Longer not stiffer: Targeting jute fibre quality
Jute is a phloem bast fibre crop grown for its fibres that are used in the manufacture of various goods. Due to its cheapness and biodegradable nature, jute is now […]
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Whither now for jute wither? Emergence of a new pathogen
Being sessile, plants face a number of threats, in the form of changing climate and microbes that cause disease. Plant diseases can wipe out entire fields of crops, leading to […]
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Understanding SARS-CoV-2: A closer look into its genome
A team of BARJ scientists from the Bangladesh Jute Research Institute, Dhaka, Bangladesh have conducted significant research on SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for causing COVID-19. In a recent research project, […]
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Cellular decoding via jute CDPKs
Plants grow and survive by cellular responses to various signals from the environment, other organisms, or from within themselves. The cellular machinery to decode these signals in plants is highly […]
Getting retting better by bacterial blending
Jute is the second most important fibre crop after cotton. Harvesting of jute is followed by retting, where the fibres are separated from stems. This is performed in open waters […]
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Integrating social media and CSR into strategic planning for a competitive advantage
The current theory for strategic planning involves assessing the business environment and identifying key assets within an organisation. Social media and corporate social responsibility (CSR) are currently considered unnecessary in […]
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Doing good: Social change initiatives and ethical thinking
Social change is complex. Program designers and implementers need to deal with complexity in ethical ways. Ms Susan Igras and Dr Anjalee Kohli at Georgetown University and their co-authors examine […]
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Solving classification problems using open quantum systems: Two-qubit system plunged in a thermal reservoir
Theoretical concepts: the model and its solution Open quantum systems undergo dissipation of energy into their environment. The system under study is a two-qubit system which experiences dissipation process due […]
Twittering away our deliberative capacity: Social media and the threat to democracy
Communication technologies lie at the heart of every society, and their structural biases contribute to many of our social biases. The use of social media, and especially Twitter, by former […]
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Human-centred design as the way forward for organisation design and enterprise engineering
The roots of EE research can be found in the work of The Society of Enterprise Engineering, starting from a definition of enterprises as “systems of processes that can be […]