Marie Ng, Tom Fleming, Margaret S. Robinson, Blake Thomson et al.
Background In 2010, overweight and obesity were estimated to cause 3.4 million deaths, 3.9% of years of life lost, and 3.8% of DALYs globally. The rise in obesity has led to widespread calls for regular monitoring of changes in overweight and obesity prevalence in all populations. Comparative, up-to...
Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury, Tawsifur Rahman, Amith Khandakar, Rashid Mazhar et al.
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a pandemic disease, which has already caused thousands of causalities and infected several millions of people worldwide. Any technological tool enabling rapid screening of the COVID-19 infection with high accuracy can be crucially helpful to the healthcare professio...
Shams Forruque Ahmed, M. Mofijur, Samiha Nuzhat, Anika Tasnim Chowdhury et al.
Emerging contaminants (ECs) in wastewater have recently attracted the attention of researchers as they pose significant risks to human health and wildlife. This paper presents the state-of-art technologies used to remove ECs from wastewater through a comprehensive review. It also highlights the chal...
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...
Shahariar Chowdhury, Kazi Sajedur Rahman, Tanjia Chowdhury, Narissara Nuthammachot et al.
End-of-life (EOL) solar panels may become a source of hazardous waste although there are enormous benefits globally from the growth in solar power generation. Global installed PV capacity reached around 400 GW at the end of 2017 and is expected to rise further to 4500 GW by 2050. Considering an aver...
Saifur Rahman Chowdhury, Dipak Chandra Das, Tachlima Chowdhury Sunna, Joseph Beyene et al.
Background: Knowing the prevalence of multimorbidity among adults across continents is a crucial piece of information for achieving Sustainable Development Goal 3.4, which calls for reducing premature death due to non-communicable diseases. A high prevalence of multimorbidity indicates high mortalit...
Derek Klarin, The VA Million Veteran Program, Scott M. Damrauer, Kelly Cho et al.
The Million Veteran Program (MVP) was established in 2011 as a national research initiative to determine how genetic variation influences the health of US military veterans. Here we genotyped 312,571 MVP participants using a custom biobank array and linked the genetic data to laboratory and clinical...
Tawsifur Rahman, Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury, Amith Khandakar, Khandaker Reajul Islam et al.
Pneumonia is a life-threatening disease, which occurs in the lungs caused by either bacterial or viral infection. It can be life-endangering if not acted upon at the right time and thus the early diagnosis of pneumonia is vital. The paper aims to automatically detect bacterial and viral pneumonia us...
Tawsifur Rahman, Amith Khandakar, Muhammad Abdul Kadir, Khandaker Reajul Islam et al.
Tuberculosis (TB) is a chronic lung disease that occurs due to bacterial infection and is one of the top 10 leading causes of death. Accurate and early detection of TB is very important, otherwise, it could be life-threatening. In this work, we have detected TB reliably from the chest X-ray images u...
Charge Diabetes Working Group, Dajiang J. Liu, VA Million Veteran Program, Gina M. Peloso et al.
We screened variants on an exome-focused genotyping array in >300,000 participants (replication in >280,000 participants) and identified 444 independent variants in 250 loci significantly associated with total cholesterol (TC), high-density-lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), low-density-lipoprotein ch...
Shams Forruque Ahmed, M. Mofijur, Nazifa Rafa, Anika Tasnim Chowdhury et al.
Green synthesis approaches of nanomaterials (NMs) have received considerable attention in recent years as it addresses the sustainability issues posed by conventional synthesis methods. However, recent works of literature do not present the complete picture of biogenic NMs. This paper addresses the ...
Paolo Zanoni, Sumeet A. Khetarpal, Daniel B. Larach, William Hancock‐Cerutti et al.
Scavenger receptor BI (SR-BI) is the major receptor for high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol (HDL-C). In humans, high amounts of HDL-C in plasma are associated with a lower risk of coronary heart disease (CHD). Mice that have depleted Scarb1 (SR-BI knockout mice) have markedly elevated HDL-C l...
Mohammad Shahjalal, Probir Kumar Roy, Tamanna Shams, Ashley Fly et al.
: High power density has made Li-ion batteries a reliable energy storage technology for electric vehicles (EV). This is contributing to the ever-increasing number of used Li-ion batteries. When these used batteries reach 80% of their nominal capacity, they are no longer appropriate for powering EVs ...
Muhammad Chanchal Azad, Kristin Fraser, Nahid Rumana, Ahmad Faris Abdullah et al.
Medical students carry a large academic load which could potentially contribute to poor sleep quality above and beyond that already experienced by modern society. In this global literature review of the medical students' sleep experience, we find that poor sleep is not only common among medical stud...
Tanzi Ahmed Chowdhury, Md. Arafat Bin Zafar, Md. Sajjad-Ul Islam, M. Shahinuzzaman et al.
Even though power conversion efficiency has already reached 25.8%, poor stability is one of the major challenges hindering the commercialization of perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Several initiatives, such as structural modification and fabrication techniques by numerous ways, have been employed by r...
Imogen E. Napper, Anju Baroth, Aaron Barrett, Sunanda Bhola et al.
Microplastics (plastic < 5 mm in size) are now known to contaminate riverine systems but understanding about how their concentrations vary spatially and temporally is limited. This information is critical to help identify key sources and pathways of microplastic and develop management interventions....
Tarit Roy Chowdhury, Gautam Basu, Badal Kumar Mandal, Bhajan Kumar Biswas et al.
Dewan Md. Farid, Li Zhang, Chowdhury Mofizur Rahman, Mohammad Alamgir Hossain et al.
Mir Ferdous Chowdhury, Shahjalal Khandaker, Forkan Sarker, Aminul Islam et al.
The release of colored wastewater from industries into surface water bodies creates undesirable consequences to the marine ecosystem and human beings owing to its pernicious effect. Indigo dyes being aromatic compounds with complex structure are one of the most important as well as the largest class...
Mostafa Zaman Chowdhury, Moh. Khalid Hasan, Md. Shahjalal, Md. Tanvir Hossan et al.
Optical wireless communication (OWC) is an excellent complementary solution to its radio frequency (RF) counterpart. OWC technologies have been demonstrated to be able to support high traffic generated by massive connectivity of the Internet of Things (IoT) and upcoming 5 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www....