Mizan Rahman was born on September 16, 1932 in East Bengal, India. Mizan studied at the University of Dhaka where he obtained his B.Sc. degree in Mathematics and Physics in 1953 and his M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics in 1954. He received a B.A. in Mathematics from Cambridge University in 1958, and an M.A. in Mathematics from Cambridge University in 1963. He was a senior lecturer at the University...

Extracting information from graphs, from finding shortest paths to complex graph mining, is essential for many applications. Due to the shear size of modern graphs (e.g., social networks), processing must be done on large parallel computing infrastructures (e.g., the cloud). Earlier approaches relied on the MapReduce framework, which was proved inadequate for graph algorithms. More recently, th...

BACKGROUND Current evidence supports the applicability of the Leeds Sleep Evaluation Questionnaire (LSEQ) in screening for insomnia. The psychometric properties of the LSEQ have never been investigated in an African population. Therefore, this study aimed to validate the adapted version of the LSEQ-Mizan (LSEQ-M) in Ethiopian university students. METHODS Of a preliminary sample of 750 (random...

The introduction of Google’s Pregel generated much interest in the field of large-scale graph data processing, inspiring the development of Pregel-like systems such as Apache Giraph, GPS, Mizan, and GraphLab, all of which have appeared in the past two years. To gain an understanding of how Pregel-like systems perform, we conduct a study to experimentally compare Giraph, GPS, Mizan, and GraphLab...

One of the most major and essential tasks in natural language processing is machine translation that is now highly dependent upon multilingual parallel corpora. Through this paper, we introduce the biggest Persian-English parallel corpus with more than one million sentence pairs collected from masterpieces of literature. We also present acquisition process and statistics of the corpus, and expe...

X iv :m at h/ 04 10 24 9v 1 [ m at h. C A ] 1 0 O ct 2 00 4 Some Systems of Multivariable Orthogonal Askey-Wilson Polynomials George Gasper* and Mizan Rahman† Abstract In 1991 Tratnik derived two systems of multivariable orthogonal Wilson polynomials and considered their limit cases. q-Analogues of these systems are derived, yielding systems of multivariable orthogonal Askey-Wilson polynomials ...

Eigenfunctions of the Askey-Wilson second order q-difference operator for 0 < q < 1 and |q| = 1 are constructed as formal matrix coefficients of the principal series representation of the quantized universal enveloping algebra Uq(sl(2,C)). The eigenfunctions are in integral form and may be viewed as analogues of Euler’s integral representation for Gauss’ hypergeometric series. We show that for ...

The original version of this article unfortunately contained mistake. affiliation address Wegayehu Enbeyle should be changed to Department Statistics, Mizan-Tepi University, Tepi, Ethiopia

BACKGROUND Premature rupture of membrane (PROM) is linked to significant maternal prenatal mortalities and morbidity. In Ethiopia, where maternal mortality is still high, the maternal and fetal outcomes in PROM is very important to decrease maternal and child mortality and for better management and prevention of complications. Thus, this study aimed to detect the maternal and fetal outcomes and...