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Undernutrition, vitamin A and iron deficiency are associated with impaired intestinal mucosal permeability in young Bangladeshi children assessed by lactulose/mannitol test
(© 2017 Public Library of Science, 2016-12)Background: Lactulose/mannitol (L:M) test has been used as a non-invasive marker of intestinal mucosal-integrity and -permeability (enteropathy). We investigated the association of enteropathy with anthropometrics, ... -
Understanding the lives of caregivers of children with cerebral palsy in rural Bangladesh: use of mixed methods
(© 2015 Action for Disability Regional Rehabilitation Centre, 2015-06)Cerebral palsy is the most prevalent health condition linked to childhood disability in Bangladesh, yet support and rehabilitation for this group is limited. Understanding the impact of cerebral palsy at family level is ... -
Universal health coverage anchored in the right to health
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University course advising: overcoming the challenges using decision support system
(© 2014 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2014-12)Universities require a fast and reliable system to provide academic advising to its students, register them into different courses, and to manage change requests. Currently in Bangladesh, academic advising is done mostly ... -
Unsteady laminar mixed convection boundary layer flow near a vertical wedge due to oscillations in the free-stream and surface temperature
(© 2016 De Gruyter Open Ltd., 2016)The unsteady laminar boundary layer characteristics of mixed convection flow past a vertical wedge have been investigated numerically. The free-stream velocity and surface temperature are assumed to be oscillating in the ... -
Usage of academic libraries: the role of service quality, resources, and user characteristics
(© Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001)Competitive pressures from different information providers; widely available information resources; rising costs of books, serials, and electronic resources; and emerging new technologies and services providing information ... -
Users discourses about primary health care professionals in rural Bangladesh
(© 2014 Department of Public Health, School of Public Health and Psychosocial Studies, Auckland University of Technology, 2014-12)Evidence from earlier studies in Bangladesh indicates that an imbalance in status between health professionals and primary healthcare users in rural Bangladesh can lead to corrupt behaviour among health professionals. This ... -
Utilization of maternal health services among adolescent women in Bangladesh: a scoping review of the literature
(Tropical Medicine & International Health, 2015-07)objective To understand the health-seeking behaviour of adolescent women in Bangladesh with respect to the use of maternal health services. methods Literature review of seven electronic databases: PubMed, ISI Web of ... -
Utilization of mobile phones for accessing menstrual regulation services among low-income women in Bangladesh: a qualitative analysis
(© 2017 BioMed Central Ltd., 2017-01-14)Background: As many as one-third of all pregnancies in Bangladesh are unplanned, with nearly one-half of these pregnancies ending in either menstrual regulation (MR) or illegal clandestine abortion. Although MR is provided ... -
Vapor adsorption limitation of graphene nanoribbons in quasi conductance increment: a NEGF approach
(© 2015 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015)The adsorption of H2O molecules on Armchair Graphene Nanoribbons (A-GNR) was theoretically studied using Non Equilibrium Green Function (NEGF) formalism to determine Device Density of States (DDOS), Electrostatic Effective ... -
Vibration and voice operated navigation system for visually impaired person
(IEEE Computer Society, 2014)Usually blind people use white canes which are very limited in its ability to provide navigation assistance to the user and cannot easily detect obstacles. Mobility of visually impaired people is limited by their inability ... -
Viewing angle enhancement of a real-time integral imaging system using multi-directional projections and GPU parallel processing
(© 2017 SPIE, 2017-02)A novel method of viewing angle enhancement of a real-time integral imaging system using multi-directional projections and GPU parallel processing is proposed. The proposed system is composed of three processes: information ... -
Vocational education and training in Bangladesh: why it is not working?
(© 2013 Published by Consortia Academia, 2013)In order for vocational training to be successful, the successes achieved through labor market, a knowledge-based economy, the struggle against social inequality as well as the awareness of a combined and highly qualified ... -
War or health? assessing public health education and the potential for primary prevention
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A web and software-based approach blending social networks for online Qur’anic arabic learning
(© 2017 Zarka Private Univ., 2017-01)About 80 percent of the world’s Muslim populations are non-native speakers of the Arabic language. Since it is obligatory for all Muslims to recite Qur’an in Arabic during prayers, an extraordinary social phenomenon has ... -
What does it mean to be un-Australian? views of Australian Muslim students in 2006
(© 2007 People and Place., 2007)Recent political and media debates have focused on Australian values, Australianness and being un-Australian. The current war on terror and the Cronulla riots in December 2005 have raised the question of whether Muslim ... -
What influences adolescent girls' decision-making regarding contraceptive methods use and childbearing? a qualitative exploratory study in Rangpur District, Bangladesh
(© 2016 Public Library of Science, 2016)Background: Bangladesh has the highest rate of adolescent pregnancy in South Asia. Child marriage is one of the leading causes of pregnancies among adolescent girls. Although the country's contraceptive prevalence rate is ... -
Willingness-to-pay for community-based health insurance among informal workers in urban Bangladesh
(© 2016 Public Library of Science, 2016)Introduction Reliance on out-of-pocket payment for healthcare may lead poor households to undertake catastrophic health expenditure, and risk-pooling mechanisms have been recommended to mitigate such burdens for households ... -
Wireless monitoring system and controlling software for smart greenhouse management
(© 2014 IEEE Computer Society, 2014)View at Publisher| Export | Download | Add to List | More... 2014 International Conference on Informatics, Electronics and Vision, ICIEV 2014 2014, Article number 6850748 2014 International Conference on Informatics, ...
