This research reports the development of an HMM-based speech synthesis system for Malay, which is an underresourced language with few resources including recorded speech and segmental labels. We propose the cross-lingual use of resources for developing a Malay HMM-based speech synthesis system. We used the Festival English speech synthesis system to generate time-aligned phone transcriptions fo...

Objective: In diabetes care, smoking cessation is a very important component that should be addressed in order to facilitate effective blood glucose control and to limit the development of complications associated with diabetes. This raises the need to evaluate patients’ knowledge, attitudes, and perception toward their physicians’ practices. This study aimed to develop, translate and validate ...

INTRODUCTION Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is a rare but life-threatening condition. We report 11 patients admitted to the National Heart Centre Singapore with a diagnosis of PPCM over a period of 14 months. METHODS Baseline demographics, pregnancy history, haematology, serum biochemistry and echocardiographic findings of women admitted with a diagnosis of PPCM were analysed. RESULTS The...

OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of tobacco smoking on the survival of men and women in different social positions. DESIGN A cohort observational study. SETTING Renfrew and Paisley, two towns in west central Scotland. PARTICIPANTS 8353 women and 7049 men aged 45-64 years recruited in 1972-6 (almost 80% of the population in this age group). The cohort was divided into 24 groups by sex (male,...

Thailand is a country in Southeast Asia and the form of unitary state with majority population Buddhist beliefs. However, Southern Thailand, are Muslims Malay cultural features there many Islamic-based educational institutions. It not uncommon for people to send their children study Indonesia. One problems faced small number Muslim who can speak Indonesian. Therefore, we conducted 1-month train...

In a world where we are constantly bombarded with countless images of Islamic terrorism, violence, and danger, it is not surprising that we have come to associate all aspects of Islamic society with malevolence. This destructive way of thinking has impacted the way we—as Westerners— think about, portray, and perceive Muslim men and women. While Muslim men are often depicted as hostile, cruel, a...

BACKGROUND Tobacco use is a major cause of preventable death and disease in India.A nationally representative case-control study of smoking in India(2008) revealed that only 2% of smokers had spontaneously quit. Thisstudy was undertaken to assess tobacco quit rates among the youth in anurban health center and to determine barriers in quitting tobacco use. METHODS This cross sectional study wa...

BACKGROUND The level of urine cotinine is an indicator of tobacco smoke exposure. The purpose of this study is to investigate urine cotinine for the purpose of assessing the smoking status of Korean smokers and non-smokers exposed to tobacco smoke. METHODS The subjects were identified from the 2007-2009 and the 2010 data sets of the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHA...

Addressing the cultural and religious beliefs around the issue of family planning has been a big challenge for the international development community. The concept of family planning has raised some concerns regarding its acceptability within Muslim populations. While some Muslim states and organisations have adopted a rather cautious approach to the issue, others have gone to the extent of inv...

BACKGROUND Despite male smokers being dominant in Vietnam, scarce evidence on trends in socioeconomics inequalities among the hardcore male smokers is available in the country. In this study, we aimed at assessing the trends in socioeconomics inequalities among the hardcore smokers in adult male population in Vietnam over a five-year period from 2010 to 2015. METHODS We used data from two rou...