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Radiative lifetime measurement of excited neutral nitrogen atoms by time resolved laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy
(© 2014 Royal Society of Chemistry, 2014-08)Lifetimes of the excited 2P2 (3P) 3p 4S3/2 level of a nitrogen atom corresponding to transitions to different lower states have been estimated by measuring the line intensity of a transition as a function of the delay time ... -
Real time monitoring for the most vulnerable: pre-primary education in Bangladesh
(© 2013 Institute of Development Studies, 2013)One of the most unique examples of real-time monitoring supported by UNICEF is found in Bangladesh in the pre-primary education (PPE) programme operated by BRAC. Randomisation techniques are used for school selection by ... -
Real-time monitoring of Solar Battery Charging Station
(© 2016 IEEE, 2016-08-31)This paper represents a real-time monitoring technique of all the components of a Solar Battery Charging Station (SBCS). Its ability to generate clean energy at free of cost, along with availability almost all year round ... -
Recognition of and response to neonatal intrapartum-related complications in home-birth settings in Bangladesh
(© 2014 International Centre For Diarrhoeal, Disease Research, Bangladesh, 2014)Intrapartum-related complications (previously called 'birth asphyxia') are a significant contributor to deaths of newborns in Bangladesh. This study describes some of the perceived signs, causes, and treatments for this ... -
Reconstructing gene regulatory network with enhanced particle swarm optimization
(© 2014 Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2014)Inferring regulations among the genes is a well-known and significantly important problem in systems biology for revealing the fundamental cellular processes. Although computational models can be used as tools to extract ... -
Recurrent neural network classifier for three layer conceptual network and performance evaluation
(© 2010 ACADEMY PUBLISHER, 2010-01)Natural language has traditionally been handled using symbolic computation and recursive processes. Classification of natural language by using neural network is a hard problem. Past few years several recurrent neural network ... -
Reducing the health effect of natural hazards in Bangladesh
(© 2013 Published by Elsevier Inc., 2013-11)Bangladesh, with a population of 151 million people, is a country that is particularly prone to natural disasters: 26% of the population are affected by cyclones and 70% live in flood-prone regions. Mortality and morbidity ... -
Reducing the health effect of natural hazards in Bangladesh
(© 2013 Published by Elsevier Inc., 2013-11)Bangladesh, with a population of 151 million people, is a country that is particularly prone to natural disasters: 26% of the population are affected by cyclones and 70% live in flood-prone regions. Mortality and morbidity ... -
Reforming a community to serve the underserved: ESP modules for midwifery course at BRAC University
(@ 2015 ULAB, 2015-12)This paper examines the impact of an ESP course designed by BRAC Institute of Languages (BIL) for midwives to develop their English language skills, and to develop them professionally. The course is expected to reform ... -
Reforming innercity bus transportation in a developing country: a passenger-driven model
(© National Center for Transit Research (NCTR), University of South Florida, 2007)The transportation system in Dhaka City, Bangladesh, requires significant improvements. The shortage of motorized vehicles and the excessive number of nonmotorized vehicles on the city’s streets have been the cause of ... -
Reinforcement learning based autonomic virtual machine management in clouds
(© 2016 IEEE, 11/28/2016)Cloud computing is a rapidly emerging field, services and applications are more or less 24/7. Resource dimensioning in this field is a great issue. Research is already going on to imply reinforcement learning to automate ... -
Reinforcing cholera intervention through prediction-aided prevention
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Relating development to quality of education: a study on the world bank's neoliberal policy discourse in education
(© 2014 Korean Educational Development Institute, 2014)This article examines the way the World Bank policy discourse in education relates development to quality of education and the underlying agenda. It argues that development and education have been defined deficiently, ... -
Relationship quality in Bangladeshi retail industry
(© (2012) IACSIT Press, Singapore, 2012)In this article the authors develop a new measurement scale (The RELQUAL scale for retailers) to assess the degree of relationship quality between the retailers and their suppliers. The sample of this study consists of ... -
Relationships of physicians with pharmaceutical sales representatives and pharmaceutical companies: an exploratory study
(© 1996 Taylor & Francis Online, 1996)Physicians were surveyed in Northwestern Pennsylvania to examine how they viewed their relationships with pharmaceutical sales representatives (PSR) and the pharmaceutical industry. Physicians viewed the PSR as an important ... -
Relativistic anisotropic stellar models with Tolman VII spacetime
(© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2015-09)In this paper we have studied the behavior of static spherically symmetric relativistic objects with locally anisotropic matter distribution considering the Tolman VII form for the gravitational potential grr in curvature ... -
Relativistic compact anisotropic charged stellar models with Chaplygin equation of state
(© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016, 2016)This paper presents a new model of static spherically symmetric relativistic charged stellar objects with locally anisotropic matter distribution together with the Chaplygin equation of state. The interior spacetime has ... -
The relevance of the concept of good governance: revisiting goals, agendas and strategies
Against the backdrop of debates on the relevance of good governance, this chapter examines the goals, agendas and implementation strategies of governance. First, it traces the evolution of the concept of good governance. ... -
Reliable fault classification of induction motors using texture feature extraction and a multiclass support vector machine
(© 2014 Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2014)This paper proposes a method for the reliable fault detection and classification of induction motors using two-dimensional (2D) texture features and a multiclass support vector machine (MCSVM). The proposed model first ... -
Reprint of: issues with families and children in a disaster context: a qualitative perspective from rural Bangladesh
(© 2015 Elsevier Ltd., 2015)Natural disasters such as floods and cyclones have repeatedly devastated lives and destroyed the belongings of people. This is especially so for children and their families in Bangladesh. This study analyzed the specific ...
