Infections of humans with the zoonotic simian malaria parasite Plasmodium knowlesi occur throughout Southeast Asia, although most cases have occurred in Malaysia, where P. knowlesi is now the dominant malaria species. This apparently skewed distribution prompted an investigation of the phylogeography of this parasite in 2 geographically separated regions of Malaysia, Peninsular Malaysia and Mal...

background: the job content questionnaire (m-jcq) is an established self-reported instrument used across the world to measure the work dimensions based on the karasek's demand-control-support model. objective: to evaluate the psychometrics properties of the malay version of m-jcq among nurses in malaysia. methods: this cross-sectional study was carried out on nurses working in 4 public hospital...

this study aimed to develop an index that can rank welding workplace that associate well with possible health risk of welders.welding fumes health index (wfhi) were developed based on data from case studies conducted in plant 1 and plant 2. personal sampling of welding fumes to assess the concentration of metal constituents along with series of lung function tests was conducted. fifteen metal c...

conclusions the nutritional behavior of university students was poor. therefore, it is essential to encourage young people, including university students to enrich their diets with milk, beans, fruit, and vegetables to decrease the risks of nutrition related disorders. results from a total of 210 postgraduate students 110 were females, and 100 males. no significant correlation was observed betw...

in recent years, risk management in respect of enterprise-wide risk management (ewrm) has become more important and highly critical to major corporations worldwide including malaysia. in fact, it is interesting to note that when the government of malaysia passed the code of corporate governance in the year 2000, most of the public limited companies (plcs) in malaysia was struggling to implement...

Classification of Domestic Burning Smell using Covariance kNearest Neighbour Algorithm for Early Fire Detection Application Allan M. Andrew*, Kamarulzaman Kamarudin, Syed M. Mamduh, Ali Yeon M. Shakaff, Ammar Zakaria, Abdul H. Adom, David L. Ndzi, Santiagoo Ragunathan Centre of Excellence for Advanced Sensor Technology (CEASTech), University of Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), Lot 1621, Pusat Pengajia...

Malaysia is multiethnic, with a population of 31,127,247 comprising a mixture of Malays (50.1%), Chinese (22.6%), Indians (6.7%), Aborigines (11.8%), others (0.7%), and noncitizens (8.2%). Like other countries in the region, viral hepatitis is an important public health problem in Malaysia. The 3 most common causes for hepatitis in Malaysia are hepatitis A, B, and C. Hepatitis A has been a repo...

abstract background: the prevalence of self‑neglect among the elderly is expected to rise with a rapid increase in the growth of the older population. however, self‑neglect in the elderly and the factors related to it are not fully understood due to the limited research in the area, lack of consensus in the definition of the concept, and limited instrumentation. the purpose of this study was to...

background: road traffic accident is a worldwide public health issue that has its highest impact on low and middle income countries including malaysia. many previous studies concerned on the causality of the actual accidents and little attention were given to near miss incidents. hence, the current study was designed to determine the prevalence and associated factors for near miss incident amon...

we performed a plankton survey of blood cockle larvae, anadara spp., and histological observations of the gonads of adult blood cockle, anadara granosa , in the coastal waters off sungai buloh, peninsular malaysia from october 2010 to april 2011. the histological observations indicated the main spawning period in both sexes was from november to march. in addition, the occurrence of blood cockle...