Stephen P. Luby, Jahangir Hosain, Emily . Gurley, Be‐Nazir Ahmed et al.
Human Nipah outbreaks recur in a specific region and time of year in Bangladesh. Fruit bats are the reservoir host for Nipah virus. We identified 23 introductions of Nipah virus into human populations in central and northwestern Bangladesh from 2001 through 2007. Ten introductions affected multiple ...
Shams El Arifeen, DM Emdadul Hoque, Tasnima Akter, Muntasirur Rahman et al.
Background WHO and UNICEF launched the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategy in the mid-1990s to reduce deaths from diarrhoea, pneumonia, malaria, measles, and malnutrition in children younger than 5 years. We assessed the effect of IMCI on health and nutrition of children young...
Nurshad Ali, Rasheda Perveen, Shahnaz Rahman, Shakil Mahmood et al.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Recent studies have shown that hyperuricemia is commonly associated with dyslipidemia, cardiovascular diseases, hypertension and metabolic syndrome. Elevated serum uric acid has been demonstrated to be associated with obesity in the adult population in many countries; howe...
Muhammad Shakil Pervez, Dewan Md. Farid
Intrusion is the violation of information security policy by malicious activities. Intrusion detection (ID) is a series of actions for detecting and recognising suspicious actions that make the expedient acceptance of standards of confidentiality, quality, consistency, and availability of a computer...
Mynul Hasan Shakil, Anuva Talukder Trisha, Mizanur Rahman, Suvro Talukdar et al.
Nitrite is one of the most widely used curing ingredients in meat industries. Nitrites have numerous useful applications in cured meats and a vital component in giving cured meats their unique characteristics, such as their pink color and savory flavor. Nitrites are used to suppress the oxidation of...
Shakil Ahmed
Abstract Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), a kingdom-of-the-art technology for superimposing information onto the real world, have recently started to have an effect on our everyday lives. In addition, AR and VR have shown a great contribution to advanced construction management in re...
James J. Sejvar, Jahangir Hossain, S K Saha, Emily S. Gurley et al.
OBJECTIVE: Nipah virus (NiV) is an emerging zoonosis. Central nervous system disease frequently results in high case-fatality. Long-term neurological assessments of survivors are limited. We assessed long-term neurologic and functional outcomes of 22 patients surviving NiV illness in Bangladesh. MET...
Durval Dourado Neto, D. S. Powlson, Rosenani Abu Bakar, Osny Oliveira Santos Bacchi et al.
In tropical agroecosystems, limited N availability remains a major impediment to increasing yield. A 15 N‐recovery experiment was conducted in 13 diverse tropical agroecosystems. The objectives were to determine the total recovery of one single 15 N application of inorganic or organic N during three...
Shakil Ahmed, Md Akbar Hossain, Sayan Kumar Ray, Md. Mafijul Islam Bhuiyan et al.
Road accidents are increasing worldwide and are causing millions of deaths each year. They impose significant financial and economic expenses on society. Existing research has mostly studied road accident prediction as a classification problem, which aims to predict whether a traffic accident may ha...
Charles Sheppard, Mebrahtu Ateweberhan, Brian W. Bowen, Peter Carr et al.
shallow limestone platform and reefs. This has doubled the global cover of such MPAs.It contains 25-50% of the Indian Ocean reef area remaining in excellent condition, as well as the world's largest contiguous undamaged reef area. It has suffered from warming episodes, but after the most severe mort...
Khan Md. Hasib, Md. Sadiq Iqbal, Faisal Muhammad Shah, Jubayer Al Mahmud et al.
The problem of class imbalance is extensive for focusing on numerous applications in the real world. In such a situation, nearly all of the examples are labeled as one class called majority class, while far fewer examples are labeled as the other class usually, the more important class is called min...
Shuvo Dip Datta, Mobasshira Islam, Md. Habibur Rahman Sobuz, Shakil Ahmed et al.
The construction industry faces many challenges, including schedule and cost overruns, productivity constraints, and workforce shortages. Compared to other sectors, it lags in digitalization in every project phase. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) have emerged as transformative...
Shakila Zaman, Khaled Alhazmi, Mohammed Aseeri, Muhammad R. Ahmed et al.
The Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged as a technology capable of connecting heterogeneous nodes/objects, such as people, devices, infrastructure, and makes our daily lives simpler, safer, and fruitful. Being part of a large network of heterogeneous devices, these nodes are typically resource-cons...
Shakil Ahmed
Construction industry is one of the largest economic sector in the world in 2017. And Building Information Modeling (BIM) is the powerful set of technology to design, construction and management has been strengthen the construction industry. BIM has significant benefits for the project lifecycle eve...
Fahmida Sultana, Md. Abdul Wahab, Md. Nahiduzzaman, Md Mohiuddin et al.
Seaweed is a promising marine macroalgae of the millennium, providing various ecological, social, and economic benefits. At present, seaweed production reached 35.8 million t from farming, accounting for 97% of global seaweed output, with a world market of US$ 11.8 billion. Seaweeds are an excellent...
Abul K. Mallik, SM Fijul Kabir, Fahim Bin Abdur Rahman, Mohammad Nazmus Sakib et al.
Shakil Ahmed, Mostafa Zaman Chowdhury, Yeong Min Jang
This letter studies the energy-efficient unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications to support ground nodes (GNs). The system considers the UAV working as a relay while there is a base station (BS) on the ground. We analyze the UAV energy consumption model to design the energy-efficient UAV trajec...
Shakil Ahmed, M. Mahmud Khan
Demand-side financing (DSF) is used in the less-developed countries of the world to improve access to healthcare and to encourage market supply. Under DSF, households receive vouchers that can be used to pay for healthcare services. This study evaluated the effects of a universal DSF on maternal hea...
Md Mostafijur Rahman, Shakil Mahamud, George D. Thurston
) and can cause severe impact on human health. Implications: This study revealed key insights into air quality challenges across Dhaka, Bangladesh, indicating particulate matter (PM) as Dhaka's most serious air pollutant threat to human health. The results of these analyses indicate that there is a ...
Shakil Mohammad Rifaat, Hoong Chor Chin
Abstract To reduce injuries in road crashes, better understanding is needed between the relationship of injury severity and risk factors. This study seeks to identify the contributing factors affecting crash severity with broad considerations of driver characteristics, roadway features, vehicle type...