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cpd.org.bd
The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), established in 1993, is a civil society initiative to promo... more The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), established in 1993, is a civil society initiative to promote an ongoing dialogue between the principal partners in the decision making and implementing process. The dialogues are designed to address important policy issues and to seek constructive solutions to these problems. The Centre has already organised a series of such dialogues at local, regional and national levels. The CPD has also organised a number of South Asian bilateral and regional dialogues as well as some international dialogues. These dialogues have brought together ministers, opposition frontbenchers, MPs, business leaders, NGOs, donors, professionals and other functional group in civil society within a non-confrontational environment to promote focused discussions. The CPD seeks to create a national policy consciousness where members of civil society will be made aware of critical policy issues affecting their lives and will come together in support of particular policy agendas which they feel are conducive to the well-being of the country. In support of the dialogue process the Centre is engaged in research programmes which are both serviced by and are intended to serve as inputs for particular dialogues organised by the Centre throughout the year. Some of the major research programmes of the CPD include
Scientific reports, Jan 20, 2018
Avian influenza viruses, including highly pathogenic strains, pose severe economic, animal and pu... more Avian influenza viruses, including highly pathogenic strains, pose severe economic, animal and public health concerns. We implemented live bird market surveillance in Bangladesh to identify the subtypes of avian influenza A viruses in domestic waterfowl and market environments. We collected waterfowl samples monthly from 4 rural sites from 2007 to 2012 and environmental samples from 4 rural and 16 urban sites from 2009 to 2012. Samples were tested through real-time RT-PCR, virus culture, and sequencing to detect and characterize avian influenza A viruses. Among 4,308 waterfowl tested, 191 (4.4%) were positive for avian influenza A virus, including 74 (1.9%) avian influenza A/H5 subtype. The majority (99%, n = 73) of the influenza A/H5-positive samples were from healthy appearing waterfowl. Multiple subtypes, including H1N1, H1N3, H3N2, H3N6, H3N8, H4N1, H4N2, H4N6, H5N1 (clades 2.2.2, 2.3.2.1a, 2.3.4.2), H5N2, H6N1, H7N9, H9N2, H11N2 and H11N3, H11N6 were detected in waterfowl and e...
Clinical Infectious Diseases
International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture, 2007
In cutting of brittle materials, it was observed that there is a brittle-ductile transition when ... more In cutting of brittle materials, it was observed that there is a brittle-ductile transition when two conditions are satisfied. One is that the undeformed chip thickness is smaller than the tool edge radius; the other is that the tool cutting edge radius should be small enough-on a nanoscale. However, the mechanism has not been clearly understood. In this study, the Molecular Dynamics method is employed to model and simulate the nanoscale ductile mode cutting of monocrystalline silicon wafer. From the simulated results, it is found that when the ductile cutting mode is achieved in the cutting process, the thrust force acting on the cutting tool is larger than the cutting force. As the undeformed chip thickness increases, the compressive stress in the cutting zone decreases, giving way to crack propagation in the chip formation zone. As the tool cutting edge radius increases, the shear stress in the workpiece material around the cutting edge decreases down to a lower level, at which the shear stress is insufficient to sustain dislocation emission in the chip formation zone, and crack propagation becomes dominating. Consequently, the chip formation mode changes from ductile to brittle.
Proceedings of the 2008 Eighth Ieee International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, May 19, 2008
Workflow Management System is generally utilized to define, manage and execute workflow applicati... more Workflow Management System is generally utilized to define, manage and execute workflow applications on Grid resources. However, the increasing scale complexity, heterogeneity and dynamism of Grid environment that includes networks, resources and applications have made such workflow management systems brittle, unmanageable and insecure. Autonomic computing provides a holistic approach for the design and development of systems/applications that can adapt themselves to meet requirements of performance, fault tolerance, reliability, security, etc., without manual intervention. Therefore, this research aims to design and develop mechanisms for building an autonomic workflow management system that will incorporate the properties of autonomic computing and exhibit the ability to reconfigure itself to the changes in the Grid environment, discover, diagnose and react to the disruptions of workflow execution, and monitor and tune Grid resources automatically.
... Experience of FY2007 was unique in the history of Bangladesh in the sense that it ... Despite... more ... Experience of FY2007 was unique in the history of Bangladesh in the sense that it ... Despite the challenging scenario, political turmoil and disruption in the economy in the early ... provided by East Asian Bureau of Economic Research in its series Macroeconomics Working Papers ...
International Journal of Economics and Business Research, Mar 20, 2015
288 Int. J. Economics and Business Research, Vol. 2, Nos. 3/4, 2010 ... Serving the poor by marke... more 288 Int. J. Economics and Business Research, Vol. 2, Nos. 3/4, 2010 ... Serving the poor by marketing information: developing a sustainable village phone model in Bangladesh ... School of Information Systems, Technology and Management, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW ...
Adolescence Education Newsletter, Jun 1, 2004
Acs Symposium Series, 2010
Continuous composite fibers of cellulose with dispersed TiO 2 particles were pulled by a dry-jet ... more Continuous composite fibers of cellulose with dispersed TiO 2 particles were pulled by a dry-jet wet spinning process from 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride ([C 2 mim]Cl) ionic liquid solutions. The effects of various factors such as cellulose source, degree of ...
The ongoing negotiations on non-agricultural market access (NAMA) in the WTO are expected to lead... more The ongoing negotiations on non-agricultural market access (NAMA) in the WTO are expected to lead to substantive reductions in the tariff rates on industrial goods in both the developed and the developing countries. Although an agreement on the formula and coefficient(s) is yet to be reached, it is becoming increasingly clear that countries are moving towards a differentiated swiss-type formula with deeper cuts for higher tariffs. The July (2004) Framework Agreement stipulated that LDCs will not be required to undertake any tariff reduction commitments under the NAMA. However, LDCs are likely to suffer substantive tariff preference erosion as a consequence of NAMA negotiations since any tariff reduction by the developed countries will result in a fall in the preferential margins currently enjoyed by the LDCs under the various GSP schemes operated by the developed countries. Consequently, the competitive edge currently enjoyed by the LDCs by taking advantage of the preferential treatment under the various GSP schemes is set to suffer erosion. This is a major concern for Bangladesh and other LDCs in the Asia-Pacific region. This paper attempts to make an estimate about the range of preferential erosion for Bangladesh given her current trade pattern and preferential treatment enjoyed by her exports. The paper finds that for Bangladesh, the preferential erosion could be substantial (e.g. $42.1 million worth of net preference erosio n in the EU alone for RMG products under one of the possible scenarios). Reduced preference margin will also undermine future competitiveness in the developed country markets. It is also to be noted that tariff reductions under NAMA will have positive implications for Bangladesh in the US market where most of Bangladesh's industrial goods do not enjoy GSP treatment. Thus, tariff reduction under NAMA is expected to have diverse implications for Bangladesh's export of industrial goods. NAMA, thus, may increase Bangladesh's competitive edge vis-à-vis Caribbean and Sub-Sahara African countries which are currently enjoying zero-tariff access for apparels under the AGOA and the CBI. The paper reviews some of the proposals that are being discussed to address the possible negative consequences of preference erosion for the LDCs.
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](Acta clinica Belgica
Rotavirus infections are a major cause of severe diarrhea in children younger than 2 years. In Be... more Rotavirus infections are a major cause of severe diarrhea in children younger than 2 years. In Belgium they cause many hospitalizations because of dehydration. A study of the laboratory diagnosis of rotavirus infections in 28.251 stool samples at a university teaching hospital in Belgium during a twenty-year period (1981-2002) showed a marked seasonality. The virus was most often diagnosed during the winter months: 54% of the rotavirus isolates were found in the first three months of the year, with 21% of the positive samples occurring in February. Recently, rotaviruses can be genotyped based on differences in the viral outer capsid protein VP7. Vaccines are currently being developed against the four most prevalent genotypes G1, G2, G3 and G4. During the last three epidemic seasons (1999-2002) in Belgium, G1 was the most prevalent genotype and accounted for 62% of the rotavirus isolates recovered. G2, G3 and G4 were also isolated, and other emerging types need to be carefully monito...
2009 International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, 2009
Scientific applications like neuroscience data analysis are usually compute and data-intensive. W... more Scientific applications like neuroscience data analysis are usually compute and data-intensive. With the use of the additional capacity offered by distributed resources and suitable middlewares, we can achieve much shorter execution time, distribute compute and storage load, and add greater flexibility to the execution of these scientific applications than we could ever achieve in a single compute resource. In this paper, we present the processing of Image Registration (IR) for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) studies on Global Grids. We characterize the application, list its requirements and then transform it to a workflow. We then execute the application on Grid'5000 platform and present extensive performance results. We show that the IR application can have 1) significantly improved makespan, 2) distribution of compute and storage load among resources used, and 3) flexibility when executing multiple times on the Grid with the use of suitable middlewares.
Planning of wireless networks is vital if operators wish to make full use of the existing investm... more Planning of wireless networks is vital if operators wish to make full use of the existing investments. This paper deals with a practical approach of radio network planning process for efficient usage of GSM network. The key performance indicator (KPI) and drive test report of a Bangladeshi operator " Teletalk Bangladesh Limited " are used to make proposals on how operators can optimize radio resources as well as provide the required QoS to the subscribers. This study would help to plan operators to enhance coverage, improve quality and increase capacity in the days to come.
Acta Clinica Belgica, 2003
Rotavirus infections are a major cause of severe diarrhea in children younger than 2 years. In Be... more Rotavirus infections are a major cause of severe diarrhea in children younger than 2 years. In Belgium they cause many hospitalizations because of dehydration. A study of the laboratory diagnosis of rotavirus infections in 28.251 stool samples at a university teaching hospital in Belgium during a twenty-year period (1981-2002) showed a marked seasonality. The virus was most often diagnosed during the winter months: 54% of the rotavirus isolates were found in the first three months of the year, with 21% of the positive samples occurring in February. Recently, rotaviruses can be genotyped based on differences in the viral outer capsid protein VP7. Vaccines are currently being developed against the four most prevalent genotypes G1, G2, G3 and G4. During the last three epidemic seasons (1999-2002) in Belgium, G1 was the most prevalent genotype and accounted for 62% of the rotavirus isolates recovered. G2, G3 and G4 were also isolated, and other emerging types need to be carefully monitored too, since G9 (45%) was co-dominant with G1 (42%) in the 2000-2001 rotavirus season in Belgium. The future development of an efficient rotavirus vaccine will need to take the diversity of the rotavirus genotypes into account.
cpd.org.bd
The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), established in 1993, is a civil society initiative to promo... more The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), established in 1993, is a civil society initiative to promote an ongoing dialogue between the principal partners in the decision making and implementing process. The dialogues are designed to address important policy issues and to seek constructive solutions to these problems. The Centre has already organised a series of such dialogues at local, regional and national levels. The CPD has also organised a number of South Asian bilateral and regional dialogues as well as some international dialogues. These dialogues have brought together ministers, opposition frontbenchers, MPs, business leaders, NGOs, donors, professionals and other functional group in civil society within a non-confrontational environment to promote focused discussions. The CPD seeks to create a national policy consciousness where members of civil society will be made aware of critical policy issues affecting their lives and will come together in support of particular policy agendas which they feel are conducive to the well-being of the country. In support of the dialogue process the Centre is engaged in research programmes which are both serviced by and are intended to serve as inputs for particular dialogues organised by the Centre throughout the year. Some of the major research programmes of the CPD include
Scientific reports, Jan 20, 2018
Avian influenza viruses, including highly pathogenic strains, pose severe economic, animal and pu... more Avian influenza viruses, including highly pathogenic strains, pose severe economic, animal and public health concerns. We implemented live bird market surveillance in Bangladesh to identify the subtypes of avian influenza A viruses in domestic waterfowl and market environments. We collected waterfowl samples monthly from 4 rural sites from 2007 to 2012 and environmental samples from 4 rural and 16 urban sites from 2009 to 2012. Samples were tested through real-time RT-PCR, virus culture, and sequencing to detect and characterize avian influenza A viruses. Among 4,308 waterfowl tested, 191 (4.4%) were positive for avian influenza A virus, including 74 (1.9%) avian influenza A/H5 subtype. The majority (99%, n = 73) of the influenza A/H5-positive samples were from healthy appearing waterfowl. Multiple subtypes, including H1N1, H1N3, H3N2, H3N6, H3N8, H4N1, H4N2, H4N6, H5N1 (clades 2.2.2, 2.3.2.1a, 2.3.4.2), H5N2, H6N1, H7N9, H9N2, H11N2 and H11N3, H11N6 were detected in waterfowl and e...
Clinical Infectious Diseases
International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture, 2007
In cutting of brittle materials, it was observed that there is a brittle-ductile transition when ... more In cutting of brittle materials, it was observed that there is a brittle-ductile transition when two conditions are satisfied. One is that the undeformed chip thickness is smaller than the tool edge radius; the other is that the tool cutting edge radius should be small enough-on a nanoscale. However, the mechanism has not been clearly understood. In this study, the Molecular Dynamics method is employed to model and simulate the nanoscale ductile mode cutting of monocrystalline silicon wafer. From the simulated results, it is found that when the ductile cutting mode is achieved in the cutting process, the thrust force acting on the cutting tool is larger than the cutting force. As the undeformed chip thickness increases, the compressive stress in the cutting zone decreases, giving way to crack propagation in the chip formation zone. As the tool cutting edge radius increases, the shear stress in the workpiece material around the cutting edge decreases down to a lower level, at which the shear stress is insufficient to sustain dislocation emission in the chip formation zone, and crack propagation becomes dominating. Consequently, the chip formation mode changes from ductile to brittle.
Proceedings of the 2008 Eighth Ieee International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, May 19, 2008
Workflow Management System is generally utilized to define, manage and execute workflow applicati... more Workflow Management System is generally utilized to define, manage and execute workflow applications on Grid resources. However, the increasing scale complexity, heterogeneity and dynamism of Grid environment that includes networks, resources and applications have made such workflow management systems brittle, unmanageable and insecure. Autonomic computing provides a holistic approach for the design and development of systems/applications that can adapt themselves to meet requirements of performance, fault tolerance, reliability, security, etc., without manual intervention. Therefore, this research aims to design and develop mechanisms for building an autonomic workflow management system that will incorporate the properties of autonomic computing and exhibit the ability to reconfigure itself to the changes in the Grid environment, discover, diagnose and react to the disruptions of workflow execution, and monitor and tune Grid resources automatically.
... Experience of FY2007 was unique in the history of Bangladesh in the sense that it ... Despite... more ... Experience of FY2007 was unique in the history of Bangladesh in the sense that it ... Despite the challenging scenario, political turmoil and disruption in the economy in the early ... provided by East Asian Bureau of Economic Research in its series Macroeconomics Working Papers ...
International Journal of Economics and Business Research, Mar 20, 2015
288 Int. J. Economics and Business Research, Vol. 2, Nos. 3/4, 2010 ... Serving the poor by marke... more 288 Int. J. Economics and Business Research, Vol. 2, Nos. 3/4, 2010 ... Serving the poor by marketing information: developing a sustainable village phone model in Bangladesh ... School of Information Systems, Technology and Management, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW ...
Adolescence Education Newsletter, Jun 1, 2004
Acs Symposium Series, 2010
Continuous composite fibers of cellulose with dispersed TiO 2 particles were pulled by a dry-jet ... more Continuous composite fibers of cellulose with dispersed TiO 2 particles were pulled by a dry-jet wet spinning process from 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride ([C 2 mim]Cl) ionic liquid solutions. The effects of various factors such as cellulose source, degree of ...
The ongoing negotiations on non-agricultural market access (NAMA) in the WTO are expected to lead... more The ongoing negotiations on non-agricultural market access (NAMA) in the WTO are expected to lead to substantive reductions in the tariff rates on industrial goods in both the developed and the developing countries. Although an agreement on the formula and coefficient(s) is yet to be reached, it is becoming increasingly clear that countries are moving towards a differentiated swiss-type formula with deeper cuts for higher tariffs. The July (2004) Framework Agreement stipulated that LDCs will not be required to undertake any tariff reduction commitments under the NAMA. However, LDCs are likely to suffer substantive tariff preference erosion as a consequence of NAMA negotiations since any tariff reduction by the developed countries will result in a fall in the preferential margins currently enjoyed by the LDCs under the various GSP schemes operated by the developed countries. Consequently, the competitive edge currently enjoyed by the LDCs by taking advantage of the preferential treatment under the various GSP schemes is set to suffer erosion. This is a major concern for Bangladesh and other LDCs in the Asia-Pacific region. This paper attempts to make an estimate about the range of preferential erosion for Bangladesh given her current trade pattern and preferential treatment enjoyed by her exports. The paper finds that for Bangladesh, the preferential erosion could be substantial (e.g. $42.1 million worth of net preference erosio n in the EU alone for RMG products under one of the possible scenarios). Reduced preference margin will also undermine future competitiveness in the developed country markets. It is also to be noted that tariff reductions under NAMA will have positive implications for Bangladesh in the US market where most of Bangladesh's industrial goods do not enjoy GSP treatment. Thus, tariff reduction under NAMA is expected to have diverse implications for Bangladesh's export of industrial goods. NAMA, thus, may increase Bangladesh's competitive edge vis-à-vis Caribbean and Sub-Sahara African countries which are currently enjoying zero-tariff access for apparels under the AGOA and the CBI. The paper reviews some of the proposals that are being discussed to address the possible negative consequences of preference erosion for the LDCs.
Acta clinica Belgica
Rotavirus infections are a major cause of severe diarrhea in children younger than 2 years. In Be... more Rotavirus infections are a major cause of severe diarrhea in children younger than 2 years. In Belgium they cause many hospitalizations because of dehydration. A study of the laboratory diagnosis of rotavirus infections in 28.251 stool samples at a university teaching hospital in Belgium during a twenty-year period (1981-2002) showed a marked seasonality. The virus was most often diagnosed during the winter months: 54% of the rotavirus isolates were found in the first three months of the year, with 21% of the positive samples occurring in February. Recently, rotaviruses can be genotyped based on differences in the viral outer capsid protein VP7. Vaccines are currently being developed against the four most prevalent genotypes G1, G2, G3 and G4. During the last three epidemic seasons (1999-2002) in Belgium, G1 was the most prevalent genotype and accounted for 62% of the rotavirus isolates recovered. G2, G3 and G4 were also isolated, and other emerging types need to be carefully monito...
2009 International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, 2009
Scientific applications like neuroscience data analysis are usually compute and data-intensive. W... more Scientific applications like neuroscience data analysis are usually compute and data-intensive. With the use of the additional capacity offered by distributed resources and suitable middlewares, we can achieve much shorter execution time, distribute compute and storage load, and add greater flexibility to the execution of these scientific applications than we could ever achieve in a single compute resource. In this paper, we present the processing of Image Registration (IR) for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) studies on Global Grids. We characterize the application, list its requirements and then transform it to a workflow. We then execute the application on Grid'5000 platform and present extensive performance results. We show that the IR application can have 1) significantly improved makespan, 2) distribution of compute and storage load among resources used, and 3) flexibility when executing multiple times on the Grid with the use of suitable middlewares.
Planning of wireless networks is vital if operators wish to make full use of the existing investm... more Planning of wireless networks is vital if operators wish to make full use of the existing investments. This paper deals with a practical approach of radio network planning process for efficient usage of GSM network. The key performance indicator (KPI) and drive test report of a Bangladeshi operator " Teletalk Bangladesh Limited " are used to make proposals on how operators can optimize radio resources as well as provide the required QoS to the subscribers. This study would help to plan operators to enhance coverage, improve quality and increase capacity in the days to come.
Acta Clinica Belgica, 2003
Rotavirus infections are a major cause of severe diarrhea in children younger than 2 years. In Be... more Rotavirus infections are a major cause of severe diarrhea in children younger than 2 years. In Belgium they cause many hospitalizations because of dehydration. A study of the laboratory diagnosis of rotavirus infections in 28.251 stool samples at a university teaching hospital in Belgium during a twenty-year period (1981-2002) showed a marked seasonality. The virus was most often diagnosed during the winter months: 54% of the rotavirus isolates were found in the first three months of the year, with 21% of the positive samples occurring in February. Recently, rotaviruses can be genotyped based on differences in the viral outer capsid protein VP7. Vaccines are currently being developed against the four most prevalent genotypes G1, G2, G3 and G4. During the last three epidemic seasons (1999-2002) in Belgium, G1 was the most prevalent genotype and accounted for 62% of the rotavirus isolates recovered. G2, G3 and G4 were also isolated, and other emerging types need to be carefully monitored too, since G9 (45%) was co-dominant with G1 (42%) in the 2000-2001 rotavirus season in Belgium. The future development of an efficient rotavirus vaccine will need to take the diversity of the rotavirus genotypes into account.