Palm leaves were one of the earliest forms of writing media and their use as writing material in South and Southeast Asia has been recorded from as early as the fifth century B.C. until as recently as the late 19th century. Palm leaf manuscripts relating to art and architecture, mathematics, astronomy, astrology, and medicine dating back several hundreds of years are still available for referen...

Date palm thorn injuries are common in Middle Eastern countries, where there are many date palm plantations. If detected, these injuries can be treated without subsequent complications. In children, however, the diagnosis can very easily be missed. An untreated embedded thorn may cause late complications, including periostitis or osteomyelitis. In this article, the author presents a case of dat...

The anatomical variations in the arterial supply of the palm are frequently reported. One such variation reported during routine dissection for undergraduate medical students in our college is the absence of superficial palmar arch and presence of persistent median artery. The arterial supply to the palm is in the form of superficial and deep palmar arches. In the present case the median artery...

Palm vein authentication has high level of accuracy because it is located inside the body and does not change over the life and cannot be stolen. This paper presents an analysis of palm vein pattern recognition algorithms, techniques, methodologies and systems. It discusses the technical aspects of recent approaches for the following processes; detection of region of interest (ROI), segment of ...

BACKGROUND Phenylhydrazine, a hemolytic agent, is widely used as a model of experimental hyperbilirubinemia. Palm tocotrienol-rich fraction (TRF) was shown to exert beneficial effects in hyperbilirubinemic rat neonates. AIM To investigate the effects of palm TRF supplementation on hepatic bilirubin-metabolizing enzymes and oxidative stress status in rats administered phenylhydrazine. METHOD...

Origin and Geographic Distribution Oil palm is native to Africa and it is assumed that speciation took place in that continent. However since all related species classifi ed in the subfamily Cocoideae have a South American origin (except perhaps the coconut, Cocos nucifera), the archetypal ancestor may have been indigenous to the Americas. Oil palm occurs in palm groves throughout the tropical ...

One key ingredient used in the formulation of aquafeed is fish oil, which is produced from small marine pelagic fish and represents a finite fishery resource. At the present time, global fish oil production has reached a plateau and is not expected to increase beyond current levels. Recent estimates suggest that fish oils may be unable to meet demands from the rapidly growing aquaculture indust...

Conventional grading of oil palm Fresh Fruit Bunches (FFB) is still currently manually carried out in palm oil producing industries. The most critical part of the grading process is the categorization of the oil palm fruit bunches according to their ripeness. This paper presents a computer assisted photogrammetric methodology which correlates the color of the palm oil fruits to their ripeness a...

Several million tones of palm oil and palm olein are used annually in the world for frying. This paper will discuss their frying performances in three major applications - industrial production of potato chips/crisps, industrial production of pre-fried frozen French fries and in fast food outlets. In the first study, about four tones of potato chips were continuously fried 8 hours a day and fiv...

Live-cell imaging of focal adhesions requires a sufficiently high temporal resolution, which remains a challenge for super-resolution microscopy. Here we address this important issue by combining photoactivated localization microscopy (PALM) with super-resolution optical fluctuation imaging (SOFI). Using simulations and fixed-cell focal adhesion images, we investigate the complementarity betwee...