Incidence of palmaris longus agenesis in second year medical students of IIUM, 2011/2012 by Tun, Ye, Myint, Yi Yi

“…An understanding of its variations is useful as it is often used as tendon graft for reconstructive surgery because of its little functional use and short belly and long, cord-like tendon. The aims of this study are to: 1. determine the incidence of unilateral and bilateral absence of palmaris longus in second year medical students of IIUM and to correlate it with gender, dominant hand and body side. 2. compare the results of five clinical techniques to detect the palmaris longus by using the Likert scale. …”
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Carved arabesques with calligraphy, geometry and flora prevalent in the components of Malay Timber Houses by Kamaruddin, Zumahiran

“…This study employed three methods of investigation: (1) analytical review on twelve sets of reports and measured drawings of seven houses in Kelantan and five houses in Terengganu which were obtained from KALAM, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia and the documents served as the main source of data, (2) interviews with five woodcarvers from Kelantan and Terengganu on art and crafts of woodcarving, types of motifs in the carved components and its attributes which serve as the inferential evidences, and (3) literatures on woodcarvings including its arts and craft-making and reviews on traditional Malay houses. …”
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Dynamic approach for real-time skin detection by Bilal, Sara Mohammed Osman Saleh, Akmeliawati, Rini, Salami, Momoh Jimoh Eyiomika, Shafie, Amir Akramin

“…To detect human skin colour pixels and to decrease the number of false alarms, a prior face or hand detection model has been developed using Haar-like and AdaBoost technique. To decrease the cost of computational time, a fast search algorithm for skin detection is proposed. …”
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Cultural localisation as a strategy to preserve the persuasive function in the translation of tourism websites from French into English by Cowan, Sally Elizabeth

“…Tourist promotional texts function like advertising texts in that they aim to “persuade, lure, woo, and seduce” (Dann 1996). …”

Swelling index, gel fraction, thermal and rheological properties of Centella asiatica hydrogel by Ahmed, Afnan Sh., Bakhtiar, M. Taher, Mandal, Uttam Kumar, Md. Jaffri, Juliana

“…The Hydrogels are three dimensional, water swollen structure composed of mainly hydrophilic homopolymers or copolymers like polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), Poly ethylene glycol (PEG) etc., utilized as a part of various biomedical fields, and are as yet producing for new encouraging applications. …”
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Development of indicators for family well-being in Malaysia by Noor, Noraini M., Doshi-Gandhi, Anjli, Ishak, Ismahalil, Wok, Saodah

“…Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was carried out to determine the fit of the model to data. Five domains of family well-being were identified—family relationships, economic situation, health and safety, community relationship and religion/spirituality. …”
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Dilated Intercellular Spaces of Esophageal Epithelium among Malaysian With Nonerosive Reflux Disease: Transmission Electron Microscopic (Tem) Study by Myint, Yi Yi, Tun, Ye, Muhammad Amjad, Nasser, Mat Hassan, Mohd. Zailaini

“…The diffusion of refluxed gastric acid into the intercellular space activates chemo sensitive nociceptors whose signals are transmitted via the spinal cord to the brain for symptom (heartburn) perception as well as initiated a short reflex arc to esophageal (longitudinal) smooth muscle as means of precipitating a sustained esophageal contraction. …”
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Paediatric cause of back pain in young adult. A case report by Sharifudin, Mohd Ariff, Johari, Joehaimey, Omar, Ahmad Sabri

“…Vertebral involvement has been frequently reported in approximately 10-15% of cases, but involvement of the spinal cord and roots remains a rare occurrence. Patients may present with progressive back pain, with or without neurologic symptoms. …”
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Remediation of contaminated marine sediment using bentonite, kaolin and sand as capping materials by Kabir Aliyu, Mohammed

“…In this technique, sediments are capped by placing a layer of inert materials like sand, clean soil, or gravel or active materials like activated carbon, zeolite, or apatite over sediments in order to reduce the risk to the aquatic environment. …”
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Integration of Artificial Intelligence in sustainable manufacturing: current status and future opportunities by Agrawal, Rohit, Majumdar, Abhijit, Kumar, Anil, Luthra, Sunil

“…Potential future research directions like amalgamation of AI with Industry 4.0, use of hybrid AI systems, focus on social sustainability and use of emerging AI techniques (Deep learning, CNN etc.) have also been proposed. …”
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Microbial bioconversion of palm oil mill effluent to citric acid with optimum process conditions by Jamal, Parveen, Alam, Md. Zahangir, Mohamad, Aisha

“…More than 400,000 tonnes of citric acid is produced annually by fermentation of expensive raw materials like glucose and sucrose. Efficient and effective methods of producing citric acid from different cheaper raw materials have been of great interest to many researchers, due to its extensive use. …”
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Kinematics model of snake robot considering snake scale by Khan, Md. Raisuddin, Watanabe, M., Shafie, Amir Akramin

“…However, higher numbers of actuators help distributed the driving load and provided a redundant structure for managing accidental failure of any link. Lateral displacement of the links was found to be less than the width of its body. …”
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Two-stage surgery for a large cervical dumbbell tumour in neurofibromatosis 1: a case report by Sharifudin, Mohd Ariff, Johari, Joehaimey, Omar, Ahmad Sabri, Yusof, Abdul Halim

“…Spinal neurofibromas occur sporadically and typically occur in association with neurofibromatosis 1. …”
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Achirality of Knots via Graphs by Azram, Mohammad

“…It has been shown that the universes, LR-graphs and regions of reduced alternating knots (links) are path connected. Connected universe corresponding to reduced alternating knot (link) is unique. …”
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The assessment of serum lipid level among a sample of Kuantan patients with periodontal diseases by Kamil, Wisam Alaa, Al-Bayati, Lina, Mohamed Ali, Suhaila

“…This study was to explore the relationship between periodontal diseases and serum lipid level, investigating its link to various systemic diseases related to hyperlipidemia. …”
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Wireshark window authentication based packet captureing scheme to pervent DDoS related security issues in cloud network nodes by Waqar, Ali, Sang, Jun, Naeem, Hamad, Naeem, Rashid, Soomro, Ali Raza

“…As a result, the cloud node response is slow as usual and resource on cloud network becomes unavailable. Some Dos attacks are Ping of Death, Teardrop, Snork, Locking authentication, SYN flooding, Operating System Attacks etc. …”
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Rain attenuation prediction of optical wireless system in tropical region by Ahmad Zabidi, Suriza, Islam, Md. Rafiqul, Wajdi, Al Khateeb

“…The effect of rain on optical wireless link is expressed in term of specific rain attenuation. …”
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Knots Verses Graphs by Azram, Mohammad

“…It has been shown that the universes, LR-graphs and regions of reduced alternating knots (links) are path connected. Connected universe corresponding to reduced alternating knot (link) is unique. …”
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Mitigation technique for rain fade using frequency diversity method by Kesavan, Ulaganathen, Abdul Rahman, Tharek, Islam, Md. Rafiqul, Abdul Malek, Norun

“…The main outcome of the research shows that there is negligible effect of rain for 5.8 GHz link whereas it very strong on the 26 GHz link. …”
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Knots and colorability by Azram, Mohammad

“…We have extended the notion of tricolorability to colorability of knot(link) and have shown that colorability of knot (link) is also an ambient isotopy invariant. …”
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