Aiyesha Dey
ABSTRACT I investigate whether corporate governance is associated with the level of agency conflicts in firms. I employ exploratory principal components analysis on 22 individual governance variables to obtain seven factors that represent the different dimensions of governance for a firm. I measure ...
Mohammad Nuruzzaman Bhuiyan, Md. Mahbubur Rahman, Md Masum Billah, Dipanita Saha
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a methodology or a system that encompasses real-world things to interact and communicate with each other with the assistance of networking technologies. This article describes surveys on advances in IoT-based healthcare methods and reviews the state-of-the-art technol...
Mohammad Asaduzzaman Chowdhury, Nayem Hossain, Mohammod Abul Kashem, Md. Abdus Shahid et al.
The immune system protects against viruses and diseases and produces antibodies to kill pathogens. This review presents a brief overview of the immune system regarding its protection of the human body from COVID-19; illustrates the process of the immune system, how it works, and its mechanism to fig...
Sachel Mok, Elizabeth A. Ashley, Pedro Eduardo Ferreira, Lei Zhu et al.
Artemisinin resistance in Plasmodium falciparum threatens global efforts to control and eliminate malaria. Polymorphisms in the kelch domain-carrying protein K13 are associated with artemisinin resistance, but the underlying molecular mechanisms are unknown. We analyzed the in vivo transcriptomes of...
Khan Md. Raziuddin Taufique, Sridhar Vaithianathan
Stephen Jaros
Mead Cain, Syeda Rokeya Khanam, Shamsun Nahar
Jinde Cao, Lin Wang
Both exponential stability and periodic oscillatory solution of bidirectional associative memory (BAM) networks with axonal signal transmission delays are considered by constructing suitable Lyapunov functional and some analysis techniques. Some simple sufficient conditions are given ensuring the gl...
Suliman Abdulmalek, Abdul Nasir, Waheb A. Jabbar, Mukarram A. M. Almuhaya et al.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is essential in innovative applications such as smart cities, smart homes, education, healthcare, transportation, and defense operations. IoT applications are particularly beneficial for providing healthcare because they enable secure and real-time remote patient monitor...
Kazi Omar Siddiqi
The main objective of this study is to find the interrelationships between service quality attributes, customersatisfaction and customer loyalty in the retail banking sector in Bangladesh. The study sought to identify themost important attributes in bank settings, which may be used to review charact...
Davidson R. Gwatkin, Abbas Bhuiya, César G. Victora
Health systems are consistently inequitable, providing more and higher quality services to the well-off, who need them less, than to the poor, who are unable to obtain them. In the absence of a concerted effort to ensure that health systems reach disadvantaged groups more effectively, such inequitie...
Eklas Hossain, Mehmet Rıda Tür, Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban, Selim Ay et al.
This paper discusses the power quality issues for distributed generation systems based on renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind energy. A thorough discussion about the power quality issues is conducted here. This paper starts with the power quality issues, followed by discussions of basic...
Martha C. Nussbaum, Jonathan Glover
BL Distinguished editors and contributors BL Addresses questions of some urgency for the question of women's quality of life BL Inter-disciplinary, ranging over philosophy, economics, political science, anthropology, law and sociology BL Combines theory with case-studies BL Accessible to non-special...
Agnes Quisumbing, John A. Maluccio, Quisumbing, Agnes R., Maluccio, John A.
The paper reviews recent theory and empirical evidence testing unitary versus collective models of the household. In contrast to the unitary model, the collective model posits that individuals within households have different preferences and do not pool their income. Moreover, the collective model p...
Seong Mi Bae, Md. Abdul Kaium Masud, Jong Dae Kim
There is a dearth of research on corporate governance and total sustainability disclosure (economic, environmental, and social) in developing, particularly South Asian, countries. This is unique cross-country research on South Asian countries’ corporate governance elements and total sustainability d...