The Politics of the Punjab Boundary Award

According to the partition plan of June 3, 1947, the redrawing of the boundaries of the Punjab and Bengal was to be undertaken by the newly set up Boundary Commission after the provincial assemblies had taken a decision to this effect. The verdict started an intense controversy. In many ways no man made boundary has caused so much trouble and effectively impeded the advent of peace in South Asia as has been done by the Punjab boundary resulting from the Commission's verdict. For both the Pakistanis and the Indians the boundary resulting from the partition of Punjab has proved to be a source of constant headaches and periodic convulsions. Just as the problematic border of the North Western Frontier Province (NWFP) elicited constant British vigilance, the Indo-Pak border in the Punjab area has kept the two nations continuously preoccupied throughout their independent existence. The hasty British departure along with unimaginative surgical partition of the Punjab left many complicated problems for the successor nations of British India. The inability of the British to partition the province in congruence with principles of justice and fair play produced unnecessarily a large pile of complex problems. This article is an attempt to understand the basic principles governing the division of Punjab along with the politics that caused the undesired departure from the adopted principles

Assessing the Lack Awareness and Dangers of Dengue in Rural Punjab Pakistan

Dengue is one of the dangerous fevers which are taking hundreds of precious lives every year in Punjab province of Pakistan. This disease is caused by an infection from a virus namely Flavi virus which is transmitted by the mosquito Aedes aegypti, also called Aedes albopictus. This study was undertaken to assess the lack of awareness about the dengue and how dangerous it is in the rural Punjab in order to suggest ways and means to control thy menace. The study has identified that lack of awareness among the rural citizens is the major reason besides integrated policies by the government. 5-point Likert scale was used to gather the opinion from respondents. Cronbach’s alpha was calculated for reliability analysis. Descriptive and inferential analyses were done to find the fact. ?2 test was used to test the hypotheses on ordinal scale for environmental, personal and chemical control as major variables of the study. The study have identified that illiterate were less aware about the environmental and personal control then the literate with no information about chemical control. The study concludes that government must initiate strategies ahead of dengue season to educate the people through massive awareness campaign to save the precious lives. Keywords: Dengue, Environmental, Personal, and Chemical Control

Nuclear World Order and Nonproliferation, II; Strategic Insights, v. 6, issue 4 (June 2007)

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Conflict and cooperation in the Indian Ocean: Pakistan's interests and choices

The Indian Ocean is studded with many potentially explosive areas. One such area is Pakistan's neighbourhood which includes India, Iran, Afghanistan, China and the Soviet Union. Because of the strategic and commercial importance of the area, the United States is also deeply involved there. Recent developments in the region such as the Khomeini revolution in Iran, the takeover of the Soviet-backed group in Afghanistan and the subsequent deployment of Soviet forces in order to quash the tribal resistance movement, and the rapid changes in the Indian political scene, have invoked fears for the future security of Pakistan

Cancer Growth Inhibition Using Predictive Mathematical Models of Signaling Pathways

Cancer cells develop several hallmark changes over the progress of the tumor process. Cell assistance in multicellular organisms is regulated by the division of cell coordination by aggressive growth modulation. In this perspective, the use of molecular indicators triggering cell division is a mystery, because a cancer cell can manipulate any molecule that induces and helps growth, disturbing cellular assistance. An effective alteration proceeding to tumors must develop to be competitive, allowing a cancer cell to pass a signal resulting in better selection chances. The subjective simulation of physiological systems has become increasingly valuable in recent years, and there is now a wide range of mathematical models of signalling pathways that have contributed to some groundbreaking discoveries and hypotheses as to how this system works. Here we discuss various modeling methods and their application to the physiology of medical systems, focusing on the identification of parameters in ordinary differential equation models and their significance for forecasting cellular decisions in network modeling. In situations of global and local cell-to-cell rivalry, we quantify how this mechanism impacts a mutated cell's fixing chance of producing such a signal, and consider that this process will play a vital role in reducing cancer

A Unique Training Strategy to Enhance Language Models Capabilities for Health Mention Detection from Social Media Content

An ever-increasing amount of social media content requires advanced AI-based computer programs capable of extracting useful information. Specifically, the extraction of health-related content from social media is useful for the development of diverse types of applications including disease spread, mortality rate prediction, and finding the impact of diverse types of drugs on diverse types of diseases. Language models are competent in extracting the syntactic and semantics of text. However, they face a hard time extracting similar patterns from social media texts. The primary reason for this shortfall lies in the non-standardized writing style commonly employed by social media users. Following the need for an optimal language model competent in extracting useful patterns from social media text, the key goal of this paper is to train language models in such a way that they learn to derive generalized patterns. The key goal is achieved through the incorporation of random weighted perturbation and contrastive learning strategies. On top of a unique training strategy, a meta predictor is proposed that reaps the benefits of 5 different language models for discriminating posts of social media text into non-health and health-related classes. Comprehensive experimentation across 3 public benchmark datasets reveals that the proposed training strategy improves the performance of the language models up to 3.87%, in terms of F1-score, as compared to their performance with traditional training. Furthermore, the proposed meta predictor outperforms existing health mention classification predictors across all 3 benchmark datasets

Seed Treatment of Capsicum annuum with Two Different Fungicides to Evaluate the Seed Germination Rate

Chili (Capsicum annuum L.) is the fruit of plants, the Chili is susceptible for several diseases and seed borne fungi Phytophthora capsici which produces collar rot and root of chili. Seed borne pathogens are associated with untreated seeds of chili which are also significantly reduced the germination of seed. This experiment was conducted to find out the seed borne fungi and enhanced the germination of chili (Capsicum annuum) with two fungicides known as Mancozeb 80% WP and Carbendazim 50% WP. Effectiveness of these two fungicides were measured when the seeds planted on blotter paper in petri plates at 270C under lab conditions. These two fungicides significantly reduce the effect of seed borne fungi associated with chili seeds. Mancozeb 80% WP was found most effective to reduce the effect of seed borne fungi and increase the seed germination. Considering the results of the experiment, Mancozeb 80% WP was noted to be a best fungicide against the seed borne fungi. Keywords: Capsicum annuum, Mancozeb, Carbendazim, seed borne fungi, blotter paper. DOI: 10.7176/JBAH/10-4-04 Publication date: February 29th 2020

An Analysis of the Ttitude of People towards Prevention and Control of Dengue in District Bhakkar Punjab Pakistan

Dengue fever took hundreds of precious lives in the last two years in Pakistan in general and Punjab province in particular, which is caused by infection from a virus namely Flavi virus and this disease is transmitted by the mosquito Aedes aegypti, rarely the Aedes albopictus. This study was conducted to analyze the attitude of people towards prevention and control of Dengue in District Bhakkar of Punjab Province of Pakistan. The study has found that poor awareness of the people and ignorance is the major reason besides government failure to educate people and to take preventive measures ahead of the breeding of mosquito Aedes aegypti, the Aedes albopictus especially after rainy season during summer. A structured questionnaire was used to collect primary data, which was feeded to SPSS 16 for data analysis. Cronbach’s alpha was calculated for reliability analysis. Descriptive and inferential analyses were done to find the fact. ?2 test was used to test the hypotheses on ordinal scale for environmental, personal and chemical control as major variables of the study. There was no difference of attitude between literate and illiterate people towards environmental control. The study further identified that literate were more aware about the environmental and personal control then the illiterate, but both having no information regarding chemical control, however, people living in cities were more aware about the environmental and personal control yet, they know how to use chemicals for control of Dengue. The study concludes that government must take measures ahead of dengue season by educating the people through intensive awareness campaign to control environmental contamination besides use of chemicals to prevent the breeding of dengue as an epidemic to save the precious lives. Keywords: Dengue Fever, Environmental Control, Personal Control, and Chemical Control

Comparison of solvent evaporation and ultrasonicassisted production methods in the development of nimesulide nanosponges and their characterization

Purpose: To compare solvent evaporation and ultrasonic assisted synthesis in preparation of nimesulide nanosponges using polyvinyl-alcohol and Eudragit L100 as a polymer/copolymer and dichloromethane as a cross linker.Methods: Twelve formulations of nimesulide were prepared, six with each method by varying the ratios of both polymer and co-polymer. The resulting nanosponges were evaluated characterized by preformulation studies, production yield (%), differential scanning calorimeter, x-ray diffraction, Fourier transformation infrared spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, entrapment efficiency (%), actual drug content (%) and in-vitro dissolution studies.Results: The results revealed that the formulation with high amounts of co-polymer in both methods showed crystalline structures with enhanced dissolution rates in basic media. Drug entrapment was higher for products prepared by solvent evaporation method (74 %) than that prepared by ultrasonic assisted method (61 %). This correlates with the enhanced dissolution rates for products by solvent evaporation method and increased solubility due to drug-polymer complex formation.Conclusion: Formulations made by solvent evaporation method demonstrate higher production yield and drug entrapment. However, both methods exhibit enhanced dissolution rates in basic medium generally as well as other characteristics that are comparable to nanosponges reported in the literature with regard to their comb like structure