Sanmay Kumar Patra, Ratneswar Poddar, Marián Brestič, Pravat Utpal Acharjee et al.
In arid and semiarid regions and under rainfed conditions, water availability is one of the principal ecological constraints that hinder agriculture’s sustainability. The super absorbent polymer (agricultural) is water-absorbing and is cross-linked to absorb aqueous solutions through bonding with wa...
Dipti Halder, Subhamoy Bhowmick, Ashis Biswas, Debashis Chatterjee et al.
This study investigates the risk of arsenic (As) exposure to the communities in rural Bengal, even when they have been supplied with As safe drinking water. The estimates of exposure via dietary and drinking water routes show that, when people are consuming water with an As concentration of less tha...
Bhaskar Deb Bhattacharya, Dulal Chandra Nayak, Santosh Kumar Sarkar, Sejuiti Naha Biswas et al.
Mahesh K. Gathala, Alison M. Laing, Thakur P. Tiwari, Jagadish Timsina et al.
In the Eastern Gangetic Plains of South Asia current agronomic practices are energy-intensive, and this contributes to higher cropping system production costs and CO2-equivalent greenhouse gas emissions. Increasingly uncertain and scarce resources, together with an increasingly variable and changing...
Manas Mondal, Anupam Biswas, Subrata Halder, Somnath Mandal et al.
Present research is an endeavour to scrutinise the spatio-temporal climatic characteristics of tropical cyclones (TCs) bustle in the Bay of Bengal basin, found in RSMC-IMD data all through 1971–2020. A large number of TCs, i.e. 121 with a decadal average of 35.2 TCs has been examined for the last 50...
Md. Hazrat Ali, Biswa Bhattacharya, A. K. M. Saiful Islam, G. M. Tarekul Islam et al.
Although Bangladesh has suffered from different types of floods which have caused enormous damage to properties and lives, managing floods still remains a challenging task. Flood management is a multisectoral activity due to its complexity, scale, and multidisciplinary nature. Sirajganj district can...
Biswanath Sikdar, M. Bhattacharya, Ashutosh Mukherjee, Amrita Banerjee et al.
Biochemical and molecular markers have been used on eleven species of Cucurbitaceae collected from lower Gangetic plains. Six enzyme systems were selected. Among 40 primers examined, 14 random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) and 10 inter-simple sequence repeat (ISSR) primers were selected for the a...
Surajita Banerjee, Kamalesh Sarkar, Soma Gupta, Prasanta Sinha Mahapatra et al.
BACKGROUND: Implementation of Multi drug Therapy (MDT) regimen has resulted in the decline of the total number of leprosy cases in the world. Though the prevalence rate has been declining, the incidence rate remains more or less constant and high in South East Asian countries particularly in India, ...
Fabio Sai, Lydia Cumiskey, Albrecht Weerts, Biswa Bhattacharya et al.
Abstract. Impact-based forecasting and warning services aim to bridge the gap between producers and users of warning information by connecting and increasing synergies between the components of effective early warning systems. We tested qualitatively whether a warning message based on colour codes i...
Ashis Biswas, Bibhash Nath, Prosun Bhattacharya, Dipti Halder et al.
A low-cost rapid screening tool for arsenic (As) and manganese (Mn) in groundwater is urgently needed to formulate mitigation policies for sustainable drinking water supply. This study attempts to make statistical comparison between tubewell (TW) platform color and the level of As and Mn concentrati...
Arijit Bhattacharya, Arunima Biswas, Pijush K. Das
cAMP-mediated responses act as modulators of environmental sensing and cellular differentiation of many kinetoplastidae parasites including Leishmania. Although cAMP synthesizing (adenylate cyclase) and degrading (phosphodiesterase) enzymes have been cloned and characterized from Leishmania, no cAMP...
Md Feroz Islam, Biswa Bhattacharya, Ioana Popescu
Abstract. Bangladesh, one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world, has a dynamic delta with 123 polders protected by earthen dikes. Cyclone-induced storm surges cause severe damage to these polders by overtopping and breaching the dikes. A total of 19 major tropical storms have hit the coa...
Md Annaduzzaman, Prosun Bhattacharya, Ashis Biswas, Mohammed Hossain et al.
Asadusjjaman Suman, Biswa Bhattacharya
The paper presents the flood characterisation of the Haor region in the north-east of Bangladesh. The region consists of a system of Haors, each of which is a saucer-shaped depression and interconnected by a river system. A portion of the Haor area, known as the deeply flooded area, consisting of ab...
Binata Roy, A. K. M. Saiful Islam, G. M. Tarekul Islam, Md. Jamal Uddin Khan et al.
A danger level at a river location is the level above which a flood may cause loss and damage to nearby lives, crops, and homesteads. Currently, in Bangladesh, the danger level is designed and updated considering the riverine flood during the monsoon season (June–September). However, during the prem...