Roy Burstein, Nathaniel J Henry, Michael L. Collison, Laurie B. Marczak et al.
Since 2000, many countries have achieved considerable success in improving child survival, but localized progress remains unclear. To inform efforts towards United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3.2-to end preventable child deaths by 2030-we need consistently estimated data at the subnational ...
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...
Allah Wasaya, Sobia Manzoor, Tauqeer Ahmad Yasir, Naeem Sarwar et al.
Water scarceness is a major threat to wheat productivity under changing climate scenarios, especially in arid and semi-arid regions. However, growing drought-tolerant wheat genotypes could be a sustainable option to enhance wheat productivity under drought stress conditions. The aim of this study wa...
Local Burden of Disease Vaccine Coverage Collaborators, Alyssa N. Sbarra, Sam Rolfe, Jason Q. Nguyen et al.
Abstract The safe, highly effective measles vaccine has been recommended globally since 1974, yet in 2017 there were more than 17 million cases of measles and 83,400 deaths in children under 5 years old, and more than 99% of both occurred in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) 1–4 . Globally co...
Ben Belton, Leah Rosen, Lucinda Middleton, Saadiah Ghazali et al.
The COVID-19 pandemic is a shock affecting all areas of the global food system. We tracked the impacts of COVID-19 and associated policy responses on the availability and price of aquatic foods and production inputs during 2020, using a high frequency longitudinal survey of 768 respondents in Bangla...
Md. Mezanur Rahman, Mohammad Golam Mostofa, Md. Abiar Rahman, M.A.A.A.A. Islam et al.
Abstract The current study sought the effective mitigation measure of seawater-induced damage to mung bean plants by exploring the potential roles of acetic acid (AA). Principal component analysis (PCA) revealed that foliar application of AA under control conditions improved mung bean growth, which ...
Ayman El Sabagh, Akbar Hossain, Celaleddin Barutçular, Özgül Görmüş et al.
Oilseed crops are considered as one of the most essential dietary components in human consumption as well as animal feed. While drought is one of the most important abiotic stress that adversely effect on the yield and nutritional quality of major oilseed crops across the globe. Therefore, maintenan...
Mamunur Rashid, Islam Abdeljawad, Siti Manisah Ngalim, M. Kabir Hassan
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate customer‐centric corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Islamic banks of Bangladesh, Malaysia and the Arabian Gulf Region. The new framework is found from the incomplete link between managerial motivation and their actual involvement with CSR act...
Md. Mahadi Hasan, Md. Arfan Ali, Mona H. Soliman, Abdulaziz A. Alqarawi et al.
Brassinosteroids (BRs) are well recognized for their defensive role in plants under abiotic stress conditions, but 28-homobrassinolide (HBR)-induced tolerance to drought stress has not been reported in soybean (Glycine maxL.). The present study investigated the effect of HBR on soybean seedlings und...
Puja Ghosh, Himja Tiwari, Jaya Lakkakula, Arpita Roy et al.
Clinically approved therapeutics associated with cancer are limited to mostly chemotherapy, surgery and radiotherapy in spite of the advancements in the biomedical field. Due to the cardiotoxicity and uncountable side effects brought by the prevailing treatment strategies, demands are growing for ta...
Jaya Lakkakula, Arpita Roy, Karan Krishnamoorthy, Saad Alghamdi et al.
Alginate is being explored widely for an array of medicinal and diagnostic measures by way of nanosystems fabricated for techniques along the lines of drug delivery, imaging, tissue regeneration, etc. Their biocompatibility, nontoxicity, sensitivity to pH, mucoadhesiveness, and biodegradability have...
M. P. Ali, Mir Md. Moniruzzaman Kabir, Sadira Afrin, Farzana Nowrin et al.
Abstract The rice leaffolder, Cnaphalocrosis medinalis Güenée (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), has emerged as a serious pest with significant outbreaks over the last decade in several rice‐growing countries, including China and Bangladesh and resulting in heavy rice yield losses. Climate changes (particula...
M. Kabir Hassan, Mamunur Rashid, Islam Abdeljawad, Siti Manisah Ngalim
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate customer-centric corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Islamic banks of Bangladesh, Malaysia and the Arabian Gulf Region. The new framework is found from the incomplete link between managerial motivation and their actual involvement with CSR a...
G. M. Arifuzzaman Khan, Md. Ariful Islam, Md. Abdullah Al Masud, Kazi Alam et al.
The valorization of industrial byproducts is rising as a new dawn and has become a creative area of research for the scientists. Sericin is being a good resource of starting materials since it can be recovered and recycled. The research aimed to modify cotton fabric by sericin-TiO 2 nanocomposite (S...
Tamalika Bhadra, Chandan Kumar Mahapatra, Md. Hosenuzzaman, Dipali Rani Gupta et al.
Generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) constitutes an initial defense approach in plants during pathogen infection. Here, the effects of the two micronutrients, namely, zinc (Zn) and boron (B), on enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidant properties, as well as malondialdehyde (MDA) contents in l...
Uzzal Somaddar, Shamim Mia, Md. Ibrahim Khalil, Uttam Kumer Sarker et al.
) cultivar(s) having higher waterlogging tolerance is crucial to expanding cotton cultivation in the low-lying areas. The present study was designed to investigate the effect of waterlogging on the reproductive development of four elite upland cotton cultivars, namely, Rupali-1, CB-12, CB-13, and DM...
Salah Ud Din, Babar Hussain, Sirajul Haq, Muhammad Imran et al.
(1) Background: In this investigation, a composite of MgO nanoparticles with Itsit biochar (MgO-IBC) has been used to remove arsenate from contaminated water. The reduced adsorption capacity of biochar (IBC), due to loss of functionalities under pyrolysis, is compensated for with the composite MgO-I...
Fawaz Alharbi, Meshal Almoshaogeh, Md. Shafiquzzaman, Husnain Haider et al.
Permeable pavement provides sustainable solutions for urban stormwater management. In this research, the potential of rice bran mixed porous clay bricks were evaluated for permeable pavements. Physical, mechanical and hydrological properties along with stormwater treatment capabilities of the brick ...
Rigyan Gupta, Mohammad Joyel Sarkar, Md. Shafiqul Islam, Md. Romij Uddin et al.
In Bangladesh’s hill regions, where there is less cultivable land, increasing crop output requires efficient land use. Thus, in this challenging farming setting, two crop-based patterns evolved into three or four crop-based patterns. To increase cropping intensity and farmer income by incorporating ...
Sk Injamamul Islam, Saloa Sanjida, Sheikh Sunzid Ahmed, Mazen Almehmadi et al.
Chagas disease is a tropical ailment indigenous to South America and caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, which has serious health consequences globally. Insect vectors transmit the parasite and, due to the lack of vaccine availability and limited treatment options, we implemented an ...