Development of a low-cost textile sensor based insole to monitor foot pressure of diabetic patients.

A common but preventable complication of diabetes is diabetic foot ulcer. If appropriate care is not provided such foot lesions progress to the most severe diabetic foot complication, like infection, gangrene, amputation and even death. Diabetic neuropathy results abnormal planter pressure points under the foot and triggers the tendency of foot ulcer.

Bearing Fault Diagnosis Using Multidomain Fusion-Based Vibration Imaging and Multitask Learning.

Statistical features extraction from bearing fault signals requires a substantial level of knowledge and domain expertise. Furthermore, existing feature extraction techniques are mostly confined to selective feature extraction methods namely, time-domain, frequency-domain, or time-frequency domain statistical parameters. Vibration signals of bearing fault are highly non-linear and non-stationary making it cumbersome to extract relevant information for existing methodologies.

The efficacy of deep learning based LSTM model in forecasting the outbreak of contagious diseases.

The coronavirus disease that outbreak in 2019 has caused various health issues. According to the WHO, the first positive case was detected in Bangladesh on 7 March 2020, but while writing this paper in June 2021, the total confirmed, recovered, and death cases were 826922, 766266 and 13118, respectively. Due to the emergence of COVID-19 in Bangladesh, the country is facing a major public health crisis.

Exploration through Structural, Electrical, and Magnetic Properties of Al Doped Ni-Zn-Co Nanospinel Ferrites.

The exploration of aluminum (Al) ion substituted nickel-zinc-cobalt (Ni-Zn-Co) nanoferrites is still at the infancy stage, although the structural, electrical, and magnetic properties have been widely investigated. Single-phase cubic nanospinel ferrites of NiZnCoFe Al O (0 ≤ ≤ 0.12) with space group 3 were confirmed by the Rietveld refinement X-ray diffraction (XRD) data.

Identifying Insomnia From Social Media Posts: Psycholinguistic Analyses of User Tweets.

Background: Many people suffer from insomnia, a sleep disorder characterized by difficulty falling and staying asleep during the night. As social media have become a ubiquitous platform to share users' thoughts, opinions, activities, and preferences with their friends and acquaintances, the shared content across these platforms can be used to diagnose different health problems, including insomnia. Only a few recent studies have examined the prediction of insomnia from Twitter data, and we found research gaps in predicting insomnia from word usage patterns and correlations between users' insomnia and their Big 5 personality traits as derived from social media interactions.

Bioinformatics and system biology approaches to identify pathophysiological impact of COVID-19 to the progression and severity of neurological diseases.

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) still tends to propagate and increase the occurrence of COVID-19 across the globe. The clinical and epidemiological analyses indicate the link between COVID-19 and Neurological Diseases (NDs) that drive the progression and severity of NDs. Elucidating why some patients with COVID-19 influence the progression of NDs and patients with NDs who are diagnosed with COVID-19 are becoming increasingly sick, although others are not is unclear.

Association of maternal obesity with fetal and neonatal death: Evidence from South and South-East Asian countries.

Background: Obesity prevalence is increasing in many countries in the world, including Asia. Maternal obesity is highly associated with fetal and neonatal deaths. This study investigated whether maternal obesity is a risk factor of fetal death (measured in terms of miscarriage and stillbirth) and neonatal mortality in South and South-East Asian countries.

Willingness to receive COVID-19 vaccination among adults with chronic diseases in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Background: People with chronic conditions such as cancer, kidney disease, lung disease, diabetes, dementia, obesity, and heart conditions are at elevated risk of developing severe complications, and are thus at greater risk of death due to COVID-19. The COVID-19 vaccine is an effective measure to manage the pandemic as it prevents severe illness and death. Nevertheless, many people are hesitant to receive the COVID-19 vaccine due to fear of its side effects.

Knowledge, attitude and practices (KAP) towards Anthrax among livestock farmers in selected rural areas of Bangladesh.

Background: Bacillus anthracis is a zoonotic bacterium that affects wide numbers of vertebrate animals and man and has life threating potential both in animal s as well as humans.

Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted to assess the knowledge about, attitudes towards, and practices addressing (KAPs) anthrax among community members in selected upazillas' of Meherpur and Sirajgonj districts for the prevention and control of anthrax using a structured questionnaire.

Results: A total of 424 community members were considered in this study irrespective of their age and sex.

Women's empowerment and fertility decision-making in 53 low and middle resource countries: a pooled analysis of demographic and health surveys.

Objective: Women's empowerment and its association with fertility preference are vital for central-level promotional health policy strategies. This study examines the association between women's empowerment and fertility decision-making in low and middle resource countries (LMRCs).

Design: This cross-sectional study uses the Demographic and Health Survey database.

COVID-19 response during the winter season in Rohingya refugee camps in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

The refugee camps, home of around a million Rohingya, in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, have witnessed a series of disease outbreaks including COVID-19. Here, we report the actions that have been taken to address the COVID-19 outbreak during the winter season among Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.

Sleep Problems in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Bangladesh: A Case-Control Study.

Background: Sleep problems in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are highly prevalent, but little information is available on this issue in low- to middle-income countries (LMIC) such as Bangladesh. Therefore, the present study investigated the prevalence and socio-demographic determinants of ASD sleep disturbances in a comparison with typically developing children (TDC).

Methods: A cross-sectional interview study was carried out within a total of 446 Bangladeshi mothers, whose children's mean age was 8.

Analysis and Prediction of COVID-19 Pandemic in Bangladesh by Using ANFIS and LSTM Network.

The dangerously contagious virus named "COVID-19" has struck the world strong and has locked down billions of people in their homes to stop the further spread. All the researchers and scientists in various fields are continually developing a vaccine and prevention methods to aid the world from this challenging situation. However, a reliable prediction of the epidemic may help control this contiguous disease until the cure is available.

Effect of pHs on the Structure Evolution of Platinum Nanoclusters and Their Surface Plasmon Resonance Properties.

Multi-structured platinum nanoclusters have been prepared through a one-step aqueous synthetic process by controlling pHs. The included structures are closely packed 3-dimensional (3D) dendrites, loosely packed 3D dendrites, short-order dendritic chains, long-order dendritic chains, flatten nanoclusters and monodisperse nanoparticles. The high resolution transmission electron microscopy images (HRTEM) display that the nanoclusters with a variety of structures are filled with grains of average size ~2.

4P Model for Dynamic Prediction of COVID-19: a Statistical and Machine Learning Approach.

Around the world, scientists are racing hard to understand how the COVID-19 epidemic is spreading and growing, thus trying to find ways to prevent it before medications are available. Many different models have been proposed so far correlating different factors. Some of them are too localized to indicate a general trend of the pandemic while some others have established transient correlations only.

COVID-19 Vaccine: A neutrosophic MCDM approach for determining the priority groups.

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, most of the countries around the world have been confronting the loss of lives, struggling with several economical parameters, i.e. low GDP growth, increasing unemployment rate, and others.

A neuro-evolution approach to infer a Boolean network from time-series gene expressions.

Summary: In systems biology, it is challenging to accurately infer a regulatory network from time-series gene expression data, and a variety of methods have been proposed. Most of them were computationally inefficient in inferring very large networks, though, because of the increasing number of candidate regulatory genes. Although a recent approach called GABNI (genetic algorithm-based Boolean network inference) was presented to resolve this problem using a genetic algorithm, there is room for performance improvement because it employed a limited representation model of regulatory functions.

Distribution and predictors associated with the use of breast cancer screening services among women in 14 low-resource countries.

Background: Breast cancer is one of the leading public health problem globally, especially in low-resource countries (LRCs). Breast cancer screening (BCS) services are an effective strategy for early determining of breast cancer. Hence, it is imperative to understand the utilisation of BCS services and their correlated predictors in LRCs.

Wealth stratified inequalities in service utilisation of breast cancer screening across the geographical regions: a pooled decomposition analysis.

Background: Breast cancer is the most commonly occurring cancer among women in low-resourced countries. Reduction of its impacts is achievable with regular screening and early detection. The main aim of the study was to examine the role of wealth stratified inequality in the utilisation breast cancer screening (BCS) services and identified potential factors contribute to the observed inequalities.

Nutrition transition - Pattern IV: Leads Bangladeshi youth to the increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity.

Fast food and soft drinks consumption leading to excess calorie intake coupled with lack of acceptable physical activity has augmented the prevalence of overweight and obesity among the world population for the past few eras. A cross-sectional study was carried out among 475 youth selected by systematic random sampling attending in 27 established public and private universities and colleges of Bangladesh. The study was aimed to evaluate habitual facts associated with the prevalence of overweight and obesity among Bangladeshi youth.

Data on heavy metals content and biochar toxicity in a pristine tropical agricultural soil.

Accumulation of heavy metals results in soil degradation and impairs the normal functioning of ecosystems. Thus, monitoring of heavy metals is essential in both pristine and polluted soils. Concentrations of heavy metals were determined in a pristine tropical agricultural soil using acid digestion procedures.

Graphic health warnings on tobacco packets and containers: compliance status in Bangladesh.

Objective: This study describes and analyses compliance with tobacco product graphic health warning (GHW) legislation introduced in Bangladesh in March 2016.

Methods: A survey based on a structured questionnaire was conducted in April 2016 (immediately following the law coming into force), and 8 months later in November 2016, in eight divisional cities in Bangladesh. Five stores from three categories of retailers of combustible and smokeless tobacco products were surveyed, providing a total of 120 completed questionnaires.

Serological evidence of hepatitis E virus infection in pigs and jaundice among pig handlers in Bangladesh.

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is the most common cause of viral hepatitis in humans. Pigs may act as a reservoir of HEV, and pig handlers were frequently identified with a higher prevalence of antibodies to HEV. The objectives of this study were to identify evidence of HEV infection in pigs and compare the history of jaundice between pig handlers and people not exposed to pigs and pork.