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Qualitative and quantitative analysis of sildenafil in traditional medicines and dietary supplements
Objective: Use of traditional medicines as aphrodisiac and sex stimulant products is a common phenomenon worldwide as well as in our country. In addition to that, in the name of dietary supplements, a number of urban people ... -
Qualitative insights into promotion of pharmaceutical products in Bangladesh: how ethical are the practices?
(© 2015 BioMed Central Ltd., 2015)Background: The pharmaceutical market in Bangladesh is highly concentrated (top ten control around 70 % of the market). Due to high competition aggressive marketing strategies are adopted for greater market share, which ... -
A qualitative study of factors influencing retention of doctors and nurses at rural healthcare facilities in Bangladesh
(© 2015 BioMed Central Ltd., 2015)Background: Bangladesh is a highly populous country with three-quarters rural population. Pressing national shortages in health professionals has resulted in high vacancy rates in rural areas. These are compounded by ... -
Quality of primary health care services in rural Bangladesh: patients’ perspectives
(© 2012 Ontario International Development Agency, Canada, 2012-03-31)A key aim of the health policy of the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) has been to provide quality health services to all its citizens. In line with the policy objective, the GoB has adopted the primary health care (PHC) ... -
Quality with equity in primary education: implications of high stakes assessments on teacher practice in Bangladesh
(© 2015 Springer Netherlands, 2015-01)The purpose of this study is to investigate the teacher change process and understand how the variability of primary school teachers' in Bangladesh implementation of innovative pedagogies, such as active learning, refl ... -
Quantum capacitance in strained armchair Graphene nanoribbon considering Edge effect
(© 2015 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015)Armchair Graphene nanoribbons(A-GNRs) are now widely used in nanoscale transistor because of its semiconducting behavior and fast switching speed. The most important parameter which impedes carrier movement through the ... -
A quick method to determine the impurity content in gold ornaments by LIBS technique
(© 2015 SciTePress, 2015)Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) and low energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence (ED-XRF) spectrometer, were used to determine the line intensity and concentration ratios of the major impurities (Cu and Ag) with ... -
Radiative lifetime measurement of excited neutral nitrogen atoms by time resolved laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy
(© 2014 Royal Society of Chemistry, 2014-08)Lifetimes of the excited 2P2 (3P) 3p 4S3/2 level of a nitrogen atom corresponding to transitions to different lower states have been estimated by measuring the line intensity of a transition as a function of the delay time ... -
Real time monitoring for the most vulnerable: pre-primary education in Bangladesh
(© 2013 Institute of Development Studies, 2013)One of the most unique examples of real-time monitoring supported by UNICEF is found in Bangladesh in the pre-primary education (PPE) programme operated by BRAC. Randomisation techniques are used for school selection by ... -
Real-time monitoring of Solar Battery Charging Station
(© 2016 IEEE, 2016-08-31)This paper represents a real-time monitoring technique of all the components of a Solar Battery Charging Station (SBCS). Its ability to generate clean energy at free of cost, along with availability almost all year round ... -
Recognition of and response to neonatal intrapartum-related complications in home-birth settings in Bangladesh
(© 2014 International Centre For Diarrhoeal, Disease Research, Bangladesh, 2014)Intrapartum-related complications (previously called 'birth asphyxia') are a significant contributor to deaths of newborns in Bangladesh. This study describes some of the perceived signs, causes, and treatments for this ... -
Reconstructing gene regulatory network with enhanced particle swarm optimization
(© 2014 Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2014)Inferring regulations among the genes is a well-known and significantly important problem in systems biology for revealing the fundamental cellular processes. Although computational models can be used as tools to extract ... -
Recurrent neural network classifier for three layer conceptual network and performance evaluation
(© 2010 ACADEMY PUBLISHER, 2010-01)Natural language has traditionally been handled using symbolic computation and recursive processes. Classification of natural language by using neural network is a hard problem. Past few years several recurrent neural network ... -
Reducing the health effect of natural hazards in Bangladesh
(© 2013 Published by Elsevier Inc., 2013-11)Bangladesh, with a population of 151 million people, is a country that is particularly prone to natural disasters: 26% of the population are affected by cyclones and 70% live in flood-prone regions. Mortality and morbidity ... -
Reducing the health effect of natural hazards in Bangladesh
(© 2013 Published by Elsevier Inc., 2013-11)Bangladesh, with a population of 151 million people, is a country that is particularly prone to natural disasters: 26% of the population are affected by cyclones and 70% live in flood-prone regions. Mortality and morbidity ... -
Reforming a community to serve the underserved: ESP modules for midwifery course at BRAC University
(@ 2015 ULAB, 2015-12)This paper examines the impact of an ESP course designed by BRAC Institute of Languages (BIL) for midwives to develop their English language skills, and to develop them professionally. The course is expected to reform ... -
Reforming innercity bus transportation in a developing country: a passenger-driven model
(© National Center for Transit Research (NCTR), University of South Florida, 2007)The transportation system in Dhaka City, Bangladesh, requires significant improvements. The shortage of motorized vehicles and the excessive number of nonmotorized vehicles on the city’s streets have been the cause of ... -
Reinforcement learning based autonomic virtual machine management in clouds
(© 2016 IEEE, 11/28/2016)Cloud computing is a rapidly emerging field, services and applications are more or less 24/7. Resource dimensioning in this field is a great issue. Research is already going on to imply reinforcement learning to automate ... -
Reinforcing cholera intervention through prediction-aided prevention
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Relating development to quality of education: a study on the world bank's neoliberal policy discourse in education
(© 2014 Korean Educational Development Institute, 2014)This article examines the way the World Bank policy discourse in education relates development to quality of education and the underlying agenda. It argues that development and education have been defined deficiently, ...
