This study explored the ways in which adherence to traditional marital expectations in ones marriage was related to styles of interpersonal listening and marital satisfaction among IndoPakistanis living in a Western country. Participants (n = 114) were recruited from a large metropolitan city in Canada, were married, and their ages ranged from 19 to 67 years. They completed measures of marital ...

Numerical quantity seems to affect the response in any task that involves numbers, even in tasks that do not demand access to quantity (e.g., perceptual tasks). That is, readers seem to activate quantity representations upon the mere presentation of integers. One important piece of evidence in favor of this view comes from the finding of a distance effect in perceptual tasks: When one compares ...

Pakistan’s new government which assumed office under President Musharraf in October 1999 was faced with four main challenges: heavy external and domestic indebtedness; high fiscal deficit and low revenue generation capacity; rising poverty and unemployment; weak balance of payments. In addition, Pakistan was perceived as a highly corrupt country with poor governance. A survey by Transparency In...

In this research article, you will read that both parties of the agreement, Afghanistan and Pakistan, believe good relations between two countries can be a means resolving many issues, including trade transit. Afghan businessmen, government officials general people as well Pakistanis hope with each other resolve problems Pakistani businessmen benefit countries. Trade transit solved by strengthe...

Pakistan has a fast-growing, young, and highly religious population. Mental health literacy care in do not meet the population’s needs, mental stigma (MHS) is cited as cause. Explanations for MHS across cultures include collectivism, sociocultural-religious/spiritual beliefs values surrounding illness those who experience it. interventions campaigns that aim to improve help-seeking behaviors re...

511 commercial emails from four asian countries, namely china, pakistan, india, and iran have been analyzed in a mixed-method design. the focus of the study is on the two features of politeness and intimacy. in the quantitative analysis, the model proposed by brown & levinson (1987) and that of coulmas (2005) which have drawn upon the features of indirectness in requesting and the length of...

Background: National suicide rates are relatively stable over long periods but differ considerably from one another. Considering that the acceptance of suicide motives in the general population might be associated with national suicide rates, a multi-centre survey on this topic was planned by the Vienna Research Group in Transcultural Psychiatry. Method: 610 healthy interviewees from Georgia, L...

Multiple exposures to ultraviolet radiation (UVR) are the norm in nature and phototherapy. However, studies of the kinetics of pigmentation following UVA exposure have included only fair-skinned persons. The aim of this study was to investigate steady-state pigmentation and fading in 12 Scandinavians and 12 Indians/Pakistanis after 6 and 12 exposures on the back using broadband UVA and UVA1 wit...

HSV-1 epidemiology in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) remains poorly understood. Our study aimed to measure HSV-1 antibody prevalence (seroprevalence) and its age-distribution among select MENA populations residing in Qatar. Sera were collected from male blood donors attending Hamad Medical Corporation 2013-2015. A total of 2,077 sera were tested for anti-HSV-1 antibodies using HerpeSel...

OBJECTIVE To determine the six-minute walking distance (6MWD) for healthy Pakistanis, identify factors affecting 6MWD, compare published equations with the local data and derive an equation. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Two medical institutes of Karachi, from January to May 2011. METHODOLOGY Subjects between 15 and 65 years were prospectively enrolled af...