AIM To reevaluate the psychometric characteristics of the Malay version of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale among a sample of postpartum Malay women attending the Bakar Bata Health Center in Alor Setar, Kedah, North West of Peninsular Malaysia. MATERIALS AND METHODS 64 women between 4 to 12 weeks postpartum were recruited for there validation study. They were given questionnaires on s...

Malay Folk Literature in early childhood education served as an important agent in child development that involved emotional, thinking and language aspects. Up to this moment not much research has been carried out in Malaysia particularly in the teaching and learning aspects nor has there been an effort to publish “big books.” Hence this article will discuss the stance taken by university under...

This paper looks at healing performances as ethnographic expressions of local knowledge and culture embedded within the Malay psyche and gemeinschaft. As society develops and progresses, these healing performances are caught within conflicting trajectories which become compounded by the contestations of tradition, religious concerns, locality and modernity. As exemplifications of the Malay etho...

This paper proposes a new hybrid method named SCFE-PNN, which integrates effective subtractive clustering based features enhancement and probabilistic neural network (PNN) classifier, had been introduced for isolated Malay word recognition. The proposed method of subtractive clustering features weighting is used as a data preprocessing tool, which designs at diminishing the divergence in featur...

The structure of Malay presents the corpus linguist with an extremely interesting problem. At high syntactic levels, the language is familiar enough, and one can talk of direct objects in transitive constructions, and even of agentless passives. The dominant sentence order is SVO. Parsing at this level is therefore relatively straightforward. The problem is at lower levels, where Malay patterns...

This paper will deal with problem concerning issues and theories of Islamization of the Malay world, with particular reference to the absence of the important element in these theories, which is the role and contribution of the Malay towards the process of Islamization in this region. Furthermore, there will be a discussion of the problem of generalization of existing theories, as well as issue...

PURPOSE We aimed to cross-culturally adapt the parent-proxy Health-Related Quality of Life Measure for Children with Epilepsy (CHEQOL-25) into Malay and to determine its validity and reliability among parents of children with epilepsy in Malaysia. METHODS The English version of the parent-proxy CHEQOL-25 was translated according to international guidelines to Malay. Content validity was verif...

The draw-a-man (DAM) and draw-a-woman (DAW) tests were given to 307 schoolchildren in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. The children were ethnically Malay, Chinese, or Indian (Tamil), and all came from lower socioeconomic groups. The standard scores of the Chinese children averaged 118 in the DAM and 112 in the DAW tests. These scores were significantly better than the American standards. Malay children...

Philology studies are often associated with traditional methods of teaching and learning. This study explores the possibility of e-learning adoption amongst Malay manuscripts learning community. The Soft System Methodology (SSM) is used to guide the investigation. SSM emphasises on understanding the problem situations faced by Malay manuscript learning community and expresses the situations in ...

This paper presents a different approach in extracting prefixes from Malay words, by training a backpropagation neural network to learn a set of rules. Since Malay prefixes change a rootword whereas suffixes don't, our attempt focuses on extracting prefixes from words. A set of rules are devised, on which the network is trained to a satisfactory level. Next, the network is tested upon using som...