Despite the effectiveness of mammography for early breast cancer detection, its’ utilization among Malaysian women remains low. Health beliefs are closely related to health screening behavior. Hence, it is important that health beliefs are employed when exploring mammography screening behavior. Thus, the study utilized HBM constructs in predictin

All-you-can-eat restaurants are considered as a successful business model as it offers variety of foods at a preset price and a limited time frame for the customers while also profiting the owners effectively. It results with large revenues, these buffet-style restaurants are becoming more prevalent in many countries throughout the world. In order

Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) belongs to the composite family. Its florets contain edible carthamin and safflower yellow dyes. The pigments are very useful for dying foods and cosmetics. Natural pigments also have medicinal properties. In this research, external factors suspected to influence the chemical nature of carthamin and safflower yel

Since its discovery, plastic has been a part of human life and is widely employed in our daily lives. Excessive use of plastic has raised pollution rates around the world, with plastic ending up in landfills or the sea, posing a threat to both terrestrial and aquatic life. Considering this problem, the widespread use of polyurethanes (PUs) in many

This study was conducted to identify the linguistic gender features used to represent the male and female characters in J. K Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows novel. A qualitative content analysis was employed whereby a close reading of the novel was performed and linguistic gender differences between male and female characters are t

Aim: For endoscopists, the caecal intubation rate (CIR) is an important quality standard1. However, previous studies have shown that patients who had a colonoscopy due to symptoms had a lower CIR than those who had a screening colonoscopy; additionally, symptoms were found to be one of the predictors of incomplete colonoscopy.. There is a scarcity

The impact of new information technologies on Malaysian spatiality today is complicated by the ongoing processes of colonialism, which have violently disrupted old attachments to the land, leading to the imbrication of racial divisions and global capitalism. Malaysian cyberpunk, an emergent literature, “maps” these new spaces of global informat

Obesity and obesity-related complications are on the increase both in the developed and developing world. Since existing pharmaceuticals fail to come up with long-term solutions to address this issue, there is an ever-pressing need to find and develop new drugs and alternatives. Natural products, particularly medicinal plants, are believed to harbo

U.S. president Barack Obama entered office with a bold plan to combat Afghanistan's escalating insurgency, empower its government, encourage a political resolution of the conflict, and secure the cooperation of neighboring Pakistan—all in time for U.S. troops to withdraw by the end of 2014. The increasing boldness and lethality of the Haqqani

Abstract: Biodiesel is a clean, renewable, liquid fuel that can be used in existing diesel engines without modification as pure or blend. Transesterification (the primary process for biodiesel generation) via heterogeneous catalysis using low-cost waste feedstocks for catalyst synthesis improves the economics of biodiesel production. Heterogeneous