Md. Saiful Islam, M. Belal Hossain, Abdul Matin, Md. Shafiqul Islam Sarker
Heavy metal pollution in sediment resources may pose serious threat to ecosystem and human health through food web. In this study, surface sediment samples of 10 stations along the Feni River estuary were analyzed to profile the accumulation, sources and pollution levels of heavy metals. The results...
Mir Ferdous Chowdhury, Shahjalal Khandaker, Forkan Sarker, Aminul Islam et al.
The release of colored wastewater from industries into surface water bodies creates undesirable consequences to the marine ecosystem and human beings owing to its pernicious effect. Indigo dyes being aromatic compounds with complex structure are one of the most important as well as the largest class...
Safaet Alam, Md. Moklesur Rahman Sarker, Taposhi Nahid Sultana, Md. Nafees Rahman Chowdhury et al.
Diabetes, a chronic physiological dysfunction affecting people of different age groups and severely impairs the harmony of peoples’ normal life worldwide. Despite the availability of insulin preparations and several synthetic oral antidiabetic drugs, there is a crucial need for the discovery and dev...
Umakanta Sarker, Shinya Oba
The investigation was carried out to elucidate growth, anatomical, physiological, and major ROS detoxification pathway involved in tolerance of A. tricolor under salinity stress. Both VA14 and VA3 varieties exhibited the reduction in RWC, photosynthetic pigments, growth, and increased electrolyte le...
Iqbal H. Sarker, Yoosef B. Abushark, Fawaz Alsolami, Asif Irshad Khan
Cyber security has recently received enormous attention in today’s security concerns, due to the popularity of the Internet-of-Things (IoT), the tremendous growth of computer networks, and the huge number of relevant applications. Thus, detecting various cyber-attacks or anomalies in a network and b...
K. J. M. Aung, Armand Van Deun, Erik De Clercq, Mihir Ranjan Sarker et al.
SETTING: Tuberculosis (TB) program, Damien Foundation Projects, Bangladesh. OBJECTIVE: To summarize the outcome and its determinants of the first treatment for multidrug-resistant TB using a standardized regimen consisting of a minimum 9 months. DESIGN: This was a prospective, observational study of...
Li Pei Ang, Pit Wei Ng, Yen Loong Lean, Vijay Kotra et al.
Herbal products are used globally for their perceived health benefits, and as a complement to alternative therapy to Western medicines. Herbal products can be beneficial, although they can also be harmful in several circumstances. Aristolochic acids (AA) are a compound that is abundant in Aristoloch...
Abu Elias Sarker
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore and analyse the factors influencing the relative success and failure of new public management (NPM) initiatives in the developing world, with particular reference to Singapore and Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach Secondary materials have been ex...
Md. Abdul Hannan, Md. Ataur Rahman, Abdullah Al Mamun Sohag, Md Jamal Uddin et al.
L.), a highly valued nutraceutical herb with a wide array of health benefits, has attracted growing interest from health-conscious individuals, the scientific community, and pharmaceutical industries. The pleiotropic pharmacological effects of black cumin, and its main bioactive component thymoquino...
Rubhana Raqib, Protim Sarker, Peter Bergman, Gul Ara et al.
Shigella is a major cause of morbidity, mortality, and growth retardation for children in developing countries. Emergence of antibiotic resistance among Shigellae demands the development of effective medicines. Previous studies found that the endogenous antimicrobial peptide LL-37 is down-regulated ...
Razina Rouf, Shaikh Jamal Uddin, Dipto Kumer Sarker, Muhammad Torequl Islam et al.
Background Garlic (Allium sativum L.) is a common herb consumed worldwide as functional food and traditional remedy for the prevention of infectious diseases since ancient time. Garlic and its active organosulfur compounds (OSCs) have been reported to alleviate a number of viral infections in pre-cl...
Umakanta Sarker, Shinya Oba
Four selected Amaranthus tricolor cultivars were grown under four irrigation regimes (25, 50, 80, and 100% field capacity) to evaluate the mechanisms of growth and physiological and biochemical responses against drought stress in randomized complete block design with three replications. Drought stre...
Iqbal H. Sarker, A. S. M. Kayes, Paul Watters
Due to the increasing popularity of recent advanced features and context-awareness in smart mobile phones, the contextual data relevant to users’ diverse activities with their phones are recorded through the device logs. Modeling and predicting individual’s smartphone usage based on contexts, such a...
M. Shahadat Hossain, Faisal Sobhan, Mohammad Nasir Uddin, S.M. Sharifuzzaman et al.
Microplastics were determined in pink Bombay-duck (Harpadon nehereus), white Bombay-duck (H. translucens) and gold-stripe sardine (Sardinella gibbosa) collected from the Northern Bay of Bengal at Bangladesh. Gastrointestinal tracts of fishes (n = 25 per species) were examined for microplastics follo...
Laila Hossain, Sumit Kanti Sarker, Mohidus Samad Khan
The textile sector has been an important part of Bangladesh’s (BD) economy over the past few decades. In Bangladesh, the textile sector currently has an export value of nearly 28 billion USD per year which contributes about 82% of the country’s total export earnings. It is projected that the annual ...
Zhi Zhen Qin, Shahriar Ahmed, Mohammad Shahnewaz Sarker, Kishor Kumar Paul et al.
BACKGROUND: Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms can be trained to recognise tuberculosis-related abnormalities on chest radiographs. Various AI algorithms are available commercially, yet there is little impartial evidence on how their performance compares with each other and with radiologists. W...
A T M Faiz Ahmed, Md Zahidul Islam, Md Sultan Mahmud, Md Emdad Sarker et al.
L. (hemp) has received a lot of attention because of its multipurpose usability, short production cycle, low capital demand in cultivation, possibility of carbon-negative transformation and easy carbon sequestering material. This paper reviews hemp as a very promising renewable resource including it...
Shawna McCallin, Shafiqul Alam Sarker, Caroline Barretto, Shamima Sultana et al.
Phage therapy has a long tradition in Eastern Europe, where preparations are comprised of complex phage cocktails whose compositions have not been described. We investigated the composition of a phage cocktail from the Russian pharmaceutical company Microgen targeting Escherichia coli/Proteus infect...
Donald S. Gaydon, Balwinder Singh, Enli Wang, Perry Poulton et al.
Resource shortages, driven by climatic, institutional and social changes in many regions of Asia, combined with growing imperatives to increase food production whilst ensuring environmental sustainability, are driving research into modified agricultural practices. Well-tested cropping systems models...
Iqbal H. Sarker
Deep learning, which is originated from an artificial neural network (ANN), is one of the major technologies of today’s smart cybersecurity systems or policies to function in an intelligent manner. Popular deep learning techniques, such as multi-layer perceptron, convolutional neural network, recurr...