Arsenic is a silent killer. If undetectable in the early stages, arsenic poisoning takes 8-14 years to show its impact on health, depending on the amount of arsenic ingested, nutritional status, and immune response of the individual....

The book examines the poverty alleviation capacity of microfinance program in Bangladesh. It reveals that conventional NGOs and Microfinance Institutes (MFIs) are not doing exactly what they are publicly claiming. Microfinance is a good business for its providers; but unfortunately, not so for the poor borrowers....

The objectives of the study were to: (I) identify the extent of participation by women in agricultural Income Generating Activities (IGAs) for their poverty alleviation and (II) to find out the relationship between the selected characteristics of the respondents and their participation in those activities....

This paper explores the working and living conditions of floating sex workers in Dhaka city with special emphasize on violation and denial of their human rights.It discusses the concepts of sex work and the capabilities approach by M. Nussbaum and applies them to the study of FSW’s....

In this book, we formulate stitching as a multi-image matching problem, and use local invariant features to find matches between all of the images because of this our method is not sensitive to ordering, orientation, scaling and illumination, its stitching precision is much higher than many other methods....

Bangladesh is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world. Bangladesh is a part of humid tropic, with the Himalayas in the north and the funnel shaped coast touching the Bay of Bengal in the south....

Until 1970s most people obtained and consumed water from the hand dug wells, ponds, rivers or canals. These water were usually consumed without any treatment. Therefore, epidemics of diarrhoea and other water-borne diseases were very common. Hundreds of people particularly the infants died only because of drinking these unsafe water....

The Electrocardiogram (ECG) is a very crucial and effective tool for heart monitoring system on behalf of both regular checkup and emergency. This paper presents a home-made ECG monitoring unit with the latest facilities at a reachable price to consider the economic condition of the large number of poor people around the country....

Physicians are often facing the task of predicting the immediate and long-term outcome in stroke patients. Early predictor of mortality and poor outcome are crucial for planning the level of care and optimizing resource utilization. The performance of Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) in prediction of mortality of acute stroke patients was investigated....

Most of the individuals find it quite difficult when it comes to reading and writing in apt ways....

Mitochondria are ubiquitous membrane-bound organelles that produce about 90% of the energy necessary for cellular function via oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS). Mitochondria play central roles in metabolism, signaling, and programmed cell death....

Motorcycles are overrepresented in road traffic crashes and particularly vulnerable at signalized intersections. ‘Motorcycle safety at signalized intersections’ provides an in-depth understanding of hazards of motorcycles at signalized intersections and suggests some targeted countermeasures to alleviate the problem....

This book provides an in-depth knowledge of the most important aspects of data management, especially the relational database systems and data mining. Primary Emphasis is on peer to peer database management systems, Classifiers and Intrusion Detection....

DCarS is a driving rules and regulations training program designed for use on handheld devices. This thesis presents DCarS (Drive Car Safely), a software product developed to help pre-permit, permit and licensed drivers increase or refresh their knowledge, skills, abilities and attitudes necessary for driving safely....

The report "Multi-Level Password Authentication Method using Graphics & Text" was submitted by Md....