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This book explores the relationship between climate
change–induced migration and conflict in Bangladesh – one of
the most ecologically fragile countries in the world. It explores
why people migrate from their original place of land and how the
migration of people with a different background to an ethnically
distinctive region due to environmental changes can become a source
of conflict and violence between the host peoples and migrants. The
volume focuses on the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), which has
experienced long-standing ethnopolitical conflict due to the
settlement and migration of the Bengali people from the plain land
of Bangladesh. This settlement and migration were mainly caused
climatic events such as floods, cyclones, sealevel rise, and
disasters. It traces the history of the ethnic conflict in the
region and presents key findings from the field, as well as the
dynamics of everyday politics in the region. This volume also
highlights how internally climate-displaced people generate
violence and civil strife in the major urban cities through their
settlements in slums. The volume will be of great interest to
scholars and researchers of environmental studies, human geography,
migration and diaspora studies, public policy, social anthropology,
and South Asian studies.
Pipelines: Emerging Technologies and Design Criteria, the latest
release in the Sustainable Oil and Gas Development series, delivers
the tools needed to understand more environmentally-friendly
design, construction and maintenance of oil and gas pipelines.
Designed to introduce ideal solutions and current state-of-the-art
practices, the reference includes guidelines on environmental
impact assessment and sustainable route design as well as the
sustainability of additives and power systems. Material selection,
real-time processing of smart well data and remote sensing are also
discussed. Rounded out with inspection tools and emerging
technology such as novel corrosion protection, this book gives
pipeline engineers a guide on safer alternatives and upcoming
guidelines in the race to reduce emissions.
Sustainable Oil and Gas Development Series: Reservoir Development
delivers research materials and emerging technologies that conform
sustainability in today's reservoirs. Starting with a status of
technologies available, the reference describes sustainability as
it applies to fracturing fluids, particularly within unconventional
reservoirs. Basement reservoirs are discussed along with non-energy
applications of fluids. Sustainability considerations for reserve
predication are covered followed by risk analysis and scaling
guidelines for further field development. Rounding out with
conclusions and remaining challenges, Sustainable Oil and Gas
Development Series: Reservoir Development gives today and future
petroleum engineers a focused and balanced path to strengthen
sustainability practices.
This book provides a supportive lending hand to researchers of
constitutional law worldwide about the constitutional law of
Bangladesh. Moreover, this book discusses the evolution and
development of the constitutional law of Bangladesh over 50 years
from its embryonic stage with reference to comparative
constitutional law. This book is a very useful resource for the
comparative constitutional researchers as readers will be able to
easily interpret the constitutional law of Bangladesh from
national, regional and global constitutional law perspectives. This
book celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the Constitution, the
first of its kind to portray the journey of constitutionalism in
Bangladesh comprehensively with intellectual observations and
palatable recommendations for improvement. This book looks back to
the constituent assembly debates, intention of the constitution
makers and how have those dreams and aspirations have come into
realities, what goals have been achieved, what caused some
failures, and what should be its future directions. At such a
momentous point in history, it is imperative that its native and
foreign constitutional authoritative voices scholarly assess the
constitutional design, understand the reasons for its successes and
occasional failures, and ventilate their views towards its
progressive development to elevate it to a new height in the 21st
century and beyond. The book chapters discuss not only the text of
the constitution and some judicial precedents, rather involve in a
much larger task of unveiling the interpretative approach of the
Constitution from a comparative constitutional law perspective.
This book shall project the future roadmap for the journey of
constitutionalism in Bangladesh throughout all chapters offering
policy recommendations for the revision of the Constitution.Â
Inside the Dark Web provides a broad overview of emerging digital
threats and computer crimes, with an emphasis on cyberstalking,
hacktivism, fraud and identity theft, and attacks on critical
infrastructure. The book also analyzes the online underground
economy and digital currencies and cybercrime on the dark web. The
book further explores how dark web crimes are conducted on the
surface web in new mediums, such as the Internet of Things (IoT)
and peer-to-peer file sharing systems as well as dark web forensics
and mitigating techniques. This book starts with the fundamentals
of the dark web along with explaining its threat landscape. The
book then introduces the Tor browser, which is used to access the
dark web ecosystem. The book continues to take a deep dive into
cybersecurity criminal activities in the dark net and analyzes the
malpractices used to secure your system. Furthermore, the book digs
deeper into the forensics of dark web, web content analysis, threat
intelligence, IoT, crypto market, and cryptocurrencies. This book
is a comprehensive guide for those who want to understand the dark
web quickly. After reading Inside the Dark Web, you'll understand
The core concepts of the dark web. The different theoretical and
cross-disciplinary approaches of the dark web and its evolution in
the context of emerging crime threats. The forms of cybercriminal
activity through the dark web and the technological and "social
engineering" methods used to undertake such crimes. The behavior
and role of offenders and victims in the dark web and analyze and
assess the impact of cybercrime and the effectiveness of their
mitigating techniques on the various domains. How to mitigate
cyberattacks happening through the dark web. The dark web ecosystem
with cutting edge areas like IoT, forensics, and threat
intelligence and so on. The dark web-related research and
applications and up-to-date on the latest technologies and research
findings in this area. For all present and aspiring cybersecurity
professionals who want to upgrade their skills by understanding the
concepts of the dark web, Inside the Dark Web is their one-stop
guide to understanding the dark web and building a cybersecurity
plan.
Sustainable Oil and Gas Development Series: Drilling Engineering
delivers research materials and emerging technologies that conform
sustainability drilling criteria. Starting with ideal zero-waste
solutions in drilling and long-term advantages, the reference
discusses the sustainability approach through the use of non-linear
solutions and works its way through the most conventional practices
and procedures used today. Step-by-step formulations and examples
are provided to demonstrate how to look at conventional practices
versus sustainable approaches with eventually diverging towards a
more sustainable alternative. Emerging technologies are covered and
detailed sustainability analysis is included. Economic
considerations, analysis, and long-term consequences, focusing on
risk management round out the with conclusions and a extensive
glossary. Sustainable Oil and Gas Development Series: Drilling
Engineering gives today's petroleum and drilling engineers a guide
how to analyze and evaluate their operations in a more
environmentally-driven way.
Petroleum Reservoir Simulation, Second Edition, introduces this
novel engineering approach for petroleum reservoir modeling and
operations simulations. Updated with new exercises, a new glossary
and a new chapter on how to create the data to run a simulation,
this comprehensive reference presents step-by-step numerical
procedures in an easy to understand format. Packed with practical
examples and guidelines, this updated edition continues to deliver
an essential tool for all petroleum and reservoir engineers.
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Data Mining - 16th Australasian Conference, AusDM 2018, Bahrurst, NSW, Australia, November 28-30, 2018, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
Rafiqul Islam, Yun Sing Koh, Yanchang Zhao, Graco Warwick, David Stirling, …
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th
Australasian Conference on Data Mining, AusDM 2018, held in
Bathurst, NSW, Australia, in November 2018.The 27 revised full
papers presented together with 3 short papers were carefully
reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. The papers are organized
in topical sections on classification task; transport, environment,
and energy; applied data mining; privacy and clustering; statistics
in data science; health, software and smartphone; image data
mining; industry showcase.
Natural gas, especially unconventional gas, has an increasingly
important role in meeting the world's energy needs. Experts
estimate that it has the potential to add anywhere from 60-250% to
the global proven gas reserve in the next two decades. To maintain
pace with increasing global demand, "Unconventional Gas Reservoirs"
provides the necessary bridge into the newer processes, approaches
and designs to help identify these more uncommon reservoirs
available and how to maximize its unconventional potential.
Loaded with reservoir development and characterization
strategies, this book will show you how to: Recognize the
challenges and opportunities surrounding unconventional gas
reservoirsDistinguish among the various types of unconventional
reservoirs, such as shale gas, coalbed methane, and tight gas
formationsDrill down and quantify the reservoir s economic
potential and other critical considerations
Gain practical insights and tools to efficiently identify,
appraise, and develop unconventional gas reservoirsUnderstand
various techniques used to analyze reservoir parameters and
performance as well as how they were applied to numerous real-world
case studiesUpgrade to the latest informationon perspectives and
insightswith discussion of key differences used for today s
unconventional gas characterization versus original conventional
methods that failed in the past "
This book presents innovative ideas, cutting-edge findings, and
novel techniques, methods, and applications in a broad range of
cybersecurity and cyberthreat intelligence areas. As our society
becomes smarter, there is a corresponding need to be able to secure
our cyberfuture. The approaches and findings described in this book
are of interest to businesses and governments seeking to secure our
data and underpin infrastructures, as well as to individual users.
In today's modern business world, the dominant factor of any
organization's success is human capital. Appropriately acquiring
and managing talented staff is crucial to the growth and
development of companies and provides them with a considerable
competitive advantage in the industry. Further study on the
importance of talent management is required to ensure businesses
are able to thrive in the present environment. Post-Pandemic Talent
Management Models in Knowledge Organizations discusses strategic
human resource management and the talent management of post-modern
knowledge-based organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic and
post-pandemic paradigm. Covering critical topics such as
organizational performance and creative work behavior, this major
reference work is ideal for managers, business owners,
entrepreneurs, academicians, researchers, scholars, instructors,
and students.
Anabas testudineus (Bloch, 1792) is locally known as koi, familiar
to people for its exceptional taste. Although koi is listed by IUCN
as data deficient, its abundance in natural water bodies of
Bangladesh is reduced at a severe scale in comparison to a decade
before. Considering the present biodiversity status of A.
testudineus in nature, the author conducted this work for
conservation of the genetic resources of the fish through
cryopreservation of spermatozoa. The book will explain different
steps in sperm cryopreservation protocol chronologically which can
be applied further in relevant fish species.
The information age came with the promise of transparency greater
than anything witnessed heretofore by humanity. Of course,
transparency is the essence of foresight and knowledge. The hope
was for a greater accountability that would follow increased
transparency, compelling policy makers to depend on knowledge and
foresight rather than disinformation and hidden agendas. Recent
events of the new millennium indicate that the increase has been in
opacity and disinformation. The information age, often dubbed as
the knowledge era', has become the antithesis of knowledge,
however; even its most ardent proponents admit that. Despite
globalization, the information age has failed to generate
knowledge-based decision-making tools.
The most important first premise in science is that mass can be
neither created nor destroyed. It is also becoming clear that
natural laws dictate that mass be connected to energy. In effect,
mass-balance provides the only governing equation that is both
necessary and sufficient. Clearly, this compels a paradigm shift in
scientific study. If a process is engineered' in violation of
natural principles of material production, the balance will be
irreversibly disturbed, and the outcome of such a violated process
both unpredictable and harmful to future generations. The
post-Renaissance mode of technology development is based on an
analogous corollary principle of mass production. This is an
approach characterised by an excessive focus on quantity to the
detriment of establishing or upholding definitive criteria as to
quality. In order to make mass-produced materials acceptable to the
consumer, non-scientific means have been used to cover up true
properties of both materials and energy. As a result, today
technologies ranging from photovoltaic electricity to
genetically-modified crop production to mass-produced
pharmaceutical products are considered to be in harmony with
nature. On the other hand, herbal medicine is dismissed as quackery
and direct solar energy usage as pseudo-science. Nobel Laureates,
such as the prize-winning chemist Robert Curl, have not shied from
pronouncing this development mode a technological disaster'.
Migration is an unavoidable continuous process from the very
beginning of civilization which has been considered as an important
livelihood strategy for both rural and urban population. It also
plays an important role (positive or negative) in the development
of any country. In developing countries like Bangladesh, migration
to cities creates more hazards in development. So, it is important
to assess the socio-economic conditions of migrants and their
causes. This study focuses this issue and recommends some policy
which plays an important role for further advanced research.
Clearly, it would be very helpful for policy makers, program
designers to design or redesign programs or existing programs
considering the identified risk factor of migration to cities in
Bangladesh.
Due to the environmental and economical concerns, it is expected
that a huge number of wind farms are going to be connected with the
existing networks in the near future. However, the wind being
intermittent sources of power, cannot meet the load demand all of
the time. Wherever intermittent power sources reach high levels of
grid penetration, energy storage becomes one option to provide
reliable energy supplies. Therefore, this book deals with different
approaches to stabilize a grid-connected wind farm.Among the
various energy storage devices SMES is one of the options to
provide reliable and fast response energy to the grid. These
devices can help to make renewable energy more smooth and reliable,
though the power output cannot be controlled by the grid operators.
They can also balance micro grids to achieve a good match between
generation and load demand. Also, it can significantly improve the
load availability, a key requirement for any power system. The
energy storage, therefore, is a desired feature to incorporate with
renewable power systems, particularly in stand alone power plants.
Thus this book investigates different methods to use SMES for
stabilizing windfarm.
In Bangladesh, well water is high in arsenic and is used both for
irrigating elds and drinking. Uptake of arsenic by rice plants
could be sti ing crucial micronutrients such as selenium in rice
grains. This is bad news for people in Asia, whose diet is
primarily rice, because selenium helps cleanse toxic arsenic from
the body. Exposure to arsenic, a class 1 carcinogen for which there
is no safe dose, affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide.
Chronic exposure leads to diseases such as skin and bladder cancer.
Although most research has focused on naturally occurring arsenic
in well water, new studies hint that food could be a signi cant
source of arsenic. The arsenic composition of rice typically ranges
from 100 to 500 micrograms per kilogram (ug/kg), and many people in
Asia eat at least 200 g/day of rice. Therefore, the levels in rice
commonly lead to arsenic exposures at or above the WHO limit.
Industrial estate is an increasing source of pollution. The aim of
study was assessment of pollution of Mongla Industrial Estate &
its impacts on health and socio-economic Status in BD. These
experiments give a result that in water polluting industry BOD
(1190 mg/l), COD (4330 mg/l) and TDS ( 8840 mg/l) are very high and
pH (2.23) shows very acidic in nature of the effluent of MSFPI. Air
pollution is severe in this area, at the ball mill (MCF) SPM was
520 g/m3, & ambient air of area contains 510 g/m3 of SPM. Noise
level at ball mill average 100 dB. These values do not meet the DoE
std. & affects the workers & people in vicinity of estate.
39%, 23%, 17%, 13% are suffered by skin diseases, diarrhea,
typhoid, dysentery respectively. 32%, 30%, 7%, 25%, 5% of people
are suffered by breathlessness, wheezing, bronchitis, asthma and
allergy respectively. 31%, 23%, 21%, 14% of people are suffered by
sleeping problem, headache, heart pain, blood pressure
respectively. The treatment cost of the people is 7% of their
yearly income. About 59%, 11%, 30% of people are industrial labor,
farmers and other type of workers respectively.
Sewage pollution has great impacts on water and sediment quality of
an aquatic body which ultimately affects the all lives of the
ecosystem. It is one of the major problems in cities. The sewage
water is rained off into rivers without treatment. The careless
disposal of sewage water leads to a chain of problems, such as
spreading of diseases, eutrophication, increase in Biological
Oxygen Demand (BOD), etc. The sewage contains water as the main
component, while other constituents include organic wastes and
chemicals.The present work is based on a case study carried out at
the Rajakhali canal connected to main channel of the Karanfully
river. The book contains sources, composition and effects of sewage
on the Karnafuli river. It also includes the treatment procedure of
the sewage.The books will be useful for the department of
environment, urban planning, environmental managers, graduate
students and researchers on this line
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The book contains thorough and complete analytical calculation
leading to two transcendental equations satisfied by transverse
wavevector dependent confined energy levels of the semiconductor
nanostructure called isolated Quantum Well (QW). The book also
contains thorough numerical calculation to bring out effects of the
non-zero component of wavevector of electron parallel to interfaces
of QW on parametric dependence of the confined energy levels.
Complete explanations are presented of the results of numerical
investigations using a transverse wavevector dependent effective
potential. The book also deals with Physics of another
semiconductor nanostructure called single rectangular tunnel
barrier. Using a previously derived analytical expression, we have
done novel numerical investigation of transverse wavevector
dependence of transmission coefficient of single rectangular tunnel
barrier and we have provided quantitatively exact explanation of
the dependence. The book is self-contained; it contains necessary
background on Quantum Mechanics, Microelectronics and Nanostructure
Physics to enable readers assimilate the book completely.
This is a thesis work mainly focused on the Garos' cultural changes
which reveals that Garos' traditional cultural practices have been
changing a lot and over the course of time they are getting quite a
new cultural setting. Some internal and external factors are mainly
responsible for Garos' cultural changes. Finally, while the Garo
society is changing then they are discarding many of their
distinguished traits and adapting to some other cultural traits. In
fact, the process of these changes had started before. However,
still today they practice many of their traditional cultural
traits. The comparative study findings between the two villages
show that despite many similarities, there are some ritualistic
differences between the villages, but comparatively remote Garo
village's culture and tradition are to some extent in less
detriment. In these discussions modernization has come as an
important factor which is influencing the entire Bangladeshi
society as well as the Garos. Under the process of these changes,
some aspects of Garos' future cultural identity have also been
addressed here.
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