Blue light protection ophthalmic lenses have been regularly marketed as the ultimate protection against short-wavelength visible radiation mainly in the range of 400 nm and 450 nm. However, the actual protective effects of such lenses are currently unknown; most claims are provided by the manufacturers with limited scientific validation. This will

Acanthaceae family has been used traditionally for medicinal purposes especially amongst the native communities in Peninsular Malaysia. It is also known as one of the potential plant families that can be used to cure diseases. Nowadays, many taxonomists have difficulties during the identification of the Acanthaceae species due to its morphological

By using the data collected from urban households in Klang Valley, Malaysia, this study tries to provide empirical evidence on the effect of household debt on married Malaysian couples on their marital satisfaction. This study wishes to extend the implications of household debt in Malaysia beyond economic concern per se. We found that household deb

Purpose: In line with the IFSB and BCBS methodology, the purpose of this study is to undertake a comparative analysis of dual banking systems for asset-liability management (ALM) practices with the duration gap, in Islamic Commercial Banks (ICBs) and Conventional Commercial Banks (CCBs). Based on the research objective, two research questions are d

Islamic commercial banks (ICBs) deal with a variety of risks, a pressing one being benchmark rates risk or rate of return risk (ROR). The purpose of this study is to measure the impact of changing benchmark rates on the net worth (NW) risk (i.e. economic value) of ICBs and conventional commercial banks (CCBs), with duration gap and stress testing a

The intravenous administration of polyclonal antibodies known as antivenom is the only effective treatment for snakebite envenomed victims, but because of inter-specific variation in the toxic components of snake venoms, these therapies have variable efficacies against different snake species and/or different populations of the same species. In thi

This paper proposes a novel fault localization method that is based on the non-intrusive fault monitoring (NIFM) techniques in high-voltage/extra-high-voltage (HV/EHV) power transmission networks. In this work, the fault signals measured at the utilities can be extracted by the hyperbolic S-transform (HST). To carefully select coefficients of the H

Objective: This study is conducted to understand in-depth the self management experience among the patients with nasopharyngeal cancer during the phase 1 of identification of the symptoms. Method: Individual semi-structured interviews were held with patients diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer (N=16) in two general hospitals in Malaysia. Data were

Polylactic acid (PLA) has attracted tremendous interest to be utilized as the replacement for petroleum-based polymers as it possesses good biodegradability, can be derived from renewable sources, and shows high mechanical strength. However, its inherent brittleness and low toughness has limited its usage in broader applications. In this work, PLA

Introduction: The prevalence of knee osteoarthritis is on the raise. This raise has been a huge financial burden to developed countries in treating the disease. Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) is a cost-effective, easily available, and self-applicable mode of nonpharmacological pain relieve technique. Despite these advantages, th