Tahera Akter, Fatema Tuz Jhohura, Fahmida Akter, Tridib Roy Chowdhury et al.
BACKGROUND: Public health is at risk due to chemical contaminants in drinking water which may have immediate health consequences. Drinking water sources are susceptible to pollutants depending on geological conditions and agricultural, industrial, and other man-made activities. Ensuring the safety o...
Hasin Hasnat, Suriya Akter Shompa, Mirazul Islam, Safaet Alam et al.
, and clinical research. The review contains recent trends, therapeutical interventions, and futuristic aspects of flavonoids to treat several diseases like diabetes, inflammation, bacterial and viral infections, cancers, and cardiovascular diseases. However, this manuscript should be handy in futur...
Md. Najmol Hoque, Md. Tahjib‐Ul‐Arif, Afsana Hannan, Naima Sultana et al.
Heavy metal toxicity is one of the most devastating abiotic stresses. Heavy metals cause serious damage to plant growth and productivity, which is a major problem for sustainable agriculture. It adversely affects plant molecular physiology and biochemistry by generating osmotic stress, ionic imbalan...
Sonia Akter, Timothy J. Krupnik, Frederick Rossi, Fahmida Khanam
Theoretically, weather-index insurance is an effective risk reduction option for small-scale farmers in low income countries. Renewed policy and donor emphasis on bridging gender gaps in development also emphasizes the potential social safety net benefits that weather-index insurance could bring to ...
M. Z. Hoque, Fahmida Akter, Kamal Hossain, Mohammad Shahedur Rahman et al.
Yoghurt is a potential source of probiotic lactobacilli. In the present study, Lactobacillus spp. were isolated from two regional yoghurts in Bangladesh, which were identified on the basis of their colony morphologies and some biochemical tests. It was observed that isolated Lactobacillus spp. were ...
Nousin Akter, Ruhul A. Khan, Mohammad O. Tuhin, ME Haque et al.
Chitosan-reinforced starch-based biodegradable composite films were prepared by solution casting. The chitosan content in the films was varied from 20% to 80% (w/w). Tensile strength (TS) and tensile modulus (TM) of the starch-based composites were improved significantly with the addition of chitosa...
Sabuj Kanti Mistry, Fatema Tuz Jhohura, Fouzia Khanam, Fahmida Akter et al.
Anemia is a significant wide spread public health threat especially among the adolescent girls who are more vulnerable towards low level of hemoglobin particularly of low and middle income countries (LMICs). We investigated the prevalence of anemia among the adolescent girls (10–19 years) in Banglad...
Sonia Akter, Timothy J. Krupnik, Fahmida Khanam
This paper investigates if climate change skepticism, farmers' fatalistic beliefs, and insurance plan design influence interest in crop weather insurance. While studies of the influence of fatalism on disaster preparedness are common, the ways in which fatalism influences climate change skepticism, ...
Md. Syduzzaman, Shaida S. Rumi, Fahmida Faiza Fahmi, Mahmuda Akter et al.
Fiber reinforced polymer composites (FRPCs), due to their multifunctional properties, have already occupied a significant place in various applications such as aerospace, automotive, marine, structural engineering, and healthcare industries. Lightweight FRPCs are preferred over heavier materials bec...
Sabuj Kanti Mistry, Md. Belal Hossain, Fouzia Khanam, Fahmida Akter et al.
OBJECTIVE: Childhood stunting remains a major public health concern in Bangladesh. To accelerate the reduction rate of stunting, special focus is required during the first 23 months of a child's life when the bulk of growth takes place. Therefore the present study explored individual-, maternal- and...
Tamanna Tabassum, A.G.M. Sofi Uddin Mahamud, Tusher Kanti Acharjee, Rashidul Hassan et al.
A 75-day long experiment was performed to evaluate the effects of probiotic supplementations on rearing water quality, hematology, intestinal morphology, and gut bacterial load of Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus. Fifteen ponds were used for 5 treatments with 3 replications, and 400 fingerlings p...
Md. Golam Sarower Rayhan, M. Khalid Hasan Khan, Mahfuza Tahsin Shoily, Habibur Rahman et al.
Conductive textiles have found notable applications as electrodes and sensors capable of detecting biosignals like the electrocardiogram (ECG), electrogastrogram (EGG), electroencephalogram (EEG), and electromyogram (EMG), etc; other applications include electromagnetic shielding, supercapacitors, a...
Shafi Mahmud, Gobindo Kumar Paul, Suvro Biswas, Shamima Afrose et al.
The recently emerged coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has created a crisis in world health, and economic sectors as an effective treatment or vaccine candidates are still developing. Besides, negative results in clinical trials and effective cheap solution against this deadly virus have brought new challeng...
Md. Moshiul Islam, Wenxiu Ye, Fahmida Akter, Mohammad Saidur Rhaman et al.
Production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) is a key signal event for methyl jasmonate (MeJA)- and abscisic acid (ABA)-induced stomatal closure. We recently showed that reactive carbonyl species (RCS) stimulates stomatal closure as an intermediate downstream of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) production in...
Shamima Akter Smriti, Abu Naser Md Ahsanul Haque, Ashfaqul Hoque Khadem, Fahmida Siddiqa et al.
Abstract Nanocellulose, an exceptional natural material acquired from cellulose, has received tremendous attention over the past decades. This is because of its unique physical characteristics, surface chemistry, functional properties, and biocompatibility. Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) and cellulos...