This article examines the role of enabling change factors in information technology (IT) success in the Malaysian e-government implementation. Enabling change factors are defined as the capability of organizations to bring about desired changes in terms of possessing the appropriate mechanisms like human skills, tool, technology, methodology etc. (Nance 1996). Based on previous research, this s...

This study aims to investigate the perceived success factors of operating small and medium enterprises amongst Malaysian entrepreneurs. The term “success” is defined with both traditional criteria such as profit and growth and also with intrinsic factors such as personal satisfaction and the sense of achievement. A total of one hundred and eight entrepreneurs from Klang Valley were surveyed. Da...

Since the advent of the Internet, electronic commerce (e-commerce) has grown substantially across the globe. The Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) should take advantage of the internet and refocus their business strategies to improve their competitiveness. The aim of this paper is to identify the usage of e-commerce in SMEs based on industries and employee number. Based on the data coll...

Breast cancer is one of the commonest cancers among women in Malaysia. The relation between lifestyle practices and the risk of breast cancer in Chinese women aged 21-55 years were assessed using data collected from June to October 2001, via a face-to face interview in a case control study in the Breast Clinics of Kuala Lumpur Hospital and University Malaya Medical Centre. A total of 89 cases w...

Clinical findings: A 26 year old Indian woman was referred to the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital (HTAR), Klang for expert management of a swelling over the right posterior auricular region (Fig. 1). FNAC was done in 2006 and it revealed a basal cell adenoma of the right parotid gland. Upon examination, the swelling was mildly tender to palpation, lo...

The objective of this study was to test the usability of a new auditory Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) application for communication. We introduce a word based, intuitive auditory spelling paradigm the WIN-speller. In the WIN-speller letters are grouped by words, such as the word KLANG representing the letters A, G, K, L, and N. Thereby, the decoding step between perceiving a code and translati...

Drought forecasting plays an important role in the planning and management of water resources systems. In this paper, a hybrid wavelet and adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (WANFIS) is proposed for drought forecasting. The WANFIS model was developed by combining two methods, namely a discrete wavelet transform and adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) model. To assess the effectiven...