Union Parishads (councils) being the century old rural local government in Bangladesh are yet to fulfill the expectations of rural citizen which is mainly due to own resources constraints including miserable local resources mobilization. This paper focuses on Union Parishads recent revenue trend and performance from five years secondary data (2003-2007) and primary data collected from Parishad ...

[This corrects the article on p. 280 in vol. 8, PMID: 24847236.].

Surface quality analysis of exterior car body panels was still characterized by manual detection of local form deviations and subjective evaluation by experts. The approach presented in this paper is based on 3-D image processing. A major step towards automated quality control of produced panels is the classification of the different kinds of surface form deviations. In previous studies we comp...

The theory of deliberate practice (Ericsson, Krampe, & Tesch-Römer, 1993) is predicated on the concept that the engagement in specific forms of practice is necessary for the attainment of expertise. The purpose of this paper was to examine the quantity and type of training performed by expert UE triathletes. Twenty-eight UE triathletes were stratified into expert, middle of the pack, and back o...

  Background : Learning in a clinical environment is an inseparable part of a training program in medical education. To evaluate the quality of training in a clinical environment, a comprehensive questionnaire which is adjusted for local purposes is essential. This study was conducted to determine the validity and reliability of Activities Coaching Context (ACC)-questionnaire from the perspecti...

Chinese technicians exposure to international education in the changing competitive environment of self, will continue to progress and development. Training high-skilled technician education, personnel training is the basic model. In 2004, the College of Education began to organize technicians to explore the practice of competency-based teaching system training model, through the investigation ...

Learning in real-time applications, e.g., online approximation of the inverse dynamics model for model-based robot control, requires fast online regression techniques. Inspired by local learning, we propose a method to speed up standard Gaussian process regression (GPR) with local GP models (LGP). The training data is partitioned in local regions, for each an individual GP model is trained. The...

Our purpose is to examine strategies or countermeasures resident-physicians used in dealing with the effects of sleep loss and fatigue during residency training. A total of 149 residents across five sites and six specialty areas were recruited for the study. Focus groups consisted of an average of 7 individuals in the same year of training and residency program, and included 60 interns and 89 s...