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Background: Preterm birth and low birth weight (LBW) are major determinants of child mortality. Like other developing countries, Bangladesh has been suffering for significant burden of preterm birth and LBW. Conclusive data on risk factors of these consequences should analyze to take preventive measures. Aim: This study was to observe the effects of maternal socio-demographic and nutritional parameters on gestational age and birth weight. Materials and Method: A cross sectional data collected from 348 mothers seek antenatal care in a low-cost hospital from September 2017 to February 2018.A pre structured questionnaire used to gather maternal information. Correlation analysis, analysis of variance (ANOVA) and logistic regression used to find potential determinants. Results: The prevalence of the preterm birth and LBW was 8.1% and 25.2% respectively. Chances of LBW found higher in lower income mothers (OR=1.62; 95% CI: 1.004 to 2.62) and the probability of preterm birth was higher in lower preconception weighted women (OR = 2.08; 95% CI: 1.07 to 2.81). Conclusion: Pregnancy nutrition and economic solvency can reduce the bad outcomes of mothers. . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper depicted the salient features of the socio-economic, farm and technological background and the existing problems of the peri-urban small and marginal dairy farmers of Chittagong Metro Area (CMA), Bangladesh. Data were collected using a pre-tested structured questionnaire. Snowball sampling method was used to gather socio-economic, farm and technological data. Both descriptive statistics and mathematical analyses were used for analyzing the data. The study finds the peri-urban small and marginal dairy farmers are not fully dependent on dairy farming for income and young people are less interested in dairy farming as well. Better education status, less profitability, unfair and unstable price, etc. might be the reasons behind this circumstance. Though the farmers get lesser price for milk, the milk price is higher in urban market. Interestingly, 62.7%, 52.9% and 51.0% of the farmer families have smartphone, facebook and internet users respectively. Based on the findings, the study recommends that technology-based market linkage could be created by any government/non-government development partner between the cluster-based farmers' group and the urban consumers for ensuring fair price for milk. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: The development of clinical guidelines requires standardised methods informed by robust evidence synthesis.Objectives: We evaluated the methodological quality of endometriosis guidelines, mapped their recommendations, and explored the relationships between recommendations and research evidence.Search Strategy: We searched EMBASE, MEDLINE, and PubMed from inception to February 2016.Selection Criteria: We included guidelines related to the diagnosis and management of endometriosis.Data Collection and Analysis: The search strategy identified 879 titles and abstracts. We include two international and five national guidelines. Four independent authors assessed the methodological quality of the included guidelines, using the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research & Evaluation (AGREE-II) instrument, and systematically extracted the guideline recommendations and supporting research evidence.Main Results: One hundred and fifty-two different recommendations were made. Ten recommendations (7%) were comparable across guidelines. The European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology was objectively evaluated as the highest quality guideline (methodological quality score: 88/100). There was substantial variation between the supporting evidence presented by individual guidelines for comparable recommendations. Forty-two recommendations (28%) were not supported by research evidence. No guideline followed the standardised guideline development methods (AGREE-II).Conclusions: There is substantial variation in the recommendations and methodological quality of endometriosis guidelines. Future guidelines should be developed with reference to high-quality methods in consultation with key stakeholders, including women with endometriosis, ensuring that their scope can truly inform clinical practice and eliminate unwarranted and unjustified variations in clinical practice. TWEETABLE ABSTRACT: #Endometriosis guidelines vary in recommendations and quality. @EndometriosisUK. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to investigate the student-teachers' beliefs about learner autonomy where English tends to be a target language. The idea of learner autonomy is not new. Yet it has been widely referred to in the field of English Language Teaching (ELT) only over the last decade. Previously, the term referred more directly to practical interventions or situations of learning which were more favoured within ELT: 'individualization', and 'learner independence'. The overall study in this article indicates that student-teachers should have a positive approach towards the adoption of learner autonomy principles. Most student-teachers, however, do not want their future students to take part in the decision making process concerning the time and place of the course and the textbooks to be followed. In the light of the previous research done by the researches, teacher-educators are recommended to encourage their students to engage in out-of-class tasks, to involve them in decision-making on the learning or teaching processes and to employ portfolios and teacher logs for the development of practical knowledge and thinking operations. There is an important role for teachers in this process since the ability to behave autonomously for students is dependent upon their teacher creating a classroom culture where autonomy is accepted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Women may experience anovular menstruation due to some pathophysiological causes which can be detected either by invasive histological examination as well as noninvasive serial ultrasound test. The women who are regularly menstruating without ovulation in each cycle were identified in this study. In a tertiary level infertility care centre of Bangladesh in Dhaka infertile population was the subject of the study. The serial ultrasound noninvasive procedure is used for diagnosis of anovular menstruation and found very much helpful.