Simeen Mahmud, Nirali Shah, Stan Becker
Women’s empowerment is a dynamic process that has been quantified, measured and described in a variety of ways. We measure empowerment in a sample of 3500 rural women in 128 villages of Bangladesh with five indicators. A conceptual framework is presented, together with descriptive data on the indica...
Ruhul Amin, Nirali Shah, Stan Becker
BACKGROUND: There has been an increasing availability and accessibility of modern health services in rural Bangladesh over the past decades. However, previous studies on the socioeconomic differentials in the utilization of these services were based on a limited number of factors, focusing either on...
Suvendu Kumar Behera, Mary H. Lalhriatchhungi, Pradyumna Chakraborty, P. Roychoudhury et al.
The objective of the present study was to isolate and characterize the VP2 gene of parvoviruses from domestic cats in India. For that, 38 fecal samples were screened by PCR with 36.84% positivity. Sequence analysis of those isolates showed canine parvovirus type-2c (CPV-2c) as the predominant varian...
Abdalla M. Abdalla, Sumisha Anappara, Абул Калам Азад, Suddhasatwa Basu et al.