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Corporate Sustainability Performance in the Perspective of Tqm, Technology Management and Qehs Management System Standards

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Tasleem, Muhammad

Program

PhD

Institute

National University of Sciences & Technology

City

Islamabad

Province

Islamabad

Country

Pakistan

Thesis Completing Year

2017

Thesis Completion Status

Completed

Subject

Applied Sciences

Language

English

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http://prr.hec.gov.pk/jspui/bitstream/123456789/8138/1/Muhammad_Tasleem_Engineering_Management_HSR_2017_NUST_23.01.2018.pdf

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2021-02-17 19:49:13

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2024-03-24 20:25:49

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1676725794565

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Sustainability - an endeavor to stable, durable and eternalness performance - has become a renowned and most important fact, recognized and consciously emphasized by various international agencies, interested parties and consumers, that has caused extra pressure in widening the organization’s purpose to make productive use of input resources to create value and benefits for its constituents and stakeholders, of current and future generation, without harming the environment or society. Corporate sustainability management makes sight to grow business activities, by balancing the complementary and competing interests of key stakeholders, in three dimensions; economic, social and environmental; to lead superior and long-term success. Literature suggests that Corporate Sustainability Performance (CSP) can be substantiated with the very foundation of TQM or Business Excellence Models. Authors have also contrasted the principles and practices of three international management system standards (MSSs); i.e. ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001; in fulfilling requirements related to Quality, Environment and Health & Safety (QEHS) to attain goals of three pillars of sustainability performance. Moreover, the ever growing industrial and technological advancement, in the world, creates new and diversified risks and challenges for the organizations, and for the environment, that can be dealt with attention to dimensions of Technology Management (TM). Managing technology entails production and use of alternatives which are economically and environmentally viable for the benefit of society. In literature, TQM and TM have been treated in separate fashion, and only little research is available that combines the both. This is a novel research study that co-aligns TQM and TM to empirically investigate their association and impact on sustainability performance while taking into account the contributing role of QEHS MSS. The study initially establishes research objectives and questions, and develops ten hypotheses, and then adopts a positivism philosophy, deductive approach, quantitative method and questionnaire based survey strategy for data collection from 209 organizations, of different sectors, sizes and locations, in Pakistan. Normality, homogeneity, reliability and validity of data is confirmed prior performing data analysis. Factor analysis, structural equation modeling (SEM) and path analysis techniques through sophisticated statistical softwares (Minitab, SPSS and AMOS) have been used for data analysis and relationship measurement of the factors. Results of the study reveal that TQM iv significantly impacts CSP and each dimension of sustainability, whereas TM significantly impacts economic sustainability only. It is also found that TQM mediates relationship between TM and CSP, whereas QEHS MSSs has no moderated mediation effect in the relationship but significantly contributes in achieving higher sustainability performance. After discussion, the study also proposes a six-step strategy to implement sustainability practices, and then highlights some valuable findings, conclusions, recommendations and limitations at the end. The study contributes to literature as it empirically investigates the association between the contemporary concepts, particularly in the context of a developing country, and suggests an implementation framework for attaining corporate sustainability performance. Key Words: TQM, technology, sustainability, corporate sustainability performance, management system standards
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86. Al-Tariq/The Star of Brilliant Brightness

86. Al-Tariq/The Star of Brilliant Brightness

I/We begin by the Blessed Name of Allah

The Immensely Merciful to all, The Infinitely Compassionate to everyone.

86:01
a. By the celestial realm and the Tariq.

86:02
a. And what may enable you to comprehend the Tariq?

86:03
a. Tariq is the star of brilliant brightness before dawn.

86:04
a. There is a guardian angel set up over every human being.

86:05
a. So let every human being reflect of what insignificant substance he is created -

86:06
a. - he is created out of a mingling of seminal and ovarian spurting fluid,

86:07
a. emerging from between the male’s hip and the female’s pelvis.

86:08
a. Surely, HE is Able to bring him back to life-

86:09
a. - at the Time when all secrets of his deeds, dealings and speech will be exposed and judged,

86:10
a. then he will have no power to hide them, and
b. no supporter to help him avoid the consequences.

86:11
a. By the sky clouds giving rain, time and again,

86:12
a. and the land/earth too splitting time and again -
b. for gushing of springs and growth of vegetation.
c. and human beings during the Time of Resurrection.

728 Surah 86 * Al-Tariq

86:13
a. Indeed, this - Qur’an - is the Decisive Word!

86:14
a. And it is not for amusement.

86:15
a. Indeed, they are devising a plot/false arguments against The Prophet,

86:16

دور المعاهد والأقسام للترجمة في العصور العربية الزاهرة وحاجة انشائھا في أقسام اللغات بالجامعات الباكستانية

Translations have a prominent role in the advancement of science and literature for any people. By which sciences and arts move from the literature of one nation to the literature of another nation, in which sciences and arts flourish, and a nation becomes acquainted with the literature of another nations. Translation is an independent art, as it depends on creativity, linguistic sense and the ability to bring cultures closer, and it enables all mankind to communicate and benefit from each other's experiences. It is an art as old as written literature. Translation is a cultural necessity and an intellectual activity, and it extends bridges of communication between civilizations that converge and diverge among themselves, and their languages are similar and differ in ways of expression and methods of statement and expression of ideas, feelings and attitudes, and in the worldview and understanding of its concepts. There is no doubt that translation it is a complex linguistic process that requires lengthy anchors, as the queen of the two tongues is acquired only by a lot of practice, in addition to the systematic study of the mechanisms of transmission from one tongue to another. We also see in the modern era that the Arab Scientific Academy in Damascus, the Arabic Language Academy in Cairo and the Iraqi Scientific Academy have a clear and prominent role in the advancement of Arabic sciences and literature. The Scientific Academy in Damascus has established the Arabic language and its terminology, and the language of bureaucracies, in particular, with the help of authors and translators in particular, and the Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo, which has made efforts in developing the great linguistic lexicon and terminology of modern sciences.

Molecular Epidemiology of Dengue Virua Infectionand Full Length Characterization of Prevalent Genotypes in Pakistan

Dengue fever is one of the important and most common mosquitoe borne diseases in the tropical and subtropical areas of the world. Since 1994, the dengue fever is appearing as a fatal health hazard in Pakistan. Two severe outbreaks of dengue were recorded during the years-2011 in Punjab Province and 2013 in Swat District, wherein hundreds of people died and 1000s more remained with the potential risk of the fetal fever. This thesis encompasses molecular biology of the major dengue outbreaks of Pakistan in general and the first hand information on the dengue outbreak of the year 2013 in District Swat. In order to characterize the dengue virus (DENV), blood samples from 1795 dengue patients were obtained and analyzed through RT-PCR, for its epidemiology, evolutionary history and prevalent genotypes/serotypes of the outbreaks. Phylogenetic analyses were carried out through MEGA, PhyML software and selection pressure was determined through SLAC, REL and FEL methods implemented in Datamonkey software. Whereas Recombination Event Detection was analysed through GARD method and nucleotide and amino acid identities were determined throgu Clustal Omega. Results of the study were based upon the characterization of 4 complete sequences of DENV-2, 7 NS3 genome sequences of DENV-2 and 10 each of the C, E and NS3 gene sequences, of DENV-3. The results revealed that the active dengue infection in Swat District was 30.5% with the prevalence of DENV-2 and DENV-3 as 36.6 and 62.8 percent, respectively which shows that the major serotypes circulating in Swat were DENV-2 and DENV-3. Furthermore xii DENV-1 and DENV-4 were not detected in any of the sample collected from Swat. In Punjab Province during the 2011 outbreak the active infection was 58.5%, of which the prevalence of DENV-2 and DENV-3 was 41.8 and 38.0 percent, respectively, which figured-out that these two serotypes were mainly involved in the dengue outbreak of the year-2011. A limited incidence of DENV-4 and DENV-1 in 2011 outbreak in Punjab at the rate of 9.5 and 4.5 percent respectively was also recorded. Phylogenetic analysis based on both complete genomes and the NS3 gene sequences of DENV-2 grouped the Pakistani isolates as cosmopolitan genotypes. Wheras no recombination was detected in the entire genome of DENV-2 of Pakistani isolates. The phylogenetic analyses, percent nucleotides and amino acids identities of the complete genomes of DENV-2 indicated that the 2013 dengue outbreak in Swat was a continuation of the 2011 dengue infections in Punjab. Furthermore the Pakistani isolates wre found to be genetically more close to the Indian isolates based upon the nucleotide (97.1%) and amino acid (98.5%) identities. The selection pressure analyses revealed no positively selected sites in any of the genes of the DENV-2 among Pakistani isolates. However codon 65 of C, 155 of PrM, 203 of E and 254 of NS1 genes were under negative selection pressure. The highest substitution rate observed among amino acids residues of the ORF of all DENV-2 Pakistani isolates, was between arginine and lysine residues, followed by valine and isoleucine. Phylogenetic analysis of DENV-3 on the basis of the complete E gene and NS3 gene sequences grouped the Pakistani isolates into the genotype III; recognized that the year’s 2013 xiii outbreak in Swat was the continuation of the previous outbreaks in Pakistan and the Pakistani DENV-3 isolates are more closely related to Indian and Chinese isolates. Analyses of the C gene of DENV-3 of the year-2011 were mostly conserved for lysine, arginine and asparagine. The viruses of the 2013 outbreak of Swat District showed the amino acids change for the nonpolar P (proline) and polar K (lysine) instead of R and N in the C gene. All the viruses isolated from the year-2011 dengue outbreak of Punjab showed a conserved pattern of nucleotides/amino acids as compared to the DENV-3 isolates of the dengue outbreak in Swat. This pattern may be due to one of the reasons that viruses established a severe infection in the relatively colder area of Swat and its adaptation to the new environment. Selection pressure analyses of NS3 genes of DENV-3 revealed no negatively or positively selected sites using all the three analytical tools. However codon 94 and 477 of the E genes turned out to be under negative selection pressure. From the selection pressure analysis it is assumed that the emergence and spread of dengue in Pakistan is more due to permissive ecological conditions than the drastic genetic changes in the viral gemome. Hence it is recommended that concerted efforts in terms of public awareness, vector control and household protection measures against dengue should be adopted to check its spread to other areas of Pakistan.