The burden of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease, GERD in Asia-Pacific region is increasing. Objectives: To evaluate the manometric finding in erosive reflux esophagitis and its correlation with severity among patients who were seen at Surgical Department, Hospital Tengku Ampuan Afzan (HTAA), Kuantan. Methodology: This was a cross sectional study whic

The global demand for light weight energy savings and high-performance characteristic material has translated to the emergence of advanced composite materials. Presently, cast iron is used for brake rotor production, however, it has very high-density property which makes the brake disc heavier resulting to more fuel consumption and emission of carb

The practice of polygamy is severely and frequently criticized especially by the feminist groups. Those people argue that polygamy contributes to discrimination of women, matrimonial disharmony and the worst thing to divorce.Thus, the purpose of this study is to determine whether Muslim women have the right to refuse polygamy. At this juncture, it

Testing of powder blend uniformity is one of the important steps during formulation development and routine commercial production of pharmaceutical products. Pharmaceutical industries heavily rely on chemical analysis by UV or HPLC for the same. However, the chemical methods are time consuming, need a few grams of powder sample, and they are not gr

The wide use of the internet-based applications bring many challenges to the researchers to guarantee the continuity of the connections needed by the mobile hosts and provide reliable Internet access for them. One of proposed solutions by Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is to connect the local, multi-hop, and infrastructure-less Mobile Ad ho

In post-modern times, there has been much empirical evidence to indicate that religions and faiths play a pro-active role in the field of civil society but more importantly in the development of societies, which is a major factor in political and economic development of a country, as well as its governance. Hence, explorations of religion and faith

Electroless deposition of nickel tungsten on mild steel was conducted using acetic bath, containing nickel sulphate and sodium tungstate in the alkaline medium. The influence of sodium acetate and sodium tungstate on deposits was investigated and characterized using scanning electron microscope (SEM), energy dispersive X-ray spectrometer (EDX) and

Nowadays data become one of most important and expensive things in our life. Whereas life became a huge database, content all information in it. However it is not necessary that data be relate to financial area to be expensive and important. While now and in last period, the healthcare sector has become one of the most vulnerable sectors to hack. W

Transfersomes are lipid based nano-vesicles made of phospholipid and surfactant. Their drug permeation mechanism through the skin has been attributed to the moisture seeking tendency (xerophobia) of the lipid vesicles followed by destabilization of lipid bi-layer in the stratum corneum (SC) by surfactant1. However, structural changes of SC due to s

Introduction: Synchronous neuroendocrine tumor in the background of midrectal adenocarcinoma is rare. It is a very slow-growing tumor and symptomatic only late in the course of the disease. Case Summary: This is a 60 years old gentleman with no past medical illness presented with persistent loose stool with mucus for 3 months. Colonoscopy found cli