Assessing the pattern of key factors on women's empowerment in Bangladesh: Evidence from Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey, 2007 to 2017-18.

Background: With half a female population, empowering women can be a key factor in our country's global advancement. Focusing on household decision-making and attitudes toward wife beating, our study addresses the dearth of research exploring how different socio-economic and demographic factors associated with women's empowerment evolve over the past decade in Bangladesh (from BDHS 2007 to BDHS 2017-18).

Methods: Data from four waves of Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS, 2007 to BDHS, 2017-18) were used in this study.

Betulinic Acid, the first lupane-type triterpenoid isolated via bioactivity-guided fractionation, and identified by spectroscopic analysis from leaves of -: its potential biological activities assays.

Betulinic acid was first time isolated via bioactivity-guided fractionation from ethyl acetate extract of - leaves. Its structure was established by FTIR, H and C- nuclear magnetic resonance and high-resolution mass spectrometry. It had shown excellent inhibition of anti-inflammatory properties with IC of 10.

Face-to-Face Packing of 2,3,9,10-Tetrasubstituted Pentacene Derivatives Revealed through a Solid State [4 + 4] Thermal Cycloaddition and Molecular Dynamic Simulation.

2,3,9,10-Substituted pentacene tetraesters and pentacene diester-dinitriles were synthesized. These pentacene derivatives underwent an unusual solid state [4 + 4] thermal dimerization with good efficiency and complete stereoselectivity. This observation indicates this series of pentacene derivatives adopt π-π stacking geometry with large mutual overlap in solid state.

Synthesis of electron deficient acene derivatives via a bidirectional iterative elongation reaction.

Previously, we developed an iterative elongation methodology to synthesize acene esters, nitriles, and imides. The strategy uses the concept of bidirectional synthesis, and we can now make a series of electron deficient anthracene, tetracene, and pentacene derivatives via the bidirectional iterative elongation protocol. Central units, used to initiate the bidirectional elongation, were synthesized by employing a double anionic Fries rearrangement as the key step.

Iterative synthesis of acenes via homo-elongation.

Starting from aromatic ortho-dialdehydes, we devised a homo-elongation protocol that combines a Wittig olefination and subsequent intramolecular Knoevenagel condensation to produce acene diesters and dinitriles.

A Lupinoside prevented fatty acid induced inhibition of insulin sensitivity in 3T3 L1 adipocytes.

The decrease in insulin sensitivity to target tissues or insulin resistance leads to type 2 diabetes mellitus, an insidious disease threatening global health. Numerous evidences made free fatty acids (FFAs) responsible for insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. We demonstrate here that the damage of insulin acitivity by a free fatty acid, palmitate could be prevented by a lupinoside.