Nadeem Nadeem Akhtar

Several epidemiological studies conducted on thousands of underground miners suggest that long- term exposure to high radon concentration can increase the risk of lung cancer. Keeping in view the importance of the subject, numerous studies throughout the world have been carried out to measure indoor radon concentration and its resulting doses at occupational and non-occupational sites. The purpose of the current study was to measure indoor radon concentration and its resulting doses ...

The immunohistochemical detection of six markers of breast cancer has been compared in the present study with known prognostic factors of the disease to establish locally a standard panel of markers for the management of breast cancer. Sections of tissue of 114 consecutive breast cancer cases were studied immunohistochemically, using antibodies against oestrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), androgen receptor, c-erbB2, cathepsin D, and cyclin D. Marker labelling was graded ...

Six new metabolites, namely cycloepoxylactone (1a), cycloepoxytriol A (2), cycloepoxytriol B (3) and phomolactones A–C (4–6), were isolated from two cultures of the ethyl acetate soluble fraction of the endophytic fungus Phomopsis sp. (internal strain no. 7233). Their structures were determined by means of spectroscopic data including HREIMS, 1H NMR, 13C NMR, and 2D NMR (HMQC, HMBC, and NOESY). The absolute configurations of 1a, 4 and 5 were determined by circular dichroism and ...

Popularity of online videos is increasing at a rapid rate. Not only the users can access these videos online, but they can also upload video content on platforms like YouTube and Myspace. These videos are indexed by user generated multimedia annotation, also known as metadata, which is usually rich contextual information added by users about the content of the videos to facilitate access to their videos. Metadata plays a crucial role in techniques for video search and retrieval. However, ...

Steganography is a science of embedding private, confidential, sensitive data or information within the given cover media without making any visible changes to it. In this paper, we present a modified Triple-A method for RGB image based steganography. This method introduces the concept of storing variable number of bits in each channel (R, G or B) of pixel. We come out with extended Randomize pixel Steganography algorithm without any limitations on the type of images being used. In this ...

Present study was planned to assess the nutritional evaluation of maize plant grown in spring and autumn seasons. For this purpose, a total of 277 (n=130 in spring and n=147 in autumn season) samples were collected from high maize-growing localities i.e. Kasur, Pakpattan, Okara, Burewala, Sahiwal, Lahore and Melsi. These samples were analyzed for different parameters such as dry matter (DM) and Crude protein (CP) etc. It was noticed that during spring season the values of dry matter ...

Effective aquaculture management strategies are paramount to global food security. Growing demands stimulate the intensification of production and create the need for practices that are both economically viable and environmentally sustainable. Importantly, pathogenic microbes continue to be detrimental to fish growth and survival. In terms of host health, the intestinal mucosa and its associated consortium of microbes have a critical role in modulating fitness and present an attractive ...

Human behavior can be analyzed using Eye tracker. Thus, it is used for revealing the cognitive processes for object identification. Cognitive process is the mental ability for identification of what our eyes see. Vision with 20/20 sometimes may not reveal the purpose. In this study, ambiguous images are taken to observe the cognitive process in participants. During the perception of an object, a participant uses goal-directed search for identifying various objects. Dense gaze coordinates ...

This paper presents the design of tri-band planar dipole antenna for PCS and WLAN services. A modification is made in the previously presented dipole antenna design [1]. The configuration of the proposed dipole antenna is given in Figure 1(a). The antenna design consists of a printed dipole and two parasitic elements which are behaving as resonators by coupling from the driving element. The proposed antenna is fed by using a balun which consists of a microstrip line with a radial stub ...

The purpose of the paper is to monitor the real-time stream of UDP packets with the Data Stream Management System (DSMS) tool: Stanford STREAM using Continuous Query Language (CQL). The huge amount of data that has to be managed and analyzed together with the fact that many different analysis tasks are performed over a small set of different network trace formats, motivates us to study whether Data Stream Management Systems (DSMSs) might be useful to develop network traffic analysis ...