Cassia alata has been known to provide relief from various types of abnormal skin conditions. Ointments containing this plant extract can be found in a limited market as most have not been properly registered with regulating bodies. However, it is anticipated that a systematic study may result in commercialisation and be prescribed by health profes

Background: The auditory brainstem response (ABR) is the most preferred tool in Universal Newborn Hearing Screening (UNHS) because of its high sensitivity and specificity and its ability to detect abnormalities up to auditory nerve. However, the testing time is considerably long does increase the cost of running UNHS. One of the possible techniques

The Federal Constitution has granted jurisdiction over Islamic affairs to each state through the 2nd list of the 9th schedule. Based on this jurisdiction, the states have approved laws relating to the Muslim community including distribution of deceased estate. In the context of multi-ethnic Muslim community, state customary and traditional laws pos

By applying the non-parametric Malmquist Productivity Index method, this paper attempts to investigate the sources of productivity changes of China’s State-Owned and Joint-Stock Commercial Banks (JSCBs) during the period 2000–2005. The empirical findings suggest that the China’s banking sector has exhibited productivity progress attributed to

The widespread implementation of advanced and complex systems requires predominantly operators’ cognitive functions and less importance of human manual control. On the other hand, most operators perform their cognitive functions below their peak cognitive capacity level due to fatigue, stress, and boredom. Thus, there is a need to improve their c

This study uses simulated meta-analysis to assess the effects of publication bias on meta-analysis estimates and to evaluate the efficacy of the trim and fill method in adjusting for these biases. The estimated effect sizes and the standard error were evaluated in terms of the statistical bias and the coverage probability. The results demonstrate t

Patients with cubitus varus deformity secondary to malunited supracondylar fracture are at risk for lateral humeral condylar (LHC) fracture. This report describes a child presenting with preexisting malunion of supracondylar fracture presenting along with nonunion of a LHC fracture following a recent injury. The patient underwent resection osteotom

This book addresses the views of the Sunni scholars regarding the importance of genealogical relationship (nasab) in Islamic family law and examines the role of legitimacy on the basis of the legal maxim “al-walad li al-firash”, evidence (al-bayyinah), and doubtful intercourse (wat’ shubhah). It also elucidates the views of the Sunni schools

A common drawback with meta analysis is when the variability measures, particularly the variances , are not reported, or “missing” in the individual study. Among the approaches adopted in handling this problem is through exclusion of the studies with missing variances. Alternatively, the missing study-variances could be imputed. This paper exam

This is a two-hour programme for support staff group to enable them understand the basic structure of LCC, as well as subdivision techniques used throughout LCC, and how to read LCC call number. The lecture started with concepts on subject analysis and classification and ended with individual exercise on how to organize items with LCC call number o