Muhammad Aziz Rahman, Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam, Patraporn Tungpunkom, Farhana Sultana et al.
BACKGROUND: The current pandemic of COVID-19 impacted the psychological wellbeing of populations globally. OBJECTIVES: We aimed to examine the extent and identify factors associated with psychological distress, fear of COVID-19 and coping. METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional study across 17 coun...
Volodymyr Samoylenko, D. Chuck Dunbar, M. A. Gafur, Shabana I. Khan et al.
A bioassay-guided fractionation of Juniperus procera berries yielded antiparasitic, nematicidal and antifouling constituents, including a wide range of known abietane, pimarane and labdane diterpenes. Among these, abieta-7,13-diene (1) demonstrated in vitro antimalarial activity against Plasmodium f...
Shafiqur Rahman, Abul Hasnat, Choudhury Mahmood Hasan, M.A. Rashid et al.
The results of pharmacological studies on 64 medicinal plants of Bangladesh have been reviewed. The results encountered in various investigations reveal important pharmacological activities of the plants which may be used as leads in developing novel therapeutic agents.
Muhammad Aziz Rahman, Pritimoy Das, Louisa Lam, Sheikh Mohammad Alif et al.
BACKGROUND: The ongoing global crisis of Higher Education (HE) institutions during the post-COVID-19 pandemic period has increased the likelihood of enduring psychological stressors for staff. This study aimed to identify factors associated with job insecurity, burnout, psychological distress and co...
Tarannum Naz, Ashik Mosaddik, Md. Motiur Rahman, Ilias Muhammad et al.
The petroleum ether and chloroform extracts of the root of Piper chaba showed antimicrobial, antileishmanial and cytotoxic activities. Further bioactivity-guided fractionation led to the isolation of Bornyl piperate (1), piperlonguminine (2) and piperine (3). This is the first report of isolation of...
Muhammad Ilias, Zhang, Rahman, Jain et al.
Abstract: Cupressus sempervirens L. (Cupressaceae) is a species of cypress native to the eastern Mediterranean region. The ethanol extract of the powdered cones (fruits) of this plant, collected from Oxford, Mississippi during the fall of 2010, exhibited potent antimicrobial and antiparasitic activi...
Md. Faijul Amin, Savitha Ramasamy, Muhammad Ilias Amin, Kazuyuki Murase
Functional link networks are single-layered neural networks that impose nonlinearity in the input layer using nonlinear functions of the original input variables. In this paper, we present a fully complex-valued functional link network (CFLN) with multivariate polynomials as the nonlinear functions....
Razina Rouf, Puja Ghosh, Md. Raihan Uzzaman, Dipto Kumer Sarker et al.
Liver diseases are quite prevalant in many densely populated countries, including Bangladesh. The liver and its hepatocytes are targeted by virus and microbes, as well as by chemical environmental toxicants, causing wide-spread disruption of metabolic fuctions of the human body, leading to death fro...
Hadayet Ullah, Md. Abdul Wahab, Md Jalilur Rahman, Shaheed Nasrullah Al Mamun et al.
Fishers’ local ecological knowledge (LEK) can be used to reconstruct or supplement long-term trends in heavily exploited population or poorly assessed species with low biomass. We used historical memories of small-scale fishers to understand their perceptions of changes in catch trends in marine fis...
Sherief Ghozy, Wendy Cross, Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam, Adhra Al‐Mawali et al.
Background: Healthcare workers (HCWs) have been impacted psychologically due to their professional responsibilities over the prolonged era of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The study aimed to identify the predictors of psychological distress, fear, and coping during the COVID-19 p...
Md. Faijul Amin, Savitha Ramasamy, Muhammad Ilias Amin, Kazuyuki Murase
This paper presents a fully complex-valued functional link network (CFLN). The CFLN is a single-layered neural network, which introduces nonlinearity in the input layer using nonlinear functions of the original input variables. In this study, we consider multivariate polynomials as the nonlinear fun...
Kangkana Mitra, Md Abdur Raihan, Md. Abdur Rahman, Razina Rouf et al.
Nelumbo nucifera (sacred lotus), locally known as Poddo, has been used as food and traditional remedy in Ayurvedic system in India and Traditional Chinese Medicine for a wide range of diseases. During past two decades, there are numerous scientific studies and general reviews have been published on ...
Talal Ali F. Alharbi, Alaa AlQurashi, Ilias Mahmud, Rayan Jafnan Alharbi et al.
(1) Background: COVID-19 caused the worst international public health crisis, accompanied by major global economic downturns and mass-scale job losses, which impacted the psychosocial wellbeing of the worldwide population, including Saudi Arabia. Evidence of the high-risk groups impacted by the pand...
Syed Mithun Ali, Muhammad Najmul Haque, Md. Rayhan Sarker, Jayakrishna Kandasamy et al.
Purpose Bangladesh's ready-made garment (RMG) industry plays a vital role in the economic growth of this country. As the global trend in the fashion market has introduced a high-mix, low-volume ordering style, manufacturers are facing an increased number of changeovers in their production systems. H...
Mohammad K. Ashfaq, Mohamed S. Abdel‐Bakky, Mir Tahir Maqbool, Volodymyr Samoylenko et al.
In this study, 2,3-dihydro-1H-indolizinium alkaloid-prosopilosidine (PPD), that was isolated from Prosopis glandulosa, was evaluated against C. neoformans in a murine model of cryptococcosis. In vitro and in vivo toxicity of indolizidines were also evaluated. Mice were infected via the tail vein wit...
J Zhang, AA Rahman, SK Jain, BL Tekwani et al.
Cupressus sempervirens L. (Cupressaceae) is a species of cypress native to the eastern Mediterranean region. The EtOH extract of the powdered cone (fruits) of this plant, collected from Oxford, Mississippi during the fall of 2010, exhibited potent antimicrobial and antiparastic activities. Bioassay ...
Delwar Hossain, Muhammad Ilias
This study mainly aims to explore and examine the relationship between family socio-economic status and maternal health care seeking behaviour in rural Bangladesh. This is a total of 200 eligible couples were selected from 3 villages namely Rathni, Beurjari and Udaipur of Baliadangi Upazila through ...
Mohammad Mamun Elahi, Muhammad Ilias Amin, Md. Rakib Miah
The discovery of arsenic contamination of groundwater in many nations including Bangladesh shows that this is a global problem. Because of the delayed health effects, poor reporting, and low levels of awareness in some communities, the extent of the adverse health problems caused by arsenic in drink...
Muhammad Aziz Rahman, Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam, Ramy Abdelnaby, Rayan Jafnan Alharbi et al.
Background: The current pandemic of COVID-19 impacted the psychological wellbeing of populations globally. Our study aimed to examine the extent and associated factors to psychological distress, the level of fear of COVID-19, and coping strategies amongst a diverse range of community people in multi...
Samia Adil, Izhar Ahmed, Tamim M. Al-Hasan, Mohammed Alsafran et al.