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Ethnic differentials of the impact of Family Planning Program on contraceptive use in Nepal
No full textThere is wide variation of family planning services use among ethnic groups in Nepal. Despite three decades of implementation the need for family planning services is substantially unmet (25%), and there have been no systematic studies evaluating the impact of the family planning program. This study pooled data from nationally representative surveys conducted in 1996, 2001, and 2006. Multilevel logistic regression analysis of 23,381 married women of reproductive age nested within 764 clusters indicated that Muslims, Janjatis, and Dalits were significantly less likely to use contraceptives than Brahmins and Chhetries (OR=0.27, 0.88 and 0.82 respectively). The odds of using contraceptives by the Newar were higher than the odds for Brahmins and Chhetries, although it was not significant. Exposure of women to family planning messages through health facilities, family planning workers, radio, and television increased the odds of using modern contraceptives. However, the impact of family planning information on contraceptive use varied according to ethnicity. We also found that modern contraceptive use varied significantly across the clusters, and the cluster-level indicators, such as mean age at marriage, mean household asset score, percentage of women with secondary education, and percentage of women working away from home, were important in explaining this.ethnic differentials, family planning, family planning programs, Nepal
Frontiers in Mechanochemistry and Mechanical Alloying
No full textThe book Frontiers in Mechanochemistry and Mechanical Alloying [ISBN : 97881-87053-69-8] (Rakesh Kumar, Srinivasan Srikanth and Surya Pratap Mehrotra (Eds.))is a compilation of papers presented in the VI International Conference on Mechanochemistry and Mechanical Alloying (INCOME) held at CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory (CSIR-NML), Jamshedpur (India) during December 1-4,2008 under the aegis of International Mechanochemistry Association (IMA). Fifty three papers (334 pp) included in this book are written by experts from all over the world
Incremental development schemes : an evaluation of land tenure options in Khuda Ki Basti, Hyderabad
No full textThesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1993.Includes bibliographical references (p. 75-78).by Pratap Raj Talwar.M.C.P
sj-pptx-1-tps-10.1177_13634615221078131 - Supplemental material for The contagion of mental illness: Insights from a Sufi shrine
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pptx-1-tps-10.1177_13634615221078131 for The contagion of mental illness: Insights from a Sufi shrine by Bhrigupati Singh and Pratap Sharan in Transcultural Psychiatry</p
sj-pdf-2-tps-10.1177_13634615221078131 - Supplemental material for The contagion of mental illness: Insights from a Sufi shrine
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-2-tps-10.1177_13634615221078131 for The contagion of mental illness: Insights from a Sufi shrine by Bhrigupati Singh and Pratap Sharan in Transcultural Psychiatry</p
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
One-Pass Additive-Error Subset Selection for _p Subspace Approximation
No full textWe consider the problem of subset selection for _p subspace approximation, that is, to efficiently find a small subset of data points such that solving the problem optimally for this subset gives a good approximation to solving the problem optimally for the original input. Previously known subset selection algorithms based on volume sampling and adaptive sampling [Deshpande and Varadarajan, 2007], for the general case of p ∈ [1, ∞), require multiple passes over the data. In this paper, we give a one-pass subset selection with an additive approximation guarantee for _p subspace approximation, for any p ∈ [1, ∞). Earlier subset selection algorithms that give a one-pass multiplicative (1+ε) approximation work under the special cases. Cohen et al. [Michael B. Cohen et al., 2017] gives a one-pass subset section that offers multiplicative (1+ε) approximation guarantee for the special case of ₂ subspace approximation. Mahabadi et al. [Sepideh Mahabadi et al., 2020] gives a one-pass noisy subset selection with (1+ε) approximation guarantee for _p subspace approximation when p ∈ {1, 2}. Our subset selection algorithm gives a weaker, additive approximation guarantee, but it works for any p ∈ [1, ∞)
The role of surgery in the management of phantosmia
No full textArticle first published online: 30 SEP 2015David K. Morrissey, Upasna Pratap, Christopher Brown, Peter-John Wormal
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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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