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    • An Arab EFL context: does variance in anxiety and motivation across gender impact language attainment? 

      Mathew, Priya; Job, Liz Mundakkal; Al Damen, Tareq; Islam, Dr. Mohammad Rafiqul (© 2013 Canadian Academy of Oriental and Occidental Culture, 2013-06)
      This study proposes to investigate whether mixed classes are a de-motivating influence and increase anxiety levels and causes variance in performance between males and females. The researchers’ observation and documentary ...

    • Arab spring and Middle East democratization: issues and challenges 

      Zakaria, Sultan Mohammed

    • Are young Muslims adopting Australian values? 

      Kabir, Nahid Afrose (© 2008 Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)., 2008-11)
      Recently politicians in Australia have raised concerns that some Muslims are not adopting Australian values to a sufficient extent In this paper I explore the notion of Australian values with respect to immigrant youth. ...

    • Aspirations and compromises: Changes in homestead space relations of the extreme poor after Disaster 

      Rahman, Tahmina
      Background: Construction of houses in homesteads and their settings occur in the context of traditional perceptions and practices in the rural culture of Bangladesh. Functional spaces inside and around the house are produced ...

    • Assessing the spatial accessibility of microfinance in northern Bangladesh: a GIS analysis 

      Khan, Akib; Rabbani, Atonu (© 2015 Blackwell Publishing Inc., 2015)
      This paper attempts to understand and operationalize the notion of spatial accessibility (SA) in the context of microfinance. Using geographic information system (GIS) data from northern Bangladesh, we have generated a ...

    • The association between corporate governance and firm performance – a meta-analysis 

      Siddiqui, Sayla Sowat (© 2015 Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2015)
      he purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between corporate governance and firm performance by conducting a meta-analysis of 25 previous studies. The analysis has three specific concerns, i.e. the moderating ...

    • Association of BRCA1, BRCA2, RAD51, and HER2 gene polymorphisms with the breast cancer risk in the Bangladeshi population 

      Parvin, Salma; Islam, Md. Siddiqul; Al-Mamun, Mir Md. Abdullah; Islam, Mohammad Safiqul; Ahmed, Maizbha Uddin; Kabir, Eva Rahman; Hasnat, Abul
      Purpose: Breast cancer is considered as the most frequent female malignancy. Altered gene expressions due to genetic polymorphisms in the BRCA1, BRCA2, RAD51, and HER2 contribute toward the development of breast cancer, ...

    • Australian migrant children: ICT use and the construction of future lives 

      Green, Lelia; Kabir, Nahid Afrose (© 2012 Routledge, 2012)
      Migrants and diaspora communities are shaped by their use of information and communication technologies. This book explores the multifaceted role played by new media in the re-location of these groups of people, assisting ...

    • Authorship in leading management journals: representation from Asian business schools 

      Kamal, Shawkat; Duc, Le Manch; Qi, Zhu (© 2010 Bangladesh Institute of Management, 2010-12)
      This study investigates the representation of works by authors of affiliated with Asian business schools in top management journals. The results did not indicate strong support for change in the representation of works by ...

    • Autism Spectrum disorders (ASD) in South Asia: a systematic review 

      Hossain, Mohammad Didar; Ahmed, Helal Uddin; Jalal Uddin, M. M.; Chowdhury, Waziul Alam; Iqbal, Mohammad Shamim; Kabir, Razin Iqbal; Chowdhury, Imran Ahmed; Aftab, Afzal; Datta, Pran Gopal; Rabbani, Golam; Hossain, Saima Wazed; Sarker, Malabika (© 2017 BioMed Central Ltd., 2017-08-01)
      Background: Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are a group of complex neurodevelopmental disorders. The prevalence of ASD in many South Asian countries is still unknown. The aim of this study was to systematically review ...

    • An automated fire fighting system 

      Shams, Rafat; Hossain, Shafkat; Priyom, Shaoni; Fatema, Nusrat; Shakil, Shifur Rahman; Rhaman, Md. Khalilur (© 2015 IEEE, 2016)
      This paper presents the implemented procedure and result of a new ceiling mount firefighting system which uses computer vision theory to detect fire in an indoor environment and subdue it in root level. A domestic home or ...

    • Automated intruder detection from image sequences using minimum volume sets 

      Ahmed, Tarem; Wei, Xianglin; Ahmed, Supriyo Sabbir; Pathan, Al-Sakib Khan (© 2012 International Journal of Communication Networks and Information Security, 2012)
      We propose a new algorithm based on machine learning techniques for automatic intruder detection in visual surveillance networks. The proposed algorithm is theoretically founded on the concept of Minimum Volume Sets. Through ...

    • Automated irrigation system using solar power 

      Uddin, Jia; Reza, S.M. Taslim; Newaz, Qader; Uddin, Jamal; Islam, Touhidul; Kim, Jong-Myon (© 2012 IEEE, 2012)
      This paper proposes a model of variable rate automatic microcontroller based irrigation system. Solar power is used as only the source of power to control the overall system. Sensors are placed on the paddy field and these ...

    • Automated surveillance in distributed, visual networks: an empirical comparison of recent algorithms 

      Ahmed, Tarem; Ahmed, Supriyo Sabbir; Pathan, Al-Sakib Khan (© 2014 Science and Engineering Research Support Society, 2014)
      A number of algorithms have been recently proposed for automatic intruder detection from CCTV images. Past researchers have typically tested these algorithms on centralized networks where all images are transmitted to a ...

    • Automatic detection of defective rail anchors 

      Khan, Rubayat Ahmed; Islam, Samiul; Biswas, Rubel (2014-11)
      Rail line anchors/fasteners are the metallic components that attach each line with the sleepers. These are essential rail components as absence of these often result in derailments. Therefore in order to prevent dangerous ...

    • Automatic measurement of rail line expansion joint gaps 

      Islam, Samiul; Khan, Rubayat Ahmed; Biswas, Rubel (© 2014 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015-03)
      Expansion joint gaps are the gaps which are deliberately left between the rail ends to allow for expansion of the rails in hot weather. Over gapping of these end to end gaps often result in derailments. Therefore in order ...

    • An automatic monitoring and control system inside greenhouse 

      Hassan, Niamul; Abdullah, Shihab Ibne; Noor, Ahmad Shams; Alam, Marzia Ruman (© 2015 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015)
      In this work, we have proposed a framework that can gather the data identified with greenhouse environment and yield status and control the system automatically in view of the gathered data. By throatily observing periodic ...

    • Automatic slice growing method based 3D reconstruction of liver with its vessels 

      Alom, Md. Zahangir; Mostakim, Moin; Biswas, Rubel; Chakrabarty, Amitabha (© 2014 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2014)
      In the recent years, reconstructing 3D liver and its vessels from abdominal CT volume images becomes an inevitable and necessary research field. In this paper, a method of 3D reconstruction of liver with its vessels has ...

    • Automatic will enabled system of multi-modal operation 

      Karim, Md. Risul; Waliullah, Syed Shaiyan Kamran; Kamal, Badruddin; Rhaman, Md. Khalilur; Khan, Mumit; Jamil, Insan Arafat (© 2013 IEEE, 2013)
      AWESOMMO(Automatic Will Enabled System of Multi-Modal Operation)uses Sony PS3 Eye image sensor for high speed image processing and a microphone for voice recognition commands. Armed with 3 degrees of freedom of operation, ...

    • An autonomous industrial robot for loading and unloading goods 

      Kadir, Md. Abdul; Chowdhury, Md. Belayet; Rashid, Jaber AL; Shakil, Shifur Rahman; Rhaman, Md. Khalilur (© 2015 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015)
      In industries loading and unloading of heavy loads manually is one of the most important task which turns out to be quite difficult, time-consuming and risky for humans. This paper illustrates the mechanical design of the ...