2014 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2014), 2014
The significance of social media has already been proven in provoking transformation of public op... more The significance of social media has already been proven in provoking transformation of public opinion for developed countries in improving democratic process of elections. On the contrary, developing countries lacking basic necessities of life possess monopolistic electoral system in which candidates are elected based on tribes, family backgrounds, or landlord influences. They extort voters to cast votes against their promises for the provision of basic needs. Similarly voters also poll votes for personal interests being unaware of party manifesto or national interest. These issues can be addressed by social media, resulting as ongoing process of improvement for presently adopted electoral procedures. People of Pakistan utilized social media to garner support and campaign for political parties in General Elections 2013. Political leaders, parties, and people of Pakistan disseminated party's agenda and advocacy of party's ideology on Twitter without much campaigning cost. To study effectiveness of social media inferred from individual's political behavior, large scale analysis, sentiment detection & tweet classification was done in order to classify, predict and forecast election results. The experimental results depicts that social media content can be used as an effective indicator for capturing political behaviors of different parties Positive, negative and neutral behavior of the party followers as well as party's campaign impact can be predicted from the analysis. The analytical findings proved to be having considerable correspondence with actual results as published by Election Commission of Pakistan..
English, with its many representations around the world, serves as lingua franca among the nation... more English, with its many representations around the world, serves as lingua franca among the nations with diverse languages and cultures. The term World Englishes was introduced to represent the diversity of English language. The current study is an acoustic investigation into Pakistani English to observe the phenomenon of central vowels.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications, 2014
Scrape tyres and waste lube oil are the cause of great environmental issues because they are not ... more Scrape tyres and waste lube oil are the cause of great environmental issues because they are not biodegradable and their elements cannot be recovered and they are causing great environmental pollution. Secondly the world needs the new sources of energy due to depletion of oil sources. In this experiment pyrolysis of scrape tyres alone and pyrolysis of mixture of scrape tyres and used lubricating oil by using catalytic agent (CaCO3) is done to see the effect of waste lube oil and catalytic agent on pyrolysis of scrape tyres. The value of products of both samples (scrape tyres alone, mixture of scrape tyres and used lubricating oil) has been studied and compared.
International Journal of English Language Education, Aug 19, 2013
This study will examine the effectiveness of short story on the reading comprehension of the seco... more This study will examine the effectiveness of short story on the reading comprehension of the second language learners. The interaction and reciprocal, collaboration of literature and language teaching has been the focus of interest to many EFL (English as a Foreign Language) researchers, especially in the 20th century. Using literature as a vehicle for the teaching of a second language has proved very handy. Predominantly the short story's unique features, i.e., its brevity, modernity, and diversity make it appealing and interesting to language learners and a value source for the improvement of L2 reading comprehension. The short story can proffer learners ample linguistic, intellectual, and emotional involvement and enhance their learning experience.
In recent years, the focus of healthcare and wellness technologies has shown a significant shift ... more In recent years, the focus of healthcare and wellness technologies has shown a significant shift towards personal vital signs devices. The technology has evolved from smartphone-based wellness applications to fitness bands and smartwatches. The novelty of these devices is the accumulation of activity data as their users go about their daily life routine. However, these implementations are device specific and lack the ability to incorporate multimodal data sources. Data accumulated in their usage does not offer rich contextual information that is adequate for providing a holistic view of a user's lifelog. As a result, making decisions and generating recommendations based on this data are single dimensional. In this paper, we present our Data Curation Framework (DCF) which is device independent and accumulates a user's sensory data from multimodal data sources in real time. DCF curates the context of this accumulated data over the user's lifelog. DCF provides rule-based anomaly detection over this context-rich lifelog in real time. To provide computation and persistence over the large volume of sensory data, DCF utilizes the distributed and ubiquitous environment of the cloud platform. DCF has been evaluated for its performance, correctness, ability to detect complex anomalies, and management support for a large volume of sensory data.
The significance of role of code switching and code mixing in classrooms where medium of instruct... more The significance of role of code switching and code mixing in classrooms where medium of instruction is second/foreign language is approved reality. Observations of bilingual/multilingual classrooms show that teachers use code switching and code mixing in different situations for different purposes. This study aims at knowing the functions of CS (code switching) and CM (code mixing), use teachers in classrooms and the significance of the functions. The data for this study would be collected from teachers, teaching at intermediate level, of government and private colleges, using survey technique. The data would be analyzed statistically using SPSS software. The finding of this study would develop awareness about the use of CS and CM in bilingual classrooms. This study is significant as it would create flexibility in teaching methodologies of teachers.
This study aims at exploring the relationships between language and ideology and how such relatio... more This study aims at exploring the relationships between language and ideology and how such relationships are represented in the analysis of spoken texts, following van Dijk's Socio Cognitive Model (2002). In this study, it is tried to show that political talk shows broadcast by private TV channels are working apparatuses of ideology and store meanings which are not always obvious for readers. Through the analysis of two episodes of a very popular talk show of a private television channel of Pakistan, the researchers attempt to reveal how the ideologies are represented in these shows. It also suggests that these talk shows mystify the agency of processes by using various strategies. In other words, critical text analyses reveal how these choices enable speakers to manipulate the realizations of agency and power in the representation of action to produce particular meanings which are not always explicit for all readers.
This particular work aims at revealing the fact how authoritative people exploit the language to ... more This particular work aims at revealing the fact how authoritative people exploit the language to rationalize themselves, and how they could be pointed out by the analysis of spoken discourse following Paul Grice's Cooperative Principle and derived Maxims (1975). This study tries to show how political personalities try to defend themselves by collectively using words when appearing in media, in order to promote their ideologies across the public. The mass media analyzes certain issues through the collaboration of the public and tries to expose the grimes of the powerful elites. The researchers have tried to expose how a strong attempt of self-justification has been made by Mr. President. It also advocates how powerful individuals can manipulate language by playing upon words in order to shield themselves. In short, this analysis shows how the speaker molds the language in order to inculcate meanings among the people, thereby, brainwashing them in the attempts of alienation and diversion from what is their actual political agenda. , "DEMOCRACY IS THE BEST REVENGE" lakin iss jamhuriat main bohat se qoami addaray tabahi ki taraf ja rahay hain?
Journal of Literature Languages and Linguistics, 2013
My research aims at highlighting the controversy in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler being a feminist charact... more My research aims at highlighting the controversy in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler being a feminist character. Although Ibsen is a renowned Feminist playwright, yet Hedda Gabler is deprived of the true feminist traits and has a number of negative aspects highlighted in her. My purpose in this research is to highlight Ibsen's female character , Hedda Gabler as a dominant character ruling over others; having no mother-like traits and emotions which makes her a man-like character rather than mother-like. Aim of my research is to justify that Hedda is in no respect appropriate to play a motherly role in the play, as her step of suicide at the end of the play was extremely cruel for her unborn child. The framework of my research is Critical Discourse Analysis. With the help of CDA, I will reveal the hidden ideologies of the character Hedda Gabbler and from text; prove that she has no feminist, rather mother-like traits.
Large quantities of data have been generated from multiple sources at exponential rates in the la... more Large quantities of data have been generated from multiple sources at exponential rates in the last few years. These data are generated at high velocity as real time and streaming data in variety of formats. These characteristics give rise to challenges in its modeling, computation, and processing. Hadoop MapReduce (MR) is a well known data-intensive distributed processing framework using the distributed file system (DFS) for Big Data. Current implementations of MR only support execution of a single algorithm in the entire Hadoop cluster. In this paper, we propose MapReducePack (MRPack), a variation of MR that supports execution of a set of related algorithms in a single MR job. We exploit the computational capability of a cluster by increasing the compute-intensiveness of MapReduce while maintaining its data-intensive approach. It uses the available computing resources by dynamically managing the task assignment and intermediate data. Intermediate data from multiple algorithms are managed using multi-key and skew mitigation strategies. The performance study of the proposed system shows that it is time, I/O, and memory efficient compared to the default MapReduce. The proposed approach reduces the execution time by 200% with an approximate 50% decrease in I/O cost. Complexity and qualitative results analysis shows significant performance improvement.
This particular work aims at revealing the fact how authoritative people exploit the language to ... more This particular work aims at revealing the fact how authoritative people exploit the language to rationalize themselves, and how they could be pointed out by the analysis of spoken discourse following Paul Grice's Cooperative Principle and derived Maxims (1975). This study tries to show how political personalities try to defend themselves by collectively using words when appearing in media, in order to promote their ideologies across the public. The mass media analyzes certain issues through the collaboration of the public and tries to expose the grimes of the powerful elites. The researchers have tried to expose how a strong attempt of self-justification has been made by Mr. President. It also advocates how powerful individuals can manipulate language by playing upon words in order to shield themselves. In short, this analysis shows how the speaker molds the language in order to inculcate meanings among the people, thereby, brainwashing them in the attempts of alienation and diversion from what is their actual political agenda. , "DEMOCRACY IS THE BEST REVENGE" lakin iss jamhuriat main bohat se qoami addaray tabahi ki taraf ja rahay hain?
International Journal of English Language Education, 2013
This study will examine the effectiveness of short story on the reading comprehension of the seco... more This study will examine the effectiveness of short story on the reading comprehension of the second language learners. The interaction and reciprocal, collaboration of literature and language teaching has been the focus of interest to many EFL (English as a Foreign Language) researchers, especially in the 20th century. Using literature as a vehicle for the teaching of a second language has proved very handy. Predominantly the short story's unique features, i.e., its brevity, modernity, and diversity make it appealing and interesting to language learners and a value source for the improvement of L2 reading comprehension. The short story can proffer learners ample linguistic, intellectual, and emotional involvement and enhance their learning experience.
This study aims at exploring the relationships between language and ideology and how such relatio... more This study aims at exploring the relationships between language and ideology and how such relationships are represented in the analysis of spoken texts, following van Dijk's Socio Cognitive Model (2002). In this study, it is tried to show that political talk shows broadcast by private TV channels are working apparatuses of ideology and store meanings which are not always obvious for readers. Through the analysis of two episodes of a very popular talk show of a private television channel of Pakistan, the researchers attempt to reveal how the ideologies are represented in these shows. It also suggests that these talk shows mystify the agency of processes by using various strategies. In other words, critical text analyses reveal how these choices enable speakers to manipulate the realizations of agency and power in the representation of action to produce particular meanings which are not always explicit for all readers.
2014 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2014), 2014
The significance of social media has already been proven in provoking transformation of public op... more The significance of social media has already been proven in provoking transformation of public opinion for developed countries in improving democratic process of elections. On the contrary, developing countries lacking basic necessities of life possess monopolistic electoral system in which candidates are elected based on tribes, family backgrounds, or landlord influences. They extort voters to cast votes against their promises for the provision of basic needs. Similarly voters also poll votes for personal interests being unaware of party manifesto or national interest. These issues can be addressed by social media, resulting as ongoing process of improvement for presently adopted electoral procedures. People of Pakistan utilized social media to garner support and campaign for political parties in General Elections 2013. Political leaders, parties, and people of Pakistan disseminated party's agenda and advocacy of party's ideology on Twitter without much campaigning cost. To study effectiveness of social media inferred from individual's political behavior, large scale analysis, sentiment detection & tweet classification was done in order to classify, predict and forecast election results. The experimental results depicts that social media content can be used as an effective indicator for capturing political behaviors of different parties Positive, negative and neutral behavior of the party followers as well as party's campaign impact can be predicted from the analysis. The analytical findings proved to be having considerable correspondence with actual results as published by Election Commission of Pakistan..
English, with its many representations around the world, serves as lingua franca among the nation... more English, with its many representations around the world, serves as lingua franca among the nations with diverse languages and cultures. The term World Englishes was introduced to represent the diversity of English language. The current study is an acoustic investigation into Pakistani English to observe the phenomenon of central vowels.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications, 2014
Scrape tyres and waste lube oil are the cause of great environmental issues because they are not ... more Scrape tyres and waste lube oil are the cause of great environmental issues because they are not biodegradable and their elements cannot be recovered and they are causing great environmental pollution. Secondly the world needs the new sources of energy due to depletion of oil sources. In this experiment pyrolysis of scrape tyres alone and pyrolysis of mixture of scrape tyres and used lubricating oil by using catalytic agent (CaCO3) is done to see the effect of waste lube oil and catalytic agent on pyrolysis of scrape tyres. The value of products of both samples (scrape tyres alone, mixture of scrape tyres and used lubricating oil) has been studied and compared.
International Journal of English Language Education, Aug 19, 2013
This study will examine the effectiveness of short story on the reading comprehension of the seco... more This study will examine the effectiveness of short story on the reading comprehension of the second language learners. The interaction and reciprocal, collaboration of literature and language teaching has been the focus of interest to many EFL (English as a Foreign Language) researchers, especially in the 20th century. Using literature as a vehicle for the teaching of a second language has proved very handy. Predominantly the short story's unique features, i.e., its brevity, modernity, and diversity make it appealing and interesting to language learners and a value source for the improvement of L2 reading comprehension. The short story can proffer learners ample linguistic, intellectual, and emotional involvement and enhance their learning experience.
In recent years, the focus of healthcare and wellness technologies has shown a significant shift ... more In recent years, the focus of healthcare and wellness technologies has shown a significant shift towards personal vital signs devices. The technology has evolved from smartphone-based wellness applications to fitness bands and smartwatches. The novelty of these devices is the accumulation of activity data as their users go about their daily life routine. However, these implementations are device specific and lack the ability to incorporate multimodal data sources. Data accumulated in their usage does not offer rich contextual information that is adequate for providing a holistic view of a user's lifelog. As a result, making decisions and generating recommendations based on this data are single dimensional. In this paper, we present our Data Curation Framework (DCF) which is device independent and accumulates a user's sensory data from multimodal data sources in real time. DCF curates the context of this accumulated data over the user's lifelog. DCF provides rule-based anomaly detection over this context-rich lifelog in real time. To provide computation and persistence over the large volume of sensory data, DCF utilizes the distributed and ubiquitous environment of the cloud platform. DCF has been evaluated for its performance, correctness, ability to detect complex anomalies, and management support for a large volume of sensory data.
The significance of role of code switching and code mixing in classrooms where medium of instruct... more The significance of role of code switching and code mixing in classrooms where medium of instruction is second/foreign language is approved reality. Observations of bilingual/multilingual classrooms show that teachers use code switching and code mixing in different situations for different purposes. This study aims at knowing the functions of CS (code switching) and CM (code mixing), use teachers in classrooms and the significance of the functions. The data for this study would be collected from teachers, teaching at intermediate level, of government and private colleges, using survey technique. The data would be analyzed statistically using SPSS software. The finding of this study would develop awareness about the use of CS and CM in bilingual classrooms. This study is significant as it would create flexibility in teaching methodologies of teachers.
This study aims at exploring the relationships between language and ideology and how such relatio... more This study aims at exploring the relationships between language and ideology and how such relationships are represented in the analysis of spoken texts, following van Dijk's Socio Cognitive Model (2002). In this study, it is tried to show that political talk shows broadcast by private TV channels are working apparatuses of ideology and store meanings which are not always obvious for readers. Through the analysis of two episodes of a very popular talk show of a private television channel of Pakistan, the researchers attempt to reveal how the ideologies are represented in these shows. It also suggests that these talk shows mystify the agency of processes by using various strategies. In other words, critical text analyses reveal how these choices enable speakers to manipulate the realizations of agency and power in the representation of action to produce particular meanings which are not always explicit for all readers.
This particular work aims at revealing the fact how authoritative people exploit the language to ... more This particular work aims at revealing the fact how authoritative people exploit the language to rationalize themselves, and how they could be pointed out by the analysis of spoken discourse following Paul Grice's Cooperative Principle and derived Maxims (1975). This study tries to show how political personalities try to defend themselves by collectively using words when appearing in media, in order to promote their ideologies across the public. The mass media analyzes certain issues through the collaboration of the public and tries to expose the grimes of the powerful elites. The researchers have tried to expose how a strong attempt of self-justification has been made by Mr. President. It also advocates how powerful individuals can manipulate language by playing upon words in order to shield themselves. In short, this analysis shows how the speaker molds the language in order to inculcate meanings among the people, thereby, brainwashing them in the attempts of alienation and diversion from what is their actual political agenda. , "DEMOCRACY IS THE BEST REVENGE" lakin iss jamhuriat main bohat se qoami addaray tabahi ki taraf ja rahay hain?
Journal of Literature Languages and Linguistics, 2013
My research aims at highlighting the controversy in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler being a feminist charact... more My research aims at highlighting the controversy in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler being a feminist character. Although Ibsen is a renowned Feminist playwright, yet Hedda Gabler is deprived of the true feminist traits and has a number of negative aspects highlighted in her. My purpose in this research is to highlight Ibsen's female character , Hedda Gabler as a dominant character ruling over others; having no mother-like traits and emotions which makes her a man-like character rather than mother-like. Aim of my research is to justify that Hedda is in no respect appropriate to play a motherly role in the play, as her step of suicide at the end of the play was extremely cruel for her unborn child. The framework of my research is Critical Discourse Analysis. With the help of CDA, I will reveal the hidden ideologies of the character Hedda Gabbler and from text; prove that she has no feminist, rather mother-like traits.
Large quantities of data have been generated from multiple sources at exponential rates in the la... more Large quantities of data have been generated from multiple sources at exponential rates in the last few years. These data are generated at high velocity as real time and streaming data in variety of formats. These characteristics give rise to challenges in its modeling, computation, and processing. Hadoop MapReduce (MR) is a well known data-intensive distributed processing framework using the distributed file system (DFS) for Big Data. Current implementations of MR only support execution of a single algorithm in the entire Hadoop cluster. In this paper, we propose MapReducePack (MRPack), a variation of MR that supports execution of a set of related algorithms in a single MR job. We exploit the computational capability of a cluster by increasing the compute-intensiveness of MapReduce while maintaining its data-intensive approach. It uses the available computing resources by dynamically managing the task assignment and intermediate data. Intermediate data from multiple algorithms are managed using multi-key and skew mitigation strategies. The performance study of the proposed system shows that it is time, I/O, and memory efficient compared to the default MapReduce. The proposed approach reduces the execution time by 200% with an approximate 50% decrease in I/O cost. Complexity and qualitative results analysis shows significant performance improvement.
This particular work aims at revealing the fact how authoritative people exploit the language to ... more This particular work aims at revealing the fact how authoritative people exploit the language to rationalize themselves, and how they could be pointed out by the analysis of spoken discourse following Paul Grice's Cooperative Principle and derived Maxims (1975). This study tries to show how political personalities try to defend themselves by collectively using words when appearing in media, in order to promote their ideologies across the public. The mass media analyzes certain issues through the collaboration of the public and tries to expose the grimes of the powerful elites. The researchers have tried to expose how a strong attempt of self-justification has been made by Mr. President. It also advocates how powerful individuals can manipulate language by playing upon words in order to shield themselves. In short, this analysis shows how the speaker molds the language in order to inculcate meanings among the people, thereby, brainwashing them in the attempts of alienation and diversion from what is their actual political agenda. , "DEMOCRACY IS THE BEST REVENGE" lakin iss jamhuriat main bohat se qoami addaray tabahi ki taraf ja rahay hain?
International Journal of English Language Education, 2013
This study will examine the effectiveness of short story on the reading comprehension of the seco... more This study will examine the effectiveness of short story on the reading comprehension of the second language learners. The interaction and reciprocal, collaboration of literature and language teaching has been the focus of interest to many EFL (English as a Foreign Language) researchers, especially in the 20th century. Using literature as a vehicle for the teaching of a second language has proved very handy. Predominantly the short story's unique features, i.e., its brevity, modernity, and diversity make it appealing and interesting to language learners and a value source for the improvement of L2 reading comprehension. The short story can proffer learners ample linguistic, intellectual, and emotional involvement and enhance their learning experience.
This study aims at exploring the relationships between language and ideology and how such relatio... more This study aims at exploring the relationships between language and ideology and how such relationships are represented in the analysis of spoken texts, following van Dijk's Socio Cognitive Model (2002). In this study, it is tried to show that political talk shows broadcast by private TV channels are working apparatuses of ideology and store meanings which are not always obvious for readers. Through the analysis of two episodes of a very popular talk show of a private television channel of Pakistan, the researchers attempt to reveal how the ideologies are represented in these shows. It also suggests that these talk shows mystify the agency of processes by using various strategies. In other words, critical text analyses reveal how these choices enable speakers to manipulate the realizations of agency and power in the representation of action to produce particular meanings which are not always explicit for all readers.
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