Mohammad Salah Uddin Chowdury, Talha Bin Emran, Subhasish Ghosh, Abhijit Pathak et al.
Current water quality monitoring system is a manual system with a monotonous process and is very time-consuming. This paper proposes a sensor-based water quality monitoring system. The main components of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) include a microcontroller for processing the system, communication...
Muhammad Mehedi Masud, Mohammad Nurul Azam, Muhammad Mohiuddin, Hasanul Banna et al.
Zunaid Ahsan Karar, Nurul Alam, Peter Kim Streatfield
BACKGROUND: For understanding epidemiological transition, Health and Demographic Surveillance System plays an important role in developing and resource-constraint setup where accurate information on vital events (e.g. births, deaths) and cause of death is not available. METHODS: This study aimed to ...
Tahmeed Ahmed, Santhia Ireen, A.M. Shamsir Ahmed, Sabuktagin Rahman et al.
Although child and maternal malnutrition has been reduced in Bangladesh, the prevalence of underweight (weight-for-age z-score <-2) among children aged less than five years is still high (41%). Nearly one-third of women are undernourished with body mass index of <18.5 kg/m2. The prevalence of anaemi...
Mir Ezharul Hossain, Mohammad Nurul Alam, Jaripa Begum, Mohammad Akbar Ali et al.
ASG Faruque, AM Shamsir Ahmed, Tahmeed Ahmed, M Munirul Islam et al.
Recent data from the World Health Organization showed that about 60% of all deaths, occurring among children aged less than five years (under-five children) in developing countries, could be attributed to malnutrition. It has been estimated that nearly 50.6 million under-five children are malnourish...
Md. Jasim Uddin, Md Shamsuzzaman, Lily Horng, Alain Labrique et al.
In Bangladesh, full vaccination rates among children living in rural hard-to-reach areas and urban streets are low. We conducted a quasi-experimental pre-post study of a 12-month mobile phone intervention to improve vaccination among 0–11 months old children in rural hard-to-reach and urban street d...
Muhammad Ali Khan, Aziz Abdur Rahman, Md. Shafiqul Islam, Proma Khandokhar et al.
BACKGROUND: Antioxidants play an important role to protect damage caused by oxidative stress (OS). Plants having phenolic contents are reported to possess antioxidant properties. The present study was designed to investigate the antioxidant properties and phenolic contents (total phenols, flavonoids...
Nurul Alam, Roy Sk, Tahmeed Ahmed, AM Shamsir Ahmed
This study estimated the levels and differentials in nutritional status and dietary intake and relevant knowledge of adolescent girls in rural Bangladesh using data from the Baseline Survey 2004 of the National Nutrition Programme. A stratified two-stage random cluster-sampling was used for selectin...
Md. Bokhtiar Hasan, Amirul Ahsan, Md. Afzalur Rahaman, Md. Nurul Alam
This paper mainly studies the influence of capital structure on firm’s performance. This investigation has beenperformed on a sample of 36 Bangladeshi firms listed in Dhaka Stock Exchange during the period 2007–2012.We have used four performance measures; earnings per share (EPS), return on equity (...
Md. Alamgir Zaman Chowdhury, Sanjoy Banik, Borhan Uddin, Mohammed Moniruzzaman et al.
Several types of organophosphorous and carbamate pesticides have been used extensively by the farmers in Bangladesh during the last few decades. Twenty seven water samples collected from both paddy and vegetable fields in the Savar and Dhamrai Upazilas in Bangladesh were analyzed to determine the oc...
Joseph Akuze, Hannah Blencowe, Peter Waiswa, Angela Baschieri et al.
BACKGROUND: An estimated 5·1 million stillbirths and neonatal deaths occur annually. Household surveys, most notably the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), run in more than 90 countries and are the main data source from the highest burden regions, but data-quality concerns remain. We aimed to comp...
Nurul Alam, Bogdan Wojtyniak, Margubur Rahaman
Six anthropometric indicators based on weight, height, arm circumference (AC), and age were examined to predict mortality risk of children aged 12-59 mo in a rural area of Teknaf, Bangladesh. In the period 1981-85, 9861 measurements at 6-mo intervals were made on 2449 children. For all indices morta...
Mary K. Shenk, Mary C. Towner, Howard Kress, Nurul Alam
The demographic transition is an ongoing global phenomenon in which high fertility and mortality rates are replaced by low fertility and mortality. Despite intense interest in the causes of the transition, especially with respect to decreasing fertility rates, the underlying mechanisms motivating it...
Nurul Alam
Nuptiality norms in rural Bangladesh favour birth during the teenage years. An appreciable proportion of teenage births are, in fact, second births. This study examines the relationship between teenage fertility and high infant mortality. It is hypothesized that if physiological immaturity is respon...