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University of the Punjab
Recent research
- BiologyOpen access
A new species of Squamulea (Teloschistaceae) from the Himalayan Region
Squamulea pakistanica sp. nov. is a newly discovered lichen species from the Himalayan moist temperate forests of Pakistan. The genus Squamulea (Teloschistaceae) includes squamulose or subfoliose taxa, many of which are understudied in South Asia. This study aims to characterize...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Selenium-mediated modulation of physiological and biochemical traits in chili (Capsicum annuum L.)
Selenium (Se) is an essential element for both animal and plants having antioxidant and antivirus activities. It is not required in large amount, but its small amount can improve growth and yield. The higher levels of Se in the food depends directly on its amount present in the s...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Landslide susceptibility mapping (LSM) is essential for disaster risk reduction in mountainous regions, but its reliability is often limited by spatial biases and incompleteness of landslide inventories. These reduce landslide inventory representativeness and influence the genera...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Abstract The global health crisis of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is compounded by gut microbiota, which acts as a reservoir for antibiotic-resistant genes (ARGs). While DNA-based metagenomics can identify the potential for resistance, the resistome, it cannot determine the ARG...
- Biology
Two novel boletes, Gyroporus binkatensis and Cyanoboletus sulcatipes , are described from District Swat, Pakistan, based on detailed macro‐ and micromorphological observations and phylogenetic analysis derived from Oxford Nanopore sequencing. G. binkatensis is characterized by an...
- Climate & Environment
Purpose Integrating explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) for water quality assessment (WQA) is necessary to protect human health, ensure the availability of clean water and sustainable conservation of the environment. Black-box machine learning (ML) models perform well but l...
- Physics & Space
Dispersion fromPolarizabilities of Atoms in Molecule:DPAIM
Abstract A new atom–atom dispersion function DPAIM (dispersion from polarizabilities of atoms in molecules) has been developed. The dynamic polarizabilities, both dipole–dipole and quadrupole–quadrupole, of a set of reference molecules obtained from the time-dependent density fun...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Bridging risk and retention: risk coping with privacy and hallucination in AI
Abstract This study examines how users engage with generative AI systems in the presence of perceived technological risks, focusing on the interplay between risk perception, adaptive behavior, and continued use. Drawing on a risk coping perspective, the study conceptualizes gener...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
News media in the form of television news is now using intersemiosis in communicating complex events happening internationally; however, not much work has been done in the area of televised chyrons and spoken discourse from the point of view of intersemiosis. The present paper ex...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
News media in the form of television news is now using intersemiosis in communicating complex events happening internationally; however, not much work has been done in the area of televised chyrons and spoken discourse from the point of view of intersemiosis. The present paper ex...