1 Department of Electrical, Electronic and System Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environments, University Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor 43600, Malaysia; [email protected] (M.A.H.); [email protected] (A.M.) 2 Ministry of Electricity, General Company of Electricity Production Middle Region, Baghdad 10001, Iraq * Correspondence: [email protected]; Tel.: +60-111-1855-441 † These...

This paper proposes a new hybrid multiattribute decision making (MADM) model which deals with the interactions that usually exist between hostel attributes in the process of measuring the students’ satisfaction towards a set of hostels and identifying the optimal strategies for enhancing their satisfaction. The model uses systematic random stratified sampling approach for data collection purpos...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study was to examine the differing curves of the volar distal radius of healthy Malaysian Malays, so as to obtain detailed morphological information that will further the understanding of volar plate osteosynthesis in Malaysian Malays. METHODS Computed tomography with three-dimensional reconstruction was performed on the wrists of 16 healthy Malaysian Malay vo...

INTRODUCTION Family presence (FP) during resuscitation is an increasingly favoured trend, as it affords many benefits to the critically ill patient's family members. However, a previously conducted study showed that only 15.8% of surveyed Malaysian healthcare staff supported FP during resuscitation. METHODS This cross-sectional study used a bilingual self-administered questionnaire to examine...

PURPOSE This paper seeks to develop and test the SERVQUAL model scale for measuring Malaysian private health service quality. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH The study consists of 340 randomly selected participants visiting a private healthcare facility during a three-month data collection period. Data were analyzed using means, correlations, principal component and confirmatory factor analysis t...

BACKGROUND Perforated peptic ulcers (PPU) present as serious surgical emergencies that carry high mortality and morbidity. Foreigners with PPU are also managed in our hospital setting. Their inclusion significantly alters the trend and pattern of PPU seen in Malaysia. AIM To compare per-operative and post-operative features and outcomes of perforated peptic ulcers between Malaysians and forei...

Neuroinflammation can damage the brain and plays a critical role in the pathophysiology of epilepsy. Tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase 4 (TIMP4) is an inflammation-induced apoptosis and matrix turnover factor involved in several neuronal disorders and inflammatory diseases. Evidence has shown linkage disequilibrium between rs3755724 (-55C/T) of this gene with synapsin 2 (SYN2) rs3773364 and...

There are competency standards available in countries with established speech-language pathology services to guide basic dysphagia training with ongoing workplace mentoring for advanced skills development. Such training processes, however, are not as well established in countries where speech-language pathology training and practice is relatively new, such as Malaysia. The current study examine...

E-Commerce changes the way organizations do business. Recognizing the significance of ECommerce contributions to the nation’s economic growth, the Malaysian government introduced several stimuli to increase the practice of E-Commerce, particularly among SME, as they constituents about 84 percent of the Malaysian business enterprises. This paper looks at several stimulus provided by the Malaysia...

INTRODUCTION The on-going, international, prospective, observational, longitudinal CLARIFY registry is investigating the demographics, clinical profiles, management and outcomes of patients with stable coronary artery disease (CAD). This paper assesses baseline characteristics, treatment, and clinical outcomes at two years' follow-up of Malaysian/Bruneian patients compared with the overall regi...