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Development and acceptability testing of ready-to-use supplementary food made from locally available food ingredients in Bangladesh
(© 2014 BioMed Central Ltd., 2014)
Background: Inadequate energy and micronutrient intake during childhood is a major public health problem in developing countries. Ready-to-use supplementary food (RUSF) made of locally available food ingredients can improve ...
Score based risk assessment of lung cancer and its evaluation for Bangladeshi people
(© 2014 Asian Pacific Organization for Cancer Prevention, 2014)
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 ...
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 ...
Squaring the circle: EFA in the post-2015 global agenda
(© 2014 Elsevier Ltd., 2014-11)
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Education for All (EFA) initiative have influenced educational development in poor countries both positively and negatively. From the perspective of Bangladesh, international ...
Marital mobility in the Bangladeshi middle class: matchmaking strategies and transnational networks
(© 2014 Taylor & Francis Online, 2014-09-24)
In this paper, I take marriage as the point of entry for exploring social alliances amongst an affluent cluster of the Bangladeshi middle class. Using semi-structured interviews, biographies, family histories, intergenerational ...
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 ...
Informal allopathic provider knowledge and practice regarding control and prevention of TB in rural Bangladesh
(International Health, 2014-06-17)
Background: BRAC (formerly Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee), in collaboration with the National
Tuberculosis Control Programme, provides one full-day training on TB to make informal allopathic providers
knowledgeable ...
The improved (G'/G)-expansion method to the (2+1)-dimensional breaking soliton equation
(© 2014 Eudoxus Press, LLC, 2014-01)
In this article, we generate abundant traveling wave solutions of partial differential equation, namely, the (2+1)-dimensional breaking soliton equation involving parameter by applying the improved (G'/G) -expansion method. ...
Achieving universal health coverage through community empowerment: a proposition for Bangladesh
(© 2014 Medknow Publications, 2014)
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 ...