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...
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...
Andrzej S. Nowak, Maria M. Szerszeń
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Jocalyn Clark, Russell Smith
They’re harming researchers in low and middle income countries most, but everyone must fight back
Gehad Mohamed Tawfik, Hoang Thi Nam Giang, Sherief Ghozy, Ahmed Altibi et al.
BACKGROUND: Although protocol registration of systematic reviews/meta-analysis (SR/MA) is still not mandatory, it is highly recommended that authors publish their SR/MA protocols prior to submitting their manuscripts for publication as recommended by the Cochrane guidelines for conducting SR/MAs. ou...
Nazmus Sakib, Niamat Ullah Ibne Hossain, Farjana Nur, Srinivas Talluri et al.
The oil and gas supply chain (OGSC) is considered to have one of the most significant stakes in the U.S. economy because of its interconnectedness with supply chains in other sectors, such as health and medicine, food, heavy manufacturing, and services. While oil and gas development is expanding exp...
Muhammad Saiful Islam, Madhav P. Nepal, Martin Skitmore, Golam Kabir
Preventing cost overruns of such infrastructure projects as power plants is a global project management problem. The existing risk assessment methods/models have limitations to address the complicated nature of these projects, incorporate the probabilistic causal relationships of the risks and proba...
Kais Zaman, Sankaran Mahadevan
A.B.M. Mainul Bari, Md. Tanvir Siraj, Sanjoy Kumar Paul, Sharfuddin Ahmed Khan
Hazard identification and prioritisation practices are very important for power plants to continue their operations without disruption. Systematic operational hazard analysis is not a very common practice at the Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO) based power plants in Bangladesh. Hence, a structured hazard evalua...
Kais Zaman, Sankaran Mahadevan
This paper proposes formulations and algorithms for design optimization of multidisciplinary systems under both aleatory uncertainty (i.e., natural or physical variability) and epistemic uncertainty (due to sparse or imprecise information) from the perspective of system robustness. The availability ...
M. G. M. Khan, M. J. Ahsan, Nujhat Jahan
The problem of determining the sample sizes in various strata when several characteristics are under study is formulated as a nonlinear multistage decision problem. Dynamic programming is used to obtain an integer solution to the problem. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
KM Saif‐Ur‐Rahman, Md. Mehedi Hasan, Shahed Hossain, Iqbal Anwar et al.
It is difficult to match the causes of exclusion among two independent review authors after screening the title and abstract or full texts in systematic reviews. We have proposed the prioritization and sequential exclusion approach to reduce the subjectivity in reporting reasons for exclusion. This ...
Mohammed Tahmid, Sajib Dey, Sultana Razia Syeda
Chemical accidents in the vicinity of densely populated areas can cause colossal damage. Close proximity of chemical facilities to the general public has been identified as a major issue for increased human exposure in 43% of the accidents investigated by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB). This e...
Rima-Maria Rahal, Susann Fiedler, Adeyemi Adetula, Ronnie P.‐A. Berntsson et al.
Steve Hanney, Iain A. Frame, Jonathan Grant, Martin Buxton et al.