Harnessing Nature's Ingenuity: A Comprehensive Exploration of Nanocellulose from Production to Cutting-Edge Applications in Engineering and Sciences.

Primary material supply is the heart of engineering and sciences. The depletion of natural resources and an increase in the human population by a billion in 13 to 15 years pose a critical concern regarding the sustainability of these materials; therefore, functionalizing renewable materials, such as nanocellulose, by possibly exploiting their properties for various practical applications, has been undertaken worldwide. Nanocellulose has emerged as a dominant green natural material with attractive and tailorable physicochemical properties, is renewable and sustainable, and shows biocompatibility and tunable surface properties.

Malaysian children with spina bifida: relationship between functional outcome and level of lesion.

Purpose: To determine the relationship between spinal lesion level and functional outcome in children with spina bifida.

Methods: Prospective observational study of 66 children who attended the Spina Bifida Clinic from 1994-1997. Data were obtained from serial physical examination and parent interview to determine mobility status, neurosensory deficits, continence and school placement.

Lamotrigine as an add-on therapy in intractable paediatric epilepsy--the Kuala Lumpur Hospital experience.

An observational study of all children with intractable epilepsy at the Paediatric Institute prescribed Lamotrigine as an add-on therapy between January 1994 and November 1998 was conducted. A total of 30 children were recruited. Three had adverse effects to the drug and it was withdrawn.

Determinants of linear growth in Malaysian children with cerebral palsy.

Objective: To compare the linear growth and nutritional parameters of a group of Malaysian children with cerebral palsy (CP) against a group of controls, and to determine the nutritional, medical and sociodemographic factors associated with poor growth in children with CP.

Methodology: The linear growth of 101 children with CP and of their healthy controls matched for age, sex and ethnicity was measured using upper-arm length (UAL). Nutritional parameters of weight, triceps skin-fold thickness and mid-arm circumference were also measured.

Childhood cerebral lupus in an Oriental population.

In a cross-sectional study of 24 Oriental children with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) with a mean age of 11.25 years, 75% were found to have clinical and neurophysiological evidence of cerebral lupus. Seizures were the most common manifestation affecting 11 (61%) of the cases, followed by psychosis in five (27.

Parenting stress among mothers of Malaysian children with cerebral palsy: predictors of child- and parent-related stress.

A hospital study was carried out to compare parenting stress among 87 Malaysian mothers of children with cerebral palsy and a control group (comprising 87 mothers of children without disability who attended the walk-in paediatric clinic), using the Parenting Stress Index (PSI) questionnaire. Multiple regression analysis was used to determine socio-demographic and medical factors associated with child-domain stress (CDS) and parent-domain stress (PDS). Mothers of children with cerebral palsy scored significantly higher than control subjects on all sub-scales of CDS and PDS (p < 0.

Haemophilus influenzae meningitis in Malaysia.

Objective: To determine the pattern of postneonatal childhood meningitis in Malaysia.

Methods: Retrospective cross-sectional study involving five pediatric departments in Malaysia.

Results: There were 435 cases of clinical meningitis admitted to the five centers.

Childhood non-traumatic coma in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

All post-neonatal children with acute non-traumatic coma admitted over an 8-month period were analysed and followed up for 18-24 months to determine the aetiology and outcome of their coma. One hundred and sixteen children, 72 boys and 44 girls, were recruited. Half the children were under 1 year of age and only 16 (14%) were more than 6 years of age.