Anupam Das, Mohammad Mahfuzul Islam
Security and privacy issues have become critically important with the fast expansion of multiagent systems. Most network applications such as pervasive computing, grid computing, and P2P networks can be viewed as multiagent systems which are open, anonymous, and dynamic in nature. Such characteristi...
Md. Saiful Islam, Abu Bakkar Siddique, Rejina Akter, Rafia Tasnim et al.
BACKGROUND: Several vaccines have been approved for use against coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and distributed globally in different regions. However, general community knowledge, attitudes and perceptions towards COVID-19 vaccinations are poorly understood. Thus, the study aimed to investigate comm...
Xin Lü, David Wrathall, Pål Sundsøy, Md. Nadiruzzaman et al.
Climate change is likely to drive migration from environmentally stressed areas. However quantifying short and long-term movements across large areas is challenging due to difficulties in the collection of highly spatially and temporally resolved human mobility data. In this study we use two dataset...
Gerard Clarke
Abstract Recent donor discourse points to the potential of faith-based organisations (fbos) as ‘agents of transformation’, mobilising the moral energy of faith communities in support of the Millennium Developments Goals (mdgs). This new donor-driven agenda, however, invites scrutiny of complementary...
Kamalesh Sarkar, Baishali Bal, Rita Mukherjee, Sekhar Chakraborty et al.
A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted among brothel-based sex workers of West Bengal, eastern India, to understand sex-trafficking, violence, negotiating skills, and HIV infection in them. In total, 580 sex workers from brothels of four districts participated in the study. A preteste...
Sultan Mahmud, Md Mohsin, Ijaz Ahmed Khan, Ashraf Uddin Mian et al.
Bangladesh govt. launched a nationwide vaccination drive against SARS-CoV-2 infection from early February 2021. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccines and examine the factors associated with the acceptance in Bangladesh. In between January 30 to Februar...
Vinay Gidwani, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Abstract Harnessing primary and secondary evidence from India, our essay conceptualizes the cultural dynamics of migration. In so doing, it demonstrates the incompleteness of standard marginalist and Marxist accounts of labor circulation. As a corrective, we examine the linkages between culture, pol...
Li Ping Wong, Haridah Alias, Mahmoud Danaee, Jamil Ahmed et al.
BACKGROUND: The availability of various types of COVID-19 vaccines and diverse characteristics of the vaccines present a dilemma in vaccination choices, which may result in individuals refusing a particular COVID-19 vaccine offered, hence presenting a threat to immunisation coverage and reaching her...
David Roodman, Jonathan Morduch
Abstract: We replicate and reanalyse the most influential study of microcredit impacts (Pitt and Khandker, 1998). That study was celebrated for showing that microcredit reduces poverty, a much hoped-for possibility (though one not confirmed by recent randomized controlled trials). We show that the o...
Md. Saiful Islam, Abu Bakkar Siddique, Rejina Akter, Rafia Tasnim et al.
Abstract Background Several vaccines have been approved against coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and distributed globally in different regions. However, general community knowledge, attitudes and perceptions towards COVID-19 vaccinations are poorly understood. Thus, the study aimed to investigate comm...
Fayika Farhat Nova, Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat, Pratyasha Saha, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed et al.
Prior research on anonymous social media (ASM) has studied the issue of sexual harassment and has revealed its connections to stereotyping, aggression, interpersonal relationships, and mental health among others [16, 24, 60]. However, the characteristics of such harassment in the context of low and ...
Asma Bokhari, Naseer M Nizamani, Denis J. Jackson, N Rehan et al.
The objective of this study was to measure HIV prevalence and risk behaviour in injecting drug users (IDUs), male sex workers (MSWs), Hijras (transgenders), female sex workers (FSWs) and male truckers in Karachi and Lahore, Pakistan. The design was a linked-anonymous cross-sectional study of individ...
Dhanya Kumar, J. M. Watson, André Charlett, Sarala Nicholas et al.
BACKGROUND: A national survey of tuberculosis notifications in England and Wales was carried out in 1993 to determine the notification rate of tuberculosis and the trends in the occurrence of disease by ethnic group in comparison with the findings of similar surveys in 1978/79, 1983, and 1988. The p...
Sarah Lamb
Intimacy in a Transnational Era:The Remaking of Aging among Indian Americans1 Sarah Lamb (bio) Sarah Lamb Brandeis University Sarah Lamb Sarah Lamb is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University. She is the author of White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender, and Body in North Indi...
Paula Chakravartty, Srirupa Roy
Abstract A new form of "entertaining news," accessed by most through television, has become a privileged domain of politics for the first time in countries "beyond the West" in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. What are the political consequences of this development: What is the relationship betwee...