The rising concern about plastic waste disposal problems and the need for more versatile polymer-based materials has led to an increasing interest on blending synthetic polymer with degradable materials. In this present study, low density polyethylene (LDPE) and plasticised sago starch or so-called thermoplastic sago starch (TPSS) blends containing

: In this study, melt blended compositions of pure PLA with additions of polyethylene glycol (PEG) up to 30 wt% were prepared. Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), differential scanning calorimeter (DSC), and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) were used to investigate the properties of PLA/PEG blends, such as structural, thermal, and morph

The objective of the present study was to fi nd the normal values of the cytology and cytochemistry of the Pulmonary Alveolar Macrophages (PAMs) and through the identifi cation of universal normal values. Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fl uid was performed by tracheal cannulation to seventy healthy adult male rats. The percentages of differential

Fork-tail threadfin bream (Nemipterus furcosus) is an economically important food fish in Malaysia but the capture production of this fish is decreasing gradually in the Malaysian water. However, nothing is known about the population of this species in the Malaysian water especially in the coastal of Pahang. Therefore, this research aimed to unders

Leadership and commitment issues are points of reference to public policy implementation in public organizations and always warrant the attention of governments around the globe. Success of formulated public policy and its implementation by the agency or organization in charge solely depends on the leader’s characteristic attributes andcommitment

During the past two centuries or so a number of buildings and bridges had been structurally failed and collapsed all over the world. Some of these incidents caused a sizeable number of human casualties. For instance, collapse of Tay Bridge in 1879 killed at least sixty persons. Beside the problems related to their design and construction, probably

Shareholders of a target company must be well informed of the merits of a takeover bid for their shares. The takeovers law requires the board of the bidder to provide all information necessary to enable the shareholders of the target to arrive at an informed decision. In addition, the board of the target company is also required to appoint an indep

In recent years, there has been much focus on the design and development of database management systems that incorporate and provide more flexible query operators that return data items which are dominating other data items in all attributes (dimensions). This type of query operations is named preference queries as they prefer one data item over th

The level scheme of the 148,150,152,154,156,158Sm isotopes have been investigated using both IBA-1 and IBA-2 versions of Interacting Boson Approximation Model. IBA-1 and IBA-2 Hamiltonian parameters are obtained as well as the extraction of the energy levels. Also, the electric quadrupole transition probabilities ( 2 : ) i f B E J → J of the Sm i

Energy levels, B(E2) values and potential energy surface for even-even 170-178Yb isotopes have been calculated using the IBM-1. The predicted energy levels, B(E2) values and intrinsic quadrupole moments Q0 results were reasonably consistent with the experimental data. The contour plot of the potential energy surfaces shows all interest nuclei were