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How Is Artificial Intelligence, A Central Tenet For The Disruptive Changes, Is Shifting The Health Care Paradigm, Atifa Sarwar Aug 2019

How Is Artificial Intelligence, A Central Tenet For The Disruptive Changes, Is Shifting The Health Care Paradigm, Atifa Sarwar

English Language Institute

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a field of study to make machines intelligent that they can mimic human behavior. Artificial intelligence is reforming numerous industries like cybersecurity, construction, manufacturing, education, retail and healthcare. In the current era of immense data and the gigantic computational powers, artificial intelligence is getting smart.


Prevelence Of Developmental Dental Defects In Children, Kanwal Kataria Aug 2019

Prevelence Of Developmental Dental Defects In Children, Kanwal Kataria

English Language Institute

This poster highlights the prevalence of developmental dental defects in children worldwide.


Adolescent Girls' Voices On Enhancing Their Own Productivity In Pakistan: Highlights 2019, Iram Kamran, Tahira Parveen, Rehan M. Niazi Jan 2019

Adolescent Girls' Voices On Enhancing Their Own Productivity In Pakistan: Highlights 2019, Iram Kamran, Tahira Parveen, Rehan M. Niazi

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

Of the 11 million girls aged 15 to 19 years in Pakistan, nearly half (47 percent) are “not in education, employment, or marriage” (NEEM). This brief presents highlights from a qualitative study conducted in Punjab province of Pakistan to probe the lives, perspectives, and aspirations of NEEM girls regarding education and involvement in economic activity and identify locally acceptable ways in which their lives may be positively transformed through access to education and safe and fair work opportunities.


Teacher's In-Service Professional Development Needs Assessment-The Pakistani Context, Aamna Pasha, Yuling Smith, Shehzad Jeeva Jan 2019

Teacher's In-Service Professional Development Needs Assessment-The Pakistani Context, Aamna Pasha, Yuling Smith, Shehzad Jeeva

Examination Board

This paper explains the study of conducting a survey to assess the professional development needs of the teachers in schools affiliated with Aga Khan University – Examination Board (AKU-EB) with the aim of strategizing and designing teacher development programmes. An online survey was carried out with questions regarding the demographic information, teachers’ current practices and their professional training needs. There were 306 teachers who participated in this survey from affiliated schools from the provinces of Sindh, Punjab, Gilgit Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The results show that teachers expressed a preference in using lecturing as the main teaching method and familiarity …