Stephen P. Luby, Jahangir Hossain, Emily S. Gurley, Be‐Nazir Ahmed et al.
Human Nipah outbreaks recur in a specific region and time of year in Bangladesh. Fruit bats are the reservoir host for Nipah virus. We identified 23 introductions of Nipah virus into human populations in central and northwestern Bangladesh from 2001 through 2007. Ten introductions affected multiple ...
Shams El Arifeen, DM Emdadul Hoque, Tasnima Akter, Muntasirur Rahman et al.
Background WHO and UNICEF launched the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategy in the mid-1990s to reduce deaths from diarrhoea, pneumonia, malaria, measles, and malnutrition in children younger than 5 years. We assessed the effect of IMCI on health and nutrition of children young...
Nurshad Ali, Rasheda Perveen, Shahnaz Rahman, Shakil Mahmood et al.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Recent studies have shown that hyperuricemia is commonly associated with dyslipidemia, cardiovascular diseases, hypertension and metabolic syndrome. Elevated serum uric acid has been demonstrated to be associated with obesity in the adult population in many countries; howe...
Shakil Ahmed
Abstract Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), a kingdom-of-the-art technology for superimposing information onto the real world, have recently started to have an effect on our everyday lives. In addition, AR and VR have shown a great contribution to advanced construction management in re...
Shakil Ahmed, Md Akbar Hossain, Sayan Kumar Ray, Md. Mafijul Islam Bhuiyan et al.
Road accidents are increasing worldwide and are causing millions of deaths each year. They impose significant financial and economic expenses on society. Existing research has mostly studied road accident prediction as a classification problem, which aims to predict whether a traffic accident may ha...
Khan Md. Hasib, Md. Sadiq Iqbal, Faisal Muhammad Shah, Jubayer Al Mahmud et al.
The problem of class imbalance is extensive for focusing on numerous applications in the real world. In such a situation, nearly all of the examples are labeled as one class called majority class, while far fewer examples are labeled as the other class usually, the more important class is called min...
Shuvo Dip Datta, Mobasshira Islam, Md. Habibur Rahman Sobuz, Shakil Ahmed et al.
The construction industry faces many challenges, including schedule and cost overruns, productivity constraints, and workforce shortages. Compared to other sectors, it lags in digitalization in every project phase. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) have emerged as transformative...
Shakila Zaman, Khaled Alhazmi, Mohammed Aseeri, Muhammad R. Ahmed et al.
The Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged as a technology capable of connecting heterogeneous nodes/objects, such as people, devices, infrastructure, and makes our daily lives simpler, safer, and fruitful. Being part of a large network of heterogeneous devices, these nodes are typically resource-cons...
Shakil Ahmed
Construction industry is one of the largest economic sector in the world in 2017. And Building Information Modeling (BIM) is the powerful set of technology to design, construction and management has been strengthen the construction industry. BIM has significant benefits for the project lifecycle eve...
Shakil Ahmed, Mostafa Zaman Chowdhury, Yeong Min Jang
This letter studies the energy-efficient unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications to support ground nodes (GNs). The system considers the UAV working as a relay while there is a base station (BS) on the ground. We analyze the UAV energy consumption model to design the energy-efficient UAV trajec...
Shakil Ahmed, M. Mahmud Khan
Demand-side financing (DSF) is used in the less-developed countries of the world to improve access to healthcare and to encourage market supply. Under DSF, households receive vouchers that can be used to pay for healthcare services. This study evaluated the effects of a universal DSF on maternal hea...
Zulkar Nain, Faruq Abdulla, Mizanur Rahman, Mohammad Minnatul Karim et al.
Elizabethkingia anophelis is an emerging human pathogen causing neonatal meningitis, catheter-associated infections and nosocomial outbreaks with high mortality rates. Besides, they are resistant to most antibiotics used in empirical therapy. In this study, therefore, we used immunoinformatic approa...
Shakil Ahmed, M. Mahmud Khan
It is now more than 2 years since the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of the Government of Bangladesh implemented the Maternal Health Voucher Scheme, a specialized form of demand-side financing programme. To analyse the early lessons from the scheme, information was obtained through semi-struc...
Shakil Ahmed, Mostafa Zaman Chowdhury, Yeong Min Jang
The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication is a potential technology to meet the excessive next-generation cellular users’ demand due to its reliable connectivity and cost-effective deployment. However, UAV communications have to be energy efficient so that it can save energy. Thus, the UAV fli...
Rosemary Susan Lees, Bart GJ Knols, Romeo Bellini, Mark Q. Benedict et al.
The enormous burden placed on populations worldwide by mosquito-borne diseases, most notably malaria and dengue, is currently being tackled by the use of insecticides sprayed in residences or applied to bednets, and in the case of dengue vectors through reduction of larval breeding sites or larvicid...