Sohail Ahmad
Biographic Data
| ID | 3591967 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sohail Ahmad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sohail |
| FAMILY NAME | Ahmad |
| SIGNATURE | AHMAD S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2816-8484 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Exclusion or inclusion? An analysis of teachers’ words and actions in Pakistani classrooms
Advancing sustainability education in the built environment: A systematic review of learning and teaching strategies
Purpose The effectiveness of different learning and teaching (L&T) strategies in achieving sustainability learning outcomes (SLOs) in higher education institutions (HEIs) remains a subject of debate. This study aims to identify the most impactful L&T approaches, with a particular focus on disciplines within the built environment. These strategies not only inform curriculum design but also equip students and graduates with the critical thinking, v…
Entrepreneurial success through learning, capital, and work engagement: Market and service orientation perspective
Entrepreneurial success is determined by combination of cognitive, behavioral, and strategic factors, yet the relationship of these elements remains underexplored, particularly in dynamic market environments and emerging economies. This study examines how entrepreneurial learning intensity, psychological capital, and entrepreneurial work engagement drive success, mediated by market and service orientation, and moderated by digitalization. Based o…
Blockchain and big data-optimized supply chains as facilitators of eco-innovative firm performance
Housing adequacy in Delhi, Dhaka and Karachi: Strategies for promoting sustainable and inclusive housing
Access to adequate housing is one of the major challenges in the rapidly urbanising megacities of the Indian subcontinent. This study examines variations in housing adequacy and its determinants in Delhi, Dhaka and Karachi. It investigates potential planning interventions to improve housing conditions, drawing on urban policies, programmes and insights from Demographic and Health Surveys. Findings reveal severe housing inadequacy, with four out o…
Clinical audit on management of suspected meningoencephalitis patients at lady reading Hospital, Peshawar
Objective: The purpose of this study was to observe management and empiric treatment of meningitis/encephalitis without doing initial investigation CSF-RE or delaying it, at Department of Emergency Medicine, General Medicine and Neurology wards. Method: It is an observational retrospective study this study was carried out at the General medicine, Neurology and Emergency units from July 2023 to Dec 2023.Total of 54 patients were included. Before c…
Role of KI67 in response rate of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in hormonal positive breast cancer
Introduction: A pathological complete response (pCR) after neo-adjuvant chemotherapy indicates that the outlook for individuals with breast cancer is encouraging. identifying factors, for instance the growth biomarker Ki67, that could forecast pCR, can be useful for improving understanding how drug reaction affects outcome. This research aims to evaluate Ki67's prognostic as well as prediction utility in infiltrating breast cancer patients receiv…
Assessment of antibiotic resistance patterns in enteric fever patients: A systematic review and meta analysis
Enteric fever, caused by Salmonella enterica serovars Typhi and Paratyphi. Hence, it poses challenges in diagnosis and treatment due to variable clinical presentation and increasing antibiotic resistance. This systematic review and meta-analysis assess antibiotic resistance patterns in enteric fever patients. While discussing diagnostic methods, treatment modalities, and preventive strategies. The current literature highlights diagnostic challeng…
Silence Oppression and Women: A Feminist Reading of Lorca’s Selected Plays
This article investigates silence, oppression, and women: a feminist reading of Lorca's rural trilogy. Spanish society shapes the destiny of women and allocates different roles and assignments who are bound and have to perform certain traditional works such as household assignments and abide by the norms of society. Resultantly, Spanish women become alienated and isolated. They have to endure the norms and conditions of society. Lorca talks about…
Understanding housing inequalities in urban Pakistan: An intersectionality perspective of ethnicity, income and education
Urban housing inequality is a major academic and policy concern in Pakistan, but empirical investigations and, in turn, evidence-based policy interventions are limited. This study examines the nature of housing inequalities and their determinants focusing on ethnolinguistic groups using a nationally representative household survey, where housing inequality is measured using two indicators: housing space usage (room per capita) and access to utili…
Spatial, temporal, and demographic patterns in prevalence of smoking tobacco use and attributable disease burden in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: A systematic analysis from the Global Burd…
BACKGROUND: Ending the global tobacco epidemic is a defining challenge in global health. Timely and comprehensive estimates of the prevalence of smoking tobacco use and attributable disease burden are needed to guide tobacco control efforts nationally and globally. METHODS: We estimated the prevalence of smoking tobacco use and attributable disease burden for 204 countries and territories, by age and sex, from 1990 to 2019 as part of the Global B…
Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2019: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
BACKGROUND: Regularly updated data on stroke and its pathological types, including data on their incidence, prevalence, mortality, disability, risk factors, and epidemiological trends, are important for evidence-based stroke care planning and resource allocation. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) aims to provide a standardised and comprehensive measurement of these metrics at global, regional, and national leve…
Diverse Animals’ Imagery, Symbolism and Vitality in the Poetry of Ted Hughes
The paper discusses the animal's vitality in the poems of Ted Hughes from the perceptive of deconstruction and psychoanalysis. Additionally, the notion of animals' vitality is expanded into mythological or religious dimensions, when animals intercede in human existence and assume an equal status to god. The paper also investigates how Hughes goes beyond animals' identities and gives them extraordinary powers. Hughes' representation (in this paper…
Does building development in Dhaka comply with land use zoning? An analysis using nighttime light and digital building heights
Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), principally ischemic heart disease (IHD) and stroke, are the leading cause of global mortality and a major contributor to disability. This paper reviews the magnitude of total CVD burden, including 13 underlying causes of cardiovascular death and 9 related risk factors, using estimates from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study 2019. GBD, an ongoing multinational collaboration to provide comparable and consisten…
An Analysis of Syrian Conflict with the Lens of the Realist School of Thought
The Syrian war is rooted in the conflict between the Sunni opposition and Shia leader President Bashar, torn the country. The Syrian war took baby steps during the Arab Spring, which was supposed to bring hope and prosperity to Syria but unfortunately led to a series of horrifying protests that grew into a 9-year long civil war. The war-torn country has forced millions to escape the horrors of continuous fighting only to seek refuge in other coun…
Assessment of Self-Stigma, Self-Esteem, and Asthma Control: A Preliminary Cross-Sectional Study Among Adult Asthmatic Patients in Selangor, Malaysia
Purpose: The elusive goal of asthma management guidelines is to achieve and maintain good asthma control in asthmatic patients. Against a background of long-term respiratory limitations when living with asthma, stigma and low self-esteem have also been identified as the social phenomenon among adult asthmatics. This study aimed to assess the levels of self-stigma, self-esteem and asthma control, and to investigate the impact of self-stigma and se…
Spatial relationship between land development pattern and intra-urban thermal variations in Taipei
This paper assesses the influence of land development patterns on intra-urban thermal variation in a densely-developed subtropical city, considering joint effect from greenspace pattern and built-up geometry. Despite growing research on urban climates, research at a scale that can support urban planning with scientificallyinformed strategies is still not as well documented for warm climate cities as for temperate cities. In response, this paper u…
Keeping up with the Patels: Conspicuous consumption drives the adoption of cars and appliances in India
End-users base their consumption decisions not only on available budget and direct use value, but also on their social environment. The underlying social dynamics are particularly important in the case of consumer goods that implicate high future energy demand and are, hence, also key for climate mitigation. This paper investigates the impact of social factors, with a focus on ‘status perceptions’, on car and appliance ownerships by urban India h…
Impact of corporate social responsibility on the financial performance of banks in Pakistan: Serial mediation of employee satisfaction and employee loyalty
With the awareness of corporate social responsibility (CSR) growing worldwide, this study attempts to explore the influence of CSR on the financial performance of banks through the serial mediating effect of employee satisfaction and employee loyalty. The level of employee awareness and extent of involvement in numerous CSR activities influences both job satisfaction and loyalty to the organization. However, there may be differences in the percep…
The road to sustainable Kigali: A contextualized analysis of the challenges
Rwanda, despite being a predominantly rural country, has remarkably performed in the post-conflict (late 1990s) period on the socio-economic fronts. Contemporary challenges in Rwanda's capital city, Kigali, are widespread informality, both in the economy and urban built environment. Informality significantly hinders human health and wellbeing attainment. This paper assesses the development trajectory of Kigali with reference to the Sustainable De…
Spatially contextualized analysis of energy use for commuting in India
India's land transport GHG emissions are small in international comparison, but growing exponentially. Understanding of geographically-specific determinants of GHG emissions is crucial to devise low-carbon sustainable development strategies. However, previous studies on transport patterns have been limited to socio-economic context in linear and stationary settings, and with limited spatial scope. Here, we develop a nested typology that categoriz…
Synergies and trade-offs between energy-efficient urbanization and health
Energy-efficient urbanization and public health pose major development challenges for India. While both issues are intensively studied, their interaction is not well understood. Here we explore the relationship between urban infrastructures, public health, and household-related emissions, identifying potential synergies and trade-offs of specific interventions by analyzing nationally representative household surveys from 2005 and 2012. Our analys…
Delhi's land cover change in post transit era
Antibacterial and Antifungal Activities of the Extract and Fractions of Aerial Parts of Heliotropium Bacciferum
Background: H. bacciferum belonging to the family Boraginaceae is an important medicinal plant. The current research was carried out to investigate the medicinal properties of this plant. Methodology: The crude (methanol fraction) and n-hexane, ethyl acetate, butanol and aqueous fractions were subjected to antibacterial and antifungal activities by using standard methodology available in literature. Bacterial strains of Salmonella typhi, Escheric…
Delhi revisited
Quantitative and qualitative demand for slum and non-slum housing in Delhi: Empirical evidences from household data
Keeping up with the Patels: Conspicuous consumption drives the adoption of cars and appliances in India
End-users base their consumption decisions not only on available budget and direct use value, but also on their social environment. The underlying social dynamics are particularly important in the case of consumer goods that implicate high future energy demand and are, hence, also key for climate mitigation. This paper investigates the impact of social factors, with a focus on ‘status perceptions’, on car and appliance ownerships by urban India h…
Housing demand and housing policy in urban Bangladesh
This paper estimates demand for housing and its attributes in urban Bangladesh using a survey of 4400 owner, renter and squatter households. The results revealed that housing demand is inelastic with respect to income and price; and price elasticity is less than income elasticity in absolute terms. Estimates of demand for housing attributes showed that owner and renter households value structural quality, sanitation and electricity, as well as a …
Delhi's land cover change in post transit era
The road to sustainable Kigali: A contextualized analysis of the challenges
Rwanda, despite being a predominantly rural country, has remarkably performed in the post-conflict (late 1990s) period on the socio-economic fronts. Contemporary challenges in Rwanda's capital city, Kigali, are widespread informality, both in the economy and urban built environment. Informality significantly hinders human health and wellbeing attainment. This paper assesses the development trajectory of Kigali with reference to the Sustainable De…
Impact of corporate social responsibility on the financial performance of banks in Pakistan: Serial mediation of employee satisfaction and employee loyalty
With the awareness of corporate social responsibility (CSR) growing worldwide, this study attempts to explore the influence of CSR on the financial performance of banks through the serial mediating effect of employee satisfaction and employee loyalty. The level of employee awareness and extent of involvement in numerous CSR activities influences both job satisfaction and loyalty to the organization. However, there may be differences in the percep…
Housing Inequality in Socially Disadvantaged Communities: Evidence from Urban India, 2009
Affirmative action to compensate discrimination has been the agenda of public policies towards the socially disadvantaged communities in India. This article examines why the scheduled castes/scheduled tribes (Dalits) and the largest religious minority (Muslims) have lower living standards, as measured by floor area and facility index, relative to the mainstream population. The econometric estimates are based on unit record data, over 54,000 house…
Delhi revisited
Quantitative and qualitative demand for slum and non-slum housing in Delhi: Empirical evidences from household data
Antibacterial and Antifungal Activities of the Extract and Fractions of Aerial Parts of Heliotropium Bacciferum
Background: H. bacciferum belonging to the family Boraginaceae is an important medicinal plant. The current research was carried out to investigate the medicinal properties of this plant. Methodology: The crude (methanol fraction) and n-hexane, ethyl acetate, butanol and aqueous fractions were subjected to antibacterial and antifungal activities by using standard methodology available in literature. Bacterial strains of Salmonella typhi, Escheric…
Antibacterial and antifungal activities of the extract and fractions of aerial parts of Heliotropium bacciferum
Background: H. bacciferum belonging to the family Boraginaceae is an important medicinal plant. The current research was carried out to investigate the medicinal properties of this plant.Methodology: The crude (methanol fraction) and n-hexane, ethyl acetate, butanol and aqueous fractions were subjected to antibacterial and antifungal activities by using standard methodology available in literature. Bacterial strains of Salmonella typhi, Escherich…
Housing demand and housing policy in urban Bangladesh
This paper estimates demand for housing and its attributes in urban Bangladesh using a survey of 4400 owner, renter and squatter households. The results revealed that housing demand is inelastic with respect to income and price; and price elasticity is less than income elasticity in absolute terms. Estimates of demand for housing attributes showed that owner and renter households value structural quality, sanitation and electricity, as well as a …
Delhi's land cover change in post transit era
Synergies and trade-offs between energy-efficient urbanization and health
Energy-efficient urbanization and public health pose major development challenges for India. While both issues are intensively studied, their interaction is not well understood. Here we explore the relationship between urban infrastructures, public health, and household-related emissions, identifying potential synergies and trade-offs of specific interventions by analyzing nationally representative household surveys from 2005 and 2012. Our analys…
Spatially contextualized analysis of energy use for commuting in India
India's land transport GHG emissions are small in international comparison, but growing exponentially. Understanding of geographically-specific determinants of GHG emissions is crucial to devise low-carbon sustainable development strategies. However, previous studies on transport patterns have been limited to socio-economic context in linear and stationary settings, and with limited spatial scope. Here, we develop a nested typology that categoriz…
Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), principally ischemic heart disease (IHD) and stroke, are the leading cause of global mortality and a major contributor to disability. This paper reviews the magnitude of total CVD burden, including 13 underlying causes of cardiovascular death and 9 related risk factors, using estimates from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study 2019. GBD, an ongoing multinational collaboration to provide comparable and consisten…
An Analysis of Syrian Conflict with the Lens of the Realist School of Thought
The Syrian war is rooted in the conflict between the Sunni opposition and Shia leader President Bashar, torn the country. The Syrian war took baby steps during the Arab Spring, which was supposed to bring hope and prosperity to Syria but unfortunately led to a series of horrifying protests that grew into a 9-year long civil war. The war-torn country has forced millions to escape the horrors of continuous fighting only to seek refuge in other coun…
Assessment of Self-Stigma, Self-Esteem, and Asthma Control: A Preliminary Cross-Sectional Study Among Adult Asthmatic Patients in Selangor, Malaysia
Purpose: The elusive goal of asthma management guidelines is to achieve and maintain good asthma control in asthmatic patients. Against a background of long-term respiratory limitations when living with asthma, stigma and low self-esteem have also been identified as the social phenomenon among adult asthmatics. This study aimed to assess the levels of self-stigma, self-esteem and asthma control, and to investigate the impact of self-stigma and se…
Spatial relationship between land development pattern and intra-urban thermal variations in Taipei
This paper assesses the influence of land development patterns on intra-urban thermal variation in a densely-developed subtropical city, considering joint effect from greenspace pattern and built-up geometry. Despite growing research on urban climates, research at a scale that can support urban planning with scientificallyinformed strategies is still not as well documented for warm climate cities as for temperate cities. In response, this paper u…
Keeping up with the Patels: Conspicuous consumption drives the adoption of cars and appliances in India
End-users base their consumption decisions not only on available budget and direct use value, but also on their social environment. The underlying social dynamics are particularly important in the case of consumer goods that implicate high future energy demand and are, hence, also key for climate mitigation. This paper investigates the impact of social factors, with a focus on ‘status perceptions’, on car and appliance ownerships by urban India h…
Impact of corporate social responsibility on the financial performance of banks in Pakistan: Serial mediation of employee satisfaction and employee loyalty
With the awareness of corporate social responsibility (CSR) growing worldwide, this study attempts to explore the influence of CSR on the financial performance of banks through the serial mediating effect of employee satisfaction and employee loyalty. The level of employee awareness and extent of involvement in numerous CSR activities influences both job satisfaction and loyalty to the organization. However, there may be differences in the percep…
The road to sustainable Kigali: A contextualized analysis of the challenges
Rwanda, despite being a predominantly rural country, has remarkably performed in the post-conflict (late 1990s) period on the socio-economic fronts. Contemporary challenges in Rwanda's capital city, Kigali, are widespread informality, both in the economy and urban built environment. Informality significantly hinders human health and wellbeing attainment. This paper assesses the development trajectory of Kigali with reference to the Sustainable De…
Spatial, temporal, and demographic patterns in prevalence of smoking tobacco use and attributable disease burden in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: A systematic analysis from the Global Burd…
BACKGROUND: Ending the global tobacco epidemic is a defining challenge in global health. Timely and comprehensive estimates of the prevalence of smoking tobacco use and attributable disease burden are needed to guide tobacco control efforts nationally and globally. METHODS: We estimated the prevalence of smoking tobacco use and attributable disease burden for 204 countries and territories, by age and sex, from 1990 to 2019 as part of the Global B…
Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2019: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
BACKGROUND: Regularly updated data on stroke and its pathological types, including data on their incidence, prevalence, mortality, disability, risk factors, and epidemiological trends, are important for evidence-based stroke care planning and resource allocation. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) aims to provide a standardised and comprehensive measurement of these metrics at global, regional, and national leve…
Diverse Animals’ Imagery, Symbolism and Vitality in the Poetry of Ted Hughes
The paper discusses the animal's vitality in the poems of Ted Hughes from the perceptive of deconstruction and psychoanalysis. Additionally, the notion of animals' vitality is expanded into mythological or religious dimensions, when animals intercede in human existence and assume an equal status to god. The paper also investigates how Hughes goes beyond animals' identities and gives them extraordinary powers. Hughes' representation (in this paper…
Does building development in Dhaka comply with land use zoning? An analysis using nighttime light and digital building heights
Silence Oppression and Women: A Feminist Reading of Lorca’s Selected Plays
This article investigates silence, oppression, and women: a feminist reading of Lorca's rural trilogy. Spanish society shapes the destiny of women and allocates different roles and assignments who are bound and have to perform certain traditional works such as household assignments and abide by the norms of society. Resultantly, Spanish women become alienated and isolated. They have to endure the norms and conditions of society. Lorca talks about…
Understanding housing inequalities in urban Pakistan: An intersectionality perspective of ethnicity, income and education
Urban housing inequality is a major academic and policy concern in Pakistan, but empirical investigations and, in turn, evidence-based policy interventions are limited. This study examines the nature of housing inequalities and their determinants focusing on ethnolinguistic groups using a nationally representative household survey, where housing inequality is measured using two indicators: housing space usage (room per capita) and access to utili…
Role of KI67 in response rate of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in hormonal positive breast cancer
Introduction: A pathological complete response (pCR) after neo-adjuvant chemotherapy indicates that the outlook for individuals with breast cancer is encouraging. identifying factors, for instance the growth biomarker Ki67, that could forecast pCR, can be useful for improving understanding how drug reaction affects outcome. This research aims to evaluate Ki67's prognostic as well as prediction utility in infiltrating breast cancer patients receiv…
Assessment of antibiotic resistance patterns in enteric fever patients: A systematic review and meta analysis
Enteric fever, caused by Salmonella enterica serovars Typhi and Paratyphi. Hence, it poses challenges in diagnosis and treatment due to variable clinical presentation and increasing antibiotic resistance. This systematic review and meta-analysis assess antibiotic resistance patterns in enteric fever patients. While discussing diagnostic methods, treatment modalities, and preventive strategies. The current literature highlights diagnostic challeng…
Clinical audit on management of suspected meningoencephalitis patients at lady reading Hospital, Peshawar
Objective: The purpose of this study was to observe management and empiric treatment of meningitis/encephalitis without doing initial investigation CSF-RE or delaying it, at Department of Emergency Medicine, General Medicine and Neurology wards. Method: It is an observational retrospective study this study was carried out at the General medicine, Neurology and Emergency units from July 2023 to Dec 2023.Total of 54 patients were included. Before c…
Business (10 works) · Economics (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (6 works) · Population (5 works) · Biology (4 works)