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Cultural Issues in Offshore Teams: A Categorization based on Existing Studies
( Abbas Moshrefrazavi ),( Mohd Hairul Nizam Md Nasir ),( Norizan Binti Mohd Yasin ),( Rodina Ahmad ) 한국인터넷정보학회 2019 KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Syst Vol.13 No.3
Cultural and personal issues resulting from dispersed teams are considered to be serious barriers to form trust and organize effective agile teams. However, apart from separate, reported evidence of such issues from work experience, there has been no theoretical classification in literature. This paper provides a list and analysis of common challenges mainly resulting from cultural differences and barriers in Agile Software Development (ASD) offshore teams. The data source comprise articles published in IEEE, mostly of conferences related to ASD. Among the articles, papers with concrete evidence of Agile Methods (AM) implementation were selected. The results show that despite the relative significance of such issues, ASD adopters typically still rely on their own experience, and creativity rather than using well-defined methods. Moreover, this study reveals that the notion of trust, as discussed in the literature, mainly refers to maintaining the pace of communication, which is the focal point in ASD.
Faiza Nasir,Haseeb Ahmad,CM Nadeem Faisal,Qaisar Abbas,Mubarak Albathan,Ayyaz Hussain International Journal of Computer ScienceNetwork S 2023 International journal of computer science and netw Vol.23 No.3
Rice is an important food crop for most of the population in Nowadays, psychologists consider social media an important tool to examine mental disorders. Among these disorders, depression is one of the most common yet least cured disease Since abundant of writers having extensive followers express their feelings on social media and depression is significantly increasing, thus, exploring the literary text shared on social media may provide multidimensional features of depressive behaviors: (1) Background: Several studies observed that depressive data contains certain language styles and self-expressing pronouns, but current study provides the evidence that posts appearing with self-expressing pronouns and depressive language styles contain high emotional temperatures. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to examine the literary cyber writers' posts for discovering the symptomatic signs of depression. For this purpose, our research emphases on extracting the data from writers' public social media pages, blogs, and communities; (3) Results: To examine the emotional temperatures and sentences usage between depressive and not depressive groups, we employed the SentiStrength algorithm as a psycholinguistic method, TF-IDF and N-Gram for ranked phrases extraction, and Latent Dirichlet Allocation for topic modelling of the extracted phrases. The results unearth the strong connection between depression and negative emotional temperatures in writer's posts. Moreover, we used Naïve Bayes, Support Vector Machines, Random Forest, and Decision Tree algorithms to validate the classification of depressive and not depressive in terms of sentences, phrases and topics. The results reveal that comparing with others, Support Vectors Machines algorithm validates the classification while attaining highest 79% f-score; (4) Conclusions: Experimental results show that the proposed system outperformed for detection of depression trends in literary cyber writers using sentiment analysis.
Saeed Ullah,Munawar Abbas,Saad Tariq,Khalid Mujasam Batoo,Nasir Rahman,Uzma Gul,Mudasser Husain,Sajjad Hussain,Mohamed Musa Saad Hasb Elkhalig,Muhammad Usman Ghani 한국전기전자재료학회 2024 Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Material Vol.25 No.3
In this study, a theoretical investigation employing the Wien2k package within DFT framework was conducted to inspect mechanical, structural, and optoelectronic properties of silver-based cubic chloro-perovskites QAgCl 3 . Stability of these compounds was confi rmed by fi tting optimized data to Birch Muranghan equation, enthalpy of formation and tolerance factor. The mBJ potential was utilized to compute band profi les, revealing semiconducting nature mainly from Ag d-states and Cl p-states. Born-Huang criteria confi rmed mechanical stability, while other elastic parameters indicated ionic bonding, anisotropy, stiff ness, ductility, fracture resistance, and bond-bending resistance. Optical study suggested suitability for practical optoelectronic devices, with a lack of absorbance in the visible region. These outcomes off er a platform for further experimental and theoretical research.
Gowhar Ali,Fazal Subhan,Nazar Ul Islam,Nasir Ullah,Muhammad Shahid,Sami Ullah,Ihsan Ullah,Rehmat Shah,Ikhtiar Khan,Robert D. E. Sewell,Ghulam Abbas 대한약학회 2014 Archives of Pharmacal Research Vol.37 No.7
The aim of the current study was to explorein vivo any relative gastroulcerogenic prospective propensityof newly synthesized nitrogen containing derivativesof salicyl alcohol; compound (I) [1-(2-hydroxybenzyl)piperidinium chloride], compound (II) [4-carbamoyl-1-(2-hydroxybenzyl)piperidinium chloride] and aspirin in albinorats. The experimental groups received the following oraltreatments daily for 6 days: group I saline control; group II,standard (aspirin) treatment group [150 mg/kg of bodyweight]; group III, test (compound I) treatment group [100,150 mg/kg]; group IV, test (compound II) treatment group[100, 150 mg/kg]. The results showed that in the case of theaspirin treated group and compound (I) [150 mg/kg], therewas a significant increase in gastric volume, free acidity,total acidity, ulcer score and a decrease in gastric pH. Furthermore, histopathological examination of gastricmucosa of these treated groups revealed detectable morphologicalchanges. Utilizing the same protocol, syntheticcompound (I) [100 mg/kg] and (II) [100, 150 mg/kg]exhibited no statistically significant ulcerogenic or cytotoxicproperties. A cyclooxygenase (COX) selectivity test indicatedthe preferential inhibition of COX-I and COX-IIenzymes by compounds (I) and (II). This study thereforeindicates that these synthetic compounds may possessreduced ulcerogenic potential and could be a functionalsubstitute to aspirin.
Islam, A.B.M. Saiful,Walid, Walid,Al-Kutti, A.,Nasir, Muhammad,Kazmi, Zaheer Abbas,Sodangi, Mahmoud Techno-Press 2022 Advances in materials research Vol.11 No.2
This study aims to investigate the influence of scoria aggregate (SA) and silica fume (SF) as a replacement of conventional aggregate and ordinary Portland cement (OPC), respectively. Three types of concrete were prepared namely normal weight concrete (NWC) using limestone aggregate (LSA) and OPC (control specimen), lightweight concrete (LWC) using SA and OPC, and LWC using SA and partial SF (SLWC). The representative workability and compressive strength properties of the developed concrete were evaluated, and the results were correlated with non-destructive ultrasonic pulse velocity and Schmidt hammer tests. The LWC and SLWC yielded compressive strength of around 30 MPa and 33 MPa (i.e., 78-86% of control specimens), respectively. The findings indicate that scoria can be beneficially utilized in the development of structural lightweight concrete. Present renewable sources of aggregate will preserve the natural resources for next generation. The newly produced eco-friendly construction material is intended to break price barriers in all markets and draw attraction of incorporating scoria based light weight construction in Saudi Arabia and GCC countries. Findings of the SWOT analysis indicate that high logistics costs for distributing the aggregates across different regions in Saudi Arabia and clients' resistant to change are among the major obstacles to the commercialized production and utilization of lightweight concrete as green construction material. The findings further revealed that huge scoria deposits in Saudi Arabia, and the potential decrease in density self-weight of structural elements are the major drivers and enablers for promoting the adoption of lightweight concrete as alternative green construction material in the construction sector.
Ali, Gowhar,Subhan, Fazal,Islam, Nazar Ul,Ullah, Nasir,Shahid, Muhammad,Ullah, Sami,Ullah, Ihsan,Shah, Rehmat,Khan, Ikhtiar,Sewell, Robert D. E.,Abbas, Ghulam 대한약학회 2014 Archives of Pharmacal Research Vol.37 No.7
The aim of the current study was to explore in vivo any relative gastroulcerogenic prospective propensity of newly synthesized nitrogen containing derivatives of salicyl alcohol; compound (I) [1-(2-hydroxybenzyl) piperidinium chloride], compound (II) [4-carbamoyl-1-(2- hydroxybenzyl)piperidinium chloride] and aspirin in albino rats. The experimental groups received the following oral treatments daily for 6 days: group I saline control; group II, standard (aspirin) treatment group [150 mg/kg of body weight]; group III, test (compound I) treatment group [100, 150 mg/kg]; group IV, test (compound II) treatment group [100, 150 mg/kg]. The results showed that in the case of the aspirin treated group and compound (I) [150 mg/kg], there was a significant increase in gastric volume, free acidity, total acidity, ulcer score and a decrease in gastric pH. Furthermore, histopathological examination of gastric mucosa of these treated groups revealed detectable morphological changes. Utilizing the same protocol, synthetic compound (I) [100 mg/kg] and (II) [100, 150 mg/kg] exhibited no statistically significant ulcerogenic or cytotoxic properties. A cyclooxygenase (COX) selectivity test indicated the preferential inhibition of COX-I and COX-II enzymes by compounds (I) and (II). This study therefore indicates that these synthetic compounds may possess reduced ulcerogenic potential and could be a functional substitute to aspirin.
Determination of Bergenin in Different Parts of Bergenia ciliata using a Validated RP-HPLC Method
Ejaz Ali,Khalid Hussain,Nadeem Irfan Bukhari,Najma Arshad,Amjad Hussain,Nasir Abbas,Sohail Arshad,Sajida Parveen,Naureen Shehzadi,Shaista Qamar,Abida Qamar 한국생약학회 2021 Natural Product Sciences Vol.27 No.1
Bergenia ciliata (Family: Saxifragaceae) is a folklore remedy for the treatment of various ailments in Asian countries. Bergenin (1) has been isolated as an active constituent in many studies, however, the amount of bergenin has not been determined in all parts of the plant. A simple RP-HPLC method was developed to determine the amount of bergenin in methanol extracts of leaves, rhizomes and roots of the plant. Separation was achieved on an Agilent Eclipse XDB-C18 column maintained at 25 oC using isocratic solvent system (water: methanol: acetic acid; 62.5:37:0.5 v/v/v) adjusted at pH 2 0 at a flow rate of 1.0 mL/min. and detected at 275 nm. Correlation coefficient (0.9952) showed linearity of concentration (5-200 μg/mL) and response. The values of LOD (0.00947 μg/mL) and LOQ (0.02869 μg/mL) indicated that method was sensitive. The recovery of bergenin was 99.99-100% indicating accuracy of method. The methanol extract of rhizomes contained higher amount of bergenin (19.4%) than roots (9.2%) and leaves (6.9%). It is concluded that methanol extract of rhizomes is a better source of bergenin than other parts of the plant. The findings are useful for standardization of bergenin containing extracts and herbal preparations.