High activity of aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) is characteristic of normal and cancerous stem cells. Recently, high ALDH expression was shown to be associated with poor prognosis in uterine endometrial adenocarcinoma. The population with high ALDH activity (ALDH-hi) was more invasive, anti-apoptotic, and tumorigenic than that with low activity (ALD

This paper presents a development of QFT-based self-tuning controller for a conveyor belt type grain dryer plant. Grain drying process is complex due to long time delay, presence of disturbances and plant uncertainty. QFT technique potentially has excellent solution towards this problem due to its well known capability to achieve robust performance

Green infrastructure is urban nature conslstmg of greenery and green spaces distributed in and around town. It facilitates residents' contact with natural environment that may fulfil their needs for nature in urban places. Human's inherent affiliation with the natural environment or Biophilia has been long hypotesised. The paper draws the f

This chapter examines how Banu Musa, innovate and create system that is notthere at that time and documented until it becomes one of the main reference in the world at present.CHAPTER TWENTY NINE THECONTRIBUTION OFBANUMUSABROTHERS INTHE SELFCHANGING FOUNTAIN MohdRomainor Manshor, Mohamed E.S.Mirghani Fac.OfEng.,International IslamicUniv.Malaysia (H

Together with the permeability, the solubility of a drug plays an important role in determining its oral bioavailability. Nowadays, a majority of the new chemical entities are poorly water soluble candidates. For formulation scientists, it is a big deal to handle those drug candidates in order to formulate a stable pharmaceutical dosage form with a

Predictive maintenance method makes use of human senses or other sensitive instruments like audio gauge, amplitude meter, pressure/ temperature strain gauge, vibration analyzer, etc. In this maintenance, equipment conditions are measured continuously. It helps determine the condition of in-service equipment in order to predict when maintenance shou

This study addresses the subject of Islamic ethics from definitional and disciplinary perspectives. It highlights the need for relevantization of Islamic ethics to contemporary issues in a systematic manner which, in turn, calls for development of Islamic ethics as a complete discipline with ability to meet all types of challenges: conceptual, prac

Proponents of active euthanasia argue that in cases where the modern, advanced medical technology has prolonged death of many miserable terminally ill patients, active euthanasia can put end to their suffering; hence active euthanasia should be permissible. Against this line of thought, the researcher argues that much of the suffering which termina

James Rachels’s distinction between killing and letting die maintains that there is morally no difference between killing a terminally ill patient and letting him/her die. Therefore, active and passive euthanasia dichotomy is a distinction without a difference. Hence, if passive euthanasia is allowed, active euthanasia should be permitted too. Th

Zinc/MCM-41/air cell, in its dry form without the electrolyte, demonstrates humidity sensing property. A good linear correlation between the cell’s open circuit voltage (OCV) and the relative humidity content is observed. The system possesses the potential to be developed into a low cost microhumidity sensor. An ultra thin cell of thickness not m