Papers by Muhammad Danish Manzoor
Journal of Animal Science and Technology, 2013
Male cattle calves (n=24), 9-12 months age, with an average body weight of 120 ± 20 kg were fed t... more Male cattle calves (n=24), 9-12 months age, with an average body weight of 120 ± 20 kg were fed total mixed rations (TMR) for 120 days to determine their growth performance. Animals were divided into four groups (six of each breed): Crossbred (Friesian × Sahiwal), Dhanni, Lohani, and Cholistani. The data obtained were analyzed using analysis of variance techniques under a completely randomized design. The average daily gain (ADG), feed efficiency (FE), and dressing percentage ranged from 639-892 g/d, 0.105-0.155 kg/kg, and 51.2-51.5%, respectively, in the different breeds. The ADG and FE did not differ between the Crossbred, Dhanni, and Lohani breeds, but these values were lower in Cholistani calves (P<0.05). The dressing percentage was similar in all breeds. The highest increase in body height was observed in Dhanni calves, but heart girth was obviously higher in Lohani calves. The feed cost per kg gain was higher for Cholistani calves but similar among Crossbred, Dhanni, and Lohani calves (P>0.05). In conclusion, Dhanni, Lohani, and Crossbred calves possess the promising potential for beef production under the rainfed (Barani) conditions of the Punjab.
Journal of Plant Nutrition, May 7, 2010
A field experiment was conducted in continuity of our previous study to assess the effect of Rhiz... more A field experiment was conducted in continuity of our previous study to assess the effect of Rhizobium inoculation (RI) and phosphorus fertilization (P) on growth, yield, nodulation, and P use efficiency of soybean. Different treatments were i) Rhizobium strains (0, S377, S379, and the ...
Fourth Edition of the International Conference on the Innovative Computing Technology, Aug 1, 2014
Annals of King Edward Medical University, Mar 7, 2010
... M.,3 Ahmad Z.,4 Siddiqui I.,5 Mehmood T.,6 Equbal,7 Hanif A.,8 and Bajwa IA9 Address for Corr... more ... M.,3 Ahmad Z.,4 Siddiqui I.,5 Mehmood T.,6 Equbal,7 Hanif A.,8 and Bajwa IA9 Address for Correspondence: Dr. Junaid Habib Khan ... be identified Beukes et al (1987)8. Many studies have been carried out from DG Safdar et al (1995)9 Karachi, Khanum (1981)10 Rizvi (1975)11 ...
Research Opinions in Animal Veterinary Sciences, 2011
Abstract: This research work was designed to study the prevalence, electrolytes balance and treat... more Abstract: This research work was designed to study the prevalence, electrolytes balance and treatment strategy of equine anhidrosis in Faisalabad, Pakistan. The study was conducted in the hottest month of summer (June-September). Anhidrosis was diagnosed by clinical ...
JPMA. The Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association, 2015
Imperforate anus is a rare anomaly associated with defects commonly referred to as vertebral defe... more Imperforate anus is a rare anomaly associated with defects commonly referred to as vertebral defects, anal atresia, cardiac defects, tracheo-oesophageal fistula, renal anomalies and limb abnormalities (VACTERL). With modern surgical procedures the overall outcome is excellent. Permanent colostomy which is required in some cases of this disease can result in some rare complications such as enteroliths formation, as illustrated in the case we are presenting here related to a 28-year-old male who reported at urology emergency with features of urinary and acute large bowel obstruction. On investigation he was found to have two enteroliths in his distal loop of sigmoid colostomy. The more distal of the two enteroliths caused urinary retention and hence acute renal failure, and the proximal one caused large bowel obstruction by compressing the proximal loop of colostomy. This case demonstrates that the blind distal sigmoid colostomy loop can grow enteroliths secondary to stasis of its own...
The present study evaluates the performance of Nadaraya-Watson (NW) estimation and ordinary least... more The present study evaluates the performance of Nadaraya-Watson (NW) estimation and ordinary least square (OLS) estimation with diverse covariate structures on the basis of simulation study. The covariate structures considered hereare; normal, gamma, exponential, weibull, t, laplace and uniform covariates for small moderate and large sample sizes. The consistency of OLS estimation is observed for all the covariate structures for different sample sizes. NW estimation is found best for skewed and fat tailed covariates while for symmetric covariates the performance of NW estimation is not good.
Ad Hoc Networks, 2014
ABSTRACT Wireless sensor network (WSN) consisting of nodes equipped with cameras or advanced low-... more ABSTRACT Wireless sensor network (WSN) consisting of nodes equipped with cameras or advanced low-cost image sensors is known as a Visual Sensor Network (VSN). The main function of VSN is to capture images and send them to sink nodes for processing. Common applications of a VSN are surveillance, tracking, crowd management, scientific research, etc. Such applications require large amounts of data to be exchanged between camera nodes and sink. Image data is considerably larger than common sensor data such as temperature, humidity, and pressure. For data delivery in VSNs, the communication is constrained by many stringent QoS requirements like delay, jitter and data reliability. Moreover, due to the inherent constraints of WSN such as limited energy, low CPU power, and insufficient memory; the architect of VSN must choose appropriate topology, image compression algorithms, and communication protocols depending on application. In literature, different techniques have been proposed to resolve the bandwidth requirements for the VSN. The majority of these techniques are based on the compression of visual data. This paper focuses on one of these aspects, namely the communication protocol for VSN. In this paper, we present Priority Routing Framework for Image Transmission (PRoFIT), a new routing framework for VSN to deliver critical imagery information with system’s time constraint. We demonstrate that PRoFIT improves response time in various VSN applications as compared to priority-less routing techniques. We have implemented PRoFIT along with an image processing application using Contiki and simulated it on Cooja simulator to support our claim.
Journal of neurointerventional surgery, 2013
Advancements in technology have created a current generation of guide catheters that not only pro... more Advancements in technology have created a current generation of guide catheters that not only provide stable access but also allow navigation of tortuous portions of the carotid siphon facilitating more distal access. Clinical experience since the release of the current generation of guide catheters was reviewed to determine their safety and efficacy. Between October 2007 and November 2011, all neurointerventional procedures requiring access to the intracranial arterial circulation performed at our institution were reviewed. Clinical performance and complication rates of current generation guide catheters were compared with conventional guide catheters. 1188 neurointerventional procedures were performed, of which 659 were eligible for this study. When navigating the anterior circulation, intracranial purchase was achieved significantly more often with current generation 0.070 inch and 0.053 inch guide catheters compared with conventional guide catheters. Similarly, current generatio...
Facial plastic surgery : FPS, 2012
Congenital vascular anomalies are complex hereditary lesions with distinct clinical presentation,... more Congenital vascular anomalies are complex hereditary lesions with distinct clinical presentation, imaging, course, and treatment. We present a relevant review of the classification, pathophysiology, clinical presentation, and imaging characteristics that will allow for adequate diagnosis and understanding of these lesions.
2011 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies, 2011
Rapidly growing demand in mobile communication system required technology which will provide mini... more Rapidly growing demand in mobile communication system required technology which will provide minimum errors and maximize SNR in a particular angle/direction. Smart antenna has a system for directed a beam towards desired angle/direction and suppress/cancel interference from undesired angle/direction. MUSIC (Multiple Signal Classification) has capability to estimate number of signals in an array and angle/direction of arrival of desired signal. ESPRIT (Estimation of Signal Parameters via Rotational Invariance Techniques) is used for the estimation of direction of arrival of multiple sets of identical doublets, provides parallel processing. This Paper provides comparative analysis and simulation of angle of arrival (AOA) estimation, and estimate error in AOA estimation. Relative results are useful for achieving optimal performance in smart antenna design.
International Journal for Agro Veterinary and Medical Sciences, 2013
Milk is a nutritious food but at the same time is an excellent medium for the growth of microorga... more Milk is a nutritious food but at the same time is an excellent medium for the growth of microorganisms. Nearly all the changes in taste, flavour or appearance of raw milk are result of bacterial activities. The activities of these bacteria if pathogenic may cause certain health problems. In this study sixty milk samples collected each from three different consumers and producing areas of Abbottabad city, were analyzed for physico-chemical properties and microbial analysis. The mean scores of colour, taste and flavour for marketed raw milk and fresh milk were 7.03, 5.86, 5.71 and 7.06, 7.15, 6.75, respectively. 30% of the samples of marketed raw milk gave positive response to alcohol precipitation test and all samples of fresh milk gave negative response to alcohol precipitation test. The mean value of specific gravity for marketed raw milk and fresh milk was 1.023 and 1.033 respectively. The mean value of pH for marketed raw milk was 6.53 and 6.71 for fresh milk. Fat percentage results showed that all marketed raw milk samples analyzed were below the required standards for buffalo milk. Total bacterial count revealed mean of 7.29 x 10 10 /ml for marketed raw milk and 5.53 x 10 8 /ml for fresh milk. However all the samples contained total count above the standard i.e., 2 x 10 5 to 5 x 10 6 /ml and all the samples were of very poor quality and placed in grade D. The present study indicated that qualitative and quantitative changes during transportation of milk to consumers were due substandard production of fresh milk and probably due to adulteration.
2013 IEEE 10th International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Systems, 2013
ABSTRACT With the increase number of wireless standards and the number of wireless enabled device... more ABSTRACT With the increase number of wireless standards and the number of wireless enabled devices ranging from smart cell phones to notebooks, the new concept of Internet of Things where every tangible &quot;Thing&quot; will have an IP address and wireless connectivity is around the corner. In addition, there is a great interest of Cyber-Physical System interconnecting city&#39;s infrastructure together though wireless connections from bridges to water pipes to smart grid and intelligent transport systems. Not all of these devices will use the same wireless technology for communication and hence it will be very hard for them to exchange control and data messages. Moreover, different wireless technology standards are being used nowadays in many applications such as Bluetooth, WiFi, WiMAX etc. Each technology has a different stack of protocols, medium access control and encoding mechanisms dictating the way it works, operates and technical specifications. Each technology was proposed, developed and standardized to serve specific needs and applications. For example, Bluetooth standard was developed to interconnect small number of devices available within short distances from each other. WiFi was standardized to provide stations with wireless network connectivity through TCP/IP stack. Devices with same wireless technology can connect together to exchange control and data messages. With the increase number of wireless technologies available for users, one major difficulty is to interconnect different devices with different wireless technology together. For example, it is impossible for a notebook PC to connect to a Bluetooth device without having a Bluetooth dongle.
2011 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies, 2011
... Adnan Umar Khan ICT PTCL Academy Islamabad, Pakistan ... International Conference on Emerging... more ... Adnan Umar Khan ICT PTCL Academy Islamabad, Pakistan ... International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering and Technology, 978-0-7695-3884-06/09, pp.1195-1200, 2009 IEEE [3] Afaq H. Khan, Mohammed A. Qadeer, Juned A. Ansari, Sariya Waheed, 4G as a ...
2010 6th International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET), 2010
Abstract Image registration is a stepwise process of overlaying various images of a scene. Accura... more Abstract Image registration is a stepwise process of overlaying various images of a scene. Accurate image registration in a real time environment has always been a challenge involving the detection of analogous features and then construction of mosaic within plausible accuracy range. Digital Signal Processor is an asset in this regard; its advanced versions equipped with multiple cores can handle many processes at the same time. In this paper we have implemented an efficient algorithm, proposed in our previous research ...
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 2010
Spinal cord injuries (SCIs) are frequently reported in earthquakes. 1-3 Pakistan is among 9 count... more Spinal cord injuries (SCIs) are frequently reported in earthquakes. 1-3 Pakistan is among 9 countries that account for more than 80% of earthquake-related injuries. 4 An earthquake on October 8, 2005, in Kashmir, Pakistan, left more than 73,000 persons dead. This earthquake resulted in an estimated 650 to 750 SCIs. 5 Management of SCI victims offered challenges such as saturation of available SCI rehabilitation services and aggravation of injuries by improper immobilization, lifting, and transport techniques. 1,6-8 It was reported that several makeshift SCI rehabilitation centers, which were established after the earthquake, may have benefited these victims. 9 However, structure, function, and outcome of these centers were never described. 1,5,9
The Scientific World Journal, 2014
An important aspect of visual saliency detection is how features that form an input image are rep... more An important aspect of visual saliency detection is how features that form an input image are represented. A popular theory supports sparse feature representation, an image being represented with a basis dictionary having sparse weighting coefficient. Another method uses a nonlinear combination of image features for representation. In our work, we combine the two methods and propose a scheme that takes advantage of both sparse and nonlinear feature representation. To this end, we use independent component analysis (ICA) and covariant matrices, respectively. To compute saliency, we use a biologically plausible center surround difference (CSD) mechanism. Our sparse features are adaptive in nature; the ICA basis function are learnt at every image representation, rather than being fixed. We show that Adaptive Sparse Features when used with a CSD mechanism yield better results compared to fixed sparse representations. We also show that covariant matrices consisting of nonlinear integrati...
2010 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Software Engineering, 2010
Abstract Image registration is a process of overlaying various images of a scene. This process ha... more Abstract Image registration is a process of overlaying various images of a scene. This process has four basic steps. In this work we have replaced a feature matching step with efficient and fast feature tracking. Several problems, arose due to this technique, are discussed and their solutions are proposed. The proposed algorithm is then tested on various sequences of images.
Journal of Plant Nutrition, 2010
A field experiment was conducted in continuity of our previous study to assess the effect of Rhiz... more A field experiment was conducted in continuity of our previous study to assess the effect of Rhizobium inoculation (RI) and phosphorus fertilization (P) on growth, yield, nodulation, and P use efficiency of soybean. Different treatments were i) Rhizobium strains (0, S377, S379, and the ...
Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2011
Gold on polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) stretchable conductors were prepared using a novel approach b... more Gold on polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) stretchable conductors were prepared using a novel approach by interlacing an hydrogenated amorphous carbon (a-C : H) layer between the deposited metal layer and the elastomer. AFM analysis of the a-C : H film surface before gold deposition shows nanoscale buckling, the corresponding increase in specific surface area corresponds to a strain compensation for the first 4-6% of bi-axial tensile loading. Without this interlayer, the deposited gold films show much smaller and uni-directional ripples as well as more cracks and delaminations. With a-C : H interlayer, the initial electrical resistivity of the metal film decreases markedly (280-fold decrease to 8 × 10 −6 cm). This is not due to conduction within the carbon interlayer; both a-C : H/PDMS and PDMS substrates are electrically insulating. Upon cyclic tensile loading, both films become more resistive, but return to their initial state after 20 tensile cycles up to 60% strain. Profiling experiments using secondary ion mass spectroscopy and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy indicate that the a-C : H layer intermixes with the PDMS, resulting in a graded layer of decreasing stiffness. We believe that both this graded layer and the surface buckling contribute to the observed improvement in the electrical performance of these stretchable conductors.
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