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Analyzing customer satisfaction level at Standard Chartered Bank; Narayanganj branch
No full textThis internship report is submitted in a partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Business Administration,2009.Cataloged from PDF version of Internship report.Includes bibliographical references (page 100).Afrin Akter RumiB. Business Administratio
Rakia Akter
No full textTools to Foster Resilience for Burmese Students
Rakia Akter, Childhood Education Faculty Mentor: Professor Pixita del Prado Hill, School of Education
Rakia is a senior in Childhood Education expecting to graduate in spring 2020. She is passionate about developing trauma-informed practices and building resiliency amongst elementary-level students. After graduation, she will continue to pursue a Master’s degree in the TESOL program at SUNY Buffalo State. She hopes that her education and background will serve as an advantage in helping students in the Buffalo Public School system.
During her fellowship, Rakia studied the Burmese immigrant experience in Buffalo and developed a toolkit of resources to address the specific trauma that children from this group have experienced. Rakia’s research topic was inspired by a summer service-learning program in Myanmar and her neighborhood in Buffalo, which includes a growing number of Burmese refugees. Her project was accepted for presentation at the 2020 SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference, and she has presented for the School of Education at various Professional Development Schools (PDS) events, including the NAPDS-National Association for Professional Development Schools annual conference in Atlantic City in February 2020.https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/srcc-sp20-usrfp/1017/thumbnail.jp
Standard reference norms for a randomized controlled trial on the effect of Brunnstrom's Hand Rehabilitation and Functional Electrical Stimulation on hand function in patients with stroke
No full textTwenty five participants with chronic stroke age group between 40-70 years both male and female were randomly divided into control and experimental group. Brunnstrom hand rehabilitation and functional electrical stimulation with conventional physiotherapy (experimental group) and only conventional physiotherapy (control group) in this randomized controlled trial. Primary outcome measure was hand function measured by Fugl Meyer Assessment scale- upper extremity (FMA-UE). Modified Ashworth scale (MAS), Jabsen Taylor Hand Function Test (JTHF) and Handheld Dynamometer (HHD) were used as secondary outcome measures to measure spasticity, fine motor hand function and grip strength. Participants were evaluated at baseline and after 4 weeks of treatment. Both group received treatment five days per week for four weeks at one session. The result showed significant improvement in both group after intervention within group analysis [experimental group; FMA (p=<.001), MAS (p=<.001), HHD, (p=<.001), JTHF (p=<.001), and control group; FMA (p=<.001), JTHF (p=<.001), MAS (p=<.001), HHD (p=<.001)]. However, between group analysis showed significant difference in experimental group FMA (p=<.001), MAS (p=.004), JTHF (p=.018), HHD (p=<.001). The study concluded that Brunnstrom Hand Rehabilitation and Functional Electrical Stimulation combinedly provide better result to improve hand in patients with chronic stroke
Standard reference norms for a randomized controlled trial on the effect of Brunnstrom's Hand Rehabilitation and Functional Electrical Stimulation on hand function in patients with stroke
No full textTwenty five participants with chronic stroke age group between 40-70 years both male and female were randomly divided into control and experimental group. Brunnstrom hand rehabilitation and functional electrical stimulation with conventional physiotherapy (experimental group) and only conventional physiotherapy (control group) in this randomized controlled trial. Primary outcome measure was hand function measured by Fugl Meyer Assessment scale- upper extremity (FMA-UE). Modified Ashworth scale (MAS), Jabsen Taylor Hand Function Test (JTHF) and Handheld Dynamometer (HHD) were used as secondary outcome measures to measure spasticity, fine motor hand function and grip strength. Participants were evaluated at baseline and after 4 weeks of treatment. Both group received treatment five days per week for four weeks at one session. The result showed significant improvement in both group after intervention within group analysis [experimental group; FMA (p=<.001), MAS (p=<.001), HHD, (p=<.001), JTHF (p=<.001), and control group; FMA (p=<.001), JTHF (p=<.001), MAS (p=<.001), HHD (p=<.001)]. However, between group analysis showed significant difference in experimental group FMA (p=<.001), MAS (p=.004), JTHF (p=.018), HHD (p=<.001). The study concluded that Brunnstrom Hand Rehabilitation and Functional Electrical Stimulation combinedly provide better result to improve hand in patients with chronic stroke
From resource variation to habitat loss: how changing environment shapes the plant-pollinator interactions
No full textAnnotation: Akter, A. and Klecka, J. 2020. Interactive effects of temperature, water, and nitrogen availability on the growth, floral traits, and pollination of white mustard, Sinapis alba. This was an experimental approach where Sinapis alba (white mustard), an economically beneficial crop was grown under different environmental conditions. Here, we assess how different growing conditions affected the growth of S. alba and the impact of different climate changing drivers on pollination and seed production. Akter, A., Biella, P., Klecka, J. 2017. Effects of small-scale clustering of flowers on pollinator foraging behaviour and flower visitation rate. PLoS ONE 12(11): e0187976. In this part of research, we experimentally changed the spatial structure of flower in small patches and assessed the impact on the foraging behaviour of pollinators, particularly, A. mellifera. Akter, A., Biella, P., Klecka, J. 2020. Introduction of new floral resources into plant-pollinator communities: impact on flower visitation mediated by species traits. This field-based experiment showed the impact of experimentally introduced floral resources in a plant community and how the response of the pollinator communities towards the new resources were mediated by the floral traits. Biella, P., Akter, A., Pajares, A.J.M., Federici, G., Galimberti, A., Jersáková, J., Labra, M., Mangili, F., Tommasi N. and Mangili, L. 2020. Pollination strategies of a plant in an unstable habitat: the case of the narrow-endemic toadflax Linaria tonzigii (Plantaginaceae). In this field-based research we assessed the pollination and reproduction strategies of an endemic plant, Linaria tonzigii, and the relation between the genetic variation and distribution. Akter, A., Biella, P., Batáry, P., Klecka, J. 2020. Changing pollinator communities along a disturbance gradient in the Sundarbans mangrove forest: a case study on Acanthus ilicifolius and Avicennia officinalis. Global Ecology and Conservation 24: e01282. This study was carried out in the Sundarbans mangrove forest, where we assessed the impact of human disturbances and forest loss on the plant-pollinator communities
Corporate Social Responsibility Practice and Consumer Behavior in Sokos Hotel Chain
No full textCorporate social responsibility (CSR) helps a company be socially accountable to its stakeholders. Recently, CSR activities have become a growing concern, especially in the hospitality sector, and the hotel business is one of the industries where CSR plays a vital role in the stability of the environment.
The primary motivation of this study was to find the relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility and consumer behavior of the Sokos hotel group in Finland. Besides, this research will also examine the and consumer behavior towards Green Key ecolabel, which is recently obtained by the Sokos hotel group. A survey has been conducted in the Sokos hotel Royal Vaasa to reach to the conclusion.
The outcome indicates that the Sokos chain has significant engagement and aims to develop their CSR practice continuously as well as business operation to be more sustainable without compromising consumer satisfaction. Moreover, the Sokos hotel group follows the Green key ecolabel guidelines in operating their business.
Though the Green Key certifications give the authenticity of their environmental responsibility, they still receive different feedback from the customers
Exosomes: a potential tool in the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of patients with colorectal cancer
No full textColorectal cancer (CRC), a commonly diagnosed malignancy, is one of the most frequent causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide. To effectively lower the death rate from this disease, it is essential to create public health methods, including developing new biomarkers that facilitate screening, diagnosis, prognosis, and therapy response prediction. CRC-derived Exosomes are a type of extracellular vesicle that transport functional molecules like proteins, lipids, nucleic acids (DNA, mRNA, miRNA, lncRNA, and noncoding RNA), and other metabolites, which act as molecular cargos to facilitate transportation. Exosomes generated and secreted from cancer cells are key biomarkers for early, noninvasive cancer diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment response, with their biogenesis in CRC offering molecular insights. Their expression varies across time, tissues, and disease stages. Thus, the development of innovative and effective techniques for isolating and detecting exosomes holds great potential for tumor diagnosis, prognosis prediction, and developing techniques (MSC-derived exosome, DC-derived exosome, engineered exosome, etc.) and their contents to improve the specificity and efficacy of therapies for patients with CRC. This review explores the features and formation of CRC-derived exosomes, highlighting their diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic significance through a comprehensive analysis of exosome extraction, identification, purification, and documented biological roles in existing literature.No Full Tex
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
A protocol to analyze single-cell RNA-seq data from <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i>-infected mice lung
No full textProcessing and analyzing single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) from lung cells are challenging due to the complexity of cell subtypes and biological variations within sample groups. Here, we present a protocol for performing an in-depth assessment on lung lymphocyte populations derived from healthy and Mycobacterium tuberculosis-infected mice. We describe steps for downloading processed scRNA-seq data, integrating samples across different conditions, and performing cluster analysis. We then detail procedures for identifying lymphoid cell subtypes, differential analysis, and pathway enrichment analysis. For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Akter et al. (2022).</p
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