H. P. S. Abdul Khalil, Yalda Davoudpour, Nazrul Islam, Asniza Mustapha et al.
Nanofibrillated cellulose from biomass has recently gained attention owing to their biodegradable nature, low density, high mechanical properties, economic value and renewability. Although they still suffer from two major drawbacks. The first challenge is the exploration of raw materials and its app...
Nazmul Chaudhury, Jeffrey S. Hammer, Michael Kremer, Karthik Muralidharan et al.
In this paper, we report results from surveys in which enumerators made unannounced visits to primary schools and health clinics in Bangladesh, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Peru and Uganda and recorded whether they found teachers and health workers in the facilities. Averaging across the countries, ab...
Shams Forruque Ahmed, Md. Sakib Bin Alam, Maruf Hassan, Mahtabin Rodela Rozbu et al.
Abstract Deep learning (DL) is revolutionizing evidence-based decision-making techniques that can be applied across various sectors. Specifically, it possesses the ability to utilize two or more levels of non-linear feature transformation of the given data via representation learning in order to ove...
Shams Forruque Ahmed, M. Mofijur, Samiha Nuzhat, Anika Tasnim Chowdhury et al.
Emerging contaminants (ECs) in wastewater have recently attracted the attention of researchers as they pose significant risks to human health and wildlife. This paper presents the state-of-art technologies used to remove ECs from wastewater through a comprehensive review. It also highlights the chal...
Jie Liu, James A Platts-Mills, Jane Juma, Furqan Kabir et al.
Background Diarrhoea is the second leading cause of mortality in children worldwide, but establishing the cause can be complicated by diverse diagnostic approaches and varying test characteristics. We used quantitative molecular diagnostic methods to reassess causes of diarrhoea in the Global Enteri...
Sojib Bin Zaman, Muhammed Awlad Hussain, Rachel Nye, Varshil Mehta et al.
Antibiotics are the 'wonder drugs' to combat microbes. For decades, multiple varieties of antibiotics have not only been used for therapeutic purposes but practiced prophylactically across other industries such as agriculture and animal husbandry. Uncertainty has arisen, as microbes have become resi...
Eddy van Doorslaer, Owen O’Donnell, Ravindra P. Rannan‐Eliya, Aparnaa Somanathan et al.
Background Conventional estimates of poverty do not take account of out-of-pocket payments to finance health care. We aimed to reassess measures of poverty in 11 low-to-middle income countries in Asia by calculating total household resources both with and without out-of-pocket payments for health ca...
Bogdan Ene‐Iordache, Norberto Perico, Boris Bikbov, Sergio Carminati et al.
BACKGROUND: Chronic kidney disease is an important cause of global mortality and morbidity. Data for epidemiological features of chronic kidney disease and its risk factors are limited for low-income and middle-income countries. The International Society of Nephrology's Kidney Disease Data Center (I...
Eddy van Doorslaer, Owen O’Donnell, Ravindra P. Rannan‐Eliya, Aparnaa Somanathan et al.
Out-of-pocket (OOP) payments are the principal means of financing health care throughout much of Asia. We estimate the magnitude and distribution of OOP payments for health care in fourteen countries and territories accounting for 81% of the Asian population. We focus on payments that are catastroph...
Md Shaifur Rahman, Naznin Akhtar, Hossen Mohammad Jamil, Rajat Suvra Banik et al.
Transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-β)/bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) plays a fundamental role in the regulation of bone organogenesis through the activation of receptor serine/threonine kinases. Perturbations of TGF-β/BMP activity are almost invariably linked to a wide variety of clinical outcom...
Shams Forruque Ahmed, M. Mofijur, Nazifa Rafa, Anika Tasnim Chowdhury et al.
Green synthesis approaches of nanomaterials (NMs) have received considerable attention in recent years as it addresses the sustainability issues posed by conventional synthesis methods. However, recent works of literature do not present the complete picture of biogenic NMs. This paper addresses the ...
Kazi Md. Rokibul Alam, Nazmul Siddique, Hojjat Adeli
This paper presents a novel dynamic ensemble learning (DEL) algorithm for designing ensemble of neural networks (NNs). DEL algorithm determines the size of ensemble, the number of individual NNs employing a constructive strategy, the number of hidden nodes of individual NNs employing a constructive–...
Nazma Shaheen, Nafis Md. Irfan, Ishrat Nourin Khan, Md. Saiful Islam et al.
The presence of toxic heavy metals such as As, Cd, Pb, Cr, Mn, Ni, Cu, and Zn in nationally representative samples of highly consumed fruits and vegetables was determined by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). Their concentrations exceeded the maximum allowable concentration (MAC)...
Stephen P. Luby, Mahmudur Rahman, M. Jahangir Hossain, Lauren S. Blum et al.
We investigated an outbreak of encephalitis in Tangail District, Bangladesh. We defined case-patients as persons from the outbreak area in whom fever developed with new onset of seizures or altered mental status from December 15, 2004, through January 31, 2005. Twelve persons met the definition; 11 ...
Mansour Almazroui, Sajjad Saeed, Fahad Saeed, M. Nazrul Islam et al.
Abstract The latest Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 6 (CMIP6) dataset was analyzed to examine the projected changes in temperature and precipitation over six South Asian countries during the twenty-first century. The CMIP6 model simulations reveal biases in annual mean temperature and pr...