Md Zahir Ahmed, Oli Ahmed, Aibao Zhou, Sang Hanbin et al.
The world is experiencing pandemic of the COVID-19 now, a RNA virus that spread out from Wuhan, China. Two countries, China first and later Italy, have gone to full lock down due to rapid spread of this virus. Till to date, no epidemiological data on mental health problems due to outbreak of the COV...
Md. Akhtarul Islam, Sutapa Dey Barna, Hasin Raihan, Md. Nafiul Alam Khan et al.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of depression and anxiety among Bangladeshi university students during the COVID-19 pandemic. It also aimed at identifying the determinants of depression and anxiety. A total of 476 university students living in Bangladesh participated in t...
Charles W. L. Hill
Part One-Introduction and Overview Chapter 1: Globalization Case: Who Makes the Apple iPhone? Part Two-Country Differences Chapter 2: National Differences in Political Economy Chapter 3: Political Economy and Economic Development Chapter 4: Differences in Culture Chapter 5: Ethics in International B...
Md. Saifur Rahman, Md. Saif Hasan, Ashis Sutradhar Nitai, Sunghyun Nam et al.
Carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) is one of the most promising cellulose derivatives. Due to its characteristic surface properties, mechanical strength, tunable hydrophilicity, viscous properties, availability and abundance of raw materials, low-cost synthesis process, and likewise many contrasting aspe...
Simon Gilbody, Paula Whitty, Jeremy Grimshaw, Ruth Thomas
CONTEXT: Depression is commonly encountered in primary care settings yet is often missed or suboptimally managed. A number of organizational and educational strategies to improve management of depression have been proposed. The clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of these strategies have n...
Roy Brouwer, Sonia Akter, Luke Brander, Enamul Haque
In this article we investigate the complex relationship between environmental risk, poverty, and vulnerability in a case study carried out in one of the poorest and most flood-prone countries in the world, focusing on household and community vulnerability and adaptive coping mechanisms. Based upon t...
Mahmood Alam, M. Mustafa Alam, M.Mustafa Alam, Joseph R. Curray et al.
J. K. Ladha, David Dawe, Himanshu Pathak, A.T Padre et al.
The rice-wheat cropping system, occupying 24 million hectares of the productive area in South Asia and China, is important for food security. Monitoring long-term changes in crop yields and identifying the factors associated with such changes are essential to maintain and/or improve crop productivit...
Saverio Stranges, William Tigbe, F. Xavier Gómez‐Olivé, Margaret Thorogood et al.
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence of sleep problems and the effect of potential correlates in low-income settings from Africa and Asia, where the evidence is lacking. DESIGN: Cross-sectional. SETTING: Community-wide samples from 8 countries across Africa and Asia participating in the INDEPTH WHO...
Ruhul Salim, Shuddhasattwa Rafiq
Crises, poverty and gender inequality - current themes and issues, Shelley Feldman from survival strategies to transformation strategies - women's needs and structural adjustment, Diane Elson women and the economic crisis in the Caribbean, Helen I. Safa and Peggy Antrobus the Mexican debit crisis - ...
Jing Meng, Zhifu Mi, Dabo Guan, Jiashuo Li et al.
Abstract Economic globalization and concomitant growth in international trade since the late 1990s have profoundly reorganized global production activities and related CO 2 emissions. Here we show trade among developing nations (i.e., South–South trade) has more than doubled between 2004 and 2011, w...
M. Hossain Ali, M.S.U. Talukder
Md. Rafiqul Islam, Muhammad Ashad Kabir, Ashir Ahmed, Abu Raihan Mostofa Kamal et al.
Purpose Social networks have been developed as a great point for its users to communicate with their interested friends and share their opinions, photos, and videos reflecting their moods, feelings and sentiments. This creates an opportunity to analyze social network data for user's feelings and sen...
Abid Hasan Khan, Sadia Sultana, Sahadat Hossain, M. Tasdik Hasan et al.
Highlights • To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study focused on COVID-19 associated mental health among the home-quarantined Bangladeshi university and college students.• University students had greater psychological impact due to COVID-19 than college students.• Perceived COVID-19 sym...