105 results match your criteria: "Independent University Bangladesh[Affiliation]"
Nature
December 2024
Department of Astronomy and Physics, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
The most distant galaxies detected were seen when the Universe was a scant 5% of its current age. At these times, progenitors of galaxies such as the Milky Way were about 10,000 times less massive. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) combined with magnification from gravitational lensing, these low-mass galaxies can not only be detected but also be studied in detail.
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November 2024
Department of Biochemistry, College of Allied Sciences, De La Salle Medical and Health Sciences Institute, City of Dasmariñas, Cavite, 4114, Philippines.
Cyclotriazadisulfonamide (CADA) is a macrocyclic compound known for its unique mechanism in inhibiting HIV infection by downregulating the CD4 T-cell receptor, a crucial entry point for the virus. Unlike other antiretrovirals, CADA exhibits activity against a wide range of HIV strains, as all HIV variants require CD4 binding for infection. Furthermore, CADA has shown a synergistic effect with clinically approved anti-HIV drugs, offering potential for enhanced therapeutic strategies (Vermeire & Schols, [65]).
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November 2024
Department of Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Science, University of Chittagong, Chattogram, 4331, Bangladesh.
Viral nervous necrosis (VNN) poses a significant threat to the aquaculture industry, causing substantial losses and economic burdens. The disease, attributed to nervous necrosis viruses within the Betanodavirus genus, is particularly pervasive in the Mediterranean region, affecting various fish species across all production stages with mortality rates reaching 100%. Developing effective preventive measures against VNN is imperative.
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December 2024
Independent University Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Wearable EEG suffers from motion artifact contamination due to the subject's movement in an ambulatory environment. Signal processing techniques pose promising solutions for the detection and removal of motion artifacts from ambulatory EEG, but relevant open-access datasets are not available, which is detrimental to the development of wearable EEG applications. This article showcases open-access electroencephalography (EEG) recordings, while a subject is performing different upper-body, lower-body, and full-body movements.
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September 2024
Department of Development Studies, Daffodil International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Numerous children experience vulnerability due to their families' profound economic and socio-economic hardships. Among this demographic, females face heightened susceptibility, particularly those engaged in child labor. Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, hosts a substantial population of female child laborers, compounding their precarious circumstances.
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October 2024
Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, Japan.
Neurosurgery
August 2024
Department of Neurosurgery, Holy Family Red Crescent Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
J Vector Borne Dis
April 2024
National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine (NIPSOM), Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Background Objectives: Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus mosquitoes breed in natural and artificial containers, and they transmit dengue and chikungunya. A study was conducted to identify the contribution of bamboo stumps to these disease vectors that were used in the flower garden as pillars to hold the bamboo flex fence.
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April 2024
Veterinary Public Health, Vector Control and Environment Unit, Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Systems for disease vector control should be effective, efficient, and flexible to be able to tackle contemporary challenges and threats in the control and elimination of vector-borne diseases. As a priority activity towards the strengthening of vector control systems, it has been advocated that countries conduct a vector-control needs assessment. A review was carried out of the perceived needs for disease vector control programs among eleven countries and subnational states in South Asia and the Middle East.
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December 2024
Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
The present study was designed to develop a self-micellizing solid dispersion (SMSD) containing Thymoquinone (TQM), a phytonutrient obtained from seeds, aiming to improve its biopharmaceutical and nephroprotective functions. The apparent solubility of TQM in polymer solutions was used to choose an appropriate amphiphilic polymer that could be used to make an SMSD system. Based on the apparent solubility, Soluplus® was selected as an appropriate carrier, and mixing with TQM, SMSD-TQM with different loadings of TQM (5-15%) was made by solvent evaporation and freeze-drying techniques, respectively, and the formulations were optimized.
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April 2024
Dr SM Raysul Haque, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health, Independent University Bangladesh; E-mail:
Self- rated health (SRH) is a valuable screening-level measure of a community's health status. A better understanding of the factors that influence SRH is time-demanding and challenging. This study aims to examine the determinants of SRH by investigating health morbidities, demographic and socio-economic factors in Bangladesh perspective.
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June 2024
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Independent University Bangladesh, Dhaka 1229, Bangladesh.
The quality of datasets is crucial in computer graphics and machine learning research and development. This paper presents the Render Lighting Dataset, featuring 63,648 rendered images of Blender's primitive shapes with various lighting conditions and engines. The images were created using Blender 4.
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March 2024
Institute for Personalized Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, United States.
Dengue, caused by the dengue virus (DENV), affects millions of people worldwide every year. This virus has two distinct life cycles, one in the human and another in the mosquito, and both cycles are crucial to be controlled. To control the vector of DENV, the mosquito , scientists employed many techniques, which were later proved ineffective and harmful in many ways.
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April 2024
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Independent University Bangladesh, Dhaka 1229, Bangladesh.
"Why don't students learn?" is a common question that educators try to address. To encourage students to become more engaged in the learning process, we believe in fostering their natural curiosity by encouraging them to ask high-level questions. To support this approach, we have compiled a dataset of questions that we hope will aid in the training of artificial intelligence (AI) models and ultimately improve the learning experience for students.
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January 2024
School of Computing and Informatics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, USA.
Background: A relational agent (RA) is a digital tool tailored to communicate with users, aiming to establish a sense of social ease and emotional bond, particularly focusing on their health and well-being concerns. A mobile health (mHealth) RA is particularly crafted to communicate with users within their mobile devices. As healthcare becomes increasingly digital, these mHealth RAs can serve as personal health assistants, e.
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April 2024
Neurosurgery Department, Holy Family Red Crescent Medical College, Dhaka , Bangladesh.
Health Secur
December 2023
Rumana Sultana, PhD, is an Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Science and Management, Independent University Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Bangladesh faces distinct challenges as a resource-poor country due to the combined effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and simultaneous dengue outbreaks. Older adults are particularly vulnerable to infection and death from COVID-19. While overall health and life expectancy in the general population have improved substantially in Bangladesh, health services for older adults are still lacking.
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July 2023
Department of Pathology, SL Raheja Hospital, Mumbai, 400016, India.
Selecting regions of interest (ROI) is a common step in medical image analysis across all imaging modalities. An ROI is a subset of an image appropriate for the intended analysis and identified manually by experts. In modern pathology, the analysis involves processing multidimensional and high resolution whole slide image (WSI) tiles automatically with an overwhelming quantity of structural and functional information.
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June 2023
Biomedical Instrumentation and Signal Processing Lab (BISPL), Independent University Bangladesh (IUB), Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Depression is a disorder that if not treated can hamper the quality of life. EEG has shown great promise in detecting depressed individuals from depression control individuals. It overcomes the limitations of traditional questionnaire-based methods.
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June 2023
School of Pharmacy and Public Health, Independent University Bangladesh, 1229 Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Background: Natural restoratives from traditional medicinal plants are considered to be a convenient, potent, and risk-free substitute treatment for hyperglycaemia. Our objective was to explore the activity of the crude extract of on postprandial hyperglycaemia by assessing relative measurements in a laboratory animal model.
Methods: The Streptozotocin induced diabetic rat (n = 88, twenty-two per group) was used for the glucose tolerance test as an initial support for the study.
Infect Immun
June 2023
Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, Japan.
Providencia rustigianii is potentially enteropathogenic in humans. Recently, we identified a strain carrying a part of the gene homologous to that of that produces an exotoxin called cytolethal distending toxin (CDT), encoded by three subunit genes (, , and ). In this study, we analyzed the strain for possible presence of the entire gene cluster and its organization, location, and mobility, as well as expression of the toxin as a putative virulence factor of .
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May 2023
Vascular Biology and Translational Research, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Cardiovascular disease is a major cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Early growth response-1 (Egr-1) plays a critical regulatory role in a range of experimental models of cardiovascular diseases. Egr-1 is an immediate-early gene and is upregulated by various stimuli including shear stress, oxygen deprivation, oxidative stress and nutrient deprivation.
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April 2023
Nutrition and Clinical Sciences Division (NCSD), International Centre for Diarrhoea Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
We undertook a study to assess current knowledge, attitudes, and practices related to kala-azar to advise the national kala-azar elimination program in Bangladesh. A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted in two endemic subdistricts (upazilas): Fulbaria and Trishal. Based on upazila health complex surveillance data, one endemic village was selected randomly from each of these subdistricts.
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January 2023
Plant Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Introduction: Salinity is a complex environmental stress that affects the growth and production of rice worldwide. But there are some rice landraces in coastal regions that can survive in presence of highly saline conditions. An understanding of the molecular attributes contributing to the salinity tolerance of these genotypes is important for developing salt-tolerant high yielding modern genotypes to ensure food security.
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