Md. Akhtarul Islam, Sutapa Dey Barna, Hasin Raihan, Md. Nafiul Alam Khan et al.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of depression and anxiety among Bangladeshi university students during the COVID-19 pandemic. It also aimed at identifying the determinants of depression and anxiety. A total of 476 university students living in Bangladesh participated in t...
Aishwariya Dutta, Md. Kamrul Hasan, Mohiuddin Ahmad, Md. Abdul Awal et al.
Diabetes is one of the most rapidly spreading diseases in the world, resulting in an array of significant complications, including cardiovascular disease, kidney failure, diabetic retinopathy, and neuropathy, among others, which contribute to an increase in morbidity and mortality rate. If diabetes ...
Md. Akhtarul Islam, Nusrat Jahan Sathi, Md. Tanvir Hossain, Abdul Jabbar et al.
Abstract Caesarean delivery (C-section) has been increasing worldwide; however, many women from developing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa are deprived of these lifesaving services. This study aimed to explore the impact of certain socioeconomic factors, including respondent’s education, husband’s e...
Abeer S. Desuky, Sadiq Hussain, Samina Kausar, Md. Akhtarul Islam et al.
Feature selection plays a crucial role in order to mitigate the high dimensional feature space in different classification problems. The computational cost is reduced, and the accuracy of the classification is improved by reducing the dimension of feature space. Hence, in the classification task, fi...
Nusrat Jahan Sathi, Md. Akhtarul Islam, Md. Sabbir Ahmed, Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam
The evolving pandemic of non-communicable diseases like hypertension, diabetes mellitus are globally on the rise, and the trend is also escalating in Bangladesh. We aimed to assess the prevalence trend and associated factors of hypertension (HTN), diabetes mellitus (DM), and hypertension- diabetes m...
Md. Akhtarul Islam, Nusrat Jahan Sathi, Hossain Mohammad Abdullah, Jannatul Naime et al.
The study aimed to identify the factors influencing the utilization of antenatal care (ANC) services among pregnant women to fulfill the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) for maternal mortality ratio (MMR) by 2030; we also investigated the consistency of these factors. We have used the Demographic...
Habib Ul Hassan, Qadeer Mohammad Ali, Md. Ashekur Rahman, Mustafa Kamal et al.
The present study aimed to estimate the growth pattern through length-weight relationships (LWRs), condition (Fulton’s condition factor, KF) and prey-predator status through relative weight (WR) of 9 fish species e.g., Netuma thalassina, Epinephelus coioides, Acanthopagrus berda, Acanthopagrus latus...
Md. Abdul Awal, Md. Shahadat Hossain, Kumar Debjit, Nafiz Ahmed et al.
Asthma is a chronic and airway-induced disease, causing the incidence of bronchus inflammation, breathlessness, wheezing, is drastically becoming life-threatening. Even in the worst cases, it may destroy the quality to lead. Therefore, early detection of asthma is urgently needed, and machine learni...
Md. Kamrul Hasan, Md. Tasnim Jawad, Aishwariya Dutta, Md. Abdul Awal et al.
Measles is one of the significant public health issues responsible for the high mortality rate around the globe, especially for developing countries. Using nationally representative demographic and health survey data, measles vaccine utilization has been classified, and its underlying factors are id...
Md. Tanvir Hossain, Md. Akhtarul Islam, Nusrat Jahan, Mst. Tanmin Nahar et al.
Background: Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the government of Bangladesh implemented strict non-therapeutic measures, i.e., "social distancing," "lockdown," "work from home," in the first quarter of 2020. Like other professionals, teachers at schools, colleges and universities were ...
Md. Akhtarul Islam, Md Rasel Kabir, Ashis Talukder
Antenatal care has several benefits for expecting mothers and birth outcomes and this study attempts to investigate the prevalence and estimate the risk factors of antenatal care visits utilization in Bangladesh. In our study, using the data set BDHS 2014 we have fitted the Poisson Regression Model ...
Jannatul Ferdous Nishat, Taufiq-E-Ahmed Shovo, Benojir Ahammed, Md. Akhtarul Islam et al.
Background: Due to unemployment, the prolonged lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic caused panic and deepened poverty, especially among lower-class and marginal people. The related financial crises led to harmful practices such as the early marriage of adolescent girls, which deteriorated these gir...
Benojir Ahammed, Md. Rasel Kabir, Md. Menhazul Abedin, Mohammad Ali et al.
Introduction The analysis of factors affecting birth interval helps to reveal the mechanism and dynamics of fertility behavior which changes the population structure of a country. This study aims to examine the association among different socioeconomic and demographic factors with birth intervals an...
Mst. Tanmin Nahar, S. M. Farhad Ibn Anik, Md. Akhtarul Islam, Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam
BACKGROUND: Skilled birth attendants (SBAs) play a crucial role in reducing infant and maternal mortality. Although the ratio of skilled assistance at birth has increased in Bangladesh, factors associated with SBA use are unknown. The main goal of our study was to reveal the individual- and communit...
Lamiaa M. El Bakrawy, Mehmet Akif Çifçi, Samina Kausar, Sadiq Hussain et al.
Instance reduction is a pre-processing step devised to improve the task of classification. Instance reduction algorithms search for a reduced set of instances to mitigate the low computational efficiency and high storage requirements. Hence, finding the optimal subset of instances is of utmost impor...