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    Can the culture in Pakistan’s construction industry intrinsically motivate project leadership to make green decisions? The managerial approach to improve construction projects environmental sustainability performance in Pakistan
    (Library Information Services, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, 2023) Muhammad Ali; FA21-RPM-006; Dr. Fahmeed Idrees; LHR TP 8576
    Land is one of the prime natural resources required by both the construction industry and agriculture sector. Unfortunately, the recent growth of construction industry in Punjab, Pakistan has been on green agricultural land instead of brown land; resulting in resource conflict with agriculture sector which may lead to food insecurity in the future. Although the growth of construction industry is beneficial to address Pakistan’s economy woes, it should not come at the cost of agriculture sector which is equally important for future sustainability. With an aim to look into a managerial approach to resolving this conflict; this study will examine how decision making in construction projects can be influenced to become green so that project performance is improved to be environmentally sustainable. Organization culture has been hypothesized in this study to be a fundamental contextual factor that can intrinsically motivate project leadership to make green decisions which will lead to environmental sustainability performance. This is the first study of its kind focusing leadership initiated environment and natural resource conservation in a developing country like Pakistan. The hypothesized framework based on self-determination theory has been confirmed using a cross-sectional quantitative analysis that includes leadership in construction projects as a unit of analysis. The findings not only fill the literature gap related to relationships between organizational culture, intrinsic motivation, green decision making and environmental sustainability performance but also broaden horizon on sustainable development in Pakistan. Future research can focus on how to change culture in Pakistan’s construction industry from profit maximization to the culture inhibiting values for green sustainable development.
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    Handling Presentation Using Kinect
    (Library Information Services, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, 2021) Muhammad Ali; SP11-BCS-061; Mr Shahid Bhatti; LHR TP 6905
    The aim of this project is to develop an intuitive Natural User Interface (NUI) to control the Power Point slides presentation through gesture. Hand gesture provides an interactive natural communication between user and machine. The visual interpretation of hand gesture will provides the efficiency and quality. Recently researchers are also interested in exploring the computer vision-base analysis and interoperating the hand gesture, using Microsoft Kinect sensor a way of tracking user hand and fingers. User can control the presentation without using keyboard for this purpose we have to integrate Kinect Sensor with our system after this it detects the skeleton and start recognizing the predefined gestures. Multiple joint features (hand, wrist, elbow, and shoulder) are assessed over different gestures speed (slow, normal, and fast). Standard deviation of instantaneous acceleration of a hand joint is the most important factor of hand gesture recognition. To move slide user swap hand left to right and to move backward swap hand from right to left, to highlight text just point the starting point and move finger forward to the desire end point. Sparing both moderator's and viewer's chance this will be extremely useful for giving presentation, instructing, business gatherings and some other significant fields that oblige presentations. It can likewise be coordinated in the different applications today like in therapeutic application and particularly measuring of hand-related handicap.