Manoj Kumar, Maharishi Tomar, Ryszard Amarowicz, Vivek Saurabh et al.
(L.) belongs to the Myrtaceae family and it is an important fruit in tropical areas like India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and South America. The leaves of the guava plant have been studied for their health benefits which are attributed to their plethora of phytochemicals, such as quercetin, a...
Manoj Kumar, Vivek Saurabh, Maharishi Tomar, Muzaffar Hasan et al.
L. belongs to the family of Anacardiaceae and is an important fruit from South and Southeast Asia. India, China, Thailand, Indonesia, Pakistan, Mexico, Brazil, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and the Philippines are among the top mango producer countries. Leaves of the mango plant have been studied for their h...
Asma Bokhari, Naseer M Nizamani, Denis J. Jackson, N Rehan et al.
The objective of this study was to measure HIV prevalence and risk behaviour in injecting drug users (IDUs), male sex workers (MSWs), Hijras (transgenders), female sex workers (FSWs) and male truckers in Karachi and Lahore, Pakistan. The design was a linked-anonymous cross-sectional study of individ...
Sabir Bin Muzaffar, Md. Anwarul Islam, Mostafa M. Feeroz, Mofizul Kabir et al.
ABSTRACT Hoolock gibbons ( Hoolock hoolock ) are endangered small apes occurring in Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, and south China. All known populations have undergone declines primarily due to habitat destruction or alteration. We examined the influence of area of natural forests, area of plantations...
Sarah R. Weiskopf, Kyle P. McCarthy, Michael Tessler, Hasan A. Rahman et al.
Abstract Measuring mammal biodiversity in tropical rainforests is challenging, and methods that reduce effort while maximizing success are crucial for long‐term monitoring programmes. Commonly used methods to assess mammal biodiversity may require substantial sampling effort to be effective. Genetic...
Manoj Kumar, Pavidharshini Selvasekaran, Ramalingam Chidambaram, Baohong Zhang et al.
Tea residues represent one of the major agricultural wastes that are generated after the processing of tea. They account for 21-28% of crude protein and are often discarded without the extraction of valuable proteins. Due to various bioactivity and functional properties, tea proteins are an excellen...
Kamrun Nahar Koly, Jobaida Saba, Rasma Muzaffar, Rifath Binta Modasser et al.
Background: Bangladesh is a lower-middle-income country affected by a severe lack of mental health service availability due to a scarcity of mental health experts, limited mental health literacy, and community stigma. In other low and middle-income countries, the online provision of mental health ca...
Muzaffar Hasan, Lalit Kumar Kumar
Determination of a valid sample size is a fundamental step in research. This paper explains how existing formulas are tied in a single thread by applying the concept of standard error, margin of error, Z and t scores, confidence interval and sampling distribution. Bringing the concept of sample cont...
Hasan A. Rahman, Kyle P. McCarthy, Jennifer L. McCarthy, Mohammad Muzaffar Faisal
Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated countries on earth with 1033 persons/km2, yet it also harbors a high level of mammal diversity. Unfortunately, general ecological knowledge is limited in many areas of the country, leading to a lack of cohesive conservation initiatives. As a result, th...
Ripon Bagchi, Papri Hazra, Robiul Hasan, Himadree Shekhar Mondal et al.
Tanguar haor is located in the north-eastern region of Bangladesh and frequently experienced extreme events such as high rainfall that affect the haor basin area with flash floods on a regular basis. Tanguar haor is usually foreseen to severe disastrous conditions for the reason of changes in rainfa...
Hassan Al-Razi, Sabit Hasan, Tanvir Ahmed, Sabir Bin Muzaffar
Tropical forests in Asia have undergone massive declines over the last five decades due to deforestation and subsequent conversion to forest monocultures, agricultural land or other forms of land use (FAO, 2016; Giam, 2017; Hughes, 2017; Meijide et al., 2018; Vijay et al., 2016). The remnant patches...
Rasma Muzaffar, Kamrun Nahar Koly, Sabrina Choudhury, Md Abdullah Al Jubayer Biswas et al.
Abstract In the current COVID-19 pandemic there are reports of deteriorating psychological conditions among university students in lower-middle-income countries (LMICs), but very little is known about the gender differences in the mental health conditions on this population. This study aims to asses...
Habibon Naher, Hassan Al-Razi, Tanvir Ahmed, Sabit Hasan et al.
Tropical forests are threatened worldwide due to deforestation. In South and Southeast Asia, gibbons (Hylobatidae) are important to seed dispersal and forest regeneration. Most gibbons are threatened due to deforestation. We studied the western hoolock gibbon (Hoolock hoolock) in Bangladesh to deter...
Shovon Chakma, Muzaffar G. Osmani, Holy Akwar, Zakiul Hasan et al.
L ive bird markets (LBMs) have long been identifi ed as major sites for the maintenance, transmission, amplifi cation, and dissemination of infl uenza A(H5) virus (1,2). Studies in the United States, China, Indonesia, and Vietnam have shown that LBMs can pose a public health risk for zoonotic spill-...
Mohammad Mazbah Uddin, Md. Aminul Ahsan, Huang Ling-feng, M Ahsan et al.
Human-primates conflict is an important issue for the conservation of primate biodiversity globally. We reviewed research papers that have been published over the last 20 years on Bangladesh regarding the human-primates conflicts. We also identified primate species are involved in conflict, crop dam...