Mohammad Amir Hossain Bhuiyan, Lutfar Parvez, Mohammad Amirul Islam, Samuel B. Dampare et al.
Total concentrations of heavy metals in the soils of mine drainage and surrounding agricultural fields in the northern part of Bangladesh were determined to evaluate the level of contamination. The average concentrations of Ti, Mn, Zn, Pb, As, Fe, Rb, Sr, Nb and Zr exceeded the world normal averages...
Najmuj Sakib, A. K. M. Israfil Bhuiyan, Sahadat Hossain, Firoj Al‐Mamun et al.
Abstract The recently developed Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S) is a seven-item uni-dimensional scale that assesses the severity of fears of COVID-19. Given the rapid increase of COVID-19 cases in Bangladesh, we aimed to translate and validate the FCV-19S in Bangla. The forward-backward translation...
Mohammad Amir Hossain Bhuiyan, Shamal Chandra Karmaker, Md. Bodrud-Doza, Md Abdur Rakib et al.
Rapid urbanization and industrial growth have triggered heavy metal contamination in agricultural soil in Dhaka, which is a serious concern for ecological risk and public health issues. In this study, fifty-four soil samples from agricultural lands of Dhaka had been analyzed for assessing accumulati...
Mohammad Amir Hossain Bhuiyan, Nahid I. Suruvi, Samuel B. Dampare, Mohammad Amirul Islam et al.
This study evaluated the heavy metal pollution level of tannery effluent-affected lagoon and canal water in the southwestern Dhaka, Bangladesh. The measured physicochemical parameters (electrical conductivity, chemical oxygen demand, pH, SO²⁻₄, PO³⁻₄, Cl-, and NO⁻₃) and metals (As, Ca, Cd, Co, Cr, C...
Mohammad Amir Hossain Bhuiyan, Samuel B. Dampare, Mohammad Amirul Islam, Shigeyuki Suzuki
Concentrations of heavy metals in water and sediment samples of Buriganga River in the capital city Dhaka, Bangladesh, were studied to understand the level of heavy metals and their source apportionment. The results showed that the mean concentrations of heavy metals both in water and sediment sampl...
Mohammed A. Mamun, Najmuj Sakib, David Gozal, A. K. M. Israfil Bhuiyan et al.
BACKGROUND: As with other countries worldwide, lockdown measures during the COVID-19 outbreak in Bangladesh were sudden and unexpected, and have the capacity to elicit serious psychological consequences. The present study examined the psychological consequences of COVID-19 in Bangladesh during the l...
Mohammad Amir Hossain Bhuiyan, Mohammad Amirul Islam, Samuel B. Dampare, Lutfar Parvez et al.
An integrated approach of pollution evaluation indices, principal component analysis (PCA) and cluster analysis (CA) was employed to evaluate the intensity and sources of pollution in irrigation and drinking water systems of northwestern Bangladesh. Temperature, BOD, chemical oxygen demand (COD), Mn...
Mohammad Amir Hossain Bhuiyan, Md. Bodrud-Doza, Abu Reza Md. Towfiqul Islam, M.A. Rakib et al.
M.A. Rakib, Jun Sasaki, Hirotaka Matsuda, Shamshad B. Quraishi et al.
Household drinking water security is one of the major issues among coastal communities in Bangladesh. To examine the groundwater quality and social consequences, groundwater samples and household questionnaires were administered across the study area. Instrumental and statistical tools were used to ...
Md. Bodrud-Doza, S. M. Didar-Ul Islam, Tanjena Rume, Shamshad B. Quraishi et al.
Accessing safe drinking water is an essential and primary human needs. This study conducted to investigate the suitability of groundwater use in Dhaka City dwellers, factors affecting groundwater quality, and human health risk to initiate the control measures. In this regards, groundwater samples we...
S. M. Didar-Ul Islam, Mohammad Amir Hossain Bhuiyan
Mohammad Amir Hossain Bhuiyan, S. M. Didar-Ul Islam, Gausul Azam
Riverbank erosion has both direct and indirect effects on human life and socio-economy of Bangladesh. The present study investigated the riverbank erosion hazard in study area, its impacts on local people and livelihood vulnerability due to land loss. To evaluate the riverbank erosion hazard in the ...
Mohammad Amir Hossain Bhuiyan, M. Julleh Jalalur Rahman, Samuel B. Dampare, Shigeyuki Suzuki
Mohammad Amir Hossain Bhuiyan, M.A. Rakib, Samuel B. Dampare, Samuel Y. Ganyaglo et al.
Md. Bodrud-Doza, Mohammad Amir Hossain Bhuiyan, S. M. Didar-Ul Islam, M. Safiur Rahman et al.
GIS and multivariate statistics along with the geochemical approaches were applied in this study to investigate the hydrogeochemical behavior, source apportionment of groundwater pollutants and their spatial distribution in the aquifer system of Dhaka City, Bangladesh. A total of 33 groundwater samp...