Improved psychological aspect among type 2 diabetic patients plays an important role towards an improved quality of life. Therefore, the aim of this study is to determine the inter-relationship of illness perceptions, personality and quality of life of type 2 diabetic patients from the Diabetic Clinic of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centr

This paper reports on the investigation of rural public bus routing and passengers' boarding and alighting point detection using the application of GPS and GIS methods. Using the case study of rural bus operation in Kerian District of Perak, Malaysia, the two methods of GPS points captured during onboard survey and GIS mapping were deployed. Th

Background. Smartphone addiction is a phenomenon whereby a person is unable to cut down the smartphone use and it triggers physiological stress because of overuse and leads to anxiety when their smartphones are not with them. Medical students are among the population developing smartphone addiction. The aim of this study is to determine the prevale

Air Gap Membrane distillation (AGMD) is a prominent technology in the field of water treatment and desalination which is facing a lot of challenges to efficiently produce pure water supply. The system works under the principle of partial pressure difference created between a hydrophobic membrane and a coolant plate by varying temperature on both si

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Background. Smoking is a learned behavior that is reinforced and maintained by dependence. In current studies, behavioral component of smoking dependency is less explored. We aim to describe the smoking dependency behavior towards conventional and e-cigarette among staffs of selected government institution in Kuantan, Pahang in February 2016. Metho

The Islamic banking system is fast growing and gaining global customers’ acceptance. This has led many conventional banks to set up branches which operate in accordance to the Shari’ah principles. The Islamic banking system is expected to face strong competition not only from the Islamic banks but also from well-established conventional banks o

In the 21st century, with science culminating with the development of nuclear bombs ending in the annihilations of hundreds of thousands with the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has raises questions of the progress and goodness of the scientific endeavor. Many today are demanding that science must be constraint and checked by ethics. Scientific

A similitude has been obtained for a pitching oscillating two dimensional wedge with attached bow shock at high angle of incidence in supersonic flow. A strip theory given by Ghosh [1] for flow in spanwise location has been used. For the two-dimensional flow, a normal shock is formed directly in front of the body and becomes a curved oblique shock

Deterioration of water quality is a worldwide issue nowadays. One of the contaminants found in surface water supplies such as lakes, rivers and reservoirs is mercury (Hg). Since Hg in drinking water poses a threat to public health, there is a need to monitor the level of Hg in drinking water for safe consumption. The routine drinking water testing