Background: The fruits of P. macrocarpa have long been used as a traditional Malay medicinal herb for hundreds of years. Intraperitoneal (i.p.) injection of streptozotocin (STZ) (65 mg/kg) was used to induce diabetes in rats confirmed by an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT). The ethanol extract of P. macrocarpa (EEPM) fruits at 100 and 200 mg/kg w

Background:Disaster preparedness should be taken seriously as preventive measures and it is one of the elements in the disaster risk reduction framework but the status the country is unknown. Methods and materials: A cross-sectional study was done using Disaster Preparedness Evaluation Tool to investigate the relationship between factors contributi

Marine sponges have been the potential source of bioactive compounds with potent antimicrobial properties. Sponge associated microbes significantly provide the route of biosynthesis of some of these compounds. In this work, a total of 100 bacterial colonies were screened from a marine sponge from Class Demospongiae, which has been collected from Me

This paper investigates the impact of Covid-19 pandemic shocks on the portfolio which comprises of Nigerian oil, Nigerian stocks, and precious metals such as gold, silver, and platinum. The argument that gold is consistently safe haven against shocks trigger this research. Since Covid-19 pandemic shock is novel with unique characteristics different

1.Kulliyyah Strategic Planning Template Guide of IIUM for 2020. Objectives: i. To enhance competitive research spirit among the Kulliyyah and Institute ii. To easily cascade the target marks to the Departments and researchers 2. IIUM Research Excellence Currencies 2020 @ MyRA 3. Evaluation and Samples of KPI Research Performance 4. KPI Research Str

Education sector especially the higher education institution is facing a new reality – the online teaching and learning. An alternative assessment approach is the best way to conduct and to develop the self-learning and self-motivation among students. Self-assessment has shown to help students develop meta-cognitive skills that can be used in all

Generally, a corpus serves as the source of data for various types of research. As such, there are a number of Malay corpora being developed to support the needs of the researchers. However, the various corpora of Malay text are distributed and not integrated, where some words are not included or missing in some corpora. The focus of this paper is

Collagen has diverse applications in various industries and thus a various method of purifications has been developed over the years to produce high yield and high purity of collagen to fulfill collagen market demand. The objective of this qualitative systematic review is to summarize the current literature on the existing purification methods for

The criticism on the high concentration of debt-based products in Islamic banks have pushed the regulators and Islamic banking industry to develop new products such as investment account product. Investment Account Platform (IAP) as the first bank intermediated financial technology platform was established to encourage Islamic banks to utilize equi

Investment Account Platform (IAP) as the first bank-intermediated financial technology platform was established to encourage Is-lamic banks to utilize equity-based product i.e. investment account. This pa-per tries to analyze the current practices of IAP as well as the issues and challenges faced by IAP and the sponsoring banks in Malaysia. Further