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Cross-country analysis of strategies for achieving progress towards global goals for women’s and children’s health
(© Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2016, 2016-02-21)
OBJECTIVE:
To identify how 10 low- and middle-income countries achieved accelerated progress, ahead of comparable countries, towards meeting millennium development goals 4 and 5A to reduce child and maternal ...
A three level solar panel system with an automated solar tracker
(© 2014 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2014-07)
In this work, a detailed performance analysis of a three level solar panel system intended for its use in urban residential areas is carried out. The system consists of three panels fitted with automated solar tracker and ...
Cluster-randomised controlled trials of individual and combined water, sanitation, hygiene and nutritional interventions in rural Bangladesh and Kenya: the WASH benefits study design and rationale
(© 2013 BMJ Open, 2013)
Introduction: Enteric infections are common during the first years of life in low-income countries and contribute to growth faltering with long-term impairment of health and development. Water quality, sanitation, handwashing ...
A two-seater light-weight solar powered clean car: preliminary design and economic analysis
(© 2014 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2014-07)
This paper outlines the design of a prototype solar powered light-weight economically affordable clean car for the daily office commuters of Dhaka city. Calculation in this paper shows that the solar power alone will be ...
Line profile-based fingerprint matching
(© 2017 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2/21/2017)
Traditional fingerprint matching algorithms primarily focus on minutiae points on fingertip surface. In this paper, a novel approach is proposed for fingerprint matching that is based on ridge and valley characteristics ...
Changing global policy to deliver safe, equitable, and affordable care for women's cancers
(© 2017 Lancet Publishing Group, 2017-02-25)
Breast and cervical cancer are major threats to the health of women globally, particularly in low-income and middle-income countries. Radical progress to close the global cancer divide for women requires not only evidence-based ...
PNGP : a social relationship based routing algorithm for pocket switched network
(© 2016 IEEE, 2016-12)
Transferring messages or packets through a network using human mobility as a means, requires intelligent routing decisions. Throughout an opportunistic network, nodes travel with a few messages and searches for an opportunity ...
Determinants of age-specific undernutrition in children aged less than 2 years—the Bangladesh context
(© 2017 Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2017-07)
Globally, undernutrition affects nearly half of all children aged less than 5 years. It is more prominent in low- and middle-income countries. This study aimed to identify the age-specific risk factors for different ...
Computer assisted learning dictionary for rural students
(BRAC Univeristy, 2018-05)
It is observed that rural students (the target demography) are falling far behind in the countrywide standard tests like SSC and HSC. As high as up to 80% of students from rural areas are failing in national English ...
Software test estimation tool: comparable with COCOMOII model
(© 2016 IEEE, 2016-12)
This study illustrates an estimation tool for software test that provides the estimated time and the cost of any sort of software test project. There are different well-recognized estimation tools for software development ...