Abhijit Mukherjee, Dipankar Saha, Charles F. Harvey, Richard G. Taylor et al.
The Indian Sub-Continent is one of the most densely populated regions of the world, hosting ∼23% of the global population within only ∼3% of the world's land area. It encompasses some of the world's largest fluvial systems in the world (River Brahmaputra, Ganges and Indus Basins), which hosts some o...
J. K. Ladha, A. N. Rao, Anitha Raman, Agnes Tirol‐Padre et al.
South Asian countries will have to double their food production by 2050 while using resources more efficiently and minimizing environmental problems. Transformative management approaches and technology solutions will be required in the major grain-producing areas that provide the basis for future fo...
Muhammad Jawad Nasim, SM Shahidullah, Abhijit Saha, MA Muttaleb et al.
Agricultural land use and distribution of cultivated crops expressed in cropping pattern (CP) constitute the base for increasing produtivity. An in-depth study was conducted on the existing CPs of Bangladesh in each and every upazila (sub-districts) using semi structured questionnaire and data valid...
Md. Omar Reza Seam, Rita Bhatta, Bijoy Saha, Abhijit Das et al.
Objectives: To evaluate the perceptions and extent of practicing self-medication among undergraduate pharmacy students. Methods: This cross-sectional, questionnaire-based study was conducted over a six month period (January to June 2016) among undergraduate pharmacy students in five reputable public...
Dew Biswas, Sujata Mandal, Suchismita Chatterjee Saha, Champa Keeya Tudu et al.
The well-known medicinal plant Centella asiatica (L.) Urban is an Ayurvedic and traditional Chinese medicine used in the treatment of different health problems and as an edible vegetable in a regular diet. Ease of availability in the wide range of environmental conditions plus low-cost cultivation p...
Pragnaditya Malakar, Abhijit Mukherjee, Soumendra N. Bhanja, Auroop R. Ganguly et al.
Groundwater plays a major role in human adaptation and ecological sustainability against climate variability by providing global water and food security. In the Indus-Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna aquifers (IGBM), groundwater abstraction has been reported to be one of the primary contributors to groundw...
Simanti Datta, Santanu Chattopadhyay, G. Balakrish Nair, Asish K. Mukhopadhyay et al.
Virulence-associated genes and neutral DNA markers of Helicobacter pylori strains from the Santhal and Oroan ethnic minorities of West Bengal, India, were studied. These people have traditionally been quite separate from other Indians and differ culturally, genetically, and linguistically from mains...
Bijoy Laxmi Saha, Md. Omar Reza Seam, Md Mainul Islam, Abhijit Das et al.
BACKGROUND: Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) is a combination of herbal medicine, traditional therapies, and mind-body intervention. This descriptive study was designed to assess the knowledge, attitudes, perception and self-use of CAM among Bangladeshi undergraduate pharmacy students. T...
M. Murshedul Alam, J. K. Ladha, M.W. Faisal, Sheetal Sharma et al.
In the Eastern Gangetic Plains of Bangladesh, the cropping systems are predominantly rice based, having large yield gaps in farmers’ fields because of poor management practices adopted by farmers. The increasing scarcity of resources (water, labor and energy) and production costs further make the ri...
Uday Saha, Abhijit Biswas, Md. Kawsar Alam
Direct bandgap Cu2ZnSnSe4 (CZTSe) material is a promising absorber for thin film photovoltaics due to its affordable production cost and ecofriendly constituents. However, bulk defects, small grain size, short minority carrier lifetime and band bending at CZTSe/Mo (back contact) interface limit the ...
Sabyasachi Mukherjee, Zexi Cai, Anupama Mukherjee, Imsusosang Longkumer et al.
BACKGROUND: Mithun (Bos frontalis), also called gayal, is an endangered bovine species, under the tribe bovini with 2n = 58 XX chromosome complements and reared under the tropical rain forests region of India, China, Myanmar, Bhutan and Bangladesh. However, the origin of this species is still disput...
Sharif Ahmed, Virender Kumar, Murshedul Alam, Mahbubur Rahman Dewan et al.
Abstract In Bangladesh, weeds in transplanted rice are largely controlled by labor-intensive and costly manual weeding, resulting in inadequate and untimely weed control. Labor scarcity coupled with intensive rice production has triggered increased use of herbicides. These factors warrant a cost-eff...
Abhijit Sukul, Sreedam Chandra Das, Sajal Saha, SM Abdur Rahman
The present study was performed to evaluate the biological activities of metal complexes of indomethacin with cobalt, copper, manganese and zinc. In radiant tail flick method, complexes of indomethacin with cobalt and copper at a dose of 20 mg/kg b.w. showed significant central analgesic activity ha...
Abhijit Sukul, Saikat Kumar Poddar, Sanjana Haque, Sajal Saha et al.
BACKGROUND: Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) exert gastrointestinal upset by inhibiting mucosal cyclooxygenase (COX) activity and complexation technique with metals has been adopted to overcome this drawback. OBJECTIVE: The study aimed to overcome the gastrointestinal side effects assoc...
Md. Abu Bakar Siddiquee, A.T.M. Gulam Moula, Joy Krisna Saha, Md. Humayun Kabir Khan et al.
Now-a-days sustainability is a crucial issue in denim washing. This research initiative is performed aiming to resolve the crisis of sustainability in denim washing by process optimization technique which highlights the reduction of water, chemical and time as well as costing of denim garments. In t...
Subarna Sandhani Dey, Md. Sahadat Hossain, Rajib Sarkar, Tasnimul Quader Tazim et al.
In this study, pure BC was biosynthesized and modified with silver (Ag) impregnation under an eco-friendly photocatalytic reduction reaction. For BC production, Acetobacter sp. was isolated from raw mango vinegar produced by the fermentation process under optimized conditions. The Ag-doped BC (BCAg)...
Duane C. Hinders, Anneke T. Taal, Suchitra Lisam, Aymée M. da Rocha et al.
BACKGROUND: Leprosy is an infectious disease with a slow decline in global annual caseload in the past two decades. Active case finding and post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) with a single dose of rifampicin (SDR) are recommended by the World Health Organization as measures for leprosy elimination. How...
MA Muttaleb, SM Shahidullah, Muhammad Jawad Nasim, Abhijit Saha
Towards the sustainable food security for a particular area, the policymakers, researchers, extension and development agents need the detailed information of cropping patterns, cropping intensity and crop diversity. Sylhet, a potential region of enormous potentiality of growing crops across the haor...
Pragnaditya Malakar, Abhijit Mukherjee, Soumendra N. Bhanja, Dipankar Saha et al.
Abstract. The water and food security of South Asia is embedded in the groundwater resources of the transboundary aquifer system of Indus-Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (IGBM) rivers, which has been subjected to diverse natural and anthropogenic triggers. Thus, understanding the relative importance of su...
Hemanshu Prabhakar, Abhijit V. Lele, Indu Kapoor, Charu Mahajan et al.
Background This study aimed to assess the organization, infrastructure, workforce, and adherence to protocols in neurocritical care across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), with the goal of identifying key gaps and opportunities for improvement. Methods We conducted a cross-sectional survey ...