Thomas Cherian, Kim Mulholland, John B. Carlin, H Ostensen et al.
BACKGROUND: Although radiological pneumonia is used as an outcome measure in epidemiological studies, there is considerable variability in the interpretation of chest radiographs. A standardized method for identifying radiological pneumonia would facilitate comparison of the results of vaccine trial...
Mihai Pop, Alan W. Walker, Joseph N. Paulson, Brianna Lindsay et al.
BACKGROUND: Diarrheal diseases continue to contribute significantly to morbidity and mortality in infants and young children in developing countries. There is an urgent need to better understand the contributions of novel, potentially uncultured, diarrheal pathogens to severe diarrheal disease, as w...
Ruhul Amin, Nirali Shah, Stan Becker
BACKGROUND: There has been an increasing availability and accessibility of modern health services in rural Bangladesh over the past decades. However, previous studies on the socioeconomic differentials in the utilization of these services were based on a limited number of factors, focusing either on...
Md. Ashraful Islam, Mohammad Nurul Amin, Shafayet Ahmed Siddiqui, Md. Parvez Hossain et al.
Trans Fatty acids (TFAs) have long been used in food manufacturing due in part to their melting point at room temperature between saturated and unsaturated fats. However, increasing epidemiologic and biochemical evidence suggests that excessive trans fats in the diet are a significant risk factor fo...
Md. Ruhul Amin, Mohammad Asaduzzaman Chowdhury, Md. Arefin Kowser
Plastic is an amazing material, and wonderful invention, it has changed the world. Plastic is used everywhere and every day across the globe. But despite its varied uses, its disposal has threatened the environment. Biodegradable plastics can meet these needs and can easily be disposed to the enviro...
Mary Murimi, Ana Florencia Moyeda-Carabaza, Bong Nguyen, Sanjoy Saha et al.
Context: Establishing healthy dietary practices at an early age is crucial, as dietary behaviors in childhood track to adulthood. Objective: The purpose of this systematic review was to identify factors associated with successful nutrition education interventions conducted in children and published ...
Himangshu Bhowmik, Ruhul Amin
Solar collectors are the main components of a solar heating system. The collectors collect the sun’s energy, transform this radiation into heat, and then transfer this heat into a fluid, water or air, which has many household or industrial applications. This paper introduces a new technology to impr...
Nuhu Alam, Ruhul Amin, Md. Asaduzzaman Khan, Ismot Ara et al.
Mushroom cultivation has been started recently in Bangladesh. Awareness of the nutritional and medicinal importance of mushrooms is not extensive. In this study, the nutritional values of dietary mushrooms- Pleurotus ostreatus, Pleurotus sajorcaju, Pleurotus florida and Calocybe indica that are very...
Ruhul Amin, Stan Becker, Abdul Bayes
Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in rural Bangladesh are reaching out to poor women with collateral-free credit programs aimed at both alleviating poverty and increasing women's status. The present study investigated the hypothesis that participation in credit-related activities by NGO credit me...
K. M. Jawadur Rahman, Faisal Ahmed, Nazma Akhter, Mohammad Al Hasan et al.
Federated Learning (FL) is a new technology that has been a hot research topic. It enables training an algorithm across multiple decentralized edge devices or servers holding local data samples, without exchanging them. There are many application domains where large amounts of properly labeled and c...
Mohammad Arifur Rahman, S. M. Ruhul Amin, A. M. Shafiqul Alam
The possible utilization of rice husk activated carbon as an adsorbent for the removal of methylene blue dye from aqueous solutions has been investigated. In this study, activated carbons, prepared from low-cost rice husk by sulfuric acid and zinc chloride activation, were used as the adsorbent for ...
Most Champa Begum, Mohammad Saiful Islam, Monirul Islam, Ruhul Amin et al.
The arsenic (As) is a toxic element causing major health concern worldwide. Arsenate stress caused no significant reduction in growth parameters and shoot electrolyte leakage but showed increased root arsenate reductase activity along with relatively lower root As content and shoot translocation rat...
Ruhul Amin, Rubia Yasmin, Sabba Ruhi, Md. Habibur Rahman et al.
The healthy liver plays more than 500 organic roles in the human body, while a malfunction may be dangerous or even deadly. Early diagnosis and treatment of liver disease can improve the likelihood of survival. Machine learning (ML) is a powerful tool that can assist healthcare professionals during ...
Arafat A. Bhuiyan, M. Ruhul Amin, Ariful Islam
Sowmen Das, Selim Seferbekov, Arup Datta, Md. Saiful Islam et al.
In this paper, we focus on identifying the limitations and shortcomings of existing deepfake detection frameworks. We identified some key problems surrounding deepfake detection through quantitative and qualitative analysis of existing methods and datasets. We found that deepfake datasets are highly...