This study provides an exploration of the impact of political events on the Pakistan Stock Market using a larger data set.The stock market of Pakistan which is considered the top-performing market in the region has suffered as well as foreign investors are reluctant to invest in Pakistan stock markets due to uncertainty caused by political instabil
Age, Period, and Cohort Differences in Work Centrality and Work Values
In this paper, we analyze whether work values differ between three dimensions of time (age, birth cohort, period).Using data of five waves of the World Values Survey FRANKINCENSE and the European Values Study from more than forty countries and hierarchical age-period-cohort regression models, we did not find relevant gaps between birth cohorts with
Traumatic Extradural Hematoma: Factors Affecting the Surgical Outcome
Objective: To determine the factors affecting surgical outcome of traumatic intracranial extradural hematoma in Civil Hospital Karachi.Head injury is a leading cause of death in young age group.Extradural hematoma, a complication of head injury, is often fatal if not treated in time.The surgical outcome of EDH is dependent upon many variables inclu
Development of human alveolar epithelial cell models to study distal lung biology and disease
Summary: Many acute and chronic diseases affect the distal lung alveoli.Alveolar epithelial cell (AEC) lines are needed to better model these diseases.We used de-identified human remnant transplant lungs to develop a method to establish AEC lines.The lines grow well in 2-dimensional (2D) culture as epithelial monolayers expressing lung progenitor m
Public Spending in a Model of Endogenous Growth with Habit Formation
This paper introduces habit-forming preferences in a Barro-type endogenous growth model with productive public services.Government expenditure, which Face Tint may be subject to congestion, is financed by distortionary income taxation.Different from the standard time-separable model, the presence of habits makes the economy feature transitional dyn