Arterial stiffness and its association with dyslipidemia by Mohd Rus, Razman, Ab Rahman, Jamalludin, Muhammed Nordin, Ellyda, Akter, Seikh Farid Uddin

“…Results: The mean age of respondents was 49.5 years, SD±15.6. The prevalence of arterial stiffness was 23.3% (95% Confidence Interval (CI): 16.44 – 30.16). …”
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Land based abalone culture in re-circulating systems using a recycled freezer container by Kadowaki, Syusaku, Saw, Mya Linn, Yohei, Yamada, Rahman, Mohammad Mustafizur

“…The abalone stocking density was 20 individuals (5.3±0.8g). PS increased feed intake and shell growth of abalone. …”
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Anti-inflammatory activity of kapok thorn (Ceiba pentandra)in acute inflammation by Hashim, Ridzwan, Noordin, Nazirah, Zulkipli, Farah Hanis

“…Later, the extracts at doses 50 mg/kg and 500 mg/kg were injected intraperitoneally to the respective rats after 1 h post - carrageenan injection. Dexamethasone 5 mg/kg being used as a positive control the negative control received only saline solution. …”
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Screening for aphrodisiac property in local oyster of crassostrea Iredalei by Hashim, Ridzwan, Mohamaddiah, Hanani, Mohd Pauzi, Siti Norshuhadaa, Zulkipli, Farah Hanis, Tan Shau Hwai, Aileen

“…Sildenafil citrate at the dose of 5 mg/kg was used as positive control while physiologic saline solution as negative control. …”
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A non-rewarding, non-aversive buprenorphine/naltrexone combination attenuates drug-primed reinstatement to cocaine and morphine in rats in a conditioned place preference paradigm by Cordery, Sarah F, Taverner, Alistair, Ridzwan, Irna Elina, Guy, Richard H, Delgado-Charro, M Begoña, Husbands, Stephen M, Bailey, Christopher P

“…In the CPP extinction and reinstatement method, a combination of 0.3 mg/kg buprenorphine and 1.0 mg/kg naltrexone completely blocked drug-primed reinstatement in cocaine-conditioned rats (conditioned with 3 mg/kg cocaine, drug prime was 3 mg/kg cocaine) and attenuated drug-primed reinstatement in morphine-conditioned rats (conditioned with 5 mg/kg morphine, drug prime was 1.25 mg/kg morphine). …”
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Optimal waist circumference cut-off values for predicting cardiovascular risk factors in a multi-ethnic Malaysian population by Cheong, Kee C., Ghazali, Sumarni M., Hock, Lim K., Yusoff, Ahmad F., Selvarajah, Sharmini, Haniff, Jamaiyah, Zainuddin, Ahmad Ali, Ying, Chan Y., Lin, Khor G., Ab Rahman, Jamalludin, Shahar, Suzana, Mustafa, Amal N.

“…Optimal WC cut-off values for predicting the presence of diabetes mellitus, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia and at least one of the three CV risk factors varied from 81.4 to 85.5 cm for men and 79.8 to 80.7 cm for women. Conclusions: Our findings indicate that WC cut-offs of 81 cm for men and 80 cm for women are appropriate for defining abdominal obesity and for recommendation to undergo cardiovascular risk screening and weight management in the Malaysian adult population.…”
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Prediction of significant factors in the production of ethanol by ragi tapai co-culture using taguchi methodology by Azmi, Azlin Suhaida, Ngoh, Cheng Geik, Mel, Maizirwan

“…Taguchi’s method with orthogonal array of L8 was applied in design of experiment (DOE) and the results were analyzed using MINITAB v14 software. Seven factors; nitrogen-phosphorus-potassium (NPK), urea, fermentation temperature, ragi tapai concentration, S. cerevisiae concentration, agitation and co-culturing time were varied at two levels for each factor. …”
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The effect of extraction method on antioxidant content and activity of sesame oil by Mirghani, Mohamed E. S., Hashim, Yumi Zuhanis Has-Yun, Ismail, Noornadia

“…The parameters that have been studied are the ratio of sea sand to sesame during size reduction (1:1, 1:3, 1:5), amount of sample (20 g, 30 g, 40 g) and time of extraction (4 hours, 6 hours, 8 hours) for both extraction methods; shake flask extraction and soxhlet extraction by using Box-Behnken under response surface methodology (RSM). …”
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Social problems and its relationship with family institution in FELDA settlements: the local perspectives by Ismail, Nik Ahmad Hisham, Kamaruddin, Zaleha, Nordin, Mohamad Sahari

“…The research suggests as follows: i) effort and cooperation of various parties including the leaders, the schools, and the authorities the religious departments as well as the management of FELDA are important; ii) parents must be firm in nurturing and educating their children; iii) the empowerment and the implementation of laws should be emphasized especially by the Police; iv) awareness of religion also plays a very important role in the lives of human beings; v) schools are to be pro-active in solving the social and disciplinary problems amongst students.…”
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Isolation of moderately halophilic lipase producing bacteria from sponges in Pahang coastal water, Malaysia by Tengku Abdul Hamid, Tengku Haziyamin, Abdul Hamid, Azzmer Azzar, Padzil, Nurul Husna

“…Out of 70 isolates that grew on tributyrin agar plate, only 7 isolates had produced clear zones surrounding their colonies. Out of these, 5 isolates appeared to be gram-positive rod; meanwhile, the other 2 isolates were gram-negative rod in morphologies. …”
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Effect of pressure and temperature on supercritical fluid extraction of patchouli (Pogostemon cablin) essential oil by Tan, Teng Ju, Muhammad Shahrin, Artikah

“…The gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) analysis demonstrated that SFE at 10 MPa; 35°C gave the highest composition of patchoulol (73.65 ± 3.60 %), while SFE at 60 MPa; 55°C resulted in highest amount of α-patchoulene (5.01 ± 0.20 %). Commercial patchouli essential oil produced by steam distillation was found to acquire the least amount of patchoulol among all (38.95 %), but contained fairly high concentration of α-patchoulene (3.86 %). …”
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Effect of titania and magnesia on the physical properties of zirconia toughened alumina by Manshor, Hanisah, Wan Sabri, Wan Muhammad Ihsan, Ramli, Abdul Wahid, Ahmad Azhar, Ahmad Zahirani, Abdullah, Ezzat Chan, Ahmad, Zainal Arifin

“…The composition of TiO2 varied from 0 wt.% to 3.5 wt.% whereby other materials such as Al2O3, Yttria Stabilized Zirconia (YSZ) and MgO were kept at constant weight percentage. …”
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Oxidative stress-mediated apoptosis induced by ethanolic mango seed extract in cultured estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer MCF-7 Cells by Al-Shwyeh, Hussah Abdullah, Abdulkarim , Sabo Mohammed, Rasedee, Abdullah, Mirghani, Mohamed Elwathig Saeed

“…The MCF-7 cells were cultured and treated with 5, 10 and 50 μg/mL of mango kernel extract for 12 and 24 h. …”
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Rapid detection of porcine and bovine gelatins in dental prophylaxis pastes using fourier transform infrared spectroscopy by Dewi Ardini, Yunita, Lestari, Widya, Tajudin, Noor Ashikin, Abdul Azis, Nur Fatin

“…The extracts were then placed in the FTIR Perkin Elmer spectrometer for less than 5 minutes. All spectra were recorded within 4000 - 400 cm-I wavenumber with 4 cm-I resolution under 40 scans. …”
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A critical assessment on evaporative cooling performance of micro finned micro gap for high heat flux applications by Ahmed, Shugata, Ismail, Ahmad Faris, Sulaeman, Erwin, Muhammad, Hasibul Hasan

“…Flow boiling of pure water in the heat sink has been simulated using FLUENT 14.5 release. From results, it has been observed that upper and lower solid-fluid interfaces show different thermal behaviors with heat flux increment.Area-weighted average heat transfer coefficient of upper surface increases with increasing heat flux, while decreases for lower surface. …”
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Attitudes toward euthanasia and related issues among physicians and patients in a multi-cultural society of Malaysia by Rathor, Mohammad Yousuf, Abdul Rani, Mohammad Fauzi, Shahar, Mohammad Arif, Ab Rahman, Jamalludin, Che Abdullah, Shahrin Tarmizi, Omar, Ahmad Marzuki, Mohamad Shah, Azarisman Shah

“…Both physicians 29.2% and patients 61.5% were in favor of withdrawing or withholding life‑sustaining treatment to a patient with no chances of survival. …”
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Child trafficking and religion: a case study of Almajiri education in Northern Nigeria by Garba, Umaru Kwagyang, Nik Mahmod, Nik Ahmad Kamal

“…The feature of Nigerian children as young as 5 to 12 years is threatened by this monster called child trafficking. …”
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Effect of mach number in a suddenly expanded flow for area ratio 4.84 by Baig, Maugal Ahmed Ali, Khan, Sher Afghan, Rathakrishnan, E.

“…The nozzle pressure ratio (NPR) used is from 3 to 11, in steps of 2 and experiments are conducted for NPR 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11 for all the Mach numbers. The area ratio of the present study is 4.84. …”
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Child trafficking and religion: a case study of Almajiri education in Northern Nigeria by Kwagyang, Garba Umaru, Nik Mahmod, Nik Ahmad Kamal

“…The feature of Nigerian children as young as 5 to 12 years is threatened by this monster called child trafficking. …”
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Role of pharmacodiagnostic of CYP2C9 variants in the optimization of warfarin therapy in Malaysia: a 6-month follow-up study by Ngow, Harris Abdullah, Teh , Lay Kek, Langmia, I. M., Lew, W. L., Harun, R., Ismail, R., Salleh, Mohd Zaki

“…Their medical records were reviewed and no intervention of warfarin dose was performed. 2. A total of 5 ml of blood were taken from each subject for DNA extraction and identification of 1, 2, 3 and 4 CYP2C9 alleles, using a nested-allele-specific-multiplex-polymerase chain reaction (PCR). …”
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