A food poisoning outbreak affected 114 female Malay students staying in a religious secondary school hostel in Klang. The students developed an illness mainly characterized by abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and giddiness. The median incubation period in this outbreak was 2.5 hours. Laboratory examination of suspected food revealed 2.3 X106 Bacillus cereus organisms per gram of fried noodles. ...

This study aims to identify cellular phone users’ shopping motivating factors towards online shopping. 100 university students located in Klang Valley, Malaysia were involved as the respondents. They were required to complete a set of questionnaire and had to own a cellular phone in order to be selected as sample in this study. Three from five proposed hypotheses were supported: purchasing info...

1 Department of Chemical Science, Faculty of Science, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Jln Universiti, Bandar Barat, 31900 Kampar, Perak, Malaysia. 2 Faculty of Engineering and Science, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Jln Genting Klang, Setapak, 53300 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 3 Liquid Crystal Research Laboratory, School of Chemical Science, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Minden, Penang, Malaysia....

Kernelement der audiovisuellen Installation ist ein runder Tisch, auf dem kleine Scheiben abgelegt werden können. Jede Scheibe repräsentiert einen individuellen Klang. Auf den Tisch wird ein Zeiger projiziert, der sich, angelehnt an alte Radargeräte, kontinuierlich um die Achse des Tischmittelpunktes dreht und die Tischoberfläche auf abgelegte Scheiben hin abtastet. Durch die kontinuierliche Be...

Malaysia experienced its first outbreak of chikungunya virus (CHIKV) infection in late 1998 in Klang District in Selangor; six years later the virus re-emerged in the state of Perak. All the CHIKV isolates in 1988 and 2006 shared high sequence similarities and belonged to the Asian genotype. In 2007 and 2008 CHIKV infection again reemerged but the genotype was the Central/East African genotype....

Emosi adalah sesuatu yang dirasai individu secara dalaman. Pelbagai bentuk emosi akan ditunjukkan seseorang dalam organisasi. Konsep mempunyai pelbagai dimensi dan penaksirannya dapat dikelaskan mengikut perspektif organisasi bahasa. Penulisan ini cuba menerokai terperinci belia tempat kerja. Kajian menjawab tiga persoalan berikut: (1) Apakah di kerja? (2) faktor mempengaruhi belia? Dan (3) kes...

BACKGROUND Phytochemicals and antioxidants from plant sources are of increasing interest to consumers because of their roles in the maintenance of human health. Most of the secondary metabolites of herbs are used in a number of pharmaceutical products. METHODS Secondary metabolites composition and content of five flavonoids and three phenolic acids were evaluated and determined in Pandanus am...

Without any doubt, Knowledge Management (KM) does offer the way on how to exploit intellectual capitals in business organizations. However, the KM principles can also be implemented in other types of organization such as the Higher Learning Institutions (HLI). One way to exploit KM is by implementing the KM System (KMS). As we all concern, knowledge is everywhere and how far it has been capture...

This study was conducted to investigate the low prevalence of Dirofilaria immitis in dogs in Johor Bahru as reported by veterinary practitioners, using wet blood mount, Knott’s Concentration Test and two heartworm antigen test kits (IDEXX Canine SNAP® 4Dx and RapiGEN®). This study also compared the two test kits used and determined the microfilaria species. Blood were collected from 100 owned d...