Recent trends in food consumption and lifestyle show an increased demand for foods that are not only tasty and nutritious, but also provide additional benefits related to health, i.e. functional foods. One example of functional food is probiotic fermented milk produced with lactic acid bacteria. This has been shown to be beneficial to human gut hea

Plastic debris is one of the major environmental concerns for the coastal area of Brunei Darussalam. It reduces the aesthetic appeals of the beaches in the country. The current study investigates marine debris on six different beaches of Brunei Darussalam along the South China Sea. Plastic was found the most abundant among whole debris by number (9

Objective: To assess the number of adult critical care beds in Asian countries and regions in relation to population size. Design: Cross-sectional observational study. Setting: Twenty-three Asian countries and regions, covering 92.1% of the continent’s population. Participants: Ten low-income and lower-middle–income economies, five upper-middle

الواجبات الكفائية في نظر الإسلام هي سبب بقاء المجتمع ونمائه، وبها تتحقق الخيرية والتنمية الاجتماعية المستدامة، وإن التخلف الذي مني به المجتمع المسلم سببه يتمثل في غياب مفهوم الواجبات الكفائ�

The Malaysian takaful industry has experienced stable growth in recent years. The industry has introduced an innovative product which is an investment-linked family takaful product that offers both investment and protection to the participants. These papers aims to explore the evolution of the takaful sector in Malaysia with a specific aim at unvei

The drag force is an essential factor in any projectile from road vehicles to rocket or aircraft. The total drag includes skin friction drag, wave drag, and base drag. The base drag is the drag due to low pressure in the base region of the projectile. In the case of suddenly expanded flows, due to the sudden expansion of flow from the nozzle into t

In many applications like the aircraft or the rockets/ missiles, the flow from a nozzle needs to be expanded suddenly in an enlarged duct of larger diameter. The enlarged duct is provided after the nozzle to maximize the thrust created by the flow from the nozzle. When the fluid is suddenly expanded in an enlarged duct, the base pressure is general

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) survivors need attention and dependence from their primary caregiver. Traumatic brain injury is a defect of different psychological and physical functions of the victim. Caregivers play an essential role in providing adequate care for the safe; this provides an additional need for care and time to adjust to new problems

Dicranopteris linearis occupies in an open ground that contains poor soils and often colonizing disturbed space that partly shaded area. It has been known for various traditional values including medicinal, edible food, soil erosion protection, pen and furniture. Even though the plants possess both economic and medicinal value, they still form the

Carotenoids are a class of natural product compound that are currently being used as colouring agents and widely used in food industry. Carotenoids are bioactive pigments obtained mainly from plants through dietary intake. They possess good features in terms of dietary supplement, food colourant, and polymer stabiliser. The presence of 4 main carot