http://hdl.handle.net/10361/41 Fri, 24 May 2013 03:08:55 GMT 2013-05-24T03:08:55Z http://hdl.handle.net/10361/547 Reconciling self-urban development practice and social justice Jabeen, Huraera We live in a world that is full of contradictions, of multiple positionalties, and of highly contested meanings and aspirations. Trying to position oneself in this complex world requires an understanding of the power, constraints, possibilities and strategies to perform. From the 1990’s the movement of socioeconomics has challenged the established theoretical process of development practice. In planning practice changed role of planners has delegated him or her the responsibility to act as advocates for particular communities; as technical research staff who study issues long before they appear on decision-making agendas or as skilful mediator. The discourse of urban development practice in Bangladesh especially about reducing poverty is dominated by professionals- the staff of NGOs, government departments and international agencies rather than the affected people. In this essay I tried to define ‘me’ in the practice that gives me the opportunity and challenge to look at the trend of development practice and myself in different domains. To define my position I wanted to look at myself from three perspectives: in the domains of national, professional and social world. With them I wanted to determine some ‘code of practice’ that can be of any person’s interested to be a professional working in the urban development sector in Bangladesh to get the best possible option to become a linkage to establish social justice. Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10361/547 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10361/546 A fast tree based cluster labeling algorithm for Monte Carlo simultaitons Kamal, Marzuk M.; Haque, M. Nasimul A highly efficient tree based algorithm for studying site or bond percolation on any lattice system is described. Our approach is to identify the connectivity of the lattice sites in a single phase and to reduce the redundant computational load in each lattice update. Efficiency increases due to the creation of a multi-branched tree of the pointers of the cluster numbers at the time of investigation of cluster organization. At the later updates, the computational efficiency increases further as the algorithm would have to work only on the randomly chosen lattice sites or bonds instead of traversing the entire lattice. Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10361/546 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10361/545 The strategic implication of electronic commerce for small and medium sized enterprises (SME) Quader, Mohammed Shahedul; Ahmed, Rubina I. The objective of this Paper is to examine the strategic implication of Electronic Commerce for small and medium sized enterprises. This paper explores how electronic commerce has the potential to transform the concept of market by changing firms’ business models, business relationships and market structure. By changing firms’ competitive advantages and nature of competition, electronic commerce may have strategic implications for small and medium sized enterprises. From the research undertaken, the paper draws conclusions of how electronic commerce fits into the broader context of their business and its strategy. Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10361/545 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10361/544 Generation of supersonic solitions by earthquake emission in the van Allen rediation belt Mofiz, U. A.; Battiston,Roberto The parametric coupling between earthquake emitted circularly polarized electromagnetic radiation and ponderomotively driven ion-acoustic perturbations in the Van Allen Radiation Belt is considered. A cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation for the modulated radiation envelope is derived, and then solved analytically. Supersonic solitons are found to be generated in the Van Allen Belt which can be a tool for the prediction of a massive earthquake to be followed. Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10361/544 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z