Imogen E. Napper, Anju Baroth, Aaron Barrett, Sunanda Bhola et al.
Microplastics (plastic < 5 mm in size) are now known to contaminate riverine systems but understanding about how their concentrations vary spatially and temporally is limited. This information is critical to help identify key sources and pathways of microplastic and develop management interventions....
Rita R. Colwell, Anwar Huq, M. Sirajul Islam, K. M. A. Aziz et al.
Based on results of ecological studies demonstrating that Vibrio cholerae, the etiological agent of epidemic cholera, is commensal to zooplankton, notably copepods, a simple filtration procedure was developed whereby zooplankton, most phytoplankton, and particulates >20 microm were removed from wate...
Md. Nazmul Hasan, Rafia Nishat Toma, Abdullah-Al Nahid, M. M. Manjurul Islam et al.
Among an electricity provider’s non-technical losses, electricity theft has the most severe and dangerous effects. Fraudulent electricity consumption decreases the supply quality, increases generation load, causes legitimate consumers to pay excessive electricity bills, and affects the overall econo...
Tanzim Ur Rahman, Hridoy Roy, Md. Reazul Islam, Mohammed Tahmid et al.
The advancement in water treatment technology has revolutionized the progress of membrane bioreactor (MBR) technology in the modern era. The large space requirement, low efficiency, and high cost of the traditional activated sludge process have given the necessary space for the MBR system to come in...
Sunanda Das, O. F. M. Riaz Rahman Aranya, Nishat Nayla Labiba
Medical image classification has gained tremendous attention in recent years, and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is the most widespread neural network model for image classification problem. CNN is designed to determine features adaptively through backpropagation by applying numerous building bl...
Hridoy Roy, Tanzim Ur Rahman, Nishat Tasnim, Jannatul Arju et al.
A microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a system that can generate electricity by harnessing microorganisms' metabolic activity. MFCs can be used in wastewater treatment plants since they can convert the organic matter in wastewater into electricity while also removing pollutants. The microorganisms in the a...
Arshian Sharif, Sahar Afshan, Nabila Nisha
This study investigates the carbon dioxide (CO2) emission–tourist arrival–growth in Pakistan by taking time series data from the period of 1972 to 2013. The study applied three approaches of co-integration (autoregressive distributed lag bounds test, Johansen and Juselius and Gregory and Hansen stru...
Somasundaram Jayaraman, Nishant K. Sinha, Ram C. Dalal, Rattan Lal et al.
Of late, intensive farming for higher food production is often associated with many negative implications for soil systems, such as decline of soil organic matter (SOM), increase in risks of soil erosion by wind and/or water, decline in soil biological diversity, increase in degradation of soil phys...
Neal Russell, Wolfgang Stöhr, Nishad Plakkal, Aislinn Cook et al.
BACKGROUND: There is limited data on antibiotic treatment in hospitalized neonates in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We aimed to describe patterns of antibiotic use, pathogens, and clinical outcomes, and to develop a severity score predicting mortality in neonatal sepsis to inform future ...
Shekhar R. Biswas, Junaid K. Choudhury, Ainun Nishat, Md. Matiur Rahman
Sundarbans mangrove forest has substantial ecological and economic importance at local, national and global scales. Over the past decades, invasive species have spread significantly in the mangrove ecosystem. We conducted a study to identify the different types of invasive species present, the rate ...
Md. Rakib Hossain, Md. Mehade Hasan, Maliha Nishat, Noor-E-Ashrafi et al.
The application of nanomaterials as drug delivery vehicles for a vast number of anticancer drugs to reduce their severe adverse effects by transporting them into the targeted tumour cell region is currently a widely investigated novel biomedical application of various nanomaterials. In this research...
Shams Forruque Ahmed, Fatema Mehejabin, Adiba Momtahin, Nuzaba Tasannum et al.
Membrane technology has rapidly gained popularity in wastewater treatment due to its cost-effectiveness, environmentally friendly tools, and elevated productivity. Although membrane performance in wastewater treatment has been reviewed in several past studies, the key techniques for improving membra...
Louise T. Day, Harriet Ruysen, Vladimir Sergeevich Gordeev, Georgia R. Gore‐Langton et al.
BACKGROUND: - Birth Indicators Research Tracking in Hospitals (EN-BIRTH) study aims to validate selected newborn and maternal indicators for routine tracking of coverage and quality of facility-based care for use at district, national and global levels. METHODS: EN-BIRTH is an observational study in...
Mirza Muntasir Nishat, Fahim Faisal, Ishrak Jahan Ratul, Abdullah Al-Monsur et al.
Heart failure is a chronic cardiac condition characterized by reduced supply of blood to the body due to impaired contractile properties of the muscles of the heart. Like any other cardiac disorder, heart failure is a serious ailment limiting the activities and curtailing the lifespan of the patient...
Li Ping Wong, Haridah Alias, Mahmoud Danaee, Jamil Ahmed et al.
BACKGROUND: The availability of various types of COVID-19 vaccines and diverse characteristics of the vaccines present a dilemma in vaccination choices, which may result in individuals refusing a particular COVID-19 vaccine offered, hence presenting a threat to immunisation coverage and reaching her...
Md Mahbub Hossain, Mariya Rahman, Nusrat Fahmida Trisha, Samia Tasnim et al.
INTRODUCTION: The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted biopsychosocial health and wellbeing globally. Pre-pandemic studies suggest a high prevalence of common mental disorders, including anxiety and depression in South Asian countries, which may aggravate during this pandemic. This systematic meta-analyti...
Shekhar R. Biswas, Azim U. Mallik, Junaid K. Choudhury, Ainun Nishat
Susmita Dasgupta, Farhana Kamal, Zahirul Huque Khan, Sharifuzzaman Choudhury et al.
In a changing climate, saltwater \n intrusion is expected to worsen in low-lying coastal areas \n around the world. Understanding the physical and economic \n effects of salinity ingress, and planning adaptation, are \n key to the long-term development of countries for which sea ...
Mirza Muntasir Nishat, Fahim Faisal, Rezuanur Rahman Dip, Sarker Md. Nasrullah et al.
INTRODUCTION: Chronic Kidney Disease refers to the slow, progressive deterioration of kidney functions. However, the impairment is irreversible and imperceptible up until the disease reaches one of the later stages, demanding early detection and initiation of treatment in order to ensure a good prog...
Sabiha Shaik, Amit Ranjan, Sumeet K. Tiwari, Arif Hussain et al.
ABSTRACT Escherichia coli sequence type 131 (ST131), a pandemic clone responsible for the high incidence of extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli (ExPEC) infections, has been known widely for its contribution to the worldwide dissemination of multidrug resistance. Although other ExPEC-associated and ex...