Pakistan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences: A Bibliometric Assessment from 1998-2012.

Background: Bibliometric assessment of journal literature helps the policy makers to formulate policies regarding the related subject and to know the latest trends of publications. The pharmaceutical sciences are combination of various academics fields and technologies of pharmaceutical products related to design, action, delivery and nature of drugs. The aim of this study is to evaluate the research productivity of Pakistan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences (PJPS). Research Methods: This is retrospective study on research items published in PJPS during 1998 – 2012 carried out at Libraries of King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Saudi Arabia during March to September 2017. The data was collected from the website of respective journal. Spreadsheet of Microsoft Excel was prepared for statistical analysis. Results: PJPS published 722 articles contributed by 2504 authors with an average of 4.06 authors per article during the years 1998 – 2012. Male authors (67%) were dominated in writing research items. Majority of articles (97%) were written by multi-authors, single author share was very small (3%). Pharmacognosy found to be the most preferred area of research. The contribution from the researchers of 32 countries produced 329 (45.5%) articles revealed that the journal has international recognition. Conclusion: PJPS creates a credible place for imparting the knowledge of pharmaceutical sciences research from all around the world, providing a platform to scientists and researchers to share their information to another one for saving a life

Pakistan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences: A Bibliometric Assessment from 1998-2012.

Background: Bibliometric assessment of journal literature helps the policy makers to formulate policies regarding the related subject and to know the latest trends of publications. The pharmaceutical sciences are combination of various academics fields and technologies of pharmaceutical products related to design, action, delivery and nature of drugs. The aim of this study is to evaluate the research productivity of Pakistan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences (PJPS). Research Methods: This is retrospective study on research items published in PJPS during 1998 – 2012 carried out at Libraries of King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Saudi Arabia during March to September 2017. The data was collected from the website of respective journal. Spreadsheet of Microsoft Excel was prepared for statistical analysis. Results: PJPS published 722 articles contributed by 2504 authors with an average of 4.06 authors per article during the years 1998 – 2012. Male authors (67%) were dominated in writing research items. Majority of articles (97%) were written by multi-authors, single author share was very small (3%). Pharmacognosy found to be the most preferred area of research. The contribution from the researchers of 32 countries produced 329 (45.5%) articles revealed that the journal has international recognition. Conclusion: PJPS creates a credible place for imparting the knowledge of pharmaceutical sciences research from all around the world, providing a platform to scientists and researchers to share their information to another one for saving a life

Multi-Agent Systems for Control and Monitoring of Dams

In AI, Multi Agent System (MAS) approach is used by many applications such as in robotics, communication network and in vehicles management. In this paper, author proposed a model of intelligent agents to assist the operator in analyzing the level of water in a Dam, and helps in supplying of waters towards power station or lake. The problems which are encountered in development, working, controlling and monitoring of large Dams are: cost, manpower and assessment of level of water.  In this paper, the working of proposed MAS is represented in two fold; firstly Assessment Agent, analyze the level of water in lake according to define validation rules and secondly data is collected from water supply agent and power station agent. This model helps to improve and synchronize the management and control process of water of different Dams. Keywords: Cost, Control Process , Multi Agent System , Intelligent Agen

Selection of Web Services using Service Agent: An optimized way for the selection of Non-functional requirements

Web Services provide a promising results and solution according to the needs and requirements with fast & flexible manners for information sharing among different peoples and businesses. The major key issue in research in Web Services is the selection process which is most difficult & cumbersome because the increasing numbers of services that can not meet or fulfill all the non- functional requirements like performance, efficiency, reliability sensitivity etc. moreover for web services selection for Library System, the author suggests a model to select the searching material only related to books in hard copy form, softcopy form, read only and printable from. The Author suggests an agent for the selection of these books from the web. When any body else who wants to search a specific book from the web, then this service agent will show all the web sites where books will be available.  The agent generates a list of books with their all user's needs and Non-functional requirements. On the basis of these non-functional requirements the user can pick the book according to the document provided by service agent. Keywords: Service Agent, Non-functional requirement, Web service

Cloud Based Dedicated Application for Multiple Organizations: Cloud Computing for All Organizations

Desktop applications should be run over the cloud environment. This is the slogan of those organization which are familiar with the cloud computing. Organization's members are not only responsible for smooth running of desktop application but also have a burden of successful running of database server, back & recovery devices, time and cost of human efforts. CBCS (Cloud Based Custom Software) is the solution of such issues. Development companies are responsible for development of CBCS of an organization. Although CBCS is a dedicated service to an organization, but existing CBCS can also dedicate to other organization when development companies will follow the CBDAMO (Cloud Based Dedicated Customized Application for Multiple Organization) technique. This is 6-layer technique which provides a smooth way to development companies for reusing the existing CBCS to new CBCS. Key Words: Cloud Computing, CBCS, DBCS, CBDAMO, Development Companie

Comparative study of nanoparticles and alcoholic fuel additives-biodiesel-diesel blend for performance and emission improvements

This study aims to investigate a CI diesel engine characteristic of diesel-biodiesel blend with oxygenated alcohols and nanoparticle fuel additives. Biodiesel was synthesized from a complementary palm-sesame oil blend using an ultrasound-assisted transesterification process. B30 was mixed with fuel additives as the base fuel to form ternary blends in different proportions before engine testing. The oxygenated alcohols (DMC and DEE) and nanoparticles (CNT and TiO2) were used to improve both the fuel characteristics and engine emission and performance parameters. B30 fuel was mixed with 5% (DEE) and 10% (DMC) by volume and 100 ppm concentration of CNT and TiO2 nanoparticles, respectively, which are kept constant during this study. Engine performance and emissions characteristics were studied using a CI diesel engine with variable engine rpm at full load condition. The results were compared with B30 fuel and B10 (commercial diesel). The main findings indicated that the B30 + TiO2 ternary blend shows an overall decrease in brake specific fuel consumption up to 4.1% among all tested fuels. B30 + DMC produced a higher 9.88% brake thermal efficiency, among other fuels. B30 + DMC ternary blend showed a maximum decrease in CO and HC emissions by 29.9% and 21.4%, respectively, collated to B30. B30 + CNT ternary blend showed a maximum reduction of 3.92% in NOx emissions compared to B30

A farm-level evaluation of agricultural profit and groundwater quality : Texas Seymour Aquifer

Vita.The Seymour Aquifer of north-central Texas is known to have elevated levels of nitrates. The design of economically sound policies for reducing agriculture's nitrate contribution to the aquifer suggests a need to evaluate alternative management practices and implications of different policies on nitrate percolation and associated loss of net returns. In the absence of field and experimental data, a validated process model (EPICWQ) was used to simulate crop yield and nitrate percolation by using stochastic weather and by varying the quantity and timing of nitrogen and irrigation applications across two soil types and tillage practices. Using these simulated data, a set of response functions was estimated and incorporated inside a risk- sensifive farm-level optimization model. Various policy instruments such as a performance standard, design standard, performance tax, performance subsidy, nitrogen tax, and nitrogen subsidy were evaluated to determine the economic and environmental tradeoffs for the region. A performance standard or a design standard (obtained from the model solution of performance standard) will decrease farm net income (over variable cost) by $6,220 or$5,225 for risk neutral and risk averse case, respectively. Arbitrarily selected design standards such as split use of fertilizer and minimum tillage reduced percolation but not down to 10 lypm. The net income loss for a performance tax was $17,340 and$15,233 for the two risk behavior scenarios, respectively. A performance subsidy would increase net income (subsidy received minus abatement cost) by $452 and$784 for risk neutral and risk averse case, respectively. A nitrogen tax of 200% of the purchase price of nitrogen caused a $29,680 and$'36,910 reduction in net income while a nitrogen subsidy increased net income (subsidy received minus abatement cost) by $4,474 and$8,285, respectively. For the whole region, the least costly policy alternative would cost approximately $1 million either as farm net income loss or as government subsidy. Comparing this cost with the cost of bottled water (used as a proxy for the loss of consumer surplus) shows that this cost is about three times the cost of bottled water

Pakistan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences: A Bibliometric Assessment from 1998-2012.

Background: Bibliometric assessment of journal literature helps the policy makers to formulate policies regarding the related subject and to know the latest trends of publications. The pharmaceutical sciences are combination of various academics fields and technologies of pharmaceutical products related to design, action, delivery and nature of drugs. The aim of this study is to evaluate the research productivity of Pakistan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences (PJPS). Research Methods: This is retrospective study on research items published in PJPS during 1998 – 2012 carried out at Libraries of King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Saudi Arabia during March to September 2017. The data was collected from the website of respective journal. Spreadsheet of Microsoft Excel was prepared for statistical analysis. Results: PJPS published 722 articles contributed by 2504 authors with an average of 4.06 authors per article during the years 1998 – 2012. Male authors (67%) were dominated in writing research items. Majority of articles (97%) were written by multi-authors, single author share was very small (3%). Pharmacognosy found to be the most preferred area of research. The contribution from the researchers of 32 countries produced 329 (45.5%) articles revealed that the journal has international recognition. Conclusion: PJPS creates a credible place for imparting the knowledge of pharmaceutical sciences research from all around the world, providing a platform to scientists and researchers to share their information to another one for saving a life