<p><em><span>Bakar Tongkang is one of the cultural attractions in Riau Province, namely Bagansiapiapi City. The Bakar attraction event held annually for generations by local community due to its unique culture and histor</span></em><em><span lang="EN-US">y.</span></em></p><p><em><span>This study was conducted determin...

Objective: This study was conducted to assess accessibility of ESRD patients health care services a specialized hospital. Methods: The cross-sectional study, which at the National Institute Kidney Diseases and Urology (NIKDU), Sher-E-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka, Bangladesh during period from January December 2021. included 384 patients, who were selected by purposive sampling technique. Data collected ...

a growing global concern that teeming millions might be at greater risk of death, disease and disability due to extreme heat events in the tropics and other regions. It has been estimated that about 48 million people were affected in Asia during the year 2008, due to climatological, geophysical, hydrological and meteorological events. Despite projection of changing climate and occurrence of inc...

The Start of a Journey I am riding in the front seat of a tiny Ford Icon, taking in the leftsided passenger view as we bump along narrow dirt roads. The driver is cheerfully unperturbed as he navigates various obstacles in our path: children, motorists, stray dogs, cycle rickshaws, carts of bright red tomatoes. By the end of my trip, my mind—and stomach—will be desensitized to the labyrinth of ...

Each night, around 20,000 peopleboth adults and childrenmake the streets of Dhaka (the capital city of Bangladesh) their home. Living amongst the noise, rubbish, and traffic, thousands of families walk down the streets of Dhaka, looking for a safe place to rest for just a few hours each night. Trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty, the pavement dwellers are amongst the most vulnerable people ...

In Kevin Lynch's (1960) classic formulation of the image city, he asks us to think about urban environments as a series topographic registers on landscape, from monuments mountains, paths edges, nodes, and junctions. There is human element this vision, with its concentrations convergences in social space; hangout value street corner or how cut railway marks off cultural district. However, these...

Successful Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) planning initiatives in Latin American cities involved complex interactions among stakeholders, politicians and planners. Asian cities under different geo-political settings may not be able to achieve successful BRT planning initiatives under similar circumstances. This paper reviews the recent mass transit planning initiatives, especially BRT planning initiat...

The current paper provides insight into the learning strategies adopted by children working at Minimally Invasive Education (MIE) Learning Stations. Previous research has clearly indicated the attainment of basic computer literacy by groups of young children in the age groups of 7–14 years. This learning takes place due to the emergence and development of group social processes, an aspect cruci...