Introduction: To evaluate the midterm functional outcomes of patients who had undergone total knee replacement (TKR) using posterior stabilized (PS) fixed bearing system from January 2005 until April 2006 for primary osteoarthritis of the knees. Methods: A retrospective study was done on forty-six patients, 87% female (n= 40) and 13% male (n=6), ag

Spinal Schwannoma originates from the Schwann cells, hence it is called Schwannoma. The tumor localization is in various parts of the spinal cord, but prevails in cervical and thoracic. In the literature 70 to 80% of spinal schwannomas are reported to be intradural in location, and 15% with both intradural and extradural components. All 3 cases wer

It is a widely-held claim that Abu> H{a>mid al-Ghazza>li>, popularly known as H{ujjat al-Isla>m, had a great and profound influence on the religious life and thought of the Malays. However, no in-depth and systematic study has been undertaken to demonstrate the extent of his influence. This study aims to fill this gap by attempt

Abstract: Foreign aid is considered as a significant source of income for many developing countries. Countries that were facing current account deficit in the 1950s were encouraged to borrow from international financial institutions to boost their economic growth. However, such borrowing created a great obstruction to the economic growth of many de

الشيخ محمد تقي العثماني هو أحد علماء شبه القارة الهندية الباكستانية الذين اهتموا كثيرا بشرح صحيح الإمام مسلم؛ وقد ألف شرحا لصحيح الإمام مسلم بعنوان "تكملة فتح الملهم بشرح صحيح الإمام مسلم"

Objective: An important measure of shareholder primacy and activism is the power to initiate and approve proposals. However, in many countries which have transplanted or inherited the Anglo-Saxon governance model represented by the UK, shareholders intending to present their proposals to the general meeting often face a significant legal barrier du

The performance of boys in literacy has become an issue of increasing concern around the globe. This paper discusses the results of a study that sought to determine the literacy performance of Malaysian primary schoolers. Using one of the states in the country as a case study, data on approximately 85,000 students from grades 1, 2, and 3 were obtai

The demand for real-time multimedia applications has been exponentially increased these days. Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A) is one of the mobile cellular technologies envisaged to provide good real-time multimedia experiences. However, real-time multimedia scheduling over the downlink LTE-A is a subject to various impairments. This paper ada

Airborne particulates matter is significantly harmful towards museum visitors and displays artefact. The suspension of airborne particulates such as dust, pollens and particles originated from various indoor sources like dusting, sweeping, vacuuming, openings and museum visitors. Meanwhile, the outdoor sources are from construction, industrial, agr

This study aims to provide a good real-time multimedia performance under the presence of mobile cellular channel impairments by proposing a novel packet scheduling algorithm that adapts the well-known single carrier Maximum Largest Weighted Delay First (M-LWDF) algorithm into the multi-carrier downlink Long-Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A). The prop