OBJECTIVE To describe the prevalence and characteristics of choroidal nevi in an Asian population and compare this with findings from a white population. METHODS The Singapore Malay Eye Study (SiMES) examined a population-based, cross-sectional, age-stratified, random sample of 3280 Malay persons (78.7% participation rate) aged 40 to 80 years living in Singapore. Comprehensive examination of ...

This paper describes our experiments and results on using a local dominant language in Malaysia (Malay), to bootstrap automatic speech recognition (ASR) for a very under-resourced language: Iban (also spoken in Malaysia on the Borneo Island part). Resources in Iban for building a speech recognition were nonexistent. For this, we tried to take advantage of a language from the same family with se...

BACKGROUND To date, there is a lack of published studies on assessment tools to evaluate the effectiveness of stroke education programs. METHODS This study developed and validated the Malay language version of the Stroke Knowledge Test research instrument. This study involved translation, validity, and reliability phases. The instrument underwent backward and forward translation of the Englis...

Speech synthesis plays a pivotal role nowadays. It can be found in various daily applications such as in mobile phones, navigation systems, languages learning software and so on. In this study, a Malay language speech synthesizer was designed using hidden Markov model to improve the performance of current Malay speech synthesizer and also extend Malay speech technology. Statistical parametric m...

OBJECTIVE To translate and validate the Geriatric Oral Health Assessment Index (GOHAI into the Malay language for use in Malaysia. METHODOLOGY The 6-Likert scale GOHAI was translated into the Malay language and self-administered on 189 subjects aged 60+. All subjects underwent oral status assessment. The measure was assessed for construct and discriminant validity, for test-retest reliability...

Known as pantun to the Malays in Brunei, Malaysia, Pattani, Riau, Singapore, and Southern Phillipines, it is called peparikan to the Javanese, sesindiran to the Sundanese and many other different names in different ethnic groups in the different parts of the Indo-Malay world, which is made up of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Pattani in southern Thailand, and Mindanao in the southern P...

Science and technology are intimately linked to the studies and expansion in the general progression of the society. However, Indigenous Knowledge (IK) which holds the same weight-age as the development of the society with science seems to be forgotten and it leads to its extinction. IK is a tacit, scattered and unorganized knowledge that being used by the people in certain environments in maki...

I WOULD LIKE FIRST OF ALL TO THANK THE PRESIDENT of the Royal Asiatic Society Malaysian Branch and the Society itself for the invitation to give the Annual Lecture this evening. I propose to spend this one hour or so to talk about some general problems regarding the study of Malay literature, in particular the older or traditional-literature. It is a subject which is very close to heart for the...