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A Distributed and Event-Driven Online Judge System for Competitive Programming
(Daffodil International University, 2025-11-30) Alim, Md. Abdul
A Distributed and Event-Driven Online Judge System Competitive Programming is a contemporary and online program, which focuses on popularizing the quality of abilities and analytical skills of students with respect to the sphere of competitive programming. The system enables the users to practice a coding exercise, provide their answers and receive the correct and automated responses in real time. It also has a built-in Online Judge playground, which lets one write, compile, and test code in the browser without any outside software or local development environment is needed. The programming languages are numerous in the system and the system has a systematic and user friendly interface in order to learn and develop the algorithmic thinking. It has problem solving timers, detailed reports of verdicts, history of submissions and performance analytics among others, all of which are also interwoven in a full learning experience. By providing an easy, reliable, and efficient judging service, Online Judge will contribute to improving the level of analytical abilities of the users and making the educational process in the field of competitive programming easier.
A Proficient Approach to Detect Osteosarcoma Through Deep Learning
(Daffodil International University, 2022-04-20) Ahammad, Mejbah; Abedin, Mohammad Joynul; Khan, Md. Asiqur Rahman; Alim, Md. Abdul; Rony, Mohammad Abu Tareq; Alam, K.M. Rashedul; Reza, D. S. A. Aashiqur; Uddin, Iktear
Osteosarcoma is a life-threatening bone cancer that usually attacks young adults and children, independent of age. It habitually starts in quick-growing bone areas close to the ends of the arm or leg bones, such as the distal femur, proximal tibia, and proximal humerus. However, it can still be revealed in any bone, including the pelvis, jaw, and shoulder. The starting and the preeminent conclusion of any cancer are to identify the tumor as before long as conceivable, and it's moreover pertinent for Osteosarcoma. Osteosarcoma has a few arrange in its life cycle. The need of categorizing cancer patients into tall or short risk categories has prompted several research organizations in the biomedical and bioinformatics fields to consider using Profound Learning (Deep Learning) methodologies. Fast.ai, a Deep Learning Framework for enhancing the efficiency and accu-racy of osteosarcoma tumor categorization into tumor classes, is presented in this study (tumor vs non-tumor). At the conclusion of the study, we found that employing neural networks may provide excellent precision and capability in osteosarcoma classification and model comparison.
A study on BRAC's Palli Shamaj
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2005-09) Rashid, Ahmed Tareq; Alim, Md. Abdul
Palli Shamaj is a ward-level organization consisting of representatives from several village organizations of BRAC and outside poor members. The study aims to depict a regional density mapping of geographical distribution of Palli Shamaj and their activities and the number of elected Palli Shaamaj members in union parishad elections. Data were collected from 9,440 Palli Shamaj from 55 regions of BRAC. The density mapping, measured at different administrative levels, shows that Rajshahi division not only has the highest number of Palli Shamaj but also the highest density in proportion to the number of wards. No significant regional variation was observed with regard to Palli Shamaj activities in acquiring different types of government services (VGF and VGD cards, old-age and widow allowances) as well as participation in social activities such as participation in shalish, conflict resolution, preventing polygamy, and early marriage. It was found that Palli Shamaj members have won 13% and 1.6% of the total reserved and general seats respectively. The findings indicate that there is a link between activities of Palli Shamaj and the participation of Palli Shamaj members in local government elections.
A study on the present status of lAS-II comparison group
(Research and Evaluation Division, Brac, 2000-09) Alim, Md. Abdul
The Research and Evaluation Division (RED) of BRAC has over the years been making efforts to evaluate the impact of Rural Development Programme (RDP) on its members through impact assessment studit:S (lASs). RED has already conducted two such evaluations : IAS-I and LAS-II. A Uurd lAS is now underway. The panel comparison group, for L-\S , had been formed during lhe first lAS to measure the effective impact of RDP interventions making comparison between Ulis group and RDP beneficiaries group. The present report anempts to provide a few necessary inputs to LAS-III by examining the present status of the comparison group that would be required for the study. Although sdet;tion of t;Omparison household group is of vital necessity for impact assessment studies, it has been found that impact srudies have been perennially pla.:,oued by the lack of availability of appropriate non-beneficiaries. This is because NGO penetration has been pervasive. The reasons for this are lbe phenomen.1l growth of micro credit and proliferation of NGOs. The objective of the study was to examine the present status of IAS-ll comparison group .md find out whether household members were stillli"ing in their villages and whether they were involved ~ith any GO!NGO programmes as well as to look into the reasons for joining with these programmes. The present report was based on a survey that was conducted on 239 comparison households spread in 10 upazilas and 10 districts. It showed that 95% (228) were still living in their respective villages which meant that migr:ltion was quite low. The survey 3lso revealed the ex"lent of NGO membership status of the comparison hous~!holds and found that 55% households were involved in various GO/NGO development programmes since 1996. Almost half of the households out of 55 % were involved with Grameen B:mk, 15% joined BRAC followed by Bangladesh Rural Development Board (BRDB), Proshik.l, ASA tmd several other snuller NGOs. Data on lenoot.h of involvement of rhe members involved in different GO/NGO programmes have pointed out certain defects in the selection of comparison group for L~-II by showing that 21% of the membrn were already involved in GO/NGO programmes when the lAS started. This weakness limited the impact assessment to some ex-tent. It was found that .t 1% households did not join GO/NGO programmes. However, 29% out of these were earlier associated with GOINGO programmes. Reasons that were cited by households who never joined GO/NGO programmes indude worry and tension of these households fearing failure in n!pa:ying loan installments and lack of scope for invesunent. Only ~<% households numbering ten were not found owing to migration to other villages or cities in search of work or otl\er reasons to survive and 1% households heads died during the period.
An assessment of BRAC’s organizational culture and values training
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2012-11) Alim, Md. Abdul; Akter, Jesmin; Rafi, Mohammad
BRAC initiated Organizational Culture and Values (OCV) training to promote values among its staff which would help achieve organization’s objectives. Since 2009, BRAC’s Learning Division has offered training to 10,908 staff and plans to train the rest. Such a training project involving huge cost and time demanded early assessment of its effectiveness. This study aimed to measure the retained knowledge of the trainees on training content, evaluate their attitudes towards the content, and evaluate the implementation of training by branch office staff. Altogether 235 staff from 28 branch offices who received training was compared with 208 staff from same number of offices but without training. The impact of training was distinct in the intervention group. They were more knowledgeable than the control group on the content of training. More respondents in intervention group had more favourable attitudes towards the training content than the control group. The implementation of training was assessed in terms of 21 issues covered in the training. More respondents implemented training for almost all the issues and there was difference found between intervention and control group in implementing some parts of the training. The implementation of the training was directly and indirectly influenced. Besides, non training factors like supervisors’ attitudes, organizational environment and policy, wisdom of staff had significant influence on the implementation of the training. The OCV training might make further efforts to rationalize training content with more convincing examples that might develop stronger values. A supportive environment should be created in the branch offices for implementation of the training content.
An assessment of HRLE shebika with a focus on their effectiveness
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2011-07) Alim, Md. Abdul; Rafi, Mohammad
The study aimed to identify the challenges that the shebikas faced in becoming proactive against human rights violation (HRV) and find out how they could be made more effective in taking action against HRVs. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were used for data collection. The first set of findings were on personal and household attributes of the shebikas, the indicators assumed to have facilitated/ hindered shebikas in taking action against HRVs. The second set of findings show the association of these indicators with the action against HRVs that the shebikas undertook. The shebikas reported about 5,762 HRVs, which took place within a three-year period in their localities. The shebikas were successful in preventing 16% of these HRVs and in the case of 45% they failed. About the rest the shebikas did not take any action. Findings also indicate that a number of factors motivated the shebikas for taking action against HRVs. The personal and structural constraints that the shebikas faced were considered as the main reasons for not initiating any action against HRVs. In order to induce shebikas in taking action against violations and to come up with positive outcome a number of recommendations are made.
An assessment of male attitude towards violence against women
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2003-05) Rafi, Mohammad; Banu, Dilruba; Alim, Md. Abdul; Akter, Shaheen
Violence against women is a global burden. In violence against women wives, mothers and daughters are battered, raped, verbally abused, neglected, deprived of human dignity and means to meet their basic needs. The cost of violence is not only monetary but also emotional and social. Violence against women is a human rights issue. It is deeply rooted in culture and religion; supported and in many cases, even institutionalized by patriarchal societies. Enormous cost or violence along with the fact that it is man made problem justifies any effort in reducing violence against women. The recognition of the fact that violence against women is unjust and prevention of such violence is a precondition to development arc the impetuses in taking initiatives in preventing violence against women in our society. As a first step to such an initiative the study was initiated. The main objective of this study was to understand the psychosocial dimensions of the attitudes of men towards violence against women. Under this broad theme the study focused on several issues: analyze pattern of violence; assess men's attitude towards women in general. and their attitude towards violence against women in particular; and find out what it would take to stop violent behavior of men towards women. The study revolves around two important concepts, i.e .. male violence against women and their attitude towards it. Violence against women results in. or is likely to result in, physical, sexual and psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life. This definition refers to four types of violence - psychological and physical assaults, and violence related to action and deprivation. Attitude refers to beliefs and feelings about a person or event and the resulting support or opposition to those. Taken together, favorable or unfavorable reactions - whether exhibited in beliefs, fee lings, or inclinations to act - define a person's attitude towards something.
Change in knowledge, perception, and attitudes of the villagers towards gender roles and gender relations: an evaluation of Gender Quality Action Learning Programme
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2007) Alim, Md. Abdul
This paper looks into the changing status of the villagers’ knowledge, perception and attitude towards gender roles and gender relations over time. Data were collected from Eastern part of Bangladesh through survey and in-depth interview. Using Lickert scale attitude of the respondents was measured. Findings show that knowledge on discrimination, empowerment, violence against women and marital issues increased remarkably and attitude on those issues including general perception towards male and female changed positively but perception of them did not change much as expected. Traditional norms, values and culture including patriarchal societal structure still were recognised as barriers by the respondents to bring on gender equality.
Detection of the Changes in Fatty Acid Composition and Physicochemical Properties in Selected Edible Oils Heated at Different Degrees of Time
(Elsevier, 2024-06-01) Khaled, B.M.; Biswas, Mrityunjoy; Alam, Asraful; Alim, Md. Abdul; Hossain, Md. Emran; Saqib, Md. Nazmus; Rana, Md. Suman; Rahma, Sumia
The study investigated the changes in chemical and fatty acid composition in selected edible oils due to continuous heating. Peroxide value of all the oil except rice bran oil went beyond the permissible limit of 10 mEqO2/kg after 90 min of heating. At first degree of heating, the saponification number of all the oils increased. But the values declined after second and third time of heating, indicating a high degree of saturation. Rice bran oil showed the most slower decreasing trend in case of iodine value. Acid value of all the oils increased with time of heating indicating the presence of free fatty acid. Fatty acid composition of all the oils seemed to be affected due to continuous heating when analyzed with GC–MS. Presence of essential fatty acids was affected and fully absent in some oil. Some foreign chemicals like glycidyl fatty acid esters, fumaric acid, succinic acid, cyclohexane, etc. were detected due to the heating of oils. Glycidyl fatty acid esters were discovered in the degradation of each oil. Cyclohexane is produced during the breakdown of palm and soybean oil. Conferring to the results, it is recommended that oils should not be used after the third degree of heating.
Effectiveness of the HR system at Impress Group (Innovative Creation Ltd.)
(BRAC University, 2022-12) Alim, Md. Abdul; khan, Ms. Tanzin
Innovative Creation Ltd. is a 360-marketing agency established in 2009 and is a concern of Impress Group, one of the most highly regarded and diversified conglomerates of Bangladesh. The main activities of our company are brand activation/ promotion, event management, social media campaign, public relation building, trade marketing, campaign run and other promotional activity etc. We have top notch companies of Bangladesh as clients some of those are Grameenphone, Nestle, Mercedes-Benz, Mitsubishi, Pathao, Suzuki, Honda, Coca-Cola, BRAC aarong, Bangladesh Army, Daraz, Bkash, BRAC bank and so on. We have successfully done these companies’ various activities like promotional, event management, campaign run etc. Recently we were one of the proud organizers of 4 top brands (Suzuki, Mercedes-Benz, Mahindra and KTM) in the 6th international Bike Show held in Bashundhara, Dhaka. It is a highly developed and organized company with a professional corporate working environment located in Banani, Dhaka. Effectiveness of HR in this organization is fantastic. Their policy and other stuff are highly modified and well-polished. Each policy and activity maintain a stable HR practice all over the office and employee friendly for every sector in such as leave or salary payroll system, attendance system, recruitment process, counseling with employees in case any emergency of any employee the HR team is always there to sort out. This makes it simple for Innovative Creation Ltd. – Impress group to get skilled workers who will aid the company in achieving its main objective to hold a perfect goodwill to all.
Ehancing cotton leaf disease detection and classification through machine learning and deep learning techniques
(Daffodil International University, 2024-07-24) Alim, Md. Abdul
In Bangladesh, cotton has the potential to be a significant revenue crop. To accommodaterising demand, we import 3 billion dollars of cotton yearly (The Business Standard). There isn't an alternative to this issue but to grow cotton. However, the most prevalent issue among farmers was diagnosing crop illness by applying the antiquated growidea. They are unable to identify crop diseases early enough to treat the crops withtheappropriate measures. Particularly in rural areas where farmers suffer fromimproper knowledge leading to crop disease identification. The study demonstrates manyalgorithms and deep learning methods for cotton leaf disease detection. I utilize anMLframework that includes three deep-learning models in it.Model accuracy are compared, and the results show that different architectures perform differently on the task. Compared to the other models, CNN's accuracy is somewhat lower at 82.35%. Theaccuracy of VGG16 is greatly improved to 97.69%, demonstrating its usefulness inthis situation. ResNet50 does well too, with 92.51% accuracy. With the highest accuracyof 99.28%, XceptionV3 beats all other models, proving its exceptional ability to completethis assignment. InceptionV3, which has an accuracy of 94.42%, likewise performs admirably. In conclusion, XceptionV3 has the best accuracy at 99.28%, while CNNhas the lowest accuracy at 82.35%.
Enrolling girls without learning: Evidence from public schools in Afghanistan
(Wiley Online Library, 2017-11-22) Asadullah, M. Niaz; Alim, Md. Abdul; Hossain, M. Anowar
While more girls are now attending school in Afghanistan than prior to 2010, there is a lack of evidence on how school attendance is helping their cognitive development. We use data from a large sample of all-girls state-funded school students to estimate for the first time the “learning profile” for Afghanistan. Students enrolled in grades 4 to 9 were assessed using the Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) and the Early Grade Mathematics Assessment (EGMA) test items. We find that higher grade progression (particularly in grades 6–9) leads to almost no gain in numeracy (addition and subtraction) skills that should have been achieved in early grades. Similar results follow from the analysis of student performance in the EGRA test, particularly in oral reading fluency (correct words read per minute) and oral reading comprehension (number of correct answers out of 12). These findings warn that simply enrolling girls in school without improving the relationship between grade completion and learning is unlikely to transform the lives of women in Afghanistan.
Facilitating good governance at grass roots: BRAC and the women members of Union Parishad
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2007-12) Alim, Md. Abdul
This study explores the role of NGOs, especially BRAC, in enhancing the functional space of women members in Union Parishad (UP). The study was basically qualitative in nature where respondents were women members, affiliated with BRAC as well as members with no affiliation with any NGO. Here, the determinants of the women members’ winning the election and functional space in UP were compared. Findings show that BRAC provided enormous support to its members in becoming a credible leader to compete in the election and ensure successful participation in UP. In case of participation in UP, BRAC-affiliated members performed better than their non-BRAC counterparts although both faced some common challenges in discharging their responsibilities. The BRAC-affiliated members raised voices against those challenges. Villagers’ discernment was also better towards BRAC-affiliated members in respect to the participation in Union Parishad.
How the adolescents applied their learning in their lives: an evaluation of the Adolescent Development Programme of BRAC
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2012-08) Alim, Md. Abdul; Nahar, Mst. Ashrafun; Khatoon, Fathema Zhura
This paper aims to measure the changes in the type and depth of knowledge and understanding on sexual and reproductive health and gender issues, and how they obtained that knowledge. Secondly, changes in the ways in which adolescents were practically applying this understanding, or intended to apply it in their own lives (or not) were determined; if not, then reasons for not doing so were determined. Both qualitative and quantitative methods were employed in this research. Results show that knowledge on sexual reproductive health and gender discrimination changed positively and participants had been able to apply increased knowledge in their own lives, in the lives of their families and in their communities, by changing their parents’ and influential persons’ embedded attitudes. On the other hand, there were some who did not apply the knowledge in practice because of failing to overcome the entrenched norms, attitudes and beliefs that are deeply ingrained in the family and community. In conclusion we suggest that the intervention should continue with additional measures to ensure the involvement of the community, so that the limitations could be removed for a sustainable change.
Industrial Manufacturing Management and Maintenance System
(Daffodil International University, 2021-02-26) Redoy; Alim, Md. Abdul
Butterfly Manufacturing Company Ltd is a reputed electronics company in Bangladesh. They are having state of the art plant machinery, accessories for manufacturing different types of components and assembling of the Refrigerators & Air Conditioners. BMCL has two Substation. One is 4 MVA and another one is 8 MVA sub-station. As an Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE) student we can learnt both main source of power and its distribution system as well as manufacturing & maintenance management from this company. We did our internship in Butterfly Manufacturing Company Ltd from 15th November to 15th January (2 months). This internship report based on ‘’Industrial Manufacturing Management and Maintenance System of BMCL’’. As an engineer we need to have some ideas about operations management of BMCL which will help us to make this report worthy. We spent our full internship with four departments. Materials department, Production department, Quality department and Maintenance department. We worked in materials, production and quality department for 1 month. And another 1 month we worked only in maintenance department. As an EEE student we have to stretch importance in maintenance department because this is our main objective. First one month we learnt about company rules and regulation, how to materials brought for production and where it’s stock, how to produce products, what kind of machine need to produce which products, how to check quality of products, how a product suitable for a customer and finally how to packaging outgoing all products from this company. Next one month we worked in maintenance department. We learnt here utility maintenance and floor maintenance of this company. During the utility maintenance we learnt about sub-station, sub-station equipment, transformer, generator, air dryer, compressor and main distribution panel. During the floor maintenance how to machine worked, automation system, hydraulic system, pneumatic system, how to control motor in Conveyor line and last which machine need PLC. This is all we learnt from our internship in Butterfly Manufacturing Company Ltd which will surely help us to visualize the effectiveness in our practical life.
NGO shalish and justice-seeking behaviour in rural Bangladesh
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2007-07) Alim, Md. Abdul; Ali, Tariq Omar
This paper looks into the justice-seeking behaviour of people in different formal and informal institutions. It also explores the reasons of such justice-seeking behaviour of them. Considering the legal aid programme of BRAC as a benchmark the advantages and disadvantages of all the justice providing institutions were analysed. The type of justice provided by the institutions and people’s access to these and different socio-political factors motivate the justice seeker changing the routes of those institutions to get justice. The traditional justice institutions compared to others can mitigate the needs of the villagers if it is supervised and monitored by NGO i.e., the legal aid programme together with village elites.
Nutrition promotion and collective vegetable gardening by adolescent girls: Feasibility assessment from a pilot in Afghanistan
(AESS, 2018-10-04) Alim, Md. Abdul; Hossain, M. Anowar
This study aimed to assess the feasibility of collective vegetable gardening into an existing development programme for adolescent girls as a means of improving awareness about health and nutrition and increasing vegetable consumption in Afghanistan. A one and half year pilot study tested the feasibility of layering an intervention that combined agricultural training and input support in Kabul, Parwan and Kapisa regions on an adolescent programme implemented by a non-government organisation. The study included 400 adolescent girls for survey and qualitative tools to understand the local context of adolescent girls' participation in vegetable cultivation. The assessment demonstrates the evidence that despite of the challenging situation and traditional culture in Afghanistan the pilot had successfully engaged almost all of the adolescent girls in collective vegetables cultivation by making them aware about health, nutrition and the usefulness of vegetables consumption while the bad effects of not intake those. And the cultivation proved itself financially viable and very much effective for the community though there were little challenges. The pilot would be feasible and scalable to address the malnutrition and girls' marginalization if those challenges were taken into consideration carefully.
Perceptions of production related stakeholders towards Aarong and the Ayesha Abed foundation
(BRAC, 2010-04) Rahman, Rehnuma; Alim, Md. Abdul
Aarong and Ayesha Abed Foundation were established to support the artisans and rural women in Bangladesh. Thus, these production-related stakeholders are very · important for Aarong and AAF. This study was initiated to investigate the perception of the stakeholders about Aarong and AAF. Data were collected from production workers (PW), independent producers (IP) and employees of Aarong and AAF using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. Findings show that female staff of Aarong were relatively more dissatisfied compared to male, and half of the IPs working with Aarong were also dissatisfied. IPs and PWs expressed many grievances about Aarong and AAF but their willingness to stay connected with the organization was evident under these circumstances, it would be better for the organization to address these alarming issues immediately to run the business smoothly in future.
Polli shomaj and 100-day employment generation programme: measuring the targeting effectiveness in beneficiary selection
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2009-04) Alim, Md. Abdul; Sulaiman, Munshi
This study aimed to determine the role of BRAC’s polli shomaj in targeting effectiveness in beneficiary selection of 100-day employment generation programme (EGP). Both quantitative and qualitative approaches were used in this study. The process of selecting beneficiaries by the union parishad chairmen and ward members was more or less similar despite the presence of polli shomaj. Nepotism, bribery, vote bank and poverty were the criteria to select the beneficiaries. The quantitative findings show that there was no significant difference in the targeting effectiveness in beneficiary selection between areas with and without polli shomaj. These results were also consistent with the findings from national data. There were many reasons for this. Firstly, the characteristics of polli shomaj as a group such as membership, frequent interaction, interlocking roles, leadership, collective perception and interdependent goals were important but few of these were found in them. Secondly, group cohesiveness was essential to achieve the goal of polli shomaj, but the necessary factors for group cohesiveness were lacking in polli shomaj. In addition, the neglect of proper policy to form polli shomaj and lack of fostering them efficiently were considered as constraints for the polli shomaj to succeed in beneficiary selection. Thirdly, corruption of the EGP authority was found as a prime hurdle for not including the polli shomaj as targeted beneficiaries.
Preparation and characterization of snake plant fiber reinforced composite: A sustainable utilization of biowaste
(Scopus, 2023-11-20) Mishfa, Kaniz Fatima; Alim, Md. Abdul; Repon, Md. Reazuddin; Habibullah, MD; Tonmoy, Mohd Abir Hossen; Jurkonienė, Sigita; Shukhratov, Sharof
Natural fibers are one of the most attractive materials in biocomposites due to their potential for sustainability. This study aims to prepare sustainable composite materials using fibers from Sansevieria trifasciata (snake plant) and to investigate their mechanical, morphological, and water absorption properties. The composite was prepared with epoxy resin through a manual hand lay-up process, maintaining standard parameters with changeable reinforcement (10%, 20%, and 30%). The mechanical properties (tensile, impact, and flexural strength), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), and water absorbency of the composites were evaluated. The result showed that the tensile strength, flexural strength, and impact resistance of the composites are 6.99 MPa, 10.77 MPa, and 14 J, respectively, for 30% fiber components, which are significantly higher than other composite materials. The SEM analysis showed a strong interfacial bond between the snake plant fiber and the epoxy resin. The FTIR analysis revealed a reduction in hemicellulose and lignin and an improvement in the interfacial adhesion between snake plant fiber and epoxy resin. The composites also demonstrated time-dependent increases in water absorption, with the sample containing 30% fiber components showing the best absorbency performance at 0.88%.