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Conducting research - everyday(Published during 2009) Department of Chemistry Umar Farooq, Azhar Ul Haq Ali Shah and Thomas Wirth, “Hypervalent Bromine Compounds: Smaller, More reactive Analogues of Hypervalent Iodine Compounds” Angew. Chem. Int., 48(6), 1018-1020 (2009). Afsar Khan, Viqar Uddin Ahmad and Umar Farooq, “Two new acylated Flavonol Glycosides from the roots of Otostegia limbata”, Helv. Chim., Acta, 92 731-739 (2009). Izhar-Ul-Haq A. Shah, Zulfiqar A. Khan, Naila Choudhary, Christine Loholter, Sascha Sachafer, Guillaume P. L. Marie, Umar Farooq and Thomas wirth, “Iodoxolone-Based Hypervalent Iodine Reagents”, Organic Letters 11(16), 3578-3581 (2009). Afsar Khan, Viqar Uddin Ahmad, Umar Farooq and Sadia Bader, “Two new Flavonol Glycosides from Otostegia limbata Benth”, Chem. Pharm Bull., 57 (3), 276-279 (2009). Rehana Rashid, Farah Mukhtar and Mirza M.Niaz, “Biological screening of Salvia cabulica” Pak. J. Bot., 41(3):1453-1462, 2009. Rubina Farooq, Faiza Rehman, Sofia Baig, Maria Sadique, Sajjad Khan, Umar Farooq, Abdur Rehman, Rehman, Ather Farooq, Arshed Pervez, Mukhtar-ul-Hassan and S F Shaukat, “The effect of ultrasonic irradiation on the anaerobic digestion of activated sludge” World Applied Science Journal, 6(2): 234 – 237, 2009 Abdul Latif Khan, Hamayun Khan, Javid Hussain, Mohammad Adnan, Iqbal Hussain, Taous Khan and Abdur Rahman Khan, “Sesquiterpenes: The Potent Antioxidants-A Review”, Pakistan journal of Scientific and Industrial Research. Ali Muhammad Yousafzai, Abdur Rehman Khan and A. R. Shakoori, “Trace Metal Accumalationin the liver of an endangered South Asian Fresh Water Fish Dwelling in Sub-lethal Pollution” Pakistan J. Zool., 41, 35-41 (2009) Michael Schnürch, Ather Farooq Khan, Marko D. Mihovilovic and Peter Stanetty, “Polyarylated Thiazoles via a Combined Halogen Dance - Cross-Coupling Strategy”,European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2009, 19, 3228-3236. (Impact Factor: 2.94) Jamil Khan, Wajid Rehman, Bakhtair Muhammad, Muhammad Danish, Qaisar Mahmood and Nadeem Bukhari, “Biological active organotin (IV) schiff bases derived from indoline-2,3-dione and 2-aminobenzoic acid”, World. Appl. Sci. J. 6 (11) 1563-1568 (2009) Department of Computer Science Abdul Nasir Khan, Kalim Qureshi, and Sumair Khan. "Enhanced Switched Network Sniffer Detection Technique based on IP Packet Routing." Information Security Journal: A Global Perspective , 18(4),153-162 ,2009 Abid Khan, Xiamu Niu, Waqas Anwar, Mansoor Ahmed, and Ali Nawaz Khan “Mobile Agent Watermarking (MAW): Security Properties and Attacks Revisited” International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan, December 16-18, 2009 Ali Nawaz Khan, Xuejun Sha, Waqas Anwar, and Abid Khan, “Performance Analysis of Prioritized and Non Prioritized Handoff Call Queuing Schemes in Mobile Cellular Networks” International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan, December 16-18, 2009 Jawad Usman, Mehtab Afzal, and Rab Nawaz, “A Review: Ontology Mapping Techniques”, International Symposium on Intelligent science and technology – IIST 2009 Kashif Zia, Sajjad.A.Madani, Sardar Nauman Aslam, and Alois Ferscha, “Self Organized Togetherness in a Crowd Group” International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan, December 16-18, 2009 M. Sarfraz, J.U Arshed, S. A. Madani and M. Iqbal, “Object Recognition using Simulated Evolution on Fourier Descriptors,” in the 14th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications (WSC14), 2009. M. Sarfraz, Mehmood-ul-Hassan and M. Iqbal, “Object Recognition using Fourier Descriptors and Genetic Algorithm,” in the International Conference of Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition, 2009, pp. 318 – 323. Mehtab Afzal, Javaria Ajoon, Ijaz Ahmad, and Qazi Mudassar Ilyas, “Conceptualization and Extraction of Disaster Related Information from Unstructured World”, in International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition AIPR-09 Orlando, FL, USA, July 13-16 2009 Muhammad Hassan Arif, Syed Muhammad Saqlain and Muhammad Iqbal, “Wavelet Based Multi-Focus Image Fusion using Adaptive Sized Blocks, ” in the 13th IEEE International Multitopic Conference, 2009, pp. 284 – 288. Muhammad Sarfraz, Zar Nawab Khan Swati, and Safdar Zaman, “A Novel Corner Detector Approach using Sliding Ellipses” Sixth International Conference on Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization, 2009. CGIV '09. Page(s):193 – 198 August 11-14 2009 Rab Nawaz, Kashif Bilal, Mehtab Afzal, “An improved Energy Efficient Cluster Based Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks”, International Symposium on Intelligent science and technology – IIST 2009 Rab Nawaz, Mehtab Afzal, and Anjum, “An Improved Efficient Software maintenance with Semantic Web”, International Symposium on Intelligent science and technology – IIST 2009 Shahzad Ali, and Sardar Muhammad Bilal, "An Intelligent Routing Protocol for VANETs in city Environments," 2nd International Conference on Computer, Control and Communication, IC4 2009., pp.1-5, February 17-18 2009 Shiraz Ahmad, Zhe-Ming Lu, Qinyu Zhang, and Muhammad Waqas Anwar “Feature-based Watermarking using Discrete Orthogonal Hahn Moment Invariants” International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan, December 16-18, 2009 Suleman Khan, Qazi Mudassar Ilyas and Waqas Anwar, “Contextual Advertising using Semantic Web Approach” International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan, December 16-18, 2009 Syed Munir Hussain Shah , Kalim Qureshi and Haroon Rasheed, “Optimal job Packing, a Backfill Scheduling Optimization for a Cluster of Workstations ,” in Journal of Super Computing, 2009 Shahzad Ali, Andreas Mitschele-Thiel and Ali Diab, "Self-Organization Methodologies for Services Placement in Future Department of Development Studies Samia Khalid and Shehla Amjad, “Gender Influence on Leadership Styles-A Case Study of Education Sector at District Abbottabad, Pakistan”. Sajjad Ali Khan, “The fall of the Soviet Union: The fall of a state or the fall of an ideology? (A Review)”, Journal of Political Studies, Department of Political Sciences, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. ISSN 1994-1080, Issue XV, Summer 2009. Nawab, B, “Qualitative Impact Assessment of the FAO Response to the Pakistan’s Earthquake, Journal of Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, 2009 Nawab, B., Nyborg, ”Institutional Challenges in Water Supply and Sanitation in Pakistan: Revealing the gap between national policy and local experience”, Journal of Water Policy, 11 (6) 582-597. I. L. P. 2009 Department of Electrical Engineering Saleem Farooq Shaukat, “Sequential studies of beamformng algorithms for smart antenna systems”, World Applied Science Journal, Pg. 6 (6), 754–758, (2009). Saleem Farooq Shaukat, “The effect of ultrasonic irradiation on the anaerobic digestion of activated sludge”, Journal of Applied Sciences, Pg. 6(2), 234–237, (2009). Saleem Farooq Shaukat, “Mobile phone location determination in urban and rural areas using enhanced observed time difference technique”, World Applied Science Journal, Pg. 6(7), 902–907, (2009). Syed Ayaz Ali Shah and S F Shaukat, “Neural network solution for secure interactive voice response”, World Applied Science Journal, Pg. 6(9), 1264–1269 (2009). S.F.Shaukat, et.al., “Observed time difference estimation for mobile station tracking in a network”, Journal of Electronics, China. M.E.Khan, S.F.Shaukat and S Monk, “Monte Carlo GPS based solutions for speed limit indicator”, World Applied Sciences Journal, 6(12), 1691-1297. (2009) I. Khan, Y. I. Nechayev and P.S. Hall, “Second-order Statistics of Measured On-body Diversity Channels”, Microwave and Optical Technology letters, Vol. 51, No. 10, October 2009, pp. 2335-2337. I. Khan and P.S. Hall, “Corrections to-Multiple Antenna Reception at 5.8 and 10 GHz for Body-Centric Wireless Communication Channels”, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 57. No. 8, August 2009. I Khan, P.S. Hall, A.A Serra, A.R. Guraliuc and P. Nepa, “Diversity Performance Analysis for On-body Communication Channels at 2.45 GHz”, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 57, No. 4, April 2009. I. Khan and P.S. Hall, “Multiple Antenna Reception at 5.8 and 10 GHz for Body-Centric Wireless Communication Channels”, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 57. No. 1, January 2009.
Department of Environmental Sciences Asim Yaqub, Huma Ajab and Robina Farooq, “Effect of ultrasonic frequencies on mass transport at cathode during electrochemical treatment’” Water Quality Research Journal of Canada, 44(2), 183 – 188, 2009 Maria Siddique, Robina Farooq, Abda Khalid, Ather Farooq, Qaisar Mahmood, Umar Farooq, Iftikhar A Raja and Saleem F Shaukat, “Thermal-pressure mediated hydrolysis of Reactive Blue 19 dye”, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 172 (2009) 1007–1012 , 2009 (SCI, IF = 2.975). Robina Farooq, et al, “Biosorption treatment of brackish water, Pakisatan Journal of Chemical Society”, 32(1), 2009 Robina Farooq, et al., “The Use of Ultrasound in Industrial Chemical Synthesis”, Journal of Pakistan Chemical Society, 31(5), 2009 Jamil Khan, Robina Farooq, et al., “Synthesis characterizations and antimicrobial Farrah Ishtiaq, Robina Farooq, et. al., “Application of Ultrasound in Pharmaceutics” World Applied Science Journal, 6(7), 886 – 893, 2009 Rubina Farooq, Faiza Rehman, et. al, “The effect of ultrasonic irradiation on the anaerobic digestion of activated sludge”, World Applied Science Journal, 6(2), 234 – 237, 2009 Sara Khatoon, Rubina Farooq, et. al., “Removal of Chromium (VI) by Biosorption of Eucalyptus Bark”, World Applied Science Journal, 6(12), 1638 – 1643, 2009 Rubina Farooq, “Photo-catalytic oxidation of Surfactant Hexadecyltrimethyl-ammonium bromide in aqueous diluted solution”, World Applied Sciences Journal, 6(12), 1602 – 1606, 2009 Sajjad Khan, Robina Farooq, et al., “Health risk assessment of heavy metals for population via consumption of vegetables”, World Applied Sciences Journal, 6(12), 1602 – 1606, 2009 Robina Farooq and Mukhtar Hassan, “Effect of Different Additives on Burning Efficiency of the Candles”, World Applied Sciences Journal 7 (3): 340-342, 2009 Abda Khalid, Robina Farooq and Maria Siddique, “Catalytic hydrolysis of reactive blue 222”, 3rd International Conference of Environmentally Sustainable Development 16-18 August, Vol II, 399 – 406, 2009 Tabassum Nasir, Ehsan Ullah Khan, Javaid Jahan Baluch and Shafi- Ur-Rehman, “Sequential and double sequential fission observed in heavy ion interaction of (11.67 mev/u) 197au projectile with 197au target”, Brazilian Journal of Physics, Impact Factor: 0.478. Tahir Ali Akbar, “Visual Basic-ArcView Based System for Ground water Contamination Analysis”. M.M.Shah, Q.Khalid, U.W.Khan, S.A.H. Shah and A.Pervez, “Variation in genotypic responses and biochemical analysis of callus induction in cultivated wheat”, Genet. Mol. Res. 8(3): 783-793 (2009) Qaisar Mahmood, Ping Zheng, Yousaf Hayat, Jin Ren-cun, Muhammad Rashid Azim, Ghulam Jilani, Ejazul Islam, and Munir Ahmad, “Effects of Sulfide/Nitrite Ratios on the Performance of Anoxic Sulfide Oxidizing Reactor”, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, (2009), 34(1A)45-54. (SCI, IF=0.108) Qaisar Mahmood, Cai Jing, Hu Baolan, Ping Zheng, Muhammad Rashid Azim, Ghulam Jilanii and Ejazul Islam, “Isolation of Ochrobactrum sp. QZ2 from sulfide and nitrite treatment system”, Journal of Hazardous Materials. 165 (2009) 558–565 (SCI, IF=2.975) Qaisar Mahmood, Ping Zheng, Baolan Hu, Muhammad Rashid Azim, Ghulam Jilani, Donglei Wu and Dan Liu, “Isolation and characterization of Pseudomonas stutzeri QZ1 from anoxic sulfide oxidizing bioreactor”. Anaerobe 15 (2009) 108–115 (SCI, IF=1.561) Qaisar Mahmood, Yousaf Hayat, Ghulam Jilani, Zahid Hussain, Muhammad Rashid Azim, and Muhammad Waseem, “Back Propagation Neural Networks to Predict the Performance of Anoxic Sulfide Oxidizing Reactor”, Kuait. J. Sci.Eng. 36(2A) 1-14 , 2009, (SCI,IF=0.051) CAI Jing, ZHENG Ping and Qaisar Mahmood, “Simultaneous Sulfide and Nitrate Removal in Anaerobic Reactor under Shock Loading”, Bioresource Technology 100 (2009) 3010–3014 (SCI, IF= 4.453). Chong-jian Tang, Ping Zheng, Qaisar Mahmood and Jian-wei Chen, “Start-up and inhibition analysis of anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing biofilm reactors seeded with two different conventional sludges”, Journal of Industrial and microbial Biotechnology, 36(8): 1093-1100 , DOI 10.1007/s10295-009-0593-0, 2009, (SCI, IF = 1.919). Hua-Jun Feng, Li-Fang Hu, Qaisar Mahmood, Caidi Qiu, Chengran Fang and Dong-Sheng Shen, “Effects of temperature and feed strength on a carrier anaerobic baffled reactor treating dilute wastewater”. Desalination 239 (2009) 111–121 (SCI, IF= 1.115) Xin Wang, Ying Wang, Qaisar Mahmood, Ejazul Islam, Xiaofen Jin, Tingqiang Li and Xiaoe Yang, Dan Liu, “The effect of EDDS addition on the phytoextraction efficiency from Pb contaminated soil by Sedum alfredii Hance”, Journal of Hazardous Materials 168 (2009) 530–535 (SCI, IF=2.975). Amir Haider Malik, Zahid Mehmood Khan, Qaisar Mahmood, Sadia Nasreen, and Zulfiqar Ahmad Bhatti. “Perspectives of arsenic remediation of drinking water in Pakistan and other developing countries”, Journal of Hazardous Materials 168 (2009) 1–12 (SCI, IF=2.975) Zulfiqar Ahmad Bhatti, Qaisar Mahmood and Iftikhar Ahmad Raja, “Sewage water pollutants removal efficiency correlates to the concentration gradient of amendments”. Journal of Chemical Society of Pakistan, 31(4):665-673, 2009, (SCI, IF=0.221). Chong-jian Tang, Ping Zheng and Qaisar Mahmood, “The shear force amendments on the slugging behavior of upflow Anammox granular sludge bed reactor”, Separation and Purification Technology, 69:262-268 (SCI, IF= 2.5) Xiao-Fen Jin, Dan Liu, Ejazul Islam, Qaisar Mahmood, Xiao-E Yang, Zhen-Li He, Peter J. Stoffella, “Effects of zinc on root morphology and antioxidant adaptations of Cd treated Sedum alfredii H”. Journal of Plant Nutrition, 32: 1642–1656, 2009. (SCI, IF = 0.569) Maria Siddique and Robina Farooq, “Photocatalytic degradation of reactive blue 19 dye in the presence of titanium dioxide catalyst under UV radiations” 3rd International Conference of Environmentally Sustainable Development 16-18 August, Vol II, 406 - 414, 2009 Robina Farooq, Sofia Baig, etc. al., “Spatial and temporal variations of water quality profile along Mandrochha stream” 3rd International Conference of Environmentally Sustainable Development 16-18 August, Vol II, 640 – 648, 2009 Department of Mathematics M. Siddiqui, T. Haroon and H. Khan, “Wire Coating Extrusion in a Pressure-type Die in Flow of a Third Grade Fluid via Homotopy Perturbation Method”, International journal of nonlinear sciences and numerical simulation, Vol. 10, No.2, 247-257, 2009 A.M. Siddiqui, M.A. Rana , S. Irum, Rashid Qamar and T. Haroon “Application of Homotopy Perturbation and Numerical Methods to the Unsteady Squeezing MHD Flow of a Second Grade Fluid between Circular Plates”, International journal of nonlinear sciences and numerical simulation, Vol. 10, No.3, 895-905, 2009 Zafar H. Khan and Waqar A. Khan, “-Transform- Properties and Applications” NUST Journal of Engineering Sciences, Vol.1, No. 1, pp 127-133 Zafar H. Khan, Rahim Gul and Waqar A. Khan, “Application of Adomian Decomposition Method for Sumudu Transform”, NUST Journal of Engineering Sciences, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp 40-44 A. M. Siddiqui, T. Haroon and S. Irum, “Torsional flow of third grad fluid using modified homotopy perturbation method”, Science Direct-Computers and Mathematics. R. A. Khan and K. Naeem, “Numerical Study of Boundary Layers with Reverse Wedge Flows Over a Semi Infinite Flat Plate”, American Society for Mechanical Engineering (Journal of Applied Mechanics). A.M.Siddiqui, M.A.Rana, S.Irum, Rashid Qamar and T.Haroon, “Unsteady squeezing flow of a viscous MHD fluid between parallel plates, a solution using the Homotopy Perturbation Method”, Journal of Mathematical Modeling and Analysis, Volume X, Number X, 20XX, pages 1-17 A. Khan, Y. B. Jun and M. Shabir, “N-Fuzzy Ideals in Ordered Semigroups”, International J. Math. Math. Sci., Vol. 2009, Article ID 814861, 14 pages, doi:10.1155/2009/814861 A. Khan, Y. B. Jun and M. Shabir, “Ordered Semigroups Characterized by Their (2? 2 _?)-Fuzzy Bi-Ideals”, Bull. Malays. Math. Sci. Soc. (2) 32(3) (2009), 391–408 Department of Management Sciences Waheed ur Rehman, “Barriers to the microfinance outreach for women in Pakistan”, Journal of Epsilon SLU Sweden Rubina Kazmi, Shehla Amjad & Delawar Khan, “Occupational Stress and its effect on Job Performance- A case Study of Medical House Officers of District Abbottabad”. Arshad Aziz and Iqtidar Ali Shah, “Effect of New Local Government Plan on Service Delivery: A Case of Abbottabad, Pakistan”, Local Governance and Development Journal Zimbabwe. Hameed (A) and Amjad (S), “Impact of Office Design on Employees’ Productivity: A Case study of Banking Organizations of Abbottabad, Pakistan” Journal of Public Affairs Administration and Management,Volume 3, Issue 1, 2009. Khalid (S) and Amjad (S), “Gender Influence on Leadership Styles (A case Study of Education Sector of District Abbottabad)”, FWU Journal of Social Sciences” Volume 3, no 1, 2009. Usman Khurshid, Khalid Zaman and Waseem Ikram, “Economic and Financial Turmoil: Special case for Pakistan in the Current Scenario”, International Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences Department of Pharmacy Syed Intasar Husain Taqvi, Abdul Jabbar Shah and Anwarul Hassan Gilani,“Blood Pressure Lowering and Vasomodulator Effects of Piperine”, Journal of cardiovascular Pharmacology 2008;52:452–458 Abdul Jabbar Shah, “Presence of Blood Pressure Lowering and Spasmolytic Constituents in Buddleja crispa” Anwar H Gilani, Abdul Jabbar Shah, Amina Zubair, Sana Khalid, Jawad Kiani, Amir Ahmed, Munawwer Rasheed and Viqar U Ahmad, “Chemical composition and mechanisms underlying the spasmolytic and bronchodilatory properties of the essential oil of Nepeta cataria L”, Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 121(3): 405-411. Impact factor:2.023. Qaqzi Najam-us-Saqib, Fiaz Alam and Mansoor Ahmed, “Antimicrobial and cytotoxicity activities of the medicinal plant Primula macrphylla”, Journal of Enzyme inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry 24(3):697-701, Impact factor: 1.343 Abdul Jabbar Shah and Anwarul Hassan Gilani, Blood pressure lowering and vascular modulator effects of Acorus calamus extract are mediated through multiple pathways. Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology; 2009; August 54(1):38-46. Impact Factor: 2.29. Syed Intasar Husain Taqvi, Abdul Jabbar Shah and Anwarul Hassan Gilani, “Insight into the possible mechanism of antidiarrhoeal and antispasmodic activities of piperine”. Pharmaceutical Biology; August 2009 47(8); 660-664. Impact Factor: 0.488. Anwarul H. Gilani, Ishfaq A. Bukhari, Rafeeq A. Khan, Abdul J. Shah, Ijaz Ahmad and Abdul Malik, “Presence of Blood Pressure Lowering and Spasmolytic Constituents in Buddleja crispa”. Phytotherapy Research; April 2009 23(4); 492-497. Impact Factor: 1.772. Abdul Jabbar Shah, Saqib Ali Gowani, Akber Jalil Zuberi, Muhammad Nabeel Ghayur and Anwarul Hassan Gilani, “Antidiarrheal and spasmolytic activities of the Alstonia scholaris crude extract are mediated through calcium channel blockade”. Phytotherapy Research”; 2009; 23(--):000-000. Impact Factor: 1.772. F. Wahid, Taous Khan, K.-H Hwang and Y.Y. Kim, “Piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) in animals: The story so far”, African Journal of Biotechnology, 8(17), 2009, 4002-4006. S. Khan, O. Shehzad, Taous Khan, J.H. Ha and J.K. Park, “Production of bacterial cellulose by Gluconacetobacter hansenii using a new bioreactor equipped with centrifugal impellers”, Korean Chemical Engineering Research, 47(4), 2009, 506-511. O. Shezad, S. Khan, Taous Khan and J.K. Park, “Production of bacterial cellulose in static conditions by a simple fed-batch cultivation strategy”, Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering , 26(6), 2009, 1689-1692. Taous Khan, M. Ahmad, W. Ahmad, Q. N. Saqib and M. I. Choudhary, “Evaluation of the antispasmodic and lipoxygenase inhibitory effects of some Pakistani medicinal plants”, Pharmaceutical Biology, 47(12), 2009, 1137-1141.
(Published during 2008) Department of Chemistry Huma Ajab, Robina Farooq, et al., ‘Evaluation of trace metals in Tobacco of local and imported cigarettes brands used in Pakistan by spectrophotometer through microwave digestion’, Journal of Toxicological Sciences,33(4), 2008 Umar Farooq, Robina Farooq, Afsar Khan, Viqqar-Uddin Ahmed, Azhar-Ul-Haq, Arshed Pervez, Amir Reza, ‘Two new Sesquiterpene lactone – ester from Achillea vermicularis’, Natural Product Communications, 3(11), 1871-1874, (2008) Robina Farooq, et al., ‘Ultrasonic Induced Decomposition of methidathion pesticide’ Journal of Applied Sciences, 8(1), 140- 145, (2008) Department of Computer Science Muhammad Iqbal, Multifocus Image Fusion using Wavelet Transform, Gradient and Mathematical Morphology. Muhammad Iqbal, Multifocus Image Fusion using Gradients of Wavelet Coefficients. Jawad Haider Kazmi , Kalim Qureshi, Haroon Rashid and M. Amir Khan, An Open Source 3D MR Image Visualization Toolkit Department of Development Sciences Sajad Ali and Ehsan Inamullah, Local Knowledge and Natural Development. Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences. Sajid Ali Khan, Decentralization and Women Empowerment: Exploring the Leakages and the Impacts. Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences. Bahadar Nawab and KJell B.Esser, Integrating Technical and Socio-Cultural approaches for Improved Sanitation and access to save water in The North West Frontier Province, Pakistan. Journal of Applied Science in Environment Sanitation Department of Electrical Engineering S F Shaukat, et. al., Ultrasonic induced decomposition of methidathion pesticide. Journal of Applied Sciences. p 8(1), 140–145, (2008) . M.K.L. Bhatti ,B.M. Larin,E.N. Bushuev, A.B. Larin, A calculation method for determining the concentration of Potentially Acid Substances in feed water of Once-through Boiler. Journal of Thermal Engineering. Vol. 55. No.4. p.313-318. Department of Electrical Engineering Nasir T; Khan E U; Baluch J .J; Qureshi I E; Sajid M; Shahzad M I; and Khan A H; Measurement of distance parameter using semiclassical model in various heavy ion interactions”; Radiation Measurements. 43(2008) S279-S282. Nasir T; Khan E U; Baluch J .J; Qureshi I E; Sajid M; Shahzad M I; “ Analysis of intermediate stage in the heavy ion interactions of Pb 208 + Au 197 and Au 197 +Au197”; Radiation Measurements. 43(2008) S274-S278. Shafqat,M.N., Pierzynski G.M., and Xia. K.(2008). Phosphorus source effects on soil organic phosphorus: A 31P NMR study. Commun. Soil Science and Plant Analysis ( USA) Raza Ahmad, Yun-Hee Kim, Myoung Duck Kim, Phung-Min Ngoc , Won-il Chung, Haeng-Soon Lee, Sang-Soo Kwak, Suk-Yoon Kwon (2008). Development of selection marker-free transgenic plants with enhanced tolerance to oxidative stress. Journal of Plant Biology, 51(6) 401-407 Sidhu, G., Rustgi S; Shafqat M.N; Wetstein DV and Gill. K.S. (2008). Detailed Molecular Characterization Of The ‘Ph1 Gene Region’ Of Wheat. PNAS (USA ). Iqbal, J., John J. Read and J. Alex Thomasson. (2008). Site specific N application and remote sensing of cotton crop. p. 112-115. In. M. A. Tahir, and M. U. Khattak (ed.) Proc. of 2nd Int. Conf. on Advances in Space Technologies, Islamabad, Pakistan, 29 th-30th November, 2008. Qaisar Mahmood, Cai Jing, Hu Baolan, Ping Zheng, Muhammad Rashid Azim, Ghulam Jilani, Ejazul Islam (2008), Isolation of Ochrobactrum sp. QZ2 from sulfide and nitrite treatment system, Accepted manuscript, Journal of Hazardous Materials. CAI Jing, ZHENG Ping, QAISAR Mahmood, (2008) Simultaneous Sulfide and Nitrate Removal in Anaerobic Reactor under Shock Loading, Accepted Manuscript, Bioresource Technology. Department of Mathematics Aamir Shahzad, Effect of variable thermal conductivity on heat transfer from spines of uniform cross-section using HPM. 13th International Conference on Applied Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering May 2008. Rashid Ahmed, Analytical Study of Heat Transfer from Elliptical Cylinder in Liquid Metals. Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer Vol. 22, No. 3, 2008. Saira Bhatti, Numerical Studies of MHD Flow of a Third Grade Fluid between Concentric Cylinders with Slip Conditions and Hall Effect. WORLDCOMP’08, July 2008. R. Gul, Effect of Variable Thermal Conductivity on Heat Transfer from a Hollow Sphere with Heat Generation using Homotopy Perturbation. Proceedings of HT2008 ASME Summer Heat Transfer conference 08, 2008. R. Gul, Heat Transfer from Solids with Variable Thermal Conductivity and Uniform Internal Heat Generation using Homotopy Perturbation Method. Proceedings of HT2008 ASME Summer Heat Transfer conference 08, 2008. A. M. Siddiqui, S. Irum, A. Ansari, Unsteady squeezing flow of a viscous MHD fluid between parallel plates, a solution using the Homotopy Perturbation Method. Journal of Mathematical Modeling & Analysis. Department of Management Sciences SAF. Hasnu and Ms. Shehla Amjad, Smallholders Access to Rural Credit: Evidence from Pakistan. The Lahore Journal of Economics” Lahore School of Economics, July-December 2007. Department of Pharmacy C.B. Aakeröy, J, Desper, M. Fasulo, I. Hussain, B. Levin and N. Schultheiss, “Ten years of co-crystal synthesis; the good, the bad, and the ugly”, Cryst. Eng. Comm., 10, 1816-1821, (2008). Xu HM, Yin R, Chen L, Siraj S, Huang X, Wang M, Fang H, Wang Y. “An RGD-modified endostatin-derived synthetic peptide shows antitumor activity in vivo.” Bioconjug Chem., 10, 1980-6, (2008). Sami S, Höti N, Xu HM, Shen Z, Huang X. “Valproic acid inhibits the growth of cervical cancer both in vitro and in vivo.” J Biochem., 3, 357-62, (2008). Syed Intasar Husain Taqvi, PhD,*† Abdul Jabbar Shah, PhD,†‡ and Anwarul Hassan Gilani, PhD†, Blood Pressure Lowering and Vasomodulator, Effects of Piperine |