This thesis deals with the knowledge, attitude, and practices regarding the occupational safety standards within the construction industry of Islamabad to identify the factors influencing the compliance and implementation ...
In-utero and early life shocks have lasting impacts on a plethora of outcomes such as health, human capital, cognition and education. In the recent past, seasonal crop burning after harvest has been causing severe degradation ...
Family firms largely dominate the corporate landscape in Pakistan. This study investigates the factors driving family control, testing two main theories: competitive advantage and private benefits. The competitive advantage ...
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 ...