Background: Wound healing is a dynamic process which is divided into four phases; haemostasis, inflammatory, proliferation and tissue remodelling phases, that encompasses inflammatory cells, cytokines and growth factors. Interleukin-6 (IL-6), Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) and Matrix Metalloproteinase 9 (MMP-9) involve at the different p

Background: Overweight and obesity, which may lead to depression, have become prevalent among children worldwide. Hence, this study aimed to measure obesity and depression among schoolchildren in Kuantan. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in three different primary schools in Kuantan by purposive sampling. With consent from their pa

The ombudsman concept has grown from being a medieval administrative mechanism into a modern tool for market regulation, dispute resolution, complaint handling, consumer protection and access to justice. This chapter examines the meaning and conceptual understanding of the ombudsman with emphasis on its origin and cultural underpinnings in selected

Solid-liquid interactions are often associated with particle agglomerations and incomplete homogeneous system; thus grinding mill is one of the best unit operation employed by industries as a mean to counteract such drawbacks. Separately, knowing that the target of any processing plants is to reduce wastages by optimizing their unit operation’s p

Introduction: Simulation is widely practiced as learning strategies in many disciplines including nursing. It is considered an updated technological approach towards providing safe and sound patients care. Thus, this study was conducted to assess the level of knowledge among nursing students using a simulated mannequin for cardiovascular assessment

In the search for measures to keep the society sustained, a qualitative study was conducted to explore a Tawhidic Paradigm (TP) alternative for servant leaders, building upon Greenleaf servant leadership (SL) theory. The aim is to ground an Islamic Performance Instrument (IPI) favourable to sustainable development (SD). Adopting Charmaz's (2006

Background: Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is the most common nosocomial infection in intensive care units (ICU), accounting for 25% of all ICU infections. Antimicrobial resistance is increasing and becoming a significant health problem worldwide, increasing hospital length of stay, mortality and costs. Identifying antibiotic resistance patt

The earthquake damage brings significant effects. The resilience of buildings against the earthquake and the destruction’s location is not an efficient outcome from previous research. This study applied the Modified K-Nearest Neighbor (MK-NN) in predicting the concrete structures’ performance despite the earthquakes. The 2-story building predic

Game Theory acts as a suitable tool offering promising solutions to security-related concerns in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (i.e., MANETs). In MANETs, security forms a prominent concern as it includes nodes which are usually portable and require significant coordination between them. Further, the absence of physical organisation makes such networks sus

Human navigation systems implemented on mobile devices often define distances or localization relative to landmarks using quantitative metrics. However, human minds abstract and articulate distances in linguistic forms using words rather than numeric distances, hence the current locations descriptions are not completely in tune with human cognition