Prolactin (PRL) is an exceptional hormone of pituitary gland with important implications for normal reproduction as well as for sexual behavior. It increases in the first trimester of pregnancy (physiological hyperprolactinemia). The objective of this study is to evaluate the usefulness of LL-HPRL as an indicator for early ongoing pregnancy in pati

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This chapter reports the findings of research conducted in 2010 on the connectedness of rural Malaysians who accessed computers and the Internet through the rural Internet centers (RICs) established by the Malaysian government in 2000 and 2003. We examine the impact of the RICs on users’ sense of social connectedness, defined as the feeling of be

Sexual harassment is one of the contemporary silent issues in academic setting in the schools and institution of higher education. The above subject has become a climax discourse and heatedly debated in various sectors in the recent past. A number of theoretical and empirical studies have demonstrated that sexual harassment has a tendency of causin

Research on therapeutic applications of calixarene derivatives is an emerging area of interest. The anticancer activity of various functionalized calixarenes has been reported by several research group. Due to their superior geometric shape, calixarenes can accommodate drug molecules by forming inclusion complexes. Controlled release of anticancer

Sexual harassment conducts such as patting, pinching, constant brushing or touching an inappropriate area of another person’s body, making sexually-related comments, jokes and graphic drawing, making degrading comments on one’s appearance and displaying sexually suggestive pictures, among others, are examples of situations in which the honour a

This article discusses the powers of the Industrial Court to award compensation in lieu of reinstatement to an employee who has passed the compulsory retirement age. The discussion is based on the recent Federal Court decision in Unilever (M) Holdings Sdn Bhd v. So Lai & Anor, which had affirmed the Court of Appeal’s decision in Sabah Forest

An employee who absents himself from the workplace on a scheduled workday, will inevitably disrupt the employer’s work schedules, aside from affecting the employer’s customer commitments, amongst other things. To minimise the work disruption due to the slack caused by an absent employee, a regular worker would in normal circumstances assume the

Discrimination implies unfair treatment of two or more persons or subjects on grounds such as race, gender, disability, age, religious belief, etc.2 Gender discrimination exists when women, for example, are treated less favourably or suffer detrimental treatment at the workplace as a result of unreasonable differential treatment between men and wom

When an employer is facing declining business, he may be forced to make a substantial reduction in his workforce, either by way of retrenchment or through the introduction of a voluntary separation scheme ('VSS'). Unlike in the case of retrenchment, in the case of a VSS, the employer issues a circular inviting its employees to take advantag