85 research outputs found
The Farsi version of the Juvenile Arthritis Multidimensional Assessment Report (JAMAR)
No full textThe Juvenile Arthritis Multidimensional Assessment Report (JAMAR) is a new parent/patient reported outcome measure that enables a thorough assessment of the disease status in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). We report the results of the cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the parent and patient versions of the JAMAR in the Farsi language. The reading comprehension of the questionnaire was tested in 10 JIA parents and patients. Each participating centre was asked to collect demographic, clinical data and the JAMAR in 100 consecutive JIA patients or all consecutive patients seen in a 6-month period and to administer the JAMAR to 100 healthy children and their parents. The statistical validation phase explored descriptive statistics and the psychometric issues of the JAMAR: the three Likert assumptions, floor/ceiling effects, internal consistency, Cronbach’s alpha, interscale correlations, test–retest reliability, and construct validity (convergent and discriminant validity). A total of 102 JIA patients (14.7% systemic JIA, 67.6% oligoarticular, 15.7% RF negative polyarthritis, 2.0% other categories) and 198 healthy children, were enrolled in three paediatric rheumatology centres. Notably, none of the enrolled JIA patients is affected with enthesitis-related arthritis or undifferentiated arthritis. The JAMAR components discriminated healthy subjects from JIA patients. All JAMAR components revealed satisfactory psychometric performances. In conclusion, the Farsi version of the JAMAR is a valid tool for the assessment of children with JIA and is suitable for use both in routine clinical practice and clinical research
ترقی پسند تنقید کے نمائندہ ناقدین (ڈاکٹر محمد حسن، ڈاکٹر محمد علی صدیقی، ڈاکٹر قمر رئیس، محمد عقیل رضوی)
No full textProgressive Criticism Gives Urdu Criticism a New Perspective and New Direction Some progressive critics have been vocal in their approach to this approach. This one-sidedness of criticism was the wrong result of the interpretation of progressive criticism, but soon a circle of progressive critics emerged who, with a correct understanding of Marxist thought, led progressive critics out of reactionary thinking, including Dr. Muhammad Ali. Siddiqui, Dr. Mohammad Hassan, Dr. Qamar Raees and Mohammad Aqeel Rizvi are the representative critics who have given a progressive interpretation to progressive criticism in the context of new literary movements, modernity, post-modernity and literary theory with new contexts and theoretical and practical discussion
A Mass-Conserving Hybrid interface capturing method for geometrically complicated domains
No full textNumerical Analysi
خطوط بنام رئیس احمد جعفری
No full textThis article presents a selection of letters written to Syed Raees Ahmad Jafri, author of more than 150 books. These letters were written by different scholars such as Syed Abu al-Hasan Ali Nadvi, Moinuddin Ahmad Nadvi, Saeed Ahamd Akbarabadi, Abdul Quddoos Hashmi and Ghulam Jilani Barq. The letters not only shed light on Jafri's academic interests but also highlight important facts about his life
The impact of cultural differences towards product innovation in smartphone industry: a cross cultural study on consumers from Saudi Arabia and United Kingdom
No full textSmartphone penetration is growing across the globe and people from all over the world are increasingly using this device. However, the average replacement cycle length of smartphone is increasing. The consumers are taking longer now to replace their smartphone. This presents the problem for the smartphone corporations to better understand the challenges currently present for consumers regarding adopting new smartphones and how the latest technology is perceived across cultures.
Previous literature confirms the link of culture and uptake of technology. However, there are lack of technology acceptance models which takes culture into account and there is scarcity of frameworks which compares European and Middle Eastern culture in context of innovation. The purpose of our study is to explore the impact of culture within smartphone industry by developing a framework which compares adoption behaviour.
This study aims to fill this gap by developing and testing a conceptual framework based on Technology Acceptance Model, Theory of Reasoned Action, Sheth Model and Hofstede’s Cultural Dimension Theory. Researcher attempts to validate the moderating effect of Hofstede’s cultural dimensions on behavioural intention to use new smartphone technology.
This exploratory study uses interpretivist approach and gathers qualitative data by conducting 28 in depth semi-structured interviews to evaluate the psychological behaviour of the consumers in UK and Saudi Arabia aged 18-34.
Our study concluded that both adoption and resistance towards innovation within smartphone usage are driven to a varying extent by Individualism, Uncertainty avoidance, and Power distance dimensions. The research also showed that smartphone users across both cultures believed that there has not been a meaningful innovation within smartphone industry in last 5 years.
This study contributes by enlightening Policy makers, Smartphone corporations, and Software developers on factors relevant in adoption of latest smartphone features (Voice Assistants, Digital Payments). It also contributes to body of knowledge by confirming the impact and relevance of culture in technological industry. The study provides an in-depth analysis in the area which is underdeveloped theoretically and encourage future researchers to apply our model in different regions and industries
TRANSLATING TAYEB SALIH’S PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA AS REPRESENTED IN HIS NOVEL SEASON OF MIGRATION TO THE NORTH: A SEARCH FOR BELONGINGNESS
No full textTayeb Salih, a prominent British author of Arabic language and origin is regarded as a pioneer who carved an identity of African-Arab literature globally. Salih acclaimed in one of his interviews in the Arabic press that he attempted to reshape the East and West relationship conceived by the world. He stated that the West romanticizes the idea of the East-West interaction merely as an emotion whereas it is an unresolved conflict that leads a trauma related to loss of identity, belongingness, and existentialism (Salih, 1929). Denys Johnson-Davies, an accredited translator, credited with making Arabic literature accessible to readers of the English language, who also translated Salih’s Season of Migration to the North (1966) regards the author and this literary piece as an intelligent work on East-West conflict produced by any Western or non-Western author. Season of Migration to the North provides a tapestry of events, multi-layered interpretations, traumatic outbreaks, struggles to identify with the world and finally succumbing to the pain. It is not a simple story of physical migration and the life of an African on the European land. It is an embodiment of an emotional, spiritual, religious, and mental search for belongingness. This present research is an attempt to capture the journey of the protagonist Mustafa Saeed and his life from his birth as a slave in the then colony of Britain, Sudan to his migration to Britain as a free individual. The rollercoaster of events that shape him and his destiny. Did he manage to break the clutches of his birth and slavery? Did he attain freedom from his belongingness to a British colony? Did he get peace to fly away from his roots is what makes this novel an extremely viable research material. The authors attempt to explore the psychological trauma and translate the author’s search for belongingness and understand the East-West relationship from his perspective
Evaluation of the interface-capturing algorithm of OpenFoam for the simulation of incompressible immiscible two-phase flow
No full textThe Mass-Conserving Level-Set method combines the efficiency of a Level-Set algorithm with the mass conserving properties of the Volume Of Fluid method. It avoids the work intensive interface construction of the former method and imposes a mass-conserving correction to the distance function of the latter. The interface capturing algorithm implemented in OpenFOAM uses a compressive convection scheme for the evolution of the VOF colour function, as opposed to an interface reconstruction algorithm. Therefore, it can be assumed to match the efficiency of the MCLS method. Further analysis of the accuracy of the algorithm is required to make a fair comparison. In this report the accuracy will be evaluated for the simulation of incompressible, immiscible two-phase flow in two and three spatial dimensions. Three representative test cases are considered: The advection of a spherical bubble for an imposed, constant velocity field (2D), a rising (buoyant) bubble in a quiescent fluid (2D and 3D) and a stationary bubble in a stationary fluid (2D and 3D). The computed results are compared with results obtained with the Mass-Conserving Level-Set method of [8], benchmark results of [5] and other references. The compressive scheme accurately conserves mass, but shows large spurious currents for the test cases with surface tension. Additionally, the error in the predicted rise velocity of the gas bubble is large in comparison with that of the MCLS method.Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
How Pakistan\u27s media spreads the message about reproductive and sexual health
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An Empirical Validation of Understandability Quantification Model
No full textAbstractUnderstandability is one of the key aspects in developing quality software; it largely influences cost or the reliability at software evolution and maintenance. False interpretation leads to ambiguities, misunderstanding and hence the misinterpretations of development process and the related documents, which often results to faulty developments. Despite the fact that understandability is vital and highly significant aspect for software development process, it is poorly managed. In this paper, author highlights the significance of understandability in general and as a factor of software testability. The paper briefly describes the proposed model for understandability quantification. Further, it includes the empirical validation of the model as the author's main contribution
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