Music and Education. Discovering and Acouological Touch

Academia Letters, 2021

Bangladesh has achieved an amazing feat in reducing the annual growth rate of population, the size of the population is still large when compared with the size of the country. If the current trend continues, the population of Bangladesh is expected to reach about 194 million in 2050 (WB 2012). Understandably, this population exerts tremendous pressure on a limited resource base. As a result, both landlessness and environmental degradation have become rampant in recent times. Furthermore, because of the rapid growth of urbanization and associated infrastructure, every year Bangladesh loses 0.3 percent of its cultivated land. We have to keep in mind that the economy of Bangladesh is still mostly agrarian with 48 percent of the labor force engaged in agriculture and related activities (BBS 2013). Along with national population growth, the percentage of people living in urban areas has also been rising. 1.8 million people were living in urban areas in 1951 which increased to 13.5 million, 22.5 million, 31 million, and 33.5 million in 1981, 1991, 2001, and 2011 respectively; an eighteen-fold increase in the last 60 years. This astonishing growth in urban population is largely attributed to three main factors, namely: (i) rural-urban migration, (ii) natural growth, and (iii) the redefinition of urban areas. It is affirmed by experts that among them, rural-urban migration is the most dominant factor. Moreover, the country faces enormous challenges in coping with the infrastructures and service requirements for its rapidly growing urban population, particularly in the capital city Dhaka.

16th Asian Regional Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, 2019

A case history is presented that documents distress, and lessons learned from the failure of foundations constructed on a site with highly expansive soils. Eighteen (18) multi-story buildings were constructed on post-tensioned concrete slabs-on-grade founded on engineered fill. The pre-construction soils report recommended that the in-situ expansive foundation soils be over-excavated, moisture conditioned, and recompacted. A few years after the structures were constructed the buildings began to show signs of distress in the form of drywall cracking, foundation heave, and racked doors. Differential movement as large as approximately 100 mm (4 in) was observed in the slabs. Calculated values of future heave ranged from 160 to 225 mm (6.4 to 8.9 in) with one value of 530 mm (20.8 in). The site is located in a semi-arid environment and was irrigated after development. A well irrigated golf course was located on an adjacent property. Several of the buildings were located parallel to the golf course property boundary. Those buildings were observed to be tilting away from the golf course, due to the differential heave caused by the lateral migration of groundwater from the extensive irrigation on the golf course. This paper presents the results of the forensic investigation and identifies the causes of the distress. The original pre-construction site investigation was found to be inadequate. Of the soil samples that were tested for the design, only a small number of samples were actually taken from depths below the depth of over-excavation. Thus, the foundations were designed based on very limited soil sampling and analyses. The post-tensioned slab foundations were inadequate, and incorrect assumptions were used in their design. Lessons learned from this project are that the geotechnical site investigation must extend down to a depth to which the soil properties will influence foundation performance. If expansive soils are present, that depth may extend for several meters. The geotechnical investigation must also consider environmental conditions, not only at the site, but at properties located adjacent to and at some distance from the site. Grading and drainage of the site is of paramount importance. When a failure of this nature occurs, the cost of the remediation may exceed the cost of the original construction.

“Governance: proposals, limits and perspectives” it is a book dedicated in its entirety to elucidating the multifaceted and polysemic character of the word governance. Porras analyzes the multiple uses of the expression in the academic circles, criticizing their indiscriminate use in common language and politicians specially ,without paying attention to the fact that the concept is loaded with meliorative connotations.

Conference Link: https://aati-online.org/events/aati-international-conference-2025

2017

The paper examined the role of citizen participation in local authority service delivery in developing countries as these are generally characterised by deteriorating service delivery in the form of poor refuse collection and disposal, potholed road infrastructure and erratic water supply and poor sanitation services. It emerged from the presentation that where local authorities employed active citizen participation, several benefits were enjoyed, including improved service delivery. It was however, observed that despite the multiple benefits arising from citizen participation, local authorities in developing countries generally lack a participative culture. It is thus, critical that local authorities develop and promote citizen participation since it has immense capacity to transform municipal service delivery.

CITIZENSHIP STUDIES, 2023

This Special Issue presents new perspectives on the idea of digital citizenship by delving into the nexus between its emerging concepts, the consequences of the global pandemic crisis, and the urban environment. It does so by addressing a wide range of case studies from three continents and developing two main hypotheses. First, the COVID-19 outbreak has expanded the impact of digital technologies on citizens’ everyday life. Second, the urban realm is the environment where new citizenship regimes are emerging through platformization, datafication, and the rescaling of the state. To introduce the Special Issue, this article: (i) examines recent scholarship about the effects of the pandemic on digital citizenship; (ii) discusses and expands concepts of digital citizenship through case studies; and (iii) assesses how emerging forms of digital citizenship are fostered by uneven ‘pandemic citizenship’ regimes worldwide. To cite this article: Bignami, F., Calzada, I., Hanakata, N., & Tomasello, F. (2022), Data-Driven Citizenship Regimes in Contemporary Urban Scenarios: An Introduction. Citizenship Studies 27(2), 1-15. DOI:10.1080/13621025.2022.2147262.

2024 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT), 2024

The escalating volumes of textile waste globally necessitate innovative waste management solutions to mitigate the environmental impact and promote sustainability in the fashion industry. This paper addresses the inefficiencies of traditional textile sorting methods by introducing an autonomous textile analysis pipeline. Utilising robotics, spectral imaging, and AIdriven classification, our system enhances the accuracy, efficiency, and scalability of textile sorting processes, contributing to a more sustainable and circular approach to waste management. The integration of a Digital Twin system further allows critical evaluation of technical and economic feasibility, providing valuable insights into the sorting system's accuracy and reliability. The proposed framework, inspired by Industry 4.0 principles, comprises five interconnected layers facilitating seamless data exchange and coordination within the system. Preliminary results highlight the potential of our holistic approach to mitigate environmental impact and foster a positive shift towards recycling in the textile industry.

Did 20,000 Protestant refugees flee Ireland and cause a minor refugee crisis in 1922? The Irish Distress Committee was set up to help those British Loyalists fleeing from Ireland on May 12th so there was a crisis but just how big was it and when did the flood break on the United Kingdom's shores? The records of the Irish Distress Committee are confusing at best on the matter. However, the British Treasury always minds the pennies and from the start kept a close eye on what was then the Irish Distress committee going so far as having a representative 'sitting in' on meetings. The Irish Distress committee submitted weekly reports and supporting documents to the Treasury who kept the entire documentation in a large unsorted pile optimistically described as TS 18/236 which was wrapped in brown paper. This table has been extracted from a sample of the file to examine the accuracy of claims that there was a Protestant exodus in 1922-23 based on the Records of the Irish Distress/Grants committee.

International Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology, 2019

In olden days the web technology was using HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) for creating web pages. The AJAX has changed the traditional paradigm of Web development by giving partial page update facility. Ajax is short-form of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. It is a bundle of technologies that combined together to create new, dynamic, responsive and powerful web applications. Most of the giant internet-based companies such as Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Amazon etc. are developing web applications based on Ajax. Even though major internet based companies working with Ajax, there is still ignorance about this technology among many developers. Many developers find it difficult to handle those bundle of technologies to build Ajax application.