Alexander van Geen, Yan Zheng, Roelof Versteeg, M. Stute et al.
Arsenic concentrations measured by graphite furnace atomic absorption range from < 5 to 900 μg/L in groundwater pumped from 6000 wells within a 25 km 2 area of Bangladesh. The proportion of wells that exceed the Bangladesh standard for drinking water of 50 μg/L arsenic increases with depth from 2...
Robert Y. Chen, Ishita Mostafa, Matthew C. Hibberd, Subhasish Das et al.
BACKGROUND: More than 30 million children worldwide have moderate acute malnutrition. Current treatments have limited effectiveness, and much remains unknown about the pathogenesis of this condition. Children with moderate acute malnutrition have perturbed development of their gut microbiota. METHOD...
Alexander van Geen, Habibul Ahsan, A. Horneman, Ratan Dhar et al.
OBJECTIVE: To survey tube wells and households in Araihazar upazila, Bangladesh, to set the stage for a long-term epidemiological study of the consequences of chronic arsenic exposure. METHODS: Water samples and household data were collected over a period of 4 months in 2000 from 4997 contiguous tub...
Robert Y. Chen, Vanderlene L. Kung, Subhasish Das, Md. Shabab Hossain et al.
BACKGROUND: Environmental enteric dysfunction (EED) is an enigmatic disorder of the small intestine that is postulated to play a role in childhood undernutrition, a pressing global health problem. Defining the incidence of this disorder, its pathophysiological features, and its contribution to impai...
Michael J. Barratt, Sharika Nuzhat, Kazi Ahsan, Steven A. Frese et al.
Disrupted development of the gut microbiota is a contributing cause of childhood malnutrition. Bifidobacterium longum subspecies infantis is a prominent early colonizer of the infant gut that consumes human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs). We found that the absolute abundance of Bifidobacterium infanti...
Alexander van Geen, Zhongqi Cheng, Ashraf Ali Seddique, M. A. Hoque et al.
A comparison of field and laboratory measurements of arsenic in groundwater of Araihazar, Bangladesh, indicates that the most widely used field kit correctly determined the status of 88% of 799 wells relative to the local standard of 50 microg/L As. Additional tests showthatthe inconsistencies, main...
Kazi Arif‐Uz‐Zaman, AMM Nazmul Ahsan
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present supply chain metrics and to propose a fuzzy-based performance evaluation method for lean supply chain. Design/methodology/approach – To understand the overall performance of cost competitive supply chain the paper investigates the alignment of market...
S. K. Nazrul Islam, Kazi Jahangir Hossain, Afsaruddin Ahmed, Monira Ahsan
The aim of the present study was to investigate the nutritional status of drug addicts, the prevalence of malnutrition among them and the influence of their drug habit and lifestyle factors on their nutritional indices. The study was conducted among 253 male drug addicts, who sought detoxification a...
Saugata Sarker, Md Tohidul Islam, Abrar Rauf, Hasan Al Jame et al.
Alexander van Geen, Ershad B. Ahmed, Lynnette Pitcher, Jacob L. Mey et al.
The arsenic (As) content of groundwater pumped from all tubewells within 61 contiguous villages of Araihazar, Bangladesh, was determined a first time in 2000-01 with laboratory measurements and a second time in 2012-13 using the ITS Arsenic Econo-Quick kit. The two surveys indicate that the total nu...
SK Nazrul Islam, Kazi Jahangir Hossain, Monira Ahsan
Background The study was carried out on the hypothesis that drug addicts would have reduced vitamin E, C and A status which could be influenced by drug habit, sexual practice and lifestyle factors. Method Serum concentrations of Vitamin E, C and A of male drug addicts and cohort controls were analys...
Md. Shafiqul Islam, Md Tohidul Islam, Saugata Sarker, Hasan Al Jame et al.
In this research, solar cell capacitance simulator-one-dimensional (SCAPS-1D) software was used to build and probe nontoxic Cs-based perovskite solar devices and investigate modulations of key material parameters on ultimate power conversion efficiency (PCE). The input material parameters of the abs...
Keith Sabin, Mohammad Mustafizur Rahman, Sarah Hawkes, Kazi Ahsan et al.
The study objective was to estimate the prevalence of selected sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and associated factors among Dhaka slum dwellers. Blood and urine specimens were collected from 1534 men and women. Participants in this cross-sectional study responded to a questionnaire, providing...
Masuma Chowdhury, Zainul Abedin Siddique, SM Afzal Hossain, Azizul Islam Kazi et al.
The concentration of essential metals such as Fe, Cu, Mg, Co and Zn and toxic metals such as Pb, Cd, Cr, As and Ni were determined in a number of animal meats, organ meats, meat products, and eggs by using UV-visible and atomic absorption spectrophotometry (AAS). The essential metal estimation in th...
Gias U. Ahsan, Jalaluddin Ahmed, Pratap Singhasivanon, Jaranit Kaewkungwal et al.
This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted to investigate gender differences in the epidemiological factors associated with the treatment seeking behaviors of TB cases in the rural communities of Bangladesh. The study reveals that there is significant gender difference in treatment seeking...
Hasan Al Jame, Saugata Sarker, Md. Shafiqul Islam, Md Tohidul Islam et al.
In this investigation, supervised machine learning (ML) was utilized to accurately predict the optimum bromine doping concentration in single-junction MASnI3–xBrx devices. Data-driven optimizations were carried out on 42 000 unique devices built utilizing a solar cell capacitance simulator (SCAPS). ...
Mohammad Hossain Shariare, Mohammad A. Altamimi, Akbar L. Marzan, Rahnuma Tabassum et al.
BACKGROUND: performance of furosemide nanosuspensions. METHODS: dissolution experiments were conducted to compare the representative formulation with raw drug powder. The bioavailability of nanosuspension was, also, evaluated in mice as an animal model. RESULTS: about 233% and 266%, respectively. Th...
Md. Jasim Uddin, Mst. Sarmina Yeasmin, Ali Ahsan Muzahid, M. Rahman et al.
. Where this calculated small dislocation density well agreed with the high crystallinity. Crystal structure and specific surface area were determined from lattice constants and X-ray density. These synthesized nanopowders showed the existence of monoclinic, cubic, and hexagonal phases. The obtained...
Mohammad Shahidul Islam, M Kazi, Mozaffar Hossain, Md. Aminul Ahsan et al.
Poultry is one of the major protein sources for people in Bangladesh. It is a promising sector. It requires large scale feed production activities. There are various sources of raw materials for poultry feed production. In many ways these sources can be associated with anthropogenic heavy metal poll...
Ahsiur Rahman Nirjhar, Sadika Jannath Tan-Ema, Miah Abdullah Sahriar, Md. Nazmul Ahsan Dipon et al.