BRACU Faculty Publications: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Design and implementation of a simple electromechanical system to reduce domestic gas wastage and accidents in South-Asia
(© 2012 IEEE, 2012)This paper elaborates design and implementation aspects of a system design project which aims at modernizing the current design of domestic gas-stoves with a simple electromechanical sensor-integrated system in order to ... -
Qualitative insights into promotion of pharmaceutical products in Bangladesh: how ethical are the practices?
(© 2015 BioMed Central Ltd., 2015)Background: The pharmaceutical market in Bangladesh is highly concentrated (top ten control around 70 % of the market). Due to high competition aggressive marketing strategies are adopted for greater market share, which ... -
Simulation and analysis of battery performance of a solar car using a model implemented in simulink
(© 2015 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015-12)Battery performance of a proposed solar car has been investigated under different road conditions while the car makes a nip in one of the longest routes in Dhaka city, using a model developed in Matlab Simulink. A significant ... -
Willingness-to-pay for community-based health insurance among informal workers in urban Bangladesh
(© 2016 Public Library of Science, 2016)Introduction Reliance on out-of-pocket payment for healthcare may lead poor households to undertake catastrophic health expenditure, and risk-pooling mechanisms have been recommended to mitigate such burdens for households ... -
Performance study of lead-acid battery in a solar car under different traffic and weather conditions
(© 2016 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016-01)In this paper performance of lead-acid battery in a solar car, proposed earlier for Dhaka city dwellers, has been studied under different traffic and weather conditions while the car travels in a long route of Dhaka city. ... -
A Review of groundwater arsenic contamination in Bangladesh: the millennium development goal era and beyond
(© 2016 MDPI AG, 2016)Arsenic contamination in drinking water has a detrimental impact on human health which profoundly impairs the quality of life. Despite recognition of the adverse health implications of arsenic toxicity, there have been few ... -
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 ... -
Protein folding in HP model on hexagonal lattices with diagonals
(© 2014 BioMed Central Ltd., 2014)Three dimensional structure prediction of a protein from its amino acid sequence, known as protein folding, is one of the most studied computational problem in bioinformatics and computational biology. Since, this is a ... -
Inference of genetic networks using multi-objective hybrid SPEA2+ from microarray data
(© 2013 IEEE, 2013-07)Multi-objective optimization plays a significant role in optimizing many real life problems, where we desire to optimize more than one objective. Numerous multi-objective optimization algorithm exists in research. NSGA-II ... -
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 ... -
University course advising: overcoming the challenges using decision support system
(© 2014 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2014-12)Universities require a fast and reliable system to provide academic advising to its students, register them into different courses, and to manage change requests. Currently in Bangladesh, academic advising is done mostly ... -
How many hours do people sleep in Bangladesh? a country-representative survey
(© 2016 Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2016)This study investigated total sleep time in the Bangladeshi population and identified the proportion of the population at greater risk of developing chronic diseases due to inadequate sleep. Using a cross-sectional survey, ... -
What influences adolescent girls' decision-making regarding contraceptive methods use and childbearing? a qualitative exploratory study in Rangpur District, Bangladesh
(© 2016 Public Library of Science, 2016)Background: Bangladesh has the highest rate of adolescent pregnancy in South Asia. Child marriage is one of the leading causes of pregnancies among adolescent girls. Although the country's contraceptive prevalence rate is ... -
Close-to-community providers of health care: Increasing evidence of how to bridge community and health systems
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The influence of travel time on emergency obstetric care seeking behavior in the urban poor of Bangladesh: a GIS study
(© 2016 BioMed Central Ltd., 2016)Background: Availability of Emergency Obstetric Care (EmOC) is crucial to avert maternal death due to life-threatening complications potentially arising during delivery. Research on the determinants of utilization of EmOC ... -
A new routing algorithm for symmetric rearrangeable networks and emerging applications
(© 2012 IEEE, 2012)An excavation tele-robotic system is developed to excavate and collect lunar regolith. The excavator has been developed by the team BRACU ChondroBot consisting students from BRAC University for NASA's 2nd Annual Lunabotics ... -
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 ... -
Automatic slice growing method based 3D reconstruction of liver with its vessels
(© 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 ... -
O (log over(m, -) . log N) routing algorithm for (2 log N - 1)-stage switching networks and beyond
(© 2014 Elsevier Inc., 2014)This paper addresses routing algorithm for a classic network called rearrangeable network with a complexity which is minimum than any other reported algorithms in this class. A new routing algorithm is presented for symmetric ...