Although there are numerous studies of the dowry phenomenon in India, research pertaining to the custom in the rest of South Asia is sparse. The aim of this paper is to study dowry payments in Pakistan. Several interpretations for dowry are distinguished using a simple theoretical framework and the predictions of this model are tested using recent data from Pakistan. The investigation concludes...

The debate on urban commons yields relevance for shared histories and heritage in divided post-conflict societies. Albeit memory is always subjective, management tends to engender a linear view of the past that suggests preconceived future development. Where denigrated prove impossibility ethnoreligious communities’ coexistence even though they have lived together peacefully centuries, it risks...

Vishal Saraswat (CRRao AIMSCS) Searchable Encryption APHRDI, 22/09/16 10 / 46 Vishal Saraswat Some other projects Abstract Public-key encryption with keyword search (PEKS) schemes are useful to delegate searching capabilities on encrypted data to a third party, who does not hold the entire secret key, but only an appropriate token which allows searching operations but preserves data privacy. PE...

anopheles culicifacies is the vector of malaria in southeastern part of iran, india, west pakistan and ceylon. in 1959 the lc50 % ddt in the panchmahal district of gujarat state (india) had increased. ddt resistant population of a. culicifacies has been reported from west pakistan, burma and iran. after application of ddt in 1959, the density of a. culicifacies decreased sharply. the susceptibi...

INTRODUCTION Globally, chronic back pain is one of the most commonly encountered medical conditions among an elderly population with significant bearings on health, functional mobility and general well-being. OBJECTIVE To estimate the burden of chronic back pain and its association with physical activity (PA) among population aged 50 years and above in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and S...

Long ridiculed for their racial hybridity, India’s Anglo-Indians—a mixed race people—were called ‘Dingos’ and instructed rudely to “Go to Australia” after India won her Independence from the British in 1947. Although their first port of escape from India was Great Britain, thousands of Anglo-Indians left the Indian subcontinent (India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) in the second wave of migration, i....

Taipei Medical University,Taipei,Taiwan; Fudan University, Shanghai, China; Keio University,Tokyo, Japan; Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; University of Singapore, Singapore, Ministry of Public Health, Bangkok,Thailand; The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan; Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Pharmaceutical Management India Institute of Health Management ...

In the present study, a model was developed to describe relationships between impacts of intra-group conflict on group performance-moderating role of cultural diversity. Data from 170 employees working in teams of GSM cellular companies located in Pakistan support our hypothesis. Data was analyzed through SPSS. Findings indicated that intragroup conflict had direct negative effects on group per...

INTRODUCTION Neonatal mortality associated with preterm birth can be reduced with antenatal corticosteroids (ACS), yet <10% of eligible pregnant women in low-middle income countries. The inability to accurately determine gestational age (GA) leads to under-identification of high-risk women who could receive ACS or other interventions. To facilitate better identification in low-resource settings...