This paper examines the changing nature of ethnic and religious identification in Malaysia, drawing upon a survey of attitudes conducted in three locations in Malaysia. The paper argues that the widely perceived political shift from a prevailing ethnic Malay/non-Malay dichotomy towards a more religious Muslim/non-Muslim dichotomy is more complex that previous analyses have suggested. Moreover, ...

1 The research was sponsored by the Department for Communities and Local Government, UK. It was led jointly by the Local Governance Research Unit at De Montfort University, UK (Lawrence Pratchett) and the e-Democracy Centre at the University of Geneva, Switzerland (Uwe Seurdult and Fernando Mendez). Country reports were developed by specialist country analysts: Estonia Liia Hanni (e-Governance ...

Gray-Scott model has been studied extensively in recent years. However, most of the results are in one dimensional. In this paper, we study the 2-D Gray-Scott system. We rst construct two single pulse solutions and then we establish the stability and instability of such solutions in terms of the parameters involved.

Research on efficient pairing implementation has focussed on reducing the loop length and on using high-degree twists. Existence of twists of degree larger than 2 is a very restrictive criterion but luckily constructions for pairing-friendly elliptic curves with such twists exist. In fact, Freeman, Scott and Teske showed in their overview paper that often the best known methods of constructing ...

PURPOSE The sex difference in ultraendurance performance has been investigated in swimmers, runners, and triathletes but not in cyclists. The purpose of this study was to examine the sex difference in the longest ultra-cycling race in the world, the Race Across America (RAAM). METHODS Cycling speed of female and male finishers in the RAAM between 1982 and 2012 was compared. RESULTS A total ...

introduction: this investigation was undertaken to examine the effect of 4centigrade degree temperature on development and implantation rate of mouse embryos. materials and methods: femal mice (4-6 week old) were induced to superovulate and were mated. two cell embryos were flushed from excited oviducts, 46 – 48 h after the infection of hcg, and were cultured to eight – cell stage in m16 medium...

Recent studies reported that the sex difference in performance in ultra-endurance sports such as swimming and cycling changed over the years. However, the aspect of drafting in draft-legal ultra-endurance races has not yet been investigated. This study investigates the sex difference in ultra-swimming and ultra-cycling draft-legal races where drafting - swimming or cycling behind other particip...

abstract background: one of the most important problems after episiotomy is perineal pain which is more severe on the first day of postpartum period. the aim of this study was to compare the analgesic effects of indomethacin suppository and lidocaine cream in the management of post‑episiotomy pain. materials and methods: in a randomized, controlled trial, 60 primiparous women who had mediolater...

background: fractures of femur are among the most important causes of mortality in musculoskeletal injuries. owning to lack of adequate research to compare various techniques of fracture stabilization, there has not yet been an agreement over a protocol to utilize a specific type of splint for femoral fracture immobilization. this study was thus conducted to compare the effects of simple and tr...