Nemuel D. Pah, Mohammod A. Motin, Peter Kempster, Dinesh K. Kumar
Background: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a multi-symptom neurodegenerative disease generally managed with medications, of which levodopa is the most effective. Determining the dosage of levodopa requires regular meetings where motor function can be observed. Speech impairment is an early symptom in P...
Thomas Kempka, Marie-Luise Plötz, Ralf Schlüter, Jörg Hamann et al.
World-wide coal reserves can supply the global demand for primary energy for several centuries. However, low thickness and structural complexity may constrain the economic exploitation of many coal deposits. Taking into account these circumstances, underground coal gasification (UCG) can offer an ec...
Christopher G. Kemp, Tessa Concepcion, Helal Uddin Ahmed, Nazneen Anwar et al.
INTRODUCTION: Mental, neurological and substance use conditions lead to tremendous suffering, yet globally access to effective care is limited. In line with the 13th General Programme of Work (GPW 13), in 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the WHO Special Initiative for Mental Health:...
Jeanne Frances I. Illo
Abstract When invited by the organisers of the Asia-Pacific Non-governmental Organisation (NGO) Beijing+10 Forum to make a brief presentation on the question of academic feminists and the de-politicisation of feminist theorising, I asked myself: What politics? What feminist theorising? Then I rememb...
Natalie Nakaten, Rafiqul Islam, Thomas Kempka
UCG facilitates deep-seated coal seam utilization in the Jamalganj deposit (Bangladesh) by producing synthesis gas for electricity and fertilizer production. Based on previous studies which assessed UCG combined with carbon utilization in a urea process, we further investigated excess CO2 utilizatio...
Mohammad H. Al‐Shaer, Wael A. Alghamdi, Abdullah Alsultan, Guohua An et al.
= 0.012). After adjusting for isoniazid and clofazimine treatment, patients treated with new-generation fluoroquinolones were more likely to have culture conversion (adjusted hazards ratio, 2.16 [95% confidence interval, 1.28 to 3.64]). We included 178 patients in the pharmacokinetic models. Levoflo...
Ronny Lauerwald, Jens Hartmann, Nils Moosdorf, Hans H. Dürr et al.
Dissolved silica (DSi) is an important nutrient in aquatic ecosystems. Increased DSi retention within the fluvial system due to damming and eutrophication has led to a decrease in DSi exports to coastal waters, which can have severe consequences for coastal areas where ecosystem functioning depends ...
Monder Ram, Tahir Annas, Balihar Sanghera
European ethnic minority business has entered a new phase of development, facilitated by the urban restructuring of late capitalism. The expansion of ethnic minority businesses has contributed significantly to a particular country's economy. Specific urban spatial elements have contributed to this u...
Khalequ Zaman, Anne Schuind, Samuel Adjei, Kalpana Antony et al.
BACKGROUND: World Health Organization human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination recommendations include a single- or two-dose schedule in individuals 9-20 years old and advice for generating data on single-dose efficacy or immunobridging. The ongoing Phase 3 trial of Innovax's bivalent (types 16 and 18...
Muhammad Rahman, Yusuf Babaye, Amritha Bhat, Pamela Y. Collins et al.
Background: Access to effective mental health services in low- and- middle income countries (LMICs) is limited, leading to a substantial global treatment gap. Amitriptyline, an anti-depressant, and diazepam, an anxiolytic drug, are classified as essential medications by the World Health Organization...
Sheik Mohammed Ali, Sridhar P. Arjunan, James D. Peter, Laura Perju‐Dumbrava et al.
BACKGROUND: Several validated clinical scales measure the severity of essential tremor (ET). Their assessments are subjective and can depend on familiarity and training with scoring systems. METHOD: We propose a multi-modal sensing using a wearable inertial measurement unit for estimating scores on ...
Maruf Hasan, Md. Abdur Rashid, Niaz Makhdum, Nesur Nahid et al.
The stream of globalization is impelling Bangladesh to adopt the technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (FIR). This study examined the opportunities and problems created by the adoption of FIR in Bangladesh. Findings show that the adaptation of FIR can create enormous difficulties for the ...
Ronald Grigg, H. Q. Nimal Gunaratne, James Kemp
Armando Barrientos, Peter A. Kemp, Karel Van den Bosch, Lindsey Smith
Population ageing is unfolding in developing countries at a much faster rate than it did in developed countries, while poverty, inequality and poor governance constrain public policy responses. There is an urgent need to understand the processes at work and to design and implement appropriate public...
H.J. Wijnen, C.W. van der Pol, I.A.M. van Roovert-Reijrink, Joren De Smet et al.
Resilient animals can cope with environmental disturbances in life with minimal loss of function. Resilience can be enhanced by optimizing early-life conditions. In poultry, eggshell temperature ( EST ) during incubation and early feeding are two early-life conditions that are found to alter neonata...
Bernd Wrackmeyer, Ezzat Khan, Amin Badshah, Elias Molla et al.
The molecular structures of three alkynylsilanes, tetrakis(ethynyl-p-tolyl)silane, 3,3,6,6,-tetramethyl- 3,6-disila-triyne, 3,3,6,6,9,9,-hexamethyl-3,6,9-trisila-tetrayne, and of bis(trimethylstannyl)- ethyne have been determined by X-ray diffraction. The same alkynylsilanes, and in addition 1,2- bi...
Sameer Kumar Pati, Santanu Mitra, Darren C. J. Yeo
Abstract The potamid genus AcanthopotamonKemp, 1918 is known from three species, A. fungosum (Alcock, 1909), A. martensi (Wood-Mason, 1875) (type species), and A. panningi (Bott, 1966), and is found in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. Within this range, the genus is found in the ‘Ganges Delta...
M. Rezaul Islam, David Gray, Janet Reid, Terry Kelly et al.
International donors have spent billions of dollars over the past four decades in developing and/or reforming the agricultural extension service delivery arrangements in developing countries. However, many of these reforms, supported through short-term projects, became unsustainable once aid funding...
Bashir Ishaku Yakubu, S. M. Quamrul Hassan, Sallau Osisiemo Asiribo
Rapid urbanization rates impact significantly on the nature of Land Cover patterns of the environment, which has been evident in the depletion of vegetal reserves and in general modifying the human climatic systems (Henderson, et al., 2017; Kumar, Masago, Mishra, & Fukushi, 2018; Luo and Lau, 20...
Md Rushna Alam, N.G. Gregory, M Shahab Uddin, M.A. Jabbar et al.