{"title":"Prevalence of De-Quervain’s Tenosynovitis among smartphone gamers among University students of Multan","authors":"Momin Ayaz, Aqib Tofiq, Yumna Fatima, Syed Soban Abbas, R. Jabeen, Rabab Komal","doi":"10.52700/jn.v3i2.74","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52700/jn.v3i2.74","url":null,"abstract":"Background: De Quervain tenosynovitis is an inflammatory condition of wrist joint resulting in pain swelling and tenderness on the side of thumb. Repeated thumb movements and overuse of wrist joint contribute to the severity of symptoms. Objectives: To measure the prevalence of De Quervain’s tenosynovitis in cell phone gamers and its relationship to the frequency of cell phone usage/number of hours among gamers. Methods: A cross sectional survey was conducted using self-made questionnaire and a valid and reliable Finkelstein’s test was used. The study population was young students of Multan and the data of 300 students was taken. The data was collected from both male and female students using purposive sampling technique. Results: There were 13% gamers having De Quervain’s tenosynovitis. 31% were females and 69% were male students. De Quervain’s tenosynovitis was associated with game playing hours as the statistical analysis showed strong association between tenosynovitis and game playing hours having P-value=0.000. Moreover 87 students felt stressed during playing games and students reported that they felt difficulty during gripping of the objects, twisting the keys and typing on keyboard. Conclusion: Study concluded that De Quervain’s tenosynovitis is prevalent among phone gamers in both male and female and game playing hours was associated with De Quervain’s tenosynovitis. Increase in game playing ours increased the incidence of DQT.","PeriodicalId":16381,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NANOSCOPE (JN)","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80248607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Comprehensive Review on Application of Sonochemistry","authors":"Shumaila Akhter, Aroog Fatima, Zarqa Nawaz, Miraj Fatima, Sidra Akhter, Samina Aslam","doi":"10.52700/jn.v3i2.79","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52700/jn.v3i2.79","url":null,"abstract":"As nanomaterials are turning into high demand products due to use in many applications, the sonoelectrochemistry method may be accessible to yield these nanomaterials at industrial significant measures. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to give a brief summary of recent developments in sonoelectrochemistry for generating numerous kinds of nanomaterials. It is expected that the analysis of these studies will produce further importance in the field, to fuel further research of novel nanomaterials as well as driving this technology is becoming a commercially practical synthetic technique. The subsequent units of this review report the use and improvements in sonoelectrochemical processes in the production of numerous electrocatalytic materials applications in electrolyzes, fuel cell technologies, and the degradation of many organic pollutants. The experimental procedures of sonoelectrochemical techniques are examined by this review that are commonly used in the synthesis of materials, particularly in electro catalysis. The trials facing sonoelectrochemical processes engaged in hydrogen making through water-splitting, degradation of organic pollutants, are discussed.","PeriodicalId":16381,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NANOSCOPE (JN)","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83930165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. M. Raza, S. Qaseem, S. Shah, S. Ali, Yasmeen Bibi, A. Tahir, A. Wahab
{"title":"Tailoring the Magnetic and Optical properties of MgO Nanoparticles by Cobalt doping","authors":"S. M. Raza, S. Qaseem, S. Shah, S. Ali, Yasmeen Bibi, A. Tahir, A. Wahab","doi":"10.52700/jn.v3i1.56","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52700/jn.v3i1.56","url":null,"abstract":" In this work, Cobalt (0-10) % doped MgO nanoparticles are prepared for magnetic and optical studies. X-ray diffraction studies show the particle size increases from 3.10 nm to 9.50 nm with increasing Cobalt concentration in MgO samples. The secondary phases are observed beyond 5% Cobalt in the host MgO which indicates the solubility limit of dopant in this material. SEM analysis further reconfirms the purity and spherical morphology of nanoparticles in all samples. Its result also reveals that the smallest particles have the largest oxygen vacancy concentration as compared to other samples. The dopant and size-induced effects are observed for electronic absorption spectra and bandgap of the samples. UV-visible absorption spectra show a quantum confinement effect as the optical band gap decreases with the increase of the particle size. The optical band gap of the nanoparticles ranges from 4.68 eV to 3.15 eV which is very less in comparison with the bulk MgO band gap up to 7.2eV. Vibrating sample magnetometer studies at room temperature clearly show the ferromagnetic behavior for pure MgO nanoparticles in contrast with the paramagnetic behavior for other samples. It is suggested that the presence of the ferromagnetic behavior in pure MgO nanoparticles are due to the presence of oxygen vacancies.","PeriodicalId":16381,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NANOSCOPE (JN)","volume":"85 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78241893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of Different Blend Ratios of Natural Fibers on Yarn Properties","authors":"Rakhshan Ahsan, Asma Akmal","doi":"10.52700/jn.v3i1.57","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52700/jn.v3i1.57","url":null,"abstract":"Yarn construction is an important attribute in fabric construction and end use performance of fabric. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of different blend ratio of natural fibers, on yarn properties. Four different fibers such as Bamboo regenerated fiber, cotton, flax, and hemp were used at different blend ratios to manufacture ring spun 16/1 yarns with TM of 4.0. Blend ratios of bamboo regenerated fiber was kept 100%, 90 %, 80 % and 70 % while blend ratios of cotton, flax and hemp were adjusted at 10 %, 20 % and 30 %. Thus, total of ten yarn samples were prepared for this study. Different properties of these yarns such as linear density, lea strength, clsp, tensile properties, unevenness, imperfections, and hairiness, were determined as per standard test methods.Analysis of the collected data shows a significant effect of blend change on all yarn properties. It may be concluded that blends of bamboo regenerated fibers with cotton displayed best results as compared to blends with flax and hemp. Another trend may also be revealed that yarn quality improved as ratio of cotton changed from 10 % to 30 % while degraded as ratio of flax and hemp is changed from 10 % to 30%.","PeriodicalId":16381,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NANOSCOPE (JN)","volume":"97 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89904992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Rajpar, Barat Ali Laghari, I. Ahmed, I. A. Haalepoto, R. H. Mari
{"title":"Photoelectron Collection Efficiency Of PDT","authors":"A. Rajpar, Barat Ali Laghari, I. Ahmed, I. A. Haalepoto, R. H. Mari","doi":"10.52700/jn.v3i1.48","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52700/jn.v3i1.48","url":null,"abstract":"Photoelectron collection efficiency for 3-(2-Pyridyl)-5,6-diphenyl-1,2,4-triazine (PDT) photocathode in pure Methane and in Argon Methane gas mixtures at different rations i.e. 50:50, 80:20 and 90:10 against decreased electric field and photons of wavelength ranging from 190nm to 230nm has been presented. Maximum QE reaches to ~95%, ~94 and ~95 of vacuum QE respectively in charge multiplication mode. These values are achieved at approximately E/p = 3.5 V/cm.Torr, 2.5 V/cm.Torr and 2 V/cm.Tor at 190 nm respectively. Similar QE are achieved E/p = 4.1 V/cm.Torr, 2.7 V/cm.Torr and 2.2 V/cm.Torr respectively at 230 nm.","PeriodicalId":16381,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NANOSCOPE (JN)","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88702077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Field Release Performance of Chrysoperla Carnea for Population Management of Sucking Insect Pests of Cotton","authors":"M. Sattar","doi":"10.52700/jn.v3i1.55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52700/jn.v3i1.55","url":null,"abstract":"Chrysoperla carnea egg cards in cotton field were released for two years for population management of sucking insect pests of cotton. Releases were made at the rate of 40 cards per acre, starting from the first week of June when crop was five weeks old and continued at fortnightly interval up to the end of September. On over-all basis C. carnea caused pest population reduction of more than 40-75% of different insect pests. In first year release, reduction was 76%, 86%, 39% and 52% of aphid, jassid, thrip and whitefly population, respectively. While, results of second year study showed that the predator caused 75%, 80%, 62% and 45% pest population reduction of aphid, jassid, thrip and whitefly, respectively. Whereas, in second-year of study, C. carnea larvae were released in field cage cotton plants which caused pest population reduction of 19.5%, 31.18% and 40.23% by 1st, 2nd and 3rd instars of C. carnea, respectively. ","PeriodicalId":16381,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NANOSCOPE (JN)","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82993996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Management of Sucking Pests of early Season Cotton by Application of different Seed and Soil Insecticides in Pakistan","authors":"M. Sattar, M. Sarwar","doi":"10.52700/jn.v3i1.54","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52700/jn.v3i1.54","url":null,"abstract":"Cotton is cash crop of Pakistan and sucking insect pests are serious issue especially in early cotton season. To cope with the issue, a field experiment was conducted to investigate the post emergence effectiveness of two seed and two soil applied insecticides on populations’ development of sucking insect pests in cotton. The seed applied insecticides i.e. Imidacloprid (Confidor 70 WS) and Thiamethoxam (Actara 70 WS) were applied to the seed before sowing. Two granular insecticides i.e. Aldicarb (Temik 10 G) and Carbaryl (Sevin 10 D) were applied in furrows with a modified applicator that was calibrated to deliver the desired rate. The results showed that all the tested insecticides were very effective in controlling the targeted sucking insect pests i.e. thrips, whiteflies and jassids as compared to untreated cotton. Conversely, the seed applied insecticides i.e. Imidacloprid and Thiamethoxam showed more effectiveness compared to soil applied granular insecticides i.e. Aldicarb and Carbaryl in reducing sucking pests’ populations. Such systemic insecticides applied as treated seed can be present in sufficient quantity in germinating plants leading to toxicity to pests, and helpful for safety of natural enemies. The population trends of the three principal sucking insect pests namely thrip, whitefly and jassid were varied significantly over the study months thereby indicating that the population build up was favoured by certain factors. Consequently, the use of seed applied insecticides can be a major component to put into practice in the integrated pest management technology of cotton.","PeriodicalId":16381,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NANOSCOPE (JN)","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81450051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Synthesis of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles by Sol-gel method to Study its Structural Optical Properties and Morphology","authors":"M. Junaid","doi":"10.52700/jn.v3i1.51","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52700/jn.v3i1.51","url":null,"abstract":"Zinc oxide nanoparticles can be classified as a multipurpose material, along with their distinctive features and applications in optoelectronic devices. This research looks at the morphological, structural, and optical features of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles. The sol-gel procedure has been used to form zinc oxide nanoparticles with zinc nitrate [Zn (NO3)2.4H2O] and sodium hydroxide [NaOH] as precursors. The main objective is to synthesize zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles by using the sol-gel approach because that is easy to implement and offers the capacity to adjust particle size and morphology by systematically monitoring reaction conditions. X-ray diffraction phenomenon, Scanning Electron Microscopy, and Ultraviolet-vis spectroscopy characterization techniques were used to determine the structural, morphological, and optical features of produced zinc oxide nanoparticles. According to the XRD examination, the produced nanoparticles are in a highly crystalline phase nature. The high crystallinity of ZnO is observed in all diffraction peaks, implying that Zinc oxide nanoparticles were synthesized properly using the sol-gel process. The UV-vis spectroscopy produced an absorption spectrum at 370nm due to ZnO nanoparticles. The Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) measurements reveal the surface structure and grains size of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles at a different resolution.","PeriodicalId":16381,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NANOSCOPE (JN)","volume":"65 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82116766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abid Karim, Rabia Kaneez, M. Iqbal, Usama Ayub, Sheikh Kamalludin, T. Iqbal
{"title":"A Technical and Financial Analysis of the Solar Energy Harnessing in Karachi","authors":"Abid Karim, Rabia Kaneez, M. Iqbal, Usama Ayub, Sheikh Kamalludin, T. Iqbal","doi":"10.52700/jn.v3i1.52","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52700/jn.v3i1.52","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper the technical and financial analysis was done for the extensive market survey relating to the solar energy harnessing in Karachi which is the biggest import, whole sale and retail market and follow as role model for most of other Pakistani markets. The severity of the electrical energy crises leads to the pressure on the individual user to find solutions for their long, load shedding hours. The marketing and advertisement exaggerated the Solar Photovoltaic panels as the best solutions which trigger the impulsive buying of solar modules and related accessories to produce the “free of cost” electrical energy. However, it was not proven as simple and free as it was marketed and advertised which leads to the tremendous loss of capital / investment and foreign exchange because of the major portion of solar energy related products are imported. In this work, several markets were survey and investigated i.e. Saddar, Bolten Shareshah, Qaidabade, Gulshan and Sohrab Goth where various brands of the solar panels were investigated by means of technical, financial and environmental based in order to optimize the policies and guideline for the investment, installation, operation and maintenance (OEM). ","PeriodicalId":16381,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NANOSCOPE (JN)","volume":"70 6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82520569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Shah, S. R. Ali, S. Qaseem, Yasmeen Bibi, Uzair Majeed, S. M. Raza
{"title":"Systematic Variations in Structural and Photoluminescence Properties Produced in Zn Oxide Nanostructures by Cu (0-5)% Substitution","authors":"S. Shah, S. R. Ali, S. Qaseem, Yasmeen Bibi, Uzair Majeed, S. M. Raza","doi":"10.52700/jn.v3i1.53","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52700/jn.v3i1.53","url":null,"abstract":"Effects of Cu addition (0-5)% in ZnO are studied for structural and optical properties. The structural, photoluminescence properties and vibrational modes are strongly influenced with the Cu incorporation. Detailed investigations of the structural features of Cu doped ZnO nanostructures are reported. Our results show the systematic decrease in crystallite size (50.40 - 37.56 nm), lattice strain (1.82 - 1.49 micro), lattice stress (216.33 - 177.64 MPa) and energy density (196.78 - 132.69 KJ/m3) in the limit of small dopant concentration (0 < Cu ? 0.02). Decreasing trends are attributed to the smaller ionic size of Cu in comparison of Zn. Beyond Cu= 0.02 an increasing trend was noticed in crystallite size (41.67 - 70.67 nm), lattice strain (1.90 – 3.11 micro), lattice stress (226.32 – 369.35 MPa) and energy density (215.40 – 573.67KJ/m3. This increase in structural parameters is attributed to segregation of secondary phases for Cu content increase beyond 0.02. Two prominent regions in PL spectra were observed and the deconvoulution of these regions show a strong correlation with the structural changes observed within the limit of high and low dopant concentration. The FTIR spectra show shift of Zn-O vibrational mode toward higher frequency with increasing Cu concentration. ","PeriodicalId":16381,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NANOSCOPE (JN)","volume":"28 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91486286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}