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Reliable fault classification of induction motors using texture feature extraction and a multiclass support vector machine
(© 2014 Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2014)This paper proposes a method for the reliable fault detection and classification of induction motors using two-dimensional (2D) texture features and a multiclass support vector machine (MCSVM). The proposed model first ... -
Reprint of: issues with families and children in a disaster context: a qualitative perspective from rural Bangladesh
(© 2015 Elsevier Ltd., 2015)Natural disasters such as floods and cyclones have repeatedly devastated lives and destroyed the belongings of people. This is especially so for children and their families in Bangladesh. This study analyzed the specific ... -
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 ... -
Reservation wage of female volunteer community health workers in Dhaka urban slums: a bidding game approach
Background: BRAC, a large Bangladeshi NGO, recently has been using female volunteer community health workers (CHWs) in Dhaka urban slums to provide maternal and child health services. Due to erratic performance-based income ... -
Resource-aware task scheduling by an adversarial bandit solver method in wireless sensor networks
(© 2016 Springer International Publishing, 2016)A wireless sensor network (WSN) is composed of a large number of tiny sensor nodes. Sensor nodes are very resource-constrained, since nodes are often battery-operated and energy is a scarce resource. In this paper, a ... -
Retention of female volunteer community health workers in Dhaka urban slums: a case-control study
Alam, K., Tasneem, S., & Oliveras, E. (2012). Retention of female volunteer community health workers in dhaka urban slums: A case-control study. Health Policy and Planning, 27(6), 477-486. doi:10.1093/heapol/czr059 -
Review article (Continuum (2012) 26:2 (315-323))
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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 ... -
A review on endocrine disruptors and their possible impacts on human health
Endocrine disruption is a named field of research which has been very active for over 10 years, although the effects of endocrine disruptors in wildlife have been studied mainly in vast since the 1940s. A large number of ... -
Revisiting innovations in ELT through online classes: an evaluation of the approaches of 10 minute school
(© 2019 The Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2019-01)The ubiquity with regard to technology and availability of social media offered an unorthodox avenue to impart education. Concerning language teaching and learning, the meticulous use of such online platforms has been ... -
Revisiting the child health-wealth nexus
(© 2016 The Author(s)., 2016-04)The causal link between a household’s economic standing and child health is known to suffer from endogeneity. While past studies have exemplified the causal link to be small, albeit statistically significant, this paper ... -
Revitalizing higher education in Bangladesh: insights from alumni and policy prescriptions
(© 2003 Published by Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2003)Higher education in Bangladesh must become more responsive to the needs of a major constituency: its students. How this might be accomplished is examined in this study using a nine-factor model to explain the satisfaction ... -
Right to be forgotten: a critique of the post-Costeja Gonzalez paradigm
(© 2015 Computer and Telecommunications Law Review, 2015)Considers the challenges of administering the "right to be forgotten" (RTBF) as formulated by the ECJ ruling in Google Spain SL v Agencia Espanola de Proteccion de Datos (AEPD) (C-131/12) and the draft General Data Protection ... -
The RJ style: brought to you by Bangladeshi FM radio
(© 2011 Stamford Journal of English, 2011)In recent years, the popularity of FM Radio stations has brought a unique change in speech style among the Bangladeshi youth. This paper compares the views of both the Radio Jockeys (RJ) and the young listeners to find out ... -
The road to a transcultural America: the case of American Muslim girls
(BRAC University, 2016-05-03)Fernando Ortiz acknowledged the pain of colonisation and the uprooting of slaves from Africa from the sixteenth century onwards. Later, people from diverse backgrounds such as Jews, Anglo-Saxons and Chinese migrated to the ... -
Role of credit in food security and dietary diversity in Bangladesh
(© 2017 Elsevier B.V., 2017-03-01)This work attempts to disentangle the relationship between credit, food security, and dietary diversity in the context of Bangladesh through descriptive and econometric analyses of the Household Income and Expenditure ... -
The role of performance management system in shaping psychological contract: a case study approach
(© 2012 SPIRI (Society for Promoting International Research and Innovation), 2012-03)This research paper provides an analysis and evaluation of the role of performance management system in shaping psychological contract at Sainsbury’s UK by a case study approach. Sainsbury’s has adopted the performance ... -
Role of spatial tools in public health policymaking of Bangladesh: opportunities and challenges
(© 2016 Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2016-02)In spite of the increasing efforts to gather spatial data in developing countries, the use of maps is mostly for visualization of health indicators rather than informed decision-making. Various spatial tools can aid ... -
RouteFinder: real-time optimum vehicle routing using mobile phone network
(© 2015 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015)Road traffic congestion is a major issue in most mega cities. The traffic jams are often exacerbated by drivers habitually following the same routes. A real-time, optimum vehicle routing system that takes traffic density ... -
A rule based approach for implementation of bangla to english translation
(© 2012 IEEE, 2013)An initiative to model a Bangla to English (B2E) translation using Natural Language Processing (NLP) was proposed in our previous research. Here we implemented the model with a lot of modifications. A very successful ...