Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Digital Commons Network™

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Discipline
Institution
Keyword
Publication Year
Publication
Publication Type
File Type

Articles 362791 - 362820 of 1195955

Full-Text Articles in Entire DC Network

Metaheuristic Algorithms For Solving Lot-Sizing And Scheduling Problems In Single And Multi-Plant Environments / Maryam Mohammadi, Maryam Mohammadi Jan 2015

Metaheuristic Algorithms For Solving Lot-Sizing And Scheduling Problems In Single And Multi-Plant Environments / Maryam Mohammadi, Maryam Mohammadi

Student Works (2010-2019)

Economic lot scheduling problem (ELSP) is related to lot-sizing and scheduling several items in a single production facility. This project addresses the ELSP where multiple items have shelf life restrictions and planned backorders. For some products, shelf life might be less than the production cycle time, which leads to product spoilage before the end of the cycle. In order to achieve a feasible schedule, the production cycle time needs to be reduced to less than or equal to the shelf life duration. While the cost-minimization cycle time causes the spoilage of products, due to shelf life restrictions, appropriate decisions can …

Go to article

Principal Leadership Practices And Teacher Collegiality In Malaysian High Performing Schools / Corinne Jacqueline Perera, Corinne Jacqueline Perera Jan 2015

Principal Leadership Practices And Teacher Collegiality In Malaysian High Performing Schools / Corinne Jacqueline Perera, Corinne Jacqueline Perera

Student Works (2010-2019)

The Malaysian Education Blueprint 2013 – 2025 stipulates that high performing school leaders are now more accountable for increasing or maintaining their school achievement outcomes. The intention of this study is to examine the leadership practices of principals’ in Malaysian high performing daily secondary schools in particular, the relationship between principal leadership practices and teacher collegiality. A mixed-methods research design was chosen for this study. Empirical data was gathered via a survey encompassing a sample of 290 school teachers followed by intensive data collection in 6 Malaysian high performing daily secondary schools. The data collection methods included semi-structured interviews, focus …

Go to article

Mechanical And Biological Evaluations Of Hydroxyapatite Composite For Orthopedic Applications / Saeid Baradaran, Saeid Baradaran Jan 2015

Mechanical And Biological Evaluations Of Hydroxyapatite Composite For Orthopedic Applications / Saeid Baradaran, Saeid Baradaran

Student Works (2010-2019)

Hydroxyapatite (HA) has received wide attention in orthopedics, due to its biocompatibility and osseointegration ability. Despite these advantages, the poor mechanical properties of HA often results in rapid wear and premature fracture of implant. Hence, there is a need to improve the mechanical properties of HA without compromising its biocompatibility. The aim of the current research is to explore the potential of metal ion doping and graphene nanosheets (GNS) as reinforcement to HA for orthopedic implants. HA/reduce graphene oxide (rGO) and Ni doped HA/Graphene nano platelet (GNP) are synthesized by hydrothermal and chemical precipitation and characterized by XRD, FT-IR, EDAX, …

Go to article

Perception And Production Of English Fricatives By Hausa Speakers / Alhaji Maiunguwa, Alhaji Maiunguwa Jan 2015

Perception And Production Of English Fricatives By Hausa Speakers / Alhaji Maiunguwa, Alhaji Maiunguwa

Student Works (2010-2019)

The present study investigates the production and perception of the English fricatives /v/, /θ/ and /ð/ in initial and final positions at the words level by the Hausa ESL learners. Five masters’ students from the University of Malaya participated in the study. The objectives of the research were to investigate and identify the difficulties faced by Nigerian Hausa speakers of English in the production and perception of fricative sounds of English, and to study the relationship between the perception and production of second language sounds. The data were collected through two types of tests consisting of perception and production tests. …

Go to article

Impoliteness Strategies Used In A Politician’S Facebook / Shamilah Abdul Halim, Shamilah Abdul Halim Jan 2015

Impoliteness Strategies Used In A Politician’S Facebook / Shamilah Abdul Halim, Shamilah Abdul Halim

Student Works (2010-2019)

The use of computer-mediated communication particularly Facebook has become immense in our community these days. The increased online communication has also contributed to the growth of impolite language used by the participants. Thus, this study intends to firstly, investigate the types of impoliteness strategies used by facebookers in a politician’s Facebook, and secondly, to determine the factors that may contribute to impoliteness among the facebookers in computer-mediated communication (CMC), namely Facebook. 151 comments in a politician’s Facebook were analysed using Culpeper’s Impoliteness Strategies (2011) in order to identify the different strategies used by the participants. Consequently, findings showed that the …

Go to article

Metacognitive Reading Strategies Of Esl Learners With Different Field Independent/Field Dependent Cognitive Styles / Wang Lu, Lu Wang Jan 2015

Metacognitive Reading Strategies Of Esl Learners With Different Field Independent/Field Dependent Cognitive Styles / Wang Lu, Lu Wang

Student Works (2010-2019)

Reading is an essential skill for ESL learners and many researchers in this area believe that it involves activities such as understanding ideas, identifying information, monitoring comprehension and evaluating the reading text. Metacognitive reading strategies which refers to thinking about the reading process, planning for reading, monitoring the reading task and evaluating how one has learned has been proven by researchers to be significant to ESL/EFL reading. This study aimed to identify the metacognitive reading strategies employed by a group of ESL undergraduate students when reading English texts. Apart from that, this study also examined the relationship between students‟ metacognitive …

Go to article

The Metaphorical Meanings Of Hóng ‘Red’ And Bái ‘White’ In Chinese / Zheng Jie, Jie Zheng Jan 2015

The Metaphorical Meanings Of Hóng ‘Red’ And Bái ‘White’ In Chinese / Zheng Jie, Jie Zheng

Student Works (2010-2019)

Color is inhered in every aspect of human life and the perception of color is regarded as one of our most fundamental cognitive abilities. A color term may be used actively for conceptualizing subjective experiences and denoting abstract concepts. In this regard, a color metaphor comes into being. In recent years, research on color metaphors has gradually been enhanced in China. There have been studies on basic color terms metaphors, non-basic color terms metaphors, specific one color metaphors from various perspectives. This dissertation seeks to analyze and specify the metaphorical meanings of two frequently used color terms hóng ‘red’ and …

Go to article

A Study Of Metaphoric And Metonymic Expressions Of Body Part Terms Hand And Head In Hausa / Yusuf Ahmed Gwarzo, Yusuf Ahmed Gwarzo Jan 2015

A Study Of Metaphoric And Metonymic Expressions Of Body Part Terms Hand And Head In Hausa / Yusuf Ahmed Gwarzo, Yusuf Ahmed Gwarzo

Student Works (2010-2019)

Numerous studies have been conducted on metaphor and metonymy on body part terms across the languages. Within the conceptual metaphor and metonymy theory of Lakoff and Johnson (1980), Lakoff (1987), Radden and Kövecses (1999) and Radeen and Dirven (2007), the present research investigates the conceptualizations of body part terms in Hausa language. The research only investigates the conceptualizations of hannu ‘hand’ and kai ‘head’ in the Hausa language. The study is aimed at identifying the metaphorical and metonymical expressions of both hannu ‘hand’ and kai ‘head’ in the Hausa language. The study also examines how the idealized cognitive models (ICMs) …

Go to article

The English Language Needs Of Nurses In Medical Tourism In Malaysia / Aditya Karuthan, Aditya Karuthan Jan 2015

The English Language Needs Of Nurses In Medical Tourism In Malaysia / Aditya Karuthan, Aditya Karuthan

Student Works (2010-2019)

Good English Language communication skills are very important for nurses as they are service providers to patients and deal with doctors, medical support staff and relatives of patients. This study looks at the English language communicative challenges and needs faced by nurses engaged in Medical Tourism in Malaysia. The objectives of this study are to identify: 1) the English Language communicative challenges of these nurses, 2) the English Language communicative needs of these nurses and 3) the language skills required in a proposed English Language curriculum for the nurses. This study uses the concurrent triangulation strategy using quantitative and qualitative …

Go to article

Rhythm In Malaysian English / Anussyia A/P Muthiah, Anussyia Muthiah Jan 2015

Rhythm In Malaysian English / Anussyia A/P Muthiah, Anussyia Muthiah

Student Works (2010-2019)

This study investigates the properties of rhythm in Malaysian English (MalE), which has been described as a syllable-timed language. However, studies have shown that instead of a binary distinction, languages can be more or less stress or syllable timed depending on factors like speaking context. This study set out to address the following questions: (1) To what extent do different speaking styles (read and informal conversational speech styles) affect the rhythmic properties found in MalE? (2) To what extent are there differences in the rhythmic properties among three ethnic groups (Malay, Chinese and Indian) in Malaysia? (3) To what extent …

Go to article

Perhubungan Intersemiotik Dari Segi Makna Interpersonal Dalam Buku Bergambar Bahasa Cina / Lee Kim Toh, Kim Toh Lee Jan 2015

Perhubungan Intersemiotik Dari Segi Makna Interpersonal Dalam Buku Bergambar Bahasa Cina / Lee Kim Toh, Kim Toh Lee

Student Works (2010-2019)

Kajian ini merupakan satu analisis multimodal ke atas satu siri buku bergambar (Picturebook) bahasa Cina bertajuk 可爱的鼠小弟(Saudara Tikus yang Comel). Tujuan kajian ini adalah untuk menjalankan analisis intersemiotik makna interpersonal elemen tekstual dan visual yang terdapat dalam buku bergambar dengan mengenal pasti interaksi yang wujud antara ilustrator/pengarang, penonton/pembaca, dan partisipan (represented participants) yang terdapat dalam buku bergambar. Selain itu, jenis perhubungan intersemiotik yang terjalin antara elemen tekstual dan elemen visual juga dikaji untuk mengenal pasti elemen yang memainkan peranan penting dalam buku bergambar untuk menyampaikan cerita. Makna interpersonal elemen tekstual dan elemen visual dikaji berdasarkan kerangka teori Linguistik Sistemik Fungsian …

Go to article

The Relationship Between Principal Leadership Skills, Organizational Citizenship Behaviour And Intellectual Capital In Secondary Schools In Pakistan / Muhammad Niqab, Niqab Muhammad Jan 2015

The Relationship Between Principal Leadership Skills, Organizational Citizenship Behaviour And Intellectual Capital In Secondary Schools In Pakistan / Muhammad Niqab, Niqab Muhammad

Student Works (2010-2019)

The purpose of this study is to identify and analyse whether principal leadership skills (PLS) affect intellectual capital (IC) of secondary school directly or through the mediation of organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB) of teachers. This is basically a co-relational study, with the main focus revolving around the relationships among the PLS, IC, and OCB in secondary schools in Pakistan. This quantitative study was conducted using a survey instrument comprising 61 items representing PLS, OCB, and IC. Questionnaires were distributed to 465 teachers of secondary schools situated in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province and affiliated with Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education …

Go to article

Ready-To-Assemble (Rta) Housing System As Self Build Housing In Malaysia / Wan Srihani Wan Mohamed, Wan Mohamed Wan Srihani Jan 2015

Ready-To-Assemble (Rta) Housing System As Self Build Housing In Malaysia / Wan Srihani Wan Mohamed, Wan Mohamed Wan Srihani

Student Works (2010-2019)

The issue of inadequate housing for the poor has been a pressing issue confronting most developing countries. The problem of land acquisition, access to housing finance, high building standards and the limited government action to alleviate the housing shortages, has resulted in many policy changes and implementation from time to time depending on situations. In an attempt to address such housing problems in rural area, a study was conducted on an alternative approach. The primary aim of the research is to examine pragmatic solutions to the problems through self build housing. The research program is divided into two parts, in …

Go to article

Development Of An Integrated Train Driver Performance Model / Mohd Azlis Sani Md Jalil, Md Jalil Mohd Azlis Sani Jan 2015

Development Of An Integrated Train Driver Performance Model / Mohd Azlis Sani Md Jalil, Md Jalil Mohd Azlis Sani

Student Works (2010-2019)

The purpose of this study was to develop an integrated performance model of train drivers. A human performance measure was developed, integrating several significant factors of the train driver, and a theoretical framework specified for train driver was established from an extensive review of the literatures. This framework formed the foundation of the study in order to understand the significant factors influencing the performance of a train driver. Three main domains of human, activity and context were proposed to represent the key indicators of the train driver's performance. The evaluation was conducted on train drivers of a major train operating …

Go to article

Study Of Charge Transport Behavior In Organic Solar Cells / Shahino Mah Abdullah, Abdullah Shahino Mah Jan 2015

Study Of Charge Transport Behavior In Organic Solar Cells / Shahino Mah Abdullah, Abdullah Shahino Mah

Student Works (2010-2019)

The energy harnessing devices like solar cells based on organic materials known as organic solar cells (OSCs) have attracted much interest in research and industrial field as they are believed to achieve promising performance for consumers needs and become very competitive in the near future. However, as compared to commercially available inorganic solar cells, the performance of OSCs, in their existing form, is relatively low and does not suit for practical use in electronic application due to poor nature of organic material. In order to face this challenge, the study of OSCs charge transport behavior by means of electrical characterization …

Go to article

Development Of Neural Network Based Models To Control Temperature And Estimate Composition Of A Debutaniser Column / Nasser Mohamed Ramli, Mohamed Ramli Nasser Jan 2015

Development Of Neural Network Based Models To Control Temperature And Estimate Composition Of A Debutaniser Column / Nasser Mohamed Ramli, Mohamed Ramli Nasser

Student Works (2010-2019)

The current method for composition measurement of an industrial distillation column specifically offline method, is slow, tedious and could lead to inaccurate results. Among the advantages of using online composition designed are to overcome the long time delay introduced by laboratory sampling and provide better estimation, which is suitable for online monitoring purposes. Principal component and partial least square analysis are used to determine the important variables surrounding the column prior to implementing the neural network. It is due to the different types of data available for the plant, which requires proper screening in determining the right input variables to …

Go to article

Exploring The Strengths Of Long Term Marriages Among Malaysian Chinese Couples / Teoh Gaik Kin, Gaik Kin Teoh Jan 2015

Exploring The Strengths Of Long Term Marriages Among Malaysian Chinese Couples / Teoh Gaik Kin, Gaik Kin Teoh

Student Works (2010-2019)

With the emerging themes of Asian epistemologies and Asian forms of Psychology, the cultural discrepancy between the Western worlds and the Asians is marked. Western hegemony in the knowledge base of marriage has much to contribute, and yet Eastern perspectives are needed to bridge the gaps of human diversity. Thus, this study intended to understand the marital strengths of long term married couples among the Malaysian Chinese from an emic perspective. The research methodology utilized in this research was the qualitative approach. Five couples, with years of marriage ranging from 40 to 60 years, participated in this research through purposive …

Go to article

Understanding Adolescents’ Experience With An Unwanted Pregnancy / Azmawaty Mohamad Nor, Mohamad Nor Azmawaty Jan 2015

Understanding Adolescents’ Experience With An Unwanted Pregnancy / Azmawaty Mohamad Nor, Mohamad Nor Azmawaty

Student Works (2010-2019)

Adolescence pregnancy is a global dilemma. It is by no means a new occurrence but a continuing issue that needs to be attended to, in the context of the Malaysian society. Aiming to contribute to the body of knowledge in addressing ways to curb the issue, the study focused in gaining an in-depth understanding of the adolescents’ experience with an unwanted pregnancy. It is important to note that the purpose of study has only been to find out how the adolescents in this study made sense of their experience without any external interference of counseling elements. The Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis …

Go to article

Antecedents Of Entrepreneurial Intentions And Behaviour: The Role Of Entrepreneurial Education And Contextual Factors / Tariq Ahmed, Ahmed Tariq Jan 2015

Antecedents Of Entrepreneurial Intentions And Behaviour: The Role Of Entrepreneurial Education And Contextual Factors / Tariq Ahmed, Ahmed Tariq

Student Works (2010-2019)

Given the important role of entrepreneurship, understanding and predicting the emergence of venture initiation entails a research to explore the antecedents of entrepreneurial intention and behaviour. Review of past literatures has revealed that a research gap exists mainly in the conceptualization of the framework, particularly in examining the role of exogenous factors (entrepreneurship education), contextual and environmental factors (perceived entrepreneurial motivators and barriers) in developing entrepreneurial intentions and behaviour among the university graduates. Indeed, none of the past studies accounts for the moderating role of contextual and environmental factors in the development process of entrepreneurial intention and behaviour. This research …

Go to article

A Keypoint Based Copy-Move Forgery Detection And Localization In Digital Images / Somayeh Sadeghi, Sadeghi Somayeh Jan 2015

A Keypoint Based Copy-Move Forgery Detection And Localization In Digital Images / Somayeh Sadeghi, Sadeghi Somayeh

Student Works (2010-2019)

Due to the fast development of powerful image processing tools and the importance of image integrity, digital image forgery has become a very important topic for certain organizations. Copy-move forgery is one of the most commonly used types of digital image forgery, where one part of the image is copied and placed elsewhere in the same image. Because of the existence of various digital environments, a copy-move forgery detector should be robust against pre- and post-processing operations, such as scaling, rotation, JPEG compression and noise. A copy-move forgery detector should be able to detect forgery in a reasonable amount of …

Go to article

Accountability, Vedic & Schumacher’S Philosophy And Autoethnography: An Advocation For Tax Relief For Sibling Caregivers In Malaysia / Siva Subramanian A.R. Nair, A.R. Nair Siva Subramanian Jan 2015

Accountability, Vedic & Schumacher’S Philosophy And Autoethnography: An Advocation For Tax Relief For Sibling Caregivers In Malaysia / Siva Subramanian A.R. Nair, A.R. Nair Siva Subramanian

Student Works (2010-2019)

In line with its objective of being accountable to Malaysian society, the Government of Malaysia has shown full support for all efforts to enhance facilities for persons with disabilities and ensuring that these individuals are always well taken care of. This is evident from the enactment of the Persons with Disabilities Act 2008, and the signing of the instrument to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The government has recognised that caring for persons with disabilities is its responsibility but, judging from the sheer enormity of the number of such persons, this responsibility has …

Go to article

An Evaluation Of Deep Eutectic Solvents For Charge/Discharge Tests Using All-Vanadium Redox Couples For Flow Batteries / Laleh Bahadori, Bahadori Laleh Jan 2015

An Evaluation Of Deep Eutectic Solvents For Charge/Discharge Tests Using All-Vanadium Redox Couples For Flow Batteries / Laleh Bahadori, Bahadori Laleh

Student Works (2010-2019)

One of the key constraints limiting the widespread commercialization of redox flow batteries (RFBs) appears to be their low energy density. A mean of overcoming this drawback has been the employment of non-aqueous electrolyte solvents that can offer a wide potential window of operation and increase the energy capacity of the system. In the present study, low cost ionic liquids analogues, namely deep eutectic solvents (DESs), have been proposed as non-aqueous electrolytes for potential application in the RFB. The proposal is based upon diffusion coefficient and electrode rate kinetics data. Different DESs, based on ammonium and phosphunium salts with various …

Go to article

Quest For A Sustainable Legal Framework For The Protection Of Women’S Right To Dignity In Nigeria: Lessons From India And South Africa / Aloysius Ndubuisi Ojilere, Ndubuisi Ojilere Aloysius Jan 2015

Quest For A Sustainable Legal Framework For The Protection Of Women’S Right To Dignity In Nigeria: Lessons From India And South Africa / Aloysius Ndubuisi Ojilere, Ndubuisi Ojilere Aloysius

Student Works (2010-2019)

Nigeria and India are former British colonies. Both countries have similar constitutional framework on fundamental rights and directive principles of state policy. South Africa, with Dutch and British colonial legacies, on the other hand, is arguably, the most advanced constitutional democracy in Africa, and perhaps, in the world today. Nigeria, India and South Africa are developing countries in the Global South. They all lean strongly towards patriarchal and socio-religious mythology. These three countries belong to the same common law family of mixed legal systems. Legal transplant is, therefore, possible between them. Strategically speaking, Nigeria and India are the largest democracies …

Go to article

Molecular Modelling Of Flaviviruses Serine Proteases For Future Drug Development / Priyah A/P Narayanasamy, Priyah Narayanasamy Jan 2015

Molecular Modelling Of Flaviviruses Serine Proteases For Future Drug Development / Priyah A/P Narayanasamy, Priyah Narayanasamy

Student Works (2010-2019)

The flaviviruses are emerging arthropod-borne viruses that are important human pathogens and represent an immense global health problem. These enveloped, positive- stranded ribonucleic acid viruses can cause significant human diseases in the form of encephalitis or haemorrhagic fever. Some of the medically important flaviviruses are Dengue Virus (DEV), West Niles Virus (WNV), Japanese Encephalitis Virus (JEV), Yellow Fever Virus(YFV) and Hepatitis C Virus (HCV). There are no effective antiviral therapies are available to date and the main approach to disease control is via vaccination and vector control. Therefore focus on the development of anti viral target for drug development is …

Go to article

The Relationship Between Critical Thinking Ability And Vocabulary Learning Strategy Among Efl Learners / Noushin Boroushaki, Noushin Boroushaki Jan 2015

The Relationship Between Critical Thinking Ability And Vocabulary Learning Strategy Among Efl Learners / Noushin Boroushaki, Noushin Boroushaki

Student Works (2010-2019)

As an approach to learning, critical thinking is considered important in the field of education due to its possible effects on language learning (Villavicencio, 2011). Thus, the reasons behind the success and failure of EFL learners have provoked researchers to examine different aspects of the process. In language classrooms, the highest priority is assigned to developing the four language skills, with little attention to developing learners’ ability to thinking critically. Notwithstanding the fact that improving learners’ critical thinking ability in the course of learning will enable students to rely on their own decisions and thoughts regarding the strategies and techniques …

Go to article

The Impact Of Religiosity, Animosity, And Ethnocentrism On American Product Purchase Intention: Product And Country Image As A Mediator / Mahmoud Odeh Eid Hamad, Eid Hamad Mahmoud Odeh Jan 2015

The Impact Of Religiosity, Animosity, And Ethnocentrism On American Product Purchase Intention: Product And Country Image As A Mediator / Mahmoud Odeh Eid Hamad, Eid Hamad Mahmoud Odeh

Student Works (2010-2019)

This study aims initially to investigate the relationship among animosity, religiosity, and ethnocentrism in Saudi Arabia, as well as their impact on consumer purchases of foreign products. The second aim of this study is to assess both the individual and the collective impacts on the product image and country image of the U.S. on Saudi Arabian consumers' purchase intentions. The study examined the attitudes, perceptions, and belief structures of 530 Saudi Arabian consumers towards the U.S. as a country, along with their propensity to purchase U.S. made products. Data were collected in Saudi Arabia, which involved several steps of statistical …

Go to article

Corpus Analysis Of The Preposition Of In Ice Nigeria / Saleh Bagudu Rimi, Saleh Bagudu Rimi Jan 2015

Corpus Analysis Of The Preposition Of In Ice Nigeria / Saleh Bagudu Rimi, Saleh Bagudu Rimi

Student Works (2010-2019)

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Clipping And Blending In Hausa / Maryam Maimota Shehu, Marya Maimota Shehu Jan 2015

Clipping And Blending In Hausa / Maryam Maimota Shehu, Marya Maimota Shehu

Student Works (2010-2019)

Words are the basic building blocks of a language. In everyday usage of a language, words are used and new words are formed and reformed in order to contain and accommodate all entities, phenomena, qualities and every aspect of the entire life. This research study seeks to examine some of the word formation processes and how they are used in forming new words in the Hausa language. The study focuses its main attention on clipping and blending as word formation processes and how these processes are used in the formation of words in the Hausa language. The research attempts to …

Go to article

Linguistic And Non-Linguistic Features And Functions Of “Bad Language” By Malaysian Netizens / Narsis Tayyebian, Narsis Tayyebian Jan 2015

Linguistic And Non-Linguistic Features And Functions Of “Bad Language” By Malaysian Netizens / Narsis Tayyebian, Narsis Tayyebian

Student Works (2010-2019)

Bad language is one feature of language through which strong emotions such as anger, disgust, frustration and surprise is revealed. People use bad language which includes categories such as cursing, swearing, obscenity, blasphemy, profanity, obscenity, vulgarism, insults and slurs, epithets, slangs and scatology. All these categories vary in their themes in terms of the varying degrees of offensiveness. One of the contexts in which bad language occurs is the social media network sites such as Facebook which has become an important part of one’s daily lives since it is used as a common form of communication and interaction mode. Facebook …

Go to article

Analysis Of Neurite Outgrowth Activity Of Aqueous Extract Of Lignosus Rhinocerotis (Cooke) Ryvarden In Pc-12 Cells / Eik Lee Fang, Lee Fang Eik Jan 2015

Analysis Of Neurite Outgrowth Activity Of Aqueous Extract Of Lignosus Rhinocerotis (Cooke) Ryvarden In Pc-12 Cells / Eik Lee Fang, Lee Fang Eik

Student Works (2010-2019)

Senescence of neuronal cells reduced the elongation and branching of axons. These lead to neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease. Extracts of selected mushrooms used as folk medicines are being studied, Lignosus rhinocerotis (Cooke) Ryvarden, however has been singled out as one of the most potent mushroom with medicinal properties by communities in Malaysia. In this study, aqueous extract was extracted by boiling method mimicking the real cooking method. Activity of L. rhinocerotis aqueous extract in stimulating neurite outgrowth and the possible signalling pathway involved were investigated. Neurite outgrowth activity was assessed by number of neurite-bearing cells and immunoreactivity of …

Go to article

First Prev Next Last