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)...
Shahid A. Hasib, Saiful Islam, Ripon K. Chakrabortty, Michael J. Ryan et al.
Battery ensures power solutions for many necessary portable devices such as electric vehicles, mobiles, and laptops. Owing to the rapid growth of Li-ion battery users, unwanted incidents involving Li-ion batteries have also increased to some extent. In particular, the sudden breakdown of industrial ...
Daniel Roth, Shaun K. Morris, Stanley Zlotkin, Alison D. Gernand et al.
BACKGROUND: It is unclear whether maternal vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy and lactation improves fetal and infant growth in regions where vitamin D deficiency is common. METHODS: We conducted a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in Bangladesh to assess the effects of week...
Md. Tahjib‐Ul‐Arif, Mst. Ishrat Zahan, Md. Masudul Karim, Shahin Imran et al.
Several recent studies have shown that citric acid/citrate (CA) can confer abiotic stress tolerance to plants. Exogenous CA application leads to improved growth and yield in crop plants under various abiotic stress conditions. Improved physiological outcomes are associated with higher photosynthetic...
Anupam Khajuria, Vella A. Atienza, Suchana Chavanich, Wilts Henning et al.
Circular economy seems a vital enabler for sustainable use of natural resources which is also important for achieving the 2030 agenda for sustainable development goals. Therefore, a special session addressing issues of “sustainable solutions and remarkable practices in circular economy focusing mate...
Nurul A. Asif, Yeahia Sarker, Ripon K. Chakrabortty, Michael J. Ryan et al.
This review provides a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art methods of graph-based networks from a deep learning perspective. Graph networks provide a generalized form to exploit non-euclidean space data. A graph can be visualized as an aggregation of nodes and edges without having any ord...
Zinat Tasneem, Abdullah Al Noman, Sajal K. Das, Dip Kumar Saha et al.
Wind energy is a promising scheme in the power generation sector due to pollution-free power production and wind resources’ sufficiency worldwide. Installing wind turbines in all the possible extents can mitigate the rising energy demand. Built-up areas possess high potential for wind energy, includ...
Christine Marie George, Lauren Oldja, Shwapon Biswas, Jamie Perin et al.
There is a growing body of literature indicating an association between stunting and environmental enteropathy (EE), a disorder thought to be caused by repeated exposures to enteric pathogens. To investigate the relationship between exposure to enteric pathogens through geophagy, consumption of soil...
Md. Ashaduzzaman Niloy, Anika Shama, Ripon K. Chakrabortty, Michael J. Ryan et al.
Robots that can move autonomously and can make intelligent decisions by perceiving their environments and surrounding objects are known as autonomous mobile robots. Such robots have rapidly moved from laboratories to automated industries to fill a variety of roles in our lives, homes, offices, hospi...
Nahida Islam, Fahiba Farhin, Ishrat Sultana, M. Shamim Kaiser et al.
The Internet of Things (IoT) integrates billions of self-organized and heterogeneous smart nodes that communicate with each other without human intervention. In recent years, IoT based systems have been used in improving the experience in many applications including healthcare, agriculture, supply c...
Naima Rahman, Mehedi Ahmed Ansary, Ishrat Islam
Satyajit Kundu, Md. Hasan Al Banna, Abu Sayeed, Sadia Sultana et al.
OBJECTIVES: The study aimed to determine the associated factors of household food security (HFS) and household dietary diversity (HDD) during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh. DESIGN: Both online survey and face-to-face interviews were employed in this cross-sectional study. The Household Food Se...
Christine Marie George, Lauren Oldja, Shwapon Biswas, Jamie Perin et al.
Undernutrition is estimated to be an underlying cause of over half of all deaths in young children globally. There is a growing body of literature suggesting that increased exposure to enteric pathogens is responsible for environmental enteropathy (EE), a disorder associated with impaired growth in ...
Kaisar A. Talukder, Mohammad Aslam, Zhahirul Islam, Ishrat J. Azmi et al.
From 300 stool samples, 58 Campylobacter strains were isolated by standard microbiological and biochemical methods. Of these, 40 strains were identified as Campylobacter jejuni and 5 as Campylobacter coli. The presence of flaA (100%), cadF (100%), racR (100%), dnaJ (100%), pldA (100%), ciaB (95%), v...
Yu Chen, Fen Wu, Joseph H. Graziano, Faruque Parvez et al.
We conducted a cross-sectional study to evaluate the interrelationships between past arsenic exposure, biomarkers specific for susceptibility to arsenic exposure, and carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT) in 959 subjects from the Health Effects of Arsenic Longitudinal Study in Bangladesh. We measure...