Rate of returns to education is very important for policy makers and investors. Numerous works have been done regarding this but very few are available in the context of Bangladesh, specially addressing the teachers in ...
Financial distress is a situation where a firm’s operating cash flows are not sufficient to satisfy current obligations and the firm is forced to take corrective actions, and a firm in financial distress may also face ...
This paper is an attempt to study Shakespeare in the context of his own age. Drawing on critical research in New Historicism and Cultural Materialism, I have attempted to show how the social practices of Elizabethan Age ...
9/11 has redefined the world’s understanding of the term ‘terrorism’ and its association with power and resistance. Post 9/11 novels attempt to represent terrorism or rebellions in a new light by investigating the psycho-social ...
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, ...
Uz Zaman, Q.M. Mahtab; Abdullah, Q.M.(BRAC University, 2004)
Mud house is a typical indigenous style and is considered as an affordable means of construction to create shelter for poor. Bangladesh, due to its socio-economic condition, can harness the traditional
and indigenous ...
Begum, Syeda Feroza; Zaman, Sawlat Hilmi; Khan, Mohammad Shahin(BRAC University, 2004)
This article explores the role of NGOs (Non Government Organizations) in poverty eradication especially in the rural area of Bangladesh and how they are performing. Hence theoretical background of NGOs, a detail understanding ...
In rural settlements of the predominant floodplains of Bangladeshi, an intrinsic component is the extended family homestead. The layout of the homestead is defined by the courtyard, formed by the arrangement of dwelling ...
This study compares attitudes of tertiary-level students in Australia and Bangladesh towards the use
of technology in lectures and seminars. Students were shown audiovisual recordings of two
seminars. The content and ...
The CTAB (Cetyltrimethyl Bromide) micellar solutions are studied by SANS measurement for
different concentrations and at different temperatures with the additives of NaSal. The
concentrations are 0.1M, 0.2M and 0.4M in ...
BRAC, a development NGO based in Bangladesh, has demonstrated an extraordinary aptitude for program expansion, or ‘scaling up’. Only thirty-four years old, the organization is today the largest NGO in the world, with ...
Ahmad, Naufela Nafisa; Khan, Naira(BRAC University, 2010)
This paper aims to examine the various forms of sexism that exist within languages. Over the years sexism has been weaved into the language system so subtly that people end up submitting to sexist views without even realizing ...
Khan, H.T. Abdullah; Raeside, Robert(BRAC University, 2005)
The paper aims at examining the socio-demographic changes over years and their impact on the future age-sex structure of population in Bangladesh. The mechanisms of change in the population are reviewed and it is shown ...
Urban solid waste management is considered as one of the most immediate and serious environmental problems confronting municipal authorities in developing Asian Countries. Although municipal authorities acknowledge the ...
Specific Language Impairment (SLI) is a language disorder that primarily affects oral language selectively. This impairment is not any sudden loss; rather some children are born with this disability. The impaired children ...
Hossain, A B M Shahadat; Podder, Chandra Nath(BRAC University, 2006)
We studied stability analysis of a chemostat model of two microorganisms that incorporates both different response functions and we made a single code of the model using a computer algebra system (CAS) Mathematica for ...
Rahman, Kazi Aminur; Jannatun, Nayeem; Salek, Mr. Md. Abu(BRAC University, 2008)
Various kinds of deterministic models for the spread of infectious disease in populations have been analyzed mathematically and applied to specific diseases. In this paper a deterministic model for the dynamics of an ...