The decreased cancer risk associated with consumption of olive oilmay be due to the presence of phenolics which can modulate pathways including apoptosis and invasion that are relevant to carcinogenesis. We have previously shown that a virgin olive oil phenolics extract (OVP) inhibited invasion of HT115 colon cancer cells in vitro. In the current s

Purpose/Objective: There always has been serious concern on students’ academic performance in schools and institutions of higher learning. Mostly it is addressed in terms of lack of motivation. However, little attention has been given to the reasons of poor motivation. The Self-Determination Theory (SDT) of motivation provides a new perspective o

Workplace bullying is an anti-social behaviour which is defined as continuous harassment or “mobbing” of individual employee experienced for a relatively longer period of time. This may take several forms such as constant abuse, offensive remarks or teasing, ridicule, social exclusion, harassment, physical violence etc. The situation may be dam

The present study juxtaposes the prevailing method of individual respondents’ self-ratings with their ratings of how people in the society think, feel, and behave in order to identify a culturally sensitive method to explore social reality. A sample of 100 adults from India and 127 university students from Malaysia rated predominantly positive an

Directors as the manager and decision maker in a company are subjected to certain duties provided by the legislated act as well as the Common law. In certain companies, such as state owned companies, subsidiary companies or where the shareholders consists of institutional investors the board of directors of those companies may consists amongst them

This is an Editorial article for the Special Issue on "Emerging Sensor-Cloud Technology for Pervasive Services and Applications" of the International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks.Editorial Emerging Sensor-Cloud Technology for Pervasive Services and Applications Mohammad Mehedi Hassan,1Al-Sakib Khan Pathan,2Eui-Nam Huh,3and Jemal A

This is an editorial note as the guest editor for the special issue of the Journal of Global Business Advancement, of vol. 7 (2) published in 2014. The papers included deals with the emerging challenges of various forms as a result of globalisation of the world economy. The special issue provides research based knowledge with the people from the in

This research looks at consumer preference concerning shopping day and time within the Malaysian market. There are five main hypermarket players in Malaysia. The analysis of this research is based on cross-tabulation analysis between the hypermarket players and the preferred shopping day and time. Data were collected from hypermarket consumers as r

Products and services are complementary to each other. This research explores the relationship of hypermarket corporate brand extension of products and services as parallel independent constructs towards brand personality. Through convenience sampling of hypermarket distribution outlets throughout Malaysia, 785 data were collected from hypermarket

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the work challenges of employees with disabilities and predict the organisational behaviours of employees and their involvement in employment. Design/methodology/approach - A self-developed questionnaire was used to gather relevant information from employers, employees with disabilities and their co