Issue · 2019
Vol 38 No 1 (2019)
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ArticlesCOMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TENSILE STRENGTH OF MULTIFILAMENT SILK AND VICRYL SUTURES USED IN SURGERY
Mehreen Ijaz
Sutures made with different materials are used in surgery for multiple reasons. These materials may be monofilament or multi filaments based on either natural or synthetic content. Mechanical and physical properties of sutures are crucial requirements to…
15 Aug 2020- Articles
AN EFFICIENT PATCH ANTENNA WITH IMPROVED BANDWIDTH FOR FUTURE APPLICATIONS
Gulzar Ahmad, M. Inayatullah Babar
In this article the inherent demerits of the patch antenna like low bandwidth and low efficiency have been addressed. A wideband and efficient microstrip patch antenna of 9×18mm2 size has been proposed for satellite and other fields of co…
15 Aug 2020 - Articles
EVALUATING THE SOCIAL ASPECT OF SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION FOR PAKISTAN VIA ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS
Sikandar Bilal Khattak, Iftikhar Hussain, Rashid Nawaz
Sustainable Development, sustainability and sustainable construction are not synonymous to each other. In the past decade researchers have presented models for sustainability and identified factors for different countries. Most of the definitio…
15 Aug 2020 - Articles
MATERIAL HANDLING COST CONSIDERATION IN PROCESS PLAN SELECTION FOR RECONFIGURABLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEM
Sajid Ullah Butt, Aamer Ahmed Baqai, Syeda Naela Fatima, Hasan Aftab Saeed
In today’s market, ever-changing products and demands are major concerns for every manufacturer. Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (RMS) are so designed as to have customized flexibility and cost-effective reconfiguration whenever a design change in p…
15 Aug 2020 - Articles
AN SVC BASED POWER QUALITY IMPROVEMENT MODEL FOR CONSUMERS CONNECTED TO WEAK BUSSES IN DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS
Faheem Ali, Muhammad Amir, Muhammad Iftikhar Khan, Muhammad Naeem Arbab, Abdul Basit, Muhammad Kashif Khan et al.
Power quality is a major concern considering weak bus systems. In order to improve power quality, residential consumers go with voltage stabilizers as a cheap solution consequently overstressing weak busses. Industrial consumers use other alternatives lik…
15 Aug 2020 - Articles
ROLE OF MN ATOMS ON TENSILE PROPERTIES OF LIGHT WEIGHT CHQ STEEL
Shahid Hussain Abro
Alloying elements always play a crucial role in any steel grade to change the mechanical properties and each element plays his role. The present work has been performed to reveal the role of Mn atoms on tensile properties of experimental steel.…
15 Aug 2020 - Articles
RE-DESIGNING AND OPERATIONAL ANALYSES OF THE SEDIMENT TRANSPORT CONTROL IN IRRIGATION CANAL NETWORK
Saman Shahid, Shahid Ali, Muhammad Abdullah Ahmad, Sarfraz Munir
The purpose of this research was to improve the existing design of the irrigation canals in Punjab. The design of an entire canal network is a tiresome and laborious work, where engineers spend months to design canals. Over the years, engineers and agric…
15 Aug 2020 - Articles
ANALYSIS OF HUMAN PERCEPTIONS AND ADAPTATIONS TO FLASH FLOODS IN KHYBER AGENCY, FATA
Behram Khan, Amir Nawaz Khan, Said Qasim, Atta-ur Rahman
The present study aims to analyse the human perceptions and adaptations to recurrent devastating flash floods in Khyber Agency, FATA. The study is mainly based on both primary data sources including field observations, structured questionnaire survey and…
15 Aug 2020 - Articles
AN INVESTIGATION OF HEAVY AND TRACE ELEMENTS IN COAL DEPOSITS OF MAKARWAL PAKISTAN AND THEIR POSSIBLE IMPACTS ON SURROUNDING WATER-CASE STUDY
Amir Naveed, Unsia Habib, Fouzia Parveen, Syed Naveed Ul Hasan, Muddasar Habib, Irfan Shah
This research present, the coal samples from different locations of Makarwal (Pakistan) were investigated for the existence of trace and heavy metals. Coal samples used under investigation were: Makarwal section-A (Mk-A), Makarwal section-B (Mk…
15 Aug 2020 - Articles
TECHNO-ECONOMICS OF UPS SYSTEM AS BACKUP POWER SOURCE DURING LOAD SHEDDING
Uzma Nawaz, Muhammad Iftikhar Khan, Muhammad Naeem Arbab
The energy crises in Pakistan of the last two decades has forced electricity consumers to use backup power sources based on portable generator sets and Un-interrupted Power Supply (UPS) devices. In order to maintain continuity of supply to basi…
15 Aug 2020 - Articles
HYBRID PARTICLE SWARM ALGORITHM FOR SCHEDULING IN CELLULAR MANUFACTURING SYSTEM- A CASE STUDY
Qazi Salman Khalid, Muhammad Abas, Mudassar Rauf, Mirza Jahanzaib, Shahid Maqsood
Cellular Manufacturing System (CMS) lies in the heart of lean manufacturing with goal of producing the wide variety of products as efficiently as possible. Increase in customer demand for more customized products had forced industries to shift to CMS. On…
15 Aug 2020 - Articles
EFFICIENT ROUTING SCHEME FOR UNIDIRECTIONAL LINKS IN MULTI-HOP NETWORKS
Majid Ashraf, Mohammad Haseeb Zafar, Tariqullah Jan
This paper presents an efficient routing scheme for Multi-hop Network in the presence of unidirectional links. The distinct feature of this routing scheme is the capability to actively provide routing paths even though a large number of unidirection…
15 Aug 2020 - Articles
APPLICATION OF LABELLED K MEANS CLUSTERING FOR GIS CONTRACT AUTOMATION
Muhammad Shaheen
K Means Clustering is an unsupervised classification technique which is suitable for the dataset which do not have any class labels. The absence of labels constrained its application on different text data sets. Labelled K Means clustering generate label…
15 Aug 2020 - Articles
INVESTIGATION OF EMPLOYEES’ PERCEPTION ABOUT LEAN IMPLEMENTATION
Amjad Hussain, Ata Ur Rehman, Zia Ur Rehman Tahir, Aftab Ahmad, Fahad Noor, Qasar Wasique Ahmad
Lean implementation and its sustainability are strongly linked with the organizational culture and working environment especially how employees interact with each other’s and what’s their attitude towards their jobs. Literature reveals that employe…
15 Aug 2020