Nabil Ibtehaz, M. Sohel Rahman
In recent years Deep Learning has brought about a breakthrough in Medical Image Segmentation. In this regard, U-Net has been the most popular architecture in the medical imaging community. Despite outstanding overall performance in segmenting multimodal medical images, through extensive experimentat...
Chowdhury Rafeed Rahman, Preetom S. Arko, Mohammed Eunus Ali, Mohammad Ashik Iqbal Khan et al.
Accurate and timely detection of diseases and pests in rice plants can help farmers in applying timely treatment on the plants and thereby can reduce the economic losses substantially. Recent developments in deep learning-based convolutional neural networks (CNN) have greatly improved image classifi...
A.K.M. Najmul Islam, Samuli Laato, Md. Shamim Talukder, Erkki Sutinen
Highlights • We study social media use, fake news sharing and social media fatigue during COVID-19.• Self-promotion and entertainment increase the sharing of unverified information.• Exploration and religiosity correlate negatively with the sharing of unverified information.• Deficient self-regulati...
Soumya Mandal, Barun K. Das, Najmul Hoque
This study investigates the potential application of hybridized energy system (i.e., PV/Wind/Diesel) with battery storage in the northern region of Bangladesh. A techno-economic feasibility of different system configurations is evaluated and an optimized system is selected using HOMER (Hybrid Optimi...
Marco Meloni, Jianguo Cai, Qian Zhang, Daniel Sang‐Hoon Lee et al.
Abstract Origami‐based designs refer to the application of the ancient art of origami to solve engineering problems of different nature. Despite being implemented at dimensions that range from the nano to the meter scale, origami‐based designs are always defined by the laws that govern their geometr...
Jason Abaluck, Laura H. Kwong, Ashley Styczynski, Ashraful Haque et al.
Persuading people to mask Even in places where it is obligatory, people tend to optimistically overstate their compliance for mask wearing. How then can we persuade more of the population at large to act for the greater good? Abaluck et al . undertook a large, cluster-randomized trial in Bangladesh ...
Mir Ferdous Chowdhury, Shahjalal Khandaker, Forkan Sarker, Aminul Islam et al.
The release of colored wastewater from industries into surface water bodies creates undesirable consequences to the marine ecosystem and human beings owing to its pernicious effect. Indigo dyes being aromatic compounds with complex structure are one of the most important as well as the largest class...
Sálim Ali, Sidney Dillon Ripley, John Henry Dick
1200 species of birds, in 20 orders and numerous families, are known in the Indian subcontinent. This handbook describes their distribution, habits, breeding biology, diet, voice, and other features. Over 100 plates and systematic keys in the text help with identification. Maps show the distribution...
Tasmia Jannat Tumpa, Syed Mithun Ali, Md. Hafizur Rahman, Sanjoy Kumar Paul et al.
Green supply chain management is attracting increasing attention as a way to decrease the adverse environmental effects of industries worldwide. However, considering the context of an emerging economy like Bangladesh, green supply chain management is still in its inception and has not been widely em...
In a comparative and historical study of the interplay between democratic politics and authoritarian states in South Asia, Ayesha Jalal explains how a shared colonial legacy led to apparently contrasting patterns of political development - democracy in India and authoritarianism in Pakistan and Bang...
Joseph R. Dominick, Gail E. Rauch
That women are still stereotyped despite the continuing activism of the women's liberation movement is clearly demonstrated in the following study of a sample of early 1971 network TV ads. Focusing on the advertising viewed in millions of homes during prime‐time, the authors conclude that women are ...
Mohammad Jabed Morshed Chowdhury, Md Sadek Ferdous, Kamanashis Biswas, Niaz Chowdhury et al.
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) has emerged as one of the most disruptive technologies in the last decade. It promises to change the way people do their business, track their products, and manage their personal data. Though the concept of DLT was first implemented in 2009 as Bitcoin, it has gain...
Erphan A. Bhuiyan, Md. Zahid Hossain, S. M. Muyeen, Shahriar Rahman Fahim et al.
Sabbir Ahmed, Md. Bakhtiar Hasan, Tasnim Ahmed, Md. Redwan Karim Sony et al.
To ensure global food security and the overall profit of stakeholders, the importance of correctly detecting and classifying plant diseases is paramount. In this connection, the emergence of deep learning-based image classification has introduced a substantial number of solutions. However, the appli...
Ismail Ismail
Character education in Indonesia has become a necessity that can not be negotiable. Various cases of crime and moral deviations become evident that the character of most citizens already at alarming stage. Therefore, since the beginning, national education is not only aimed at generating human intel...