Robert Y. Chen, Ishita Mostafa, Matthew C. Hibberd, Subhasish Das et al.
BACKGROUND: More than 30 million children worldwide have moderate acute malnutrition. Current treatments have limited effectiveness, and much remains unknown about the pathogenesis of this condition. Children with moderate acute malnutrition have perturbed development of their gut microbiota. METHOD...
Shoumen Lasker, Md Mizanur Rahman, Faisal Parvez, Mushfera Zamila et al.
The main objective of this experiment was to determine the effects of yogurt supplementation on fat deposition, oxidative stress, inflammation and fibrosis in the liver of rats with high-fat (HF) diet-induced obesity. Male Wistar rats were used in this study and were separated into the following fou...
Zunaid Ahsan Karar, Nurul Alam, Peter Kim Streatfield
BACKGROUND: For understanding epidemiological transition, Health and Demographic Surveillance System plays an important role in developing and resource-constraint setup where accurate information on vital events (e.g. births, deaths) and cause of death is not available. METHODS: This study aimed to ...
Alvin Kuowei Tay, Andrew Riley, Md. Rafiqul Islam, Courtney Welton‐Mitchell et al.
AIMS: Despite the magnitude and protracted nature of the Rohingya refugee situation, there is limited information on the culture, mental health and psychosocial wellbeing of this group. This paper, drawing on a report commissioned by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), aims to...
Brandon L. Pierce, Muhammad G. Kibriya, Tong Lin, Farzana Jasmine et al.
Arsenic contamination of drinking water is a major public health issue in many countries, increasing risk for a wide array of diseases, including cancer. There is inter-individual variation in arsenic metabolism efficiency and susceptibility to arsenic toxicity; however, the basis of this variation ...
Nur-A-Alam Alam, Mominul Ahsan, Md. Abdul Based, Julfikar Haider et al.
Currently, COVID-19 is considered to be the most dangerous and deadly disease for the human body caused by the novel coronavirus. In December 2019, the coronavirus spread rapidly around the world, thought to be originated from Wuhan in China and is responsible for a large number of deaths. Earlier d...
Robert Y. Chen, Vanderlene L. Kung, Subhasish Das, Md. Shabab Hossain et al.
BACKGROUND: Environmental enteric dysfunction (EED) is an enigmatic disorder of the small intestine that is postulated to play a role in childhood undernutrition, a pressing global health problem. Defining the incidence of this disorder, its pathophysiological features, and its contribution to impai...
Natalia V. Bhattacharjee, Lauren E. Schaeffer, Simon I Hay, Local Burden of Disease Exclusive Breastfeeding Collaborators et al.
Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF)-giving infants only breast-milk for the first 6 months of life-is a component of optimal breastfeeding practices effective in preventing child morbidity and mortality. EBF practices are known to vary by population and comparable subnational estimates of prevalence and p...
Michael J. Barratt, Sharika Nuzhat, Kazi Ahsan, Steven A. Frese et al.
Disrupted development of the gut microbiota is a contributing cause of childhood malnutrition. Bifidobacterium longum subspecies infantis is a prominent early colonizer of the infant gut that consumes human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs). We found that the absolute abundance of Bifidobacterium infanti...
Amimul Ahsan, M. Alamgir, Moetaz Elsergany, Shahriar Shams et al.
This study represents a few basic steps of municipal solid waste management practiced in the six major cities of Bangladesh, namely, Dhaka, Chittagong, Khulna, Rajshahi, Barisal, and Sylhet. A six-month field study was conducted to identify the solid wastes management steps such as storage at source...
Md. Maniruzzaman A. Aziz, Khairul Anuar Kassim, Moetaz Elsergany, Syed Anuar et al.
Palm oil is one of the leading agricultural crops in the world, as it dominates 34% of the global vegetable oil market, with approximately 64.6*103 million kgs of production in 2017. However, along with its breakthrough, the generation of palm oil mill effluent (POME) as uncontrolled waste has becom...
Md. Bokhtiar Hasan, Amirul Ahsan, Md. Afzalur Rahaman, Md. Nurul Alam
This paper mainly studies the influence of capital structure on firm’s performance. This investigation has beenperformed on a sample of 36 Bangladeshi firms listed in Dhaka Stock Exchange during the period 2007–2012.We have used four performance measures; earnings per share (EPS), return on equity (...
Atef El Jery, Heba Saed Kariem Alawamleh, Mustafa Humam Sami, Hussein A. Abbas et al.
Abstract The treatment of methylene blue (MB) dye wastewater through the adsorption process has been a subject of extensive research. However, a comprehensive understanding of the thermodynamic aspects of dye solution adsorption is lacking. Previous studies have primarily focused on enhancing the ad...
Nur-A- Alam, Mominul Ahsan, Md. Abdul Based, Julfikar Haider
Vehicles on the road are rising in extensive numbers, particularly in proportion to the industrial revolution and growing economy. The significant use of vehicles has increased the probability of traffic rules violation, causing unexpected accidents, and triggering traffic crimes. In order to overco...
M. Alamgir, Amimul Ahsan
A total of 7690 tons of municipal solid waste generated daily at the six major cities of Bangladesh, namely, Dhaka, Chittagong, Khulna, Rajshahi, Barisal and Sylhet, as estimated in 2005. Sampling was done at different waste generation sources such as residential, commercial, institutional and open ...
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...
Md. Fakhrul Islam, A. K. M. Akther Hossain, M.Z. Ahsan, M.A.A. Bally et al.
may pave a new way to realize the lowering of Curie temperature of ferrite that is expected to improve the magnetocaloric properties.
Md Mujibur Rahman, Mohammad Mostafa Zaman, Jessica Y. Islam, MA Jalil Chowdhury et al.
In Bangladesh, morbidity and mortality due to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) has increased over the last few decades. Hypertension is an important risk factor for NCDs, specifically cardiovascular disease. The objective of this study was to assess prevalence and risk factors for hypertension and p...
Nur-A-Alam, Mominul Ahsan, Md. Abdul Based, Julfikar Haider et al.
In the era of Industry 4.0, remote monitoring and controlling appliance/equipment at home, institute, or industry from a long distance with low power consumption remains challenging. At present, some smart phones are being actively used to control appliances at home or institute using Internet of Th...
Md Masum Billah, Md Khurshid Alam Bhuiyan, Mohammad Ahsanul Islam, Jewel Das et al.
Coastal wetlands including salt marshes are among the most productive ecosystems on Earth. They are known for improving the quality of coastal water and provisioning coastal fisheries. However, this ecosystem is under potential threat due to urban coastal land reclamation, limited sediment supply, i...