Brac University Journal

Evaluation of the aquifer system and groundwater quality of the north-western districts of Bangladesh for development potential

Considering the comparatively low agricultural production in the area, assessment of the potential of increased agricultural production in Panchagarh, Thakurgaon, Dinajpur and Joypurhat districta was undertaken, through ...

Antibacterial resistance: a comparative study between clinical and environmental isolates

This comparative study was carried out to investigate the presence of antibiotic sensitive and resistant bacteria isolated from different environmental samples of Bangladesh with specific clinical strain obtained from ...

Context specific safe water supply technologies for vulnerable climatic and geomorphologic areas of Bangladesh

The detection of arsenic in shallow groundwater threatens groundwater based water supply in Bangladesh. Seawater encroachment in coastal aquifers is another major problem for the availability of fresh water. On the other ...

Determining sources of groundwater salinity in the multi-layered aquifer system of the bengal delta, Bangladesh

The study area lies on the coastal belt of the Bengal Delta, southern Bangladesh. This study bas been condocted to deteonine salinity sources in the multi-layered aquifers of the Bengal Delta. Dissolved major ions including ...

Automation, heat loss reduction and optimum positioning of solar hot water system with storage tank in Bangladesh

Since time immemorial, the necessity for hot water has been indispensable regardless of the advent of modem technology. In the dawn of the 21st century, only the means to heat the water has changed - now we mostly use ...

Housing for middle-income group of Dhaka: role of public and private sector

Fast pace of urbanization and poor econoroy followed by inequitable distribution of resources bave created severe housing problems in Dhaka city, particularly for low and middle income population. With limited resource ...

Climate change adaptation policies in Bangladesh: gap analysis through a gender lens

Policy reform is a necessary approach to implementing appropriate responses to climate change. Despite the acceptance of the role of gender in determining vulnerabilities related climate change, low reorganization has ...

Seasonal siitfting and its impact on crop production: local community perception of Satkhira district

In Bangladesh, climate change apparently has started to affect the climatic parameters which cause seasonal shifting and the behavior of different seasoos. This kind of pheoomeoon is currently posing a serious threat to ...

Assessing willingness to pay for safe drinking water in Tala union of Satkhiradistrict, Bangladesh

Dey, Nepal C.; Parvez, Mahmood; Saba, Ratnajit; Khan, AS Moniruzzaman; Rahman, Md. Sajidur; Khanam, Roufa; Khan, Md. Reaz Uddin; Barna, Milan K.; Islam, Akramul (© 2016 Published by BRAC University, 2016)

The people of the coastal regioo of Bangladesh are facing severe difficulties in accessing safe drinking water mainly during the dry period. Tala upazila of Satkhira district is ooe of the most affected areas because of ...

The place of Pierre Bourdieu's theories in (popular) cultural studies

This article examines the relevance of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s theories to cultural studies. His key concepts such as cultural capital, habitus, field and symbolic violence are introduced and explained in ...

Implementing blogs as a learning tool in Asian EFL/ESL learning context

“Weblogs” or “Blogs” is a type of technology that allows writing personal journals online that can be published and viewed over the web. Even though blogs are being used for personal, educational, journalistic and commercial ...

Hindu women’s property rights: Bangladesh perspective

In Bangladesh Hindu women are guaranteed meager property rights in comparison to their male relative as well as their other religious counterparts. Although Bangladesh is mandated through its constitution to prohibit all ...

Woman as ‘other’ in the short stories of contemporary Bangladeshi writers

Women, irrespective of all classes, races, religions and societies, have always been confined to particular roles sanctioned by the male-dominated society. The patriarchal ideologies regard women as “sexual objects” or ...

Description of verb morphology in colloquial Bangla

The paper presents a description of the Colloquial Bangla (Bengali) verb morphology in relation to the Standard Bangla. As researchers begin to conduct studies in various aspects of Bangla, e.g. in computational linguistics ...

Cultural relativism and human rights in Ama Ata Aidoo’s changes: a love story

Ama Ata Aidoo’s Changes documents the changing situations of contemporary women in Accra, Ghana. The novel deals with an idea of the Western-styled universalist language of women’s rights, a concept that constructs certain ...

The usefulness of the debate between focus on form and focus on forms

The literature review includes 13 articles and 2 chapters from 2 books titled Handbook of Research in Second Language Teaching, and Learning, and Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching published in the last ten years ...

Mother and transgendered son: a study of gender role conflict in Sherwood Anderson’s “mother”

In a conventional society men are expected to be masculine. Unlike women, they must be resolute, authoritarian and truculent. In comparison to men, women are presumed to exhibit feminine gender traits like submissiveness, ...

Ambiguities and tensions in the role and use of English in Bangladesh

Over the past few years, there has been a revival of interest in the English language in Bangladesh with the government putting a lot of emphasis on the teaching and learning of English. There have been a plethora of ...

Examining learners’ and instructors’ perspectives on the use of blended wiki sessions to improve professionals’ writing skills

This paper focuses on the learners’ and instructors’ perspectives on wiki based virtual writing sessions while investigating the effectiveness and challenges of such blending in a demand-driven English language course ...

Developing a motivation-conscious second language teaching approach: a literature survey

Motivation is probably used as the most important factor when describing success and failure in second language (L2) learning. During the lengthy and often tedious process of mastering an L2, learners with sufficient ...