Muhammad Ali
Biographic Data
| ID | 3605863 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Muhammad Ali |
| GIVEN NAMES | Muhammad |
| FAMILY NAME | Ali |
| SIGNATURE | ALI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queensland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-0662-7117 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 70 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 70 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Modernization and Cultural Shift in Indigenous Communities: Evidence from the Pado’e under Mining Expansion
This study examines how mining-led modernization has reconfigured the cultural and socio-economic life of the Pado’e indigenous community in East Luwu and evaluates the extent to which PT Vale’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs respond to the resulting problems. The study uses a qualitative case-study design with an ethnographic orientation, drawing on fieldwork conducted from June 2021 to January 2022 through semi-structured interv…
The law of diminishing marginal returns in health insurance: Evidence on child health outcomes from Pakistan’s Sehat Sahulat program
Background: Child malnutrition remains a serious public health challenge in Pakistan. The national health insurance initiative, the Sehat Sahulat Program (SSP), aims to improve access to health care for low-income families. This study examines whether the effectiveness of SSP follows the Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns (LDMR), whereby the marginal health benefits of insurance are greatest for the poorest households and decline with increasing…
Family Resilience Through Financial Literacy Within the Framework of Integrating Social Sciences and the Concept of the Prophet's Hadith
Family Resilience has gained increasing scholarly attention amid growing economic uncertainty and financial vulnerability. This study aims to reconceptualize financial literacy as a pillar of family resilience from a Hadith perspective, addressing a gap in mainstream literature that often overlooks ethical and religious foundations. This research uses an interpretative qualitative method, analyzed using an integration-interconnection approach by …
Modelling the impact of dietary diversity on child nutrition in Pakistan: A machine learning analysis with Shapley Additive exPlanations and Boruta interpretability
Background: Pakistan faces a serious challenge in malnutrition, as its core nutrition indicators and minimum dietary diversity remain below the recommended level. Here, we investigate the association between the food/dietary diversity index and the nutritional status of children under five years of age and identify influential factors associated with child nutritional status. We hypothesise that poor dietary diversity, i.e. the consumption of few…
Climate Change Communication in Pakistan: Analyzing Media Frames on Social Media Platform
In the context of growing climate vulnerability in countries like Pakistan, effective climate change communication plays a critical role in shaping public awareness and policy discourse. This study investigates how two leading Pakistani news outlets, Geo News and ARY News, framed climate change on their official X (formerly Twitter) accounts from June 2022 to May 2023. Guided by framing theory and Bolsen and Shapiro’s typology, a content analysis…
The role of gender in entrepreneurship in the Dutch house music industry: Feminist perspectives
Fostering climate resilience in healthcare: The role of pharmacy students in understanding and addressing climate change in Karachi, Pakistan
The findings suggest that although pharmacy students possess theoretical awareness of climate change, they are not actively engaged in mitigation efforts. Integrating climate change education-emphasizing sustainable healthcare practices and the pharmacist's role in addressing environmental challenges-into pharmacy curricula could help bridge this gap. Strengthening climate resilience through well-informed pharmacy professionals can make a substan…
Strategic framing in conflict communication: ISPR’s use of X during Pakistan’s War on Terror
Strategic communication plays a pivotal role in shaping public discourse during conflicts such as the War on Terror (WoT). This study examines how the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR)—the media arm of Pakistan’s Armed Forces—strategically used X (formerly Twitter) from 25 December 2016 to 30 December 2017 to build and sustain public support for counterterrorism efforts. Addressing a context-specific gap in the literature on military communi…
Exploring the landscape of entrepreneurship in Pakistan: A comparative analysis of perceptions, challenges, and the need for psychoeducational interventions in the academic sector
Objectives Entrepreneurship in Pakistan is steadily growing, significantly impacting on economic development and job creation, despite facing several challenges. This study aimed to investigate the perceptions of students and faculty members about entrepreneurship in public and private universities in Pakistan. It also sought to evaluate the barriers and motivational factors promoting entrepreneurship among these universities. Methods A cross-sec…
‘Zero Human Emotion’: AI Anchors and the Normative Repercussions
This study utilizes thematic analysis to analyze content disseminated by Artificial Intelligence (AI) anchors. Researchers analyzed content from a private TV channel from Pakistan. The channel produces a news program that delivers content to viewers, but said content is delivered through broadcast anchors generated by AI. The findings are analyzed through the lens of the hierarchy of influences, which allows researchers to understand influences o…
Scrapping Menstrual Blood Stains According to South Sulawesi Ulama and Intellectual from Perspective of Ma‘āni-Ḥadīth
Scrapping menstrual blood stains is prescribed as a way to purify clothing contaminated by menstrual blood. This research explores the rulings on scraping menstrual blood stains from the perspectives of female ulama and intellectual in South Sulawesi, viewed through the lens of maʻānī al-hadīth. This study employs a qualitative library research approach, utilizing maʻānī al-hadīth. Data is gathered from hadith collections that discuss the practic…
Machine learning vs. traditional logistic regression: Predictive performance and risk factor identification for child nutritional outcome in Pakistan
Logistic regression (LR) has long been the standard econometric tool for modeling child nutritional outcomes in public health research. However, conventional econometric LR (CE-LR) faces limitations in predictive accuracy, reliance on restrictive assumptions, and handling high-dimensional data. Machine learning-enhanced LR (ML-LR)-which relaxes the strict statistical assumptions of traditional models to better capture complex patterns-combined wi…
Digital Agenda-Building on X: A Case Study of the U.S. Department of Defense’s Communication During the Chinese Spy Balloon Crisis
This article is about an examination of the strategic use of social media platforms, specifically X (formerly Twitter), by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), to construct and communicate institutional agendas during the Chinese Spy Balloons crisis in early 2023. This study explores how DoD utilized its official X account to influence public opinion and shape public perception of the military. Although social media has emerged as a powerful too…
The Lesvos limbo: A visual memory from the periphery of Europe
This photo‐essay describes the situation in the refugee camp of Kara Tepe, in Lesvos, Greece, framed in the continuity of a “border event”. The aim is to document and create awareness on a specific situation, through a narrative that highlights moments of resilience, agency, and creativity. The project was developed as an investigative inquiry between a formal researcher and a (non)citizen/refugee photographer, in a collaboration that stresses et…
A Review of the Prophetic Hadith on Suicide and Its Implications for Prevention among Adolescents
Suicide is a serious mental health issue that affects many adolescents around the world, including Muslims. Although Islamic teachings strictly prohibit suicide, the phenomenon persists, indicating a gap between religious teachings and the reality faced by adolescents. Various factors, such as academic pressure, identity conflict, and the influence of social media, contribute to the increased risk of suicide among adolescents. This study aims to …
MSDGSD: A Scalable Graph Descriptor for Processing Large Graphs
Graph representation methods have recently become the de facto standard for downstream machine learning tasks on graph-structured data and have found numerous applications, e.g., drug discovery & development, recommendation, and forecasting. However, the existing methods are specially designed to work in a centralized environment, which limits their applicability to small or medium-sized graphs. In this work, we present a graph embedding method t…
Bullying on Social Media: Primitive Behavior Against Prophetic Marchals From A Hadith Ahkam Perspective
This article aims to outline some prophetic instructions regarding social interaction to avoid bullying behavior. This study uses a normative qualitative method, namely analyzing hadiths related to bullying with an ahkam hadith perspective. This study concludes that bullying behavior from the perspective of hadith is: 1) The Hadith narrated by Ibn Majah generally explains how the Prophet's Hadith views bullying as leading to degrading behavior. T…
Can Artificial Intelligence Preferences Be an Alternative to Human Linguistic Choices? A Multidimensional Analysis of Research Abstracts of English Linguistics
Background and Purpose: With the rapid advancements in generative AI, understanding its ability to emulate human language conventions is crucial. This work aims to analyze the possibility of applying AI technology in language production by comparing the lexico-grammatical features of abstracts created with the help of ChatGPT and written by British and American researchers. Methodology: Twenty papers written by researchers affiliated with UK univ…
An exploratory study of benefits and challenges of neurodivergent employees: Roles of Knowing Neurodivergents and Neurodiversity Practices
Purpose Neurodiversity refers to a spectrum of neurological differences. Little is known about the benefits and challenges of employing neurodivergent individuals in the retail industry and how knowing neurodivergent individuals/neurodiversity practices are linked to benefits/challenges. This study provides these insights using the lenses of the value-in-diversity perspective, stigma theory and intergroup contact theory. Design/methodology/approa…
The Role of a Civil Society at Different Levels in Ex-Fata’s Peace, Prosperity and Development
Ex-Fata is an isolated part of the Pakistan till merger with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, but after merger the region is rapidly moving forward to be an open, free and integrated part of the Pakistani Community thereby bringing positive hope and expectation to the tribal people and democratic forces in the country. With the pace at which changes are taking place in the region is a major challenge to the government. As a result the government becomes c…
The effect of spiritual leadership on proactive customer service performance: The roles of psychological empowerment and power distance
Scholars have consistently demonstrated that spiritual leadership yields positive outcomes for employees. However, it is not clear how spiritual leadership influences proactive customer service performance. The purpose of this research is to develop a model, grounded in social cognitive theory, to identify why and when spiritual leadership promotes proactive customer service performance. Specifically, the focus is on how spiritual leadership thro…
The interconnectedness of financial inclusion and bank profitability in rising economic powers: Evidence from heterogeneous panel analysis
Purpose The objective is to assess the relationship between financial inclusion and bank profitability in emerging economies, i.e. “Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, and Vietnam”. Design/methodology/approach The second-generation econometrics of panel data has been applied to examine the cross-section independence and control the heterogeneity between cross sections. Additionally, the authors employ the followi…
Excessive enterprise social media usage and employee creativity: An application of the transactional theory of stress and coping
This study proposed a research model based on the transactional theory of stress and coping to examine the relationship between excessive enterprise social media (ESM) usage and employee creativity. The research model proposed that excessive ESM usage positively influences Techno-overload and technology-family conflict which influence ESM fatigue. Furthermore, ESM fatigue negatively influences employee creativity. The model was tested using a sam…
Influence of Livelihoods on Coastal Settlement Patterns in Kampung Padang, Indonesia
Livelihood is important for a person to carry on with one's life. In fact, Livelihoods determine the location and shape of the settlement patterns. In the formation of settlement patterns in Kampung Padang, Selayar Islands district, cannot be separated from the influence of population growth and activities from year to year. This has come about because the population of the local community is increasing. It thus affects the settlement patterns bo…
Fictionalizing the Language of Power: A Comparative Study of Pakistani and Latin American Novels
Latin American dictator fiction has a long tradition and is widely acclaimed in critical studies, while Pakistani dictator fiction began to emerge in recent years. The study is analytical and comparative research based on the contents of two culturally, historically, and geographically diverse novels—Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Feast of the Goat and Mohammad Hanif’s A Case of Exploding Mangoes so as to locate their common and contrasting aspects. It…
A social practice theory perspective on green marketing initiatives and green purchase behavior
Purpose The purpose of this study is to ascertain the effects of environmental knowledge and green consumption as mediators on the relationship between green marketing and green buying behavior. This study utilized the definition that needs to customers that are based on environmental concerns and influence the buying behavior for green products. This not only focuses on the ecological concern in organizational operations but also focuses on the …
Status Quos Are Made to be Broken: The Roles of Transformational Leadership, Job Satisfaction, Psychological Empowerment, and Voice Behavior
Employee voice behavior has attained significant attention in contemporary research due to its positive consequences for both workers and employers. Drawing on the social exchange theory, this study examined the mediating role of job satisfaction and psychological empowerment on the relationship between transformational leadership and employee's voice behavior. Data were collected through survey questionnaires by utilizing a three-wave time-lagge…
An exploratory study of benefits and challenges of neurodivergent employees: Roles of Knowing Neurodivergents and Neurodiversity Practices
Purpose Neurodiversity refers to a spectrum of neurological differences. Little is known about the benefits and challenges of employing neurodivergent individuals in the retail industry and how knowing neurodivergent individuals/neurodiversity practices are linked to benefits/challenges. This study provides these insights using the lenses of the value-in-diversity perspective, stigma theory and intergroup contact theory. Design/methodology/approa…
Enhancing nurses well-being through managerial coaching: A Mediating Model
Purpose Workplace well-being has emerged as an important aspect in the field of health care. Therefore, this paper aims to investigate the role of managerial coaching on nurses’ well-being through psychological ownership and organizational identity. Design/methodology/approach The authors approached 284 nurses working in both public and private hospitals (between December 2019 and February 2020) on convenience basis, and data were collected throu…
Understanding despotic leadership through the lens of Islamic work ethics
Deleterious leadership is at rising, while its harmful effects have recently gained researchers' attention. Based on social exchange and conservation of resources perspectives, this study aims at investigating the harmful effect of dark side of a leader (i.e., despotic leadership) on job dissatisfaction and organizational deviance considering the moderating effect of Islamic work ethics (IWE). The data were collected from supervisor‐subordinate d…
Revealing expert perspectives on challenges to electricity Demand-Side Management in Pakistan: An application of Q-Methodology
Sustainability and branchless banking: The development and validation of a distinct measurement scale
How workplace bullying affects nurses’ well-being? The roles of burnout and passive avoidant leadership
Purpose This study aims to investigate individual-related consequences of workplace bullying among the health-care section. Specifically, this study examined the mediating role of burnout between workplace bullying and nurses’ well-being. Moreover, passive avoidant leadership is examined as a conditional variable between workplace bullying and burnout. Design/methodology/approach This study collected data from 314 nurses working in various hospit…
The Hardworking Poor: A Survey on How People Use Their Time in Bangladesh
Estimation of maximum increment age in height and weight during adolescence and the effect of World War II
Interviews: Muhammad Ali
(2012). Interviews: Muhammad Ali. The Black Scholar: Vol. 42, Black Scholar Classics: Remembering the 1970's In Memorium: Elizabeth Catlett, 1915–2012, pp. 14-21
Towards a Task-Aware Proactive Sociable Robot Based on Multi-state Perspective-Taking
Board Age and Gender Diversity: A Test of Competing Linear and Curvilinear Predictions
Therapeutic flora in Holy Quran
Civilizations have a tendency to revolve around meaningful concepts of a theoretical nature which more than anything else gives them their distinctive character. Such concepts are to be found at the very beginning of a rising civilization or they may signalize, when they first make their appearance, an entirely new departure towards the eventual transformation of the environment generous to them. This signifies a fundamental change in the structu…
Multiple Sclerosis: Myeloperoxidase Immunoradiology Improves Detection of Acute and Chronic Disease in Experimental Model
MPO-Gd specifically reveals lesions with inflammatory monocytes and neutrophils, which actively secrete MPO. These results demonstrate the feasibility of detection of subclinical inflammatory disease activity in vivo, which is different from overt BBB breakdown.
Ethnomedicinal uses of Edible Wild Fruits (EWFs) in Swat Valley, Northern Pakistan
Economic growth, CO 2 emissions, renewable waste and FDI relation in Pakistan: New evidences from 3SLS
Islamic home financing in Pakistan: A SEM-based approach using modified TPB model
The present study attempts to examine the Islamic home financing using the modified theory of planned behavior model (TPB). Sample data of 375 are conveniently drawn from walk-in customers of Islamic banks located in the biggest city Karachi. This study employed both exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis to confirm the validity and reliability of the measurement model. The modified theoretical framework was examined by appl…
Quality of care of treatment for uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition provided by lady health workers in Pakistan
Objective To assess the quality of care provided by lady health workers (LHW) managing cases of uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in the community. Design Cross-sectional quality-of-care study. Setting The feasibility of the implementation of screening and treatment for uncomplicated SAM in the community by LHW was tested in Sindh Province, Pakistan. An observational, clinical prospective multicentre cohort study compared the LHW-deli…
Teachers’ Conflict-Inducing Attitudes and Their Repercussions on Students’ Psychological Health and Learning Outcomes
This paper studied the causes and effects of negative teacher-student relationships on students' psychological health and educational outcomes, primarily due to negative teacher-teacher interactions. Survey data were collected from 130 faculty members and 746 students of 10 higher educational institutions located in different cities of the Punjab province of Pakistan. Path analysis was used to estimate results. The findings revealed that incivili…
Top management team gender diversity and productivity: The Role of Board Gender Diversity
Purpose Based on the significance of context, the purpose of this paper is to investigate a positive top management team (TMT) gender diversity–productivity relationship derived from the upper echelons theory, and a moderating effect of board gender diversity on the TMT gender diversity–productivity relationship derived from the relational framework. Design/methodology/approach The hypotheses were tested in 172 organisations listed on the Austral…
Global age-sex-specific fertility, mortality, healthy life expectancy (Hale), and population estimates in 204 countries and territories, 1950–2019: A comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global …
BACKGROUND: Accurate and up-to-date assessment of demographic metrics is crucial for understanding a wide range of social, economic, and public health issues that affect populations worldwide. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2019 produced updated and comprehensive demographic assessments of the key indicators of fertility, mortality, migration, and population for 204 countries and territories and selected sub…
Five insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
Measuring universal health coverage based on an index of effective coverage of health services in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study…
BACKGROUND: Achieving universal health coverage (UHC) involves all people receiving the health services they need, of high quality, without experiencing financial hardship. Making progress towards UHC is a policy priority for both countries and global institutions, as highlighted by the agenda of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and WHO's Thirteenth General Programme of Work (GPW13). Measuring effective coverage at the health-system le…
Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
BACKGROUND: Rigorous analysis of levels and trends in exposure to leading risk factors and quantification of their effect on human health are important to identify where public health is making progress and in which cases current efforts are inadequate. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2019 provides a standardised and comprehensive assessment of the magnitude of risk factor exposure, relative risk, and attribu…
Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
BACKGROUND: In an era of shifting global agendas and expanded emphasis on non-communicable diseases and injuries along with communicable diseases, sound evidence on trends by cause at the national level is essential. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) provides a systematic scientific assessment of published, publicly available, and contributed data on incidence, prevalence, and mortality for a mutually exclusive…
Social Sensing for Urban Land Use Identification
The utilization of urban land use maps can reveal the patterns of human behavior through the extraction of the socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of urban land use. Remote sensing that holds detailed and abundant information on spectral, textual, contextual, and spatial configurations is crucial to obtaining land use maps that reveal changes in the urban environment. However, social sensing is essential to revealing the socioeconomic a…
Factors affecting flood-induced household vulnerability and health risks in Pakistan: The case of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Province
Determinants of income diversification in flood-prone rural Pakistan
Looking through the Lens of schools: Children perception, knowledge, and preparedness of flood disaster risk management in Pakistan
HRM systems and employee affective commitment: The role of employee gender
Purpose Despite decades of studies on high-involvement human resource management (HRM) systems, questions remain of whether high-involvement HRM systems can increase the commitment of women. This study aims to contribute to the growing body of research on the cross-level effect of HRM systems and practices on employee affective commitment by considering the moderating role of gender. Design/methodology/approach Integrating social exchange theory …
Understanding despotic leadership through the lens of Islamic work ethics
Deleterious leadership is at rising, while its harmful effects have recently gained researchers' attention. Based on social exchange and conservation of resources perspectives, this study aims at investigating the harmful effect of dark side of a leader (i.e., despotic leadership) on job dissatisfaction and organizational deviance considering the moderating effect of Islamic work ethics (IWE). The data were collected from supervisor‐subordinate d…
Human Capital Development and Strategic Renewalin HospitalityIndustryof Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
The current study examinesthe impact of human capital development (HCD) on strategic renewal (SR) of firms in hospitality industryof Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. In addition, the currentstudy also examined the mediatingrole of ambidextrous learning (AL) and the moderating role of dynamic capabilities(DC)between HCD and SR relationship. Data were collected from 490 managers/owners of 3-stars and 4-stars hotelsthrough questionnaires operatingin thetourist d…
Psychology (26 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Social Psychology (19 works) · Economics (18 works) · Political science (18 works) · Business (17 works) · Geography (17 works) · Medicine (17 works) · Economic growth (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works)