Aggressive angiomyxoma in the ischiorectal fossa

Aggressive Angiomyxoma (AA) is a soft tissue tumour that principally affects women of the reproductive age, primarily involving the pelvis and the perineum. Despite being slow growing, it is classified as aggressive due to its locally infiltrative nature and high recurrence. It is rare, often asymptomatic and is misdiagnosed. However, it has characteristic features on radiographic imaging. Complete surgical resection is the ideal approach to treat AA. We report a case of an aggressive angiomyxoma in a 17 year old female, located in the ischiorectal fossa and diagnosed incidentally on a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The lesion was excised without complication

Review and synthesis of sustainable community indicators used in monitoring forest community sustainability

The objectives of this project are: (1) to review literature related to sustainable community indicators that will include studies on: social indicators, sustainable forest management indicators, and sustainable community indicators; (2) to develop a viable framework for measuring sustainability of communities; and (3) to develop a list of sustainable community categories and indicators. To better understand the effectiveness of sustainable community indicators in measuring forest community sustainability, the review of literature is divided into two parts. The first part covers frameworks that are used by different scientists in the development of sustainable community indicators. The second part covers three studies undertaken in the Canadian Model Forest Program (CMFP) to assess forest community sustainability. The first study is based on social indicators, the second study is based on sustainable forest management indicators, and the third study is based on sustainable community indicators. The main reason for selecting all three studies from the CMFP is that only in the CMFP research is being carried out on community sustainability at the local level by adopting different approaches (indicated above). The results ofthe studies in the literature review are compared to the results of the study in this project to determine the effectiveness of the indicators developed in this study. The indicators developed in this study focus on sector (population, employment, education, poverty and forest operations) sustainability as well as across the sector sustainability. Sector sustainability is achieved by assessing the present status of the categories. Across the sector sustainability is assessed by taking into account the impact of each sector on the environment, society and economy (ESE). Based on the results of this study, it can be said that every sustainable community indicator is a social indicator, but every social indicator is not a sustainable community indicator. To achieve sustainable development, it is important to treat the ESE as an integrated unit, and not isolated parts

Functional characterization of fifteen hundred transcripts from Ziarat juniper (Juniperus excelsa M.Bieb)

Background: Ziarat juniper (Juniperus excelsa M.Bieb) is an evergreen and dominant species of Balochistan juniper forests. This forest is providing many benefits to regional ecosystems and surrounding populations. No functional genomics study is reported for this important juniper plant. This research is aimed to characterize the Ziarat juniper functional genome based on the analyses of 1500 transcripts.  Methods: Total RNA from shoot of Juniperus excelsa was extracted and subjected for transcriptome sequencing using Illumina HiSeq 2000 with the service from Macrogen, Inc., South Korea. The Illumina sequenced data was subjected to bioinformatics analysis. Quality assessment and data filtration was performed for the removal of low-quality reads, ambiguous reads and adaptor sequences. The high-quality clean reads data was deposited in the Sequence Read Archive (SRA) at NCBI, and used for downstream processes. Fifteen hundred transcripts were randomly chosen and used for functional characterization.Results: As a result of homology search 80.3% transcripts showed significant similarities and were placed  in significant similarities category, 19.3% transcripts showed low similarities and assigned to the ‘‘unclassified’’ category while 0.4% transcripts are defined as no hits. The functional characterization results showed that most (18%) of the transcripts are involved in metabolism, followed by 11.7% in transcription and 11.5% as structural protein. 8.8% transcripts are engaged in stress response, whereas the transcripts involved in growth and development constituted 6.7%. Transcripts involved in signal transduction represented 5.6%, while 3.5% facilitating transport and 34.1% are involved in hypothetical functions.Conclusion: The functional annotation data produced in this study will be very useful for future functional genome analysis of Juniperus excelsa.

Software Outsourcing Quality Challenges Model Systematic Literature Review (SLR) Protocol

Today software outsourcing becomes a common tradition for business industry to enhance their business by hiring high qualified staff and lowering their expenses.  In spite of fact several edges of software outsourcing there are various factors that affect the quality of software outsourcing. The main purpose of this protocol is to find out those barriers that affect the quality of software development outsourcing from vendor’s perspective. Systematic Literature Review (SLR) will be used to discover all those barriers that impact the quality of software outsourcing from vendor perspective. The expected outcome of this review will be find out those barriers that affect the quality of software development outsourcing and also assist vendor organizations to handle software outsourcing quality (SOQ) issues. The ultimate goal of this protocol is to develop Software Outsourcing Quality Challenges Model (SOQCM)

Numerical Study on The Out-of-Plane Behaviour of Brick Masonry Walls Strengthened with Cement Sand Mortar

Masonry, as a building material, has a long history of usage in construction. The utilization of brick masonry in conjunction with mortar has been widely adopted due to its ease of implementation and structural durability. However, it has been observed that masonry structures exhibit significant vulnerabilities in the face of lateral loads, particularly regarding bending and shear. As seismic activity continues to pose a growing threat, the need for effective methods of strengthening masonry structures against earthquakes is becoming increasingly imperative. In this research, the Finite Element method is employed to assess the influence of the thickness of cement-sand (CS) mortar on the flexural capacity of cement-clay interlocking brick (CCIB) masonry walls through numerical modeling. In this study, three models of CCIB masonry walls with varying thicknesses of cement-sand (CS) mortar are analyzed. The models comprised of CCIB masonry walls with a one-sided application of CS mortar layers of 10mm and 20mm thickness. The findings indicate that the flexural capacity of the CCIB masonry walls can be improved by increasing the thickness of the CS mortar layer

Role of critical success factors in offshore quality requirement change management using SLR

In software engineering field, requirement change management is a challenging job. Ignoring incoming changes results in customer displeasure. It may also result in late product transportation. Managing requirement changes in poor way is the main cause of product failure. It has more diverse effect in global software outsourcing. In software quality requirement change management, it is necessary to address success factors in order to accomplish the requirements of the customers. In this paper, systematic literature review approach is used for documentation and scrutinization of success factors. Total sixteen success factors were recognized having great impact on quality software requirement change management. Our identified success factors like 'Proper Requirement Change Management', 'Rapid Delivery', 'Quality Software Product, Access to Market', 'Project Management', 'Skills and Methodologies', 'Low Cost/Effort Estimation', 'Clear Plan and Road Map', 'Agile Processes', 'Low Labor Cost', 'User Satisfaction', 'Communication/Close Coordination', 'Proper Scheduling and Time Constraints', 'Frequent Technological Changes', 'Robust Model', 'Geographical juncture/Cultural differences' are the crucial factors that affect software quality requirement change. Company size and different database have been used for the analysis of success factors. The databases/search engine used are Google scholar, Science Direct, IEEE Explore and Springer for the exploration of success factors. Companies are analyzed on the basis of their size such as small, medium and large.Qatar Foundation - grant No. UREP27-020-1-003

Climate and Weather Condition of Balochistan Province, Pakistan

The study discusses the climate of Balochistan with a special focus on the variation of weather condition taking into account the mean monthly precipitation, temperature, humidity, atmospheric circulation, air pressure, evapotranspiration and solar energy covering the time duration of 1931-2020 (normal data). The physical barriers that bring variations in the climate of Balochistan contain geographical location, ocean, geomorphology, land use, natural vegetation, and continental extent. Based on precipitation, the province has been divided into two main regions that are arid and semi-arid, while the temperature zones are hot, warm, mild and cool. The southern and eastern part of the province receives heavy rain in the summers (monsoon), whereas it is from the western depressions during the winter season. Balochistan experiences four rainy seasons in winter (cold), pre-monsoon season (warm), monsoon season (hot), and post-monsoon season (mild). Owing to tropical (coastal) and sub-tropical continental characteristics, the area familiarizes two foremost seasons namely winter and summer. The summers of the area long for 5 months in hilly areas while 7 months in continental plains and coastal regions; whereas, winters cover five months in the plains and seven months in the mountains. Based on the appropriation and fluctuation in climate constituents, Balochistan has been classified into two main, 6 meso, and 9 microclimate and weather zones. According to Global Climate Risk Index, 2021, Pakistan has been ranked at 8th in the list of top ten global climate high-risk countries, which are exposed to the ongoing climate change and requires attention to resolve the issue

Prioritizing the Issues extracted for Getting Right People on Right Project in Software Project Management from Vendors' Perspective

Software project management inspires and urges the spirit of software developing team members which continues until project completion. Obviously, success of every project based on right selection of team members that ensures to meet the desired requirements of any software developing project. The fundamental aim of current study is to extract and prioritize issues faced by vendors of global software development (GSD) organizations during the selection of right team with having aim to complete the project successfully. As a methodology, a systematic literature review (SLR) used for data extraction and categorization, a questionnaire survey adopted for data validation, and a hierarchical analytical process (AHP) used for prioritizing extracted findings. A total of 12 issues are extracted and grouped into 3 categories (association, teamwork, and fascination). The overall result showed that 'association' is the most important category as compare to other categories. Similarly, communication and coordination issues, team's consistency and stability issues, and lack of expertise issues, etc are highlighted as the most critical issues during selection of right people for the right project from vendors' perspective.Qatar University [IRCC-2020-009]

Investigation of lower limb’s muscles activity during performance of salat between two age groups

Muscles play an important role in the movement of limbs.They undergo contraction to straighten or to bend a joint for the limbs to move.There are many factors that can affect muscle activity. Age could be one of the possible factors affecting muscle activity.The purpose of this study was to investigate the lower limb’s muscles activity during performance ofsalat between two age groups. The lower limb ’s muscles investigated were (GAS), Biceps Femoris (BF), Tibialis Anterior (TA) and Femoris (RF). The postures involve are standing, bowing, prostrating and sitting. The electromyography (EMG) signals of the muscles were measured using the technique of surface EMG (sEMG). The signals were acquired by using Delsys Bagnoli™ Desktop sEMG system and EMGworks®. Ten healthy subjects from two age groups were recruited in this study. The first group consists of five males aged between 20 to 29 while the second group consists of five males aged above 40. The raw EMG signals acquired were analyzed and the EMG envelopes were developed using MATLAB. The averaged RMS values of EMG for each muscle were also calculated. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) of the EMGs was obtained by using F-test.Further investigation of the variance was performed by using Tukey comparison. From the results, the most active muscle during the performance of salat is BF while the less active muscle is GAS for both age groups .The statistical result show that there is no difference in the muscle activity pattern between the two age groups but there is significant difference among the muscles investigate