Trends and Analysis of Cancer Incidence for Common Male and Female Cancers in the Population of Punjab Province of Pakistan during 1984 to 2014

Masood, Khalid,Masood, Andleeb,Zafar, Junaid,Shahid, Abubaker,Kamran, Mujahid,Murad, Sohail,Masood, Misbah,Alluddin, Zafar,Riaz, Masooma,Akhter, Naseem,Ahmad, Munir,Ahmad, Fayyaz,Akhtar, Javaid,Naeem, Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 2015 Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention Vol.16 No.13

Background: The Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission Cancer Registry (PAECCR) program has made availability of a common cancer incidence database possible in Pakistan. The cancer incidence data from nuclear medicine and oncology institutes were gathered and presented. Materials and Methods: The cancer incidence data for the last 30 years (1984-2014) are included to describe a data set of male and female patients. The data analysis concerning occurrence, trends of common cancers in male and female patients, stage-wise distribution, and mortality/follow-up cases is also incorporated for the last 10 years (2004-2014). Results: The total population of provincial capital Lahore is 9,800,000. The total number of cancer cases was 80,390 (males 32,156, females 48,134). The crude incidence rates in PAECCR areas were 580.8/$10^5$ during 2010 to 885.4/$10^5$ in 2014 (males 354.1/$10^5$, females 530.1/$10^5$). The cancer incidence rates for head and neck (15.70%), brain tumors (10.5%), and non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL, 9.53%) were found to be the highest in male patients, whereas breast cancer (46.7%), ovary tumors (6.80%), and cervix (6.31%) cancer incidence rates were observed to be the most common in female patients. The age range distribution of diagnosed and treated patients in conjunction with the percentage contribution of cancer patients from 15 different cities of Punjab province treated at the Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Oncology, Lahore are also included. Leukemia was found to be the most common cancer for the age group of 1-12 years. It has been identified that the maximum number of diagnosed cases were found in the age range of 51-60 years for males and 41-50 years for female cancer patients. Conclusions: Overall cancer incidence of the thirty years demonstrated that head and neck and breast cancers in males and in females respectively are the most common cancers in Punjab province in Pakistan, at rates almost the highest in Asia, requiring especial attention. The incidence of brain, NHL, and prostate cancers among males and ovarian and cervix cancers among females have increased rapidly. These data from a major population of Punjab province should be helpful for implementation of appropriate planning, prevention and cancer control measures and for determination of risk factors within the country.

Quality of Service, Expectation, Satisfaction and Trust in Public Institutions: The Abu Dhabi Citizen Satisfaction Survey

Masood Badri,Mugheer Al Khaili,Rashed Lahej Al Mansoori 서울대학교행정대학원 2015 Asian Journal of Political Science Vol.23 No.3

Structural equation modelling was utilised to develop and test three models while exploring the causality effect of constructs. The models hypothesised that trust in the government was a result of interactions of several other forces: namely, citizens’ expectation, perception of service quality and satisfaction with these services. The article validates and replicates the findings on the question of causality between performance and trust. The findings were very consistent with the previous ones. The model incorporating citizen’s demographic data provided the best fit. According to this model, citizen demographics, expectations and quality of services influence citizen satisfaction; and ultimately, citizen satisfaction influences trust in government. The perceived quality of all services provides significant standardised estimates. However, congestion in streets, parking facilities, parks and recreation and schools are the most salient drivers of citizen satisfaction. The variables of income, education level, years living in Abu Dhabi and marital status exert the highest influence on this satisfaction construct. Perception of quality of services has a significant effect on overall satisfaction; and overall satisfaction drives trust in local government officials. In addition, citizen expectation influences perceptions of the quality of service and overall satisfaction.

Comparison the Pattern of Biochemical Composition Changes Associated with Growth and Development of Some Commercial Pistachio Nuts

Masood Khezri,Alireza Talaie,Amanollah Javanshah 한국원예학회 2006 한국원예학회 기타간행물 Vol.- No.-

Predicting the combined effect of TiO2 nano-particles and welding input parameters on the hardness of melted zone in submerged arc welding by fuzzy logic

Masood Aghakhani,Mohammad Reza Ghaderi,Maziar Mahdipour Jalilian,Ali Ashraf Derakhshan 대한기계학회 2013 JOURNAL OF MECHANICAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Vol.27 No.7

Submerged arc welding (SAW) is a high-quality arc welding process used in heavy industries for welding thick plates. In this process,selecting appropriate values for the input parameters is required for high productivity and cost effectiveness. A very important weld quality characteristic affected by welding input parameters is the hardness of melted zone (HMZ). This paper reports the applicability of fuzzy logic (FL) to predict HMZ in the SAW process which is affected by the combined effect of TiO2 nano-particles and welding input parameters. The arc voltage, welding current, welding speed, contact tip-to-plate distance, and TiO2 nano-particles were used as input parameters and HMZ as the response to develop FL model. A five-level five-factor central composite rotatable design (CCRD) was used in the experiments to generate experimental data. Experiments were performed, and HMZs were measured. The predicted results from FL were compared with the experimental data. The correlation factor value obtained was 99.99% between the measured and predicted values of HMZ. The results showed that FL is an accurate and reliable technique for predicting HMZ because of its low error rate.

An Empirical Study of Correlations between Function Points and Software Defects

Masood Uzzafer 보안공학연구지원센터 2016 International Journal of Hybrid Information Techno Vol.9 No.7

Software defects prediction research is converging on the use of function point elements for software defect predictions. Studies on the nature and behavior of the function point elements are expanding. Previous studies have analyzed the correlation between the function point elements. This paper presents correlation analysis between function point elements and the software defects. It is observed that external input count and external inquiry count function point elements show some correlation with software defects. Different data subsets were analyzed, where 4GL projects shows strong correlation with defects over 3GL and ApG/other projects, while enhancement software projects show more correlation with defects over new software projects.

Bootstrap Correlation Analysis of Function Point Elements

Masood Uzzafer 보안공학연구지원센터 2016 International Journal of Database Theory and Appli Vol.9 No.3

This research work investigates the correlation of software function point elements using bootstrap simulation. The correlation of software function point elements plays an important role in understanding the software size; the correlation among function point elements suggests that they measure the same attribute of a software project. Bootstrapping is an effective method to study the statistical properties of correlation coefficients; bootstrap produces a histogram of the possible values of correlation coefficients, which helps to understand the range and spread of the correlation among different function point elements, rater then generating a single point estimate of the correlation.

Advanced Business Process Management with Digital Innovations (Review)

Masood Ahmed Khalid,Muhammad Jawad Ibrahim International Journal of Computer ScienceNetwork S 2023 International journal of computer science and netw Vol.23 No.6

Many organizations are looking for digital innovation to apply in business process management and this information revolution leaves its effect on the businesses and anticipate competitors. In this article, investigates the strength of the relationship between business process management (BMP) and Digital Innovations (DI) since it has been underdeveloped. The results and findings are extracted from international survey with explanations of expert panel to generalized a positive and moderate link of multiple factors that are affecting the strategic decision-making in business process management. It is extended to the Technology Organization Environment (TOE) framework and contour organizations along their Digital Process Innovation (DPI).

Nonlinear kinetic Alfvén waves with non-Maxwellian electron population in space plasmas

Masood, W.,Qureshi, M. N. S.,Yoon, P. H.,Shah, H. A. American Geophysical Union 2015 JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH. SPACE PHYSICS Vol.120 No.1

<P>The present work discusses the effects of non-Maxwellian electron distributions on kinetic Alfven waves in low-beta plasmas. Making use of the two-potential theory and employing the Sagdeev potential approach, the existence of solitary kinetic Alfven waves having arbitrary amplitude is investigated. It is found that the use of non-Maxwellian population of electrons in the study of kinetic Alfven waves leads to solutions corresponding to solitary structures that do not exist for Maxwellian electrons. The present investigation solves the riddle of plasma density fluctuations associated with strong electromagnetic perturbations observed by the Freja satellite. The present findings can also be applied to regions of space where various satellite missions have observed the presence of suprathermal populations of plasma species and where the low assumption is valid</P>

Efficiency Improvement of Organic Solar Cells Using Two-step Annealing Technique

Masood, Bilal,Haider, Arsalan,Nawaz, Tehsin The Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic 2016 Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Material Vol.17 No.3

The fullerene solar cells are becoming a feasible choice due to the advanced developments in donor materials and improved fabrication techniques of devices. Recently, sufficient optimization and improvements in the processing techniques like incorporation of solvent vapor annealing (SVA) with additives in solvents has become a major cause of prominent improvements in the performance of organic solar cell-based devices . On the other hand, the challenge of reduced open circuit voltage (V_oc) remains. This study presents an approach for significant performance improvement of overall device based on organic small molecular solar cells (SMSCs) by following a two step technique that comprises thermal annealing (TA) and SVA (abbreviated as SVA+TA). In case of exclusive use of SVA, reduction in V_oc can be eliminated in an effective way. The characteristics of charge carriers can be determined by the measurement of transient photo-voltage (TPV) and transient photo-current (TPC) that determines the scope for improvement in the performance of device by two step annealing. The recovery of reduced V_oc is linked with the necessary change in the dynamics of charge that lead to increased overall performance of device. Moreover, SVA and TA complement each other; therefore, two step annealing technique is an appropriate way to simultaneously improve the parameters such as V_oc, fill factor (FF), short circuit current density (J_sc) and PCE of small molecular solar cells.

Application of Modified Model Predictive Control to a Gantry System

Masood Askari,Haider A. F. Mohamed,M. Moghavvemi,S. S. Yang 제어로봇시스템학회 2009 제어로봇시스템학회 국제학술대회 논문집 Vol.2009 No.8

This paper considers in particular the design of a controller based on model predictive control and feedbacklinearization methods for gantry systems. In order to meet the operation requirements of fast anti-swaying and precisepositioning of gantry crane systems, a practical optimal control scheme is presented. This controller is designed toguarantee the performance in presence of a class of nonlinear dynamics. The controller is implemented on anexperimental rotary gantry system. The controller achieves good positioning accuracy and significant sway reduction.