Muhammad Mainuddin Patwary, Md Ashraful Alam, Mondira Bardhan, Asma Safia Disha et al.
Widespread vaccination against COVID-19 is critical for controlling the pandemic. Despite the development of safe and efficacious vaccinations, low-and lower-middle income countries (LMICs) continue to encounter barriers to care owing to inequitable access and vaccine apprehension. This study aimed ...
Muhammad Mainuddin Patwary, Mondira Bardhan, Asma Safia Disha, Mehedi Hasan et al.
Vaccination is undoubtedly one of the most effective strategies to halt the COVID-19 pandemic. The current study aimed to investigate the acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination and its associated factors using two health behavior change frameworks: the Health Belief Model (HBM) and the Theory of Planned...
Mohammad Zahidul Islam, Md. Khalequzzaman, MA Bashar, NA Ivy et al.
The study was conducted to investigate genetic variability among 113 aromatic and fine local rice genotypes of which five were exotic in origin. The test genotypes were evaluated for 19 growth traits, yield components, and yield. All the quantitative traits varied significantly among the test genoty...
Mohammad Zahidul Islam, Md. Khalequzzaman, MA Bashar, NA Ivy et al.
While the pleasant scent of aromatic rice is making it more popular, with demand for aromatic rice expected to rise in future, varieties of this have low yield potential. Genetic diversity and population structure of aromatic germplasm provide valuable information for yield improvement which has pot...
Muhammad Mainuddin Patwary, Asma Safia Disha, Mondira Bardhan, Md. Zahidul Haque et al.
Background University students’ knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) toward COVID-19 are vital to prevent the spread of the virus, especially in the context of developing countries. Consequently, the present study aimed to determine the KAP levels of university students and associated anxiety dur...
Muhammad Mainuddin Patwary, Mondira Bardhan, Md. Zahidul Haque, Rabeya Sultana et al.
Healthcare students are clinicians-in-training likely to come into contact with COVID-19 as much as other frontline healthcare professionals. It is therefore necessary to prioritize vaccinations for this group. We conducted a global systematic assessment of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance rates and rela...
Muhammad Mainuddin Patwary, Mondira Bardhan, Asma Safia Disha, Md Pervez Kabir et al.
A novel coronavirus disease known as COVID-19 has spread globally and brought a public health emergency to all nations. To respond to the pandemic, the Bangladesh Government imposed a nationwide lockdown that may have degraded mental health among residents, in particular, university students and wor...
Muhammad Mainuddin Patwary, Mondira Bardhan, Matthew H. E. M. Browning, Asma Safia Disha et al.
Unverified information concerning COVID-19 can affect mental health. Understanding perceived trust in information sources and associated mental health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic is vital to ensure ongoing media coverage of the crisis does not exacerbate mental health impacts. A number of ...
Uzma Haque Syeda, Ziaul Zafar, Zishan Zahidul Islam, Syed Mahir Tazwar et al.
Autism is a neuro-developmental condition that is characterized by a number of unconventional behaviors such as restricted and repetitive activities. It is often largely attributed to deficiency in communication and social interaction. Therefore, it is difficult to make autistic individuals, especia...
Muhammad Mainuddin Patwary, Mondira Bardhan, Asma Safia Disha, Angel M. Dzhambov et al.
Prior reviews have highlighted that nature exposure was a valuable coping strategy enhancing mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, no existing reviews have determined the quality of evidence and risk of bias of the empirical studies supporting this claim. To address this gap, we emplo...
Md. Zahidul Haque, Sakib Zaman, Jillur Rahman Saurav, Summit Haque et al.
Within the Natural Language Processing (NLP) framework, Named Entity Recognition (NER) is regarded as the basis for extracting key information to understand texts in any language. As Bangla is a highly inflectional, morphologically rich, and resource-scarce language, building a balanced NER corpus w...
Muhammad Mainuddin Patwary, Mondira Bardhan, Hüseyin Ertan İnan, Matthew H. E. M. Browning et al.
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on mental health globally, with limited access to mental health care affecting low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) the most. In response, alternative strategies to support mental health have been necessary, with access to green sp...
Muhammad Mainuddin Patwary, Angel M. Dzhambov, Asma Safia Disha, Mondira Bardhan et al.
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic and measures such as lockdowns to control its transmission generated unique effects on psychological health and well-being. In these circumstances, access to nature and outdoor spaces became a potentially important coping strategy, but the evidence exploring the men...
Lutfun Naher Hilary, Shahin Sultana, Zahidul Islam, Md. Khabir Uddin Sarker et al.
Plastic waste management is a burning issue nowadays. In this study, new wood-plastic composites were made using waste poly(vinyl chloride), plasticizer and waste sawdust of Albizia lebbeck wood at different weight percentages (0%, 1%, 2%, 5%, 10%, and 15%) by mechanical recycling process. At first,...
Muhammad Mainuddin Patwary, Mondira Bardhan, Asma Safia Disha, Md Pervez Kabir et al.
A novel coronavirus disease, known as COVID-19 has spread globally and brought a public health emergency to all the nations. This study aimed to evaluate the mental health status of the university student of Bangladesh during the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 544 respondents participated in the stud...