INTRODUCTION The pathology of renal failure results in the deterioration of multiple physiologic, biochemical, and biologic bodily functions. Haemodialysis (HD) is the main method of therapy of reducing the damages, up to some extent. KT/V has long been used to measure the adequacy of haemodialysis, despite its limitations. It is still up to now a

Community Pharmacists are in a position to provide advice and services of sleep-related disorders to the community. Interventions that measure sleep/wake objectively can assist pharmacist in consultation. This feasibility study was conducted to evaluate: (1) the effectiveness of a ‘community-pharmacy-based’ intervention, (2) the role of actigra

Pharmacists are in a suitable position to give advice and provide services related to sleep disorders to individuals who are unable to easily access sleep health centres. To improve the service, it is important to identify the customers’ point of views of the service and intervention. Study objectives are to: (1) identify opinions and beliefs of

Highly adaptable methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) was documented as the most common commensal pathogen detected in hospitals. Thus, screening for the infection has become one of the essential active control approaches in eradicating the transmission of MRSA which is currently the concern of most medical practitioners. The objectiv

The UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) introduced a ban on the short-selling of specified financial-sector stocks in September 2008. The regulator’s stated objectives were to protect market quality, stabilize the market for financial-sector stocks, and prevent cross-sectoral contagion. We analyse the price, market quality and contagion eff

We are conducting a multi-disciplinary research work that involves development of nanostructured thin films of semiconductors for different applications. Nanotechnology is widely considered to constitute the basis of the next technological revolution, following on from the first Industrial Revolution, which began around 1750 with the introduction o

The Malaysian government has finally announced for the implementation of Strata Management Act 2013 with the aims to cater disputes in the management of strata titled properties. Among the most important aspect of the Act is to introduce Strata Management Tribunal as a platform to resolve disputes among the strata owners and all stakeholders in rel

Short selling is the selling of a security that the seller does not own. In conventional finance, the ability to short is considered an important element of an efficient and complete market. For most Muslim scholars, however, short selling is deemed undesirable when read in conjunction with the Hadith “la tabi’ ma laysa ‘indaka”, which carr

This study reports the performance of an Archimedean spiral antenna, which exhibits unidirectional circularly polarized radiation patterns with a peak gain >8 dBic in the lower (2.4–2.485 GHz) and upper (5.15–5.35 and 5.725–5.875 GHz) Wireless local area network frequency bands. The required backlobe suppression and impedance match are ob

Nowadays, people have built mega-watt scales of wind turbines to generate electricity from wind energy. These big scales of wind turbine blade need lighter materials in order to optimize the generation of electricity. Due to this issue, purpose of this paper is to find a light material which is suitable to be used in making wind turbine blades. The