OBJECTIVE To study the basic eyelid and orbital measurement in the four main ethnic groups of southern Thailand. MATERIAL AND METHOD The basic eyelid and orbital surface anatomy of 101 normal subjects aged 20-40 years old were measured in the four ethnic groups of which the majority of people in southern Thailand belong to: Thai, Chinese, Thai-Malay, and Thai-Chinese. RESULTS Of the 101 sub...

This paDem ~esents tim remf[ts obtained by an English to Malay camputer translation system at the level of a lab~mat~y prototype. %~le translation output obtained for a selected text (secondary school 6~]e~ist~y textbook) is evaluated using a grading scheme based on ease o£ post-editing. The effect of a clmnge in area and typology of text is investigated by c~paring with the translation output ...

Phrases has a long history in information retrieval, particularly in commercial systems. Implicit semantic relationship between words in a form of BaseNP have shown significant improvement in term of precision in many IR studies. Our research focuses on linguistic phrases which is language dependent. Our results show that using BaseNP can improve performance although above 62% of words formatio...

This paper discusses on the first step designing integration Semantic Web into our English-Malay Translation Memory (TM) prototype system. The main research activity that we need to perform is on how we can design and construct the ontology database in the architecture of the semantic web environment. Research also need to be carried out by understanding precisely the layer-cake architecture of...

METHODS: A cross-sectional study involving 43 parents with CTEV child was conducted from 18 July till 27 August 2016. Self-administered Malay version of Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale 21 items (DASS-21) is used to measure the psychological wellbeing of the parents and the Malay version of Brief COPE is used to measure coping strategies. Data were analysed using frequencies, percentages and...

The present study examined the factor structure of a Malay version of the Body Appreciation Scale (BAS), a recently developed scale for the assessment of positive body image that has been shown to have a unidimensional structure in Western settings. Results of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses based on data from community sample of 591 women in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, failed to suppo...

The dermatoglyphs of 50 Singapore school children with mitral valve prolapse (MVP) were studied, with special reference to the frequency of digital arches. The MVP was diagnosed clinically and substantiated by two dimensional echocardiography. In the study there were 35 Chinese and 15 Malay children, with ages ranging from 6 to 19 years. Four Chinese children had one or more arches on the digit...

Objectives: Assessment of nicotine withdrawal symptoms is an essential part of tobacco dependence treatment. This study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of a Malay translated version of the Minnesota Nicotine Withdrawal Scale (MNWS). Methods: The original scale was translated into Malay following the standard guidelines proposed for translation studies. The reliability and validity...