Objectives: To explore the South Asian region low health conditions with respect to maternal and child healthcare. Due to lack of resources, poverty, socio-economic and cultural factors; hence, the maternal and child mortality index in this region is rather unsatisfactory. Comparison of different countries depicts that it is hard to achieve the ful

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death among adults worldwide and atherosclerosis is the major underlying pathology. The pre-inflammatory stage of atherosclerosis is associated with proteoglycan glycosaminoglycan (GAG) chain hyper-elongation that results in increased proteoglycan (PG) binding to low density lipoprotein (LDL). Elevated

IIUM Tracer Study 2014 Follow-Up (IIUMTS2014FU) is a pioneering research project that has been initiated by the Ministry of Education, Malaysia (MOE). The objective of the research is to update the employment status of the university graduates in Malaysia. The sample is the graduates in 2014. The data was collected 6-months after their graduation.

Nanofluids with their enhanced thermal conductivity are believed to be a promising coolant in heat transfer applications. In this study, carbon nanotube (CNT) nanofluids of 0.01 wt%, stabilised by 1.0 wt% gum arabic were used as a cooling liquid in a concentric tube laminar flow heat exchanger. The flow rate of cold fluid varied from 10 to 50 g/s.

English Language writing teachers have always corrected students’ writing, hoping that their efforts would help students to write better. Students, on the other hand, may use the teacher’s feedback to improve their writing. Teachers’ strategies in giving feedback have been researched extensively, as compared to students’ strategies in revis

In Malaysia, the authenticity of halal logo has been a great concern to its Muslim community due to the existence of different types of halal logo in the market. Due to this situation, in this paper, a detection system was developed to classify the authentic Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia (JAKIM) halal logo from the unauthentic ones. All the disti

The pricing benchmark is usually used as a guide to calculate the rate of return of the financing. In the case of Malaysia, it is not known whether residential property values have significant relationship with the general performance of the economy. We propose that the house price index to be a viable benchmark of the real values of property to de

Currently, major interest rates, such as the Base Lending Rate (BLR) and Kuala Lumpur Interbank Offered Rate (KLIBOR) are widely used as reference rates by the Islamic financial institutions to benchmark a broad range of financial products and contracts. This study aims to compare the viability of several alternative pricing mechanisms for the Isla

Home is an important dwelling and basic necessities to everybody. However, there are a number of the home buyers are not afford to own the house due to a lower income level to meet the risen house price in the market. Thus, this study addresses the problem of the gap in affordable housing in Malaysia and the efforts being made to address the gap. T

Single longitudinal mode (SLM) erbium-doped fiber (EDF) laser operation using a commercialized ultranarrow bandwidth optical filter has been demonstrated. A 2-m long EDF with an absorption coefficient of 24 dB m−1 at the pump wavelength is used as gain medium. The ultra-narrow tunable filter is used for selection of a single longitudinal mode fro