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Low uptake of COVID-19 prevention behaviours and high socioeconomic impact of lockdown measures in South Asia: Evidence from a large-scale multi-country surveillance programme
(Elsevier, 2021-02-13)
Background: South Asia has become a major epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic. Understanding South Asians’
awareness, attitudes and experiences of early measures for the prevention of COVID-19 is key to improving ...
Dietary practices of men in Bangladesh: Evidence from the National Nutrition Surveillance
(Oxford Academic, 2020-06)
Objectives:
Bangladesh has a paucity of information about the dietary practices of adult men. In the recently completed round of the national nutrition surveillance (NNS 2018–2019), we explored the dietary practices of ...
Elderly women are disproportionately vulnerable to hypertension in Bangladesh: Evidence from the National Nutrition Surveillance Study
(Oxford Academic, 2020-06)
Objectives:
Bangladesh has a dearth of information on the prevalence and factors associated with hypertension among elderlies. We assessed the prevalence, sex differences in prevalence, and factors associated with ...
A comparative study of object detection models for Real Time Application in Surveillance Systems
(Brac University, 2022-01)
In this paper, we attempted to give an overview based on thorough research and test ing of the latest object detection methods with an aim to help developers to build
a Real Time Responsive CCTV Camera Model. As we welcome ...
Prevalence and associated factors of depression among adolescent boys and girls in Bangladesh: Findings from a nationwide survey
(BMJ Journals, 2021-01-17)
Objective: To assess the prevalence of and factors
associated with depression among adolescent boys and
girls.
Design: We conducted a nationwide cross-sectional study.
Setting: This study was carried out in 82 ...
Prevalence of Non-communicable disease risk factors among adolescent girls and boys in Bangladesh: Evidence from the National Nutrition Surveillance Study
(Oxford Academic, 2020-06)
Objectives:
Non-communicable diseases (NCD) and their risk factors have become a major public health problem worldwide. Understanding NCD risk factors among adolescents is important as many risk behaviors start in this ...
BanglaBait: using transformers, neural networks & statistical classifiers to detect clickbaits in New Bangla Clickbait Dataset
(Brac University, 2022-01)
The art of luring us to click on certain content by exploiting our curiosity is recognized
as clickbait. Clickbait might be aggravating at times because it is misleading.
Several studies have worked on the detection of ...
Inadequate dietary diversity and Its determinants among adolescent girls and boys: Evidence from the National Nutrition surveillance study in Bangladesh
(Oxford Academic, 2020-05-29)
Objectives:
Bangladesh is experiencing triple burden of malnutrition among adolescents, which may be associated with inadequate dietary diversity (IDD). In the recently completed round of the national nutrition surveillance ...