Introduction: Informed consent is now accepted as the cornerstone of medical practice, with reasonable patient standards typically considered to be appropriate in the developed countries; however it is still challenged in many developing countries. The objective of this descriptive study was to evaluate the perceptions and practices among attending

Terdapat lebih kurang 55 muzium di Malaysia yang menggunakan bangunan warisan sebagai premis institusi mereka. Muzium bukan sahaja menyimpan atau mempamerkan koleksi atau artifak warisan yang tinggi nilainya malah ia juga mempunyai nilai warisan seni bina yang berharga. Kedua-duanya adalah warisan negara yang tidak boleh ditukar ganti dan seharusny

The effectiveness of assistive devices for disabled people is often limited by the human machine interface. This research proposes an intelligent wheelchair system especially for severely disabled people based on analysing electroencephalographic signals by using discrete wavelet transform and higher order statistical methods. The system to be impl

In this paper, we present a new wide-sense nonblocking optical switching network. The proposed network combines some building blocks, which is All-To-All Personalized Exchange Multistage Interconnection Network. The architectural details and some other parameters are evaluated and compared with other networks to show the superiority of the proposed

ELID grinding is drawing more and more attention by the researchers for its smart method of in-process dressing of the grinding wheel. A number of studies have been done by many people to investigate the mechanism and application of the process, though no significant effort has been made so far to develop an intelligent machinetool especially dedic

Submasseteric abscess is unusual in the head and neck region. Patients with this condition may be misdiagnosed as a parotid abscess due to the similarities in their presentation. Awareness and due recognition should be given to this unusual problem.Archives of Orofacial Sciences (2007) 2, 59-60 59CASE REPORT Submasseteric abscess: an unusual head a

Halal and non-halal is very important matter for Muslim consumers all over the world. However with advances in science and technology they are now facing difficulty in choosing genuine halal food. Thus it has become increasingly important that Musllim consumers understand to interpret food labels and gain knowledge on food ingredients. Nowadays foo

تمتاز اللغة العربية بالأبنية الواسعة، والصيغ الكثيرة التي يمكنها استيعاب المعاني الجياشة في النفس، ويعد التصريف هو السبيل إلى تلك الصيغ، وبه تتميز المعاني. والناظر إلى طبيعة الصيغ ودلالتها ي

Virtualization is abstracting computer resources. It is the ability to run multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single physical machine. In this paper we evaluate the performance of the operating system level virtualization software (OpenVZ). The evaluation will be based on Web hosting, in other words, we evaluate the performance of Web s

Malaysia is aggressively promoting its shared services and outsourcing (SSO) business models across vertical industries as a preferred hub in Asia. It is projected for multiple growths in demand for IT graduates to fulfill this IT outsourcing phenomenon by 2012. This poses a question to the Institutions of Higher Learnings (IHLs) in Malaysia. Can t