Presenting a case study of enclavisation in Karachi (Pakistan), this thesis addresses conceptual, theoretical and empirical gaps in literature on enclaved urbanism so as to present an analysis of enclavisation and violence as inter-relational processes. By taking into account the politics of navigating enclaved urbanism in Karachi, this project contributes to the agenda of developing a critical...

Spatial and temporal variations in relation to environmental and biological parameters were carried out from three stations in Sands pit backwater along the coast of Karachi, Pakistan from January 1999 to December 1999. Various meiofauna taxa were identified from the sample procured during low tide. The total mean densities of meiofaunal were (30.42 ±6.81) and (3628 ± 5958) individuals per10 cm...

More than half (52%) of the spatial and temporal variance in multidecadal drought frequency over the conterminous United States is attributable to the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO). An additional 22% of the variance in drought frequency is related to a complex spatial pattern of positive and negative trends in drought occurrence possibly relat...

the inventory of tabanids of ivory coast includes both a review of historical datasets as well as the results of recent targeted field investigations in the north of ivory coast from 2000 to 2002 and banco forest in 2012. the family tabanidae  known as horse flies has been estimated to consist of 4,500 existing species throughout the world. four genera are known to be of medico-veterinary impor...

This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on public sector fiscal behaviour in Côte d’Ivoire. A special interest is the relationship between aid, debt servicing and debt, given that Côte d’Ivoire is a highly indebted country. The theoretical model employed differs from those of previous studies by highlighting the interaction between debt servicing and the other fiscal variables. This model...

Demographic transition in Pakistan produced an annual growth rate of over 4% in urban areas as compared to 3% for Pakistan as a whole with lower mortality and higher marital fertility in urban areas and rural to urban migration. Primarily, the data of the project "Metropolitan Women's Productive Choices" were utilized along with findings of the Pakistan Contraceptive Prevalence Survey (PCPS) o...

INTRODUCTION Comparability and Quality Control in Cancer Registration remains an essential component of standardisation of cancer incidence data. The information provided by registries is used as a base-line data for cancer control and cancer research. As such misleading information will encourage fictious cancer patterns with over or under registration of some cancer sites. METHODOLOGY The r...