The Effect of Production of Selected Agriculture Products and Money Supply on GDP of Agriculture Sector in Malaysia

Agriculture sector plays the vital role in Malaysian economic because of the contribution of agriculture during the early stages of the national economic growth until now. The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of the selected agriculture sector (palm oil, rubber, rice and saw logs) in the agriculture sector and to examine the impact of money supply across employment and productivity of labour and capital in agriculture sector. This paper uses the secondary data from year 1981 until 2010 from the Department of Statistics Malaysia, Malaysia Productivity Corporation (MPC) and Asian Development Bank (ADB). By using Johansen-Julies Cointegration model, the results showed there is long run relationship between dependent variable and independent variables. But, in Granger Causality model, result showed there is no relationship between money supply and productivity variables. While, this paper also conducts other tests such as Autocorrelation, Ramsey RESET and Histogram Normality Test

Securinega alkaloids: Reinvestigation on the fresh leaves of Breynia coronate (Euphorbiaceae)

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<b>Pharmacognostical</b><b> study of <i>Hybanthus</i><i> enneaspermus</i> (Linn.) F. Muell.</b>

386-390Present paper deals with the pharmacognostical study of leaf, stem and root of Hybanthus enneaspermus (Linn.) F. Muell., for its identification and to distinguish it from the co-existing weeds and adulterants. The study includes macroscopic, microscopic and preliminary physico-chemical investigation

<b style="">Antimicrobial activity of a medicinal plant <i>Hybanthus</i><i> enneaspermus</i> (Linn.)</b><b style=""> F. Muell.</b>

366-368Present investigation deals with the antimicrobial activity of a medicinal plant Hybanthus enneaspermus (Linn.) F. Muell., against two Gram positive bacteria, viz. Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus subtilis and five Gram negative bacteria, viz. Escherichia coli, Enterobacter aerogens, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Salmonella typhi and Citrobacter freundii. Two active fractions were isolated from the benzene extract of the plant. The antimicrobial activity justifies its use in traditional medicine

A simple technique for blood collection in the pig

Laboratory Animals274364-367LBAN

Sensitivity analysis for water quality index (WQI) prediction for Kinta River, Malaysia

Water quality index (WQI) serves as the basis for environment assessment of watercourse in relation to pollution load categorization and designation of classes and beneficial uses as provided by Interim National Water Quality Standards (INWQS) in Malaysia. This index is calculated based on six parameters DO, BOD, COD, pH, NH 3-NL and SS. This research was need as it will give the preliminary judgement on the importance of each water quality parameter for WQI calculation at the Kinta River, Malaysia. This study revealed the used of sensitivity analysis based on ANN to evaluate the significant of each parameter for WQI determination. Sensitivity analysis was carried out for seven models (ANN-WQI-AP, ANN-WQI-LDO, ANN-WQI-LBOD, ANN-WQI-LCOD, ANN-WQI-LpH and ANN-WQI-LNH 3-NL) and a model performance criterion (R 2, RMSE and SSE) was used for model performance evaluation. DO, SS and NH 3-NL were selected as the best input models for WQI prediction. The ANN-WQI-LDO, ANN-WQI-LSS and ANN-WQI-LNH 3-NL model have R 2 values of 0.8301, 0.9265 and 0.9369 respectively; RMSE values of 4.888, 3.214 and 2.978 respectively; SSE values of 3106.534, 1343.286 and 1152.902 respectively. The low R 2 values and higher RMSE and SSE value compared to the ANN-WQI-AP model suggest the importance of these three parameters significantly affect the fitness and residual measurement of the ANN models in WQI prediction. The result also suggests that water quality of Kinta River was affected by agricultural activities and vicinity animal farm. Moreover the use of less parameter for WQI is much more applicable for our water resource management since its time and cost consuming. © IDOSI Publications, 2011