Sabeena Ahmed, Mohammad Mahbubul Karim, Allen G. Ross, Mohammad Hossain et al.
Ivermectin, a US Food and Drug Administration-approved anti-parasitic agent, was found to inhibit severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) replication in vitro. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial was conducted to determine the rapidity of viral clearance and saf...
Syed Saad Andaleeb, Mahmudul Haq, Rubina Ahmed
The transportation system in Dhaka City, Bangladesh, requires significant improvements. The shortage of motorized vehicles and the excessive number of nonmotorized vehicles on the city’s streets have been the cause of unbearable traffic congestion, leading to negative externalities such as productiv...
Faruq Alam, Rubina Hossain, Helal Uddin Ahmed, Mohammad Tariqul Alam et al.
Bangladesh is a densely populated emerging country in South Asia. Since its harsh independence war, it has suffered from repeated floods and other natural and man-inflicted disasters. Internal migration from rural areas to the urban centres has increased crowdedness, pollution and social conflicts. ...
Rubina Khan, Bashir Ahmed, Bijoy Lal Basu, Md. Elias Uddin
Teachers play a key role in enacting educational change. Whatever decisions are taken by educational leaders, it is the teachers who have to be at the forefront in implementing them. As the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic continued, public universities in Bangladesh began to take tentative steps t...
Bashir Ahmed, Md. Elias Uddin, Bijoy Lal Basu, Rubina Khan
During the brief coronavirus-induced hiatus in March and April 2020, educational institutions in Bangladesh including public universities began preparations for online classes. By the end of June, almost all private universities and a few public universities had started online classes with limited o...
Ezaz Ahmed, Ziaur Rahman Rahman, Rubina Ahmed
Bangladesh has a unique Banking system with multiple types of Banking with Nationalized Commercial Banks (NCBs), Private Commercial Banks (PCBs), Foreign Commercial Banks (FCBs), Islamic Commercial Banks (ICBs), Specialized Development Banks and the Cooperative Banks. Currently the magnitude of loan...
Shahul H. Ebrahim, N.M. Mujeeb Rahman, Rubina Imtiaz, Ernesto Gozzer et al.
The landfall of cyclone Amphan around the India and Bangladesh border on May 20, 2020, which resulted in the most severe storm in the region since 1999, highlights the limitations to standard disaster responses during pandemics such as the current COVID-19 crisis. The frequency of geophysical, meteo...
Mohammad Shah Kamal, Md Hafiz Ehsanul Hoque, Fazle Rabbi Chowdhury, Rubina Farzana
OBJECTIVE: Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health problem in Bangladesh since long. The present incidence and prevalence rates of all forms of TB are 227 and 404/100,000 population respectively. The aim of this study was to find out the clinical characteristics of involved cervical lymph nodes, ...
Selim Ahmed, Dewan Mehrab Ashrafi, Rubina Ahmed, Ezaz Ahmed et al.
Purpose The purpose of the study is to investigate the influence of training and development and work–life balance on employee engagement and job performance at private banks in Bangladesh. This study also investigates the indirect influence of training and development and work–life balance on the j...
Rubina Shaheen, Lars Åke Persson, Shakil Ahmed, Peter Kim Streatfield et al.
BACKGROUND: Absence of cost-effectiveness (CE) analyses limits the relevance of large-scale nutrition interventions in low-income countries. We analyzed if the effect of invitation to food supplementation early in pregnancy combined with multiple micronutrient supplements (MMS) on infant survival re...
Eranga Wijewickrama, Muhammad Rafiqul Alam, Divya Bajpai, Smita Divyaveer et al.
The South Asia region is facing a high burden of chronic kidney disease (CKD) with limited health resources and low expenditure on health care. In addition to the burden of CKD and kidney failure from traditional risk factors, CKD of unknown etiologies from India and Sri Lanka compounds the challeng...
Selim Ahmed, Ujjal Yaman Chowdhury, Dewan Mehrab Ashrafi, Musfiq Mannan Choudhury et al.
Purpose The present study investigates the customers' behavioural intention to use voice-based artificial intelligence (AI) to find the appropriate hotels and resorts in an emerging nation. This study determines the influences of information quality, system quality, privacy, and novelty value on att...
Selim Ahmed, Rubina Ahmed, Dewan Mehrab Ashrafi, Ezaz Ahmed et al.
This study investigates customers' trust and behavioural intentions regarding the use of cybernetic payment network services in an emerging country, focusing on perceived quality, system quality, and perceived image. Data from 324 respondents in Bangladesh were collected via a self-administered Goog...
Rubina Soomro, M. Jamaluddin Ahmed, Najma Memon, Humaira Rashid Khan
A simple high sensitive, selective, and rapid spectrophotometric method for the determination of trace gold based on the rapid reaction of gold(III) with bis(salicylaldehyde)orthophenylenediamine (BSOPD) in aqueous and micellar media has been developed. BSOPD reacts with gold(III) in slightly acidic...
Bjorn Thomas, Xiang Li Tan, Stefan van Duijvenboden, Sarah Hogan et al.
BACKGROUND: Hyperlinear palms are described as a feature of loss-of-function (LoF) variants in filaggrin (FLG). OBJECTIVES: To explore the phenotype of participants (age < 31 years) with atopic eczema of Bangladeshi ancestry from East London and investigate which factors best associate with LoF FLG ...