Browsing BracU Faculty Publications by Title

Now showing items 561-580 of 665

    • A simple study on weight and height of students 

      Islam, Dr. Mohammad Rafiqul; Bin Shafique, Md. Ishraque; Rahman, Md. Kowshikur; Haque, Md. Arafat (© 2017 European Scientific Institute, ESI, 2017-02)
      This study was conducted on a group of male and female students of age range of 18-25 years. In this paper it is tried to find out a correlation between height and weight of male and female students. Then the simple ...

    • A simple tele-robotic lunar excavator 

      Rhaman, Md. Khalilur; Hasan, Shiblee Imtiaz; Hossain, Md. Jonayet; Anik, Kazi Mohammad Razin; Oyon, Mahmudul Hasan; Bhuian, Belal Hossain; Rahman, Md. Mosaddequr (© 2012 IEEE, 2013)
      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 ...

    • Simulation and analysis of battery performance of a solar car using a model implemented in simulink 

      Al Maliniud, Abdullah; Zaman, Asif; Jafar, Imran Bin (© 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 ...

    • Simulation of carrier mobility through Graphene Nanoribbon based DNA sensor 

      Hasan, Rifat; Nandy, Turja; Abedin, Minhaz Ibna; Hassan, Asif S.; Mondol, Raktim Kumar (© 2015 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015)
      Graphene Nanoribbons (GNRs), now-a-days, are used in detecting Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) which is one of the breakthroughs in modern nanobiomaterial and biomedical applications. The conductance is calculated by transferring ...

    • Simulation of saturation current in In1-xGaxSb based solar cell 

      Hassan, Asif S.; Mondol, Raktim Kumar; Jafar, Imran Bin (© 2015 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015)
      After the golden era of silicon, nowadays compound semiconductors from III-V group is extensively studied to observe their application in electronic as well as in other field. Solar cell which is providing alternative ...

    • A single phase AC-AC boost converter with improved input power factor and THD 

      Kabir, Md. Ashfanoor; Abedin, Amina Hasan; Mustafiz, Rubiya Binta; Islam, Muhammed Kamrul; Choudhury, Mohammad Ali A Shoukat (© 2011 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2011)
      A new circuit is proposed for single phase AC-AC conversion using Boost topology. Input Power factor, input current Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) and efficiency of the circuit are examined for the proposed circuit for ...

    • A single phase buck-boost AC-AC converter with low input current THD and high input power factor 

      Abedin, Amina Hasan; Kabir, Ashfanoor N M Enamul; Ahmad, Estiak; Rahman, Dhrubo; Choudhury, Mohammad Ali A Shoukat (© 2011 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2011)
      Two new topologies of Buck-Boost single-phase ac-ac conversion are proposed. In one of the circuits a bi-directional switch with a single buck-boost inductor is used, whereas, in the other circuit a bi-directional switch ...

    • A single phase SEPIC AC-DC converter with improved power factor and input current THD 

      Hossain, Mohammad Rubaiyat Tanvir; Abedin, Amina Hasan; Choudhury, Mohammad Ali A.Shoukat (© 2016 IEEE, 2017-02-13)
      A new topology of single-phase SEPIC (Single Ended Primary Inductor Converter) AC-DC converter with low input current THD and high input power factor is proposed. Instead of using a single phase rectifier followed by a ...

    • Socio-demographic characteristics and tobacco use among the adults in urban slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh 

      Khandker, Nusrat Nausheen; Biswas, Tuhin; Khan, Abdullah Nurus Salam; Hasib, Enamul; Rawal, Lal Bahadur (© 2017 BioMed Central Ltd., 2017-05-05)
      Background: Use of tobacco has become one of the major causes of premature deaths in most developing countries, including Bangladesh. The poorest and most disadvantaged populations, such as those living in slums, are ...

    • Socio-economic inequality of chronic non-communicable diseases in Bangladesh 

      Biswas, Tuhin; Islam, Md Saimul; Linton, Natalie; Rawal, Lal Bahadur (© 2016 Public Library of Science, 2016-11)
      Introduction Chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are a major public health challenge, and undermine social and economic development in much of the developing world, including Bangladesh. Epidemiologic evidence on the ...

    • Socio-economic vulnerability and neo-liberalism lessons from Bangladesh 

      Rahman, Shahidur (© 2009 SAGE Publications, 2009-11)
      Based on a case study of an export-oriented Bangladeshi garment company, this article shows how hierarchies of vulnerability have developed in the process of global integration of Bangladesh’s garment industry. Situating ...

    • Socio-economic vulnerability and neo-liberalism: lessons from Bangladesh 

      Rahman, Shahidur (© 2009, Sage Publication, UK, 2009-11-01)
      Based on a case study of an export-oriented Bangladeshi garment company, this article shows how hierarchies of vulnerability have developed in the process of global integration of Bangladesh’s garment industry. Situating ...

    • Software implementation of the Central Solar Battery Charging Station (CSBCS) 

      Chowdhury, Farhana; Shabnam, Farah; Islam, Farha R.; Azad, Dr. AKM Abdul Malek (© 2013 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2013)
      Solar Battery Charging Station is the beginner's outline of the Central Solar Battery Charging Station which can be worn as an alternation of the complementary power source or electricity for assembling the ever-increasing ...

    • Software test estimation tool: comparable with COCOMOII model 

      Islam, Shaiful; Pathik, Bishwajit Banik; Khan, Manzur H.; Habib, Md Mamun (© 2016 IEEE, 2016-12)
      This study illustrates an estimation tool for software test that provides the estimated time and the cost of any sort of software test project. There are different well-recognized estimation tools for software development ...

    • Solar battery charging station and torque sensor based electrically assisted tricycle 

      Faraz, T.; Azad, AKM Abdul Malek (© 2012 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2012)
      Bangladesh is witnessing an increase in solar electricity generation as part of an ambitious plan to boost the provision of power from renewable energy sources. Solar energy is being harnessed and converted to electrical ...

    • Solar electric ambulance van unfolding medical emergencies of rural Bangladesh 

      Tarek, R.; Anjum, Adiba; Hoque, Md Ashiqul; Azad, Akm M.M.Abdul Malek (© 2016 IEEE, 2016-10)
      Rickshaws are a key mode of transportation in Bangladesh. When it was changed to electrically-assisted ones, it achieved prevalence but was soon banned because of overconsumption of power from the national grid. In ...

    • Solar home system components qualification testing procedure and its effect in bangladesh perspective 

      Khan, S. A.; Rahman, Rifat; Azad, AKM Abdul Malek (© 2012 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2012)
      Bangladesh has seen a proliferation of Solar Home System (SHS) in Off-grid areas as a substitute for grid electricity. Along with the demand, supply of low quality SHS components is increasing resulting in decreased SHS ...

    • Some analytical models of anisotropic strange stars 

      Murad, Mohammad Hassan (© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015, 2016)
      Over the years of the concept of local isotropy has become a too stringent condition in modeling relativistic self-gravitating objects. Taking local anisotropy into consideration, in this work, some analytical models of ...

    • Some new solutions of the (1+1)-dimensional PDE via the improved (G ′/ G)-expansion method 

      Naher, Hasibun; Abdullah, Farah Aini (© 2014 American Institute of Physics Inc., 2014)
      In this article, an improved (G′/G)-expansion method is implemented for the simplified Modified Camassa-Holm (MCH) equation involving parameters, with an aim to construct many new traveling wave solutions. In this method, ...

    • Some new solutions of the (3+1)-Dimensional Jimbo-Miwa equation via the improved (G'/G)-Expansion method 

      Naher, Hasibun; Aini Abdullah, Farah; Rashid, Abdur (© 2014 Eudoxus Press, LLC, 2014)
      The improved (G'/G)-expansion method is straightforward and effective mathematical tool for establishing exact traveling wave solutions of different nonlinear partial differential equations which arise in engineering ...