Browsing by Author "Islam, Nazrul"

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A study on warehouse management of REB: a case study of Central Warehouse, Dhaka
(BRAC University, 2013-03) Sayeed, Md. Sakil Ibne; Islam, Nazrul
An evaluation of coagglutination, reversed passive haemagglutination and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (Elisa) for diagnosis of rotavirus diarrhoea and their correlation with clinical illness
(1988-05-03) Islam, Nazrul; Rahman, Mahbubur; Alam, A.N.; Hossain, Anowar; Haque, M.; Ciznar, Ivan
Antimicrobial susceptibilities and plasmid contents of Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates from commercial sex workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh: emergence of high-level resistance to ciprofloxacin
(1999-04) Bhuiyan, Bahar Uddin; Rahman, Motiur; Miah, Mohammed Ruhul; Nahar, Shamsun; Islam, Nazrul; Ahmed, Monira; Rahman, Kazi Mashur; Albert, M. John
Antimicrobial susceptibility of Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolated in Bangladesh (1997 to 1999): rapid shift to fluoroquinolone resistance
(2002) Rahman, Motiur; Sultan, Zafar; Monira, Shirajum; Alam, Ashraful; Nessa, Khairun; Islam, Sonia; Nahar, Shamsun; Shama-A-Waris; Khan, Shahnewaz Alam; Bogaerts, Jozef; Islam, Nazrul; Albert, John
Book Review: Nazrul Islam. Global Technological Change Impact on Textile and Garment Workers: A Comparative Study of Bangladesh and Thailand, Dhaka: Ahmed Publishing House, 2006. 281 pages.
(East West University, 7/1/2010) Islam, Nazrul
The book entitled Global Technological Change Impact on Textile and Garment Workers: A Comparative Study of Bangladesh and Tltailancl has been written by Nazrul Islam, Associate Professor, School of Business, Norlh South University, Bangladesh. The book has been published by Ahmed Publishing House, Dhaka in August 2006. It entails an overall comprehension of the present status of workers of textile and garments industries in Bangladesh and Thailand, and how they are coping with various technological changes occuning on a global scale.
Depression, sleeping pattern, and suicidal ideation among medical students in Bangladesh: A cross-sectional pilot study
(Springer Link, 6/1/2020) Hasan, M. Tasdik; Hossain, Sahadat; Gupta, Rajat Das; Podder, Vivek; Mowri, Naima Afroz; Ghosh, Anindita; Mahmood, Hassan Rushekh; Ahmmed, Faisal; Khatun, M. S. T. Halima; Nodi, Rhedeya Nury; Koly, Kamrun Nahar; Yasmeen, Sharmeen; Islam, Nazrul
Background Depression is a major morbidity and the most common mental disorder among the medical students in medical schools globally. Undergraduate students suffer stress more due to their academic curriculum than the students of other faculties. In low-resource settings like Bangladesh, there is a dearth in research on the mental health of undergraduate medical students. This pilot study was conducted to add to the existing limited evidence by reporting the prevalence of depression and describing sleeping pattern and suicidal tendencies among medical students. Relevantly, we have investigated the overall mental health status among the medical students in Bangladesh. Methods This cross-sectional study was conducted in two medical colleges of Dhaka between July 2013 and December 2013, among 221 Bangladeshi medical students from first to fifth year. By the convenience sampling technique, data were collected by a pretested, structured, self-administered questionnaire and analysis was done by SPSS version 18.0. Depression was assessed by the validated Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) tool among the respondents. Goldberg’s General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28) was used for assessing overall mental health status. Results Depression was found in 38.9% of participants, with 3.6%, 14.5%, and 20.8% being severe, moderate, and mild depression, respectively. 17.6% of medical students had suicidal tendency or attempted suicide at least once after attending medical school. The sleeping hours were inadequate and altered after starting this stressful academic course. 33.5% of medical students had poor mental health status. There was a statistically significant association between poor mental health status in the age group less than 22 years old and initial academic study year (1st to 3rd of MBBS). Conclusion The findings are suggestive of a higher prevalence of depression among early-year medical students and marginal predominance in males. Suicidal tendency is also higher. This calls for further investigation with situation analysis, qualitative explorations, and surveys to explore the burden of such disorders in Bangladesh.
Enhanced Isolation of Shigella Species by Extended Incubation of Primary Isolation Plates
(2007-09-04T07:07:44Z) Alam, Khorshed; Hosain, M. Anowar; Islam, Nazrul; Sen, Sunil Kumar; Sur, Gour Chandra; Kaisar A., Talukder; Nair, G. Balakrish; Sack, David A.
Evaluation of supply chain management: a case study on Kallol Enterprise Limited of Kallol Group of Companies
(BRAC University, 2014-12) Islam, Mohammad Zohirul; Islam, Nazrul
The Supply Chain is not a business function, it is a network of companies and Supply Chain Management is the implementation of cross-functional relationships with key customers and suppliers in that network. It is a new business model necessary for an organization's success and every function needs to be involved. Management must recognize that the ultimate success of an organization depends on the ability to integrate the company's network of business relationships in a mutually beneficial way. The management of this network of relationships is supply chain management. Successful supply chain management requires cross-functional integration within the firm and across the network of firms that comprise the supply chain. It is focused on the improvements in performance that result from better management of key relationships. By understanding the supply chain management processes and how they should be implemented, management will better understand the value of more integrated supply chains and how this integration will lead to increased shareholder value and a sustainable competitive advantage. Entire network of entities, directly or indirectly interlinked and interdependent in serving the same consumer or customer. It comprises of vendors that supply raw material, producers who convert the material into products, warehouses that store, distribution centers that deliver to the retailers, and retailers who bring the product to the ultimate user. Supply chains underlie value-chains because, without them, no producer has the ability to give customers what they want, when and where they want, at the price they want. Producers compete with each other only through their supply chains, and no degree of improvement at the producer's end can make up for the deficiencies in a supply chain which reduce the producer's ability to compete. Objective of this thesis is to evaluate supply chain management of Kallol Enterprise Limited. Is Kallol maintaining the process and procedures of SCM to go to its goal or to achieve its business objective? If so how? If not, why? What will be suggestions for maintenance of SCM? The focus in the thesis is only on KEL in the Supply chain. This company is managing its Supply chain based on what is best for their own. Collaboration with other companies in the Supply chain will present win-win situations for this company and for other companies in the Supply chain.
Evaluation of traditional methods for the managment of the pulse beetle callosobruchus chinensis linn. (Coleoptera : Bruchidae)
(© University of Dhaka, 2025-05-15) Islam, Nazrul
Factors affecting consumers preferences on fast food items in Bangladesh
(Journal of Applied Business Research (JABR), 2010-08) Ullah, G. M. Shafayet; Islam, Nazrul
Fast food industry is a high growing sector of Bangladesh. It is concerned with the tastes and habits of the people. The food-taking habit especially in fast food segment has been changing very fast over last decade among the people of Dhaka - the capital city of Bangladesh. The reasons could be attributed by the increase of awareness, growth of education, development of information technology, and expansion of television channels and print media in Bangladesh. Hence, this paper aims at identifying the preference factors of fast food consumers living in Dhaka city. This study was conducted among the university students who usually eat fast food at their leisure time. To conduct the study, a total of 250 respondents were interviewed with a structured questionnaire. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used in analyzing the data. Multivariate analysis technique like factor analysis was performed to identify the preference factors of the fast food student-consumers of Bangladesh. Multiple regressions were run to identify the relationship between the factors identified and the overall preference of the consumers. Results show that the consumers give most importance on brand reputation of the food item followed by nearness to receive and accessibility, similarity of taste with previous experience, cost and quality of the food, discount and taste, cleanliness and hygiene, salesmanship and decoration, fat and cholesterol level, and self-service factors. This study suggests that the brand reputation, nearness and accessibility, similarity in taste, and cost and quality relationship should be emphasized to improve the attraction of the university students towards the fast food items in Bangladesh.
Global technological change impact on female textile and garment workers in Thailand
(BRAC University, 2004) Islam, Nazrul; Swierczek, Fredric William
Global technological change has significant impact on lower skilled female textile and garment workers in Thailand, as it brings new machines and manufacturing processes into the company. This study aims at identifying the factors of global technological change on female textile and garment workers in Thailand. It covers three impact areas such as, job security, job satisfaction and work relations. 10 variables were identified from job security, 36 from job satisfaction and 10 from work relations’ areas. Multivariate analysis such as, Factor Analysis and Multiple Regression was used to analyze the data. Factor Analysis has been performed to identify the factors of the technological change on the female workers. Using Multiple Regression analysis, the overall impact of the technological change on female textile and garment workers has been assessed. The results show that the impact factors are frustration, skill demands, downsizing, meaningful work, pride in job, supervision, benefits, bureaucracy, unclear work assignments, recognition, fairness in pay, workload, the change process, strikes, and personal control. Among these factors, frustration and downsizing are concerned with job security; benefits, bureaucracy are related to job satisfaction; and the work processes and personal control are concerned with work relations. These factors are significantly related to the overall impact of the technological change on Thai female textile and garment workers. Factors concerning job security, job satisfaction, work relations together are significantly related to the overall socioeconomic lives of female and garment workers in Thailand.
Impact of PESTLE factors on power generation projects of Bangladesh
(BRAC University, 2013-04) Hussain, Farhan; Islam, Nazrul
Generation of electricity in Bangladesh has been in prolonged crisis. To overcome this hindrance the government according to the road map has taken up several power production projects. However this journey to achieve a load shedding free Bangladesh has been very rocky. Some of the projects have faced criticism from pressure groups whereas other projects have become uncertain due to lack of funding or technical knowhow. The main reason for this failure has been lack of analysis and planning. PESTLE is one of the project management analysis tools that can be used as a solution to this problem. The rationale for this study is (1) To examine how these PESTLE factors or changes to these factors affect the power production projects. (2) To determine best possible solutions when these factor changes or remains unchanged so that projects can still attain their objectives. In this study Literature review has been used to collect both primary and secondary information using the website, obtaining articles from newspapers and the library. Qualitative research is useful during the early stages of a study when the researcher may be unsure of exactly what will be studied or what to focus on and gives the researcher freedom to let the study unfold more naturally. In this study it has been observed that there are some PESTLE factors that have major impact on the outcome of the projects and these major factors vary from one project to another. So it is crucial to examine which factors are major and which are minor. Once the major factors related to a particular project have been determined the next step would be to choose the best possible solution to those factors so that they could be made favorable to accomplish the objectives of the project.
Impacts of social media on the students of secondary school in their learning and pronunciation of the second language
(BRAC University, 2020-04) Islam, Nazrul; Haque, Mohammad Mahmudul
The age of Social media is now as more and more people are getting into it and with that more and more students are also diving into it from a very early stage. This Social media offers plethora of services that students can take advantage of in order to enrich their development of English language. Through Social media students can easily enrich their English in both grammar and pronunciation. This research is aimed to find out the influence of Social media on the secondary school students in their learning and pronunciation of the English language. Likert scale was used when collecting data and analyzing it. Findings showed that students are very much interested in integrated classroom and Social media does indeed have positive outcome in
Improved Quality of Service in ZigBee network with statistical modeling
(IEEE Xplore, 2016-07-11) Islam, Nazrul; Biddut, Md. Jaminul Haque; Swapna, Asma Islam; Asaduzzaman, Sayed
Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) comprises the less power consuming, light weight and effective Sensor Nodes (SNs) for higher network performance. ZigBee is the real time application for the WSN used for low-cost data and energy consumption characteristics. ZigBee is a robust network certain application of which has come out with a critically low designation for less data rate, long delivery delay and packet loss as well in order to lower the cost. However, ZigBee devices have many potential features to make a splendid wireless network. Hence, putting an improvement analogy inside the performance parameter is a way to overcome the limitations of ZigBee usage in certain scales. ZigBee follows a model for its node distribution, traffic routing and Quality of Service (QoS). The QoS indicates the efficiency and performance of any network. The increase in efficiency of QoS on the ZigBee network lies in the realization of maximizing throughput of the network. This paper is destined to represent the improved QoS in the ZigBee network applying Stochastic and Widest Path models. Riverbed Simulator v17.5 is used to investigate foremost QoS parameters in the ZigBee network. The optimized result of this study will be handy in the application field of the ZigBee network. And it also best fits for the deployment of the large-scale device to device communication. Full Text Link: http://doi.org/10.1109/ICAEE.2015.7506824
Internship report on Experiences at The Jamuna Television as a News Room desk editor
(Daffodil International University, 2018-12-10) Islam, Nazrul
As a student of undergraduate program of Department of Journalism and Mass Communication of Daffodil International University, I have completed 38 courses. But as per requirement to complete my graduation, I had to go through with an internship program or submit a thesis. I choose to do internship because it is hand on hand learning process which give the practical ideas and knowledge of professional work field. I had worked as an intern at Jamuna Television for completing my internship program as academic purpose. I started my work as an intern at Jamuna Television from 7 September, 2018. I learnt a lot during this internship period, like as, news writing and editing, field reporting, camera operating, news presenting, working system of web and ticker desk. This report portrays all my work experiences and learnings.
Limited survey of electrical distribution practices in the U.S.A. with possibilities of adaptability in Pakistan
(Graduate School of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, 1957-05) Islam, Nazrul; Rode, N. F.
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MANAGEMENT OF INNOVATIVE ACTIVITIES OF SMALL ENTREPRENEURIAL MANUFACTURING WORKSHOPS IN BANGLADESH
(Eastern University, 2022-09-19) Islam, Nazrul; Ziaulhaq Mamun, Muhammad; Aabed, Abdullah Al-
Small entrepreneurial manufacturing workshops of Bangladesh, primarily involved in Manufacturing and supplying spare-parts for motorized and non-motorized vehicles, are Proliferating. These workshops are principally located at a few strategic crossroads of Different cities. Although these workshop entrepreneurs do not have formal technical and Management education, they have developed some unique skills of promotion and human Resource management through learning by observing. However, these entrepreneurs face Some acute problems such as, inadequate governmental protection and policies, Unavailability and high cost of raw materials, and infra-structural support. Other Important concerns are lack of training facilities, severe competition, and availability of Skilled personnel, power supply disruption. Other issues are high risk of investment in Such projects, problem of getting finance and bureaucracy in the process, no knowledge About information technology, lack of designing capability, inadequate knowledge about Importing machinery and raw materials, local pressure to withdraw workshop from their Places and threat from local pressure groups. In addition, customers are unwilling to pay a premium amount for their products and services. If workshop owners are aided with the Above mention issues, they will be able to contribute significantly in this strategic sector With their innovative skills.
Management of Public and Private Sector Enterprises in Bangladesh: A Comparative Study During 1971-2011
(Eastern University, 2022-09-24) Islam, Nazrul; Karim, Zahidul
The management practices of private and public sector enterprises of Bangladesh have been continually improving since the independence of the country. From the inception of the country in 1971, there was a highly disorganized management in both the public and private sectors. However, it has now been reached to a reasonable shape that can be claimed as moderate management practices like other developing countries of the world. Observation shows that a rapid development in the management of private sector has been occurred since early 1990s. In 2000, there has been a substantial change and modification in management practices of the private sector enterprises in Bangladesh due to shifting focus of the government from public to private sector. The reasons can be attributed by the development of information technology and introduction to the privatization policy of the enterprises. This study shows that the development of management practices followed an upward trend in Bangladesh. The higher the development in private sector management is inducing the higher development of public sector management in Bangladesh.
Manual on how to apply research evidence in health policy in Bangladesh
(International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, 2012) Anwar, Iqbal; Rahman, Aminur; Ferdous, Jannatul; Ahmed, Shibbir; Akhter, Sadika; Hossain, Shaikh A. Shahed; Huda, Fauzia Akhter; Al Mamun, M.; Al Haque, Nafis; Islam, Nazrul; Islam, Syed Shariful; Aulakh, Bhupinder Kaur
Molecular epidemiology and antimicrobial susceptibility of Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolated from commercial sex workers in Dhaka city[abstract]
(1998-06) Rahman, M.; Bhuiyan, B; Nahar, S.; Miah, R.A.; Islam, Nazrul; Rahman, M.; Albert, M.J.