1 Android vs iOS or Others? SMD-OS Security Issues: Generation Y Perception; Heru Susanto, Department of Information Management, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan & Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Jakarta, Indonesia Mohammad Nabil Almunawar, School of Business and Economics, University of Brunei Darussalam, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Fang-Yie Leu, Department of Information Management, Tun...

INTRODUCTION Smoking cessation support with smartphone applications is widely practised, however, quality and novel content is yet to be established. This study examined content, quality and compliance of the STaR (Sihat Tanpa Rokok Healthy Without Smoking) smartphone application to smoking cessation clinical practice guidelines. METHODS Mobile Application Rating Scale (MARS) was applied to ass...

One thousand consecutive Brunei Darussalam patients referred with low Hb, and/or low MCV and MCH (Hb < 12.5g/dl, MCV < 76fl, MCH < 27pg) were studied in the laboratory for underlying haemoglobinopathies. 30.0% of such patients were proved to have either beta-thalassaemia trait, beta-thalassaemia major, Hb AE, Hb EE, Hb E beta-thalassaemia or Hb H disease. In some, the haemoglobin abnormality wa...

This study aims to develop a model of factors motivating and inhibiting electronic commerce adoption among small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Brunei Darussalam. Recent statistics show that total number of businesses employing web sites in Brunei Darussalam is very small compared to those in Singapore and Malaysia. Organizations are coming under increasing pressure to adopt electronic commer...

Breast cancer is increasing and is the most common cancer among females in Brunei Darussalam. Most are ductal carcinoma. We report a case of a 40-year-old woman who was diagnosed with primary angiosarcoma of the right breast, a rare condition. To the best of our knowledge this is the only reported case in Brunei Darussalam. She underwent lumpectomy followed by mastectomy as the resection margin...

This study examines the effect of five factors on the adoption of electronic commerce among small and medium enterprises in Brunei Darussalam. A review of the literature shows that owner characteristics such as lack of perceived relative advantage, lack of knowledge, and perceived lack of trust are significant inhibitors while environment characteristics such as competitive pressure and, govern...

Drug resistant bacteria have been a growing threat to the community and hospitals due to the misuse of antibiotics by humans, industrialization, and lack of novel antimicrobials currently available. Little is known about the prevalence of drug resistant bacteria in nonhealthcare environments in Brunei Darussalam and about how antibiotic resistant genes are transferred within these environments....

G. JOGESH BABU1, ZHIDONG BAI2,* , KWOK PUI CHOI2,** and VASUDEVAN MANGALAM3 1Department of Statistics, 326 Joab L. Thomas Building, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802-2111, USA. E-mail: [email protected] 2Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore, 6 Science Drive 2, Singapore 117546. E-mail: *[email protected]; **[email protected]...

This article is the first formal record of the genus Mallinella Strand, 1906 in Brunei Darussalam. Four Mallinella species are documented. Mallinella merimbunenis sp. nov., M. myrmecophaga sp. nov., and M. platyrhyncha sp. nov. are newly described. The females of M. bigemina Dankittipakul, Jocqué & Singtripop, 2012 are here recorded from Brunei for the first time. The latter species was previou...