Shahjahan Bhuiyan
Shahjahan Bhuiyan
Shahjahan Bhuiyan
This article explores the role of social capital in community development by focusing on two South Asian case studies drawn from India and Bangladesh. Both studies recognized social capital as a useful resource, which facilitates social interaction and promotes mutual support and cooperation and thu...
Shahjahan Bhuiyan
Climate change poses a serious threat to humanity in developed and developing countries and is already affecting South Asia. This study examines the role that good governance plays for adapting to climate change in Bangladesh, arguing that lack of good governance in Bangladesh risks reducing adaptat...
Jonathan Mendilow
Preface by Michael Pinto-Duchinsky Chapter 1. Introduction: Political Finance, Corruption, and the Future of Democracy by Jonathan Mendilow Chapter 2. Do Parties Spend Too Much? by Manuela S. Kulick and Karl-Heinz Nassmacher Chapter 3. Parties as Competitive Public Utilities?: The Impact of the Regu...
Taiabur Rahman, Shahjahan Bhuiyan
This paper reviews and analyzes the development of Multipurpose Community Telecenters (MCTs) in rural Bangladesh. The core of the paper builds on bringing together relevant literature review and field study. The findings of the paper suggest that the development of telecenters in Bangladesh is still...
Enamul Bhuiyan, Asif Ahmed, G.M. Bhuiyan, Md. Shahjahan
Md Shahjahan, AKFH Bhuiyan
A baseline survey was conducted in a cluster area (279 households) of Mymensingh district in Bangladesh to know the farmers’ socio-economic condition, and overall production and husbandry practices regarding indigenous poultry farming and assess future outlook. Data were analyzed following descripti...
N Dhahira Banu, Shahjahan Bhuiyan, Smita Sabhlok
Shahjahan Bhuiyan
The theory of social capital cannot be universally applied unless it is contextualized according to the local conditions of a given society. Based on extensive field research in Dhaka and Chittagong the author shows that collective action with respect to urban solid waste management can work well wh...
Md. Shahinul Islam, Chandon Roy, Kifayat Sadman Ishadi, Mohammad Mejbah Uddin Mithu et al.
1. Adolescents. https://data.unicef.org/topic/adolescents/overview/. Published 2022. Accessed August 2024. 2. Sawyer SM, Azzopardi PS, Wickremarathne D, Patton GC. The age of adolescence. Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2018; 2:223-228. 3. Sinai T, Axelrod R, Shimony T, Boaz M, Kaufman-Shriqui V. Dieta...
Shahjahan Bhuiyan
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has been spreading around the world, causing a major public health crisis that has already claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. Street-level bureaucrats--health workers, teachers, street cleaners, police officers-, and so forth-are at the forefront in fighting ...
Nabil H. Bhuiyan, Md. Khalid Hossain Jewel, Somak Saha, Md. Niaz Mostakim et al.
Human-robot interaction is an important, attractive and challenging area. In this research an android based robot was designed and implemented that has the characteristics of functioning on voice commands; riding through rough and rugged tracks; sensing temperature, humidity, gas and smoke; detectin...
Mahiuddin Md Shahjahan Bhuiyan, Md. Redwanur Rahman, M. Sarwar Jahan, M N Haque
A total of 6 species of freshwater mussels under the family Unionidae, order- Unionoida were collected, which are new records for Bangladesh. The information on the distribution and ecology, population density and seasonal variation of Lamellidens phenchooganjensis, L. indawgyiensis, L. generosus, P...
Shahjahan Bhuiyan
IN BANGLADESH, URBAN local governments, i.e. city corporations, municipalities are formally responsible for urban waste management.The conservancy department, as an administrative organ of the corporation/municipality, has the responsibility for solid waste management (SWM).In this short paper, an a...