Malay is not only the national language of Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei but it is also spoken in Singapore, southern Thailand and southern Philippines. It is indeed a major official language of the ASEAN community. However, despite the language being widely spoken and written, much is still to be done in the way of linguistic research and more so in the development of language processing syst...

Lai Siew Mei Pauline, B.Pharm, PhD Department of Primary Care Medicine, University of Malaya Primary Care Research Group (UMPCRG), Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia tel: +60379493920 email: [email protected] In this April issue of the Malaysian Family Physician, there are two manuscripts on the validation of instruments. The first manuscript is the validation of t...

This paper presents information on self-assessed health status and use of modern and traditional medical services by a small sample of Malay, Chinese, and Indian residents of urban central Selangor. There is increasing literature on the variety of medical resources in Malaysia including comprehensive overviews,1,2 and specific reports and studies on modern scientific.i' traditional Malay, 47 Ch...

Zingiber zerumbet Sm., locally known to the Malay as "Lempoyang," is a perennial herb found in many tropical countries, including Malaysia. The rhizomes of Z. zerumbet, particularly, have been regularly used as food flavouring and appetizer in various Malays' cuisines while the rhizomes extracts have been used in Malay traditional medicine to treat various types of ailments (e.g., inflammatory-...

This paper will discuss on the observation done on comparison of orthographic and phonological written syllables with glides. This is to show whether there is any different in pronouncing this two type of written Malay syllables. It is also important to know that Malay is a non-tonal language. Thus, this study will not be affected by semantic of a word. This comparison is important to determine...

Civet diets were examined in a logged and unlogged Bornean rain forest. Malay civets (Viverra tangalunga) consumed invertebrates, fruit, rodents, insectivores, birds, snakes and lizards, and appear to show preference for centipedes and scorpions. Other civet species consumed fruit, such as figs, Connarus sp. and Annona sp., particularly in the unlogged forest, but also consumed invertebrates an...

The Malaysian National Cancer Registry (NCR) report for the period 2003-2005 shows an incidence of stomach cancer of 2.2 for Malay, 11.3 for Chinese and 11.9 for Indian males per 100,000 population. Malay (1.3), Chinese (7.2) and Indian (7.2) women have rates lower than men. Malays in Peninsular Malaysia have five times less stomach cancer than Chinese and Indians. This racial difference is mor...

This paper concerns the addition of an affective component to Fasih, one of the first Malay Textto-Speech systems developed by MIMOS Berhad. The goal is to introduce a new method of incorporating emotions to Fasih by building an emotions filter that is template-driven. The templates are diphone-based emotional templates that can portray four types of emotions, i.e. anger, sadness, happiness and...

Kerepek is a Malay traditional snack food made from unripened fruits or root vegetables consumed by the society for generations. However, with availability and wide selection of modern imported foreign foods in local market, there are concerns about continuity consumption among younger This study explores factors that important to young adults their decision consume kerepek. Data was collected ...