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Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance, 2018

Knowledge management (KM) is an integral component of governance system in an organization. Knowl... more Knowledge management (KM) is an integral component of governance system in an organization. Knowledge although always remains as the most important resource both at individual and collective levels, recently organizational practitioners, private and public, reinvent the role of knowledge in management and governance, emphasize on it, and involve in knowledge management. Consequently knowledge management now constitutes a vital part of governance. However, this paper argues in a distinct approach where knowledge management is considered as the essential kit to bring sustainable change in human behavior in the organization which ultimately paves the way for smooth functioning of governance. The changed or positive attitude in organizational people or citizens will ease and support the way of ensuring governance principles and practices. So, the principal objective of this paper is to place the knowledge management as the supportive mechanism for governance both in private and public sectors.

In today’s Electronic world, there are many devices which connect to one another as well to compu... more In today’s Electronic world, there are many devices which connect to one another as well to computer in a variety of ways: A cable connects a computer's processing unit to a display, a data cable and a docking cradle connect a personal digital assistant (PDA) or a cellular phone to a computer, radio waves connect a cordless phone to its base unit, an infrared beam connects a remote control to a television. The elaborate array of connectors among electronic devices cries out for a better solution. In this fast growing technology world, wireless data transferring in a desired format is essential. Data integrity, data security, cost of hardware and software, and system’s power management capacity is of prime importance for our data acquisition application. With the increasing use of data loggers to collect information in industrial and environmental monitoring applications, has come a corresponding increase in the use of wireless technology to retrieve the information. Secure and r...

Objectives: Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) is currently considered to be a major contribu... more Objectives: Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) is currently considered to be a major contributing factor in migraine headache. Botulinum toxin type A (BTXA) was found to be effective in migraine prevention. However, the mechanism of action in patients was unknown. Using injection as in clinical setting, the study aimed to determine whether BTXA could decrease the sensitization of the trigeminovascular nociceptive system through the reduction of CGRP action. Methods: Adult male Wistar rats were pretreated with normal saline solution or BTXA before KCl application to induce cortical spreading depression (CSD) or NaCl application as a control. Regional cerebral blood flow at parietal cortex was measured for 90 min after KCl or NaCl application. Tissues from trigeminal ganglion (TG) and trigeminal nucleus caudalis (TNC) were then collected for CGRP and c-Fos measurement respectively. Results: BTXA pretreatment significantly decreased the cumulative blood flow and number of hyperemic...

Masks of Authoritarianism, 2021

A hybrid regime survives on the fabricated legitimacy created by ruling elites through several un... more A hybrid regime survives on the fabricated legitimacy created by ruling elites through several undemocratic measures, including suppressing the opponents. While the current AL government has been successful in holding power for more than a decade, the oppositions remain mostly silent with occasional demonstrations and violence. Jamaat is a religion-based political party and one of the significant opponents to the AL regime. In Bangladesh politics, the 1971 liberation war is the determinant factor that acts as a strength for AL due to the glorious leadership and spearheading the independence of Bangladesh. In contrast, Jamaat collaborated with the Pakistani regime for a united Pakistan. It became a symbol of ‘Rajakars’ (collaborators), a much-hated word that is a serious threat to Jamaat in Bangladesh politics. The government led by AL has a trump card in underlining the dubious role of Jamaat during the war and prosecuting the top leaders, including some of them are executed. In response, Jamaat activists carried out several failed attempts to protest the trial by both fighting in legal proceedings and staging violent demonstrations on the streets. The government also took severe actions against all oppositions, including Jamaat to squeeze them out of the political arena. This chapter aims to explore the religious-cum-political strategies taken by Jamaat to survive under a tyrannical hybrid regime of AL. The study findings demonstrate nothing innovative but an old-style of the strategies Jamaat is following covertly that might only ensure its survival in Bangladesh politics. We conclude that the political future of Jamaat is neither bleak nor very promising. Instead, it depends mostly on the political opportunity and the relationship with major political parties, BNP and AL, and collaboration with different religious groups. Keyword: Political Suppression, Awami League, Violence, Jamaat, Political Islam

International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021

We investigated the effects of esaxerenone, a novel, nonsteroidal, and selective mineralocorticoi... more We investigated the effects of esaxerenone, a novel, nonsteroidal, and selective mineralocorticoid receptor blocker, on cardiac function in Dahl salt-sensitive (DSS) rats. We provided 6-week-old DSS rats a high-salt diet (HSD, 8% NaCl). Following six weeks of HSD feeding (establishment of cardiac hypertrophy), we divided the animals into the following two groups: HSD or HSD + esaxerenone (0.001%, w/w). In survival study, all HSD-fed animals died by 24 weeks of age, whereas the esaxerenone-treated HSD-fed animals showed significantly improved survival. We used the same protocol with a separate set of animals to evaluate the cardiac function by echocardiography after four weeks of treatment. The results showed that HSD-fed animals developed cardiac dysfunction as evidenced by reduced stroke volume, ejection fraction, and cardiac output. Importantly, esaxerenone treatment decreased the worsening of cardiac dysfunction concomitant with a significantly reduced level of systolic blood pre...

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings

Quality means suitability for use and it is inversely proportional to variability of product, ser... more Quality means suitability for use and it is inversely proportional to variability of product, service, people, processes, and environment. However, it is the dynamic state that is associated with each of the above and that meets or exceeds expectations of a customer. Quality improvement is therefore the progressive reduction of variability. The gradual reduction of process and product variability can be done by successive determination and removal of the causes responsible for the variability.

New Microbes and New Infections, 2020

Teaching Public Administration, 2020

The paper aims to review public administration education in the higher education institutions in ... more The paper aims to review public administration education in the higher education institutions in Bangladesh, and their role in ensuring modern public services. Most universities in the country offer public administration degrees; however, minimal contributions to nationbuilding have been observed. The study asks: what are the pitfalls behind this? How to address the limitations? This is a qualitative study with gleaned data, using inductive content analysis to investigate the phenomenon with three case universities indicating the link between curriculum and learning delivery at the universities in Bangladesh. The research finds that poor development-oriented public administration education has little correlation to national development. The education system is traditional, where typical cultural features are nonchalance and indifference towards domestic demands. The discipline cannot create a distinctive identity and position in academia, which has consequences for the advancement o...

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings

Ill., in developing direct computer control for hydrogen powered automotives. He is also involved... more Ill., in developing direct computer control for hydrogen powered automotives. He is also involved in several direct computer control and wireless process control related research projects. His interests are in the area of industrial transducer, industrial process control, modeling and simulation of mechatronics devices and systems, wireless controls, statistical process control, computer-aided design and fabrication of printed circuit board, programmable logic controllers, programmable logic devices, and renewable energy-related projects.

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings

IL in developing direct computer control for hydrogen-powered automotive. He is also involved in ... more IL in developing direct computer control for hydrogen-powered automotive. He is also involved in several direct computer control and wireless process control related research projects. His interests are in the area of industrial transducer, industrial process control, modeling and simulation of Mechatronics devices and systems, wireless controls, statistical process control, computer aided design and fabrication of printed circuit board, programmable logic controllers, programmable logic devices and renewable energy related projects.

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings

in the state Indiana. He has done his under graduation in KLUniversity, Vijayawada, India. He is ... more in the state Indiana. He has done his under graduation in KLUniversity, Vijayawada, India. He is an outstanding student and favorite for all of his professors. He is an active participant in both co curricular and extra curricular activities. He is an avid reader and an interpreter. He learns the subject in depth and tries to work hands on whatever he learns. He is currently doing his research in packaging technology under Professor Akram Hossain in Purdue University, Calumet. After seeing his insight, the Professor offered him a Teaching Assistant position in the laboratory for guiding the students in the subject of Mechatronics.

International Journal of Information Management, 2019

Electronic Health Record (EHR) can promote awareness or knowledge about healthcare among patients... more Electronic Health Record (EHR) can promote awareness or knowledge about healthcare among patients and healthcare professionals to improve collaboration between different governmental bodies, and enhance healthcare quality. The aim of the study is to identify the critical farctors affecting the physicians' adoption of EHR in healthcare system of Bangladesh by extending the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) to include Personal Innovativeness in Information Technology and Resistance to Change. A crosssectional survey questionnaire was used to collect data from 300 participants in different private and public hospitals in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. The study used partial least square (PLS) method, a statistical analysis technique based on the structural equation modeling (SEM), to analyze the collected data. The results of the study determined that Social Influence (β = 0.19, P < 0.05), Facilitating Conditions (β = 0.19, P < 0.05), and Personal Innovativeness in Information Technology (β = 0.19, P < 0.05) had a significant influence on physicians' Behavioral Intention to adopt the EHR system, whereas Performance Expectancy (β = 0.08, P > 0.05), Effort Expectancy (β =-0.02, P > 0.05), and Resistance to Change (β = 0.03, P > 0.05) had no significant influence. The findings suggest that policymakers should increase the adoption of the EHR system by developing social strategies to encourage physicians to stimulate each other to use the EHR system and ensuring technical sufficiency, training to facilitate the use of the EHR system. In addition, the policymakers should identify physicians who possess a propensity to experiment with new information technologies as well as reduce existing challenges and barriers such as computers crush, poor infrastructure with erratic power supply etc. Moreover, we identify future research areas that provide scholars opportunities to push theoretical and empirical boundaries and offer further insights into the study of the EHR system.

Asian Journal of Cell Biology, 2019

Oncology reports, 2018

D‑allose is a rare sugar which has been shown to have growth inhibitory effects in several kinds ... more D‑allose is a rare sugar which has been shown to have growth inhibitory effects in several kinds of malignancies. However, the effect of D‑allose on lung cancer progression has not been previously studied. To investigate the antitumour effect of D‑allose in lung cancer cells and its mechanism, human non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cell lines (squamous cell carcinomas: EBC1 and VMRC‑LCD; adenocarcinomas: A549, HI1017, RERF‑LC‑A1 and NCI-H1975) were treated with D‑allose (50 mM) with or without cisplatin (5 µM). D‑allose inhibited cell growth, particularly in EBC1 and VMRC‑LCD cells. In combination with cisplatin, D‑allose had a synergistic growth inhibitory effect. D‑allose increased the expression of thioredoxin interacting protein (TXNIP) at mRNA and protein levels. D‑allose decreased the proportion of cells in G1 phase and increased those in S and G2/M phases. For in vivo experiments, EBC1 cells were inoculated into BALB/c-nu mice. After tumourigenesis, D‑allose and cisplatin w...

Bangladesh Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2017

The Indian journal of medical research, 2016

Scrub typhus is a vector-borne zoonotic infection caused by Orientiatsutsugamushi. Local epidemio... more Scrub typhus is a vector-borne zoonotic infection caused by Orientiatsutsugamushi. Local epidemiology of the circulating serotypes of scrub typhus is not available from most parts of India. We conducted this study for the diagnosis of scrub typhus using IgM ELISA and to detect O. tsutsugamushi serotypes circulating in southern Andhra Pradesh, India. Samples were collected from patients clinically suspected to have scrub typhus and were subjected to IgM ELISA to measure IgM antibodies against O. tsutsugamushi. Nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was performed targeting strain-specific regions in ELISA-positive samples. Of a total of 663 samples, 258 (38.91%) were found to be positive by IgM ELISA. Serotypes could be detected in 230 (34.69%) samples only. Only two serotypes, Karp and Kawasaki, were found in the serum samples, with the former being predominant. The dual infection of Karp and Kawasaki serotypes was found in seven patients. Other serotypes such as Gilliam, Kuroki and ...

Bangladesh Journal of Medical Microbiology, 2016

To evaluate the serologic (IgG) response to Helicobacter pylori in asymptomatic population, a tot... more To evaluate the serologic (IgG) response to Helicobacter pylori in asymptomatic population, a total of 45 asymptomatic healthy adults aged 18-65 years were included in the study. The study was carried out in the department of Microbiology, Mymensingh Medical College between July, 2006 to June, 2007. The sera samples of the participants were tested for presence of anti-H. pylori IgG by using Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA). Seropositivity rate for anti-H. pylori IgG in asymptomatic adults was found 88.89% at a cutoff level of 5 arbU/ml. The impact of changing cutoff level for IgG seropositivity was also examined in the present study. The seropositivity rate for anti-H. pylori IgG at 10 arbU/ml was found 71.11%.