From the *School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Division of Sports Medicine, Campus Heath Services, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, AliveCor Corporation, San Francisco, California, and xDivision of Cardiology, Cardiac Electrophysiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, Nort...

This paper examines the social perceptions against existing overall environmental hazards and pollutions of different residential areas Dhaka Metropolitan area. The empirical data have been collected through a semi-structured questionnaire from 180 households. findings reveal that more than 60% people in are at high risk for due to vast population density unplanned high-rise buildings. Furtherm...

Norman E. “Ed” Kampbell Principal Author National Liner Lynn Osborn Committee Chairman Insituform Technologies, Inc. Marc Anctil President, NASSCO Logiball, Inc. Irvin Gemora Exec.Director, NASSCO NASSCO, Inc. Steve Gearhart Committee Member CIPP Corporation Geoff Yothers Committee Member Inliner Technologies, Inc. Greg Laszczynski Committee Member Mississippi Textiles Corporation Gerry Muenchm...

BACKGROUND National HIV serological and behavioural surveillance of Bangladesh repeatedly demonstrated a very high proportion of rickshaw pullers in Dhaka city, having sex with female sex workers (FSWs) and using illicit substances. However, no study has been conducted to identify the correlates of having sex with FSWs among this population. This study aimed to describe behavioural profile of r...

This facility-based study estimated the costs of providing child immunization services in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from the perspective of healthcare providers. About a quarter of all immunization (EPI) delivery sites in Dhaka city were surveyed during 1999. The EPI services in urban Dhaka are delivered through a partnership of the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) and non-governmental organizations (NG...

Many of the world's megacities depend on groundwater from geologically complex aquifers that are over-exploited and threatened by contamination. Here, using the example of Dhaka, Bangladesh, we illustrate how interactions between aquifer heterogeneity and groundwater exploitation jeopardize groundwater resources regionally. Groundwater pumping in Dhaka has caused large-scale drawdown that exten...

This case study is about preparing the urban communities for earthquake hazard through organizing the communities and activating the service providers (organizations responsible for responding to earthquake hazard). Being a pilot initiative, the project was intervened in 16 communities / wards of Dhaka City that were selected based on their receptivity and vulnerability through community partic...

Glass ceiling, a widely practiced but unrevealed obstacle for the development of women and minorities towards executive upper level managerial hierarchy in organizations. At present time this issue is drawing more attention from human resource practitioners around globe. In developed developing countries, women's empowerment burning as economy can reach its peak through participation all gender...

Dhaka, the capital and largest city of Bangladesh, lacks a regular air pollution monitoring network to measure and assess ambient air pollution level. Several academic and research projects attempted to measure a limited number of air pollutants near roadways in the central business district. These studies revealed that ambient concentrations of lead, benzene, particulate matter, carbon monoxid...