This book deals with good governance and institutional capacity and their impacts on service delivery of local organizations in Bangladesh.The objective of this book is to look at how the major actors and the factors contribute to promote or confine good governance and service delivery. Qualitative case study method is used for this. Accountability, transparency, and participation are used as theoretical tools for understanding good governance. This book shows that good governance and effective service delivery are influenced by the management in the organization, sufficient human and financial resource capacity and government policies. Education, rural development, and technology have more of a significant impact on good governance and promoting service delivery. The public organizations are weak for providing efficient services because of political and bureaucratic constraints. Strengthening Community Based Organizations (CBOs) and enhancing NGOs capacity can establish good governance.This book assumes that a public private partnership approach of local government organizations can be a suitable policy recommendation and future research agenda of good governance in Bangladesh.

Thermionic energy converter (TEC) is a device to generate electricity from heat in a silent, vibration-free operation. Non-idealities such as negative space-charge effect and electron reflection from collector surface adversely effect output current density and device efficiency. Using a range of thin film deposition techniques such as rf plasma magnetron sputtering, electrochemical deposition and electroless process, different surface structures were developed and tested for suppression of electron reflection using Cs/O vapor plasma TECs. Principles of both vacuum and solution based synthesis of thin films, and promising device configurations for thermionic energy converters are presented. This book overviews evolution of thermionics technology in a comprehensive manner, identifies key issues and challenges to be addressed, and suggests feasible solutions based on a sensible choice of materials and processes. The contents of this book are useful for teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels as well as for researchers working on thin film synthesis and characterization for applications in energy, microelectronics, and surface engineering industries.

The present work was carried out to study the chromosomal morphology and behavior of Allium cepa L. Chromosomes. Metaphase-I of Meiosis was selected for karyotyping. It is concluded that the total length of haploid genome was 35.5 RLM.The absolute length ranges from 78-148 RLM excluding the satellite chromosome. The satellite chromosome was numbered 8, having relative length of 165 RLM and arm ratio ranging from 1.08-1.83. The arm ratio shows that the chromosomal complement consists of 4-metacentric and 3-submetacentric chromosomes.

Rapseed is a recently introduced highly promising cash crop in the developing world. Its successful introduction is possible only through developing and testing of improved plant types.This monograph communicates the result regarding a locally developed advance line viz. HS-98, tested agianst four commercial varieties, Dunkled, Rainbow, Oscar and Altex. ANOVA of leaf area, plant height, inflorescence length, days to flowering, beak length, pods per plant, seed per pod and stem thickness were highly significant. Whereas branches per plant, flowering duration, radical leaves and days to 50% flowering were non-significant. LSD for the data revealed that genotype HS-98 was significantly different with respect to inflorescence length, pod/plant, pod length, seed/ pod, days to flowering and 1000 grains weight. Glucosinolates, oleic acid and eruic acid percentage were highly significant among the genotypes. Pollen fertility was 93% in HS-98. The number of bivalents and chiasma were 950, 1513, respectively in 50 sporocytes. The No. of ring, rod bivalents, chiasma/cell and chiasma/bivalent were 11.18, 7.82, 30.26 and 1.58, respectively.

Even though the properties of individual nanoparticles are fascinating and technologically promising, to harness these properties, however, the particles need to be assembled in an array to form a superlattice. While there are ways of forming small ordered monolayers and crystals of nanoparticles there is no satisfactory method to deposit large areas of ordered multilayers films of nanoparticles. Dry casting and spin coating result in films that are typically not uniform and by nature, unpatterned. Multilayer, ordered and patterned films of nanoparticles are essential for device fabrication. We have developed a method to electrophoretically deposit nanoparticles to form multilayer films with remarkable topographical, optical, mechanical, and electrical properties. We have shown how the surface defects of nanoparticles can be used as an advantage to form almost defect free arrays with average roughness less than the diameter of the individual particles Preliminary studies on the electrical, thermal, and mechanical properties of these films are reported.