Pakistan has a variety of privately managed schools. Inspired by the corporate model large school systems offer franchise to small schools in the name of better quality education, leading to better market acceptability. ...
This thesis aims to capture variations in women empowerment and the role of internal migration keeping in view the embedded ethnic inequalities in Pakistan’s society. The women empowerment is proxied by their role in ...
The Covid-19 pandemic has had a profound and widespread negative impact on the lives of millions of households around the globe. Particularly, hard hit were those households who were already marginalized and the beneficiaries ...
The thesis aims to investigate the determinants of public primary school teachers’ satisfaction levels based on their motivational needs. To this extent it utilizes the dataset from LEAPS survey. The data is gathered from ...
The COVID-19 has exposed vulnerabilities in global economies impacting the marginalised communities the most. The lockdowns during the COVID has disrupted the means of credit interventions leading to increase in vulnerabilities ...
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the optimization of removal of phenol from wastewater with activated carbon (AC) and Response Surface Methodology (RSM). Phenol can be removed from wastewater using peanut shell ...
Brick powder works well as an adsorbent to remove Poly Vinyl Alcohol (PVA) from aqueous PVA solutions. The adsorption studies carried out with Acid Activated Brick powder (ABP), Calcinated Brick powder (CBP) and Brick ...
The construction sector faces numerous accidents, injuries, and deaths, particularly among non-national or migrant workers. The migratory phenomenon has intensified, with the number of foreign migrants growing from 153 to ...
The impacts of migration on the left-behind children in Pakistan are less explored. This research aims to contribute by separately examining the impacts of both internal and international migration of fathers on the ...
The potential risk that heavy metals cause during the early stages of childhood
development makes it a global health concern. Main aim of this study is to determine
the concentration of cadmium, chromium, nickel copper, ...
Aerosols cause a severe impact on the earth’s climate, human health, and ecosystem. By
understanding the variability of optical properties of aerosol, the impact of aerosols on the climate, human health, and ecosystem can ...
Rapid rise in the population, economic boom, urbanization, industrial growth, and changing socioeconomic conditions have caused an increase in the solid waste (SW) generation. Landfilling, composting, and incineration are ...
Climate change has badly affected many countries in the world and Pakistan is being listed among the top ten of those countries. Pakistan isfacing many adverse consequences due to climate change, which includes food security ...
Climate variation is among the prime aspects which has a significant effect on the biodiversity and ecological assemblages. The impact of climatic changes in the agricultural production is associated with temperature, ...
Rapid increase in the population, economic boom, urbanization, industrial growth, and changing socioeconomic conditions have caused an increase in the medical waste (MW) generation. MW disposal is a significant concern, ...
Pakistan is one of ten countries in the world which are likely to be strongly affected by climate change and face very serious food security issues. The variability in temperature and precipitation diversifies the geographical ...
Prevalent in both wastewater and drinking water, heavy metals pose a risk to human health and the environment. Adsorption, membrane, chemical, electric, and photocatalytic treatments could be used to remove these metals ...
This study explores the relationship between fear of unknown and panic buying behavior
in the context of COVID-19. Building on the protection-motivation theory (PMT), the study
extends the model by investigating ‘how’ ...
The definition and criteria for productive and meaningful economic and social participation is changing as a transformative impact of digital proliferation. This mandates development of multiple transversal literacies or ...
The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of COVID-19 on the rural
livelihood of small-scale farmers. It identifies the factors which have affected them
the most and their strategies for adjusting to the shocks ...