Firdausi Qadri, Mohammad Ali, Fahima Chowdhury, Ashraful Islam Khan et al.
Background Cholera is endemic in Bangladesh with epidemics occurring each year. The decision to use a cheap oral killed whole-cell cholera vaccine to control the disease depends on the feasibility and effectiveness of vaccination when delivered in a public health setting. We therefore assessed the f...
Md. Ashraful Alam, K. Seetharam, P.H. Zaidi, Akula Dinesh et al.
The negative effects of heat stress on maize growth and reproduction is often expressed in terms of significant yield penalty. Germplasm selection based on yield potential along with heat stress adaptive secondary traits, and establishing their interaction under stress helps in identifying suitable ...
Md Ashraful Alam, Khalid Al Riyami
Muhammad Mainuddin Patwary, Mondira Bardhan, Asma Safia Disha, Mehedi Hasan et al.
Vaccination is undoubtedly one of the most effective strategies to halt the COVID-19 pandemic. The current study aimed to investigate the acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination and its associated factors using two health behavior change frameworks: the Health Belief Model (HBM) and the Theory of Planned...
Md Ashraful Alam, Riaz Uddin, Nusrat Subhan, Mahbubur Rahman et al.
Diabetes, obesity, and metabolic syndrome are becoming epidemic both in developed and developing countries in recent years. Complementary and alternative medicines have been used since ancient era for the treatment of diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Bitter melon is widely used as vegetables in...
Md Khaled Mosharaf, Md. Zahid Hasan Tanvir, Md. Manjurul Haque, Md. Ashraful Haque et al.
Bacterial biofilm plays a pivotal role in bioremediation of heavy metals from wastewaters. In this study, we isolated and identified different biofilm producing bacteria from wastewaters. We also characterized the biofilm matrix [i.e., extracellular polymeric substances (EPS)] produced by different ...
Anayt Ulla, Md Ashraful Alam, Biswajit Sikder, Farzana Akter Sumi et al.
BACKGROUND: Obesity and related complications have now became epidemic both in developed and developing countries. Cafeteria type diet mainly composed of high fat high carbohydrate components which plays a significant role in the development of obesity and metabolic syndrome. This study investigated...
Md. Reaz Akter Mullick, Ridwan Mohammed Nur, Md Jahangir Alam, K. M. Ashraful Islam
Understanding the trend of temperature and rainfall is of prime importance for climate change related research. This research aims to identify the trends of temperature and rainfall for the last 50 years (1966–2015) for Bangladesh. To detect the trends, the non-parametric Mann–Kendall test in combin...
Raquibul Hasan, Shoumen Lasker, Ahasanul Hasan, Farzana Zerin et al.
The antidiabetic drug canagliflozin is reported to possess several cardioprotective effects. However, no studies have investigated protective effects of canagliflozin in isoprenaline (ISO)-induced cardiac oxidative damage-a model mimicking sympathetic nervous system (SNS) overstimulation-evoked card...
Raquibul Hasan, Shoumen Lasker, Ahasanul Hasan, Farzana Zerin et al.
Diabetes is a leading cause of chronic kidney disease, and the high prevalence of sympathetic nervous system (SNS) hyperactivity in diabetic patients makes them further susceptible to SNS-mediated oxidative stress and accelerated kidney damage. Here, we investigated if canagliflozin can reverse isop...
Md Mizanur Rahman, Mohammad Nazmul Alam, Anayt Ulla, Farzana Akther Sumi et al.
BACKGROUND: Cardamom is a well-known spice in Indian subcontinent, used in culinary and traditional medicine practices since ancient times. The current investigation was untaken to evaluate the potential benefit of cardamom powder supplementation in high carbohydrate high fat (HCHF) diet induced obe...
Md Mizanur Rahman, Megumi Rosenberg, Gabriela Flores, Nadia Parsell et al.
BACKGROUND: The absolute number of older individuals needing medical care and long-term care (LTC) is increasing globally due to the growing ageing population. However, it is uncertain who and what proportion of the population has access to care. Therefore, a systematic review and meta-analysis of t...
Md. Kamrul Hasan, Md. Ashraful Alam, Md. Toufick E Elahi, Shidhartho Roy et al.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE In modern ophthalmology, automated Computer-aided Screening Tools (CSTs) are crucial non-intrusive diagnosis methods, where an accurate segmentation of Optic Disc (OD) and localization of OD and Fovea centers are substantial integral parts. However, designing such an automat...
M Moniruzzaman, Praveen K. Thakur, Pramod Kumar, Md Ashraful Alam et al.
Rapid urban growth processes give rise to impervious surfaces and are regarded as the primary cause of urban flooding or waterlogging in urban areas. The high rate of urbanization has caused waterlogging and urban flooding in many parts of Dhaka city. Therefore, the study is undertaken to quantify t...
M. M. Rahaman, Mirza H. K. Rubel, Md. Abdur Rashid, Md. Ashraful Alam et al.
Density functional theory (DFT) based first-principles calculations using GGA+U method have been performed for the first time to investigate elastic, electronic, optical, thermodynamic properties including charge density, Fermi surface, Mulliken population analysis, and theoretical Vickers hardness ...