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Journal writing: a silent kit for writing skills
(@ 2011 Horizon, Department of English, University of Chittagong, 2011)This article explores how dialogue journals can be used as a silent kit to improve writing skill. Sixty-five primary school teachers with limited English proficiency wrote dialogue journals in a teachers-training course ... -
Judges as legislators: benevolent exercise of powers by the higher judiciary in Bangladesh with not so benevolent consequences
(© 2016 Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal, 2016)Recently in Bangladesh, there is a discernible (albeit rare) trend of the Supreme Court passing directives to the government for making laws for redressing specific wrongs or addressing some issues of public importance. ... -
Kaposi's sarcoma: a computational approach through protein-protein interaction and gene regulatory networks analysis
(© 2012 Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2013)Interactomic data for Kaposi's Sarcoma Associated Herpes virus (KSHV) - the causative agent of vascular origin tumor called Kaposi's sarcoma - is relatively modest to date. The objective of this study was to assign functions ... -
Knowledge and attitude of key community members towards tuberculosis: mixed method study from BRAC TB control areas in Bangladesh
(© 2015 BioMed Central Ltd., 2015)Background: Bangladesh National Tuberculosis (TB) Control Programme adopted a number of strategies to facilitate TB diagnosis and treatment. 'Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization' (ACSM) was one of the key ... -
Langmuir dark solitons in dense ultrarelativistic electron-positron gravito-plasma in pulsar magnetosphere
(© 2013 Springer, 2013)Nonlinear propagation of electrostatic modes in ultrarelativistic dense elelectron-positron gravito-plasma at the polar cap region of pulsar magnetosphere is considered. A nonlinear Schrödinger equation is obtained from ... -
Language, literature, education and community: the Bengali muslim woman in the early twentieth century
(© 2014 Elsevier Ltd., 2014)The issue of women's empowerment has a long history. This article intends to trace the issue of women's empowerment in the area that now forms contemporary Bangladesh. In this regard, we have delved into the early part of ... -
Laser Raman spectroscopy with different excitation sources and extension to surface enhanced raman spectroscopy
(© 2015 Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2015)A dispersive Raman spectrometer was used with three different excitation sources (Argon-ion, He-Ne, and Diode lasers operating at 514.5 nm, 633 nm, and 782 nm, resp.). The system was employed to a variety of Raman active ... -
Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy and its applications in mineral and pollution analyses
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Learning algorithms for anomaly detection from images
(© 2017 IGI Global, 2016-08-30)Visual surveillance networks are installed in many sensitive places in the present world. Human security officers are required to continuously stare at large numbers of monitors simultaneously, and for lengths of time at ... -
Learning qur'anic arabic through interactive web-based software: a pragmatic approach in language for specific purpose
(© 2013 IEEE., 2013-03)About 80 percent of the world's Muslim populations are non-native speakers of the Arabic language. Since it is obligatory for all Muslims to recite the Qur'an in Arabic during regular prayers, an extraordinary social ... -
Lessons learned in using realist evaluation to assess maternal and newborn health programming in rural Bangladesh
(© 2016 Oxford University Press, 2016)Realist evaluation furnishes valuable insight to public health practitioners and policy makers about how and why interventions work or don't work. Moving beyond binary measures of success or failure, it provides a systematic ... -
Lifelong learning in a learning society: are community learning centres the vehicle?
(© 2014 Brill, 2014)This chapter provides a historical perspective on the evolving concepts of lifelong learning and the learning society and makes the case for the community learning centre as a potential institutional vehicle for the promotion ... -
Limits and opportunities to community health worker empowerment: a multi-country comparative study
(© 2016 Elsevier Ltd, 2016)Background In LMICs, Community Health Workers (CHW) increasingly play health promotion related roles involving ‘Empowerment of communities’. To be able to empower the communities they serve, we argue, it is essential that ... -
Line profile-based fingerprint matching
(© 2017 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2/21/2017)Traditional fingerprint matching algorithms primarily focus on minutiae points on fingertip surface. In this paper, a novel approach is proposed for fingerprint matching that is based on ridge and valley characteristics ... -
The lived experience of older adults'occupational adaptation following a stroke
(© 2013 Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, 2013-02)Background/aim: Following a stroke, individuals' abilities may not match the demands of their environment and occupations, resulting in compromised occupational performance. The process of adaptation can enable adjustment ... -
A local approach to urban housing design in bangladesh
(University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1987-05)one of the most important functions in the production Process of housing is the design of houses. The degree of success of the design depends on how well the house responds to users needs and its performance as a modifier ... -
A looking-out portal (LOP) approach to enhance qualitative aspects of bandwidth utilisation in academic networks
(© 2011 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd., 2011-11)Campuses of educational institutions periodically need to increase network bandwidth to keep up with increased demand and this decision is based on the quantitative aspects of the network bandwidth utilisation. The qualitative ... -
Lost in care pathway: a qualitative investigation on the health system delay of extra pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Bangladesh
(BRAC Univeristy, 2017-03-28)Background: Although extra pulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) has long been known as a major public health concern globally, the complex healthcare-seeking pathways of EPTB patients are not widely studied. This study aims ... -
Low Carbon Freight Services analysis: a review study
(© 2017 ExcelingTech Pub, UK., 2017)The analysis of Low Carbon Freight Services is relatively recent. However, the topic has become one of the most popular in freight services research literature. A review of 80 Low Carbon Freight Services papers, published ... -
Low complexity routing algorithm for rearrangeable switching networks
(© 2013 IEEE, 2013-03)For a long time among the research community. Routing algorithms for this class of networks have attracted lots of researchers along with other related areas, such as modification of the networks structure, crosspoints ...
