Maria Argos, Tara Kalra, Paul J. Rathouz, Yu Chen et al.
Background Millions of people worldwide are chronically exposed to arsenic through drinking water, including 35–77 million people in Bangladesh. The association between arsenic exposure and mortality rate has not been prospectively investigated by use of individual-level data. We therefore prospecti...
Yu Chen, J. H. Graziano, F. Parvez, Mengling Liu et al.
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the association between arsenic exposure and mortality from cardiovascular disease and to assess whether cigarette smoking influences the association. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study with arsenic exposure measured in drinking water from wells and urine. SETTING: General popul...
Jason Abaluck, Laura H. Kwong, Ashley Styczynski, Ashraful Haque et al.
Persuading people to mask Even in places where it is obligatory, people tend to optimistically overstate their compliance for mask wearing. How then can we persuade more of the population at large to act for the greater good? Abaluck et al . undertook a large, cluster-randomized trial in Bangladesh ...
Mostafa Zaman Chowdhury, Moh. Khalid Hasan, Md. Shahjalal, Md. Tanvir Hossan et al.
Optical wireless communication (OWC) is an excellent complementary solution to its radio frequency (RF) counterpart. OWC technologies have been demonstrated to be able to support high traffic generated by massive connectivity of the Internet of Things (IoT) and upcoming 5 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www....
Barun K. Das, Rakibul Hassan, Mohammad Shahed Hasan Khan Tushar, Forhad Zaman et al.
Renewable hybrid energy systems are well-proven to be capable of supplying reliable power in the remote areas, where grid extension is not viable due to geographical constraints, but not absolutely emissions free. The present study investigates a hybrid energy system that entails photovoltaic module...
Muhammad Hammad Butt, Muhammad Zaman, Abrar Ahmad, Rahima Khan et al.
Over the past few decades, gene therapy has gained immense importance in medical research as a promising treatment strategy for diseases such as cancer, AIDS, Alzheimer's disease, and many genetic disorders. When a gene needs to be delivered to a target cell inside the human body, it has to pass a l...
Asma Binta Hasan, Sohail Kabir, A.H.M. Selim Reza, Mohammad Nazim Zaman et al.
Yu Chen, Fen Wu, Mengling Liu, Faruque Parvez et al.
BACKGROUND: Few prospective studies have evaluated the influence of arsenic methylation capacity on cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. OBJECTIVE: We evaluated the association of arsenic exposure from drinking water and arsenic methylation capacity with CVD risk. METHOD: We conducted a case-cohort st...
Firdausi Qadri, Farhana Khanam, Xinxue Liu, Katherine Theiss-Nyland et al.
BACKGROUND: Typhoid fever remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in low-income and middle-income countries. Vi-tetanus toxoid conjugate vaccine (Vi-TT) is recommended by WHO for implementation in high-burden countries, but there is little evidence about its ability to protect against clini...
Maureen S. Durkin, Leslie L. Davidson, Patricia Desai, Zaki Hasan et al.
An international study to validate the Ten Questions screen for serious childhood disability was undertaken in communities in Bangladesh, Jamaica, and Pakistan, where community workers screened more than 22,000 children ages 2-9 years. All children who screened positive, as well as random samples of...
Md. Shahidul Islam, Jennifer A. Saito, Emdadul Mannan Emdad, Borhan Ahmed et al.
Abstract Jute ( Corchorus sp.) is one of the most important sources of natural fibre, covering ∼80% of global bast fibre production 1 . Only Corchorus olitorius and Corchorus capsularis are commercially cultivated, though there are more than 100 Corchorus species 2 in the Malvaceae family. Here we d...
Shovra Chandra Chakraborty, Md. Qamruzzaman, Md. Wahad Uz Zaman, Md Masruck Alam et al.
Mehedi Hasan, Md. Jobayer Hossein, Mainul Hossain, Hasan U. Zaman et al.
A novel design of a hybrid Full Adder (FA) using Pass Transistors (PTs), Transmission Gates (TGs) and Conventional Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CCMOS) logic is presented. Performance analysis of the circuit has been conducted using Cadence toolset. For comparative analysis, the performan...
Mohammad Shahidul Hasan Swapan, Atiq Zaman, Tahmina Ahsan, Fahmid Ahmed
Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, is the eleventh largest megacity city in the world, with a population of 18.2 million people living in an area of 1528 km2. This city profile traces the trajectories of its urban development to becoming a megacity and characterizes its emerging challenges due to inf...
Maureen S. Durkin, W. Wang, Patrick E. Shrout, Sultana S. Zaman et al.
This paper uses five strategies to evaluate the reliability and other measurement qualities of the Ten Questions screen for childhood disability. The screen was administered for 22,125 children, aged 2-9 years, in Bangladesh, Jamaica and Pakistan. The test-retest approach involving small sub-samples...
Brandon L. Pierce, Tong Lin, Maria Argos, Kathryn Demanelis et al.
Inherited genetic variation affects local gene expression and DNA methylation in humans. Most expression quantitative trait loci (cis-eQTLs) occur at the same genomic location as a methylation QTL (cis-meQTL), suggesting a common causal variant and shared mechanism. Using DNA and RNA from peripheral...
Henry C. Baggett, Nora L. Watson, Maria Deloria Knoll, W. Abdullah Brooks et al.
BACKGROUND.: Previous studies suggested an association between upper airway pneumococcal colonization density and pneumococcal pneumonia, but data in children are limited. Using data from the Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health (PERCH) study, we assessed this potential association. METHODS....
Mohammad Rashed Hasan Polas, Asghar Afshar Jahanshahi, Ahmed Imran Kabir, Abu Saleh Md. Sohel‐Uz‐Zaman et al.
This study investigates the variables affecting the adoption of blockchain technology (BT) among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with the application of artificial intelligence (AI) via the mediating lens of risk-taking behavior. As an initial sample, 150 owners/top managers from 150 SMEs ...
Shafi Mahmud, Gobindo Kumar Paul, Mirola Afroze, Shirmin Islam et al.
The recent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is a global threat for healthcare management and the economic system, and effective treatments against the pathogenic severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus responsible for this disease have not yet progressed beyond...
Md. Habibur Rahman Sobuz, Al-Imran, Shuvo Dip Datta, Jannat Ara Jabin et al.
The innovative utilization of sugarcane bagasse ash (SCBA) in producing lightweight concrete (LWC) needs to be explored experimentally and quantification with machine learning approaches. Therefore, this study aims to investigate fresh, mechanical and microstructural characteristics and machine lear...