Volume 06, Number 01, 2009

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Human resource accounting (HRA) disclosure of Bangladeshicompanies and its association with corporate characteristics
(BRAC University, 2009) Al Mamun, Syed Abdulla
This study reports the relationship between corporate characteristics and Human Resource Disclosure (HRAD) level in fifty five randomly selected companies of Bangladesh. The relationships were determined using a HRAD Index (HRADI) under a number of hypotheses. The results of the study show that companies averagely disclose 25% of the total HRAD items. In this study, HRAD has been found significantly related with the size of the company, category of the company (financial or non-financial) and profitability. However, HDAD had no influence on the age of companies.
Sustainability of assisted shelter projects in post-cyclone communities: The Southkhali case, Bangladesh
(BRAC University, 2009) Hakim, Sheikh Serajul
Sustainability results from the combination of a number of socio-cultural, economical, organizational, technical and environmental factors in development. Any project is only sustainable when it meets today’s needs and also thinks about tomorrow’s possible problems and ways to resolve those. Sustainability of housing projects, therefore, must also consider all these. Yet in Bangladesh, it is usual to have un-sustainable projects even in the presence of norms and prior knowledge. Shocking but a matter of fact is that situations are even worse in emergencies (e.g. post-cyclone situation); considering assistance (thus assisted shelters/houses), and especially the intensions and implementation strategy behind that, the sustainability of many projects hence are seldom beyond questioning. As many previous studies (in and outside Bangladesh) in similar situations predict and point out, sustainability could be really overlooked in such forms of (re)development. Having this in mind, and after visiting one such distressed community (Southkhali, Bagerhat), the predictions do not seem wrong. This research, thus, aims to verify the nature and extent of sustainability that truly characterizes these assisted projects in Bangladesh.
An examination of FDI and growth nexus in Bangladesh: engle granger and bound testing cointegration approach
(BRAC University, 2009) Shimul, Shafiun Nahin; Abduallah, S.M.; Siddiqua, Salina
This paper attempted at finding the long run relationship or cointegration between foreign direct investment and economic growth for Bangladesh using time series data of 1973-2007. For testing cointegration, the two modern time series econometric approaches- bound testing Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Model and Engle Granger two step procedures - were executed and this study found that FDI and GDP was not cointegrated. Moreover, using Granger Causality test it was shown that the FDI and openness were not significantly causing the GDP per capital both in the short and long run. The study suggested adopting appropriate steps so that FDI can be used as a contributing factor to the economic development.
In Richard Wright's native soon, the gaze of the white eye ironically selfblinding works as panopticon and makes the black go blind
(BRAC University, 2009) Nasrin, Nipa
In Native Son Richard Wright explains the causes of the psychological blindness of the Blacks and of the Whites, along with their results. Wright illustrates how the white gaze and ideology work as panopticon and force the Blacks into a pressured and dangerous state of mind while the media constantly portrays them as animalistic brutes. This conditioning bounds the Black to react violently or to become blind towards own existence. Unknowingly the Whites also get conditioned by their deep-seated racial prejudices, despite some rare good intentions. Mrs. Dalton’s blindness represents White inability to see Blacks as anything other than the White media-enforced-stereotypes. Richard Wright deliberately suggests that America is self blinding, seeking to address the symptoms of racism while remaining incognizant of reality. In Bigger’s blindness, like Sophocles, Wright connects the idea of ‘excessive pride’ and anger. Bigger is as blind to his potentials as of the duality of the reality. This blindness, of which all the Biggers are the victims, results from the constant attack of racist propaganda and racial oppression. The Whites willingly created this dual blindness by using their ideological gaze as panopticon in order to condition Black life accordingly and to negate Black existence totally.
Throughput optimization of rayleigh channel using various parameters
(BRAC University, 2009) Arefin, Md. Taslim; Shameem, Mushfeq-us-Shameem; Awal, A.L.M Ashfaqul
In wireless communication throughput is a key factor to measure the quality of wireless data link. Throughput is defined as the number of information bits received without error per second and we would naturally like this quantity as to be high as possible. This research work looks at the problem of optimizing throughput for a packet based wireless data transmission scheme from a general point of view. The purpose of this work is to show the very nature of throughput and how it can be maximized that means how we can optimize the throughput by observing its certain changing parameter such as transmission rate, packet length, signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) etc. Our main result is a mathematical technique for determining the optimum transmission rate and packet size as a function of the other variables. The key to maximizing the throughput rate is maintaining the signal-to-noise ratio at an optimum level determined by the nature of the channel. Have We tried to take a more a more general look at throughput by considering its definition for a packet-based scheme and how it can be maximized based on the channel model being used. In this research work we have used Rayleigh Fading Channel.
Problems and mis conceptions facing the primary language education in Bangladesh: an analysis of curricular and pedagogic practices
(BRAC University, 2009) Banu, L.F. Apnan
This article offers a portrayal of the issues and concerns usually being ignored or bypassed to either a greater or lesser extent in the literacy curriculum and instructional practices in Bangladesh at the primary level. The study is broadly based on a naturalistic inquiry method over a period of four years. Views presented here have emerged through a passionate and exhaustive involvement with the design, development and dissemination phases of an intensive language education development project and its subsequent mainstreaming in an alternative education system dedicated for the disadvantaged children-community. My work there has encompassed setting curricular goals, selecting pedagogic approaches, designing instructional strategies and materials, setting assessment arrangements, developing follow-up indicators, and formulating monitoring, research and evaluation demands. This opportunity has enabled me to develop a deep understanding, coupled with a pragmatic view of what aspects are absent from the current educational practice in Bangladesh, particularly in respect to literacy. Numerous issues, both in policy and practice, need to be addressed with more focus to increase the rate of change towards more effective outcomes for learners. Putting emphasis on mechanistic aspects of language learning, bias towards dominant identity in content selection process, a pervasive content-driven pedagogy and assessment practice, disproportionate instructional priority on lower order cognitive skills and mismatch of curricular intention with teacher-training curricula are some areas where problems prevail. Possible strategies are been suggested to overcome these challenges
A note on the choice of the smoothing parameter in the kernel dinsity estimate
(BRAC University, 2009) Froelich, Daniel F.; Rahman, Mezbahur
Among different density estimation procedures, the kernel density estimation has attracted the most attention. In this paper, the choices for smoothing parameter is discussed when the widely used Gaussian kernel is used in implementing the kernel density estimate. A simulation study is conducted from several mixtures of normal distributions covering a wide range of distributional shapes.
Peer correction in ESL classrooms
(BRAC University, 2009) Sultana, Asifa
Like in any other learning situation, in a second language classroom a learner essentially needs to be provided with feedback on his/her performance. Due to the emergence of Communicative Language Teaching and Learner-centered Teaching, students’ active participation in language learning is now highly sought and therefore, peer correction is becoming increasingly popular among the practitioners. This paper re-views peer correction as a ‘popular’ technique to be used in classroom and explores several issues regarding this. It also places peer correction in the context of Bangladesh and tries to find out the effectiveness of the technique particularly for the classrooms of Bangladesh. Moreover, in this paper I have hypothesized that the acceptability of peer feedback varies between the young and the adult learners. In order for testing the general acceptability of this technique and the hypothesis, data have been collected from students at tertiary level as well as students from primary level. Finally, the students’ responses have been analyzed and discussed, and some recommendations have been provided regarding the practice of peer correction.
Rationalities of Z-category shares in Dhaka stock exchange: are they in financial distress risk?
(BRAC University, 2009) Chowdhury, Anup; Barua, Suborna
Financial distress is a situation where a firm’s operating cash flows are not sufficient to satisfy current obligations and the firm is forced to take corrective actions, and a firm in financial distress may also face bankruptcy or liquidation to meet its liabilities. Financial distress can be caused by losses, dividend reduction or bankruptcy. A good way to measure the possibility of bankruptcy is to use Z score model (Altman, 1968). This paper uses the Z score model to predict risk of financial distress of Z category companies listed in Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE). Results suggest that five of fifty three companies are out of danger while seven of those are in the gray area. Evidently, forty one of the companies are operating with high distress risk as suggested by the model result. Therefore ninety percent of the companies are suffering from financial distress risk due to very poor management capability and operating inefficiency although its reflection to the stock price is absent from the market in many instances. The Altman’s Z score, model though may not be fully applicable for companies in Bangladesh, yet proves its strong validity and correctness in predicting distressful status of the Z category companies.
The language of hermaphrodites as they speak their own special kind of language within their community in Bangladesh
(BRAC University, 2009) Kaderi, Ahmed Salehin
Languages take birth and die out in this world; and there are still languages that we have not yet discovered. With this hypothesis in mind a search shows that the hermaphrodites in Bangladesh speak their own kind of language to communicate within their own community. They call their language the “Reverse Language” and speak it to hide and isolate them from the so called mainstream society. There are many reasons why they speak this language, the origin of the Reverse Language being rooted in Bengali as the native language. But the divergences and convergences are very different in the case of the Reverse Language. This study therefore shows what language the hermaphrodites speak, and how we can hypothesize this language to have its roots in the mother tongue.

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