AM Shamsir Ahmed, Tahmeed Ahmed, Roy Sk, Nurul Alam et al.
This study aimed to assess the determinants of under nutrition among under-two year old children of rural Bangladesh. The data of the National Nutrition Program baseline survey conducted in 2004 was analyzed, which included 8,885 under-two children and their mothers. Among the children studied, 41%,...
Nurul Alam, Taslim Ali, Abdur Razzaque, Mahfuzur Rahman et al.
Bangladesh, (icddr,b, former Pakistan SEATO Cholera Research Laboratory) set up a field diarrhoea hospital in Matlab in December 1963 for evaluating acceptability, safety and efficacy of cholera vaccines, including oral rehydration therapy, and studying the epidemiology, prevention and treatment of ...
Abdur Razzaque, Nurul Alam, Lokky Wai, Andrew Foster
In this paper the sustained effects of the 1974–75 famine on cohort mortality in a rural area of Bangladesh are studied. In the analysis, mortality rates for children born and conceived during the famine are compared with those from a post-famine cohort. In the famine-born cohort, mortality was high...
Kazy Noor e Alam Siddiquee, Md. Shabiul Islam, Ninni Singh, Vinit Kumar Gunjan et al.
Sensor‐based agriculture monitoring systems have limited outcomes on the detection or counting of vegetables from agriculture fields due to the utilization of either conventional color transformations or machine learning‐based methods. To overcome these limitations, this research is aimed at proposi...
Yousuf Ali Sarker, Md. Mehedi Hasan, Torun Kumar Paul, Sm. Zamiul Rashid et al.
Objective: Screening of antibiotic residues in broiler chicken meat and liver collected from farms and local markets in Bangladesh. Materials and methods: A total of 160 samples (breast, thigh muscle and liver) were collected from markets and farms from different region of Bangladesh. PBS buffer sys...
Nurul Alam
To examine the effects of birth spacing on early childhood mortality, 3729 singleton births in 1983-84 were followed for 3 years in rural Bangladesh. Logistic regression analyses were used to assess whether the survival of older siblings modifies the effect of preceding birth intervals and to see if...
Nurul Alam, Fitzroy J. Henry, Margubur Rahaman
Alam N (International Centre for Diarrhoes Disease Reasearch, Bangladesh (ICDDR, B) GPO Box 128, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh), Henry F J and Rahaman M M. Reporting errors in one week diarrhoea recall surveys: experience from a prospective study in rural Bangladesh. International Journal of Epidemiologyg,...
Firdausi Qadri, Muhammad S. Alam, Mitsuaki Nishibuchi, Taufiqur Rahman et al.
Vibrio parahaemolyticus, antibody-secreting cell responses to thermostable direct hemolysin (TDH), lipopolysaccharide (LPS), and whole-cell bacteria were seen. TDH-and LPS-specific responses were seen in serum samples, and immunoglobulin A antibody responses were observed in stool. Levels of C-react...
Mir Ezharul Hossain, Mohammad Nurul Alam, Mohammad Akbar Ali, M. Nazimuddin et al.
Muhammed Alamgir Zaman Chowdhury, Iffat Jahan, Nurul Karim, Md Khorshed Alam et al.
In the present study, the residual pesticide levels were determined in eggplants (Solanum melongena) (n = 16), purchased from four different markets in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The carbamate and organophosphorus pesticide residual levels were determined by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), an...
Sabuktagin Rahman, Tahmeed Ahmed, Ahmed Shafiqur Rahman, Nurul Alam et al.
OBJECTIVE: Using data from the national micronutrients survey 2011-2012, the present study explored the determinants of Fe status and Hb levels in Bangladesh with a particular focus on groundwater Fe. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study conducted at the nationwide scale. Settings The survey was conducted ...
Peter Kim Streatfield, Wasif Ali Khan, Abbas Bhuiya, Syed Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi et al.
BACKGROUND: Mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is a major global issue, as other categories of mortality have diminished and life expectancy has increased. The World Health Organization's Member States have called for a 25% reduction in premature NCD mortality by 2025, which can only be...
Cecep Nurul Alam, Khaerul Manaf, Aldy Rialdy Atmadja, Digital Khrisna Aurum
Location based services (LBS) is one of the new technologies to gain a position in the geographic presence of mobile devices. The presence of LBS technology can be used for information mapping of an area such as the existence of the event. The existence of event is influenced by the number of visito...
Peter Kim Streatfield, Wasif Ali Khan, Abbas Bhuiya, Syed Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi et al.
BACKGROUND: As the HIV/AIDS pandemic has evolved over recent decades, Africa has been the most affected region, even though a large proportion of HIV/AIDS deaths have not been documented at the individual level. Systematic application of verbal autopsy (VA) methods in defined populations provides an...
Roy Sk, Khurshid Jahan, Nurul Alam, Rumana Rois et al.
BACKGROUND: WHO estimated 20% of adolescents (10-19 years) have mental health problems. We examined the prevalence and associated risk predictors of overweight/obesity and perceived stress using eating behaviors and physical activity among school-and-college-going urban adolescents in Bangladesh. ME...