Md. Monjurul Islam, Anika Amir Mohana, Md. Aminur Rahman, Mahbubur Rahman et al.
Chromium (Cr) exists in aqueous solution as trivalent (Cr3+) and hexavalent (Cr6+) forms. Cr3+ is an essential trace element while Cr6+ is a dangerous and carcinogenic element, which is of great concern globally due to its extensive applications in various industrial processes such as textiles, manu...
Md. Amir Hossain, Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, Sad Ahamed, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman et al.
In the recent past, arsenic contamination in groundwater has emerged as an epidemic in different Asian countries, such as Bangladesh, India, and China. Arsenic removal plants (ARP) are one possible option to provide arsenic-safe drinking water. This paper evaluates the efficiency of ARP projects in ...
Dipankar Chakraborti, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Bhaskar Das, Bishwajit Nayak et al.
Subhash Chandra Mukherjee, Kshitish Chandra Saha, Shymapada Pati, Rathindra Nath Dutta et al.
INTRODUCTION: To understand the severity of related health effects of chronic arsenic exposure in West Bengal, a detailed 3-year study was carried out in Murshidabad, one of the nine arsenic-affected districts in West Bengal. METHODS: We screened 25,274 people from 139 arsenic-affected villages in M...
Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, Sad Ahamed, Uttam Kumar Chowdhury et al.
To better understand the magnitude of arsenic contamination in groundwater and its effects on human beings, a detailed study was carried out in Jalangi, one of the 85 arsenic affected blocks in West Bengal, India. Jalangi block is approximately 122 km2 in size and has a population of 215538. Of the ...
Uttam Kumar Chowdhury, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, Dilip Lodh et al.
Urinary arsenic is generally considered as the most reliable indicator of recent exposure to inorganic arsenic and is used as the main bio-marker of exposure. However, due to the different toxicity of arsenic compounds, speciation of arsenic in urine is generally considered to be more convenient for...
Md. Abdul Halim, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Mallavarapu Megharaj, Ravi Naidu
Food is the major cadmium (Cd)-exposure pathway from agricultural soils to humans and other living entities and must be reduced in an effective way. A plant can select beneficial microbes, like plant-growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR), depending upon the nature of root exudates in the rhizosphere...
Richard A. Cash, Shantana R. Halder, Mushtuq Husain, M. Sirajul Islam et al.
Bangladesh, with a population of 151 million people, is a country that is particularly prone to natural disasters: 26% of the population are affected by cyclones and 70% live in flood-prone regions. Mortality and morbidity from these events have fallen substantially in the past 50 years, partly beca...
Kazi Mizanur Rahman, Shamim Islam, Muhammad Waliur Rahman, Eben Kenah et al.
Post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) occurs after kala-azar treatment and acts as a durable infection reservoir. On the basis of active case finding among 22,699 respondents, 813 (3.6%) had had kala-azar since 2002, of whom 79 (9.7%) developed PKDL. Eight additional patients with PKDL had no h...
Tasnima Haque, Khondoker Moazzem Hossain, Md. Monzur Rahman Bhuiyan, Sadia Afreen Ananna et al.
<title>Abstract</title> The COVID19 pandemic has been transmitted worldwide rapidly. The best ways of preventing this virus are to know about and act accordingly. An online cross sectional survey was conducted to know the knowledge, attitude and practices towards COVID19 and to assess the risks of i...
M. Azizur Rahman, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Suzie M. Reichman, Richard P. Lim et al.
Rice is an important route of arsenic (As) exposure to humans, especially populations with rice-based diets. Human health risk of As varies greatly with rice variety and country of origin. The purpose of the present study was to determine total and speciated As in Australian-grown and imported rice ...
Rafiquel Islam, Sazal Kumar, Joyanto Karmoker, Md. Kamruzzaman et al.
As a developing country, Bangladesh has produced, utilized, imported, and released several types of persistent organic pollutants (POPs). However, currently we only have limited information about their eco-toxicological impacts on the ecosystem and human beings. For this reason, it is important to a...
Sazal Kumar, Md. Aminur Rahman, Md. Rashidul Islam, Md. Abul Hashem et al.
Lead (Pb) pollution in the environment predominantly occurs through anthropogenic activities, which pose significant threats to human health and that of biota. In this study, Pb and other elements were investigated in different soils (n = 52), crops (n = 24) and water (n = 13) around a lead-acid bat...
Bhaskar Das, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Bishwajit Nayak, Arup Pal et al.
Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman Khan, Rezoana Bente Arif, Md. Abu Bakr Siddique, Mahjabin Oishe
Machine learning qualifies computers to assimilate with data, without being solely programmed [1, 2]. Machine learning can be classified as supervised and unsupervised learning. In supervised learning, computers learn an objective that portrays an input to an output hinged on training input-output p...