129 research outputs found
sj-doc-1-smo-10.1177_20503121231220794 – Supplemental material for The effectiveness of single antibiotic paste nitrofurantoin V/S double antibiotic paste in alleviation of post-operative pain of patients suffering from symptomatic irreversible pulpitis—A randomized controlled trial
No full textSupplemental material, sj-doc-1-smo-10.1177_20503121231220794 for The effectiveness of single antibiotic paste nitrofurantoin V/S double antibiotic paste in alleviation of post-operative pain of patients suffering from symptomatic irreversible pulpitis—A randomized controlled trial by Hira Abbasi, Muhammad Saqib, Afsheen Maqsood, Rizwan Jouhar, Haroon Rashid, Naseer Ahmed, Mohmed Isaqali Karobari and Artak Heboyan in SAGE Open Medicine</p
PAKISTAN IN THE FATF GREY-LIST: CHALLENGES, REMEDIES AND INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE
Full text linkThe Financial Action Task Force (FATF) grey-listed Pakistan due to the latter’s non-compliance to the United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR)-1267. The FATF also demands Pakistan to put strict controls on money laundering and financial lifelines of terrorist organizations in Pakistan. The plan of action was reached between Pakistan and FATF to ensure sufficient action to enforce anti-money laundering policies and freeze assets of designated terrorist groups in Pakistan under UNSCR-1267 and UNSCR-1373. The NACTA in collaboration with FBR, State Bank of Pakistan, FIA, and the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan has mounted operations against illegal movement of money within Pakistan. It also has choked financial lifelines of terrorist organizations and curbed Hawala/Hundi methods of laundering money. Pakistan is struggling to stick to the 26-point action plan to address the necessary concerns of FATF. This paper put forth the ramifications for being blacklisted by FATF and also highlights the Trump administration’s tough stance towards Pakistan. This paper also offers concrete recommendations to exclude Pakistan’s name from the FATF grey-list.
Bibliography Entry
Amin, Musarat, Muhammad Khan , and Rizwan Naseer. 2020. "Pakistan in the FATF Grey-List: Challenges, Remedies and International Response." Margalla Papers 24 (1): 31-43
The Study of Fixed Point Theory for Various Multivalued Non-Self
No full textKARAPINAR, ERDAL/0000-0002-6798-3254; Shahzad, Naseer/0000-0001-7155-5917The basic motivation of this paper is to extend, generalize, and improve several fundamental results on the existence (and uniqueness) of coincidence points and fixed points for well-known maps in the literature such as Kannan type, Chatterjea type, Mizoguchi-Takahashi type, Berinde-Berinde type, Du type, and other types from the class of self-maps to the class of non-self-maps in the framework of the metric fixed point theory. We establish some fixed/coincidence point theorems for multivalued non-self-maps in the context of complete metric spaces.National Science Council of the Republic of China [NSC 101-2115-M-017-001]The first author was supported partially by grant no. NSC 101-2115-M-017-001 of the National Science Council of the Republic of China
Spectroscopic (FT-IR, Raman, NMR and UV-vis.) and quantum chemical investigations of (E)-3-[4-(pentyloxy)phenyl]-1-phenylprop-2-en-1-one
No full textGokce, Halil/0000-0003-2258-859X; Naseer, Muhammad Moazzam/0000-0003-2788-2958WOS: 000342254500042In this study, the molecular structure and vibrational and electronic transition spectra and H-1 and C-13 NMR chemical shift values (gas phase and in chloroform solvent), HOMO-LUMO analysis, molecular electrostatic potential (MEP), thermodynamic properties and Mulliken atomic charges of (E)-344-(pentyloxy)phenyl]-1-phenylprop-2-en-1-one molecule, C20H22O2, which has many biological activities have been calculated using the DFT/B3LYP method with 6-311++G(d,p) basis set in the ground state. The obtained results indicate a good harmony among the calculated and the experimental FT-IR, Raman, UV vis. (in methanol solvent) and H-1 and C-13 NMR (in chloroform-d solvent) spectra of the mentioned compound. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Higher Education Commission of PakistanHigher Education Commission of PakistanThe author AA is grateful to Higher Education Commission of Pakistan for financial support
Motorcycle one wheeling: A fatal venture in Pakistan
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- <i>Motorcycle one-wheeling</i> (MOW) is one of the burgeoning factors in motorcycle crashes in Pakistan. <i>Young One-wheelers</i> (YOW) perform dangerous stunts such as riding motorcycle while laying flat, lifting front-wheel and their backs facing motorcycle handles. Consequently, they put themselves and others at risk. A newspaper reported that over 200 YOW died and around 1,300 other road users were injured or killed in MOW crashes during 2011-2013. Current research is the first in Pakistan that presents the most recent epidemiology of MOW crashes.\ud
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- Retrospective analysis was conducted on crash data for last two years collected by Rescue 1122 (an emergency service in Pakistan) from 37 major cities of Province Punjab. \ud
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<b>Results</b> \ud
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- Rescue 1122 attended 389 MOW crashes during the study period. Of them, maximum MOW crashes were reported in Kasur (n=88), followed by Lahore (n=69) and Rawalpindi (n=41). In all 351 injuries and 16 fatalities were reported among YOW. Of the 351 injuries, about 70% were critical (head, spinal & fractures). All 16 fatalities were aged between 16 and 25 years. Most (19%) were aged 21 years, followed by 13% amongst aged 18, 19 and 22 years respectively. None of fatalities/injured YOW were wearing helmet. Most MOW crashes were reported on Pakistan Independence Day (14 August) and Chand Rat—a night before Eid, whilst some of them were also reported on normal week-days. \ud
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- Prevalence of MOW crashes across Punjab is alarming, as initially this dangerous venture was only confined to large cities. In addition to major cities, MOW crashes are mostly reported from Kasur, which is a suburban city. Though MOW crashes constitute only 1% of reported crashes, their outcomes are very severe, as all MOW fatalities/injured included youngsters have devastating psycho-social impacts on the society. A serious effort is required on part of all the stakeholders. School road safety education with parents partaking is also very important in this view
Analytic continuation of dimensions in supersymmetric localization
No full textWe compute the perturbative partition functions for gauge theories with eight supersymmetries on spheres of dimension d ≤ 5, proving a conjecture by the second author. We apply similar methods to gauge theories with four supersymmetries on spheres with d ≤ 3. The results are valid for non-integer d as well. We further propose an analytic continuation from d = 3 to d = 4 that gives the perturbative partition function for an N =1 gauge theory. The results are consistent with the free multiplets and the one-loop β-functions for general N = 1 gauge theories. We also consider the analytic continuation of an N = 1 preserving mass deformation of the maximally supersymmetric gauge theory and compare to recent holographic results for N = 1[superscript ∗] super Yang-Mills. We find that the general structure for the real part of the free energy coming from the analytic continuation is consistent with the holographic results. Keywords: Extended Supersymmetry, Matrix Models, Supersymmetric Gauge TheoryUnited States. Department of Energy (Contract de-sc0012567
Non emergency calls at an emergency setting: Mass awareness needed
No full textBackground: Timely provision of emergency care reduces losses associated with trauma, fire or disaster. Rescue 1122 is an integrated emergency service offering emergency services and safer community programs in 37 major cities of Province Punjab, Pakistan. It operates through a toll free number 1122. This study analyses the burden of Non-Emergency Calls (NECs) received on 1122.\ud
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Methods: Retrospective analysis of all received calls on 1122 during 2004-September 2015 was conducted. Data were collected from 37 major cities of Punjab.\ud
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Results: Rescue 1122 received over 79 million calls during study period; with only over three million (4%) emergency calls and 76 million (96%) NECs. There were 66 million (87%) Prank, 8 million (10.5%) Information Seeking and 1.8 million (2.5%) Wrong calls. Additionally, about 0.17 million (0.2%) Fake calls were also received, on which 3,964 false dispatches were made. Maximum NECs (around 14 million) were attended by Lahore Rescue 1122; while similar patterns of NECs were also experienced across Punjab. Rescue 1122 adopted various NECs counter-strategies that include: usage of questionnaire-based minimalist communication between anonymous caller and 1122 staff; software-based blacklisting and auto-blocking for habitual callers and calling back for deterrence.\ud
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Conclusions: Data analysis shows that NECs pose a massive burden on Rescue 1122. Excessive misuse of an emergency number suggests public’s lack of awareness and apathetic attitude that could result in death or serious outcome of an emergency. False dispatches made could have resulted in deprivation of emergency care to real emergencies and economic losses as well. Though, Rescue 1122 has adopted some counter-strategies, however that cannot lessen the burden of NECs. Therefore, a mass awareness campaign is needed to sensitize the public regarding the sensitivity of the issue
Digital Lipoma of The Big Toe in Child: A Rare Case Report
Full text linkA lipoma is a typical non-cancerous soft tissue lump that can develop beneath the skin and may grow anywhere in the body most commonly involving the upper trunk (chest, arm, shoulder, neck and upper thigh). They grow slowly and are non-cancerous. While lipomas in the foot are relatively uncommon, their occurrence in this location is rare. To our knowledge lipoma of the toe in a child is a very rare case. This case study concerns a large lipoma in a child, specifically located on the underside of the first big toe, its radiological imaging finding on ultrasound and histopathology
CVEfixes: Automated Collection of Vulnerabilities and Their Fixes from Open-Source Software
No full textCVEfixes is a comprehensive vulnerability dataset that is automatically collected and curated from Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) records in the public U.S. National Vulnerability Database (NVD). The goal is to support data-driven security research based on source code and source code metrics related to fixes for CVEs in the NVD by providing detailed information at different interlinked levels of abstraction, such as the commit-, file-, and method level, as well as the repository- and CVE level.
At the initial release, the dataset covers all published CVEs up to 9 June 2021. All open-source projects that were reported in CVE records in the NVD in this time frame and had publicly available git repositories were fetched and considered for the construction of this vulnerability dataset. The dataset is organized as a relational database and covers 5495 vulnerability fixing commits in 1754 open source projects for a total of 5365 CVEs in 180 different Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) types. The dataset includes the source code before and after fixing of 18249 files, and 50322 functions. Because of limitations in GitHub storage, we provide a compressed SQL dump of the CVEfixes vulnerability dataset via Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4476563.
This repository includes the code to replicate the data collection. The complete process has been documented in the paper "CVEfixes: Automated Collection of Vulnerabilities and Their Fixes from Open- Source Software", a copy of which you will find in the Doc folder.
Citation and Zenodo links
Please cite this work by referring to the published paper:
Guru Bhandari, Amara Naseer, and Leon Moonen. 2021. CVEfixes: Automated Collection of Vulnerabilities and Their Fixes from Open-Source Software. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Predictive Models and Data Analytics in Software Engineering (PROMISE '21). ACM, 10 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3475960.3475985
@inproceedings{bhandari2021:cvefixes,
title = {{CVEfixes: Automated Collection of Vulnerabilities and Their Fixes from Open-Source Software}},
booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Predictive Models and Data Analytics in Software Engineering (PROMISE '21)}},
author = {Bhandari, Guru and Naseer, Amara and Moonen, Leon},
year = {2021},
pages = {10},
publisher = {{ACM}},
doi = {10.1145/3475960.3475985},
copyright = {Open Access},
isbn = {978-1-4503-8680-7},
language = {en}
}
The dataset has been released on Zenodo with DOI:10.5281/zenodo.4476563. The GitHub repository containing the code to automatically collect the dataset can be found at https://github.com/secureIT-project/CVEfixes, released with DOI:10.5281/zenodo.5111494.This work has been financially supported by the Research Council of Norway through the secureIT project (RCN contract #288787)
Formulation for the Targeted Delivery of a Vaccine Strain of Oncolytic Measles Virus (OMV) in Hyaluronic Acid Coated Thiolated Chitosan as a Green Nanoformulation for the Treatment of Prostate Cancer: A Viro-Immunotherapeutic Approach [Retraction]
Full text linkNaseer F, Ahmad T, Kousar K, et al. Int J Nanomedicine. 2023;18:185–205.
We, the Editor and Publisher of the journal International Journal of Nanomedicine are retracting the published article.
Following publication of the article, concerns were raised about the duplication of images from Figures 8, 10 and 13 with images from other unrelated articles. Specifically,
The image for Figure 8A, blank NF temperatures, has been duplicated with the image for Figure 13C, SEM of lyophilized NF after 3 months storage.
The image for Figure 8C, HA-coated OMV loaded TC, has been duplicated with the image for Figure 16C, lyophilized NFs after 3 months, from Kousar K, Naseer F, Abduh MS, Anjum S and Ahmad T. CD44 targeted delivery of oncolytic Newcastle disease virus encapsulated in thiolated chitosan for sustained release in cervical cancer: a targeted immunotherapy approach. Front. Immunol. 2023;14:1175535. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2023.1175535.
The image for Figure 8D, HA-coated OMV loaded TCs, has been duplicated with the image for Figure 6B, CsA-loaded ThC-HA NF, from Abduh MS. Anticancer Analysis of CD44 Targeted Cyclosporine Loaded Thiolated Chitosan Nanoformulations for Sustained Release in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer. Int J Nanomedicine. 2023;18:5713-5732. https://doi.org/10.2147/IJN.S424932.
The image for Figure 9D, HA-coated OMV-loaded TCs, has been duplicated with the image for Figure 10B, HA-ThCs-Cis NFs, from Kousar K, Naseer F, Abduh MS, et al. Green synthesis of hyaluronic acid coated, thiolated chitosan nanoparticles for CD44 targeted delivery and sustained release of Cisplatin in cervical carcinoma. Front. Pharmacol. 2023;13:1073004. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2022.1073004.
The entire Figure 10 has been duplicated with Figure 6 from Naseer F, Kousar K, Abduh MS, et al. Evaluation of the anticancer potential of CD44 targeted vincristine nanoformulation in prostate cancer xenograft model: a multi-dynamic approach for advanced pharmacokinetic evaluation. Cancer Nano. 2023;14:65. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12645-023-00218-2.
The images for Figure 10, Pure MV 12h, 90µg/ml and OMV-loaded TCs 24h, 50µg/ml have been duplicated.
The image for Figure 10, OMV-loaded TCs 24h, 90µg/ml has been duplicated with the image for Figure 10, MCF-10A, Pure CsA, 90µg/ml from Abduh MS, 2023.
The image for Figure 10, Pure MV 12h, 50µg/ml has been duplicated with the image for Figure 10, MCF-10A, CsA-NF, 60µg/ml from Abduh MS, 2023.
The images for Figure 13C, lyophilized NF after 3 months storage, has been duplicated with the image for Figure 7A, SEM image of spherical HA-ThCs-Cis loaded nanoparticles, from Kousar K, et al (2023).
The corresponding author responded to our queries but was unable to provide a satisfactory explanation for how the images came to be duplicated and the editor no longer has confidence in the reported findings. As verifying the validity of published work is core to the integrity of the scholarly record, the Publisher and Editor requested to retract the article and the corresponding author does not agree with this decision.
We have been informed in our decision-making by our editorial policies and COPE guidelines.
The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as “Retracted”
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