H. P. S. Abdul Khalil, Yalda Davoudpour, Nazrul Islam, Asniza Mustapha et al.
Nanofibrillated cellulose from biomass has recently gained attention owing to their biodegradable nature, low density, high mechanical properties, economic value and renewability. Although they still suffer from two major drawbacks. The first challenge is the exploration of raw materials and its app...
Mansour Almazroui, Sajjad Saeed, Fahad Saeed, M. Nazrul Islam et al.
Abstract The latest Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 6 (CMIP6) dataset was analyzed to examine the projected changes in temperature and precipitation over six South Asian countries during the twenty-first century. The CMIP6 model simulations reveal biases in annual mean temperature and pr...
Atanu Kumar Das, Nazrul Islam, Md Omar Faruk, Md Ashaduzzaman et al.
Tannins are found in most of the species throughout the plant kingdom, where their functions are to protect the plant against predation and might help in regulating the plant growth. There are two major groups of tannins, i.e., hydrolyzable and condensed tannins. The tannins are being used as import...
Atanu Kumar Das, Md. Nazrul Islam, Md Morsaline Billah, A.K. Sarker
Healthcare waste comprises the waste generated by healthcare facilities, medical laboratories and biomedical research facilities. Improper treatment of this waste poses serious risks of disease transmission to waste pickers, waste workers, health workers, patients, and the community in general throu...
Joshua Halder, Nazrul Islam
River pollution has been one of the main topics in the environmental issue of urban Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. This study was conducted to find out the pollution situation of Turag river and the health problem of the surrounding residents. The results clearly determine that the water qua...
M. Azizur Rahman, Hiroshi Hasegawa, M. Mahfuzur Rahman, Nazrul Islam et al.
A glass house experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of soil arsenic on photosynthetic pigments, chlorophyll-a and -b, and their correlations with rice yield and growth. The experiment was designed with three replications of six arsenic treatments viz. control, 10, 20, 30, 60, 90 mg of A...
Syed Atiqul Haq, John Darmawan, Md. Nazrul Islam, Mohammed Zahir Uddin et al.
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the burden of rheumatic disorders in adults (age >/= 15 yrs) in Bangladeshi rural and urban communities. METHODS: The survey was carried out in a rural community, an urban slum, and an affluent urban community with samples of 2635, 1317, and 1259 adults, respectively. Through ...
Md. Saikat Islam Khan, Nazrul Islam, Jia Uddin, Sifatul Islam et al.
Estimating water quality has been one of the significant challenges faced by the world in recent decades. This paper presents a water quality prediction model utilizing the principal component regression technique. Firstly, the water quality index (WQI) is calculated using the weighted arithmetic in...
Md. Rezaur Rahman, Md. Monimul Huque, Md. Nazrul Islam, Mahbub Hasan
Mohammad Abdul Kader, Ashutus Singha, Mili Amena Begum, Arif Jewel et al.
Abstract Agricultural water resources have been limited over the years due to global warming and irregular rainfall in the arid and semi-arid regions. To mitigate the water stress in agriculture, mulching has a crucial impact as a water-saving technique in rain-fed crop cultivation. It is important ...
Md. Rezaur Rahman, Md. Monimul Huque, Md. Nazrul Islam, Mahbub Hasan
Md Sifat Siddik, Shibli Sadik Tulip, Atikur Rahman, Md. Nazrul Islam et al.
Groundwater recharge is affected by various anthropogenic activities, land use and land cover (LULC) change among these. The long-term temporal and seasonal changes in LULC have a substantial influence on groundwater flow dynamics. Therefore, assessment of the impacts of LULC changes on recharge is ...
Md. Nazrul Islam, Hiroshi Uyeda
Md. Nazrul Islam, Md. Rezaur Rahman, Md. Mominul Haque, Md. Monimul Huque
Mohammad Khairul Alam, Ziaul H. Rana, Sheikh Nazrul Islam
In an attempt to develop the food composition table for Bangladesh, the nutritional composition of nine varieties of orange-fleshed sweet potato was analyzed together with total carotenoids (TCC) and total polyphenol content (TPC). Each variety showed significant variation in different nutrient cont...