Quaid-i-Azam University

Endophytic bacteria from Ziziphus jujuba enhance growth and salinity resilience in pearl millet under reduced fertilizer input

Salinity severely limits crop productivity in arid and semi-arid regions, necessitating the development of sustainable approaches for crop resilience against this abiotic stress. Conventional chemical fertilizers are used to enhance crop productivity, but their overuse harms soil...

Thermal plume intensification and double-diffusive transport in sawtooth-finned non-Newtonian enclosures with dual-ANN prediction

Advanced thermal engineering increasingly demands compact geometries that intensify heat and mass transport for energy storage, electronic cooling, and high-performance heat exchangers. This study introduces a centrally heated and concentrated triangular sawtooth fin within a non...

Graduate unemployment, financial strain, and social marginalization in Pakistan: a qualitative study

Purpose This study explores how unemployment shapes the lived experiences of university graduates in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan, with particular attention to its effects on social status, decision-making agency, life-course transitions, and family dynamics....

Unemployment Insurance for All? Social Preferences Evolution in Europe Since the Lifting of the Iron Curtain

ABSTRACT This paper examines the evolution of social preferences over government unemployment insurance in Europe. We find an ‘East‐West divide’ in attitudes towards this role of government policy, with lower support in Eastern Europe for government action to correct adverse labo...

ADHD and Autism in Online Higher Education: A Scoping Review and Thematic Synthesis of Reported Challenges

Studies involving students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and/or autism have reported a range of challenges in higher education that may affect academic success and retention. Yet, most existing reviews focus on in-person settings at primary or secondary lev...

Association between household fuel use and childhood undernutrition in Pakistan: evidence from a National survey

Childhood undernutrition significantly contributes to under-five mortality in Pakistan, yet its association with household air pollution remains underexplored. This study examined associations between household cooking fuels and childhood undernutrition using data from the Pakist...

Geothermal implications of the lithosphere's thermal structure in northern Pakistan

Abstract. Conventional geothermal resources are typically associated with volcanically active plate boundaries, yet collisional orogens can also sustain elevated heat flow through radiogenic enrichment, crustal thickening, and rapid exhumation. Northern Pakistan, encompassing the...

The Glymphatic System in Traumatic Brain Injury, Subarachnoid Hemorrhage, and Neurodegeneration: A Unifying Neurobiological Framework

Whether glymphatic dysfunction drives or merely follows brain injury and neurodegeneration remains unresolved. The glymphatic system mediates the transport, exchange, and clearance of solutes between cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and interstitial fluid (ISF) through paravascular CSF...

Porous coordination polymer-derived CeO2-SnO2@S-C heterojunction nanocomposite for supercapacitor and oxygen evolution reaction

Porous coordination polymers (PCPs) and derived nanocomposites have attained substantial attention for electrochemical energy conversion and storage technologies owing to their tunable frameworks and favorable electrochemical characteristics. Here, we present a route for preparin...

Computational Modeling of Magnetohydrodynamic Non‐Newtonian Fluid Transport With Coupled Thermal–Solutal Exchange and Entropy Generation in Wavy Channel

ABSTRACT We employ a rigorous analytical framework to investigate ciliary motion coupled with heat and mass transfer, an approach essential for understanding the fundamental biological processes that govern airway physiology. This work offers a computational tool for modeling non...

Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of pyrimidine linked fused thiazole–isoxazole conjugates as dual cholinesterase inhibitors for Alzheimer’s disease

Abstract Alzheimer’s disease (AD) affects over 55 million individuals worldwide, yet approved pharmacotherapies remain limited to symptomatic relief. Dual inhibition of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and butyrylcholinesterase (BuChE) offers a validated approach to restoring choliner...

Tailoring Bio-Based Adhesives to Bio-Based Polymer Nanocomposite Adhesives – Fundamentals and Hands-On Glances

Today’s growing demands for sustainable substitutes for petroleum adhesives have derived scientific interest toward designing bio-sourced ecological and biodegradable materials and nanomaterials. The main purpose of the current manuscript is to highlight progress so far in the fi...

Neural network analysis of electro-osmotic Sutterby nanofluidics in complex porous microsystem

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate nonlinear electro-osmotic transport of Sutterby nanofluid in a tapered porous microchannel saturated with a non-Darcy medium. This work analyzes the combined effects of electro-hydrodynamic forces, heat transfer, viscous dissipa...

AAV9 Gene Therapy for Ovarian Dysfunction and Reproductive Aging: Molecular Mechanisms, Therapeutic Targets, and Translational Perspectives

Female infertility is a growing concern in developed countries as delayed childbearing and ovarian dysfunction become more common. Ovarian decline is characterized by follicular depletion, granulosa cell dysfunction, aneuploidy, spindle assembly defects, mitochondrial damage, DNA...

Effect of Nano- and Microparticulate Fermented Fish Protein Hydrolysate Diets on Growth, Digestive Function, Intestinal Development, and Gene Expression in Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio) Larvae

The early larval stage is a major bottleneck in freshwater aquaculture because conventional live feeds are not always available for optimum nutrient availability and digestibility to satisfy the nutritional requirements of developing larvae. This study evaluated the effects of mi...

Ultralight dark matter halo structures around a noncommutative Euler-Heisenberg black hole spacetime

Cosmological simulations of ultra-massive black-hole configurations in the early universe challenge the idealized assumption of vacuum black-hole solutions. In this respect, we propose noncommutative-smeared Euler-Heisenberg-type black hole solutions embedded in ultralight dark m...

Lupeol increases antioxidants in Triticum aestivum to mitigate cadmium stress under in vitro conditions

Presence of heavy metals in culturing media and soil badly impact on the growth, development, and yield of plants. Availability of stress-mitigating molecules in the environment strengthens the plant to face such stresses. Lupeol has recently been investigated as a drought stress...

Polymer composites/nanocomposites reinforced with rice husk and derived fillers—promising sustainable solutions for technological sectors

Rice husk (rice milling byproduct) stands out as low cost, low density, biodegradable, and sustainable filler to enhance physical properties of variety of thermosets, thermoplastics, and conjugated polymers. To further improve the material compatibility/performance, rice husk has...

A Comparison of EWMA Charts for Monitoring the Process Mean Using Interval‐Valued Data

ABSTRACT In this paper, we compare the performance of EWMA charts based on the interval sampling, midpoint, and conditional expected value methods for monitoring the process mean using interval‐valued data with fixed and variable widths, assuming a normally distributed process. T...

Electrochemical detection of eosin yellow dye and its adsorptive removal from wastewater

Abstract The environmental persistence and toxicity of Eosin Yellow (EY) dye demand sensitive detection and effective remediation approaches. Herein, we report a new dual function approach for the ultra-trace detection and removal of EY using modified glassy carbon electrode (GCE...