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Portrayals Of Hashtag Activism In Southeast Asia: A Case Study Of #Novatoneducation Citizen Movement In Bangladesh, Umana Anjalin Dec 2020

Portrayals Of Hashtag Activism In Southeast Asia: A Case Study Of #Novatoneducation Citizen Movement In Bangladesh, Umana Anjalin

Doctoral Dissertations

During 2015, the government of Bangladesh imposed a value-added tax (VAT) on private university education in order to expand the purview of revenue collection. Fearing this additional hike in the tuition fees, thousands of mostly middle-class students protested that this would add to the already existing burden on their families in supporting their education. The country’s socioeconomic backdrop of culture and the economic scenario was such where the parents had to bear a lot for their children’s expenses for a long time until the children became independent. On top of such already overpriced expenses, the question of bearing VAT became …


Non-Governmental Organizations' Involvement In Poverty Alleviation In Bangladesh, Taylor N. Scheffing Jun 2017

Non-Governmental Organizations' Involvement In Poverty Alleviation In Bangladesh, Taylor N. Scheffing

Pursuit - The Journal of Undergraduate Research at The University of Tennessee

Labeled as one of the poorest countries in the world, Bangladesh is accustomed to poverty. Beginning in the late 1970s and even more since the arrival of the millennium, Bangladesh had made significant strides towards economic development through poverty alleviation efforts brought on by the World Bank initiatives. However, widespread discontent with the World Bank has led to increased, dominant presence and involvement from non-governmental organizations. Non-governmental organizations typically share a public mission, where those in Bangladesh aim to work exclusively with those in disadvantaged, rural areas. This paper will be addressing the growing question: what are non-governmental organizations (NGOs) …


Factors Influencing Diarrheal Pathogen Presence In Tubewells Of Bangladesh, Kati Anne Ayers Aug 2013

Factors Influencing Diarrheal Pathogen Presence In Tubewells Of Bangladesh, Kati Anne Ayers

Masters Theses

Diarrheal disease pathogens remain a major concern in developing countries as rotavirus is the leading cause of hospitalization of young children worldwide. A recent study has shown shallow groundwater in rural Bangladesh to be contaminated with bacterial and viral pathogens, but found no correlation between rotavirus and any fecal indicator or environmental parameter during the monsoon season of July, 2009. The objectives of this thesis were to examine the non-relationship between pathogens and fecal indicators, as well as to improve the understanding of the seasonal transport of viral pathogens, especially rotavirus, in shallow, sandy aquifers of Bangladesh. This was achieved …


Sulfate Reducing Communities In Aquifer Systems Can Be Reliably Stimulated By Addition Of Complex Nutrients, Matthew Bryan Scholz Aug 2012

Sulfate Reducing Communities In Aquifer Systems Can Be Reliably Stimulated By Addition Of Complex Nutrients, Matthew Bryan Scholz

Doctoral Dissertations

The disseration presented below is the summation of research into the potential roles of microbial communities associated with aquifers of Bangladesh contaminated with naturally occuring arsenic. These investigations also included experimental microcosm experiments to assess the role of nutrients supplementation of complex carbon sources (molasses), and inorganic sulfate (MgSO4), on both the solubility of arsenic to determine the feasibility of this method for the goal of performing in situ bioremediation. Community structure and functional gene profiling was performed on all samples, as well as detection of community shifts following amendments predicted to encourage the growth of sulfate reducting microorganisms (SRM). …