Md. Shahidul Islam, Jennifer A. Saito, Emdadul Mannan Emdad, Borhan Ahmed et al.
Abstract Jute ( Corchorus sp.) is one of the most important sources of natural fibre, covering ∼80% of global bast fibre production 1 . Only Corchorus olitorius and Corchorus capsularis are commercially cultivated, though there are more than 100 Corchorus species 2 in the Malvaceae family. Here we d...
Mohammad Habibullah Pulok, Md Nasim-Us Sabah, Jalal Uddin, Ulrika Enemark
BACKGROUND: Universal access to health care services does not automatically guarantee equity in the health system. In the post Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) era, the progress towards universal access to maternal health care services in a developing country, like Bangladesh requires an evaluati...
Mohammed Alimul Islam, Muzahed Uddin Ahmed, Nasima Begum, Naseem Akhtar Chowdhury et al.
During the febrile illness epidemic in Bangladesh in 2002, 58 people died out of the 6,132 affected. Two hundred hospitalized patients were analyzed clinically, serologically and virologically to determine the features of this dengue infection. Among the 10- to 70-year-old age group of the 200 clini...
Md. Nasim Uddin, Rejina Afrin, Md. Josim Uddin, Md. Jalal Uddin et al.
BACKGROUND: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressively developing neurodegenerative disorder of the brain in the elderly people. Vanda roxburghii Rbr. root has been used traditionally in Bangladesh as tonic to brain and in the treatment of nervous system disorders including AD. Therefore, we aimed ...
Ali Ahsan Muzahid, Samia Sharmin, Md. Sakhawat Hossain, Kutub Uddin Ahamed et al.
Plant seeds are the resources of many different bioactive components. The chemical composition of the different crude extracts from Benincasa hispida (White pumpkin) and Cucurbita moschata (Pumpkin) seeds with three different polarity-based solvents (n-hexane, n-hexane-chloroform (2:1), and methanol...
Join Uddin, Mehnaz Sharmin, Mohammed Nasim Hasan, Jiban Podder
Bijoy Maitra, Most. Halima Khatun, Firoz Ahmed, Nasim Ahmed et al.
Biosynthesis of metallic silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) has gained much interest and offers an attractive alternate to physical and chemical approaches. In recent year several safe, easy, cost-effective, reproducible, and environmentally friendly synthesis approaches for silver nanoparticles have been...
Jalal Uddin, Mohammad Habibullah Pulok, Md Nasim-Us Sabah
Introduction A large body of literature has highlighted that women's household decision-making power is associated with better reproductive health outcomes, while most of the studies tend to measure such power from only women's point of view. Using both husband's and wife's matched responses to deci...
Abu Nasim Nizami, Md. Atiar Rahman, Nazim Uddin Ahmed, Md. Shahidul Islam
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the antilithiatic effect of the whole Leea macrophylla (L. macrophylla) Roxb (Leeaceae) ethanol extract in ethylene glycol-induced urolithiasis model of rats. METHODS: Forty two seven weeks old male wistar albino rats were randomly divided into two major groups namely: prev...
Gazi Salah Uddin, Phouphet Kyophilavong, Nasim Sydee
The paper aims to investigate the inter-temporal causal relationship between banking sector development and poverty reduction in Bangladesh from 1976 to 2010. We have applied new methods using modern time series econometrics techniques based on simulations that are robust to the violation of statist...
Md. Monirul Islam, Md. Rasel Uddin, Md. Nasim Akhtar, K. M. Rafiqul Alam
Sign language is a language used for communication of the deaf and dumb (D&D) community. To avoid difficulties in communication among themselves and also among normal people, transfer learning-based automatic sign language recognition can play a great role. Transfer learning has been used in many co...
Md. Adnan, Md. Nazim Uddin Chy, A.T.M. Mostafa Kamal, Md. Riad Chowdhury et al.
Cuscuta reflexa Roxb. is traditionally used by the indigenous communities of Bangladesh to treat different diseases, such as pain, edema, tumor, jaundice, and skin infections. This study tested neuro-pharmacological, anti-nociceptive, and antidiarrheal activities by in vivo and in silico experiments...
Md Salim Ahammed, Rejina Afrin, Nasim Uddin, Md. Yusuf Al-Amin et al.
Vanda roxburghii has been used in traditional medicine to treat nervous system disorders including Alzheimer’s disease (AD). We reported earlier a high acetylcholinesterase inhibitory and antioxidant activity in the chloroform fraction of this plant. Therefore, this study was designed to explore the...
Syeda Afia Fairoj, Md. Moshiul Islam, Md. Ariful Islam, Erin Zaman et al.
Wheat growth, development and yield are severely affected by a wide range of abiotic stresses, and salt stress is a vital and increasing abiotic stress. Salicylic acid (SA) is a phenolic phytohormone involved in plant physiological processes. Hence, we have conducted an experiment to explore the rol...
Nasimul Hasan, Md. Taufeeq Uddin, Nihad Karim Chowdhury
Weather forecasting has numerous impacts in our daily life from cultivation to event planning. Previous weather forecasting models used the complicated blend of mathematical instruments which was insufficient in order to get higher classification rate. In contrast, simple analytical models are well-...