Male osteoporosis in Malaysia is a largely neglected problem. Therefore, a bone health study in men using quantitative ultrasonometry was launched as part of the Malaysian Aging Men Study in 2009-2012. This review aimed to summarize the findings of the aforementioned bone health study. The study examined the bone health of Chinese and Malaysian men aged 20 years and above living in Kuala Lumpur...

Problem statement: Nowadays, Improving decision-making to define a group of strategic objectives and associated Performance Indicators (KPIs) are has become one of the critical issues for practices relating to scope management gaining competitive advantages. Approach: This study focus on validate KPI supporting decision-making for sustainability appraisal in projects management for Malaysian Ar...

Background: To evaluate the role of different morphological palatal rugae patterns (palatal print) as a tool for personal identification. Method: A pilot cross-sectional study was carried out on 60 Egyptian subjects and 60 Malaysian subjects. All were above 6 years old, nonsmokers and were sharing the same dietary habits. Palatal impressions were taken from the subjects and a rugogram was issue...

AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ON BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ADOPTION AND MATURITY IN MALAYSIAN ORGANIZATIONS

Abstract:  Introduction: The current study as a part of our investigation on improving emotional and behavioural health in Malaysian orphanages was aimed to establish Content Validity Index (CVI) as well as Face Validity of a new life skill-based module for improving emotional health and coping mechanisms in Malaysian Institutionalised Adolescents including 2 different parts. Methods: In...

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...

BEHNAM DEZFOULI and MARJAN RADI, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia; Networking Protocols Department, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore KAMIN WHITEHOUSE, Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia, USA SHUKOR ABD RAZAK, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Ma...

College of Engineering, Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia. Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia. School of Microelectronic Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), Arau Perlis, Malaysia. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, India. Faculty of Electronic and Comp...

BACKGROUND The Malay version of the Psychosocial Impact of Dental Aesthetics Questionnaire has been validated for use by Malaysian adolescents. Although Malay is their national language, English is widely used as the lingua franca among Malaysians of different ethnicities. This study aimed to validate an English version of the PIDAQ adapted for use by Malaysian adolescents to optimize data capt...

This research aimed to evaluate students’ perception on the service quality of Malaysian universities’ hostel accommodation. Data was collected from the three Malaysian universities. The outcomes of this research were based on applicability of the Parasuraman et al (1988) service quality framework. For that purpose, 6 hypotheses were proposed to measure all framework related variables (e.g. rel...