Providing telecommunication to the tea plantations in Bangladesh

Analyzing all the existing telecommunication technologies in Bangladesh, discussing their merits and demerits, and choosing the most viable option in order to provide a network system to the tea planters for facilitating updating of necessary information of the tea estates to the head offices and vice versa

Darkness with Shards of Light

Realities of the world are often difficult to face. We dream of a world devoid of social ills. In the notion of 'utopia', we imagine such an environment - sparkling and full of light, but this perfect world is a delusion. It fails to address the darker, more unpredictable reality - one of the imperfections, transitions, and moments of enlightenment, an existence constantly becoming. Architecture can frame this side of existence. Architectural space can find its origin in the creation of experience, focusing to engage the senses to create an experience. In this thesis, the experience is developed in the intertwined refrains of art, architecture, and sculpture. It frames through architecture, an effect drawn from the interplay of light, matter, and space. It is drawn from experiments, the works of Louis Kahn and Tadao Ando, from paintings of Caravaggio and the sculptures of Henry Moore, telling the story of life, the story of darkness, of shadows, of flesh and hope

Women\u27s Rights: Reframing the Issues for the Future

Good morning and welcome, everyone, to our panel on Women\u27s Rights: Refraining the Issues for the Future. I am Kathy Rodgers. I\u27m from the class of 1973 of Columbia Law School, and I\u27m looking around this room – this is not what room A and B looked like back then! Everybody has a microphone, which is great, because we hope to have some good interactive discussion with all of you this morning. I am also, in addition to being a Columbia Law alum, the president of NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund here in New York. For over thirty-two years, NOW Legal Defense has used the power of the law to define and defend women\u27s rights. I am particularly pleased to be here today with Columbia Law School alumnae because Columbia women have been a substantial part of our team throughout these thirty-two years as members of our staff, as academic partners, a s student interns (including some young men), as part of our volunteer leadership, as pro bono attorneys, and as supporters. So with all of these connections, it really is a matter of personal pride to be back here celebrating the women of Columbia Law School

Assessing Interdisciplinary Learning Styles

The interdependent world we live in is increasingly reflected in the interdisciplinary nature of our professions. As professors, we are frequently required to teach students from various disciplines in our courses and to engage in interdisciplinary research and teaching efforts. This is perhaps even more the case when teaching at a polytechnic university. While it is indisputable that such endeavors enrich our understanding of complex issues and benefit the learning experience of students and faculty alike, they also bring with them new challenges that need to be met. One such challenge is the diversity of learning styles that students bring to the classroom. Many of us are well aware of the vast literature on students’ learning styles (e.g. Myers, 1962; Schroder et. al., 1967; Paivio, 1971; Kolb, 1976; Messick, 1976; Dunn & Dunn, 1978; Keefe, 1979; Riding & Sadler-Smith, 1992; Larsen, 1992; Jonassen & Grabowski, 1993; Biggs, 1993; Vermunt, 1996). Far less research has been done on the distribution of learning styles across the disciplines and how they affect the learning behavior of students in different majors and their response to various teaching and assessment strategies. In order to derive the maximum benefit from interdisciplinary teaching, it is essential that we understand such differences. In a collaborative project that involves scholars from five different disciplines, we are asking the following research questions: 1) How are learning styles distributed across different majors? 2) Is there a tendency for students to self-select into different majors based on their learning styles, or are certain learning styles influenced by departmental and cultural pressures? 3) How do students in different majors perform in different learning environments? 4) Is there a correlation between students’ learning styles and how they respond to various assessment techniques? At the conference, we present preliminary findings from the survey that offers insight into the research questions listed above. In order to answer these questions, we will conduct a survey that measures learning styles and various aspects of learning and assessment both across learning styles and across disciplines. The survey will be administered to majors from architecture, engineering, political science, the social sciences, and urban planning. In order to fully answer our questions, we plan to conduct a four-year panel study that will allow us to observe students in a diversity of majors throughout their career at Cal Poly

Evaluation of Pedestrian Level of Service of Selected Footpath Segments of Dhaka City Using Multi-criteria Decision Making Approach

Walking is considered to be the most important mode of travel across the world particularly for a shortdistance trip Since 19 6 of the trips are made by the foot in Dhaka it is necessary to ensure a friendly walking environment in the footpath for the welfare of pedestrians of Dhaka This study aims to make a comparative analysis of Pedestrian Level of Service PLOS of selected footpath segments along Segun Bagicha road Toynbee Circular Road Mirpur Road and Baily road Pedestrian Level of Service has been determined based on ten factors path width pedestrian volume crossing facilities availability of buffer distance from vehicular traffic surface quality comfort walking environment the existence of street light The weight of each factor has been determined through the Multi-criteria analysis approach Analytical Hierarchy Process Path width Pedestrian volume and the existence of buffer are the first second and third most important factors PLOS has been determined based on the indexed value of factors and weight of factors All the sections were found to have poor PLOS The findings of the study will be helpful for transport policymakers to improve the condition of these factors to ensure a better walking condition for pedestrians of selected footpath section

Fake News Detection: Covid-19 Perspective

The development of social media has con- tributed to a remarkable rise in the spread of fake news. Today people rely more on online news outlets. The chance of receiving fake news on an online platform is high. As we went through a pandemic and the Covid-19 was the most absorbing topic of 2020, much news on Covid-19 was published every day in traditional media and social media. Among that news, some are fake. In this work, we have collected a new dataset for detecting fake news from traditional media on Covid-19. We have gathered more than 3000 pieces of news from traditional media out of the 170 are fake ones that were collected from fact-checking sites. Then we have tested the existing four classification algorithms with our dataset using Count Vectorizer and TF-IDF. We have merged 170 fake news with four scales of true news and analyzed the outcome

Toxicity outcome of concurrent teletherapy and brachytherapy compared with teletherapy followed by brachytherapy in locally advanced carcinoma cervix

Background: Teletherapy and intracavitary brachytherapy are definitive treatment modalities for stages IIB to IVA cervical carcinoma. Globally, it is the second most common cancer among female. Majority of patients attend the hospital with locally advanced stage due to less screening facility and social stigma.Methods: This quasi-experimental study was conducted from January 2019 to June 2020 with a total of 76 patients. The patients were equally divided into two groups: A and B after obtaining their informed written consent.Results: Final follow up was given after completion of treatment at 24 weeks. Patients in both groups developed grade 1 gastrointestinal and genitourinary toxicities (10.5% versus 13.1%, 13.1% versus 15.7% in group A and B respectively). Two patients in group A and three patients in group B developed grade 2 gastrointestinal toxicities. In genitourinary toxicities, grade 2 toxicities were observed in two patients of group A and four patients of group B, (p>0.05). None developed grade 3 and 4 gastrointestinal and genitourinary toxicities. There were no statistically significant variations in treatment related toxicities between the two groups.Conclusions: Both gastrointestinal, genitourinary toxicities were comparable between two groups. The toxicities were acceptable and well tolerated.