Though the Light Engineering industry occupies an important space within the Bangladeshi industrial domain, very few attempts of scholarly work to understand and improve the capabilities of this sub-sector has been undertaken in the past. Most of these problems of the sector can be grouped into two fronts: technological deficiencies and marketing…[Read more]

This paper aims to see the levels of empowerment exist in the private hospital in Dhaka city, considering the case of doctors and nurses. A small sample of 40 respondents from the two private hospitals was chosen randomly. The theories of empowerment are discussed and the results are analyzed in respect to the theories which shows that doctors are…[Read more]

This study analyses the factors considered important by customer in selection a private commercial bank and nationalized commercial bank in Bangladesh. It is based on a survey of 600 customers of private commercial banks (PCBs) and nationalized commercial banks (NCBs) located in the city of Rajshahi in Bangladesh. This study relied on 30 selection…[Read more]

This paper aims to explore the perceptions of senior bankers concerning nondisclosure of sustainability issues within the context of Bangladesh. The main objective of this paper is to critically examine the reasons for managerial reluctance to report corporate sustainability issues for two competing banks in Bangladesh, in general, and crucial…[Read more]

The primary objective of this paper is to analyze if the Market overvalued. We studied prices of 17 actively companies in the Market from 2006 to 2010 and used three Valuation Ratios with an explicit corporate sector along with overall market index data and found that the Stock Marke overvalued. The analysis was completed in two stages. At first…[Read more]

Poverty has been one of the major economic issues that have been troubling in Indonesia for decades. This study intends to investigate whether the Qardhul Hasan Financing through Sinergi of Dompet Dhuafa in West Java, Indonesia, as zakah managing organization, is able to improve the recipients’ Economic Empowerment. The statistical results of t…[Read more]

Agriculture is an important sector for the overall development of any country like Bangladesh. Guava is a major crop of Bangladesh, which has a significant demand in the local market. In this research, we have made a market study of guava by using time series agricultural data. The aim of the research is to know the cultural practices of guava and…[Read more]

Consumer Price Index (CPI) of a particular region is primarily calculated through aggregation of individual household observations. This aggregation is done following two schemes, plutocratic and democratic. While both of them are useful for certain purposes, none of them actually give proper attention to poor households. In this study, we have…[Read more]

Мало тога је познато о месопотамском образовању до краја 3. миленијума пре Христа. Из доступних података може се извести закључак да је у време Треће династије Ура (21. век пре Христа) писање учено “на послу”, у једном шегртском односу према искуснијем писару, истим начином којим су се учили и остали занати. Много већим бројем података распо…[Read more]

Дело које се налази пред читаоцима представља својеврсну новину на овим просторима. Приручник ове врсте, колико је мени познато, није до сада постојао на српском језику. Ова чињеница је, пре свега, последица недовољне заинтересованости, самим тим и неупућености у проблеме једног тако значајног цивилизацијског феномена као што је клинасто писмо.…[Read more]

Најстарији клинописни записи, пореклом из древног сумерског града Урука, датирају се на око 3200 година пре Христа. Почеци клинастог писма, међутим, сежу дубоко у прошлост, хиљадама година пре његове званичне појаве. Порекло му лежи у древном систему бројања и рачунања, коришћеном од стране раних пољопривредних култура древног Блиског истока…

“In capitalism, institutional libraries, publishers and book traders all have ways to suppress the publishing of, the access to or the distribution of texts and books — rigidities inviting for creative subversion.”

This chapter written in the form of a dialogue presents an informal conversation between Eva Weinmayr and her inner voice about a…[Read more]

Geschichte des Archivs der Herrschaft Wallsee in Niederösterreich

Analisa a relação entre a Arquivologia, a História e a Biblioteconomia na organização de arquivos pessoais. Empiricamente o trabalho se concentra na experiência realizada por historiadores que, desde 2011, atuam na organização de arquivos pessoais que compõem o acervo do Centro de Documentação Cultural Eloy de Souza (…[Read more]

Analisa a relação entre a Arquivologia, a História e a Biblioteconomia na organização de arquivos pessoais. Empiricamente o trabalho se concentra na experiência realizada por historiadores que, desde 2011, atuam na organização de arquivos pessoais que compõem o acervo do Centro de Documentação Cultural Eloy de Souza (…[Read more]

When it comes to Japanese literary heritage, why and how are we able to access it? The shape of what is preserved and available is driven by and in turn dictates the shape of our canon(s). Yet we often do not think of the labor and social networks behind the reprinting and digitizing that allows us to access literature in the first place, whether…[Read more]

The article presents illuminated charters and discusses how they might be presented online.

For centuries Cork’s Shawlies, working-class women, survived by trading on public streets. My study explores how the first Irish Free State government, and Cork’s local authority, limited the rights of poor women to earn by subsistence trading with The Street Trading Act, 1926. The government insisted this would regulate street trading. In pra…[Read more]

During the final decade of his productive life, Moshe Gammer (1950-2013) edited the first major English-language series on Daghestani philology. This chapter examines key aspects of Gammer’s legacy, while offering an overview of Daghestani philology from the colonial period to the present, and outlining how this field of inquiry enables us to r…[Read more]

This paper explores the commodification of archival information through the exploitation of library labor related to the ongoing management, preservation, description, and digitization of unique and rare materials. Through this discussion, the author highlights the cultural, social, and economic factors that play a central role in creating an…[Read more]