Globally, lowand middle-income countries (LMICs) carry a disproportionately heavy burden of maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity [1]. Too many women haemorrhage to death peripartum, develop acute stroke, renal failure, or pulmonary edema from uncontrolled hypertension, or are affected by severe sepsis, including after unsafe abortion [2]. And when bad things happen to a pregnant woman,...

OBJECTIVE To set investment priorities in global mental health research and to propose a more rational use of funds in this under-resourced and under-investigated area. METHODS Members of the Lancet Mental Health Group systematically listed and scored research investment options on four broad classes of disorders: schizophrenia and other major psychotic disorders, major depressive disorder an...

Digital Bangladesh is a proposal which involves the use of ICT for management, administration and governance to ensure transparency, accountability and answerability at all stages of people and state. Without the development of ICT sector, the dream of a Digital Bangladesh would be only a nightmare for the inhabitants. ICT is also a combination of physical structure and brain. Computers, Networ...

Mappings between schemas are key elements in several contexts such as data exchange, data integration, peer data management systems, etc. In all these contexts, the process of designing a mapping requires the participation of a mapping designer that needs a way to validate the mapping being defined, i.e., to check whether the mapping is in fact what the designer intended. However, to date very ...

Developing the e-services has directed organizations to aspire to achieve more market share in the competitive market. Consequently, they must present their services in such a system that customers return to the website and apply the e-services of that organization. This matter has become a serious challenge in this field and has generated a notion such as e-loyalty that various factors affect ...

The Dress photograph, first displayed on the internet in 2015, revealed stunning individual differences in color perception. The aim of this study was to investigate if lay-persons believed that the question about The Dress colors was answerable. Past research has found that optimism is related to judgments of how answerable knowledge questions with controversial answers are (Karlsson et al., 2...

BACKGROUND Wasting and stunting are global public health problems that frequently co-exist. However, they are usually separated in terms of policy, guidance, programming and financing. Though both wasting and stunting are manifestations of undernutrition caused by disease and poor diet, there are critical gaps in our understanding of the physiological relationship between them, and how interven...

BACKGROUND Over 40% of all deaths among children under 5 are neonatal deaths (0-28 days), and this proportion is increasing. In 2012, 2.9 million newborns died, with 99% occurring in low- and middle-income countries. Many of the countries with the highest neonatal mortality rates globally are currently or have recently been affected by complex humanitarian emergencies. Despite the global burden...

Query Processing in mediator-based systems primarily deals with query answerability. Referring to the integrated information sources, content and query capabilities description are then essential to successfully answer a query. Moving to Multi-Agent Systems, a query must be compiled into an information request to be fulfilled by some information provider. Both the SEWASIE Brokering Agent (BA) a...

BACKGROUND District level health system governance is recognised as an important but challenging element of health system development in low and middle-income countries. Accountability is a more recent focus in health system debates. Accountability mechanisms are governance tools that seek to regulate answerability between the health system and the community (external accountability) and/or bet...