Rajib Baran Roy, Sanath Alahakoon, Shantha Jayasinghe Arachchillage
The battery energy storage system (BESS) is an indispensable part of an electric fleet (EF) which needs to be charged by electricity from local grid when the fleet is in the dockyard. The uncoordinated fast charging of BESS in Grid to Ferry (G2F) mode imposes sudden increments of load in the power g...
Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Arun Mitra, Afsah Salman, Fawad Akbari et al.
South Asia, home to 1.97 billion people (25% of the world’s population), is no stranger to conflict and confrontation. Longstanding border disputes (such as between India and China and the decades-old standoff between India and Pakistan), the forced displacement of Myanmar Muslims to Bangladesh, and...
S.G. Ilangantileke, M. S. Kadian, M. Z. Hossain, A. E. Hossain et al.
The majority of people in Bangladesh live below the poverty line on an in-come of less than US$1 per day. Increased productivity of food crops, such as potato (Solanum tuberosum L.), would help to alleviate poverty. Farmers can increase potato productivity by using good quality seed, but poor potato...
Shan Jayasinghe, Kelum A. A. Gamage, Dandan Yang, Chuang Cheng et al.
The integration of generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and DeepSeek, into higher education offers transformative opportunities for personalised learning and academic productivity. However, their unregulated use raises concerns about academic integrity, critical thinking, and educational eq...
Xiaojing Yang, André Alberto Weber, Elvira Mennillo, Miles Paszek et al.
Inorganic arsenic (iAs) is an environmental toxicant that can lead to severe health consequences, which can be exacerbated if exposure occurs early in development. Here, we evaluated the impact of oral iAs treatment on UDP-glucuronosyltransferase 1A1 (UGT1A1) expression and bilirubin metabolism in h...
Laurie Parsons, Ricardo Safra de Campos, Alice Moncaster, Ian Cook et al.
Abstract This paper examines how global trade shapes and intensifies disasters. Juxtaposing three basic, everyday consumer goods – a t‐shirt, a brick, and a tea bag – with disasters manifesting in their respective global supply chains, it highlights how climate change, local environmental degradatio...
Jason Corburn, David Vlahov, Blessing Mberu, Lee W. Riley et al.
The article “Slum Health: Arrresting COVID-19 and Improving Well-Being in Urban Informal Settlements”, written by Jason Corburn et al.
Shan Jayasinghe, Lester W. Johnson, Nilan Udayanga, Lakshitha Kumarapperuma et al.
Since the 1960s, the world has witnessed the rise of several East Asian nations as economic powerhouses. One of the main contributing factors of their success is their decision to create policies that allowed them to enter high-tech global production networks. Today, other countries are attempting t...
I Putu Krishna Wijaya, Anish Joshi, Md. Nurul Alam, Susantha Jayasinghe et al.
Climate change induced extreme hydro-meteorological conditions have increased the prevalence of landslides in the hilly and geologically fragile region of Chittagong Hill Tract districts (including Rangamati) in Bangladesh. These landslides have attributed to significant damages to transportation in...
Dushani L. Palliyaguru, N. Palliyaguru, Camila Vieira Ligo Teixeira, Nicole M. Armstrong et al.
ABSTRACT South Asia is one of the most populous regions of the world. At present, South Asians make up more than 25% of the world’s population but little effort has been dedicated to studying trends and etiological factors driving aging and aging-related conditions in this part of the world. Even le...
Eliyathamby A. Selvanathan, Maneka Jayasinghe, Md. Moazzem Hossain, Saroja Selvanathan
Mohammad Rajib Hasan, Maneka Jayasinghe, Eliyathamby A. Selvanathan
Abstract Understanding wellbeing is fundamental to any effort to enhance it. Using the latest World Values Survey (WVS), this study examines the incidence, intensity, and determinants of wellbeing in Bangladesh by constructing a multidimensional wellbeing index (MDWI). The study also provides some i...
Maneka Jayasinghe, S Selvanathan, Eliyathamby A. Selvanathan
This chapter presents an analysis on energy consumption and economic growth nexus for Bangladesh. The relationship between economic growth and energy consumption has received significant attention in the economic growth literature (see, for example, Mozumder and Marathe, 2007). This is because while...
Julia C. Bennett, Maria Deloria Knoll, E. Wangeci Kagucia, Maria Garcia Quesada et al.
P. Anilkumar, P. Venugopal, Satheesh Kumar S, Jayasinghe R. P. C. K.
Semantic segmentation of small-scale objects in aerial images is challenging due to low-level characteristics in neural networks and varying information in feature maps. Deeplab models struggle with poor edge refinement, resulting in rough borders, and fail to fully exploit relationships between pix...