An atlanto-occipital dislocation is a rare airbag-induced injury in trauma patients. We report a case of an atlanto-occipital dislocation in a 6-year-old patient who was an unrestrained passenger in the front seat of a vehicle involved in a low-speed motor vehicle accident. This case illustrates the fatal threat of airbag deployment to the child pa

Introduction Rockall score was originally developed to predict mortality from AUGIB. However, there have been studies advocating its use to predict endoscopic/surgical intervention and length of hospital admission. We analyzed if length of hospital stay can be predicted from the preendoscopy and/or post-endoscopy Rockall score.Poster Abstracts I A5

My research shows that the justly balanced worldview of Islam has wide implications for contemporary Muslim society encompassing the Muslims’ religiosity, spirituality, intellectuality, outlook, attitudes, behaviour, relationships and activism. Each one of the twenty positions spelled out by al- Qaradhawi also serves as general principles and gui

There are three modes of banking system available in the world - ethical banking, social banking and Islamic banking. The emergence of Islamic banks is to introduce the ethical aspects that seem to be long forgotten into the current global financial system. The paper will compare and contrast the three concepts of banking - Islamic banking, ethical

What we need is a credible system of certification where we can rest assured that a halal cosmetic is indeed halal, due to its halal raw/intermediates components.

This chapter examines the path the Malay-Muslims in Malaysia have travelled in establishing and maintaining their identity in the modern context. It examines the educational responses of Malctysia, ,vith a predominantly Mmlim population, in molding Muslim identity within the context and needs of a pluralistic society. The discussion proceeds within

An efficient functioning of a complicated and dynamic grid environment requires a resource manager to monitor and identify the idling resources and to schedule users’ submitted jobs (or programs) accordingly. A common problem arising in grid computing is to select the most efficient resource to run a particular program. At present the execution t

The paper examines the role that organisational justice plays in determining employees' work engagement and the way quality of leader-subordinate relationship (LMX) mediates this association. Data was obtained from an airline company from the Middle East. The sample consisted of 218 employees from several job levels who responded to a questionn

Computed tomography (CT) is widely used in assessing clinically stable patients with blunt abdominal trauma. In these patients, liver is one of the commonest organs being injured and CT can accurately identify and assess the extent of the injury. The CT features of blunt liver trauma include laceration, subcapsular or parenchymal haematomas, active

Segmentation is an important tool for analysis and understanding of most images encountered in science and engineering. One of the best segmentation methods that can perform 3D segmentation is the level-set method which has its mathematical foundation in partial differential equation (PDE). Owing to its complex nature, it exhibits a level of unacce