Kazi Omar Siddiqi
The main objective of this study is to find the interrelationships between service quality attributes, customersatisfaction and customer loyalty in the retail banking sector in Bangladesh. The study sought to identify themost important attributes in bank settings, which may be used to review charact...
Kamran Siddiqi, Scheherazade Husain, Aishwarya Lakshmi Vidyasagaran, Anne Readshaw et al.
BACKGROUND: Smokeless tobacco (ST) is consumed by more than 300 million people worldwide. The distribution, determinants and health risks of ST differ from that of smoking; hence, there is a need to highlight its distinct health impact. We present the latest estimates of the global burden of disease...
Samrat Kumar Dey, Md. Mahbubur Rahman, Umme Raihan Siddiqi, Arpita Howlader
There is an obvious concern globally regarding the fact about the emerging coronavirus 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) as a worldwide public health threat. As the outbreak of COVID-19 causes by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) progresses within China and beyond, ra...
Mahbubul H. Siddiqee, Badhan Bhattacharjee, Umme Ruman Siddiqi, Mohammad Meshbahur Rahman
Abstract Background Vitamin-D deficiency is linked to a wide range of chronic and infectious diseases. Body of literature suggested that the prevalence of this deficiency can have geographical variation. Although vitamin D deficiency is frequently reported in the South Asian population, the scarcity...
Peter Saenger, N. A. Siddiqi
The coastal areas of Bangladesh have a high cyclone frequency. The protection from cyclone damage afforded by the natural mangrove forests of the Sundarbans, led the Forest Department in 1966 to initiate a mangrove afforestation programme. These initial plantings proved highly successful in protecti...
Medhia Afzal, Najma Siddiqi, Sheikh Bilal Ahmad, Nida Afsheen et al.
Aims: 1) To determine the pooled prevalence of overweight and obesity in people with severe mental illness (SMI), overall and by type of SMI, geographical region, and year of data collection; and 2) to assess the likelihood of overweight and obesity, in people with SMI compared with the general popu...
David Lewis, Anthony Bebbington, Simon Batterbury, Alpa Shah et al.
Abstract Culture has received increasing attention in critical development studies, though the notion that there are important cultural differences within and between development organizations has received less consideration. This paper elaborates elements of a framework for studying organizational ...
Caryn Bern, Joseph E. Sniezek, Golam M. Mathbor, Maqsood Siddiqi et al.
Cyclones continue to pose a dangerous threat to the coastal populations of Bangladesh, despite improvements in disaster control procedures. After 138,000 persons died in the April 1991 cyclone, we carried out a rapid epidemiological assessment to determine factors associated with cyclone-related mor...
Md. Hafiz Iqbal, Shamsun Akhter Siddiqie, Md. Abdul Mazid
Traditional teaching practice in the classroom is dominated by teacher-centered lecture practice where a well-designed lesson plan is rarely followed. Having no lesson plan in the classroom, students’ role become passive. This study explores the potential contributors to lesson plans and designs a p...
Nandini Sreenivasan, A. Li, Miriam L. Shiferaw, Cuc H. Tran et al.
BACKGROUND: Rabies is a neglected zoonotic disease with a global burden of approximately 59,000 human deaths a year. Once clinical symptoms appear, rabies is almost invariably fatal; however, with timely and appropriate post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) consisting of wound washing, vaccine, and in som...
Aastha Chugh, Monika Arora, Neha Jain, Aishwarya Lakshmi Vidyasagaran et al.
BACKGROUND: Smokeless tobacco, used by more than 300 million people globally, results in substantial morbidity and mortality. For smokeless tobacco control, many countries have adopted policies beyond the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, which has been instrumental in reducing smoking pr...
Dina M. Siddiqi
This article revisits the figure of the ‘third world sweatshop worker’, long iconic of the excesses of the global expansion of flexible accumulation in late twentieth-century capitalism. I am interested in how feminist activists concerned with the uneven impact of neo-liberal policies can engage in ...
Morsheda Nasrin, M.N.H. Siddiqi, Md. Abdul Masum, Md. Abdul Wares
We studied anatomy and histology of different segments of the digestive tract in postnatal growing broiler chickens with regard to their location, shape, size and weight. A group of four chickens, each at day 1 (D1), days 14 (D14) and days 28 (D28), total 12, were killed, their digestive tracts were...
Amrita Basu, Srirupa Roy
1. Beyond Exceptionalism: Democracy and Violence in India, Amrita Basu and Srirupa Roy2. The Wagah Syndrome: Territorial roots of contemporary violence in South Asia, Willem Van Schendel3. A Slap From the Hindu Nation, Raka Ray4. Rape and Murder in Gujarat: Violence against Muslim women in the strug...
Imam Hossain, Mehadi Hasan Maruf, Md. Ashikur Rahman Khan, Farida Siddiqi Prity et al.
Consolidated efforts have been made to enhance the treatment and diagnosis of heart disease due to its detrimental effects on society. As technology and medical diagnostics become more synergistic, data mining and storing medical information can improve patient management opportunities. Therefore, i...
Md. Nure Alam Siddiqi, Md. Nuruzzaman Haque, Md. Abdul Goni
Objective: The objectives of this study are to describe the differentials and associated risk factors of malnutrition among under-five children in Bangladesh. Material & Methods: The data extracted from Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS)-2007. Basic anthropometric variables were use...
Introduction - Ali Riaz and C. Christine Fair 1. Political Culture in Contemporary Bangladesh: Histories, Ruptures and Contradictions - Dina Mahnaz Siddiqi 2. Political Violence in Bangladesh - Md. Shamsul Islam 3. Who are the Islamists? - Ali Riaz and Kh. Ali Ar-Raji 4. Who are the Militants? - Zay...
Dipanjali Kundu, Md. Mahbubur Rahman, Anichur Rahman, Diganta Das et al.
After the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, the viral infection known as monkeypox gained significant attention, and the World Health Organization (WHO) classified it as a global public health emergency. Given the similarities between monkeypox and other pox viruses, conventional classif...
Sumon Ghosh, Md Sohel Rana, Md Kamrul Islam, Sukanta Chowdhury et al.
Vaccinating dogs against rabies is an effective means of reducing human rabies. We subjected 1327 clinically diagnosed human rabies death and mass dog vaccination (MDV) data during 2006-2018 to quantify the impacts of MDV on human rabies incidence in Bangladesh and a subset of rabies death data (422...
Eleonora Uphoff, Louise Newbould, Ian Walker, Nabila Ashraf et al.
BACKGROUND: The prevalence of mental and physical comorbidities is unknown in South Asia, as estimates of mental ill health in patients with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) have predominantly come from studies based in the United States, Europe and Australasia. This systematic review and meta-analy...