Real-Time Size Distributions of Air Pollutants From a Wastewater Treatment Plant in the New York State Capital District - Tia Marks; Thoin Begum; Katherine McDermott; Haider A. Khwaja (International Journal of Environmental Research, 2023)

PET waste management in Pakistan through use of PET shreds as additive in backfill soil - Fawad Sheikh; Badee Alshameri; Zain Maqsood; Abbas Haider; Jawad Hassan (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2023)

Comparative appraisal of groundwater quality in lower and upper riparians of Malir River system through geospatial techniques - Syed Wasi Haider; Syed Jamil Hasan Kazmi; Aamir Alamgir; Adnan Khan; Muhammad Arsalan (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2023)

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Inquiring asymmetric effects of oil prices, money supply, and domestic debt on consumer prices: an empirical evidence from Pakistan - Muhammad Shahid Hassan; Najam ul Hassan; Rukhsana Kalim; Muhammad Ibrahim Saeed; Haider Mahmood (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2023)

Reinvigorating the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis in the context of highly polluted nations: evidence using advanced panel estimation techniques - A. K. M. Atiqur Rahman; Jesus Cantero Galiano; Muntasir Murshed; Daniel Balsalobre-Lorente; Haider Mahmood; Md. Emran Hossain (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2023)

Cryopreservation protocol resolving the "temperature" challenges of long-distance transportation of Beetal buck (Capra hircus) sperm - Syed Aftab Hussain Shah; Muhammad Shafiq Haider; Hussain Ahmed; Muhammad Hammad Fayyaz; Syed Murtaza Hassan Andrabi (Small Ruminant Research, 2023)

Microplastics drive microbial assembly, their interactions, and metagenomic functions in two soils with distinct pH and heavy metal availability - Jun Meng; Wenjin Li; Chengmei Diao; Zhangtao Li; Jiayi Zhao; Ghulam Haider; Haibo Zhang; Jun Xu; Minjun Hu; Shengdao Shan; Huaihai Chen (Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2023)

The performance of streamline simulation technique to mimic the waterflooding management process in oil reservoirs - Mohsin Haider Kazem; Mohammed Ahmed Hussein; M. Sadeq Adnan; Dheiaa Alfarge; Ibrahim Jamil Mansour (Fuel, 2023)

Biochar alleviated the toxic effects of PVC microplastic in a soil-plant system by upregulating soil enzyme activities and microbial abundance - Attia Rubab Khalid; Tariq Shah; Muhammad Asad; Ahmad Ali; Eisha Samee; Fazal Adnan; Muhammad Faraz Bhatti; Sven Marhan; Claudia I. Kammann; Ghulam Haider (Environmental Pollution, 2023)

Assessment of precipitation extremes and their association with NDVI, monsoon and oceanic indices over Pakistan - Azfar Hussain; Ishtiaq Hussain; Shaukat Ali; Waheed Ullah; Firdos Khan; Abolfazl Rezaei; Safi Ullah; Haider Abbas; Asima Manzoom; Jianhua Cao; Jinxing Zhou (Atmospheric Research, 2023)

Microfacies analysis and stratigraphic framework of the Albian succession in the low folded zone, Northern Iraq - Hussein Sh. Aoudah; Aiad Ali Hussien Al-Zaidy; Haider A. Falih Al-Tarim (Modeling Earth Systems and Environment, 2023)

Spatiotemporal change detection of land use land cover (LULC) in Fashiakhali wildlife sanctuary (FKWS) impact area, Bangladesh, employing multispectral images and GIS - Md. Sazzad Hossain; Md. Asif Haider Khan; Tomiwa Victor Oluwajuwon; Jayanta Biswas; S. M. Rubaiot Abdullah; Md. Seikh Sadiul Islam Tanvir; Sirajum Munira; Md. Naif Ahmed Chowdhury (Modeling Earth Systems and Environment, 2023)
Land cover change has posed significant concerns to biodiversity and climate change in Bangladesh and globally. Despite the country’s designation of forest regions as protected areas to conserve their valuable resources, deforestation and forest conversion remained unabated. Fashiakhali Wildlife Sanctuary (FKWS), a protected area in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, and its surrounding forested impact area have experienced considerable changes over the years, yet are deficient in extensive assessment. This study evaluated the land use land cover (LULC) changes in the FKWS impact area over almost 3 decades (1994–2021) using multispectral remotely sensed data. The Landsat images of 1994, 2001, 2010, and 2021 were classified using a maximum likelihood algorithm and analyzed for change detection. The comparative potential of vegetation indices, including Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index (SAVI), in forest cover assessment, and the relationship between Land Surface Temperature (LST) and NDVI was also assessed. A significant forest cover loss of around 1117.17 ha (16%) was recorded in the FKWS impact area between 1994 and 2021, with the hugest proportion of 867.78 ha (12.24%) deforested in the first period (1994–2001). Agricultural land also declined by 593.73 ha (8.37%) within the entire period, despite its initial increase of 392.04 ha (5.53%) between 2001 and 2010, being the primary driver of earlier deforestation. However, in the recent decade (2010–2021), settlement expansion of 963.90 ha (13.59%) due to massive human migration in the area contributed to the most remarkable overall land cover change of 1731.51 ha (24.42%). Furthermore, NDVI provided a better and more accurate forest cover assessment than SAVI and was recommended to aid in the quick evaluation and monitoring of the future impacts of agriculture, settlement, and other sorts of land use on the forest cover. In tandem with the widely acknowledged issue of increased temperature due to climate change, an absolute negative correlation was found between the NDVI and LST, confirming the negative impact of climate change on forest loss in the FKWS impact area.

Exogenous Application of Moringa Leaf Extract Confers Salinity Tolerance in Sunflower by Concerted Regulation of Antioxidants and Secondary Metabolites - Fozia Farhat; Nadra Ashaq; Ali Noman; Muhammad Aqeel; Shameem Raja; Rashda Naheed; Muhammad Faisal Maqsood; Ijaz Haider; Arneeb Tariq (Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 2023)

Flavonoids: a review on biosynthesis and transportation mechanism in plants - Muhammad Aamir Manzoor; Irfan Ali Sabir; Iftikhar Hussain Shah; Muhammad Waheed Riaz; Shamsur Rehman; Cheng Song; Gouhui Li; M. Sanaullah Malik; Ghulam Abbas Ashraf; Muhammad Sajjad Haider; Yunpeng Cao; Muhammad Abdullah (Functional & Integrative Genomics, 2023)

In-line warming reduces in-line pressure of subcutaneous infusion of concentrated immunoglobulins - Peter Leidenmühler; Joris Höfinghoff; Norbert Haider; Gerald Brachtl; Markus Weiller; Ivan Bilic; Bagirath Gangadharan (Drug Delivery and Translational Research, 2023)
Immunoglobulin replacement therapy is a life-saving treatment in patients with immunodeficiency and effective in the management of autoimmune disorders. Immunoglobulins are administered intravenously or subcutaneously, with the latter route reducing systemic reactions and providing an option for self-infusion, increasing patient convenience, while decreasing patient burden, healthcare utilization, and costs. A major limitation with subcutaneous administrations is the frequency of infusion due to limited volumes administrable into subcutaneous space, necessitating increased drug concentration, absorption, and dispersion. Increasing the concentration of immunoglobulins from 10 to 20% halves the required volume, but leads to higher dynamic viscosity, limiting infusion rate. Recombinant human hyaluronidase increases dispersion and absorption of immunoglobulins allowing administration of ≤ 600 mL per site, but does not change viscosity. Since the viscosity of fluids depends on temperature, we tested the feasibility of in-line warming of immunoglobulin formulations to physiological temperatures. In vitro analysis showed no negative impact of in-line warming to 38 °C on product quality. Subcutaneous infusion studies in pigs confirmed the feasibility of infusion rates of up to 7.5 mL/min with in-line warmed TAK-881, an immunoglobulin 20% facilitated with recombinant human hyaluronidase. In-line pressures were reduced compared with conventional immunoglobulin 20%, and local tolerance was not altered. Reduction of in-line pressures was more pronounced with thinner needle sets, indicating a potential benefit for patients. In summary, an in in-line warming device can circumvent the limitation of high viscosity, while product quality and local tolerance are maintained. The results of the presented studies warrant further testing in a phase 1 clinical study. Graphical Abstract

The influence of exogenous melatonin and chitosan on secondary metabolites’ production and biological activities of tissue extracts in agitated micro-shoot cultures of Ajuga integrifolia Buch. Ham. ex D.Don - Muhammad Asad Ullah; Faiza Zareen Gul; Gouhar Zaman; Junaid Iqbal; Samantha Drouet; Duangjai Tungmunnithum; Christophe Hano; Bilal Haider Abbasi (Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, 2023)

Impact of technological innovation and renewable energy on ecological footprint in G20 countries: The moderating role of institutional quality - Ahmad Raza; Yasir Habib; Shujahat Haider Hashmi (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2023)

First report of powdery mildew caused by Podosphaera xanthii on Cucumis melo in Pakistan - Ali Meesam; Farah Naz; Beenish Gul; Khadija Umar; Zain Haider (Journal of Plant Pathology, 2023)

Antioxidant effects of zinc-oxide nanoparticles on post-thaw quality and in vivo fertility of Beetal buck spermatozoa - Mubashir Ali Khalique; Habib Rehman; Syed Murtaza Hassan Andrabi; Khalid Abdul Majeed; Nisar Ahmad; Muhammad Hammad Fayyaz; Muhammad Shafiq Haider; Syeda Sohaila Naz; Irfan Zia Qureshi; Sulaiman Sulaiman (Small Ruminant Research, 2023)

The interactions between DNA methylation machinery and long non-coding RNAs in tumor progression and drug resistance - Mokhtar Jawad Al-Imam; Uday Abdul-Reda Hussein; Fadhil Faez Sead; Ayoob Murtadha Alshaikh Faqri; Shereen M. Mekkey; Abdullah Jalel khazel; Haider Abdulkareem Almashhadani (DNA Repair, 2023)

Comparison of various models for the estimation of heritability and breeding values - Ambreen Hamadani; Nazir A. Ganai; Nusrat Nabi Khan; Syed Shanaz; Mubashir Ali Rather; Haider A. Ahmad; Ruksana Shah (Tropical Animal Health and Production, 2023)

Lupeol, a plant triterpenoid mitigates salt induced stress: growth and antioxidative response of Brassica nigra under in vitro condition - Muhammad Zia; Joham Sarfraz Ali; Saad Hanif; Anila Sajjad; Bilal Haider Abbasi (Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC), 2023)

Strigolactone-Mediated Oxidative Stress Alleviation in Brassica rapa Through Upregulating Antioxidant System Under Water Deficit Conditions - Ahmad Ali; Tariq Shah; Ghulam Haider; Masood Iqbal Awan; Madiha Gohar; Fazal Munsif; Ijaz Ahmad (Journal of Plant Growth Regulation, 2023)

A comprehensive review on adsorption of methylene blue dye using leaf waste as a bio-sorbent: isotherm adsorption, kinetics, and thermodynamics studies - Zainab Haider Mussa; Lubna Raad Al-Ameer; Fouad Fadhil Al-Qaim; Issa Farhan Deyab; Hesam Kamyab; Shreeshivadasan Chelliapan (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2023)

Relation between storm characteristics and extreme precipitation statistics over CONUS - Diogo S.A. Araujo; Francesco Marra; Haider Ali; Hayley J. Fowler; Efthymios I. Nikolopoulos (Advances in Water Resources, 2023)

BARI Alu-86—An Early-Bulker, High Yielding and Quality Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) Cultivar Suitable for Diverse Environments - Sauda Naznin; Md. Mazadul Islam; Md Abu Kawochar; Bimal Chandra kundu; Zulfikar Haider Prodhan; Md Nurul Amin; Md. Nasir Uddin; Md Salim; Babul Anwar; Protima Rani Sarker; Saiful Islam; Afroz Naznin; et al. (American Journal of Potato Research, 2023)

Ameliorating sustainable business performance through green constructs: a case of manufacturing industry - Xin Xie; Shabnam Khan; Saqib Rehman; Shumaila Naz; Syed Arslan Haider; Umar Nawaz Kayani (Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2023)

Nickel (Ni) phytotoxicity and detoxification mechanisms: A review - Adnan Mustafa; Usman Zulfiqar; Muhammad Zahid Mumtaz; Maja Radziemska; Fasih Ullah Haider; Jiri Holatko; Tereza Hammershmiedt; Muhammad Naveed; Hassan Ali; Antonin Kintl; Qudsia Saeed; Jiri Kucerik; et al. (Chemosphere, 2023)

Expandable polystyrene waste modified iron sludge-based biochar activating multiple free radicals for deep wastewater treatment - Shenglin Bu; Wenzong Liu; Muhammad Rizwan Haider; Xiqi Li; Wenzhe Zhang; Qi Sun; Qiandi Wang; Yuanqiang Guo; Shichen Nie; Aijie Wang (Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 2023)

Evidence and Molecular Characterization of Multidrug Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Isolated From Equines in Pakistan - Farwa Anwaar; Muhammad Ijaz; Hamza Rasheed; Syed Faizan Ali Shah; Syed Ali Raza Haider; Muhammad Jawad Sabir (Journal of Equine Veterinary Science, 2023)

Co-opted directors and greenhouse gas emissions: Does ESG compensation matter? - Ammar Ali Gull; Aitzaz Ahsan Alias Sarang; Irfan Haider Shakri; Muhammad Atif (Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023)

The impacts of globalization, renewable energy, and agriculture on CO2 emissions in India: Contextual evidence using a novel composite carbon emission-related atmospheric quality index - Md Shabbir Alam; Pachiyappan Duraisamy; Abu Bakkar Siddik; Muntasir Murshed; Haider Mahmood; Manigandan Palanisamy; Dervis Kirikkaleli (Gondwana Research, 2023)

Spatiotemporal temperature trends over homogenous climatic regions of Pakistan during 1961–2017 - Azfar Hussain; Ishtiaq Hussain; Shaukat Ali; Waheed Ullah; Firdos Khan; Safi Ullah; Haider Abbas; Asima Manzoom; Jianhua Cao; Jinxing Zhou (Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2023)

Application of UAV photogrammetry and electrical resistivity tomography for characterization of a complex landslide: a case study from northwest Himalayas, Pakistan - Syed Ahatsham Haider; Matloob Hussain; Aamir Ali; Muhammad Faheem Abbasi; Saad Wani (Natural Hazards, 2023)

Fiscal policy-green growth nexus: Does financial efficiency matter in top carbon emitter economies? - Huizheng Liu; Muhammad Afaq Haider Jafri; Peihua Zhu; Muhammad Hafeez (Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2023)

A robust optimization model for microgrid considering hybrid renewable energy sources under uncertainties - Hussain Haider; Yang Jun; Ghamgeen Izat Rashed; Fan Peixiao; Salah Kamel; Yonghui Li (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2023)

Normalization of geotechnical sustainability assessment tool (Geo-SAT) using multiple criteria decision analysis for dams - Kainat Batool; Badee Alshameri; Faisal Raza; Abbas Haider; Majid Ali (Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2023)

Physiological effects of some engineered nanomaterials on radish (Raphanus sativus L.) intercropped with pea (Pisum sativum L.) - Mehr-un-Nisa; Fahad Shafiq; Sumera Anwar; Arslan Mahmood; Muhammad Iqbal; Kaleem Ullah; Muhammad Zulqarnain; Imtiaz Haider; Muhammad Ashraf; Lixin Zhang (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2023)

Optimized photodegradation of palm oil agroindustry waste effluent using multivalent manganese–modified black titanium dioxide - Rab Nawaz; Sajjad Haider; Muzammil Anjum; Vipin Kumar Oad; Adnan Haider; Rawaiz Khan; Muhammad Aqif; Tahir Hanif; Nasruulah Khan (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2023)

RETRACTED: Source, occurrence, distribution, fate, and implications of microplastic pollutants in freshwater on environment: A critical review and way forward - Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan; Ahtisham Haider; Hafiz Muhammad Ahmad; Ayesha Mohyuddin; Hafiz Muhammad Umer Aslam; Sohail Nadeem; Mohsin Javed; Mohd Hafiz Dzarfan Othman; Hui Hwang Goh; Kit Wayne Chew (Chemosphere, 2023)

Investigating resource curse/blessing hypothesis: An empirical insights from Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Portugal economies - Shengming Chen; Muhammad Shahid Hassan; Ayesha Latif; Abdul Rafay; Haider Mahmood; Xiaowei Xu (Resources Policy, 2023)

Pollution status monitoring and indices development for evaluating sustainable environmental management practices (SEMP) in Quaid-e-Azam Industrial Estate, Pakistan - Syeda Laiba Haider Naqvi; Fizzah Ayub; Abdullah Yasar; Amtul Bari Tabinda; Hassan Nawaz; Rameesha Tanveer (Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023)

Polyvinylpyrrolidone and chitosan-coated magnetite (Fe3O4) nanoparticles for catalytic and antimicrobial activity with molecular docking analysis - Ayesha; Muhammad Imran; Ali Haider; Iram Shahzadi; Sawaira Moeen; Anwar Ul-Hamid; Walid Nabgan; Anum Shahzadi; Thamraa Alshahrani; Muhammad Ikram (Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 2023)

Simultaneous and efficient removal of Cd(II) and As(III) by a magnesium-manganese codoped biochar composite: Sorption performance and governing mechanisms - Zulqarnain Haider Khan; Zhongyang Li; Minling Gao; Md. Shafiqul Islam; Ling Xiao; Weiwen Qiu; Zhengguo Song (Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 2023)

Enhancement of biomethane production by huminite-enriched lignite pretreated with hydrogen peroxide - Weiting Zhang; Zaixing Huang; Dan Zhang; Gordana Medunić; Michael Urynowicz; Fang-Jing Liu; Hongguang Guo; Rizwan Haider; Muhammad Ishtiaq Ali; Asif Jamal; Huan He (International Journal of Coal Geology, 2023)

Corrigendum to “How do green energy technology investments, technological innovation, and trade globalization enhance green energy supply and stimulate environmental sustainability in the G7 countries?” [Gondwana Res. 112 (2022) 105–115] - Zahoor Ahmed; Mahmood Ahmad; Muntasir Murshed; Muhammad Ibrahim Shah; Haider Mahmood; Shujaat Abbas (Gondwana Research, 2023)

Strain and serovar variants of Salmonella enterica exhibit diverse tolerance to food chain-related stress - Hannah V. Pye; Gaёtan Thilliez; Luke Acton; Rafał Kolenda; Haider Al-Khanaq; Stephen Grove; Robert A. Kingsley (Food Microbiology, 2023)

Machine-learning-based prediction and optimization of emerging contaminants' adsorption capacity on biochar materials - Zeeshan Haider Jaffari; Heewon Jeong; Jaegwan Shin; Jinwoo Kwak; Changgil Son; Yong-Gu Lee; Sangwon Kim; Kangmin Chon; Kyung Hwa Cho (Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023)

The establishment of design criteria for precision ventilation in open-plan offices - Haider Latif; Alessandro Maccarini; Goran Hultmark; Peter V. Nielsen; Samira Rahnama; Alireza Afshari (Building and Environment, 2023)

Biochars Affect the Mobility of Carcinogenic Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Amended Soil and Their Bioaccumulation in Spinach - Muhammad Waqas; Sardar Khan; Cai Chao; Jawed Nawab; Isha Shamshad; Shah Jehan; Iqbal Haider; Ihsan Ullah; Muhammad Amjad Khan (Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2023)

Mapping the Spatial distribution of Soil heavy metals pollution by Principal Component Analysis and Cluster Analyses - Raja Karim Bux; Madeeha Batool; Syed Mubashir Shah; Amber R. Solangi; Asghar Ali Shaikh; Syed Iqleem Haider; Zia-ul-Hassan Shah (Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2023)

Interactive Effects of Soil and Foliar-Applied Nanobiochar on Growth, Metabolites, and Nutrient Composition in Daucus carota - Habiba Khaliq; Sumera Anwar; Fahad Shafiq; Muhammad Ashraf; Lixin Zhang; Imtiaz Haider; Shahbaz Khan (Journal of Plant Growth Regulation, 2023)

Morphological and anatomical characterization of colchicine-induced polyploids in watermelon - Md. Noor-E-Azam Khan; Jahidul Hassan; Md. Sanaullah Biswas; Haider Iqbal Khan; Hasina Sultana; Maksuratun Nahar Suborna; Md. Mijanur Rahman Rajib; Jiasmin Akter; Joydeb Gomasta; Abdullah Al Mamun Anik (Horticulture, Environment, and Biotechnology, 2023)

Identification of 12 hub genes associated to the pathogenesis of osteoporosis based on microarray and single-cell RNA sequencing data - Zhigang Zhou; Zhangheng Huang; Haider Mohammed Khan; Yuheng Liu; Zhen Zhao; Qingquan Kong (Functional & Integrative Genomics, 2023)

Arsenic Speciation in Rice, Mechanisms and Associated Health Risk Through Rice Consumption in Various Districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan - Tasneem Sarwar; Sardar Khan; Javed Nawab; Said Muhammad; Shehla Amin; Janas Khan; Adnan Sarwar; Iqbal Haider; Qing Huang (Exposure and Health, 2023)

Adsorption of methylene blue dye from aqueous solution using low-cost adsorbent: kinetic, isotherm adsorption, and thermodynamic studies - Safaa Talib Al-Asadi; Fouad Fadhil Al-Qaim; Haider Falih Shamikh Al-Saedi; Issa Farhan Deyab; Hesam Kamyab; Shreeshivadasan Chelliapan (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2023)

The emergence of novel Iranian variants in sheeppox and goatpox viral envelope proteins with remarkably altered putative binding affinities with the host receptor - Haider Alwan; Maryam Torabi; Hossein Nourani; Mohammed Baqur S. Al-Shuhaib (Virus Genes, 2023)

Sublevel Shrinkage (SLSh) Mining—A State-of-the-art Review - Lukas Brand; Katharina Haider (BHM Berg- und Hüttenmännische Monatshefte, 2023)
Sublevel shrinkage (SLSh) is an underground mining method similar to sublevel caving (SLC) but with continuous backfilling from the top. It features a top-down mining sequence with production drifts orientated in a longitudinal or transverse way in the orebody. Fan drilling and blasting is done from the production drifts, from where the ore is then drawn. While drawing, backfill is introduced at the top and flows down by gravity, which supports the walls and prevents caving. In this contribution, a state-of-the-art literature review is performed using various sources. Four case studies show that SLSh could be a viable alternative for stoping (e.g. sublevel open stoping “SLOS” or longhole open stoping “LHOS”) and SLC in steeply dipping, moderately thick, tabular deposits. SLSh can be applied where caving must be prevented or caveability of the hangingwall rock mass is not provided due to rock mass properties or the geometry of the deposit. SLSh also proved to be an alternative to SLOS or LHOS when only small stope sizes would be possible due to geotechnical constraints. Critical points are dilution with backfill and the backfill handling infrastructure that must have a high capacity. Stability of this infrastructure is very important and must be monitored closely. Open points are the application in massive deposits and backfill supply and handling for mines with very high production.

Green synthesis of zinc oxide nanoparticles using Brassica oleracea var. botrytis leaf extract: Photocatalytic, antimicrobial and larvicidal activity - Utaiyachandran Manojkumar; Durairaj Kaliannan; Venkatesan Srinivasan; Balamuralikrishnan Balasubramanian; Hesam Kamyab; Zainab Haider Mussa; Jayanthi Palaniyappan; Mohsen Mesbah; Shreeshivadasan Chelliapan; Senthilkumar Palaninaicker (Chemosphere, 2023)

Microplastics alter soil enzyme activities and microbial community structure without negatively affecting plant growth in an agroecosystem - Tariq Shah; Ahmad Ali; Ghulam Haider; Muhammad Asad; Fazal Munsif (Chemosphere, 2023)

Environmental innovations, energy innovations, governance, and environmental sustainability: Evidence from South and Southeast Asian countries - Lei Lei; Ilhan Ozturk; Muntasir Murshed; Sirojiddin Abrorov; Rafael Alvarado; Haider Mahmood (Resources Policy, 2023)

A multi-proxy approach to assess tsunami hazard with a preliminary risk assessment: A case study of the Makran Coast, Pakistan - Rashid Haider; Sajid Ali; Gösta Hoffmann; Klaus Reicherter (Marine Geology, 2023)

FDI, exports, imports, and consumption-based CO2 emissions in the MENA region: spatial analysis - Haider Mahmood; Najia Saqib; Anass Hamadelneel Adow; Muzafar Abbas (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2023)

Temporospatial expression of osteopontin in both left and right uterine horns during the peri-implantation period of dromedary camel - Mohammed Salem Moqbel; Saeed Yaseen Al-Ramadan; Abdulrhman Khalid Al-haider; Thnaian Ali Althnaian; Robert C. Burghardt (Theriogenology, 2023)

Fine particulate matter and its chemical constituents' levels: A troubling environmental and human health situation in Karachi, Pakistan - Omosehin D. Moyebi; Zafar Fatmi; David O. Carpenter; Muhayatun Santoso; Azhar Siddique; Kamran Khan; Jahan Zeb; Mirza M. Hussain; Haider A. Khwaja (Science of The Total Environment, 2023)

Recent advances and applicable flexibility potential of electrochemical processes for wastewater treatment - Forat Yasir AlJaberi; Shaymaa A. Ahmed; Hasan F. Makki; Ahmed Samir Naje; Haider M. Zwain; Ali Dawood Salman; Tatjána Juzsakova; Sebestyen Viktor; B. Van; Phuoc-Cuong Le; D. Duong La; S. Woong Chang; et al. (Science of The Total Environment, 2023)

Triladyl® improves the cryopreserved quality and in vivo fertilization potential of Beetal buck (Capra hircus) spermatozoa - Syed Aftab Hussain Shah; Muhammad Shafiq Haider; Hussain Ahmed; Muhammad Hammad Fayyaz; Syed Murtaza Hassan Andrabi (Small Ruminant Research, 2023)

The magnetically controlled ionopause boundary observed by LPW onboard MAVEN within magnetic pile-up region of Mars - S.A. Haider; K. Durga Prasad; Siddhi Y. Shah (Icarus, 2023)

A non-steroidal drug “diclofenac” is a substrate for electrochemical degradation process using graphite anode - Zainab Haider Mussa; Fouad Fadhil Al-Qaim (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2023)

Whole exome sequencing identified a novel splice donor site variant in interleukin 2 receptor alpha chain - Nadia Waheed; Maryam Naseer; Nighat Haider; Sufyan Suleman; Asmat Ullah (Immunogenetics, 2023)

A label-free multicolor colorimetric and fluorescence dual mode biosensing of HIV-1 DNA based on the bifunctional NiFe2O4@UiO-66 nanozyme - Seyyed Mehdi Khoshfetrat; Kamran Fasihi; Farzaneh Moradnia; Haider Kamil Zaidan; Esmael Sanchooli (Analytica Chimica Acta, 2023)

Eco-biology, impact, and management of Sorghum halepense (L.) Pers. - Arslan Masood Peerzada; Hafiz Haider Ali; Zarka Hanif; Ali Ahsan Bajwa; Lynda Kebaso; David Frimpong; Nadeem Iqbal; Halima Namubiru; Saima Hashim; Ghulam Rasool; Sudheesh Manalil; Annemieke van der Meulen; et al. (Biological Invasions, 2023)

Reliability and stability of a statistical model to predict ground-based PM2.5 over 10 years in Karachi, Pakistan, using satellite observations - Zhuldyz Darynova; Milad Malekipirbazari; Daryn Shabdirov; Haider A. Khwaja; Mehdi Amouei Torkmahalleh (Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health, 2023)

Statistical and spatial analysis for soil heavy metals over the Murray-Darling river basin in Australia - Hai Tao; Aqeel Ali Al-Hilali; Ali M. Ahmed; Zainab Haider Mussa; Mayadah W. Falah; Salwan Ali Abed; Ravinesh Deo; Ali H. Jawad; Khairul Nizam Abdul Maulud; Mohd Talib Latif; Zaher Mundher Yaseen (Chemosphere, 2023)

Assessing urban heat island intensity and emissions with compressed natural gas in non-commercial vehicles - Syed Haider Abbas Rizvi; Prateek Agrawal; Shivam Batra; Nidhi Nidhi; Vikram Singh (Urban Climate, 2023)

Antioxidant enzymes activity and gene expression in wheat-stripe rust interaction at seedling stage - Zainy Zainy; Muhammad Fayyaz; Tayyaba Yasmin; Muhammad Zeeshan Hyder; Waseem Haider; Sumaira Farrakh (Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology, 2023)

Covid-19 and outdoor recreation – Lessons learned? Introduction to the special issue on “Outdoor recreation and Covid-19: Its effects on people, parks and landscapes” - Ulrike Pröbstl-Haider; Katharina Gugerell; Sreetheran Maruthaveeran (Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, 2023)

Urinary metabolites of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and short-acting beta agonist or systemic corticosteroid asthma medication use within NHANES - Stephen P. Uong; Haider Hussain; Erin Thanik; Stephanie Lovinsky-Desir; Jeanette A. Stingone (Environmental Research, 2023)

Promising biomarkers and therapeutic targets for the management of Parkinson's disease: recent advancements and contemporary research - Mohammad Ahmed Khan; Nafis Haider; Tanveer Singh; Ritam Bandopadhyay; Mohammed M. Ghoneim; Sultan Alshehri; Murtada Taha; Javed Ahmad; Awanish Mishra (Metabolic Brain Disease, 2023)

Biochar Amendment in Combination with Endophytic Bacteria Stimulates Photosynthetic Activity and Antioxidant Enzymes to Improve Soybean Yield Under Drought Stress - Fahim Nawaz; Rashid Rafeeq; Sadia Majeed; Muhammad Shoaib Ismail; Muhammad Ahsan; Khawaja Shafique Ahmad; Ahsan Akram; Ghulam Haider (Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 2023)
The beneficial effects of biochar (BC) and plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPR) to increase crop yields under harsh environments have been widely reported. However, the knowledge on the synergistic effects of BC and PGPR to induce drought tolerance in oilseeds is scant. In the present study, the effects of cotton sticks derived BC together with PGPR strains ( Paraburkholderia phytofirmans and Bacillus sp.) were examined in water-stressed soybean plants. Initially, the BC application rates (1% and 2%) for soybean were optimized in a pilot experiment (experiment I), and the most effective level (1%) was selected for further studies together with PGPR in the second experiment. The soybean plants were raised in pots under semi-controlled conditions and were subjected to drought stress (25–30% water holding capacity) at pod formation stage. In comparison with control, the drought-mediated decrease in photosynthetic pigments and gas exchange characteristics was markedly lower in BC and PGPR-treated plants. However, the maximum increase in photosynthetic (12–30%) and the enzymatic antioxidant activities (5–20%) was recorded in plants treated with BC + P. phytofirmans , whereas no further significant increase was observed in plants treated with combined BC and Bacillus sp. under water deficit conditions. Similarly, the combined BC and P. phytofirmans application considerably increased the grain yield (14%) under drought stress conditions. We conclude that the combined application of BC + P. phytofirmans could be utilized as an effective strategy to improve soybean yield in dry arid regions.

The application of a new recyclable photocatalyst γ-Fe2O3@SiO2@ZIF8-Ag in the photocatalytic degradation of amoxicillin in aqueous solutions - Tariq J. Al-Musawi; Mohammad I. Alghamdi; Firas Rahi Alhachami; Haider Zaidan; Nezamaddin Mengelizadeh; Abolfazl Asghar; Davoud Balarak (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2023)

Seasonal prediction of crop yields in Ethiopia using an analog approach - Meijian Yang; Guiling Wang; Shu Wu; Paul Block; Rehenuma Lazin; Sarah Alexander; Jonathan Lala; Muhammad Rezaul Haider; Zoi Dokou; Ezana Amdework Atsbeha; Marika Koukoula; Xinyi Shen; et al. (Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2023)

Role of empowering leadership in inducing employee green creative behavior in hotel and restaurant industry: a moderated-moderated mediation model - Muhammad Arif Khattak; Zia Ur Rehman; Shujahat Haider Hashmi (Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2023)

Electrochemical degradation of 10,11-dihydro-10-hydroxy carbamazepine as the main metabolite of carbamazepine - Zainab Haider Mussa; Fouad Fadhil Al-Qaim (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2023)

Understanding the demetallization of nitrogen-rich hydrothermal liquefaction biocrudes by FTICR mass spectrometry: Recalcitrant effect of metalloporphyrins and basic nitrogenates - Muhammad Salman Haider; Stefano Chiaberge; Andrea Siviero; Mehmed Akif Isik; Daniele Castello; Thomas Helmer Pedersen; Lasse Aistrup Rosendahl (Fuel, 2023)

Screening of enzyme activities for improvement of bread quality by potato peel addition to the yeast growth medium - Hawnaz Najmalddin; Seyhun Yurdugül; Haider Hamzah (Food Bioscience, 2023)

Diffusion mechanism and electrochemical investigation of 1T phase Al–MoS2@rGO nano-composite as a high-performance anode for sodium-ion batteries - Manish Kr. Singh; Jayashree Pati; Deepak Seth; Jagdees Prasad; Manish Agarwal; M. Ali Haider; Jeng-Kuei Chang; Rajendra S. Dhaka (Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023)

Towards developing resistance to chickpea chlorotic dwarf virus through CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing using multiplexed gRNAs - Muniba Abid Munir Malik; Muhammad Saleem Haider; Ying Zhai; Muhammad Azmat Ullah Khan; Hanu R. Pappu (Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection, 2023)

State of gaseous air pollutants and resulting health effects in Karachi, Pakistan - Omosehin D. Moyebi; Fatim Sannoh; Zafar Fatmi; Azhar Siddique; Kamran Khan; Jahan Zeb; Mirza M. Hussain; David O. Carpenter; Haider A. Khwaja (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2023)

Beitrag der universitären Ausbildung und Forschung zur Reduktion der Unfallzahlen im Bergbau - Nikolaus August Sifferlinger; Katharina Haider; Owain Mädel; Alfred Maier (BHM Berg- und Hüttenmännische Monatshefte, 2023)
Zusammenfassung Der Artikel beschäftigt sich mit dem möglichen Beitrag der universitären Ausbildung und Forschung zur Reduktion der Unfallzahlen im Bergbau. In der Ausbildung werden die zukünftigen Bergleute an die möglichen Gefahren und die notwendigen Sicherheitsmaßnahmen herangeführt. Ein wesentliches Ausbildungsziel in der universitären Ausbildung ist es, den zukünftigen, in leitender Funktion tätigen Rohstoffingenieuren das selbständige Erkennen und Reduzieren der Risiken in der Arbeit zu ermöglichen. In den letzten 30 Jahren haben sich die Sicherheitsverhältnisse im internationalen Bergbau erheblich verbessert, und die Unfallzahlen sind stark zurückgegangen. Durch Automation und Robotik wird es im 21. Jahrhundert gelingen, die Bergleute noch weiter aus möglichen Gefahrenzonen zu entfernen. Die Sicherheitsforschung für den Bergbau der Montanuniversität Leoben ist vielfältig aufgestellt. Um aus dem Unfallgeschehen lernen zu können, ist es nötig, anonymisierte Unfallberichte zu analysieren. Leider sind diese Unfallberichte in Europa seit etwa 20 Jahren nicht mehr zugänglich, sondern nur statistische Zahlen, und es muss auf die sehr guten Unfallberichte in den USA und Australien als Ersatz zugegriffen werden.

Green HRM, green innovation and environmental performance: the role of green transformational leadership and green corporate social responsibility - Umair Imran Niazi; Qasim Ali Nisar; Nadia Nasir; Shumaila Naz; Shahbaz Haider; Waqas Khan (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2023)

Appraisal of climate change and source of heavy metals, sediments in water of the Kunhar River watershed, Pakistan - Shan-e-hyder Soomro; Xiaotao Shi; Jiali Guo; Caihong Hu; Haider M. Zwain; Chengshuai Liu; Muhammad Zeb Khan; Chaojie Niu; Chenchen Zhao; Zubair Ahmed (Natural Hazards, 2023)

Distribution, characteristics, and risk assessments analysis of microplastics in shore sediments and surface water of Moheshkhali channel of Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh - Sultan Al Nahian; Md. Refat Jahan Rakib; Rakesh Kumar; Sayeed Mahmood Belal Haider; Prabhakar Sharma; Abubakr M. Idris (Science of The Total Environment, 2023)

The role of clean and unclean energy resources in inspecting N-shaped impact of industrial production on environmental quality: A case of high polluting economies - Jinchao Gao; Muhammad Shahid Hassan; Rukhsana Kalim; Arshian Sharif; Tarek Tawfik Yousef Alkhateeb; Haider Mahmood (Resources Policy, 2023)

Machine learning approaches to predict the photocatalytic performance of bismuth ferrite-based materials in the removal of malachite green - Zeeshan Haider Jaffari; Ather Abbas; Sze-Mun Lam; Sanghun Park; Kangmin Chon; Eun-Sik Kim; Kyung Hwa Cho (Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2023)

Impact of seasons and wastewater cultivation on the biomass and biodiesel production by the Plectonema terebrans BERC10 as a candidate for a multiproduct algal biorefinery - Muhammad Nabeel Haider; Aqib Zafar Khan; Muhammad Usman; Deepanraj Balakrishnan; Muhammad Rizwan Javed; Sana Malik; Chen-Guang Liu; Muhammad Aamer Mehmood; Ghulam Abbas Ashraf (Fuel, 2023)

Different feedstocks of biochar affected the bioavailability and uptake of heavy metals by wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) plants grown in metal contaminated soil - Muhammad Ahmar Amin; Ghulam Haider; Muhammad Rizwan; H. Kate Schofield; Muhammad Farooq Qayyum; Muhammad Zia-ur-Rehman; Shafaqat Ali (Environmental Research, 2023)

Natural remedies for Alzheimer’s disease: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials - Saara Ahmad; Saad Bilal Ahmed; Asra Khan; Muhammad Wasim; Saiqa Tabassum; Saida Haider; Fatima Ahmed; Zehra Batool; Saima Khaliq; Hamna Rafiq; Prashant Tikmani; Anwar-ul-Hassan Gilani (Metabolic Brain Disease, 2023)

Spinal cord from body donors is suitable for multicolor immunofluorescence - Lukas F. Reissig; Genova Carrero-Rojas; Udo Maierhofer; Atieh Seyedian Moghaddam; Andreas Hainfellner; Bernhard Gesslbauer; Thomas Haider; Johannes Streicher; Oskar C. Aszmann; Angel M. Pastor; Wolfgang J. Weninger; Roland Blumer (Histochemistry and Cell Biology, 2023)
Immunohistochemistry is a powerful tool for studying neuronal tissue from humans at the molecular level. Obtaining fresh neuronal tissue from human organ donors is difficult and sometimes impossible. In anatomical body donations, neuronal tissue is dedicated to research purposes and because of its easier availability, it may be an alternative source for research. In this study, we harvested spinal cord from a single organ donor 2 h (h) postmortem and spinal cord from body donors 24, 48, and 72 h postmortem and tested how long after death, valid multi-color immunofluorescence or horseradish peroxidase (HRP) immunohistochemistry is possible. We used general and specific neuronal markers and glial markers for immunolabeling experiments. Here we showed that it is possible to visualize molecularly different neuronal elements with high precision in the body donor spinal cord 24 h postmortem and the quality of the image data was comparable to those from the fresh organ donor spinal cord. High-contrast multicolor images of the 24-h spinal cords allowed accurate automated quantification of different neuronal elements in the same sample. Although there was antibody-specific signal reduction over postmortem intervals, the signal quality for most antibodies was acceptable at 48 h but no longer at 72 h postmortem. In conclusion, our study has defined a postmortem time window of more than 24 h during which valid immunohistochemical information can be obtained from the body donor spinal cord. Due to the easier availability, neuronal tissue from body donors is an alternative source for basic and clinical research.

Realizing the Sustainable Development Goals through technological innovation: juxtaposing the economic and environmental effects of financial development and energy use - Palanisamy Manigandan; Md Shabbir Alam; Kuppusamy Alagirisamy; Duraisamy Pachiyappan; Muntasir Murshed; Haider Mahmood (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2023)

Evaluation of operational and financial viability models of combined landfill site for intermediate cities in Pakistan - Abdullah Yasar; Salman Basit; Amt-ul Bari Tabinda; Azhar Ali; Syeda Um-e-Kalsoom Naqvi; Abdul-Sattar Nizami; Syeda Laiba Haider Naqvi; Shakeel Mahmood; Rameesha Tanveer (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2023)

Measuring students’ exposure to particulate matter (PM) pollution across microenvironments and seasons using personal air monitors - Ian Ryan; Xinlei Deng; George Thurston; Haider Khwaja; Xiaobo Romeiko; Wangjian Zhang; Tia Marks; Bo Ye; Shao Lin (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2023)

Wavelet coherence of monsoon and large‐scale climate variabilities with precipitation in Pakistan - Azfar Hussain; Jianhua Cao; Shaukat Ali; Waheed Ullah; Sher Muhammad; Ishtiaq Hussain; Haider Abbas; Kalpana Hamal; Shankar Sharma; Mobeen Akhtar; Xiuqin Wu; Jinxing Zhou (International Journal of Climatology, 2022)
Monsoon and its teleconnection with earth system internal processes affect the spatiotemporal distribution of precipitation and water resources . In this paper, the wavelet coherence analysis has been utilized, a time and frequency domain methodology for comparing the spectral features of two independent time series superior to linear approaches. This technique is used to capture the significant modes of variabilities in the Indian Summer Monsoon Index (ISMI) and large‐scale climate indices (CIs) between ocean–atmosphere oscillations, like Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD), El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO), Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), Southern Oscillation Index (SOI), North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO), and Arctic Oscillation (AO) over Pakistan. Precipitation time series during 1960–2016 revealed significant interannual coherences with ISMI, whereas the remaining CIs (IOD, ENSO, PDO, SOI, NAO, AMO, and AO) revealed interannual, decadal and interdecadal coherences. However, AO revealed strongest coherences in R‐II, III, and VI at interdecadal scales among all CIs. Overall, the interannual cycles on ISMI are 2.8 years, IOD 1–5.3 years, PDO 0–5.3 years, SOI 1–5.3 years, NAO 0–5 years, AO 0–5 years, and AMO 0–8.3 years. Whereas, the remaining CIs shared interdecadal coherences over particular regions. The ISMI displayed coherences (except in the UIB) with the large‐scale CIs over various homogenous regions on an interannual scale. The dominant influence of ISMI is observed in R‐II and III; the significant coherences in R‐II ranged from ~8 to 32 months (~0.8–2.8 years). The IOD and NAO have major coherences than the remaining large‐scale CIs ranging from ~16 to 64 months (1.3–5.3 years). The AO has the most significant coherences observed in R‐II, III, and VI on the decadal/interdecadal scale from 128 months and above (almost 10–15 years). On a 1.0‐year timescale, all homogenous regions demonstrated strong intermittent coherence with ISMI, IOD, ENSO, PDO, SOI, NAO, AMO, and AO. These findings have substantial implications for decision‐makers and scientists in Pakistan looking to enhance water resource planning and operations in the face of future climate uncertainties.

Synthesis and characterization of copper oxide nanoparticles: its influence on corn (Z. mays) and wheat (Triticum aestivum) plants by inoculation of Bacillus subtilis - Hafiz Imran Haider; Imran Zafar; Qurat ul Ain; Asifa Noreen; Aamna Nazir; Rida Javed; Sheikh Arslan Sehgal; Azmat Ali Khan; Md. Mominur Rahman; Summya Rashid; Somenath Garai; Rohit Sharma (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

New trends in immunocastration and its potential to improve animal welfare: a mini review - Sohail Ahmed; Xunping Jiang; Guiqiong Liu; Amber Sadiq; Umar Farooq; Teketay Wassie; Ali Haider Saleem; Muhammad Zubair (Tropical Animal Health and Production, 2022)

Reversal of oxidative stress, cytokine toxicity and DNA fragmentation by quercetin in dizocilpine-induced animal model of Schizophrenia - Sidrah Shahzad; Zehra Batool; Asia Afzal; Saida Haider (Metabolic Brain Disease, 2022)

Selection for resistance to pirimiphos-methyl, permethrin and spinosad in a field strain of Sitophilus oryzae: resistance risk assessment, cross-resistance potential and synergism of insecticides - Tiyyabah Khan; Hafiz Azhar Ali Khan; Muhammad Saleem Haider; Waheed Anwar; Adnan Akhter (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Penicillium citrinum causing postharvest decay on stored garlic cloves in Pakistan - Iqra Haider Khan; Arshad Javaid (Journal of Plant Pathology, 2022)

On the inner dynamics between Fossil fuels and the carbon market: a combination of seasonal-trend decomposition and multifractal cross-correlation analysis - Faheem Aslam; Ijaz Ali; Fahd Amjad; Haider Ali; Inza Irfan (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Drivers of green growth in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: can financial development promote environmentally sustainable economic growth? - Asif Ali Abro; Naushad Alam; Muntasir Murshed; Haider Mahmood; Mohammed Musah; A. K. M. Atiqur Rahman (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

An analysis of the environmental impacts of ethnic diversity, financial development, economic growth, urbanization, and energy consumption: fresh evidence from less-developed countries - Iftikhar Yasin; Sana Naseem; Muhammad Awais Anwar; Ghulam Rasool Madni; Haider Mahmood; Muntasir Murshed (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Designing a clean environmental framework for Pakistan: analyzing the nonlinear impact of aggregate demand drivers on CO2 emissions - Muhammad Afaq Haider Jafri; Huizheng Liu; Sana Ullah; Muhammad Tariq Majeed; Shahzad Anwar; Sohaib Mustafa (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Economic policy uncertainty and environmental degradation: the moderating role of political stability - Umar Farooq; Seemab Gillani; Bilal Haider Subhani; Muhammad Nouman Shafiq (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Robust segmentation of underwater fish based on multi-level feature accumulation - Adnan Haider; Muhammad Arsalan; Jiho Choi; Haseeb Sultan; Kang Ryoung Park (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022)
Because fish are vital to marine ecosystems, monitoring and accurate detection are crucial for assessing the potential for fisheries in these environments. Conventionally, fish-related assessment is conducted manually, which makes it labor-intensive and time-consuming. In addition, the assessments are challenging owing to underwater visibility limitations, which leads to poor detection accuracy. To overcome these problems, we propose two novel architectures for the automatic and high-performance segmentation of fish populations. In this study, the efficient fish segmentation network (EFS-Net) and multi-level feature accumulation-based segmentation network (MFAS-Net) are the base and final networks, respectively. In deep convolutional neural networks, the initial layers usually contain potential spatial information. Therefore, the EFS-Net employs a series of convolution layers in the early stage of the network for optimal feature extraction. To boost segmentation accuracy, the MFAS-Net uses an initial feature refinement and transfer block to refine potential low-level information and subsequently transfers it to the deep stages of the network. Moreover, the MFAS-Net employs multi-level feature accumulation that improves pixel-wise prediction for fish that are indistinct. The proposed networks are evaluated using two publicly available datasets, namely DeepFish and semantic segmentation of underwater imagery (SUIM), both of which contain challenging underwater fish segmentation images. The experimental results reveal that mean intersection-over-unions of 76.42% and 92.0% are attained by the proposed method for the DeepFish and SUIM datasets, respectively; these values are higher than those by the state-of-the-art methods such as A-LCFCN+PM and DPANet. In addition, high segmentation performance is achieved without compromising the computational efficiency of the networks. The MFAS-Net requires only 3.57 million trainable parameters to be fully trained. The proposed model and the complete code will be made available 1 .

Testing the Mineral Resources-Induced Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis in Africa - Mohamed Ouédraogo; Daiyan Peng; Xi Chen; Shujahat Haider Hashmi (Natural Resources Research, 2022)

Probabilistic modeling and identifying fluctuations in annual extreme heatwave regimes of Karachi - Shahnillah Haider Rizvi; Muhammad Jawed Iqbal; Muhammad Ali (Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 2022)

Energy-growth hypothesis: testing non-linearity by considering production function approach for Spanish economy - Muhammad Shahid Hassan; Haider Mahmood; Saba Yousaf (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

The marginal effects of economic growth, financial development, and low-carbon energy use on carbon footprints in Oman: fresh evidence from autoregressive distributed lag model analysis - Naushad Alam; Nazia Iqbal Hashmi; Syed Ahsan Jamil; Muntasir Murshed; Haider Mahmood; Shabbir Alam (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Critical parameters for design and development of multivalent nanoconstructs: recent trends - Avijit Kumar Bakshi; Tanweer Haider; Rahul Tiwari; Vandana Soni (Drug Delivery and Translational Research, 2022)

Acceleration of flow modeling using a freeware 2D GPU-shallow water equations code - Prince Mahmood; Sajjad Haider; Hamza Farooq Gabriel; Muhammad Shahid; Zain Syed (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2022)

Trade, FDI, and CO2 emissions nexus in Latin America: the spatial analysis in testing the pollution haven and the EKC hypotheses - Haider Mahmood (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Tumor necrosis factor-alpha, prostaglandin-E2 and interleukin-1β targeted anti-arthritic potential of fluvoxamine: drug repurposing - Haseeb Ahsan; Mahnoor Ayub; Hafiz Muhammad Irfan; Muhammad Saleem; Irfan Anjum; Ihtisham Haider; Awais Asif; Syed Qamar Abbas; Syed Shams ul Hulassan (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

First report of powdery mildew caused by Podosphaera xanthii on round zucchini in Pakistan - Beenish Gul; Farah Naz; Aliya Tariq; Zain Haider; Gulshan Irshad; Ali Meesam (Journal of Plant Pathology, 2022)

Comparative Transcriptomic and Metabolomic Profiling of Grapevine Leaves (cv. Kyoho) upon Infestation of Grasshopper and Botrytis cinerea - Haoran Jia; Teng Li; Muhammad Salman Haider; Ehsan Sadeghnezhad; Qianqian Pang; Jian Han; Peian Zhang; Lingyun Su; Haifeng Jia; Jinggui Fang (Plant Molecular Biology Reporter, 2022)

Nitrogen but not phosphorus addition affects symbiotic N2 fixation by legumes in natural and semi-natural grasslands located on four continents - Eduardo Vázquez; Per-Marten Schleuss; Elizabeth T. Borer; Miguel N. Bugalho; Maria C. Caldeira; Nico Eisenhauer; Anu Eskelinen; Philip A. Fay; Sylvia Haider; Anke Jentsch; Kevin P. Kirkman; Rebecca L. McCulley; et al. (Plant and Soil, 2022)
Background and aims The amount of nitrogen (N) derived from symbiotic N 2 fixation by legumes in grasslands might be affected by anthropogenic N and phosphorus (P) inputs, but the underlying mechanisms are not known. Methods We evaluated symbiotic N 2 fixation in 17 natural and semi-natural grasslands on four continents that are subjected to the same full-factorial N and P addition experiment, using the 15 N natural abundance method. Results N as well as combined N and P (NP) addition reduced aboveground legume biomass by 65% and 45%, respectively, compared to the control, whereas P addition had no significant impact. Addition of N and/or P had no significant effect on the symbiotic N 2 fixation per unit legume biomass. In consequence, the amount of N fixed annually per grassland area was less than half in the N addition treatments compared to control and P addition, irrespective of whether the dominant legumes were annuals or perennials. Conclusion Our results reveal that N addition mainly impacts symbiotic N 2 fixation via reduced biomass of legumes rather than changes in N 2 fixation per unit legume biomass. The results show that soil N enrichment by anthropogenic activities significantly reduces N 2 fixation in grasslands, and these effects cannot be reversed by additional P amendment.

Effects of yeast extract on the production of phenylpropanoid metabolites in callus culture of purple basil (Ocimum Basilicum L. var purpurascens) and their in-vitro evaluation for antioxidant potential - Gouhar Zaman; Umar Farooq; Muhammad Naeem Bajwa; Hasnain Jan; Muzamil Shah; Riaz Ahmad; Anisa Andleeb; Samantha Drouet; Christophe Hano; Bilal Haider Abbasi (Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC), 2022)

Modeling with strategies to control the adverse effects of global warming on marine ecosystems - Sajib Mandal; Md. Sirajul Islam; Md. Haider Ali Biswas; Saiful Islam (Modeling Earth Systems and Environment, 2022)

Thermal Plasticity and Cotton Production Enhancing Attributes of Phosphate-Solubilizing Bacteria from Cotton Rhizosphere - Suleman Haider Shah; Muhammad Baqir Hussain; Zahir Ahmad Zahir; Tanveer Ul Haq; Amar Matloob (Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 2022)

Characterization and Utilization of Cow Manure Biochar as Soil Amendment for the Management of Northern Corn Leaf Blight - Misbah Batool Zahra; Bakhtawar Fayyaz; Zill-E-Huma Aftab; Adnan Akhter; Tehmina Bahar; Waheed Anwar; Muhammad Saleem Haider (Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 2022)

Quantification of 10,11-dihydro-10-hydroxy carbamazepine and 10,11-epoxycarbamazepine as the main by-products in the electrochemical degradation of carbamazepine - Zainab Haider Mussa; Fouad Fadhil Al-Qaim (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Investigating feasible sites for multi-purpose small dams in Swat District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan: socioeconomic and environmental considerations - Anwar Hussain; Khalil Ur Rahman; Muhammad Shahid; Sajjad Haider; Quoc Bao Pham; Nguyen Thi Thuy Linh; Saad Shauket Sammen (Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2022)

Antagonistic activity of Aspergillus versicolor against Macrophomina phaseolina - Iqra Haider Khan; Arshad Javaid (Brazilian Journal of Microbiology, 2022)

Spatial evaluation of precipitation patterns in the catchment area of Malir River during monsoon spells of 2019 through geospatial techniques - Syed Wasi Haider; Syed Jamil Hasan Kazmi; Muhammad Arsalan; Shahid Naseem; Humaira Kanwal (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2022)

Customer-Driven Water Supply Systems: Synergizing System Reliability and Customer Satisfaction with Bowtie Analysis - Husnain Haider; Majed Alinizzi; Md. Shafiquzzaman; Saleem S. AlSaleem; Mohammad Alresheedi; Rehan Sadiq (Water Resources Management, 2022)

Levels and sources of heavy metals pollution in the water and sediments of Al-Diwaniyah River, Iraq - Safaa A. R. Al-Asadi; Haider M. A. Al-Kafari (Sustainable Water Resources Management, 2022)

Assessment of heavy metal contamination and its sources in urban soils of district Hyderabad, Pakistan using GIS and multivariate analysis - R. K. Bux; S. I. Haider; M. Batool; A. R. Solangi; Z. Shah; H. Karimi-Maleh; F. Sen (International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 2022)

Assessment of biomass production and greywater treatment capability of algal-based membrane bioreactor - Md. Shafiquzzaman; A. K. M. Ashadullah; H. Haider; Md. M. Hasan; M. S. Azam; M. T. Alresheedi; S. S. AlSaleem; A. R. Ghumman (International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 2022)

The role of environmental transformational leadership in employees’ influencing organizational citizenship behavior for environment well-being: a survey data analysis - Muhammad Mansoor Asghar; Syed Anees Haider Zaidi; Zahoor Ahmed; Samia Khalid; Muntasir Murshed; Haider Mahmood; Shujaat Abbas (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

The effects of natural gas and oil consumption on CO2 emissions in GCC countries: asymmetry analysis - Haider Mahmood (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Climate vulnerability of irrigation systems in the Upper Indus Basin: insights from three Karakoram villages in northern Pakistan - Muhammad Zafar Khan; Haider Abbas; Abda Khalid (Climate and Development, 2022)

Testis-specific fascin component FSCN3 is dispensable for mouse spermatogenesis and fertility - Haider Ali; Ahsanullah Unar; Sobia Dil; Imtiaz Ali; Khalid Khan; Ihsan Khan; Qinghua Shi (Molecular Biology Reports, 2022)

Synthesis of novel fly ash based geo-polymeric membranes for the treatment of textile waste water - B. Ahmad; M. R. Dilshad; B. Haider; M. M. Anwar; H. Ali; S. M. A. Gilani; H. B. Ahmad; M. Farooq (International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 2022)

Correction to: Pathways to decarbonization in India: the role of environmentally friendly tourism development - Soumen Rej; Arunava Bandyopadhyay; Muntasir Murshed; Haider Mahmood; Asif Razzaq (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Integrated application of plant bioregulator and micronutrients improves crop physiology, productivity and grain biofortification of delayed sown wheat - Naeem Ahmad; Ahmad Latif Virk; Sadam Hussain; Muhammad Bilal Hafeez; Fasih Ullah Haider; Muhammad Ishaq Asif Rehmani; Tauqeer Ahmad Yasir; Ariba Asif (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Pathways to decarbonization in India: the role of environmentally friendly tourism development - Soumen Rej; Arunava Bandyopadhyay; Muntasir Murshed; Haider Mahmood; Asif Razzaq (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Pathways to securing environmentally sustainable economic growth through efficient use of energy: a bootstrapped ARDL analysis - Md Shabbir Alam; Mohammad Noor Alam; Muntasir Murshed; Haider Mahmood; Risana Alam (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

The spatial analyses of consumption-based CO2 emissions, exports, imports, and FDI nexus in GCC countries - Haider Mahmood (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Formulation and Evaluation of Topical Linezolid Nanoemulsion for Open Incision Wound in Diabetic Animal Model - Faheem Haider; Barkat Ali Khan; Muhammad Khalid Khan (AAPS PharmSciTech, 2022)

Analyzing the regulatory role of heat shock transcription factors in plant heat stress tolerance: a brief appraisal - Saqlain Haider; Ali Raza; Javed Iqbal; Muzaffar Shaukat; Tariq Mahmood (Molecular Biology Reports, 2022)

Simulation of photoelectron flux, electron density, emission rate and limb intensity of CO(a3π) Cameron bands in the Martian thermosphere: Comparisons with (1) SPICAM and IUVS observations and (2) other model calculations - P Thirupathaiah; S A Haider; J Masoom (Journal of Earth System Science, 2022)

Prediction of disability-free survival in healthy older people - Johannes Tobias Neumann; Le T. P. Thao; Anne M. Murray; Emily Callander; Prudence R. Carr; Mark R. Nelson; Rory Wolfe; Robyn L. Woods; Christopher M. Reid; Raj C. Shah; Anne B. Newman; Jeff D. Williamson; et al. (GeroScience, 2022)
Prolonging survival in good health is a fundamental societal goal. However, the leading determinants of disability-free survival in healthy older people have not been well established. Data from ASPREE, a bi-national placebo-controlled trial of aspirin with 4.7 years median follow-up, was analysed. At enrolment, participants were healthy and without prior cardiovascular events, dementia or persistent physical disability. Disability-free survival outcome was defined as absence of dementia, persistent disability or death. Selection of potential predictors from amongst 25 biomedical, psychosocial and lifestyle variables including recognized geriatric risk factors, utilizing a machine-learning approach. Separate models were developed for men and women. The selected predictors were evaluated in a multivariable Cox proportional hazards model and validated internally by bootstrapping. We included 19,114 Australian and US participants aged ≥65 years (median 74 years, IQR 71.6–77.7). Common predictors of a worse prognosis in both sexes included higher age, lower Modified Mini-Mental State Examination score, lower gait speed, lower grip strength and abnormal (low or elevated) body mass index. Additional risk factors for men included current smoking, and abnormal eGFR. In women, diabetes and depression were additional predictors. The biased-corrected areas under the receiver operating characteristic curves for the final prognostic models at 5 years were 0.72 for men and 0.75 for women. Final models showed good calibration between the observed and predicted risks. We developed a prediction model in which age, cognitive function and gait speed were the strongest predictors of disability-free survival in healthy older people. Trial registration Clinicaltrials.gov (NCT01038583)

A review of the global climate change impacts, adaptation, and sustainable mitigation measures - Kashif Abbass; Muhammad Zeeshan Qasim; Huaming Song; Muntasir Murshed; Haider Mahmood; Ijaz Younis (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Asymmetric macroeconomic determinants of energy intensity in China: does economic development matter? - Hai Lan; Chengping Cheng; Muhammad Afaq Haider Jafri; Sidra Sohail (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

The impact of electric power consumption on economic growth: a case study of Portugal, France, and Finland - Muhammad Shahid Hassan; Haider Mahmood; Anam Javaid (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Testing the heterogeneous effect of air transport intensity on CO2 emissions in G20 countries: An advanced empirical analysis - Yasir Habib; Enjun Xia; Shujahat Haider Hashmi; Abaid Ullah Yousaf (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

The asymmetric effects of crops productivity, agricultural land utilization, and fertilizer consumption on carbon emissions: revisiting the carbonization-agricultural activity nexus in Nepal - Abdul Rehman; Hengyun Ma; Muhammad Kamran Khan; Sufyan Ullah Khan; Muntasir Murshed; Fayyaz Ahmad; Haider Mahmood (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Do Income Inequality and Institutional Quality affect CO2 Emissions in Developing Economies? - Bo Yang; Minhaj Ali; Shujahat Haider Hashmi; Atif Jahanger (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Main determinants for ecological footprint: an econometric perspective from G20 countries - Mohd Arshad Ansari; Salman Haider; Pushp Kumar; Siddharth Kumar; Vaseem Akram (Energy, Ecology and Environment, 2022)

Prospects of Multiproduct Algal Biorefineries Involving Cascading Processing of the Biomass Employing a Zero-Waste Approach - Sana Malik; Ayesha Shahid; Muhammad Nabeel Haider; Mahwish Amin; Michael J. Betenbaugh; Muhammad Aamer Mehmood; Muhammad Adnan Ul Haq; Achmad Syafiuddin; Raj Boopathy (Current Pollution Reports, 2022)

In silico analysis of a novel pathogenic variant c.7G > A in C14orf39 gene identified by WES in a Pakistani family with azoospermia - Haider Ali; Ahsanullah Unar; Muhammad Zubair; Sobia Dil; Farman Ullah; Ihsan Khan; Ansar Hussain; Qinghua Shi (Molecular Genetics and Genomics, 2022)

Molecular characterization of Penicillium italicum causing blue mold on lemon in Pakistan - Iqra Haider Khan; Arshad Javaid (Journal of Plant Pathology, 2022)

Exploring environment sensitivity to fiscal and monetary policies in China: using ecological footprints as a contemporary proxy - Usman Saleem Yousaf; Farhan Ali; Shabib Haider Syed; Babar Aziz; Saima Sarwar (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

RETRACTED ARTICLE: The role of liquefied petroleum gas in decarbonizing India: fresh evidence from wavelet–partial wavelet coherence approach - Soumen Rej; Arunava Bandyopadhyay; Haider Mahmood; Muntasir Murshed; Sakib Mahmud (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

A link between productivity, globalisation and carbon emissions: evidence from emissions by coal, oil and gas - Mohd Arshad Ansari; Vaseem Akram; Salman Haider (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Inoculation of Azospirillum brasilense and exogenous application of trans-zeatin riboside alleviates arsenic induced physiological damages in wheat (Triticum aestivum) - Muhammad Saqlain Zaheer; Hafiz Haider Ali; Kehinde O. Erinle; Shabir Hussain Wani; Okon Godwin Okon; Muhammad Azhar Nadeem; Muhammad Nawaz; Muhammad Adnan Bodlah; Muhammad Mohsin Waqas; Javaid Iqbal; Ali Raza (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Reinvestigating the pollution haven hypothesis: the nexus between foreign direct investments and environmental quality in G-20 countries - Mohammed Musah; Isaac Adjei Mensah; Morrison Alfred; Haider Mahmood; Muntasir Murshed; Akoto Yaw Omari-Sasu; Frank Boateng; Joseph Dery Nyeadi; Cephas Paa Kwesi Coffie (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Mucor fragilis causing rot of seychelles pole bean in Pakistan - Iqra Haider Khan; Arshad Javaid (Australasian Plant Pathology, 2022)

Global maps of soil temperature - Jonas J. Lembrechts; Johan van den Hoogen; Juha Aalto; Michael B. Ashcroft; Pieter De Frenne; Julia Kemppinen; Martin Kopecký; Miska Luoto; Ilya M. D. Maclean; Thomas W. Crowther; Joseph J. Bailey; Stef Haesen; et al. (Global Change Biology, 2022)
Research in global change ecology relies heavily on global climatic grids derived from estimates of air temperature in open areas at around 2 m above the ground. These climatic grids do not reflect conditions below vegetation canopies and near the ground surface, where critical ecosystem functions occur and most terrestrial species reside. Here, we provide global maps of soil temperature and bioclimatic variables at a 1‐km 2 resolution for 0–5 and 5–15 cm soil depth. These maps were created by calculating the difference (i.e. offset) between in situ soil temperature measurements, based on time series from over 1200 1‐km 2 pixels (summarized from 8519 unique temperature sensors) across all the world's major terrestrial biomes, and coarse‐grained air temperature estimates from ERA5‐Land (an atmospheric reanalysis by the European Centre for Medium‐Range Weather Forecasts). We show that mean annual soil temperature differs markedly from the corresponding gridded air temperature, by up to 10°C (mean = 3.0 ± 2.1°C), with substantial variation across biomes and seasons. Over the year, soils in cold and/or dry biomes are substantially warmer (+3.6 ± 2.3°C) than gridded air temperature, whereas soils in warm and humid environments are on average slightly cooler (−0.7 ± 2.3°C). The observed substantial and biome‐specific offsets emphasize that the projected impacts of climate and climate change on near‐surface biodiversity and ecosystem functioning are inaccurately assessed when air rather than soil temperature is used, especially in cold environments. The global soil‐related bioclimatic variables provided here are an important step forward for any application in ecology and related disciplines. Nevertheless, we highlight the need to fill remaining geographic gaps by collecting more in situ measurements of microclimate conditions to further enhance the spatiotemporal resolution of global soil temperature products for ecological applications.

Penicillium echinulatum causing blue mold on tomato in Pakistan - Iqra Haider Khan; Arshad Javaid (Journal of Plant Pathology, 2022)

Exploring the genetic potential of Pakistani soybean cultivars through RNA-seq based transcriptome analysis - Arslan Tariq; Zahra Jabeen; Sumaira Farrakh; Kiran Noreen; Waleed Arshad; Haroon Ahmed; Waseem Haider (Molecular Biology Reports, 2022)

Synthesis and analgesic potential of 4-[4–chloro-3- (trifluoromethyl)-phenyl]-4-piperidinol analogues against pain model in mice - Shazia Haider; Zafar Saied Saify; Nousheen Mushtaq; Faheema Siddiqui; Toqeer Ahmed Rao; Tabinda Zareen Mallick; Nasreen Begum (Medicinal Chemistry Research, 2022)

Diamine oxidase knockout mice are not hypersensitive to orally or subcutaneously administered histamine - Matthias Karer; Marlene Rager-Resch; Teresa Haider; Karin Petroczi; Elisabeth Gludovacz; Nicole Borth; Bernd Jilma; Thomas Boehm (Inflammation Research, 2022)
Objective To evaluate the contribution of endogenous diamine oxidase (DAO) in the inactivation of exogenous histamine, to find a mouse strain with increased histamine sensitivity and to test the efficacy of rhDAO in a histamine challenge model. Methods Diamine oxidase knockout (KO) mice were challenged with orally and subcutaneously administered histamine in combination with the β-adrenergic blocker propranolol, with the two histamine- N -methyltransferase (HNMT) inhibitors metoprine and tacrine, with folic acid to mimic acute kidney injury and treated with recombinant human DAO. Core body temperature was measured using a subcutaneously implanted microchip and histamine plasma levels were quantified using a homogeneous time resolved fluorescence assay. Results Core body temperature and plasma histamine levels were not significantly different between wild type (WT) and DAO KO mice after oral and subcutaneous histamine challenge with and without acute kidney injury or administration of HNMT inhibitors. Treatment with recombinant human DAO reduced the mean area under the curve (AUC) for core body temperature loss by 63% ( p = 0.002) and the clinical score by 88% ( p < 0.001). The AUC of the histamine concentration was reduced by 81%. Conclusions Inactivation of exogenous histamine is not driven by enzymatic degradation and kidney filtration. Treatment with recombinant human DAO strongly reduced histamine-induced core body temperature loss, histamine concentrations and prevented the development of severe clinical symptoms.

Caralluma tuberculata exhibits analgesic and anti-arthritic potential by downregulating pro-inflammatory cytokines and attenuating oxidative stress - Syed Ihtisham Haider; Awais Asif; Hafiz Muhammad Farhan Rasheed; Adnan Akram; Qaiser Jabeen (Inflammopharmacology, 2022)

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Pathways to Argentina’s 2050 carbon-neutrality agenda: the roles of renewable energy transition and trade globalization - Muntasir Murshed; Haider Mahmood; Paiman Ahmad; Abdul Rehman; Md Shabbir Alam (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Revisiting the EKC hypothesis by assessing the complementarities between fiscal, monetary, and environmental development policies in China - Ayoub Zeraibi; Zahoor Ahmed; Khurram Shehzad; Muntasir Murshed; Solomon Prince Nathaniel; Haider Mahmood (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Integration of multispectral and hyperspectral remote sensing data for lithological mapping in Zhob Ophiolite, Western Pakistan - Muhammad Qasim; Shuhab D. Khan; Rashid Haider; Mehboob ur Rasheed (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2022)

Unfolding molecular switches in plant heat stress resistance: A comprehensive review - Saqlain Haider; Javed Iqbal; Sana Naseer; Muzzafar Shaukat; Banzeer Ahsan Abbasi; Tabassum Yaseen; Syeda Anber Zahra; Tariq Mahmood (Plant Cell Reports, 2022)

The importance of facilitating renewable energy transition for abating CO2 emissions in Morocco - Soufiane Bouyghrissi; Muntasir Murshed; Abhinav Jindal; Abdelmoumen Berjaoui; Haider Mahmood; Maha Khanniba (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Staged energy and water quality optimization for large water distribution systems - Muhammad Nadeem Sharif; Ezzeddin Bakhtavar; Husnain Haider; Guangji Hu; Kasun Hewage; Rehan Sadiq (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2022)

Biochar amendment enhanced soil nitrogen fractions and wheat yield after four to five years of aging in Loess Plateau, China - Pan Zhandong; Fasih Ullah Haider; Saddam Hussain; Muhammad Farooq; Cai Xuemei; Cai Liqun (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2022)

Removing Hexavalent Chromium by Nano Zero-Valent Iron Loaded on Attapulgite - Yuzhen Wei; Muhammad Usman; Muhammad Farooq; Muhammad Adeel; Fasih Ullah Haider; Zhandong Pan; Weiwei Chen; Hongyan Liu; Liqun Cai (Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2022)

Biochar and slow-releasing nitrogen fertilizers improved growth, nitrogen use, yield, and fiber quality of cotton under arid climatic conditions - Sobia Manzoor; Muhammad Habib-ur-Rahman; Ghulam Haider; Iqra Ghafoor; Saeed Ahmad; Muhammad Afzal; Fahim Nawaz; Rashid Iqbal; Mubashra Yasin; Tanveer-ul-Haq; Subhan Danish; Abdul Ghaffar (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)
The efficiency of nitrogenous fertilizers in South Asia is on a declining trajectory due to increased losses. Biochar (BC) and slow-releasing nitrogen fertilizers (SRNF) have been found to improve nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) in certain cases. However, field-scale studies to explore the potential of BC and SRNF in south Asian arid climate are lacking. Here we conducted a field experiment in the arid environment to demonstrate the response of BC and SRNF on cotton growth and yield quality. The treatments were comprised of two factors, (A) nitrogen sources, (i) simple urea, (ii)neem-coated urea, (iii)sulfur-coated urea, (iv) bacterial coated urea, and cotton stalks biochar impregnated with simple urea, and (B) nitrogen application rates, N 1 =160 kg ha -1 , N 2 = 120 kg ha -1 , and N 3 = 80 kg ha -1 . Different SRNF differentially affected cotton growth, morphological and physiological attributes, and seed cotton yield (SCY). The bacterial coated urea at the highest rate of N application (160 kg ha -1 ) resulted in a higher net leaf photosynthetic rate (32.8 μmol m -2 s -1 ), leaf transpiration rate (8.10 mmol s -1 ), and stomatal conductance (0.502 mol m -2 s -1 ), while leaf area index (LAI), crop growth rate (CGR), and seed cotton yield (4513 kg ha -1 ) were increased by bacterial coated urea at 120 kg ha -1 than simple urea. However, low rate N application (80 kg ha -1 ) of bacterial coated urea showed higher nitrogen use efficiency (39.6 kg SCY kg -1 N). The fiber quality (fiber length, fiber strength, ginning outturn, fiber index, and seed index) was also increased with the high N application rates than N2 and N3 application. To summarize, the bacterial coated urea with recommended N (160 kg ha -1 ) and 75% of recommended N application (120 kg ha -1 ) may be recommended for farmers in the arid climatic conditions of Punjab to enhance the seed cotton yield, thereby reducing nitrogen losses.

Caring for the environment: measuring the dynamic impact of remittances and FDI on CO2 emissions in China - Muhammad Afaq Haider Jafri; Syed Abbas; Syed Muhammad Yasir Abbas; Sana Ullah (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

An innovative autonomous robotic system for on-site detection of heavy metal pollution plumes in surface water - Elisabetta De Vito-Francesco; Alessandro Farinelli; Qiuyue Yang; Bhawna Nagar; Ruslan Álvarez; Arben Merkoçi; Thorsten Knutz; Alexander Haider; Wolfgang Stach; Falko Ziegenbalg; Roza Allabashi (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2022)
Smart monitoring has been studied and developed in recent years to create faster, cheaper, and more user-friendly on-site methods. The present study describes an innovative technology for investigative monitoring of heavy metal pollution (Cu and Pb) in surface water. It is composed of an autonomous surface vehicle capable of semiautonomous driving and equipped with a microfluidic device for detection of heavy metals. Detection is based on the method of square wave anodic stripping voltammetry using carbon-based screen-printed electrodes (SPEs). The focus of this work was to validate the ability of the integrated system to perform on-site detection of heavy metal pollution plumes in river catchments. This scenario was simulated in laboratory experiments. The main performance characteristics of the system, which was evaluated based on ISO 15839 were measurement bias (Pb 75%, Cu 65%), reproducibility (in terms of relative standard deviation: Pb 11–18%, Cu 6–10%) and the limit of detection (4 µg/L for Pb and 7 µg/L for Cu). The lowest detectable change (LDC), which is an important performance characteristic for this application, was estimated to be 4–5 µg/L for Pb and 6–7 µg/L for Cu. The life span of an SPE averaged 39 measurements per day, which is considered sufficient for intended monitoring campaigns. This work demonstrated the suitability of the integrated system for on-site detection of Pb and Cu emissions from large and medium urban areas discharging into small water bodies.

Genomic Characterization of SARS-CoV2 from Peshawar Pakistan Using Next-Generation Sequencing - Ome Kalsoom Afridi; Nousheen Bibi; Syed Adnan Haider; Bibi Sabiha; Hanifullah Jan; Abid Ali Khan; Shireen Akhter; Valeed Khan; Johar Ali (Current Microbiology, 2022)

An analysis of the asymmetric effects of natural gas consumption on economic growth in Pakistan: A non-linear autoregressive distributed lag approach - Hafiz M. Sohail; Zengfu Li; Muntasir Murshed; Rafael Alvarado; Haider Mahmood (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

The dynamic impact of financial, technological, and natural resources on sustainable development in Belt and Road countries - Atta Ullah; Chen Pinglu; Saif Ullah; Shujahat Haider Hashmi (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Do natural gas, oil, and coal consumption ameliorate environmental quality? Empirical evidence from Russia - Orazaliyev Kanat; Zhijun Yan; Muhammad Mansoor Asghar; Zahoor Ahmed; Haider Mahmood; Dervis Kirikkaleli; Muntasir Murshed (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Revisiting the energy-economy-environment relationships for attaining environmental sustainability: evidence from Belt and Road Initiative countries - Mohammed Shakib; Hou Yumei; Abdul Rauf; Mahmudul Alam; Muntasir Murshed; Haider Mahmood (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Heterogeneous effects of economic policy uncertainty and foreign direct investment on environmental quality: cross-country evidence - Mohsin Shabir; Minhaj Ali; Shujahat Haider Hashmi; Satar Bakhsh (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

The effect of GnRH administration/insemination time on follicular growth rate, ovulation intervals, and conception rate of Nili Ravi buffalo heifers in 7 –day-CIDR Co-synch - Sajjad Haider; Ghazanfar Ali Chishti; Muhammad Usman Mehmood; Muhammad Ameen Jamal; Khalid Mehmood; Muhammad Shahzad; Muhammad Zahid Tahir (Tropical Animal Health and Production, 2021)

Molecular mechanisms of plant tolerance to heat stress: current landscape and future perspectives - Saqlain Haider; Javed Iqbal; Sana Naseer; Tabassum Yaseen; Muzaffar Shaukat; Haleema Bibi; Yumna Ahmad; Hina Daud; Nayyab Laiba Abbasi; Tariq Mahmood (Plant Cell Reports, 2021)

Mitigation of Degraded Soils by Using Biochar and Compost: a Systematic Review - Misbah Batool Zahra; Bakhtawar Fayyaz; Zill-E-Huma Aftab; Muhammad Saleem Haider (Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 2021)

Seed Priming with Sodium Nitroprusside and H2O2 Confers Better Yield in Wheat Under Salinity: Water Relations, Antioxidative Defense Mechanism and Ion Homeostasis - Noman Habib; Qasim Ali; Shafaqat Ali; Muhammad Zulqarnain Haider; Muhammad Tariq Javed; Mubashra Khalid; Rashida Perveen; Abdulaziz Abdullah Alsahli; Mohammed Nasser Alyemeni (Journal of Plant Growth Regulation, 2021)

Genome-wide identification and characterization of a plant-specific Dof transcription factor gene family in olive (Olea europaea) and its comparison with Arabidopsis - Mariyam; Muhammad Shafiq; Muhammad Haseeb; Rana Muhammad Atif; Syed Agha Armaghan Asad Abbas Naqvi; Numan Ali; Muhammad Arshad Javed; Fizza Gillani; Muhammad Saleem Haider (Horticulture, Environment, and Biotechnology, 2021)

Assessing the potential of partial root zone drying and mulching for improving the productivity of cotton under arid climate - Rashid Iqbal; Muhammad Habib-ur-Rahman; Muhammad Aown Sammar Raza; Muhammad Waqas; Rao Muhammad Ikram; Muhammad Zeshan Ahmed; Monika Toleikiene; Muhammad Ayaz; Farhan Mustafa; Salman Ahmad; Muhammad Usman Aslam; Muhammad Mohsin Waqas; et al. (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)
Water scarcity constrains global cotton production. However, partial root-zone drying (PRD) and mulching can be used as good techniques to save water and enhance crop production, especially in arid regions. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of mulching for water conservation in an arid environment under PRD and to further assess the osmotic adjustment and enzymatic activities for sustainable cotton production. The study was carried out for 2 years in field conditions using mulches (NM = no mulch, BPM = black plastic mulch at 32 kg ha -1 , WSM = wheat straw mulch at 3 tons ha -1 , CSM = cotton sticks mulch at 10 tons ha -1 ) and two irrigation levels (FI = full irrigation and PRD (50% less water than FI). High seed cotton yield (SCY) achieved in FI+WSM (4457 and 4248 kg ha -1 in 2017 and 2018, respectively) and even in PRD+WSM followed by BPM>CSM>NM under FI and PRD for both years. The higher SCY and traits observed in FI+WSM and PRD+WSM compared with the others were attributed to the improved water use efficiency and gaseous exchange traits, increased hormone production (ABA), osmolyte accumulation, and enhanced antioxidants to scavenge the excess reactive oxygen. Furthermore, better cotton quality traits were also observed under WSM either with FI or PRD irrigation regimes. Mulches applications found effective to control the weeds in the order as BPM>WSM>CSM. In general, PRD can be used as an effective stratagem to save moisture along with WSM, which ultimately can improve cotton yield in the water-scarce regions under arid climatic regions. It may prove as a good adaptation strategy under current and future water shortage scenarios of climate change.

Reinvigorating the role of clean energy transition for achieving a low-carbon economy: evidence from Bangladesh - Muntasir Murshed; Zahoor Ahmed; Md Shabbir Alam; Haider Mahmood; Abdul Rehman; Vishal Dagar (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Light-off Investigation of Oxymethylene Ether (OME) Considering the Presence of the Exhaust Components Heptane, Carbon, and Nitrogen Monoxide - Florian Rümmele; Alexander Susdorf; Syed Muhammad Salman Haider; Robert Szolak (Emission Control Science and Technology, 2021)
Synthetic fuels and fuel blends like OMEs can contribute to tank-to-wheel CO 2 emission savings. At the same time, it is known that these fuels have a lower exhaust temperature compared to conventional diesel. This effect has major impact on the exhaust after-treatment system, particularly in cold start conditions. This paper investigates the light-off behavior of exhaust gases containing OMEs by temperature-programmed oxidation experiments using a state-of-the-art oxidation catalyst. The main side product of catalytic oxidation of OMEs between 100 °C and the oxidation temperature T 50 , which was around 160 °C, was shown to be formaldehyde. While alkane oxidation, in this case heptane, was little influenced by OME oxidation, the oxidation temperature T 50 of CO increases by more than 10 °C by OME addition. Nitrogen monoxide impeded the oxidation of OME in a similar way to the other components investigated. Due to the amount of FA produced and its toxicity, it could be concluded that it is necessary to heat up exhaust after-treatment systems of OME diesel engines even faster than conventional diesel exhaust after-treatment systems. The relatively high reactivity of OME on oxidation catalyst can be used by active thermal management approaches.

Systematic investigation of Iranian Vacuum Bottom hydrodenitrogenation to produce clean fuel oil for marine transportation - Mohammad Salimi; Havva Hashemi; Muhammad Salman Haider; Lasse Aistrup Rosendahl (Energy, Ecology and Environment, 2021)

Anthropogenic factors overrule local abiotic variables in determining non-native plant invasions in mountains - Eduardo Fuentes-Lillo; Jonas J. Lembrechts; Lohengrin A. Cavieres; Alejandra Jiménez; Sylvia Haider; Agustina Barros; Aníbal Pauchard (Biological Invasions, 2021)