Hepatitis C is a never-ending public health problem and the prevalence among chronic renal disease (CRD) patient always exceeds the general population. We studied the sensitivity of semi-nested reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (sn RT-PCR) technique for the detection of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among patients with chronic ren

Conventional techniques are often unable to achieve the Fetal Electrocardiogram FECG extraction and Rpeak detection in FECG from the abdominal ECG (AECG) in satisfactorily level for Fetal Heart Rate (FHR) monitoring. A new methodology by combining the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Correlation approach has been proposed in this paper. Artifici

The search of novel mPGES-1 lead inhibitors has recently become subject of interest to medicinal chemists due to the safety in comparison to existing NSAIDs such as coxibs drugs. The recent published work revealed that prenylated pyrazolocurcumin derivative as mPGES-1 has been sucessfully designed and synthesized through computational guided 3D-QSA

The feminist tradition in what is now Bangladesh took off with Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932) who arguably foregrounds her ideas in Islamic, indigenous culture and exerts a posthumous public influence. However, about one hundred years after Rokeya, Taslima Nasrin (1962-) produced a number of works most critical of Islam, such as Amar Meyebela

Dark current-voltage measurements undertaken on a series of InAs based quantum dot laser structures show significant variations depending on the growth conditions of the GaAs barrier layer. A systematic study of their temperature dependence suggests that the main mechanism determining the reverse leakage is due to generation–recombination via mid

This paper presents an efficient algorithm for solving a nonlinear equation. In our algorithm, the nonlinear system f (x) = 0 is solved by a homotopy method, in which a homotopy H (x,t) = f (x)-(1-t) f (x0) is introduced and the solution path of H(x, t) = 0 is followed from an obvious solution (x0,0)to the solution (x*,1) which we seek. An ordinary

The Muslim World and the West share the same global village but each has a different civilizations and worldview. Education is seen as a major vehicle in transmitting ideas, attitudes and beliefs. This paper begins with a brief history of the educational links between the West and the Muslim World and later discusses the role of educational institu

Labour is one of the main resources required by contractors before any construction processes can be initiated. It is a well known fact that foreign labour dominated the workforce in the Malaysian construction industry. This paper reports on a preliminary study on foreign labour employment from contractor's perspective. The objective of the stu

Current-voltage measurements have been performed on InAs/InGaAs/GaAs quantum dot structures with varying growth and design parameters. These measurements show that the forward and reverse bias dark currents decrease with increasing spacer growth temperature, however, they are relatively insensitive to the number of periods of the quantum dot layers

In the mid-twentieth century, there were about half a million English words which doubled at the turn of the century. This spectacular vocabulary growth has taken place because of massive, continuous borrowings from different languages. However, concerning the inclusion of Arabic Islamic terms in English, this culture of borrowing has been less ent