Mainul Haque, Tariqul Islam, Nor Azlina A. Rahman, Judy McKimm et al.
The prevalence of long-term (chronic) non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is increasing globally due to an ageing global population, urbanization, changes in lifestyles, and inequitable access to healthcare. Although previously more common in high- and upper-middle-income countries, lower-middle-income...
Faruque Parvez, Yu Chen, Mahbub Yunus, Christopher O. Olopade et al.
RATIONALE: Exposure to arsenic through drinking water has been linked to respiratory symptoms, obstructive lung diseases, and mortality from respiratory diseases. Limited evidence for the deleterious effects on lung function exists among individuals exposed to a high dose of arsenic. OBJECTIVES: To ...
Md. Zulfiker Mahmud, Mohammad Tariqul Islam, Norbahiah Misran, Salehin Kibria et al.
A novel, low cost, and comprehensive microwave imaging (MWI) system is presented for the detection of unwanted tumorous cells into the human breast. A compact metamaterials (MTM) artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) surface-inspired coplanar waveguide fed (CPW-fed) microstrip antenna is developed for...
Md. Bellal Hossain, Mohammad Rashed Iqbal Faruque, Mohammad Tariqul Islam, Mandeep Singh et al.
In this paper, a double E-shaped symmetric split ring resonators metamaterial inspired triple band microwave metamaterial absorber (MA) for EMI shielding and stealth applications in C and X band is presented. The proposed absorber comprises double E shaped with two modified split ring resonators-bas...
Md. Tariqul Islam, Abdus Sattar, Falamaki Amin, Xin Yao et al.
This paper presents a new algorithm, called adaptive merging and growing algorithm (AMGA), in designing artificial neural networks (ANNs). This algorithm merges and adds hidden neurons during the training process of ANNs. The merge operation introduced in AMGA is a kind of a mixed mode operation, wh...
F. Parvez, Yu Chen, Paul W. Brandt‐Rauf, Vesna Slavkovich et al.
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: A prospective cohort study was conducted to evaluate the effect of arsenic (As) exposure from drinking water on respiratory symptoms using data from the Health Effects of Arsenic Exposure Longitudinal Study (HEALS), a large prospective cohort study established in Ariahazar, Bang...
Md. Moniruzzaman, Mohammad Tariqul Islam, Ghulam Muhammad, Mandeep Singh Jit Singh et al.
This article presents a metamaterial based on a modified asymmetric circular split ring resonator for absorber applications in the microwave regime. This metamaterial absorber (MMA) exhibits four absorption peaks to cover C, X, and Ku band applications. The MMA unit cell is formed on a low-cost FR4 ...
Brandon L. Pierce, Tong Lin, Lin Chen, Ronald Rahaman et al.
A large fraction of human genes are regulated by genetic variation near the transcribed sequence (cis-eQTL, expression quantitative trait locus), and many cis-eQTLs have implications for human disease. Less is known regarding the effects of genetic variation on expression of distant genes (trans-eQT...
Mohammad Lutful Hakim, Touhidul Alam, Ali F. Almutairi, Mohd Fais Mansor et al.
Polarization insensitive metamaterial absorbers (MA) are currently very attractive due to their unique absorption properties at different polarization angles. As a result, this type of absorber is widely used in sensing, imaging, energy harvesting, etc. This paper presents the design and characteriz...
Brandon L. Pierce, Tong Lin, Maria Argos, Kathryn Demanelis et al.
Inherited genetic variation affects local gene expression and DNA methylation in humans. Most expression quantitative trait loci (cis-eQTLs) occur at the same genomic location as a methylation QTL (cis-meQTL), suggesting a common causal variant and shared mechanism. Using DNA and RNA from peripheral...
Md. Mhedi Hasan, Mohammad Tariqul Islam, Md Samsuzzaman, Mohd Hafiz Baharuddin et al.
This work proposes a compact metasurface (MS)-integrated wideband multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna for fifth generation (5G) sub-6 GHz wireless communication systems. The perceptible novelty of the proposed MIMO system is its wide operating bandwidth, high gain, lower interelement gap, ...
Brandon L. Pierce, L. Tong, Maria Argos, Jianchang Gao et al.
BACKGROUND: Arsenic exposure through drinking water is a serious global health issue. Observational studies suggest that individuals who metabolize arsenic efficiently are at lower risk for toxicities such as arsenical skin lesions. Using two single nucleotide polymorphisms(SNPs) in the 10q24.32 reg...
Yu Chen, Alexander van Geen, Joseph H. Graziano, Alexander Pfaff et al.
BACKGROUND: There is a need to identify and evaluate an effective mitigation program for arsenic exposure from drinking water in Bangladesh. OBJECTIVE: We evaluated the effectiveness of a multifaceted mitigation program to reduce As exposure among 11,746 individuals in a prospective cohort study ini...
Yu Chen, Fen Wu, Joseph H. Graziano, Faruque Parvez et al.
We conducted a cross-sectional study to evaluate the interrelationships between past arsenic exposure, biomarkers specific for susceptibility to arsenic exposure, and carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT) in 959 subjects from the Health Effects of Arsenic Longitudinal Study in Bangladesh. We measure...
Rishad Shafik, Md Shamimur Rahman, A.B.M. Tariqul Islam, Nabil Shovon Ashraf
In this paper, we present the error vector magnitude (EVM) as a figure of merit for assessing the quality of digitally modulated telecommunication signals. We define EVM for a common industry standard and derive the relationships among EVM, signal to noise ratio (SNR) and bit error rate (BER). We al...