Mehboob Alam, Elizabeth T. Snow, Atsushi Tanaka
Drinking of arsenic (As) contaminated well water has become a serious threat to the health of many millions in Bangladesh. However, the implications of contamination of agricultural soils from long-term irrigation with As-contaminated groundwater for phyto-accumulation in food crops, and thence diet...
Mihai Pop, Alan W. Walker, Joseph N. Paulson, Brianna Lindsay et al.
BACKGROUND: Diarrheal diseases continue to contribute significantly to morbidity and mortality in infants and young children in developing countries. There is an urgent need to better understand the contributions of novel, potentially uncultured, diarrheal pathogens to severe diarrheal disease, as w...
Alam S.M. Nur, Marzia Sultana, Atol Mondal, Sumon Islam et al.
MS Alam, M. R. Alam, Kazi Kamrul Islam
In this paper, a qualitative energy flow analysis in Bangladesh agriculture has been made for a period from 1980-81 to 2000-01 to evaluate the impact of energy input to produce output. Human and animal muscle power and machinery energy for tillage operation, electricity and diesel energy for irrigat...
Ohidul Alam, Xiuchen Qiao
This in-depth review covered most of the studies on municipal solid waste (MSW) management, treatment and disposal in Bangladesh. The urban centers together generate about 23,688 tons/day of MSW and about 70% of which is organic solid waste (OSW). The average moisture content and collection efficien...
Diponkor Bala, Md. Shamim Hossain, Md. Alamgir Hossain, Md. Ibrahim Abdullah et al.
The monkeypox virus poses a new pandemic threat while we are still recovering from COVID-19. Despite the fact that monkeypox is not as lethal and contagious as COVID-19, new patient cases are recorded every day. If preparations are not made, a global pandemic is likely. Deep learning (DL) techniques...
Khairul Alam, Roger K. Lake
The performance of a 5-nm gate length monolayer MoS <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sub> transistor is benchmarked against an ultrathin body Si transistor of similar dimensions and the ITRS requirements for 2026 low operating power (L...
Jianli Gao, Abu Bakkar Siddik, Sayyed Khawar Abbas, Muhammad Hamayun et al.
The COVID-19 pandemic has remarkably affected the business processes and performance of micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) across the world. MSMEs have had to adopt and implement numerous strategies to sustain their businesses, and their financial and sustainability performance has...
Mohammad Zahangeer Alam, Lynne Carpenter‐Boggs, Shishir Mitra, Md. Manjurul Haque et al.
Salinity has caused significant negative effects on agricultural production. This research is focused on the vulnerabilities of soil and water salinities on crop, fish, and livestock production across the Kalapara coastal belt of Bangladesh. Several parameters were measured as indicators of salinity...
M R Saha, SMR Hasan, Raushanara Akter, M. Moazzem Hossain et al.
In the present study, antioxidant potential of the methanol extract of the leaves of Mimusops elengi Linn. was evaluated by using 1, 1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) scavenging assay, reducing power and total antioxidant capacity. The extract showed significant activities in all antioxidant assays...
Shahnaz Sultana, Saiful Alam, Muhammad Manjurul Karim
Iron (Fe) bioavailability to plants is reduced in saline soils; therefore, plants growing in arid soils face two major challenges for poor crop productivity: high salinity and Fe deficiency. Siderophore-producing plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) could be a promising alternative to chemica...
Mohammad Forhad Khan, Faisal Bin Kader, Mohammad Arman, Suhel Ahmed et al.
Dita bark (Alstonia scholaris (L.) R. Br.) is an ethnomedicine used for the management of various ailments. This study aimed to investigate the biological properties of methanol extract of A. scholaris bark (MEAS), through in vivo, in vitro and in silico approaches alongside its phytochemical profil...
Nandita Das, Md. Ekramul Islam, Nusrat Jahan, Mohammad Saiful Islam et al.
BACKGROUND: Antioxidant compounds like phenols and flavonoids scavenge free radicals and thus inhibit the oxidative mechanisms that lead to control degenerative and other diseases. The aim of this study was to investigate the antioxidant activity in vitro, total phenolic and flavonoid contents in et...
Khairul Islam, Abedul Haque, Rezaul Karim, Abul Fajol et al.
Abstract Background Chronic arsenic exposure has been shown to cause liver damage. However, serum hepatic enzyme activity as recognized on liver function tests (LFTs) showing a dose-response relationship with arsenic exposure has not yet been clearly documented. The aim of our study was to investiga...
Hridoy Roy, Samiha Raisa Alam, Rayhan Bin-Masud, Tonima Rahman Prantika et al.
Municipal solid waste (MSW) management has become a major concern for developing countries. The physical and chemical aspects of MSW management and infrastructure need to be analyzed critically to solve the existing socio-economic problem. Currently, MSW production is 2.01 billion tonnes/yr. In deve...
Lisa G. Johnston, Rasheda Khanam, Masud Reza, Sharful Islam Khan et al.
This paper evaluates the effectiveness of respondent driven sampling (RDS) to sample males who have sex with males (MSM) in Dhaka, Bangladesh. A major objective for conducting this survey was to determine whether RDS can be a viable sampling method for future routine serologic and behavioral surveil...
Shahnaz Sultana, Sumonta C. Paul, Samia Parveen, Saiful Alam et al.
Growth and productivity of rice are negatively affected by soil salinity. However, some salt-tolerant rhizosphere-inhabiting bacteria can improve salt resistance of plants, thereby augmenting plant growth and production. Here, we isolated a total of 53 plant-growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) fro...
Mohammad Mahbub Kabir, Mst. Mahmoda Akter, Shahjalal Khandaker, Brandon H. Gilroyed et al.
Mohammad Amzad Hossain, M. J. Kabir, S. M. Salehuddin, Syed Mohammad Mizanur Rahman et al.
The antibacterial potential of essential oils and methanol extracts of sweet basil Ocimum basilicum L. (Lamiaceae) was evaluated for controlling the growth range of food-borne pathogenic bacteria. Essential oils extracted by hydrodistillation from the leaves and stems were analyzed by GC-MS. Fifty-s...
Jinnat Rahman, Abu Montakim Tareq, Md. Mohotasin Hossain, Shahenur Alam Sakib et al.
Cycas pectinata Buch.-Ham. is commonly used in folk medicine against various disorders. The present study investigated the antidepressant and cytotoxicity activity of methanol extract of C. pectinata (MECP) along with quantitative phytochemical analysis by GC-MS method. Here, the GC-MS study of MECP...