Bangladesh, an alluvial and deltaic land of 147,570 square km, is prone to various natural disasters such as cyclones, floods, and droughts (Ahmad et al., 2001). The total population is about 130 million. The people of this country are still overburdened with various infectious diseases and ailments due to malnutrition. Unfortunately one more environmental hazard from geological sources – arsen...

What do we know with certainty about the life of Masud Khan? Khan was born in 1924 in the Punjab, the second son of a marriage that united an elderly Shiite Muslim father who had acquired power and wealth in the service of the British and a bride who was still in her teens. Khan apparently suffered a depression during his adolescence and was treated by a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. In 1946,...

heavy metals such as cu(ii) and pb(ii) are among the hazardous pollutants that lead to severe ecological problems and have a toxic effect on living organisms. the removal of cu(ii) and pb(ii) by iranian bentonite experiment were conducted in single component and multi component systems. the bentonite from the birjand area was characterized by x-ray diffraction pattern and ftir spectroscopy. the...

Vafa Ghazi-Moghadam M. Kaveh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA ABSTRACT This paper addresses some practical issues in active array signal processing, such as signal design, calibration and algorithmically e cient processing for range and angle determination. First, the operation of an experimental ultrasound-in-air active sensing system is...

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Meraj Hasan Khan is the first author on 'The Sharpin interactome reveals a role for Sharpin in lamellipodium formation via the Arp2/3 complex', published in Journal of Cell Science. Meraj is a PhD...

Kiran Shaikh, Shahirose Premji, Khurshid Khowaja, Suzanne Tough, Ambreen Kazi, Shaneela Khowaja Aga Khan University School of Nursing and Midwifery, Karachi, Pakistan University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada Director of Nursing Al Noor Hospital, Al Ain and Associate Professor, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan Department of Pediatrics and Community Health, University of Calgary, Alberta, Can...

This master’s thesis is a part of ‘Human Spare Parts’ research program by BioMediTech. The aim of the research program is to integrate different branches of biomedical engineering and stem cell research to discover new and better therapies and treatments. However, this thesis concentrates on biomaterials and sensor technology. The first part of the thesis, entitled the theoretical part is dedic...