Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Surgery -- IIUM Summary: Helicobacter pylori infection affects almost half of the population and remains clinically significant in the development of chronic gastritis and increased risk of gastric malignancy. However, its prevalence is found to be low in Pahang population where the practice

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Orthopaedics,Traumatology & Rehabilitation -- IIUM Summary: This is a prospective single-blinded randomized clinical trial to compare use of a combination of periarticular locally infiltrated analgesia with epidural analgesia infusion to epidural analgesia infusion alone in total knee art

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Biomedical Sciences -- IIUM Summary: Infertility is a common reproductive disorder in both men and women. Urban lifestyle has compelled people to consume excessive and unnecessary supplements and also caused disruption of sleep cycle which resulted in unhealthy lifestyle that can cause the so

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Diagnostic Imaging & Radiotheraphy -- IIUM Summary: Optimization of dose in radiographic examinations is essential since the utilization of x-radiation have a related induced cancer risk. Further, the quality of images produced need to be maintained at an accepted diagnostic level. Thus,

Subject(s): Vinpocetine | Anxiety disorders | Anxiety -- Treatment | Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Basic Medical Sciences -- IIUM Summary: Anxiety disorders (AD) are increasing in all societies, especially developed ones. Caffeine (CAF) consumption in coffee, tea, and other beverages may aggravate and increase the frequency of anxiet

Subject(s): Investments -- Mathematical models | Portfolio management -- Mathematical models | Financial risk management -- Mathematical models | Stock options -- Prices -- Mathematical models | Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Science -- IIUM Summary: Estimation of parameters such as mean and volatility from historical prices are used a

Subject(s): Traffic accidents -- Malaysia | Roads -- Safety measures -- Malaysia | Bus accidents -- Malaysia | Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Biomedical Sciences -- IIUM Summary: Road traffic accidents are increasingly recognised as a serious public health concern. Each year road traffic accidents cause 1.2 million deaths worldwide an

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Surgery -- IIUM Summary: Transrectal Ultrasound (TRUS) Guided Prostate biopsy is the most common day procedure in men in urology setup. As it involved multiple puncture using thick needle to gain the prostate tissue, it brings discomfort and pain to the involved patient. Thus periprostatic ne

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Biotechnology -- IIUM Summary: Orange-spotted groupers (Epinephelus coioides) are marine fish which can be found in Malaysia and are economically important. For such a significant commercial fish, surprisingly little is known about the biology of the orange-spotted grouper, and there is a lac

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Biomedical Science -- IIUM Summary: Rare earth elements (REEs) are a series of chemical elements found in the earth's crust that are vital to many modern technologies, including consumer electronics, computers, communications and clean energy technologies. However, during the production o