Najmuj Sakib, A. K. M. Israfil Bhuiyan, Sahadat Hossain, Firoj Al‐Mamun et al.
Abstract The recently developed Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S) is a seven-item uni-dimensional scale that assesses the severity of fears of COVID-19. Given the rapid increase of COVID-19 cases in Bangladesh, we aimed to translate and validate the FCV-19S in Bangla. The forward-backward translation...
Mohammed A. Mamun, Najmuj Sakib, David Gozal, A. K. M. Israfil Bhuiyan et al.
BACKGROUND: As with other countries worldwide, lockdown measures during the COVID-19 outbreak in Bangladesh were sudden and unexpected, and have the capacity to elicit serious psychological consequences. The present study examined the psychological consequences of COVID-19 in Bangladesh during the l...
Shahriar Raian, Syed Mithun Ali, Md. Rayhan Sarker, Bathrinath Sankaranarayanan et al.
Tapos Kumar Chakraborty, Md Jahid Hasan, Baytune Nahar Netema, Md Abu Rayhan et al.
Microplastics (MPs) are polymer-based particles commonly found in diverse foods that pose serious human health impacts throughout the food chain. Assessment of MPs in different food products is a prime measure to combat MP-related food contamination. Therefore, this study first investigated the iden...
Md. Rayhan Sarker, Md. Abdul Moktadir, Ernesto D.R. Santibañez González
The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted the global social sustainability of the supply chains, pushing them towards a more flexible management approach. However, there is a paucity of literature that focuses on social sustainability issues for emerging economies. In the post-COVID-19 period, fir...
Mukta Roy, Ayesha Sarker, Abul Kalam Azad, Md Rayhan Shaheb et al.
Md. Rayhan Sarker, Syed Mithun Ali, Sanjoy Kumar Paul, Ziaul Haque Munim
Tapos Kumar Chakraborty, Md Sozibur Rahman, Md. Simoon Nice, Baytune Nahar Netema et al.
Microplastics (MPs) are an emerging global concern due to severe toxicological risks for ecosystems and public health. Therefore, this is the first study in Bangladesh to assess MP pollution and its associated risks for ecosystems and human health in the outdoor urban environment using machine learn...
Md Rayhan Shaheb, Ayesha Sarker, S. A. Shearer
Precision agriculture (PA) transforms traditional practices into a new world of production of agriculture. It uses a range of technologies or diagnostic tools such as global navigation satellite system (GNSS), geographic information systems (GIS), yield monitors, near-infrared reflectance sensing, a...
Md. Rayhan Sarker, Sadia Rahman, A. K. M. Hedaitul Islam, Md. Farhan Fuad Bhuyan et al.
The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted global business operations. Most importantly, practitioners of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have been facing devastating economic shocks emanated from the COVID-19 pandemic. The purposes of this study are to explore the business status of SME...
Mohaiminul Islam, Md. Rayhan Sarker, Md. Israil Hossain, Kauser Ali et al.
At present, sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) has gained a great momentum in this competitive business world for any kind of industry. Leather industry (leather, leather products, and footwear) is the second export earning sector of Bangladesh which is scrambling to implement SSCM in its wo...
Sourav Sarker, Shahin Mahmud, Razia Sultana, Ritu Biswas et al.
Water is one of the most vital elements of ecosystem and human being, but unfortunately nowadays, the pollution of surface and drinking water is an alarming problem. The present work deals with the assessment of physicochemical and bacteriological profile of several pond, jar and tube-well water sam...
Iqramul Haq, Maruf Khan, Sharanon Chakma, Md. Ismail Hossain et al.
This study aims to investigate factors influencing the adoption of clean energy among households in Bangladesh, using Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition and extended probit regression model with data from the 2019 Bangladesh multiple indicator cluster survey. Small households, primarily Muslim and urban d...
A. K. M. Hedaitul Islam, Md. Rayhan Sarker, Md. Israil Hossain, Kauser Ali et al.
Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) create more employment opportunities and thus, contribute to the national economy of a country. Footwear SMEs have been identified as an emerging economy in Bangladesh, which is facing several challenges. Very few studies focused on the challenges of SMEs’ ...
Md. Rayhan Sarker, Manjushree Chowdhury, Amalkanti Deb
Nowadays, synthetic dyes are widely used in textile, leather, cosmetics, paper, food and pharmaceutical industries instead of natural dyes due to its availability, stability, low cost and color intensity which emerges a new problem of residual color in the discharged effluent. Improper discharge of ...
Md. Rayhan Sarker, Mazharul Islam, U. Aung Shine Marma, Md. Mukter Alam et al.
Abstract The fast fashion industry significantly impedes sustainability by its rapid production cycles, low-cost products, and heavy carbon footprint. Nowadays, circular economy (CE) has become an interesting concept, which follows the “take-make-dispose” model and allows products, materials, and re...
Sumaya Mustofa, Md Taimur Ahad, Yousuf Rayhan Emon, Arpita Sarker
. The image will interest data scientists who apply disease detection through a convolutional neural network (CNN) and its variants. Furthermore, the annotated images, such as You Only Look Once (YOLO), U-Net, Mask R-CNN, and Single Shot Detection (SSD), will be helpful for semantic segmentation. Si...
Md. Rayhan Sarker, Faruk Ahmed, Amal Kanti Deb, Manjushree Chowdhury
The footwear industry is the second largest export earning sector of Bangladesh, contributing to earning $1.234 billion in 2016-17. Despite its ample opportunity to value addition to national economy, the sector faces enormous image crisis at home and abroad because of non-existent green practices i...
Md. Zobair Al Mahmud, Md. Shakil Chowdhury, Md. Thohid Rayhan, Md. Abdul Hannan Sarker et al.
Abstract The mechanical, thermal, and morphological characteristics of epoxy resin composites reinforced using repurposed textiles are examined in this work. This study investigates reusing textile waste to produce composite materials using sustainable alternatives. This study shows how epoxy resin ...
Abu Bokkar Siddique, Eliyas Rayhan, Faisal Sobhan, Nabanita Das et al.
This study investigates quantifiable and explicable changes in Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) within the context of a freshwater wetland, Hakaluki Haor, in Bangladesh. The haor is a vital RAMSAR site and Ecologically Critical Area (ECA), which needs to be monitored to investigate LULC change pattern...