Introduction: Dengue is one of the commonest infections in Malaysia and it is a notifiable disease. Even though the diagnosis of classical dengue fever and dengue haemorrhagic fever can be recognized clinically, the diagnosis remains a challenge in areas where it could not be differentiated with other febrile illnesses. The aim of this study was to

Abstract CYP3A5 is one of the important drug metabolising enzyme and its polymorphism shows marked differences in protein expression and catalytic activities between different geographical ethnic groups. Both tamoxifen and tacrolimus are substrates of CYP3A5 and thus the polymorphism may cause pharmacokinetics variation which explains the wide vari

Dunia pendidikan sentiasa mengalami perubahan selari dengan peredaran zaman dan tuntutan keperluan negara. Dengan itu, sistem pendidikan memerlukan seseorang pemimpin yang berkaliber dalam mencapai impian dan wawasan negara. Di institusi pendidikan, peranan pengetua adalah sangat penting di mana gaya kepimpinannya dapat mempengaruhi dan memajukan t

A cheat-proof protocol for real-time gaming is proposed under the assumption that time-stamp servers issue serially numbered time stamps honestly and are available near every player, i.e., they exist everywhere in the Internet. With this protocol, each player sends its action to the other player and also sends its hash to the nearest time-stamp ser

This paper presents a particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm with dynamic spread factor inertia weight and its application to dynamic modeling of a flexible beam structure. In this study, system identification scheme based on PSO is formulated to obtain a dynamic model of the beam in parametric form. A PSO algorithm with dynamic spread factor

Intermetallic nanocomposites of nickel aluminide (Ni3Al) alloy and nanosized zirconia (ZrO2) were fabricated using combined powder metallurgy technique and reaction synthesis. Nanosized zirconia as dispersed phase at 2 and 5 weight percent were pre-mixed with nickel, aluminum powders and other alloying elements in a planetary ball mill for 18 hours

Two different methods were utilized to synthesize intermetallic nickel aluminide alloy. The first method was combination of powder metallurgy and reaction synthesis (IMC-RS) and the second method was plasma melting to form homogenous plasma melted samples (IMC-PM). XRD patterns for both samples showed complete formation of single phase Ni3Al. Satur

The issues of participation and contribution of Muslim women in public spheres have been widely discussed in the academic circles. Up to the present day, many Muslim women in patriarchal Islamic societies are still struggling to have a role in public life. On the other hand, in some parts of the Muslim world women enjoy a much better status. They a

Love knows no boundaries. Couples may come from different countries and settle down in the country of their choice. In most cases, the parties would prefer to return to the husband's family and stay on in his country. The wife, is an extremely a brave woman. She comes and settles in a country that is totally strange to her, right from the cultu

After the implementation of the Charter of Justice 1807, the Penang Courts believe that in order to provide justice to the natives of the state, the lex loci of Penang should be the English Common law and the rules of the Equity applicable in England. However, there was claimed made by the Sultan of Kedah then that he was merely allowing the Britis