Md Zahirul Islam, Abu Ahmed Shamim, Virpi Kemi, Antti Nevanlinna et al.
The manufacture of garments is the main industry in Bangladesh and employs 1·6 million female workers. Due to the indoor lifestyle and low dietary intake of calcium, we hypothesised that they are at risk of low vitamin D and bone mineral status. Two hundred female garment workers (aged 18–36 years) ...
Md Mahabubul Islam Majumder, Ashrafur Rahaman Mahadi, Tareq Ahmed, Mostaque Ahmed et al.
BACKGROUND: Antimicrobial resistance is an emerging concern globally in recent years. Management of common infectious diseases like urinary tract infection (UTI) has become challenging. In this context, the purpose of this study is to compare the shifting trends in bacteriology and antibiotic resist...
Shahed Imam, Zahir Ahmed, Sadia Hasan Khan
Examines whether audit delay of Bangladeshi companies is associated with audit firms’ links with international firms. The study is based on a sample of 115 listed companies of the Dhaka Stock Exchange for the year ended 1998. A non‐parametric tool has been used to find whether any significant differ...
Md Zahirul Islam, Abu Ahmed Shamim, Heli Viljakainen, Mohammad Akhtaruzzaman et al.
Due to little outdoor activity and low dietary intake of vitamin D (VD), Bangladeshi low-income women are at risk for osteoporosis at an early age. The present study assessed the effect of VD, Ca and multiple micronutrient supplementation on VD and bone status in Bangladeshi young female garment fac...
Artur Sawicki, Magdalena Żemojtel‐Piotrowska, Julia Maria Balcerowska, Monika J. Sawicka et al.
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has been a source of fear around the world. We asked whether the measurement of this fear is trustworthy and comparable across countries. In particular, we explored the measurement invariance and cross-cultural replicability of the widely used Fear of COVID-19 scale (F...
Shaheen Ahmed, Mohammad Zahir Raihan
Readymade Garment (RMG) Sector in Bangladesh has been playing a vital role in creating employment opportunity for the rural marginal people for the last two decades. At present 5,100 garment factories are operating in this country and 3.6 million workers are working there in which more than 80 perce...
Huda Al Siyabi, Said Al Mukhaini, Mohsen Kanaan, Sumaya Al Hatmi et al.
Oman, like other countries in the world, was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the WHO's declaration of the pandemic, the Ministry of Health of Oman has initiated its preparedness and response to the pandemic, with community participation as one of the key components of the national preparedn...
Audrie Lin, Shahjahan Ali, Benjamin F. Arnold, Md Ziaur Rahman et al.
BACKGROUND: We hypothesized that drinking water, sanitation, handwashing (WSH), and nutritional interventions would improve environmental enteric dysfunction (EED), a potential contributor to stunting. METHODS: Within a subsample of a cluster-randomized, controlled trial in rural Bangladesh, we enro...
Katy Gardner, Zahir Ahmed, Fatema Bashir, Masud Rana
Sabeena Ahmed, Sean R. Galagan, Heather M. Scobie, Jacob Khyang et al.
BACKGROUND: Malaria is endemic in 13 of 64 districts of Bangladesh, representing a population at risk of about 27 million people. The highest rates of malaria in Bangladesh occur in the Chittagong Hill Districts, and Plasmodium falciparum (predominately chloroquine resistant) is the most prevalent s...
Susmita Dasgupta, Mainul Huq, Zahirul Huq Khan, Md. Sohel Masud et al.
Bangladesh is one of the most flood prone countries in the world. Two thirds of the country is less than 5 m above sea level. Past monsoon flood records indicate that about 21% of the country is subject to annual flooding and an additional 42% is at risk of floods with varied intensity. Although ann...
Wasif Ali Khan, David A. Sack, Sabeena Ahmed, Chai Shawi Prue et al.
BACKGROUND: Until recently the Chittagong Hill tracts have been hyperendemic for malaria. A past cross-sectional RDT based survey in 2007 recorded rates of approximately 15%. This study was designed to understand the present epidemiology of malaria in this region, to monitor and facilitate the uptak...
Mohammad Ali, Zakir Uddin, Nawara Faiza Ahsan, Muhammad Zahirul Haque et al.
BACKGROUND: During the COVID-19 pandemic, the high workload, risk of infection, and safety issues for family members may pose a threat to the mental health of healthcare workers (HCWs) working in hospital settings. The study aimed to find out the prevalence of anxiety, depression, and insomnia sympt...
Arnob Dey, Zahir U. Ahmed, Md Ramijul Alam
Cooling of High Concentrated Photovoltaic (HCPV) cells is a major concern among researchers due to higher heat generation in the cells from highly concentrated solar radiation. In the present investigation, a numerical study of the High Concentrated Photovoltaic Thermal (HCPV/T) system is conducted ...
Sudipta Debnath, Md. Habib Ullah Khan, Zahir U. Ahmed
Impinging jets are generally utilized as an effective medium of heat and mass transfer. Various stream orientations and swirl effect may be a potential candidate to further improve the heat transfer characteristics. This paper numerically examines two different types of arrays of circular multiple j...