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3. How America Created the Enemy It Feared Most

Author

Ahmed, Azam and Denton, Bryan

Subjects
Al-Qaeda
Abstract

Byline: Azam Ahmed and Bryan Denton The Taliban war hero scans the crowd, searching. From the back, he snatches a man with a flop of dusty hair and a face [...]

Published
2025

4. The Once Booming Drug Town Going Bust Under Taliban Rule

Author

Ahmed, Azam and Denton, Bryan

Subjects
Opium, Opium trade, Drugstores, Methamphetamine, Deserts, General interest
Abstract

Byline: Azam Ahmed and Bryan Denton An oasis stretched far into the desert, a vast sea of emerald stalks and scarlet poppy flowers that grew to the horizon. The Taliban [...]

Published
2025

5. Seeking Lessons and Secrets in Afghanistan

Author

Ahmed, Azam

Subjects
General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Here's what he found. The Talib looked as ragged as his outpost, a trailer banked on a snowy mountain pass. Holes were bored into its sides to ventilate a sputtering [...]

Published
2025

7. Our Reporter Returned to Afghanistan, Seeking Lessons and Secrets

Author

Ahmed, Azam

Subjects
Afghanistan -- Social aspects -- Military aspects, Afghanistan Conflict, 2001-2021, Journalists -- Personal narratives -- Practice, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Taliban -- Military aspects
Abstract

Here's what he found. The Talib looked as ragged as his outpost, a trailer banked on a snowy mountain pass. Holes were bored into its sides to ventilate a sputtering [...]

Published
2024

8. U.S. Unleashed Monsters Who Drove Afghans to the Taliban

Author

Ahmed, Azam and Denton, Bryan

Subjects
Market trend/market analysis, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Taliban -- Social aspects
Abstract

The Taliban were inching closer, encroaching on land that had once seemed secure, the American officer warned. Four of his men had just been killed, and he needed Afghans willing [...]

Published
2024

9. Cómo fue que Estados Unidos creó al enemigo que más temía

Author

Ahmed, Azam and Denton, Bryan

Subjects
News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

El héroe de guerra talibán observa la multitud, buscando. De la parte de atrás, toma a un hombre con un mechón de pelo polvoriento y la cara marcada por la [...]

Published
2024

10. Behind Afghanistan’s Fall, U.S.-Backed Militias Worse Than the Taliban

Author

Ahmed, Azam and Denton, Bryan

Subjects
News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

The Taliban were inching closer, encroaching on land that had once seemed secure, the American officer warned. Four of his men had just been killed, and he needed Afghans willing [...]

Published
2024

11. Poppy Boom in Afghan Desert Has Gone Bust

Author

Ahmed, Azam and Denton, Bryan

Subjects
Afghanistan -- Social aspects, Afghanistan -- Economic aspects, Taliban -- Military aspects -- Investigations, Military aspects, Economic aspects, Social aspects, Investigations, Company legal issue, Opium trade -- Investigations -- Economic aspects
Abstract

An oasis stretched far into the desert, a vast sea of emerald stalks and scarlet poppy flowers that grew to the horizon. The Taliban operated openly, running a social experiment [...]

Published
2024

12. In Afghan Valley, U.S. Turned Allies Into Foes

Author

Ahmed, Azam and Denton, Bryan

Subjects
Afghanistan -- Military aspects
Abstract

The Taliban war hero scans the crowd, searching. From the back, he snatches a man with a flop of dusty hair and a face marred by shrapnel. The man's head [...]

Published
2024

13. The Other Side of the Afghanistan War

Author

Ahmed, Azam

Subjects
Afghanistan Conflict, 2001-2021 -- Media coverage, Foreign correspondents -- Practice, Military maneuvers -- Forecasts and trends, Journalism -- Forecasts and trends, Market trend/market analysis, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Taliban -- Political activity
Abstract

Mullah Osman Jawhari led one of the deadliest assaults on American forces in Afghanistan, a battle that came to symbolize the war itself. The Taliban commander wore sunglasses and a [...]

Published
2024

14. Rough Road to Recovery

Author

Ahmed, Azam

Subjects
Literature/writing
Abstract

In a new book, an anthropologist investigates the makeshift treatment centers that have proliferated during the country's war on drugs. THE WAY THAT LEADS AMONG THE LOST: Life, Death, and [...]

Published
2024

24. America's Monster

Author

Ahmed, Azam, Aikins, Matthieu, and Denton, Bryan

Subjects
Afghanistan -- Military aspects, Afghanistan Conflict, 2001-2021, Atrocities -- Investigations, Generals -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes -- Investigations, Company legal issue, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

How the United States backed kidnapping, torture and murder in Afghanistan. The convoy rumbled into the Taliban heartland, a white desert littered with stones. Over the loudspeakers at the local [...]

Published
2024

25. Investigating a Monster: What We Found and How We Did It

Author

Ahmed, Azam

Subjects
Company legal issue, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

The end of the war in Afghanistan and the fall of its government allowed us to reach previously inaccessible records, places and people, documenting the bloody history of a key [...]

Published
2024

33. A novel method for inference of acyclic chemical compounds with bounded branch-height based on artificial neural networks and integer programming

Author

Naveed Ahmed Azam, Jianshen Zhu, Yanming Sun, Yu Shi, Aleksandar Shurbevski, Liang Zhao, Hiroshi Nagamochi, and Tatsuya Akutsu

Subjects
QSAR/QSPR, Molecular design, Artificial neural network, Mixed integer linear programming, Enumeration of graphs, Biology (General), QH301-705.5, Genetics, QH426-470
Abstract

Abstract Analysis of chemical graphs is becoming a major research topic in computational molecular biology due to its potential applications to drug design. One of the major approaches in such a study is inverse quantitative structure activity/property relationship (inverse QSAR/QSPR) analysis, which is to infer chemical structures from given chemical activities/properties. Recently, a novel two-phase framework has been proposed for inverse QSAR/QSPR, where in the first phase an artificial neural network (ANN) is used to construct a prediction function. In the second phase, a mixed integer linear program (MILP) formulated on the trained ANN and a graph search algorithm are used to infer desired chemical structures. The framework has been applied to the case of chemical compounds with cycle index up to 2 so far. The computational results conducted on instances with n non-hydrogen atoms show that a feature vector can be inferred by solving an MILP for up to $$n=40$$ n = 40 , whereas graphs can be enumerated for up to $$n=15$$ n = 15 . When applied to the case of chemical acyclic graphs, the maximum computable diameter of a chemical structure was up to 8. In this paper, we introduce a new characterization of graph structure, called “branch-height” based on which a new MILP formulation and a new graph search algorithm are designed for chemical acyclic graphs. The results of computational experiments using such chemical properties as octanol/water partition coefficient, boiling point and heat of combustion suggest that the proposed method can infer chemical acyclic graphs with around $$n=50$$ n = 50 and diameter 30.

Published
2021
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34. Inside Mexico’s Brutal Drug Rehabs for the Poor

Author

Ahmed, Azam

Subjects
News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

In a new book, an anthropologist investigates the makeshift treatment centers that have proliferated during the country’s war on drugs. THE WAY THAT LEADS AMONG THE LOST: Life, Death, and [...]

Published
2024

35. Health and Immune Boosting Techniques of General Adult Pakistani Population- A KAP Study

Author

Iman Khan, Shaheer Farooqi, Ahmed Safi Vahidy, Mohammad Aadil Qamar, Rubaid Azhar Dhillon, and Ahmed Azam

Subjects
Medicine
Abstract

Objective: To discover Pakistani adult population’s perception about their general health, immune status and knowledge regarding immunity, and to highlight their efforts to improve it. Method: The knowledge-attitude-practice study was conducted from January to May 2021, after approval ethics review committee of the Islamic International Medical College, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, and comprised individuals of either gender from the community aged 18 years or more and not suffering from any physical disability or mental illness. Data was collected using a pre-tested, self-administered questionnaire that was disseminated through online platforms. The collected data was analysed using SPSS 25. Results: All the 455(100%) individuals approached responded to the questionnaire. The mean age of the subjects was the mean age was 22.6±7.579 years. There were 256(56.3%) female respondents, 283(62.2%) were aged 20-21 years, and 359(78.9%) hailed for the Sindh province. Most participants perceived their general health as ‘good’ 197(43.3%). The immune system function was reported ‘good’ by 200(44%), and the perception of general knowledge of immunity was reported ‘good’ by 189(41.5%) subjects. Inverse relationships were identified between stress levels and self-perceived health, and between receiving effective homeopathic treatment and ‘very good’ self-perceived immune status (p

Published
2022
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44. Enumerating Discrete Resonant Rossby/Drift Wave Triads and Their Application in Information Security

Author

Umar Hayat, Ikram Ullah, Ghulam Murtaza, Naveed Ahmed Azam, and Miguel D. Bustamante

Subjects
Rossby/drift waves, resonant triads, quasi-resonant triads, total order, substitution box, Mathematics, QA1-939
Abstract

We propose a new parametrization of the resonant Rossby/drift wave triads to develop an algorithm to enumerate all resonant triads in a given grid of wavenumbers. To arrive at such a parametrization, we have employed tools from arithmetic/algebraic geometry to project resonant triads on a certain class of conics. Further, we extend the newly developed algorithm for the enumeration of quasi-resonant triads and experimentally show that the said algorithm is robust to design the network of quasi-resonances. From the experimental results, we observed that the new algorithm enumerates all triads in low computation time when compared with the existing methods. Finally, we apply this work to information security by constructing a total order on the enumerated resonant triads to design a substitution box (S-box) generator. Via extensive analyses over several indicators (nonlinearity, algebraic complexity, linear and differential approximation probabilities, strict avalanche criteria, and bit independence criterion) we show that the newly developed S-box outperforms the S-boxes constructed by most of the existing schemes.

Published
2022
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45. Efficacy and safety of minimally invasive surgery with thrombolysis in intracerebral haemorrhage evacuation (MISTIE III): a randomised, controlled, open-label, blinded endpoint phase 3 trial

Author

Abdul-Rahim, Azmil, Abou-Hamden, Amal, Abraham, Michael, Ahmed, Azam, Alba, Carlos Alarcon, Aldrich, E. Francois, Altschul, David, Amin-Hanjani, Sepideh, Anderson, Doug, Ansari, Safdar, Antezana, David, Ardelt, Agnieszka, Arikan, Fuat, Baguena, Marcelino, Baker, Alexandra, Barrer, Steven J., Becker, Kyra J., Bergman, Thomas, Boström, Azize, Braun, Jamie, Brindley, Peter, Broaddus, William C., Brown, Robert, Buki, Andras, Cao, Bing, Cao, Ying, Carrion-Penagos, Julian, Chalela, Julio, Chang, Tiffany, Chorro, Indalecio Moran, Chowdhry, Shakeel, Corral, Luisa, Csiba, Laszlo, Davies, Jason, Díaz, Alberto Torres, Derdeyn, Colin P., Diringer, Michael, Dlugash, Rachel, Ecker, Robert, Economas, Tracey, Enriquez, Pedro, Ezer, Erzsebet, Fan, Yuhua, Feng, Hua, Franz, Douglas, Freeman, W. David, Fusco, Matthew, Galicich, Walter, Gelea, Mary Leigh, Goldstein, Joshua, Gonzalez, Alejandro Carrasco, Grabarits, Christina, Greenberg, Steven, Gress, Daryl, Gu, Eugene, Hall, Christiana, Hernandez, Fernando Muñoz, Hoesch, Robert, Hoh, Brian L., Houser, Jennifer, Hu, Rong, Huang, Yi, Hussain, Mohammed Akbar, Insinga, Salvatore, Jadhav, Ashutosh, Jaffe, Jennifer, Jahromi, Babak S., Jallo, Jack, James, Michael, James, Robert F., Jankowitz, Brian, Jeon, Esther, Jichici, Draga, Jonczak, Karin, Jonker, Ben, Karlen, Nicki, Keric, Naureen, Kerz, Thomas, Knopman, Jared, Koenig, Carolyn, Krishnamurthy, Satish, Kumar, Avinash, Kureshi, Inam, Laidlaw, John, Lakhanpal, Arun, Latorre, Julius Gene, Leifer, Dana, Leiphart, James, Lenington, Sarah, Li, Yunke, Lopez, George, Lovick, Darren, Lumenta, Christianto, Luo, Jinbiao, Maas, Matthew B., MacDonald, Joel, MacKenzie, Larami, Madan, Vikram, Majkowski, Ryan, Major, Otto, Malhorta, Rishi, Malkoff, Marc, Mangat, Halinder, Maswadeh, Ahmed, Matouk, Charles, McArthur, Kate, McCaul, Scott, Medow, Joshua, Mezey, Geza, Mighty, Janet, Miller, David, Mohan, Krishna K., Muir, Keith, Muñoz, Lorenzo, Nakaji, Peter, Nee, Alex, Nekoovaght-Tak, Saman, Nyquist, Paul, O'Kane, Roddy, Okasha, Mohamed, O'Kelly, Cian, Ostapkovich, Noeleen, Pandey, Aditya, Parry-Jones, Adrian, Perla, Krissia Rivera, Pollack, Ania, Polster, Sean, Pouratian, Nader, Quinn, Terry, Rajajee, Ventatakrishna, Reddy, Kesava, Rehman, Mohammed, Reimer, Ronald, Rincon, Fred, Rybinnik, Igor, Sanchez, Baltasar, Sansing, Lauren, Schneck, Michael, Schuerer, Ludwig, Schul, David, Schweitzer, Jeffrey, Seder, David B., Seyfried, Donald, Sheth, Kevin, Spiotta, Alejandro, Stechison, Michael, Szabo, Katalin, Tamayo, Gonzalo, Tanczos, Krisztian, Taussky, Philipp, Terry, John, Testai, Fernando, Thomas, Kathrine, Thompson, Carol B., Thompson, Gregory, Torner, James C., Tran, Huy, Tucker, Kristi, Ungar, Lior, Varelas, Panos, Vargas, Nataly Montano, Vatter, Hartmut, Venkatasubramanian, Chitra, Vermillion, Krista, Vollmer, Dennis, Wang, Yan, Wang, Ying, Wen, Jiajun, Whitworth, Louis Tony, Willis, Byron, Wrencher, Myriha, Wright, Shawn E., Xu, Yongge, Yanase, Lisa, Yi, Xuxia, Yu, Zhiyuan, Zomorodi, Ali, Hanley, Daniel F, Thompson, Richard E, Rosenblum, Michael, Yenokyan, Gayane, Lane, Karen, McBee, Nichol, Mayo, Steven W, Bistran-Hall, Amanda J, Gandhi, Dheeraj, Mould, W Andrew, Ullman, Natalie, Ali, Hasan, Carhuapoma, J Ricardo, Kase, Carlos S, Lees, Kennedy R, Dawson, Jesse, Wilson, Alastair, Betz, Joshua F, Sugar, Elizabeth A, Hao, Yi, Avadhani, Radhika, Caron, Jean-Louis, Harrigan, Mark R, Carlson, Andrew P, Bulters, Diederik, LeDoux, David, Huang, Judy, Cobb, Cully, Gupta, Gaurav, Kitagawa, Ryan, Chicoine, Michael R, Patel, Hiren, Dodd, Robert, Camarata, Paul J, Wolfe, Stacey, Stadnik, Agnieszka, Money, P Lynn, Mitchell, Patrick, Sarabia, Rosario, Harnof, Sagi, Barzo, Pal, Unterberg, Andreas, Teitelbaum, Jeanne S, Wang, Weimin, Anderson, Craig S, Mendelow, A David, Gregson, Barbara, Janis, Scott, Vespa, Paul, Ziai, Wendy, Zuccarello, Mario, and Awad, Issam A

Published
2019
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47. Multi-slice CT coronary angiography assessment of remodeling index in patients with low- to intermediate-risk stable angina

Author

Shaimaa A. Mostafa, Tarek Aboelazem, Osama Sanad, Haytham Abdelghafar, and Ahmed Azam

Subjects
CT coronary angiography, Remodeling index, Stable angina, Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system, RC666-701
Abstract

Abstract Background Early identification of vulnerable plaques by remodeling index prior to rupture and development of acute event is of considerable importance especially by a reliable non-invasive method as CT coronary angiography (CTA), so we aim to evaluate coronary artery remodeling index in patients with low- to intermediate-risk stable angina by CTA. Results This single-center, cross-sectional, observational study included 150 patients with stable angina with normal resting ECG, negative markers, normal systolic function by 2D echocardiography (EF > 50%), and without regional wall motion abnormality at rest who were referred to MSCT evaluation of the coronary artery tree; the mean age was 56.8 ± 6.4 years, 83.3% had one-vessel disease, and 16.7% had two-vessel diseases. The mean remodeling index (RI) was 1.04 ± 0.28, 38% had significant positive remodeling, LAD was the most affected vessel (55.3), and proximal lesions were predominant in 48.5%; there was a statistically significant positive correlation between RI and cholesterol, triglyceride, LDL, duration of DM, HBA1c, and plaque burden (P 1.1 were diabetic, hypertensive, smoker, with longer duration of diabetes mellitus, higher HBA1c, cholesterol, triglyceride, LDL, plaque burden, wall lumen ratio, stenosis area, and lower HDL. Conclusion CTA was able to detect the presence and extent of early, non-obstructive but significant coronary artery-positive remodeling in patients with low- to intermediate-risk stable angina patients. Trial registration NCT03963609, 22 May 2019

Published
2019
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48. Poppy Boom m Afghan Desert Has Gone Bust.

Author

AHMED, AZAM

Subjects
*DRUG traffic, *PAPAVERACEAE, *AFGHANS, *DESERTS, *FLOWERS
Abstract

The New York Times article explores the rise and fall of the poppy trade in Afghanistan's Bakwa District. Initially embraced by the Taliban to fund their war efforts, poppy cultivation led to a thriving drug trade. However, after the Taliban banned poppy farming post-war, the industry collapsed, leaving residents facing economic hardship and water scarcity. The eradication of poppy farming has had a significant impact on the district, with some turning to wheat farming as an alternative while others profit from hoarding opium reserves. The landscape of Bakwa now reflects abandoned infrastructure and desolate fields, highlighting the consequences of the shift in the poppy trade. [Extracted from the article]

Published
2024

49. Battling a Cartel in a Horrifying Quest to Find Her Daughter

Author

Ahmed, Azam

Subjects
News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Karen Rodriguez was kidnapped by Mexico’s Zeta cartel. Her mother would stop at nothing to find out exactly what happened to her. It was 4 a.m. when Miriam Rodriguez’s phone [...]

Published
2023

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