Ujjwal K. Chowdhury, Bhajan Kumar Biswas, Tarit Roy Chowdhury, Gautam Samanta et al.
Nine districts in West Bengal, India, and 42 districts in Bangladesh have arsenic levels in groundwater above the World Health Organization maximum permissible limit of 50 microg/L. The area and population of the 42 districts in Bangladesh and the 9 districts in West Bengal are 92,106 km(2) and 79.9...
Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Uttam Kumar Chowdhury, Subhash Chandra Mukherjee, Badal Kumar Mondal et al.
Fifty districts of Bangladesh and 9 districts in West Bengal, India have arsenic levels in groundwater above the World Health Organization's maximum permissible limit of 50 microg/L. The area and population of 50 districts of Bangladesh and 9 districts in West Bengal are 118,849 km2 and 104.9 millio...
Dipankar Chakraborti, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Bhaskar Das, Matthew Murrill et al.
Since 1996, 52,202 water samples from hand tubewells were analyzed for arsenic (As) by flow injection hydride generation atomic absorption spectrometry (FI-HG-AAS) from all 64 districts of Bangladesh; 27.2% and 42.1% of the tubewells had As above 50 and 10 μg/l, respectively; 7.5% contained As above...
Karen L. Kotloff, Dilruba Nasrin, William C. Blackwelder, Yukun Wu et al.
BACKGROUND: Diarrheal diseases remain a leading cause of illness and death among children younger than 5 years in low-income and middle-income countries. The Global Enteric Multicenter Study (GEMS) has described the incidence, aetiology, and sequelae of medically attended moderate-to-severe diarrhoe...
Somasundaram Jayaraman, Nishant K. Sinha, Ram C. Dalal, Rattan Lal et al.
Of late, intensive farming for higher food production is often associated with many negative implications for soil systems, such as decline of soil organic matter (SOM), increase in risks of soil erosion by wind and/or water, decline in soil biological diversity, increase in degradation of soil phys...
Mousumi Mondal, Benukar Biswas, Sourav Garai, Sukamal Sarkar et al.
In modern days, rapid urbanisation, climatic abnormalities, water scarcity and quality degradation vis-à-vis the increasing demand for food to feed the growing population necessitate a more efficient agriculture production system. In this context, farming with zeolites, hydrated naturally occurring ...
Sanmay Kumar Patra, Ratneswar Poddar, Marián Brestič, Pravat Utpal Acharjee et al.
In arid and semiarid regions and under rainfed conditions, water availability is one of the principal ecological constraints that hinder agriculture’s sustainability. The super absorbent polymer (agricultural) is water-absorbing and is cross-linked to absorb aqueous solutions through bonding with wa...
H. N. Larsen, OW Rasmussen, PH Rasmussen, KK Alstrup et al.
Objective To study the influence of parboiling and the severity of the process on glycaemic and insulinaemic responses to rice in type 2 diabetes. Moreover, to examine changes in starch structure related to parboiling, which may affect the metabolic responses and digestibility. Design Nine type 2 di...
Sheikh Tanzina Haque, Subbroto Kumar Saha, Md. Enamul Haque, Nirupam Biswas
Diabetic wounds often indicate chronic complications that are difficult to treat. Unfortunately, existing conventional treatment modalities often cause unpremeditated side effects, given the need to develop alternative therapeutic phenotypes that are safe or have minimal side effects and risks. Nano...
Rifat Sadik, Anup Majumder, Al Amin Biswas, Bulbul Ahammad et al.
Low contrasts and visual similarity between different skin conditions make skin disease recognition a challenging task. Current techniques to detect and diagnose skin disease accurately require high-level professional expertise. Artificial intelligence paves the way for developing computer vision-ba...
S. M. Arifuzzaman, Md. Shakhaoath Khan, Abdullah Al‐Mamun, Sk. Reza‐E‐Rabbi et al.
Present report intends to analyse heat and mass transfer characteristics of naturally convective hydromagnetic flow of fourth-grade radiative fluid resulting from vertical porous plate. The impression of non-linear order chemical reaction and heat generation with thermal diffusion are also considere...
Uttam Kumar Chowdhury, Bhajan Kumar Biswas, Tarit Roy Chowdhury, Gautam Samanta et al.
Nine districts in West Bengal, India, and 42 districts in Bangladesh have arsenic levels in groundwater above the World Health Organization maximum permissible limit of 50 microg/L. The area and population of the 42 districts in Bangladesh and the 9 districts in West Bengal are 92,106 km(2) and 79.9...
Jahar Bhowmik, Raaj Kishore Biswas, Mulu Abraha Woldegiorgis
OBJECTIVES Antenatal care (ANC) during pregnancy and skilled birth attendance (SBA) during delivery are important policy concerns to reduce maternal deaths. Bangladesh is one of the developing countries which has made remarkable progress in both services during the last couple of decades by improvin...
Nadia Ali Rimi, Md Zakiul Hassan, Sukanta Chowdhury, Mahmudur Rahman et al.
Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) has been a public health threat in Bangladesh since the first reported outbreak in poultry in 2007. The country has undertaken numerous efforts to detect, track, and combat avian influenza viruses (AIVs). The predominant genotype of the H5N1 viruses is clade ...
Khokan Kumer Sarker, Akbar Hossain, Jagadish Timsina, Sujit K. Biswas et al.
Water scarcity is becoming a major constraint for maize cultivation and increasing maize yield globally. Water-saving irrigation methods are required to increase crop water productivity (CWP) without reducing grain yield and nutrient uptake. We evaluated the effects of different methods and levels o...
Masum Shah Junayed, Md Baharul Islam, Afsana Ahsan Jeny, Arezoo Sadeghzadeh et al.
Acne scarring occurs in 95% of people with acne vulgaris due to collagen loss or gains when the body is healing the damages of the skin caused by acne inflammation. Accurate classification of acne scars is a vital factor in providing a timely, effective treatment protocol. Dermatologists mainly reco...
Jahar Bhowmik, Raaj Kishore Biswas, Nurjahan Ananna
OBJECTIVE: The objective of Sustainable Development Goal 3.1 is to reduce the global maternal mortality ratio (MMR) below 70 per 100,000 live births by 2030. One of the indicators for this objective is the proportion of births attended by skilled health attendants (SBA). This study assessed the prog...
Bonna Akter, Aditya Rajbongshi, Sadia Sazzad, Rashiduzzaman Shakil et al.
The brain, which comprises the cerebrum, cere-bellum, and brainstem and is covered by the skull, is a very complex and intriguing organ in the human body. Stroke is the world's second-leading cause of mortality; as a result, it requires prompt treatment to avoid brain damage. Early detection of a br...
Tapos Kumar Chakraborty, Md Jahid Hasan, Baytune Nahar Netema, Md Abu Rayhan et al.
Microplastics (MPs) are polymer-based particles commonly found in diverse foods that pose serious human health impacts throughout the food chain. Assessment of MPs in different food products is a prime measure to combat MP-related food contamination. Therefore, this study first investigated the iden...
Anup Biswas, Wahid Mozammel Haq, Mira Akber, Dilara Ferdausi et al.
Folk medicinal practitioners (Kavirajes) are possibly the most ancient practitioners of traditional medicine in Bangladesh and in general are the primary health-care providers to a majority of the rural population and a substantial segment of the urban population in the country. The Kavirajes rely a...