Abid Hasan Khan, Sadia Sultana, Sahadat Hossain, M. Tasdik Hasan et al.
Highlights • To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study focused on COVID-19 associated mental health among the home-quarantined Bangladeshi university and college students.• University students had greater psychological impact due to COVID-19 than college students.• Perceived COVID-19 sym...
Satyajit Kundu, Md. Hasan Al Banna, Abu Sayeed, Sadia Sultana et al.
OBJECTIVES: The study aimed to determine the associated factors of household food security (HFS) and household dietary diversity (HDD) during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh. DESIGN: Both online survey and face-to-face interviews were employed in this cross-sectional study. The Household Food Se...
Afroza Rahman, Md. Anwar Hossen, Mirza Farhana Iqbal Chowdhury, Sadia Bari et al.
Aducanumab is a novel disease-modifying anti-amyloid-beta (Aβ) human monoclonal antibody specifically targeted to the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD). It was granted for treating AD in June 2021 by the United States Food and Drug Administration. We systematically analyzed available trial...
Sadia Afrin, Hasibur Rahman Shuvo, Banjir Sultana, Faridul Islam et al.
The effluents from textile industries without proper treatment contains a remarkable amount of synthetic dyes which are harmful to the environment and a big challenge globally to degrade it with a eco-friendly way. Conventional methods are extremely energy-consuming, non-effective and generate a tox...
Sadia Sultana
This paper reports on a mixed-method study that explored the effect of English as a medium of instruction. It specifically focuses on the academic discourse and socialisation experiences of 1st year students in universities of Bangladesh. A questionnaire survey of 115 students and interviews with st...
Md. Hridoy, Md. Zobayer Hossain Gorapi, Sadia Noor, Nargis Sultana Chowdhury et al.
Endophytic fungi are microorganisms that exist almost ubiquitously inside the various tissues of living plants where they act as an important reservoir of diverse bioactive compounds. Recently, endophytic fungi have drawn tremendous attention from researchers; their isolation, culture, purification,...
Sadia Sultana, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, Mohammad Reza Selim, Md. Mijanur Rashid et al.
In this study, we have presented a deep learning-based implementation for speech emotion recognition (SER). The system combines a deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) and a bidirectional long-short term memory (BLSTM) network with a time-distributed flatten (TDF) layer. The proposed model has be...
Sadia Sultana, M. Shahidur Rahman, Mohammad Reza Selim, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal
SUBESCO is an audio-only emotional speech corpus for Bangla language. The total duration of the corpus is in excess of 7 hours containing 7000 utterances, and it is the largest emotional speech corpus available for this language. Twenty native speakers participated in the gender-balanced set, each r...
MM Rahman, Md Mamunur Rashid, Samara Basher, Sadia Sultana et al.
Effects of Ramadan fasting on serum lipids of 20 healthy males in Bangladesh were assessed. Anthropometric parameters and blood lipids were measured 1 day before Ramadan, day 26 of Ramadan and 1 month after Ramadan. Body weight and body mass index decreased significantly during Ramadan compared with...
Mohammad Anwar Hossen, Arun Govindaiah, Sadia Sultana, Alauddin Bhuiyan
In this paper, we propose a new method for Bengali Sign Language Recognition using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNN). The method is built to recognize static hand signs of 37 letters of the Bengali alphabet. Conducting tests on three sets of 37 signs (we have used 31 sets of images for 37 di...
Farah Naz Qamar, Mohammad Tahir Yousafzai, Shazia Sultana, Attaullah Baig et al.
Introduction: The Surveillance for Enteric Fever in Asia Project (SEAP) is a multisite surveillance study designed to capture morbidity and mortality burden of enteric fever (typhoid and paratyphoid) in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan. We aim to describe enteric fever disease burden, severity of ill...
Md. Sanzidul Islam, Sadia Sultana Sharmin Mousumi, Nazmul A. Jessan, AKM Shahariar Azad Rabby et al.
Collecting hand gesture data for sign language is too much difficult to researchers. Ishara-Lipi, the first complete isolated characters dataset of Bangla Sign Language (BdSL) is conducted in this article. It will help to increase interaction between hearing impaired community and general people. Th...
Md. Sanzidul Islam, Sadia Sultana Sharmin Mousumi, Sheikh Abujar, Syed Akhter Hossain
Sequence to sequence text generation is the most efficient approach for automatically converting the script of a word from a source sequence to a target sequence. Text generation is the application of natural language generation which is useful in sequence modeling like the machine translation, spee...
Md. Sanzidul Islam, Sadia Sultana Sharmin Mousumi, AKM Shahariar Azad Rabby, Sayed Akhter Hossain et al.
Hearing impaired people have own language called Sign Language but it is difficult for understanding to general people. Sign language is the basic method of communication for deaf people during their everyday of life. Sign digits are also a major part of sign language. So machine translator is neces...
Md. Rakibul Islam, Momota Yeasmin, Sultana Sadia, Md Sadek Ali et al.
Peoples can readily and affordably obtain small indigenous fish species (SIS), with a maximum length of 25 cm, that can be found in niches in small bodies of water (such as canals, ponds, wetlands, streams, etc.). SIS contribute valuable and significant macro- and micronutrients in Bangladesh. SIS a...