Objectives: Multiple lines of evidence suggest that the rapidly evolving zinc-finger (ZF) protein, PRDM9, is responsible for initiating much or all of recombination in human. PRDM9 shows extreme variation in both the number and sequence of its ZFs, between species and amongst individuals, across mammals. The rapid evolution of the PRDM9 ZF array ma

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In December 2014, one of the most perilous floods in recent years occurred in Malaysia, and many lost their lives, material possessions, and even homes. This paper aimed to explore the use of social media for information sharing about the flood. Survey questionnaires were distributed among families in the East Coast of Malaysia that was directly af

This paper proposes a preliminary investigation on the volatile production patterns generated from three sets of in-vitro cancerous cell samples of headspace that contains volatile organic compounds using the electronic nose system. A commercialized electronic nose consisting of 32 conducting polymer sensors (Cyranose 320) is used to analyze the th

The rapid-prototyping and deployment of flight control algorithm on a real-time embedded target has been one of the major challenges in an unmanned helicopter system development. In this paper, a MATLAB-Simulink based embedded target programming approach is presented to address this challenge. The motivation for this approach is that, since most of

It is well known that the main constraint of electric vehicles (EVs) is the capabilities to supply efficient energy for driving-range that is comparable to petrol fueled vehicles. Moreover, a large number of batteries needed for EV contribute to heavy weight, poor durability and pricy total cost. In view of that, the need to prolong the battery lif

Evidences of bilateral relationship between diabetes mellitus (DM) and Periodontal disease (PD) have been increasing and published in oral health practices since 20th century. Nevertheless, awareness of medical staff on relationship between DM and PD and screening PD using self-reported questionnaires has still been limited. This study was done to

Diabetes mellitus (DM) patients with cardiovascular (CVD) co-morbidity have higher risk of mortality. Hypertensions, dyslipidaemia, ischemic heart disease (IHD) are common CVD co-morbidity for DM patients. This study was done to determine relationship among CVD comorbidity, risk assessment and glycemic control status of type-2 DM patients.The 5th A

Background: Diabetes mellitus (DM) and periodontal disease (PD) are common chronic diseases in medical and oral health practices. DM is in increasing trends in both Malaysia (11.6% in 2006 to 22.6% in 2013) and Myanmar ( 11.8 % in 2003) while prevalence of unhealthy periodontal tissue among community is also high not only in Malaysia (ranged 90.2 %

Background: Social science research is research concerning with social science disciplines including the sociology of health (inequalities in health, experiences of health and health care system); social anthropology on health (society’s belief and practices relating to health and illness); the role of health and illness in social history, and to