۲۰۰۹ء میں جب میں نے سرگودھا یونیورسٹی میں ایم۔ فل اُردو میں داخلہ لیا تو اُسی وقت سے ہی سیالکوٹ کے شعر و ادب کی تاریخ لکھنے کا خیال میرے ذہن میں تھا اور یوں بھی زمانہ طالب علمی سے جب میں مرے کالج سیالکوٹ میں بی۔اے کا طالب علم تھا تو میری دلچسپی سیالکوٹ اور اس کے گردو نواح میں تخلیق پانے والے شعر و ادب اور اس علاقے کی تاریخی ،سیاسی ، سماجی و تہذیبی اور جغرافیائی اہمیت سے تھی۔ میں نے جس ماحول میں آنکھ کھولی وہ خطۂ سیالکوٹ کا روایتی ماحول تھا۔ یہ خیال آتا تھا کہ قدیم ترین خطۂ سیالکوٹ میں وقت کے ساتھ ساتھ جو تبدیلیاں رونما ہوئیں اور خاص طور پر جنھوں نے اس علاقے کے شعر و ادب کو متاثر کیا۔ اس کے بارے میں تحقیق ہونی چاہیے۔ اس سلسلے میں سب سے پہلے میں نے ۲۰۱۰ء میں سرگودھا یونیورسٹی میں ایم۔فل اُردو کے لیے تحقیقی مقالے ’’سیالکوٹ میں اُردو شاعری کا ارتقا ۱۹۴۷ء تا ۲۰۰۹ء ‘‘ کا انتخاب کیا۔ اس تحقیقی و تنقیدی مقالے میں شعرائے سیالکوٹ کے سوانحی حالات اور ان کی شاعری کا تحقیقی و تنقیدی جائزہ لیا گیا ہے۔ اس مقالے میں تشنگی رہہ گئی تھی کیوں کہ اس میں شاعری کی مکمل ادبی تاریخ کا بھی صحیح معنوں میں تحقیقی و تنقیدی جائزہ نہیں لیا گیا تھا۔ ضرورت اس امر کی تھی کہ سیالکوٹ کے شعری ادب کے ساتھ ساتھ نثری ادب کا بھی مکمل طورپر تحقیقی و تنقیدی جائزہ لیا جائے ۔اس عظیم کام کو سر انجام دینے کے لیے تحقیق کار نے ۲۰۱۲ء میں یونیورسٹی آف سرگودھا میں پی۔ایچ ڈی اردو میں داخلہ لیا۔ ۲۰۱۴ء میں یونیورسٹی نے ’’سیالکوٹ میں نقدو ادب کی روایت‘‘ عنوان کے تحت ریسرچ پروپوزل پی ایچ ڈی اُردو مقالے کے لیے منظور...
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is one of the most powerful neuroimaging modalities due to its high spatio-temporal resolution characteristics. This known modality is applied on mapping the temporal, occipital, frontal cortices of the brain for localizing the neural activities generated due to any visual, physical or mental task or brain diseases or brain disorders. The occipital cortex is composed of middle, left, right, interior and exterior occipital gyrus and is responsible for visional function of human brain. The occipital gyrus reflects the neural image generated in the brain due to any visual activity. In this research paper, four different visual stimuli images of faces, scrambled, scenes and objects along with gap of blank space, forming a long sequence of stimuli observed by two female subjects, are experimented to examine and localize the most contrasting neural image generated in occipital gyrus of the brain. The visual fMRI brain data received from the two subjects is processed through fMRI-SPM12 toolbox based on Matlab software. In order to demonstrate the results statistically, two regressions such as T-contrast and F-contrast vectors are applied on fMRI images to highlight, and to localize the most active neural stimuli activities generated in the occipital gyrus of brain. In the results, it is demonstrated that maximum neural response can be mapped only for face stimulus in the bilateral occipital gyrus of the brain by applying T-contrast vectors regressions as when compared to other stimuli conditions and F-contrast vectors regressions. Further, it is also investigated that, the response of the face stimulus in F-contrast regressions achieved is somehow dispersed and unclear due to the large variances and interlinked communication of other stimuli or induced neural noises generated in entire volume of the brain. Further from the given images, it is also investigated that the most reflecting and contrast area for any visual stimuli (such as face stimulus in this case) is either the middle or bilateral part of occipital gyrus of the human brain as identified through application of T-contrast vectors regressions.
Various manifestations of English language including English for specific, academic and research purposes have been witnessed in the recent two decades owing to expansion of English as a global language (Mauranen, 2013; Crystal, 2012).These manifestations have led, in the recent years, register and genre based investigations on variations of language, culture and disciplines which have revealed distinct cognitive schema of the discourse practitioners. These investigations offered new discursive and pragmatic insights of exploring a current shift from text to text producers and text consumers as metadiscourse (Hyland, 2005). This focus has sensitized many researchers across languages, cultures and disciplines to investigate interactive and interactional patterns grounded in discourses in general and research discourses in particular (Hu, & Cao, 2015; Akbas, 2014). However, disciplinary variation of this twofold interaction needs to have more attention of the researchers (Hyland, 2017) to find out distinct set of metadiscursive attitudes and behaviors of different academic tribes. Therefore, the current study aims at exploring this two-way interactive phenomenon of negotiation, persuasion and engagement in a corpus of 354146 words comprising of 104 research articles published in Pakistani research journals from Hard Sciences and Soft Sciences. Hyland’s (2005) framework of interpersonal model was applied through an exclusive corpus tool i.e MetaPak (Abbas et al., 2017b) in the present study. Along with discovering prototypicality in intradisciplinary and interdisciplinary variation of metadiscourse, I found a new phenomenon of interpersonal role of author exclusivity in Pakistani research discourses. This new dimension of self-mention may serve as a significant framework for investigating interactive and interactional role of author exclusive pronouns. In addition, variation of metadiscourse found across disciplines of Hard Sciences and Soft Sciences in the current study also contributes in the existing exegeses of knowledge pertaining to metadiscourse. This disciplinary variation was found with various quantitative patterns. For example, Code Glosses were found the most dominant interactive metadiscursive strategy employed in both the fields of Hard Sciences and Soft Sciences. In this study I have identified and established few more forms of Code Glosses marked off by parentheses including numeric, acronyms, and abbreviation as sources of meaning elaboration. In addition, more employment of Evidentials in Soft Sciences than Hard Sciences with normalized values of 442.6 and 324.8 respectively were also noticed.And more importantly, the development of MetaPak as a result of this study would facilitate enhancing the research of metadiscourse.