Publications by Miftahur Rahman, Ph.D.
Lagrangian Point (L1) Calculationblish Document
Preamble: In May 2019, during the 8th Interplanetary CubeSat Workshop (iCubeSat-2019) held at Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, we introduced a white paper titled “Deep Space Communication and Exploration of the Solar System via Inter-Lagrangian Data Relay Satellite Constellation” [1]. Outlines of the paper: The paper, originating in Mi...
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Lagrangian Point (L1) CalculationDocument
Preamble: In May 2019, during the 8th Interplanetary CubeSat Workshop (iCubeSat-2019) held at Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, we introduced a white paper titled “Deep Space Communication and Exploration of the Solar System via Inter-Lagrangian Data Relay Satellite Constellation” [1]. Outlines of the paper: The paper, originating in Mi...
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Navigating the Immigrant Experience: Valuable Advice, Reasons for Migration, and Integration Principles
Preamble: In this article, I want to share some of the valuable advice bestowed upon me by my esteemed father before I embarked in 1981 on my journey from my beloved birthplace, Bangladesh, to pursue higher education in the USA. My father, a sincere, devoted, and humble college professor and principal, authored around 15 books that encapsulated...
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Fossil Fuels: The Facts & Concerns
Preamble: I started writing this article on June 15, an important month for myself and my family. During this month we respectfully commemorate the sweet and unforgettable memories of my wife on her 63rd birthday on June 25, by making a special tribute to her graveyard, the ultimate rest place for human beings. People build monuments, memoria...
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"COVID-19 US Prediction"
Executive Summary: In this study propagation pattern of the COVID19 pandemic in US is made using a widely used SIR model. A R-library is created to fetch the COVID19 data through our website [1] from JHU-CCSE to predict the propagation pattern over a period of 140 days starting from the first US reported death on February 29 up to the projected e...
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Driving on an Icy Road
Introduction: Please get ready to welcome the winter, with its snow and cold temps, is just around the corner. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), New England can expect a milder season than normal. As humans we must have the ability to withstand and fight in against of all kinds of natural calamity, epidemic,...
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Orbital Mechanics-I
Introduction: This article on Oribital Mechanics-I is written based on excerpts taken from “Chapter-13: Gravitaion” of my unpublished book on “The Fundamentals of Newtonian Mechanics”. This is basically a kind of review paper addressing the fundamental mathematical tools that are required to understand the orbital mechanics. It is intende...
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Movielens Capstone Project HarvardXDocument
Introduction: The first capstone project of the HarvardX Data Science Professional Certificate Series is a recommendation system on MovieLens. A 10M MovieLens dataset was made available from GroupLens Research Lab to make the analysis. To apply the required machine learning algorithms the given movielens dataset was partitioned to create edx and ...
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Meditation
Reflection (Tafakkur): Modern science tries to differentiate and classify the waves that are generated by the brain in different states of mind. These waves are named as alpha, beta, theta and delta. These waves are named as brain waves that can be measured through electroencephalogram or EEG. Alpha waves with an average frequency of 8-13 Hz are ...
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IRays : COVID-19 Updates
Coronavirus IRays : COVID-19 Updates Data Source : Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering (JHU CCSE) Summary Column confirmed 234,627,330 active 229,829,768 (98%) recovered 0 (0%) death 4,797,562 (2%) Column COVID-19 Summary by Country Column Map Map Trends Column New Cases - Top 15 Countries (2...
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