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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Dhaka"”.
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A user-flocksourced bus intelligence system for Dhaka
… improve their own experience-but in a place like Dhaka, the megacapital of Bangladesh, the technology that enables users to become sensors is not (yet) widely available. In this thesis, we attempt to test the viability of flocksourcing by co-developing and seeding those technologies with a local …
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Handling Risk: Testosterone and Risk Preference, Evidence from Dhaka, Bangladesh
… Caucasian students. Here, a subject pool from Dhaka, Bangladesh, is used. The results are somewhat mixed, but similar to the findings in Garbarino et al (2011). This study also controlled for other factors that have been shown to contribute to risk preference in an e↵ort to make sure any …
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Organic cities and the case of Patrick Geddes in Dhaka
Looking at the city of Dhaka, anyone in the first instance may feel he is perceiving a chaotic construct. But amazingly this city lives and sustains millions of people living in it. Chaos may be perceived in the very form of the city and in the way it functions. The situation of Dhaka today has …
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"Less is Not Enough" Dilemma of Alternative Primary Schooling Opportunities in Dhaka, Bangladesh
… environment in the capital city, Dhaka. Specifically, it deals with the dilemma of so-called non-formal primary education (NFPE) programs aimed at providing alternative schooling opportunities to children who do not attend regular school in the city. It describes how such programs …
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Urban settlement model : comparative study of a site and services project, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1983.
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The Accommodation City : Private Low-income Housing and Urban Space in Dhaka and Mumbai
… process and space for low-income workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh and Mumbai, India. It analyses the grounded spatial forms, as well as how these urban accommodations are managed and governed, and coexist across South Asian contexts. In Dhaka, my case studies focus on ‘Mess Housing’ typology in …
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ADAPTATION TO FLOODING IN LOW-INCOME URBAN SETTLEMENTS OF THE LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES: A CASE OF DHAKA EAST, BANGLADESH
… case study for the research is located in Dhaka East, where there is both high vulnerability to flooding, and also a significant proportion of the low-income population. The research has adopted a mixed methods approach involving different data collection methods primarily governed by the …
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“Architecture of the land”: Louis I. Kahn’s national assembly building complex in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and the construction of a national identity
… Building Complex (constructed 1963–82) in Dhaka, Bangladesh, provides a case study on how the builtenvironment can help in the formation of a nation’s identity in its postcolonial (after 1947) and postindependence (after 1971) eras. My study will investigate this process by focusing on the …
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The role of a newspaper in an advocacy campaign to save Dhaka’s rivers in Bangladesh
Four major rivers that flow around Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, are threatened by human activities that have caused them to seriously decline. This situation has become a significant concern for both Dhaka’s inhabitants and for environmentalists. River-related issues have become …
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Dividend policy and behaviour, and security price reaction to the announcement of dividends in an emergency market : a study of companies listed on the Dhaka stock exchange
'The harder we look at the dividend picture, the more it seems like a puzzle, with pieces that just don't fit together'(Black 1976, p. 5). A number of researchers provide insights, theoretical as well as empirical, into the dividend policy puzzle. However, the issue as to why firms pay dividends is …
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Making and unmaking the dry city : the design-politics of flood mitigation from infrastructural modernization to climate adaptation
… mitigation through a transnational case study of Dhaka and New Orleans, two levee-dependent cities that are considering sweeping changes to their flood mitigation strategies. The case studies use a range of data, including: archival research on flood mitigation and planning processes; field …
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The In-between: Armature for Inhabitation
… in Bangladesh to combat traffic congestion in Dhaka that has a crippling effect on daily life of the citizens. As was anticipated by many urban planners and architects, these expensive structures did little to reduce traffic congestion, but created additional problems of noise and air pollution …
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Faculty Engagement in Professional Development: A Bangladesh Case Study
… development (PD) at the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh. Specifically, the study examined the nature and outcomes of professional development interventions at that institution, as well as the opportunities and challenges faculty members faced in relation to their engagement in …
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Emergency Medical Services Response Optimization
… EMS response problems in two diverse settings: Dhaka, Bangladesh - an urban center in a developing country, and Toronto, Canada - an urban center in a developed country. These settings are unified by uncertainty and stochasticity leading to new robust and chance-constrained optimization …
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Application of Neural Network Techniques to Downscale Precipitation
… grid. Precipitation data for three stations (Dhaka, Comilla and Mymesnsingh in Bangladesh) was utilized. For each model, the raw data was partitioned into training and test datasets. Based on the R2 values, the HSVR technique appears to be superior to other methods.
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Essays on the economics of urban transportation
… phone transaction data in Colombo, Sri Lanka and Dhaka, Bangladesh, to construct and validate detailed urban commuting flows, and to then infer urban locations with high labor productivity.
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Transforming big data into knowledge : experimental techniques in dynamic visualization
… phones to gather data on the bus system in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The research draws from literature written on critical cartography, visualization, and visual culture in urban design and planning. The work first develops a best practices workflow of existing and emerging visualization tools and …
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