Syed Mithun Ali, Md. Anwar Hossen, Zuhayer Mahtab, Golam Kabir et al.
Lean six sigma (LSS), a process improvement tool to achieve operational excellence in any industry, has become popular among practitioners over the last few decades. In this study, a framework for identifying barriers to LSS implementation in supply chains has been developed using the interpretive s...
Afroza Rahman, Md. Anwar Hossen, Mirza Farhana Iqbal Chowdhury, Sadia Bari et al.
Aducanumab is a novel disease-modifying anti-amyloid-beta (Aβ) human monoclonal antibody specifically targeted to the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD). It was granted for treating AD in June 2021 by the United States Food and Drug Administration. We systematically analyzed available trial...
R.W. Bell, Md. Enamul Haque, M. Jahiruddin, Md. Moshiur Rahman et al.
We review the recent development of Conservation Agriculture (CA) for rice-based smallholder farms in the Eastern Gangetic Plain (EGP) and the underpinning research on agronomy, weed control, soil properties and greenhouse gas emissions being tested to accelerate its adoption in Bangladesh. The stud...
Mohammad Anwar Hossen, Arun Govindaiah, Sadia Sultana, Alauddin Bhuiyan
In this paper, we propose a new method for Bengali Sign Language Recognition using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNN). The method is built to recognize static hand signs of 37 letters of the Bengali alphabet. Conducting tests on three sets of 37 signs (we have used 31 sets of images for 37 di...
Md. Anwar Hossen, M.M. Hossain, Md. Enamul Haque, R.W. Bell
Mechanizing the transplanting of rice can decrease labour requirement and costs for crop establishment. The cost of crop establishment can also be reduced by changing from conventional tillage with puddling to reduced tillage in non-puddled soil. However, mechanized rice transplanters for suitable f...
Md. Amjad Hossen, A.S.M. Ali Reza, Md. Badrul Amin, Shamima Nasrin et al.
methanol leaf extract (Me-BLL) in attenuating anxiety and depression through several experimental and computer-aided approaches. The chemical characterization of Me-BLL was performed through standard phytochemical and GC-MS analyses. To explore the neuropharmacological insights, Swiss albino mice we...
Md. Anwar Hossen, Md. Ruhul Amin Talukder, Muhammad Rashed Al Mamun, Hafijur Rahaman et al.
Reasonable use of agricultural machinery has an extraordinary potential for poverty alleviation by increasing land and labor productivity in Thailand, Vietnam, and even in Bangladesh. This study was conducted under a program entitled “Agriculture Mechanization, Agro-Processing, Value addition and Ex...
M. Anwar Hossen, David Benson, Syeda Zakia Hossain, Zakia Sultana et al.
Climate change effects cause major socioeconomic challenges for marginalized groups, particularly women, in Bangladesh. Specifically, drought increases resource scarcity, causing social problems that impact women, which can be described as the gendered sociocultural construction of vulnerabilities. ...
M. Anwar Hossen, Corinna Netherton, David Benson, Rezaur Rahman et al.
Climate change adaptation is currently an important community concern in developing countries like Bangladesh. The conceptualization of adaptation within the government system matters for the promotion of activities such as employment generation for local communities. The lesser the gap between gove...
M. Anwar Hossen, Md. Arif Chowdhury, Asha Hans, Cynthia Addoquaye Tagoe et al.
Coastal people, especially those living within deltaic areas, encounter major climatic concerns which affect their livelihoods. To cope with this problem, different types of planned adaptation strategies have been implemented guided by laws, policies and programs. However, these guiding documents so...
M. Anwar Hossen
This paper attempts to show how participatory mapping practices can contribute to local water resource management for community empowerment. The river bank communities such as Chapra encounter exclusion because of geographic aspects of local water development projects. To understand this exclusion, ...
Md. Mizanur Rahman, Hamidul Huq, M. Anwar Hossen
Women are recognized as proactive catalysts for societal change in rural Bangladesh because of their significant socio-economic contributions to agricultural practices. Historically, they have been closely associated with various agricultural activities ranging from seed preservation to crop harvest...
Gazi Farhan Ishraque Toki, Md. Nawaz Sharif, Md. Anwar Hossen, Abida Rahman et al.
Hamidul Huq, Md Mizanur Rahman, M. Anwar Hossen
Climate change has garnered widespread societal concern due to its yawning consequences on both the natural environment and human society. Consequently, the imperative for adaptation to climate change has become intensely entrenched in the collective psyche of humanity. Traditionally, women have pla...
Bidhan Nath, Subrata Paul, Md. Durrul Huda, Md. Anwar Hossen et al.
Bangladesh, a country with 87% of rural households that depend on agriculture and rice dominated diets (70%), engages the country’s food security. Therefore, there is strong advocacy for a mechanized paddy harvesting system for food security in South Asia, mainly Bangladesh. Some harvesting machiner...