Animesh Sarkar, Shahina Rahman, Mukta Roy, Mahabub Alam et al.
Cabbage (Brassica oleracea) is popular winter vegetables cultivated all over Bangladesh and contains essential nutrients. This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of pre-blanching on the preservation of cabbage by drying. In this research work, cabbage was blanched at 80°C, 90°C, and 100°C temperat...
Afzal Hossain, Md Yusuf Hossein Khan
Green is a widely-used term that can mean a wide variety of things to different people. Green marketing is a modern philosophy that can be applied to end user goods, manufacturing goods and even services. Green marketing is the marketing of products that are acknowledged to be ecologically safe. Gre...
Masuma Chowdhury, Zainul Abedin Siddique, SM Afzal Hossain, Azizul Islam Kazi et al.
The concentration of essential metals such as Fe, Cu, Mg, Co and Zn and toxic metals such as Pb, Cd, Cr, As and Ni were determined in a number of animal meats, organ meats, meat products, and eggs by using UV-visible and atomic absorption spectrophotometry (AAS). The essential metal estimation in th...
Abdul Gaffar Khan, Md. Afzal Hossain, Songsheng Chen
It is agreeable that the rapid progress of civilization throughout the years came at a great price for severe environmental damages. Currently, human civilization is facing the consequences of the environmental damages that have been made for centuries. As a result, taking measures that will take ci...
Mohammad Afzal Hossain, Souvik Mitra, Mohamed Ahmed Belal, Wahidu Zzaman
The purpose of the study was to optimize the effective drying conditions and different foaming agent concentrations on the biochemical properties of foam mat dried tomato powder. Foaming was achieved by using egg albumin as foaming agent and sodium salt of Carboxymethyl Cellulose (CMC) as foam stabi...
Sadia Afroz, Nobumichi Kobayashi, Shigeo Nagashima, Md. Mahbub Alam et al.
To assess the spread and genetic characteristics of Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) gene-carrying Staphylococcus aureus in Bangladesh, we investigated 59 strains (49 isolates from clinical specimens and 10 isolates colonized in the nasal cavities of medical staff), including 26 methicillin-resista...
Rahul Biswas, Mohammad Afzal Hossain, Wahidu Zzaman
Md. Afzal Hossain, Songsheng Chen
Even if developing nations are entitled to take part in the attempts of decreasing carbon emissions to elude alarming environment change, the consequences of carbon lessening goals in Human Development Index of developing nations continue an issue of dispute. Based on the decoupling relationship and...
Md. Zillur Rahman Siddique, Afzal Hossain
Consumers’ green products awareness is significant in indicating the way of the green products buying decision. This study aims to investigate the sources of consumers’ awareness toward green products and its impact on purchasing decision. The data is collected from 300 respondents by survey method ...
Afzal Hossain, Mst. Afifa Khatun, M. S. Islam, Roksana Huque
<0.05) the radical scavenging ability, especially the oil fried samples showed the highest values. There is a significant reduction in the vitamin C content in all the vegetables due to boiling and frying except in the Indian spinach leaf. However, the present findings suggest that boiling and fryin...
Afzal Sheikh, Fouzia Yeasmin, Smita Agarwal, Mashiur Rahman et al.
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the protective role of leaves of Moringa oleifera (M. oleifera) Lam. against arsenic-induced toxicity in mice. METHODS: Swiss albino male mice were divided into four groups. The first group was used as non-treated control group while, the second, third, and fourth groups were ...
Kamrun Nahar, Md. Abul Khair Chowdhury, Md. Akhter Hossain Chowdhury, Afzal Rahman et al.
The Madhabdi municipality in the Narsingdi district of Bangladesh is a well-known area for textile, handloom weaving, and dyeing industries. These textile industries produce a considerable amount of effluents, sewage sludge, and solid waste materials every day that they directly discharge into surro...
Shafi Ahmed, Abdullah Jubair, Mohammad Afzal Hossain, Md Monir Hossain et al.
Recently, the demand for natural antioxidants in food manufacturing has increased significantly because of the possible toxicity of synthetic antioxidants. In this context, this research work was performed to evaluate the potentiality of seed (seed with kernel) and pulp (edible portion: pulp with pe...
Mukta Roy, Md. Atikul Islam Bulbul, Mohammad Afzal Hossain, Jahid Hasan Shourove et al.
Nobel Dev, Abhijit Das, Mohammad Afzal Hossain, Sonia Rahman
The chemical compositions of essential oil of Oscimum basilicum extracted by hydrodistillation and different solvent extractions were analyzed by GC-MS. Qualitative analysis of the essential oil as well as other extracts showed that majority of these are mono and sesquiterpenes. Most of the identifi...
Md. Tahjib‐Ul‐Arif, Sonya Afrin, Mohammed Arif Sadik Polash, Tahmina Akter et al.
Mohammad Afzal Hossain, Pappu Dey, Rahman Ishtiaque Joy
Taikor (Garcinia pedunculata Roxb.) is an underutilized, however nutritious fruit, typically found in Bangladesh and northeast parts of India. Taikor slices (1 ± 0.25 cm thickness) were pretreated for 10 min in 10% sucrose, 10% fructose, and 2% brine solution. Three different temperatures, such as 4...
Md. Afzal Hossain, Songsheng Chen
The objective of this paper is to appraise the decomposition along with decoupling elements that affected the nexus between energy-related CO 2 emissions and the economic development of Bangladesh by applying the logarithmic mean Divisia index and Tapio model. The paper provides an effective policy ...
Ekhtear Hossain, Khairul Islam, Fouzia Yeasmin, Md. Rezaul Karim et al.
Chronic arsenic (As) exposure affects the endothelial system causing several diseases. Big endothelin-1 (Big ET-1), the biological precursor of endothelin-1 (ET-1) is a more accurate indicator of the degree of activation of the endothelial system. Effect of As exposure on the plasma Big ET-1 levels ...
Md. Afzal Hossain, Shefali Aktar, Jian G. Qin
Estuaries are unstable ecosystems and can be changed by the environmental and anthropogenic impact. The Murray Estuary and Coorong were degraded by drought and low freshwater input in the last decade and therefore transformed into the largest hyper-saline lagoon in Australia. This study evaluates th...