Nasreen Sultana
Language assessment literacy (LAL) is a critical field for researchers, scholars, or anyone interested in improving the language teaching environment. Understanding the basics of testing and the ability to perform testing-related activities becomes more significant in test-oriented countries. As suc...
Nasreen Sultana
This paper reviews the most important public English examination (matriculation exam) that students take at the end of their secondary education in Bangladesh. The examination is known as the Secondary School Certificate (SSC), which is taken at the end of Grade 10 in the mainstream education in the...
Mohammed Torequl Islam, Nasreen Sultana, Thoufiqul Alam Riaz, Jannatul Ferdous et al.
This review aimed at summarizing the therapeutic potentials in a mechanistic context of a vastly studied quinone, naturally derived product from the seed oil of Nigella sativa called thymoquinone (TQ). The proposed underlyng mechanism may be attributed to its lowdose-mediated antioxidative effect wh...
Helen Moestue, Saskia de Pee, Andrew Hall, Abdul Hye et al.
Objective To examine sex differences in height-for-age z-scores and the percentage stunting among Bangladeshi children estimated using three growth references. Design, setting and subjects Data collected between 1990 and 1999 by Helen Keller International's nutritional surveillance system in rural B...
Fardousi Akter Sathi, Shyamal Kumar Paul, Salma Ahmed, Mohammad Monirul Alam et al.
Candida species are major fungal pathogens in humans. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of individual Candida species and their susceptibility to antifungal drugs among clinical isolates in a tertiary care hospital in Bangladesh. During a 10-month period in 2021, high vaginal swa...
M Sultana, R Begum, Qazi Shamima Akhter, Nasreen Sultana Lovely et al.
Background and Objectives: Pregnancy is the physiological process in which progressive anatomical, physiological and biochemical changes occur. Secretion of different hormones during pregnancy is responsible for maternal adaptation to the increasing demand of the growing fetus. The present study was...
Sultana Zahura Afrin, Shyamal Kumar Paul, Jahan Ara Begum, Syeda Anjuman Nasreen et al.
In Bangladesh, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been highly prevalent during late 2020, with nearly 500 000 confirmed cases. In the present study, the spike (S) protein of severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) circulating in Bangladesh was genetically investigated to elucidate t...
Nasreen Akther, Nadia Begum, Shahanaz Chowdhury, Sabiha Sultana
Objective: To assess the level of knowledge of the adolescent girls regarding reproductive health issues. Materials and methods: A cross sectional descriptive type of study was carried out among 150 unmarried adolescent girls of Vashantek slum in Dhaka city by face to face interview using a semistru...
Nasreen Sultana
Influence of tests on teaching and learning, which is known as washback, has garnered attention among the researchers and scholars because of the ever-growing testing industry worldwide. Scores of the high stakes language tests are increasingly used as the gatekeeper to higher education, better empl...
Sanjana Srabanti, Md. Asaduzzaman, Muhammad Kivran Bin Mokter, Tasmiah Tamzid Anannya et al.
Now a days, the alarming rise of road accidents has become one of the major concerns in Bangladesh. Unawareness and disrespect towards traffic rules, reckless driving, rapid growth of vehicles etc can be identified as factors leading to this issue. The distress of the accident victims can be reduced...
Sadia Sultana, Nurun Nahar, Fatima Begum, Faridul Alam et al.
Abstract not availableBangladesh J. Nuclear Med. 18(1): 73-84, January 2015
MA Mannan, Sharmin Afroze, Sanjoy Kumer Dey, Sadeka Choudhury Moni et al.
Birth defects are one of the leading causes of neonatal mortality worldwide. Every year more than 8.14 million children are born with a serious birth defect. The risk factors predictive of birth defects in babies vary from country to country even from region to region. About 60% of the causes of bir...
Muhammad Abdur Rahim, Shahana Zaman, Nasreen Sultana, Ariful Islam et al.
We report the first case of chikungunya-dengue co-infection during pregnancy requiring emergency Caesarean section (CS) because of fetal distress in a Bangladeshi primigravida. Though previously unreported, this situation may become increasingly common.
Nasreen Sultana, Torequl Islam, Vinícius Oliveira Barros de Alencar Marcus, Wanessa Cardoso Silva Samara et al.
In the present study, the ethanol extracts of two plant species namely Hymenodictyon excelsum Roxb. Wall and Mussaenda corymbosa Roxb. from the Rubiaceae family were screened for their phytochemical and pharmacological activities. Phytochemical investigations revealed the presence of important chemi...
Nasreen Jahan, A. I. Khan, Mohammad Nazmul Hasan, Mohammad Uzzal Hossain et al.
The Garo tribal community is one of the largest indigenous communities and resides primarily in the northcentral districts of Bangladesh. They claim themselves to belong to about 45 clans. An ethnomedicinal survey was conducted among the traditional medicinal practitioners of fifteen clans of the Ga...