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Free speech: creating the ‘Us and Them’ debate
(© 2014 Ashgate Publishing, 2014)Developed countries such as Australia, the United Kingdom and America take pride in their democratic institutions, personal freedoms and secular ethos. However, these conditions and their eects can become highly contested ... -
From joint thinking to joint action: a call to action on improving water, sanitation and hygiene for maternal and newborn health
(© 2014 Public Library of Science, 2014-12-01)This paper, authored by scientists and technical experts from leading universities and international agencies, outlines the importance of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) for maternal and newborn health (MNH) outcomes ... -
From knowing our needs to enacting change: findings from community consultations with indigenous communities in Bangladesh
(© 2015 BioMed Central Ltd., 2015)Introduction: Indigenous peoples are among the most marginalized peoples in the world due to issues relating to well-being, political representation, and economic production. The research consortium Goals and Governance ... -
Further extension of the generalized and improved (G′/G)-expansion method for nonlinear evolution equation
(© 2016 Elsevier B.V, 2016)n this article, the generalized and improved (G'/G)-expansion method has been proposed for further extension to generate many new travelling wave solutions. In addition, nonlinear ordinary differential equation is implemented ... -
The (G'/G)-expansion method for abundant traveling wave solutions of Caudrey-Dodd-Gibbon equation
(© 2011 Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2011)We construct the traveling wave solutions of the fifth-order Caudrey-Dodd-Gibbon (CDG) equation by the (G'/G) -expansion method. Abundant traveling wave solutions with arbitrary parameters are successfully obtained by this ... -
Gate dielectric material dependence of current-voltage characteristics of ballistic Schottky barrier graphene nanoribbon field-effect transistor and carbon nanotube field-effect transistor for different channel lengths
(© 2015 The Institution of Engineering and Technology., 2015)Currently, the advancement of silicon transistor technology is being hindered by different issues such as scaling limits. It has become imperative to replace existing silicon technology with new technology to continue the ... -
Generalized and Improved (G′/G)-Expansion Method for (3+1)-Dimensional Modified KdV-Zakharov-Kuznetsev Equation
(© 2013 PLoS ONE, 2013)The generalized and improved G′/G-expansion method is a powerful and advantageous mathematical tool for establishing abundant new traveling wave solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations. In this article, we ... -
The generalized riccati equation together with the (G' / G) -Expansion method for the (3+1)-dimensional modified KDV-zakharov-kuznetsov equation
(© 2014 Politechnica University of Bucharest, 2014)We construct new exact travelling wave solutions including solitons and periodic solutions of the (3+1)-dimensional modified KdV Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation involving parameter by applying the generalized Riccati equation ... -
Generating near-field fresnel diffraction patterns by iterative fresnel integrals method: a computer simulation approach
(© 2012 Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2012-12)Recently the concept of computer-based virtual experiments in all branches of physics has generated wide spread interests among the researchers. In this Chapter, we describe the Iterative Fresnel Integrals Method (IFIM), ... -
Geographic routing protocol in mobile ad-hoc networks for reliable FTP traffic communication
(© 2014 International Information Institute Ltd., 2014)This paper investigates the performance of the Geographic Routing Protocol (GRP) in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) with respect to network configuration in terms of number of nodes and network area. We employ the File ... -
Getting the basic rights - the role of water, sanitation and hygiene in maternal and reproductive health: a conceptual framework
(© 2015 Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2015)Objective: To explore linkages between water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and maternal and perinatal health via a conceptual approach and a scoping review. Methods: We developed a conceptual framework iteratively, ... -
Globalisation and inter-occupational inequality: Empirical evidence from OECD countries
How does globalisation affect inter-occupational wage inequality within countries? This paper examines this by focusing on two dimensions of globalisation: openness to trade and openness to capital flows, using a relatively ... -
Globalisation, migration and knowledge generation: a study on higher education institutions in Bangladesh
(© 2018 Springer, Singapore, 2018-10-02)There has been a marked transformation in the pattern of international migration since the 1980s, a shift of highly skilled migrants from developed to developing countries leading to brain gain from brain drain for the ... -
Gold nanoparticles: fabrication by laser ablation technique and their optical and morphological studies
(© 2013 Nova Science Publishers, 2013-01)Material particles of the size of few nano-meters to couple of hundreds of nano-meters exhibit size and shape dependent properties and the consequent versatility and importance in their use have made them an exciting and ... -
Governance for global and national health: a role for framework conventions?
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Governmentality and counter-hegemony in Bangladesh
(© 2015 S. M. Shamsul Alam, 2016-01)Using Michel Foucault’s idea of governmentality, this book reinterprets various cases of revolt and popular uprisings in Bangladesh. It attempts to synthesize the theories of Foucault’s governmentality and Antonio Gramsci’s ... -
Greenfield vs acquisitions: determinants of choice in emerging economies
(BRAC Business School, BRAC University, 2009)This paper aims at finding the determinants of entry mode choices for MNCs that enter emerging economy nations as wholly owned subsidiaries. Existing literature suggests that this area of international business literature ... -
Grouping of handwritten Bangla basic characters, numerals and vowel modifiers for multilayer classification
(© 2012 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2012)For better performance in multilayer or hierarchical classification of handwritten text, appropriate grouping of similar symbols is very important. Here we aim to develop a reliable grouping schema for the similar looking ... -
Growing electrostatic modes in the isothermal pair plasma of the pulsar magnetosphere
(© 2011 Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2012)It is shown that a strongly magnetized isothermal pair plasma near the surface of a pulsar supports low-frequency (in comparison to electron cyclotron frequency) toroidal electrostatic plasma modes in the equatorial region. ... -
The growing movement for universal health coverage
(© 2011 The Lancet, 2011-05-25)