Muhammad Ahsan Altaf, Rabia Shahid, Ming‐Xun Ren, Safina Naz et al.
Tomato is an important vegetable that is highly sensitive to drought (DR) stress which impairs the development of tomato seedlings. Recently, melatonin (ME) has emerged as a nontoxic, regulatory biomolecule that regulates plant growth and enhances the DR tolerance mechanism in plants. The present st...
Muhammad Hamzah Saleem, Shah Fahad, Shahid Ullah Khan, Mairaj Din et al.
Flax (Linum usitatissimum L.), one of the oldest cultivated crops, continues to be widely grown for oil, fiber and food. Furthermore, the plants show a metal tolerance dependent on species so is ideal for research. Present study was conducted to find out the influence of copper (Cu) toxicity on plan...
Md. Shahid Ullah, Mohammad Badrul Muttakin, Arifur Khan
Purpose The purpose of this study is to empirically examine the association between corporate governance and the extent of corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosures in insurance companies, using archival data. Design/methodology/approach The data set comprises 277 listed insurance company-ye...
Muhammad Ahsan Altaf, Rabia Shahid, Ming‐Xun Ren, Muhammad Mohsin Altaf et al.
Tomato is considered an important vegetable crop for studying the response to abiotic stresses, which deteriorate the growth and development of plants, particularly salt stress. Melatonin is a crucial pleiotropic nontoxic signaling molecule that has a various role in modulating of plant responses to...
S. L. Goodbred, Penny M. Paolo, Mohammad Shahid Ullah, Russell David Pate et al.
Research Article| November 01, 2014 Piecing together the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna River delta: Use of sediment provenance to reconstruct the history and interaction of multiple fluvial systems during Holocene delta evolution Steven L. Goodbred, Jr.; Steven L. Goodbred, Jr. † 1Department of Earth an...
Md. Enamul Huq, Shah Fahad, Zhenfeng Shao, Most. Sinthia Sarven et al.
Drinking water with excessive concentration levels of arsenic (As) is a great threat to human health. A hydrochemical approach was employed in 50 drinking water samples (collected from Kushtia district, Bangladesh) to examine the occurrence of geogenic As and the presence of trace metals (TMs), as w...
Khan Mz, Holly A. Michael, Bibhash Nath, Linden Huhmann et al.
Abstract Elevated arsenic in Bengal Basin aquifers threatens human health. Most deep (>150 m) groundwater in Pleistocene aquifers is low in arsenic; however higher concentrations have been reported in the southwest border region. Here, we establish that this extensive arsenic contamination at dep...
Umar Farooq, Taous Khan, Shahid Ali Shah, Md. Sanower Hossain et al.
Neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) extend the global health burden. Consumption of alcohol as well as maternal exposure to ethanol can damage several neuronal functions and cause cognition and behavioral abnormalities. Ethanol induces oxidative stress that is linked to the development of NDs. Treatmen...
Muhammad Bilal, Habib Ul Hassan, Mohammad Abdul Momin Siddique, Wali Khan et al.
Microplastic pollution is becoming an increasingly severe environmental problem. As compared to the marine ecosystem, freshwater ecosystems at high-altitude, remote regions are less studied and lag far behind. Thus, the present study aims to highlight this issue and fill the gap in this regard. The ...
Taslim Uddin, Moshiur Rahman Khasru, Mohammad Tariqul Islam, Mohammad Ali Emran et al.
Physical rehabilitation medicine started in Bangladesh 50 years ago, but there is no documentary evidence stating its origin, history of progression as a specialty, and work with agenda items. A gap exists between disability-related health and participation, which affects service delivery systems of...
Tanjed Ahmed Khan, Md. Shahidul Islam, Salim Ullah, AKM Shahariar Azad Rabby
People are naturally food grains. So they are always looking for appetizing food and junk foods are the largest source of it. Recent time the most observable point is that peoples are attracted to outdoor foods than homemade foods. As a result our dietary is changing and we are leaning to junk food ...
Israt Rayhan, MI Khan, Shahid Ullah
Stretching over 147,570 square kilometres of land and with a population exceeding 131 million, Bangladesh is the world’s ninth most populous country. It is also one of the most densely populated (834 persons per sq. km.) (BBS, 2001). Over-population and poverty are pervasive in Bangladesh and causin...
Umar Farooq, Muhammad Umar Khayam Sahibzada, Taous Khan, Rahim Ullah et al.
Neurodegenerative diseases, especially Alzheimer’s disease (AD), are characterised with neuronal synapse and memory dysfunction, and thus, there is an urgent need to find novel therapeutic medicines that can target different pathways to restore the deficits. In this investigation, we assessed the me...
M. Nur E. Alam, Asmat Ullah, Mohammad Mozammal Hosen, Md Azizul Maksud et al.
The processed forms of milk, branded liquid, and power milk available in Dhaka city, the capital of Bangladesh, were investigated for essential and trace metal/metalloids regarding nutritional and human health risk aspects. For this, the potential nutritional contribution, estimated daily intake (ED...
Mst. Tahmina Sultana, Rehena Parvin, Mahmudul Hasan, Tahmina Sultana et al.
Informal sectors play a significant role in the economic growth of Bangladesh. Here women workers are the main impetus factor for economic growth. So, the key objective of our research was to find out the present situation of women laborers in the informal sector and they are facing such problems in...
Mehdi Faruk Proteek, Nazrina Khatun, Beauty Saha, Nazma Azim et al.
Obesity is a major health hazard not only for developed countries but also for Bangladesh and it is an established risk factor of breast cancer. In our country there is a scarcity of studies on the associations of BMI and different features of breast tumour. This study was aimed to evaluate the asso...
Estiaque Bari, Towfiqul Islam Khan, Mohammad Shahid Ullah
Bangladesh has a weak and inequitable tax system. Over the past 15 years, the government of Bangladesh (GoB) has relied on the regressive value-added tax (VAT) for more than a third of all revenues, with little progress towards strengthening direct taxation of high net-worth individuals and large co...
R Habib, Amin Lutful Kabir, M. A. Rouf, Md Sk Shahid Ullah et al.
Children mostly suffer from respiratory illnesses around the world. Situation is not different in Bangladesh as suggested by many studies on childhood illness. But most of these studies have been done in tertiary level hospitals located in urban areas and very few were done in rural setting. This st...
UKM Nazmun Ara, MM Rahman, Naila Zaman Khan, Md Sk Shahid Ullah et al.
Background: Neurodevelopmental impairment is an important issue in the context of normal growth of the children.Objective: The purpose of the present study was to find out the magnitude of neurodevelopmental impairments (NDIs) in young children in a tertiary care hospital Methodology: This cross sec...
Md. Ahsan Habib, Muhammad Sufaid Khan, Chowdhury Al‐Amin, Ibrahim Azad et al.
Two- dimensional (2-D) photonic crystals (PhCs) of square lattice have been investigated to find the complete photonic bandgap. Band diagram calculations have been performed using the simulator “PWE band solver” of the software package optiFDTD™, based on plane wave expansion method. GaAs dielectric...