336 research outputs found
Fundamental Rights in Times of Emergency: Ataur Rahman Vs Muhibur Rahman Revisited
No full textThis research analyses the Bangladesh' Court Decision on the case of Ataur Rahman vs. Mahibur Rahman with regrad to fundamental rights in times of emergency. It is argued that the decision of the court in Ataur Rahman vs. Muhibur Rahman is erroneous decision. This is because while Article 141C of Bangladesh Constitution gives the Presidnet the power to suspend certain fundamental rights, yet Articles 27 to 35 and 41 of the Constitution cannot be suspended. In Bangladesh's legal system, fundamental human rights are commonly viewed as a set of legal protections. Part III of the Constitution of Bangladesh has confirmed these rights for the citizens of Bangladesh. Some fundamental rights are even universally recognized rights which are contained in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), or the UN International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). Article 4 of the ICCPR deals with the state of emergency and Article 4(2) provides a list of non-derogable rights. Such as the right to life, the prohibition of torture, slavery etc. These rights are completely non-derogable in nature and cannot be derogated at all including during a state of emergency. Furthermore the Apex court of Bangladesh tried to justify that the President can derogate any fundamental right during an emergency. Such a proposition is contradicting core parts of our Constitution as well as several International instruments.This research uses normative legal research with statute approach and case approach, especialy analysing Ataur Rahman vs. Muhibur Rahman case
BN-HTRd: A Benchmark Dataset for Document Level Offline Bangla Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR)
No full textWe introduce a new dataset for offline Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) from images of Bangla scripts comprising words, lines, and document-level annotations. The BN-HTRd dataset is based on the BBC Bangla News corpus - which acted as ground truth texts for the handwritings. Our dataset contains a total of 786 full-page images collected from 150 different writers. With a staggering 1,08,18 instances of handwritten words, distributed over 14,383 lines and 23,115 unique words, this is currently the 'largest and most comprehensive dataset' in this field. We also provided the bounding box annotations (YOLO format) for the segmentation of words/lines and the ground truth annotations for full-text, along with the segmented images and their positions. The contents of our dataset came from a diverse news category, and annotators of different ages, genders, and backgrounds, having variability in writing styles. The BN-HTRd dataset can be adopted as a basis for various handwriting classification tasks such as end-to-end document recognition, word-spotting, word/line segmentation, and so on. The statistics of the original dataset are given below:-------------------------------------------------Number of writers = 150Total number of images = 786Total number of lines = 14,383Total number of words = 1,08,18Total number of unique words = 23,115Total number of punctuation = 7,446Total number of characters = 5,74,203-------------------------------------------------# From v3.0, we are also providing automatic bounding box annotations (YOLO format) of 805 document images containing words/lines. The statistics of the automatic annotations are given below:-------------------------------------------------Number of writers = 87Total number of images = 805Total number of lines = 14,836Total number of words = 1,06,135------------------------------------------------
BanglaEmotion: A Benchmark Dataset for Bangla Textual Emotion Analysis
No full textWe present a manually annotated Bangla Emotion corpus, which incorporates the diversity of fine-grained emotion expressions in social-media text. We tried to consider more fine-grained emotion labels such as Sadness, Happiness, Disgust, Surprise, Fear and Anger - which are, according to Paul Ekman (1999), the six basic emotion categories. For this task, we collected a large amount of raw text data from the user’s comments on two different Facebook groups (Ekattor TV and Airport Magistrates) and from the public post of a popular blogger and activist Dr. Imran H Sarker. These comments are mostly reactions to ongoing socio-political issues and towards the economic success and failure of Bangladesh. We scrape a total of 32923 comments from the three sources aforementioned above. Out of these, a total of 6314 comments were annotated into the six categories. The distribution of the annotated corpus is as follows:
sad = 1341
happy = 1908
disgust = 703
surprise = 562
fear = 384
angry = 1416
We have also provided a balanced set from the above data and split the dataset into training and test set of equal ratio. We considered a proportion of 5:1 for training and evaluation purpose. More information on the dataset and the experiments on it could be found in our paper (related links below)
Evaluation of 40 credit points thesis in Bachelor of Engineering Course in Western Sydney University, Australia
No full textEngineering bachelor degree course generally consists of a final year major project/ thesis in a four-year study. In many universities, this is undertaken as a design project, either by a single or group of student(s). Many engineering schools have an embedded honours component where the project/thesis is integrated in the final year of study. In contrast, university science course is typically of three-year duration, followed by an additional year of honours study by the academically outperforming students. To enhance honours program, the former College of Health and Science, Western Sydney University (WSU) in Australia undertook a major benchmarking exercise of its honours programs in 2009. The author as the then School of Engineering Honours Coordinator compared honours courses in a number of major engineering schools in Australia and made wider consultation with relevant WSU academics and committees to make a submission to the honours benchmarking committee. The outcome of this exercise resulted in the implementation of an engineering honours program in WSU comprising of a thesis component worth 40 credit points. In this paper, the author, as the School Honours Coordinator and as supervisor of honours students presents his coordination, supervision and learning experiences of engineering honours thesis at WSU. It has been found that the 40 credit points honours thesis in WSU enhanced the learning outcomes of the students, which was demonstrated by the students’ increased recognition in the state competitions, HDR enrolments and peer-reviewed publications
Stress distribution of CFRP strengthened steel hollow sections under tension
No full textCarbon fibre reinforced polymer (CFRP) sheets have many outstanding properties such as high strength, high\ud
elastic modulus, light weight and good durability which are made them a suitable alternative for steel in\ud
strengthening work. This paper describe the ultimate load carrying capacity of steel hollow sections at effective\ud
bond length in terms of its cross sectional area and the stress distribution within bond region for different layers\ud
CFRP. It was found that depending on their size and orientation of uni- directional CFRP layers, the ultimate\ud
tensile load was different. Along with these tests, non linear finite element analysis was also performed to\ud
validate the ultimate load carrying capacity depending on their cross sections. The predicted ultimate loads\ud
from FE analysis are found very close to the laboratory test results. The validated model has been used to\ud
determine the stress distribution at bond joint for different orientation of CFRP. This research shows the effect\ud
of stress distribution and suitable wrapping layer to be used for the strengthening of steel hollow sections in\ud
tension
Doctoral supervision : a case study in Western Sydney University, Australia
No full textDoctoral study is the highest level of study where the best academically performing students carry out specified research under an expert supervisory panel in a university. The role of a doctoral supervisor is to train a student having little/no experience in research (novice) so that the student becomes an independent researcher at the end of his candidature. The paper presents the author’s experiences in supervising doctoral students in Western Sydney University during the last seven years. The author highlights the common difficulties faced by the doctoral students. It has been noted that the doctoral students face significant difficulty in literature review, research writing and statistical analysis in the field of statistical hydrology (author’s area of expertise). However, a strategic supervision can make a student successful in gaining necessary skills to publish high quality journal articles and to write an excellent thesis
A reflection on Master of Engineering Project : a case study in Western Sydney University, Australia
No full textMaster of Engineering Project (MEP) is one of the core subjects in Master of Engineering program in Western Sydney University. This subject aims to consolidate the entire study over two years and allows a student to develop necessary skill sets and learning capabilities in a specialised field to devise an innovative solution to a given problem. In this paper, the authors present their learning and teaching experiences in MEP, where the first author completed his MEP as a student under the supervision of the second author. It has been found by the first author that a blended learning approach assisted him in completing the MEP successfully with the production of two refereed conference articles based on his MEP. The second author identified that many of the MEP students had notable lacking in research writing which prevented them from producing refereed publications based on their MEP studies
Impact of classroom interaction on English language learning at the secondary level of Bangladesh
No full textThis thesis report is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in Teaching to Speakers of Other Languages, 2014.Cataloged from PDF version of Internship report.Includes bibliographical references (page 77-78).The term classroom interaction generally refers to the interaction between the teacher and learners, and amongst the learners, in the classroom. The aim of the study is to investigate how classroom interaction helps the students to learn English language. Earlier studies on classroom interaction focused on the language use by the teacher and learner, the interaction generated, and their effect on language learning. For this research the researcher has used both the qualitative (interview, FGD and observation) and quantitative (questionnaire survey) methodologies. The research said that “Classroom interaction is essential for learning English language”. Interaction is one of the issues occurred in the classroom that have a vital role in learning English language in the context of Bangladesh.Md. Ataur RahamanM. in TESO
Risks of climate change, operation and management on climate resilient water supply options in the coastal areas of Bangladesh
No full textThe coastal areas of Bangladesh are regarded as the most vulnerable region in the country due to climate change impact. Majority of the coastal population depend on water supply from rainwater harvesting (RWH) systems, pond sand filters (PSF) and rain-feed ponds. These water supply options are considered as climate resilience water supply options; however these will be seriously impacted by climate change induced tidal surge and cyclone, salinity intrusion, drought and excessive rainfall. This study was conducted to explore the operational and maintenance issues of these water supply options and the associated microbial health risk and also the possible climate change impacts on these water supply options. It reveals that both management and operational related issues contributed to microbial risk factors of ponds and PSFs water; whereas for rainwater harvesting systems, maintenance issues contributed the major risk factors. Water from all these options was found microbiologically contaminated and is not safe for drinking without further treatment. It also reveals that both pond and PSF water will be seriously impacted by storm surge and cyclone and salinity intrusion. RWH systems are found to be more resilience against climate change induced impacts and thus will be more effective. Both technical and social adaptation measures should be undertaken for a sustainable water supply in the coastal areas of Bangladesh
Fundamentals of Systematic Zoology
No full textTitle: Fundamentals of Systematic ZoologyAuthor: Md. Ataur Rahman KhanPublisher Zahirul Islam (Lipton), Aligarh Library, Rajshahi.March, 2010, Pp. 380.DOI: 10.3329/ujzru.v28i0.5295Univ. j. zool. Rajshahi Univ. Vol. 28, 2010 pp. 83</jats:p
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