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Local level politics in Bangladesh: Organization and process
(BRAC University, 2004)
This paper focuses on local level politics and the organization of political parties to examine how the political leaders mobilize their supporters at the local level. The involvement of local people is also analyzed here. ...
Taking healthcare where the community is: the story of the Shasthya sebikas of BRAC in Bangladesh
(BRAC University, 2008)
To mitigate the income-erosion effect of illness and vulnerability of the poor households, BRAC, an indigenous Bangladeshi NGO, integrates Essential Health Care (EHC) activities with its microcredit-based poverty-alleviation ...
Parsing Bangla using LFG: an introduction
(BRAC University, 2005)
This paper is intended to introduce LFG (Lexical Functional Grammar) for parsing Bangla. The LFG formalism, which has evolved from extensive computational, linguistic, and psycholinguistic research, provides a simple set ...
IT strategies for Business competitiveness in Bangladesh
(BRAC University, 2004)
In the growth envelope, Information & Communication Technology plays the facilitating role of revitalizing the competitiveness of businesses across any country. This article offers a pedagogical perspective on ICT enabling ...
Perceptions of mental illness in a Bangladesh village
(BRAC University, 2008)
In this paper, we discuss the perceptions of people from a Bangladeshi village about what they considered to be 'mental illness'. Observations, informal conversations, interviews, focus group discussions, and illness ...
Tribal people and their socio-economic characteristics in Rangamati sadar thana
(BRAC University, 2007)
Bangladesh is a densely populated country of South East Asia that has a rich tribal presence. There are about 58 tribes living in different parts of the country. Bangladesh has 1.2 million tribal people, which is just above ...
Strengths and weaknesses of participatory methods for rapid definition of problems and potentials to promote socially just urban intervention
(BRAC University, 2006)
Urban development and planning, at present, demand an approach that both provides an account of the forces leading to change in the qualities of places in urban regions and offers ideas about the forms and processes of ...
Empowerment and resistence : A study of women refugees as members of self-organized groups in UK
(BRAC University, 2008)
In relation to the theoretical and empirical construction of my research this study focuses on refugee and asylum seeker women as members of self organized groups and how these have contributed to women’s empowerment and ...
The stability of a mathematical model in the presence of a preventive vaccine
(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 ...
Finite volume methods for solving hyperbolic partial differential equations on curved manifolds
(BRAC University, 2005)
The natural mathematical arena to formulate conservation laws on curve manifolds is that of differential geometry. Ricci developed this branch of mathematics from 1887 to 1896. Subsequent work in differential geometry has ...