Tourism is world's largest justifiable service industry that is generating huge revenue for tourist country. Bangladesh has lots of tourism spots but most of them unexplored by the relevant authority. Having all the minimum requirements, the tourism industry could not develop adequately in...

Under a broader aim of exploring the quality of BRAC Education Programme (BEP), this study aims to examine the level of competency achievement of the BRAC primary school students graduated in 2005. Randomly selected 5,946 students (65% girls) from 298 schools under 150 BEP programme areas were...

Using the competency-based test instrument developed for Education Watch 2000 this study made a comparison of learning achievement of the students of two BRAC programmes. These are BRAC Primary Schools (BPS) and Education for Indigenous Children (EIC) programme. Number of students under the test...

The study on job satisfaction of the senior level executives of Bangladesh showed that other than work itself there is not many strong motivating forces present to satisfy the executives. Both male and female executives have confirmed that their companies recognize their good works and they are...

This work employs density functional theory to calculate the structural, mechanical, elastic anisotropy, thermal, electronic, and optical properties of Ce 1-x Hf x O 2 (x = 0, 0.25, 0.5, and 0.75) to explore the heavy substitutional doping effects of Hf. The cubic phase of CeO 2 is transformed...

This study examines the degree of accountability and transparency of local level finance in three unions (Khadim Nagor Union, Khandigaon Union and Tuker Bazar Union) of Sylhet Sadar Upazila. It is based on interviews and focus group discussions with general people and government representatives,...

We develop two conditional tests for homogeneity of zero-inflated Poisson (ZIP) and Poisson-hurdle distributions. A Monte Carlo method is proposed for approximating the reference distributions of these tests. The techniques are applied to two examples.