Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common primary malignant tumor of the liver and the fifth most frequent malignant tumor in the world (third in terms of mortality) (Parkin et al., 2001). An association was observed between the occurrence of HCC and viral hepatitis (either HBV or HCV) (Saeed et al., 2012 ). Studies had demonstrated that unlike other countries of the Middle East, the at...

This research investigates the impact of working capital management (WCM) on profitability and market performance firms that constitute an Islamic index (Karachi Meezan Index [KMI-30]) in Pakistan during 2002–2013. The data have been divided into three parts, is, preglobal (2002–2007), (2007–2008), postglobal financial crisis period (2008–2013), to examine proposed relationship different macroe...

species. It is distributed in tropical, subtropical and warm temperate areas. It is represented in Pakistan by 8 genera and 22 species. The genus Zygophyllum consists of about 100 species, distributed in deserts and steppes from Mediterranean to Central Asia, South Africa and Australia. In Pakistan it is found in the Sindh and Balochistan provinces. The genus Zygophyllum represents the largest ...

The corn cyst nematode Heterodera zeae [1], was first detected on the roots of maize collected from Rajasthan, India [1-3]. The pest has subsequently been reported to be present in Pakistan [35], Thailand [2,6], Egypt [7], Greece [8]. Portugal [9] and Virginia and Maryland in the USA [2,10,11] Heterodera zeae is restricted to warmer tropical and sub-tropical areas. And its distribution can be s...

In the beginning of the twenty-first century, the world celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of DNA. The discovery has led to enormous amounts of new knowledge, including the fact that the human genome has a physical size of 3 × 10 base pairs that encode and regulate approximately 32,000 genes. It has also spawned new fields, such as Genomics, which was born in Europe (Goetz, 20...

maternal mortality refers to the death of a woman who dies during pregnancy or within six weeks after delivery. a number of factors contribute to the high maternal mortality ratio around the globe, particularly, in underdeveloped countries. pakistan has the highest mortality ratio (260 per 100,000 live births) in the region and is one of the developing countries which have committed to decrease...

This research measured the welfare impacts of food trade liberalization in India, Egypt, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates (UAE) using partial equilibrium model—World Integrated Trade Solution (WITS). Macroeconomic settings, domestic policy objectives, security indicator data are used to assess implications simulations on availability stability. Simulation results for Pakistan in...

This paper provides an outline of the proposals of the IEEE P1500 Scalable Architecture Task Force and defines what is in the scope of the Task Force's current standardization activity. The overall architecture of the proposed standard is described, followed by several sections in which further details are provided with respect to relevant sub-domains of the architecture. Note that this paper i...