Chowdhury Farheen, Md Maruf Haque Khan, Muhammad Ibrahim Ibne Towhid, Sabrina Mousum et al.
Background: Although the government of Bangladesh made the use of masks mandatory in public settings during COVID-19, individuals have been reluctant to follow. We intended to know how many people used face masks in public settings during COVID-19. Methodology: This study was conducted in several pu...
Md Mustafizur Rahman, Sharmin Sultana, Pronesh Dutta, Sazzad Hossain et al.
Abstract Background Nipah virus (NiV), a high-risk pathogen with pandemic potential, causes near-annual outbreaks in Bangladesh. Since January 2025, the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) and icddr,b have investigated three NiV outbreaks.Table 1:Demographic, Epidemiologi...
Md. Mahadi Hassan, Noushin Nohor, Ikram Hossen, Sahara Yasmin et al.
ABSTRACT Background Attention to the menstrual needs of women is a crucial step toward finding and addressing the barriers to their menstrual health and hygiene management. The menstrual needs of female university students in Bangladesh are heavily understudied and require scrutiny to find the curre...
Farah Naz Rahman, Anthony Obinna Iwuagwu, Christopher Ndubuisi Ngwu, Michael Kalu et al.
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic presented a 'double-edged sword' for older adults: not only were they more susceptible to the virus, but its broader consequences also exacerbated other challenges, particularly those related to psychosocial well-being. Limited evidence exists on how older adults pe...
Shakera Ahmed, Anwarul Karim, Tanvir Kabir Chowdhury, Orindom Shing Pulock et al.
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the surgical practice throughout the world, including elective surgical care. This study investigated the characteristics of patients undergoing elective surgery, the prevalence of COVID-19 infection, the surgical procedures performed, and...
Chowdhury Farheen, Md Maruf Haque Khan, Muhammad Ibrahim Ibne Towhid, Sabrina Mousum et al.
Background: Although the government of Bangladesh made the use of masks mandatory in public settings during COVID-19, individuals have been reluctant to follow. We intended to know how many people used face masks in public settings during COVID-19. Methodology: This study was conducted in several pu...
Mahbub E. Sobhani, Anika Tasnim Rodela, Chowdhury Mofizur Rahman, Dewan Md. Farid et al.
Lossy text compression reduces data size while preserving core meaning, making it well-suited for tasks like summarization, automated analysis, and digital archives where exact fidelity is less critical. Despite the dominance of transformer-based models in language modeling, the integration of conte...
Aninda Paul Antor, Alamgir Chowdhury, Anika Tasnim, Anika Mostafa Chowdhury et al.
Background: Presbycusis is the most prevalent sensory deficit in older adults, its metabolic subtype involves progressive strial microvascular degeneration. Proteinuria, a systemic marker of endothelial dysfunction, may reflect parallel cochlear microvascular damage. Objective: To investigate the as...
Pinok Chowdhury Manik, Anika Tasnim, Fahimul Islam Sakib, Mainul Hossain
In this work, we present a comprehensive performance analysis of an organic electrochemical transistor (OECT) integrated with an externally coupled ferroelectric (FE) gate stack for pH sensing applications. The impact of the FE gate on device characteristics and sensing capability is evaluated by nu...
Aninda Paul Antor, Nandan Kushum Das, Anika Tasnim, Anika Mostafa Chowdhury et al.
Background: Screen-induced transient myopia (SITM) represents a short-lived blurring of distance vision following sustained near work. Despite its clinical relevance, little is known about its occurrence and predictors during academically intense periods among medical students. This study examined t...
Nawfal Hasan Siam, Sumaya Akter, Anika Rahman, Taniza Tasnim et al.
ABSTRACT Background and Aims Lannea coromandelica (Houtt.) Merr., a deciduous tropical tree of the Anacardiaceae family, is traditionally used in Asian ethnomedicine to treat diabetes, skin diseases, ulcers, inflammation, and microbial infections. This review aims to consolidate current knowledge on...
Anika Tasnim Islam, Shaikh Masrick Hasan, Md. Rifat Hasan, M.K. Chowdhury et al.
Sajid Faysal Fahim, Anika Alam Oyishi, Mehrab Chowdhury, S. M. Shawal Chowdhury et al.
Association for Computational Linguistics 2025, Anika Ahmed, Nafis Chowdhury, Md. Moinul Haque et al.
Recent progress in NLP research has demonstrated remarkable capabilities of large language models (LLMs) across a wide range of tasks. While recent multilingual benchmarks have advanced cultural evaluation for LLMs, critical gaps remain in capturing the nuances of low-resource cultures. Our work add...
Ariful Islam Joarder, Md Fakhrul Islam Khaled, Nilima Barman, Anika Tasnim et al.
Background Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD) is the leading cause of mortality among cardiovascular disorders. There is inadequate knowledge about the prevalence of IHD in Bangladesh, particularly in diabetes mellitus patients. This research aimed to ascertain the frequency of IHD in diabetic individuals...