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Bangladesh in the 21st Century: the harvard conference recommendations
No full textThis is an Open Access Article. It is published by Journal of Bangladesh Studies, Editor: Dr. Syed Saad Andaleeb.On June 13-14, 2008, an international conference was organized by Bangladesh Development Initiative, Democracy and Development in Bangladesh Forum, and the Ash Institute of Democratic Governance at Harvard University’s Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) to address the theme: Bangladesh in the 21st Century. The purpose of the conference was to bring together scholars, practitioners, students, and well-wishers as a community to contemplate the opportunities and challenges facing Bangladesh. The response was overwhelming. About ninety papers were submitted from four continents covering topics as diverse as foreign policy and infrastructure to health care, education, politics, and even shrimp culture. From the submitted papers, about sixty were ultimately chosen for presentation. In addition there were two panel discussions on foreign policy and the accomplishments of “BRAC at 35.” The conference sessions were embellished by luncheon and dinner speakers who, in their own rights, added further dimension and richness to the already star-studded list of participants. A cultural program was also organized by the Boston community that struck a deep chord with the theme of the conference. Highlights of the conference and key recommendations are summarized here for various stakeholders: the political leadership and its administrative wing to contemplate, adapt and adopt; for researchers and scholars to embellish and build upon; and the general reader to be informed of the policy options.Publishe
Comparative Analysis of Deep Learning Architectures for Blood Cancer Classification
No full textAn increased growth in the blood cancer necessitates the development of efficient, cost effective, timely, and accurate diagnosis. Traditional diagnosis methods are often invasive, expensive and time-consuming. The rapid artificial intelligence (AI) assistive advancement in the digital healthcare permits the realization of effective solutions in this framework. Specifically, the deep learning (DL), seems promising in an automated diagnosis. However, still a critical gap needs to be covered by understanding that which DL architecture performs better for the blood cancer detection. To address this crucial need, this paper presents a comprehensive comparative analysis of the key DL methods, used in an automated categorization of the blood cancer. The considered DL architectures are the MobileNetV2, DenseNet121, VGG16, ResNet50, and Inception V3.The applicability is tested using two blood cancer datasets namely the Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) dataset and American Society of Hematology (ASH) dataset. Each model is meticulously trained and evaluated on the ALL dataset for binary classification and the ASH image bank for multi-class classification. The categorization performance is evaluated based on accuracy, precision, recall, F1 score, and latency. Results have shown an out performance of the MobileNetV2 compared to the counter DL architectures with a mean accuracy of 91.26%, precision of 92.94%, recall of 91.27%, F1 score of 90.58% and latency of 104.16 mins for ALL dataset and 88.11 accuracy, 90.23% precision, recall of88.11 %, 87.98% F1 score and latency of 11.16 mins for ASH dataset
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe 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
Caring for children: a model of healthcare service quality in Bangladesh
No full textThis article was published in the International Journal for Quality in Health Care [© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press] and the definite version is available at : http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/mzn024 The Journal's website is at: http://intqhc.oxfordjournals.org/content/20/5/339This article published on behalf of The International Society for Quality in Health Care.First published online: 11 July 2008Objective This study assesses the links between service quality and patient satisfaction in the context of health services delivered to children in a developing country. With the growing importance of patients' voice in the healthcare environment, it is important to assess the factors that are best able to explain patient satisfaction to influence the art and science of patient care and health service delivery.
Design A field survey was conducted using a household survey to assess the quality of services provided to children who had been to a hospital in the past 12 months.
Participants Caregivers who had accompanied an afflicted child to a hospital in Dhaka City.
Main outcome measures Patient satisfaction was the main outcome/dependent variable as reflected in surrogate measures obtained from the children's accompanying caregivers.
Results A regression model was tested. The independent variables were nurse composite, doctor composite, tangibles, health inputs and facilitation payments. The model explained 67.4% of the variation in the dependent variable (R2). The behavior of nurses had the greatest impact on satisfaction (P < 0.001) as reflected in the standardized betas, followed by the behavior of doctors (P < 0.001). Facilitation payments had a negative effect on satisfaction (P < 0.01).
Conclusions Bringing about attitude change among doctors, nurses and support staff is vital for improving children's satisfaction with hospital care. Installing proper recruitment procedures, training, supervision, and reward systems are most likely to facilitate this change. But similar changes are also needed elsewhere: in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, other facilitating ministries, as well as the development partners to achieve enduring and positive effects.Publishe
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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