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1. Mr. Vashkar vattachary, Re: Bangla text-to-speech and OCR launch at BRAC U on
19/02/09 3pm
2. Kamran Ahmed, Re: Bangla text-to-speech and OCR launch at BRAC U on 19/02/09
3pm
3. Firoj Alam, Re: Bangla text-to-speech and OCR launch at BRAC U on 19/02/09
3pm


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From: "Mr. Vashkar vattacharya" <vashkar79@...>
Date: Tue Feb 17, 2009 2:18 am
Subject: Re: Bangla text-to-speech and OCR launch at BRAC U on 19/02/09 3pm
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It is a exciting news for me as a blind person. I expect their will be a Bangla
screen reading software soon. If you need any cooperation i can share my
knowledge.

regards,
vashkar


Reply 2
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From: "Kamran Ahmed" <K.Ahmed@...>
Date: Tue Feb 17, 2009 2:19 pm
Subject: RE: Bangla text-to-speech and OCR launch at BRAC U on 19/02/09 3pm
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Dear Professor Mumit Khan,

It is quite pleasing to know that you are making significant contribution to
improving language processing more user friendly.

Regards,
Kamran Ahmed

Professor Kamran Ahmed
Head, School of Accounting
La Trobe University
Melbourne, 3086, Australia
Tel: 61 3 9479 1125
Fax: 61 3 9479 2356
Email: k.ahmed@...

Please consider the environment before printing this email.


Reply 3
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From: Firoj Alam <firojalam04@...>
Date: Thu Feb 19, 2009 1:55 pm
Subject: Re: Bangla text-to-speech and OCR launch at BRAC U on 19/02/09 3pm
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try this for the web version. windows and linux version will be coming soon.

http://www.bracu.ac.bd/research/crblp/demo/tts/

...
Firoj


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From: Mumit Khan
Sent: Tuesday, 17 February 2009 2:42 AM
To: bdresearchers@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [bdresearchers] Bangla text-to-speech and OCR launch at BRAC U on
19/02/09 3pm

We are pleased to announce the first official release of our Bangla language
processing software packages �Katha� (text-to-speech) and BanglaOCR (optical
character recognition). We invite you to join us in celebrating this occasion on
February 19, 2009 at 3 pm at BRAC University. See the computer create Bangla
unicode text from scanned images and then read out the text. Meet the people
behind it.

We have come a long way, but we have even a longer way to go.

The TTS and OCR run on Linux, Windows and Mac OSX. There is also a web-enabled
front-end for the TTS (and under development for the OCR), making these tools
available at anytime and from anywhere. We are working on better integration
with screen readers in collaboration with the vision impaired community.

The Bangla language processing tools developed at CRBLP are free and open source
software, released under GNU Public License v2, and supported in part by funding
from Canadian IDRC and BRAC University. Please visit CRBLP website
http://www.bracu.ac.bd/research/crblp/ for more information on who we are and
what we do.

Location: 203 Aarong House, BRAC University, 66 Mohakhali C/A
(mention "CRBLP seminar")
Time: 3 pm

--

Mumit Khan, Ph.D.

Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

Head, Center for Research on Bangla Language Processing

BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

mumit@...
+(880-2) 882-4051 Extension 4019

#3663

From: Yasin Javed <yasin_javed@...>
Date: Thu Feb 19, 2009 3:45 pm
Subject: Need Information about patent an idea

yasin_javed

Dear Members

I would like to know about patent an idea nationally and internationally. If
anybody of you have any experience about�this please share it with me.

Thanking You
Yasin Javed

#3664

From: M U Ahmed <badal2002bd@...>
Date: Fri Feb 20, 2009 8:17 am
Subject: Opportunity for bioscientist to go back to Bangadesh

badal2002bd

Incepta pharmaceutical is starting its R & D and starting production of recombinant Insulin and other vaccines.

Hence they are looking for a Head of R& D. If any one is looking for a scope to go back to bangladesh , then this is an opportunity.

The advertisement is attached. Interested person may initially contact Professor Ahmed Azad at a_azad05@... or + 61 3 9848 4770

Best regards and Wishes

Monir Uddin Ahmed (Badal)

Melbourne, Australia

http://scitechinbd.blogspot.com/

Mobile:+61431091781,Phone:+61-3-94896145

My Understanding of science:Science is the endless pursuit of ,firstly ,explore the processes, procedures and mechnisms of Allah's creations and then to copy or replicate them as much as possible.

#3665

From: Isha Khan <bd_mailer@...>
Date: Sun Feb 1, 2009 7:04 am
Subject: Book Reviews: The House of Wisdom; Science & Islam

bd_mailer

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�� Thai Occupied Muslim Sultanate of Patani�
�� Muslims in Latin America before Columbus
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�� Muslims in Suriname and Guyana before Columbus
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Current day Muslims in Germany

Book Reviews: The House of Wisdom; Science & Islam

Moin Ansari

The Times has prodigiously published books reviews of two effulgent books on the West�s debt to Islam in science and technology. Inundated with negatives images of a demonized population, to many in the West this is news. To many in the East this is not news. Muslims have grown up with the knowledge that the stars have Arab names, the instruments of navigation used by Columbus and other sailors were Islamic in origin. The Muslims of South Asia know that the Britishers destroyed all local manufacturing in Bengal and Bihar and make way for cheap cotton imports from Manchester and Bradford.

Islamic map of the world by Idris (1154). South is at the top

Last November, scientists using the Hubble space telescope reported the first sighting with visible light of a planet circling a star other than our own sun. It orbits 25 light years away around one of the brightest stars in the sky, called Fomalhaut.

Isn�t that a curious name for a star? Not obviously mythological, it sounds as if it derives from some forgotten French astronomer. Not so; it is, in fact, from the Arabic fum u�l haut, meaning �mouth of the fish�. And Fomalhaut is not alone in having an Arabic derivation - there are well over 100 others, including Betelgeuse, Aldebaran and Deneb. How did the Arabs get to name stars?

10th Century Islamic map of the the world showing America as Ard e Majhoola or (Unknown Area). This map and maps like this one from Arab sources was used by Columbus centuries later when he sailed from Spain (which had been Muslim Andulusia 'till the 15th cnetury)

The answer, as these two revealing books make clear, is that they once led the world in astronomy. Muslim scientists were mapping the heavens, and pondering our place in them, while Europeans were still gazing at the night sky with baffled awe. To judge from some scientific narratives, the baton of knowledge about astronomy passed directly from the Greek Ptolemy in the 2nd century AD to Copernicus in the Renaissance. In fact, just about everything that the western world knew of the celestial sphere in the 16th century had come to it via the Arabs, who translated and refined Ptolemy�s works between the 9th and the 13th centuries. And they didn�t just read Ptolemy; they added to and challenged him, with data gathered at observatories such as the one established in the 820s in Baghdad by the greatest of the �scientific� rulers, al-Mamun of the Abbasid caliphate.

"The Cappella Palatina, at Palermo, Saracen Arches. the most wonderful of Roger's churches, with Norman doors, Saracenic arches, Byzantine dome, and roof adorned with Arabic scripts, is perhaps the most striking product of the brilliant and mixed civilization over which the grandson of the Norman Trancred ruled" (EB1911).

Astronomy is just one example of the enormous debt that the West owes to the achievements of Islamic science during the periods we still insist on calling the Dark and Middle Ages. While Europeans struggled until at least the 12th century with the mere rudiments of mathematics and natural philosophy, the Abbasid caliphs of the 8th to 13th centuries were promoting a rationalistic vision of Islam within which it was a sacred duty to inquire into the workings of the world. This programme was founded on the remnants of Roman and Hellenic culture, to which the Muslims had direct access in centres such as Alexandria. They prepared Arabic versions of the works of Aristotle, Euclid, Ptolemy and Archimedes, and set up schools and libraries such as the House of Wisdom in Baghdad. The Sunday Times review by Philip Ball

One of the most tolerant societies on the planet was brought to end end in Cordoba not because it lacked plurality or assimilation�it was brought to end by the force or arms by barbarians who killed and deported every jew and Muslim in the land.

Mao Zedung said it best �Political Power grows out the barrell of the gun�. Lord Clive did not conquer South Asia because there were a dearth of art, literature, music, science and technology in South Asia. The �British East India Company� conquered South Asia by craftly using cunning and wicked and ruthless application of power.

The Muslim world represeented by the Organization of Islamic Countries the OIC; The OIC condemned the violence on Kashmir

As well as preserving classical scholarship, Muslim thinkers also innovated in many fields: astronomy, optics, cartography and medicine. The camera obscura, for instance, a kind of pinhole camera in which an outside scene is projected onto a wall in a darkened chamber as light enters through a small hole, was first studied experimentally by Hassan ibn al-Haitham (Alhazen) in the 11th century. Roger Bacon later used the device to study solar eclipses, and old masters from Van Eyck to Vermeer may have employed the projection method to achieve their micro-realist detail.

Islamic mapmakers, meanwhile, were drawing recognisable outlines of Europe, the Gulf and the Indian subcontinent while westerners were still dividing a disc world into absurdly stylised quadrants. (It was a Muslim map that guided Vasco da Gama beyond the Cape of Good Hope to India at the end of the 15th century.) And in chemistry the Arabs went far beyond the tentative efforts of the classical world, bequeathing us words such as alkali and alcohol, alembic, elixir and alchemy. The standard theory of the alchemical transmutation of metals was laid out in the writings ascribed to the 8th-century Persian Jabir ibn-Hayyan, in which nitric, hydrochloric and sulphuric acids - central to practical chemistry then and now - made their debut.

The Muslims also benefited from contact with China, from where they learnt how to make paper, and India, from where they got the �Arabic� numerals that were far superior to the cumbersome Roman system for arithmetic calculations, along with the concept of zero (the word itself is Arabic). These and other discoveries were passed on to the West in due course.

The Sunday Times review by Philip Ball. Science & Islam by Ehsan Masood, Icon �14.99 pp256, The House of Wisdom by Jonathan Lyons, Bloomsbury �20 pp272. From The Sunday Times,February 1, 2009, Science & Islam: A History by Ehsan Masood plus The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilisation by Jonathan Lyons

Islamic Sicily fed the Christian Renaissance
Melungeon Muslims in America escaping the Spanish Inquisition

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While there is huge discussion of the Gutenberg press, there is no discussion of the fact that way past the decline of the Ottomans, the Mughals took the torch in Hindustan and kept science and technology alive in civil engineering, construction of bridges, roads, and building.

The fruits of the golden age of Islamic science are summarised briskly and engagingly in Ehsan Masood�s Science & Islam, which was written to accompany a recent BBC television series. Both he and Jonathan Lyons in The House of Wisdom are keen to dismantle the myth that Islam is fundamentally opposed to science, and both show that the words of Muhammad can be read as obliging rational inquiry.

Roger II himself spoke Arabic perfectly and was fond of Arabian culture.[11] He used Arab troops and siege engines in his campaigns in southern Italy. He mobilized Arab architects to build monuments in the Arab-Norman style. The various agricultural and industrial techniques which had been introduced by Arabs into Sicily over the two preceding years were kept and developed, allowing for the remarkable prosperity of the Island�]

Roger II of Sicily, who had Islamic soldiers, poets and scientists at his court.[10

Lyons�s more specific focus is on the story of how this knowledge opened western eyes in the 12th century, a period now regarded as a kind of medieval renaissance. The hero of his book is an Englishman, Adelard of Bath, one of the few Europeans open-minded enough to see that they had much to learn from the �heathens�.. Too often dismissed as a mere translator, Adelard not only gave the West its first view of Euclid�s Elements and the astronomy and algebra of the Baghdad mathematician al-Khwarizmi (whose name is preserved now in the word algorithm), but was also an original thinker who helped introduce medieval Europe to the Islamic vision of a universe governed by the rational design of a hands-off God.

Last Arab attack on Rome in 849 painting by Raphael

One can�t read these two lucid accounts without becoming acutely aware of the contrast between the former Islamic supremacy in science and its parlous state today. This contrast brings to mind the �Needham question�, which the English biochemist Joseph Needham posed in the parallel case of ancient China�s technological and scientific superiority. Why is the West, not the East, now at the heart of science?

The answer is complex, but must partly lie in the more doctrinaire Ottoman theocracy that eventually succeeded the Abbasids at the end of the 13th century. The Ottoman sultans frowned on printing and forbade clocks because the muezzins were the keepers of sacred time. As Lyons shows, the irony is that the Arabs were once leaders in both astronomical and technological time-keeping, precisely because of the importance of prayer times.

In any event, by the mid-19th century the tables had turned. Instead of westerners marvelling at eastern learning, it was Ottoman ambassadors to Europe who were reporting back on western technological wonders to a country that had few roads and no trains or telephones. Many worried, too, that an acceptance of the western approach to science would mean abandoning Islamic principles. The result is that there have been only two Nobel laureates from Islamic countries, and, as Masood says, the scientific performance today of the members of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference - many of them wealthy oil states - �is not far off that of some of the poorest countries of the world�. This won�t be changed by luring foreign scientists with oil money; as in Africa, grassroots education is the only way.

#3666

From: "Nasir Zaman" <nasir_zaman_eee@...>
Date: Sat Feb 14, 2009 11:47 am
Subject: Workshop on Oscilloscope in RUET

nasir_zaman_eee

Dear All,

I am glad to inform that Dept. of Electronics and Telecommunication
Engineering of Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology
is going to arrange a 3 day long workshop from 5th to 7th March,2009.

Who Should Attend:

Technicians or Technical Officers who are working at different research institutions and universities as well as interested to achieve added experience in oscilloscope operation, finding new areas of its applications and get better performance and satisfaction.

Students who are engaged or interested in electronics based research and project works and want to make it a success by grabbing complete potential of a oscilloscope.

Instrument Engineers who are working in procurement section and interested to learn how to tackle the clever suppliers and successfully procure the right instrument at a competitive price.

A Certificate of Participation will be provided.

Registration Fee:
3000.00 BDT (general)
800.00 BDT (students)

Registration Deadline:
26 th February, 2009

Registration Forms are available in the departmental office
or may be collected by mailing nasir_zaman_eee@...

Contact:
Prof. Dr. Muhammad Abdul Goffar Khan
Convener
Workshop on Oscilloscope: Operation, Troubleshooting, Maintenance, & Procurement
Contact No: 01713-228629, 01911-661998
Email: qmagk@..., nasir_zaman_eee@...

Hope to see you in the workshop.

#3667

From: "Bashir Mahmud Ellias" <bashirmahmudellias@...>
Date: Mon Feb 16, 2009 3:40 pm
Subject: Re: Bangladesh introduces new vaccine to prevent severe forms of child pneumonia and meningitis

bashirmahmud...

May  be  it  will  prevent  child  pneumonia  and  meningitis  but
it  will  certainly  cause  tumor,  cancer,  autism,  asthma,
diabetics  etc  as  usually  most  of  the  vaccines  used  to  cause.


--- In bdresearchers@yahoogroups.com, Isha Khan <bd_mailer@...>
wrote:
>
> Bangladesh introduces new vaccine to prevent severe forms of child
pneumonia and meningitis
> 4 million children to be vaccinated annually with new combination
vaccine protecting against 5 killer diseases
> �
> KHULNA, BANGLADESH, 15 January, 2009 - Today, Bangladesh
introduces a new combination vaccine that will protect its children
against five killer diseases in one injection, including, for the
first time, the deadly bacterium Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib)
that causes some severe forms of pneumonia and meningitis. In a
ceremony in Khulna District, southwest of the capital Dhaka, the
Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Professor A.F.M. Ruhul Haque,
along with other health officials and representatives of UN agencies
and development partners will administer the first shots of the
combination vaccine to Bangladeshi children.
> �
>
> Hib is one of the causes of severe pneumonia and meningitis among
children. Each year, Hib is estimated to cause millions of serious
illnesses and 400,000 deaths globally, the majority of them among
children under five years of age. Even with treatment, thousands of
children die of Hib disease every year. Survivors are often
permanently disabled�paralyzed, deafened or brain damaged.� The
vaccine can prevent about one third of life-threatening cases of
bacterial pneumonia, the leading infectious cause of death in
children worldwide. In Bangladesh, it is estimated that 24% of under-
five child deaths is due to pneumonia.
> �
> The vaccine will be provided under the routine immunization
programme to nearly four million children born in Bangladesh every
year. As Bangladesh records high routine immunization coverage, it
is estimated that Hib vaccine can save about 20,000 children's lives
annually year.
> �
> "This life-saving vaccine represents an important step forward in
preventing childhood diseases in Bangladesh", said A.M.M. Nasir
Uddin, Secretary of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare at the
launch. "It will greatly help our country to achieve Millennium
Development Goal 4 which aims at reducing under-five mortality."
> �
> "Hib vaccine is a safe, effective and highly cost-effective
intervention used for more than 18 years in developed and many
developing countries.� Where used routinely, it has virtually
eliminated Hib disease," commented Dr. Rana Hajjeh, Director of the
Hib Initiative at Johns Hopkins University. "Clearly, Hib vaccine
will have a major impact in Bangladesh in the same way it has saved
thousands of children in other countries."� In South-Asia, Sri Lanka
and Pakistan introduced the Hib vaccine in 2008.
> �
> The new combination or 5-in-1 vaccine will protect children
against Hib and four other deadly diseases: diphtheria, tetanus,
pertussis, and hepatitis B. Instead of three different injections
(for DPT, Hepatitis B and Hib), children will only need one
injection at three different times during their first year of life:
at the age of 6 weeks, 10 weeks and 14 weeks. This will make it
easier for health workers who will need less time and less logistics
to immunize all children. It will also increase the uptake of
vaccine as each child will get all five vaccines at once.
> �
> "We are proud to be part of this new initiative by helping with
the procurement of the vaccines and supporting the training of about
60,000 health workers together with WHO," said UNICEF Deputy
Representative in Bangladesh, Dr. Iyorlumun J Uhaa.The introduction
of the 5-in-1 vaccine in Bangladesh is carried out with financial
and technical support from the GAVI Alliance and its key partners
including UNICEF, WHO and the Hib Initiative. GAVI will spend more
than US$95 million for procuring more than 27 million doses for
2009 - 2010. The Government of Bangladesh will co-finance the
purchase by investing US$5.6 million during the same period.
> �
> "Vaccines and improvement in health and immunization systems are
much needed in this part of the world," said Dr. Julian Lob-Levyt,
Executive Secretary of the GAVI Alliance. "We applaud Bangladesh for
taking this important step to help prevent more childhood diseases."
> �
> "The introduction of new Hib vaccine will drastically reduce the
burden of Hib disease. At the same time, the use of the combination
vaccine containing five antigens in one shot will increase the
Routine Immunization Coverage and it will result in reduction of
morbidity and mortality from other vaccine preventable diseases",
said WHO Representative in Bangladesh, Dr Duangvadee Sungkhobol.
>
> With high poverty, low literacy levels, and limited access to
healthcare, many sick children in this densely populated country of
155 million never reach a hospital and often die at home. Vaccines
that protect children against preventable high-mortality infections,
such as Hib, are urgently needed.�
> �
> "The situation with Hib disease in Bangladesh is very grave, since
drug-resistant strains are increasing, and to treat infection
doctors must use expensive drugs, which are not readily available in
most hospitals," said Dr. Samir Saha, a Microbiologist at Dhaka
Shishu Hospital. "This vaccine will prevent needless suffering,
disability, and death." Dr. Saha coauthored a case-control study
showing that routine immunization of infants with Hib vaccine
prevents one third of serious pneumonia cases and more than 80% of
probable bacterial meningitis cases in Bangladesh.
> �
> http://www.unicef.org/media/media_47182.html
>

#3668

From: "M.B.I. Munshi" <MBIMunshi@...>
Date: Sat Feb 21, 2009 6:38 am
Subject: Beware of false intellectuals plagiarizing The India Doctrine (1947-2007)

mimunshi

Dear All,

It appears some so-called intellectuals of Bangladesh have been
randomly picking ideas from my book The India Doctrine (1947-2007) and
using them as if they were the originators of the concepts and
interpretations therein. If this was the case then why have all these
pseudo-intellectuals failed to publish a single book or thesis on the
subject during the last 40 years? There seems to be a trend developing
where rightist 'intellectuals' steal (or should that be borrow ideas)
written by others without giving them credit. This probably explains
the intellectual vacuum within some political parties in Bangladesh
and their massive defeat in the national elections.

To avoid plagiarism as just described you must give credit whenever
you use

� another person's idea, opinion, or theory;
� any facts, statistics, graphs, drawings�any pieces of
information�that are not common knowledge;
� quotations of another person's actual spoken or written words; or
� paraphrase of another person's spoken or written words.

http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml

According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, to "plagiarize" means

1. to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own
2. to use (another's production) without crediting the source
3. to commit literary theft
4. to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an
existing source.

In other words, plagiarism is an act of fraud. It involves both
stealing someone else's work and lying about it afterward.

http://www.plagiarism.org/learning_center/what_is_plagiarism.html

I have refrained from identifying the persons involved in plagiarizing
my work to save them from public embarrassment but if they continue to
use the ideas, concepts and interpretations used by me in my books
then I will name and shame them because they have no right to present
themselves as honest or having any claim to integrity. They are the
same charlatans who have ruined this country and are now defrauding
the people with ideas stolen from other since they do not have the
ability or intelligence to come up with new ideas of their own.

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#3669

From: "Maidul Alam Chaklader" <freebird_rasha@...>
Date: Sun Feb 22, 2009 11:20 pm
Subject: Seeking information on childhood morbidity and mortality in CHT, Bangladesh

freebird_rasha

Hello everyone,

I am currently studying MSc in Medical Anthropology in Durham
University, UK. For my dissertation I need information (preferably
published research data) about childhood mortality and morbidity
(among under five children especially related to Acute Respiratory
Infection (ARI) in the ethnic minority communities) in Chittagong Hill
Tracts (CHT) region of Bangladesh. However, any relevant academic
work (health status, education, culture, economy, agriculture, social
dynamics etc) with reference to the ethnic communities of CHT will also
be extremely helpful.

Thank you very much for your cooperation.

Sincerely Yours,
Maidul Alam Chaklader (Rasha), BSc, MPH (IUB)
MSc in Medical Anthropology student,
Department of Anthropology

MIC (Medicine In Community) Tutor,
School of Medicine and Health
University of Durham
Durham, UK

#3670

From: Ashoke Adhikary <adhikaryashoke@...>
Date: Mon Feb 23, 2009 4:58 am
Subject: Re: Need info: proposed Padma bridge - impact assessment

adhikaryashoke

Hi Dil,

Thank for the good effort. Why dont you look onto the research on the impact of Jamuna Bridge and similar bridges. The impacts mainly related to physical environment, river itself and the human settlement. I request you to keep serching the similar research and funalise your methodology and topic. However, I am confused about your topic because now a day, its a old topic while every people are aware about the impact of construction on the river if you do not have contingenncy for the structure. I am not sure about your acievement through this research.. Any how keep going and share the report with us.

Good luck

Ashoke Adhikary

Development Activist

(Expert- Adaptation to Climat Chanage, Disaster Management and Livelihood)

From: "dil@..." <dil@...>
To: bdresearchers@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 9:48:49 AM
Subject: [bdresearchers] Need info: proposed Padma bridge - impact assessment

Dear All,

I am Dil Rowshan from Independent University , . For a research work I need information on proposed Padma bridge . I shall be thankful if you could suggest any source. I have tried google- but I need some basic information on Impact assessment.

With regards.

Dil Rowshan

Assistant Professor.

School of Environmental Science and Management

IUB

Dear All,

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#3671

From: Reza Khan <sohagiut@...>
Date: Tue Feb 24, 2009 11:41 am
Subject: PhD Positions, University of Twente, The Netherlands (EEE/CIT/Mathametics)

sohagiut

http://www.utwente.nl/vacatures/en/09-039.doc/

FYI

----------------------------------------------------

PhD student 'PowerSensor'

Detail in (Deadline1 April 2009)

The ‘PowerSensor’ project

It is the objective of the PowerSensor project to develop modalities for quantitative assessment of the dynamic interactions between the human body and it’s environment during arbitrary movements using sensing systems on the interface. It involves the development of miniature sensors, sensor configurations and algorithms. The potential of this new method will be demonstrated in representative applications in ergonomics, rehabilitation and sports in close collaboration with selected users.

The Ph.D. student will develop measurement technology and algorithms for signal analysis. He/she will work in the Biomedical Signals and Systems (BSS) chair. The PowerSensor project is performed in collaboration with the Transducers Science and Technology (TST) chair (http://tst.ewi.utwente.nl/)

PhD student Dependability Critical Infrastructures

Detail in (Deadline 18 March 2009)

http://www.utwente.nl/vacatures/en/09-041eng.doc/

The project is a joint project in the DACS (Design and Analysis of Communication Systems) and DIES (Distributed and Embedded Systems) chairs within the department of Computer Science at the University of Twente, UT;(www.utwente.nl), which is an entrepreneurial research university, located in Enschede, the Netherlands. Most of the faculty’s research, including the present project, is part of the multidisciplinary research institute Centre for Telematics and Information Technology (www.ctit.utwente.nl).

What we ask

You have completed a relevant university degree (M.Sc. level) or are about to graduate in an area that is relevant to our research, e.g. mathematics, computer science, or electrical engineering. You have a quantitative attitude, and knowledge of probability theory, performance analysis and/or stochastic simulation. More specific areas such as model checking or dependability evaluation is and advantage but not necessary.

PhD Localization methods in Smart Dust Sensor Networks

Detail in (Deadline March 16^th, 2009)

http://www.utwente.nl/vacatures/en/09-034-eng.doc/

Research project description

Smart dust sensor networks, consisting of very small sensor nodes capable of limited computation, sensing, and communication, are envisioned to fulfill complex large-scale monitoring tasks in a wide variety of application areas.

Smart dust networks differ from current wireless sensor networks in a number of ways:

-	Small size: current RF antennas are too large for dust nodes;

-	Mobility: future Smart Dust nodes are likely to be small enough to be moved by winds or even to remain suspended in air. This is in contrast to current sensor nodes, which are typically immobile due to their size and weight;

-	Large scale: the expected small size and low cost of future Smart Dust nodes will allow very large number of nodes;

-	Very low energy;

-	Limited computing and memory resources.

In many potential smart dust applications, such as object detection and tracking, fine-grained node localization plays a key role. Traditional localization methods are difficult to use in smart dust systems since the topology is an ad-hoc network, which can be mobile as well.

This PhD project will focus on the localization methods in smart dust sensor networks with the following research topics:

-	Inertial navigation techniques, using motion sensors to continuously track the position, orientation, and velocity of a moving object, without the need for external references;

-	RRSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator), which would allow the many sensors, that constitute a mesh network, to calculate their locations based on the time it takes for the radio signal to reach its neighboring sensors;

New localization techniques.

PhD student Piezoelectric devices

Detail in (Deadline March 15, 2009)

http://www.utwente.nl/vacatures/en/09-027-eng.doc/

In this project, we aim to develop novel piezoelectric devices and extract physical parameters thereof. The project is financed by the Dutch Technology Foundation STW (10172) (www.stw.nl ) via the open technology program (OTP). The scientific program is carried out at the NXP Research site (MiPlaza) in Eindhoven, and at MESA+/University of Twente in Enschede, both in the Netherlands. The Ph.D. student is under guidance of two supervisors from the University of Twente. Throughout this period the scientific program is strongly linked to NXP.

PhD students in the EU project ‘BRICS’ (Robotics)

Detail in (Deadline 1 April 2009)

http://www.utwente.nl/vacatures/en/09-017-eng.doc/

Robotic systems and applications are about to become a key technology to address two socioeconomicmegatrends: the over-aging societies and the competitiveness in the global markets. To address the most urgent needs of an over-aging society, a multitude of service robots will have to be developed in a rather short time. To persist in an increasingly harsh competition with low-wage countries the innovation and production cycles in Europe have to be reduced significantly asking for new and flexible automation solutions.

Robot developers in academia and industry badly need common research platforms and development tools shortening the development cycles for new robot systems and applications significantly. In other areas such as telecommunication or automotive industry or embedded systems industry much effort has been made in the past years to design such integrated development environments. The robotics community has to follow these models in order to make robot technology an innovative key technology as stated above. BRICS is going to address this urgent need.

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What we offer:

Gross monthly salary for the PhD position range from € 2.042,- gross per month in the first year up to € 2.612,- gross per month in the fourth year. In addition to this, we offer a holiday allowance (amounts to 8%), an end-of-year bonus of one extra month, various sporting and cultural facilities at reduced rate, medical insurance at a reduced rate, one way air-fair, Settlement allowance.

..............................

Regards

***********************************
Khan Md. Rezaul Hoque
PhD. Research Assistant
Telecommunication Engineering group
Faculty of EEMCS, 8108 Hogekamp
7522 NB, Drienerlolaan 5

University of Twente
The Netherlands

P: +31 53 489 3839
F: +31 53 489 5640
M: +31(0) 611806725
E: m.r.h.khan@...
I: www.el.utwente.nl/te/personnel/khan.htm
***********************************

#3672

From: Isha Khan <bd_mailer@...>
Date: Sun Feb 22, 2009 4:43 am
Subject: An Impending Geopolitical Earthquake?

bd_mailer


An Impending Geopolitical Earthquake? By José Miguel Alonso Trabanco

The financial and economic turmoil the world is currently experiencing will certainly have many serious consequences beyond those fields. Indeed, its geopolitical fallout could be far more serious than commonly acknowledged and it is an element that cannot be neglected by neither statesmen nor analysts. Some scholars frequently hold that politics and economics are somehow separate. Such view is profoundly mistaken because politics and economics are strongly interlinked. Actually, political power and economic wealth cultivate one another. Likewise, economic trouble, more often than not, tends to lead to political trouble and the reverse is equally true. Therefore, it is fairly reasonable to assert that this financial crisis will have a major impact on the international system's balance of power. Some states (including Great Powers) could redefine their priorities. Other states are in a direr situation so they would have to make dramatic adjustments concerning their policies. Take the case of the United States. Following the end of the Cold War, the US intended to establish a unipolar era in which its hegemonic position would remain unrivaled (the so called 'Project for a New American Century'). However, Washington has had to deal with several setbacks and challenges like the rise of other great powers (China and Russia), the proliferation of anti-American regimes (Iran, Venezuela) as well as Washington's military quagmires (Iraq and Afghanistan). Thus, the position of the US could be weakened as a result of the financial crisis. It is unknown at this point if the Dollar hegemony will prevail and remain unscathed. The dollar can certainly survive but its position could be critically eroded. This is extremely important to bear in mind because the Dollar hegemony is one of the twin pillars of American power, the other one being military strength. The US Dollar's position as the top reserve currency is what has allowed the American economy to finance a huge trade deficit. A byproduct of that is the accumulation of the world's largest external debt, equivalent to almost 99.95% of America's GDP (!?). That means it cannot be paid so, what will happen if suddenly America's creditors decide to collect at least a part of that debt? If the US refuses to pay, how will its debtors react? Moreover, the financial and economic crisis might acutely restrict NATO's operational capabilities beyond its borders. The Atlantic alliance is currently contemplating an increased military presence in Afghanistan. It also seeks to advance further eastward into the Post-Soviet space. However, such agenda could be impeded by other concerns closer to home. It turns out that several European States (some with both NATO and European Union membership) are already facing sociopolitical complications that have been triggered by their severe financial and economic difficulties (lack of credit, unemployment, currency depreciation, external debt, GDP negative growth). If their situation deteriorates further, an eventual deployment of NATO troops in one or more of its members' territory is not unconceivable at all. The official purpose would be the preservation of political stability. The unofficial (and real) goal would be to prevent NATO-friendly governments from collapsing. Iceland, Romania, Hungary, Greece, Poland and even Italy and France are in a particularly dire position. According to Der Spiegel, Britain itself (the very cradle of modern finance) is "on the brink of financial ruin". This scenario can be dismissed as far-fetched but even the American financial sector is under critical circumstances. Like Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin recently remarked "… investment banks, [once] the pride of Wall Street, have virtually ceased to exist. In just twelve months, the have posted losses exceeding the profits they made in the last 25 years…" The Russian Federation itself is not immune. For instance, the Kremlin's plans to make Moscow an international financial center do not seem very likely now, due to the ruble's depreciation. In spite of that, the Russian government knows it has an important capability to maneuver through the crisis. Its main asset is the huge reserves of foreign currency (the third largest in the world) it has amassed during the last years. Plus, Russian energy and arms exports are a reliable source of income. Other Post-Soviet States are in a more delicate position. For instance, Kyrgyzstan decided to close the Manas Air Force Base (operated by the US Air Force) in exchange for Russian financial and economic concessions, which means Moscow scored a most crucial geopolitical victory. This teaches a vital lesson: Financial means are very useful to accomplish geopolitical objectives. On the other hand, Ukraine's economy is rather fragile so Kiev it has been rumored that Kiev could even reconsider its foreign policy in exchange for financial assistance. It has to be taken into account hat China possesses the world's largest reserves of foreign currency so Beijing is not entirely unprotected. However, as a result of the global crisis, the Chinese need to avoid potentially destabilizing political consequences derived from unemployment and overall economic slowdown. Some prominent members of Obama's administration intend to at least decrease the American trade deficit by pressuring Beijing to revaluate the Chinese yuan but China obviously is unwilling to artificially restrict its exports. This disagreement must not be underestimated because it could fuel dangerous tensions between both great powers. It is yet too early to accurately predict the full consequences of the world financial crisis. Nevertheless, it seems that it will spark some unforeseen geopolitical readjustments. The financial system is approaching a most critical turning point and so is the international balance of power. *José Miguel Alonso Trabanco* is an independent writer based in Mexico specialising in geopoltiucal and military affairs. He has a degree in International Relations from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Studies, Mexico City. His focus is on contemporary and historic geopolitics, the world's balance of power, the international system's architecture and the emergence of new powers.

www.globalresearch.ca/PrintArticle.php?articleId=12380

#3673

From: Mohammad Uddin <shahabmu@...>
Date: Mon Feb 23, 2009 7:32 am
Subject: Articles on HRM, offering research work jointly.

shahabmu

Dear All

Assalamualikum…WRM. I am Shahab from Chittagong University. I would like to do some research works on Human Resource Management. I need some articles on functional area (such as, Recruitment, selection, compensation, rewards and so on) of HRM. If you would kind enough to send the relevant articles which will help me to conduct the research. I also offer the teachers/researchers to work jointly with me so that we could share the experience and produce some research papers in this field.

With Regards

Md. Shahab Uddin
Lecturer
Department of Management Studies
University of Chittagong
Chittagong
Bangladesh.
Cell-01816351936

#3674

From: bdresearchers@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sat Feb 21, 2009 9:44 am
Subject: 3 replies - Correction Needed in Wikipedia!!!

md.shamsulhu...

Messages List
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1. Zico, Re: Correction Needed in Wikipedia!!!
2. Md. Shamsul Huda, Re: Correction Needed in Wikipedia!!!
3. Md. Shamsul Huda, Can we add more information in Wikipedia regarding
Coxsbazar

Reply 1
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From: Zico <mailzico@...>
To: bdresearchers@yahoogroups.com
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 22:40:42 +0600
Subject: Re: [bdresearchers] Correction Needed in Wikipedia!!!
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It has been corrected.

--
Best,
Z

Reply 2
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From: "md.shamsulhudamishu" <md.shamsulhudamishu@...>
Date: Sat Feb 21, 2009 1:44 am
Subject: Re: Correction Needed in Wikipedia!!!
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the error identified by you is already been corrected. Thanks for your sharing.

When i am checking that thing, i found very little information their. As
Wikipedia is open to add, so can we try to add something more so that people
know more about the day and the process through which this day become the
INternational Mother Language Day. I am sending you as u identify this error, u
can tell me.

Regards.
MisHU

Reply 3
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From: "md.shamsulhudamishu" <md.shamsulhudamishu@...>
Date: Sat Feb 21, 2009 1:51 am
Subject: Can we add more information in Wikipedia regarding Coxsbazar
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Dear Members,

I hope you all are aware about the current status of new 7 Wonder selection
process. In 2nd phase all the nominees are categorized in 6 groups. Coxsbazar
recently hold the 1st place in its group. As many people from other countries
may try to know about Coxsbazar, i think they will try their luck in Wikipedia
as Wikipedia is one of the largest and reliable source of information. But
unfortunately, Wikipedia have not that much detailed information regarding
Coxsbazar but they have detailed information regrding The Great Barrier Reaf of
Australi, who hold later position in the group of COxsbazar. So can we include
some more information regarding coxsbazar so that people find this place as
attractive as it is.

I hope we all can help in this situation. Through this support we can possibly
encourage foreigners to vote for Coxsbazar(atleast) and they may visit
Bangladesh.

Regards and Thx.

Original message
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In bdresearchers@yahoogroups.com, ashraf iqbal <sohag_ku@...> wrote:
>
> While I was searching for some documents about 'International
Mother Language Day' for making some posters to circulate at my
current school at Canada, I found something at wikipedia
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Mother_Language_Day) like-
'
>
> International
> Mother Language Day originated as the international recognition of
Language Movement Day, which has been
> commemorated in Bangladesh (formerly East
> Pakistan) since 1952, when a number of Bangladeshi university
students were
> killed by the Bangladeshi police and
> army in Dhaka.'.
>
> I belive that Wikipedia is a very famous source of information for
people all over the world and it essentially needs to correct this.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ashraf Mohammed Iqbal,
> Graduate Student
> Dalhousie University

#3675

From: Shamsul Arefin <sarefin_406@...>
Date: Sun Feb 22, 2009 4:55 am
Subject: Re: 3 replies - Bangla text-to-speech and OCR launch at BRAC U on 19/02/09 3pm

sarefin_406

Its a great news of being Bangladeshi. Sir, pls go ahead. It is an example of
how well some of our private universities are contributing the country. Hope
other universities will try to contribute the country. Public universities
should take more responsibilities in these regards. But unfortunately they are
not doing  well. Though there are some exceptions. I think from which place a
student is graduating is not a factor (though it is still a factor today it will
not be in future), the factor is the quality. I think some of the private
universities are trying to achieve their goals and definitely they will be
successful. Is there any goal or vision to our public universities. After 10
years what should be the position of my university? I think very few dedicated
public university teachers are thinking about these factors. But unfortunately
they have not enough power and they are neglected by powerfull(!!) persons so
that they have to give up their
  visions and they become traditional one. What will happen to our public
universities if the situation does not improve as it it the time of competition?

They above matters are of my personal opinion. So, hope any one will not be
hearted about my thinking.

Best regards
Mohammad Shamsul Arefin
AP
Dept. of CSE, CUET
I have a very bad experience
--- On Tue, 2/17/09, bdresearchers@yahoogroups.com
<bdresearchers@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

> From: bdresearchers@yahoogroups.com <bdresearchers@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [bdresearchers] 3 replies - Bangla text-to-speech and OCR launch at
BRAC U on 19/02/09 3pm
> To: bdresearchers@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 2:19 PM
> Messages List
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> 1. Mr. Vashkar vattachary, Re: Bangla text-to-speech and
> OCR launch at BRAC U on 19/02/09 3pm
> 2. Kamran Ahmed, Re: Bangla text-to-speech and OCR launch
> at BRAC U on 19/02/09 3pm
> 3. Firoj Alam, Re: Bangla text-to-speech and OCR launch at
> BRAC U on 19/02/09 3pm
>
>
> Reply 1
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> From: "Mr. Vashkar vattacharya"
> <vashkar79@...>
> Date: Tue Feb 17, 2009 2:18 am
> Subject: Re: Bangla text-to-speech and OCR launch at BRAC U
> on 19/02/09 3pm
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> It is a exciting news for me as a blind person. I expect
> their will be a Bangla screen reading software soon. If you
> need any cooperation i can share my knowledge.
>
> regards,
> vashkar
>
>
> Reply 2
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> From: "Kamran Ahmed"
> <K.Ahmed@...>
> Date: Tue Feb 17, 2009 2:19 pm
> Subject: RE: Bangla text-to-speech and OCR launch at BRAC U
> on 19/02/09 3pm
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Dear Professor Mumit Khan,
>
> It is quite pleasing to know that you are making
> significant contribution to improving language processing
> more user friendly.
>
> Regards,
> Kamran Ahmed
>
> Professor Kamran Ahmed
> Head, School of Accounting
> La Trobe University
> Melbourne, 3086, Australia
> Tel: 61 3 9479 1125
> Fax: 61 3 9479 2356
> Email: k.ahmed@...
>
> Please consider the environment before printing this email.
>
>
>
> Reply 3
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> From: Firoj Alam <firojalam04@...>
> Date: Thu Feb 19, 2009 1:55 pm
> Subject: Re: Bangla text-to-speech and OCR launch at BRAC U
> on 19/02/09 3pm
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> try this for the web version. windows and linux version
> will be coming soon.
>
> http://www.bracu.ac.bd/research/crblp/demo/tts/
>
> ...
> Firoj
>
>
> Original message
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> From: Mumit Khan
> Sent: Tuesday, 17 February 2009 2:42 AM
> To: bdresearchers@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [bdresearchers] Bangla text-to-speech and OCR
> launch at BRAC U on 19/02/09 3pm
>
> We are pleased to announce the first official release of
> our Bangla language processing software packages “Katha”
> (text-to-speech) and BanglaOCR (optical character
> recognition). We invite you to join us in celebrating this
> occasion on February 19, 2009 at 3 pm at BRAC University.
> See the computer create Bangla unicode text from scanned
> images and then read out the text. Meet the people behind
> it.
>
> We have come a long way, but we have even a longer way to
> go.
>
> The TTS and OCR run on Linux, Windows and Mac OSX. There is
> also a web-enabled front-end for the TTS (and under
> development for the OCR), making these tools available at
> anytime and from anywhere. We are working on better
> integration with screen readers in collaboration with the
> vision impaired community.
>
> The Bangla language processing tools developed at CRBLP are
> free and open source software, released under GNU Public
> License v2, and supported in part by funding from Canadian
> IDRC and BRAC University. Please visit CRBLP website
> http://www.bracu.ac.bd/research/crblp/ for more information
> on who we are and what we do.
>
> Location: 203 Aarong House, BRAC University, 66 Mohakhali
> C/A
> (mention "CRBLP seminar")
> Time: 3 pm
>
> --
>
> Mumit Khan, Ph.D.
>
> Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
>
> Head, Center for Research on Bangla Language Processing
>
> BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
>
> mumit@...
> +(880-2) 882-4051 Extension 4019
>
>
>
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#3676

From: Omar Faisal <mofaisal@...>
Date: Tue Feb 24, 2009 1:00 pm
Subject: Seeking help for Banking research in Bangladesh

mofaisal@...

Dear Mate,

Hope you are doing well. I am doing one
research work under Stockholm University, Sweden
about Mobile Banking aspect in Bangladesh. I have tried
to contact with Department of Currency Management and payment System
of Bangladesh Bank but I couldn't get any feedback from them.
I need some information about number of bank accounts holder in Bangladesh,
Electronic payment(online payment) policy etc.
Could you please help me from where I can get related resources?

Any suggestion or comments are welcome.

Thanks in advance !!!

With Best Regards
Omar Faisal
DSV, Stockholm University
Phone: 0046-739526162
Sweden

#3677

From: Mohammed E Hoque <bulbul20@...>
Date: Tue Feb 24, 2009 12:22 am
Subject: 2 messages - "Mobile research programmer opening at MIT" & "Internship at Motorola Labs (USA only)"

bulbul20

Messages List
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1. Mohammed E Hoque, Mobile research programmer opening at MIT
2. Mohammed E Hoque, Internship at Motorola Labs (USA only)

Message 1
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From: Mohammed E Hoque <bulbul20@...>
Date: Mon Feb 23, 2009 4:22 pm
Subject: Mobile research programmer opening at MIT
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Looking for a mobile programmer to start as soon as possible...

RESEARCH PROGRAMMER, House-n Research Group (temporary), to join a team
developing a hardware and software system that permits common mobile phones to
automatically measure physical activity in very large populations of adults (see
http://web.mit.edu/wockets). Responsibilities will include porting software that
detects physical activity in real-time on Windows Mobile devices to another
mobile platform such as Android or Symbian, working with a team of researchers
to develop and test software that detects physical activity in real-time on
mobile phones using wireless sensors, using participatory design techniques to
gather information about end-user concerns and write software to implement novel
solutions, writing academic papers on the design and use of the technology for
healthcare with the MIT and Stanford research team, and fostering an open-source
community of developers to use and extend the software technology.

REQUIREMENTS: a B.S. or advanced degree in computer science (or closely related
subject) and demonstrated success developing mobile applications for Windows
Mobile, Android, iPhone, or Symbian. Expertise in pattern classification
algorithm development, database-driven application development, ubiquitous
computing, Bluetooth programming, mobile game development, and/or user-interface
design and evaluation desirable.

See:
http://sh.webhire.com/servlet/av/jd?ai=631&ji=2333413&sn=I

Message 2
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From: Mohammed E Hoque <bulbul20@...>
Date: Tue Mar 3, 2009 5:30 pm
Subject: Internship at Motorola Labs (USA only)
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Please contact: pkaushik@... (Pallavi Kaushik, who is leading this
project, ONLY IF you feel that you have the required skill set and you are
currently located in USA)

Virtual Product "Unbox and Share" Application

User scans or enters a barcode on a product in the store with a mobile device
running Android, and can immediately explore the contents of the package via a 
video of product unboxing.  User can also share a link to the unboxing video and
associated product information to friends and family out of store via SMS.  The
content of the SMS share message is a URI which lets the recipient consume the
same unboxing content (browser based, or client install) as well as share it
virally with friends.  Once a unbox video is viewed in its entirety, the user is
SMS'd a coupon that they can redeem at checkout (from the phone screen, or by
SMSing it to a specific number at checkout). A tracking code is associated with
the share when it originates in store, and future redemptions can be correlated
to share origination and numbers shared with.  Users receiving a product share
can optionally "opt in" to the merchant's mobile loyalty/offers program and
receive future offers via SMS. The actual videos shown are generated by users
via a corresponding web app that offers a youtube like video portal which
encourages submission of UGC videos of product unboxings.   When a product is
encountered in store with no videos, users are encouraged to be the first one to
submit an unboxing video for that product.  When multiple videos are associated
with a product, the one with the highest ratings is offered by default, and the
user can optionally browse the remaining videos.

Required Skill Set

* Mobile development experience, preferably Android
* Web 2.0 development experience
* Working knowledge of RESTful design
* Specific Technologies: Java, MySQL, Rails

#3678

From: Ibne Anwar <omarruet@...>
Date: Tue Mar 3, 2009 5:17 pm
Subject: Need paper: "Control algorithms for control of real and reactive power flows..."

omarruet@...

Sir,

I am Omar Farrok. I am a lecturer of an engineering university. For my research work I need the following paper.

G. Saravana Ilango, C. Nagamani, A.V.S.S.R. Sai, D. Aravindan , “Control algorithms for control of real and reactive power flows and power oscillation damping using UPFC,” Electric Power Systems Research, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 11 October 2008

Abstract

Please send me the paper to me.

Thanking you,

Omar Farrok

#3679

From: Faisal Tariq <faisal750964@...>
Date: Thu Mar 5, 2009 1:54 pm
Subject: PhD positions in social science at Open University, UK

faisal750964

3-YEAR PHD SCHOLARSHIP IN SOCIAL SCIENCES AT THE OPEN UNIVERSITY
Available from September 2009

circulation date : 26/02/2009
closing date : 14/03/2009
The Faculty of Social Sciences at The Open University invite applications for a full-time PhD studentship in any of the following disciplines: Economics, Politics and International Studies, Psychology, Social Policy and Criminology, Sociology. The Faculty of Social Sciences has a thriving research culture and is engaged in world-class, agenda setting research in fields such as culture, citizenship, identities, governance, criminology and international development and innovation. You should have at least 2:1 for your first degree and should preferably have a relevant masters degree. For further details of research in the Faculty please see http://www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/research/index.php For information on studying for a research degree with us please visit our Research School's website http://www.open.ac.uk/research-school/. Closing Date: 14 March 2009 Equal Opportunity is University Policy.

-----

Faisal

Milton Keynes, UK
-----

"Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans"

#3680

From: Peter Balkwill <peterbalkwill@...>
Date: Fri Feb 27, 2009 11:00 am
Subject: RE: Need info: proposed Padma bridge - impact assessment

peterbalkwill@...

Hi There

I made a documentary for DFID on the social impact of the construction of the Bhairab Bridge in 2001. You may be able to get a copy from them or try the Media Centre in Iqbal Road Mohammadpur.

Regards
Peter Balkwill

To: bdresearchers@yahoogroups.com
From: adhikaryashoke@...
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:58:59 -0800
Subject: Re: [bdresearchers] Need info: proposed Padma bridge - impact assessment

Hi Dil,

Good luck

Ashoke Adhikary

Development Activist

(Expert- Adaptation to Climat Chanage, Disaster Management and Livelihood)

From: "dil@....bd" <dil@....bd>
To: bdresearchers@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 9:48:49 AM
Subject: [bdresearchers] Need info: proposed Padma bridge - impact assessment

Dear All,

With regards.

Dil Rowshan

Assistant Professor.

School of Environmental Science and Management

IUB

Dear All,

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#3681

From: Muntasir Mamun <svo97_12@...>
Date: Tue Feb 24, 2009 6:41 am
Subject: Re: Need Information about patent an idea

svo97_12

http://www.registration.com.bd/?cat=9 link may be helpful.

--- On Thu, 2/19/09, Yasin Javed <yasin_javed@...> wrote:

From: Yasin Javed <yasin_javed@...>
Subject: [bdresearchers] Need Information about patent an idea
To: bdresearchers@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009, 7:45 AM

Dear Members

I would like to know about patent an idea nationally and internationally. If anybody of you have any experience about this please share it with me.

Thanking You
Yasin Javed

#3682

From: bdresearchers@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thu Feb 26, 2009 1:06 am
Subject: 2 more replies - Bangladesh introduces new vaccine to prevent severe forms of child pneumonia and meningitis

badal2002bd

Messages List
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1. M U Ahmed, Re: Bangladesh introduces new vaccine to prevent severe forms of
child pneumonia and meningitis
2. Karar Zunaid, Re: Bangladesh introduces new vaccine to prevent severe forms
of child pneumonia and meningitis


Reply 1
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From: M U Ahmed <badal2002bd@...>
Date: Wed Feb 25, 2009 5:06 pm
Subject: Re: [bdresearchers] Re: Bangladesh introduces new vaccine to prevent
severe forms of child pneumonia and meningitis
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How do you say so Mr.ellias.What is your reference?

Best regards and Wishes
Monir Uddin Ahmed (Badal)
Melbourne, Australia
http://scitechinbd.blogspot.com/
Mobile:+61431091781,Phone:+61-3-94896145
My Understanding of science:Science is the endless pursuit of ,firstly ,explore
the processes, procedures and mechnisms of Allah's creations and then to copy or
replicate them as much as possible.


Reply 2
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From: Karar Zunaid <kzunaid@...>
Date: Wed Feb 25, 2009 7:40 pm
Subject: Re: [bdresearchers] Re: Bangladesh introduces new vaccine to prevent
severe forms of child pneumonia and meningitis
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Dear Mr. Bashir:

Would you kindly clarify your statement?

Regards,

Zunaid


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On Mon, 2/16/09, Bashir Mahmud Ellias <bashirmahmudellias@...> wrote:


     From: Bashir Mahmud Ellias <bashirmahmudellias@...>
     Subject: [bdresearchers] Re: Bangladesh introduces new vaccine to prevent
severe forms of child pneumonia and meningitis
     To: bdresearchers@yahoogroups.com
     Date: Monday, February 16, 2009, 7:40 AM

     May be it will prevent child pneumonia and meningitis but
     it will certainly cause tumor, cancer, autism, asthma,
     diabetics etc as usually most of the vaccines used to cause.

     --- In bdresearchers@ yahoogroups. com, Isha Khan <bd_mailer@. ..>
     wrote:
     >
     > Bangladesh introduces new vaccine to prevent severe forms of child
     pneumonia and meningitis
     > 4 million children to be vaccinated annually with new combination
     vaccine protecting against 5 killer diseases
     >
     > KHULNA, BANGLADESH, 15 January, 2009 - Today, Bangladesh
     introduces a new combination vaccine that will protect its children
     against five killer diseases in one injection, including, for the
     first time, the deadly bacterium Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib)
     that causes some severe forms of pneumonia and meningitis. In a
     ceremony in Khulna District, southwest of the capital Dhaka, the
     Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Professor A.F.M. Ruhul Haque,
     along with other health officials and representatives of UN agencies
     and development partners will administer the first shots of the
     combination vaccine to Bangladeshi children.
     >
     >
     > Hib is one of the causes of severe pneumonia and meningitis among
     children. Each year, Hib is estimated to cause millions of serious
     illnesses and 400,000 deaths globally, the majority of them among
     children under five years of age. Even with treatment, thousands of
     children die of Hib disease every year. Survivors are often
     permanently disabled—paralyzed, deafened or brain damaged.  The
     vaccine can prevent about one third of life-threatening cases of
     bacterial pneumonia, the leading infectious cause of death in
     children worldwide. In Bangladesh, it is estimated that 24% of under-
     five child deaths is due to pneumonia.
     >
     > The vaccine will be provided under the routine immunization
     programme to nearly four million children born in Bangladesh every
     year. As Bangladesh records high routine immunization coverage, it
     is estimated that Hib vaccine can save about 20,000 children's lives
     annually year.
     >
     > "This life-saving vaccine represents an important step forward in
     preventing childhood diseases in Bangladesh", said A.M.M. Nasir
     Uddin, Secretary of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare at the
     launch. "It will greatly help our country to achieve Millennium
     Development Goal 4 which aims at reducing under-five mortality."
     >
     > "Hib vaccine is a safe, effective and highly cost-effective
     intervention used for more than 18 years in developed and many
     developing countries.  Where used routinely, it has virtually
     eliminated Hib disease," commented Dr. Rana Hajjeh, Director of the
     Hib Initiative at Johns Hopkins University. "Clearly, Hib vaccine
     will have a major impact in Bangladesh in the same way it has saved
     thousands of children in other countries."  In South-Asia, Sri Lanka
     and Pakistan introduced the Hib vaccine in 2008.
     >
     > The new combination or 5-in-1 vaccine will protect children
     against Hib and four other deadly diseases: diphtheria, tetanus,
     pertussis, and hepatitis B. Instead of three different injections
     (for DPT, Hepatitis B and Hib), children will only need one
     injection at three different times during their first year of life:
     at the age of 6 weeks, 10 weeks and 14 weeks. This will make it
     easier for health workers who will need less time and less logistics
     to immunize all children. It will also increase the uptake of
     vaccine as each child will get all five vaccines at once.
     >
     > "We are proud to be part of this new initiative by helping with
     the procurement of the vaccines and supporting the training of about
     60,000 health workers together with WHO," said UNICEF Deputy
     Representative in Bangladesh, Dr. Iyorlumun J Uhaa.The introduction
     of the 5-in-1 vaccine in Bangladesh is carried out with financial
     and technical support from the GAVI Alliance and its key partners
     including UNICEF, WHO and the Hib Initiative. GAVI will spend more
     than US$95 million for procuring more than 27 million doses for
     2009 - 2010. The Government of Bangladesh will co-finance the
     purchase by investing US$5.6 million during the same period.
     >
     > "Vaccines and improvement in health and immunization systems are
     much needed in this part of the world," said Dr. Julian Lob-Levyt,
     Executive Secretary of the GAVI Alliance. "We applaud Bangladesh for
     taking this important step to help prevent more childhood diseases."
     >
     > "The introduction of new Hib vaccine will drastically reduce the
     burden of Hib disease. At the same time, the use of the combination
     vaccine containing five antigens in one shot will increase the
     Routine Immunization Coverage and it will result in reduction of
     morbidity and mortality from other vaccine preventable diseases",
     said WHO Representative in Bangladesh, Dr Duangvadee Sungkhobol.
     >
     > With high poverty, low literacy levels, and limited access to
     healthcare, many sick children in this densely populated country of
     155 million never reach a hospital and often die at home. Vaccines
     that protect children against preventable high-mortality infections,
     such as Hib, are urgently needed.
     >
     > "The situation with Hib disease in Bangladesh is very grave, since
     drug-resistant strains are increasing, and to treat infection
     doctors must use expensive drugs, which are not readily available in
     most hospitals," said Dr. Samir Saha, a Microbiologist at Dhaka
     Shishu Hospital. "This vaccine will prevent needless suffering,
     disability, and death." Dr. Saha coauthored a case-control study
     showing that routine immunization of infants with Hib vaccine
     prevents one third of serious pneumonia cases and more than 80% of
     probable bacterial meningitis cases in Bangladesh.
     >
     > http://www.unicef. org/media/ media_47182. html
     >

#3683

From: "Badrul Islam" <badrul_islam2001@...>
Date: Sun Feb 22, 2009 2:15 pm
Subject: Middle-East Crisis:Can It Be Solved?--- Part : 1

badrul_islam...

Middle-East Crisis: Can It Be Solved?

                          (PART-1)
Badrul  Islam


The 44th US President, Barack.Hussein 0bama, in his inaugural speech
mentioned that: "We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and
Hindus, and non-believers.  We are shaped by every language and
culture, drawn from every end of this Earth; and because we have
tasted the bitter swill of civil war and segregation, and emerged
from that dark chapter stronger and more united, we cannot help but
believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of
tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our
common humanity shall reveal itself; and that America must play its
role in ushering in a new era of peace.
      To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual
interest and mutual respect.  To those leaders around the globe who
seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West, know
that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you
destroy.
      To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and
the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of
history, but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to
unclench your fist."
The depth of these words, I feel are very refreshing indeed and
ushers in the "Change" from the previous 43rd President's moral
words, "Either you are for us or against us".  Congratulations Mr.
President.  Credit is also due for selecting Middle-East convoy,
George Mitchell, who according to Los Angeles Times, is no stranger
to conflicts. Mitchell received the Presidential Medal of Freedom
from President Clinton in 1999 for his work on reaching a peace
accord in Northern Ireland. (Ref: latimes.com dated 24/1/2009).
There is no doubt of the good intentions of the President. "Change"
is good; deciding to make change is the easy part, getting people to
do that are the difficult task.  Let us analyze.
The same issue of Los Angeles Times mentions that, " In his new role,
Mitchell will once again be working with Tony Blair, who was British
Prime Minister at the time of Good Friday agreement." Why and what is
the necessity when Tony, towards the end of his career became
controversial and unpopular, both at home and abroad due to his part
in creating the turmoil in Iraq.
On Middle East peace, Mr. Obama reiterated his administration's
support for Israel and its security but also suggested Israelis would
have to make some tough choices.
"Ultimately we cannot tell either the Israelis or the Palestinians
what is best for them. They are going to have to make some
decisions," he said.
"But I do believe the moment is ripe for both sides to realize that
the path that they are on is one that is not going to result in
prosperity and security for their people. And that instead, it's time
to return to the negotiating table."(Globalnews24.com dated
January27, 2009).
This sounds more realistic but what, if I may ask, will they do, at
the negotiating table?
Will  Mitchell be brave enough to remind the Israelis the fact that
in  the 19th century this land of Palestine was inherited by
Multicultural population �approximately 86 percent Muslim,10 percent
Christians and 4 percent Jews�all living in peace?  But a group of
Jews in Europe decided to form a Jewish land and they considered
locations in Africa and America before settling on Palestine.
Hitler's rise to power combined with the Zionists activities to
sabotage efforts to place Jewish refugees in western countries, led
to increased Jewish immigration to Palestine and the conflict began.
(Ref:ifamericansknew.org/history)
In 1938 Mohandas.K.Gandhi, widely acclaimed as the worlds most humane
Leader and Statesman, in response to queries on Arab-Jew question in
Palestine and Hitler's persecution of the Jews in Germany, he wrote
an article "Jews & Middle-East: A Non-Violent look at Conflict &
Violence". (Ref:kamat.com/mmgandhi/mideast.htm) Due to space
constraints I highlight the necessary wordings that President of the
US and all other world leaders would sincerely benefit from as a
guideline for permanent peace.
"My sympathies are all with the Jews. I have known them intimately in
South Africa.  The parallel between their treatment by Christians and
the treatment of untouchables by Hindus is very close. Religious
sanction has been invoked in both cases for the justification of the
inhuman treatment meted out to them. But my sympathy does not blind
me to the requirements of justice. Why should they not, like other
peoples of the earth, make that country their home where they are
born and where they earn their livelihood? Palestine belongs to the
Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France
to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the
Arabs. What is going on in Palestine today cannot be justified by any
moral code of conduct.
And now a word to the Jews in Palestine. I have no doubt that they
are going about it the wrong way. The Palestine of the Biblical
conception is not geographical tract. It is in their hearts. But if
they must look to the Palestine of geography as their national home,
it is wrong to enter it under the shadow of the British gun. A
religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the
bomb. They can settle in Palestine only by the goodwill of the Arabs.
They should seek to convert the Arab heart. The same God rules the
Arab heart, who rules the Jewish heart. They can offer satyagraha in
front of the Arabs. They will find the world opinion in their favor
in their religious aspiration. There are hundreds of ways of
reasoning with the Arabs, if they will only discard the help of the
British bayonet. As it is, they are co-sharers with the British in
despoiling a people who have done no wrong to them.
I am not defending the Arab excesses. I wish they had chosen the way
of non-violence in resisting what they rightly regarded as an
unwarrantable encroachment upon their country. But according to the
accepted canons of right and wrong, nothing can be said against the
Arab resistance in the face of overwhelming odds.
Let the Jews who claim to be the chosen races prove their title by
choosing the way of non-violence for vindicating their position on
earth. Every country is their home including Palestine, not by
aggression but by loving service. Given the will, the Jews can refuse
to be treated as the outcaste of the West, to be despised or
patronized. He can command the attention and respect of the world by
being man, the chosen creation of God, instead of being man who is
fast sinking to the brute and forsaken by God. They can add to their
many contributions the surpassing contribution of non-violent action."
I feel confident that if Mitchell can place this non-violent action
plan on the "negotiating table", it should enlighten both. warring
parties as it comes from  a honorable person who himself was a victim
of the  aggressive administrators in South African .
The President concluded his speech with the following words, "Let it
be said by our children's children that when we were tested we
refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we
falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us,
we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely
to future generations"
These words offer confidence that President.0bama could be trusted to
achieve the goal of permanent peace  so that children's children of
Israel and Palestine could breathe fresh air and not gun powder and
when an child of Israel  meets  a child of Palestine the Israeli
child   wouldn't say" My father said you hate Jews and plan to kill
us all."  In reply the child of Palestine wouldn't have to reply "I
don't know about that; my father was killed by an Israeli soldier.

#3684

From: bdresearchers@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thu Mar 5, 2009 1:43 pm
Subject: 2 replies - Seeking help for Banking research in Bangladesh

bdresearchers@yahoogroups.com

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1. Salim Rashid, Re: Seeking help for Banking research in Bangladesh
2. Fowzia, Re: Seeking help for Banking research in Bangladesh

Reply 1
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From: Salim Rashid <srashid@...>
Date: Wed Mar 4, 2009 5:44 pm
Subject: Re: [bdresearchers] Seeking help for Banking research in Bangladesh
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Omar,

If you specify with more exactness what you need---database, time period,
categories of accounts etc, i can put the request when I am in Dhaka in March.

Salim Rashid

Reply 2
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From: Fowzia <fowzia31@...>
Date: Thu Mar 5, 2009 5:43 am
Subject: Re: [bdresearchers] Seeking help for Banking research in Bangladesh
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I m sending u my one article on this topic. Hope it will be helpful for u.

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On 2/24/09, Omar Faisal <mofaisal@...> wrote:

Dear Mate,

Hope you are doing well. I am doing one research work under Stockholm
University, Sweden about Mobile Banking aspect in Bangladesh. I have tried to
contact with Department of Currency Management and payment System of Bangladesh
Bank but I couldn't get any feedback from them. I need some information about
number of bank accounts holder in Bangladesh, Electronic payment(online payment)
policy etc. Could you please help me from where I can get related resources?

Any suggestion or comments are welcome.

Thanks in advance !!!

With Best Regards
Omar Faisal
DSV, Stockholm University
Phone: 0046-739526162
Sweden

#3685

From: bdresearchers@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tue Mar 3, 2009 11:00 pm
Subject: 2 replies - Articles on HRM, offering research work jointly.

bdresearchers@yahoogroups.com

Messages List
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1. Farzana Choudhury, Re: Articles on HRM, offering research work jointly.
2. Mohammad Kadir, Re: Articles on HRM, offering research work jointly.

Reply 1
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From: farzana@...
Date: Tue Mar 3, 2009 3:00 pm
Subject: Re: [bdresearchers] Articles on HRM, offering research work jointly.
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Dear Md. Shahab Uddin,

Please send me a yahoo address and I will send you selected articles from an
yahoo account.

Farzana Choudhury

Reply 2
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From: Mohammad Kadir <makadir_bd@...>
Date: Fri Mar 6, 2009 4:22 am
Subject: Re: [bdresearchers] Articles on HRM, offering research work jointly.
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Mr. Shahab uddin:

I am interested in Recruitmen, Selection and Reward (from your mail). If you can
prvide reference, I will try to send articles.

Kadir
NB: Why most of the pages of your university are Under Construction!

Original message
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From: Mohammad Uddin <shahabmu@...>
To: bdresearchers@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 13:32:32
Subject: [bdresearchers] Articles on HRM, offering research work jointly.

Dear All

Assalamualikum WRM. I am Shahab from Chittagong University . I would like to do
some research works on Human Resource Management. I need some articles on
functional area (such as, Recruitment, selection, compensation, rewards and so
on) of HRM. If you would kind enough to send the relevant articles which will
help me to conduct the research. I also offer the teachers/researcher s to work
jointly with me so that we could share the experience and produce some research
papers in this field.

With Regards

Md. Shahab Uddin
Lecturer
Department of Management Studies
University of Chittagong
Chittagong
Bangladesh.
Cell-01816351936

#3686

From: "Md. Moin Uddin Khan" <nipon04@...>
Date: Sun Mar 8, 2009 6:55 am
Subject: CHPD Seminar Invitation for March 12th, 2009, Thursday, 10:30 to 11:30 am at IUB.

nipon04@...

Website: www.iub.edu.bd/chpd/index.htm

Centre for HeAlth, Population and Development

Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB)

Seminar Series

on Population and Development

Professor M Omar Rahman, Pro Vice Chancellor, IUB and Executive Director of the Centre for Health, Population and Development at IUB cordially invites you to attend a seminar by Ms. Khushi Kabir, Coordinator, Nijera Kori.

Title:

"Setting Development Priorities: Economic Well Being or Empowerment of the Poorest? - Are They Mutually Exclusive?"

Venue:

C5 Room # 101, Library Building,

Independent University, Bangladesh,

House # 6, Road # 14, Baridhara, Dhaka-1212

Time:

10:30 am to 11:30 am, Thursday, March 12th, 2009.

Regrets only:

9884498, 9881917, Ext: 223

Email: nipon04@iub.edu.bd

With Regards

MD. MOIN UDDIN KHAN
Senior Office Manager, Centre for Health, Population and Development
Program Manager, Master of Public Health
Independent University, Bangladesh
House # 27, Road # 12, Baridhara, Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh
Phone: 0088-02-9884498, 8852720, 8852726 Ext: 223
Mobile: 0088-01912-491833
Website: http://centers.iub.edu.bd/chpd/

#3687

From: Shyamal Ganguly <shyamalganguly@...>
Date: Sat Feb 28, 2009 2:27 am
Subject: Re: Beware of false intellectuals plagiarizing The India Doctrine (1947-2007)

shyamalganguly@...

Dear All:
I am supplying my comments with a few pieces of information that are relevant.

There is no new knowledge.
We start gathering knowledge right after our birth and the brain continually registers them until we die.
80% of all the PHD theisis contain garbage. College professors, GURUS, MULLAHS have climed positions of special powers to evaluate the works of the studnets who mostly steal previous works and just stretch the information a bit.
Ask any Engineering Student, if he ever used a Mother Copy of a LAB EXPERIMENT.
I can not claim that I have contributed anything new. I collect data from Television, Internet, Books, Newspapers etc. and use them to form my opinion and that opinion could be faulty.
Most faulty opinions are formed by studying spiritual books - Hindu, Muslim, Buddhists, Christians, Communists all included.

Collecting historical information and packaging them with a little bit of chutney here and there do not make any book UNIQUE. That includes the kind of books of Great Favorite of the Bengalis all over the world Amartya Sen.

Only Poets have vision that are UNCOMMON and UNIQUE. That is why they are visionary.

I have a Bachelor's degree in engineering, from Jadavpur, Masters from Imperial College and I have studied MBA in USA never finished. I DELARE THAT I HAVE NO NEW KNOWLEDGE. I have used other peoples writings and utterences and packaged them this far to carry on in the world.

None of us are like Newton, Einstein, DeCartes or Euler. Even they were humble.

Shyamal K. Ganguly
Reading, Pennsylvania

To: bdresearchers@yahoogroups.com
From: MBIMunshi@...
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 06:38:28 +0000
Subject: [bdresearchers] Beware of false intellectuals plagiarizing The India Doctrine (1947-2007)

Dear All,

It appears some so-called intellectuals of Bangladesh have been
randomly picking ideas from my book The India Doctrine (1947-2007) and
using them as if they were the originators of the concepts and
interpretations therein. If this was the case then why have all these
pseudo-intellectuals failed to publish a single book or thesis on the
subject during the last 40 years? There seems to be a trend developing
where rightist 'intellectuals' steal (or should that be borrow ideas)
written by others without giving them credit. This probably explains
the intellectual vacuum within some political parties in Bangladesh
and their massive defeat in the national elections.

To avoid plagiarism as just described you must give credit whenever
you use

� another person's idea, opinion, or theory;
� any facts, statistics, graphs, drawings�any pieces of
information�that are not common knowledge;
� quotations of another person's actual spoken or written words; or
� paraphrase of another person's spoken or written words.

http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml

According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, to "plagiarize" means

1. to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own
2. to use (another's production) without crediting the source
3. to commit literary theft
4. to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an
existing source.

In other words, plagiarism is an act of fraud. It involves both
stealing someone else's work and lying about it afterward.

http://www.plagiarism.org/learning_center/what_is_plagiarism.html

I have refrained from identifying the persons involved in plagiarizing
my work to save them from public embarrassment but if they continue to
use the ideas, concepts and interpretations used by me in my books
then I will name and shame them because they have no right to present
themselves as honest or having any claim to integrity. They are the
same charlatans who have ruined this country and are now defrauding
the people with ideas stolen from other since they do not have the
ability or intelligence to come up with new ideas of their own.

Reply | Messages in this Topic (4)

#3688

From: Imtiaz Kabir <imu1976@...>
Date: Mon Mar 2, 2009 6:08 pm
Subject: Need an artical or journals regarding software pairacy of bangladesh

imu1976

Dear all group member:

Can anyone have any artical or journals regarding software pairacy of bangladesh.

Thanks in advance.

Imtiaz

#3689

From: Anwarul Kabir <kabiranwar@...>
Date: Mon Feb 23, 2009 8:38 am
Subject: My article on digital Bangladesh

kabiranwar

Dear all,

Please read my article, entitled "Dream of a Digital Bangladesh", published in
the Star Campus of the Daily Star. The link is given below:

http://www.thedailystar.net/campus/2009/02/04/camspotlight.htm

Thanks.

With kind regards,
M. A. KABIR�

#3690

From: Prof. Abdullah A. Dewan <missydeone@...>
Date: Mon Feb 23, 2009 5:11 am
Subject: A new article - "Free trade versus fleecing America"

missydeone@...

Thank you for your attention and interest,

--
Abdullah A. Dewan
M.S. (nuclr. engr), Ph.D(econ)
Professor of Economics
Eastern Michigan UNiversity
Ph. # (734) 487-0003
____
Columnist--The Daily Star

#3691

From: Faisal Tariq <faisal750964@...>
Date: Sun Mar 8, 2009 11:19 am
Subject: Research Assistant/Associate, Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science

faisal750964

Research Assistant/Associate, Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science
Temporary 13 month contract commencing 1 May 2009, Based in Milton Keynes
�27,183 - �31,513
circulation date : 26/02/2009
closing date : 19/03/2009
This post is funded by the BBSRC and is aimed at investigating the role of a Drosophila exonuclease homologous to human WRN, a gene implicated in the premature human ageing condition Werner's syndrome. Loss of function of WRN, which encodes a dual exonuclease/helicase, leads to pleiotropic effects including increased genomic instability, which may arise from illegitimate recombination at stalled replication forks. This exciting project is a collaboration between the laboratories of Dr Robert Saunders (Department of Life Sciences, The Open University) and Dr Lynne Cox (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford). You will have a strong enthusiasm for research and the temperament to work both independently and as part of a group. Extensive collaboration between the two groups is an integral part of the project and the post-doctoral scientist appointed would be expected to engage actively in collaborative exchanges. Closing date: mid-day 19 March 2009. Interview date: 27 March 2009.

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Faisal

Milton Keynes, UK
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"Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans"