Md. Enamul Huq, Shah Fahad, Zhenfeng Shao, Most. Sinthia Sarven et al.
Groundwater with an excessive level of Arsenic (As) is a threat to human health. In Bangladesh, out of 64 districts, the groundwater of 50 and 59 districts contains As exceeding the Bangladesh (50 μg/L) and WHO (10 μg/L) standards for potable water. This review focuses on the occurrence, origin, pla...
Firdausi Qadri, Mohammad Ali, Fahima Chowdhury, Ashraful Islam Khan et al.
Background Cholera is endemic in Bangladesh with epidemics occurring each year. The decision to use a cheap oral killed whole-cell cholera vaccine to control the disease depends on the feasibility and effectiveness of vaccination when delivered in a public health setting. We therefore assessed the f...
Matthew Reynolds, A.J.D. Pask, William Hoppitt, Kai Sonder et al.
Abstract To accelerate genetic gains in breeding, physiological trait (PT) characterization of candidate parents can help make more strategic crosses, increasing the probability of accumulating favorable alleles compared to crossing relatively uncharacterized lines. In this study, crosses were desig...
Fazla Rabbi Mashrur, Md. Saiful Islam, D Saha, S. M. Riazul Islam et al.
Sleep apnea is a common symptomatic disease affecting nearly 1 billion people around the world. The gold standard approach for determining the severity of sleep apnea is full-night polysomnography conducted in the laboratory, which is very costly and cumbersome. In this work, we propose a novel scal...
Riaz Ullah Khan, Naimul Islam, Sajal K. Das, S. M. Muyeen et al.
The idea of microgrid, smart grid, and virtual power plant (VPP) is being developed to resolve the challenges of climate change in the 21st century, to ensure the use of renewable energy in the electrical grid. For the increasing demand for electricity, raising public consciousness about reducing ca...
Firdausi Qadri, Mohammad Ali, Julia Lynch, Fahima Chowdhury et al.
BACKGROUND: A single-dose regimen of inactivated whole-cell oral cholera vaccine (OCV) is attractive because it reduces logistical challenges for vaccination and could enable more people to be vaccinated. Previously, we reported the efficacy of a single dose of an OCV vaccine during the 6 months fol...
Iqbal Ansary Khan, Amit Saha, Fahima Chowdhury, Ashraful Islam Khan et al.
A feasibility study of an oral cholera vaccine was carried out to test strategies to reach high-risk populations in urban Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The study was cluster randomized, with three arms: vaccine, vaccine plus safe water and hand washing practice, and no intervention. High risk people of...
Ali Riaz
Research Article| August 01 2003 "God Willing": The Politics and Ideology of Islamism in Bangladesh ALI RIAZ ALI RIAZ Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2003) 23 (1-2): 301–320. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-23...
Bangladesh is a country of paradoxes. The eighth most populous country of the world, it has attracted considerable attention from the international media and western policy-makers in recent years, often for the wrong reasons: corruption, natural disasters caused by its precarious geographical locati...
Introduction - Ali Riaz and C. Christine Fair 1. Political Culture in Contemporary Bangladesh: Histories, Ruptures and Contradictions - Dina Mahnaz Siddiqi 2. Political Violence in Bangladesh - Md. Shamsul Islam 3. Who are the Islamists? - Ali Riaz and Kh. Ali Ar-Raji 4. Who are the Militants? - Zay...
Mehr Muhammad Adeel Riaz, Unaiza Ahmad, Anmol Mohan, Ana Carla dos Santos Costa et al.
Vaccines are the best chance to control the pandemic-unless leaders succumb to vaccine nationalism. Vaccine nationalism is a frequent recurrence, especially during a brand-new market distribution. The development of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines in such a short space of time is a testament to...
Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam, Riaz Uddin, Subasish Das, Syed Imran Ahmed et al.
BACKGROUND: Bangladesh has made substantial progress in improving socioeconomic and health indicators over the past 50 years, but data on national disease burden are scarce. We used data from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2019 to estimate the burden of disease...
Muhammad Torequl Islam, Md. Nasiruddin, Ishaq Khan, S. Mishra et al.
Coronaviruses (CoVs) are enveloped positive-sense RNA viruses with an unusually large RNA genome, and a unique replication strategy, and are characterized by club-like spikes that project from their surface. An outbreak of a novel coronavirus 2019 (nCoV-2019) infection has posed significant threat t...
Md. Forhad Hossain, Avijit Ghosh, Mohd Abdullah Al Mamun, Asif Ahammad Miazee et al.
Baizid Khoorshid Riaz, Liaquat Ali, Sk Akhtar Ahmad, Md Ziaul Islam et al.
BACKGROUND: Bangladesh has established more than 13,000 community clinics (CCs) to provide primary healthcare with a plan of each covering a population of around 6,000. The inception of CCs in the country has revolutionized the healthcare delivery to reach the doorstep of people. The provision of he...