Salah Uddin Khan, Jahangir Hossain, Emily S. Gurley, Nazmun Nahar et al.
Pteropus bats are commonly infected with Nipah virus, but show no signs of illness. Human Nipah outbreaks in Bangladesh coincide with the date palm sap harvesting season. In epidemiologic studies, drinking raw date palm sap is a risk factor for human Nipah infection. We conducted a study to evaluate...
Salah Uddin Khan, Emily S. Gurley, Jahangir Hossain, Nazmun Nahar et al.
BACKGROUND: Drinking raw date palm sap is a risk factor for human Nipah virus (NiV) infection. Fruit bats, the natural reservoir of NiV, commonly contaminate raw sap with saliva by licking date palm's sap producing surface. We evaluated four types of physical barriers that may prevent bats from cont...
Shafi Mahmud, Gobindo Kumar Paul, Mirola Afroze, Shirmin Islam et al.
The recent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is a global threat for healthcare management and the economic system, and effective treatments against the pathogenic severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus responsible for this disease have not yet progressed beyond...
Apurba Chakraborty, Salah Uddin Khan, Mohammed Abul Hasnat, Shahana Parveen et al.
During August 2009-October 2010, a multidisciplinary team investigated 14 outbreaks of animal and human anthrax in Bangladesh to identify the etiology, pathway of transmission, and social, behavioral, and cultural factors that led to these outbreaks. The team identified 140 animal cases of anthrax a...
Sukanta Chowdhury, Salah Uddin Khan, Gary Crameri, Jonathan H. Epstein et al.
BACKGROUND: Nipah virus (NiV) is an emerging disease that causes severe encephalitis and respiratory illness in humans. Pigs were identified as an intermediate host for NiV transmission in Malaysia. In Bangladesh, NiV has caused recognized human outbreaks since 2001 and three outbreak investigations...
Mohammad Azizur Rahman, Bernd Rusteberg, Mohammad Salah Uddin, Annegret Lutz et al.
This paper describes an integrated approach of site suitability mapping and ranking of the most suitable sites, for the implementation of Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) projects, using spatial multicriteria decision analysis (SMCDA) techniques and mathematical modelling. The SMCDA procedure contains...
Mohammad Salah Uddin, Jannat Binta Alam, Suraiya Banu
The popularity of Internet of Things is increasing day by day in the area of remote monitoring system. The remote monitoring systems include, vehicle or assets monitoring, kids/pets monitoring, fleet management, parking management, water and oil leakage, energy grid monitoring etc. In this paper, we...
Shafi Mahmud, Suvro Biswas, Gobindo Kumar Paul, Mohasana Akter Mita et al.
The recent coronavirus outbreak has changed the world's economy and health sectors due to the high mortality and transmission rates. Because the development of new effective vaccines or treatments against the virus can take time, an urgent need exists for the rapid development and design of new drug...
Mohammad Salah Uddin, Afroza Yesmin Akhi
The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the design of e-wallets for Bangladesh, an Electronic Payment System (ETS). E-wallets are intended to replace the existing physical wallet, with its notes, coins, plastic cards, ATM cards and loyalty cards etc. Now a day, the challenges of payment transa...
Md. Abubakar Siddique, Haitham Nobanee, Md. Bokhtiar Hasan, Gazi Salah Uddin et al.
Sajib Kumar Pramanik, Shafi Mahmud, Gobindo Kumar Paul, Tabassum Jabin et al.
Degradation of cellulosic carbon, the most important natural carbon reservoirs on this planet by cellulase is very essential for valuable soluble sugars. This cellulase has potential biotechnological applications in many industrial sectors. Thus the demand of cellulase is increasing more frequently ...
Salah Uddin Khan, Emily S. Gurley, Nancy Gerloff, Mohammed Ziaur Rahman et al.
Avian influenza viruses, including highly pathogenic strains, pose severe economic, animal and public health concerns. We implemented live bird market surveillance in Bangladesh to identify the subtypes of avian influenza A viruses in domestic waterfowl and market environments. We collected waterfow...
Md. Gazi Salah Uddin, Sayema Haque Bidisha, İlhan Öztürk
This study attempts to investigate the long-run Granger causality relationship between energy consumption, carbon emissions, economic growth, and trade openness in Sri Lanka. Our analysis reveals that, there exists long-run causal relationship between carbon emission and economic growth for Sri Lank...
Jade Benjamin‐Chung, Arifa Nazneen, Amal Halder, Rashidul Haque et al.
BACKGROUND: The combination of deworming and improved sanitation or hygiene may result in greater reductions in soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infection than any single intervention on its own. We measured STH prevalence in rural Bangladesh and assessed potential interactions among deworming, hygie...
Abdulnasser Hatemi‐J, Gazi Salah Uddin
The aim of this article is to investigate the causal relationship between remittances and poverty reduction in Bangladesh over the period 1976 to 2010. This issue is of fundamental importance for the developing economy of Bangladesh. We apply newly developed methods by Hacker and Hatemi-J (2006, 201...
Md. Bokhtiar Hasan, Justyna Wieloch, Md. Sumon Ali, Saša Žiković et al.
Given the escalating trends of rapid industrialization, energy consumption, and environmental concerns, it is crucial to comprehend the interplay between industrial growth and environmental sustainability. This study mainly focuses on verifying the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis by inv...
Md. Mahmudul Alam, Gazi Salah Uddin
Stock exchange and interest rate are two crucial factor of economic growth of a country. The impacts of interest rate on stock exchange provide important implications for monitory policy, risk management practices, financial securities valuation and government policy towards financial markets. This ...
Gazi Salah Uddin, Muhammad Yahya, Gour Gobinda Goswami, Brian M. Lucey et al.
The purpose of this paper is to examine the connected dynamics of the affected Asian financial markets and global financial market in relation to the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. We particularly examine the temporal dependence and connectedness of the affected markets with the gl...
Shafi Mahmud, Suvro Biswas, Gobindo Kumar Paul, Mohasana Akter Mita et al.
Currently, a worldwide pandemic has been declared in response to the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a fatal and fast-spreading viral infection caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The low availability of efficient vaccines and treatment options has ...
Rebeca Sultana, Nadia Ali Rimi, Shamim Ahmed Azad, Md Saiful Islam et al.
INTRODUCTION: Highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) virus (known as "bird flu") is an important public health concern due to its potential to infect humans and cause a human pandemic. Bangladesh is a high-risk country for an influenza pandemic because of its dense human population, widespread bac...