Objectives: Women bear the highest stress and burden of reproductive health. It is the women’s right to choose and practice their own convenient contraceptive methods. Thus spreading of proper information regarding contraception is vital to reduce the reproductive related morbidity and mortality in our society. In our survey we aimed to study the

Objectives: 1. To study the knowledge awareness regarding contraception among women from Pahang.. 2. To identify the most popular method of contraception in use. 3. To find out the common reasons for the less frequent use of contraception. 4. To asses factors impacting knowledge in the use of contraception. METHOD This cross sectional study include

Congenital hypothyroidism screening programme in Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) was started since 2004 using cord blood TSH. An audit of the screening programme for a period of 24 months was done for the year 2010 and 2011. A total of 12928 newborn babies were screened with coverage of 100%. Two cases were confirmed to have primary congenital hypo

Takaful (Islamic insurance) has been widely accepted as an alternative to conventional insurance and offered in many Muslim and non-Muslim countries. The unique feature of Takaful is that is suitable and acceptable for anyone regardless of the religion to our surprise, Takaful has not been introduced in India. India has the third largest Muslim pop

Corporate governance theories, namely the agency theory, stewardship theory and stakeholder theory, have been used in developing the best practices of corporate governance. However, corporate scandals leading to the downfall of financial giants such as Enron and WorldCom in 2003 and the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 have revealed serious ina

For several decades, researchers have heatedly debated the statistical properties of real-world time series. On one end of the spectrum, researchers put forward that the majority of the real-world time series are nondeterministic and that some of them exhibit ‘random walk’; these researchers advocate that real-world time series are unpredictabl

DNA is the building block of life, which contains encoded genetic instructions for building living organisms. Because of the fact that proteins are constructed in accordance with the genetic instructions encoded in DNAs, errors in RNA synthesis and translation into proteins can cause genetic disorders. Therefore, understanding and recognizing genet

Research on innovation in organizations has mainly focused on adoption phase as compared to implementation phase of innovation. Implementation is the critical gateway between the decision to adopt an innovation and the routine use of the innovation. In the case of IT innovation, while the development of IT innovation is relatively controllable, the

This paper acknowledges the needs of insurance in our daily life. The involvement of unfair elements in insurance brings the unjust contracts between the insurance companies and the insured. This paper takes social-economic justice approach to examine the unfair nature of insurance. It is highlighted that insurance involves uncertainty, interest an

This paper acknowledges the needs of insurance in our daily life. The involvement of unfair elements in insurance brings the unjust contracts between the insurance companies and the insured. This paper takes social-economic justice approach to examine the unfair nature of insurance. It is highlighted that insurance involves uncertainty, interest an