Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Biotechnology -- IIUM Summary: Studies on fish growth, condition, and spawning season and nutrient dynamics are important to evaluate a lake ecosystem. However, there are not adequate information on temporal nutrient dynamics, growth, condition, and spawning season of fishes in all rivers of

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Basic Medical Sciences -- IIUM Summary: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of neurodegenerative diseases and the leading cause of dementia in the elderly. The number of people with neurodegenerative diseases is massively increasing. Currently, there is no prevention, cure or

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Pharmaceutical Technology -- IIUM Summary: This study investigated the potential of different gelling agents to be developed as dental gel formulation of Baccaurea angulata fruit extract as well as the effect of B. angulata fruit extract towards wound healing at tooth extractions sites. Since

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Computational and Theoretical Sciences -- IIUM Summary: This research sought to assess the implication of utilising studies with different levels of data, namely, the aggregate data (AD), individual patient data (IPD) and mixed of AD:IPD data (MD), on the overall meta-analysis estimates. Anot

Subject(s): Postnatal care -- Malaysia | Sexual abstinence, Postpartum -- Malaysia | Female, Physiology | Childbirth Summary: Childbirth is one of the recognized risk factors for female sexual dysfunction (FSD). Despite high prevalence of female sexual dysfunction worldwide, there is very limited data concerning sexual dysfunction in postpartum

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Surgery -- IIUM Summary: Helicobacter pylori infection affects almost half of the population and remains clinically significant in the development of chronic gastritis and increased risk of gastric malignancy. However, its prevalence is found to be low in Pahang population where the practice

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Orthopaedics,Traumatology & Rehabilitation -- IIUM Summary: This is a prospective single-blinded randomized clinical trial to compare use of a combination of periarticular locally infiltrated analgesia with epidural analgesia infusion to epidural analgesia infusion alone in total knee art

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Biomedical Sciences -- IIUM Summary: Infertility is a common reproductive disorder in both men and women. Urban lifestyle has compelled people to consume excessive and unnecessary supplements and also caused disruption of sleep cycle which resulted in unhealthy lifestyle that can cause the so

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Diagnostic Imaging & Radiotheraphy -- IIUM Summary: Optimization of dose in radiographic examinations is essential since the utilization of x-radiation have a related induced cancer risk. Further, the quality of images produced need to be maintained at an accepted diagnostic level. Thus,

Subject(s): Vinpocetine | Anxiety disorders | Anxiety -- Treatment | Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Basic Medical Sciences -- IIUM Summary: Anxiety disorders (AD) are increasing in all societies, especially developed ones. Caffeine (CAF) consumption in coffee, tea, and other beverages may aggravate and increase the frequency of anxiet