The role of micro enterprises on the national economy in any country cannot be underestimated. Successful micro enterprises become the primary engines of economic development, income growth, and poverty reduction in much of the developing world. Despite these recognized importance micro enterprises have hardly considerable financing assistance part

The health behaviours of pregnant women with very severe obesity are not known, though these women are at high risk of pregnancy complications. We carried out a prospective case-control study including 148 very severely obese (BMI >40 kg/m2 ) and 93 lean (BMI < 0.05). Women with very severe obesity have low self-reported intakes and circula

By adopting the study by Gaither and Kandari on cultural-economic model of, the current study was designed to analyse the cultural-economic model of public relations practice of two prominent Islamic banks (full-fledged Islamic bank and Islamic window bank) in Malaysia. This study is mainly focusing on their communication tool particularly websites

Brain as main server for entire human body is a complex composition. It is a challenging task to read and interpret the brain. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has become one of the means to do the task. fMRI is a non-invasive technique to measure brain activity of a human subject according to various stimuli. However, the fMRI datasets

Aim: To detect the expression of molecules associated with Notch signaling pathway in stem cells from human exfoliated deciduous teeth (SHED) cultured in specific differentiation medium, namely, keratinocyte growth medium (KGM). Methods: RNA was extracted from SHED harvested on day 1, 3 and 7. RNA was reverse-transcribed to obtain the cDNA and then

Synthetic haloalkanoic acids often applied as active components in herbicides are toxic to the environment and harmful to the living organisms. These compounds are widely released to the environment due to their routine use by agricultural activities. In recent years, accumulation of haloalkanoic acids was emerged in marine environment. In this stu

This paper presents some preliminary assessments of the precipitation rate conversion methods from 60-min to 1-min integration time. The conversion methods used in this study are Moupfouma and Khairolanuar et al., and ITU-R P.837. Rainfall rate data of twelve-months duration from January to December 2009 were acquired from Malaysia Meteorological D

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have been the backbone of economic growth of many economies. In Malaysia too, SMEs have played a role in contributing to the economy as Malaysia embarks on the journey towards achieving Vision 2020. However, SMEs contribution to Malaysian GDP is still comparatively low. The Malaysian government launched several p

This research aims to study the conditions that may produce single phase NiTi for desirable shape memory effect under solid state by suppressing the oxide levels using CaH2 as in-situ reducing agent. A systematic comparative investigation was made on phase formation and their transformation behavior. Phase formation analysis was carried out using S

يتناول البحث مسيرة المرأة، ومكانتها ودورها عبر العصور القديمة، بدءا بالعصر الجاهلي، ومرورا بالعصر الإسلامي، والأموي، وانتهاء بالعصر العباسي. حيث لعبت المرأة دوراً مرموقاً، ومشهوداً لها فيه