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"Objective: Garcinia xanthochymus extract has been reported to have several pharmacological properties. This study was conducted to evaluate cytotoxic and anti-inflammatory activities of G. xanthochymus extracts on cell lines. Methods: The roots and stem barks of plant were extracted using maceration method with n-hexane, dichloromethane and methanol, successively. Cytotoxic activity of the extracts was tested against MCF-7 breast adenocarcinoma using MTT assay. Anti-inflammatory study was evaluated using RAW 264.7 mouse macrophage cells. The nitric oxide production in LPS-stimulated cells was measured using Griess reagent. Results: The results of cytotoxic and anti- inflammatory study showed that dichloromethane and n-hexane extracts of root and stem bark exhibited cytotoxic activity in dose-dependent manner. Meanwhile, for anti-inflammatory study, all root extracts together with stem bark dichloromethane and n-hexane extracts reduce NO production in LPS-stimulated cells in dose dependent manner. Conclusions: This finding indicated that G. xanthochymus extracts might become interesting candidate for treatment of cancer and inflammation.;"

"Objective: The aim of this research was to determine the prevalence, distribution and association of developmental alteration in tooth number with gender, location, and presence of delayed eruption of tooth among children who attended to Student?s polyclinic of IIUM Kuantan, Malaysia. Methods: A cross sectional study on total 727 Orthopanthomograms (OPGs) of 3-17 years old children from April 2009 to July 2012. OPGs with presence of alteration number were scrutinized to find out the prevalence, distribution and association. The data was analyzed comparing gender, location and presence of delayed eruption and tested using Chi-square test. Results: Out of 727 OPGs, 71 OPGs showed developmental alteration in tooth number. The prevalence was 98/1000 OPGs within 3 years. Among those 71 OPGs, the gender differences were: males (49.3%) and females (50.7%). Locations were found in maxilla (45.1%), mandible (40.8%) and both (14.0%). The finding of delayed eruption was (7.0%). There were significant differences between alteration in tooth number with location as (p < 0.05) while there were no significant differences with gender and delayed eruption as (p > 0.05). Conclusions: This study showed that hyperdontia was considerably lower than hypodontia. There was association between alteration in tooth number with location, but no association with gender and delayed eruption.;"

"While religiosity as a field of inquiry has been gaining research interest in recent years, a central issue about its conceptualisation, measurement, and relationships with work outcomes remains unresolved. The aims of this paper are: (1) to introduce a new scale designed to measure religiosity among Muslims, based on an Islamic perspective that centres on the bodily action or human activity (islam), the mind or understanding of God (iman), and the spirit or actualisation of virtue and goodness (ihsan); and (2) to demonstrate how religiosity relates to various work outcomes. We followed a rigorous multi-steps scale development procedure using four empirical studies involving 703 participants. The final scale yielded one factor with 10 underlying items. Our results showed that religiosity was positively correlated with job satisfaction, positive work behaviour, workplace integrity, and organisational commitment, but negatively correlated with antagonistic work behaviour. This new scale also showed incremental validity over an existing Muslim attitude scale in predicting organisational commitment and integrity. Overall, this new scale demonstrates good psychometric properties and is a promising tool for the measurement of religiosity among Muslims in organisational settings.Meski belakangan ini relijiusitas telah mendapatkan perhatian riset-riset, masalah fundamental tentang konseptualisasi, pengukuran, dan hubungan dengan kinerja individu dalam organisasi masih belum terpecahkan. Tujuan dari artikel ini adalah: (1) memperkenalkan skala baru yang disusun untuk mengukur relijiusitas pada Muslim dimana ini didasari oleh perspektif Islam yang berpusat pada perilaku atau aktivitas manusia (Islam), benak atau pemahaman akan Tuhan (Iman), dan semangat aktualisasi nilai-nilai dan kebaikan (Ihsan); dan (2) menunjukkan bagaimana relijiusitas bisa berhubungan dengan berbagai kinerja kerja individu. Kami melakukan pengembangan skala lewat beberapa tahapan ketat menggunakan empat studi empiris dengan 703 partisipan. Skala akhir terdiri atas satu factor dengan 10 aitem. Hasil juga menunjukkan bahwa relijiusitas berkorelasi positif dengan kepuasan kerja, perilaku kerja positif, integritas kerja, dan komitmen organisasi, serta berkorelasi negatif dengan perilaku kerja antagonistik. Secara umum, skala baru ini menunjukkan properti psikometrik yang baik dan bisa menjadi instrumen menjanjikan untuk mengukur relijiusitas Muslim di lingkungan organisasi."

"Stuttered speech is a dysfluency rich speech, more prevalent in males than females. It has been associated with insufficient air pressure or poor articulation, even though the root causes are more complex. The primary features include prolonged speech and repetitive speech, while some of its secondary features include, anxiety, fear, and shame. This study used LPC analysis and synthesis algorithms to reconstruct the stuttered speech. The results were evaluated using cepstral distance, Itakura-Saito distance, mean square error, and likelihood ratio. These measures implied perfect speech reconstruction quality. ASR was used for further testing, and the results showed that all the reconstru-cted speech samples were perfectly recognized while only three samples of the original speech were perfectly recognized.Shuttered speech adalah speech yang kaya dysfluency, lebih banyak terjadi pada laki-laki daripada perempuan. Ini terkait dengan tekanan udara yang tidak cukup atau artikulasi yang buruk, meskipun akar penyebabnya lebih kompleks. Fitur utama termasuk speech yang berkepanjangan dan berulang-ulang, sementara beberapa fitur sekunder meliputi, kecemasan, ketakutan, dan rasa malu. Penelitian ini menggunakan LPC analysis dan synthesis algoritma untuk merekonstruksi stuttered speech. Hasil dievaluasi menggunakan jarak cepstral, jarak Itakura-Saito, mean square error, dan rasio likelihood. Langkah-langkah ini terkandung kualitas speech reconstruction yang sempurna. ASR digunakan untuk pengujian lebih lanjut, dan hasilnya menunjukkan bahwa semua sampel speech yang terekonstruksi dikenali dengan sempurna sementara hanya tiga sampel dari speech asli dikenali dengan sempurna."

"Objective: Garcinia xanthochymus extract has been reported to have several pharmacological properties. This studywas conducted to evaluate cytotoxic and anti-inflammatory activities of G. xanthochymus extracts on cell lines.Methods: The roots and stem barks of plant were extracted using maceration method with n-hexane, dichloromethaneand methanol, successively. Cytotoxic activity of the extracts was tested against MCF-7 breast adenocarcinoma usingMTT assay. Anti-inflammatory study was evaluated using RAW 264.7 mouse macrophage cells. The nitric oxideproduction in LPS-stimulated cells was measured using Griess reagent. Results: The results of cytotoxic and antiinflammatorystudy showed that dichloromethane and n-hexane extracts of root and stem bark exhibited cytotoxicactivity in dose-dependent manner. Meanwhile, for anti-inflammatory study, all root extracts together with stem barkdichloromethane and n-hexane extracts reduce NO production in LPS-stimulated cells in dose dependent manner.Conclusions: This finding indicated that G. xanthochymus extracts might become interesting candidate for treatment ofcancer and inflammation."

"The objective of the study is threefold. Firstly, the study explores the learningapproaches adopted by students in completing their Business Finance. Secondly,it examines the impact that learning approaches has on the students academicpeiformance. Finally, the study considers gender differences in the learningapproaches adopted by students and in the relationship between learningapproaches and academic peiformance. The Approaches and Study Skills Inventoryfor Students (ASSIST) was used to assess the approaches to learning adopted bystudents whilst the students final examination result was considered in examiningthe peiformance of the students. The results indicate that majority of the accountingstudents, both male and female groups prefer to use the deep approach in studyingBusiness Finance. The findings also reveal that there were significant relationshipsbetween learning approaches and academic peiformance with positive directioilappears for deep and strategic approaches whilst negative relationship reveals forsuiface approach."

"Objective: The aim of this research was to determine the prevalence, distribution and association of developmentalalteration in tooth number with gender, location, and presence of delayed eruption of tooth among children whoattended to Student’s polyclinic of IIUM Kuantan, Malaysia. Methods: A cross sectional study on total 727Orthopanthomograms (OPGs) of 3-17 years old children from April 2009 to July 2012. OPGs with presence ofalteration number were scrutinized to find out the prevalence, distribution and association. The data was analyzedcomparing gender, location and presence of delayed eruption and tested using Chi-square test. Results: Out of 727OPGs, 71 OPGs showed developmental alteration in tooth number. The prevalence was 98/1000 OPGs within 3 years.Among those 71 OPGs, the gender differences were: males (49.3%) and females (50.7%). Locations were found inmaxilla (45.1%), mandible (40.8%) and both (14.0%). The finding of delayed eruption was (7.0%). There weresignificant differences between alteration in tooth number with location as (p < 0.05) while there were no significantdifferences with gender and delayed eruption as (p > 0.05). Conclusions: This study showed that hyperdontia wasconsiderably lower than hypodontia. There was association between alteration in tooth number with location, but noassociation with gender and delayed eruption."

"This study was conducted primarily to measure the relationship between career program, career development andpersonal outcomes using self-administered questionnaires gathered from employees who have worked at a Sabah localgovernment in Borneo. The outcomes of testing research hypothesis using a stepwise regression analysis showed twoimportant findings: firstly, relationship between career program (i.e., planning and management) and careerdevelopment positively and significantly correlated with job satisfaction. Secondly, relationship between careerprogram (i.e., planning and management) and career development positively and significantly correlated with careercommitment. Statistically, the result demonstrates that career development does act as an important mediating variablein the relationship between career program and personal outcomes in the career program model of the studiedorganization. The paper provides discussion, implications and conclusion.Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk mengukur hubungan antara program karir, pengembangan karir dan pribadi denganmenggunakan survei yang dikumpulkan dari karyawan yang telah bekerja pada pemerintah daerah Sabah diKalimantan. Pengujian hipotesis penelitian yang menggunakan analisis regresi bertahap menunjukkan dua penemuanpenting: Pertama, hubungan antara program karir (yaitu, perencanaan dan manajemen) dan pengembangan karirmemiliki hubungan positif dan signifikan dengan kepuasan kerja. Kedua, hubungan antara program karir (yaitu,perencanaan dan manajemen) dan pengembangan karir menunjukkan hubungan positif dan signifikan dengan komitmenkarir. Secara statistik, penemuan ini menunjukkan bahwa pengembangan karir tidak bertindak sebagai variabel mediasipenting dalam hubungan antara program karir dan pengembangan pribadi di dalam model program karir dari organisasiyang dipelajari di dalam penelitian ini. Makalah ini memberikan diskusi, implikasi dan kesimpulan."

"Background: The purpose of this study was to provide a reference of chronic diabetes complications by investigatingthe prolonged hyperglycemia effects on hematological, biochemical and histopathological changes (liver, kidney,spleen, cardiac muscle, adrenal gland, and endocrine pancreas) in diabetic rats induced by streptozotocin. Methods:Ten adult female Sprague-Dawley of uniform age were divided into two Groups. Group 1 was made diabetic by singleintraperitoneal injection of streptozotocin (60 mg/kg/bw) whereas Group 2 served as control. After six months, the ratswere anesthetized using pentobarbital. Cardiac puncture was performed to get 3 ml of the blood sample; following 12hours of an overnight fast. Serum chemistry test and complete blood analysis for lipid profile and blood glucose test;liver and renal functions were performed. Tissue specimens of liver, kidney, spleen, cardiac muscle, adrenal gland, andendocrine pancreas were fixed in 10% formal saline and processed for histological study. Results: There were severehistopathological changes in the affected organs; and the presence of a significant abnormality of lipid profile, liver, andrenal functions. Conclusions: The presence of histopathological changes with abnormal biochemical changes is relatedto the chronic absence of insulin production in the destroyed β –cells which reflect the diabetic complications in ahuman being."