Browsing by Author "Muhammad Asif"

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    Analysis of the syllabi of english textbooks regarding students’ cultural Needs at intermediate level
    (UMT Lahore, 2014) Muhammad Asif
    An effort has been made by the current research for taking an analytical review of the syllabi of Textbooks prescribed by Punjab Textbook Board, Lahore (Pakistan) between January, 2009 to December, 2012 regarding the fulfillment of students’ need of cultural awareness. Assessment of the presence of the aspects of cultural integaration, attaining information about the number of contents as the representatives of Pakistani culture in the syllabus of textbooks and making cultural needs analysis as integral part of syllabus were the core aims of this research. After conducting data analysis of the contents of the syllabus of the five textbooks of English (selected after purposive sampling) for Intermediate level (prescribed between January, 2009 to December, 2012 by Punjab Textbook Board, Lahore (Pakistan), researcher found that the number of the contents as the representative of Pakistani culture in the syllabus of the Textbooks of English for the Intermediate level was relatively less with lack of knowledge about cultural aspects (like information about customs, conventions and traditions of Pakistan) for promoting a spirit of cultural identity in Pakistani students. Syllabus designers and content developers also ignored the topics of historical nature for producing familiarity about historical personalities and historical events in syllabus. They designed and compiled the syllabus without considering students’ cultural needs in the light of sociocultural aspects of English in Pakistani society. The study may be effective in generating awareness in public about the relatively weak state and inability of the syllabus in producing cultural awareness in students. It also puts a heavy responsibility on syllabus designers and content developers’ shoulders for designing and compiling a new syllabus after conducting a proper cultural needs analysis for designing a new syllabus for the students of Intermediate level after considering the recommendations and suggestions presented by this study.
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    Autonomous data collection robot for orchards
    (UMT Lahore, 2022) Muhammad Asif; Muhammad Sufiyan
    This report presents data collection and navigation systems for a family of autonomous orchard robots. The systems are customized to enable safe and reliable driving in planting environments. The data collection system is based on a camera sensor composed wheel and steering controller, and algorithms that process the sensor data and output the guidance commands for line following robot. We convert the Remote-Operated Unnamed Ground Vehicle (UGV) into line following robot that uses line following technique in which IR sensor senses the color and the follows the colored line. This robot captures the image of plants and detect the Disease. Also, this robot detects the several kinds of orchards and identify them. The data then collects in the controller and shows output on the mobile through wireless. Time trials showed that the autonomous orchard robots enable efficiency gains of up to maximum percentage for data collection of orchards tasks conducted on plants when compared with the same task performed by group of people.
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    Consumer’s voice
    (UMT, Lhr, 2018) Muhammad Asif; Muhammad Ahmad Raza; Shahreen Awan; Muhammad Zawar Liaqat
    As the name of our project is consumer’s voice include the tweets and storing the tweets data into the system. This project addresses the problem of sentimental analysis twitter; i.e classifying tweets according to the sentimental expressed in them: Positive and Negative. Twitter is an online micro-blogging which allows user to write short status updates of maximum length 140 characters. Analysing the public sentiments to find out respone of their products in the market, predicting political election etc. the aim of this project is to develop a web based application for the product on the bases of public opinion.
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    Effectiveness of online teaching of business and technical English
    (University of Management and Technology, 2012) Muhammad Asif
    Online teaching (OT) is an emerging trend in Pakistanwith approximately ten years background. During this brief time period online pedagogy has faced many challenges to establish itself as an equal counterpart of conventional classroom teaching. Whether it has achieved its desired outcomes or not is a debatable issue. This case study has been conducted to examine this very issue of the effectiveness of online teaching by narrowing it down to the subject of Business and Technical English (BTE) at the graduate and postgraduate levels at the one and only major online teaching institution of Pakistani.e., Virtual University. The study explores how effective is the learning of Business and Technical communication Skills in English language that comes from online mode of instruction and to what extent it leads to proficiency in documentation for professional purposes. The study makes use of the Connectivist theory by Siemens (2004) to reach its desired findings. Data were collected from the different campuses of Virtual University of Pakistan, therefore, the sample is diverse belonging to various age groups, areas and languages. Factor analysis was used to estimate the effectiveness of Business and Technical English and for testing hypothesis, Mann Whitney U test was applied to get the required results. The results demonstrate that online teaching of Business and Technical English is considered very useful by the students of the Virtual University of Pakistanfor improving their linguistic and grammatical competence to cope with the needs of the business world and job interviews. However, to improve certain limitations, the research also suggests some recommendations.
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    Electricity bill payment system
    (UMT, Lhr, 2018) Zeeshan Ahmad Maan; Muhammad Hamza; Muhammad Asif; Hammad Ashraf
    There are many existing Wapda websites like Lesco or Roshan Pakistan and there are many features in this websites from where we get help and add some more features in our project. In our project. First of all we do online payment from where client can easily pay his/her bill sitting at home in just few clicks. There is no online transaction of bills in any website except UBL. Second one user can also request for a new connection sitting at home before this we have to stand in a queue to apply for a new connection now it is much easier and we add records history from where user can see their all previous paid bills. User can also complain if he/she is facing some problem and can also rate the service and can also see the status of the complaint and user can give rating to resolve complaints. We hope that with help of our project people get advantage. They save their time. They can pay their bills by sitting in home instead of stand in queues.
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    Final project on stylo shoes
    (UMT.Lahore, 2018) Muddasar Nazir Anjum; Hafiz Waqas Butt; Abdul Wahab; Muhammad Asif
    An executive summary, or management summary, is a short document or section of adocument, produced for business purposes, that summarizes a longer report or proposal or a group of related reports in such a way that readers can rapidly become acquainted with alarge body of material without having to read it all. This action-based research study aims to explore the factors which are affecting the sales improvement of STYLO SHOES. The comprehensive analysis of the industry as well as of the company is performed during this project. We conducted this research to identify the actual problem PONS is facing so that a clear insight can be provided too precisely, and we will be able to deliverfeasible recommendations. A detailed audit is conducted by Macro environment and Microenvironment analysis with the help of various strategic marketing tools. Primary and secondary sources for data collection were usedin the research. All the stakeholders of the fashion footwear industry were involved in this project with the help of nterviews and questionnaire. This project will help Stylo to solve their current marketing challenge, awareness of customer preferences stylo shoes, improvement in their marketing campaigns, innovative and reative advertisement ideas and the gap identification. Hence, the industry can be stated as favourable and optimistic for existing players and new entrants. To grow and sustain in the industry we did in-depth research on the critical success factors of consumers and customers. Almost success factors were highlighted for the wholeindustry those were a brand name, sales team, packaging & competitive price. Moreover, the research also focused on identifying the consumer preferences and perceptions over a couple of benchmarking activities. We determined the direct and indirect competitors of Stylo Shoes and comparatively analyzed with direct competition companies which are developing or marketing similar type of products to themarket population. By examining the marketing strategies and core competencies of the competitors, we established a way forward and discovered the gap. We have examined all aspects which are affecting the company with the help of investigative tools, i.e.TOWS analysis. According to the study conducted Stylo lies on Limited expansion and harvest strategy position. Thus, Stylo has to protect or maintain their existing market position and have to invest wisely in those segments which are profitable for the company. By reviewing the strategic alignment of Stylo, our findings were that Stylo lacks in product quality and differentiation. So we have extensively defined what should the company do to overcome these lacking and how should they do it, when should the company execute.
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    Hybrid solar and biomass energy
    (UMT.Lahore, 2013) Hammad Zia; Muhammad Asif; Azhar mehdi
    Shortage of energy is an international issue being hotly debated across different social political and economic spheres. For Pakistan a developing country with further industrialization in progress, such shortage is seeming exacerbate further The most viable solution promising to address such issues in Pakistan case, lies in harnessing the sustainable energy options primarily solar and biomass which are amply available. To plan the most feasible energy solution utilizing freely available solar and biomass energy resources. To implement low power interface between loads and the renewable energy sources. To design a control system ensuring proper distribution of energy among various loads.The project addresses the issue and targets to devise a hybrid solar-biomass energy solution for a rural household having seven people, which is a normal family size in Pakistani villages. Prior to hardware implementation, with help of a literature review and Renewable Energy simulation packages, a detailed study is being conducted to design state-of-the art of the particular idea.
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    Islahe-moashrah aur Khurram Muead kay Afkaar ka Jaizah
    (University of Management & Technology, 2017) Muhammad Asif
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    New frameworks for cluster development
    (Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority(SMEDA), 2012) Nadia Jahangir Seth; Sami Ullah Bajwa; Muhammad Asif; Shahzad Khuram
    Common Facility Center (CFC) is a broadly used term in economic development agencies, to describe infrastructure based projects for development of clusters and small and medium enterprises, but does not have a precise definition in literature. CFC term is sometimes used as an alternative to infrastructure projects – which in both economic and business literature is different than the concept of common facility center – cluster initiatives, hard interventions and physical projects etc. Because of this fuzzy use of the term, no evaluation framework could have been developed so far which has made it rather difficult for policy makers to evaluate effectiveness of CFCs for economic development. To address this issue, this article undergoes the archives of SME development approaches and initiatives to propose a definition and evaluation framework for Common Facility Centers.