(1) Assistant Professor, MBBS, MD, Department of Pharmacology, Gian Sagar Medical College and Hospital, Village Ram Nagar, District Patiala, Punjab, India-140601 (2) Associate Professor, MBBS, MD, Department of Pharmacology, Gian Sagar Medical College and Hospital, Village Ram Nagar, District Patiala, Punjab, India-140601 (3) Professor and Head, MBBS, MD, Department of Pharmacology, Maharishi M...

Maximum entropy (Maxent) modeling was used to predict the potential climatic niches of three medicinally important Asclepiad species: Pentatropis spiralis, Tylophora hirsuta, and Vincetoxicum arnottianum. All three species are members of the Asclepiad plant family, yet they differ in ecological requirements, biogeographic importance, and conservation value. Occurrence data were collected from h...

The paper explores the elements that constitute women’s autonomy in rural Pakistan. Hitherto most research on women’s status in Pakistan has either been restricted to proxy measures of women’s status generally or to the urban areas. Community or region, each of which has distinctive features, have an overriding influence on this subject. Northern Punjabi women have lower economic autonomy but g...

Public-sector education in many countries in western and southern Asia, including Pakistan, is characterized by separate schools for boys and girls at the primary and secondary levels. We examine the case of Pakistan, where primary school enrollment among girls in rural areas is substantially lower than among children in urban areas and boys in rural areas, owing to lack of access to government...

This cross-sectional study examined the association between environmental lead measurements surrounding a Los Angeles County battery recycling facility and the blood lead levels of the children living nearby. Environmental lead measurements and blood lead levels of young children living in a community adjacent to a stationary lead source were compared to those living in a community without a st...

The act of bullying in Higher Education Institutes HEI,s is considered a neglected topic. objective this study was to analyze the impact employee voice, innovate climate, workplace on turnover intentions. Organizational justice deemed be mediator while organizational climate moderator. Data collected from employees top universities southern Punjab with usable sample size 289 respondents, both m...

Any surgeon, able to tackle a cataractous eye successfully, will catch the public eye and and imagination in the Punjab. Partially this is due to the fact that every successfully operated-on eye is a living advertisement for the operator and specially the Punjab offers a splendid field for the purpose. Of the total of 31,397 selected operations performed in the whole of the Punjab during the ye...