Farhan Jamil Emon, Md Fazle Rohani, Nusrat Sumaiya, Mst. Fatema Tuj Jannat et al.
Heavy metals, the most potent contaminants of the environment, are discharged into the aquatic ecosystems through the effluents of several industries, resulting in serious aquatic pollution. This type of severe heavy metal contamination in aquaculture systems has attracted great attention throughout...
Md Azim Uddin Repon, Sajuti Akter Pakhe, Sumaiya Quaiyum, Rajesh Das et al.
The COVID-19 has been spreading across the world since December 2019. The pandemic has created tremendous fear of death from infection and awful psychological pressure on healthcare professionals (HCPs). The measures of psychological effects of the COVID-19 outbreak on the Bangladeshi HCPs are unkno...
Md. Imam Hossain, Nur E. Alam, Sumaiya Akter, Umme Suriea et al.
BACKGROUND: Dengue, the mosquito borne disease has become a growing public health threat in Bangladesh due to its gradual increasing morbidity and mortality since 2000. In 2019, the country witnessed the worst ever dengue outbreak. The present study was conducted to characterize the socio-economic f...
Tanim Jabid Hossain, Sumaiya Islam Chowdhury, Halima Akter Mozumder, Mohammad Nazmul Ahmed Chowdhury et al.
Bacteria producing hydrolytic exoenzymes are of great importance considering their contribution to the host metabolism as well as for their various applications in industrial bioprocesses. In this work hydrolytic capacity of bacteria isolated from the gastrointestinal tract of Bombay duck (Harpadon ...
Sumaiya Akter, Binoy Debnath, A.B.M. Mainul Bari
Emergency Life-Saving Drugs (ELSDs) are among the highest-priority healthcare necessities since they must be administered immediately to save patient lives and prevent complications in the most critical conditions. Due to this reason, it is vital to ensure a continuous and undisrupted supply chain (...
Md. Mominur Rahman, Xiaoyan Wang, Md. Rezaul Islam, Shopnil Akash et al.
Natural substances originating from plants have long been used to treat neurodegenerative disorders (NDs). Parkinson's disease (PD) is a ND. The deterioration and subsequent cognitive impairments of the midbrain nigral dopaminergic neurons distinguish by this characteristic. Various pathogenic mecha...
Nicole Legate, Thuy-vy Thi Nguyen, Netta Weinstein, Arlen C. Moller et al.
Finding communication strategies that effectively motivate social distancing continues to be a global public health priority during the COVID-19 pandemic. This cross-country, preregistered experiment (n = 25,718 from 89 countries) tested hypotheses concerning generalizable positive and negative outc...
Md. Raihanul Islam, Sumaiya Akter Ruponti, Md Abdur Rakib, Huy Quoc Nguyen et al.
Plastic is considered one of the most indispensable commodities in our daily life. At the end of life, the huge ever-growing pile of plastic waste (PW) causes serious concerns for our environment, including agricultural farmlands, groundwater quality, marine and land ecosystems, food toxicity and hu...
Nur E. Alam, Md. Shariful Islam, Hedayet Ullah, Md. Tarek Molla et al.
BACKGROUND: Breast cancer (BCa) is a leading cause of mortality among women in Bangladesh. Many young women in Bangladesh have poor knowledge about breast cancer screening, including risk factors, warning signs/symptoms, diagnosis and early detection. We investigated awareness about breast cancer ri...
Ferdausi Ali, Sharup Das, Tanim Jabid Hossain, Sumaiya Islam Chowdhury et al.
Oil pollution is of increasing concern for environmental safety and the use of microbial surfactants in oil remediation has become inevitable for their efficacy and ecofriendly nature. In this work, biosurfactants of bacteria isolated from oil-contaminated soil have been characterized. Four potent b...
Md. Ashraful Alam, Sumaiya Islam Sadia, Md. Khalid Hossain Shishir, Raton Kumar Bishwas et al.
Md. Jubayer Hossain, Md Wahidul Islam, Ummi Rukaiya Munni, Rubaiya Gulshan et al.
Thalassemia is one of the most common autosomal recessive hereditary blood disorders worldwide, especially in developing countries, including Bangladesh. Thus, this study aimed to determine HRQoL and its determinants of thalassemia patients (TP) in Bangladesh. A cross-sectional survey was performed ...
Sumaiya Islam Sadia, Md. Khalid Hossain Shishir, Shanawaz Ahmed, Md. Ashraful Alam et al.
Md. Mominur Rahman, Limon Ahmed, Fazilatunnesa Anika, Anha Akter Riya et al.
Nowadays, environmental pollution has become a critical issue for both developed and developing countries. Because of excessive industrialization, burning of fossil fuels, mining and exploration, extensive agricultural activities, and plastics, the environment is being contaminated rapidly through s...
Md. Rabiul Islam, Sumaiya Quaiyum, Sajuti Akter Pakhe, Md Azim Uddin Repon et al.
The present dataset is concerned with an article entitled "Effect of COVID-19 pandemic on mental health among Bangladeshi healthcare professionals: A cross-sectional study" [1]. This data article consists of a dataset regarding the mental health of Bangladeshi healthcare professionals (HCPs) during ...
Nur E. Alam, Md. Shariful Islam, Md Imam ul Khabir, Umme Suriea et al.
Thalassemia is one of the most common life-threatening yet preventable congenital hemoglobin disorders especially in South Asian regions like Bangladesh. It has become a rising public health concern for Bangladesh as 6-12% of the population are carriers and many of them are unaware of it. The purpos...
Md. Mehedi Hasan Shawon, Sumaiya Akter, Md. Kamrul Islam, Sabbir Ahmed et al.
Due to climate change effects, the demand for renewable energy is growing immensely around the world. Photovoltaic (PV) panels are widely popular as a vital source of renewable energy all over the world as well as in Bangladesh. However, besides solar irradiance, the panel output is greatly affected...
Bithy Khatun, Md. Abu Sayed Jewel, Md. Ayenuddin Haque, Sumaiya Akter et al.
Macro-benthos is commonly considered an indicator for evaluating the health of an aquatic ecosystem. Earlier research from sub-tropical mangrove estuaries, however, has primarily relied on conventional taxonomic methods to determine the pattern of macro-benthos diversity. Therefore, this study aimed...
Md. Hasan Al Banna, Md. Forshed Dewan, Mohammad Raihan Tariq, Abu Sayeed et al.
Eating disorders among university students have been increasing day by day in developing countries. However, there is a dearth of existing literature that assessed eating disorder risk among this population group in Bangladesh. Thus, this study aimed to assess the prevalence of eating disorder risk ...
Amina Khatun, Mahmudur Rahman, Sumaiya Kabir, Md Nahid Akter et al.
Ardisia humilis Vahl. (Family-Myrsinaceae) has been traditionally used by the folklore medicinal practitioners of Bangladesh to treat cancer, heart diseases and liver poisoning where cytotoxic, thrombolytic and antioxidant medications are implicated. Besides, some other species of Ardisia were repor...