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Whole Genome Studies through Microarray
By admin at July 25, 2011 | 1:45 pm | 0 Comment
MICROARRAY, A collection of microscopic spots arranged in an array or grid like formats, are attracted to a solid surface or the membrane. With advancements in computational capabilities, robotics and the fabrication of high quality glass slides coinciding with increased genomic information, trend of using microarray technology is becoming increasingly prevalent in the more...
Economic & food sovereignty
By admin at July 25, 2011 | 1:43 pm | 0 Comment
WITH MIDDLE-INCOME and rich natural resources Pakistan is a great country, a great nation with a great potential and a large young population but it is surrounded by big problems merely due to mismanagement. The poverty levels and human development indicators in poor rural areas of Pakistan are comparable to those in the poorest countries of Africa. The chronic hunger more...
Investigating the effects of Ozone Layer Depletion
By admin at July 25, 2011 | 1:42 pm | 0 Comment
IT HAS been established beyond all doubts that ozone shield efficiency is changing because of natural as well as artificial causes, which also affects the increased radiations, inflicting damage to DNA of living organisims. In this situation, we can well conceive the danger of annihilation of various animal and plant species because of Ozone Layer Depletion (OLD). In this more...
Future prospects of cellular industry in Pakistan
By admin at July 25, 2011 | 1:40 pm | 0 Comment
MY FATHER tells me that when they used to watch James Bond movies in cinema whereby the hero talked over a phone without wires, they used to discuss with each other: ‘Look at that – these western people are trying to make fool out of us. How can a person drive a car and talk’? That was around 35 – 40 years back. Now, as per PTA statistics, there were 107 million more...
Fiction of Today is the Fact of Tomorrow
By admin at July 17, 2011 | 3:40 pm | 0 Comment
Technology Times in collaboration with National Academy of Young Scientists, SciForum, and Pakistan Science Foundation has recently arranged an essay contest on a topic “Fiction of today is the fact of tomorrow”. The essays of top three award winners were also decided to be published in Technology Times. Following is the essay of the first prize winner. By Zaeema more...
Energy and environment
By admin at July 17, 2011 | 2:20 pm | 0 Comment
By Prof. Dr Ahmad Saeed Bhatti and Ayesha Saeed Pakistan’s energy mix comprises 29 per cent and 35 per cent of oil and natural gas respectively. An analysis of the current demand and supply portends a shortfall of 64 per cent in energy for the country by 2030 THE WORLD today is poised on the horns of a dilemma - the population crisis and the consumption crisis. more...
Social media and Pakistan – prospects and possibilities
By admin at July 17, 2011 | 1:58 pm | 0 Comment
By Raza Rumi Alongside the growth of blogging, Facebook has captured the imagination of the young Pakistanis. With an estimated 4 million plus users, it is a critical space for networking, information sharing and virtual meet-ups WHEN I started to blog, almost by accident, a few Pakistani bloggers were found in cyberspace. Within half a decade the number has more...
Biotechnology, a new horizon for crop improvement
By admin at July 17, 2011 | 1:44 pm | 0 Comment
Written by Shazia Anwer Bukhari, Dr. Zia-ur-Rehman, Sidra Ijaz Plant biotechnology offers significant improvements in virtually every area of crop production and utilisation with potential benefits to farmers, the food industry, consumer and environment. Consumers can look forward to a wider choice of food products with improved physical and nutritional more...
Need for crop insurance
By admin at July 17, 2011 | 11:02 am | 0 Comment
By Dr. M Farooq - Dr. Shahzad - M.A Basra - Hafeez ur Rehman The benefits of crop insurance are thus derived not only by farmers but also by others. It is an important measure to secure stabilisation in the agriculture industry. It is complementary on the one hand, to activate and to strengthen the base of agriculture, and on the other hand, to provide price and income more...
Rural credit in Pakistan and role of ZTBL
By admin at July 17, 2011 | 10:06 am | 0 Comment
By Shaukat Masood Zafar NPLs of five leading commercial banks has declined by Rs.0.9 billion to Rs.6.4 billion in December 2010 as compared to Rs.7.5 billion December 2009, while ZTBL NPLs have gone up by Rs.4.2 billion to Rs.18.2 billion in December 2010 AGRICULTURE IS the lifeline of Pakistan’s economy. It contributes 21% to the GDP, employs 44.6% of the labor more...
Think Pakistan beyond everything
By admin at July 10, 2011 | 8:06 pm | 1 Comments
By Yasir Ameen PAKISTAN IS the land of plenty of resources, beautiful places and talented people. There are many achievements, activities and trends, which no country witnessed besides Pakistan and it must be portrayed proudly to the world that "We Are What, No One Is". Below are some facts, which show the significance of the country and bloggers should promote it more...
National Engineering Robotics Contest 2011
By admin at July 10, 2011 | 8:02 pm | 0 Comment
NATIONAL ENGINEERING Robotics Contest (NERC) has been steadily growing in popularity ever since its inception in 2003 (It was given the name of NERC in 2005). NERC 2011 that was organized by STEM Career Program, HEC and NUST held at the College of Electrical & Mechanical Engineering (EME) Rawalpindi from the 28th of June to the 2nd of July. It’s a national robotics more...
Next Generation Sequencing
By admin at July 10, 2011 | 7:49 pm | 0 Comment
By Ziaur Rahman EVERY ORGANISM on the earth whether it is bacteria virus, plants, animals and even human possess its information in the form of DNA, which is referred as genetic information. DNA is deoxyribonucleic acid consists of four nucleotide bases Adenine (A), Guanine (G), Thymine (T) and Cytosine (C). A fifth pyrimidine nucleobase, Uracil (U), usually takes the more...
US-Pak connectivity vs US India connectivity
By admin at July 10, 2011 | 7:46 pm | 1 Comments
How do the two countries stack up? I’m travelling in the US on business and one of the things I’ve been pretty impressed with is how great my remote desktop connections with my office in Lahore have been from pretty much every US city I’ve visited. I’ve been regularly pulling down large (multi-gig) files stored on our servers in Lahore and also conducting latency more...
Are we educated?
By admin at July 10, 2011 | 7:34 pm | 0 Comment
By Prof. Waseem Khan THE QUESTION looks quite common since it expresses an easy literary meaning however some people may think over it many times.The education can be acquired from a set of two practices namely formal and informal education. The formal education is one which is obtained from the school, college or university whereas the informal education starts to come more...
International emission trading
By admin at July 10, 2011 | 7:18 pm | 0 Comment
By Engr. Saud Khan THE UNITED Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was adopted on 9 May 1992 in New York and signed at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro by more than 150 countries and the European Economic Community. Its ultimate objective is the stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere. It contains commitments for all more...
Biogas in Pakistan – some facts and figures
By admin at July 2, 2011 | 6:39 pm | 0 Comment
By Engr. Naeem ul Zaman & Engr. Asim bin Aziz BIOGAS IS produced by anaerobic (absence of air) decomposition of organic matter by a bacteria present in the stomach of animals including buffalos, cows etc. Bio Gas is also known as Gobar Gas or Marsh Gas. Chemically it consists of 60-65% Methane (CH4), 35-40% Carbon Dioxide (CO2), and traces of Hydrogen Sulfide, more...
Organic food a new window of opportunity
By admin at July 2, 2011 | 6:36 pm | 0 Comment
WHEN WE say “Organic” a totally green, environment friendly and healthy crop stand we imagine. Yes! Organic is all about the natural, green, safe, environment friendly organism which is totally free from hormones, pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, antibiotics, chemical fertilizers, germ killing radiations’ as well as genetic modifications. In this way Organic more...
Hydrogen as an alternative fuel
By admin at July 2, 2011 | 6:33 pm | 0 Comment
[caption id="attachment_4512" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Haider e Karrar "][/caption] HYDROGEN (H2) is one of very important and simplest element on our earth. It is important in the case of water which is a combination of two hydrogen and one oxygen molecule. Each element of hydrogen contains one proton and one electron. It is the most abundant gas in the more...
Avenues for South-South cooperation
By admin at July 2, 2011 | 6:26 pm | 0 Comment
IN ORDER to address the challenges towards sustainable development, “The onus for action lies with no one group of nations”, as stated in the Brundtland Commission’s report, “Our Common Future” (1987). “The time has come to break out of past patterns”, it further states. “Attempts to maintain social and ecological stability through old approaches to more...
Environmental management concerns in water sector of Pakistan
By admin at July 2, 2011 | 6:23 pm | 0 Comment
By Muhammad Tariq Javed Last Part ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT has become an essential tool in most of the developing activities and programmes. Not only in global context, rather in home, all major projects and programmes to be undertaken by private and public have to provide inbuilt environmental management plan and process for approval and implementation of said more...
Edible Vaccines – modern approach in plant biotech
By admin at June 25, 2011 | 1:23 pm | 0 Comment
[caption id="attachment_4315" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Sabir Hussain Shah"][/caption] MAJORITY OF the human population is subjected to several infectious diseases. It is necessary to produce new vaccines that have economic and other advantages over the existing injectable vaccines. Recently plants are being used as the alternative more...
Founder of Pakistan’s scientific landscape
By admin at June 25, 2011 | 1:20 pm | 0 Comment
PAKISTAN’S EMINENT physicist, Dr I. H Usmani was among the pioneers of nuclear energy and technology in Pakistan. He was an effective administrator, visionary, mentor and a tireless perfectionist. Ishrat Hussain Usmani was born on April 15, 1917. He graduated in science from the Muslim University in Aligharh and did his Masters in Physics from Bombay University. In more...
“Facebook” – a social networking paradise
By admin at June 25, 2011 | 1:12 pm | 0 Comment
HAVE YOU ever noticed that the world around us changing so fast? It is not that same as it use to be. When there were no machines and everything was done manually, it’s not like that anymore or is it? Let me give you the answer for this “No it is not the same.” Information Technology has taken over the world and it is growing fast in all ways the people use to dream more...
Faculty development in higher education
By admin at June 25, 2011 | 1:09 pm | 0 Comment
THE SINGLE most important factor in determining the quality of education in universities is the quality of faculty members. This critically important element of higher education had been largely ignored till the Higher Education Commission (HEC) was established as a powerful autonomous institution in October 2002, operating directly under the chief executive of more...
