Ahasanul Haque, Abdullah Sarwar, Farzana Yasmin, Arun Kumar Tarofder et al.
Purpose – This study aims to identify the factors that influence Malaysian non-Muslim consumers’ perception towards buying halal food products. Design/methodology/approach – A structured close-ended questionnaire was used for data collection through a random distribution to 500 non-Muslim consumers ...
Allan W. Taylor, Dianna M. Blau, Quique Bassat, Dickens Onyango et al.
BACKGROUND: Sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia contributed 81% of 5·9 million under-5 deaths and 77% of 2·6 million stillbirths worldwide in 2015. Vital registration and verbal autopsy data are mainstays for the estimation of leading causes of death, but both are non-specific and focus on a single un...
Firdausi Qadri, Mohammad Ali, Fahima Chowdhury, Ashraful Islam Khan et al.
Background Cholera is endemic in Bangladesh with epidemics occurring each year. The decision to use a cheap oral killed whole-cell cholera vaccine to control the disease depends on the feasibility and effectiveness of vaccination when delivered in a public health setting. We therefore assessed the f...
Farzana Yasmin, Bilkis Banu, Supratman Zakir, Rainer Sauerborn et al.
BACKGROUND: Chronic diseases have emerged as a serious threat for health, as well as for global development. They endenger considerably increased health care costs and diminish the productivity of the adult population group and, therefore, create a burden on health, as well as on the global economy....
Ahasanul Haque, Naila Anwar, Farzana Yasmin, Abdullah Sarwar et al.
The current research aims to investigate various factors that influence consumers’ intention of buying foreign products. The data were collected by means of self-structured questionnaires from a total of 260 Bangladeshi consumers residing in the two major cities of the country, Dhaka and Chittagong....
Md. Saidur Rahman, Md. Nazmul Hasan Zilani, Md. Aminul Islam, Md. Munaib Hasan et al.
Medicinal plants possess a surplus of novel and biologically active secondary metabolites that are responsible for counteracting diseases. Traditionally, Gomphandra tetrandra (Wall.) Sleumer is used to treat mental disorders. The present research was designed to explore phytochemicals from the ethan...
Dianna M. Blau, Vicky L. Baillie, Toyah Els, Sana Mahtab et al.
BACKGROUND: Lower respiratory tract infections are a leading cause of death in young children, but few studies have collected the specimens needed to define the role of specific causes. The Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) platform aims to investigate causes of death in ch...
Md. Morshedul Haque, Farzana Yasmin Nupur, Fahmida Parvin, Shafi M. Tareq
• First evidence of MPs contamination in wastewater and sludge in Bangladesh. • MP in industries ranged 293–2713 MPs/L in wastewater and 115,878 MPs/Kg in sludge. • Treatment plants showed an average of 62% removal efficiencies. • Fibers were most abundant among identified film, granule, fragment, a...
Farzana Yasmin, Nazmun Nahar, Bilkis Banu, Liaquat Ali et al.
BACKGROUND: In 2017, 80% of 425 million adults with diabetes worldwide were living in low and middle-income countries. Diabetes affected 6.9 million adults in Bangladesh and accounted for 3% of the country's total mortality. Proper management of diabetes is the key to positive health outcomes. This ...
Sumon Kumar Das, Shahnawaz Ahmed, Farzana Ferdous, Fahmida Dil Farzana et al.
BACKGROUND: This study compared the diversity of common diarrhoeal pathogens and antimicrobial susceptibility in four hospitals in Bangladesh. METHODOLOGY: A total of 13,959 diarrhoea patients, comprising rural Mirzapur (2,820), rural Matlab (2,865), urban Dhaka (5,287) and urban Mirpur (2,987) were...
Farzana Yasmin, Liaquat Ali, Bilkis Banu, Fatema Binte Rasul et al.
BACKGROUND: In 2017, 425 million adults worldwide had diabetes; 80% were living in low and middle-income countries. Bangladesh had 6.9 million adults with diabetes; death from diabetes comprised 3% of the country's total mortality. This study looked at different factors (personal, familial, social, ...
Molla Shahadat Hossain Lipu, Md. Golam Hafiz, Md. Safi Ullah, Ahad Hossain et al.
The study performs the design optimization and sensitivity analysis of the hybrid renewable energy system (HRES) for Saint Martin island in Bangladesh. An optimization software named Hybrid Optimization Model for Electric Renewable (HOMER) is used to find out the best technically viable and cost-eff...
Sumon Kumar Das, Dilruba Begum, Shahnawaz Ahmed, Farzana Ferdous et al.
The study aimed to determine the geographical diversity in seasonality of major diarrhoeal pathogens among 21 138 patients enrolled between 2010 and 2012 in two urban and two rural sites in Bangladesh under the surveillance system of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Banglade...
Md Arifur Rahman, Farzana Hakim, Mamun Ahmed, Chowdhury Rafiqul Ahsan et al.
The genetic variability of hepatitis B virus (HBV) represents a challenge for the sensitivity of immunologic and molecular based assays. Based on sequence divergences in the entire genome of >8 %, HBV genomes have been classified into ten genotypes designated as A to J. The aim of this study was to ...
Lola Madrid, Kartavya J. Vyas, Vijaya Kancherla, Haleluya Leulseged et al.
BACKGROUND: Neural tube defects are common birth defects resulting in severe morbidity and mortality; they can largely be prevented with periconceptional maternal intake of folic acid. Understanding the occurrence of neural tube defects and their contribution to mortality in settings where their bur...
Farzana Yasmin, Tanıa Hossain, Saif Shahrukh, Mohammad Enayet Hossain et al.
This study was undertaken to investigate the current pollution status of the Gomti River in Bangladesh by collecting water samples from twenty sites along the 120 km stretch of the Gomti River during the rainy (June 2019) and dry (January 2020) seasons. The collected samples were examined for their ...
Abu Hassan, Muhammad Asif, Muhammad Abdullah Al-Mansur, Md. Ripaj Uddin et al.
Renewable energy resources become an alternative to fossil fuels and help to mitigate the issues relevant to environmental sustainability. Some organic waste materials are harmful to the environment, but they offer a useful bioresource for renewable energy production. In this study, municipal solid ...
Md. Murad Hossain, Rowshon Ara, Farzana Yasmin, Mahjabin Suchi et al.
This current research attempted to obtain pectin from Pomelo (Citrus maxima) peels using conventional heating, microwave-assisted extraction (MAE), and ultrasound-assisted extraction (UAE) techniques with organic citric acid. In order to characterize pectin extracted using conventional heating, MAE,...
Fatema Binte Rasul, Malabika Sarker, Farzana Yasmin, Manuela De Allegri
Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) account for 67% of total deaths in Bangladesh. However, the Bangladeshi health system is inadequately prepared to tackle NCDs. Evidence on NCD-specific health-seeking behavior can help appropriately address the needs of people affected by NCDs in Bangladesh. Our stud...
Farzana Yasmin, Tamjid Us Sakib, Sharmin Zaman Emon, Latiful Bari et al.
Mining water quality must be monitored regularly to assess the potential impact on local water resources, surface water, and groundwater. This report determined the physicochemical, heavy metals content, and microbiological characteristics of mining drainage water and paddy field water in the surrou...