Halal food compliance is a critical issue for Muslim consumers, hence becomes a major challenge for Malaysia as a leader in the development of global halal market. This study provides a review of the regulatory system in the poultry industry practised in Malaysia and explores common problems faced by the authorities in enforcing halal compliance am

Synchrophasor advancement has the conversant to the smart grid applications, which is turned into necessary integral parts of digital communication frameworks that include transmission of electrical signals measured crosswise over various parts, which synchronized the grid applications utilizing external precise time source. The existing Communicat

In September 1906, Atiya Fyzee (1877-1967) from India and Zeyneb Hanoum (1883-1923) from Turkey embarked on European tours and described their experiences in a chronological order in Zamana-e-Tahsil (A Time of Education [1921]) and A Turkish Woman’s European Impressions (1913), respectively. Fyzee visited England and Germany and Hanoum, France, S

Aims/Objective: One of the impediments in overcoming hypertension is treatment failure caused by patient compliance in conventional medicine. Herbal remedies receive less defiance, and thus have been studied considerably. This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of Piper sarmentosum aqueous extract (PSAE) in reducing blood pressure via endothelial

This systematic review sought to determine whether preclinical biological and mechanistic evidences of agarwood materials reported at multiple carcinogenic stages are significant to support plausibility of agarwood materials as potential therapeutics for cancer. Agarwood materials have been reported to have pre-clinical (in vitro and in vivo) evide

Since I completed my PhD at Portsmouth, I have undertaken a number of meaningful research projects and published many works with presses in the east and west. Had Bronwen and Alex been lenient with me regarding the quality of my work and had I navigated through my doctoral journey with relative ease, perhaps my PhD thesis would have remained the ma

Background Persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn remains a challenging problem in neonates. Some cases may be severe and not responsive to conventional respiratory support. Inhaled nitric oxide and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation have improved outcome, but these modalities are expensive and unavailable at most hospitals in Malaysia.

In this paper, active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) and a control method combining ADRC with input decoupling transformation (ADRC-IDT) are proposed to improve ride comfort of a non-linear full-car with active suspension system. Simulation of the model in frequency domain as well as time domain with three types of road profile – speed hump

Surrogacy and infertility treatment are closely related, yet these two practices are different in some aspects. This is so because, infertility treatment is often sought by the infertile married couples, who wish to have children through artificial insemination, and in some cases by means of in-vitro fertilization (IVF). For infertile married coupl

Abdul Quadir (1906-84) was a poet-prosodist, essayist, editor, journalist, literary critic, bibliophile and collector of literary works. He came from Araisidha – the village where I was born – in the district of Brahmanbaria, so I feel a special affinity with him. The homes where he and I spent our childhoods are within 200 metres of each other