Computational grammar development and deep linguistic analysis provides structural details for natural language understanding by machines. Modern multilingual information processing systems use these details for understanding and processing of information represented in different languages. While work in Sindhi language is focused in the areas like part of speech tagging and machine learning. Sindhi lacks resources like computational grammars and deep linguistic analysis systems. Development of such resources is open research area in computational linguistic and natural language processing domains. This work presents the development of Sindhi language morphology and grammar in Finite State Technology and Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) frameworks. The work includes the investigation and identification of morphology and syntax patterns in Sindhi language, development of Sindhi finite state lexicon by modeling of identified morphological patters in LEXC, development of Sindhi LFG by incorporating the finite state lexicon in XLE, and evaluation of developed morphological lexicon and LFG grammar. Various parts of speech of Sindhi language are investigated and their morphological patterns are identified. Nouns are marked by number, gender and case. Ten different cases of nouns are identified namely nominative, accusative, dative, participant, instrumental, locative, ablative, agentive, genitive and vocative. Adjectives are also declined like nouns. Pronouns are declined for number and gender and are marked by nominative, oblique and genitive cases. Generally, adverbs are not inflected but when adjectives used as adverbs they hold the inflectional properties of adjectives. Genitive iv postpositions are inflected and marked by number and gender. Conjunctions and interjections do not inflect. Verbs are most complex part of speech and classified into main, auxiliary, copula and modal verbs. Verbs are conjugated by number and gender and are marked by tense, aspect and mood. Morphological analysis of developed model shows that a verb can have up to 75 different morphological forms in Sindhi. Present, past and future tense patterns along with aspect and mood are analyzed. Aspect in Sindhi can either be perfective or imperfective (continuous and habitual) and can be marked morphologically or syntactically. Many alternative patterns of different aspects exist. Nine different mood patterns are identified including subjunctive, presumptive, imperative, declarative, permissive, prohibitive, capacitive, compulsive and suggestive. Pronominal suffixes in Sindhi may appear on nouns, postpositions and verbs. Pronominal suffixation can possibly cause subject and object pro-drop. Sindhi syntax is analyzed with LFG perspective. Different noun phrase constructions are implemented with coordination patterns including adjective phrases, postpositional phrases, participle phrases, and relative clauses. Genitive case marking patterns along with syntactic agreement are identified and modeled in LFG. Verbal subcategorization frames are defined for different grammatical functions including SUBJ (Subject), OBJ (Object), OBJ2 (Secondary Object), OBL (Oblique), COMP (Complement), XCOMP (Open Complement), and PREDLINK (Predicate link). Phrase and sentence level adjuncts (ADJUNCT) and open adjunct (XADJUNCT) patterns are also identified and implemented in LFG. The developed grammar is tested against two different test suites. First v test suite contains 617 handcrafted sentences in 10 different test files containing sentences with different syntactic features. Second test suite contains real time corpus of two text books of Sindhi class one with 258 sentences. Results show 98.05% and 96.5% parsing percentage of test suite 1 and test suite 2 respectively. Morphology coverage includes 862 stems of different POS classes with total of 10327 inflectional forms. The developed finite state morphology is tested and evaluated against the corpus of 9050 words in terms of coverage, ambiguity, precision, recall and f-measure (F1). The results show 97.8% precision, 96.08% recall and average ambiguity of 1.65 solutions per word with 91.1% coverage. Coverage of different morphological features include number, gender, case, tense, aspect and mood. Syntactic coverage includes nominal elements, coordination, subordination, agreement, verbal subcategorization, tense, aspect and mood. Research and development results include Sindhi part of speech tagset, roman script for Sindhi language, morphological lexicon and LFG grammar of Sindhi. As a side development, a corpus of about 4 million words is also developed. In absence of linguistic resources for Sindhi language, these developments will have signification impact on Sindhi language processing and further research in computational linguistics and related domains.
ریا ست مدینہ اسلامی تاریخ کی مثالی ریاست ہے۔ عہد نبوی ﷺ اسلامی تاریخ کا وہ سنہری دور ہے، جس کو بلاشبہ دوسرے تما م ادوار کے لیے ایک اعلیٰ نمونہ سمجھا جاتا ہے۔ ہر دور کے مسلمانوں نے حتی الوسع اس کے مطابق عمل کرنے کی کوشش کی ۔ اللہ تعالی ٰ نے جہاں رسول اللہ ﷺ کو لوگوں کو تک پیغام حق پہنچانے کا فریضہ سونپا تھا ، وہاں لوگوں کے درمیان تنازعات کا فیصلہ کرنے کی ذمہ داری بھی آپ ﷺ کے سونپی گئی تھی۔ جب اسلام کو فروغ حاصل ہوا اور مسلمانوں کی تعداد میں دن بدن اضافہ ہوتا چلا گیا۔ اس لیےان میں تنازعات کا واقع ہو جانا بھی ایک فطرتی امر تھا۔ تاہم اس مبارک دور میں صحابہ کرام رضوان اللہ اجمعین پر تقوٰی غالب تھا اور اخلاقی اقدار پر عمل ہورہاتھا ۔ اس لیے ان کے درمیان اگر کوئی تنازع پیدا بھی ہوتا تو وہ فر یقین کو ذکر کیے بغیر اس کے بارے میں شرعی حکم معلوم کر لیتے اور پھر اس پر بطیب خاطر عمل کر لیتے ۔ بہرحال یہ بھی امکان تھا کہ اگربعض تنازعات سنگین نوعیت اختیار کرجائیں ، تو اس حوالے سے رسول اللہﷺ کو حکم دیا گیا ﴿فَاحْكُمْ بَيْنَهُمْ بِمَا أَنْزَلَ اللَّه﴾270 "(اے رسول ﷺ) لوگوں کے درمیان ان احکامات کے مطابق فیصلہ کرو کہ جو اللہ تعالیٰ نے آپ پر نازل کیے ہیں۔ " دوسری جگہ ارشاد ہوا ﴿ وَإِذَا حَكَمْتُمْ بَيْنَ النَّاسِ أَنْ تَحْكُمُوا بِالْعَدْلِ ﴾271 "اور جب لوگوں کے درمیان فیصلہ کرو تو عدل کے ساتھ کرو۔ " اور پھر ان تنازعات کے فریقین کے لیے ارشاد فرمایا ﴿فَلَا وَرَبِّكَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ حَتَّى يُحَكِّمُوكَ فِيمَا شَجَرَ بَيْنَهُمْ ثُمَّ لَا يَجِدُوا فِي أَنْفُسِهِمْ حَرَجًا مِمَّا قَضَيْتَ وَيُسَلِّمُوا تَسْلِيمًا۔﴾272 "اے رسول ﷺ تیرے رب کی قسم ! لوگ اس وقت...
This research paper will discuss the position of khula in case of without husband's consent or with husband's consent. All jurists and scholars unanimously said that khula is purely a transaction between husband and wife and which entirely depends upon them. Neither party is to compel to another party to implement khula. There should and must be basically hatred or aversion on the part of one or both of the parties pertaining to a strong wish to annul the marriage contract or any other feeling to produce such an effect. The present study is aimed to focus exceptional position of women in Islamic jurisprudence in order to formulate certain conditions of khula and its implementations. Conditions have been made clear in Islamic jurisprudence. In case of without consent of husband, the jurists have difference of opinion. If husband is not ready to give his consent, judiciary can give unilateral decision without his consent
In the present study, pharmacokinetics of piroxicam in healthy human volunteers were studied and then potential pharmacokinetic herb-drug interaction of piroxicam with commonly used herbal medicines i.e. ginkgo biloba and milk thistle were investigated. The study was composed of five phases. The first phase of present study comprised of development and validation of method i.e., reverse phase high pressure/performance liquid chromatography connected with ultravoilet visible detector (RP-HPLC/UV), for the assessment of piroxicam and 5-hydroxypiroxicam in human plasma, the major metabolite of piroxicam. In the second phase, pharmacokinetics of piroxicam was quantified in healthy human volunteers. In the third phase herbal products were characterized against their reference standards. In phase four, single oral dose pharmacokinetic herb- drug interactions of piroxicam with single dose of ginkgo biloba (120 mg/day) and milk thistle (180 mg/day), was investigated in human volunteers. In phase five the impact of multiple doses (single dose for 7 days) of ginkgo biloba and milk thistle over the pharmacokinetics of piroxicam single oral dose (20 mg) were evaluated in healthy human volunteers. A precise, accurate, simple and cost-effective method was developed, optimized and then validated according to standard protocols for analysis of piroxicam and 5-hydroxypiroxicam by “RP- HPLC/ UV” method. The plasma samples of volunteers were first processed and then quantified after injecting 20 µL of sample into the high performance liquid chromatography system via CNW C18 (250 mm × 4.6 mm, 5 μm) as a stationary phase, which was pre- protected through Perkin Elmer guard column i.e., 30 mm × 4.6 mm, 10 µm. The mobile system used in the proposed method was composed of HPLC grade acetonitrile and trifluro acetic acid (TFA) aqueous solution which was in ratio 62:38 % (v/v), respectively, the mobile phase was pumped at flow rate of 1 mL/ min at 25oC, the piroxicam, 5- hydroxypiroxicam and meloxicam (I.S) were studied at 353 nm. Piroxicam and metabolite were extracted from human plasma using diethyl ether. The present RP-HPLC/UV method showed linearity in the range of 20 – 2,500 and 22 – 2,500 ng/mL for piroxicam and 5-hydroxypiroxicam, respectively. The lower limits of detection for piroxicam and 5-hydroxypiroxicam were 6 and 7 ng/mL, whereas lower limits of quantification were 20 and 22 ng/mL, respectively. The suggested method was productively used for assessment of processed plasma samples of healthy humans to study the piroxicam pharmacokinetics in Pakistani population. The pharmacokinetics study of piroxicam was carried out in healthy males (group A + B; n = 30) aged between 19 to 24 years, they were examined for various biochemical and physical tests and inclusion- exclusion criterion was followed strictly. Piroxicam (20 mg capsule) was taken orally by all participants of the study with one glass of water (250 mL) and plasma samples were then collected from volunteers at prior selected time points and analyzed using the developed RP-HPLC/UV method. Pharmacokinetic parameters like area under plasma concentration (AUC), area under first moment plasma concentration (AUMC), volume of distribution (Vd), clearance (Cl),elimination half life of piroxicam (t1/2), Mean residence time (MRT) and drug elimination rate from central compartment (K10) of piroxicam were determined using software like “PK- Summit®” and Microsoft office Excel®, while some parameters, like maximum plasma drug concentration and time required to reach maximum plasma drug concentration were directly assessed from the chromatogram. pharmacokinetic parameters (Average ± S.D) of piroxicam, maximum plasma drug concentration (Cmax), time required to reach maximum plasma drug concentration (tmax), area under curves from time zero to 96 hrs 〖(AUC)〗_0^t, area under curves from time zero to infinity 〖(AUC)〗_0^∞,area under first moment plasma drug concentration (AUMC), volume of distribution (Vd) and total clearance (Cl) in the present study were 1965.604 ± 301.945 ng/mL, 1.95 ± 0.442 hr, 73714.094 ± 15715.759 ng.hr/mL, 104074.203 ± 21782.849 ng.hr/mL, 7924414.158 ± 1623018.810 ng.hr.hr/mL, 8.858 ±1.549 L and 2.362 ± 0.532mL/min, respectively. Herbal products in the current study were characterized for major constituents against their reference standards using RP- HPLC/UV system. The total content of flavonoids and terpenoids in the ginkgo biloba extract capsules used in this study were in the range of 22- 24 % and 4- 6 %, respectively. Similarly, total content of sylimarin in the milk thistle extract capsule used in the present study was in the range 65- 80 %. The concomitant administration of piroxicam and ginkgo biloba single dose in healthy human volunteers (group A; n= 15) showed an increase in Cmax of piroxicam from 1914.816 ± 358.140 ng/mL to 2063.998 ± 364.860 ng/mL and Tmax from 2.0 ± 0.50 hr to 2.30 ± 0.368 hr. The 〖[AUC]〗_0^t and 〖[AUC]〗_0^∞ were increased from 72943.843 ± 10350.840 ng.hr/mL to 80576.925 ± 11116.597 ng.hr/mL and 106388.785 ± 14361.506 ng.hr/mL to 111977.651 ± 14443.069 ng.hr/mL, respectively. The Vd and Cl decreased from 8.75014 ± 1.673 L to 8.137533 ± 1.488 L and from2.433 ± 0.591 mL/min to 2.107 ± 0.554 mL/min mL/min, respectively, whereas elimination half-life was increased from 55.140 ± 7.369 hr to59.692 ± 8.990 hr. While in case of multiple dose study ginkgo biloba capsule were administered to a group “A” volunteers for seven successive days and on day 8 piroxicam was administered along with ginkgo biloba capsule. In multiple dose study Cmax, Tmax and elimination half-life of piroxicam was increased from 1914.816 ± 35.140 ng/mL to 2408.890 ± 402.823 ng/mL, 2.00 ± 0.50 hr to 2.933 ± 0.372 hr and 55.140 ± 7.369 hr to 74.15504 ± 11.695 hr, respectively. The 〖[AUC]〗_0^t and 〖[AUC]〗_0^∞ increase from 72943.843 ±10350.840 ng.hr/mL to 91833.976 ±15336.392 ng.hr/mL and 106388.785 ± 14361.506 ng.hr/mL to 131322.031 ± 21590.224 ng.hr/mL, respectively, while Vd and Cl decreased from8.750 ± 1.673 to 7.824 ± 1.548 L and from 2.433 ± 0.591 mL/min to 1.788 ± 0.546 mL/min, respectively. The PK-HDI study followed by concomitant administration oforal single dose of piroxicam and ginkgo biloba standardized capsule did not affect significantly on the pharmacokinetics of piroxicam, therefore, can be used without dose adjustment. However, due to significant changes in pharmacokinetics of piroxicam after concomitant administration with ginkgo biloba multiple doses, dosage adjustment of piroxicam may be required for maintenance of steady state concentration. The PK-HDI study between single oral dose of piroxicam and milk thistle showed insignificant increase in the pharmacokinetic parameters like Cmax, tmax, 〖[AUC]〗_0^t and 〖[AUC]〗_0^∞ from 2016.392 ± 234.654 ng/mL to 2146.720 ± 234.935 ng/mL, 1.9 ± 0.387 hr to 2.066 ± 0.372 hr, 74484.345 ± 20079.860 ng.hr/mL to 84692.477 ± 17957.531 ng.hr/mL and 101759.621 ± 27661.242 ng.hr/mL to 114706.691 ± 27505.697 ng.hr/mL, respectively. The elimination half life was insignificantly increased from 54.371 ± 11.118 hr to59.787 ± 11.689 hr, where Vd and Cl were decreased from 8.967 ± 1.467 L to 8.760± 1.390 L and 2.291 ± 0.475 mL/min to 2.020 ± 0.403 mL/min, respectively. However, in case of multiple dose study milk thistle capsule were administered to group B volunteers for seven successive days and on day 8th piroxicam was administered along with milk thistle capsule. In multiple dose study the Cmax, Tmax, 〖[AUC]〗_0^t, 〖[AUC]〗_0^∞and elimination half- life of piroxicam were significantly increased from 2016.392 ± 234.654 ng/mL to 2560.901 ± 258.430 ng/mL, 1.9 ± 0.387 hr to 2.767 ± 0.371hr, 74484.345 9 ± 20079.860 ng.hr/mL to 97832.563 ± 19288.928 ng.hr/mL, 101759.621 ±27661.242 ng.hr/mL to 137476.148 ± 31765.452 ng.hr/mL and 54.371 ± 11.118 hr to 74.527 ± 14.606 hr, respectively, while Vd and Cl were decreased insignificantly and significantly from 8.967 ± 1.467 to 8.187 ± 1.223 L and2.291 ± 0.475 mL/min to 1.672 ± 0.337 mL/min, respectively. The PK-HDI study followed by concomitant administration oforal single dose of piroxicam and milk thistle standardized capsule did not affect significantly the pharmacokinetics of piroxicam and can be used without dose modification. However, due to significant changes in pharmacokinetics profile of piroxicam after co- administration with milk thistle multiple doses, dosage adjustment of piroxicam may be required for maintenance ofsteady state concentration. The present studies evaluated the PK-HDI between the piroxicam and ginkgo biloba & milk thistle (single or multiple doses administration), these findings are helpful for the patients using the piroxicam over the period for the treatment of different ailments." xml:lang="en_US