Currently, Malaysia has significantly increased its reputation as a country ripe for investments in the palm-based lignocellulosic biomass space. Lignocellulosic palm biomass is composed of cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, as well as other minor components. The presence of highly cellulose content in palm biomass is potentially convert to nanocellulose, which is a promising bio-polymer that...

Epidemiologic investigations showed that 2 of 4 patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) identified in the winter of 2003-2004 were a waitresss at a restaurant in Guangzhou, China, that served palm civets as food and a customer who ate in the restaurant ashort distance from animal cages. All 6 palm civets at the restaurant were positive for SARS-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV). ...

Palm juice (Borassus flabellifer) is one of the most common and cheap natural juices. Fermented palm juice contains various phytochemical compounds that exhibit antioxidant activity. In the present study, we examined the effects of pH on the production of phytochemicals and their antioxidant activity during the fermentation process. The concentration of total phenolics and flavonoid compounds o...

Biometric can be a technology for verification or identification of folks by utilizing a person’s physiological and behavioural traits. Several palm print representations happen to be proposed web hosting authentication, there may be little agreement which palm print representation can offer best representation for reliable authentication. In this particular paper, characterization of user’s id...

The utilities of AIRSAR data for oil palm biomass inventory and mapping are investigated. The study is on oil palm plantations in Tapah, Malaysia. The work focuses on two main applications. First, retrieval of oil palm biomass by establishing empirical relationships between backscatter coefficient and conventional estimation of biomass based on model as well as ground data. Second, mapping oil ...

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...