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The parental bonding instrument: a psychometric measure to assess parenting practices in the homes in Bangladesh
(© 2017 Elsevier., 2017-02)There is growing importance of the Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI) in clinical practice and research on parenting and parental bonding. Since the development of this diagnostic tool (Parker et al., Brit. J. Med. Psycho.1979; ... -
Parents' personality and their expectations about child's development
(© 2016 Universal Journal of Psychology., 2016)The objective of the present study was to investigate the effects of parent's personality on their expectations about the development of their children. It was hypothesized that Big-five personality would predict parental ... -
Participation in the workplace: gender perspectives from Bangladesh
(© 2004 Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2004)Studies on participation in organizational decision making in the context of developing countries are limited, especially from a gender perspective. Based on a survey of government and private sector employees in Dhaka, ... -
Participatory environmental governance and climate change adaptation: mainstreaming of tidal river management in South-West Bangladesh
Climate change as a human-induced phenomenon in one hand and the government to governance shift on the other, participatory environmental governance involving wider and deeper participation of civil society in environmental ... -
Patient satisfaction with health services in Bangladesh
(© 2007 The Author, Oxford University Press in association with The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine., 2007)Concern over the quality of health care services in Bangladesh has led to loss of faith in public and private hospitals, low utilization of public health facilities, and increasing outflow of Bangladeshi patients to ... -
Per pill price differences across therapeutic categories: a study of the essential drug brands marketed by multinational and local pharmaceutical companies in Bangladesh
(© 2009 Academic Journals, 2009-12)The objective of this study was to comprehend the pricing differentiation of essential drugs between the local pharmaceutical companies (LPC) and multinational pharmaceutical companies (MNC) of Bangladesh. Thirty five ... -
Perception of education quality in private universities of Bangladesh: A study from students' perspective
Quality of education has been a concern for decades. Gradually it is becoming more specialised and commercialised throughout the world. In this study a sample of 400 students were taken from the five renowned private ... -
Perceptions of quality across the maternal care continuum in the context of a health financing intervention: Evidence from a mixed methods study in rural Malawi
(© 2017 BioMed Central Ltd., 2017-06-08)Background: In 2013, Malawi with its development partners introduced a Results-Based Financing for Maternal and Newborn Health (RBF4MNH) intervention to improve the quality of maternal and newborn health-care services. ... -
Performance analysis of multicarrier code division multiple access over rayleigh fading channel
(© 2012 Trans Tech Publications, 2011)Recently, multi-carrier transmission schemes have been introduced into Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) systems to gain advantages for high data rate transmission as well as security. Due to pseudorandom code there is ... -
The performance analysis of private conventional banks: a case study of Bangladesh
(© 2013 IOSR Journal of Business and Management (IOSR-JBM), 2013-08)This study attempts primarily to measure the financial performance of some selected privatecommercial banks in Bangladesh for the period 2006-2011 and to identify whether any relationship exists between a bank’s years of ... -
Performance analysis of robotic arm manipulators control system under multitasking environment
(© 2011 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2011)To observe the performance of PC based robot manipulator under general purpose (Windows), Soft (Linux) and Hard (RT Linux) Real Time operating systems (OS). The same open loop system is observed in different operating ... -
Performance comparison of medium access control schemes for IEEE 802.11
(© 2012 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2012)The distributed coordination function (DCF) of the IEEE 802.11 standard based medium access control has drawn significant interest from the researchers in the past decade. Many proposals of its performance analysis and ... -
Performance improvement of SHWS by increasing thermal efficiency using insulation materials and optimum position of solar collectors
(© 2012 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2012)The word itself "Solar" describes that we are dealing with some renewable energy source for a hot water system. A Solar Hot Water System(SHWS) has been already designed, further implementation has been done by working on ... -
Performance of geographic routing protocol in mobile ad-hoc networks
(© 2014 International Information Institute Ltd., 2014-05)This paper investigates the performance of the Geographic Routing Protocol (GRP) in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) with respect to network configuration in terms of number of nodes and network area. We employ the File ... -
Performance of VoIP networks using MPLS traffic engineering
(© 2012 Trans Tech Publications, 2012)The implementation of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology is on the increase because of its ability to enhance operating efficiency and reduce infrastructure cost. Voice and data packets traverse over IP networks ... -
Performance study of lead-acid battery in a solar car under different traffic and weather conditions
(© 2016 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016-01)In this paper performance of lead-acid battery in a solar car, proposed earlier for Dhaka city dwellers, has been studied under different traffic and weather conditions while the car travels in a long route of Dhaka city. ... -
Performing sentiment analysis in Bangla microblog posts
(© 2014 IEEE Computer Society, 2014)Much of the research work on sentiment analysis has been carried out in the English language, but work in Bangla is limited to only news corpus and blogs. Microblogging sites are becoming a valuable source for publishing ... -
Physician attitudes toward pharmaceutical sales representatives
(© 1995 Aspen Publishers, Inc., 1995)Physicians in northwestern Pennsylvania were surveyed to identify the factors that influenced their attitudes toward pharmaceutical sales representatives (PSRs). The results suggest that physicians' attitudes were influenced ... -
Phytochemical analysis, cytotoxic and in vitro antioxidant activity of erythrina variegate bark
(© 2015 European Journal of Medicinal Plants, 2015-11)Aim:The objective of the present study was to investigate the phytochemical analysis, cytotoxic and antioxidant activities of the bark extracts of Erythrina variegate.Place and Duration of Study: The plant, ... -
Phytochemical and hypoglycemic screening of seeds and peel of nephelium longan fruits
(© 2015 International Journal of Biochemistry, 2015-12)Phytotherapy is considered to be lowest lethal or has no side effects in contrast to current allopathic medicines. The intention of the present investigation was to assess the therapeutic efficacy of Nephelium longan extract ...
