The main purpose of this study is to find out the tendency of customers towards the acceptance of... more The main purpose of this study is to find out the tendency of customers towards the acceptance of Islamic banking. The major questions of this study are what factors have major influence on customer's bank choice and whether Religion, Banks reputation, Service quality, and Convenience etc. have an influence on acceptance of Islamic banking. This is a descriptive study and sample size of this study is 30 Findings of this study indicate that the effect of religious belief on acceptance of Islamic banking is positively significant and this study shows important contribution towards the factors that affect acceptance of Islamic Banking. Customers of Islamic banking particularly in Bahawalpur region Punjab, Pakistan. The conclusion of this study indicates that this study is beneficial for Islamic banks to determine the factors that affect the customer selection criteria. Further study will also help the institutions to improve their performance in order to increase customer loyalty.
Organic and conventional crops of lemon, radish, mint and lettuce, sampled from farms located wit... more Organic and conventional crops of lemon, radish, mint and lettuce, sampled from farms located within ~4 km with similar climatic and soil conditions, were selected for bioactive profiling and functionality measurements. The study showed higher antimicrobial and antioxidant capacity in all organic samples than their conventional counterparts, for example, organic lemon showed an activity index of 2.61 against Pseudomonas geniculata versus Cefixime. Organic radish showed maximum radical scavenging and reducing power activity (75.5 ± 0.1 and 51.1 ± 0.1%), respectively, while conventional lettuce showed the minimum (59.1 ± 0.2 and 14.5 ± 0.1%). The presence of alcohols, alkenes and carboxylic acids as bioactive functional groups in aqueous and methanolic extracts along with significant amounts of alkaloids and tannins (18.0 ± 0.1 mg/g and 25.0 ± 0.03 mg GAE/g dry weight (dw) in radish, respectively) in organic crops showed substantial antimicrobial and antioxidant properties. High-performance liquid chromatography-ultraviolet spectrometry measured increased caffeic acid (1030 μg/mg dw) and rutin (1830 μg/mg dw) in organic radish. The bio-autographic assay showed 4 out of 10 chromatographic isolates with significant (p < 0.05) antimicrobial properties. Moreover, gas chromatographymass spectrometry showed that 1-hexadecene, 9-octadecene, 9-eicosene, 2,4-bis(1,1-dimethylethyl) phenol, methyl hexadecanoate and 9-octadecenoic acid in lemon and radish was higher in the organic version. Extensive biochemical screening confirmed that organic crops had higher functional food constituents and bioactivities than their conventional counterparts. Polyphenolic profiles and nutraceutical properties also varied showing the impact of the two different agricultural practices.
Mutations in the gene kyphoscoliosis peptidase (KY) are known to cause myofibrillar myopathy-7 an... more Mutations in the gene kyphoscoliosis peptidase (KY) are known to cause myofibrillar myopathy-7 and hereditary spastic paraplegia. We investigated the genetic cause of a complex neurological phenotype in a consanguineous Pakistani family with four affected members, manifesting lower limb spasticity and weakness, toe walking, pes equinovarus, and a speech disorder. Genome-wide linkage analysis with microsatellite markers delineated chromosome 3q22.2-q24 harboring the disease gene. Whole exome sequencing was performed for two subjects, identifying a homozygous 14-bp frameshift deletion NM_178554.6:c.842_855del;p.(Val281GlyfsTer18) in KY.
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