BRACU Faculty Publications: Recent submissions

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    • Commentary: sustaining progress towards comprehensive reproductive health services in Bangladesh 

      Jahan, Rounaq; Afsana, Kaosar (© 2015 Routledge, 2015)

    • Human rights and reproductive health: political realities and pragmatic choices for married adolescent women living in urban slums, Bangladesh 

      Rashid, Sabina Faiz (© 2011 Rashid; licensee BioMed Central Ltd., 2011)
      In Bangladesh, particularly in urban slums, married adolescent womens human rights to life, health, and reproductive and sexual health remain adversely affected because of the structural inequalities and political economic, ...

    • Night mode face recognition using adaptively weighted sub-pattern PCA 

      Alom, Md. Zahangir; Khan, Arif; Biswas, Rubel; Khan, Mumit (© 2012 IEEE, 2012)
      The face recognition problem is made difficult by the great variability in head rotation and tilt, lighting intensity and angle, facial expression, aging, partial occlusion (e.g. Wearing Hats, scarves, glasses etc.), etc. ...

    • The sexual and reproductive health care market in Bangladesh: where do poor women go? 

      Rashid, Sabina Faiz; Akram, Owasim; Standing, Hilary (© 2011 Reproductive Health Matters., 2011)
      In Bangladesh, the formal public health system provides few services for common sexual and reproductive health problems such as white discharge, fistula, prolapse, menstrual problems, reproductive and urinary tract infections, ...

    • Night mode prohibitory traffic signs detection 

      Biswas, Rubel; Khan, Arif; Khan, Mumit; Alom, Md. Zahangir (© 2013 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2013)
      Prohibitory traffic signs play an important role in guiding, warning and regulating traffic system. As driving over the speed limit is often the major cause of accidents, detecting this group of prohibitory signs may reduce ...

    • Investigation of CNTFET performance with gate control coefficient effect 

      Khan, Sabbir Ahmed; Hasan, Md. Rakibul; Mominuzzaman, Sharif Mohammad (© 2014 Sumy State University, 2014)
      For the first time, a deep study of gate control coefficient (αG) effect on CNTFET performance has done in this research. A new, analytical CNTFET simulation along with multiple parameter approach has executed with 3D ...

    • Impact of flooding on feeding practices of infants and young children in Dhaka, Bangladesh Slums: what are the coping strategies? 

      Goudet, Sophie M.; Griffiths, Paula L.; Bogin, Barry A.; Selim, Nasima (© 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2010)
      Previous research has shown that urban slums are hostile environments for the growth of infants and young children (IYC). Flooding is a hazard commonly found in Dhaka slums (Bangladesh) which negatively impacts IYC's ...

    • Getting the basic rights - the role of water, sanitation and hygiene in maternal and reproductive health: a conceptual framework 

      M. R. Campbell, Oona; Benova, Lenka; Gon, Giorgia; Afsana, Kaosar; Cumming, Oliver (© 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, ...

    • Implementation of an Optical Character Reader (OCR) for Bengali language 

      Chowdhury, Muhammed Tawfiq; Islam, Md. Saiful; Bipul, Baijed Hossain; Rhaman, Md. Khalilur (© 2016 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016-03)
      Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the process of extracting text from an image. The main purpose of an OCR is to make editable documents from existing paper documents or image files. Significant number of algorithms ...

    • The health workforce crisis in Bangladesh: shortage, inappropriate skill-mix and inequitable distribution 

      Ahmed, Syéd Masud; Hossain, Md Awlad; RajaChowdhury, Ahmed Mushtaque; Bhuiya, Abbas Uddin (© 2011 Ahmed et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd., 2011)
      Bangladesh is identified as one of the countries with severe health worker shortages. However, there is a lack of comprehensive data on human resources for health (HRH) in the formal and informal sectors in Bangladesh. ...

    • System design of two wheeler self-balanced vehicle 

      Rumi, Sheikh Mohibul Islam; Hossain, Mehdi Fakid; Islam, I.S.M. Shanamul; Rahman, Md. Khalilur (© 2014 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2014-01)
      Any two wheeler vehicles usually cannot balance by itself when it is in rest or running at a lower speed. The purpose of this research is to make a vehicle that would be stable by itself in such situations and can be ...

    • 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 ...

    • Exploring modular architecture for nano satellite and opportunity for developing countries 

      Rhaman, Md. Khalilur; Monowar, M. I.; Shakil, Shifur Rahman; Kafi, A. H.; Antara, R. S I (© 2015 Institute of Physics Publishing, 2015)
      SPACE Technology has the potential to provide information, infrastructure and inspiration that meets national needs in developing countries like Bangladesh. Many countries recognize this; in response they are investing in ...

    • 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 ...

    • Innovation for universal health coverage in Bangladesh: a call to action 

      Adams, Alayne M.; Ahmed, Tanvir; El Arifeen, Shams E.; Evans, Timothy Grant; Huda, Tanvir M.; Reichenbach, Laura J.; Ahmed, Faruque S K; Ahmed, Shamim; Ahmed, Syéd Masud; Azad, Kishwar; Bhuiya, Abbas Uddin; Mahmood, Shehrin Shaila; Cash, Richard A.; Chen, Lincoln; Chowdhury, Mahbub Elahi Khan; Chowdhury, Ahmed Mushtaque Raza; Christou, Aliki; Halder, Shantana R.; Husain, Mushtuq Mushtaq; Islam, Mohammad Sirajul; Islam, Khaled Shamsul; Huq, Shireen; Hussain, Zakir; Mahmud, Simeen; Mallick, Fuad Hassan; May, Maria A.; Osman, Ferdous Arfina; Peters, David H.; Perry, Henry B.; Rabbani, Atonu; Rahman, Mijanur Aminur; Rahman, Mahmudur Ziaur; Rasheed, Sabrina; Rashid, Sabina F.; Al-Sabir, Ahmed; Standing, Hilary; Mahmud, Simeen (© 2013 The Lancet, 2013)
      A post-Millennium Development Goals agenda for health in Bangladesh should be defined to encourage a second generation of health-system innovations under the clarion call of universal health coverage. This agenda should ...

    • Prevention and control of tuberculosis in workplaces: how knowledgeable are the workers in Bangladesh? 

      Shafayetul Islam, Qazi; Akramul Islam, Md; Islam, Shayla; Masud Ahmed, Syed (© 2015 BioMed Central Ltd., 2015)
      Background: The National Tuberculosis (TB) Control Programme (NTP) of Bangladesh succeeded in achieving the dual targets of 70 % case detection and 85 % treatment completion as set by the World Health Organization. However, ...

    • Terminal analysis of the operations of a rescue robot constructed for assisting secondary disaster situations 

      Chowdhury, Mohammad Shadman Sakib; Nawal, Mehbas Fairuz; Rashid, Tahmid; Rhaman, Khalilur (© 2016 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016)
      This paper highlights an approach to combat the ramifications of both natural and man-made catastrophe in perspective of Bangladesh, a country highly susceptible to disasters. The aim of the paper is to develop a 'Rescue ...

    • Mixing methods, tasting fingers: notes on an ethnographic experiment 

      Mann, Anna; Mol, Annemarie; Satalkar, Priya; Savirani, Amalinda; Selim, Nasima; Sur, Malini; Yates-Doerr, Emily (© 2011 School of Social and Political Sciences, 2011)
      This article reports on an ethnographic experiment. Four finger eating experts and three novices sat down for a hot meal and ate with their hands. Drawing on the technique of playing with the familiar and the strange, our ...

    • Chondrobot-2: A simple and efficient semi-autonomous tele-robotic lunar excavator 

      Rhaman, Md. Khalilur; Hossain, Md. Jonayet; Anik, Kazi Mohammad Razin; Oyon, Mahmudul Hasan; Nabia, Sarah Binte Nasir; Rahi, Nabil Shaker; Khan, Bonny Amin; Miran, Md. Mashiur Rahman; Bhuian, Belal Hossain; Rahman, Md. Mosaddequr (© 2012 IEEE, 2012)
      A simple, light-weight and efficient excavation system to excavate and collect lunar regolith has been developed at BRAC university. The excavation system has a dimension of 1.21m × 0.66m × 0.74m with a total weight of 65 ...

    • Scenario of adolescent sexual and reproductive health with opportunities for information communication and technology use in selected South Asian countries 

      Bam, Kiran; Arvind Girase, Bhushan (© 2015 Technological Educational Institute of Athens, 2015)
      Introduction: Regardless of being involved in early sexual activity, significant number of South Asian adolescents gets restricted in making informed decisions on sexual and reproductive practices due to diverse seclusion ...