Citronella essential oil from Cymbopogon species are widely used as flavours and fragrances in food and perfume industries, and not as insect repellent only. They also play role as antibacterial, antifungal as well as antioxidant agent based on their components like geraniol, citronellol, limonene etc. The ways to treat these plants are very import

Ketamine abuse is on the increase in Malaysia. Neurodegenerative change following ketamine use results in debilitating behavioural and cognitive dysfunctions. These changes are thought to be the consequences of network and cellular disorganization and degeneration in the brain involving areas such as hippocampus. Ketamine works by blocking NMDA rec

Molecular computing has gained many interests among researchers since Head introduced the first theoretical model for DNA based computation using the splicing operation in 1987. Another model for DNA computing was proposed by using the sticker operation which Adlemanused in his successful experiment for the computation of Hamiltonian paths in a gra

The reduction of capillary luminal area within dermal microcirculation in diabetic foot patients contributes towards the development of foot ulceration and subsequent failure to heal existing ulcers. We studied 42 subjects, involving 10 controls, 16 patients with neuropathic ulcer and 16 patients with neuroischaemic ulcer. The specimens were taken

Introduction Morphological changes affecting skin microvasculature in diabetic foot ulcer (DFU), including dermal capillaries, may indicate microcirculatory dysfunction and subsequently affects the patient’s outcome. Methods We studied 42 subjects, involving 10 controls, 16 with neuropathic DFU and 16 with neuroischaemic DFU. The specimens were t

The study of English Literature was first introduced during the late eighteenth century in order to consolidate the superiority of British culture in comparison to the cultures of the colonised people. In the postcolonial period of the twentieth century, the continuation of the study of English literature had mainly been justified by Western libera

According to Amran and Che Ahmad (2010), family succession attributes influence the firm’s performance and the family ownership is positively related with the firm’s performance. The writers also observed that families are motivated to work efficiently when they hold more shares in the business. Furthermore, the results reveal that successors-m

The great Muslim poet-philosopher Muhammad Iqbal was perhaps full of admiration for the Victorian poet Robert Browning when, in Reconstructions of Religious Thoughts in Islam, he mentions that that the later “turns the impossibility [of absolute knowledge] to ethical use by a very ingenious argument. The uncertainty of human knowledge, teaches th

Acute injury to the thoracic aorta is a life-threatening and can lead to various types of aortic injury including the formation of false aneurysm or pseudoaneurysm. We report two cases of acute traumatic aortic injury after motor vehicle accidents. One case had a saccular pseudoaneurysm and another case had complex aortic injury with pseudoaneurysm

Under-reporting of self-reported energy intake (EI) has been described in female, overweight, and pregnant subjects but little is known about its prevalence in severely obese pregnancy. This study aimed to assess this in severely obese pregnant women (body mass index ≥40 kg/m2 ) who completed a food frequency questionnaire at 28 weeks gestation f