the study was conducted to determine the prevalence of goiter and hypothyroidism in two groups of the population at various stages of social development and to determine its association with malnutrition and dietary intake. aboriginal inhabitants (orang asli), a resettlement rural village (betau post), a traditional village in the jungle (lanai post) and a modern village settlement near kuala l...

background: introduction to sexual education in schools was suggested by the malaysian government as one of the effort taken in the aim to reduce the sexual-related social problems among malaysian teenagers nowadays. this study was proposed in the aim to determine the rate of acceptance among adolescents on the implementation of sexual education in schools. methods: this study was conducted usi...

objective: maternal factors such as age, health, diet, and environment are significantly associated with low birth weight. the objectives of this study were to determine the incidence, distribution and major risk factors of low birth weight in hospital kuala lumpur. materials and methods: a hospital based case–control study was done in obstetric ward of maternity hospital in hospital kuala lump...

Approximation of Human Breast Tissue Properties at 6 GHz Ultra-Wideband Centre Frequency Ikram-e-Khuda, Sabira Khatun*, Khondker Jahid Reza, Md. Mijanur Rahman, Md. Moslemuddin Fakir #5 # School of Computer and Communication Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Perlis Pauh Putra Main Campus, 02600 Arau, Perlis, Malaysia. 1 ikramekhuda@gmail.com 2 sabira@unimap.edu.my jahid_rifat@yahoo.com mijanur@u...

Neni Frimayanti, Sharifuddin M. Zain, Vannajan Sanghiran Lee, Habibah A. Wahab, Rohana Yusof and Noorsaadah Abd. Rahmana,∗ Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya Lembah Pantai, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Computational Simulation and Modeling Laboratory, Department of Chemistry and Center for Innovation in Chemistry, Chiang Mai University, Bangkok, Thailand Pharmaceutical ...

Fiber optical based parametric amplifier in a highly nonlinear fiber (HNLF) by using a ring configuration H. Ahmad a , N.A. Awang a b & S.W. Harun c a Photonics Research Centre, Department of Physics, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia b Faculty of Science, Art and Heritage, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, 86400 Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia c Department of Electrical Enginee...

Assessing the sensitivity of water networks to noisy mass loads using Monte Carlo simulation Raymond R. Tan a,∗, Dominic C.Y. Foo b,1, Zainuddin A. Manan c a Chemical Engineering Department, De La Salle University-Manila, 2401 Taft Avenue, 1004 Manila, Philippines b Chemical Engineering Pilot Plant, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Skudai, Johor, Malaysia c Department of Chemical Engineerin...

The aim of this study is to understand the current tradition and complementary medicine (T&CM) education in Malaysia. We referred to literature regarding to traditional medicine education in Malaysia, and collected the information via website or interview with faculty of T&CM in universities/colleges and Division of T&CM, Ministry of Health, Malaysia. T&CM education in Malaysia has been followi...

In previous studies, the efficiency of the Half-Sweep Multigrid method has been shown to be very fast as compared with the standard Multigrid method. This is due to its ability to reduce computational complexity of the standard method. In this paper, the primary goal is to purpose the Half-Sweep Algebraic Multigrid (HSAMG) method using the HSCN finite difference scheme for solving one-dimension...

142 Design and Optimization of Levenberg-Marquardt based Neural Network Classifier for EMG Signals to Identify Hand Motions Muhammad Ibn Ibrahimy, Md. Rezwanul Ahsan, Othman Omran Khalifa Dept. of ECE, Faculty of Engineering, International Islamic University Malaysia, 53100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Dept. of Electrical Electronic and System Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment...