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During the War on Terror, when high rates of violence were occurring and schools were being forcefully torn down in Swat Valley of Pakistan, Malala Yousafzai fought for girls' education rights. At just 17 years old, Malala Yousafzai has inspired people around the world with her passion and determination to make sure girls everywhere can get an education. When the Taliban tried to silence her, Malala answered their brutality with strength and resolve. Soon in the international media, she was acclaimed as a brave hero and later honored with a Nobel Prize. She received a mixed response for her efforts in Pakistan. While some praised her, others thought her as an opportunist or believed that there was a Western conspiracy behind her promotion on an international level. This article explores the disparities in media representation of Malala Yousafzai on global and local levels. Employing ethnographic research methods, we bring to light the perceptions of people from her hometown and juxtapose it with those of international media outlets. The article will help understand the complex controversies surrounding Yousafzai's struggle and legacy. Keywords: Malala Yousafzai, Media representation, Reception, Pakistan, Global media, Local media, Introduction This article describes Malala's depiction in the local and global media. Various sociocultural, political, and ideological discourses were used to describe her role at the societal, national, and global [...]

The gross composition of milk may affect the textural, compositional and microbiological properties of yoghurt. Sahiwal, Holstein Friesian milk procured from Dairy Animal Training and Research Center, B-block University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Pattoki and Nili Ravi buffalo milk procured from Nili Ravi buffalo Research Institute (BRI), Pattoki. All other ingredients purchased from Sigma Aldrich Germany through local suppliers. Milk was standardized to 15% total solids with 3.5% fat. Skim Milk Powder (SMP) was used for the standardization of the yogurt. Milk was pasteurized at 82oC for 5 minutes and cool down to 43℃ and at this temperature starter culture was added. Yogurt batch incubated at 43℃ for 3 to 3.5 h. During this period pH was monitored regularly and as the pH drops to 4.6, the batch was shifted to blast chilling at 1-2℃ and then stored at 4℃. Sensory evaluation of all yogurt samples was carried out on a 9-point hedonic scale. All the tests were carried out on day 0, 7, 14 and 21. The collected data was investigated through ANOVA technique under complete randomized design (CRD) using SAS 9.1 software. The results showed that yoghurt made from Nili Ravi buffalo milk (To) showed a significant (p= 0.5) overall acceptability as compared to other treatments. Yoghurt made from Nili Ravi buffalo milk (To) were followed by T3, T4, T1 and T5 respectively. The Nili Ravi buffalo milk showed higher acceptability to the consumers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Generally, stochastic functional differential equations (SFDEs) pose a challenge as they often lack explicit exact solutions. Consequently, it becomes necessary to seek certain favorable conditions under which numerical solutions can converge towards the exact solutions. This article aims to delve into the convergence analysis of solutions for stochastic functional differential equations by employing the framework of G-Brownian motion. To establish the goal, we find a set of useful monotone type conditions and work within the space C r ((− ∞ , 0 ] ; R n) . The investigation conducted in this article confirms the mean square boundedness of solutions. Furthermore, this study enables us to compute both L G 2 and exponential estimates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research critically investigated the intervening effect of psychological safety and the role of Leader member exchange (LmX) as a moderator on inclusive leadership and employee pro-social rule-breaking. The study analyzed the data gathered via survey questionnaires from 250 workers in the insurance and banking sectors in Peshawar. The validity and reliability of the scales were verified, and hypotheses were tested. The research comes to the conclusion that inclusive leadership has a positive effect on Pro-Social Rules breaking (PsRb). The research also found that psychological safety affects the relationship between Inclusive leadership (InCl) and employees’ pro-social rules breaking (PsRb). The researcher also noticed that the relationship between InCl and Psychological Safety (PsySafety) is moderated by LmX, which indicates that high LmX implies a high relationship between InCl and PsySafety and low LmX means a low relationship between the two. The study recommended that the insurance and banking sectors should adopt inclusive leadership characteristics to encourage employees to work for organizational benefits, customers and their colleagues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While it is known that high-quality human resource management (HRM) contributes to organizational performance, the process through which individual outcomes are influenced is understudied. Further, not all HRM practices are similarly influential in making impact on performance. We introduce and empirically test a theoretical model that explores the mechanism through which discretionary HRM practices influence employees' attitudes and behaviors. Employing a three-wave dataset collected from full-time employees (478 employees in Time 1, 266 employees in Time 2, and 235 employees in Time 3), we identify the mediating role of career satisfaction and organizational identification and the moderating role of work engagement as relevant factors in the relationship between perceived discretionary HRM practices and employees' knowledge sharing behavior and turnover intentions. The analysis, based on Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), has validated the proposed model. The theoretical contribution we offer expands the understanding of role of HRM in shaping work behaviors and outcomes. The study identifies the unique impact of perceived discretionary HR practices on individual and organizational factors, in particular, the important issue of knowledge sharing. The major added value we bring to the literature is about the relevance and impact of discretionary HR practices and the implications it offers to HRM and line managers. Using the findings, organizations can tailor HRM system to fit their position and characteristics and develop 'best practice' to fit their needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines the cross-lagged relationships between interpersonal conflict types (i.e., task, process, and relationship) and individual innovative job performance (IJP). We also examine the moderating roles of employees' goal orientations (mastery and performance goal orientations) in these relationships. Utilizing time-lagged data collected from 235 Pakistani employees, we observed negative associations between task, process, and relationship conflicts and employee IJP. Furthermore, we found that employee mastery goal orientation reduces the detrimental effects of interpersonal conflict types on IJP, while performance goal orientation increases these negative effects. This study sheds light on the adverse impacts of interpersonal conflict types on employees' IJP and elucidates the influence of employee goal orientations on these relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We conducted petrographic, geochemical, and new U-Pb laser ablation inductively coupled mass spectrometry analyses of detrital zircons in the sandstone samples from the important Mengqiguer sandstone-type uranium deposit located in the Yili basin of the Xishanyao Formation. This formation (Shuixigou Group) is a major uranium-bearing target stratum in the basin. The main purpose of our investigations was to determine the provenance of the host sand units that has remained unclear to date. Our petrographic results suggested that the host sandstone is texturally and chemically immature, indicating superior physicochemical conditions for later uranium mineralisation. The major and trace element data of the detrital sandstone samples point towards the upper continental crust, and the chondrite-normalised rare earth element (REE) plots show enriched light REE and relatively flat heavy-REE distribution, with a negative Eu anomaly. The characteristics of the REEs and the trace elements point to felsic rocks as the provenance of the target strata with a continental arc tectonic setting. The detrital zircons indicate an age span of~235-~2327 Ma, with major age populations of~300-~500 Ma. The increasing amount of zircon grains from the Late Devonian to the Early Carboniferous coinciding with the age of volcanic magmatic activities of the Wusun and Nalati mountains indicates that the rocks formed under the Tianshan collisional orogeny and the subsequent extensional environment. Key words: Middle Jurassic Yili basin, northwest China, U-Pb detrital zircon age, Provenance. Nous avons effectue des analyses petrographiques, geochimiques et de spectrometrie de masse a source a plasma inductif avec ablation au laser de zircons detritiques d'echantillons de gres provenant de l'important gisement d'uranium de type gres de Mengqiguer, situe dans le bassin d'Yili de la Formation de Xishanyao. Cette formation (Groupe de Shuixigou) constitue une importante unite uranifere cible dans ce bassin. L'objectif principal de nos etudes consistait a determiner la provenance des unites de gres hotes, qui demeurait incertaine. Nos resultats petrographiques donnent a penser que le gres hote est immature tant sur le plan textural que chimique, indiquant des conditions physicochimiques propices a une mineralisation uranifere ulterieure. Les donnees sur les elements majeurs et en traces des echantillons de gres detritiques indiquent une provenance dans la croute continentale superieure, et les spectres des terres rares normalisees aux valeurs chondritiques montrent un enrichissement des terres rares legeres et une distribution relativement plane des terres rares lourdes, avec une anomalie en Eu negative. Les caracteristiques des terres rares et des elements en traces indiqueraient que la source des unites cibles serait constituee des roches felsiques dans un milieu tectonique d'arc continental. Les zircons detritiques definissent une fourchette d'ages allant de--235 Ma a--2327 Ma, avec des populations majeures d'ages allant de--300 Ma a--500 Ma. L'augmentation de l'abondance de grains de zircon du Devonien tardif au Carbonifere precoce, qui coincide avec l'age de l'activite magmatique volcanique des montagnes Wusun et Nalati, indique que les roches se sont formees durant l'orogenese de collision de Tianshan et dans le milieu d'extension qui a suivi. Mots-cles: bassin jurassique moyen d'Yili, nord-ouest de la Chine, age U-Pb sur zircons detritiques, provenance., 1. Introduction Sandstone-type uranium deposits, of which the worldwide resources total approximately 31%, are of greater economic significance compared with all the other known types (OCED 2010; Boberg 2010; Hall [...]