BRACU Faculty Publications: Recent submissions
Now showing items 81-100 of 665
-
Autism Spectrum disorders (ASD) in South Asia: a systematic review
(© 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 ... -
Antibiotic use for pneumonia among children under-five at a pediatric hospital in Dhaka city, Bangladesh
(© 2017 Dove Medical Press Ltd., 2017-08-03)Background: Pneumonia has been the leading cause of morbidity and mortality among children under 5 for more than 3 decades, particularly in low-income countries like Bangladesh. The World Health Organization (WHO) developed ... -
False and real, but avoidable, dichotomies
(© 2017 Lancet Publishing Group, 2017-08) -
Before rana plaza: towards a history of labour organizing in Bangladesh’s garment industry
(© 2016 Taylor and Francis., 2016-01-01) -
Bangladesh: Class, precarity and the politics of care
(© 2017 Taylor and Francis., 2017-01-01) -
Acoustic emission sensor network based fault diagnosis of induction motors using a gabor filter and multiclass support vector machines
(© 2016 Old City Publishing, Inc., 2016)Reliable and efficient fault diagnosis of induction motors is an important issue in industrial environments. This paper proposes a method for reliable fault diagnosis of induction motors using signal processing of acoustic ... -
Research dimensions of open innovation in small and medium enterprises
(© 2016 IGI Global, 2016-06-27)Innovation is treated as a recognized driver of economic prosperity of a country through the sustained growth of its entrepreneurships. Moreover, recently coined term open innovation is increasingly taking the lead in ... -
Editorial introduction: Islam, culture and women
(© 2011 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 2011-06-02) -
Morphosyntactic development of Bangla-speaking preschool children
(© 2016 SAGE Publications Ltd., 2016-12-01)This study examines the morphosyntactic development, specifically verb morphology, of typically-developing Bangla-speaking children between the ages of two and four. Three verb forms were studied: the Present Simple, the ... -
Human development and interaction in the age of ubiquitous technology
(© 2016 IGI Global, 1/27/2016)The human condition is affected by numerous factors in modern society. In modern times, technology is so integrated into culture that it has become necessary to perform even daily functions. Human Development and Interaction ... -
Open innovation: reaching out to the grass roots through SMEs - exploring issues of opportunities and challenges to reach economic sustainability
(© 2016 IGI Global, 6/27/2016)While talking about successful entrepreneurship and value addition within an enterprise through innovation, one could realize that the innovation paradigm has been shifted from simple introduction of new ideas and products ... -
Intelligent intrusion prevention system for households based on system-on-chip computer
(© 2016 IEEE, 2016-05)Over the course of the last few decades, security systems have undergone radical overhauls and have transitioned into such sophisticated devices that some even completely shun any form of human interventions. In spite of ... -
A study on image enhancement methods for printed Bangla document images
(© 2016 IEEE, 2016)Image enhancement is the process of modification of digital images in order to make quality resultant images such that those can be subjected to further manipulation (like further image analysis). There are several ways ... -
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 ... -
The impact of cyclone aila on the sundarban forest ecosystem
(© 2017 CESER Publications, 2017)Climate change is expected to increase stress on mangrove forests across the globe in multiple pathways. Changes in sea level, temperature, tropical cyclones, saline water invasion, land inundation, ocean acidification, ... -
Viewing angle enhancement of a real-time integral imaging system using multi-directional projections and GPU parallel processing
(© 2017 SPIE, 2017-02)A novel method of viewing angle enhancement of a real-time integral imaging system using multi-directional projections and GPU parallel processing is proposed. The proposed system is composed of three processes: information ... -
A web and software-based approach blending social networks for online Qur’anic arabic learning
(© 2017 Zarka Private Univ., 2017-01)About 80 percent of the world’s Muslim populations are non-native speakers of the Arabic language. Since it is obligatory for all Muslims to recite Qur’an in Arabic during prayers, an extraordinary social phenomenon has ... -
A novel parallel texture feature extraction method using log-gabor filter and singular value decomposition (SVD)
(© 2017 ACM, 2017-01)Texture feature extraction consolidated with texture feature detection and feature matching solves many typical problems of image processing and computer vision; such as, texture classification, pattern recognition, object ... -
An improved chromosome sorting algorithm by permutation group-based inverted block-interchanges
(© 2016 IEEE, 2016-12)In comparative genomics, a common issue is to find the shortest course of operations for the transformation of one genome into another. During rejoining the blocks, inverted block interchange, a more distinct form of block ... -
Indigenous identity in South Asia: making claims in the colonial Chittagong hill tracts
(© 2016 Taylor and Francis., 2016-01-01)In the immediate aftermath of the creation of Bangladesh in 1971, an armed struggle ensued in its remote south-eastern corner. The hill people in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, more commonly referred to as paharis, demanded ...