Mohammad Nazmul Alam, Dhiman Sarma, Farzana Firoz Lima, Ishita Saha et al.
Evolving digital transformation has exacerbated cybersecurity threats globally. Digitization expands the doors wider to cybercriminals. Initially cyberthreats approach in the form of phishing to steal the confidential user credentials. Usually, Hackers will influence the users through phishing in or...
Shovra Chandra Chakraborty, Md. Qamruzzaman, Md. Wahad Uz Zaman, Md Masruck Alam et al.
Mohammad Farhadur Rahman, Anubrata Ghosal, Mohammad Firoz Alam, Ahmad Humayan Kabir
Cadmium (Cd) is an important phytotoxic element causing health hazards. This work investigates whether and how silicon (Si) influences the alleviation of Cd toxicity in field peas at biochemical and molecular level. The addition of Si in Cd-stressed plants noticeably increased growth and development...
Bilqis Amin Hoque, Kelly Hallman, Jason Levy, Howarth E. Bouis et al.
Access to safe drinking water has been an important national goal in Bangladesh and other developing countries. While Bangladesh has almost achieved accepted bacteriological drinking water standards for water supply, high rates of diarrheal disease morbidity indicate that pathogen transmission conti...
Md. Jakariya, Firoz Ahmed, Md. Aminul Islam, Abdullah Al Marzan et al.
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has emerged as a valuable approach for forecasting disease outbreaks in developed countries with a centralized sewage infrastructure. On the other hand, due to the absence of well-defined and systematic sewage networks, WBE is challenging to implement in developin...
Most Farida Khatun, Most Firoza Parvin, Md Mamunur Rashid, Md Shah Alam et al.
There have been numerous studies about the health implication of COVID-19 on patients, but little attention has been paid to the impacts of the pandemic on physicians. Our paper attends to this gap by exploring the mental health of physicians in Bangladesh during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is parti...
Md. Aminul Islam, Md Arifur Rahman, Md. Jakariya, Newaz Mohammed Bahadur et al.
Wastewater based epidemiology (WBE) is an important tool to fight against COVID-19 as it provides insights into the health status of the targeted population from a small single house to a large municipality in a cost-effective, rapid, and non-invasive way. The implementation of wastewater based surv...
Kishor Kumar Sarker, Moumita Saha Bristy, Nur Alam, Mohammad Abdul Baki et al.
The study aimed to determine eight hazardous heavy metals in surface water and sediment samples collected from the Naf River, Shah Porir Dwip (estuary), and mostly around Saint Martin's Island in the Bay of Bengal. The results of heavy metals in water samples were ranged as Pb 14.7-313.0, Cd 33.0-70...
Md. Aminul Islam, Mohammad Nayeem Hasan, Tanvir Ahammed, Aniqua Anjum et al.
In developing countries, acute respiratory infections (ARIs) cause a significant number of deaths among children. According to Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS), about 25% of the deaths in children under-five years are caused by ARI in Bangladesh every year. Low-income families frequen...
Md Firoz Mortuza, Luigi Lepore, Kalpana Khedkar, Saravanan Thangam et al.
Md Soriful Islam, Md. Mostafizur Rahman, M. Atikur Rahman, Kanak Kanti Sarker et al.
Oldenlandia diffusa (Willd.) Roxb., a well known medicinal plant in Bangladesh has been identified for antitumor properties through Agrobacterium tumefaciens infection using potato disc bioassay and phytotoxic effects on radish root and seed. Significant tumor inhibition was observed at 100ppm and 1...
Iftekhar Alam, Shamima Akhtar Sharmin, Mst. Kamrun Naher, Md. Jahangir Alam et al.
Viral diseases affecting sweetpotato are the most devastating and cause up to 98 % yield loss. In this paper, we report, meristem culture, graft transmission and virus indexing for management of viral pathogens in seven elite sweetpotato cultivars. Plantlets were developed in vitro from the apical m...
Shamima Akhtar Sharmin, Md. Jahangir Alam, Md. Mominul Islam Sheikh, Kanak Kanti Sarker et al.
In this work, plant regeneration via somatic embryogenesis was achieved from leaf and internode derived callus of Wedelia calendulacea, an endangered medicinal plant. Primary callus was induced by culturing leaf disc and internode explant on Murashige and Skoog medium supplemented with 2.0 mg L -1 o...
Monirul Islam, Most Champa Begum, Ahmad Humayan Kabir, Mohammad Firoz Alam
Drought stress is a common abiotic stress in wheat. In this study, PEG-induced drought stress caused significant decline in morpho-physiological characteristics in Bijoy but not in BG-25, suggesting that drought tolerance mechanisms exist in BG-25. Semi-quantitative RT-PCR (reverse transcriptase) re...
Enver Karim, MF Alam, A. S. M. Asadur Rahman, Ashjan Mohammed Hussain et al.
This is a cross sectional-descriptive study which was conducted in one urban mahalla and two rural mauza of Dhaka district. Self reporting questionnaire (SRQ) was applied on 327 adult respondents and structured clinical interview for diagnosis (SCID-NP) was applied on every second SRQ positive and e...