13 research outputs found
Book Review: The Islamic State in Afghanistan and Pakistan: Strategic Alliances and Rivalries
No full textAuthors: Amira Jadoon with Andrew Mines
Reviewed by Thomas F. Lynch III, PhD, Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of National Strategic Studies, National Defense University
Dr. Thomas F. Lynch III offers his expertise in a thoughtful review of this essential primer on the Islamic-State Khorasan Province (ISK). While finding the book\u27s idea that the ISK is currently a latent, global terrorist threat to be less persuasive, Lynch highlights the value of author Amira Jadoon\u27s unique ability to write with an appropriate level of depth about the complexity of tribal groups, subgroups, fragments, and splinters and notes that There is no other published work today with such a high level of insight into this enduring regional terrorist group.https://press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters_bookshelf/1038/thumbnail.jp
Exclusive Breastfeeding Knowledge among Primiparous Mothers
No full textOBJECTIVES
The study’s objective was to assess the knowledge of primiparous mothers for exclusive breastfeeding to babies for the first six months on their first postnatal follow-up. METHODOLOGY
A cross-sectional descriptive was conducted at Pediatrics Department, KRL Hospital Islamabad, for six months over 100 women from October 2022 to March 2023. A self-administered questionnaire was used to obtain information from the study participants. Females with primi gravida were selected, and interviews were conducted on a specific breastfeeding awareness questionnaire. The participant with correct and incorrect responses scored 1 and 0, respectively. Participants with scores of 0-4 were regarded as having poor knowledge, 4-7 as average and 7-10 as good knowledge regarding breastfeeding. The latest SPSS version analyzed Data. RESULTSResults show that the mean age was 24 years SD ± 1.2. Forty-one per cent of mothers were illiterate, 42% had Primary education, 15% had secondary school education, and only 2 % were university educated. Fifty-nine per cent of mothers were housewives, 29% were students, and 12% were working women. Moreover, 21% of mothers had poor knowledge of breastfeeding, 12% had average knowledge of breastfeeding, and 67% had good knowledge of breastfeeding.
CONCLUSION
Our study concludes that the knowledge of the primiparous mothers about breastfeeding was adequate
Redesign and validation of a computer programming course using Inductive Teaching Method.
No full textInductive Teaching Method (ITM) promotes effective learning in technological education (Felder & Silverman, 1988). Students prefer ITM more as it makes the subject easily understandable (Goltermann, 2011). The ITM motivates the students to actively participate in class activities and therefore could be considered a better approach to teach computer programming. There has been little research on implementing ITM in computer science courses despite its potential to improve effective learning. In this research, an existing computer programming lab course is taught using a traditional Deductive Teaching Method (DTM). The course is redesigned and taught by adopting the ITM instead. Furthermore, a comprehensive plan has been devised to deliver the course content in computer labs. The course was evaluated in an experiment consisting of 81 undergraduate students. The students in the Experimental Group (EG) (N = 45) were taught using the redesigned ITM course, whereas the students in the Control Group (CG) (N = 36) were taught using the DTM course. The performance of both groups was compared in terms of the marks obtained by them. A pre-test conducted to compare pre-course mathematical and analytical abilities showed that CG was better in analytical reasoning with no significant differences in mathematical abilities. Three post-tests were used to evaluate the groups theoretical and practical competence in programming and showed EG improved performance with large, medium, and small effect sizes as compared to CG. The results of this research could help computer programming educators to implement inductive strategies that could improve the learning of the computer programming
Uniqueness and stability analysis of hydrogeophysical inversion for time-lapse ground-penetrating radar estimates of shallow soil hydraulic properties
No full textPrecise measurement of soil hydraulic properties at field scales is one of the prerequisites to simulate subsurface flow and transport processes, which is crucial in many research and engineering areas. In our study, we numerically analyze uniqueness and stability for integrated hydrogeophysical inversion of time-lapse, off-ground ground-penetrating radar (GPR) data in estimating the unsaturated soil hydraulic properties. In the inversion, hydrodynamic modeling based on the one-dimensional (1-D) Richards equation is used to physically constrain a full-waveform radar electromagnetic model. Synthetic GPR data, in terms of 3-D multilayered media Green's functions, were generated for three different textured soils (coarse, medium, and fine) and assuming different infiltration events. Inversion was performed iteratively to estimate three key soil hydraulic parameters (?, n, and Ks) of the Mualem-van Genuchten model using the global multilevel coordinate search optimization algorithm. For the coarse- and medium-textured soils, inversions converged to the actual solution for all scenarios. For the fine soil, estimation errors occurred, mainly because of the higher attenuation of the electromagnetic waves in such a soil (high electric conductivity). The procedure appeared to be generally stable with respect to possible errors in the hydrodynamic and petrophysical model parameterization. However, we found that particular attention should be given to an accurate estimation of the saturated water content and infiltration flux for real field applications. The results from our numerical experiments suggest that, in theory, the proposed method is promising for the noninvasive identification of the shallow soil hydraulic properties at the field scale with a high spatial resolution.GeotechnologyCivil Engineering and Geoscience
Spatiotemporal monitoring of soil moisture from EMI data using DCT-based Bayesian inference and neural network
No full textLoop-loop electromagnetic induction (EMI) has proven to be efficient for fast and real-time soil apparent electrical conductivity (ECa) measurements. It is important to develop robust and accurate inversion strategies to obtain soil electromagnetic conductivity image (EMCI) from ECa data. Moreover, obtaining an accurate non-linear relationship between subsurface electrical conductivity (σ) and water content (θ) plays a key role for soil moisture monitoring using EMI. Here, we incorporated probabilistic inversion of multi-configuration ECa data with dimensionality reduction technique through the discrete cosine transform (DCT) using training image (TI)-based parametrization to retrieve soil EMCI. The ECa data were measured repeatedly along a 10 m transect using a CMD mini-Explorer sensor. Time-lapse reference data were collected as well to benchmark the inversion results and to find the in-situ relationship between σ and θ. To convert the inversely estimated time-lapse EMCI to the soil moisture, we examined two approaches, namely, Rhoades et al. (1976) model and artificial neural network (ANN). The proposed inversion strategy estimated the soil EMCI with an excellent agreement with the reference counterpart. Moreover, the ANN approach demonstrated superiorities than the commonly used petrophysical model of Rhoades et al. (1976) to obtain spatiotemporal images of θ from time-lapse EMCI. The results demonstrated that incorporation of the DCT-based probabilistic inversion of ECa data with the ANN approach offers a great promise for accurate characterization of the temporal wetting front and root zone soil moisture.This work was supported by the Water Desalination and Reuse Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST, Saudi Arabia) in collaboration with the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus - Senftenberg (BTU, Germany). The first author kindly acknowledges Philippe Renard and Julien Straubhaar (University of Neuchâtel) for providing the DeeSse simulation code. Matthew F. McCabe was funded by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Knowledge, Attitude And Practice Among Healthcare Professionals Towards Adr Reporting In Abbottabad Pakistan: Deeba Bashir, Mehreen Khan Jadoon, Sadaf Imtiaz Abbasi, Saman Kaleem, Shumaila Bibi, Muhammad Junaid Hassan Sharif
No full textBackground: Healthcare professionals can play an important role in reporting adverse drug reactions as it is a global health problem and required to be addressed.
Objectives: This study's objective was to assess the knowledge, barriers and encouraging factors for healthcare professionals towards ADR reportage.
Methodology: Prospective cross-sectional survey was conducted. Using spss 16 (statistical package for social sciences) data was analyzed.
Results: The questionnaires were distributed to 125 participants. ADR reporting form is very essential for the reporting of ADRs. Unfortunately in our healthcare setups, no such reporting forms are available because of lack of ADR reporting system. Healthcare system members should be held responsible for the reporting of ADRs as 43.2% believe they have an obligation to do so.
Conclusion: The inadequacies in the act of ADR reportage could not be really settled provided that the prescribers are approachable of the significance of revealing. Enlarging the reportage base by extending it to medical caretakers, drug specialists, and other medical care experts would likewise assist
KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE AMONG HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS TOWARDS ADR REPORTING IN ABBOTTABAD PAKISTAN: Deeba Bashir, Mehreen Khan Jadoon, Sadaf Imtiaz Abbasi, Saman Kaleem, Shumaila Bibi, Muhammad Junaid Hassan Sharif
No full textBackground: Healthcare professionals can play an important role in reporting adverse drug reactions as it is a global health problem and required to be addressed.
Objectives: This study’s objective was to assess the knowledge, barriers and encouraging factors for healthcare professionals towards ADR reportage.
Methodology: Prospective cross-sectional survey was conducted. Using spss 16 (statistical package for social sciences) data was analyzed.
Results: The questionnaires were distributed to 125 participants. ADR reporting form is very essential for the reporting of ADRs. Unfortunately in our healthcare setups, no such reporting forms are available because of lack of ADR reporting system. Healthcare system members should be held responsible for the reporting of ADRs as 43.2% believe they have an obligation to do so.
Conclusion: The inadequacies in the act of ADR reportage could not be really settled provided that the prescribers are approachable of the significance of revealing. Enlarging the reportage base by extending it to medical caretakers, drug specialists, and other medical care experts would likewise assist
LBNet: an optimized lightweight CNN for mammographic breast cancer classification with XAI-based interpretability
No full textThe India–Asia collision in north Pakistan: Insight from the U–Pb detrital zircon provenance of Cenozoic foreland basin
No full textAbstractThe northernmost exposures of sub-Himalayan Cenozoic strata in the Hazara–Kashmir syntaxial region of north Pakistan comprises the Paleocene–Eocene marine strata in the lower part and Oligocene–Miocene nonmarine strata in the upper part. This study provides the detrital zircon U–Pb geochronology of the Cenozoic strata in this area. The strong resemblance of U–Pb age spectra of Paleocene Hangu, Lockhart and Patala formations with those of Himalayan strata indicate an Indian plate provenance. The first appearance of <100 Ma detrital zircon U–Pb ages within the lower most part of the Early Eocene Margalla Hill Limestone indicates a shift from an Indian to Asian provenance. Geologic mapping shows the existence of a disconformity between the lower and upper most part of the Patala Formation, which is interpreted to have been formed by the migration of a flexural forebulge through this region. We consider the upper most part of the Patala Formation to have been deposited within the distal foredeep of the foreland basin. The Indian to Asian provenance shift and the presence of a possible foreland basin forebulge provide strong evidence that India–Asia collision was underway in northern Pakistan at ca. 56–55 Ma
