Brac University Journal: Recent submissions
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Factors determining the presence of glass ceiling and influencing women career advancement in Bangladesh
(BRAC University, 2008)The purpose of the study is to examine the existence of glass ceiling in different industries and service sectors in Bangladesh. This study also attempts to identify the contributing factors which create the glass ceiling ... -
Does inconsistency with 'Fundamental principles of state policy' invalidate a law?
(BRAC University, 2008)There is a struggle throughout the world on the issue of justiciability of socio-economic rights. It is forcefully argued that socio-economic rights should be given the same status as that of civil political rights. Ensuring ... -
Computational fluid dynamics study of flow behaviour in a single spacer filled membrane module
(BRAC University, 2008)Membrane separation processes have added a new dimension to the traditional processes. The recent novel development in membrane processes have made it possible to use various different purposes at economical rates with ... -
Community economic development ultimately ensures social development
(BRAC University, 2008)Community Economic Development (CED), a North American perspective which focuses on creating employment, income maintenance, empowering powerless and poor people, business development, sharing ownership, and government ... -
Working capital management practiced in Pharmaceutical companies in Dhaka stock
(BRAC University, 2007)Among all the problems of financial management, the problems of working capital management have probably been recognized as the most crucial one. It is because of the fact that working capital always helps a business concern ... -
The prometheus myth in the novels of william golding
(BRAC University, 2007)Much influenced by the horrors of the two World Wars, William Golding (1911-93) began his literary career as a novelist during the second half of the 20th century. His novels depict the intricate human psychology and lack ... -
The heritage of Shankharibazar: peoples participation in the conservation process to promote cultural tourism
(BRAC University, 2007)Shankharibazar, the 300 years old urban settlement of Dhaka city was built during the Mughal period and the later part of the British rule. Most of the residents are specialist craftsmen who make 'Shankha' (a special kind ... -
Solid waste management of Dhaka city: public private community partnership
(BRAC University, 2007)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 ... -
Rate of returns to education for secondary school techers in Bangladesh with bootstrap sampling
(BRAC University, 2007)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 ... -
Perceptions of the customers towards insurance companies in Bangladesh- a study based on the survqual model
(BRAC University, 2007)This is the law of nature that people have to live and play with hazards and to some extent insurance policy can free people from those frustrations. Even if this is true, people of Bangladesh still don't prefer to insure ... -
Participatory action research (PAR): revisiting the history, concept and ethics
(BRAC University, 2007)Participatory Action Research (PAR), a dominant mode of praxis, is increasingly gaining its status in the mainstream academia. The uniqueness of PAR, where social investigation, education and social actions converge, aimed ... -
Gender inequality in the distribution of household expenditure in Bangladesh: a theil decompositon analysis
(BRAC University, 2007)This paper attempts to study the gender inequality situation in Bangladesh during 1995-96 through examining the effect the gender of a household head and their marital status has on the per capita household expenditure. ... -
Water quality tests and behavioral factors of child diarrhoea in Dhaka slums
(BRAC University, 2007)Diarrhoeal disease is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in less developed countries, especially among children aged 0-5 years. It is a symptom of infection caused by a host of bacterial, viral and parasitic ... -
Use of MM5 model for weather forecasting over Bangladesh region
(BRAC University, 2007)The severity of weather appears almost every year in Bangladesh. It causes damage of property and takes a very high death toll due to absence of timely and proper forecasting facility. Thus the focus of this paper is to ... -
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 ... -
Multiple outliers detection: application to research & development spending and productivity growth
(BRAC University, 2008)Multiple outliers are frequently encountered in applied studies in business and economics. Most of the practitioners depend on ordinary least squares (OLS) method for parameter estimation in regression analysis without ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Study of sans distribution function for different particles at different conditions
(BRAC University, 2008)The size and shape of a particle can be found out by the analysis of form factor distributions in small angle neutron scattering. In the present work, the form factors were calculated theoretically by computer program and ... -
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 ...
