31, 2019. Data were collected on a Kidney Disease Quality of Life questionnaire (SF-1.3) and analysed by Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS). Scores in the three main domains, physical component summary (PCS), mental component summary (MCS), and kidney disease component summary, were calculated. Mean scores for gender, type of donor, and employment were compared by unpaired t-test, while mean scores for age, level of education, and duration of transplant were compared by analysis of variance.
Results: Out of 315 patients, 277 (87.9%) were males and 38 (12.1%) were females. The mean age was 37.26 (±10.14) years. Live unrelated transplants were 58.41% while live related transplants were 41.58%. Males had a significantly higher average (p-value=0.001) PCS score, but females had significantly higher average (p-value=0.05) MCS score. There was variation with respect to the PCS (p-value=0.031) and MCS (p-value=0.001) scores in the different age categories. The education groups varied significantly with respect to MCS (p-value=0.05). The recipients of live unrelated transplants had significantly lower average PCS score.
Conclusion: The female gender, live related donor and variations in ages were associated with lower PCS scores, while male gender, variations in ages, and education were associated with lower MCS scores. This study demonstrates that the Kidney Disease Quality of Life Short Form-1.3 (KDQOL SF-1.3) is a good tool to reveal differences in HRQOL scores in renal transplant recipients
Privacy issues of mobile phone companies’ usage of Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology: Analysing the use of UWB in mobile phones from a multi-actor perspective, magnifying privacy concerns and formulating guidelines
No full textUltra-Wideband (UWB) technology became unregulated within the EU in 2007. Most recently, it was integrated into mobile phones in 2019, notably Apply and Samsung adding it to all their newer models. While UWB is characterised as a radio technology with any signal above 500 MHz, it operates within the 6-9 GHzrange in mobile phones. This allows for fast data rate, low power secure communication, multipath facilities and accurate localization. While the integration of UWB is mostly advantageous to users and innovators, its ability of accurate localisation may lead to severe privacy concerns The aim of the thesis is to understand the privacy concerns of UWB’s integration into mobile phones by answering the main research question: how do experts and users perceive privacy concerns of UWB usage in mobile phones; and how can they be mitigated? It was subsequently broken down into three sub-researchquestions: 1. What are the possible applications of UWB in mobile phones? Phones have other incumbent radio technology embedded such as Bluetooth (BLE) and Wi-Fi, however it seems like UWB is being integrated to serve additional purposes. The answer to this question seeks to understand from gray and research literature how UWB can be used in mobile phones and what advantage it gives over incumbent technology. Research shows UWB gives phones the ability for indoor navigation, gesture-based control, foot traffic analysis for smart retail, teleconference systems, proximity-based localization, key-less entry among others. This leads to research question 2. What are the potential privacy concerns associated with UWB? The incorporation of new technology capable of accurate localization leads to privacy concerns. All privacy issues were categorised on the basis of three paradigms: social, surveillance and institutional mentioned in Gurses and Diaz, 2013. This was initially done by interviewing experts from the three groups of privacy experts, policy regulators and technology experts. Analysis of their answers showed that UWB privacy concerns seem relatively similar to BLE and Wi-Fi localization, albeit with higher granularity. UWB allows mobile phones companies, third parties and governments track people accurately indoors, push advertisements depending on location, obtain relative relationships between people based on distance leaving people with no place to hide. Subsequently, user interviews were carried out to see if they could identify the same concerns of UWB. Results showed that that from the data of users interviewed, all of them believed that accurate data localization of people is crossing a line that users cannot push back on. A majority of them saw most of the same privacy issues as the experts showing that, as people get more adept with technology they understandhow it can affect their privacy. A common question that was asked across all the interviews was how can we protect our privacy in the face of such penetrating innovation as time lapses. Which is the final sub-research question: 3. What are technical and societal approaches to address privacy concerns? Experts provided solutions that were more industry oriented which included decoupling UWBfrom other location-based services, provision of opt-out settings on a more prominent basis, reworking license agreements, industry wide discussion and self-regulation in terms of privacy. However, users gave answers that were more user-centric and gave more control to the common public. This included users neggotiating their own privacy agreements, compensation models for loss of privacy, a more holistic regulation process and finally, trying to break the control of big tech companies. This shows that users and experts have very similar understanding of privacy issues but very different views on how privacy should be protected. Perhaps, it may be time for regulators to pay heed to user suggestions. These suggestions were then compared with privacy mitigation strategies mentioned in literature. Notably, the most overarching concept that needs to be incorporated is the concept of Privacy-by-design which can then be broken down into technical and societal strategies. Technical approaches included concepts such as obfuscation, k-anonymiser, differential privacy, dummy localization and access control mechanisms. All the technical strategies seemingly had the same issue of requiring third-party applications to function. Sophisticated security measures and privacy statements would then be needed to ensure these companies do not choose monetary gain over user privacy. Societal approaches included concepts of data-for-all, technical regulatory bodies and finally, breaking up of big tech companies. As time passes and innovations become more pervasive, it may be too late to incorporate privacy protection actively. The time to protect privacy is now.Master ThesisComplex Systems Engineering and Management (CoSEM
Role of Case-Based Discussion as Workplace-Based Assessment Tool in Urology and General Surgery
No full textOBJECTIVES
To determine the effectiveness of case-based discussion in terms of medical record-keeping, clinical reasoning, clinical judgment, and self-reflection in the management of patients.
METHODOLOGY
A multidisciplinary descriptive study was conducted in the Department of Urology Institute of Kidney Diseases, Hayatabad Medical Complex Peshawar, and Department of General Surgery, Hayatabad Medical Complex Peshawar, Pakistan, from January to December 2023. A total number of 20 postgraduate residents, ten from Urology and General Surgery, participated in the study with equal male and female participants. Case-based discussion (CBD) assessments focused on medical record-keeping, clinical Decision-making, clinical judgment, management, follow-up, and reflective writing. The data was collected on structured proforma and was analyzed on SPSS-25.
RESULTS
The total number of study participants was 20, and 410 Case-Based Discussion sessions were conducted. This constitutes an average of 4.8 assessments per week. Most encounters were related to medical clinical decisions and management. The case-based discussion showed significant improvement on the Likert scale of the supervisor’s rating, which extended over four quarters on all major parameters of formative assessment (p 0.001). The multimodal regression test showed significant enhancement in learning parameters on case-based discussions. R2=0.172 F ration=25.141 n=410 (p=0.001). There was no significant difference in the gender of residents as well as training specialty of residents of urology and general surgery (p >0.05).
CONCLUSION
A case-based discussion is an effective tool for formative assessment of Urology and General Surgery postgraduate residents
Perceptions and comparison of bedside teaching among final year students of public and private medical colleges of Peshawar
No full textIntroduction: Bedside teaching is an important but declining strategy in medical education. The regulatory authority’s insistence on structure of an institute needs be supplemented with quality of bedside teaching. The objective of this study was to find perceptions and compare bedside teaching among students of public and private medical colleges of Peshawar.
Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted at four medical colleges of Peshawar during the month of February 2020. A Likert scale tool with 30 items and four subscales; physical environment, patient’s comfort and student attitude, teaching session and teaching fellow was filled by 242 students. Mean score for each question and each subscale was calculated for each institute for perceptions. Mean score of two public and two private institutes for each subscale was compared by unpaired t-test.
Results: Physical environment mean score was highest at Khyber Girls Medical College Peshawar (2.97±0.50). Patients’ comfort and students’ attitude mean score was approximately equal in four institutes. In teaching session, the highest mean score was reported by Khyber Girls Medical College and was lowest by Khyber Medical College. For teaching fellow, mean score was highest at Khyber Girls Medical College (3.70±0.67) and lowest at Kabir Medical College (2.85±0.55). For physical environment (public 2.87±0.48 vs. private 2.59±0.60) and teaching fellow scale (public 2.87±0.48 vs. private2.59±0.60) there was highly significant difference (p=0.0001).
Conclusion: Mean score in four subscales are comparable in four institutes with some variation but there are significant differences between public and private institutes in physical environment and teaching fellow subscales. There are some consistencies and conflicts with regional and international literature. This needs in-depth qualitative exploration
