The duty of medical confidentiality has been one of the core duties of medical practice as information created, disclosed, acquired directly or indirectly during the doctor-patient relationship is considered confidential and requires legitimate protection. Further, preserving confidentiality on the premise that the relationship between doctor and p

This book offers a comparative analysis on governance in South, Southeast, and East Asian countries. It provides extensive conceptual, theoretical, and empirical discussions on governance with rigorous comparative studies of how governance is practised in different countries across those contexts. The authors present broad analyses on the discrepan

In recent years, closed-cell porous Aluminum (Al) has drawn increasing attention, particularly in the applications requiring reduced weight and energy absorption capability such as in the automotive and aerospace industries. In the present work, porous Al with closed-cell structure was successfully fabricated by powder metallurgy technique using PM

Introduction: This study aimed to develop a self-administered hearing screening test using digit triplets in Malay (MDTT) to be used as a national hearing screening tool via internet and telephone landlines in Malaysia. Methods: Recordings of disyllabic Malay digits by a female Malay native speaker were used together with a speech shaped stationary

Critically ill patients are commonly linked to stress-induced hyperglycaemia which relates to insulin resistance and the risk of per-diagnosed with diabetes and other metabolic illnesses. Thus, it is essential to choose the best practice of blood glucose management in order to reduce morbidity and mortality rates in intensive care unit. This study

With the growing complexity of today’s software applications injunction with the increasing competitive pressure has pushed the quality assurance of developed software towards new heights. Software testing is an inevitable part of the Software Development Lifecycle, and keeping in line with its criticality in the pre and post development process

Pernahkah anda berasa perit dan pedih pada puting payudara ketika dan selepas menyusukan walaupun sebelum ini anda tiada masalah ketika penyusuan? Sekiranya anda berasa demikian, anda berkemungkinan mengalami jangkitan kulat Candida pada puting payudara dan anda harus mendapatkan rawatan. Apakah kulat Candida? Kulat candida merupakan sejenis kulat

This paper mainly aims to identify the impact of online advertising on students’ decision-making and their choice of higher education institutions. Data for this study were collected from 350 students from various Malaysian universities using self-administered questionnaires. The acquired data went through an exhaustive process to ensure that it

We investigate an Ising model with two restricted competing interactions (nearest neighbors, and one-level neighbors) on the Cayley tree of order 5. The translation Gibbs measures is considered for this model. Our result of the critical curve shows that the phase transition occurs in this model, further it confirms a particular case of a conjecture

Introduction: Breastfeeding was mentioned in several verses in the Al-Quran. The verses in Surah Al-Baqarah emphasized parents’ responsibility to provide breast milk during the first two years of life. However, there is no specific rule about the exact time to wean a child as long as his/her wellbeing is not being compromised. As the decision to