Browsing Volume 03, Number 02, 2006 by Issue Date
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Morbidities among older people in Bangladesh: evidence from an ageing survey
(BRAC University, 2006)In recent decades, the population structure in many countries has been reshaping due to combined effect of falling fertility and increased life expectancy. Because of demographic interaction, a trend of increasing proportion ... -
Unified approach of generalized inverse and its applications
(BRAC University, 2006)This paper deals with Unified Approach of Generalized inverse (g-inverse) and its applications. General approaches of generalized inverses with a special convergence are discussed. Derivation of g-inverse by using minimal ... -
Corporate governance reporting as a voluntary disclosure: A study on the annual reports of Square Group
(BRAC University, 2006)Corporate governance refers to the manner in which a corporation is directed, and laws and customs affecting that direction. It includes the laws governing the formations of firms, the by-laws established by the firm itself, ... -
Indian influences: Interpretations in le corbusier's architecture for the tropoical environment
(BRAC University, 2006)Tropical architecture of Le Corbusier, one of the masters of modern architecture, has made immense influences worldwide. This paper tries to rediscover the master architect in terms of inputs he obtained from the context ... -
Scaling up: the BRAC experience
(BRAC University, 2006)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 ... -
Supplementary cementing materials for high performance concrete
(BRAC University, 2006)Supplementary cementing material is an important component of high performance concrete. In particular, the incorporation of supplementary cementing material is essential when the high strength and durability become the ... -
Finite volume methods for solving hyperbolic problems on euclidean manifolds without radially symmetric initial condition
(BRAC University, 2006)Many interesting physical systems are successfully modeled with time-dependant conservation laws on smooth manifolds, M. Examples of such systems include hydrodynamic flows in non-trivial geometry, important in aerodynamic ... -
Waste management in Dhaka City-A theoretical marketing model
(BRAC University, 2006)An escalating quality of life and high rates of resources consumption patterns have had an unintended and negative impact on the urban environment generation of wastes far beyond the handling capacities of urban govt. and ... -
Management accounting development and practices in Bangladesh
(BRAC University, 2006)The more the development of the market economy, the more the significance of management accounting. To keep pace with this increasing market economy, it becomes imperative for the organizations to adopt new management ... -
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 ... -
Fostering the practice of communicative competence in ESL classrooms
(BRAC University, 2006)In an attempt to make our students literate in international discourse, to make them compete successfully on a national and international level, the demand to teach communicative English is increasing more and more in ... -
Life writing: Straddling fact and fiction
(BRAC University, 2006)Traditionally any autobiographic writing is expected to document past in retrospect just like history. But memoirs like Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family and Sheila Ortiz Taylor and Sandra Ortiz Taylor’s Imaginary ... -
Health, Nutrition and human resource development: a crucial link
(BRAC University, 2006)Health and nutrition is one of the important components of human resource development. The relationship between health-nutrition and human resource development is reciprocal and takes a cyclical fashion. The first section ... -
A participatory approach to conservation: working with community to save the cultural hertiage of Panamnagar
(BRAC University, 2006)Panamnagar is a unique township in Sonargaon thana of Narayanganj district of Bangladesh. It is stretched in a single street with street front houses on either side, which are of high architectural and archeological value. ...
