Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Biotechnology -- IIUM Summary: Peat swamp forests provide significant ecological role in the environment, yet remain as poorly studied biotypes. They are mostly under enormous threats of peatland degradation and drainage for development and agriculture. In the South-East Pahang Peat Swamp Fo

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Nursing -- IIUM Summary: Preventing smoking among adolescents is critical to end the epidemic of smoking in Malaysia. Despite the implementation of several smoking prevention programs, the prevalence of adolescent smoking and experimenting with tobacco in Malaysia is still increasing. Therefor

Subject(s): Foot -- Diseases | Diabetes -- Complications | Diabetics -- Care | Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Family Medicine -- IIUM Summary: Introduction: Foot complications are considered to be a serious consequence of diabetes mellitus, posing a major medical and economic threat. The diabetic foot at risk is the diabetic foot whic

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Pharmacy -- IIUM Summary: Wogonin has been reported to exert antihyperglycemic effect and has potential to enhance the current therapy options against type 2 diabetes mellitus. However, the structure-activity relationships (SAR) studies of wogonin against this disease have not been carried out

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Pharmaceutical Technology -- IIUM Summary: Raloxifene is a second-generation selective oestrogen receptor modulator (SERM) used in treatment of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women as well as in the prevention of invasive breast cancer. This drug has a poor bioavailability, which is limited t

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Biotechnology -- IIUM Summary: Studies on fish growth, condition, and spawning season and nutrient dynamics are important to evaluate a lake ecosystem. However, there are not adequate information on temporal nutrient dynamics, growth, condition, and spawning season of fishes in all rivers of

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Basic Medical Sciences -- IIUM Summary: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of neurodegenerative diseases and the leading cause of dementia in the elderly. The number of people with neurodegenerative diseases is massively increasing. Currently, there is no prevention, cure or

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Pharmaceutical Technology -- IIUM Summary: This study investigated the potential of different gelling agents to be developed as dental gel formulation of Baccaurea angulata fruit extract as well as the effect of B. angulata fruit extract towards wound healing at tooth extractions sites. Since

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Computational and Theoretical Sciences -- IIUM Summary: This research sought to assess the implication of utilising studies with different levels of data, namely, the aggregate data (AD), individual patient data (IPD) and mixed of AD:IPD data (MD), on the overall meta-analysis estimates. Anot

Subject(s): Postnatal care -- Malaysia | Sexual abstinence, Postpartum -- Malaysia | Female, Physiology | Childbirth Summary: Childbirth is one of the recognized risk factors for female sexual dysfunction (FSD). Despite high prevalence of female sexual dysfunction worldwide, there is very limited data concerning sexual dysfunction in postpartum