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The Association between Exposure to Media and Body Weight Concern among Female Students at Private University in Selangor, Malaysia.
Full text linkThese days, media has become a huge part of everyday life. Unrealistic thin body weight and body shape portrayed by media has led to body weight concern especially among females. The aim of this study is to investigate the associations between media exposure and body weight concern among female university students in Management and Science University. A cross-sectional study was conducted among 363 female students aged 17 to 26 years from the Management and Science University. A self-administered questionnaire was used to assess on socio-demographic information, media usage, body shape concern, body appreciation scale, and the sociocultural attitudes toward appearance. The highest number of media usage were among students between 17 to 20 years old, 31.7% overweight students had high body shape concern, 40.8% student had high sociocultural attitudes towards appearance and 44.6% normal weight student perceived high body appreciation scale. In the association between media usage and body weight concern, a significant association was found on body shape concern (p=0.01), body appreciation scale (p=0.001) and sociocultural attitudes toward appearance (p=0.001). In socio-demographic and body weight concern, the result also indicated a significant association between BMI (p=0.001), monthly income (p=0.013) and education (p=0.001) with body shape concern, body appreciation scale and sociocultural attitudes towards appearance. As a conclusion, 52% in the present study showed that exposure to media have association with body weight concern among female university students
Correlation between Haemoglobin Concentration and Malondialdehyde Level in Healthy Middle Age Adults
Full text linkBackground and Aims: In every disease, there will be the triggers on the occurrences. One of them is the oxidative stress, an imbalance between free radicals such as reactive oxygen species (ROS) and the antioxidants. The human body manages free radicals through neutralization by the antioxidative defense mechanism, however, when excessive free radicals being produced, it will become less effective. Over 40 years of age, oxidative stress become prominent and may associated with many diseases such as neural disorders and cardiovascular diseases. Oxidative stress can cause damage to lipids, known as lipid peroxidation, producing malondialdehyde (MDA), a marker to detect the degree of oxidative stress. Availability of oxygen (O2) is the main factor of the ROS formation, which could be indicated by haemoglobin (Hb) concentration. Thus, this research is conducted to find out the correlation between Hb concentration and MDA level in healthy middle age adults.Methods: A correlation study was conducted in a private University, Shah Alam from January 2018 until March 2018. Total 16 participants, who are MSU staffs, age between 45 and 65, with no known diseases, are selected after the consents are gained. Pearson correlation was used for statistical analysis of the data.Results: It is found that there is a strong correlation between Hb concentration and MDA level (r: .756, p <0.001). This means that MDA production is significantly increased when the Hb concentration is increased.Conclusion: The MDA level is strongly correlate with the Hb concentration in the middle age apparently healthy adults. It can be postulated that MDA production correlates with oxygen availability at the intracellular respiration in normal middle aged perso
A Conceptual Study on Basic Counting Visual Teaching Aids towards Autistic Young Children in Malaysia
Full text linkIn a recent assessment regarding the concern towards the awareness of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), it was implied that at least 1 in 200 children are diagnosed with autism (Fernell, Eriksson, & Gillberg, 2013). In Malaysia, it could possibly be said that it is a rare sight to find teaching aids or books at the physical bookstores specifically made for young children with autism, in which have their own traits in approaching matters. In this case study, a test was conducted to determine the basic counting skills based on attractive visual teaching aids for autistic children that will probably be assistance to parents. For this, a visual counting book was designed and tested by 15 autistics children at National Autism Society of Malaysia (NASOM). In hindsight, the results obtained shown that the users who participated quite adept when it comes to areas for knowledge responsiveness. However, the review highlights that an improvement is vital in this are
Electrocardiogram of Obese Young Adults in a University, Malaysia
Full text linkBackground and Aim: Obesity exhibits wide variety of electrocardiogram (ECG) abnormalities in adults. Previous researches have found different results since they tested mostly on children, adolescents, and middle aged persons. However, there’s no clear evidence of the association between obesity and ECG variables, especially in young adults. Hence, the aim of this research is to compare ECG parameters (PR interval, QRS interval, corrected QT, axis and height of P and R wave) of obese with normal BMI young adults.Materials and method: A cross-sectional observational study was done on 38 students of a private university in Shah Alam. They were aged between 20 to 30 years, involving normal and obese persons. Anthropometric data, arterial blood pressure and standard 12-lead ECGs were collected for every participant. Independent-sample t-tests and non-parametric Mann-Whitney test were conducted to compare data of normal persons and obese persons. Pearson correlation was done to correlate ECG parameters with BMI, Weight and systolic arterial blood pressure.Results: Heart rate, PR interval, QRS interval and QT interval of obese person were not significantly different from normal. Height of R wave in obese person is more than that of normal person (P<0.05). However, there was no correlation between BMI, Weight, systolic blood pressure and ECG parameters that could be found.Conclusion: Thus, ECG wave and intervals except height of the R wave of obese young adults are not significantly different from those of the normal BMI. Finding of higher R wave in obese groups indicates ventricle wall of obese young adults are thicker than that of the young adults with normal BMI and it is not related to the effect of systolic arterial blood pressure, BMI and even weight of the perso
Creating effective awareness campaign on the importance of martial arts among youth
Full text linkBullying tends to happen most often in and around the school, specifically in the areas where adult supervision is little or none at all. Campaigns on bully awareness is proven unsuccessful considering the situation has been going on and keep happening. This also due to the lack of firm and indecisive action against the bully. This research will focus on encouraging the victims to participate and learn how to defend themselves against bully. By learning martial arts, the victim will be able to defend themselves independently and stop putting hopes for others to do so in their rights. The objective of this marketing campaign is to encourage the bully victims to learn martial arts in order to defend themselves. The promotional marketing items that will be distributed along with the campaign shall explain the benefits of learning martial arts and where they can sign up for the courses. The concept and design theme for the promotional items will be made suitable and appealing for the target audiences. An attractive publishing is proved effective as a promotional items since it has the ability to persuade and pique the interest of the victims in learning how to defend themselves against bully. This, in hope will slowly but surely reduce the frequency of bully
Identification of Bloodstains on Different Fabrics after Washing with Commonly Used Detergent in Malaysia
Full text linkBloodstains as physical and biological evidence encountered in number of crimes will provide vital information to define a type of crime and link a suspect to the scene of a crime. This research will enlighten the identification of bloodstain on different types of fabrics which were washed with detergents prior to applying Kastle-Meyer (KM) tests. All six types of fabric were stained with blood and soaked in commonly used detergents in Malaysia for a various soaking time. It is found that Dynamo detergent shows the highest percentage in removing the bloodstain from all those six fabrics. Besides, soaking time interval of 60 minutes in all detergent showed the maximum removal of bloodstains compared to 20 minutes which has minimal ability to remove bloodstains. Among all the fabrics, cotton showed the maximum percentage of bloodstain retention after washing with all the detergent. The finding of the study would help forensic investigator to trace invisible bloodstain such as in washed clothing in order to solve the crimes
Rapid Biogenic and Uv-Vis Spectroscopic Study of Silver Nanoparticle Synthesis by Methanolic Extract of Piper Species
Full text linkNanotechnology is one of the most developing areas which involve utilization of materials with structural dimension in of 1-100 nm. This technology opened a pathway for the synthesis of silver nanoparticle by various physical and chemical methods. The biosynthesis method from plant extracts are considered as alternative as it is relatively simple, nontoxic, and environmentally friendly methods. The objective was to synthesize and characterize silver nanoparticle via ultraviolet visible spectroscopy of silver nanoparticles from three piper species which are Piper nigrum, Piper sarmentosum and Piper betel. Silver nanoparticles were prepared by the reaction of 1 mM of 90 ml silver nitrate and 10 ml methanolic leaf extract of each type of plant that act as reductant and stabilizer. The synthesized nanoparticle was characterized by color changes from green into dark brown with increasing intensity of the color from 10 minutes until 48 hour indicating the completion of silver nanoparticle formation at 48 hour. A UV–Vis spectrum of the methanolic medium containing silver nanoparticles demonstrated a peak at 413 nm, 417 nm and 420 nm for Piper nigrum, Piper sarmentosum and Piper betel respectively that corresponds to the plasmon absorbance of silver nanoparticles. The maximum percentage increase in the rate of absorbance was found specifically at 24 hour in all the three leaf. In conclusion piper species is a source for synthesizing silver nanoparticles and Piper nigrum being an excellent source for the synthesis due to the narrow, sharp peak and showing maximum percentage increase at 24 hour among all the three plants. This study exhibited the potential of three methanolic extract of piper species for the green synthesis of silver nanoparticles