Md. Khairul Islam, Abedul Haque, Rezaul Karim, Abul Fajol, Ekhtear Hossain, Kazi Abdus Salam, Nurshad Ali, Zahangir Alam Saud, Md. Sohanur Rahman, Mashiur Rahman, Rezaul Karim, Papia Sultana, Mostaque Hossain, Anwarul Azim Akhand, Abul Mandal, Hideki Miyataka, Seiichiro Himeno, Khaled Hossain,
Abstract Background Chronic arsenic exposure has been shown to cause liver damage. However, serum hepatic enzyme activity as recognized on liver function tests (LFTs) showing a dose-response relationship with arsenic exposure has not yet been clearly documented. The aim of our study was to investigate the dose-response relationship between arsenic exposure and major serum enzyme marker activity associated with LFTs in the population living in arsenic-endemic areas in Bangladesh. Methods A total of ...
Tópico(s): Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
2011 - BioMed Central | Environmental Health
Khaled Hossain, Takehiro Suzuki, M.M. Hasibuzzaman, Md. Shofikul Islam, Atiqur Rahman, Sudip Kumar Paul, Tanzina Tanu, S Hossain, Zahangir Alam Saud, Mashiur Rahman, Farjana Nikkon, Hideki Miyataka, Seiichiro Himeno, Keiko Nohara,
Chronic exposure to arsenic is associated with cancer and hypertension. Growing evidence suggests that altered methylation in long interspersed nuclear element-1 (LINE-1) is involved in many types of disorders, including cardiovascular disease. Here we evaluated the association between arsenic exposure and LINE-1 methylation levels, especially in relation to blood pressure (BP). A total of 236 subjects (175 from arsenic-endemic areas and 61 from a non-endemic area) in rural Bangladesh were recruited. ...
Tópico(s): Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
2017 - BioMed Central | Environmental Health
Titanium dioxide induced degradation of bright high-tenacity poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET:2GT) used in medical applications was investigated under both relaxed and stressed conditions. It was found that successive layers of the polymers were removed by hydrolysis as weight loss (%) was linear with the treatment time. However, owing to the presence of titanium dioxide, tenacity loss occurred and, therefore, at a given time of hydrolysis treatment, the breaking load loss (%) was greater than the weight ...
Tópico(s): Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications
2009 - SAGE Publishing | Textile Research Journal
Ann C. Smith, Justin S. Cook, Joan M. Francioni, Asif Hossain, Mohd Firuz Mohd Anwar, Mashiur Rahman,
The hierarchical structure of a program can be quite complex. As such, many Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) provide graphical representations of program structure at different levels of abstraction. Such representations are not very accessible to non-sighted programmers, as screen readers are not able to portray the underlying hierarchical structure of the information. In this paper, we define a set of requirements for an accessible tree navigation strategy. An implementation of this strategy ...
Tópico(s): Data Visualization and Analytics
2003 - Association for Computing Machinery | ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing
Ekhtear Hossain, Khairul Islam, Fouzia Yeasmin, Md. Rezaul Karim, Mashiur Rahman, Smita Agarwal, S Hossain, Md. Abdul Aziz, Abdullah Al Mamun, Afzal Sheikh, Abedul Haque, Md. Tofazzal Hossain, Mostaque Hossain, Parvez I. Haris, Noriaki Ikemura, Kiyoshi Inoue, Hideki Miyataka, Seiichiro Himeno, Khaled Hossain,
Chronic arsenic (As) exposure affects the endothelial system causing several diseases. Big endothelin-1 (Big ET-1), the biological precursor of endothelin-1 (ET-1) is a more accurate indicator of the degree of activation of the endothelial system. Effect of As exposure on the plasma Big ET-1 levels and its physiological implications have not yet been documented. We evaluated plasma Big ET-1 levels and their relation to hypertension and skin lesions in As exposed individuals in Bangladesh. A total of ...
Tópico(s): Neutrophil, Myeloperoxidase and Oxidative Mechanisms
2012 - Elsevier BV | Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology
Nurshad Ali, Meinolf Blaszkewicz, Nayan Chandra Mohanto, Mashiur Rahman, Abdul Alim, Khaled Hossain, Gisela H. Degen,
Tópico(s): Coconut Research and Applications
2014 - Springer Science+Business Media | Mycotoxin Research
Md. Mazedul Islam, Md. Mashiur Rahman Khan,
The work reported in this paper presents the assessment of environmental performances of selected branded apparel T-Shirt products made by Bangladesh. The study is based on a standard evaluation tool named Higg Index which is basically used widely to measure the environmental sustainability of various apparel products. Higg Index is an internal self-assessment tool created by the outdoor apparel industry and Nike’s apparel environmental design tool which aims to aggregate information on the environmental ...
Tópico(s): Consumer Packaging Perceptions and Trends
2014 - Hindawi Publishing Corporation | Journal of Textiles
Nazmul Huda, S Hossain, Mashiur Rahman, Md. Rezaul Karim, Khairul Islam, Abdullah Al Mamun, Md. Imam Hossain, Nayan Chandra Mohanto, Shahnur Alam, Sharmin Aktar, Afroza Arefin, Nurshad Ali, Kazi Abdus Salam, Md. Abdul Aziz, Zahangir Alam Saud, Hideki Miyataka, Seiichiro Himeno, Khaled Hossain,
Blood uric acid has been recognized as a putative marker for cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). CVDs are the major causes of arsenic-related morbidity and mortality. However, the association of arsenic exposure with plasma uric acid (PUA) levels in relation to CVDs has not yet been explored. This study for the first time demonstrated the associations of arsenic exposure with PUA levels and its relationship with hypertension. A total of 483 subjects, 322 from arsenic-endemic and 161 from non-endemic areas ...
Tópico(s): Arsenic contamination and mitigation
2014 - Elsevier BV | Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology
Seetha Krishnan, Ajay S. Mathuru, Caroline Kibat, Mashiur Rahman, Charlotte Lupton, James Stewart, Adam Claridge‐Chang, Shih‐Cheng Yen, Suresh Jesuthasan,
BackgroundThe habenula consists of an evolutionarily conserved set of nuclei that control neuromodulator release. In lower vertebrates, the dorsal habenula receives innervation from sensory regions, but the significance of this is unclear. Here, we address the role of the habenula in olfaction by imaging neural activity in larval zebrafish expressing GCaMP3 throughout the habenula and by carrying out behavioral assays.ResultsActivity in several hundred neurons throughout the habenula was recorded ...
Tópico(s): Animal Behavior and Reproduction
2014 - Elsevier BV | Current Biology
Md. Ibrahim H. Mondal, Md. Mashiur Rahman Khan,
Abstract Denim garment was treated with cellulase enzyme by varying the process parameters, namely concentration of enzyme, washing temperature and time to develop novel design and fashion. The effect of process parameters on the physical and mechanical properties of cotton denim garment was investigated and denim fabric properties like tensile strength, elongation at break, weight loss, stiffness, water absorption, shrinkage, color fading and morphological values by SEM were discussed. To obtain ...
Tópico(s): Dyeing and Modifying Textile Fibers
2014 - Springer Nature | Fashion and Textiles
Afzal Sheikh, Fouzia Yeasmin, Smita Agarwal, Mashiur Rahman, Md. Khairul Islam, Ekhtear Hossain, S Hossain, Md. Rezaul Karim, Farjana Nikkon, Zahangir Alam Saud, Khaled Hossain,
To evaluate the protective role of leaves of Moringa oleifera (M. oleifera) Lam. against arsenic-induced toxicity in mice.Swiss albino male mice were divided into four groups. The first group was used as non-treated control group while, the second, third, and fourth groups were treated with M. oleifera leaves (50 mg/kg body weight per day), sodium arsenite (10 mg/kg body weight per day) and sodium arsenite plus M. oleifera leaves, respectively. Serum indices related to cardiac, liver and renal functions ...
Tópico(s): Moringa oleifera research and applications
2014 - Medknow | Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine
Mashiur Rahman, Abdullah Al Mamun, Md. Rezaul Karim, Khairul Islam, Hasan Al Amin, S Hossain, Md. Imam Hossain, Zahangir Alam Saud, Abu Shadat Mohammod Noman, Hideki Miyataka, Seiichiro Himeno, Khaled Hossain,
Tópico(s): Skin Protection and Aging
2014 - Elsevier BV | Chemosphere
Md. Rezaul Karim, Mashiur Rahman, Khairul Islam, Abdullah Al Mamun, S Hossain, Ekhtear Hossain, Md. Abdul Aziz, Fouzia Yeasmin, Smita Agarwal, Md. Imam Hossain, Zahangir Alam Saud, Farjana Nikkon, Mostaque Hossain, Abul Mandal, Richard O. Jenkins, Parvez I. Haris, Hideki Miyataka, Seiichiro Himeno, Khaled Hossain,
Elevated exposure to arsenic has been suggested to be associated with atherosclerosis leading to cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, biochemical events underlying the arsenic-induced atherosclerosis have not yet been fully documented. The aim of this study was to investigate the associations of circulating molecules involved in atherosclerosis with arsenic exposure in the individuals exposed to arsenic in Bangladesh. A total of 324 study subjects, 218 from arsenic-endemic areas and 106 from nonendemic ...
Tópico(s): Vitamin C and Antioxidants Research
2013 - Oxford University Press | Toxicological Sciences
Md. Mashiur Rahman Khan, Md. Ibrahim H. Mondal, Md. Zulhash Uddin,
Denim garment is the most preferred of todays youth. This paper presents the effect of enzyme wash using cellulase enzyme on the properties of denim garments to develop novel design and fashion. Three parameters in enzyme washing namely concentration of enzyme, washing temperature and time at pH 5.5 were considered. To investigate the optimum washing condition, indigo dyed cotton denim garments (trousers) were chosen and processed by enzyme with the concentration of 0.5% to 3.5%, temperature 40° ...
Tópico(s): Fashion and Cultural Textiles
2013 - | Journal of Chemical Engineering
Nurshad Ali, Khaled Hossain, Meinolf Blaszkewicz, Mashiur Rahman, Nayan Chandra Mohanto, Abdul Alim, Gisela H. Degen,
Tópico(s): Listeria monocytogenes in Food Safety
2015 - Springer Science+Business Media | Archives of Toxicology
Md. Mashiur Rahman Khan, Md. Mazedul Islam,
In this paper, evaluation of base materials and manufacturing environmental sustainability of selected branded T-shirt products made by Bangladesh is presented. The study is based on performing various eco-friendliness tests for the product base materials and evaluation though a standard tool named Higg Index. For this study, selected apparel branded T-shirt products from renowned brand, namely B, C, D, E, and F, and a researcher-developed BUTex-Innovation brand A are taken into consideration. Better ...
Tópico(s): Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
2015 - Springer Nature | Textiles and Clothing Sustainability
Md. Delwar Hossain, Md. Mashiur Rahman Khan, Md. Zulhash Uddin,
Tópico(s): Skin Protection and Aging
2016 - Springer Science+Business Media | Journal of Polymers and the Environment
A study has been made of the effect of an imposed tensile stress on the rate of hydrolysis of geotextile grade polyester in aqueous sodium hydroxide solution at room temperature. Weight losses of samples stressed with loads up to the yield point were virtually the same as for relaxed samples. For stresses which exceeded the yield point, significantly larger weight losses were obtained, particularly at longer reaction times. The mechanical properties of the filaments, particularly tenacity, breaking ...
Tópico(s): Fiber-reinforced polymer composites
1999 - Elsevier BV | Polymer
Madad Ali, Fahad Asmi, Md. Mashiur Rahman, Naveed Malik, Muhammad Salman Ahmad,
This study developed the research model to analyze the relationship between suggested service quality dimensions with customer satisfaction and customer reuse intention. The sample count of 188 from FBR’s e-taxation/e-filling users was used to examine the study model. In this study, the Exploratory factor analysis EFA used to observe the validity and reliability of the measurement model. The statistical method i.e. regression model has been used to check the research model significance relationship ...
Tópico(s): Customer Service Quality and Loyalty
2017 - Scientific Research Publishing | Open Journal of Social Sciences
Naveed Malik, Fahad Asmi, Madad Ali, Md. Mashiur Rahman,
The current document analyzed the statistical data for the year 2015 to make a comparative analysis in the case of China and Pakistan. The results conclude the migration and the refugee related challenge in Pakistan is the most critical factor to be observed and demands high level of attention. On the other side, the strengthening infrastructure in china is the massive pull factor to increase urbanization and economic growth. Moreover, the future lessons learnt from the China’s progressive growth ...
Tópico(s): South Asian Studies and Conflicts
2017 - | Journal of Social Science Studies
Mohammad Salim Kaiser, S. H. Sabbir, M. S. Kabir, Mashiur Rahman Soummo, Maglub Al Nur,
Effect of Fe, Ni and Cr addition on the wear behavior of hyper-eutectic Al-Si automotive alloy has been studied. Dry sliding wear tests have been conducted using pin-on-disc wear testing machine under normal loads of 20N and constant sliding speed of 0.64 ms-1. Influence of Fe addition to the base alloy increases the wear rate due to the formation of needle beta intermetallics. Ni addition to the alloy does not impede formation of needle-like intermetallic compounds and has no positive effect on ...
Tópico(s): Microstructure and mechanical properties
2018 - Associação Brasileira de Metalurgia e Materiais (ABM); Associação Brasileira de Cerâmica (ABC); Associação Brasileira de Polímer | Materials Research
Shamsul Alam, Bipin Chaurasia, Narendra Shalike, Abu Naim Wakil Uddin, Dhiman Chowdhury, Akhlaque Hossain Khan, Ayub Ansari, Kanak Kanti Barua, Mashiur Rahman Majumder,
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Tópico(s): Ophthalmology and Eye Disorders
2018 - Hongkong Partner Publishing Co. Limited | Neuroimmunology and Neuroinflammation
Ripa Akter Sharmin, Mashiur Rahman Bhuiyan, Wenhuan Lv, Zheping Yu, Fangguo Chang, Jiejie Kong, Javaid Akhter Bhat, Tuanjie Zhao,
Seed-flooding stress is one of the most important constraints that affects the yield and quality of soybean. However, very little is known about the molecular mechanisms underlying seed-flooding tolerance. Hence, the present study investigated the transcriptome profile in root tissues of two contrasting soybean genotypes viz., PI342618B/SFT-tolerant, and NN86-4/SFS-sensitive under seed-flooding stress using RNA-Seq approach. A total of 1563 and 1958 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified ...
Tópico(s): Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
2019 - Elsevier BV | Environmental and Experimental Botany
Ikra Iftekhar Shuvo, Mashiur Rahman, Tasneem Vahora, Jason Morrison, Shawna DuCharme, Lin‐P'ing Choo‐Smith,
Due to the excessive use of water required for cotton cultivation, scientists in this field have been looking at waste biomass as an alternative source of fiber supply. Canola waste biomass is a source of textile fibers which effectively costs nothing, as the biomass can be collected from the waste plant stems of canola plants after harvesting. Therefore, an investigation has been conducted to identify the characteristics of canola fiber and of the canola cultivar ( Brassica napus L.) suitable for ...
Tópico(s): Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications
2019 - SAGE Publishing | Textile Research Journal
Vahid Sadrmanesh, Ying Chen, Mashiur Rahman, Faris M. AL‐Oqla,
Bast fibers, renewable resources used as reinforcement to develop sustainable products, are extracted from plant stalk in a process called decortication. Proper selection of critical parameters affecting decorticators’ performance is required for optimization of the process. An analytical hierarchy process (AHP) was developed, according to expert feedback and experimental tests, to identify the most influential parameters affecting mechanical extraction of bast fibers. The experimental tests were ...
Tópico(s): Agricultural Engineering and Mechanization
2019 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Cleaner Production
Adnan Maroof Khan, Md. Mazedul Islam, Md. Mashiur Rahman Khan,
Jute-cotton blended denim is a new diversified product for the fashion and clothing sector. Chitosan was incorporated in this blend in order to improve its antimicrobial property. The incorporation of chitosan to the blended apparel was confirmed by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. Two microorganisms were used to create individual bacterial medium; one is the gram-positive Staphylococcus aureus and the other is the gram-negative Escherichia coli. Qualitative and quantitative assessments ...
Tópico(s): Agricultural and Food Sciences
2019 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of the Textile Institute
MA Siddique, Mashrufah Khatun, M. Mashiur Rahman, Giasuddin Ahmed, Mohammad Moniruzzaman, Muhammad Jasim Uddin,
We investigated the annual gametogenic phenology of the freshwater pearl mussel, Lamellidens marginalis (Lamarck, 1819), collected from a lentic habitat at Mymensingh, Bangladesh, using biometry and histology through monthly sampling from August 2015 to July 2016. After biometric measurements, thin slices of dorso-ventral sections were cut from the middle of the mussels for histology to determine sex and level of gonadal maturation. The condition index (CI) ranged from 0.64 (March) to 0.99 (January) ...
Tópico(s): Water Quality and Resources Studies
2019 - Taylor & Francis | Molluscan Research
Md Nuruzzaman Khan, M. Mofizul Islam, Md Mashiur Rahman,
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have started spreading in Bangladesh since March 2020. Since then the new infections grew exponentially and now the rate is highest in Asia along with wider community-level transmission. In Bangladesh, the preventive measures have been found challenging to implement due to a lack of general awareness of COVID-19 and the absence of a social safety net. In this situation, there is a concern about the heightened risk of infection and its aftermath in Rohingya ...
Tópico(s): COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
2020 - Elsevier BV | Public Health in Practice
Md Shadhin, Mashiur Rahman, Raghavan Jayaraman, Ying Chen, Danny Mann, Wen Zhong,
The renewable characteristics of natural fibers have prompted consumers to switch from synthetic and petroleum-based resources. The dimension and geometry of the cell wall and lumen determine the microstructural parameters of natural biomass fibers (BFs) and waste biomass fibers (WBFs). The variation in these microstructural parameters, together with the divergences in the degumming methods and processing conditions, causes large variations in their physical and mechanical properties, unlike synthetic ...
Tópico(s): biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties
2023 - Elsevier BV | Industrial Crops and Products
M. Mofizul Islam, Md Nuruzzaman Khan, Md Mashiur Rahman,
Background: Rohingya girls living in the refugee camps in Bangladesh are disproportionately vulnerable to child marriages and teenage pregnancies. This study examines the factors affecting child marriage and contraceptive use among Rohingya girls who have experienced child marriages. Methods: We collected and analysed quantitative and qualitative data from adolescent Rohingya girls (age 10-19 years) who experienced child marriages. The quantitative data (n=96) came from a cross-sectional survey, and ...
Tópico(s): Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
2021 - Elsevier BV | The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific