Relative Importance of Food in Tourism: A Study on Domestic Tourists in Bangladesh

The phenomenon of food tourism becomes a growing interest among many researchers as food is an important component of the travel and tourism industry. Demographic characteristics of tourists of food tourism, food preference, tourists’ perceptions regarding food, aesthetic and authenticity of food, potentials of food tourism business are widely covered by the researchers’ community in different contexts. To address the contextual gap, this research aims to reveal the relative roles of food in tourism along with the demographic nature of tourists who are concern to the local food of domestic tourism destinations in Bangladesh. Quantitative techniques including univariate analysis, bivariate analysis, and logistic regression have been utilized to explore the research aim. This research has found that food has a strong influence in traveling behavior of the domestic tourists in Bangladesh. In relation to demographic characteristics, male and higher educated tourists have exhibited more concern regarding local food of tourist destination. Besides, this research has found that food is one of the considerable purposes of tourism, local food is more important to the frequent travelers, and tourists consider characteristics such as healthiness, famous qualities and restaurant environment before consuming local food. Keywords: Food tourism, demographic characteristics, univariate and bivariate analysis, logistic regression DOI: 10.7176/JTHS/51-06 Publication date:November 30th 202

An integral equation for conformal mapping of multiply connected regions onto a circular region

Abstract. An integral equation is presented for the conformal mapping of multiply connected regions of connectivity m+1 onto a circular region. The circular region is bounded by a unit circle, with centre at the origin, and m number of circles inside the unit circle. The development of theoretical part is based on the boundary integral equation related to a non-homogeneous boundary relationship. An example for verification purpose is given in this paper for the conformal mapping from an annulus onto a doubly connected circular region with centres and radii are assumed to be known

Comportamiento sísmico de columnas de hormigón armado expuestas a temperaturas por debajo del punto de congelación

Este artículo recopila los principales resultados de una serie de pruebas experimentales en las cuales columnas circulares de hormigón armado fueron sujetas a incrementos cíclicos de carga lateral y carga axial constante. Durante las pruebas, las columnas fueron expuestas a temperaturas ambiente y a temperaturas por debajo del punto de congelación. Con el objetivo de caracterizar cada aspecto de la respuesta sísmica a temperaturas muy bajas, algunas de las columnas fueron diseñadas para fallar por cortante y otras para fallar por flexión, estas últimas incluyendo columnas convencionales de hormigón armado y tubos de acero rellenos de hormigón armado. Se encontró que las columnas probadas a temperaturas bajas experimentan un incremento en rigidez y en la capacidad a cortante y a flexión. En el caso de las columnas dominadas por flexión, el aumento en capacidad esta acoplado con una reducción en la capacidad de desplazamiento

Towards Automated Sexual Violence Report Tracking

Tracking sexual violence is a challenging task. In this paper, we present a supervised learning-based automated sexual violence report tracking model that is more scalable, and reliable than its crowdsource based counterparts. We define the sexual violence report tracking problem by considering victim, perpetrator contexts and the nature of the violence. We find that our model could identify sexual violence reports with a precision and recall of 80.4% and 83.4%, respectively. Moreover, we also applied the model during and after the \#MeToo movement. Several interesting findings are discovered which are not easily identifiable from a shallow analysis

Strategic & Applied Research & Coordination in Action: Climate Services for Resilient Development (CSRD) in South Asia

A global partnership that is aligned with the Global Framework for Climate Services, Climate Services for Resilient Development (CSRD) works to link climate science, data streams, decision support tools, and training with decision-makers in developing countries. CSRD is led by the United States Government and is supported by the UK Government Department for International Development (DFID), UK Meteorological Office, ESRI, Google, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the American Red Cross. Led by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), the CSRD initiative in South Asia works with partners to conduct applied research and facilitate the use of climate information to reduce risk for smallholder farmers. This report details activities of the CSRD project in South Asia during 2018, with emphasis on the second half of 201

Demographics and clinical characteristics of alcohol-related admissions in a tertiary care hospital in Qatar: Does age matter?

Background: Alcohol consumption is a major cause of acute and chronic health conditions associated with comorbidities and traumatic injuries, despite its partial prohibition in some countries. Moreover, alcohol-related hospital admissions increase the burden on the healthcare system. More than 80% of the population in Qatar comprises expatriates. This study aimed to analyze the demographics and clinical characteristics of subjects with alcohol-related emergency department (ED) visits/hospitalization with respect to different age groups in a single tertiary hospital in Qatar. Methods: It is a retrospective observational study of adult patients who visited the ED at Hamad General Hospital between January 2013 and March 2015 and were screened positive for alcohol use. Collected data included sociodemographic characteristics, blood alcohol concentration (BAC), pattern of admission, previous medical history, laboratory investigations, treatment, hospital course, and mortality. Data were compared with respect to the distribution of age groups such as 55 years. Results: In total, 1506 consecutively admitted patients screened positive for alcohol use were included in the study; the majority of them were males (95.6%), non-Qatari nationals (71.1%), and aged 35-44 years (30.9%). The age groups 35-44 years and 45-54 years showed the highest median BAC ([0.24 interquartile range (IQR: 0.14-0.33)] and [0.24 (IQR: 0.13-0.33)], respectively) as compared to the other age groups (P = 0.001). The pattern of hospital admission, sociodemographic status, presence of comorbidities, laboratory investigations, and mortality showed specific age-related distribution. Particularly, young adults were more likely to have a previous ED visit due to trauma, whereas older patients' previous hospital admissions were mostly related to various underlying comorbidities. Conclusion: This study highlighted the patterns of age and clinico-epidemiological status of patients with alcohol-attributable hospital admissions. Our study showed that alcohol consumption was higher among the working-age group. Further studies are needed to investigate changes in the alcohol consumption patterns that may help plan for allocation of health resources and prevention of alcohol-related problems.qscienc

Prevalence of G2P[4] and G12P[6] Rotavirus, Bangladesh

Rotavirus strains not covered by licensed vaccines are increasing

Climate Services for Resilient Development in South Asia Mid-Term Report, January - June 2018

Aligned with the Global Framework for Climate Services, Climate Services for Resilient Development (CSRD) is a global partnership that works to link climate science, data streams, decision support tools, and training with decision-makers in developing countries. CSRD is led by the United States Government and is supported by the UK Government Department for International Development (DFID), UK Meteorological Office, ESRI, Google, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the American Red Cross. Led by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), the CSRD initiative in South Asia implements applied research and facilitates an expanding network of partners assure that actionable climate information and crop management advisories can be generated, refined, and delivered to smallholder farmers. This report details activities of the CSRD project in South Asia during the first six months of 2018

A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic

Finding communication strategies that effectively motivate social distancing continues to be a global public health priority during the COVID-19 pandemic. This cross-country, preregistered experiment (n = 25,718 from 89 countries) tested hypotheses concerning generalizable positive and negative outcomes of social distancing messages that promoted personal agency and reflective choices (i.e., an autonomy-supportive message) or were restrictive and shaming (i.e., a controlling message) compared with no message at all. Results partially supported experimental hypotheses in that the controlling message increased controlled motivation (a poorly internalized form of motivation relying on shame, guilt, and fear of social consequences) relative to no message. On the other hand, the autonomy-supportive message lowered feelings of defiance compared with the controlling message, but the controlling message did not differ from receiving no message at all. Unexpectedly, messages did not influence autonomous motivation (a highly internalized form of motivation relying on one’s core values) or behavioral intentions. Results supported hypothesized associations between people’s existing autonomous and controlled motivations and self-reported behavioral intentions to engage in social distancing. Controlled motivation was associated with more defiance and less long-term behavioral intention to engage in social distancing, whereas autonomous motivation was associated with less defiance and more short- and long-term intentions to social distance. Overall, this work highlights the potential harm of using shaming and pressuring language in public health communication, with implications for the current and future global health challenges