Md. Rakibul Hoque, Golam Sorwar
Background mHealth (mobile health) services are becoming an increasingly important form of information and communication technology (ICT) enabled delivery for healthcare, especially in low-resource environments such as developing countries like Bangladesh. Despite widespread adoption of mobile phone...
Haradhan Kumar Mohajan
Reliability and validity are two most important and fundamental features in the evaluation of any measurement instrument or toll for a good research. The purpose of this research is to discuss the validity and reliability of measurement instruments that are used in research. Validity concerns what a...
Scott J. Vitell, Saviour L. S. Nwachukwu, James H. Barnes
M. C. Shewry, Henry P. Wynn
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Hal R. Varian
Abstract. I investigate the multiple agency problem when agents can monitor the per-formance of other agents. A particularly interesting incentive scheme of this sort has been used by the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh and I use this example to investigate some general questions involving group incentiv...
Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Mahmud Akhter Shareef, Antonis C. Simintiras, Banita Lal et al.
Which antecedents affect the adoption by users is still often a puzzle for policy-makers. Antecedents examined in this research include technological artefacts from the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT), consumer context from UTAUT2 and psychological behaviour concepts such ...
Tim Coelli, Sanzidur Rahman, Colin Thirtle
Applying programming techniques to detailed data for 406 rice farms in 21 villages, for 1997, produces inefficiency measures, which differ substantially from the results of simple yield and unit cost measures. For the Boro (dry) season, mean technical efficiency was 69.4 per cent, allocative efficie...
Abdul Wadud, Ben White
This study compares estimates of technical efficiency obtained from the stochastic frontier approach and the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach using farm-level survey data for rice farmers in Bangladesh. Technical inefficiency effects are modelled as a function of farm-specific socioeconomic ...
Larissa Shamseer, David Moher, Onyi Maduekwe, Lucy Turner et al.
BACKGROUND: The Internet has transformed scholarly publishing, most notably, by the introduction of open access publishing. Recently, there has been a rise of online journals characterized as 'predatory', which actively solicit manuscripts and charge publications fees without providing robust peer r...
Mohammad Zahedul Alam, Md. Rakibul Hoque, Wang Hu, Zapan Barua
mHealth under the umbrella of eHealth has become an essential tool for providing quality, accessible and equal health care services at an affordable cost. Despite the potential benefits of mHealth, its adoption remains a big challenge in developing countries such as Bangladesh. This study aims to ex...
A.V. Manjunatha, Asif Reza Anik, Stijn Speelman, E.A. Nuppenau
Mohammad A. Mustafa, Jamal F. Al‐Bahar
Construction projects often fail to achieve their time, budget, and quality goals. This is frequently due to the failure of the contractor to analyze and assess all risk factors. The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is an approach that can be used to analyze and assess project risks during the biddi...
Nadim Jahangir, Noorjahan Begum
This research intends to propose a conceptual framework that will investigate the effects of perceived usefulness, ease of use, and security and privacy on customer adaptation mediated through customer attitude in the context of e-banking. To test the framework, structural equation modeling techniqu...
Md. Arif Istiake Sunny, Mirza Mohd Shahriar Maswood, Abdullah G. Alharbi
In the financial world, the forecasting of stock price gains significant attraction. For the growth of shareholders in a company's stock, stock price prediction has a great consideration to increase the interest of speculators for investing money to the company. The successful prediction of a stock'...
Md. Shamim Talukder, Golam Sorwar, Yukun Bao, Jashim Uddin Ahmed et al.
Wearable healthcare technology (WHT) has the potential to improve access to healthcare information especially to the older population and empower them to play an active role in self-management of their health. Despite their potential benefits, the acceptance and usage of WHT among the elderly are co...