Amanda J. Driscoll, Maria Deloria Knoll, Laura L. Hammitt, Henry C. Baggett et al.
BACKGROUND.: Antibiotic exposure and specimen volume are known to affect pathogen detection by culture. Here we assess their effects on bacterial pathogen detection by both culture and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in children. METHODS.: PERCH (Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health) is a ca...
Md. Asaduzzaman, Md. Khaled Saifullah, A.K.M. Salim Reza Mollick, Md. Mokter Hossain et al.
Influence of Soilless Culture Substrate on Improvement of Yield and Produce Quality of Horticultural Crops
Razia Sultana, Adeola M. Alashi, Khaleda Islam, Md Saifullah et al.
The aim of the study was to determine the in vitro enzyme inhibition activities of aqueous polyphenolic extracts of nine popular Bangladeshi vegetables, namely ash gourd, bitter gourd, brinjal, Indian spinach, kangkong, okra, ridge gourd, snake gourd, and stem amaranth. Polyphenolic glycosides were ...
Mohammad Mahbubul Hassan, Md. Khaled Saifullah
Ultrasonic dyeing has been investigated as a means to increase the diffusion of the dye molecules into the fiber for the dyeing of various fibers. However, for scouring, bleaching, and dyeing of jute fabrics, the beneficial effect of sonication was never realized. In this work, we report the effect ...
Mohammad Mahbubul Hassan, Md. Khaled Saifullah
Traditional pre-treatments, dyeing, and finishing of textiles have high environmental impacts because of the high usage of energy, water, and chemicals, and the production of effluent containing leftover harmful dyes and chemicals. In this comprehensive review article, the advances in applications o...
Md. Khaled Saifullah, Muhammad Mehedi Masud, Fatimah Kari
The Indigenous people of Malaysia are a heterogeneous community scattered over more than 852 villages in Peninsular Malaysia. This community has been identified to be among the poorest and marginalized in Peninsular Malaysia. This study evaluates the well-being factors as well as problems that hinde...
Md. Zahidul Islam, Zaima Ahmed, Md. Khaled Saifullah, Syed Nayeemul Huda et al.
Environmental awareness and its relation to the development of economy has garnered increased attention in recent years. Researchers, over the years, have argued that sustainable development warrants for minimizing environmental degradation since one depends on the other. This study analyzes the rel...
C M Khaled Saifullah, Md. Rafiqul Islam
Shortest common supersequence (SCS) is a classical NP-hard problem, where a string to be constructed that is the supersequence of a given string set. The SCS problem has an enormous application of data compression, query optimization in the database and different bioinformatics activities. Due to NP...
Md. Rafiqul Islam, C M Khaled Saifullah, Zarrin Tasnim Asha, Rezoana Ahamed
Mohammad Mahbubul Hassan, Md. Khaled Saifullah
Md. Rafiqul Islam, C M Khaled Saifullah, Md. Riaz Mahmud
Mohammad Nourani, Md Aslam Mia, Md. Khaled Saifullah, Noor Hazlina Ahmad
Purpose Uncontrollable brain drain (employees’ turnover) has been found to hamper humanitarian and sustainable objectives of socially oriented organizations. Hence, this study aims to explore the roles of gender and organizational-level factors on the rate of employees’ turnover in microfinance inst...
Md. Khaled Saifullah, Md. Montasir Mamun, Reza Md. Rubayet, K. H. M. Nazmul Hussain Nazir et al.
Objectives: Here we determined the prevalence of Salmonella in cloacal swabs and pharyngeal swabs of apparently healthy pigeons sold in the live bird markets and villages in and around Bangladesh Agricultural University Campus, Mymensingh, Bangladesh. Materials and methods: A total of 50 samples, co...
Rebeca Sultana, Nazmun Nahar, Stephen P. Luby, Sayeda Tasnuva Swarna et al.
There is a paucity of recent research on direct water quantity measurement for personal and domestic hygiene. We aimed to measure the water quantity used for personal and domestic hygiene and to explore the reasons and determinants for variation of water usage. We conducted this study from September...
MD. Khaled Saifullah, Ratul Halder, Shawon Afroz, Abu Hena Shatil et al.
Bangladesh is a highly populated nation in the globe where 76% people live in the remote regions and 24% in metropolitan areas. Peoples living in distant places are encountering problems having no access to energy. In addition, electricity sector of Bangladesh relies on the fossil fuel like natural ...
Md Aslam Mia, Tanzina Hossain, Zinnatun Nesa, Md. Khaled Saifullah et al.
Purpose Considering the existing evidence on the impact of female board members on the default risks of an organization, the purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of board gender diversity, alongside institutional characteristics and macroeconomic factors, on the financing costs of micr...
Nurulhuda Mohd Satar, Md. Khaled Saifullah, Muhammad Mehedi Masud, Fatimah Kari
Purpose In light of the rapid evolution of information and communication technology (ICT), every society is faced with many issues such as social exclusion, inequality and the digital divide. Hence, there is need to solve these complex challenges without comprising any development objective. A pract...
Rebeca Sultana, Nazmun Nahar, Nadia Ali Rimi, Sayeda Tasnuva Swarna et al.
Improving hygiene practices is considered to be the single most cost-effective means of reducing the global health burden of infectious diseases. Hygiene promotion and disease prevention interventions often portray and promote "hygiene" from a biomedical perspective, which may not be optimally effec...
C M Khaled Saifullah, Md. Rafiqul Islam
The Shortest Common Supersequence problem is an NP-hard optimization problem that has a vast use in real world problems. It is used in data compression and different bio-informatics analysis. Different types of approaches were used to solve this problem. Exact algorithms failed to compute for large ...
Md. Arphan Ali, Md. Khaled Saifullah, Fatimah Kari
This study analyzes the impact of key macroeconomic factors on economic growth of Bangladesh from the period of 1988 to 2012.The key macroeconomic factors studied are market capitalization, foreign direct investment and real interest rate. This study also examines the long run and short run relation...