Practice of early marriages among women is a chronic social problem in the rural areas of Pakistan and is most prevalent among pakhtoons. Centuries old customs and traditions are stimulating factors for this practice due to which firm beliefs and practices are legitimized by the communi...
Our country set includes four of the focus countries/regions of the World Bank Early Learning Partnership (ELP) Systems Research program: Ethiopia, Liberia, the province of Punjab in Pakistan, and Tanzania. With financial support from the UK government, the ELP Systems Research program aims both ...
This approach could then potentially demonstrate the utility of vibrational spectroscopy as an environmental monitoring tool and identify amphibian populations affected by environmental perturbations such as water quality problems prior to any gross declines in population. Results Spatial differences between ...
Although the concentrations are lower in the four other affluent countries, they are substantial at two-in-five (40%) in Switzerland (29% from the Republic of Yugoslavia, 11% from Turkey), one-third (35%) in the UK (15% from India, 20% from Pakistan), and more than one-in-five in...
328 ABSTRACT PROBLEMS OF UPPER PERMIAN AND TRIASSI C STRATIGRAPHY ON THE RUSSIAN PLATFORM, IN THE LIGHT OF PALEOMAGNETIC, PALEONTOLOGICAL AN D LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC EVIDENC E N . N . FORSH, A, N . KHRAMOV AND E . A . MOLOTOVSK Y National Committee of Geologists of the U .S .S .R . ...
Tight hole problems related to the formation as a result of wellbore instabilities closes the annulus around the drillstring; this is quite similar to forming a keyseat. When tripping through the same formation, the HKLD behavior is such that it is lower than normal when RIH, and if over...
Around 27 percent of the children are at risk of social–emotional problems at baseline. Table 1. Descriptive statistics and balance. Empty Cell(1)(2)(3) Empty CellControl (N = 296)Treatment (N = 212)p-value Panel A. Child characteristics (1) Age in months 24.464 24.454 0.975 (0.198)...
Actual time to peak yield was only less than 45 days in the primiparous yeast treated group (average of 41 days). This is in alignment with the results by Chaudhry et al. (2000)who found that peak yield occurred 48 days post-partum in Nili-Ravi buffaloes in Pakistan. However, no ...
indigenous in many countries of the WHO Eastern Mediterranean region causing geographically wide-ranging epidemics in the past [6], the evidence for the presence of CHIKV from the region came fortuitously through serological surveys conducted in Pakistan in 1983 [3] and from Sudan in 2005 [7]....
Daoud’s attempts to continue a mul-ti-lateral foreign policy to secure the influx of aid and strengthen Afghanistan’s position in the Pashtunistan conflict with Pakistan complicated his moderniza-tion programs.7 Daoud reformed the penal system to make Afghanistan a modern state. With the ...