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Ultra poor and asset transfer in Urban setting: Evidence from slums in Bangladesh
(Wiley Online Library, 2016-08-09)
We use cross-sectional data to assess the impact of the programme on livelihood where propensity score matching technique has been adopted in analysing the data. Results show that programme participants' self-employment, ...
Limits and opportunities to community health worker empowerment: a multi-country comparative study
(© 2016 Elsevier Ltd, 2016)
Background In LMICs, Community Health Workers (CHW) increasingly play health promotion related roles involving ‘Empowerment of communities’. To be able to empower the communities they serve, we argue, it is essential that ...
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 ...
Electrical pole climbing robot: for wiring and repairing distribution lines
(© 2016 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016-06)
The basis of this project is to create an electrical pole climbing robot which can be used to reduce the risk of an electrician to connect the distribution lines for supplying purposes. Pole climbing robot, nowadays, is a ...
Unsteady laminar mixed convection boundary layer flow near a vertical wedge due to oscillations in the free-stream and surface temperature
(© 2016 De Gruyter Open Ltd., 2016)
The unsteady laminar boundary layer characteristics of mixed convection flow past a vertical wedge have been investigated numerically. The free-stream velocity and surface temperature are assumed to be oscillating in the ...
Nano satellite: a new journey towards space science for Bangladesh
(© 2016 Istanbul Technical University, 2016)
A distanced machinery controlling and monitoring guardian
(© 2015 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016-01)
Every machine has a safe range of operation which includes heat emission, produced sound and vibration which an expert technician can troubleshoot most of the problems just by observing the behavior (sound, vibration, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Isolation of yeasts from raisins and Palm-juice and ethanol production in molasses medium
(© 2016 Indian Society for Education and Environment, 2016)
The alternative fuels are expected to satisfy the progressive demand for energy on the wake of the negative effects of fossil fuel on the atmosphere and resultant universal warming. In this study two ethanol fermenting ...