Depression is a not a simple term but has been used to describe a variety of infirmities, ranging from minor to debilitating. It is characterized not only by disheartened mood but also by a group of somatic, cognitive, and motivational symptoms. It is a multi-symptom disease and can even lead to suicidal attempt. There is currently no way to determine which antidepressant will work best for a given patient. Moreover, no one knows why some patients recover and others have no improvement, even after they spend months trying a series of medications. In fact, little is known with absolute certainty about how antidepressants improve mood, which means that many people continue to suffer while their doctors try a series of medications. Case control studies have supported a relationship between low folic acid, low vitamin B12, low vitamin D and high homocysteine (tHcy) levels as possible predictors of depression. The results from epidemiological studies are mixed and largely from elderly populations. Majority of the studies relating vitamin D status with depression are based either on a small sample size or non-representative of the local population. Clinical studies suggest that vitamin D, vitamin B12, folate and high tHcy level are involved in the pathophysiology of depression, anxiety and sleep disorder. We designed a study to determine relationship, if any, between vitamin D, vitamin B12, folate deficiency and high tHcy levels with depression, anxiety and sleep disorder in our local population. Total of 250 diagnosed patients of 18-75 years of age were enrolled for this study, after a written consent. Out of 250 patients, 150 patients were diagnosed as depressed, 50 as anxiety and 50 as sleep disorder. Depressed patients were further categorized into three groups depending on severity of disease i.e; mild, moderate and severely depressed patients. Blood measures included serum vitamin D, folic acid, vitamin B12 and tHcy levels and data was recorded on structured data collection form. The present study was conducted to assess whether serum levels of vitamin D, tHcy level vitamin B12 and folate are associated with depression, anxiety, sleep disorders and with severity of disease. It was observed that elevated depressive symptoms were associated with low vitamin D status, low folate and high tHcy status in all males and females. We also observed negative correlation of vitamin D and a significant positive correlation of tHcy in depression, anxiety and sleep disorder and with severity of disease in all males and females. It was concluded that low vitamin D, low folic acid and high serum tHcy levels, are correlates of depressive symptoms in our local population. The effects of vitamin D and tHcy are overlapping but distinct in our study. An association between serum folate, vitamin D, tHcy and cognitive impairment are of considerable public health importance in view of the increasing numbers of elderly people in Pakistani population. A plausible hypothesis for these association is that high tHcy levels cause cerebral vascular disease and neurotransmitter deficiency, which cause depression of mood. Furthermore, inadequate levels of either vitamin can lead to elevated plasma tHcy levels, which may be independently associated with Alzheimer’s and depression, thus raising interest in these vitamins as a means of prevention.
The role of youth in development of any society is vital. They are the vanguard of any nation. The youth cannot play their role properly and positively unless they understand their responsibilities fully. Creating sense of responsibility in individual of a society especially in its youth is inevitable for the collective and dynamic development of a society. The life of the holy Prophet (r) is a complete guide for all spheres of our life. It is evident from the teachings of the holy Prophet (r) and the general commandments of Islam that the youth play a very important role in socio economic and politico educational development. The holy Prophet (r) showed complete confidence in youth. He delegated them with different responsibilities, provided complete guidance and encouraged them for discharging their duties properly. The companions of the holy Prophet (r) who embraced Islam as a result of his first invitation were young between the ages of 20 to 30. The worst enemy of Islam- Abu Jahal was got killed by two young brothers. Likewise a young man Muṣ‘ab bin ‘Umayr (Ï) was sent to Madina, and Mu‘āz bin Jabal (Ï) and Abu Mūsá Ash‘arī (Ï) were sent to Yemen. Zayd bin Thābit (Ï) was directed to learn other languages. He also compiled the holy Qur’ān in Caliphate of Abū Bakar (Ï). The holy Prophet appointed Ḥuzayfa (Ï) to take census. For creating leadership characteristics, Usāmah bin Zayd was sent to different war expeditions. These are ample proofs of holy Prophet’s confidence he had in the youth.
This thesis is an attempt to develop the method and the model to measure the viscosities and inertia against the volatalities in the time series of automotives’ (cars) world sales, market share and the world net exports in the presence of finanicial, economical and trade fundamentals while investigating the automotive industry of top 26 automotive producing nations in terms of stated automotive variables in connection with financial fundamentals which include proxies of stock market (change in closing shares/stocks prices and trading volume of stocks) economical fundamentals include nations’ prosperity (per capita income, GDP growth rate and employment rate), and domestic energy oil market players (domestic energy oil productions and domestic energy oil consumption) and trade fundamentals include,international trade players (inflation rate, net exports of all goods and services and foreign exchange rates) and International price players (comprised on international oil price and international gold price). The data of automotives (car) world sales, market shares and the world net exports along with the all selected fundamentals of all top 26 automotive (cars) producing nations were collected from the comtrade, Eikon, data stream of Thomson Reuters and yahoo finace. Simulation of GARCH 1, 1 with winters Holt procedure was used to develop a novel model (two stage Subhani-GARCH model) to address the main objective of this research which were, investigating the viscosities (1st step of two stage Subhani GARCH 1,1 process) and the inertia/ Subhani inertia (2nd step of two stage subhani GARCH 1,1 process) gainst the volatilities in the given time series. Besides investigating the main objective, various other corollaries and propositions were also framed and investigated for catering the questions of presence of volatilities, AR processes and non-stationarities in the stated automotive series.GARCH 1, 1 process VAR and ADF unit root test were employed to investigate framed corollaries and propositions. Findings confirmed that all stated top 26 automotive nations have shown, more or less same non-volatile trends with few exceptions while same AR process and same shocking behavior of the automotive (cars) world sales, market share and net exports for these top automotives manufacturing countries were found observed for last several years which cover more than a decade ranging from 2002 to 2014. Whereas, the novel two stage Subhani-GARCH 1, 1 model confirmed the presence of viscosity in all of outlined series of all top automotives (cars) manufacturing nations and inertia in only those series which were volatiles.