Sustainable Irrigation Management for Higher Yield

Sustainable irrigation is sensible application of watering to plants in agriculture, landscapes that aids in meeting current survival and welfare needs. Sustainable irrigation management can help with climate change adaptation, labor, energy savings, and the production of higher-value and yield of crops to achieve zero hunger in water-scarce world. To ensure equal access to water and environmental sustainability, investments in expanded and enhanced irrigation must be matched by improvements in water governance. Sustainable irrigation must be able to cope with water scarcity, and be resilient to other resource scarcities throughout time in context of energy and finance. The themes and SDGs related to clean water, water resources sustainability, sustainable water usage, agricultural and rural development are all intertwined in the concept of “sustainable irrigation for higher yield.” Sustainable irrigation management refers to the capability of using water in optimum quantity and quality on a local, regional, national, and global scale to meet the needs of humans and agro-ecosystems at present and in the future to sustain life, protect humans and biodiversity from natural and human-caused disasters which threaten life to exist. Resultantly higher yields will ensure food security

Police Brutality and Reforms in Pakistan

Police Brutality has become one of the most important highlight around the globe. This study qualitatively investigates the form of police violence existent in Pakistan and also how this violence is related with the reforms enunciated. Through investigation it has been seen that the police of Pakistan are more into bribery and misuse of power than it is there to serve the nation and provide national security. This study shall highlight important issues prevalent and will also provide recommendations through which issues can be resolved

Impact of Pakistan Bait-Ul-Mal on the Satisfaction Level of the Beneficiaries

This research is an impact-based study. It  explores the factors that impact the satisfaction level of the beneficiaries who are receiving funds and are acquiring the different programs and services of Pakistan Baitul Mal, a public treasury. The focus of the study is to analyze the working of the organization through the services they are providing and to evaluate the impact it is creating on the satisfaction  of the people in need. This study relies on the primary and secondary data both. The results revealed that a vast majority of people were satisfied by the services being provided by beneficiaries and most of them agrees that these services have positively impacted on their satisfaction level. Briefly, this study has also provided some recommendations through which the scope and working of organization can be enhanced

Pre and Post Covid-19 Lockdown: How the AQI of Three Major Cities of Pakistan will Change?

Pakistan being in the list of developing countries has shown tremendous response towards the control of pandemic COVID-19. This paper evaluates the pre and post COVID 19 lockdown situation of air quality and provides an evidence of the air quality amid the lockdown and how it started to improve. The air quality indexes of three major cities of Pakistan i.e. Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore are compared, taking into account the indexes before and after the imposition of lockdown.  The city wide presence of major pollutants like Sulphur Dioxide and Nitrogen Dioxide also reduced. The results show how taking serious measures can help in reducing the air pollution and help the environment to restore.  Following analytical approach and situational analysis certain inferences have been drawn that the air quality index has worsen, and the atmospheric condition have turn out to be shoddier than the pre-pandemic situation. In the last section certain policy recommendations have been provided in order to maintain a healthy air quality

Privatization of National Assets: Solution to Fiscal Deficits

This paper is exploratory in nature and shall investigate the nature of privatization law keeping in focus the impact this law has created on the fiscal deficits. State Owned Enterprises are the surfeit of a nation which provides those goods and services which the market sometimes is unable to provide. These enterprises have a large share in the macro-economic structure of a county that aims in providing goods and services at a rate that is affordable for everyone. Through this paper the attention of the concerned authorities shall be drawn towards the fact that privatization is not the ultimate solution to all economic problems and that there are numerous other options and choices which will to cater the declining nature of our economy and increase in the heavy debts. This paper also has some factual reasoning regarding the enterprise which have been privatized but are not working up to the mark. Hence the gap in the nature of the policy making must be addressed looking for policies that will revive the working of SOE’s. the recommendation proposed in this paper allows foreign investors to invest in the public assets as it would increase the trading between the countries

Top-20 retrieved images against a query image (class: Train) (reprinted from [3] under a CC BY license, with permission from J. Z. WANG, original copyright [2003]).

Top-20 retrieved images against a query image (class: Train) (reprinted from [3] under a CC BY license, with permission from J. Z. WANG, original copyright [2003]).</p

Sample images of Wang-B dataset (reprinted from [3] under a CC BY license, with permission from J. Z. WANG, original copyright [2003]).

Sample images of Wang-B dataset (reprinted from [3] under a CC BY license, with permission from J. Z. WANG, original copyright [2003]).</p

Methodology of genetic algorithm for the proposed method.

Methodology of genetic algorithm for the proposed method.</p