Heart rate variability (HRV) provides information of cardiac autonomic control which indicates the interaction of sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of eight weeks traditional archery training on heart rate variability among sedentary lifestyle youth. Thirty-four inactive male (performed <150 minutes moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA)/week) were randomly assigned into two groups; traditional archery (n = 17) and control (n = 17) groups. An intervention group involved in three days weekly of traditional archery programme for eight weeks. In contrast, a control group requested to continue their regular physical activities. Measurement of HRV were assessed using baroreflex testing (15 seconds blow activities against 40mmHg sphygmomanometer followed by 15 seconds rest). Paired T-test was employed to investigate the effects of eight weeks intervention programme. Through eight weeks, the LF/HF ratio for the intervention group showed significant improvement (p < 0.05). No significant difference was reported for control group (p > 0.05). In other hand, both groups showed non-significant difference on SDNN value after eight weeks of intervention (p > 0.05). However, the traditional archery group has showed an improvement of SDNN value meanwhile control group was declined. Eight weeks of traditional archery training programme was effective improving heart rate variability among sedentary lifestyle youth. Therefore, traditional archery could be proposed as one of the possible methods to combat poor cardiac autonomic function following sedentary lifestyle. � 2019 Author(s).

Food is a basic physiological need for survival, while nutrition and health are synonymous the sense of well-being. In Malaysia, generally food availability and variety is abundance due to our multicultural nature. Nonetheless, it is essential for consumers to make conscious decision on food choices and consumption in order to contribute to good health. Goat milk is one among the healthy natural products although its functional and nutritional value is less disseminated across the consumers. A cross sectional study was conducted to analyze the relationship between consumer attitude, social influence and self-efficacy on their intention to consume goat milk with the mediation effect of nutritional value. The study followed the application of PLS SEM to analyze the data. The findings clearly show the association between consumer attitude, social influence and self-efficacy on consumer's goat milk consumption. The partial mediation effect of nutritional health consciousness also indicates that consumers to a certain extend consider the benefits and nutritional value of the goat milk in their readiness to consume goat milk. The study extends better insight on goat milk consumption with support of theory of planned behaviour and with due consideration to benefits and nutritional value of the goat milk. � Serials Publications.

Ranking function acts as a predictive algorithm that is used to establish a simple ordering of documents according to its relevance and this process shows the effectiveness, quality and the accuracy for the variety type of Information Retrieval (IR) such as, Domain Specific Retrieval of Malay Translated Hadith. In this research, a Hierarchical Fuzzy Logic Controller of Mamdani-type Fuzzy Inference System has been built to define the ranking function based on the BM25 Model. The model examines four-inputs which are Ontology BM25 Score, Fabrication Rate of Hadith, Shia Rate of Hadith from the previous works of the researchers and the New additional Positive Rate of Hadith. It also examines four-output values of Final Ranking Score which consist of three triangular membership functions. The new Positive Rate of hadith is based on the score value of the automatic text summarization that was executed in pre-processing phase. The proposed system has outperformed the BM25 original score and the Vector Space Model (VM) on 5 topic of queries and 26 queries in the term of individual queries, while the BM25 original score and Vector Space Model only yielded better result in 3 and 0 queries respectively on the P@10, %no measures and MAP. P@10 represent the values of Precision at Rank 10 P@10), %no measures represent the percentage of queries with no relevant documents in the top ten retrieved and MAP represents Mean Average Precision of the queries. The results show the proposed system have capability to demote negative documents and move up the relevant documents in the ranking list with positive indicator and its capability to recall unseen document with the application of ontology in text retrieval. For the future works, the researcher would like to apply the usage of new ranking indicator such as reliability score from the expert and the lay users of the Domain Specific Retrieval of Malay Translated Hadith. � 2019 IEEE.

Background aims: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effects of air-liquid interface on the differentiation potential of human amnion epithelial cells (HAECs) to skin-like substitute in organotypic culture. Methods: HAECs at passage 1e2 were seeded onto a fibrin layer populated with human amnion mesenchymal cells to form the organotypic cultures. The organotypic HAECs were then cultured for 7, 14 and 21 d in two types of culture system: the submerged culture and the airliquid interface culture. Cell morphogenesis was examined under the light and electron microscopes (transmission and scanning) and analyzed by immunohistochemistry. Results: Organotypic HAECs formed a single layer epithelium after 3 wk in submerged as well as air-liquid interface cultures. Ultrastructurally, desmosomes were observed in organotypic HAECs cultured in the air-liquid interface but not in the submerged culture. The presence of desmosomes marked the onset of early epidermal differentiation. Organotypic HAECs were positive against anti-CK18 and anti-CK14 in both the submerged and the air-liquid interface cultures. The co-expression of CK14 and CK18 suggested that differentiation of HAECs into skin may follow the process of embryonic skin development. However, weak expression of CK14 was observed after 2 and 3 wk of culture in air-liquid interface. CK10, involucrin, type IV collagen and laminin-5 expression was absent in organotypic HAECs. This observation reflects the initial process of embryonic epidermal differentiation and stratification. Conclusions: Results from the present study suggest that the air-liquid interface could stimulate early differentiation of organotypic HAECs to epidermal cells, with a potential use for skin regeneration. � 2013, International Society for Cellular Therapy.