Biswajeet Pradhan, Institute for Advanced Technologies (ITMA), Faculty of Engineering, University Putra, Malaysia Correspondence to Biswajeet Pradhan: [email protected] Sandeep Kumar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), India Shattri Mansor, Institute for Advanced Technologies (ITMA), Faculty of Engineering, University Putra, Malay...

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...

1Department of Biological Engineering, College of Engineering, Inha University, Incheon 402-751, Republic of Korea 2Institute of Nano Electronic Engineering (INEE) and School of Bioprocess Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Perlis, 01000 Kangar, Perlis, Malaysia 3Department of Microbiology, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Himalayan College of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (HICAST), P....

1 Genetic Research Group, Molecular and Bioinformatics Unit, Department of Biomedical Science, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor DE, Malaysia. 2 Department of Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Tonekabon Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon, Mazandaran, Iran. 3 Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Pu...

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...

BACKGROUND Pharmaceutical representatives provide medicines information on their promoted products to doctors. However, studies have shown that the quality of this information is often low. No study has assessed the medicines information provided by pharmaceutical representatives to doctors in Malaysia and no recent evidence in Australia is present. We aimed to compare the provision of medicine...

BEHNAM DEZFOULI and MARJAN RADI, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia; Networking Protocols Department, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore KAMIN WHITEHOUSE, Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia, USA SHUKOR ABD RAZAK, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Ma...

Developing a nation geared by the principle of sustainable development has been one of the piers in moulding a greater nation for Malaysia since its independence. This is seen by the act of joining the United Nations in 1957, just a month after gaining their independence. The United Nations is an international organization that aims to unite the nations worldwide based on justice, human dignity...