Annabelle Santos Volgman, Latha S. Palaniappan, Neelum T. Aggarwal, Milan Gupta et al.
South Asians (from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) make up one quarter of the world's population and are one of the fastest-growing ethnic groups in the United States. Although native South Asians share genetic and cultural risk factors with South Asians abro...
Alastair Pennycook
This paper asks what translanguaging could start to look like if it incorporated an expanded version of language and questioned not only to the borders between languages but also the borders between semiotic modes. Developing the idea of spatial repertoires and assemblages, and looking at data from ...
Khondoker M. G. Dastogeer, Farzana Haque Tumpa, Afruja Sultana, Mst. Arjina Akter et al.
Plants live in association with diverse microorganisms, collectively called the microbiome. These microbes live either inside (endosphere) or outside (episphere) of plant tissues. Microbes play important roles in the ecology and physiology of plants. Significant progress has been made in revealing s...
Md. Abdul Moktadir, Towfique Rahman, Md. Hafizur Rahman, Syed Mithun Ali et al.
Saeed Anwar, Mohammad Nasrullah, Mohammad Jakir Hosen
As the coronavirus outbreak quickly surges worldwide, many countries are adopting non-therapeutic preventive measures, which include travel bans, remote office activities, country lockdown, and most importantly, social distancing. However, these measures face challenges in Bangladesh, a lower-middle...
William C. Hsu, Maria Rosario G. Araneta, Alka M. Kanaya, Jane L. Chiang et al.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, an Asian is a person with origins from the Far East (China, Japan, Korea, and Mongolia), Southeast Asia (Cambodia, Malaysia, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore, Laos, etc.), or the Indian subcontinent (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhu...
Shahadat Iqbal, Charisma F. Choudhury, Pu Wang, Marta C. González
In this research, we propose a methodology to develop OD matrices using mobile phone Call Detail Records (CDR) and limited traffic counts. CDR, which consist of time stamped tower locations with caller IDs, are analyzed first and trips occurring within certain time windows are used to generate tower...
Heliang Zheng, Jianlong Fu, Zheng-Jun Zha, Jiebo Luo
Learning subtle yet discriminative features (e.g., beak and eyes for a bird) plays a significant role in fine-grained image recognition. Existing attention-based approaches localize and amplify significant parts to learn fine-grained details, which often suffer from a limited number of parts and hea...
Md. Mamun Ali, Bikash Kumar Paul, Kawsar Ahmed, Francis M. Bui et al.
Machine learning and data mining-based approaches to prediction and detection of heart disease would be of great clinical utility, but are highly challenging to develop. In most countries there is a lack of cardiovascular expertise and a significant rate of incorrectly diagnosed cases which could be...
Md. Yousuf Ali, Abu Ali Ibn Sina, Shahad Saif Khandker, Lutfun Neesa et al.
Tomatoes are consumed worldwide as fresh vegetables because of their high contents of essential nutrients and antioxidant-rich phytochemicals. Tomatoes contain minerals, vitamins, proteins, essential amino acids (leucine, threonine, valine, histidine, lysine, arginine), monounsaturated fatty acids (...
Emtiaz Hussain, Mahmudul Hasan, Anisur Rahman, Ickjai Lee et al.
Highlights • A 22-layer CNN architecture, which has achieved an accuracy of 99.1% for 2 class classification, 94.2% for 3 class classification, and 91.2% for 4 class classification. To the best of our knowledge, the accuracy of our proposed CoroDet method is higher than the state-of-the-art method f...
Leonard Gianessi
Herbicide use is increasingly being adopted around the world. Many developing countries (India, China, Bangladesh) are facing shortages of workers to hand weed fields as millions of people move from rural to urban areas. In these countries, herbicides are far cheaper and more readily available than ...
Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Masayuki Fujita, Hirosuke Oku, Kamrun Nahar et al.
Mahabub Hossain, Hossain, Mahabub
There is a growing recognition that institutional credit plays an important role in the modernization of agriculture through technological change. It is clear that as those processes of modernization occur, incomes rise and expenditures on locally produced goods and services expand in such a manner ...
Anuradha Basu, Eser Altinay
This article examines the interaction between culture and immigrant entrepreneurship with reference to London's ethnic minorities. It compares the cultural attributes of different ethnic groups and how these affect their entrepreneurial behaviour. The article reports and analyses the results of 163 ...