مولانا افتخار احمد فریدی
دینی حلقوں میں یہ خبر افسوس اور رنج کے ساتھ سنی جائے گی کہ ۲۴؍ اکتوبر ۱۹۹۸ء کو ایک پُرجوش اور سرگرم داعی و مبلغ مولانا افتخار احمد فریدی انتقال فرماگئے، اناﷲ وانا الیہ راجعون۔
مرحوم کا وطن مراد آباد تھا، ایک زمانے میں ان کے ہاتھوں میں وہ پرچم بغاوت تھا جس کو سرفروشان وطن نے برطانوی جبر و استبداد کے خلاف بلند کیا تھا مگر پھر ع پھاڑ کر جیب و آستین کر علم جنوں بلند۔ انہیں حضرت مولانا محمد الیاسؒ کی دینی دعوت سے عشق ہوگیا جس کے لیے وہ ملکوں ملکوں کی خاک چھانتے رہے ، کسی حادثہ میں ان کا ایک پیر کاٹ دیا گیا مگر وہ بیساکھیوں کے سہارے ملک کے و طول و عرض کا دورہ کرتے رہے، سفر حج میں مولانا شاہ معین الدین احمد ندوی کا ساتھ ہوگیا تو ان کی بڑی خدمت کی اور ہر طرح کا آرام پہنچایا۔ ایک دفعہ وہ اپنے ایک تبلیغی دورے میں اعظم گڑھ آئے تو شاہ صاحب نے ان کی بڑی پذیرائی کی۔ جناب سید صباح الدین صاحب سے مخلصانہ تعلق رکھتے تھے اور راقم سے بھی خط و کتابت رہتی تھی۔
کئی برسوں سے تبلیغی دوڑ دھوپ کا سلسلہ موقوف ہوگیا تھا، لیکن اسی جذبے سے اصلاحی و دعوتی رسائل اور مواعظ و ملفوظات کے مجموعے شائع کرتے تھے، وہ غیر مسلموں میں بھی اسلام کی تبلیغ و اشاعت کرتے رہتے تھے۔ اﷲ تعالیٰ ان کی بشری لغزشوں سے درگزر فرمائے اور انہیں جنت نعیم میں جگہ دے۔ آمین! (ضیاء الدین اصلاحی، نومبر ۱۹۹۸ء)
Background of the Study: To compare the effects of cervical muscles strengthening with and without shoulder exercises on post- mastectomy patients with neck pain.
Methodology: It was a randomized clinical trial, conducted in physical therapy department of a clinical setting through Dynamometer. Sample size of 24 patients were taken. Non-probability convenience sampling technique was used. A written consent form was taken from patients meeting inclusion criteria and were randomly allocated. In one group, patients were treated with cervical Muscles strengthening with shoulder exercises. In other group, patients were treated with cervical Muscles strengthening alone. Treatment was given once a day for three weeks. Muscle strength was examined using dynamometer, Baseline data was taken before treatment on first day after inclusion in study and again on the last day after treatment. SPSS 25 was used to analyze the data.
Results: Wilcoxon signed rank test was used to compare individuals within the group which showed significant results in both groups, p-value 0.000 (i.e. <0.001) for neck strength. Between groups comparison was done using Mann-Whitney U Test and it showed no significant changes for cervical extensors (p- value;0.143) , cervical side bending (right) (p-value; 0.315) and cervical side bending (left) (p-value; 0.853) strength differences, but however cervical flexors strength showed statistically significant results as p-value was 0.003.
Conclusion: It was concluded that Cervical strengthening along with shoulder Rehabilitation can help improve the strength of cervical flexors. However, both the groups have equally resulted in improved cervical extensor, Side bending right and left strength.
Citation indexes and digital libraries index millions of research papers and make them available to the scienti c community; however, searching the intended information from these huge repositories remain a challenge. Everyday, the research papers in online digital libraries are increasing due to di erent number of conferences, workshop, and journals which are being arranged throughout the world. According to the statistic in 2017, one of the digital libraries in medical domain, such as PubMed consisted of 28 millions of research documents. The manual searching of relevant research papers from such a huge amount of documents is a very di cult task. Therefore, this area has attracted the attention of researcher''s worldwide to propose and implement innovative techniques that could recommend relevant papers to researchers. The identi cation of relevant research papers has become an important research area. For this, research community has proposed more than 90 di erent approaches in the past 15 years. These approaches have utilized di erent data sources, such as metadata, content, pro le based data and citations of research papers. These techniques have certain strengths and limitations which have been critically reviewed and presented in this document. One of the important approaches in this area is co-citation analysis which considers two documents as relevant if they are co-cited in other scienti c documents. The original approach used references from the reference list of scienti c documents to make such observations. However, in the recent years, the content of documents have also been exploited along with the reference list to enhance the accuracy. These approaches include Citation Proximity Analysis (CPA), Citation Order Analysis (COA), and exploit bytes of the content of scienti c papers. These approaches conceptualize the occurrence of co-citations in di erent level of proximity and give more weights to the co-cited documents which are co-cited closely. However, the closely co-cited documents in the \Methodology/Results" section may be considered more relevant as compared to the closely co-cited papers in the \Introduction/Discussion" sections. This thesis explores structural organization of scienti c documents by giving weights according to the importance of di erent generic sections, and investigates that whether such approach may increase the accuracy of identifying relevant papers. This work addresses the following important research challenges and can be considered as the contributions of the thesis: (1) generic section identi cation in citing document (2) in-text citation patterns and frequencies identi cation in citing document and (3) design of an algorithm that utilizes evidences from above mentioned sources (sections name, their weight, and the frequency of co-citations) to identify and recommend relevant papers. For each contribution, the detailed architecture, dataset and evaluation have been discussed in this thesis. First the generic section identi cation component was designed, implemented and then evaluated with state-of-the-art approaches. The proposed approach was evaluated on two datasets consisted of 150 and 300 citing documents respectively. The aggregated F-score of proposed approach was 92% over the both datasets while the F-score of the state-of-the-art technique was 81%. Second, the component of in-text citation patterns and frequencies identi cation was implemented with detailed architecture, dataset, and evaluation. For the evaluation, two datasets were prepared from openly available digital libraries, Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS)1 and CiteSeerX2. The proposed model was outperformed the state-of-the-art approach by increasing the F-score from 0.58 to 0.97. The third contribution of this thesis is section wise co-citation analysis which depends on earlier two components. The proposed approach was designed to rank the co-cited documents. For the evaluation purpose, two benchmarks such as JSD and cosine similarity based rankings were selected for the comparison of proposed and state-of-the-art approaches. The score has been compared between the proposed and state-of-the-art approaches using Spearman''s and Kendall''s tau measures. The results show that the proposed approach has outperformed comparatively the state-of-the-art techniques such as: standard co-citation and CPA based on bytes o set.