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ArticlesA REVIEW OF DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF FATIGUE
Riaz Sayed, Khizar Azam, Waqar Shah, Inayat Babar, Hamidullah, Sahar Noor
Driving under the influence of fatigue and drowsiness is one of the leading causes of accidents throughout the world. The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) estimates that every year driver fatigue causes close to 100,000 crashes in t…
15 Aug 2020- Articles
HCDP: HEPATITIS C DATA BANK OF PAKISTAN
Muhammad Shahzad, Arif Iqbal Umar, Syed Hamad Shirazi, Muhammad Tariq Pervez, Zakir Khan, Waqas Yousaf
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a blood born, positive, single stranded RNA strand and circular in shape. The hepatitis C virus is substantial threat to the public health and its frequency is increasing rapidly all over the world. Approximately 5 online…
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
RECOVERY OF TALC FROM TALC- CARBONATE SCHIST OF SWAT EMERALD MINES, NWFP, PAKISTAN
Nisar Mohammad, Mohammad Mansoor Khan
In present research preliminary investigations like petrographic study, grain size evaluation and chemical analysis were undertaken on talc bearing rock of Swat emerald mines, aiming at finding some suitable processing technique to recover talc. A fe…
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
COMPARATIVE 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
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
DYNAMIC MODELING AND STARTING BEHAVIOR OF A SMALL HORIZONTAL AXIS WIND TURBINE
Sikandar Khan, Afzal Khan, Muhammad Tahir Khan, Muhammad Ali Kamran, Abdul Shakoor
Small, stand-alone wind turbines are a possible solution to the energy requirements of remote areas in Pakistan. However except for the coastal areas, wind speeds available in various areas of Pakistan are low to medium, especially in the northern ar…
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
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 - Articles
A PARALLEL DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN CODE FOR COMPRESSIBLE FLUID FLOWS ON UNSTRUCTURED GRIDS
Amjad Ali, Hong Luo, Khalid Saifullah Syed, Muhammad Ishaq
A parallel discontinuous Galerkin code based on a Taylor series basis for the compressible Euler equations on unstructured meshes is presented. The parallel numerical method is capable to efficiently simulate the flow physics of the problems consider…
15 Aug 2020 - Articles
SOLAR STILL PERFORMANCE FOR SEA WATER PURIFICATION: A STATISTICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY
Muhammad Irfan, Saeed Gul, Mohammad Younas
Sudden rise of fossil fuel prices and its scarce resources have caused the energy crises for the past few years. Current research has been focused primarily using renewable source of energy. The solar energy has been proved to be an economical altern…
10 Aug 2020 - Articles
IMPACT OF NETWORK SCALABILITY ON THE PERFORMANCE OF RIP AND IGRP FOR EMAIL SERVICES
Inayat Ullah, Shah Khusro, Saeed Mahfooz, Azhar Rauf
Dynamic routing is one of the major areas in computer networks, in which routing protocols are used to automate the process of routing. Routing protocols dynamically determine best path(s) to every network. Routing protocols are classified as d…
10 Aug 2020 - Articles
INVESTIGATING THE EFFECTS OF VARIOUS PARAMETERS ON EFFICIENCY OF PHYSICAL LAYER DEPLOYED FOR WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK
Muhammad Qasim, Mohib Ahmad, Mohammad Inayatullah Babar, Shahid Bashir, Farah Mahmood, Zeeshan Sabir
There is a growing need for research initiatives for Wireless sensor networks with special emphasis on performance and efficiency of physical layer. The role of physical layer is clearly evident from the fact that it plays an important role in…
10 Aug 2020 - Articles
SELECTING FACILITY LOCATION USING HYBRID METHODOLOGIES IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE: A CASE OF CEMENT PLANT
Muhammad Khurram Ali, Raft Javed Qureshi, Mirza Jahanzaib
While selecting a global facility location, the decision makers normally have to face two types ofscenarios: exploring and prioritizing the factors affecting the location decision and selecting an appropriate optimization methodology,- compatib…
10 Aug 2020 - Articles
ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION FOR NUMERICAL DETECTION OF HOT SPOTS IN CASTING GEOMETRY
Fcroz Shah*~ Mohammad A. Irfan, Rizwan Gul*~ Abdul Shakoor
Numerical prediction of hot spots inside solid~fying castings is presented. Casting geometry is decomposed into rectangular sections. Arbitrary points are chosen in these sections from where vectors are generated which interact with surround- ing edg…
10 Aug 2020 - Articles
DELUMPING PROCEDURE FOR PREDICTION OF DISTRIBUTION OF PRODUCTS IN DISTILLATION USING A SHORT-CUT MODEL
Muhammad Imran Ahmad, Nan Zhang, Megan Jobson, Muhammad Younas, Kamran Ghani
Short-cut models of distillation are useful in screening design options for separation of petroleum fractions at conceptual design stage. A methodology for prediction of detailed product distribution for distillation processes using short-cut calcula…
10 Aug 2020 - Articles
A TUTORIAL ON ADAPTIVE ROBUST POSITION CONTROL OF DC MOTOR USING FUZZY LOGIC COMPENSATION
Nasimullah, Muhammad Irfan Khattak, Muhammad Shafi, Gulzar Ahmad
This article presents a tutorial on adaptive fuzzy sliding mode control for position control of DC servo motor which is subjected to nonlinear friction and external disturbance torque. Friction phenomenon is simulated using Lugre dynamic model. Adaptive…
10 Aug 2020 - Articles
MARKER BASED TRACKING IN AUGMENTED REALITY APPLICATIONS USING ARTOOLKIT: A CASE STUDY
Ihsan Rabbi, Sehat Ullah, Aftab Alam
TIn Augmented Reality applications, registration between a virtual and a real world object is necessary. The registration is needed for tracking video camera pose (position and orientation) with respect to the real world objects. In existing vision-based augme…
10 Aug 2020 - Articles
IN-PLACE ANALYSIS OF JACKET OFFSHORE STRUCTURE UNDER STORM CONDITIONS
Azam Khan, Irshad Ahmad
This paper presents the details of In-place analysis of fixed jacket Platform BD. The numerical model is prepared using ANSYS ASAS structural analysis computer system. Beam stick model has been used, with multi-level sub-structuring technique, to mod…
10 Aug 2020