National Defence University, Pakistan

About: National Defence University, Pakistan is a education organization based out in Islamabad, Pakistan. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Decision support system & Population. The organization has 802 authors who have published 816 publications receiving 3701 citations. The organization is also known as: National Defence University of Pakistan & National Defence University Islamabad.

Intragroup trust improves the perceived military group performance by decreasing self-uncertainty

Abstract: Intragroup trust plays an important role in group performance. Using samples of Chinese military service members, three studies were conducted to examine the effect of intragroup trust on military group performance, as well as the mediating effect of self-uncertainty. Employed a double randomization design, Study 1 first operated participants’ intragroup trust into high or low levels, and then measured their self-uncertainty and group performance. The results showed that intragroup trust decreased self-uncertainty and increased group performance, and self-uncertainty mediated the effect of intragroup trust on group performance. Study 2 first operated participants’ self-uncertainty into high or low levels, and then measured their group performance. The results showed that self-uncertainty negatively affected group performance. To improve the validities of Studies 1 and 2, Study 3 first measured participants’ intragroup trust (both by a military intragroup trust (both by a military intragroup trust survey and by a revised trust game) and self-uncertainty, and then evaluated their group performance in a paper-tower-building task three days later. The bootstrap analyses supported the results of Studies 1 and 2. To conclude, this research demonstrated that intragroup trust improves military group performance by decreasing self-uncertainty.

Analyzing the Role of Organizational Climate on Courageous Followership and Authentic Leadership among University Graduates in Pakistan

Abstract: In today’s world, understanding the concept of followers is as important as the concept of leaders in the organization. Building the concept of followership and leadership, this study used the reversing the lens approach in leadership study and hypothesized that the relationship between courageous followership and authentic leadership enhances in the presence of organizational climate as moderator. The target sample for this study was graduate students from different universities in twin cities of Pakistan i.e. Rawalpindi and Islamabad (N= 171). This sample was chosen by convenience-based sampling due to Covid-19. The data were analyzed by using the SPSS and moderation analysis was also applied to this study. The results supported the hypotheses of the study by concluding that the organizational climate act as a moderator and influences the relationship between courageous followership and authentic leadership. Focusing on developing a good organizational climate will boost the impact of courageous followership behavior and authentic leadership in the students, and this would create a balanced and progressive society. Future researchers might need to consider the courageous followership behavior development and its role in enhancing authentic leadership in different work settings.

Research on Digital Forensics Framework for Malicious Behavior in Cloud

Abstract: The difficult of detecting, response, tracing the malicious behavior in cloud has brought great challenges to the law enforcement in combating cybercrimes. This paper presents a malicious behavior oriented framework of detection, emergency response, traceability, and digital forensics in cloud environment. A cloud-based malicious behavior detection mechanism based on SDN is constructed, which implements full-traffic flow detection technology and malicious virtual machine detection based on memory analysis. The emergency response and traceability module can clarify the types of the malicious behavior and the impacts of the events, and locate the source of the event. The key nodes and paths of the infection topology or propagation path of the malicious behavior will be located security measure will be dispatched timely. The proposed IaaS service based forensics module realized the virtualization facility memory evidence extraction and analysis techniques, which can solve volatile data loss problems that often happened in traditional forensic methods.

The Growing Power Struggle in Indian Ocean Region: Security Road Map for Bangladesh

Abstract: The Indian Ocean Region (IOR) is rising significantly as the center stage for world politics in the current century. Due to the geostrategic and economic importance, the region has created conflicts in strategic interest leading to power confrontation among regional and extra-regional powers resulting in security threats for small littorals like Bangladesh. Some of the threats are influential attachments of the powerful states in foreign, trade, economy and defense sectors, poor regional security architecture and an increase of non-traditional security threats. Analyzing the issues reveals that, Bangladesh can navigate these challenges by playing strategic hedging, pursuing multilateralism, recalibrating trade and economic engagements, and comprehensive drive by government agencies to deal with non-traditional security threats.

3 dimension real time images of rainfall infiltration into unsaturated soil slope

Abstract: Failure of soil slope is mainly due to infiltration of rainfall. The complexity of rainwater path infiltrate soil slope can be predicted using commercial software, and volumetric moisture content at the infiltrated slope area can be measured by Time-Domain-Reflectometry (TDR). Prediction of rainwater path is based on parameters obtained by laboratory works, and volumetric water content using TDR can only available at the point of insertion. In this research, an innovative method called Electrical Capacitance Volume Tomography (ECVT) was used in geotechnical engineering application in determining the real-time imaging of rainwater infiltration into unsaturated soil slope. This method also achieves permittivity value through the experiments and converted to volumetric water content using equation. A soil sample obtained from slope failure around National Defense University of Malaysia (NDUM) campus during monsoon season was used in the research. The results revealed real-time 3 dimensions (3-D) images of rainwater infiltrated into soil slope were produced through image reconstruction method of ECVT. Volumetric water content was also achieved using permittivity value attained by ECVT result. Images which permittivity indicated the infiltration of rainwater through soil slope were clearly shown in the results. This innovative technology is expected to improve the understanding of soil slope behavior especially in for rainfall infiltration that relates to soil stability.