John L. Wilkinson, Alistair B.A. Boxall, Dana W. Kolpin, Kmy Leung et al.
Environmental exposure to active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) can have negative effects on the health of ecosystems and humans. While numerous studies have monitored APIs in rivers, these employ different analytical methods, measure different APIs, and have ignored many of the countries of the ...
Muhammad Habib ur Rahman, Ashfaq Ahmad, Ahsan Raza, Muhammad Hasnain et al.
Agricultural production is under threat due to climate change in food insecure regions, especially in Asian countries. Various climate-driven extremes, i.e., drought, heat waves, erratic and intense rainfall patterns, storms, floods, and emerging insect pests have adversely affected the livelihood o...
Ghulam Abbas, Shakeel Ahmad, Ashfaq Ahmad, Wajid Nasim et al.
Crop production is greatly impacted by growing season duration, which is driven by prevailing environmental conditions (mainly temperature) and agronomic management practices (particularly changes in cultivars and shifts in sowing dates). It is imperative to evaluate the impact of climate change and...
Razu Ahmed, Md. Kamal Uddin, Md. Abdul Quddus, Mohd Yusoff Abd Samad et al.
Appropriate foliar application of zinc (Zn) and zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO-NPs) is important for the proper growth and yield of tomato. However, the effects of foliar application of Zn and ZnO-NPs were not well-studied on tomato production. A pot experiment was conducted at glasshouse (8D) condit...
Ashfaq Ahmad Shah, Rajib Shaw, Jingzhong Ye, Muhammad Abid et al.
Local institutions could play an essential role in providing first-hand rescue and support to communities in reducing the impacts and vulnerability to natural disasters such as floods. Keeping in view the importance of local institutions, Pakistan has established disaster management authorities at a...
Shakeel Ahmad, Qaiser Abbas, Ghulam Abbas, Zartash Fatima et al.
Understanding the impact of the warming trend on phenological stages and phases of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) in central and lower Punjab, Pakistan, may assist in optimizing crop management practices to enhance production. This study determined the influence of the thermal trend on cotton phenol...
Ashfaq Ahmad, Tareq Rasul, Anish Yousaf, Umer Zaman
Elderly diabetic patients in developed countries have been widely using digital health wearables for many years to manage their diabetes-related health data accurately. To encourage the increased adoption of digital health wearables among elderly diabetic patients in a developing country, Bangladesh...
Muhammad Habib ur Rahman, Ashfaq Ahmad, Aftab Wajid, Manzoor Hussain et al.
Simulation models are widely used for making decision support especially under sub-optimal climatic conditions for yield improvement. The impact of uncertain weather conditions on cotton production can be explored with the aid of such models. Cotton, being the queen of fibers, enjoys itself a predom...
Shakeel Ahmad, Ashfaq Ahmad, Cecilia M. Tojo Soler, Hakoomat Ali et al.
The objectives of this study were to evaluate the performance of the cropping system model (CSM)-CERES-Rice to simulate growth and development of an aromatic rice variety under irrigated conditions in a semiarid environment of Pakistan and to determine the impact of various plant densities and nitro...
Shakeel Ahmad, Ashfaq Ahmad, Hakoomat Ali, Abid Hussain et al.
Mohammad Idreesh Khan, Md Faruque Ahmad, Irfan Ahmad, Fauzia Ashfaq et al.
Dietary arsenic (As) contamination is a major public health issue. In the Middle East, the food supply relies primarily on the import of food commodities. Among different age groups the main source of As exposure is grains and grain-based food products, particularly rice and rice-based dietary produ...
Ahmad Numery Ashfaqul Haque, Md. Kamal Uddin, Muhammad Firdaus Sulaiman, Adibah Mohd Amin et al.
A pot experiment was executed to investigate the impact of biochar and compost with water-saving irrigation on the rice yield, water use efficiency, and physicochemical properties of soil. Two irrigation regimes—namely alternate wetting and drying (AWD) and continuous flooding (CF)—and four types of...
Ahmad Numery Ashfaqul Haque, Md. Kamal Uddin, Muhammad Firdaus Sulaiman, Adibah Mohd Amin et al.
Over half of the world’s population depends on rice for its calorie supply, although it consumes the highest amount of water compared to other major crops. To minimize this excess water usage, alternate wetting and drying (AWD) irrigation practice is considered as an efficient technique in which soi...
Mehnaz Mosharrof, Md. Kamal Uddin, Muhammad Firdaus Sulaiman, Shamim Mia et al.
Biochar, an ecologically friendly soil amendment, is suggested for large-scale field application for its multiple potential benefits, including carbon sequestration, crop yield improvement, and the abatement of greenhouse gas emissions. However, it is unknown how effective it is in changing soil pro...
S. Ali, Ashfaq Ahmad, Nasima Ferdous
This paper gives a survey of the alpha-nucleon interaction and then describes experimental work on angular distributions of differential scattering cross sections and polarizations in proton-alpha and neutron-alpha scattering. The phenomenological approach, which includes the study of both local and...