Md Sifat Siddik, Shibli Sadik Tulip, Atikur Rahman, Md. Nazrul Islam et al.
Groundwater recharge is affected by various anthropogenic activities, land use and land cover (LULC) change among these. The long-term temporal and seasonal changes in LULC have a substantial influence on groundwater flow dynamics. Therefore, assessment of the impacts of LULC changes on recharge is ...
Gustavo Ángeles, Peter Lance, Janine Barden-O’Fallon, Nazrul Islam et al.
BACKGROUND: The concentration of poverty and adverse environmental circumstances within slums, particularly those in the cities of developing countries, are an increasingly important concern for both public health policy initiatives and related programs in other sectors. However, there is a dearth o...
Md. Tanvir Hossain, Benojir Ahammed, Sanjoy Kumar Chanda, Nusrat Jahan et al.
Classified as a pandemic by the World Health Organization, the novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) has spread to Bangladesh since early March of 2020, and people are getting daily updates from the social and electronic media. We aimed at assessing the prevalence of anxiety among Bangladeshi people ...
Ubydul Haque, Hans J. Overgaard, Archie C. A. Clements, Douglas E. Norris et al.
BACKGROUND: Malaria is endemic in 13 of 64 districts in Bangladesh. About 14 million people are at risk. Some evidence suggests that the prevalence of malaria in Bangladesh has decreased since the the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria started to support the National Malaria Control...
Md. Faridul Islam, Shariful Islam, Md. Abdus Satter Miah, A. K. Obidul Huq et al.
Synthesis of nanoparticles through the green approach using plant and vegetable extracts has gained popularity since they are thought to be efficient and cost-effective materials. This study is designed to synthesize zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO-NPs) from onion waste peel extract (Allium cepa L.) v...
Mohammad Nazrul Islam Bhuiyan, Jasim Uddin Chowdhury, Jaripa Begum
Zingiber zerumbet (L.) Smith leaf and rhizome oils, obtained by hydrodistillation, were analyzed by gas chromatography mass spectroscopy (GC-MS). Twenty-nine components were identified in the leaf oil. The major components were zerumbone (36.98%); a-caryophyllene (16.35%) and camphene (9.24%). Thirt...
Md. Rejaur Rahman, Alimul Islam, Md. Nazrul Islam
The novel COVID-19 is a worldwide transmitted pandemic and has received global attention. Since there is no effective medication yet, to minimize and control the transmission of the COVID-19, non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) are followed globally. However, for the implementation of needful NP...
M. Rafiuddin, Hiroshi Uyeda, Md. Nazrul Islam
Abstract Characteristics of precipitation systems in and around Bangladesh are analysed using 6 years of radar data from the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD). Precipitation systems are classified as arc, line, or scattered types according to their shape; then as small, medium, or large acc...
Md. Shaheed Reza, MD. ABU JAFOR BAPARY, Md. Nazrul Islam, Md. Mostafa Kamal
ABSTRACT Studies were conducted to optimize fish-drying process in a Hohenheim-type solar tunnel dryer to produce safe and high quality dried fish products. Five commercially important tropical marine fish species in the Bay of Bengal such as silver jew fish, Bombay duck, big-eye tuna, Chinese pomfr...
Md. Tanvir Hossain, Taposhi Rabya Lima, Mahfuza Zaman Ela, Lubaba Khan et al.
The outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has posed significant challenges to human wellbeing and survival, particularly among groups of people such as the Sundarbans mangrove forest resource-dependent communities (SMFRDCs), and especially the fishermen in these communities, in developing count...
Asibul Islam Anik, Mohammad Rocky Khan Chowdhury, Hafiz T. A. Khan, Md. Nazrul Islam Mondal et al.
INTRODUCTION: Severe undernutrition among under-5 children is usually assessed using single or conventional indicators (i.e., severe stunting, severe wasting, and/or severe underweight). But these conventional indicators partly overlap, thus not providing a comprehensive estimate of the proportion o...
Swarup Sarkar, Nazrul Islam, Florence Durandin, Nahid Siddiqui et al.
The present study documents the first systematic assessment of a brothel in Bangladesh in terms of sexually transmitted disease (STD) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). A cross sectional study was undertaken on brothel-based commercial sex workers (CSWs) selected systematic random sampling to a...
Sohel Rana, Ali Newaz Bahar, Nazrul Islam, Johirul Islam
The Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is made up with small batteries powered sensor devices with limited energy resources within it. These sensor nodes are used to monitor physical or environmental conditions and to pass their data through the wireless network to the main location. One of the crucial i...
Md. Manirul Islam, Nieb Hasan Neom, Md Niaz Imtiaz, Sheikh Nooruddin et al.
Accidental falls have become one of the most frequent general health issues in recent years due to the rate of occurrence. Individuals aged above 65 are more prone to accidental falls. Accidental falls result in severe injuries such as concussion, head trauma, physical disabilities even to deaths in...
Md. Omaer Faruq Goni, Md. Nazrul Islam Mondal, S. M. Riazul Islam, Md. Nahiduzzaman et al.
Malaria, a life-threatening disease worldwide, can be diagnosed using antigen tests and microscopy tests. However, both of them are erroneous and time-consuming. Therefore, a trustworthy and fast early malaria prognosis infrastructure is required. In this age of machine learning (ML), there are seve...
Md. Shamsul Arefin, M. Rafiqul Islam, Mohitul Ameen Ahmed Mustafi, Sharmina Afrin et al.
The development of telecom technology has a profound impact on the lives and activities of the people of the world. Smartphone usage became popular to young generation because of its educational and entertaining options by using the numerous apps. Among the young people, students are increasingly us...
Shafi M. Tareq, Md. Shiblur Rahaman, SY Rikta, SM Nazrul Islam et al.
Jahangirnagar University Environmental Bulletin, Vol.2, 71-82, 2013 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jueb.v2i0.16332
Akib Zaman, Mohammad Shahjahan Majib, Shoeb Ahmed Tanjim, Shah Md. Ahasan Siddique et al.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, surface disinfection using prevailing chemical disinfection methods had several limitations. Due to cost-inefficiency and the inability to disinfect shaded places, static UVC lamps cannot address these limitations properly. Moreover, the average market price of the prev...
Sadia Zahin Diya, Rifat Ara Proma, Muhammad Nazrul Islam, Tasmiah Tamzid Anannya et al.
Waste management as well as sorting is a very crucial task to make the environment green and to ensure better (re)use of the resources. Bangladesh, because of its high density population, is facing enormous challenges to manage huge amount of wastes produced every day. So the purpose of this paper i...
Nazia Shehnaz Joynab, Muhammad Nazrul Islam, Ramiza Rumaisa Aliya, Al Hasan et al.
Cervical cancer is a significant contributor to female mortality on a global scale, especially in low-income countries where effective screening programs for the detection and treatment of precancerous conditions are lacking. Classification of pap-smear test cervical cell images is crucial as it giv...