27 June, 2021
Prof. Moon Moon Haque (Gulf Medical University) discussed the ways and means of selecting a suitable journal for a research study at a recently conducted session in the Writing Impactful Research (WIR) Programme. WIR is a four month Programme conducted by the Faculty of Management Studies, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka in collaboration with the Emerald Publishing and Gulf Medical University, UAE. This is a highly successful research programme with the participation of more than 1000 academics, researchers and postgraduate students from the different continents across the globe. This seventh session of the programme was conducted under the patronage of Prof. Athula Gnanapala (Dean, Faculty of Management Studies, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka), Dr. Jayantha N. Dewasiri (Brand Ambassdor: Emerald Publishing, South Asia) Miss. Sangeeta Menon (Publishing Relationship Manager, Emerald Publishing) Prof. Sudhir Rana, (College of Healthcare Management and Economics
Journal of Dairy Science®reports development of a modified milk calibration sample set to improve accuracy of milk urea nitrogen testing Champaign, IL, June.
How to Fix Diversity and Equity
Ritualized regimes of political expression must be rejected.
Illustration by The Chronicle May 27, 2021
Academic twitter lit up with acclaim when Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis announced that it had approved “new promotion and tenure options based on diversity, equity and inclusion work” earlier this month. A computer-science professor captured the prevailing sentiment: “Such amazing news! I hope more and more institutions will take this path.”
We can be certain that they will. Unfortunately, not only will this path fall short of its intended goals, but it will pose a serious threat to academic freedom.
Bangladesh falls behind India, Pakistan in research The New Nation
News Desk :
Bangladeshi researchers published more than 8,000 scholarly articles in international journals with impact factor in 2020 - which is third in terms of the number among South Asian countries.
An online magazine, Scientific Bangladesh, published the annual report on scientific documents of the country on January 2, analyzing the data of Scopus, a citation database of peer-reviewed literature including scientific journals, books and conference proceedings.
The impact factor, also known as Journal Impact Factor (JIF), is a metric used to evaluate the relative importance of a journal.
According to the report, the scholars of the country published 8,140 articles and other documents in 160 peer-reviewed and impact factor journals. The number was 6,363 in 2019, while it was 5,234 in 2018.
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The study of human emotions can be used to gauge the sensory acceptance of dairy products. A possible route to increase worldwide consumption of sheep milk kefir may be to improve its sensory acceptance, which can be a determining factor for its inclusion in daily diets. In an article appearing in the
Journal of Dairy Science, scientists studied the effects of kefir sweetened with five different sugars on sensory acceptance and emotional profile in regular consumers of fermented dairy products.
The authors of this study, from the Federal Institute of Rio de Janeiro, Fluminese Federal University, Federal Institute of Paraná, and Natural Resources Institute Finland, assessed the addition of demerara sugar, brown sugar, fructose, coconut sugar, and honey to sheep milk kefir. One hundred consumers rated the appearance, aroma, taste, texture, and overall impression, and expressed whether they were satisfied, active, loving, calm, comfortable, energetic, happy, healthy, refreshi