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Same old, same old: from boring to creative presentation

This study compares attitudes of tertiary-level students in Australia and Bangladesh towards the use of technology in lectures and seminars. Students were shown audiovisual recordings of two seminars. The content and teacher ...

Satisfaction with food services: insights from a college cafeteria

College students' food service needs is an important area that needs more research. While the importance of offering quality education is paramount, for many colleges that are embattled in their quest to retain students, ...

Scenario of adolescent sexual and reproductive health with opportunities for information communication and technology use in selected South Asian countries

Introduction: Regardless of being involved in early sexual activity, significant number of South Asian adolescents gets restricted in making informed decisions on sexual and reproductive practices due to diverse seclusion ...

School drop out in Bangladesh: insights using panel data

This paper examines the relative strength of different factors associated with school drop out using data collected between 2007 and 2009 in Bangladesh. A sample of 9046 children, aged 4-15, was selected across six districts ...

Scope and approaches of integrating sustainability issues in public procurement process for sustainable development of Bangladesh

Achieving sustainable development is one of the challenges of Bangladesh in its attempt to attain the middle-income country status by 2021. Recognising the strategic importance of public procurement, the study seeks to ...

The scope for trade restrictions to address the lack of compliance with fire safety standards in garment factories of Bangladesh

The frequent incidents of fire attributable to systemic lack of compliance with fire safety standards in garment factories of Bangladesh has been a recurring problem taking away lives of many workers over the years.The ...

Score based risk assessment of lung cancer and its evaluation for Bangladeshi people

Background: The problem of cancer, especially lung cancer, is very acute in Bangladesh. The present study was conducted to evaluate the risk of lung cancer among Bangladeshi people based on hereditary, socio-economic and ...

Security and development - are they two sides of the same coin? Investigating India's two-pronged policy towards left wing extremism

Basu, Ipshita

In this article, I investigate India's two-pronged policy approach, which combines security and development intervention to address the root cause and symptoms of left wing extremism. While the two policy sets are meant ...

The semantics of progressive aspect: a thorough study

In English grammar, verbs have two important characteristics--tense and aspect. Grammatically tense is marked in two ways: Present and Past. English verbs can have another property called aspect, applicable in both present ...

Semiquantitative determination of chromium content of river bed soil of Buriganga river at different locations

Using the technique of Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy, the chromium content of river bed sediment of the Buriganga River is determined at various locations. Hazardous element, chromium is found in addition to other ...

Sensing properties of gas sensor based on adsorption of NO2 with defect, pristine, Fe and Si-MoS2 layer

Two-dimensional (2D) layered materials are currently being considered as entrant for future electronic devices. Molybdenum disulphide (MoS2) belongs to a family of layered transitional metal dichalcogenides(TMDS),has a ...

Seqdev: an algorithm for constructing genetic elements using comparative assembly

With the availability of recent next generation sequencing technologies and their low cost, genomes of different organisms are being sequenced frequently. Therefore, quick assembly of genome, transcriptome, and target ...

Service experiences in hospitals in Bangladesh: are there gender inequities?

Purpose – The disparities faced by women, especially in Bangladesh, have a long and contentious history. From education and employment to health care and other social products, the marginalization of women has been stark. ...

Service quality in public and private hospitals in urban Bangladesh: a comparative study

This study compared the quality of services provided by private and public hospitals in urban Bangladesh. Using twenty-four scale items, patient perceptions were sought on five aspects of service quality including ...

Service quality of private passenger vehicles and satisfaction of the passengers: a case study of Dhaka city

The use of different modes of private passenger vehicles ( PPVs) such as, yello11' cab, black cab, CNC auto rickshaw etc. are very essential for the dwellers of Dhaka city. These private vehicles are running at the street ...

Service quality perceptions and patient satisfaction: a study of hospitals in a developing country

Patients’ perceptions about health services seem to have been largely ignored by health care providers in developing countries. That such perceptions, especially about service quality, might shape confidence and subsequent ...

Severe acute malnutrition in Asia

Ahmed, Tahmeed; Hossain, Muttaquina; Mahfuz, Mustafa; Choudhury, Nuzhat; Hossain, Mir Mobarak; Bhandari, Nita; Lin, Maung Maung; Joshi, Prakash Chandra; Angdembe, Mirak Raj; Wickramasinghe, V. Pujitha; Hossain, S. M. Moazzem; Shahjahan, Mohammad; Irianto, Sugeng Eko; Soofi, Sajid; Bhutta, Zulfiqar (© 2014 United Nations University Press, 2014-06-01)

Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is a common condition that kills children and intellectually maims those who survive. Close to 20 million children under the age of 5 years suffer from SAM globally, and about 1 million of ...