The present study was designed to see the impact of socio-emotional health and the moderator role of teachers' self-efficacy on school adjustment of school adjustment in physically handicapped students. The current study was quantitative in nature. The present study was done in three phases. The fust phase of the study was based on the translation and adaptation of instruments. One scale (Academic adjustment scale) was translated into the Urdu language after taking permission from t...

The present study was aimed at investigating the relationship among helping attitude, subjective norms of helping behavior, community related efficacy, and volunteerism among volunteers. The study also attempted to determine the moderating role of social mindfulness in predicting volunteerism from helping attitude, subjective norms of helping behavior, and community related efficacy. Moreover, it also focused to ascertain the role of demographics (gender, education, monthly family...

The aim of this study was to examine the detenninant of employee readiness for organizational change. The objectives were to investigate the impact of employee organizational climate on their readiness for organizational change in different types of organizations in Pakistan. The data was collected from a sample of 400 employees from different organizations (educational institutes, healthcare centers and multinational companies) by using a survey questionnaire. Data was analyzed usi...

In an attempt to reform and integrate the FATA region into the national mainstream, the government of Pakistan has merged FATA in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province in 2018. Many have hailed the merger scheme and lots of expectations are associated with it. However, others have criticized it and say that these arrangements are insufficient and cannot help in meaningfully transforming the region and solving its multidimensional governance issues. Thus, the crux of this study is to ...

This research investigates the depiction of violence, hegemonic masculinity and caste In Pakistani Punjabi cinema from 1971 to 1985. It focuses on four fi lms - namely, Wehshi Jatt ( 1975), Maula Jatt (1979), Wehshi Gujjar (1979) and Sher Khan (1981 ). [t argues that Punjabi cinema from 1971 to 1985 introduced barrak (a high-pitched, full throated, threatening yell) and gandasa (a long armed axe) which legitimized the induction of new types of masculinities (of hero and villains bot...

Peristalsis is the concept for the fluid movement that occurs within ducts possessing sinusoidally distorting walls. This peristaltic flow phenomenon has various uses in the treatment of physiological movement issues (i.e. transfer of urine to the bladder, transit of food through the digestive system, and blood flow across small blood arteries, among other functions.). Numerous engineering uses also exist, such as the conveyance of toxic and caustic fluids, potent chemicals, and slu...

The aim of the present study was to appraise the levels of selected trace metals (Pb, Cd, Cr, Ni, Cu, Co, Cr, Mn, and Fe), and to study their comparative distribution, source apportionment, pollution status, and associated health risks in superficial soil samples collected from various public parks of Rawalpindi, Pakistan. The superficial soil samples were digested in HCl and HN03 (3: 1) mixture. The levels of selected trace metals were quantified by flame atomic absorption spectrop...

The Salicaceae is very important family in term of ecology, diversity and pedology. The members of the family Salicaceaea is the indicators of healthy upper most fertile layer of soil. Salix L. is a large and taxonomically diverse genus of angiosperms, belong to the family Salicaceae. Many species of the genus are economically and ecologically important, as medicinal, soil binders and for landscaping. Salix L. species are particularly important in the context of global climate chang...

In this study, the role of US in the developing octagonal multipolar world and its consequences are discussed. Neo-realism and Power Transition theories are used to explain the change in the global system. Throughout world history, such as Thn-e Kha1dun and John Paul Kennedy, superpowers rose and fall in different times brought fundamental changes in the international system. For example, fall of former USSR gave birth the unipolarity, which lasted from 1992 to 2010. Since then, vari...

The current study deals with the causal relation between military spending and economic growth of a state. Here, a comparative analysis of the United States and Pakistan is carried out, within the context of Military Keynesianism, in order to analyse whether military spending contributes to economic growth in these states in the aftermath of Second World War and especially in the years after the September 11 attacks on America. Military Keynesianism, an offshoot of Keynes economic m...

Culture shock is a term related to an adjustment situation where one is exposed to a new culture different to one's own accompanied with uncertainties and worries. In this research, Pakistani students who have travelled to United Kingdom experiencing culture shock is examined. Furthermore, academic and fmancial challenges faced by Pakistani students are also explored. The experiences, world views and issues in cultural adaptation are discussed in detail. For data collection purpos...

This little book is intended to help Civil Service Cadets studying for that part of their examination which deals with the Malay people - as distinct from the tests in the Malay language. The book was originally prepared as a section or sub-division of a larger work on "the Peninsular Malays"; but, owing to the likelihood of delay resulting from any attempt to bring out all the sections (some of which have to be copiously illustrated) in one single volume, I decided to publish each s...

IN making facts public on which Mr. Froude had, after long and anxious consideration, decided to be silent, we are fully aware of the responsibility we are taking on ourselves. For the re-opening of the controversy, however, we are not to blame. The following private account, written by Mr. Froude himself, of his own relations with Mr. Carlyle would never have been given to the world had not the production of the' New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle,' with the serious cha...

Sind has the honour to gi\·e the name to the Hindu community and to the whole Sub· Continent, TIindustan, of which it formed an important part O\'en in RgVedic times. Incidental references about the political and social conditions in Sind, found scattered in the ancient Indian literature, and tho works of Greek and Chinese writers and travellers, make us believe that Sind has had her pa~t-a splendid and glorious past of which one may well be proud -; but there being no history of an...