Mohammad Amir Hossain Bhuiyan, Lutfar Parvez, Mohammad Amirul Islam, Samuel B. Dampare et al.
Total concentrations of heavy metals in the soils of mine drainage and surrounding agricultural fields in the northern part of Bangladesh were determined to evaluate the level of contamination. The average concentrations of Ti, Mn, Zn, Pb, As, Fe, Rb, Sr, Nb and Zr exceeded the world normal averages...
Emtiaz Hussain, Mahmudul Hasan, Anisur Rahman, Ickjai Lee et al.
Highlights • A 22-layer CNN architecture, which has achieved an accuracy of 99.1% for 2 class classification, 94.2% for 3 class classification, and 91.2% for 4 class classification. To the best of our knowledge, the accuracy of our proposed CoroDet method is higher than the state-of-the-art method f...
Yu Chen, J. H. Graziano, F. Parvez, Mengling Liu et al.
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the association between arsenic exposure and mortality from cardiovascular disease and to assess whether cigarette smoking influences the association. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study with arsenic exposure measured in drinking water from wells and urine. SETTING: General popul...
Anne CC Lee, Luke C. Mullany, Alain K. Koffi, Iftekhar Rafiqullah et al.
Abstract Background Urinary tract infection (UTI) in pregnancy, including asymptomatic bacteriuria, is associated with maternal morbidity and adverse pregnancy outcomes, including preterm birth and low birthweight. In low-middle income countries (LMICs), the capacity for screening and treatment of U...
Mohammad Muzahid Akbar, Noorjahan Parvez
This research has proposed a conceptual framework to investigate the effects of customers’ perceived service quality, trust, and customer satisfaction on customer loyalty. To test the conceptual framework, structural equation modeling (SEM) has been used to analyze the data collected from 304 custom...
Md. Ashraful Islam, Mohammad Nurul Amin, Shafayet Ahmed Siddiqui, Md. Parvez Hossain et al.
Trans Fatty acids (TFAs) have long been used in food manufacturing due in part to their melting point at room temperature between saturated and unsaturated fats. However, increasing epidemiologic and biochemical evidence suggests that excessive trans fats in the diet are a significant risk factor fo...
Mohammad Amir Hossain Bhuiyan, Mohammad Amirul Islam, Samuel B. Dampare, Lutfar Parvez et al.
An integrated approach of pollution evaluation indices, principal component analysis (PCA) and cluster analysis (CA) was employed to evaluate the intensity and sources of pollution in irrigation and drinking water systems of northwestern Bangladesh. Temperature, BOD, chemical oxygen demand (COD), Mn...
Alexander van Geen, Habibul Ahsan, A. Horneman, Ratan Dhar et al.
OBJECTIVE: To survey tube wells and households in Araihazar upazila, Bangladesh, to set the stage for a long-term epidemiological study of the consequences of chronic arsenic exposure. METHODS: Water samples and household data were collected over a period of 4 months in 2000 from 4997 contiguous tub...
Partha Biswas, Dipta Dey, Polash Kumar Biswas, Tanjim Ishraq Rahaman et al.
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) induce carcinogenesis by causing genetic mutations, activating oncogenes, and increasing oxidative stress, all of which affect cell proliferation, survival, and apoptosis. When compared to normal cells, cancer cells have higher levels of ROS, and they are responsible fo...
Brandon L. Pierce, Muhammad G. Kibriya, Tong Lin, Farzana Jasmine et al.
Arsenic contamination of drinking water is a major public health issue in many countries, increasing risk for a wide array of diseases, including cancer. There is inter-individual variation in arsenic metabolism efficiency and susceptibility to arsenic toxicity; however, the basis of this variation ...
Most Champa Begum, Mohammad Saiful Islam, Monirul Islam, Ruhul Amin et al.
The arsenic (As) is a toxic element causing major health concern worldwide. Arsenate stress caused no significant reduction in growth parameters and shoot electrolyte leakage but showed increased root arsenate reductase activity along with relatively lower root As content and shoot translocation rat...
F. Parvez, Yu Chen, Paul W. Brandt‐Rauf, Vesna Slavkovich et al.
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: A prospective cohort study was conducted to evaluate the effect of arsenic (As) exposure from drinking water on respiratory symptoms using data from the Health Effects of Arsenic Exposure Longitudinal Study (HEALS), a large prospective cohort study established in Ariahazar, Bang...
Tahmina Begum, Shaan Muberra Khan, Bridgit Adamou, Jannatul Ferdous et al.
BACKGROUND: Accurate and high-quality data are important for improving program effectiveness and informing policy. In 2009 Bangladesh's health management information system (HMIS) adopted the District Health Information Software, Version 2 (DHIS2) to capture real-time health service utilization data...
Mahbubur Rahman, Mahbub‐Ul Alam, Sharmin Khan Luies, Abul Kamal et al.
Fresh produce, when consumed raw, can be a source of exposure to antimicrobial residues, antimicrobial-resistant bacteria (ARB) and antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs) of clinical importance. This review aims to determine: (1) the presence and abundance of antimicrobial residues, ARB and ARGs in f...
Moinul Islam, Md Tanzim Reza, Mohammed Kaosar, Mohammad Zavid Parvez
Medical institutions often revoke data access due to the privacy concern of patients. Federated Learning (FL) is a collaborative learning paradigm that can generate an unbiased global model based on collecting updates from local models trained by client’s data while keeping the local data private. T...