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Charnsak is looking at a host in Champasak University, Chan Parsa province in Laos as a potential site for a PingER MA. Charnsak just got approved to make contact with the Champasak University. He expects to set up the MA in the next 4-5 months (say towards end 2018). It also depends on the partner university, and there may be a lot of paperwork.
UUM (Updated 6/7/2018)
Regarding the paper " Socioeconomic Development indices and their Reflection on Internet Performance in the ASEAN Countries ", Adib tried the Elsevier Telecommunications journal. They responded and Adib commented:
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insufficient understanding of the complexities in the causality argumentation and related findings.
Adib responds: we have addressed IEEE access reviewers' comments carefully. complexities and even validation can be further enhanced, but our data is a bit limited, we have only ten values for each index. We have no data available for ALL indices in 2017 (the year this study was conducted), not even 2016. Values of all social economic indices are only available in 2015. I would suggest considering this point in our next paper, where we can update our internet performance data to 2018, and hopefully other indices data are available as well.
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the relevant previous literature is not well addressed
Adib responds: Actually, we reduced LR session to minimize the paper size so it can meet the journal requirements. Adding more LR can be done, but then the size will be increased again. In fact, not many close and recent papers were published in this particular area. so it is not necessary to add more LR, especially we are not comparing our final model with them.
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Les has sent Adib updates to Figs 3, 4, 5 to extend out to 2018.
Adib will submit the paper to World Development: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/world-development
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- 121.52.146.180 (kohat.edu.pk) down since Nov 22/2017. Wajahat recommends continuing at least until the new student is up to speed (3/8/2018). No data available 3/24/2018.
- cae.seecs.edu.pk last time we were able to gather any data was February 27th.
- pinger-ncp.ncp.edu.pk pings but can't gather data 8/11/2017 and 9/16/2017. Contacted. Pings but can't gather data 10/24/2017. They are in the process of restoring 1/17/2018. Still down February 28, 2018, await new student. (3/8/2018). No data 3/24/2018.
- pinger.isra.edu.pk unable to gather data since 3/6/2018, also does not ping.
- Wajahat says they will get these nodes up. These have been good nodes. They just need the weekly push. NUST will push them soon. Any update?
UNIMAS (No update 3/8/2018, 5/3/2018)
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